[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A 29 year old St. Louis woman jumped into her own car, retrieved her own weapon, and shot a carjacking suspect. He later died of a gunshot wound to the stomach.
The incident happened around 3:30pm on Monday on North Vandeventer, as the victim was on the way to get her paycheck and was attacked trying to get back into her car.
According to local news source 5 On Your Side, the suspect was ready to drive away, as the woman jumped into her own car, found her weapon she had stored there, and shot him once in the stomach.
The man then drove away in the vehicle, but apparently didn't get very far. The next police district over got a call regarding a car accident. Officers reporting to the scene found the car with the critically injured suspect inside.
The man was rushed to a local hospital but pronounced dead minutes later.
The victim was interviewed by detectives and then released. No charges were laid.
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Good for her! Didn't just kill her attacker, but killed him slow.
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We need to setup a GO-AMMO-ME system.
Where such self defenders are rewarded with a box of New Replacement Ammo.
Given they have done a great service by eliminating a obvious great threat to the community, a drain on limited resources and in doing so have depleted their own private ammo stock.
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I fully expect that at some point there will be a deathbed confession from someone at the Pentagon about how he created this hoax, much like the man who invented Bigfoot.
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Fascinating how they took so much that is classically Japanese, making it modern, g(r)omgoru. I must share with trailing daughter #2. If she’d had another semester she would have completed a third BA, that one in Japanese.
[The Drive] Some of those who live and travel around Marine Corps Air Station Miramar got one heck of a surprise this afternoon as a pair of F-117 Nighthawks recovered at the sprawling air base situated north of downtown San Diego. The jets' visit comes as the officially retired F-117 force has drastically expanded its operations, now being used constantly for testing and aggressor duties in a far more visible manner, including during high-profile exercises, such as Red Flag.
It isn't clear exactly what the stealth jets are doing there, but aircraft that are participating in exercises that take place over the massive range complex off the Southern California coast often stage out of Miramar. As part of their expanded operations, F-117s have ventured off the SoCal coast for drills on multiple occasions, as The War Zone was first to report, including working with carrier strike groups that are spinning up for deployment.
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It would be interesting to are how stealthy a group of stealth bombers is. We have been using them independently in the past. This is for future use of larger groups of F-35s in any future conflict.
Not in aviation, but I understand that if you want an airplane to go to crap, put it in storage, so maybe a bit of stretching as well? Get some flight hours for the pilots, test out some detection devices. And if someone gets jumpy, these guys are on the roster.
Crib sheet is nice for those without a military background, or like me the coffee hasn't quite sorted out the alphabet soups in a timely manner.
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In somewhat of a redux, the Air Force and Lockheed have built a prototype 6th generation fighter totally out of the spotlight. The F-117 was flying for at least a couple years before the public ever found out about it.
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I was asking is this perhaps OPFOR so the carriers have previous gen stealth aircraft to work against, much like what the Chinese may be expected to field.
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I remember when the nickname for the F-117 was the Wobbly Goblin. If you lost the electrics the pilot had to eject before it fell out of the sky. Had the glide characteristics of a gut shot brick.
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IIRC, Starting with the F-16 all of the aircraft were deliberately "unstable" to boost their maneuverability. No power = hit the parachute immediately.
This breaks the previous record snowfall for October 20 (3.0" - 1916) in the Twin Cities, and is the second snowiest day in October on record (8.2" - 10/31/1991) [still snowing at time of tweet so today's total may be revised upward; also record snowfall at Eau Claire WI and St Cloud, MN; part of the same storm that led to record snowfall in Great Falls MT a few days ago]
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Why is this not available to me? I used to see all the Twitter links here.
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Looking out the window, the maple is still green tho covered with snow. Didn't some guy write poem about cherries covered in snow? Have to tell you, this does NOT move me to poetry....
#6
apparently there was another 0.5" of snow after the tweet
also, Minneapolis is in line for several other storms in the next 7 days
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Actually the 1991 "perfect storm" Halloween storm dropped several inches more. 2 feet in some places. In fact 1991 we had a foot of snow on the ground at 9pm. It was beautiful.
