[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Crime, or Terror? Jewish day schools, along with synagogues and Jewish community centers, got serious about physical security after 9/11. A major expense, but one that has proved necessary. One wonders what brought this middle aged, former student halfway across the country all of a sudden, though — it’s their usual sort of threat.
Staff at Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South called Memphis police at 12:20pm on Monday to report a gunman near the school
The school shared a photo of the gunman, describing him as in his 40s and armed with a handgun, driving a red pickup with California plates
He was stopped by police nearby and shot by officers: he remains in a critical condition in hospital. Congressman Steve Cohen said he was a former student
Staff at a Memphis Jewish school have been praised for their quick thinking after they blocked an armed man from entering and then called the police, leading to him being stopped shortly after.
Workers at Margolin Hebrew Academy/Feinstone Yeshiva of the South called police at 12:20pm on Monday to report that a man with a handgun had tried to get into the school, and fired his gun outside.
Michael Masters, CEO of the Secure Community Network, told Jewish Telegraphic Agency the suspect was a male in his 40s who tried to enter the school but was prevented from doing so due to a security system.
On finding the entrance blocked, he fled, but the school shared security camera footage of the suspect and told police he was driving a maroon Ram pickup truck with California tags.
The man was pulled over around three miles from the school.
When he got out, he confronted police with his handgun, and was shot.
He has been taken to hospital, and remains in a critical condition.
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"After a broadcast was sent out to look for the suspect's vehicle, a maroon Dodge pickup truck with California plates, officers were told he might be in Bartlett, Tennessee. That information proved to be accurate. "
NO NAME was released, but the police have the info.
I guess MSM/Social Media need time to clean up his postings.
I wonder if he is/was another Jewish hating Democrat Liberal, like the last 2 were?
Not Nigeria?
[FoxNews] 32 teenagers were charged Sunday night in Chicago with reckless conduct misdemeanors.
32 teenagers were arrested Sunday night with some form of reckless conduct during disorderly gathering in Chicago's South Loop.
Forty people — 32 of them teenagers — were taken into custody and charged with reckless conduct misdemeanors after the group became "disorderly" and looted a convenience store in Chicago’s South Loop Sunday night.
The Chicago Police Department responded around 8 p.m. to the South Loop's 100-block of West Roosevelt Road where the young group, an estimated 300 to 400 people, assembled after a social media announcement was made. It was the second time in a span of a few days the area was targeted by teens participating in a so-called social media teen takeover trend.
Videos on social media appears to show the group attempting to loot a convenience store nearby.
Trash from the chaotic event could still be seen in the area on Monday.
"The group became disorderly and disregarded multiple verbal commands by police to disperse," the department told Fox News Digital in a statement Monday.
No injuries were reported, but several firearms were recovered on the scene.
Interim Chicago Police Superintendent Fred Waller told reporters Monday afternoon in an unrelated news conference that the group became too rowdy for the public’s safety.
"Our posture has been tolerant, and usually when we say that it's curfew, and we ask them to disperse, they do. Yesterday, they, so to speak, crossed the line," Waller said. "[They did] attempt to loot one store, a window was broken, also damaged vehicles, and the biggest thing is the fighting between the teens."
A 15-year-old male was charged with the possession of a concealed weapon alongside citations for disorderly conduct and possessing prohibited accessories like a laser sight and firearm silencer/muffler.
A 17-year-old male was charged with a felony count of unlawful use of a weapon for possessing a machine gun, as well as citations for the illegal sale/possession of high-capacity magazines and metal-piercing bullets, and a curfew violation citation.
Chicago has previously been plagued by large mobs of teens overtaking downtown areas in the summer months.
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A good share - most? - of the robberies, car-jackings, shootings, and whatnot here in Chicago are committed by "disorderly" minors. The Roosevelt Rd "gathering" must have been a real powder keg.
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But it's not gangsterism or conspiracy. As LeBron said "they was just playin'."
And INASH!
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If only they had Midnight Bassetbaw
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When we lived in the Chicago area years ago, there were areas you avoided (Austin, South Side) and areas that were safe (the Loop, Magnificent Mile, River North.) The fact that these things are happening so close to the Loop is new and scary.
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The fact that these things are happening so close to the Loop is new and scary.
Tom, unfortunately stuff like this has been happening near the Loop for years, only with smaller groups and less frequently.
