[ABC] BARTOW, Fla. ‐ Police say two middle school girls, who worship Satan, armed themselves with knives in a foiled plot to violently kill classmates and drink their blood at school on Tuesday.
The 6th and 7th-grade girls attend Bartow Middle School, police say. At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Bartow Police School Resource Officer assigned to the school was summoned to the principal's office in reference to an armed juvenile complaint.
The investigation revealed that the students armed themselves with knives, and planned on attacking fellow students during the school day.
The final report as of 10:09 ET last night, giving us a place to add today’s revelations, which hopefully will include the identity and purpose of the miscreant. Yesterday’s post on the George Soros bomb can be seen here; the post on the rest of the bombs found yesterday can be seen here.
[WSJ] Devices are similar to one found Monday in the mailbox of philanthropist George Soros’s New York home.
Federal officials later found similarly packaged explosives addressed to Mr. Obama’s Washington, D.C., residence and sent to CNN’s headquarters and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Florida office. Two suspicious packages addressed to Rep. Maxine Waters of California were also intercepted.
Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a photo of one of the packages, saying they were mailed in envelopes with a Bubble Wrap interior. Computer-printed address labels and six U.S. Postal Service stamps, some depicting the U.S. flag, were affixed to the front. All had a return address for “Debbie Wasserman Shultz,” with her last name misspelled.
Investigators believe the packages came from the same individual or individuals, officials said. As of Wednesday evening, law-enforcement officials said they hadn’t identified any suspects. A federal official described all the devices—none of which exploded—as “very similar in style,” potentially effective but “not sophisticated.”
The packages were similar to one found Monday in the mailbox of the Westchester County, N.Y., home of billionaire philanthropist George Soros, a prominent liberal donor, officials said. Authorities detonated that device and the evidence was sent to an FBI laboratory in Virginia, where all the devices are being analyzed.
The string of mail bombs led to tightened security around Washington, D.C., and New York City. It also drew widespread condemnation from both political parties two weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
The Secret Service said it had initiated a criminal investigation into the packages sent to Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton, both of whom receive Secret Service protection. Mr. Obama is protected as a former president, and Mrs. Clinton remains under protection as a former first lady.
Bombing incidents remain relatively uncommon in the U.S. falling 24% to 335 incidents last year from the year before, according to federal data.
The FBI said it was working with other law enforcement agencies. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has technical expertise on such matters, is also part of the investigation as is the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
On Tuesday night, the Secret Service recovered a single package containing an explosive device at a checkpoint outside the Chappaqua, N.Y., home of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The package was addressed to her, according to the Secret Service.
Secret Service agents then discovered another package addressed to Mr. Obama early Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
Both packages were identified during mail-screen procedures, and neither reached Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton.
The New York Police Department then warned businesses, urging security and mailroom staff to be on the lookout for suspicious packages, according to a senior law-enforcement official. The NYPD said that the suspicious packages might contain protruding wires, excessive or missing postage stamps, strange odors and oily stains on wrappers.
NYPD officials were in the CNN mailroom in Manhattan’s Time Warner Center advising staff on the warning signs when they found a package addressed to John Brennan, director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Mr. Obama. The package contained a pipe-bomb and white powder, according to Police Commissioner James O’Neill.
It wasn’t clear why the device found at CNN was addressed to Mr. Brennan.
Wednesday morning, bomb squads were dispatched to the Sunrise, Fla., office of Ms. Wasserman Schultz, a former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. A pipe bomb was found there in a package addressed to former Attorney General Eric Holder, who worked for the Obama administration, the FBI said.
The package didn’t reach its intended address, and was rerouted to Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s office, which was given as the return address, the FBI said.
A suspicious package intended for Ms. Waters in Washington was intercepted at a congressional mail facility in Maryland, the lawmaker said Wednesday. The FBI later confirmed it was also investigating a second package addressed to the lawmaker.
The Telegraph is liveblogging events here.
Update at 10:00a.m. EDT: My apologies — they were only liveblogging yesterday. Today they report only an article from noon Greenwich time reporting that former vice president Joe Biden and Robert DeNiro’s New York city restaurant were sent bombs.
