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[REGNUM] Several people became victims of a shooting opened by an unknown person in a hospital in the US state of New Hampshire. The state police announced this on November 17 on their page on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The shooting occurred at the Concord Municipal Psychiatric Hospital. According to preliminary data, several people became victims of the incident. The exact number of victims is not known. Some time later, a statement was published on the state police page on the social network X that the situation in the hospital had been brought under control.
It is reported that the suspect in the shooting has died. The police have launched an investigation into the incident, the circumstances of the incident and the motives of the shooter are being clarified.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that at least two people were killed, another 18 were injured and were hospitalized as a result of shooting during Halloween celebrations in the US state of Florida.
It is noted that the incident occurred in the city of Tampa; the shooting was preceded by a fight between two groups of people. Hundreds of people were near the scene at the time of the shooting.
Also reported was a shooting on October 25 in the American city of Lewiston in Maine, which became the 565th mass shooting in America this year. More than 20 people became victims of the shooting, and about 60 more people were injured.
An armed individual fatally shot one person before being shot and killed by a state trooper Friday in the lobby of a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital, officials said.
CPR was performed on the victim, who was transported to Concord Hospital before dying, officials said.
At a presser, police said the shooting was contained to the front lobby and that patients are safe as of late Friday.
The state trooper who shot the gunman was not maimed in the attack. The motive of the shooter remains unclear.
New Hampshire Hospital, which has roughly 185 beds, is the only state-run psychiatric hospital for adults. It is located in the capital city of Concord, near Concord High School, multiple state agencies and a district courthouse. It’s located on a large campus comprising more than a hundred acres (40.5 hectares) of land.
[FoxNews] A New Jersey teachers union wants to change the state's standards for entering the profession.
The Garden State requires that candidates for a teacher certification pass a basic skills test called the Praxis Core Academic Skills for Educators, which demonstrates proficiency in reading, writing and math.
As another way of showing competency in basic skills, new teachers can show SAT, ACT or GRE scores in the top third percentile the year they were taken.
However, the New Jersey Education Association [NJEA] believes that abolishing the basic skills test will "eliminate unnecessary barriers" to the teaching profession and promote equity.
"Last year, New Jersey eliminated the edTPA, a barrier to becoming a certified teacher. Now it's time to eliminate another barrier: the basic skills test for teachers," a statement from the teachers union reads. The union called on Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy to sign a bill to end the requirement.
Teachers had long been required to submit an edTPA, a subject-specific portfolio-based assessment that shows a teacher is ready to work full-time in the classroom and administer assignments.
The NJEA explained further, "When the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) adopted changes to the administrative code around teacher certification, it missed an opportunity to eliminate this requirement, which created an unnecessary barrier to entering the profession."
The NJEA’s call to eliminate the basic skills test comes amid a nationwide shortage of teachers.
School districts across the country have been struggling with an exodus of teachers since the pandemic, as teachers reported burnout stemming from the uncertainty during lockdowns.
Furthermore, some blue states have lowered standards for students, including Oregon, which removed the basic skills testing requirements to graduate high school.
When FOX News Digital reached out to the NJEA for comment, they sent a statement that they submitted as a "testimony" to the New Jersey State Board of Education.
"Under current regulation at N.J.A.C. 6A:9A, the basic skills test requirement may be satisfied in multiple ways, including the Praxis I and SAT. Each of these tests is costly; moreover, many test-takers must pay additional score reporting fees. The basic skills test requirement, particularly its up-front costs, represents another equity barrier to entering the profession.
*shrug* If schools are so desperate for teachers, they’ll pay the test fees for candidates who otherwise meet their standards. And then the teach has an additional credential to demonstrate capability when seeking employment elsewhere later.
"But more importantly, it is redundant because the other requirements for licensure set a much higher bar. In other words, if an individual earns a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education, it’s safe to assume they have basic skills. At NJEA, we often hear from potential members who have met all the requirements for certification except for the basic skills test: this points to flaws in the basic skills test itself. The NJDOE must act to remove this pointless requirement for all prospective teachers."
It would be dreadfully embarrassing for the accredited institutions if their students could not pass the state’s basic skills test. Perhaps they ought to include it as part of their degree-granting, to demonstrate that their program teaches to the test.
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A friend of mine who was an old school, well qualified, teacher like to quote Bill Bennett: "If you want to know what's wrong with schools in the USA, f*ck an El.Ed. major..."
