[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …'after confronting drug dealers who'd just targeted her kids with weed'
A mother-of-eight was brutally murdered in crime-ridden Oakland after confronting teenage drug dealers who had allegedly just sold her kids marijuana. Maria Ramos, 33, was visiting her mother, Blanca Velasco, with her eight children on August 7 when known drug dealers approached two of her children and reportedly sold them marijuana pipes.
Ramos and Velasco then decided to follow the blue Toyota sedan to tell them to stop coming to her house, according to KTVU. Surveillance footage obtained by the TV station shows the suspects stop at an intersection, with one opening the driver's side door. Ramos and Velaso, in a gray SUV, then stop right next to the vehicle. Ramos, who had struggled with substance abuse in the past, got out of the passenger side when tragedy struck.
The teenagers inside the vehicle began shooting at her, with one passenger getting out of the car and firing more shots as Ramos ran away.
After a few moments, Velasco could also be seen driving the SUV away from the scene. She recounted how she thought her daughter was just taking cover.
'I just saw her taking off and I just heard the bang,' Velasco told NBC Bay Area.
'And then I pressed on the gas to put my car in front of their car to shield my daughter,' she said. 'I saw my daughter going down, but I thought my daughter was taking cover.'
She told the San Francisco Chronicle she then peered into the back seat of the Toyota - where she saw a teenage boy half leaning out the window pointing a gun toward her. In a panic, Velasco said she sped off with the Toyota trailing her, before eventually losing it in traffic. She then doubled back to get Ramos, and at first didn't see her - until she noticed her daughter lying on the street in a puddle of blood.
Arriving police attempted life-saving measures, but Ramos was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officers then worked to identify the suspects' vehicle and were able to bring three suspects - two minors and 19-year-old Isaiah Gomez - into custody.
They now believe Ramos was shot by a 16 year old, who is being held at Alameda County Juvenile Hall, but police are also investigating whether Ramos may have sprayed pepper spray at the suspects before they fired.
Gomez, meanwhile, was detained and questioned by police, but pleaded not guilty during a hearing on Friday, according to the Chronicle. He has since been released with an ankle monitor.
Velasco told KPIX she worries that the city's woke District Attorney Pamela Price will not charge her daughter's killer as an adult. Price faces a recall election in November over her soft-on-crime policies.
'If you were big enough to get a gun and kill somebody, you're big enough to pay the price.'
[NYPOST] Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died at age 88, French media reported.
With his handsome looks and tender manner, the prolific actor was able to combine toughness with an appealing, vulnerable quality that made him one of La Belle France's memorable leading men.
Delon was also a producer, appeared in plays and, in later years, in television movies.
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[OffThePress] Woman Arrested After Trying To Run Over Boyfriend En Route To Couples Therapy: Cops
A 30-year-old Minnesota woman is in custody after an incident on the way to couples therapy.
Veronica Roleen Gast was arrested for second-degree assault, criminal vehicular operation, bodily harm, gross negligence, and domestic assault, according to an affidavit obtained by Crime Online.
Gast was driving to a couples therapy appointment with her boyfriend when the incident occurred on Wednesday. Before the incident, Gast and her boyfriend had been a couple for about one year.
According to Crime Online, while driving on the way to the therapist, Gast’s boyfriend announced he was breaking up their relationship and requested to be taken home.
Gast then allegedly suddenly stopped her car and demanded her boyfriend exit the vehicle. According to the affidavit obtained by Crime Online, the victim, her boyfriend, passed in front of her car to get to a nearby sidewalk.
When her boyfriend passed the front of the vehicle, Gast allegedly made eye contact before hitting the gas pedal in an attempt to run him over, according to the affidavit obtained by Crime Online.
[CPC.NCEP.NOAA] In summary, ENSO-neutral is expected to continue for the next several months, with La Niña favored to emerge during September-November (66% chance) and persist through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2024-25 (74% chance during November-January).
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We have been in an El Nino pattern for about 2 years. La Nina is the opposite of El Nino.
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Don't care what you call it.
It's a humid, hot bastard in TX.
105 degrees today, feels much hotter.
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[Regnum] The probability of an earthquake with a magnitude of up to nine Richter points remains in Kamchatka within 24 hours. This was reported by the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“ There remains an increased probability of a strong earthquake of up to 9 points in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Elizovo, Vilyuchinsk and the village of Ust-Kamchatsk,” seismologists reported.
According to the institute, seismic energy has accumulated in the Avacha Bay area, sufficient for an earthquake of magnitude 8.5–8.7.
Moreover, the earthquake that occurred on August 18 could be a foreshock of a similar earthquake, or a more powerful one in the near future.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 was recorded off the coast of Kamchatka on the morning of August 18. Residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vilyuchinsky urban districts, Yelizovsky and Ust-Kamchatsky districts felt tremors, the strength of which was estimated at five to seven points. The epicenter was located 108 km from the regional capital.
