[KSTP] The Minneapolis Police Department is investigating a shooting that left six people injured early Sunday morning.
According to police, just before 2 a.m., officers were notified about a ShotSpotter activation on the 200 block of West Broadway.
Once officers arrived at the scene, they were advised that the victims had all been taken to the hospital by private transportation. Officers then notified both North Memorial Medical Center and Hennepin County Medical Center to be aware that there may be shooting victims arriving in private vehicles.
The preliminary investigation found that a fight broke out inside an establishment near the scene. The fight then spilled into the outside and shots were fired. Suspects fled before officers arrived.
While officers were investigating the scene, other officers responded to both hospitals to check for potential victims.
According to officers, Hennepin County Medical Center located three victims and North Memorial Medical Center found two victims.
An additional victim was found a few blocks away from the shooting scene and was transported to Hennepin Medical Center by ambulance.
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Just the indigenous inhabitants shooting each other each other over business deals gone bad, and personal slights both real and imagined. Since it's not the cops pulling the trigger, it's all copacetic, for reasons that I don't quite understand.
[FOXNEWS] Two people were killed and at least five others were maimed in a drive-by shooting in an Atlanta-area neighborhood on Saturday, authorities said.Officers responded to the Edgewood neighborhood in northeast Atlanta around 5:45 p.m. after shots were fired into a crowd of people, FOX5 Atlanta reported.
Five victims were found at the scene and rushed to the hospital at death's door, police said, according to the station. Two other victims were driven to the hospital before police arrived.
Two of the victims died from their injuries while the five others are in stable, pH balanced condition, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, citing a police front man.
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While this area is not Ghetto slum. But it does have a serious interloper/Thug problem from surrounding areas.
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The Edgewood neighborhood in Atlanta is middle income and mainly white. So those shot were more than likely White.
Edgewood-Kirkwood:
* crime rates are 85% higher than the national average
* Violent crimes are 31% higher than the national average
* safer than 81% of the cities in Georgia
BTW: Atlanta in general ranks higher in crime than most cities.
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yes alpharetta, don't know much about milton. I do remodeling and handyman type stuff for landlords so yeah it's out there.
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Chris we need a contractor to upgrade our bungalow in Brookhaven, interested? Just sold my Alpharetta/Milton townhouse, 30004, seems to give both towns
BREAKING A first public spy scandal between Russia & China in many years, reported by @meduzaproject. Valery Mitko, a 78-yo ex 🇷🇺 navy captain is charged with treason for allegedly passing to China classified information on Russian subs in the Arctic 1/ https://t.co/0a8yEabtwp
7/ What's also notable is direction of Chinese intelligence's interest this time: Russian military submarines in the Arctic, which points to Beijing's broader and long-term military security agenda in the region (hardly a surprise for anyone watching). Will stay tuned.
It wants to make cutting-edge chips for China. It wants to catch up to Taiwan's 5 years' lead. It wants less fuss from the NYSE, and the US govt. It wants $2.8bn from investors. It also really, really doesn't want media interviews. My dive into SMIC @fthttps://t.co/Q81Nvf3NME
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), hq. is in Shanghai and it is incorporated in the Caymans!!) A semiconductor foundry company, its the largest in China. It is found throughout mainland China, and has offices in the United States, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. In 2019 SMIC announced the proposed issue of US$600 Million 2.693% Bonds Due 2025.
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If China has All the Money in the World and All the Tea In China, why the hell do they need the NYSE to build a chip foundry? I thought they were all rich with all their new skyscrapers and shit?
"Crude from PPDVSA kept arriving at Chinese ports with the help of a Switzerland-based unit of Rosneft." Terrific reporting by @mariannaparraga & @cohenluc on 🇨🇳🇷🇺 cooperation to help embattled Maduro regime (and make money along the way). Via @Reutershttps://t.co/3lw0uvazhC
[Breitbart] A Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday while trying to leave the country with U.S. government-funded research from the University of California, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
Xin Wang was allegedly attempting to depart the U.S. for Tianjin, China, when he was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Upon interviewing Xin, CBP officers determined that he had lied on his original visa application and he was arrested. Xin has since been charged with visa fraud and faces up to ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine if found guilty. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the case.
