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Haitian President Jovenel Moise assassinated in his home
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ga. Golf Pro Killed at Country Club Before Police Find 2 Bodies in Bed of Truck Suspect Drove
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2021 10:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A real puzzler that occurred a couple of days ago.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Golf pros hole out a lot in club members' wives. First thing I thought.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Suspect is a Hispanic Male considered armed and dangerous.

I thought it was racist to id the race/ethnic group of the suspect. Oh, wait, that was for only one group. My bad. Carry on.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/07/2021 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Story apparently is that the guy drove the pickup onto the course while players were on. Golf Pro goes up to see what's going on and gets deaded. They later find two other bodies in the truck bed (including its owner). May be no connection to the Golf Pro
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Golf pros hole out a lot in club members' wives.

I was reading something a few years ago that said Dustin Johnson was banging other pros' wives like cheap gongs.
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Hot wife decides to take up golf to be with her new rich husband. She goes for golf lessons. First four swings she buyrs the club head. The pro says "You're gripping the club too tight. Hold it like you hold your old man's junk." She hits four 300+ yard drives. The pro says "That's good. See if you can do that without putting the grip of the club in your mouth..."
Posted by: Jack Glease2487 || 07/07/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  In Soviet Atlanta, Bogey shoots you.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||


Stone Mountain gas station argument resolved, Messrs Floyd and Weaver unavailable for comment
[AJC] A Stone Mountain man has been arrested in connection with a shooting that left two men dead at a DeKalb County gas station in early April.

Hakeem Ross,
..interesting name...
29, was taken into custody at a Powder Springs residence on two charges of malice murder in the double shooting of Jamitre Weaver and Gerico Floyd, DeKalb County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Cynthia Williams said Tuesday.

Ross and Weaver were involved in an argument April 8 at a gas station at the intersection of Redan and Panola roads when gunfire erupted, Williams said.

Weaver was pronounced dead at the scene. Floyd was taken to Emory Hillandale Hospital, where he died, Williams said.

Ross was arrested without incident. He is being held at the DeKalb jail without bond, online records show.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  3 off the street
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  double shooting of Jamitre Weaver and Gerico Floyd

Grammar police death squads in action?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2021 3:04 Comments || Top||

#3 

When can we expect the B.L."Only" M. RIOT and LOOTING memorial celebration to start?

Opps!
Sorry I almost forgot it is OK for Blacks to kill Blacks, just not Non-Blacks.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/07/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||


Aung Win Htut gets hammered on Lim Chu Kang Pier
[Digichat.info] A man got angry at a co-worker who kept appearing naked at the fish farm where they worked, and a man hit his co-worker on the head with a hammer.

Saw Paing Soe Thu, 35, was jailed for a year and a month on Tuesday (July 6), after pleading guilty to one count of voluntarily causing injury with a dangerous weapon.

A Myanmar national and 38-year-old compatriot Aung Win Htut were working on a fish farm located in the sea near Lim Chu Kang.

About one to two months before the accident, Aung Win Htut walked around the fish farm naked, prompting Saw Paing Soe Thu to tell him not to walk around naked.

Things came to a head on April 9 this year, when Aung Win Htut emerged from the bathroom without clothes at around 6pm. Saw Paing Soe Thu was cooking when a co-worker walked into the cooking area to put out the fire to heat the kettle.

Saw Paing Soe Thu was cooking on the stove when Aung Win Htut appeared behind him, naked. Confused, Saw Paing Soe Thu scolds his co-worker and gets angry at his co-worker for being naked.

After a while, Saw Paing Soe Thu consumed half a bottle of rice wine. At about 9:30 p.m. that day, the drunken man became enraged, as his colleague repeatedly appeared naked. He took a hammer – usually used to kill fish – from the storage area and approached Aung Win Htut, who was talking on the phone.