I just came in from shoveling. We got about 6 inches of wet and heavy snow. A friend south of me got 8. Right now it's about 34 degrees by our lake so it's like moving piles of snow cone slush.
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We have a friend that lives up there and they evacuated to a center, then the center had to evacuate when the fire made a run for their area. Now she has had to leave where she was because someone came down with COVID.
Fortunately snow is coming Saturday and Sunday and will tamp down these fires.
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Sounds like they have some good air support going, so long as the wind stays down.
Couple little sisters going in the area which have the potential to be a real problem for certain structures if the wind goes full arsehole out of the north. No bueno.
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Wind will be a problem until Saturday. We have a cold front, then warm front, then freezing front all hitting this week. Wind was bad yesterday and not good today. Saturday will be 76 and Sunday will be 23 and snowy. Most firefighters pulled back late yesterday and just left sprinklers on some structures due to the squirrely nature of the wind.
[All Africa] Judicial authorities issued a warrant for Guidon Shimiray Mwissa, also known as Guidon, more than a year ago for participating in an insurrection, recruiting child soldiers, and rape in the eastern part of the country. This has not stopped Guidon from committing horrific abuses against civilians in areas he controls. The militia leader commands a faction of the Nduma Defense of Congo-Rénové (NDC-R),
...which split off from the NDC in 2014. it’s all part of the Kivu conflict, whatever that is — just another way to demonstrate that the Congo remains the heart of darkness...
which until it split in July 2020, controlled more territory than any other gang in eastern Congo.
Human Rights Watch says there is evidence that elements of the Congolese army have been collaborating with the NDC-R: "His backers within the Congolese army should be investigated and prosecuted for using an abusive group as a proxy force."
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Where's Big Mike with her frowny-face and whiteboard message?
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but no enraged prose.
We’ve read enough about it, Skidmark, to know that, like Chinese foot binding, it’s not being imposed on the girls by the evil patriarchy. It’s their very own mothers who are forcing them, in order to improve their prospects for a good marriage. We can make it illegal when they come here, and here jail the parents for it; but over there, in their own country, it has to come from them.
The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen ordered all residents to prepare emergency supplies in 72 categories, such as enough food and water for 72 hours and a fire blanket
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Us, the citizens of the USA and other countries have funded Red-China's Military growth and Modernization.
Think about all the technology and $$$$$$ our Globalist corporations have pushed into RED-China over the last 30 years. Even Missile / Satellite technology.
As Obama would proudly say... We built that enemy.
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IMO, it is of some moment that the COVID-19 viral strains spread throughout Asia largely lack ORF8. In contrast, the USA (which does have ORF8 COVID-19 viral strains) has about 20% of the world’s deaths, but we are less than 5% of the world’s population. On its face, this looks suspiciously like a bioweapon attack; especially because of the existence of more virulent viral strains that could be used for targeted attacks against “undesirable” (read “deplorable”) individuals — while “regular” COVID provides a smokescreen of sorts for such targeting. In any case, our economic loss has been profound. And, the COVID-19 virus likely has less than natural beginnings (see, e.g., https://t.co/SuouPc7IP8).
It’s interesting (if not completely encouraging), that the ORF8 viral sequence of the COVID-19 viral genome is deleting from the COVID-19 virus over time - as occurred around 2002 with SARS-CoV-1 (just as if that’s an engineered feature). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104525. So, even if ORF8 strains were used to target a particular individual, collateral damage would be somewhat limited.
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Before we get too excited it is time to remember that the Chinese literally wrote the book on PSYOP. Sun-Tzu, Sun Pin and other generals left behind their thoughts on how to psyche out and bamboozle the enemy...
[gCaptain] Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s government has decided to release over one million tonnes [equivalent to 264 million gallons]
of contaminated water into the sea, media reports said on Friday, with a formal announcement expected to be made later this month.