Later, the director of the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Danila Chebrov, reported that aftershocks will continue for a long time in Kamchatka after the earthquake that occurred there.
On the evening of August 17, another magnetic storm began on Earth. It was assigned class G3 — strong (on a scale of five indicators). This was reported by Mikhail Leus, a specialist at the Phobos weather center,on the Telegram channel.
According to Leus, at first the geomagnetic field index corresponded to the level of an average magnetic storm of class G1.
“Then the disturbances in the geomagnetic field increased and at 20:46 Moscow time the magnetic storm became strong, class G3,” the specialist explained.
It is expected that a strong magnetic storm will last on Earth until at least midday on August 18, and possibly until the night of August 19.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, a powerful magnetic storm was recorded on Earth on August 12, threatening disruptions in energy and satellite systems, reported specialists from the Institute of Applied Geophysics (FGBU IPG).
A powerful explosion occurred on the Earth-facing side of the Sun on August 14, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory warned, specifying that the flare belongs to the highest class X. The point of the explosion is on the Sun-Earth line, in the center of the visible solar disk, from where the impact on the Earth became inevitable.
[USNI] The most popular member of the crew aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) for its marathon deployment to the Middle East was not Ike’s commanding officer Capt. Christopher “Chowdah” Hill, despite his social media clout, chocolate chip cookies and support for Taco Tuesday. This crew member had a leg up on Hill. Actually, he had two.
That distinction goes to Captain Demo, a golden retriever/labrador mix, a multi-talented expeditionary facility dog tasked with everything from comforting sailors during therapy sessions to general morale improvement.
Thanks to a partnership with the Virginia Beach nonprofit Mutts with a Mission, Demo is one of three dogs currently attached to warships. A fourth dog is preparing to deploy with the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) later this year.
Like his 5,000 shipmates on Ike, Demo spent all nine months on the aircraft carrier during the deployment, which was marked by combat actions in the Red Sea. While on board, he slept on a large dog bed in a stateroom shared with one of his two handlers, Hospital Corpsman Kindal Kidd told USNI News aboard the carrier. He had two heads, as well, where he could go to the bathroom.
Most days, Demo spent time with his handlers walking around the ship and visiting sailors. Their faces would light up when they saw the dog coming, Kidd, who is one of the handlers, said.
PREPARING TO EM-BARK ON A SHIP
The partnership between the Navy and Mutts With A Mission began with 2022, director Brooke Corson told USNI News this week.
The wife of then-commanding officer Capt. Dave Pollard, of the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), reached out to Mutts With A Mission to see if the nonprofit could bring dogs aboard the ship, she said. Prior to the ship’s deployment, Mutts With A Mission brought dogs aboard weekly.
Other ships started requesting dog visits. After an October 2022 visit on amphibious warship USS Wasp (LHD-1), the ship’s executive officer and deployed resiliency counselor asked if it would be possible for a dog to deploy on the amphibious ship.
There is a long history of dogs aboard ships, although in a more personal capacity. Capt. Frederick Sherman brought his black cocker spaniel named Admiral Wags on his ships, according to “Dogs in the Navy” from the Naval Institute Press. Admiral Wags’ tales became fodder for a children’s book written by Sherman’s wife.
Aviators also brought a stray dog named Scrapper Shrapnel – “Scrappy” for short – aboard their aircraft carrier after finding the airedale terrier wandering the Pearl Harbor docks in 1943.
But there had not been an official program that used dogs as working animals to assist with mental health needs. Dogs, and other animals like horses, are known for beneficial effects on people. A 2022 meta-analysis in scientific journal PLOS One found that veterans benefited when placed with an assistance dog, while a 2023 study of Australian veterans and emergency services personnel found that those with an assistance dog had decreases in stress and depression.
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Oh, cry me a river. "Airdales" (USN aviation) don't deserve a dog. As a submariner I've seen more psychological stress than they can imagine.
Harrumph! Wimps!
[OffThePress] 25% Of First-Year British Students Not Toilet Trained, Still Wear Diapers.
To be fair, in England they start kindergarten at age four, which is much too young, as a significant minority of children have brains unable to process reading until age seven.
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I've come across several 'Dungeons and Dragons'/Magic the Gathering card shops with a sign posted on the door telling entrants basically - if you don't shower and practice basic hygiene, don't enter.
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Thats ok, go to the university that takes middle easterners. They are not toilette trained either...
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Tell me about it… the other day I had an online video medical consultation with Dr. Al Koresh, who picked his nose and wiped the contents into his hair throughout.
