[CNN] A mother in Dallas shot a man who attempted to steal her car while her two children were in the back seat, police said.
Officials said the incident took place in the parking lot of a Shell gas station in south Dallas on Wednesday night. The mother was identified by CNN affiliate KTVT as Michelle Booker.
Booker stopped at the gas station's convenience store on her way to a Fourth of July family gathering, KTVT reported. When she came out, she saw a man driving away in her SUV. Booker's two small children were inside the car.
According to police, Booker jumped in the car and told the suspected carjacker to pull over and get out. When he didn't stop the vehicle, Booker pulled a gun from her glove compartment and shot him once in the head. Booker told KTVT she wanted to give the suspect a "warning shot."
"I'm not a killer or anything like that but I do believe in, you know, defending what's mine," Booker said.
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I heard the first report on KTVK and didn't hear nuttin' about no 'warning shot'. It was first reported she shot him in the face. While he was driving.
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that was his warning
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Booker pulled a gun from her glove compartment and shot him once in the head. Booker told KTVT she wanted to give the suspect a "warning shot."
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The DA there is probably trying to see what charges he can file on her. They're like that in Dallas. (I've been told if you have to shoot someone in Dallas, drag the body to Ft Worth and call the law.)
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Head shots can be very dangerous due to misses and ricochets. Small caliber bullets traveling at high speed can be deflected by the skull, or enter the cranium, racetrack, and exit again. Two or three shots to the upper torso is the safest way to go. Then grab the kids, exit the car, shelter in a safe place and dial 911. Don't forget to remain cognizant of the possibility of a second attacker or back-up man.
All of that being said, I'll still giver her very high marks for bravery, seizing the initiative and a successful resolution. Bravo!
[Breitbart] A road rage incident on a Florida street turned violent Monday when four women got into a violent brawl, according to a video of the incident released Thursday.
The video, captured by a driver sitting in a nearby vehicle, shows a woman hitting another woman in the front passenger seat of a vehicle with a baton used by security guards and law enforcement officers.
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The woman with the baton, Willie Edwards 18 and Marquavia Jenkins 21 were arrested on charges of criminal mischief and aggravated battery and being feral bitches
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CAREFUL MONGREL'S at large, DEY be badMFKS(dey
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[IsraelTimes] Information acquired from flight recorders suggests blaze broke out and spread rapidly, 'causing the loss of control of the aircraft'; officials suspect phone or tablet to blame
French Sherlocks said Friday a cockpit fire likely caused the 2016 EgyptAir MS804 crash that claimed the lives of 66 passengers and crew, contradicting Egyptian authorities who said explosives traces were found on the victims’ remains.
La Belle France’s civil aviation accident bureau, known by its French acronym BEA, said that information gleaned from the flight recorders suggested that "a fire broke out in the cockpit while the plane was at cruising altitude and the fire spread rapidly, causing the loss of control of the aircraft."
The Airbus A320 was flying from Gay Paree to Cairo on May 19, 2016 when it crashed into the southeastern Mediterranean, killing 66 people, including 40 Egyptians and 15 French citizens.
The original reports of the event can be seen here, here, and here. At the time we were convinced it was a successful jihadi attack, quite probqbly Ansar Bayt al Maqdis/ISIS in the Sinai.
French Sherlocks had always leaned towards a mechanical fault as the cause of the crash, saying they suspected that a mobile phone or tablet had caught fire.
An official Egyptian investigation suggested the plane had been bombed, claiming traces of explosives had been found on the victims’ remains. But a source close to the French investigation previously said no such traces were found by the team.
The BEA said the crew could be heard discussing a fire on the cockpit voice recorder and that the plane’s automatic ACARS messaging system had flagged up smoke on board.
It said it was waiting for Egypt to publish its final report into the crash to understand how the two countries arrived at a different conclusion.
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the flammability, smoke, and toxicity limits are different in the non pax areas, Gorb, but not that much. cockpit crew have full face masks available for a smoke/decompression event. qucik-donning, even w/ glasses so any fire may have come from electronics, either installed equipment or cary on (phone/laptop)
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Heard a story about a guy flying a turboprop cargo hauler in Africa (that frequently carry passengers as cargo) where the pilot smelled smoke and found that the riders had tore up a packing crate and built a fire on the cargo deck to cook the chicken they had brought along. Lunch, you know.