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[AFRICANEWS] Zim-bob-we declared Friday (Nov. 17) a state of emergency in the capital, Harare, over a deadly cholera outbreak.
The capital of some1.5 million people has been badly hit by an outbreak of the disease that has affected all provinces of the southern African nation.
The country has recorded more than 7,000 suspected cholera cases and almost 150 deaths, of which 51 have been confirmed by laboratory tests, since the outbreak was reported in February.
At least 12 people have died in Harare.
The acute diarrhoeal infection is contracted from a bacterium that is generally transmitted through con'taminated food or water.
Washing hands with soap under safe running water and drinking boiled or treated water can protect against cholera.
Supplies of drinking water are erratic in some cities in Zim-bob-we coupled with a lack of functioning infrastructure.
The health ministry and aid groups have joined forces to double the supply of water in affected areas and carry out awareness campaigns, Harare's mayor Ian Makone said.
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[AFRICANEWS] More than 100 people, including 16 children, have died and over 700,000 been forced out of their homes in the Horn of Africa due to flash flooding, the British charity Save the Children said Thursday.
The region, particularly Kenya, Somalia and Æthiopia, has been lashed by unrelenting downpours since the beginning of the month due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, inundating homes and farmland.
About 46 people had died in Kenya, 32 in Somalia and another 33 in Æthiopia, Save the Children said, warning the rains were "showing no signs of slowing down".
The Horn of Africa is one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events are occurring with increased frequency and intensity.
The region is emerging from the worst drought in four decades after multiple failed rainy seasons that left millions of people in need and devastated crops and livestock.
"Heavy flooding and displacement have cut off families and children from basic services including access to food, healthcare, water and hygiene services," said Xavier Joubert, Æthiopia director for Save the Children.
"With that comes the real risk of waterborne diseases including cholera and measles."
Humanitarian groups have warned that the situation is only likely to worsen and called for urgent global intervention as El Nino is expected to last until at least April 2024.
El Nino is typically associated with increased heat worldwide, as well as drought in some parts of the world and heavy rains elsewhere.
Between October 1997 and January 1998, devastating floods caused by El Nino led to more than 6,000 deaths in five Horn of Africa countries.
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[GEO.TV] A solar superstorm, marked by a coronal mass ejection (CME), poses a significant threat to internet stability, potentially disrupting the system for weeks or even months.
The awe-inspiring Northern Lights might be a precursor to what Professor Peter Becker of George Mason University terms an "internet apocalypse," a potential consequence of intensified solar activity.
Wait — does that mean we won’t have Rantburg???? Fred, badanov — is this a serious concern?
Affecting the "last Mile" so to speak for internet connections and internal networks. The remainder, the server space is wired, potentially affected only by EMPs.
From Becker’s perspective, a new era of solar storms could threaten vital global technologies, including the internet, which the modern world heavily relies on. According to Fox Weather, Becker’s team aims to create a warning system to alert people of solar dangers.
The US Navy has responded proactively, allocating a substantial $13.6 million grant for a collaborative initiative with the university to establish an early warning system. The economic consequences of such a disruption could reach up to $20 billion per day in the United States alone.
CMEs can disturb the Earth's magnetic field, leading to the flow of electrical currents through the ground, capable of damaging electronics, power grids, and satellites.
While the last major CME impact was in 1859, damaging the telegraph system, the current technological landscape is far more susceptible. With the heightened solar activity forecasted in the coming decade, scientists are intensifying efforts to predict and protect against CMEs.
The fragility of modern electronics raises concerns, prompting research into ways to harden the internet system, ensuring greater resilience against potential damage.
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Spaceweather.com has a weekend geomagnetic storm watch with a CME expected to hit Earth “probably on November 19. The impact could spark minor G1 class geomagnetic storms on the 19th and 20th.” They class G1 storms as “minor” - weak power grid fluctuations can occur. Minor impact on satellite operations possible.
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Checked Space Weather Live it currently states "Currently there's no noteworthy space weather" and also shows there were M 1.26 rated strong (not Major) Flares 24 and 72 hrs ago.
The Earth is currently seeing a C2.49 Solar Small Flare as of 6:58am (EDST)
With that said I have noted a number of internet sites reporting connectivity & data center troubles depending on their GEO locations?
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With that said ... my network lost Internet for 73 minutes right after posting the above comment.
It seems the alternative NO-Track DNS server I was using crashed or hung itself. So I am temporarily using Xfinity's DNS which tracks and records connections.