The decision is expected to rankle neighboring countries like South Korea, which has already stepped up radiation tests of food from Japan, and further devastate the fishing industry in Fukushima that has battled against such a move for years.
The disposal of contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has been a longstanding problem for Japan as it proceeds with an decades-long decommissioning project. Nearly 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water are currently stored in huge tanks at the facility.
The plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc , suffered multiple nuclear meltdowns after a 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
On Friday, Japan’s industry minister Hiroshi Kajiyama said no decision had been made on the disposal of the water yet, but the government aims to make one quickly.
“To prevent any delays in the decommissioning process, we need to make a decision quickly,” he told a news conference.
He did not give any further details, including a time-frame.
The Asahi newspaper reported that any such release is expected to take at around two years to prepare, as the site’s irradiated water first needs to pass through a filtration process before it can be further diluted with seawater and finally released into the ocean. The solution to pollution is dilution. So who is going to monitor the process and provide the required transparency?
In 2018, Tokyo Electric apologized after admitting its filtration systems had not removed all dangerous material from the water, collected from the cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting when the plant was crippled.
It has said it plans to remove all radioactive particles from the water except tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is hard to separate and is considered to be relatively harmless.
It is common practice for nuclear plants around the world to release water that contains traces of tritium into the ocean.
In April, a team sent by the International Atomic Energy Agency to review contaminated water issues at the Fukushima site said the options for water disposal outlined by an advisory committee in Japan – vapor release and discharges to the sea – were both technically feasible. The IAEA said both options were used by operating nuclear plants.
Last week, Japanese fish industry representatives urged the government to not allow the release of contaminated water from the Fukushima plant into the sea, saying it would undo years of work to restore their reputation.
South Korea has retained a ban on imports of seafood from the Fukushima region that was imposed after the nuclear disaster and summoned a senior Japanese embassy official last year to explain how Tokyo planned to deal with the Fukushima water problem.
During Tokyo’s bid to host the Olympic Games in 2013, then-prime minister Shinzo Abe told members of the International Olympic Committee that the Fukushima facility was “under control”. Sez he.
The Games have been delayed to 2021 because of the pandemic and some events are due to be held as close as 60 km (35 miles) from the wrecked plant.
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It has said it plans to remove all radioactive particles from the water except tritium, an isotope of hydrogen that is hard to separate and is considered to be relatively harmless.
They are going to have to do something with the water before it leaks out to the sea, possibly in another earthquake. The Japanese fishing industry isn't happy about this either and will be watching the government closely.
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I would think that if they decide to release the waste water to the sea, that they build a long HDPE pipe outfall to very deep water for proper dilution.
Do it in a couple of years and you would be pumping 16,000 gpm for 2 years through a 40 in pipe at 2 ft/second
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#Germany has issued international arrest warrants for the two founders of the firm at the centre of the #tax haven scandal exposed by the Panama Papers data leak, German media reported pic.twitter.com/9JBeJJbLtl
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Actually it's not secret agents but a military intelligence unit whose usual job is to tell IAF where to bomb. And that they're doing is trying to locate asymptomatic carriers - people who are not sick themselves but can infect others.
Because it is an alien probe covered is space mollusks and we should not get involved in the interstellar war until all of our F-117 are fitted with Veritech abilities.
Japan has activated Yokushima and started the fueling process for Yamato just in case this is actually a vanguard using the Orionid Meteor Shower as cover.
In the meantime we must continue harvesting the Precursor Metal found under the Yellowstone Crash Sit. And wait.
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.
Some of those who live and travel around Marine Corps Air Station Miramar got one heck of a surprise this afternoon as a pair of F-117 Nighthawks recovered at the sprawling air base situated north of downtown San Diego. The jets' visit comes as the officially retired F-117 force has drastically expanded its operations, now being used constantly for testing and aggressor duties in a far more visible manner, including during high-profile exercises, such as Red Flag.
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[9NEWS] The wildfire has burned for more than two months in Larimer County and is the largest recorded in Colorado history.
Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan’s government has decided to release over one million tonnes 
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