Of course he is. [NYPOST] The mother of Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray apologized to the victims’ families in an open letter — all while insisting her son “is not a monster.”
“To the parents and families of those affected by the tragic events at Apalachee High School, I want to say that I am so sorry from the bottom of my heart,” Marcee Gray, Colt’s mother, wrote in the letter which she provided to CNN.
“If I could take the place of Mason and Christian, I would without a second thought,” she said, referring to the two 14-year-olds killed in the mass shooting. She later added that her “heart breaks for the 2 teachers who gave their lives while in the service of teaching and protecting our children.”
The mother continued: “We are all in a living nightmare right now, and I will personally never forgive myself for what has happened.”
“My son Colt is not a monster. He is my oldest baby. He is quiet, thoughtful, caring, funny, and extremely intelligent. Please pray for him and the rest of our family, as I am praying for all of you every moment of every day,” she wrote.
Her letter comes one week after the teen allegedly carried out the shooting that left two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School dead.
Seven others at the Winder, Georgia, school were wounded by gunshots and two more suffered other injuries in the attack, officials said.
In the days since the shooting, it has been revealed that the boy’s mother allegedly warned school officials 30 minutes before the attack.
Marcee Gray made a frantic call to the school counselor just before 10 a.m. the day of the shooting after her son texted her “I’m sorry.”
Authorities said Colt opened fire about 30 minutes after his mother’s warnings.
They said school resource officers tried to track down Colt in his classroom, but stopped a different student with a similar name instead.
Minutes later, Colt allegedly opened fire in the halls of the school.
Colt surrendered after being confronted by a school security officer and was quickly taken into custody. [Perhaps if he had been approached by an authority figure earlier...]
He has been charged with four counts of felony murder.
His father, Colin — who allegedly bought his troubled son the AR-15 rifle used in the slaughter — was charged with involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.
Both the father and son made their initial court appearances on Sept. 6 and did not enter a plea. They are being held without bail, and are next scheduled to appear at Barrow County courthouse Dec. 4.
Relatives have claimed the boy had a troubled upbringing.
The alleged shooter’s mother has had multiple drug and domestic violence arrests, and her addiction ultimately cost her custody of Colt and her other children.
He lived at the time of the shooting with his father, who allegedly berated him and called him names to toughen him up, according to relatives.
“He would call Colt names to his face,” a relative of Colt’s mother told The Post. “Names that no boy wants to hear: sissy, p—y, bitch … just names that were meant to break him down and emasculate him.”
A Transgender Mentally ILL murderer is still a murderer that was well known to the system and appears to have used just as we enter the final stages of the US election cycle.
But, just based on my discussions last Sat., with a few Metro areas 1st responders. There are even more details yet to be released about this whole mess.
But we'll have to wait until after the election and the flushing out of the DOJ.
[GEO.TV] Hurricane Francine strengthened to a Category 2 storm on Wednesday just before it made landfall in Louisiana, threatening New Orleans and the wider Gulf Coast with powerful winds, rain and a storm surge that led to evacuation orders for thousands of people.
Francine packed maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (155 kph) as the eye of the storm reached the southern Louisiana coast near Morgan City, Louisiana, about 90 miles (145 km) southwest of New Orleans, the US National Hurricane Center said.
The hurricane ...as in blow me down!... center upgraded the storm from Category 1 previously on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale. It classifies a Category 2 hurricane as producing extremely dangerous winds that will cause extensive damage. Little change in strength was expected before landfall later on Wednesday.
The storm was moving toward the northeast at 17 mph (28 kph), putting not just Morgan City but also New Orleans in the general path. The New Orleans metropolitan area was under a hurricane watch, meaning hurricane conditions were possible.
"It is on our doorstep. After the storm is over, please remain in place," Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry told a presser. "Stay off the roadway."
Morgan City had already set a curfew until 6 a.m. on Thursday, Police Chief Chad Adams told journalists.
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it has been winding down since reaching the coast
now a tropical depression and soon to be a remnant low
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How come nobody protests them giving female names to hurricanes?
[NEWAGEBD.NET] Residents of Vietnam’s capital waded through waist-deep water on Wednesday as river levels hit a 20-year high and the toll from the area’s strongest typhoon in decades rose to at least 179, with neighbouring nations also enduring deadly flooding and landslides.
