[FoxNews] Darryl Stevens' home surveillance camera captured the moment a machete-wielding intruder approached the family's Liberty Hill home just north of Austin.
"At that moment, I obviously freaked out. I have two young children here in the house and just went into complete fight or flight mode," Stevens told FOX 7.
"I started running through the house. I locked every door as fast as possible, ran upstairs. Luckily, I had a firearm here, so I grabbed my 9mm, unlocked it, ran down as fast as possible," Stevens said.
The suspect, later identified as 43-year-old Jerry Escamilla, managed to climb a fence and get to the upper deck of the family's home.
He was greeted by Stevens' handgun when he arrived.
"Told him he's got to leave, or he's going to lose his life, you know?" he said. "Luckily, after I did that, he dropped the machete."
Stevens' wife called 911 and local police arrested Escamilla. The 43-year-old was charged with criminal trespassing and failure to identify and is being held on a $10,000 bond.
That's what the 9mm is for. It tilts the odds in favor of the house.
The lucky part is the perp left and didn't bleed all over the rug. Getting blood out of a carpet is a bitch, especially if has soaked into the padding. So they tell me, I mean. Plus the forensics guys spray Luminol like it was holy water.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …own floors and deal with cockroach infestation
A school district in San Francisco with significant attainment gaps has splurged $315,000 on an 'energy healer' who uses 'chakra clearing' while teachers have to sweep their own floors and face a nasty cockroach infestation.
A group of parents recently uncovered that Mountain View Whisman School District has been paying 'Master Energy Healer & Intuitive Guide' Alycia Diggs-Chavis to conduct 160 guided meditation sessions for the district's leadership team, the SF Chronicle reported. While her zen sessions have brought 'increased ability to focus, higher levels of engagement, and enhanced productivity and efficiency' to administrators, both parents and the 4,500 students have been left to fend for themselves. Frustrated parents also found that the district - run by Superintendent Ayindé Rudolph - has been paying a public relations firm and executive coach to guide staff.
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Meanwhile, a former teacher said the district never splashed out cash on them, leaving her to become a custodian for her own bug-infested classroom while administrators were excused for the day to attend their funded programs.
...there are alternatives. Of course it might eat into DEI indoctrination time.
[FE] The Korean Demilitarized Zone [DMZ] is one of the most heavily fortified and dangerous borders in the world. It has acted as a buffer zone between North and South Korea, and also become an unexpected haven for pheasants and greenheads. Sharing the 2.5-mile-wide strip of land that runs along the 38th Parallel for 160 miles with the U.S servicemen are a plethora of quail, snipe, and other waterfowl. Since 1945, the heavily embattled area has been in a constant state of alertness as danger levels fluctuate based on geopolitical events and tensions that arise between the two countries.
The history of hunting in this paradoxical region, particularly during and after the Korean War, highlights the resilience and adaptability of military personnel in finding ways to engage in recreational activities amidst tense and dangerous environments. As such, servicemen took advantage of the excellent hunting grounds for sanctioned and unsanctioned hunting throughout the area.
In a January 25, 1951 letter from a young U.S. Marine stationed at Pohang, Korea, the Devil Dog wrote home to his family telling them, "One of our Sgt’s went pheasant hunting. The platoon is hopeful that he returns with several, as we are ready with a frying pan, butter, grease as the chow has become rather monotonous."
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[Regnum] An evacuation has been announced in the Icelandic city of Grindavik due to a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. This was reported on August 23 by the state broadcaster RUV, citing the Icelandic Meteorological Centre.
The eruption of the Sundhnukur volcano began on August 22 at 21:26 local time (August 23 at 00:26 Moscow time). Eleven minutes later, the authorities declared a state of emergency. By now, all people have been evacuated from the dangerous area.
The height of the volcanic emissions reached four kilometers. In an hour and a half, the lava moved about 1.2 kilometers to the south, toward the town of Grindavik. Professor of geophysics Magnus Gudmundsson, who surveyed Sundhnukur by helicopter, suggested that there would not be a strong lava flow in Grindavik, which scientists feared. Experts continue to monitor the volcano.
There are a total of 33 active volcanic systems on the peninsula. It is noted that an eruption of similar power was last observed in December 2023. And the last eruption of the volcano was recorded in May 2024. The Sundhnukur volcano has erupted for the seventh time since 2021, when it woke up after an 800-year "hibernation".
