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Standoff Between Heavily Armed Men And Police Shuts Down Part Of I-95 In Wakefield
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Female corrections officer jailed for sex with inmate in view of 11 others
[NYPOST] A female Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, corrections officer with a "depraved mind" has been locked away
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
for reportedly having sex with an inmate — in full view of 11 other jailbirds.

Tina Gonzalez, 26, even cut a hole in her uniform pants — to make it easier to have sex in Fresno County Jail, her sentencing hearing was told on Tuesday, according to The Fresno Bee.

Her former boss, Assistant Sheriff Steve McComas, told the court that he had witnessed many "pretty disgusting things" during his 26-years on the job — but nothing as shocking as hearing of Gonzalez’s sex session in full view of other inmates.

"That is something only a depraved mind can come up with," McComas told the court, according to the local paper.

Gonzalez — who quit after being arrested in May last year — also supplied the same inmate with razors, a cell phone and advance warnings when his cell was going to be searched, the reports said.

"She took an oath which she betrayed and in doing so endangered her coworkers’ lives," McComas said.

"But she has shown no remorse. She continually calls and has sexually explicit conversations with the inmate in question and boasts about the crimes she carried out," he told the court, according to the Bee.
Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pics or GTFO!

// Oh, snap...
Posted by: Raj || 07/03/2021 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  "Naughty Prison Wardens"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2021 4:24 Comments || Top||

#3  To paraphrase a movie classic:
"Its Fresno, Jake"
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/03/2021 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Depraved? Quite possibly but perhaps jail isn't the best location or punishment for her.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/03/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Not deprived ... on account o' she's depraved
Posted by: Otto Thusons2637 || 07/03/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||


9-year-old girl, baby struck in the head during separate Chicago shootings
[NYPOST] A 1-month-old baby and a 9-year-old girl were both shot in the head in separate incidents in violence-plagued reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
this week, officials said.A total of seven people — including the female infant — were struck by bullets when button men jumped out of an SUV and began firing on the city’s South Side on Thursday.
White Supremacists?
The baby remains at death's door, police said, while the other victims had less serious injuries.

No arrests have been made in the case after the assailants expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.

A 9-year-old girl also remained at death's door after being shot in a drive-by just hours before while sitting in a car with a man who was also hit, cops said.



Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am starting to wonder if some of these kids are being used as human shields, under the mistaken expectation that the shooters care?
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/03/2021 9:42 Comments || Top||


Two hurt in separate NYC shootings overnight, cops say
[NYPOST] Two men were hurt in a pair of separate shootings overnight in Brooklyn and East Harlem, cops said Friday.

A 22-year-old man was blasted in the right arm on Willoughby Avenue near Throop Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.

He reported hearing shots and feeling pain, and walked in to Woodhull Medical Center, cops said.

Hours earlier, a 43-year-old man was shot inside a building on Madison Avenue near East 112th Street in East Harlem, part of NYCHA’s Taft Houses, police said.

The victim had just gotten out of an elevator on the eighth floor when he got into a dispute with another man who pulled out a gun, shot him in the torso and bolted, authorities said.

The victim went to Harlem Hospital in stable, pH balanced condition.

Posted by: Fred || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
300 residents of North Miami high-rise are EVACUATED after it's revealed engineer warned in JANUARY that it is 'structurally and electrically unsafe' as Miami Dade mayor orders wreckage of doomed Surfside condo demolished
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2021 00:10 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In 2020 there was one quake in the Florida panhandle, as a result of the earthquake emanating in ALABAMA

Since the United States Navy Earthquake, induced by a heavy explosive on 11- June 2021, three earthquakes have occurred "naturally?'.

One building has collapse, with a death toll estimated @ 179 people, and another building being condemned, in order to preclude another loss of life, unsafe building. Yesterday.
Use the 30 Day indicator to see all the earthquake in Florida.... Visit the website

Posted by: Bubba Omailet8927 || 07/03/2021 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  good point bubba
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2021 1:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Engineers Whadda they know?