Then the Saw Paing Soe Thu hit the victim on the forehead with a hammer. The victim fell to the ground and bled from his forehead. He contacted the owner of the fish farm for assistance and the latter called the police at the Coast Guard Police at Lim Chu Kang Provincial Base.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


-Obits-
World's tallest horse - Big Jake - dies aged 20 on Wisconsin farm after he grew to 6ft 10inches tall and 2,500lbs
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  20.3 hands high they say. Shoes huge. Farrier big job, OH, my back. Progenies, I think not but pictured a hinny? with him.
Posted by: Dale || 07/07/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
WaPo Promotes the Sexual Grooming of Children


[FRONTPAGEMAG] In the article titled, "Yes, kink belongs at Pride. And I want my kids to see it," freelance writer Lauren Rowello declared her support for the presence of "kinksters" — practitioners of sexual fetishes — in parades during so-called "Pride Month," the thirty days a year officially devoted to the compulsory celebration of LGBT narcissism. More specifically, she called for it in order to expose children as young as toddlers to "the scope and vitality of queer life."

Rowello, a self-described "gendervague" person who is married to a transgender woman, described how the couple attended a Pride parade in Philadelphia five years ago. (The term gendervague, in case you’re overcome by curiosity, refers "to a specifically neurodivergent experience of trans/gender identity." You’re welcome.) At one point during the parade, Rowello wrote, "our elementary-schooler pointed in the direction of oncoming floats, raising an eyebrow at a bare-chested man in dark sunglasses whose black suspenders clipped into a leather thong. The man paused to be spanked playfully by a partner with a flog. ’What are they doing?’ my curious kid asked as our toddler cheered them on."

Her toddler cheered them on. In a saner time, parents wouldn’t allow adults "playfully" engaged in sado-masochism within a hundred miles of their toddlers, but today a generation or two of fanatically woke parents intentionally expose their children to such a repellent display in order to inculcate, as young as possible, a sexual awareness that kids aren’t equipped to process.
When the pendulum swings back the other way it'll be something to see. I'll likely be dead by then, but it would be nice to see these child abusers getting what they deserve.
"The pair was the first of a few dozen kinksters who danced down the street, laughing together as they twirled their whips and batons, some leading companions by leashes," Rowello continued. What kind of mother thinks it is appropriate to expose her children to human beings degrading each other with leashes? "At the time, my children were too young to understand the nuance of the situation, but I told them the truth," Rowello explained. "That these folks were members of our community celebrating who they are and what they like to do."

Here’s something else she could have told her children: all human beings are children of God, deserving of dignity, and literally parading them around like animals for sexual kicks is morally reprehensible. Maybe that’s too much "nuance" for Rowello.

Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rowello, a self-described "gendervague" person .

"Somedays I have balls, somedays I don't"
Posted by: Matt || 07/07/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Ragged Old Flag
[YouTube]
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


It's gonna be a ruff landing! Russia's dogtroopers undergo parachute training – by leaping out of planes at 13,000ft
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The important question "what if some of the dogs view themselves as cats?".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2021 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  ^roflol
Posted by: borgboy || 07/07/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||


Polish brewery sparks outrage with new beer called White IPA Matters and advert featuring black barman drinking it in US-themed bar
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The Mentzen brewery, owned by right-wing politician Slawomir Mentzen, has been flooded with complaints by people claiming the commercial is racist

  • It features a black man cleaning glasses at a bar before he is given a beer

  • He takes a sip of White IPA Matters and announces: 'This is what I needed'

  • White IPAs are smooth tasting ales generally marketed at non-beer drinkers
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ugh. What horrible taste.

IPAs, that is. Why not just chew handfuls of hops?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/07/2021 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I dont't care what they make as long as they tell them to go fuck themselves.
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 0:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I kinda like the IPA's Rob. Highland Brewing Company in Ashville makes some very good ones. I like them in the summer when it's hot but like the darker ales in winter
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/07/2021 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Solidarity!
Posted by: KBK || 07/07/2021 12:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Polish brewery sparks outrage

... among leftists.
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2021 16:09 Comments || Top||

#6  IPAs, that is. Why not just chew handfuls of hops?

