[NY Daily News] TUMWATER, Wash. ‐ A gunman injured a teen and shot a man in a pair of carjacking attempts Sunday, before being killed by a bystander outside a Washington state Walmart store.
The incident at the Walmart in Tumwater happened about 5 p.m.
A witness told KOMO-TV that people were in line when they heard gunfire in the store. Witnesses told other media that they were inside the store and heard shots.
Tumwater Police Department spokeswoman Laura Wohl said it is unclear whether the gunman was ever inside the store or if shots were fired inside, The Olympian reported.
Wohl said a man was shot when the gunman tried to carjack his vehicle.
Two bystanders outside the store drew their weapons and at least one of them fatally shot the gunman, Wohl told the Olympian.
The carjacking victim was flown by helicopter to a hospital, she said.
The Art All Night Trenton shooting isn’t of much interest to the majority of the press because it includes all the wrong sort of people for a hot story with a political hook. First of all, pretty much everyone involved with the shooting was black. There were rival gangs mixing it up at the festival. The cops even knew about it in advance because people were tipping them off about the gang presence. They had come and told the festival organizers they should shut down early because trouble was brewing. The organizers were in the process of doing that when the fireworks started.
The one shooter who is currently at room temperature, 33-year-old Tahaij Wells, had been out of prison on parole for all of four months for a previous murder. There were "multiple" gangs involved. The weapons of choice were almost entirely handguns so there was no chance to rail against "assault rifles." (One suspect did have an extended magazine capable of holding more rounds than state law allows.) We’re not seeing any demands for information on the weapons used. Why? I’d like to know how many of those gang members were in possession of handguns they legally purchased after passing a background check. But nobody in the national press seems to be interested in telling that story either.
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[PAGESIX] Rapper XXXTentacion has been rubbed out. Who?
The Broward County, Florida Sherriff’s Office confirmed the 20-year-old’s death on Monday evening, tweeting: "The adult male that was taken to the hospital has been pronounced dead ... The adult male victim has been confirmed as 20 year old Jahseh Onfroy aka rapper #XXXTentacion." Apparently he was very talented. Ever know of anyone else who could grow asparagus on his head?
The rapper was shot outside a cycle of violence store in Deerfield Beach, Fla., just before 4.p.m. on Monday. He was transported to a local hospital. "Doctor Quincy to the white courtesy phone!"
He had been leaving a cycle of violence dealership in a car when someone ran up and shot him, according to TMZ. The website also reports that a Louis Vuitton bag was stolen from the vehicle. Came running up in his Sneakers of Violence and banged him, huh?
Around 4:30 p.m., the sherriff tweeted that cops were "currently working an incident regarding a shooting at 3671 N. Dixie Hwy., Deerfield Beach. PIO headed to scene. Dispatchers received a call of a shooting at 3:57 p.m. An adult male victim was transported to an area hospital." "Hop up on the stretcher, sonny!"
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"I'm dead! Do I look alive?"
"Now that you mention it, no. Yer asparagus is comin' in good though."
The slain rapper had an extensive legal history. At the time of his death he was awaiting trial for domestic violence against a pregnant ex-girlfriend. He was also facing witness harassment and tampering charges. Other than that, he was a pleasant enough fellow.
Despite the controversy, the rapper had developed a loyal following and his second album, "?," Pronounced "Huh?"
debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in March. The Mozart of our age Maybe the Palestrina, I dunno. I'm tryin' to be interested, but I just can't manage it.
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Broward County. Third world Democrat enclave. Kind of like Chicago, Afghanistan, Detroit, Mosul.
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But...but...he's living the dream! Imagine the street cred you get when one of the homies runs up and pops you in the head. He'll live in infamy and wifebeating annals forever now. I'm sure his Momma is proud.
[Guardian] It isn’t hard to see why Chisaki Okumura is one of Japan’s best female sumo wrestlers. Combining her considerable height and heft with flashes of speed, her practice bouts end with a succession of opponents thrown to the ground or shoved unceremoniously out of the ring.
On a humid, wet afternoon in central Japan, Okumura draws on her reserves of strength for a final, punishing series of drills with a male opponent. By the end, it is hard to tell who is more exhausted.
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Doesn't the left hate Russia for the attacks and attempt to dismember the Ukraine? Don't lefty groups dominate the governments of European states and other areas around the world?
What happened to the cries of boycott!!!! Guess that sort of thing doesn't fly when it's 'soccer'.
[NY Post] For video game addicts, it might be time to hit the restart button.
Compulsive game playing is now a mental health condition, the World Health Organization announced Monday in the latest edition of its disease classification manual.