[GEO.TV] A massive earthquake of 6.7 magnitude rocked the southern Mindanao region of the Philippines on Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), the earthquake occurred at a depth of 60 km (37.3 miles), off the coast of the Mindanao region while the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said that no tsunami was expected.
The power of the earthquake was previously reported to be between magnitude 7.2 and 6.9.
The country's seismology office reported that the earthquake lasted several seconds and warned locals to be on the lookout for aftershocks and damage, even though there were no early reports of injuries.
There have been no reports of injuries, according to Amor Mio, the police commander of Koronadal City, which is close to the epicentre of the earthquake.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... authorities were examining a mall that had reportedly been damaged.
[AFRICANEWS] International criminal justice is slow, admitted Thursday in Kinshasa Mame Mandiaye Niang, deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), but, he assured Congolese journalists sceptical about its effectiveness, she "does not get discouraged not".
The Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... had already referred the matter to the ICC in 2004, which opened an investigation and handed down three final convictions for crimes committed in the east of the country, which had been plagued by armed violence for nearly 30 years.
The jurisdiction was seized again this year by Kinshasa, which targets in particular the M23 ( "March 23 Movement" ), a rebellion, supported by Rwanda according to numerous sources, which has seized parts of territory in North Kivu. In June, the ICC prosecutor announced his intention to carry out a "preliminary examination".
It is necessary to "clarify" whether this second referral concerns "a new crime or the continuum of crime already denounced", declared Mr. Niang during a presser, at the end of a three-day visit to the DRC. "We are assessing the situation," he said.
Questions from journalists then revolved around when prosecutions would be initiated. "Our approach cannot be yours, the conclusion cannot come before the investigations," noted the deputy prosecutor.
Then, questioned about the slowness of the procedures and the limited impact of the ICC's action "especially when we place ourselves on the side of the victims", Mr. Niang replied: "I must humbly agree with you". "What we are doing is far, very far from being enough, neither in terms of pace nor in terms of impact. "
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[AFRICANEWS] Madagascar returned to normality on Friday, a day after the country's presidential elections. Normal for Madagascar anyway.
As the country awaits the expected announcement of Rajoelina's victory, people are getting on with daily life. **
In the capital Antananarivo, umbrellas bearing the picture of incumbent president Andrey Rajoelina had covered one of the city's busy streets in the days running up to Thursday's vote. On Friday, however, not one umbrella remained.
Risse Nampona, a cigarette seller, has also folded up the orange parasol. "I'm not interested in being politically coloured," says the 22-year-old.
Is he afraid of a political crisis? "For us, it'll be the same as always: life is hard and things don't change," he says.
The country is one of the world's poorest despite its rich natural resources. Many struggle to survive and avoid getting involved in politics.
With an abstention rate of around 60%, the highest "in the history of Madagascar", the opposition has already declared that it "does not recognise" the election and continues to call for the electoral process to be suspended.
So far, Rajoelina has received over 70% of the vote, but the opposition has denounced electoral irregularities and a lack of impartiality.
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[AFRICANEWS] At a reparations summit in Ghana, delegates agreed Thursday to establish a Global Reparations Fund to seek compensation owed to millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the transatlantic slave trade. "Centuries ago" = F*CK OFF
The Accra conference on reparations adds to growing demands for reparations after an estimated 12 million Africans were forcibly removed by European nations between the 16th and 19th centuries and enslaved on plantations that made it possible to create wealth at the cost of poverty.
Centuries after the end of the slave trade, people of African descent worldwide continue to face systemic racial discrimination and racist attacks, a recent report from a special United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... forum concludes which supports reparations as a "cornerstone of justice in the 21st century".
"It is time that Africa, whose sons and daughters had their freedoms controlled and were sold into slavery, also received reparations," Ghana's President, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo, told the conference. , attended by senior government officials from across Africa as well as the diaspora community.
Slave reparations have become an issue that the world "must confront and can no longer ignore ," Mr. Akufo-Addo said, denouncing the British and other European countries for enriching themselves during the slave trade while "enslaved Africans did not receive a cent" .
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And here you thought that only African-American leaders were a bunch of grifters.
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In Morocco, I once visited the medieval ruins of Sijilmassa. The city was the northern end of the preferred trans-Saharan trade route in that era: Ghana at the south. The Empire of Ghana controlled the lucrative gold, salt, and slave trade from the northern limits of sub-Saharan Africa up to the Berber Empires.
No Europeans involved back then.
