[BNOnews] Three people were killed and nine others were injured when several individuals exchanged gunfire in Philadelphia, according to police.
The shooting occurred at around 1 a.m. on Monday on the 1500 block of South Etting Street in Philadelphia’s Grays Ferry neighborhood, according to Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel.
The three people killed were identified as a 19-year-old male, a 23-year-old male, and a 24-year-old male.
Among the injured were a 15-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, both expected to survive. The others injured range in age from 18 to 24 and include five males and three females, according to CBS Philadelphia. At least one of the injured is in critical condition.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The anti-tourism fury that has swept across Europe has now spilled into Latin America, with violent scenes erupting in Mexico City.
Demonstrators have targeted foreigners and demanded a crackdown on mass tourism. Need more bodies hanging from bridges.
What began as a peaceful march on Friday through two of the capital's trendiest neighbourhoods quickly descended into chaos, as masked protesters smashed up shopfronts, scrawled graffiti on walls and hurled abuse at visitors.
Anger boiled over in Condesa and Roma, two districts popular with foreign tourists and expats where a breakaway group began attacking high-end businesses and screaming at passers-by.
Chilling messages were spray-painted across windows, including 'Get out of Mexico', while others displayed signs saying 'Gringos, stop stealing our home'.
Footage shared online showed rocks being thrown through glass storefronts and looters breaking into shops as stunned onlookers watched on.
The protesters, some of them in balaclavas, then made their way to the US Embassy, where they chanted slogans and marched into the city's metro system, according to AP News.
Sirens blared across the city centre as police rushed to the scene and reinforcements were deployed.
It marked a dramatic escalation in a growing backlash against what many Mexicans see as uncontrolled tourism.
The capital has seen an influx of foreign visitors since the pandemic.
Locals say soaring rents, rising property prices and the spread of short-term lets like Airbnb have priced them out of their own neighbourhoods.
But it is mass tourism and the visible presence of Americans that appears to have become the flashpoint.
The unrest in Mexico comes just weeks after furious anti-tourism protests broke out in popular destinations across Europe.
In Spain, demonstrators marched through the streets of Barcelona, Palma and the Canary Islands, demanding an end to what they called the 'tourism invasion'.
Similar scenes have played out in Venice and parts of Greece, where locals say their cities are being transformed into playgrounds for the rich.
Now the movement is spreading across the Atlantic, fuelled by anger over gentrification and economic inequality.
Officials have yet to comment on Friday's violence but calls are growing for the government to take action.
Some campaigners are demanding legislation to cap tourism numbers and impose tougher restrictions on foreign property ownership.
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The Mexican politicians might want to remember that
US Tourists generate over $30.8Billion in revenue for Mexico economy annually. Which generate Mexico
$$$ MILLIONS in related TAXES.
Itwouldn’t be fir to blame only the Brits for being hateful.
[IsrelTimes] Authorities say they could prosecute some members of audience for their displays at Marko Perkovic concert
The Croatian singer Marko Perkovic, who is known for his far-right sympathies, led nearly half a million concertgoers in a pro-Nazi salute in Zagreb on Saturday night.
During the concert — billed as the largest in Croatia’s history — Perkovic played one of his most popular songs which begins with the pro-Nazi "For the homeland — Ready!" salute.
The salute is a remnant of the Ustaše regime, the Nazi puppet government formally known as the Independent State of Croatia. The brutal regime housed dozens of concentration camps during World War II and was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews and Roma, as well as Croatians who opposed its rule.
In recent decades, Croatian nationalists have adopted the symbols of the Ustaše regime to promote their vision of Croatian ethnic identity. The symbols have become increasingly mainstream despite efforts by Croatian Jews to press for increased penalties for such displays.
In what some in Croatia interpreted as a lack of concern about promoting Ustaše sympathizers, Croatia’s prime minister, Andrej Plenković, attended Thompson’s rehearsal with his family.
While making the Ustaše salute is a misdemeanor in Croatia, courts have ruled that Perkovic — who performs under the name Thompson — can use it as part of his act. Perkovic has said both the song and the salute channel sentiments about the ethnic war against Serbia in the 1990s, after Croatia declared its independence from the former Yugoslavia.
As Perkovic came onto the stage, the singer told the crowd that "with this concert we will show our unity," according to Euro News. He continued, "I want to send a message to all of Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... to return to its tradition, to its Christian roots."
