[PITTSBURGH.CBSLOCAL] Pittsburgh police said a 12-year-old boy was stabbed inside a McDonald’s in Downtown Pittsburgh Saturday afternoon.Police said they arrested 51-year-old Charles Edward Turner in connection with the stabbing. He’s facing several charges, including criminal attempted homicide.
The child was transported to the hospital at death's door. A criminal complaint states that a doctor upgraded his condition to stable. It also said a black and yellow box cutter was recovered from the scene and a piece of razor blade that broke off the box cutter was recovered where the stabbing happened.
"It’s really quite a tragic thing on a beautiful Saturday downtown," said Cara Cruz, she’s the Deputy Public Information Officer for the Pittsburgh Public Safety Department.
Police said the 12-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck inside McDonald’s on Liberty Avenue and Stanwix Street just after 2:00 p.m. Saturday. Cruz said the child was standing in line with his family when the incident happened.
"He was with his family, he was standing in line, they had just zipped in for one quick thing," Cruz said.
People walking in the busy downtown area were shocked and scared when they heard the news.
"I think it’s terrible that something like that can happen," said Anthony Benson, who just moved to Pittsburgh from Philadelphia.
"We’re here all the time, people are here all the time, it’s scary, very scary and a child...that’s terrifying," said Maggie Kishbaugh, a Duquesne University student.
Cruz said Turner was in line behind the child and his family. A criminal complaint states that a witness said Turner tackled the child from behind and then people tried to get him off and they noticed the child’s neck was slashed.
Documents also state that Turner resisted arrest by punching and kicking officers. Court documents said one officer had cuts on his face and two other victims had minor injuries.
Turner is charged with criminal attempted homicide, four counts of aggravated assault, two counts of simple assault, and resisting arrest.
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Liberty Avenue. An absolute garden spot.
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[NYPOST] Shocking video captures the moment a city Homeless Services cop gets slugged and knocked out by a resident at a troubled Harlem shelter.
The footage — taken inside the Parkview Inn on West 110th Street last week and obtained by The Post — shows the officer first confronting the irate man in the hallway.
The officer is then seen trying to calm down the suspect. But the man grabs the officer’s mask and pulls it off his mouth and begins hurling punches, according to the video.
The cop, who sources said is a peace officer assigned to the city Department of Homeless Services, takes several steps before collapsing in the narrow hallway.
Another officer then yells at the attacker to stay down while holding a can of pepper spray as the man retreats into his room, footage shows.
The suspect can be seen going back into the hallway clutching some clothing.
He fled and is still on the loose, sources said.
The officer suffered a broken jaw, which has since been wired shut and will force him to eat and drink through a straw for the next six weeks, sources said.
The injured cop declined to comment on the case Sunday.
The NYPD confirmed the attack to The Post on Sunday, adding in an e-mailed statement, "There are no arrests, and the investigation is ongoing."
The incident irked at least one law-enforcement source, who questioned whether DHS was doing enough to help track down the attacker.
"The urgency to do something is not there," the source said.
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[BREITBART] A six-year-old girl died at an apartment complex in Texas after being shot multiple times Friday over an argument about spilled water.The child’s mother identified the girl as Laurionne Walker, KTRK reported.
"I’m at a loss for words right now," Earline House, Laurionne’s grandmother, told KPRC. "My granddaughter was still a baby. She got shot twice in the chest this morning."
Police in Pasadena, which is a city southeast of Houston, said officers responded to reports of an apartment complex shooting around 11:30 a.m. Friday.
A man who was related to Laurionne shot the girl multiple times, police said.
Laurionne was rushed to a hospital, where she later succumbed to her injuries and was declared dead, NBC News reported.
Pasadena Police charged Raymeon Means, 35, on Saturday with one count of capital murder in connection with Laurionne’s death. Laurionne, Raymeon... a mug shot is unnecessary
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[Washington Examiner] The public overestimates the likelihood a person with COVID-19 would have to be hospitalized by 10 times the actual number, a study shows. I wonder how they got that idea? People were asked during a Franklin Templeton/Gallup study what "percentage of people who have been infected by the coronavirus needed to be hospitalized." Thirty-five percent of those asked said that over half of infected people would require hospitalization from the disease. Meanwhile, only 18% correctly stated that the risk of hospitalization was somewhere between 1%-5%. Political split revealed below.
"The U.S. public is also deeply misinformed about the severity of the virus for the average infected person," the study’s authors said.
The numbers came at the same time a paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research found that U.S. media coverage of the virus skewed overwhelmingly negative when compared to the coverage in other countries, which likely contributed to the outsize fear Americans have about the threat the virus poses.
