[NY Post] A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who recently fled her war-torn home for a safer life in the US was knifed to death by a homeless career criminal at a North Carolina train station last week, according to family members and authorities.
Iryna Zarutska suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the East/West Boulevard light rail station in South End, Charlotte just before 10 p.m. Friday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Saturday.
Zarutska had “recently arrived in the United States, seeking safety from the war and hoping for a new beginning,” according to a GoFundMe page set up to fundraise for the young woman’s aunt and other family members during the “heartbreaking time.”
Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was identified as the suspect and transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Friday night. He has since been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, cops said.
Brown has been arrested a slew of times since 2011 for felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and communicating threats, according to court records obtained by The Post.
He is homeless and served five years in prison for the robbery with a deadly weapon charge, according to WSOC-TV.
Other past charges have been dropped, according to the Charlotte Observer.
The alleged killer, however, currently has pending charges for misuse of the 911 system in January following a police welfare check — which revealed his troubling thoughts, the outlet reported.
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Brown told authorities during the visit he believed someone had given him a “man-made” material that controlled when he ate, walked, and talked, an affidavit obtained by the newspaper said.
“Brown wanted officers to investigate this ‘man-made’ material that was inside of his body,” the affidavit said.
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A combination of words I never thought to see in a serious headline.
[Regnum] Electrical problems due to problems with the water supply in the toilets on board the plane could have been the cause of the Air India plane crash in June. This was reported by the British publication Mirror,citing aviation expert and lawyer Mike Andrews, who represents the interests of the victims of the plane crash.
Andrews said there was no convincing evidence that the tragedy was caused by pilot error. However, the expert recalled a malfunction in the toilet drinking water supply system, which the US Federal Aviation Administration reported a month before the plane crashed. According to the expert, such a malfunction could have caused a significant decrease in engine power.
"Anyone who doesn't have all the data and tries to blame the pilots is speculating, and that's unfair," Andrews was quoted as saying.
In an interview with the newspaper, the lawyer said four sources had told him of technical and engineering problems that could have led to the crash. He also added that he was considering filing a lawsuit against the plane's manufacturer. The amount of compensation sought could run into the millions of dollars.
Earlier it was reported that sabotage was also being considered among the versions of the crash of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner of Air India. Indian Civil Aviation Minister Murlidhar Mohol noted that in such incidents, both engines of the plane had never stopped at the same time.
The crash occurred on June 12. The airliner crashed near Ahmedabad airport almost immediately after taking off for London. When it fell, the aircraft crashed into a medical college dormitory. A total of 274 people died in the crash.
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"toilet drinking water supply system" And see, I didn't even know they had one.
Maybe it's an 'India' thing.
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I would have guessed it was all those people hanging on the outside of the train plane.
Andrews said there was no convincing evidence that the tragedy was caused by pilot error.
Maybe not convincing to a defense attorney, but the flight data recorder shows the fuel control switches were flipped off and one of the pilots is heard asking the other why they cut off the fuel.
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[Regnum] The most powerful flare since June occurred on the Sun. This was reported on August 25 on its website by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The flare power was M4.6. The maximum radiation occurred at 8:24 Moscow time. Scientists note that the event occurred against the background of a sharp increase in solar activity, which is associated with the emergence of several large active centers on the visible side of the solar disk. Last week, on August 18–24, they produced several significant plasma emissions while still on the far side of the star. For now, these areas are far from the vectors directed toward Earth and should not pose risks to the planet, the scientists noted.
"But the very fact that the centers of activity retain energy to generate the strongest explosions in months is disturbing," the report said.
According to preliminary calculations, the solar centers will be in the zone of influence on the Earth from the second half of the day on August 26, however, very large plasma emissions with large angular dimensions may begin to affect the planet as early as August 25.
On August 22, the second flare of the penultimate power class occurred on the Sun in 24 hours. In addition, a weak flare of level C1.2 was registered in the morning of the same day.
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[Regnum] Vietnam is planning to evacuate 586,000 people due to the approach of Typhoon Kajiki. This was reported on August 25 by the Reuters news agency.
Over 580,000 People Want to Evacuate in Vietnam Due to Typhoon Kajiki
According to the National Weather Forecasting Agency of the Republic, the typhoon's speed reached 166 km/h in the morning. At the same time, Chinese forecasters predict that the wind speed may increase even more, reaching 180 km/h.
