[DAWN] Two male students armed with handguns burst into a Denver-area school and opened fire on Tuesday, killing one classmate and wounding eight before being taken into custody, law enforcement officials said. I saw another article saying that the juvenile is a girl who identifies as a boy.
That’s what Reuters says. Legally Maya Elizabeth McKinney, identifying as Alec McKinney. Said to have been bullied about it, while Mr. Erickson hated all the right things, as far as I can tell.
Two surviving victims of the attack at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) School in Highlands Ranch, a Denver suburb, remained at death's door, medical officials said. Others were stable or had been discharged from hospital.
An 18-year-old male was pronounced dead at the scene, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said a short time later. "Two individuals walked into the STEM school, got deep inside the school, and engaged students in two separate locations," Spurlock said.
He told Rooters in a brief interview that the suspects, each armed with a handgun, opened fire in two separate classrooms. Devon Erickson, 18, was named as one of the suspects, while the other was identified only as a juvenile. The school serves students from kindergarten through to 12th grade.
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Soon the Demos will announce bans on adolescents.
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Expect this story to be memory holed by the media. Christian and Trump hating guy, and a trans. Doesn't fit the narrative that only the right is violent.
[TAMPABAY] A judge has denied an effort to stop the scheduled May 23 execution of Bobby Joe Long, a Tampa Bay area killer who murdered eight women in the 1980s.
Hillsborough Circuit Judge Michelle Sisco issued an order Monday rejecting arguments from Long’s defense, including the contention that Florida’s lethal injection drugs might cause Long to have a seizure during the execution. Long, 65, suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy. One of the more absurd arguments ever made in court, I'd say...
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Tampa is a very gritty place. Some hard precincts there, some hard outcomes for people who live on the edge. Bobby Joe is getting off easy if he gets put to sleep.
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Florida’s lethal injection drugs might cause Long to have a seizure during the execution.
Sheesh. We're killing the guy for cripes sake. My only concerns are that the method is not unnecessarily cruel and doesn't make too big a mess.
Long's murder spree happened back in 1984, thirty some years ago. It's time to put this matter to rest.
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I'm sure that a day rental on a mulcher isn't too steep. Clean up before return might need a day though. Definitely going to need a Hotsy for that task.
[AOL] A Kentucky teenager who made headlines when he sued a local health department over its vaccination policy has now come down with chickenpox.
Jerome Kunkel, an 18-year-old student at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Assumption Academy who was banned from school and his basketball team for refusing the chickenpox vaccination, now has the easily-preventable disease, a lawyer for the teen confirmed to NBC News.
Kunkel, who opposes vaccines due to his religious beliefs, reportedly understood the risk and still does not regret the decision.
"These are deeply held religious beliefs, they're sincerely held beliefs," attorney Christopher Wiest told the outlet. "From [his family's] perspective, they always recognized they were running the risk of getting it, and they were OK with it."
Kunkel sued the Northern Kentucky Health Department in March after it ruled that all students at Sacred Heart Assumption Academy who hadn't been vaccinated against chickenpox could no longer come to classes amid an outbreak of the disease, which began in February and included 32 confirmed cases.
"I don't believe in that vaccine at all and they are trying to push it on us," Kunkle's father, Bill, told WLWT.
A judge ruled against Kunkel and in favor of the Northern Kentucky Health Department in April, a decision that left the teen "devastated" and determined to appeal.
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My kids are vaccinated because I wanted them to be, not because they were forced to be or had to be to qualify for whatever activities, so in a way, I get it.
I don't believe in that vaccine at all
I do. I was anticipating the four day one-on-one ice cream time with each kid. Didn't happen. Also, been outside of the USA.
Speaking of which, sure seem to be a lot of unvaccinated shithole country people wanting to live next door, and I don't think chickenpox is the issue.
[Breitbart] Nine tourists were left stranded in a remote region of Mongolia after an unidentified local couple died from the bubonic plague.
The ethnically Kazakh couple died on May 1 after ingesting raw marmot kidney ‐ traditionally believed to have health benefits, according to Ulaanbaatar’s World Health Organization spokesperson Ariuntuya Ochirpurev.