Now, with Instagram, Tik-Tok and who knows what else, the 'disorderly gatherings' are larger and occur much more frequently.
This one was around Roosevelt and Clark, less than 3/4 mile west of the Field Museum, so the location for this 'disturbance' is a new one.
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[Regnum] At least five people were injured in a shooting in a parking lot near a shopping center in the US state of Michigan. This was announced on July 30 by the Fox News channel.
Police received information about a shooting near a shopping mall in Lansing in the early hours of July 30. Arriving at the scene, police officers saw a huge crowd of people in the parking lot near the shopping center, among them were injured.
The age of the victims ranged from 16 to 26 years, five people were injured in total. All victims were hospitalized, two of them are in critical condition. It is specified that the Lansing police were forced to request assistance from neighboring cities due to the large crowd at the scene.
At the scene of the incident, several firearms were found and seized, and several people were detained. Currently, all detainees are being interrogated, and no arrests have been reported.
Law enforcement officers are investigating the cause and circumstances that led to the shooting, and for what reason a crowd has gathered near the shopping center.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that one person died and 17 were injured in a shooting at a street party in the US state of Indiana. The shooting incident took place around 01:14 local time at a street party in Muncie, Delaware County.
It is clarified that a lot of people gathered for the event. No arrests were made in connection with the incident.
[Regnum] One person died and 17 were injured in a shooting at a street party in the US state of Indiana. This was reported on July 30 by Star Press.
The shooting incident occurred around 01:14 local time at a street party in Muncie, Delaware County. It is clarified that a lot of people gathered for the event.
As a result of the shooting, a 30-year-old man died, at least 17 people were hospitalized, several wounded with serious injuries and in serious condition were taken to medical facilities by an ambulance helicopter.
Information about the causes of the shooting is being established, as of the evening of July 30, the identity of the suspect had not been established, and there were no arrests in connection with the incident.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that in Germany, a man broke into two apartment buildings and shot three people. The incident took place in the federal state of Bavaria. The suspect in the shooting was detained, it is reported that he is 64 years old. According to a police spokesman, the man offered no resistance during the arrest. The motive for the crime remains unknown.
It was also reported that several people were injured in a shooting at a hospital in the city of Cedar Hill in the US state of Texas. The police indicated that the shooting took place inside a medical facility. The exact number of victims and the circumstances of the incident are being established. The suspect in the shooting has been arrested.
[NYPost] Vegan influencer Zhanna Samsonova has reportedly "died of starvation" after subsisting exclusively on a diet of exotic fruit in Malaysia, according to her friends and family.
She was 39. It's said there's no such thing as bad publicity. I dunno...
The Russian national — who frequently promoted raw foods on social media where she was known to her millions of viewers on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as Zhanna D’Art — reportedly died July 21 after finally seeking medical treatment during a tour in Southeast Asia, according to local media outlet reports.
"A few months ago, in Sri Lanka, she already looked exhausted, with swollen legs oozing lymph," one unidentified friend told Newsflash. "They sent her home to seek treatment. However, she ran away again. When I saw her in Phuket, I was horrified."
Her friend added, "I lived one floor above her and every day I feared finding her lifeless body in the morning. I convinced her to seek treatment, but she didn’t make it."
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But, since she was as Social Media influencer, there are likely 1000's of followers. So her death should be widely posted as a warning to others along with her death photo.
But !
Would Social Media Police allow it, or pull the postings and banner those posting the warning?
Given the Global Liberal Agenda is to promote VEGAN and Insect consumption and NO Meats.
[BLAZE] Lucidi — a 30-year-old who called himself a photographer based in Hong Kong on his Instagram bio — scaled structures around the world and captured selfies of his climbs, the outlet said.
The Telegraph, citing media reports, said Lucidi arrived at the building at 7:30 p.m. and told a security guard he was visiting a friend on the 40th floor — but the resident he named has since denied knowing him.
Closed-circuit TV video caught Lucidi taking an elevator to the 49th floor and then the stairs to the 68th floor before he forced open the rooftop door, the Telegraph said.
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It wasn't the fall that kilt him dead. It was the abrupt stop.
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They met in Hong Kong on vacation
And wed. Vegan, climbing sensation,
Each influenced each!
