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'Nothing left' in north Gaza: UNRWA
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Shocking moment two 17-year-olds beat and stomp on teen's head in violent brawl at NYC high school - before BOTH attackers are stabbed
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Two New York City teenagers have been arrested after they were filmed stomping on a classmate's head in a 'vicious attack'.

The two suspects, both 17, were also stabbed during the brawl at Martin van Buren High School in Queens on Thursday. The suspects had non life-threatening injuries, and both are in a stable condition.

In shocking footage of the brawl, released by the District Attorney, the victim is pushed down the stairs and slammed into a door before a group of boys descend on him.

The two defendants face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. There were at least four other attackers seen on the video who have not yet been arrested.

When police officers arrived at the school they grabbed the victim, who was suspected of stabbing the two boys, and took him to the 105th Precinct, according to New York Daily News. But the victim claimed self-defense and showed authorities the social media video of the attack that supported his claim. New York Daily News said the Queens District Attorney’s Office then told police to void his arrest.

The victim suffered 'bruising to his face and eye'.

A fellow student told the outlet on Thursday: 'I was trying to walk my girlfriend to her class and as we got to the staircase we saw them get in an altercation.

'These two boys had an altercation. One of them was losing bad and he pulled out a knife and stabbed [the other one].'

After the fight, the first alleged attacker was searched in the principal's office and was found carrying a 9mm semi-automatic Smith & Wesson pistol 'loaded with a round in the chamber and seven rounds in the magazine'.

The first alleged attacker is charged with attempted gang assault in the first degree, attempted assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon on school grounds.

The second is charged with attempted gang assault in the first degree, attempted assault in the first degree and assault in the second degree.

They are due to appear in court on February 8.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  ^Somebody got up on "a wrong side" today?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/06/2024 1:53 Comments || Top||

#2  The two defendants face up to 15 years in prison if convicted

After which we'll have seasoned, 32 year old stab stab stabbers. Yayyy!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/06/2024 3:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Bringing the wonders of motherfucking Namibia to your school! Ain't it great?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/06/2024 3:31 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Namibia is considerably safer than New York. And the people are more friendly too.
Posted by: Secret Master || 02/06/2024 11:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Great Snark Dron, have you been gone a while?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/06/2024 12:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Great snark indeed.

After eight years of pilot studies, the Goreangab Water Reclamation Plant (GWRP) became the first in the world to produce purified drinking water directly from sewage water. Today, the plant produces up to 25 000 kilolitres of drinking water every day, or – up to 35% of the city's consumption.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/06/2024 12:22 Comments || Top||

#7  https://youtu.be/ZBk3dJNSQks?feature=shared
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 02/06/2024 13:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Besoeker, Direct Potable Reuse is something that needs to be implemented in many areas, including the US southwest. They’re building a large plant in LA.
Posted by: Remoteman || 02/06/2024 16:16 Comments || Top||

#9  San Diego's Pure Water Program. If you are downstream from somebody else's Waste Water system, you are living it. It's not new, and the numbers are fine with adequate dissolution in large bodies/flows of water.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/06/2024 20:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Direct Potable Reuse

Any way to bring this to military poo ponds around the world?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/06/2024 20:25 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Body found in same Austin lake where other deceased individuals discovered in recent months
[FoxNews] Over the past 12 months, several bodies have been found in and around Lady Bird Lake in Austin

A body was found Monday in a Texas lake, the same site where other deceased individuals have been discovered in recent months, authorities said.

A 911 caller saw a body in Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Austin-Travis County EMS said. The unidentified person was declared dead around 1:52 p.m., Fox Austin reported.

Several other bodies have been discovered in the lake in recent months. At least five people have been found dead at the lake, which is a portion of the Colorado River running through downtown Austin, since last year.

In June 2023, authorities downplayed speculation that a serial killer may be behind the deaths.

The previous Lady Bird Lake deaths have involved men in or around their 30s who had been drinking on nearby Rainey Street in the city's downtown and were later found dead in the water.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [40 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Austin TV news is ignoring the string of deaths and reporting each one as an isolated incident.
Posted by: EMSArtifact || 02/06/2024 10:16 Comments || Top||

#2  If they can find a guilt by association angle that involves Republicans or "what supremacisses" they'll be all over it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/06/2024 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Body found in same Austin lake where other deceased individuals discovered in recent months

If drunk, never call Uber. Especially late at night in Austin.
Posted by: Angealing B. Hayes4677 || 02/06/2024 15:29 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: badanov || 02/06/2024 16:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Strange that they never mention that the anti-slavery movement began in Christian Western Civilization, meanwhile it still happens in other regions of the world.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/06/2024 17:16 Comments || Top||

#6  "Shut Up!"

