[FOX] A veteran North Carolina state trooper was justified in fatally shooting an armed suspect during a traffic stop in which the gunman opened fire on him, with only his ballistic vest saving his life, prosecutors said Tuesday.
State Highway Patrol Trooper Jeffrey L. Dunlap was shot in the chest just after 7:30 p.m. on July 3 while assisting a stranded motorist on Interstate 26, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety said.
Buncombe County District Attorney Todd Williams said his office reviewed police dashcam footage of the shooting, prompting him to clear Dunlap of any potential wrongdoing.
"No criminal charges will be filed in this matter and the NC SBI (State Bureau of Investigation) may close this investigation," Williams said. "I informed Taylor’s family of this decision today. The DA’s Office thanks all of our courageous law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line daily to ensure public safety."
During the interaction, Wesley Scott Taylor took out a .44 magnum pistol and fired, Williams said.
Williams, a 13-year veteran of the Highway Patrol, returned fire after his vest stopped an incoming round aimed at his chest, Williams said.
"Fortunately, the round fired by Taylor was stopped by Trooper Dunlap's ballistic vest," he said.
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Glad to read the NC Trooper vest with stood a 44 magnum at close range and is OK. Hell the Muzzle 1250+/- Energy ft·lb transfer alone must knock him om his butt.
However, Down in LSD run Augusta Ga./ Richmond Co. .
The local media would have us believe a homeless man in the uptown homeless area, was pointing a firearm at people and shot a Deputy on his arrival.
The shooter is DEAD, but the Deputy has been in Critical condition for several days now, as my last info.
Deeper checking shows the shooter was a known Drug Dealer, handling the Homeless market area.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area in the mid-20th century were aware of health risks, spills, improperly stored contaminants and other problems but often ignored them, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
Decades later, even with much of the cleanup complete, the aftereffects haunt the region. Federal health investigators have found an increased cancer risk for some people who, as children, played in a creek contaminated with uranium waste. A grade school closed last year amid radiation concerns. A landfill operator is spending millions to keep underground smoldering from reaching nuclear waste illegally dumped in the 1970s.
[DailyCaller] ‘Wiped Out In The Blink Of An Eye’: Archaeologist Claims He Has Found The Biblical City Of Sodom.
An archaeologist claimed in an interview published in late June that he has identified the ancient Biblical site where Sodom once stood.
Trinity Southwest University’s Dean of Archaeology Steven Collins told host of the Rosenberg Report, Joel C. Rosenberg, that he and his team believe the Tell el-Hammam site in Jordan appears to have many of the markers of Sodom. The site is reportedly scattered with Bronze-age remains that appear to have been melted in a “flash heat” situation, matching the Biblical account of how Sodom burned to the ground.
“As soon as we get a few centimeters into that [Bronze Age] matrix, this piece of pottery, the shoulder of a storage jar, is facing up at us. And it looks like it’s glazed,” Collins told Rosenberg. Another member of Collins’ team remarked that the scars looked similar to those witnessed at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico where the first atomic bomb was detonated.
Previous reports on the site suggest that the site was decimated by a meteor-impact some 4,000-years-ago. This cataclysm has yet to be confirmed, but evidence shows a “charcoal-rich destruction layer” and a series of melted objects, according to a study published in Nature.
The study suggested that the site was “wiped out in the blink of an eye,” Collins noted.
He went on to claim that “there are at least 25 known pieces of geography [in Scripture] that you can triangulate between to take you to the city of Sodom.” For example, Genesis 13:10 states that when Lot was at Bethel and Ai, he traveled eastwards. Tall el-Hammam is east of Bethel and Ai.
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The part of the story where Lot and the family stop in a contiguous town to rest the night has always seemed like it would be a time for some uncomfortable conversations with his daughters. “So Dad, about offering us up to the horde of lust crazed homosexuals…”
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Desert Locust Control and Control Center of the General Department of Plant Protection at the Ministry of Agriculture revealed on Tuesday the arrival of desert locust swarms to Yemen from Saudi Arabia.
A report issued by the center confirmed that the continued spread of locusts in the summer breeding areas constitutes a dangerous focus for the spread of this pest and the expansion of its threats to agriculture in the country, neighboring countries, and the region in general.
That’s why this particular locust is the only insect kosher to eat — when it comes through, as it does regularly, there’s nothing else for a while.