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[PRESSTV] South Sudan’s warring parties have agreed to a power-sharing agreement according to which rebel leader Riek Machar will be reinstated as vice president.
"It has been agreed that there will be four vice presidents: the current two vice presidents, plus Riek Machar (who) will assume the position of first vice president, and then the fourth position will be allocated to a woman from the opposition," said Sudanese Foreign Minister al-Dierdiry Ahmed on Saturday.
The deal was reached in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, in an attempt to end South Sudan's civil war, which broke out in 2013 after a political dispute between President Salva Kiir and Machar turned violent.
The two sides have been involved in a cycle of retaliatory killings that have split the impoverished country along the ethnic lines. Tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced in the conflict.
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[DAWN] The board of Mozambique’s national airline, LAM, has been sacked after the carrier cancelled flights this week because of financial difficulties that meant it could not pay for fuel, at one point marooning Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario.
State-controlled LAM said it was working to ensure flights resumed on Friday after the government intervention.
The war-scarred southern African nation sits on some of the world’s largest untapped natural gas reserves but has been cut off from multilateral and foreign donors after the government admitted to $1.4 billion of undisclosed borrowing in 2016.
Mozambique has been rocked by a spate of beheadings and kidnappings in recent months that have prompted international energy firms operating in the northern Cabo Delgado province to introduce added security measures.
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[All Africa] Former first lady Grace Mugabe's unbridled ambition to build a vast business empire in the scenic Mazowe area of Mashonaland Central province has suffered a major setback after the government repossessed the iconic Mazowe Dam she had grabbed in 2017, the Zim-bob-we Independent can reveal.
Prior to the grabbing, Mazoe Citrus, which runs a thriving horticultural plantation in the area, had a 60% stake in the dam, while government held the remaining 40%. The dam was built in 1918 to irrigate the citrus plantation and other crops.
Grace, nicknamed Gucci Grace or First Shopper, had taken advantage of former president Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... 's iron grip on power to establish a vast empire in the area spanning mining, agriculture and an elite private school -- which she marketed as the centrepiece of her philanthropic work. After privatising the Mazowe Dam in July last year, Grace barred local villagers, who had relied on fishing, from accessing the water body.
She also banned recreational activities such as fishing, canoeing and rowing while also restricting the Zim-bob-we National Water Authority (Zinwa) from managing the dam.
Zinwa's acting corporate communications and marketing manager Tsungirirai Shoriwa confirmed that the authority now had "normal access" to the dam. "The ownership of Mazowe Dam has never been a contested issue at any time. Only access to the dam was restricted on account of security," Shoriwa said.
"The security situation has since been reviewed, allowing Zinwa normal access to Mazowe Dam."
Mugabe, who ruled Zim-bob-we for 37 years, was toppled amid dramatic scenes in November last year through a military coup. Water and Environment minister Oppah Muchinguri did not respond to questions sent to her.
Mazowe Dam, the country's 16th largest reservoir, has a capacity of 39,35 million cubic metres of water. The seizure and effective privatisation of the dam was unlawful as it violated the Water Act. The Act stipulates that water should not be privatised, although section 3 says "all water is vested in the President", suggesting Mugabe could have granted permission to his wife to take over the dam. Section 4 of the Act states that there should be no private ownership of water.
"No person shall be entitled to ownership of any water in Zim-bob-we and no water shall be stored, abstracted, apportioned, controlled, diverted, used or in any way dealt with except in accordance with this Act. (2) Subject to this Act, a permit issued in terms of this Act shall confer upon its holder a right to the use of water in accordance with the permit," it says.
This made Grace's move illegal, although the clause indicating that a sitting president has final authority on water left the issue open to a controversial interpretation.
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From a posting late yesterday from our own Elmerert Hupens2660.
[France24] High-level talks between the United States and North Korea appeared to hit a snag on Saturday as Pyongyang said a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had been "regrettable."
North Korea also accused Washington of making "gangster-like" demands to pressure the country into abandoning its nuclear weapons.
The statement from the North came just hours after Pompeo wrapped up two days of talks with senior North Korean officials without meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but with commitments for new discussions on denuclearization and the repatriation of the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War.