Sadly, all they could teach
Was, "Avoid sudden deceleration."
Paul Reubens, the actor best known for portraying the irrepressible, joyfully childlike Pee-wee Herman, died Sunday night after a private bout of cancer. He was 70.
“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” wrote Reubens in a statement posted to Instagram after his death. “I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”
The Pee-wee Herman character was known for his bright red bowtie, grey suit and flattop haircut, and delivered his well-known catchphrases like “I know you are, but what am I?” in a distinctive squeaky, high-pitched voice.
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I may not have appreciated the character he portrayed, or what was known of his private life (we all have things in our private lives!), BUT by not turning his troubles into public drama 'he died well'.
[G&G] Typically, a mid-summer hike in Central Virginia is not an experience that cools one down. Unless that hike incorporates the Blue Ridge Tunnel, a nearly mile-long, 165-year-old passage through Afton Mountain, situated between the nearby towns of Waynesboro and Charlottesville.
During the railroad boom of the mid-nineteenth century, the tunnel was a means to traverse the mountain gap that divides the state’s Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley regions, ultimately linking Richmond to the Ohio River. The Herculean task of building it fell to Claudius Crozet, a French immigrant who served in Napoleon’s invasion of Russia before becoming an engineering professor at West Point and chief engineer for the state of Virginia. Blasting with black gunpowder began in 1850 and was forecast to be completed in three years. The rock, however—especially the greenstone on the tunnel’s east side—had other ideas, its unexpected density causing delay after delay. (Crozet referred to hard rock ninety times in letters to government officials.)
Tafari Campbell had been paddle-boarding with a woman, another Obama staff member, when he fell off and drowned in Edgartown's Great Pond on July 23
Sources tell DailyMail.com the woman – who has not been identified – tried in vain to reach the chef to help, but was forced to return to shore to call for help
The witness is said to have spoken with police at the scene and was described as devastated but also apparently clear-headed and sober
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Only took a few days for everyone to get their story straight.
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IF this were fact, then why 8+ days to release the story.
Or have too many of the plausible cover stories been used and DC is down to things like:
An unknown robber happens to shoot a DC Presidential Staff worker and the FBI is unable to find the shooter. Nor track the IMEI code of the stolen Cell Phone. Which the gray-world says had about 8+GB of data files loaded on it?
A Fantasy Sex Island owner for the DC & elite, hangs himself despite being on suicide watch, several guards, and Cameras just out in his cell area?
Seriously the cover stories are getting thinner and lamer.
Heck I could stage and write a cover better.
My Eg.
Great White Shark attacks an Obama Staff while paddle boating, dragging the staff member attach by lanyard, down with it.
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Well, as it was a pond not attached to the ocean, that shark hadda jump...
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I call B.S. Far too much elite-scale privacy protections and deference by both local PD and the media. Household employees do NOT get that level of uniform deference! There is more ...Holmesian feel of the Dog that Didn't Bark!
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Sam authorities that ruled that guy in Georgia I think shot himself in the chest with a shotgun while he was hanging from a tree as suicide? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.
[PJM] Move over, COVID-19, and say hello to leprosy. Yes, that leprosy, the biblical plague from the Old and New Testaments.
That’s according to the CDC, which says that there is “rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in the southeastern United States.”
Leprosy, also called Hanson’s Disease, is an infection caused by slow-growing bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae, according to the CDC. “It can affect the nerves, skin, eyes, and lining of the nose (nasal mucosa).” Up to 2 million people worldwide are permanently disabled from the disease, which can be transmitted by “prolonged, close contact with someone with untreated leprosy over many months.” It is thought to be spread via respiratory droplets—or even contact with armadillos. The CDC, which now apparently believes in natural immunity again, says, “more than 95% of all people have natural immunity to the disease.”
But in a Research Letter published in the August 2023 edition of the Emerging Infections Diseases journal, researchers from the Kansas City University–Graduate Medical Education/Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery Consortium raised concerns about the rise in the number of cases in the U.S.:
Leprosy has been historically uncommon in the United States; incidence peaked around 1983, and a drastic reduction in the annual number of documented cases occurred from the 1980s through 2000. However, since then, reports demonstrate a gradual increase in the incidence of leprosy in the United States. The number of reported cases has more than doubled in the southeastern states over the last decade. According to the National Hansen’s Disease Program, 159 new cases were reported in the United States in 2020; Florida was among the top reporting states.