Typhoon Yagi hit Vietnam at the weekend, carrying winds in excess of 149 kilometres per hour and a deluge of rain that has also brought destructive floods to northern areas of Laos, Thailand and Myanmar.
The Red River in Hanoi reached its highest level in 20 years on Wednesday, forcing residents to trudge through waist-deep brown water as they retrieved possessions from flooded homes.
Others fashioned makeshift boats from whatever materials they could find.
’This was the worst flooding I have witnessed,’ said Nguyen Tran Van, 41, who has lived near the Red River in Hanoi for 15 years.
’I didn’t think the water would rise as quick as it did. I moved because if the water had risen just a bit higher, it would have been very difficult for us to leave,’ Van told AFP.
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[WashingtonExaminer] When Nashville real estate broker and one-time House candidate Stewart Parks was convicted on Jan. 6 riot charges of trespassing and theft and sentenced to eight months in the Memphis Federal Correctional Institute, he expected the worst.
"When I went in, the plan was I was just gonna keep my head down low and good time my way out," Parks, 31, said. "I wasn’t gonna tell anybody like, ’Hey, I’m Jan. 6.’"
Parks couldn’t hide his status, though, because when he was handed off to a Mexican American inmate leader to get him situated, the prison guard said, "Hey, he’s Jan. 6."
Parks told Secrets, "Right then, my thoughts were, ’Oh, my God, what’s going to happen from here? Are there going to be political opposition groups in the prison that are going to make my life hard?’"
Just the opposite happened, Parks said, in a surprising pattern that others convicted of Jan. 6 charges have experienced.
He said prisoners "welcomed me in." They made "sure I was comfortable and making sure my time in prison wasn’t going to be difficult. So, that was a real shock."
While talking politics in prison was a no-no, gang members of all colors wanted to talk to him about the 2020 election and former President Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... . "I never had a fight or anybody, you know, put my life in danger or say anything insolent or menacing to me because of my involvement with Jan. 6," Parks said.
He said one key reason is that inmates liked Trump for approving judicial and prison reforms, including the First Step Act. Prisoners also said the Federal Bureau of Prisons ran the facilities better under Trump.
"Things were better during the Trump administration, and the inmates felt it," Parks said. In fact, it gave him and the few other inmates convicted in the Capitol riots an elevated position of sorts.
Another reason was that some felt Jan. 6 inmates were political prisoners. "They knew I didn’t belong there," Parks said.
During one walk back to his unit in the prison, he said, "Someone yelled, ’There’s a patriot, that’s a hero.’ And here I am trying to be lowkey, and I just couldn’t keep my head down because, you know, somebody was always yelling and pointing out that they were excited about me being Jan. 6, and they talked positive about the other inmates. I never once heard the inmates in the prison down anybody Jan. 6."
It was quite a different scene a year ago, when he was convicted by U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta. As with others charged in the riots to protest allegations of election fraud and the Electoral College election of President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... , Parks was handled like a traitor.
"In Washington, D.C., it was very hostile," he said.
Parks said he wants to appeal his conviction and is eager to see if Trump will make good on his promise to pardon nonviolent mostly peaceful Jan. 6 cases should he win in November.
Unlike some Jan. 6 convicts, Parks hasn’t changed his support for Trump or belief that the 2020 election was tampered with.
While he has returned to running his real estate business, Parks said he is also giving speeches about his experience and urging voters to stay alert for ballot and election fraud.
He believes that Trump is ahead in the polls and will win. He said that if Trump doesn’t, "there will be mass anger like Jan. 6. Yeah, it’s just the nation knows we cannot have another four years of [Vice President Kamala] Harris."
[AFRICANEWS] Dozens of inmates escaped from a maximum security prison outside Liberia's capital over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
The 47 inmates were able to escape because of a breach in the prison security system, the Justice Ministry said in a statement. The prison is in Kakata, a town 55 kilometres (34 miles) northeast of the capital, Monrovia.
The ministry said that it was "deeply concerned about this incident and is taking all necessary measures to ensure the recapture of the escaped inmates.''
The country's national police have also deployed additional officers to assist in the search for the fugitives, the ministry said.
Prisons in Liberia are often severely overcrowded, and inmates lack access to enough food and basic medical care. Last year, a prison in Monrovia ran out of food, and two other prisons briefly stopped taking inmates because of food shortages.