/Narrative Preservation League
Posted by: Frank G || 02/06/2024 20:18 Comments || Top||


Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' attack Columbians as concerns over their numbers rise
[GEO.TV] The children of late drug lord Pablo Escobar's illegal imports of hippopotamuses into Colombia in the 1980s have begun attacking humans.

Since there are no natural predators for these hippos in the South American nation, they have turned on humans, who are the object of their ferocious attacks, according to Wion.

"They're very, very dangerous. The hippos have started to attack people," one local was quoted saying to Fox News.

Others described the enormous hippos as "unpredictable and aggressive," and advised hiding fast in the hopes that they won't pursue you if you find yourself up against them.

One of the hippos from Escobar's collection passed away last year after being hit by a car. Emergency responders sent the car's driver for medical attention, but the hippo passed away immediately.

The hippos were introduced to Escobar's private zoo in Hacienda Nápoles in the 1980s. But since Escobar passed away in 1993, these animals have proliferated unchecked in the surrounding waterways and have spread, compelling Colombia's Ministry of Environment to classify them as invasive species because they pose a harm to the environment as a whole.

The hippos began poisoning the water and soil and eradicating the local natural vegetation when their population reached 150. According to the officials, their excrement reduced the oxygen content of the water, degraded its quality, and killed a large number of fish.

Posted by: Fred || 02/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Since there are no natural predators for these hippos in the South American nation

Man is the apex predator. Just invent a new traditional South American dish employing hippo meat. Also, I understand that their leather is considered exquisite in some circles.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/06/2024 2:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, there's something about a sjambok...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/06/2024 6:53 Comments || Top||


Britain
King Charles diagnosed with cancer
At least Prince Chuck got to reign as king for seventeen months thus far, achieving his lifetime ambition of becoming the national figurehead. One wonders if Prince and Princess Harry will calm down once big brother Wills takes the throne...
[GEO.TV] King Chuck
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...
has just been diagnosed with cancer, according to an official Buckingham Palace statement.

The news came shortly after the King of England has a surgery for a 'benign' prostate condition.
Whatever it is, I hope and pray he defeats it !
The report by Buckingham Palace has been shared to "prevent speculation and in the hope it may assist public understanding for all those around the world who are affected by cancer."

The Palace also added that the news came to light after "a separate issue of concern was noted" during his prostate surgery.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
"subsequent diagnostic tests have identified" it as a "form of cancer.

For those unversed, moving forward the monarch will be focusing solely on "regular treatments" and as such "has been advised by doctors to postpone public-facing duties."

Courtesy of Skidmark: 'The prognosis is good': King Charles III remains 'hugely positive' regarding his cancer diagnosis and will carry on with 'business as usual' - as nation holds its breath and Prince Harry flies back from LA without Meghan to visit his father
Posted by: Fred || 02/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RIP Toby Keith from Stomach Cancer
Posted by: Frank G || 02/06/2024 7:01 Comments || Top||

#2  ^^^
Posted by: Beldar Uneter3543 || 02/06/2024 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Seeing how Chucklefucks has been behaving it must be brain cancer.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/06/2024 9:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Prostate, brain, with some people its difficult to determine what they engage in when they try to speak.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/06/2024 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  boo effing hoo. maybe his successor will give harry a role as roving ambassador or something. Harry did 2 tours in afghanistan. i like harry.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/06/2024 14:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Then Harry married a preening twat who cut his nuts off. He’s never been the same.
Posted by: Remoteman || 02/06/2024 16:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Has or is cancer?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/06/2024 17:41 Comments || Top||

#8  A parasite with cancer. What are the odds?
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/06/2024 19:12 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
El Salvador's conservative Bukele wins re-election in mother of all landslides and Biden figures out a way to insult him
[American Thinker] After sledgehammering crime in his country, President Nayib Bukele won his re-election as president of El Salvador in Sunday's election by a large margin.

According to the BBC:
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, credited with driving down gang violence in the Central American nation, has been re-elected.

Preliminary results released after 70% of votes had been counted showed him securing a second term by winning 83% of the votes.

He had already claimed victory before the results were announced.
This is putting it delicately. The man won a nuclear 83% of the popular vote in what must be the loudest public consensus ever seen in a true democratic republic. He stomped out crime, made his country a nice place to live, ended migration as a byproduct and now has a s that people are trying to move to.

The people have spoken over in El Salvador.

And it's not surprising, really. Create rule of law and order in your country after a long slide of lawlessness and don't be surprised if you find yourself very, very, popular. We saw that in Colombia with the election of Alvaro Uribe, who turned his country from a Marxist narcoterrorist guerrlla hellhole to a garden spot, and we saw this in Ecuador and Argentina, where promises to restore law and order over impunity for criminals led to similar election results.