Central Florida accounted for 81% of cases in the Sunshine State—nearly 20% of cases reported nationally.
The letter in the journal described the case of a 54-year-old man who sought treatment in a Florida dermatology clinic. “He denied any domestic or foreign travel, exposure to armadillos, prolonged contact with immigrants from leprosy-endemic countries, or connections with someone known to have leprosy.” The man has been a central Florida resident for his entire life and “works in landscaping, and spends long periods of time outdoors” He was referred to an infectious disease program and was prescribed triple therapy with dapsone, rifampin, and clofazimine.
The Sun reports that a Texas man in his 20s was recently diagnosed with leprosy after months of battling a mysterious skin rash. “He was heavily tattooed and moved to the US from Samoa — where leprosy is still endemic — four years before he was diagnosed. After a course of antibiotics and surgery to repair damaged tendons in his hands, he is said to be improving.
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, there are “about 200-250 newly diagnosed cases reported to the national registry each year. The largest number of cases in the U.S. live in California, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, New York, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.”
Researchers said a high percentage of cases in the southern United States “were found to carry the same unique strain of M. leprae as nine-banded armadillos in the region, suggesting a strong likelihood of zoonotic transmission.” But while a recent systematic review “supports an increasing role of anthroponotic and zoonotic transmission of leprosy,” another study demonstrated that the cases in the eastern United States, including Georgia and central Florida, “lacked zoonotic exposure or recent residence outside of the United States.”
That led researchers to suspect “that international migration of persons with leprosy is a potential source of autochthonous transmission.” They noted that “The number of international migrants in North America increased from 27.6 million persons in 1990 to 58.7 million in 2020, so a link to migration may account for the increase in incidence of leprosy in historically nonendemic areas.”
According to the World Health Organization, “As per data of 2019, Brazil, India and Indonesia reported more than 10,000 new cases, while 13 other countries (Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka and the United Republic of Tanzania) each reported 1,000–10,000 new cases.”
So, not only are migrants bringing communicable diseases like COVID-19 and tuberculosis across the Southern border, but they’re also likely bringing leprosy. It’s been added to the Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) list of diseases with “public health significance,” according to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP):
[ZERO] The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, also known as the "Black Party" in South Africa, is a far left Marxist movement with a membership in the millions.
The party has consistently called for the eradication of all white South Africans, though this fact often goes completely ignored by the western media.
At a rally this week packed with members wearing communist red, EFF leader Julius Malema hyped up the mob with a racially charged chant of 'Kill the Boers! Kill the farmers!'
The word Boer is used in South Africa to describe white farmers of Dutch heritage, or white people in general.
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From a whole other ["Policing Black speech!"] context...
Look inwards, American boors,
For balms or more permanent cures:
'Twas easier -- triggers! --
To seize slavers' "n-words"
Than -- inwards! -- to take away yours.
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[ColonelCassad] Niger has completely stopped the export of uranium and gold to France. The corresponding statement was made the leadership of the Military Council, which took over the administration of the country.
Niger is the world's fourth largest producer of uranium and the #1 source of uranium used to generate electricity in France. It accounted for nearly 25% of all European Union uranium imports in 2021, helping to generate electricity for millions of households across the EU.
PS. It remains to expel French and American troops from the country, invite Prigozhin and transfer the French and American bases to Wagner PMC. After that, apply to the SCO and BRICS. The decolonization of Niger must be assured to the end.
PS2. Niger is already being threatened with foreign intervention to get the uranium back into French hands. An ultimatum was put forward to the military government - to restore the old president within 15 days, otherwise there will be consequences, up to intervention by a number of states dependent on France.
Therefore, it is too early for the military to relax. It is necessary to consolidate the seized power, eliminate the threat of intervention and paralyze foreign centers of influence on the territory of Niger.
The new authorities of Niger have suspended the export of uranium and gold to France, the BBC reported on July 31.
It is noted that Niger is the seventh producer of uranium in the world.
This African country accounts for 15% to 17% of the uranium used to generate electricity in France. Earlier, Spain and Germany decided to suspend cooperation with Niger.
As IA Regnum reported, on the night of July 27, a group of military men in Niger appeared on national television, announcing a coup d'état and the overthrow of Mohamed Bazum. Colonel Amadou Abdramane said the leader was opposed because of the deteriorating security situation.