I really liked IPAs until they got into the "I can out hop you" game. Now even the light ones can be a bit forward.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2021 17:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Lefties, consider this you're only warning. Do NOT f*#k with the polish.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/07/2021 19:43 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Great Salt Lake Near Record 170 Year Low
Posted by: Glinese Chesh9026 || 07/07/2021 06:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Climate Change" causes everything and yes, even erectile dysfunction and baldness.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2021 9:38 Comments || Top||

#2  How many humans were siphoning off the watershed 170 years ago vs today? See - Lake Meade.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/07/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  If you take a dip, be sure to rinse off, or you'll be itching!
Posted by: KBK || 07/07/2021 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  This is Romney's turf. What is he doing about it?
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/07/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ saying it's Trump's fault.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 12:52 Comments || Top||

#6  I didn't realize Utah had a fishing industry.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 13:24 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Judicial Watch sues FBI for records on obtaining banking information on people in DC on Jan. 6
BLUF:
[Just The News] The watchdog is asking for all records of communication between the FBI and financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Discover, and American Express, among others. However, no time frame was given for the FBI and DOJ to respond to the request.

In June, it was discovered that Bank of America had handed over the banking and transaction information of approximately 200 people in the Washington D.C. area at the time of the riot, according to Fox News.

Bank of America allegedly "actively but secretly engaged in the hunt for extremists in cooperation with the government" and, following the events of January 6, gave the FBI financial records of their customers."
Such attention should be given the financial transactions of Hunter Biden and his associates.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 06:29 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The government now owns the banks, and yes, those cards are an electronic GPS and recorded history of travel and activities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 6:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if they are investigating those who received images from protesters on 1/6?
Posted by: Spoter B || 07/07/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ If the government is in possession of protestors cell phones (selectors), you can rest assured that anything transmitted has very likely been examined. In the area of electronic surveillance, once the power to the selector is turned on, assumptions of compromise are SOP.

As an aside, the monitoring of cell towers can provide instantaneous or real-time collection opportunities.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  I have it from a reliable source that during the protest, despite multiple portable cell towers, communication was next impossible. Probably due to overload, like a football game (or something else?). Doesn't mean the ones that got thru weren't monitored.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 07/07/2021 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  What was the IC distracted with when the USSR collapsed? What was it distracted by prior to 9/11? What big thing out of the blue will arrive while they look at QAnon Shaman's bank statements?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||


Preschool and Kindergarten Enrollment Drops 13 Percent Nationally
[THEEPOCHTIMES] Public school enrollment in 2020—2021 fell by 3 percent nationally compared to a year earlier, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), with pre-K and kindergarten jointly seeing a sharp 13-percent drop.The stark numbers represent the biggest year-over-year decline in enrollment since the start of the century, with the drop concentrated among the youngest learners, the NCES figures show.

Pre-K saw a 22-percent decrease, kindergarten enrollment fell by 9 percent, grades 1—8 experienced a 3-percent drop, while grades 9—12 saw enrollment rise by 0.4 percent. The figures are preliminary, with the final results expected next spring.

NCES Acting Commissioner Peggy Carr said in a statement cited by K-12 Dive that the figures are "preliminary but concerning," adding that the enrollment drops were "widespread and affected almost every single state and every region of the country."

The agency’s enrollment figures reinforce the view that the pandemic-related disruptions drove many families to switch to private schools or homeschooling.

At the same time, with the outbreak increasingly showing signs of tailing off, school districts across the United States are hiring additional teachers in anticipation of what is expected to be one of the largest kindergarten classes ever as enrollment rebounds.
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


The NSA Does Not Deny Reading Tucker Carlson's Emails
[THEFEDERALIST] The NSA denied ‘targeting’ Tucker Carlson, but did not deny reading his emails. The NSA also did not deny that it may have accessed his communications through ‘incidental collection.’
Nor did they admit to it. Re "incidental collection": if I drive through your neighborhood on the way to the grocery store, I'm not spying on you even if I pass your house. Mountain = molehill?
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Clapper pretty much answered the question in 2013 at minute point 6:42.
Clapper's words: "inadvertently collect."