The WHO defines a "gaming disorder" as having three major characteristics that experts say are similar to substance use disorders and gambling disorder.
"One is that the gaming behavior takes precedence over other activities to the extent that other activities are taken to the periphery," Dr. Vladimir Poznyak, of the WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, told CNN.
The other two are impaired control over gaming and continuation or an increase in gaming despite negative consequences like "disturbed sleep patterns, like diet problems, like a deficiency in the physical activity," Poznyak said.
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Everything is a mental disorder. Nobody is sane. Thus nobody can judge. Just let the gov make the hard decisions for you using your money and get back to work.
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"One is that the gaming behavior being an obnoxious killjoy takes precedence over other activities to the extent that other activities are taken to the periphery," Dr. Vladimir Poznyak,
FIFY. I knew a Perfessor that loved Italian Opera and thought popular music was mind destroying, go figure...
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I used to game a lot - DOOM & Unreal Tournament being the most favored online games. I quit soon after I bought the house and became self employed. You could say I quit gaming because of these additional responsibilities, or when I finally grew the fuck up. The WHO article is complete bullshit.
[BREITBART] Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire who earned his fortune in the biotech field, will officially take full control of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune on Monday when the $500 million sale is completed and Soon-Shiong becomes executive chairman of the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, News Group.
The deal, which was reported in February, will return the two historic publications back to local ownership after what the Times itself described on Saturday as "18 turbulent years under reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... control" (i.e. the Chicago-based Tribune Media Company).
Soon-Shiong also owns a 4.5% stake in the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. He also reportedly has a passion for seeing medical advancements, particularly in the area of cancer.
Soon-Shiong, 65, was born in South Africa and educated at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, at the time one of the finest medical schools in the world. He reportedly amassed his $7.5 billion fortune by building and then selling two biopharmaceutical companies, and has since then "been on a mission to personalize cancer treatment and develop vaccinations for deadly diseases."
Soon-Shiong penned a letter to the publications’ readers on Sunday in which he wrote that he is "honored and privileged to assume the mantle of these storied institutions of democracy. To me, this is the culmination of an immigrant’s American Dream."
He added:
I believe that fake news is the cancer of our times and social media the vehicles for metastasis. Institutions like The Times and the Union-Tribune are more vital than ever. They must be bastions of editorial integrity and independence if they are to protect our democracy and provide an antidote to disinformation. We will continue our papers’ dedication to truth, integrity, journalistic independence, and storytelling that engages, informs, educates and inspires with care and compassion.
Dr. Soon-Shiong’s entire letter to the public can be read here.
The Koch brothers were once said to be interested in purchasing the Times but were opposed by protests.
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Show that you mean what you say. Release the Khalidi tape.
[All Africa] Former president Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... is ready to endorse MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa ahead of the July 30 elections as prospects of him reconciling with his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa continue to diminish, it has been revealed.
According to multiple sources, Mugabe recently sent emissaries to Chamisa seeking dialogue ahead of the polls and indicated that he was willing to back the leading opposition candidate because he was not happy with the treatment he was receiving from Mnangagwa's government.
Mugabe revealed in March that he would back the National Patriotic Front (NPF), a party formed by former Zanu PF members who were not happy with the coup that toppled the 94-year-old ruler in November last year.
The NPF has been negotiating a coalition with the MDC Alliance, but the talks suffered a severe blow last week after the Chamisa- led group allegedly reneged on its promise to give the Mugabe-linked party a significant number of constituencies.
"Mugabe sent two prominent holy mans with a message that he was willing to assist Chamisa gain an electoral advantage over Mnangagwa in the forthcoming elections. He says he is prepared to endorse Chamisa," said a source. "He is mainly concerned about the future of his family and says he believes Chamisa has the potential to become the next president."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A royal order issued on Monday relieved Ahmed bin Aqeel al-Khatib from his position as the head of the Saudi General Authority for Entertainment.
Khatib was appointed the head of the authority in 2016 and was in charge of various entertainment events in Saudi Arabia.
The authority carried out 2,200 entertainment activities in 2017, and is aiming to organize 50,000 in 2018. Saudi Arabia will invest $64 billion in the entertainment sector in the next 10 years.
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[NYPOST] North and South Korea will march under a unified flag in the Asian Games and will play a basketball game next month as the relationship between the two countries continues to thaw, according to a report on Monday.
Athletes from the two rivals will compete as one team and march together under a "Korea" flag during the opening and closing ceremonies of the Asian Games in Indonesia from mid-August to early September ‐ just as they did at the Winter Olympic Games in Seoul, Rooters reported,
They will also play a basketball game in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, on July 4, which marks the anniversary of an agreement signed by the two countries in 1972 establishing the terms of unification.