French President Emmanuel Macron will not tolerate any attack on the country and its interests in Niger, and Paris will respond immediately and uncooperatively, Le Monde newspaper reported on July 30, citing a statement from the Elysee Palace.
Any military intervention against Niger would be tantamount to a declaration of war between Burkina Faso and Mali. The transitional governments of the two countries made a corresponding statement.
“The Transitional Governments of Burkina Faso and Mali warn that any military intervention against Niger will amount to a declaration of war against Burkina Faso and Mali,” the statement said.
It is also noted that Burkina Faso and Mali are ready to withdraw from ECOWAS in the event of military intervention against Niger .
As reported by IA Regnum , on July 26, an attempted coup d'état took place in Niger. President Mohamed Bazum, after unsuccessful negotiations, was detained by his own guards. The office of the head of state said that individual guards began a mutiny, trying in vain to enlist the support of the National Armed Forces and the National Guard.
Representatives of the military seized power in Niger made an appeal on national television. In it, they announced the removal of President Mohamed Bazum from the post of head of state, as well as the closure of the country's borders and the suspension of all Niger institutions. In addition, they warned against any foreign interference.
The country has declared a nationwide curfew. The soldiers took control of all the roads leading to the broadcaster's building.
On July 30, ECOWAS gave rebels in Niger a week to return President Mohamed Bazum to power. If this does not happen, “all measures”, including military ones, will be applied to them.
It shouldn't take these geniuses more than a couple weeks to figure out that uranium supplies are fungible. It will get slightly more expensive for the rest of the world, and they'll realize that they can't give it away.
And as far as Burkina Faso and Mali are concerned, they are what Jim Dunnigan calls 'police armies' - rarely dangerous to anyone other than the people they oppress. Their survival time up against French paras will be measured in minutes.
[Hot Air] OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — Yellow Freight, one of the oldest trucking companies in America, located here in this Johnson County city, hit the end of the road Friday when both union and nonunion office workers at the facility were told they had been laid off.
It was an announcement that comes days ahead of an expected bankruptcy filing by Yellow — a rumor that has caused freight customers to cancel orders and Yellow’s stock to plunge as the probability of liquidation has escalated in recent weeks.
Here in the Kansas City metropolitan area, it meant around 1,000 people were without a job, but that economic pain does not stop at the city limits. As one of the largest freight trucking companies in the country, employing over 30,000 (22,000 of them members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters), the economic impact is going to broaden as it affects the country’s already wobbly supply chain.
The news comes less than a week after the Teamsters reached an agreement with United Parcel Service averting a strike that would have crippled the nation’s supply chain and placed nearly 300,000 union jobs on the picket line.
The 99-year-old Yellow company, which has been hobbled by a series of mergers that left it in heavy debt, has been embroiled in labor talks with the Teamsters for months over a new labor contract. The standoff between the two became so dire at the end of June that the carrier sent a letter to President Joe Biden imploring him for help negotiating with the Teamsters in the same way Biden did with the threatened railroad strike last year.
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QUESTION
Has the Union become a Kiss of Death to US industry and companies?
Sure, I'd be the 1st to agree it was needed during the industrial revolution period into the maybe the 1960's. Given various Robber Barons ROI approaches.
Yes, It was needed, and it yes served as a great promoter of safer working conditions and labor laws, that we use with or without a unionized company today.
But, in the last 50 years, its always increasing demands have created NAFTA and so much Gov. Regulation and Reporting. Which has resulted in 100's of major companies to seek production of products in countries where unions have little say.
Where company can produce and sell a product at a consumer acceptable price and still show a viable R.O.I.to investors.
All of which resulted in US unionized and Non-Union companies going overseas to avoid Unions, unionization or Federal red tape. Which resulted a mass US job declined and Union decline membership since 1960 has dropped by about 60+/-%
Add to this, the unions chiefs seem to donate a lot of the Rank and File dues ($1.8 to $2 Billion $$$$$$ (OpenSecrets) ) mainly to LSD's pockets. Money that should have gone to its members retirement funds and benefits.
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This article forgets to state that the company also got a 700 million covid "relief" payout a couple years ago.