DNI Clapper tells Wyden the NSA does not collect data on millions of Americans

It may be instructive to note that electronic collection can also be detected and monitored. The examination of 'targets' of detected monitoring can provide clues regarding intelligence shortfalls or gaps. Knowing what the enemy does NOT know (intelligence gaps) provides a window into his level of knowledge or lack thereof, on a given topic or area. The product of such collection can also be characterized as "incidental collection."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  “In a move apparently unprecedented for a military officer, Rogers, without notifying superiors, traveled to New York to meet with Trump on Thursday at Trump Tower,” the Post reported.”That caused consternation at senior levels of the administration, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel matters.”

The following day candidate Donald Trump relocated his election committee from Trump Towers to an alternate secure location. The media has pretty much 'memory holed' the relocation and the reported incidents surrounding the move.

Link
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  BTW, just say 'hi' to the NSA following the Rant :)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/07/2021 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Yes indeed, a long held assumption.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||

#5  A Libertarian friend always liked to start a telephone call with: "Revolution! Revolution! Revolution! Hello, NSA!!"
Posted by: magpie || 07/07/2021 10:16 Comments || Top||

#6  NSA in the Rant....this is my shocked face!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/07/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#7  They been at it for a while.

Yahoo CEO: We’ll Go To Prison If We Don’t Obey NSA
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 13:34 Comments || Top||


Allen West running for governor to ‘protect Texas' and its 'porous' border
[FoxBusinessNews] The Republican said he’s running ‘for Texas,’ not against Gov. Abbott.

Allen West, Republican candidate for Texas governor, said Tuesday that the "porous" southern border is one of the main reasons he is running on FOX Business’ "Varney & Co."

ALLEN WEST: I'm not running against Governor Abbott -- I'm running for Texas. And after announcing this past Sunday, Independence Day, I caught a flight down to Rio Grande Valley. And we did a video at about two o'clock in the morning from the Roma sector right on the Rio Grande River.

I watched 80 people come across the Rio Grande River into the state of Texas, where they were collected up and they were marched up and they jumped on a bus and they were transported to, I guess, a Border Patrol detainee facility and who knows where they go from there. So we have a porous border.

And I understand that Joe Biden wants an open borders policy, but we need to have leadership here in the state of Texas that protects Texas, makes sure that we have safe and secure neighborhoods and communities. Texas is the number one state in the United States of America for human sex trafficking. So that's one of the reasons why I feel it's important to have the right type of principal leadership at the head of the state of Texas.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Allen West should have run for alot more than congressman in my opinion.
Posted by: Chris || 07/07/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm just not a fan of the guy. Like saying I don't like Sarah Palin or dogs, I'll take my lumps.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 1:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Why am I reminded of the devil's dictionary's definition of "African"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2021 4:14 Comments || Top||

#4  I dunno, to me he feels like all bark and no bite. He talks a lot but he also jumps around a bunch too. Abbott may not be perfect but he is a known quantity.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/07/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Mentioned a couple of things he wants to blame on Texas but never said what he would do about it. In the mean time Abbott has already said what he will do about those problems before this guy pops up to beat a dead horse.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/07/2021 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Why? I know I'm not local, but what could be done different, better?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2021 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Why? He's a self promoter and has identified this as his current stage.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 21:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Ask yourself "How has this person actually advanced conservative causes?" West? Palin? Bueller?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 21:11 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Haitian President Jovenel Moise assassinated in his home
[MSN] BINASH
The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moise, was shot and killed in his home, the interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph announced Wednesday.
Update from the Daily Mail at 2:10 p.m. courtesy of Fred:
  • A group of 'foreigners', some of whom spoke English and Spanish, broke into Mr Moise's home in the hills above Port-au-Prince at around 1am on Wednesday, according to a statement by country's prime minister

  • The 53-year-old was shot dead and the First Lady Martine, 47, remains in hospital after what PM Claude Joseph called a 'hateful, inhumane and barbaric act'

  • Haiti's embassy in the Dominican Republic said the First Lady has since been flown to another country for treatment

  • In footage purportedly recorded by a witness, someone with an American accent shouts into a megaphone: 'DEA operation. Everybody stand down. DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down'

  • Gunfire then erupts in the video uploaded to Instagram by someone who says they were in the Pelerin 5 neighbourhood, where the president's house is located