The Bidenites over in the White House can only look with envy, having no interest in cleaning up runaway crime in the U.S.

So not surprisingly, their response had some curdled milk in it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/06/2024 03:01 || Comments || Link || [42 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Conservative, Law & Order President? No, the Biden administration would have absolutely no interest in such a man.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/06/2024 3:08 Comments || Top||

#2  A moslem president in El Salvador? Oh well, what did the papists ever do for 'em?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/06/2024 3:11 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez was born on 24 July 1981 in San Salvador. He is a son of Armando Bukele Kattán and Olga Ortez de Bukele. Bukele's paternal grandparents were Palestinian Christians from Jerusalem and Bethlehem while his maternal grandmother was Catholic and his maternal grandfather was Greek Orthodox.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/06/2024 3:17 Comments || Top||

#4  The son of a Muslim imam and a Christian, Bukele describes himself as believing in God rather than an adherent to a religion, an apparent effort to steer clear of any anti-Muslim sentiment.

-Al arabiya news

Color me 'weary'. I have like a 'one drop' rule concerning moslems.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/06/2024 3:24 Comments || Top||

#5  *wary
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/06/2024 3:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Looking ahead, the United States will continue to prioritize good governance, inclusive economic prosperity, fair trial guarantees, and human rights in El Salvador under our Root Causes Strategy.

You, uhem, have no standing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/06/2024 15:39 Comments || Top||


Economy
U.S. Diesel Supply Tightens As Manufacturing Comes Roaring Back
[Oilprice.com] U.S. manufacturers are recovering from an extended slump in activity and their energy consumption is about to start rising, with the risk of tightening an already tight diesel market.

Reuters market analyst John Kemp reported the index for manufacturing activity had improved to 49.1 for January from 47.1 in December. The latter figure was the highest since October 2022, Kemp noted in his report, adding that the trend signaled a return to growth.
As manufacturing activity improves, however, diesel demand begins to increase in lockstep. This might be problematic in case of a fast recovery because distillate inventories in the U.S. remain below the five-year average, by 5%, per the latest weekly petroleum report of the Energy Information Administration.

The state of distillate inventories, with the total as of January 26 standing at 10 million barrels below the 10-year seasonal average, per Kemp, is better than it was in late 2023. At that time, distillate stocks were 19 million barrels below the 10-year average. Even with the boost in stockpiles, the distillate supply balance remains elusive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/06/2024 02:04 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Even with the boost in stockpiles, the distillate supply balance remains elusive.

Would predicting EPA's sudden interest in relevant distilleries be considered a pessimism?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/06/2024 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2 
I work in manufacturing. There is no roar. This is Sham Wow levels of overhype.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/06/2024 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't there an election coming up? Can diesel be used to fuel gaslights?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/06/2024 6:00 Comments || Top||

#4  ^thanks
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/06/2024 12:48 Comments || Top||

#5  But how does it come roaring back if this is teh greatestest economy evah!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/06/2024 15:41 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2024-02-06
  'Nothing left' in north Gaza: UNRWA
Mon 2024-02-05
  Scores killed in overnight strikes as Hamas weighs Gaza truce proposal
Sun 2024-02-04
  Hamas raises head above parapets, moves to reassert power in Gaza City areas from which Israeli forces withdrew
Sat 2024-02-03
  Israel turns focus of Gaza attack to Rafah as Hamas weighs ceasefire proposal; conflict now longest since 1948 War of Independence
Fri 2024-02-02
  Fearing Israeli assassinations, Iran pulls IRGC commanders from Syria - sources
Thu 2024-02-01
  Kata'ib Hezbollah announces suspension of offensive operations in agreement with Iraqi government
Wed 2024-01-31
  It's that time of the year. We must ask for your help...
Tue 2024-01-30
  Israeli forces claim killing dozens of Gaza gunmen near hospital
Mon 2024-01-29
  IRGC seizes foreign tanker carrying 2 million liters of fuel
Sun 2024-01-28
  3 American troops killed, 25 injured in attack on Jordan base near Syria border
Sat 2024-01-27
  International Court Orders Immediate Release Of Hostages Held By Hamas, Bibi rejects genocide charge
Fri 2024-01-26
  Israeli strikes kill at least 50 Palestinians in Khan Younis in 24 hours
Thu 2024-01-25
  IDF carries out wave of strikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon
Wed 2024-01-24
  ‘Genocide Joe’: Protesters against Israeli op in Gaza repeatedly interrupt Biden at campaign event
Tue 2024-01-23
  Fierce battles in Gaza as troops push deeper into Khan Younis


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