Dr. N. Tsogbadrakh, director of Mongolia’s National Center for Zoonotic Dermatology and Medicine, said that the husband hunted and harvested the large rodent for his and his wife’s use.
Unfortunately, marmots are known carriers of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that culled Europe as the "Black Death" in the middle ages. Once contracted by humans, it is extremely contagious and can be spread by coughing.
After their deaths, a six-day quarantine locked down the area, preventing nine tourists from Germany, Russia, and Switzerland from leaving. They, as well as 24-year-old American Peace Corps volunteer Sebastian Pique, were invited to the governor’s office on Friday to have the situation explained.
"After the quarantine [was announced], not many people ‐ even locals ‐ were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Pique said. Fortunately, as no other cases have been reported, the quarantine is expected to lift on Monday.
According to the U.S. National Center for Zoonotic Disease, one person in Mongolia dies from the plague each year ‐ mostly from observing this cultural tradition.
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Read a site years ago that claimed the great bubonic/pneumonic plagues of the middle ages originated and mutated to virulence in Mongolia in the rodent population. Too bad these folks didn't read the same site.
[NJ] An Essex County man was tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... Sunday after police say video posted to social media shows him urinating on a marked police vehicle as a crowd cheered him on outside a movie theater.
Tauqeer Boyd, 22, of West Orange, was arrested less than 24 hours after the incident at CityPlex 12 Newark movie theater, according to Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose.
"We absolutely will not tolerate disrespect of our police," Ambrose said in a statement. "We take this as a personal insult. When our department became aware of this, we moved quickly to apprehend the suspect."
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welcome to the jungle Tuaqueer .. and yes I spelled it the way I wanted.
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Well, since the police are allowed to look at less and less actual minority committed crime, they might as well expand into nuisance behavior interdiction.
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"in a network we don’t have confidence in and is not backdoored by the #NSA" he said in a correction.
It's not that the Chinese are spying. We don't know that. But we do KNOW FOR A FACT that the NSA uses backdoored equipment to spy. Not even on our enemies - to spy on civilians and friends.
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It's not that the Chinese are spying. We don't know that..
Earth to Herb...Earth to Herb...come in Herb....
Sorry Captain - it appears our signal cannot reach Planet McCoy.
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#3 - you just never feel the digital hands on your shoulders
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Herb, I've been looking for a tin foil hat that looks good, wears well and wasn't Made in China. Know where I can get one?
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It's not that the Chinese are spying. We don't know that.
We *do* know the Chinese are spying - extensive espionage campaigns, both military and industrial. A couple of intel professionals (was it CIA?) were nabbed just a couple days ago for spying for the ChiComs. There have been reports of computer motherboards with silicon back doors.
The Million Dollar Question: if you were the Chinese, and had the opportunity to backdoor national and international telecom networks, would you take it? I sure as hell would.
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Herb says Commies wouldn't do it. Only US Intel would. Only a Commie Symp would deny the first and say the second is 100%
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and yes, the second IS 100%.
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Nope, I said that we don't know. An entirely different thing. But good on you all for deliberately misstating what I said. It's what the Left does.
However we do know for a fact that US equipment is backdoored by the NSA. You know, the Deep State? The unelected government that's a threat to us all? The Chinese aren't nearly the same level of threat to the American people. They're just nationalists who want what's best for their people. They actually take stances that give them an advantage in trade negotiations. Would that our own government had done the same 20 years ago.
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I'll give him credit. He is a much more sophisticated troll than most that have visited Rantburg in the past. It is true that we have some people in our government who have sinister intentions and a sophisticated troll would use that to make propaganda points. But we're dealing with it. We now have a president who recognizes the danger that China poses. We have elections that allow us to choose such a man. Further, we ourselves are sophisticated enough to recognize when Chicom advocates attempt to soft pedal the danger. You wanna talk about unelected governments that threaten us?
Where is this evidence of yours that NSA has installed back doors in all American made telecomm equipment? Post a link. Tell us where to look for it. And if it's true, and if elections fail to solve the problem, we still have the Second Amendment. That's more than you can say for the Chinese.