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Get your reparations from the men who captured and sold your countrymen- your countrymen.
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Always interesting how they ignore that it was Western nations that championed the end to the slave trade, abolishing it in its realm long before it was initiated in others (and still in operation today). Of course, some are bringing it back in the form of 'migration'.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A sales guru who helped a US security firm land a vital $600million contract to stop fentanyl and weapons flooding across the border has killed himself while awaiting trial in a $3million FBI probe into embezzlement claims while at his previous job.
George Walther-Meade, 50, took his own life in San Diego, California, on November 6, the city's medical examiner confirmed to DailyMail.com.
He had been arrested in February this year over allegations he had defrauded a previous employer.
But he went onto help rival firm Rapiscan secure a lucrative deal to provide scanning equipment at the US-Mexico border.
The bid was heavily backed by the Biden administration.
Yet questions were raised over the contract after it was revealed Rapiscan had been hit with a hefty fine for failing to fulfil its obligations under a previous border contract in Mexico. A spokesman for the Committee on Homeland Security told DailyMail.com in July that the revelations were 'troubling' in the midst of 'an unprecedented crisis raging at the Southwest border'.
Walther-Meade had pled not guilty to the charges against him, but co-defendant, Juan Gonzalez Ruiz, recently pled guilty to the conspiracy. The case was not related to the Rapiscan contract.
When the Mexican government expressed interest in installing modern scanning equipment on its border, US officials immediately presented Rapiscan as one of its three preferred contractors.
In May 2022, the US Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar even threatened to withhold US cooperation with Mexico unless it awarded the tender to Rapiscan or one of two other US companies, when it appeared officials were leaning towards a Chinese bidder, according to leaked documents obtained by The Washington Post.
To bolster its bid, Rapiscan hired Walther-Meade in December 2021 because of 'his experience in the contracting process with the Mexican government', according to local media.
But the American had been sacked by rival firm Leidos just three weeks earlier after the firm accused him of 'providing benefits to government leaders or agents of Mexico' to land lucrative contracts, according to court records uncovered by DailyMail.com. The allegations were made public after Walther-Meade sued Leidos for wrongful dismissal and his complaint claimed this was one of the false accusations made by his former employer.
Leidos then countersued their former vice president for embezzlement.
Despite the clouds gathering over Rapsican's new hire, Walther-Meade's experience in the Latin American market seemingly paid off and on March 17 this year, the California-based firm won the $600million contract to install modern scanning equipment on its border.
The news came as great relief to Rapiscan, who had fired Walther-Meade just a week earlier following his arrest by the FBI in February. The senior executive had been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Diego over allegations he and a co-conspirator embezzled $3million from Leidos.
There was no mention of the bribery accusations that allegedly prompted Leidos to fire him, but the indictment laid in the Southern District of California accused Walther-Meade of engaging a fake vendor to bill the firm for work that 'was never performed' before the pair used the 'fraudulently obtained' funds 'for their own personal use and benefit'.
When Rapiscan won the contact, Ambassador Salazar expressed his delight at the deal in a statement, in which he said the US was 'glad' Mexico had awarded the contract to Rapiscan, which would 'deepen our efforts to fight the trafficking of drugs, weapons and people'.
Rapiscan's previous $120million contract with the Mexican government expired in 2020 - a year when around 20,000 firearms were seized in Mexico, according to UN data.
It is estimated around 200,000 firearms are smuggled across the US-Mexico border every year.
Rapiscan was responsible for a large portion of the scanning equipment at this crucial entry point.
[Gateway] As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, House Speaker Mike Johnson has released the first bunch of January 6th videos that is now available to the general public on the Committee on House Administration website.
As of right now, there are over 90 videos on the Committee on House Administration site, but Rep. Johnson has promised to upload more as the days go on.
One of the most intriguing videos released is the moment a Capitol Police Officer is spotted un-cuffing and even fist-bumping a protester near an exit point.
The video starts with an officer guiding a handcuffed "protester" wearing a helmet and some protective gear to the Capitol’s exit point.
Suddenly, the officer swiftly bends down the handcuffed man and proceeds to uncuff him.
As the man was un-cuffed, he fist-bumped another officer/protester who was standing by.
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Will sooner or later, America needs to wake up to the facts slapping them in the face.
Because slowly the evidence is still coming out that the LSD's staged and planted actors in a peaceful protest.
Agents were planted to steer the idea and image of MAGA violent rebellion.