  • Residents reported hearing high-powered rounds and saw men dressed in black sprinting through the neighbourhood. There were also claims of a grenade going off and drones being deployed

  • PM Joseph said he had taken charge of the country and the police and armed forces were taking 'all measures to guarantee the continuity of the State and protect the Nation'

  • Joe Biden called the attack 'very worrisome.' White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki added it was an 'horrific crime,' adding 'we stand ready and stand by them to provide any assistance that's needed'
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2021 06:41 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Surprise
Posted by: Woodrow || 07/07/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Was he a Democrat?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Did he know Epstein?
Posted by: Warthog || 07/07/2021 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Hillary
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Its not clear who dunnit.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Doesn't Hilary and her brother control gold mines in Haiti?
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 07/07/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#7  I blame Jason Bourne.
Posted by: Raj || 07/07/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#8  "Earthquake Relief"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#9  It's the actual asshole of the world. An objective assessment would have several lessons in it. But it would be heavily rayciss too...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#10  Eagerly awaiting Conan O'Brian to take another vacay to prove it isn't a shithole.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Coon-an O'brien and Cool Bear getting some tar roll on a Hatian beach...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 12:27 Comments || Top||

#12  In this best of all tropical... well...
The West showed the rest how to spell!
"Is it true what we've read?"
"That our president's dead?"
The prime minister said, "Who can tell?"
Posted by: Jolugum Poodle9136 || 07/07/2021 14:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Another CoVid Death
Posted by: Threter Gloluck5531 || 07/07/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#14  Now sending in US troops?

Where's Herb on this?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2021 17:47 Comments || Top||

#15  I believe an ZH links should now come with the Morton Salt Girl image, but they have a report up that says it was "mercenaries" disguised as DEA agents, which is screenplay grade or YJCMTSU, take your pick...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 17:55 Comments || Top||

#16  I believe an ZH links should now come with the Morton Salt Girl image,

Most of the time, yes. Skepticism in that quarter is my going-in position, despite generally being considerably less cynical than many here. On the other hand, if we know what they’re trying to sell...
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 18:47 Comments || Top||

#17  The cynicism of Rantburg regulars is a strength.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 19:59 Comments || Top||

#18  At this point, the question is not whether they are lying, but what do the lies mean?

A lot of our sources are dubious at best. PressTV, anyone? Often they are interesting from a traffic analysis point of view. "Why are they talking about *this*?" "Why are they talking about this *now*?"
Posted by: SteveS || 07/07/2021 21:03 Comments || Top||

#19  PressTV was confiscated by the US Admin a week ago (no joke). Their credibility dropped
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2021 21:06 Comments || Top||

#20  #8 "Earthquake Relief?" This was where the Clintons relieved Haiti of about $12-14 billion and wore out their welcome.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2021 21:24 Comments || Top||

#21  Boosh can do a painting...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 22:06 Comments || Top||

#22  Serpent and Rainbow

"We rational people have Pride!"
"We also," a Haitian replied:
"Stick your finger in mud
When you point at that, stud!"
Superstition and "science" collide.
Posted by: Jolugum Poodle9136 || 07/07/2021 23:09 Comments || Top||

#23  Or possibly "Not us!" Though a thing and its opposite are so damned often much of a chumminess.
Posted by: Jolugum Poodle9136 || 07/07/2021 23:16 Comments || Top||


US, Guatemalan forces raid extremist haredi Lev Tahor cult compound
There comes a point when a group goes beyond eccentric practices, becoming a full-fledged cult.
[JPost] The sect has been accused of forcing girls as young as 12 years old into marriages with much older men within the sect.

US and local Guatemalan police have begun raiding the compound of the extremist ultra-Orthodox (haredi) cult, Lev Tahor, arresting at least three top officials in the cult, Globes reported on Tuesday evening.

Another reporter for Globes reported that cult-members Yoel and Shmuel Weingarten have been arrested.

US and Guatemalan forces have performed several raids on the cult's leaders and members in recent years, mainly for kidnapping and child abuse charges, arresting their leader Yaakov Weinstein last March. In 2019, four members were indicted for kidnapping two children whose mother had taken them, wanting to return the children to Lev Tahor.