The Daily Mail started a new article on the story last night at 9:23 EDT:
Delaware police conduct sweep of Biden's 7,000 square foot home in Greenville
Authorities believe that the package may still be in the mail system because it was misaddressed
Meanwhile, a second suspicious package was sent to California Rep. Waters
The package forced the evacuation of a mall outside Los Angeles
The crude devices were made of PVC tubing attached to a digital clock available for purchase on Amazon and included sulfur as explosives and shards of glass as shrapnel
This is a boom, not boom, update. Adam Housley says a federal official told him the bombs were complete fakes.
From fed source: “complete hoaxes” multiple wires when they only needed one. Reports of cell phones being involved was false. So no intention of harm. Now the questions. Dry run, or a false flag from the right or left trying to mess over the other side?
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) October 24, 2018
Wow. That would be a huge.
Now, we have to be careful because this is complete contradiction to what was reported before:
Packages to Soros, Obamas, Clintons, Brennan c/o CNN, Holder -- these devices, per law enforcement sources, were rudimentary but functional.
Meaning the intent here was mass murder.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 24, 2018
Breaking: FBI says explosive devices “rudimentary but functional”, at least one included projectiles.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) October 24, 2018
We should know pretty soon if they were real or not, which would make a big difference as to motivation, and what the attacks mean for the election….
[H/T: Crazy Korean lady on the podcast]
UPDATE: Just to be clear, I changed the headline to reporter, because Adam Housley is a former Fox News reporter, not a current one. I apologize for the mistake.
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Gosh, such convenient timing. The Democrats really have nothing, don't they? Resorting to this kind of "Reichstag fire" tactics. False flags are all they've got.
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detail left out of the WSJ account was that Governor Cuomo of NY implied that he had been a bomb addressee but it was just a thumb drive containing .pdf files
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As soon as it comes out they were sent by a muslim or nazicrat, all this goes down the hole with all the other 'inconvenient truth'
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Noting that "first reports are always wrong", some stories are indicating that these "bombs" were more like Hollywood movie props. False flag? Maybe. Nutcase? For sure.
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So it HAS occurred to several people besides myself that these "bombs" addressed to Donks are probably Donks initiated. In other words these phony baloney bombs which were packed with flour or sugar and never meant to go off ( none of them did ) were actually Democratic Party in origin sent to themselves ( quite safe and loaded with nothing more dangerous than toothpaste.) Pipe bombs at their most incompetent . no boom boom and did they even HAVE detonators to explode their funny fantasy bogus look at me democrat gizzards?
If you thought the Donks were google eyes oogity boogity with frustration and hatred ...this is a big serving with a bent spoon.
2016 Trump craziness second act while the Donks "bomb" themselves with pancake mix. And CNN j'accuses its own butt
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Next time I hear someone call a bomb a"device"...
There are so many stupid or deliberate mistakes, I'm up in the air. Because none of the bombs went off (dummy bombs) must be false flag or threats.
If they don't find the sender rather quickly or at all, now that will be telling. That is, simpleton, clever faker, maybe pro? If more don't turn up today I'm guessing one of the later two.
"They are also commonly used by special effects artists, filmmakers, and pyrotechnicians, given their spectacular appearance and ability to be safely contained under certain carefully controlled conditions."
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I bet they have their canned goods all ready go to go. They'll find him, and he'll conveniently commit suicide or die in 'crossfire' and then the whole thing will be pinned on him. Like Oswald.
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Could be Donk designed to stir up the Donk base just prior to a critical election?
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Some sources are reporting the Soros and CNN-NY devices were "hand delivered". I never knew NYC was such a hotbed of right-wing bombmaking terrorists.
Put this one on the False-Flag side of the ledger.
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October surprise. This stinks of media and Democrat collusion to influence this election.All bombs found. No bombs exploded. Insufficient postage.Weight at least was tip off. No stamp from postal service. The FBI could have colluded as well. This is a manufactured fake news event.
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The methods and timing of this is what first aroused my suspicions.
If the devices are all as shown in the Daily Mail photos:
BIG white lumpy envelope (instead of box) with huge address lettering (subtlety is not our friend, apparently). No stamp cancellations, unless scrubbed for security, shown in published photos (may have been hand-delivered somehow, but why put 3-bucks worth of stamps on them then? Maybe to fool the Mail Rooms?).
Using an $12 4-digit LCD timer (better than a blinking Red LED, so there's that) although the black electrical tape does give it a nice 'homegrown' appearance. Why spend the money on a LCD? A blank 555 chip/board would be cheaper, smaller and less obvious as to when it would time out.