This requires supporting Yemen’s efforts to control locusts before they spread on a large scale, which threatens the sources of food security in Yemen and the region, the report added.
The report stated that the locust situation in Yemen during this period is witnessing a serious development as a result of the arrival of many swarms and their movement from one place to another in some provinces during the current week.
It explained that the first locust swarm was reported to have been sighted in the Sahar area of Saada province in early July, after which approximately 6-7 locust swarms reached some districts of the provinces of Jawf, Ma’rib, and recently Sanaa.
The report indicated that these movable swarms caused damage and losses to agricultural crops.
Saudi Arabia has been witnessing an outbreak of desert locusts since last February as a result of the heavy rains and floods that occurred in late December 2022 and January and April 2023, which made the environmental conditions ideal for locust breeding, but it was not discovered until last March, according to the report.
The report pointed out that the environmental conditions at the present time are suitable for locust breeding in the summer breeding areas as a result of the availability of green vegetation cover in most areas of the provinces of Jawf and Ma’rib.
According to the Director of Plant Protection, Eng. Ahmed Al-Kol, the field teams of the Desert Locust Control and Control Center carry out their activities in surveying, monitoring, and implementing control work in a number of areas in the provinces of Ma’rib, Jawf, and Saada.
Al-Kol confirmed that the center is preparing daily and monthly reports and warnings on an ongoing basis, indicating that the entry of locusts into the country from several directions doubled the difficulty of control and tracking by field teams, in addition to the scarcity of capabilities in the center and the lack of an emergency budget to confront the invasion of locust swarms.
He stressed the need to activate the emergency plan prepared by the center within the desert locust response project, and to quickly provide an emergency operational budget to confront the current and upcoming swarms during the current period.
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According to the new World agenda, LSD Politicians and their donor / controlling Elite $$ Billionaires. Insects are the New Food Source for the world striving and will replace Beef, Pork, fish and Chicken.
So how is 😋 Locust 😋 be prepared and served at the Le Bernardin, or Ritz Carlton?
This is the type of media 'news wash' cover one would expect for a explosive on the train.
Two cars controlled, track traffic stopped, perp 'under evaluation'.
Wonder if the RAD alert was triggered.
Any blue suburbans in the area?
[FoxBusinessNews] Firefighters and emergency medical services personnel responded to the scene of an Amtrak train derailment at Union Station on Tuesday morning.
Two cars of Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 86 derailed at around 8:47 a.m. ET, but were still upright and positioned inside the tunnel just before the station.
D.C. Fire and EMS said firefighters were aboard the train and communicating with passengers. One Amtrak employee was transported for a "minor medical condition" and one passenger was being evaluated.
There were no other reported injuries.
Amtrak told FOX Business in an email that it is investigating the cause of the derailment and that staff had immediately responded alongside first responders.
Amtrak said that trains operating between the nation's capital and Alexandria, Virginia, were stopped due to the disabled train that is "blocking the tracks south of Washington."
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.2 percent in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, after increasing 0.1 percent in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 3.0 percent before seasonal adjustment.
The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.2 percent in June, the smallest 1-month increase in that index since August 2021. The all items less food and energy index rose 4.8 percent over the last 12 months. maybe another month without a Fed Fund interest rate increase or at the most 25 basis points
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Because these stats are always revised, we are steering with the rear view and listening for rumble strips.
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This is quite good news. Maybe the Fed has been effective. I hope.
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In the food and energy sector when Americans actually spend time weekly, not so much. The triple effect of price increase, product shrinkage, and the not easily measured quality deterioration are still rampant.
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#1 the good old days of health insurance, sales has their foot on the gas, underwriting their foot on the brakes and the actuaries are looking out the back window yelling directions
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When the BLS started changing what was and more importantly wasn't on the CPI are lost all confidence in it. When you start 'cherry picking' your data to fit you theory...
Well done, world! Not Pakistan unfortunately, despite this article appearing in the Pakistani press, but so much of the rest of it
.[Dawn] The latest update of the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) demonstrates that poverty reduction was achievable as 25 countries have successfully halved their global MPI values within 15 years, showing that rapid progress is attainable.
The latest estimates for 110 countries were released on Tuesday by the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
According to estimates based on surveys for 2017-22, 21.5 per cent population in Pakistain is in severe multidimensional poverty, while 12.9pc is vulnerable to multidimensional poverty.