Another hoops game is expected to be played in Seoul later in the year.
"We agreed to promote sports cooperation and exchanges including joint training and matches," the two Koreas said in a statement.
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[The Hill] President Trump on Monday said he is directing his top trade official to identify $200 billion more worth of Chinese goods that will be subject to tariffs, escalating the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and China.
Trump said Monday that China's decision to retaliate in kind against his first batch of $50 billion in tariffs ‐ announced on Friday ‐ required a U.S. response to encourage China to change its unfair practices.
"China apparently has no intention of changing its unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology," Trump said in a statement.
The president asked U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to find $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that would be hit with a 10 percent import tax.
#4
When Waltons say their last goodnights,
And Target, too, eludes our sights,
Then, "Dudes, we're doomed," the pundit writes,
"To mom and pop electrolytes!"
[DAWN] Imports of US aircraft helped push Japan to a trade deficit in May, official data showed on Monday, but experts said it was a temporary effect not linked to ongoing trade tensions.
Japan's imports rose 14.0 per cent in May from a year earlier, according to finance ministry data.
Exports also enjoyed an 8.0 percent rise but the overall effect was a net deficit of 578.3 billion yen ($5 billion). The deficit was nearly three times the size of the figure last year and came after two consecutive months of surplus.
"The deficit came from a surge in imports from the United States," said Takeshi Minami, chief economist at the Norinchukin Research Institute, noting a quadrupling of Japan's purchases of US aircraft.
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[The Hill] The Justice Department on Monday announced charges against a former CIA computer engineer for allegedly leaking top-secret information on U.S. government hacking tools to WikiLeaks.
In a 13-count superseding indictment, the agency charged Joshua Adam Schulte with illegally gathering classified national defense information and transmitting it to "an organization." WikiLeaks published the data in March of last year.
"Schulte utterly betrayed this nation and downright violated his victims," FBI official William Sweeney Jr. said in the release. "As an employee of the CIA, Schulte took an oath to protect this country, but he blatantly endangered it by the transmission of Classified Information."
Prosecutors identified Schulte as a suspect in the leak last month, but did not yet have sufficient evidence to bring charges.
The Justice Department did not name WikiLeaks in a press release about the indictment, but attorneys involved in a child pornography case involving Schulte revealed earlier this year that the 29-year-old was the focus of an investigation into WikiLeaks’ dispersal of classified CIA information.
Schulte is currently in custody on child pornography charges, and is suspected to be behind the leak of CIA information to WIkiLeaks known as "Vault 7," believed to be one of the largest unauthorized releases of CIA information in history.
The indictment also charges Schulte with lying to investigators, obstruction of justice, theft of government property and transmitting a harmful computer program.
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Remember when the CIA claimed Russian hacking due to finding "Russian" malware on infected systems? From Vault 7: CIA can customize the "fingerprints" hacks leave behind and make it look like someone else did it.
The evidence that we've seen for Russia hacking the DNC is this exact "Russian fingerprint" that we now know the CIA had the ability to implement in their hacks to hide their tracks. That fingerprint is now completely shoddy evidence. Not just because the CIA can put a Russian fingerprint on any hack, but because anyone else can too, because the CIA was so Clinton-esque with their security that all the "fingerprints" they collected were leaked to hackers and rogue agents.
So, essentially, any legitimate hacker nowadays could hack the DNC then put Russia's "fingerprint" on the hack. That fingerprint is evidence of absolutely nothing, thanks to these new leaks.
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation.
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/#EXAMPLES
Not surprised they planted CP on him.
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[DAWN] A man who allegedly shot and killed a woman in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... on June 9 for refusing a marriage proposal was remanded into police custody for four days.
Bus hostess Mahwish Arshad was shot and killed by Umer Daraz, a security guard working for the same company as her, allegedly for repeatedly refusing his marriage proposal.
Mahwish Arshad was shot and killed by Umer Daraz for repeatedly refusing his marriage proposal.
Police, in a first investigation report registered in the woman's father's name, said that Umer Daraz used to earlier work with 19-year-old Mahwish in a different travel company. According to the FIR, Umer Daraz pressured the bus hostess to marry him and the latter repeatedly refused the offer.
A video of Mahwish and Umer Daraz exchanging heated words in which the latter is seen forcefully gripping her wrists and trying to attack her during a bus ride made rounds on social media after the girl was shot and killed later that night.
In the video, Umer Daraz can be heard threatening Mahwish and saying, "You'll see what I would do when you get to the [bus] terminal."
A CCTV clip attached to the footage shows Mahwish climbing the steps of a building at what seems to be a deserted bus terminal when a man yanks her arm to turn her around.