Then there's a problem with the detonator battery (unless it's a 2nd item stuck inside the pipe itself). The nano-battery(s) in the timer wouldn't have enough juice to trigger a b-cap, 2301 Igniter, or even a short piece of nichrome wire, unless I'm unaware of some new nano-amp firing method. Cellphone batteries would have enough juice, but they'd be way too big for the timer in the photo. CR2032 or CR2430 might be enough if 'stacked', but then almost larger than timer.
And that they were delivered seemingly simultaneously. One (or even handful of) nutjob couldn't do this. Very coordinated.
The fact that none of these went off is sort of telling, too. Found right away, like someone almost knew where to look for them.
Then there's the '2-week prior' timing of this......
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Real or not, I cant imagine the DNC being this stupid. I am certain we will find some far left fringe group that did this as a false flag. If the far right fringe did it, they would have exploded, the militias know how to make pipe bombs. The left will ride it for all its worth, but the crackpot that did this will be found, hopefully before the elections, and Just as the DC shooter was found, they will be leftists.
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So Debbie Wasserman Schultz can't even spell her own name correctly?
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Ahmed the Clock Boy is doing Grad Studies work
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It started with Soros - could he have sourced a false flag? I would not put him past it, he has organized people to do things like tank currencies, etc. before. Awfully convenient that these were delivered all over the place on the exact same day and that at least 2 of them in NYC were hand delivered.
So its either a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that is competent enough to do a time-on-target but not competent enough to build a decent explosive device or package the bomb, or even get the postage right... Or someone out there is trying awfully hard to make it look like there is one.
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Looking more and more like a false flag. I suspect it is some hard core demoncrat that wants to make it look like Trumpkins are trying to kill all of the left's leadership and spokespeople. Doubt this is a full hoax effort by the official left.
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My $0.02 is on it being either a local florida 'reporter' who moonlights as a democrat operative or a local democrat party guy who is tied to some of these Democrat led domestic terror groups like Southern poverty law center or antifa or something. And they will have 'taken' their own life as the FBI closes in. Ie, found dead with two 'self inflicted' gunshots to the head.
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My $0.02 is on it being either a local florida 'reporter' who moonlights as a democrat operative or a local democrat party guy who is tied to some of these Democrat led domestic terror groups like Southern poverty law center or antifa or something. And they will have 'taken' their own life as the FBI closes in. Ie, found dead with two 'self inflicted' gunshots to the head.
[DFP] CAMARILLO, Calif., A World War II-era plane crash landed on a Southern California highway Tuesday afternoon but the pilot was able to walk away, authorities said.
The Los Angeles County Fire Department was notified at 1:48 p.m. PDT about the plane along the northbound lanes of Highway 101 near the Liberty Canyon Road exit in Agoura Hills.
Crews arrived to find the plane on fire, billowing smoke. The fire was put out by 2:14 p.m., fire officials said. The pilot was removed uninjured, they said.
The crash landing clogged traffic in the region during busy commuter hours.
Allen Kenitzer, a spokesman with the Federal Aviation Administration, said the agency had been notified of the crash and that the FAA and National Transportation Safety Board were going to investigate. Aside from the plane's model and the substantial damage it sustained, little was known so far about the incident.
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The plane was painted with World War II-era German air force markings, Rushing said. He said the plane that crashed was a North American AT-6. The squadron performs mock dogfights for air shows.
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Man, these things crash all the friggen time. And this is supposedly one of the safe and easy to fly ones. They always manage to find a way to clog a busy highway, too.
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Commuting with a Messerschmidt is so 1940s...
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[ABC News] CAMERON, N.C. (WTVD) -- A C-17 military plane dropped a Humvee prematurely over a neighborhood in Harnett County Wednesday afternoon, Fort Bragg officials confirmed.
No one was injured.
The neighborhood is in the town of Cameron. This incident occurred around 1 p.m. during a training exercise.
"A load of some kind was released early and we're looking into how it happened," said Michael Novogradac, a spokesman for the USArmy's Operational Test Command.
The C-17 aircraft carries supplies and equipment into war zones and, on Wednesday, the special operations team was practicing that type of scenario when the accident happened.
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What's the drift range for a heavy static drop?