While Pompeo offered a relatively positive assessment of his meetings, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the U.S. betrayed the spirit of last month’s summit between President Donald Trump and Kim by making "unilateral and gangster-like" demands on "CVID," or the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea.
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This erratic, unpredictable and unreliable demeanor has always been typical for North Korea.
This time, however the POTUS is willing and able to behave in a similar way as was shown when Trump agreed to and then canceled and then re-agreed to holding the summit.
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Given that CVID was the whole point, I'm guessing the Norks are just working for a better deal - probably some money to pay for cleaning up their nuke junk. Trump can handle this.
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NK has always seemed like it had multiple personalities. Maybe they control internal stress by permitting the 'stressed' to blurt out something like this. If it is too extreme and outside any 'consensus', then strapping the 'stress inducer' to the muzzle of some weapon can bleed off that stressor.
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"But they were supposed to give us something. They didn't give us something."
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Maybe Sister has some power behind her brother. When he got home, there was some 'family' discussion.
I understand what Pompeo likely meant. But given the parallels between the post WWII history both of Vietnam and Korea the invocation of Vietnam is prone to be misunderstood by the Koreas, Japan, Taiwan and other US allies.
The Norks might now expect to be offered the South in exchange for CVID.
[Business Insider] In the first half of the 20th century, Jews were unwelcome at many resorts in the United States.
So beginning in the 1930s, middle class Jewish New Yorkers found a respite in rural Southeastern New York.
The so-called "Borscht Belt" ‐ also known as the Jewish Alps and Solomon Country ‐ was transformed by the Jewish community into a resort haven of their own.
Skiing, skating, swimming, and boating were all offered by the ritzy resorts. Little-known comedians including Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and Joan Rivers all got their start doing stand-up comedy here. The community even inspired the film "Dirty Dancing."
In short, the Borscht Belt was booming.
But that all changed in the 1960s. Cheap air travel suddenly allowed a new generation to visit more exotic and warmer destinations. Grossinger's Resort, which once boasted 150,000 visitors annually and was known as the "Waldorf in the Catskills," abandoned its operations in 1986.
Hopefully the ChiComs don't steal this formula for a few years...
[Zero Hedge] - After more than a 100 years of dominance, new research from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Army Research Laboratory have discovered a new, more powerful compound, Bis-oxadiazole (C6H4N6O8), which could render TNT obsolete.
The molecular structure of Bis-oxadiazole. (Source: OPR&D)
"It would be about 1.5 times the power of TNT," said David Chavez, an explosives chemist at Los Alamos who worked on the new molecule, who spoke with Popular Mechanics. "So fairly energetic, quite a nice improvement compared to TNT."
Popular Mechanics first uncovered the report titled "Bis(1,2,4-oxadiazole) Bis(methylene) Dinitrate: A High-Energy Melt-Castable Explosive and Energetic Propellant Plasticizing Ingredient," which was published late last month in the Organic Process Research & Development, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Chemical Society.
Chavez told Popular Mechanics that TNT is a blend of the seemingly harmless elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen (C7H5N3O6). However, he compares the explosive compounds to gasoline, indicating that rather than extracting oxygen from the air to work as an oxidizer for combustion, like an engine, the explosives have all the ingredients for a powerful explosion within the compound. Perfect for those bunker buster bombs - get on with it!
seemingly harmless elements carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen
*sigh*
So is cyanide.
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There's lots of explosives more powerful than TNT (trinitrotolulene). Have been for over a century. Nitroglyerine and Dynamite are examples.
Military C4 is good 1/3 more powerful than TNT. What TNT is, is stable and easy to work with.
(Look up the wiki page on 'TNT equivalent', and scroll down to 'relative effectiveness'.
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sta·bil·i·ty. Lovely word that, particularly if you are sitting next to a case of it...
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Mag, I'm one of the guys that used to pinch off a pea sized bit of C4, and stick it on the bottom of a canteen cup full of water, and light it to boil the water to make coffee.
Everything is relative, in the long term we're all dead.
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[All Africa] An eight-year study has shown the Bacillus Calamine Guerin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis can reverse Type 1 diabetes to almost undetectable levels.