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actually, thanks to the cooling economy, the supply chain is in decent shape (post the UPS agreement)
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Yeah, some stuff I could not get in 2020 is being given away now.
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Coldplay predicted this years ago.
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Big Labor™ is just as destructive as Big Business™. My older brother served his navy enlistment and got a job as an electrician (he still wonders why that set of apartments hasn't burned down). One day a meeting was held a dapper individual, flanked by two absolute gorillas (guards against management goons and Pinkertons dontcha know) adviced them to vote to join a 'sympathy strike' against the construction company. It didn't matter about their livelihoods they were supposed to shout "Union Solidarity!" and jump into poverty... Some other union in some other state had an issue and they were supposed to suffer for the cause.
Of course the labor organizer and his goons guards will still get paid in any event... Big Labor™ works for Big Labor™ like any other bureaucracy.
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Big Labor™ is just as destructive as Big Business™
Two sides of the same plugged nickel.
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Someone should track the liquidation of the rolling stock inventory. There may be a story about why this was engineered to pick off existing but still valuable rolling stock that doesn't need to meet the crazy new emissions regs from the Bidet Slash and Burn Industrial Model.
If you want to be paid more than you produce, you will eventually be paid zero.
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ZH had an article that this bankruptcy had been brewing for years. Yellow led a too-aggressive acquisition policy, had at least one reverse stock split, and was just in bad shape, probably not unlike J.C. Penney with its mountains of debt.
So, indeed, the covid "relief" money might have plugged a small hole, but the writing was on the wall apparently.
No sympathy for the company. I wish some US airlines would suffer the same fate after getting government handouts only to award C-Suite pukes with bonuses, you know, for jobs well done.
No Volcano.
New perm.
[FoxNews] U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry was blasted on social media over the weekend by critics who accused him of trying to destroy the agriculture industry in order to achieve "net zero" emissions.
"Agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world, depending a little bit on how you count it, but it’s anywhere from 26 to 33, and we can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution," Kerry told a climate change summit in May.
"You just can’t continue to both warm the planet while also expecting to feed it," Kerry added. "It doesn’t work. So, we have to reduce emissions from the food system."
That clip was widely shared over the weekend after being posted by the Twitter account Wide Awake Media, which led to a new wave of criticism against the Biden administration's top climate envoy. Republican Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois called them an "attack on American farmers."
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Excuse me, John. Do you understand where food comes from? I mean the part *before* it miraculously shows up in boxes, bins and cans at the local grocery.
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I call it the "We will import it from Shangri-La" theory: somebody in some other country will produce it so why worry? It is an easy assumption if you are a wealthy person.
Link goes to the Cleveland Federal Reserve site which does NOW casting on the CPI.
For June (from the BLS site)
CPI - year over year = 3.0%
coreCPI - year over year = 4.8%
For July (from the Cleve Fed site which does the now cast and has finished uploading July 31 numbers)
CPI - year over year = 3.4%
coreCPI - year over year = 4.9%
so, inflation is not getting better and maybe it is getting worse - of course final numbers may be slightly different
August may also be a problem month since Yellow Corp which set the lowest cost freight rates for trucks is going bankrupt which will allow other companies to increase their rates
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[Dawn] India’s Supreme Court came down hard on the Manipur police on Monday and demanded to see a complete break-up of the approximately 6,000 cases of murder, rape, arson, crimes against women, burning of villages, homes and places of worship the state government claimed to have registered during the ethnic festivities.
A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud, was hearing petitions by the two women who were paraded naked and raped. The bench observed it was surprised to find both the centre and the state groping for facts about crimes which are "public knowledge, reported widely in the national media".
The court set up hearings on Tuesday, and said it was shocked to know that the Manipur police took 14 whole days to register even a ’Zero FIR’ (an FIR that can be filed in any cop shoppe) on the sexual assault and gang-rape of two women in Thoubal district on May 4, The Hindu said.
While the video of the horrific visuals of the sexual violence went viral on July 19, the case was transferred to the relevant cop shoppe on June 21 a day after the Supreme Court took suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... cognisance of the video.
The arrests, seven in number, were made only after the apex court took judicial note. "What were the police doing from May 4 to May 18? The incident came to light involving three women paraded naked in the presence of a mob. At least, two of them were raped. What were the police doing for 14 days?" Chief Justice Chandrachud asked Attorney General R. Venkataramani and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the centre and the Manipur state government.