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that a small amount of ashfall from the Shiveluch volcano erupting in Kamchatka was recorded on August 18 in two populated areas of the region. A small amount of volcanic ash fell in the villages of Ust-Kamchatsk and Krutoberegovo in the Ust-Kamchatsky District. The Shiveluch volcano has been assigned an orange aviation hazard code, and lava is being squeezed out
At the end of July, the Bezymyanny volcano in Kamchatka ejected a column of ash to a height of 12 kilometers, the plume stretched for 300 kilometers. Due to the explosive eruption of the volcano, the tourist route "Around the Tolbachiks" in the Klyuchevsky Nature Park was closed. In the coming month, volcanologists expect a powerful eruption of the Bezymyanny volcano with an ash emission to a height of six to 15 kilometers above sea level.
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Where are all the "we're going to die" Karens. This is putting a lot crap into the atmosphere. This should be scare headline material for eco-terrorists.
[FoxNews] An attempt to use an extendable robot to remove a fragment of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was suspended Thursday due to a technical issue.
The collection of a tiny sample of the debris inside the Unit 2 reactor’s primary containment vessel would start the fuel debris removal phase, the most challenging part of the decades-long decommissioning of the plant where three reactors were destroyed in the March 11, 2011, magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
The work was stopped when workers noticed that five 1.5-meter (5-foot) pipes used to maneuver the robot were placed in the wrong order and could not be corrected within the time limit for their radiation exposure, the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said.
The pipes were to be used to push the robot inside and pull it back out when it finished. Once inside the vessel, the robot is operated remotely from a safer location.
[Guardian] Hours after being endorsed by the third-party candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump said he would release "all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of John F Kennedy" if he were elected president in November, as part of a proposed new commission on presidential assassination attempts, including the one that targeted him.
Speaking at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, Trump also pledged that, if elected, he would "establish a panel of top experts" that would work with Kennedy, a prominent anti-vaccine advocate, to investigate childhood health problems. The 13 July assassination attempt on Trump is already being officially investigated, including by the Secret Service and the FBI.
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I suspect that will be a Fort Sumter moment. They might was well go full coup and see how long they can hold on. Think the lock down, but without end, no electricity or gas, and interstate transportation basically truncated. Local sheriffs aren't going to help and the National Guard is still made up of citizens. IIRC Mao correctly - he who controls the countryside controls the cities.
[Epoch Times] Spike protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, potentially promotes cancer by interfering with anti-cancer activities, according to a recent peer-reviewed study from Brown University. The article was first published as a preprint on April 15; the peer-reviewed version was published on May 3.
The study authors, led by Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, director of the Cancer Center at Brown University, exposed cancer cells to spike protein subunits. They found that the spike subunits may promote cancer survival and growth by blocking a cancer suppressor gene known as p53.
Dr. El-Deiry’s study was designed to test whether the SARS-CoV-2 virus or its viral subunits could promote cancer activities.
However, the study further implied that SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics like the COVID-19 mRNA and protein vaccines may yield similar effects.
"Our goal was to study spike protein regardless of its origin," Dr. El-Deiry told The Epoch Times. "We focused on spike that may come from infection or any other way it can be expressed in human cells... this would also apply to vaccine-made spike."
Dr. El-Deiry was careful to highlight the many limitations of his study, including that it was a simple cell culture study. Additionally, with differing spike variations in the different viral strains and vaccines, the health consequences they may have require more research. But of course!
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Grant hunting by trying to hitch to the currently top issue - in the 90es, you didn't see a paper on immunology that didn't mention a "possible connection" to HIV.
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OTOH - it does explain turbo-cancer. My wife's cancer was under control until she had two Covid shots. Then her tumor markers skyrocketed within a couple of months.
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I can imagine how wonderful Mrs. Mercutio was, my dear, just from knowing you. May your memories bring you comfort, and may her spirit rest in your heart always.
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Very sorry to hear that Mercutio. I regret getting the damn jabs for my work and that my wife did as well, but I absolutely refused to let the kids get them. I hope 1000 plagues of doom infect Fauci.
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
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An attempt to use an extendable robot to remove a fragment of melted fuel from a wrecked reactor at Japan’s tsunami-hit 
The study authors, led by Dr. Wafik El-Deiry, director of the Cancer Center at Brown University, exposed cancer cells to spike protein subunits. They found that the spike subunits may promote cancer survival and growth by blocking a cancer suppressor gene known as p53.