A large number of inmates are also detained without a trial. In November 2022, a U.N. report found that 73% of the nationwide prison population were pretrial detainees.
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[Regnum] 20 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers came to search the home of an RT employee working in Miami.
It is noted that the security forces came to her house at about 05:00, when she was sleeping. The woman was not allowed to get dressed, she was beaten and searched.
"They searched the entire body first, I don't know what they wanted, they had a separate warrant specifically for searching the body. They touched everything, so to speak," RT quotes her as saying.
After the search, the agency employee was interrogated for about five hours. According to her, she was asked what kind of person RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan is, "a good person or a bad person."
"They also asked me if Margarita had ever met (Russian President Vladimir ) Putin. And when? I said, 'Well, Google it.' They asked what she liked to eat," the woman said.
She also said she was asked questions about the funding of the news agency and whether the channel received money from the Kremlin. No formal charges were brought against her.
The woman left the United States for safety reasons, the Russian consul helped her buy a plane ticket, and she flew to Russia via a third country.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 4, the United States imposed sanctions against the Rossiya Segodnya media group, RIA Novosti, Sputnik, as well as the RT and Simonyan TV channels. Washington explained this decision by the fact that the blacklisted media outlets were allegedly involved in interfering in the American presidential elections.
On September 6, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov called the new US accusations and sanctions against Russia an attempt to put pressure on Moscow and the Russians. He stressed that Russia strongly condemns this line and considers it unacceptable.
On September 6, American journalist Tucker Carlson said that Washington was imposing sanctions on Russian media in an attempt to silence criticism of the Biden administration. The journalist stressed that he did not understand how this could happen, adding that the current American administration had made too many unprecedented decisions.
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When I read "Washington explained this decision by the fact that the blacklisted media outlets were allegedly involved in interfering in the American presidential elections."
OK, I am no fan of Russia or China meddling in the USA Elections. But the last time we heard RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA was when another UBER LIBERAL Female presidential candidate was losing her A$$ also. Also the Biden/Harris Admin openly has BLACKLISTED MEDIA OUTLETS? What happened to the 1st?
Also, isn't strange the powers that be, aren't also saying CHINA, CHINA, CHINA?
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And what did I just hear in the background as I read the first comment but Wray, "interviewed" by Oprah, taking a similar line on China. Hedging bets, I guess.
[FoxNews] The House Oversight Committee says is aware of a machine operated by a Chinese military company that is in use at the nation’s most secretive government laboratories.
"We are aware that there is a BGI machine at Los Alamos," a committee spokeswoman told Fox News Digital.
Situated in rural New Mexico, Los Alamos is one of the most top-secret labs in the country where the atomic bomb was produced under the Manhattan Project in 1943.
The spokeswoman noted the BIOSECURE Act, which passed the House on Monday, would ban the machinery at Los Alamos by prohibiting U.S. taxpayer dollars from flowing to biotech companies that are owned, operated, or controlled by China or other foreign adversaries.
The bill was referred to the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and it’s not clear if and when the Senate plans to take it up.
The Oversight Committee did not say whether it would conduct an investigation into the BGI-linked machinery.
The CCP-linked Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) is a leading biotech and genomics company in China and has been defined by the Pentagon as a "Chinese military company" and "China’s Biotech National Champion."
BGI Group, which runs a massive gene databank in China and has DNA sequencing contracts with health firms and universities worldwide, has received substantial investment from China’s biggest state investment vehicle, the State Development and Investment Corp (SDIC).
The National Security Commission on AI stated that BGI "may be serving, wittingly or unwittingly, as a global collection mechanism for Chinese government gene databases, providing China with greater raw numbers and diversity of human genome samples as well as access to sensitive personal information about key individuals around the world."
BGI has created a number of new subsidiaries in the U.S. over the past two years to further evade scrutiny.
The Pentagon listed BGI as a "Chinese Military Company" operating in the U.S. and added two of its subsidiaries to a trade blacklist over allegations they conducted genetic analysis and surveillance activities for Beijing. The Department of Commerce said that information "has been utilized in the repression of ethnic minorities in China."
In 2021 BGI created a neonatal genetic test with the CCP that allowed it to collect information from millions of women for research on traits of populations, according to a Reuters report.