Founded in New York in the late 80's, Lev Tahor settled in Canada in 2003. The group's founder Slomo Helbrans was convicted for kidnapping a child he was tutoring in the early 90's in New York, but released after only two years in prison.

After being deported to Israel in 2000, Helbrans took his movement to Canada in 2003 where the cult remained for 10 years before rousing the interest of Canadian authorities, after which they collectively fled to Guatemala.

Shlomo Helbrans drowned in Mexico in 2017, leaving control of the group in the hands of his son Nachman and some associates who are believed to be even more extremist.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Haredim, not Arabs or Iran, are the biggest threat to Israel - opinion
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2021 2:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like a job for Indiana Jones: go raid the Temple Of Doom
Posted by: Knuckles Fillmore9268 || 07/07/2021 2:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Liberman ends subsidized daycares for children of yeshiva students
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/07/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  But shipping brownies and yellows to NYC is ok.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
28 die in air crash in Kamchatka
[TASS] Wreckage from the An-26 plane disaster over Kamchatka has been found 3.8 kilometers away from the local airport, a source in the Ministry of Emergency Situations told TASS.

"The plane’s debris has been discovered 3.8 kilometers away from the airport. A group of 26 rescuers is heading to the site on all-purpose vehicles," the source said.

The Ministry added that darkness and the high tide are complicating the operation.

According to Governor Vladimir Solodov of the Kamchatka Region, ground search teams have been dispatched to the location of the wreckage.

"Just 30 minutes ago, from the air, we discovered what we believe is the plane’s debris about five kilometers north of Palana. The plane’s fuselage is lying on the shore, while the rest of the aircraft is scattered over the coastal area. I emphasize that is presumably. Ground rescue teams and specialists are currently heading to the site in order to ensure that this is the missing plane. We would only be able to make conclusions after that," the governor insisted.

The Federal Agency for Air Transport disclosed that the crash site has been pinpointed about four to five kilometers away from the airstrip.

"The discovery location is about four to five kilometers away from the airstrip towards the coast. Rescue teams have discovered the wreckage. Considering the geographical features of the location, the rescue operations are complicated. The search group has commenced the rescue endeavor. The mission involves 26 rescuers and an all-purpose vehicle," the agency said.

The aforementioned An-26 plane belonging to the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise went missing on July 6. It was headed from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana and carried 22 passengers and six crew members on board.

The emergency services source told TASS that the plane stopped communication during its landing. One version suggests that the crash happened because of piloting error due to poor visibility. A criminal case has been initiated over violated rules of safety and air transport use.

Posted by: badanov || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If my flight is scheduled for an AN-26, I'll be taking a train or jingle truck.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2021 2:57 Comments || Top||


Estonian consul arrested for swapping state secrets
Direct translation of the article via Google Translate Edited.€
[IZ] Consul of Estonia Mart Lyatte was detained in St. Petersburg while receiving information of a classified nature from a citizen of the Russian Federation. This was announced on Tuesday, July 6, by the DSP of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

"The FSB of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg caught Lyatte red-handed receiving materials of a classified nature from a Russian citizen, the Estonian diplomat - the consul of the Consulate General of the Republic of Estonia in St. Petersburg Mart Lyatte," the message says.

In addition, the center said that the activities of the consul in St. Petersburg contradict diplomatic norms and have a clear hostile nature towards the Russian Federation. Appropriate measures will be applied to it in accordance with international law.
Posted by: badanov || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Cyber
Trump to sue Facebook, Twitter, Google over alleged censorship
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 11:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't want them sued over censorship. Well, I do, but before that I want them sued over their contributions to Ecohealth Alliance and making the virus.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/07/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Turs out you don't have standing over how they mishandle your account.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/07/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||

#3  When users say something factual about the Dims and Zuk slaps a warning label on it as if it's a lie (actually an attempt at censorship), yet let Dims post lies about Trump without doing anything about it, he's got standing.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/07/2021 15:46 Comments || Top||