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So which Intelligence Agency do we have that isn't covered in mud and suspicion? Military Intelligence perhaps?
We had a ZTE phone. After noticing some some "suggested" purchases on Amazon were items we were talking about over coffee, never online. All listening features were turned off.
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Lol I'm not a troll you little man. I'm a patriotic American who loves his country and hates the NSA who spies on us despite a law telling them they can't.
The evidence? WTF were you in a coma when the Wikileaks came out? Snowden, ever heard of him? Exposed NSA spying on us?
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I thought we were talking about back doors in telecomm equipment. How do you know that NSA installed back doors on all American and European made telecomm equipment? Huawei's back door would give the Chicoms access to the Brit intel computer network. You know, the emails and the databases. So Pompeo is telling the Brits he doesn't want to share those secrets with the Chicoms. Kinda makes sense to me. But it sounds like you wouldn't mind.
No, I'm not pleased with NSA spying. But it's a whole separate issue and it does NOT excuse the Chinese.
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Stop making things up and telling me that's what I think! Jesus!
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Stop quibbling, guys. Each is right in his own way. But the Chinese are spying on America, just not for the same reasons that the federal agencies and many depts. of the NSA are. They were meant to be used against terrorism and jihad, and incidents like Heavensgate maybe.
China spies on all countries and their industry and universities, wherever they see innovation or an economic competitor rising, they'll either try to buy it off or steal it. That's all it's about. And maybe they also want AOCs and Bernies to gain more power in US politics. The Chinese are being ripped a new one by 'the Man' anyway.
Also, what the deep state does is beyond putting bugs or chips in mass produced home electronics. It's more nuanced and networked throughout every major and minor database of the government. What the system was meant to do is important for national security. In the right hands, it's an acceptable compromise.
It's replacing the blues in control of all that information that should matter to us all.
[ZeroHedge] French authorities are investigating the suspicious death of an Italian intelligence agent after he was found lying in a pool of his own blood and vomit with a serious wound to his chin.
According to French magazine Le Point, the agent - identified only as 50-year-old Massimo I - had been living at the hotel in the Montmartre district since May 3, arriving from Rome that day. He was carrying a business card in his name mentioning his employer as "Presidenza Del Consiglio Dei ministri," or the Presidency of the Italian Council off Ministers, currently headed by Giuseppe Conte.
According to the report, the agent was in France on a language course.
French security sources told Le Point that Massimo I was a member of the Italian intelligence services, while the Italian Embassy in Paris says it believes he died of natural causes - and that the gaping wound could have been caused during a fall. Firefighters attempted to resuscitate him around 1:30 a.m.
The hotel room safe contained an encrypted security key, 1700 Euros ($1,900 US), a USB key, an SD card adapter and an SD card. Agence France Presse also reported that classified documents were found. AFP also added that Massimo was identified as a "high-ranking civil servant in Italian intelligence."
His throat was cut, or the old 'icepick up thru the soft palate' trick. The assailant missed the goodies though. I didn't think hotel room safes stopped anybody but the tenant.
[DAWN] MINGORA: A famous Pashto dancer and singer was rubbed out by her husband here on Tuesday.
According to Mingora police, Shaukat Ali shot up his wife, Meena, over a domestic issue, leaving her seriously injured. The incident took place just before Iftar.
"She succumbed to her injuries in the hospital while her husband expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. The police started searching for the accused after registering a case against him," Tariq, SHO Banr cop shoppe, said. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... the accused was still on the lam till filing of this report on Tuesday evening.
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[DAWN] India's once-vibrant communist parties are in danger of falling off the political map in this month's general elections as voters lose their revolutionary fervour.
From 61 parliamentary seats and a key role in a coalition government formed in 2004, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its hard left allies slumped to just 10 seats in the 2014 election.
CPM leader Sitaram Yechury acknowledged that the left cannot afford another fall as he lobbied for precious votes in the last communist bastion of southern Kerala state.