The analysis of trends from 2000 to 2022, focused on 81 countries with comparable data over time. India saw a remarkable reduction in poverty, with 415 million people exiting poverty within a span of just 15 years. Large numbers of people (69m) were lifted out of poverty in China, and Indonesia (8m).
According to the 2023 release, 1.1 billion out of 6.1bn people (just over 18pc) live in acute multidimensional poverty across 110 countries. Sub-Saharan Africa (534m) and South Asia (389m) are home to approximately five out of every six poor people.
Nearly two-thirds of all poor people (730m) live in middle-income countries, making action in these countries vital for reducing global povert
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How much of India's growth is the trailing edges of Dr. Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution? It is difficult to be reduce poverty in a state of endemic starvation.
No doubt in a year or two there will be a burst of creative new companies as the former Microsofters find new ways to make a living.
[GEO.TV] In a latest announcement of massive layoffs, technology colossus Microsoft confirmed Monday that is is slashing additional employees, week after the commencement of its 2024 fiscal year, months after the company showed the door thousands of its workers, reported GeekWire.
The recent job axing does not include the massive layoff it announced in January in which it cut at least 10,000 jobs. The Washington-based giant also eliminated a small number of employees last year.
The latest decision comes as other multinational firms and technology behemoths have announced thousands of job cutting including Amazon, Google and Meta citing economic issues and rising business costs.
Microsoft has said in recent months that clients are looking for ways to save money on their cloud computing bill.
Bill Gates-founded company’s spokesperson declined to tell the number of layoffs. In January, CEO Satya Nadella issued a memo, indicating the company would change its hardware lineup and consolidate leases.
Microsoft filed a notice Monday saying it would cut 276 people in its home state of Washington. Of those, 66 are virtual.
People working in different departments of Microsoft announced on social networks that they lost their jobs.
“Organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business,” the spokesperson told NBC News.
“We will continue to prioritise and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners.”
Earlier in May, LinkedIn, the world's largest social media platform for professionals, has also announced it was shedding over 700 jobs and shutting down applications in China citing various reasons.
CEO Ryan Roslansky said in a letter to employees that "the decision was made amid shifts in customer behaviour and slower revenue growth."
Meta said in March that it is going to lay off 10,000 additional employees after major job cuts last year.
Tech giants have contributed to a large number of recent layoffs, including 27,000 by Amazon making it the largest in its history. Alphabet has also laid off 12,000 people.
Microsoft — which bought LinkedIn back in 2016 for around $26 billion — announced some 10,000 job cuts in recent months and took a $1.2 billion charge related to the layoffs.
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"If you're in the S&P 500, you have no trouble financing your business. You can't say that about small business anymore. The cost of capital has gone through the roof."
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^ massive weight gain, poor hygiene, a false sense of security and commercial real estate implosion.
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Microsoft has said in recent months that clients are looking for ways to save money on their cloud computing bill.
You can go to any store like, say, BestBuy and buy a four terabyte solid state disk for your personal computer for maybe two hundred bucks. Why do you need a cloud that's liable to get hacked?
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^ In the age of video "content" creators, 4 TB doesn't go very far. It takes a lot of space to store raw footage and edited clips of hundreds or thousands of TikTok videos.
That said, yeah, stay off the cloud storage if you can help it.
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Lucky for me I'm not a content creator. But even if I was I could back up all those video files onto a removable USB disk and I know where I can get one terabyte USB disks for a hundred bucks. Label them so you know which files are on them, access them as needed and keep as many as you like. They'll never get hacked or lost sitting in a desk drawer.
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Home and small business NAS can easily get you into the 20-60 Terabyte range at a price that will pay for itself versus several years of renting that much cloud space.
And it's inaccessible outside your home network if you set it up correctly.
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re: #9,
Hey, are those floppy disks? I had boxes of those things labeled and set to go. granted that was almost 50 years ago, but still.....
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Most newer computers don't even have a floppy port on the mainboard, let alone a drive. I still carry a 1.44Mb outboard USB floppy drive in my "bag of tricks."
You really just never know...
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the hackers, identified as “Storm-0558,” exploited a security weakness in Microsoft’s cloud-computing environment to gain access to sensitive computer networks. This development is especially concerning for officials and security researchers, as it is seen as part of a larger espionage campaign that could have compromised valuable U.S. government information.