Mahwish is seen trying to free herself from his clutches before she is shot and left bleeding at the steps.
According to the FIR, Mahwish's assailant expeditiously departed at a goodly pace and she lost her life while undergoing treatment at a local hospital after she was shifted there.
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[ArsTechnica] The US Air Force has kicked off the procurement for another round of wing replacements for A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, known affectionately by many as the Warthog. With new wings, the A-10s will help fill a gap left by the delayed volume delivery of F-35A fighters, which were intended to take over the A-10's close air support (CAS) role in "contested environments"‐places where enemy aircraft or modern air defenses would pose a threat to supporting aircraft. For now, the A-10 is being used largely in uncontested environments, where the greatest danger pilots face is small arms fire or possibly a Stinger-like man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) missile. But the Warthog is also being deployed to Eastern Europe as part of the NATO show of strength in response to Russia.
While the A-10 will keep flying through 2025 under current plans, Air Force leadership has perceived (or was perhaps convinced to see) a need for an aircraft that could take over the A-10's role in low-intensity and uncontested environments‐something relatively inexpensive and easy to maintain that could be flown from relatively unimproved airfields to conduct armed reconnaissance, interdiction, and close air support missions. The replacement would also double as advanced trainer aircraft for performing weapons qualifications and keeping pilots' flight-time numbers up.
So, last year the Air Force kicked off the Light Attack Experiment (OA-X), a four-aircraft competition to determine what would best fit that bill.
In the first phase, the Air Force tested four aircraft at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Three were turboprop aircraft already in the inventory of some US allies in some form: AirTractor and L3's AT-802L Longsword; Sierra Nevada and Embraer's A-29 Super Tucano; and Textron and AirLand LLC's Beechcraft AT-6B Wolverine. The fourth, the only jet aircraft in the group, was Textron and AirLand's Scorpion. Now, the Air Force has begun a second phase and has cut the field to two: the Beechcraft AT-6B Wolverine and the Embraer A-29 Super Tucano.
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Right. Cut out the jet-powered Scorpion and then kill the program because the F-35 (in low-intensity and uncontested environments‐something relatively inexpensive and easy to maintain that could be flown from relatively unimproved airfields to conduct armed reconnaissance, interdiction, and close air support missions) makes it unnecessary.
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Gimme some low-speed, heavily armored, Brrrrrrrt!
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The A-1D Spad2? Didn’t the Skyraider fit that bill rather nicely? I bet we have plans somewhere.
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Does anyone, anyone?, think the F-35 is going to operate under 10,000 feet in CAS? 'Drop One and Gone...' like the F-117 used to operate, maybe, but CAS...?
They will need to develop a fleet of Next-Gen Armored Drones for that.
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...Not one of these aircraft will survive for any useful amount of time over a battlefield against a peer adversary. They're really good against the Taliban and ISIS, but against people with radar,MANPADS, and even 60s era fighters they will be criminally useless. I truly hope somebody at USAF has the good sense to say so.
Mike
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What you've got going here is someone in five sided funny farm is trying to gin up the one thing that the A-10 lacks: procurement officers to fight for it. The A-10 is a done thing; there's no way for anyone to build a little empire in it's development. It's the same logic that has them building a new road rather than fix the potholes in the old one. It comes down to graft.
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The Air Farce just doesn't want to get their hands dirty with close air support or having to use one of those nasty old cannon to shoot down an aircraft.
To them war is a video game with pilots shooting down the enemy 50 miles away and playing solitaire on their flying iPhone on their way.
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The Air Farce just doesn't want to get their hands dirty with close air support or having to use one of those nasty old cannon to shoot down an aircraft.
And now the Navy wants to dump mobile theater missile defense on the Army without any additional resources. Maybe now is a time to revisit the whole DoD division of labor thingy.
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.
[PAGESIX] Rapper XXXTentacion has been 
[BREITBART] Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a billionaire who earned his fortune in the biotech field, will officially take full control of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune on Monday when the $500 million sale is completed and Soon-Shiong becomes executive chairman of the 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A royal order issued on Monday relieved Ahmed bin Aqeel al-Khatib from his position as the head of the Saudi General Authority for Entertainment.
North Korea
[DAWN] Imports of US aircraft helped push Japan to a trade deficit in May, official data showed on Monday, but experts said it was a temporary effect not linked to ongoing trade tensions.
[The Hill] The Justice Department on Monday announced charges against a former CIA computer engineer for allegedly leaking top-secret information on U.S. government hacking tools to WikiLeaks.
[DAWN] A man who allegedly shot and killed a woman in 