[NEWAGEBD] Venezuela's opposition, claiming victory in presidential elections they say were stolen by strongman Nicolas Maduro, gathered in the thousands in Caracas and elsewhere on Saturday, vowing to fight 'to the end.'
People rallied in several cities in Venezuela
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... and as far afield as Spain, Belgium and Australia in response to a call by opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to join a 'Protest for the Truth.'
Machado herself came out of hiding to lead a rally in the capital, seeking to intensify pressure on Maduro to concede what she and others say was an overwhelming win for opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia in July 28 polls.
'We won't leave the streets,' Machado told thousands of demonstrators, many of whom waved the national flag and copies of election records from their voting stations as proof of an opposition victory.
'Peaceful protest is our right,' she said as demonstrators chanted 'Liberty! Liberty!' and clamored to get as near as possible to the wildly popular politician.
Authorities later confiscated the open-top truck that Machado uses as a stage at rallies, including on Saturday, according to an X post from her Comando Con Venezuela alliance.
Venezuela's National Electoral Council proclaimed Maduro the winner of a third six-year term until 2031, giving him 52 per cent of votes cast but without providing a detailed breakdown of the results.
The opposition says polling station-level results show Gonzalez Urrutia took more than two-thirds of the vote.
He had replaced Machado on the ballot after she was barred from running by institutions loyal to the regime.
'This is a criminal government that wants to hold on to power. I smell freedom, I have nothing to fear,' demonstrator Adriana Calzadilla, a 55-year-old teacher, said in Caracas, where National Guard officers and police were out in force.
Another, 42-year-old economist Iliana Alvarean, conceded that she did 'feel fear.'
'One does not stop feeling it, because of the repression. But we want him (Maduro) out. We are here to the end.'
No incidents were reported from the rallies, which took place under heavy security.
Maduro on Saturday accused Gonzalez Urrutia, who last appeared in public at a protest on July 30, of trying to flee the country.
'He's hiding in a cave. And he's preparing his escape from Venezuela. Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia is taking the money and going to Miami,' Maduro told supporters at a rally outside the Miraflores presidential palace.
He has called for Machado and Gonzalez Urrutia to be arrested, accusing them of seeking to foment a 'coup d'etat.'
Gonzalez Urrutia was defiant in a post on X earlier in the day: 'We have the votes, the records, the support of the international community and Venezuelans determined to fight. It is time for an orderly transition.'
Anti-Maduro protests have claimed 25 lives so far, with nearly 200 injured and more than 2,400 arrested since election day.
At one of the first overseas demonstrations to get underway Saturday, more than 100 Venezuelans in Australia rallied in Sydney.
Thousands more protested across Spain, host to about 2,80,000 of the nearly eight million Venezuelans to have fled their country as the economy collapsed on the watch of Maduro, in office since 2013.
There were also rallies in Colombia, Mexico and Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... where 34-year-old Andreina Escalante said 'we have faith that we will get out of the dictatorship.'
[Breitbart] 48 hr rule
A 22-year-old man has been arrested after a multiple stabbing incident in Manchester left a woman dead and two others seriously injured late Sunday evening.
A 43-year-old woman died, and a 17-year-old girl and a 64-year-old man have been hospitalised with "life-threatening injuries" after they suffered "serious stab wounds" during an incident at a property in the Gorton area of Manchester, England.
A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder shortly after the stabbings, which occurred around 11:20 pm on Sunday, Greater Manchester Police said.
No further information about the suspect has been made public at the time of this reporting, however, the Manchester Evening News reports that detectives believe the man was "known" to the victims, and the stabbings are thought to have been an "isolated" incident.
In a statement issued on Monday morning, Detective Superintendent Toby Facey said: "We understand that the local community and further afield across Greater Manchester will be rightly shocked and concerned after waking up and hearing this tragic news this morning.
"Our thoughts remain with those affected and their loved ones at this difficult time. We are doing all we can to support them.
"Within minutes of the call being made, our officers were at the scene and an arrest had been made.
"An investigation has been launched and we are in the very early stages of our enquiries. We have had detectives on the ground who have been working throughout the night trying to get to the bottom of what has happened and why.
"Local officers will remain in the area making enquiries, as well as an increased number of highly visible patrols. If you have any concerns, please speak to them.
[NationalPulse] The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is expected to issue a major revision to employment numbers on Wednesday. The agency is set to announce its preliminary benchmark revision to the 2024 establishment survey.Some preliminary estimates and indicators suggest the agency could announce a downward revision of around one million jobs between April 2023 and March 2024.
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One of the problems Gorbachev faced was the realization that 'state' reporting and statistics were basically lies promoted by the system. You can't fix something if you don't understand the facts.
[FOX] Planned Parenthood is offering more than a free T-shirt or sticker at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this coming week — the organization will offer free vasectomies, medication abortion, and emergency contraception.