Bobby P.E.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/03/2021 3:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Nuthin'

Frank G, P.E.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/03/2021 7:36 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Math?
Posted by: Matt || 07/03/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Math is racist.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/03/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Math is racist.

Take out your slide rule and give him a good whack, Frank!

OMG, I just realized that every slipstick I have ever seen is *WHITE*! I denounce myself. Also logarithms.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't forget, all books are racist too, printed on that white paper.

Saw a bag of skittles today for 'pride' month....they're all white. I almost started laughing at the unintended blatant celebrating of white supremacy by someone trying to be 'woke'.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/03/2021 16:22 Comments || Top||


Boeing shares slide as cargo plane lands in Pacific Ocean off Hawaii coast
[FoxNews] Boeing Co. shares slid Friday after a cargo version of the Boeing 737 jet made an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean.

The incident involving the 737-200 – operated by Rhoades Aviation – occurred at around 2:30 a.m. local time when the pilots experienced engine trouble and attempted to return to Honolulu, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The aircraft was manufactured in 1975, FAA records show.

The two pilots on board were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard. One was in good condition while the condition of the other was unknown, according to the Coast Guard.

The incident will be investigated by both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board.

Boeing shares have gained 10.5% this year following the 737 Max returning to service in December 2020. The aircraft was grounded for 20 months after two crashes killed all 346 people aboard.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Radioactive wild boars have been mating with pigs in the nuclear wasteland of Fukushima, to create freakish new hybrid species, study finds
We seen dis movie. Pretty scary! If Godzilla hadn't come along to save it Tokyo woulda been toast.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Researchers at Fukushima studied DNA from the muscle of animals at the site

  • They say wild boars have bred with domestic pigs that escaped from farmland

  • Creation of a hybrid species has had nothing to do with radioactivity, they found

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Disappointing
well, there is always



Godzilla !!!!!
Posted by: Thor Angoper1746 || 07/03/2021 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  And in other shocking news:

Las Vegas Sun: When it comes to nuclear tests in Nevada, numbers just don’t add up
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/03/2021 0:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Stupid story from the DM. Don't open. Don't give them the clicks.
Posted by: Spoter B || 07/03/2021 0:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Skid, I don't know how to post here. But I can send you better material than this Let me know.
Posted by: Spoter B || 07/03/2021 0:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Godzilla!

(Buck Dharma kicks ass)
Posted by: Raj || 07/03/2021 1:05 Comments || Top||

#6  "Fukanō! Is that a Kami...
Or some isekai shonen goomba?"

"It produces shining tofu!
Shinjerarenai! Nyoocrear Pumbaaaaa!"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/03/2021 2:37 Comments || Top||

#7  We know there are no two-headed mutants in Chernobyl.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2021 4:18 Comments || Top||

#8  I don't know how to post here.

Spoter B, if you look at the top of the Rantburg page, under the site banner, you will see

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/03/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Isn't this kinda like wolves breeding with dogs?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/03/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Roast boar: yum
Posted by: Jiggs Flort7068 || 07/03/2021 21:18 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Circle of flames erupts in the Gulf of Mexico after a gas leak causes an underwater pipeline to catch fire before ships rush to extinguish the blaze
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2021 00:08 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Righteous Sea of Fire!!!
Posted by: Kim Jong Raj || 07/03/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Global warming to the max!
Posted by: Bobby || 07/03/2021 2:40 Comments || Top||

#3  It's underwater, so what are they using to put it out?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2021 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  It's a pipeline - just turn off the valves upstream of the leak and the immediate problem will be solved.
It's not clear to me why they even needed - or wanted - to extinguish the flames: the combustion product is less dangerous than the fuel.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/03/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Somebody definitely has some 'splainin to do.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/03/2021 11:32 Comments || Top||