Pentagon CANCELS JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft that could have been worth $10 billion after Amazon claimed Trump interfered in bidding process
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Someone forgot the 10% for the big guy.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/07/2021 4:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Possibly, but 'Mr' Pelosi managed to cop quite a few calls, as per recent financial disclosure.
Posted by: Cesare || 07/07/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Microsoft's Cloud being one of the big hacks in the lastest ransomware scandal doesn't help.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/07/2021 18:13 Comments || Top||

#4  oracle or amazon could probably do it for less and with better security

oracle's cloud infrastructure is on a role lately
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/07/2021 20:53 Comments || Top||


Economy
Texas Instruments Building New Chip Plant in Dallas
[Dallas News] Dallas-based Texas Instruments has chosen Richardson as the site for a $3.1 billion semiconductor facility that's expected to create more than 488 jobs.
The article is dated April 18, 2021. I missed it then. An acquaintence recently told me her son just got a new job with TI, due to their recent decision to build more chips in the U.S.
The 870,000 square-foot plant will boost Texas Instruments' chip production for a broad range of uses, such as smartphones, connected cars and industrial machinery. The company is already the biggest maker of analog semiconductors.

Texas Instruments plans to produce its more cost-effective 300 millimeter wafers at the facility. Each wafer is cut into numerous analog chips. The 300 millmeter wafers can yield twice as many chips as the company's 200 millimeter product.
Not sure if 300 mm - about 12" - is the radius or the diameter of the wafer.
Texas Instruments considered two other locations for the new facility, according to the presentation. It looked at a site in Singapore and a site in Upstate New York at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Marcy.
Sorry, Sonny!
[Gov.] Abbott's announcement called Texas "a leader in the development of innovative technologies because of companies like Texas Instruments."

"Made in Texas is a powerful label, and this expansion will create hundreds of jobs, generate billions in capital investment, and further solidify Texas' reputation both at home and abroad," he said.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  300mm diameter. It's cheaper to produce chips from a 300mm wafer since there are 2.25 times as many chips vs 200mm from each wafer processed.

For $3.1 billion TI will be making chips from yesterday's transistor geometries, micro-controllers and such. A new leading edge 5 nano-meter chip plant will cost $10-20 billion.
Posted by: Hupanter Angiter6497 || 07/07/2021 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Oracle, HP both relocated to Texas.
Goldman Sachs is moving its NJ operations to Dallas
Charles Schwab is moving its entire operation to Dallas

TX is on a roll
Posted by: Hupeart Hupinenter8729 || 07/07/2021 2:52 Comments || Top||

#3  No it is not a NECCO wafer
Its a 300 mm Electronics Chip Wafer
Think Pizza Pan: 12" Pizza (extra cheese 🧀 Hold the Anchovies 🐟 )

Posted by: Glerese Grundy1725 || 07/07/2021 2:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Communist China just took over the UKs largest chip manufacturing facility in the UK.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/07/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Samsung is building a chip fab outside of Austin.

Great business climate, and maybe, outside of Chinese missile range?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/07/2021 13:03 Comments || Top||

#6  I think in the future that actually being able to verify what your computer's doing is going to be a more important feature than its framerate in world of warcraft.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/07/2021 15:58 Comments || Top||


Europe
Reshoring of production on the rise in France
[DW] The COVID-19 crisis seems to have accelerated the La Belle France's efforts to return industrial production capacities to La Belle France. That could create thousands of new jobs — but not all production can be brought home.

Mid-sized French company Auer decided to shift its production away from boilers using conventional fuels to energy-saving heat pumps a few years ago.

For that transition, the family firm deemed it necessary to bring back to La Belle France parts of its production capacity back from countries such as Poland and Serbia.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies


India-Pakistan
Fake police officer busted on flight to Dubai
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Authorities monitor rising fares of public transport in Karachi
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] I dunno. I'd say that ride was priceless.
Posted by: Fred || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
Secreted Molecule Linked To Formation Of New Nerve Cells In Adult Brain
Posted by: Slavilet Chirt2694 || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So scat eaters live longer?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 23:55 Comments || Top||


[BBC]Climate change: The craft brewery using algae to cut emissions
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



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