I was beyond terrible at airspeed, wind drift, pallet weight and forward throw drop zone calculations. From 1500 feet however, probably not very damn much.
My guess (and only a guess) is that it was a Computerized Air Release Point (CARP) drop. Wrong data in....
[MiamiHerald] A political action committee launched by parents of Parkland students is scaling back its 2018 midterm plans in the wake of disappointing fund raising totals.
The group, Families vs. Assault Rifles, was launched in May by Jeffrey Kasky and Sergio Rozenblat, the parents of students who survived the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
The pair worked with Matt Gohd, the group’s California-based executive director, who said he was inspired by the shooting to become more involved politically.
“I have a teenage daughter, I wanted to feel like I had done everything I could to make sure this didn’t happen again,” Gohd said. More at the link
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We should never, ever have been there in the first place. Nobody asked us, all we did is become another faction in tribal politics, and the famine was already over by the time we arrived.
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Amen, Herb...
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Herb - just set it as a Macro
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Herb certainly nails it about Somalia, and most of the other foreign engagements we've been involved in since the end of WWII as well. Globalism is absolute bullshit !
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I was watching TV news well before we went there. It was 'You to do something about this' coverage of the famine in Somalia. Manipulation, pure and simple. Great for ratings. They played the idiots in the Beltway as usual. I said then, they want us to get in there and then turn on us when we do. Soldiers got killed for nothing, but for the 'evening news'.
By law (Nichols-Goldwater Act) the Task Force was suppose to be under the senior military commander on the ground. That would have been the 10th Mtn Div commander, but instead the Delta People didn't operate that way. That left the 10th no opportunity to have a standby force ready when crap hit the fan. The only standby force were Paks who were UN and not necessarily there for their skill and proficiency.
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Dipshit Bill Clinton refused to let our troops have armor deeming it, to provocative. Bizzare day when our troops got rescued by Paki armor.
Then there was the White House announcing when and where the SEALS were landing. The Time photo of SEALs at night, crawling up in the surf, surrounded by reporters. The look on their faces was one big WTF.
Anyways Mogadishu and been moved to Minneapolis and all of Hennepin county.
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Bill Clinton refused to let our troops have armor deeming it, to provocative.
Mark Bowden's book, "Black Hawk Down", goes into some detail about the stupidity and cascading fuckupedness of the whole situation. He also makes the unrecognized point that a small group of US soldiers stood off an entire city of full of armed crazies. A very readable book.
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P2K, generally speaking your right. But in this instance their command structure was higher than 10th Mountain. 10th should have been subordinate to the TF. Even so, the SOCOM TF supports the AOR commander, but does not report to him. The TF commander is required to deconflict operations, which he did. He is under zero requirement to share any mission planning or execution. If we remember in the late 80's and early 90's conventional forced did not know how to work with SOF and did not want them in their AOR, Desert Storm is a great example of a 4 star not wanting SOF and then realizing he had to have it, and not control it. Times have changed and conventional forces commander have a better understanding of how the SOF missions work and who is pulling the trigger on approvals for those missions.
I hear all the time we did not need to be there. I think this crowd gets it, but that usually implies the guys got what they deserved for being there. These guy at TF Ranger went where the president directed them, they executed the presidential directives, its not their call if the war is just or not.
Lastly, what got them in trouble is they used the same approach, departure, and execution templates. That made their actions predictive. A mistake that will never happen again in SOF.
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On hand-held, btwn reps on the tri-press. I blame SOF cockups like Mog on their country-team lip lock. There, I said it.
No, we don't work for CENTCOM, ARCENT, AFRICOM. Our C-2 comes from elsewhere. We've got a unique mission from 'downtown.' We've been doing it for 18+ years.... and as you can see, we know WTF we're doing. So scram !
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The way I understand it is GHW Bush got us in there, he sent a lot of Marines and troops with a simple mission to distribute food. MIssion somewhat accomplished most were sent home.
Then Clinton became President and with fewer military on the ground he increased the tempo and aggressiveness of their actions which eventually led to the Blackhawk Down incident.
[PULSE.NG] A middle aged man, identified as Lawan Faro, has threatened to jump down a billboard hanger within 12 hours if President Muhammadu Buhari does not resign.
Faro made the vow in Yola, Adamawa state capital, and disclosed that his action was necessitated by the extreme poverty in the country.