According to court documents filed Thursday and a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday, Xin entered the U.S. on March 26, 2019, with a multiple entry J1 non-immigrant visa he received in December 2018. On his visa application, Xin stated that the purpose of his visit was to conduct scientific research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He also claimed on the application that he had served as an Associate Professor in Medicine in the PLA from 2002-2016, which prosecutors allege was a fraudulent statement.
This claim contradicts the information CBP officers obtained while interviewing Xin at LAX on Sunday, where they learned he is “still currently a ‘Level 9’ technician in the PLA, employed by a military university lab.” This title roughly corresponds to the U.S. military ranking of Major. During the interview, the CBP also reportedly learned that Xin was still employed by the Chinese army while in the U.S., continuing to receive a PLA salary — in addition to compensation from the China Scholarship Council and UCSF — during his stay.
According to the court documents, Xin “made false statements about his military service in his visa application in order to increase the likelihood that he would receive his J1 visa.”
During his attempted departure on Sunday, Xin had in his possession “studies from UCSF … which he was taking to share with his PLA colleagues,” customs officials said. Among the UCSF research Xin allegedly tried to secret out of the U.S. was work funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health, the Justice Department said.
The CBP officers also learned that Xin had recently “sent research to his lab in China via email.” According to the court documents, Xin deleted WeChat messaging content from his cell phone before arriving at the airport for his departure. WeChat is a Chinese messaging app.
Responding to the arrest on Friday, China’s Foreign Ministry said that Xin had been “conducting cardiovascular research in the U.S. and had not caused any harm to its national interests,” the South China Morning Post reported.
On May 29, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that graduate students and visiting researchers from China would be barred from entering the U.S. if they were determined to pose a risk of transferring technical knowledge to Chinese military institutions. This new national security measure, aimed at protecting the U.S. from technology and intellectual property theft by China, took effect on June 1
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For all you know they could be researching some food grade additive that will induce heart ailments in Caucasians. As for how they'll sell it to you, you know your FDA - there's an 'F' in it.
I was going to buy a new 52" 4K tv for a new computer display on Monday when the TV stores reopen in Illinois. Now I will be paying more attention to other brands even though I have been testing for a week on Samsung.
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I wonder if the South Koreans are going to slip in a few back doors of their own just to cover all the contingency. If the CIA were doing it’s job instead of trying to commit a coup against Trump, they would already have this set to go into the chip fabrication masks for the SKoreans to use
[France24] The Grand Rex cinema in Paris said on Friday it had been forced to cancel a scheduled screening of the 1939 classic amid a renewed controversy over the film’s racist content, a move France's culture minister described as "incomprehensible".
The iconic Paris cinema had programmed the Oscar-winning Civil War epic for June 23 as part of special screenings to mark French cinemas’ reopening following a lengthy coronavirus lockdown.
However, it was forced to cancel the screening after the film's distributor Warner Bros decided to pull the movie amid an anti-racism backlash that has rocked the entertainment landscape in the wake of the May 25 killing of George Floyd.
Writing on Twitter, French Culture Minister Franck Riester slammed an "incomprehensible and unacceptable" decision, adding that France "will always defend the freedom to create and distribute works of art".
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The U.S. Army tested a cohort 640 new recruits and instructors for COVID-19 upon arrival at Fort Benning, Ga. All but four tested negative. Eight days after training started, 142 of them retested positive.
According to a release from U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, 640 new recruits arrived at Fort Benning and were medically screened and tested by medical professionals. At the time, four tested positive. All 640 recruits entered a 14-day monitoring period, with the four COVID-positive recruits isolated and properly treated.
After the 14-day monitoring period, training operations began with COVID-19 prevention measures in place including masks and social distancing. Despite these efforts, however, eight days after the end of the 14-day monitoring period, one recruit reported to the chain of command with COVID-19 symptoms.
All 640 recruits -- which form 30th AG Battalion and 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment -- were retested for COVID-19. After all 640 tests were returned over a two-day period, that same cohort of recruits had a 22 percent COVID-positive rate with 142 positive tests. That is, an asymptomatic incubation period of 3 weeks
[Science] Some 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health into the failure of NIH grantees to disclose financial ties to foreign governments. In 93% of those cases, the hidden funding came from a Chinese institution.