"Ninety one percent of stories by U.S. major media outlets are negative in tone versus fifty four percent for non-U.S. major sources and sixty five percent for scientific journals," reads the working paper’s abstract. "The negativity of the U.S. major media is notable even in areas with positive scientific developments including school re-openings and vaccine trials. Media negativity is unresponsive to changing trends in new COVID-19 cases or the political leanings of the audience." Good news don't sell no advertising, Jack!
Democrats were much more likely to overestimate the harms of COVID-19, according to the Franklin Templeton/Gallup study, with 41% believing over half of coronavirus patients would require hospitalizations, compared to 28% of Republicans.
Republicans were also more likely to identify the correct risk of hospitalization from the virus, with 26% answering between 1%-5% of patients would require hospitalizations, compared to only 10% of Democrats who believed the same. The Stupid Party is 2.5 times more likely to get it right than the Wokesters.
"These errors in factual knowledge appear to have important real-world implications," the study’s authors noted. "Those who overestimate risks to young people or hold an exaggerated sense of risk upon infection are more likely to favor closing schools, restaurants, and other businesses."
To bring the public’s perception of the virus risks in line with reality, the authors stress the need for a more "well-informed public." I fear that is not likely.
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US MSM continue to suppress the extremely low death count from COVID among those <= 18 years of age. They basically never mention it. The CDC has the data deeply buried in their web site, good luck finding it.
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To bring the public’s perception of the virus risks in line with reality, the authors stress the need for a more "well-informed public."
Yes we need that, don't we?
But to achieve that outcome requires a totally different political class and a new set of media companies to replace our current political and media elites. They're congenital liars, with an agenda focused on a retarded Woke ideology and one-party domination.
Nothing good will happen wrt truth and better information until and unless we get rid of our foolish and power-mad political/media elites.
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We should not be surprised. Not everything Prometheus gave us was used for good. The gift of 'fire' is a valid example.
Walter Isaacson 'The Code Breakers' Part Four CRISPER in Action, Page 243
If ever man fell ill, there was no defense
- no healing food, no ointment, nor any drink
but for the lack of medicine they wasted away
until I showed them how to mix soothing remebies.
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The MSM was also silent the day 6,968 deaths occurred on Feb. 13, three weeks into Biden's watch.
Can you imagine the howls if Trump had been in office?
The good news is that most numbers have trended down since then. We may be coming out of the woods. No doubt, Uncle Joe will receive the credit.
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A friend of ours, age 39, no co-morbidities, got covid six months or so ago and is still on supplemental oxygen, though less than at first. Congressman, newly elected from adjacent district, died before even taking office - he was also just 40 (not sure of co-morbidities.) Anecdotes like these drive public perception, especially when actual data are well-hidden.
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Media deliberate disinformation and lying by commission AND omission has paid off. The elites and their sockpuppets in media have spread fear to buffalo a sufficient number of people into herd obedience of the "elites" like Soros. All based on bad information and emotional appeals and a credulity progressives and liberals display that beggars the imagination.
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More Global Warming Escaping! [Fox News] A volcano near Iceland's capital city and the country's Keflavik International Airport erupted Friday after sitting dormant for 6,000 years.
The glow from the lava could be seen from Reykjavik roughly 20 miles away and residents were warned not to go near the lava fountains and urged to stay indoors with the windows closed due to expected "volcanic gas pollution." Hey, bud! Ya gotta permit for that gas emission?
"Currently, gas pollution is not expected to cause much discomfort for people except close up to the source of the eruption," the IMO tweeted on Saturday. "The gas [emissions] will be monitored closely." Somebody's going to have to cough up a lot of carbon credits!
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Can't be long before The Rapture Time, hits the World now.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Sunday, the investigation bureau of the Ain Zara’s cop shoppe arrested two men accused of raping a schoolgirl in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... According to a statement issued by the Interior Ministry, one of the defendants had tricked the girl into entering his car, where he then took her to a remote area and sexually assaulted her along with a friend.
The police stated that they were able to arrest the desperados after a raid, without revealing the date of the incident. They added that all legal measures would be taken against the two perpetrators.
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The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... imposes sanctions on four Chinese officials accused of responsibility for abuses against Uighur Moslems in a raft of measures targeting alleged human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... offenders around the world, despite warnings that Beijing could retaliate.
The four are bigwigs in the northwest region of Xinjiang.
The sanctions involve a freeze on their assets in the EU and a ban on them traveling in the bloc. European citizens and companies are not permitted to provide them with financial assistance.
China at first denied the existence of camps for detaining Uighurs in Xinjiang but has since described them as centers to provide job training and reeducate those exposed to radical jihadi thinking. Officials deny all charges of human rights abuses there.
The new EU sanction system is similar to the Magnitsky Act — Obama-era legislation that authorizes the US government to sanction those it sees as human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... offenders, freeze their assets and ban them from entering the United States.