The Vietnamese authorities intend to evacuate residents of the central provinces of Thanh Hoa, Quang Tri, Hue and Da Nang. Army units and security forces are involved in this — a total of 116 thousand people. Schools and public buildings have been converted into temporary shelters. All fishing vessels that were in the path of the typhoon have been recalled back to ports.
Kajiki is expected to reach a force of 13-14 on the enhanced Beaufort scale (133-165 km/h) by the time it reaches land, the Vietnam News Agency reported. Heavy rains accompanied by very strong winds have already begun in central Vietnam. The main precipitation fell in the central regions, especially in the provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Tri and Nghe An. Meteorologists have warned of an extremely high risk
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese army deployed helicopters on Sunday to evacuate villagers trapped by the flooding Gash River in eastern Kassala state, as authorities in Northern State issued urgent warnings of dangerously high Nile levels expected to last until October.
The army stated in a blurb that its air force was conducting evacuations in several villages at the directive of Army Commander General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.
Military helicopters were seen delivering food aid to residents of Tandlai village, which has been completely cut off from floodwaters for the past two days. The seasonal Gash River, a major tributary, began to swell last week, threatening the city of Kassala and its surrounding rural areas.
Local residents have long demanded that the state government construct an 18-kilometre road to connect the area to the national highway, which would protect them from the annual flooding during the rainy season.
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[Free Beacon] In 1992, the Danish Parliament passed a special law granting asylum to 321 Palestinian refugees from Lebanon who were living in the country illegally. Twenty-five years later, a Danish minister, Martin Henriksen, asked a parliamentary committee to examine how they had fared in their new home.
As controversy erupts over the State Department’s decision to temporarily suspend visas for Gazans visiting the United States, an instructive report produced by that parliamentary committee has been making the rounds on social media.
As controversy erupts over the State Department’s decision to temporarily suspend visas for Gazans visiting the United States, an instructive report produced by that parliamentary committee has been making the rounds on social media.
The committee's report cast doubt on the wisdom of the decision to take in those refugees, noting that 67 of the 321 had received prison sentences of some kind, while 137 were subject to legal fines larger than $200. That is, more than 60 percent carried criminal records.
Welfare dependency was also widespread. A majority of the refugees received welfare benefits, according to the report, which tracked those benefits from 2007 to 2016. No fewer than 180 of the refugees, or 56 percent, received welfare benefits during the 10-year span. That figure peaked at 189 in 2016.
"There is no doubt that in Denmark we have previously been too careless with who has been granted permanent residence permits," Denmark's then-acting minister for immigration and integration, Kaare Dybvad Bek, said in response to the report in 2020. "Some of those who have come here are not integrated, and these figures also bear witness to that. It is depressing when such a large part of a certain group has been convicted of crime or is on public welfare."
Denmark passed an integration law in 1999, seven years after it granted residency to the Palestinian refugees. It mandated a three-year introduction program for refugees that includes language lessons.
Millions of dollars raised to help victims of the 2025 California wildfires have ended up in the coffers of unrelated nonprofits pushing a variety of progressive causes, a Washington Free Beacon review found. Some of the groups that have received funds explicitly exclude white people from their services, while others advertise programs for illegal aliens.
FireAid, a celebrity-studded fundraising organization that raked in about $100 million for wildfire relief efforts, has distributed money to more than 160 California nonprofits. Its flagship event on Jan. 30, produced by the Annenberg Foundation, featured performers like Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre, Stevie Wonder, and Sting, among others.
FireAid announced in February that it would distribute the money it raised "equitably," a promise it appears to have kept. Greenline Housing Foundation, for instance, received funds from a $4.8 million pool dedicated to health and housing. It noted on its website that no whites need apply.
"In order to qualify for a grant through Greenline Housing Foundation, applicants must be a Black or Hispanic person," the group stated.
Greenline told the Free Beacon that "anyone is welcome to apply for and receive" its fire-specific programs. But the wildfire section of its website clarifies that the organization "will focus [its] efforts on helping Black and Hispanic communities."