United States (US) researchers found that just one jab, followed by a booster four weeks later, brought down average blood sugar levels to near normal within three years, and the effect lasted for the following five years. According to the report published in The Telegraph UK, experts hailed the results as "very exciting" and said such a treatment would be a "major advance" in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the body attacks cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin. Insulin is needed to move sugar from the blood to cells where it is used as energy and without regular top-up injections, patients can fall into a lethal coma.
But the new study suggests that just two injections of BCG could virtually cure the condition for many years at a time.
"This is clinical validation of the potential to stably lower blood sugars to near normal levels with a safe vaccine, even in patients with longstanding disease," said Dr. Denise Faustman who led the trial at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"In addition to the clinical outcomes, we now have a clear understanding of the mechanisms through which limited BCG vaccine doses can make permanent, beneficial changes to the immune system and lower blood sugars in type 1 diabetes."
Used for almost a century to prevent tuberculosis, the BCG vaccine helps boost and regulate the immune system. The team also discovered that the jab speeds up the rate by which cells convert glucose into energy and tests on mice show that it could also be beneficial against Type 2 diabetes.
The new study involved 52 people with Type 1 diabetes. After three years of treatment average blood sugar levels had dropped by 10 per cent and by 18 per cent after four years. Treated participants had an average blood glucose score of 6.65, close to the 6.5 considered the threshold for diabetes diagnosis.
In comparison, the blood sugar of those in the placebo group continued to rise over the trial period.
Commenting on the research, Prof Helen McShane, Professor of Vaccinology, at the University of Oxford, said: "The finding that two doses of BCG, a safe vaccine that is almost 100 years old, can significantly improve the control of blood glucose in patients with established type-1 diabetes, is very exciting.
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Odd that suddenly vaccines are curing ailments other than their targets.
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Zoonotic helminths (HIE) may cause blindness with severe socio-economic consequences to human communities.
Transcript of Ellis Kackley, Pioneer Doctor
Ellis Kackley, Pioneer Doctor Background Grew up during Reconstruction Finished medical school at the University of Tennessee
Saw opportunity in the West and moved to Soda Springs, Idaho Robin Hood of the West Ellis' desire was to help people Often never charged for services Worked with frontier people as well as natives Had no issues charging the wealthy Creative cure to help shepherds' eyes Infected the eyes of the shepherds with gonorrhea Gonorrhea would kill the infection
Would then use nitrate of silver to kill the gonorrhea. Eyes were cleared of both initial infection and gonorrhea
A cure discovered by the good doctor, purely by accident.
[Guardian] Governor says ‘today is the peak of our readiness’ as 18 divers enter cave in an attempt to bring the trapped boys out..
15min ago: It is unclear whether the boys swum out, or if they were sedated and delivered by the rescuers.
31min ago: Up to four boys from a group of 12 children who have been trapped inside a cave in northern Thailand for more than two weeks have been freed, the Guardian has confirmed.
Sources in the diving team and the Thai navy confirmed the first two boys were freed late on Sunday afternoon and were airlifted to Chiang Rai city, about 50 miles away.
The Thai navy Seals Facebook page posted that an additional two boys had also been freed – the third at 7.35pm local time and the fourth 12 minutes later.
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The rescue has been concluded for the night and will resume in 10-20 hours because “we’ve used all the oxygen,” according to Narongsak, who said the healthiest were taken out first.
That was an hour ago, so don't hold your breath.
Sorry.
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to your room, Bobby
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To get an idea of the toughest challenge in the cave exfiltration, watch this video taken from "the choke point":
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I'm guessing that'd be the Dan Ryan, as in, "the Dan Ryan Expressway, formerly lined with mile upon mile of towering, decrepit monuments to the Democrat Party's failed trillion-dollar 'War on Poverty,' monuments now dynamited into oblivion by that same party in the most impressive destruction of evidence since the Nazis backed out of Eastern Europe?"
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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.
[CNN] A mother in Dallas shot a man who attempted to steal her car while her two children were in the back seat, police said.
[DAWN] The board of Mozambique’s national airline, LAM, has been sacked after the carrier cancelled flights this week because of financial difficulties that meant it could not pay for fuel, at one point marooning Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario.
Zoonotic helminths (HIE) may cause blindness with severe socio-economic consequences to human communities.
