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Leb: 10 hurt in Israeli strikes on South and Bekaa Sunday, 2 airstruck Monday
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Parents' desperate chase foils Brooklyn kidnapper's sinister plot

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2025 00:54 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:


3 killed, 9 injured in shooting in Philadelphia
[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.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [67 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The shooting occurred at around 1 a.m.

Ever consider curfews for dangerous areas?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2025 6:52 Comments || Top||

#2 
Is Philadelphia now competing with Chicago for the #1 spot?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/08/2025 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  They've got a ways to go.

Trash piles up around Philadelphia as city worker strike reaches 1 week

Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2025 11:41 Comments || Top||



-Short Attention Span Theater-
The Bow-Wielding, Bagpiping Brit of WWII
[FE] There are men, and then there are legends—the latter live their lives on the extreme fringes of human society, where fact and fiction blur into the essence of what we all wish we were; those who seem to pack four or five lifetimes’ worth of experiences into the 80 or so years God blesses us with. We often do not know them by name, but rather by tales of harrowing bravery, adrenaline-fueled adventure, and calculated risk. One such legend is "Mad Jack" Churchill.

John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Mad Jack" Churchill was born in Britain in 1906 to a family employed under the Crown. He attended the Royal Military Academy, and upon graduation, he was sent to Rangoon, then Poona for training. After completing his training, he drove his motorcycle all the way back across India to Calcutta, then took a boat to Rangoon. The journey was fraught with danger, as there were few roads along the route, forcing him to ride alongside railroad tracks. When river crossings came, he had to walk his bike across the bridges. At one point, he even collided with a water buffalo that refused to clear his path.

"Mad Jack" Churchill Becomes Legend
After serving in the Burma Rebellion of 1930, upon his return he returned to England and soon left his military post. During his time away from the service, he acted in movies, worked for a Nairobi-based newspaper, competed as a professional archer, and practiced the bagpipes. But when the German Army began advancing, Britain quickly recalled its reserve officers.

World War II is where Churchill became a legend. Wherever he went, he carried a longbow, which he could accurately shoot up to 200 yards, a set of bagpipes, and a short sword. When asked by a superior why he carried a sword, he replied, "Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed." He often played the bagpipes for his fellow soldiers as entertainment.

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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2025 05:57 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed."

When men were men.
Posted by: mossomo || 07/08/2025 12:36 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Meteorologists: National Weather Service Had ‘Extra' Staff During Texas Floods, Not Impacted by Trump's Cuts

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2025 01:53 || Comments || Link || [72 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
The difference between a LSD President and a MAGA President in office.

When it's an LSD, the media blames weather disasters and response failures on Climate Change and $$$ Issues.

When it's a MAGA President, it is all his fault, not the lame left over LSD DEI staff failures or Climate Change.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/08/2025 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Yesterday, the local ABC weatherman said he 'didn't have a political bone in his body, but here are the facts' and spelled out the timeline of 8-10 levels of warning. At least one should have set off cell phones.

The weather service did it's job. The problem was all the visitors were unaware of the river's potential and it happened overnight. Some camps got the word and evacuated. Maybe some had their phones turned off for the night.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/08/2025 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  A man I knew is missing, along with his wife and 15 year old son. Their house was washed away. A 16 year old daughter was in another location away from the flooding. Now she’s an orphan. Despite owning the house, he wasn’t local to the area. I can only guess that he couldn’t conceive of how much the river could rise.
Posted by: Remoteman || 07/08/2025 12:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Last night CNN, yes CNN, actually carried this story and the guy explained that some folks had turned off their phones or were out of service. I do believe after the emotions the deep dive will show the sheriffs and local police will end up changing protocols and alerting residents and campers.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/08/2025 12:42 Comments || Top||


Now anti-tourism protests spread to MEXICO as crowds are 'seen harassing foreigners' and smashing shopfronts during mass demonstration in holiday hotspot
[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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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/08/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [148 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Cops Find 338 Bodies in Mexican Border City Crematorium
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2025 11:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually doing what the Left in the US tries to paint Americans of doing in America.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2025 6:49 Comments || Top||

#3 
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.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/08/2025 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how much of the anti-tourist demonstrations in Europe are a kind of displacement of anger felt by various nationalities over how they are being swamped by African and Middle Eastern economic migrants. They can't protest openly about being overrun by them, because their political leadership will land on the protestors like a ton of bricks. But it's safer to protest about tourists...
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 07/08/2025 8:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Not that I need another reason not to go to Mexico.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 07/08/2025 9:02 Comments || Top||

#6  .....or the UK, or Europe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2025 9:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Interesting who would be stoking this. The tourism industry is infected with “legitimate” cartel business interests and they keep the peace in these areas, or not.
Posted by: Jefe101 || 07/08/2025 11:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Fine with me. Who goes to Mexico besides Dems?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/08/2025 12:26 Comments || Top||


Cyber
U.S. Arrests Facilitator in North Korean IT Worker Scheme; Seizes 29 Domains and Raids 21 Laptop Farms

So to bypass international sanctions, which have North Korea financially and Technically broke. It used Biden's Lame Perverted Puppet Admin and the LSD's agenda, both of which failed to guard the USA. Which resulted in costing US Companies $$$ Millions.

Imagine if MAGA & Trump weren't in charge now.
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Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/08/2025 06:20 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...ultimately generating more than $5 million in revenue.

Chicken feed to domestic COVID scams.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2025 10:08 Comments || Top||


Europe
Croatian right-wing singer joins hundreds of thousands of fans in pro-Nazi salute
Itwouldn’t be fair 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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#1  Zagreb, Croatia? "Forget it, Jake. It's the Balkans Chinatown."
Posted by: magpie || 07/08/2025 8:34 Comments || Top||

#2  In recent decades, Croatian nationalists have adopted the symbols of the Ustaše regime to promote their vision of Croatian ethnic identity.

Please identify the two words in the above para that can be blamed for millions of deaths due to war and ethnic genocide in Europe over the past 150 years
.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/08/2025 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Are those word, perchance, highlighted in bold font?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/08/2025 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  If you love you homeland and believe you have a birthright to ethnic continuity then you most be a nazi fascist.

Didn't the communists commit mass killings of Ustase members?
Posted by: mossomo || 07/08/2025 12:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump bets big on new tariff deals as deadline to price spike 'doomsday' approaches
[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.
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#1  Anti-U.S. BRICS Holds Biggest, and Most Toothless, Summit Yet

“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.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2025 11:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump Threatens 10% Extra Tariff for ‘Anti-American’ BRICS Bloc



"Don't piss on my head and tell me it's raining!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2025 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump announces 25% tariffs on Japan, South Korea
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/07/2025 16:29 Comments || Top||


#5  ...diamond jewelers hit hardest.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/08/2025 6:50 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
A magnetic storm began on Earth on the morning of July 7
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.


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