In the past, tens of thousands of Indians turned out for communist rallies, chanting proletarian slogans and wearing hammer and sickle neck chains with their Marxist-red t-shirts and hats. But today, the movement is fighting an increasingly desperate battle.
As the communists defend their six seats in Kerala, Yechury acknowledged the critical stakes while keeping up his onslaught against capitalism and right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"The youth were led away by a lot of illusions," he said of the erosion of support for the communists.
"The neo-liberal blitzkrieg agenda will become an Eldorado and reality will hit them," the party secretary general predicted.
Yechury said the financial crisis of 2008 has made many people look to the left again.
"This is the first chance when we can test whether we are reversing the trend or not," Yechury said.
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The academic abandonment is mainly because most of the KGB trained Indian intelligentsia of Indian Universities has died out. The current crop of doctrinaires is as mediocre as anything produced in suburban India with half knowledge and zero charisma.
[DAWN] Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Anti-Human Trafficking Cell on Wednesday recovered three Pak girls and incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... another 14 Chinese nationals in continuation of its crackdown on the gangs involved in fake marriages with Pak girls for trafficking them to China allegedly for organ removal and sexual exploitation.
According to well-informed sources within the FIA, the arrests and recoveries were made during raids conducted in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
The suspects wanted to smuggle the girls abroad under the pretense of marriages, the sources said, adding that for the first time weapons were also recovered from the Chinese nationals.
The FIA sources further said that the detained suspects were being transferred to the agency headquarters, where they expect to extract more information from them during investigation.
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crackdown on the gangs involved in fake marriages with Pak girls for trafficking them to China allegedly for organ removal and sexual exploitation.
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgement on appeals filed by a judge and his wife, who were locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for torturing a minor maid employed as domestic help in Islamabad.
A three-judge bench headed by Justice Mushir Alam had taken up appeals filed by former additional district and sessions judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife Maheen Zafar, who had been sentenced to one year in jail in April 2018 for keeping the then 10-year-old Taiba in wrongful confinement, burning her hand over a missing broom, beating her with a ladle, detaining her in a storeroom, and threatening her of "dire consequences".
In June 2018, when both convicts appealed against the sentence, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had increased their jail time from one year to three years, with a Rs500,000 fine.
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[DAWN] Ten elephants painted white marched on Tuesday near Bangkok’s Grand Palace to honour Thailand’s newly crowned King Maha Vajiralongkorn, a day after ceremonies for his coronation ended.
The animals and their handlers from the ancient capital of Ayutthaya walked for a short stretch before paying their respects to a portrait of the king.
Many among the crowd of enthusiastic onlookers held portraits of the king.
"I’m delighted because I’ve never seen this before in my 70 years," said cycle of violence taxi driver Boonsueb Unnimit. Elephants hold special significance in Thai history and culture.
"The elephant is a symbol of the monarch, a symbol of battles, as well as a symbol of peace and serenity," said Bangkok resident Panarat Panchuer, 61.
No elephants participated in the official coronation ceremonies, although the king to be presented with a white elephant, a gift that is considered especially auspicious, some time later. The three-day ceremonies started on Saturday, after a long period of official mourning for the king’s revered father, who died in October 2016 having reigned for 70 years.
Laithongrien Meepan, the owner of Ayutthaya’s Elephant Kraal and Village, said he was pleased the elephants managed to stay calm on Tuesday despite the bustling crowd and the heat.
"We’re here full of happiness and overwhelmed," he said.
A non-toxic, water-based paint mixed with powder was used to create the appearance of a white elephant without harming the animals, the Kraal centre said.
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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.
[TAMPABAY] A judge has denied an effort to stop the scheduled May 23 execution of Bobby Joe Long, a Tampa Bay area killer who murdered eight women in the 1980s.
[DAWN] MINGORA: A famous Pashto dancer and singer was 
[DAWN] India's once-vibrant communist parties are in danger of falling off the political map in this month's general elections as voters lose their revolutionary fervour.
[DAWN] Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Anti-Human Trafficking Cell on Wednesday recovered three Pak girls and 