NYC Threatened with Blackout
[Fox Business] New York City residents were being told to shut down appliances and scale back on air conditioning amid the threat of blackouts due to an ongoing heat wave in the Big Apple.
Turn off your air conditioning, or you won't have any lights.
Energy provider Con Edison sounded the alarm on Wednesday by urging customers to conserve energy in order to "help keep service reliable," and followed up later with a tweet informing residents that they would be distributing dry ice to Brooklynites who had already lost power after four days of high temperatures and humidity. Roughly 1,700 people were impacted by the Brooklyn outages, FOX 5 reported.
I hope the dry ice comes with warning signs and instructions is 10-15 languages.
Residents also received phone alerts calling for them to "immediately limit energy usage to prevent power outages as the intense heat continues," to "avoid the use of high-energy appliances such as washers, dryers, and microwaves" and to "limit unnecessary use of air conditioning."
Do they have any natural gas stoves in NYC?
Mayor Bill de Blasio then made a plea via Twitter, writing, "We need New Yorkers to take IMMEDIATE action: reduce your use of electricity in your home or your business for the rest of the day. We need to avoid energy disruptions during this heat emergency."
I guess Seattle didn't have a problem with the recent heat there - most homes don't have A/C and besides, they have hydropower electricity.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good. fuckem
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2021 1:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Mighty Sparrow, 1978
Posted by: Sheba B. Hayes6348 || 07/03/2021 3:33 Comments || Top||

#3  "We need New Yorkers to take IMMEDIATE action: reduce your use of electricity in your home or your business for the rest of the day. We need to avoid energy disruptions during this heat emergency."

You need to get adult supervision in getting you more electricity. You start with taking out the Greenies and Anti-nuke Luddites.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Too bad they shut down Indian Point.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/03/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5 

Want to get the younger generation's attention regarding energy needs?


Reduce energy to vary things they themselves use while claiming climate related issues
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/03/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#6  and charging your EV? Fuhgeddabout it
Posted by: Frank G || 07/03/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  I hope the dry ice comes with warning signs and instructions is 10-15 languages.

Distributing a hazardous substance to tribal people? I don't see that turning out well.

Would it be mean to mention that dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide? As a result of policies to reduce CO2 emissions, they are passing out chunks of CO2. I'm sure it all makes sense if you look at it just the right way and squint.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2021 10:59 Comments || Top||

#8  and now we see why the push for IOT thermostats that can be remotely operated by the gubmint

'for climate justice!'
Posted by: Retard Strength || 07/03/2021 12:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Straight out of Atlas Shrugged.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 07/03/2021 19:45 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian MoD: 47 recon birds approached Russian Federation airspace
Direct translation from Google Translate
[REGNUM] During the week, 47 foreign reconnaissance aircraft approached the state border of Russia. This was reported on July 2 by the official publication of the Ministry of Defense "Krasnaya Zvezda".

In addition, during the week, six foreign drones were recorded carrying out aerial reconnaissance along the Russian borders.

All of these objects were reportedly accompanied by Russian radar stations. According to the Defense Ministry, in none of the episodes there were violations of Russian airspace.


Posted by: badanov || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Satellite images show China building more than 100 ‘nuclear missile silos' in the desert
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Satellite images 'show construction of 119 silos in Chinese desert' near the northwestern city of Yumen, analysts say

  • The sites reportedly mirror features from other known missile silos in China

  • China has been known to build decoy silos in the past

  • China is believed to possess a relatively small stockpile of nuclear weapons

  • But U.S. intelligence officials have warned of the country's nuclear expansion
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Nope
Grave 'silos' for Uighur and other unwanted...
Posted by: Thor Angoper1746 || 07/03/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Not my quote.
Only the Chinese know how to deal with the Muslims.
(Spell check makes me cap MOMO).
Posted by: Spoter B || 07/03/2021 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  1 thing I agree with them on
Posted by: Chris || 07/03/2021 1:55 Comments || Top||

#4  What do they need nukes for? Marketing optimistic Chinese self confidence vs Western managed decline
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2021 4:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Nothing of the sort...they're just the new Amazon delivery vehicles being readied. Saves all the costly shipping of cheap Chinese crap oversees for Prime members.
Posted by: Warthog || 07/03/2021 9:25 Comments || Top||


