[MAIL] A millionaire model agency boss who is thought to have key information about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal 'has disappeared like a ghost without a trace'.
Jean-Luc Brunel, 72, has vanished as police seek to ask the Frenchman 'urgent' questions about the paedophile.
Investigators are making enquiries in Brazil, the US and Europe and French prosecutors are also pursuing claims relating to the financier, who died aged 66 before he could face the latest allegations.
A friend of Prince Andrew, predator Epstein killed himself in jail on August 10 as he faced child sex trafficking charges.
[NYPOST] The assault rifle-toting madman who killed seven people and maimed more than 20 others in a roving Texas spree was identified Sunday as Seth Ator.
Ator, a 36-year-old resident of Odessa, Texas, was first named as the assailant by CBS News, citing law-enforcement sources.
When his gold Toyota pick-up truck was pulled over for a minor signaling infraction along a stretch of I-20 near Midland, Texas, on Saturday, Ator blasted approaching state troopers, seriously wounding one, authorities have said.
He then peeled off, firing indiscriminately with his AR-style rifle out of the truck as he floored it towards Odessa, authorities said.
Along the way, he killed a USPS worker and hijacked her mail truck, continuing the spree, officials said.
He made his last stand in the parking lot of an Odessa movie theater, where he was killed in a shootout with cops as horrified onlookers prayed for their lives.
Authorities are yet to identify a concrete motive behind the onslaught.
[Washington Examiner] Details are beginning to emerge about the gunman who killed seven and injured at least 19 others during a shooting rampage in Odessa and Midland, Texas on Saturday.
The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Seth Ator, had a criminal record dating back to his teenage years.
In 2002, Ator pleaded guilty to criminal trespassing and evading arrest, both misdemeanors in Texas. He avoided jail time but received two years of probation according to public records, which indicate the crimes took place in McLennan County. Adjudication was deferred in the case, which can be granted to first-time offenders and allows a conviction to be kept off of one’s record.
He also got a traffic citation in 2018 for a federal motor carrier safety violation while in Ector County, the same county in which Odessa is located.
According to ABC 25, Ator was from Lorena, Texas, a small city of about 1,500 people located in the Waco metropolitan area in the central-eastern part of the state. People who knew Ator said that he graduated from Lorena High School in 2001, a school that currently enrolls about 570 students. People in the area said they had lost touch with the Ator family over the past five years.
Ator’s parents divorced in 1987, and his mother and father now live in Amarillo and San Antonio respectively, according to Heavy. He reportedly has one sister, and his family has long roots in Texas.
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Red Flags Everywhere
"Related: Neighbor of Texas gunman says he threatened her with rifle last month" along with recent other red flags in the article. Police were called on these incidents but would not respond.
Former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wacrow called the shooter's actions toward Alonzo "behavioral red flags" and wondered why police reportedly failed to act during a CNN interview on Sunday.
"The fact that a neighbor called the police on this one incident, and they didn’t act, that has to be fully investigated," he said. "That's what we always talk about here at this desk in the aftermath of these crisis situations when we look back at who these people are, and we say, 'Look, we clearly see there was a leading indicator of the propensity for violence.'"
He added, "We need to stop that along that behavioral continuum before someone transcends into an act of mass shooting and it creates these horrific events."
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So was he simply traveling with the weapons because he's an unhinged riminal, or was he going somewhere to do something when the cops stopped and perhaps we all got lucky the damage wasn't worse.
[BREITBART] At least 25 people were shot, seven fatally, during the first half of Labor Day Weekend in Democrat-controlled Chicago.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the fatalities began around 12:22 a.m. Saturday, when 42-year-old Willie Coker was shot to death while standing outside. The shooting occurred on South Burley Avenue.
Roughly three hours later 18-year-old Angel Perez was shot and killed on West Le Moyne Street.
A 26-year-old man and a 32-year-old man were shot to death about an hour later in the 7100 block of South Paulina Street. The Chicago Tribune reports that three other adults were wounded in the South Paulina shooting.
A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed Sunday morning around 2:19 a.m. and a man was shot and killed at a party in Woodlawn about 20 minutes later. Another man was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting around 3:54 a.m. “in the 5100 block of South Pulaski Road.”
Breitbart News reported at least 29 were shot, six fatally, over the weekend of August 23-25, 2019, in Democrat-controlled Chicago.