According to Sahara news hounds, the Adamawa State indigene threatened to fall off after 12 hours if PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, does not show up to assure him of taking over President Buhari's seat after the 2019 presidential election.
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And I should be feeling what exactly in this scene Mr DeMille?
[An Nahar] Sugar: it's so quintessentially Cuban that even a young, machete-wielding Fidel Castro used to hack away at the cane stalks vital to the Caribbean island's economy.
Now, the long-time world leader in sugar production is importing the stuff for the first time, and in large amounts, from La Belle France after another bad harvest.
Sugar used to account for the vast majority of Cuba's exports. But the fall of its big brother, the Soviet Union -- a key, hungry customer -- changed everything, as did a lack of investment in seeds, fertilizer and pesticides.
To wit: in the early 1990s, Cuba produced about eight million tons of sugar a year. A decade later, it stopped reaching two million a year.
Back then, sugar accounted for almost 75 percent of Cuban exports. In 2015, it was only 13 percent, with other products like nickel and tobacco making up some of the difference.
The 2017-2018 harvest suffered badly after Hurricane Irma ravaged the country, followed by a long rainy season.
So Cuba is importing sugar from La Belle France.
- WHITER SUGAR - On the island, residents quickly caught wind of the somewhat counter-intuitive development.
Here, sugar from cane tends to be brownish. But the French version comes from beets so it is whiter, and the granules are finer. And that is what Cubans started receiving with their "libreta" -- their ration book.
"The sugar we get now is very good. It is very sweet, not very different. The only difference is the color," said Felicia Navarro, a 40-year-old homemaker.
The French government farm and seafood export agency La Belle FranceAgriMer said that from 2001 to 2017, Cuba had imported just three tons of sugar from La Belle France.
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#AlwaysFail. When Communists/Socialists take over the Sahara, you'll suddenly see a shortage of sand
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Interesting. For some reason, all sweeteners are not equal. Beet sugar and high fructose corn syrup are metabolized differently than sugar cane. I predict an uptick in illegal kidney trafficking and diabetes. Substituting artificial sweeteners will then ensure neuropathy and gangrene. The only Cubans left will be in Miami, offering prime real estate in the Caribbean. Gitmo expansion?
[Wash Examiner] The Interior Department on Wednesday approved what would be the first oil and gas production facility in federal waters off the coast of Alaska, part of the Trump administration’s effort to expand where the U.S. produces fossil fuels.
Energy company Hilcorp proposes to build a nine-acre artificial gravel island in shallow waters of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean, calling it the Liberty Project. The project would be near four other oil and gas producing artificial islands in waters that the state controls.
"Responsibly developing our resources, in Alaska especially, will allow us to use our energy diplomatically to aid our allies and check our adversaries," Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said. "That makes America stronger and more influential around the globe."
Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued conditional approval for the project after evaluating the potential environmental impacts, and incorporating input from the public, and from North Slope communities and tribes. Hilcorp still must obtain other permits from local, state, and federal agencies before moving forward with construction, development, and production, according to Guy Hayes, a BOEM spokesman.
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...And yet, not a sound in the media. Lots of stuff about bombs and a terrorist/terrorist sympathiser who may have met a fitting end, but nothing on this.
Mike
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Mike, does that comment belong in a different thread? Because I don’t understand how it fits here.
[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] US firms nationwide complain trade disputes with China and others are boosting the prices of key inputs, while they continue to face widespread labor shortages, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
The ongoing difficulty in filling open positions at all skill levels and in every region is delaying projects and pressuring firms to raise wages or benefits ‐ or even employ robots to ramp up production ‐ according to the Fed’s latest "beige book" survey of the economy.
While the reports from the Fed’s regional banks reflected a healthy US economy, with "modest to moderate growth," President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s aggressive tariff strategy, which has drawn retaliation from trading partners, is potentially adding fuel to inflation.
The central bank is watching price pressures closely to gauge how fast and how far to raise the benchmark lending rate, to allow the economy to continue to grow without an acceleration of inflation.
The Fed has raised the key interest rate three times this year and is widely expected to increase by another 0.25 percentage points in December.
"Manufacturers reported raising prices of finished goods out of necessity as costs of raw materials such as metals rose, which they attributed to tariffs," the Fed report said.
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Is the headline suggesting the labor shortages are related to the tariffs? No one would be dumb enough to believe that. Right? I mean, excepting Alexandria O-C.