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[Epoch Times] An increase in the failure of wind turbine components and the subsequent financial fallout is creating uncertainty about the true sustainability of an industry campaigning for green energy.
Siemens Energy announced on June 22 that it would be withdrawing its profit assumptions and initiating a technical review of Siemens Gamesa’s onshore wind farm, which could cost over 1 billion euros. "This is a disappointing, bitter setback," Siemens Gamesa CEO Jochen Eickholt said in a June conference call. "The quality problems go well beyond what had been known hitherto, in particular in the onshore area."
The mechanical problems could affect 15 to 30 percent of the company’s wind turbine farms and take several years to repair. The day after the announcement, Siemens Energy’s shares dropped over 37 percent. A long list of issues at the link. This is only the first:
The company began an investigation into a damaged turbine at the Santo Agostinho wind farm that French energy company Engie SA is building in the northeast of Brazil, Bloomberg reported.
The installation—which is part of Siemens Gamesa’s new 5.X model of onshore wind farms with blades as long as 262 feet—has faced numerous quality control issues and has been shut down for the investigation. 80 meter, or 262-foot blades. I don't know the RPM, but somebody could calculate the speed of the blade tips. I hope the vultures can.
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EV's not a solution. --> Billions wasted in natural resources. Require 2.5x the nations current MegaWatt capacity. Plus Environment issues caused and massive HAZMAT disposal issues.
Solar Panels which die after just 5 to 7 years --> ZERO R.O.I. and the massive waste of natural resources. Plus Environment issues caused and HAZMAT issues in disposal. Plus Biden is talking Blocking Sun Light???
Wind Turbines not a solutions --> $$Billions wasted and the massive waste of natural resources
Hydro-Electric can't be used as it hurts/kills fish. So Breech the power generating dams, for the fish that haven't swam there in 75 to 100 years. But some how the fish still have continued to increase in numbers and live.
Nukes takes 10 years from start to finish. Need water to cool them, but we breached the dams and reservoirs.
Coal - which is in limited supply. Causes Environment issues and can only be safely used by Communist China ☺.
So what do we have left to screw with, and screw up?
Anti-Matter? Lets take out a city block for and accident. Hydrogen power cars and houses using sea water? Well if the Ice caps are melting it would save a bunch of Island and coastal areas. ☺
Soylent Green based fuels? The Ga. Guide Stone did recomend trimming the world Population to 500 Million. 7 Billion bodies properly recycled could generate needed power.
BTW: what happen the GBI/FBI/ATF investigation regarding the Ga. Guide Stone Bombing.
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Every seen what a windmill looks like after a 100 mph microburst gust? Or a solar cell field after a major hailstorm? Rubble. The large footprints of these installation make them prime targets for 'weather events' ...and let's not mention the 'hurricane' word out loud.
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But but but... if only we had more wind and solar - enough wind and solar - we wouldn't have any adverse 'weather events' to damage our wind and solar.
Doncha get it?
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the speed of the wing tip can reach 90 meters per second (200 mph) in the model used by Siemens for offshore wind
I'm pretty sure they have an internal braking system that doesn't allow a faster motion
They also tested a 100 meter blade for offshore use but I don't think it has been installed yet
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What if we installed solar panels on the turbine blades? Would this roast the eagles on contact and save cooking time?
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Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor - if we’re looking for an actual solution this is it. The thorium doesn’t need to be refined, it doesn’t require a lot of water, it can’t melt down and it has no weapons applications. Thorium is also everywhere in the earth’s crust.
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.
[FOX] A veteran North Carolina state trooper was justified in fatally shooting an armed suspect during a traffic stop in which the gunman opened fire on him, with only his ballistic vest saving his life, prosecutors said Tuesday. 
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Desert Locust Control and Control Center of the General Department of Plant Protection at the Ministry of Agriculture revealed on Tuesday the arrival of desert 
[GEO.TV] In a latest announcement of massive layoffs, technology colossus Microsoft confirmed Monday that is is slashing additional employees, week after the commencement of its 2024 fiscal year, months after the company showed the door thousands of its workers, reported GeekWire.
Bill Gates-founded company’s spokesperson declined to tell the number of layoffs. In January, CEO Satya Nadella issued a memo, indicating the company would change its hardware lineup and consolidate leases.
The mechanical problems could affect 15 to 30 percent of the company’s wind turbine farms and take several years to repair. The day after the announcement, Siemens Energy’s shares dropped over 37 percent.