Europe
Ukraine plans for women to march in high heels spark outrage
[BBC] Plans by Ukraine's defence ministry to have female soldiers march in high heels instead of army boots in a parade next month have caused angry reactions.
These primitive Ukrainians don't understand modern military culture. You're supposed to make the men march in high heels.
Ukraine is preparing to stage a military parade on 24 August to mark 30 years of independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Will Hunter Biden be a Grand Marshall, or just a guest of Burisma?
The defence ministry say the shoes are part of regulation-dress uniform.

Many in Ukraine expressed shock at the plan, with a group of lawmakers calling on Defence Minister Andriy Taran to offer an apology.

"The story of a parade in heels is a real disgrace," commentator Vitaly Portnikov said on Facebook, arguing that some officials had a "medieval" mindset.

Ms Gerashchenko said she initially thought the pictures of women soldiers rehearsing in combat trousers and black pumps with block heels was a hoax. She said it was sexism, not equality, and wondered why the ministry thought heels were more important than designing body armour tailored to women.

Maria Berlinska, an army veteran, said a parade should demonstrate military prowess, but this one was to titillate senior officers in the grandstands.
What can I say? It is good to be the king. See the pic at the article. Shiksa city.
Posted by: Matt || 07/03/2021 18:31 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Speaking of Slavic marching, happy Belarus Independence Day! [YTCCTV vid from 2019]
Posted by: Sheba B. Hayes6348 || 07/03/2021 19:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, a definite change from a prior march.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/03/2021 19:52 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
MI Court Of Appeals SHOCKINGLY Rejects Case Of 21-Yr-Old Eagle Scout Charged With Horrific Crime After Spiteful ‘Snowflakes’ Twist His Words
[GatewayPundit] Lucas Gerhard is a 21-year-old former law enforcement major. Instead of celebrating his graduation from Lake Superior State University in Sault St. Marie, MI, in the criminal justice field and looking for a job as a police officer, Lucas is locked down in his father’s home, wearing an ankle bracelet.

During his trial, the prosecutor attempted to paint Lucas as a threat to the school community, claiming that he had numerous “contacts” with Law Enforcement at LSSU.

Lucas’s father explained: “The so-called ‘contacts’ were made as a result of more anonymous calls to LSSU public safety, and an incident where Lucas’s car was vandalized and his rear window smashed out! Not a single one of those was what can be considered a negative or derogatory incident. An example of one incident where a call was made was when Lucas was in his OCSO cadet uniform and carrying a bag of police training gear across campus to his communications class where he was giving a speech in law enforcement methods. The call was made as soon as he exited his dorm. The police were apparently told by the caller that they felt threatened by seeing Lucas when they saw him carrying riot gear. Note that LSSU is a school where a large majority of students are Criminal Justice majors! But Sault St. Marie police officers actually responded and pulled Lucas out of the classroom WHILE HE WAS GIVING HIS SPEECH to question him. His professor came out and told the officers that Lucas’s speech was pre-approved as well as the props he brought. The report noted that his explanation was accepted and no further action taken. I might add that every other time something like this happened, the result was the same. No action taken, either from Law Enforcement nor the College. The level of harassment Lucas endured there was astonishing.”

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Iraq power cuts stir protests as summer temperatures scorch country
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Journal Retracts Terrible Study That Claimed Widespread Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths
[Gizmodo] The study, based on misrepresented safety data, argued that vaccines would kill two people for every three lives they saved.

A study looking at the impacts of covid-19 vaccination—condemned by other scientists as seriously flawed and irresponsible—has now sparked a mutiny of sorts. This past week, several well-respected researchers have resigned from their involvement in the journal that published the paper, which argued that vaccines are killing almost as many people as they’re saving from the pandemic. Today, the paper was retracted.