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The last big hand-wringing over the economy as all about flat wages and people dropping out of the workforce. Now it's labor shortages and rising wages due to demand for workers. But that's OK, it's still a crisis, right?
[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: A senior clerk from the Central Jail Adiala, who claimed that grocery items brought for prisoners were being sold in the market, has filed a complaint with the city police officer (CPO).
Javaid Iqbal said in his complaint that he intercepted a van loaded with rice, ghee and pulses at Gate No.5 of Adiala jail Monday night. The good were being transported from the jail store to a private go-down located opposite the jail’s gate, he added.
He claimed the transportation of the goods could be seen on CCTV and in a video circulated on social media.
He added that he was followed by individuals in a white car on his way home, and took refuge in the jail colony house. He said two hours later, the owner of the go-down and two others came to his home and tried to arrest him.
He said that when he saw the go-down owner, he left his home and spent the night in an under-construction house on the jail premises.
In his complaint, he said he was being victimised for unearthing the theft of grocery items brought for prisoners.
After the incident came to light, the Inspector General Prisons Shahid Saleem Baig ordered an inquiry and deputed the DIG Rawalpindi to report within three days.
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[Al Jazeera] Israeli police broke up a sit-in by Coptic monks at a major Christian holy site in Jerusalem as they were protesting against restoration work at a nearby monastery claimed by their sect.
Scuffles broke out on Wednesday between police and priests in the forecourt of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.
"The police attacked us and forced us to leave the area," Coptic Orthodox Church front man Father Markos Al Orshalimy told AFP news agency, following the protest in front of the holy site.
Al Orshalimy said several monks had been lightly injured, while one was placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! and later released after the Egyptian embassy intervened.
Images on social media showed coppers holding a monk down on the ground, then carrying him away in handcuffs.
Tempest in a teapot — the various Christian sects have been fighting each other tooth and nail over control of the structure of the place since Byzantine times, which is why the keys to the church have been held by two Muslim families for 850 years. Since 1948 they’ve got to fight against the Jews as well.
[IsraelTime] Cairo’s embassy in Tel Aviv intervenes after Coptic monk arrested while protesting contested restoration work at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, located in Jerusalem’s Old City, is shared by several Christian denominations. A long-standing status quo governs the sects’ ownership and management of the holy site. Each group is fiercely protective of its territory, and even perceived alterations to the status quo have resulted in arguments or violence.
The Copts were protesting the start of restoration work by the Israel Antiquities Authority at the St. Michael the Archangel Chapel, which both the Ethiopian and Egyptian Orthodox churches claim.
The antiquities authority was to perform repairs after a stone fell out of place in the chapel in September 2017.
On Wednesday, police said priests blocked the entrance and barred the workers’ entry, and officers were forced to remove the monks who were blocking workers from accessing the building site.
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[Guardian] The Lasershow Spectacular (™) is a celebration of brand America. Its huge 3D video projection ("taller than the Statue of Liberty!") pulls out all the stops ‐ depicting patriotic icons from bald eagles to Mickey Mouse to towering letters spelling U-S-A, with lots of fiery explosions and a rousing musical score with at least eight separate key changes. The official website boasts that "the Lasershow is now so spectacular, the FAA must be consulted to ensure airplanes don’t become blinded by lasers."
Families visiting the park, which is Georgia’s most popular tourist attraction, come here to picnic on the grand lawn and gaze up at the show, which is projected directly on to Stone Mountain’s Confederate monument. The show ends with the three sculptures of the Confederate leaders ‐ Generals Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Confederate president Jefferson Davis ‐ coming to life and "riding off" into the evening sky.
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.
[Wash Examiner] The Interior Department on Wednesday approved what would be the first oil and gas production facility in federal waters off the coast of Alaska, part of the Trump administration’s effort to expand where the U.S. produces fossil fuels.
[Guardian] The Lasershow Spectacular (™) is a celebration of brand America. Its huge 3D video projection ("taller than the Statue of Liberty!") pulls out all the stops ‐ depicting patriotic icons from bald eagles to Mickey Mouse to towering letters spelling U-S-A, with lots of fiery explosions and a rousing musical score with at least eight separate key changes. The official website boasts that "the Lasershow is now so spectacular, the FAA must be consulted to ensure airplanes don’t become blinded by lasers."