In 2022 information security firm Strider Technologies found China has engaged in a decades-long campaign to insert and recruit allied researchers from Los Alamos. The report asserted that between 1987 and 2021, at least 162 scientists who passed through the nuclear research lab returned and worked with the Chinese government. Of these, 15 were permanent staff members, many carrying high levels of security clearances.
In 2022, BGI acquired Complete Genomics, an American genomic sequencing firm, and in 2022, BGI spun off MGI, which went public on the Shanghai stock market, and housed Complete Genomics as a subsidiary of MGI. MGI is still vast majority owned by BGI and entities with ties to the CCP.
[Geo Mason Univ} Use of skin care products is associated with exposure to phthalates and phthalate-replacement chemicals in young children, according to the new and first-of-its-kind study at George Mason University's College of Public Health.
A new study led by primary investigator Michael S. Bloom, professor in the Department of Global and Community Health at George Mason’s College of Public Health, has found that use of skin care products including lotions, hair oils, hair conditioners, ointments, and sunscreen is associated with higher levels of phthalates in children’s urine. The associations depend in part upon the child’s racial and ethnic identity and their sex as assigned at birth. The study was co-authored by two George Mason Master of Public Health alumni, Juliana Clark and Kelly Garcia.
"This is the first study to suggest that different skin care products used by young children may differentially increase exposure to endocrine-disrupting phthalates and phthalate replacements in young children," said Bloom.
Phthalates and phthalate-replacement compounds are endocrine-disrupting chemicals, meaning they may interfere with the body’s hormones. Exposure to these chemicals in early childhood has been associated with neurodevelopmental, reproductive, and metabolic disease concerns in previous studies. Some of these chemicals are often used as carriers for the active ingredients in skin care products; others may be used in plastic packaging.
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It is not a great leap to think that immersing your kids in vats of chemicals is unwise. But on the other, we know that most studies are never replicated after the initial headlines.
For the exposed kids, "higher levels of phthalates in children’s urine" suggests said chemicals are being excreted and not retained.
[NEWAGEBD.NET] SpaceX launched its daring Polaris Dawn mission on Tuesday, a multiday orbital expedition carrying a four-member civilian crew for the first spacewalk by non-professional astronauts.
The crew, led by Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Iscaacman, is also aiming to fly deeper into space than any other manned mission in more than half a century, reaching a peak altitude of 870 miles.
’Liftoff of Polaris Dawn!’ SpaceX said on X, alongside a photo of the take-off.
The highlight of the mission will be the first spacewalk composed entirely of non-professionals, who are wearing sleek, newly developed SpaceX extravehicular activity suits outfitted with heads-up displays, helmet cameras and an advanced joint mobility system.
Applause broke out across the mission control centre as the Dragon capsule separated successfully from the main engine and the first glimpses of Earth came into view.
’The Polaris Dawn crew is now in Zero-G!’ SpaceX wrote on X minutes later, as the crew experienced their first taste of zero-gravity.
On the first day of their mission, the craft will travel so high that it will briefly enter the Van Allen radiation belt, a region teeming with high-energy charged particles that can pose health risks to humans over extended periods.
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[Regnum] On September 11, the Soyuz MS-26 manned spacecraft automatically docked with the Rassvet module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced by the Roscosmos state corporation.
The crew included Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as NASA astronaut Donald Pettit.
The launch vehicle with the Soyuz MS-26 manned spacecraft was launched to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The docking of the spacecraft to the international station was recorded at 22:32 Moscow time. The space mission will last 202 days. During this time, the cosmonauts will have to conduct 42 scientific experiments in the fields of medicine and biology.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, according to Roscosmos, in December 2024, Ovchinin and Wagner will go into outer space. They will install a spectrometer on the surface of the station, which will allow the most accurate measurement of the cosmic radiation background.
On September 7, the Boeing Starliner spacecraft undocked from the ISS and returned to Earth without a crew on board. It landed at the White Sands Test Site in New Mexico. Spent materials and cargo from the ISS were returned to Earth.
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.
[NYPOST] The mother of Georgia school shooting suspect 
...as in 
...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family...
[AFRICANEWS] Dozens of inmates escaped from a maximum security prison outside Liberia's capital over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
[NEWAGEBD.NET] SpaceX launched its daring Polaris Dawn mission on Tuesday, a multiday orbital expedition carrying a four-member civilian crew for the first spacewalk by non-professional astronauts.