At least 28 were shot, five fatally, in Chicago over the weekend of August 16-18. Forty-seven individuals were shot, four fatality, in Chicago over the weekend of August 9-11, and 53 individuals were shot, seven killed, in Democrat-controlled Chicago during the first weekend of August.
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Zenobia, that's because this is a dog bites man story. It happens almost every weekend.
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There's no Chicken Little "The Sky is Falling" moment for the Left to hammer gun control in Chicago; shootings are too common place. Moreover, the Left does't really care whether blacks are shooting each other in Chicago.
[NYPOST] The family of a 17-month-old girl who was struck by a bullet fragment during the latest Texas mass shooting on Saturday says she will survive — but they’re hoping donations will help with her medical bills.
Anderson Davis was grazed by shrapnel on the right side of her chest, according to a GoFundMe page set up on behalf of her family.
More shrapnel knocked out her front teeth and tore a hole in her bottom lip and tongue, the page reveals.
“She is alive,” family friend Haylee Wilkerson wrote in setting up the fundraiser.
“When others today are not alive.
“I ask you to continue praying for our hearts as we experience this, pray for complete healing of Anderson, pray for every other family in our same situation, or worse, today and pray for the shooters,” she wrote, describing Anderson as a “sweet sweet baby girl who is so little and doesn’t realize what is happening.”
“Pray that whatever is causing them to do this will be defeated by God and they will stop shooting,” the post says.
The New York Times interviewed an eyewitness to Anderson’s shooting.
“She was conscious, but she was just covered in blood,” Junior Bejarano, 20, said of finding the tot in her car seat outside the Twin Peaks restaurant, where he is an employee.
Images labelled "Candidate Landing Site for SpaceX #Starship in Arcadia Region" were found in latest data release from @HiRISE. It means @SpaceX is already quietly evaluating best place where to land first Starships on #Mars. We made a map of those sites: http://t.co/fejyWhEtzPpic.twitter.com/wV3ACDbJZx
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] Florida has suspended all roadway tolls as intensely powerful Hurricane Dorian continues a slow westward track over the Bahamas. There is a great deal of uncertainty on the timing of any northward shift… Everyone on the east coast of Florida pay attention.
The eye-wall of category-five hurricane Dorian now carries 185 mph winds outward 45 miles from center. This presents a 90-mile-wide buzzsaw of devastating impact. It cannot be overstated how dangerous this storm has become. Very few structures can withstand winds of that scale for any prolonged duration of time.
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as of the past few hours the westward movement of Dorian has almost stopped
Good news for Florida since an approaching system will probably turn the storm NW, then N, then NE beginning tomorrow.
Bad news for the Bahamas. Probably there will be loss of life and, in addition, they will likely suffer property and infrastructure damage approaching, or even exceeding, 30% of there annual GDP.
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as of a few minutes ago Dorian is down to a Category 4, though on the highest rung of that category
it has moved west only about 10 miles in the past 12 hours; in the past hour there was a small jog to the north
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Last radar I've seen, the eye is sitting right over the western part of the island. Since I'm no meteorologist and sitting in a recliner in Arizona, hope that's good news for them.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Argentine government has authorized the central bank to restrict currency purchases, according to a decree published in an official bulletin on Sunday.
The decree includes major exporters, which will need permission from the central bank to access the FX market to purchase foreign currency and make transfers abroad.
“Given various factors that impacted the evolution of the Argentine economy and the uncertainty in the financial markets, the executive branch needed to adopt a series of extraordinary measures aimed at ensuring the normal functioning of the economy, sustaining the level of activity and employment and protecting consumers,” the decree said.
The measure is a step further by the central bank after it announced on Friday that banks would need to seek prior authorization before distributing their earnings, in order to “avoid any lack of money” and safeguard the liquidity of the country’s financial system.
Some private economists said the policy announced Friday, which could limit the availability of hard peso currency to financial institutions, looked like a return to capital controls in Latin America’s third-largest economy.
[Last Refuge] The protests and demonstrations began in mid-June, centered around the now-suspended extradition bill that would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China for trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party. Today, those protests are outlawed by Chinese authorities, organizers have been disappeared, and yet the protests continue.
Eric, a 22-year-old student, told Reuters news agency: "Telling us not to protest is like telling us not to breathe. I feel it’s my duty to fight for democracy. Maybe we win, maybe we lose, but we fight."