EU foreign ministers, as part of today’s move, also impose sanctions over repression in North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... , "extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Libya, torture and repression against LGBTI persons and political opponents in Chechnya in Russia, and torture, extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings in South Sudan and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... ," a statement says.
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[BenarNews] The first North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n national to be extradited to the United States — a possible financial crime information windfall for the U.S. — appeared in court to face money-laundering charges on Monday in Washington, where an FBI official said "we hope he will be the first of many."
Mun Chol Myong, 55, who was extradited from Malaysia in a decision that led Pyongyang to cut diplomatic ties with Kuala Lumpur, appeared in federal court in the Washington to face six counts of money laundering, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.
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[TORONTOSUN] Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd on Sunday said it has agreed to buy Kansas City Southern for US$25 billion in a cash-and-shares deal to create the first rail network connecting the United States, Mexico, and Canada, betting on a pick-up in North American trade.
The deal would create the first U.S.-Mexico-Canada railroad, offering a single integrated rail system connecting ports on the U.S. Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific coasts with overseas markets.
Shareholders of Kansas City Southern will receive 0.489 of a Canadian Pacific share and $90 in cash for each KCS common share held, valuing Kansas City Southern at $275 per share, a 23% premium to Friday’s closing price, the companies said in a joint statement. Including debt, the deal is valued at $29 billion.
The deal is contingent on the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) blessing the transaction and Canadian railroad operators’ previous attempts to buy U.S. rail companies have met limited success.
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The Canadian National Railway has owed the Illinois Central Railroad (founded 1851) for twenty years, giving it access to Sioux City, Omaha, Mobile, and New Orleans. But the KCS has long resisted mergers.
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And CP is not a starry-eyed disciple of PSR; rather building volume over time for more revenue,even if that means a bit of loss at first. Suggest UP, CSX and NS start taking notes.
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Somewhere in the backstory i wonder if the Keystone Pipeline decision by Bidet et al doesn't have a financial thread in this since all the oil now returns to tanker cars?
Line 5 carries about 540,000 barrels of fuel daily, which includes 80% of the propane used in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Whitmer's 2022 budget includes $17 million to upgrade rail facilities and build storage tanks at railheads. The shutdown order says May 13 is the cutoff date. Despite enviro fears of a pipeline apocalypse, Line 5 has been in operation 65 years without incident.
Might be an interesting time to watch railroad stocks.
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Presidential Executive Order already in the pipeline, coordination with a friendly Governor, and people who own railroad stock suddenly get very rich. This is how Democrats get rich, how the Big Guy and his family will get kickback that is well insulated from view, and why big money managers are now all diehard progressives. You get rich by fixing the game and letting the rubes pay you for it! Bastards
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re#3: BNSF never bought into PSR and are doing quite well; they also are eating UP's lunch on carload traffic as well as some oil business. Being privately owned, they don't have to suck up to the Wall Street short term investor mentality. I was expecting BNSF or maybe UP to make the run on KCS, not CP.
Israel’s bien pensants hate Bibi as strongly as ours hate [current Republican president/candidate here]. They’ve been protesting for ages because he outmaneuvered the other guy last time.
[Jpost] With criticism between candidates left and right and unclear rotation options for prime minister, who is going to win the Israeli elections in 2021?
Israelis will head to the polls for the fourth time in under two years on Tuesday, hoping to end the political stalemate that began in December 2018 when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu initiated the first election.
There will be 6,578,084 Israelis eligible to vote for any of the 38 parties running in 13,685 polling stations across the country, including 750 special polling stations for the sick and quarantined due to COVID-19.
Exit polls will be broadcast at 10 p.m. Tuesday night on three television networks. But the real results from the normal polling stations will only be available on Wednesday, and some 430,000 double ballots from the special polling stations, soldiers, emissaries and prisoners will arrive by Thursday or Friday. The final results must be in by March 31.
The candidates spent the final day before the election in their strongholds.
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My heart tells me to vote for Liberman's anti-Haredi platform.
My mind tells me that: with hostile USA, uber-hostile EUrope, and "friendly" China; we need Bibi.
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.
[PITTSBURGH.CBSLOCAL] Pittsburgh police said a 12-year-old boy was stabbed inside a McDonald’s in Downtown Pittsburgh Saturday afternoon.Police said they arrested 51-year-old Charles Edward Turner in connection with the stabbing. He’s facing several charges, including criminal attempted homicide.
People were asked during a Franklin Templeton/Gallup study what "percentage of people who have been infected by the coronavirus needed to be hospitalized." Thirty-five percent of those asked said that over half of infected people would require hospitalization from the disease. Meanwhile, only 18% correctly stated that the risk of hospitalization was somewhere between 1%-5%.
[Fox News] A volcano near Iceland's capital city and the country's Keflavik International Airport erupted Friday after sitting dormant for 6,000 years.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