Alleging "collaboration" between the state police and the mob, the two women, represented by senior advocate Kapil Sibal, have objecting to the government decision to transfer the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which works under Home Minister Amit Shah.
Mr Sibal said the police, instead of taking the women away from the mob, took them towards the crowd and abandoned them to their fate.
The court proposed appointing its own special investigation team.
’SYSTEMIC ACTS OF VIOLENCE’
The chief justice said the May 4 incident was not an isolated one. "This is apparent from the home secretary’s affidavit. As much as we want to give justice to the two women, we also want to put in place a mechanism by which justice is available to all other women. We have to put in a mechanism to ensure complaints are filed, FIRs are lodged... The process of justice should go to the victims’ doorsteps," he observed.
The solicitor general claimed the government was "serious" and had "nothing to hide", saying that the government was open to the Supreme Court monitoring the investigation. "There are reasons why the case investigation was transferred to the CBI, so that it is a neutral investigation... After the video went viral, people were arrested in 24 hours," he claimed.
The law officer explained the 14-day delay in registering the Zero FIR, saying "May 18 was the day when the incident was brought to our notice". But the court asked whether the Thoubal incident was a "standalone" instance of perpetration of violence on women in Manipur during the festivities. "Let us say for example if there are 1,000 of them, will the CBI be able to cope? How many such FIRs are there really? Here we are dealing with systemic acts of violence committed in the course of communal and sectarian strife," the court told the government.
The bench said it had to first see a "breakdown" of the 6,000 FIRs the government was said to have registered.
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But they can't do anything about the gold plaque that has only male and female humanoid figures on it. And the female figure wasn't wearing a burqua. Maybe they were trying to send a self-destruct code.
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08/01/2023 19:19 Comments ||
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[TruthAboutCars] An enormous vehicle carrier that caught fire at sea earlier this week appears to have far more electric vehicles on board than first suggested.
This ship, christened the Fremantle Highway, was first reported aflame off the Dutch coast a couple of days ago. Initial information hinted there were at least 25 EVs on its manifest and that the conflagration likely began at or near one of those cars. Now, reports are surfacing that there could be nearly five hundred electric cars in the ship’s hold, a realization that adds a lot more gravitas to a situation that has already claimed the life of one person and injured scores of others.
A spokesperson for the vessel’s charter told Automotive News their records show 3,783 vehicles in total aboard the ship, about a thousand more than first reported, including 498 battery-electric vehicles. Specific brands were not mentioned but information already in the public sphere tells us at least 10 percent of the total are Mercedes-Benz units, though it is unclear how many – if any – of the EVs are Mercs. BMW has also told some outlets they have vehicles aboard the Fremantle Highway.
Astute readers know fires involving lithium-ion batteries are notoriously difficult to extinguish, often burning with ferocious intensity exceeding that of a blaze fuelled by traditional materials. It is worth noting local authorities have yet to pin down the fire’s exact cause, so it would be irresponsible to say with certainty that a faulty EV is on the hook for this disaster. What can be said with certainty is that any fire, regardless of its source, in a confined space containing hundreds of electric cars has the potential to be one hell of an inferno.
Information on MarineTraffic.com says the Fremantle Highway departed a port in Germany’s North Sea around 5:00 pm local time on Tuesday. Records show it was planning a sail to Port Said in Egypt, near the Suez Canal, a journey of about a week’s steam. The ship was built about 12 years ago and is a big’un, over 650 feet long.
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Dark Market Capitalism 101
Products not selling on the open market in a down economy, tend to experience mass accidents that destroy the unsellable products.
While still providing a good R.O.I . just from the Insurance company instead. Plus the Tax write-offs.
Of Course, it could just be the well-known problem of EV batteries shorting out (water or rough handling) and going FLAME ON.
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Records show it was planning a sail to Port Said in Egypt, near the Suez Canal, a journey of about a week’s steam. The ship was built about 12 years ago and is a big’un, over 650 feet long.
...I'm not thinkin' that the EV infrastructure in Port Said - or anywhere else in that part of the world - is very robust...
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Remember during early covid, when there was a giant glut of rental cars and a strange fire destroyed hundreds of perfectly good cars? Not even on a shiop!
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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.