The new numbers come from Michael Lauer, NIH’s head of extramural research. Lauer had previously provided some information on the scope of NIH’s investigation, which had targeted 189 scientists at 87 institutions. But his presentation today to a senior advisory panel offered by far the most detailed breakout of an effort NIH launched in August 2018 that has roiled the U.S. biomedical community, and resulted in criminal charges against some prominent researchers, including Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard University’s department of chemistry and chemical biology.
“It’s not what we had hoped, and it’s not a fun task,” NIH Director Francis Collins said in characterizing the ongoing investigation. He called the data “sobering.”
In the vast majority of cases, Lauer reported, the person being investigated has been an Asian man in his 50s. Some three-quarters of those under investigation had active NIH grants, and nearly half had at least two grants. The 285 active grants totaled $164 million.
Lauer also presented data on the nature of the violations that NIH has uncovered. Some 70% (133) of the researchers had failed to disclose to NIH the receipt of a foreign grant, and 54% had failed to disclose participation in a foreign talent program. In contrast, Lauer said, only 9% hid ties to a foreign company, and only 4% had an undisclosed foreign patent. Some 5% of cases involved a violation of NIH’s peer-review system.
Lauer said the fact that 82% of those being investigated are Asian “is not surprising” because “that’s who the Chinese target” in their foreign talent recruitment programs. Some 82% are men, and their median age is 56, with the youngest being 48 and the oldest 59. Slightly more than one-half had been an NIH peer reviewer in the past 2 years, and 41% of those under investigation (77 scientists) have been banned from further participation in NIH’s well-regarded system of vetting grant proposals.
#Iran confirms over 100 new deaths in a single day from #COVID_19, for the first time in two months, as the country struggles to contain what has become the Middle East’s deadliest outbreak of #coronavirus.https://t.co/MwFqnNsUIF
[WashingtonExaminer] China’s ambitious overseas infrastructure investment program is a form of economic and geopolitical imperialism, according to a senior member of President Trump’s administration.
"The Chinese pitch is orientation toward China," said Adam Boehler, the first CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. "It is about advancing China's control and interest," he said in an interview with the Washington Examiner. "I'd liken it more toward colonialism, back in the 1800s, which doesn't work out that well, because sovereign nations like to run themselves."
That observation is a window into the message carried by Boehler, whose newly created agency is "America’s development bank," as he seeks investment opportunities in developing countries. The critique appropriates a favorite Chinese communist talking point — Beijing often invokes the history of Western imperialism to burnish the regime’s reputation overseas — while identifying a through-line between President Trump’s nationalist agenda, the global U.S. competition with China, and the interests of the local countries around the world.
"Our pitch is we want to come and invest, and we want to improve development in your country," Boehler said. "But it's not about the United States [having] undue influence over your country. It's about moving toward free and transparent markets."
Boehler is tasked with blunting the appeal of China’s vaunted Belt and Road Initiative — the $1 trillion spending program that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced as a "treasury-run empire build." The financial program enabled Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, to gain illusory sovereignty over a new port in Sri Lanka in 2017. U.S. officials believe the deal exemplifies China’s engagement in "predatory" lending to corrupt or impoverished countries in order to gain strategic advantages when the government struggles to repay the debt.
"I've met a whole bunch of, probably now going on 20 or so, heads of state in the countries we focus on, and the typical response you get, almost universally, is, 'We didn't want to take money from China or that other autocratic country, but where was the United States? Where was the alternative?’" Boehler said. "The International Development Finance Corporation is that alternative."
Congress created the independent agency through the Build Act, a 2018 law that merged the now-defunct Overseas Private Investment Corporation with a credit-providing arm of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Lawmakers empowered Boehler to risk $60 billion total in overseas investment operations, a small sum compared to the resources marshaled by Chinese plans but one that Boehler thinks is sufficient to provide seed money for U.S. and Western companies to get involved.
"We’re a minority investor, and so, we catalyze generally four to five times the amount," he said of the DFC, which launched in December 2019.
The DFC board approved more than $1 billion worth of investments during their quarterly meeting in early June, featuring at least 26 projects across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Nine of the projects highlighted by the announcement are in India, a major economic power that could play a vital role in western plans to stymie China’s
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Let them have it. It's one big sucking sound. Stay away. You have things that need attending back in the home country. Get out of this reactionary globalist mindset.
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.
[KSTP] The Minneapolis Police Department is investigating a shooting that left six people injured early Sunday morning. 
[FOXNEWS] Two people were killed and at least five others 