Planned Parenthood Great Rivers of St. Louis announced in a X post that a bus is headed to the DNC in Chicago on Aug. 19-20 to offer free services.
"Here we come, Chicago! Our mobile health clinic will be in the West Loop with @ChiAbortionFund & @TheWienerCircle Aug 19-20, providing FREE vasectomies & medication abortion," the post said. "EC will also be available for free without an appointment."
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Insty is linking to reporting that clinics are going out of business. I credit the MGTOW movement which apparently is hitting the white liberal urban female population.
[Federalist] On Monday, the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) is set to vote on a rule amendment that would require all county boards of elections to comply with new procedures to enforce current state requirements that the number of ballots, number of votes, and number of voters in election tallies come out equal.
Georgia saw more than 3,000 ballots double-scanned during the 2020 presidential recount in Fulton County. It is unclear how many — if any — of the double scanned ballots were counted twice as votes, since the Georgia secretary of state’s office could not confirm it, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Kevin Moncla, who filed a complaint alleging potential violations of Georgia’s election code in Fulton County, tells The Federalist he believes the double-scanned ballots were indeed counted twice since he says they appeared in the cast vote record. A streamlined reconciliation process would catch a repeat of this election malfeasance by identifying more votes tallied than the amount of voters who voted.
But Moncla tells The Federalist it wasn’t just that more than 3,000 ballots were double scanned.
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[Regnum] Scientists from China have come up with a way to deliver resources from the Moon to Earth. This is reported by the local publication South China Morning Post.
Scientists from the Shanghai Research Institute of Satellite Engineering have proposed building a magnetic launcher on the Moon, through which resources mined on the surface of the Earth's satellite could be delivered to Earth in the future. According to them, using the unique environmental conditions on the Moon, namely high vacuum and low gravity, payloads could be sent twice a day. The cost of transportation would be about 10% of the cost of existing methods.
“Since the installation will only consume electricity and will not require fuel, it will be quite small in scale and easy to implement,” the scientists said.
They noted that the main objective will be to extract Helium-3 to help solve the energy crisis on Earth. The project will contribute to the development of technologies for extracting minerals in space, as well as heavy launch vehicles and artificial intelligence.
According to the publication, the system itself is designed for a service life of at least 20 years, while its weight will reach about 80 tons, so in order to deliver it to the Moon, it will be necessary to wait for the Chinese super-heavy launch vehicle to start operating.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on August 16, Roscosmos CEO Yuri Borisov allowed for industrial development of the Moon after the 2040s. He said that rare earth metals and helium are present in significant quantities among the minerals on the Moon.
On August 13, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, at a strategic session on the development of Russian space activities, announced that the federal project for the development of space nuclear energy will be aimed, among other things, at the production of means for the exploration of the Moon.
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From stories I recall, packages were placed in a near earth orbit(NEO) for retrieval.
In one, a solar powered smelter operated in a stable Lagrange point to render the ore. Other points were used as intermediate storage. A cottage industry of ore tugs operated much like the Great Lakes iron ore boats.
[SlayNews] A bombshell study, which is being widely censored by the corporate media and Big Tech, warns that Covid mRNA shots alter the DNA of recipients and their offspring.
Renowned cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough has been attempting to raise the alarm about the study on social media.
McCullough reveals that the explosive study has been massively censored across Big Tech social media platforms, despite the dramatic impact that its findings could have on public health.
He focuses on LinkedIn’s censorship of the study.
The study was blocked from public view on LinkedIn and ignored by the corporate media despite being published by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Library of Medicine.
The study documents how mRNA gene therapy vaccines such as the Covid shots permanently alter the genetics of the vaccinated.
Additionally, the study found that the progeny of the vaxxed are also affected via the insertion of mRNA into the human DNA.
"The Pfizer and Moderna genetic code is permanently installed into the human genome," McCullough said.
"So as we sit here today we have to reconcile that Pfizer and Moderna potentially could have permanently changed the human genome."
The eminent doctor also notes that conclusive research has not yet been conducted to confirm if the entire mRNA sequence is permanently incorporated into DNA.
McCullough said he hopes the body will edit out the mRNA from the injections.
However, he warns that there is a strong possibility that mankind has forever been fundamentally altered.
He referred to these permanent alterations of the human race as "very disturbing."
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The floor has become cluttered Aluminum.
As the once called Tin Hat conspiracy theory nuts are being proven time and time again to be the true messengers of Pandemic FACTS.
When will those responsible for this planned genetic manipulation and mass murder be brought to trial?
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.
Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died at age 88, French media reported.
Machado herself came out of hiding to lead a rally in the capital, seeking to intensify pressure on Maduro to concede what she and others say was an overwhelming win for opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia in July 28 polls.