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Notice the size of crowds those of Hong Kong muster compared the the crowds (not the opposition to) of Antifa. Those of the love of freedom vs those of the love of power.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] China plans to provide more support for its economy, including investing in infrastructure projects and regional development, while maintaining a prudent monetary policy with "reasonably" ample liquidity, the State Council said on Sunday.
As the world's second-largest economy weathers its biggest slowdown in decades, the State Council said the government aimed to better integrate fiscal, financial and monetary policies, deepen capital market reforms and further open up the financial sector.
"We attach great importance to the development of infrastructure, high-tech, traditional industrial transformation, social services and new growth regions," the State Council said in a statement following a meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Commission (FSDC) chaired by Vice Premier Liu He on Saturday.
China's economy faces pressures from a bruising trade war with the United States. The two countries began imposing additional tariffs on each other's goods on Sunday, the latest escalation in the trade dispute, despite signs that talks would resume some time this month.
China's vast manufacturing sector shrank in August for the fourth month in a row, data showed on Saturday, although the services sector picked up for the first time in five months.
The State Council said the government would also encourage banks to use more innovative tools to replenish capital through multiple channels, but did not elaborate.
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Ah yes, "development of infrastructure" the Obama way. Just throw that money down the rabbit hole. Now for a series of compounding errors. Hong Kong being one of the first major errors. Like today's Democrats control and dominate. Communism versus capitalism. Watch how fast the great dragon deflates.
[DAWN] More than a dozen flights were cancelled Sunday as thousands of pro-democracy activists blocked routes to Hong Kong's airport, a day after protesters and police fought pitched battles in some of the worst violence seen in the city since unrest began three months ago.
At least 16 flights were cancelled, the airport's website said, with the departure hall packed with a backlog of passengers who had struggled to make it to the terminals.
Earlier, operators of the Airport Express train suspended services after the station was besieged, while black-clad protesters — hiding from CCTV cameras under umbrellas — built barricades at the bus terminus and attempted to stop traffic on the main road leading to the facility.
Stranded travellers were forced to abandon their lifts and drag their luggage along the airport road.
[DAWN] A constable stormed into the emergency ward at the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital in Raja Bazaar late Friday night and shot and killed two people over a family dispute.
The dear departed have been identified as 54-year-old Malik Lehrasab and his son Malik Naveed, 24, from Samoot village in Kallar Syedan. The alleged killer, a constable with the Pirwadhai police, fled after shooting both men.
A murder case has been registered against the suspect with the Ganjmandi police and City Police Officer (CPO) retired Capt Faisal Rana has suspended the suspect and two other police officials on duty and ordered a departmental inquiry against them.
[DAWN] A man from Gujranwala, whose video of robbing an ATM went viral owing to his antics, died early on Sunday while in police custody.
The man identified as Salahuddin Ayubi of Gujranwala's Kamonkay district was arrested on Friday. According to the district police officer's spokesperson Zeeshan Randhawa, Ayubi was behaving like a "mad man" in lockup when he suddenly became unwell. He said that the man was unconscious when he was shifted to the emergency ward of Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital where doctors confirmed his death.
As per Randhawa, Ayubi was dead when he was brought to the hospital. According to the focal person for the hospital Dr Burhan Mustafa, the director of the emergency ward could not comment on the condition in which he was brought to the hospital.
The DPO's spokesperson said that the reason for Ayubi's death would be ascertained after a post-mortem report is issued. Additionally, he said that DPO Umar Farooq Salamat had constituted an inquiry team, headed by Superintendent of Police Investigation, to look into the matter.
In a video that went viral on social media a few days ago, Ayubi was seen stealing an ATM card after breaking open a machine in Faisalabad and sticking his tongue out in jest at both the camera in the corner of the booth and the one installed in the machine itself.
On Friday, he once again entered an ATM booth — this time in Rahim Yar Khan — and was in the process of breaking the machine's exterior when he was caught red-handed by other customers. The incident occurred on Shahi road at Habib Bank Limited.
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.
[Washington Examiner] Details are beginning to emerge about the gunman who killed seven and injured at least 19 others during a shooting rampage in Odessa and Midland, Texas on Saturday.
[BREITBART] At least 25 people were shot, seven fatally, during the first half of Labor Day Weekend in Democrat-controlled Chicago.
[NYPOST] The family of a 17-month-old girl who was struck by a bullet fragment during the latest Texas mass shooting on Saturday says she will survive — but they’re hoping donations will help with her medical bills.