[Total News] WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has terminated the Biden administration’s agreement to distribute substantial funding for semiconductor research via nonprofit organizations, as revealed in a letter obtained by the Post.
The 2022 Chips and Science Act allocated $11 billion for semiconductor R&D, which was meant to be managed by the Department of Commerce’s National Semiconductor Technology Center.
However, Lutnick expressed concerns in his letter to Natcast CEO Deirdre Hanford. He pointed out that instead of forming these organizations within the department, officials were directing considerable resources toward creating external entities to handle public funds.
Just four days before Biden stepped down on January 20th, Lutnick arranged for a $7.4 billion "prepaid" agreement for Natcast after nearly two years of establishing the Commerce Department and staffing it with allies and advisors. I think they meant Hanford, not Lutnick
This deal effectively limited the next Trump administration’s role and secured essential funding for Natcast.
The funding was intended to remain effective until 2034.
Lutnick’s letter further stated that these actions not only risk fraud but also fail to comply with federal law, as the Chips Act does not authorize external organizations like Natcast to manage the distribution of semiconductor research funds.
He noted that the Government Corporation Control Act prohibits companies from acting as governmental bodies without explicit approval, implying the January 16, 2025 agreement aimed to circumvent this restriction.
The Natcast Selection Committee included various Biden administration alumni, such as Jason Matheney, a former deputy director of the White House Science and Technology Policy, and Kendra Wilkerson, who leads a nonprofit promoting equity in tech.
Additionally, Donna Dubinski, another executive from Natcast, had previously worked as a senior advisor for former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and registered the organization for 501(c)(3) status.
Current vice-chair of the Biden Department of Commerce’s Chips Law Advisory Committee, Susan Feind, now serves as Natcast’s senior vice president for ecosystem development.
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Considering Universities already have research funds handling departments, and commercial chip producers already have research partners, this would seem to be graft in the department of redundancy department.
[GEO.TV] Six people have died from rabies following dog bites in the metropolis between May and August, hospital officials said on Friday.
According to medical authorities, three of the victims were under treatment at Jinnah Hospital and three others at Korangi's Trust Hospital.
Across Sindh, the number of rabies-related deaths this year has climbed to 14, officials said. Eight patients have died at Jinnah Hospital and six at Trust Hospital in Korangi.
Health officials further disclosed that more than 22,000 cases of dog bites have been reported so far this year, underscoring the growing public health concern.
Alarmingly, a number of dog bite victims do not report to any healthcare facility, instead following home remedies for the treatment of wounds.
Health experts say that a dog bite victim must report to a public sector healthcare facility and follow a standard protocol to avoid rabies, which is 100% fatal for both animals and humans after developing symptoms.
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[GEO.TV] The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad, has confirmed two new cases of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... , one from district Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... Lower, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and the other from district Badin, Sindh.
The latest cases involve a 72-month-old girl from Union Council Pattan in district Kohistan Lower and a 21-month-old girl from Union Council Matli-2 in district Badin. With these detections, the total number of polio cases in Pakistain in 2025 has reached 21 — including 13 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, six from Sindh, and one each from Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... and Gilgit-Baltistan.
Polio is a highly infectious and incurable disease that can cause lifelong paralysis. The only effective protection is through repeated doses of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) for every child under five during each campaign, alongside timely completion of all routine immunisations.
Despite significant progress, the continued detection of polio cases shows that children remain at risk in areas with low vaccine acceptance.
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[Funrazr] On August 8th, 1943 RCAF Halifax Bomber, HR 871, landed in the Baltic off the Swedish coast. All 7 crew bailed out and the Halifax has rested unknown and unseen for almost 73 years until recently discovered in 50 feet of water just a few miles offshore of the south tip of Sweden.
Halifax 57 Rescue and Havsresan are pleased to announce after months of negotiations we have official Swedish government permission to salvage this RCAF Halifax bomber.
We are appealing to all Canadians and history fans to help raise the funding and people's support to recover HR871 this summer and bring her home, to Canada. Thanks to our colleagues and allies at "Havresan - Sea Journey" of Lund University of Sweden we can save Halifax HR871, literally from "the sands of time".
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.
A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who recently fled her war-torn home for a safer life in the US was knifed to death by a homeless career criminal at a North Carolina train station last week, according to family members and authorities.
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
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...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