The study, titled “The Safety of COVID-19 Vaccinations—We Should Rethink the Policy,” was published on June 24 in the journal Vaccines and was authored by Harald Walach, Rainer J. Klement, and Wouter Aukema. Citing several sources of data, the authors argued that covid-19 vaccination was more dangerous than commonly believed, and that the benefits of inoculation only barely outweighed the risks caused by covid-19. Most egregiously, they claimed that for every “three deaths prevented by vaccination, we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination.”

The paper was uncritically shared by some on social media at first, including members of the anti-vaccination movement. But it was quickly criticized by many other scientists for its faulty assumptions, bad math, and outright misinformation.

One of the main pieces of evidence the authors presented to support their claim that the covid-19 shots are deadly, for instance, came from the Netherlands’ adverse event reporting system for their vaccines. But as Gizmodo has discussed before, these systems are designed to record any health incident, including death, that occurs after a person receives a new drug or vaccine. They don’t demonstrate that the incident occurred due to the drug—after all, a person may die for any number of unrelated reasons after receiving a vaccine—but instead are meant to flag possible signals of undiscovered side effects that could be linked to a new drug or vaccine, signals that then have to be studied further before any judgment can be made.

It wasn’t long before scientists associated with the journal Vaccines began to protest the study’s publication. Within days, prominent scientists such as Katie Ewer, a member of the Oxford University team who helped create their now widely used covid-19 vaccine, resigned from the journal’s editorial board. A day after her resignation, the journal placed an expression of concern on the paper, meant to alert readers of the many criticisms it had received, and announced it would investigate the matter. The announcement didn’t seem to stop the bleeding, though; at last count, according to the publication Science, at least six scientists in total have resigned from positions as associate or section editors with the journal.

Finally, just today, Vaccines’ remaining editors came back with their verdict, announcing that the paper would be retracted. In their notice, they pointed to “several errors that fundamentally affect the interpretation of the findings,” including the misrepresentation of the Netherlands’ vaccine safety data. The editors also noted that the authors were asked to respond to the criticisms made of their paper, but “were not able to do so satisfactorily.” The paper was then retracted under their protest.

“The paper was deeply, fundamentally flawed, comparing two numbers that were poorly conceived and incorrect in numerous ways. It should not have been published, but at least it is now retracted,” Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist from the University of Wollongong in Australia who earlier wrote a detailed criticism of the paper, told Gizmodo.

Even with this decision, some scientists have questioned how the paper got through the peer-review process in the first place. Two of the three reviewers were anonymous, and none brought up any of the issues that resulted in the retraction. The current fiasco isn’t the only one to have involved MDPI, the publisher of Vaccines and many other open-access journals. In its past, some scientists have accused MDPI of being a predatory publisher, more eager about the quantity than the quality of the research it publishes—criticisms that were still being made this year before the latest retracted paper.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/03/2021 15:03 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Even with this decision, some scientists have questioned how the paper got through the peer-review process in the first place.

Because they're all buddy-buddy with each other, that's why. Scratch my back, then I'll scratch yours.
Posted by: Raj || 07/03/2021 15:59 Comments || Top||

#2  In addition... per review does *not* mean the results or conclusions were replicated. Only that some guys read the paper, looked over the math and did not see any glaring errors.

Additionally in addition... humans are remarkably adept at fooling themselves. If you want something to be true, you can come up with endless logical reasons why. Evidence to the contrary? Inconvenient facts, misinformation and conspiracy. So just shut up. You don't want to lose your job, do you?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/03/2021 16:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Whe(r)e's our (r)resident COVID ghoul?
Posted by: Jash Squank7662 || 07/03/2021 21:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Or pulled under pressure. Take your pick.
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874 || 07/03/2021 21:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Fauci is enjoying his new Pfizer funded pool where it’s now safe to pee if you wear two bathing suits.
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#6  While certain traditional journals, like The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, have become notorious in recent years for the laxity of their reviewers, at least for certain fashionable topics, open access journals can be orders of magnitude worse.
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