Croatian authorities said they could prosecute some in attendance for their displays. A Croatian handball star was dropped from his team after attending the concert, the Croatian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
station HRT reported.
The concert drew criticism from some Croatian officials, including former prime minister Jadranka Kosor, who accused the authorities and media of indulging the right-wing singer.
"Not only are the state and the city serving one man but the television stations are as well," Kosor wrote on X. "There’s palpable excitement while in the center of Zagreb, fans are already singing songs from the time of the criminal state. The media are not reporting on this."
Croatian Ombudsperson Tena Simonovic Einwalter also condemned authorities for failing to publicly denounce the incidents, according to Balkan Insight.
"This indicates that, over the years, and even before this concert, a sufficiently clear message has not been sent that all expressions of hatred and glorification of the darkest periods of the past are unacceptable and illegal," Simonovic Einwalter said.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Trump slaps 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea in big gamble as deadline to price spike 'doomsday' approaches
President Donald Trump hammered Japan and South Korea for running up a trade imbalance with the U.S., declaring both countries will be slapped with a new 25 percent tariff starting August 1.
Trump issued a scathing attack in two letters he sent the leaders of both countries, declaring 'our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from reciprocal.'
Then he brought down the hammer, declaring what the new tariff would be, which could cripple the economies of two allies of the U.S.
The president did admit there will be some room for negotiation at the end of his note and indicated the tariffs won’t take effect until next month.
‘Starting on August 1, 2025, we will charge Korea a tariff of only 25% on any and all Korean products sent into the United States, separate from all sectoral tariffs,’ Trump wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.
He said the rate was ‘far less than what is needed to eliminate the trade deficit disparity we have with your country,’ and said any effort to evade the tariff would be met with swift consequences.
Markets immediately dropped on the news, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding 400 points, and the broader S&P 500 losing nearly a percentage point in value.
Trump concluded with another threat: ‘If for any reason you decide to raise your tariffs, then, whatever then number you choose to raise them by, will be added onto the 25% that we charge,’ he wrote.
Trump laced the unusual letters with compliments as well as digs, calling it a privilege for the countries to get to trade with the U.S.
Trump called the letter a ‘great honor’ and said it ‘demonstrates the strength and commitment' of the trading relationship between the countries 'despite having a significant trade deficit.'
Trump’s letter to Japan’s PM Ishiba Shigero appeared to use identical language, inviting Japan to participated in the ‘extraordinary’ U.S. economy through trade, even as its exports are subjected to the tariff.
Both countries are key U.S. allies.
The U.S. helped rebuild both economies after World War II and after the Korean War through extensive trade ties. For years U.S. consumers and companies have turned to both countries for automobiles and consumer products as well computer chips and technology vital to an array of other products.
The U.S. ran a trade deficit with Korea of $66 billion last year, according to the office of the U.S. trade representative.
That figure reflected US purchases of Korean cars, microchips. The U.S. faced a $67 billion trade deficit with Japan, the world's fifth largest economy.
Japan already faced a 25 percent tariff on cars, auto parts, and steel, in addition to facing the 10 percent across the board tariff.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had an aide bring Trump's letters to the White House briefing room minutes after Trump sent them.
She told reporters Trump would sign an executive order 'delaying the July 9 deadline to August 1' – calling Trump's latest move a delay rather than merely a date when the tariffs would take effect.
“We voice serious concerns about the rise of unilateral tariff and non-tariff measures which distort trade and are inconsistent with WTO rules,” the countries continued.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A weak magnetic storm began on Earth on the morning of Monday, July 7. This was reported by the solar astronomy laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"A new magnetic storm, the second this month, was registered this morning. Like yesterday's event, which was the first in July, the storm has the weakest possible geomagnetic rating, G1, and is generally observed again without any apparent reason. The forecast, like yesterday, did not include the event," the laboratory's website says.
According to scientists, a slight increase in the speed and temperature of the solar wind is observed in the Earth's magnetosphere, due to which the amplitude of changes in it is insignificant. The magnetic storm should end in the next two hours.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 6, the Sun ejected its sixth prominence of record-breaking size in a week — more than a million kilometers. The ejection occurred in the direction of the north pole of the Solar System.
Earlier, on June 18, a powerful X-class flare was recorded on the Sun. According to the Institute of Applied Geophysics, the strength of the flare was X1.2, and its duration reached 16 minutes.
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 land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