Agents used to produce reasons to lock up the voices that would have further investigates and exposed their Fraudulent Election & Crimes.
Look how much damage to the economy, social norms, civil rights abuses, failure to apply EQUAL Justice and the $$$ millions in kickbacks that Elite LSD's have received in just 2 years ....
Question: Where have are the Republicans, and So called Constitutionalists been?
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Wray was never asked to ID this protester. Why not?
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That they walked him out or any public view and then he was courteously un-cuffed and then fist-bumps the uniformed officer is clear cut substantiation of his under-cover status. While the plainclothes subjects in this video are going to be hard to identify, the uniformed officer is not, and should be immediately questioned as to why this was done and why it was hidden from view!
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It does make Nancy Pelosi's "Jan 6 Committee" look more and more like a Stalinist show trial.
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#5 How so? I mean little Tucker may appeal to your feelings - but, isn't the main difference between us and leftards the fact that we don't rely on our feelz but think things through?
[YouTube] The U.S. and India agreed to move forward with plans to jointly produce Stryker armored vehicles, in a bid to strengthen Indian ground forces amid a tense border dispute between New Delhi and Beijing.
This development came during the annual 2+2 ministerial consultations being held between the countries’ foreign and defense ministers in New Delhi.
The deal was announced after a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin with their Indian counterparts Dr Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh in New Delhi.
The U.S. officials met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the evening.
In this video, Defense Updates analyzes why India wants to produce American Stryker locally ?
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Robert Zimmerman concludes - Thus, a rocket more powerful than the Saturn-5 but designed from the get-go to be reuseable is being built by private American citizens, independent of the government. If that isn’t a demonstration of the power of freedom, I don’t know what is.
[nods approvingly]
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^ This. Nods as well in the Civil Engineering Code
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Re: 5: It shows how smart NASA is nowadays. It seems that NASA personals is made up of 'idiotcrasy type people'.
Keeping in mind that the sample was taken in the vacuum of space then returned to the surface of earth where the atmosphere pressure works against the vacuum inside the canister to keep the lid securely shut! (pressure difference).
One simple solution: put the canister in a vacuum chamber and (with robotic arms), reduce the pressure difference to as small as possible then pry open the lid.
*a bit off topic: a campfire discussion: If the movie Starship Troopers was supposed to be a mockery of the book and its story, and everything in the movie was some allegory of bad-think: does that mean the mixed gender military and shower scene is also bad-think?
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the mixed gender military
All I can tell you that in IDF (at least in my time) there were separate female quaters and for a male being caught where = 7 - 14 days in base lockup.
Some of the non-Rohingya Burmese rebels formed the cleverly named Three Brotherhood Alliance back in 2019 or 2021 against the military junta, and have been asserting themselves while we weren’t looking.
[NBC] An ethnic resistance group in northern Myanmar says an entire army battalion surrendered to it. The surrender of 261 people — 127 soldiers and 134 of their family members — appears to be the biggest army surrender since armed conflict in Myanmar broke out in 2021.
An entire Myanmar army battalion based near the Chinese border surrendered to an alliance of ethnic armed groups that launched a surprise offensive last month against the military, a spokesperson for one of the armed groups said Wednesday. The surrender of 261 people — 127 soldiers and 134 of their family members — from the infantry battalion in northeastern Shan state appears to be the biggest by regular army forces since widespread armed conflict in Myanmar broke out in 2021 after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February that year.
The alliance expects to soon capture Laukkaing, the area’s major city, the spokesperson said.
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This is getting crazier by the moment. The Three Brotherhood Alliance combines Muslims from Rakhine, Chinese from northern Shan, and Wa and other enthnicities from northeastern Shan state. The fact that a so-called battalion of Burmans (?) joined the rebels, is mind-boggling.
The Arakan Army are Buddhists from Rakhine. It’s the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army who are the Muslims. I made the mistake when I first read the article, too — it was only after doing a name search of Rantburg’s archives that I realized there were two militant groups in the area.
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.
The shooting occurred at the Concord Municipal Psychiatric Hospital. According to preliminary data, several people became victims of the incident. The exact number of victims is not known. Some time later, a statement was published on the state police page on the social network X that the situation in the hospital had been brought under control.
[GEO.TV] A solar superstorm, marked by a coronal mass ejection (CME), poses a significant threat to internet stability, potentially disrupting the system for weeks or even months.
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka 
[AFRICANEWS] Madagascar returned to normality on Friday, a day after the country's presidential elections.
