[FoxNews] Moussa Diarra, 57, is charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon
A New York City parking garage attendant was hit with an attempted murder charge after confronting an armed thief and wrestling the gun away before opening fire on the suspect.
Moussa Diarra, 57, is also charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the incident that occurred at around 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
The attendant had observed a man looking into cars on the second floor of the West 31st Street garage in Manhattan, police said, according to the New York Post. Diarra suspected the man was stealing, so he brought him outside and questioned him about what was inside his bag.
The man then pulled a gun on Diarra, who attempted to grab the firearm. The gun was fired, leaving Diarra with a shot to the stomach and grazed in the ear by a bullet.
Diarra proceeded to turn the firearm on the potential thief and shot him in the chest.
The alleged thief, 59-year-old Charles Rhodie, was also charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. He also faces a burglary charge, police said.
Diarra and Rhodie were transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition after Saturday's incident at the parking garage.
The charges against Diarra for defending himself against an attacker come after a similar incident last year. In July, Manhattan bodega clerk Jose Alba was charged with murder after a confrontation in the store with an angry customer who attacked him behind his counter. Alba stabbed and killed the attacker in self-defense but found himself at the Rikers Island jail charged with murder.
#2
Need Wall Street firms to pull out of that sh!t hole lock, stock, and barrel, take their tax base with them, and just leave those animals to themselves.
#3
I thought I was reading about some whacky case from Iran or some European or Canadian silliness. This is a shot victim turning the gun on an attacker in a gun controlled US city. Any person who goes into one of these Soros patrolled fun zones is surrendering all their Constitutional rights as they cross the border into squalid irrationality.
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#4
New York has a brand alright, and it ain't Wyatt Earp.
#3
Little white Lies
[sighs]
"A hundred years later, the gators
Still wait at the banks for the baiters!"
"Whoever denies
That they fished in this wise
Must be straight up supremacist haters!"
#4
Cried a small Irish babe in a bog,
"I'm delivered! A big feckin' log!"
But alas, 'twas his fate
In the States to be bait
As less dear than a golly or dog.
...the brilliant, semi-divorced, retired accountant high roller who, while on anti-anxiety meds, collected a bunch of guns and bump stocks, found a hotel room overlooking a country music festival after checking out several other mass murder opportunities around the country, and went to town. Oddly enough, his father was an FBI-wanted psychopath, while he and his brother collected child p0rn...
64, burned through more than $1.5million through gambling in the months leading up to the massacre
Despite the new revelation, authorities did not determine a cause for Paddock's massacre, saying it 'causes more harm' to the victims
The high-stakes gambler carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern America, killing 60 and injuring hundreds more in Las Vegas in 2017
#1
If this is true information, there was no reason to keep his motive out of the public domain. As we sit and speculate on the contents of manifesto of the latest child murderer, we ask the question why? Do they think we are too stupid to guess? Are they protecting the presumed innocent spree killer that was plugged on cop cam with the murder weapons in her hands? How will the info suppression really have worked out in the end in the case of Qanon Shaman when he eventually gets paid for his jail time.
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#2
The only certainty about the motivation of the Las Vegas shooter is that the FBI waited SIX years to release this explanation. Obviously either they waited because the real truth was hugely embarrassing, it involved some very important rice bowl somehow, or because the truth would cause a huge, angry reaction from the public.
The real tragedy is that the most Americans now assume immediately that the FBI is hiding something or protecting some elite.
#2
Is there a rage and vengeance day scheduled to counteract this grave affront to traditional media?
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#3
Reading past the headline, my shadenboner is somewhat deflated to learn that it is not the Times losing its badge, but the entire blue check program winding down.
The amusing part is the NYT can't / won't pay $8 per month for advertising.
#4
Actually, Twitter wants to charge corporations $1000/month for bluechecks, with $50/mo for associated accounts. As in, make them pay for the free publishing.
They, of course, believe that we all should feel grateful that they bestow their wisdom on us.
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#5
Shoot, I don't blame the Slimes. $1,000/month? No way.
#1
Oddly enough, I'd banged this out earlier, before seeing your lovely post, much less hearing the words...
"Beasts, please, in a peaceable throng
Abide, passing beverage and bong!"
Would we ever have heard
Of today's birthday bird
If he'd sung that same song all along?
#4
^ Not likely, boss, mostly because I doubt I could kick this Rantburg habit if I tried, but also because your sense of humor (what I get of it, anyway) has always reminded me extremely of one of me uncles (a Cold War CI).
#2
As the Covid misinformation is rolled up, the Man Bear Pig mythology becomes a harder and harder sell. The game of Othello has been permanently lost for them at the corner leverage points. Like you can’t unsee a closeup of Madonna’s face, you can’t re-trust the science again once you realize how many people they killed for record vaccination profit margins.
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#3
Whenever the word 'Watchdog' or 'experts' or 'thinktank' come up in a new story I immediately file it into the bullshit can. and Climate Change.
[ZH] The results of Berlin’s Climate Neutrality By 2030 referendum tell us that FFF and Last Generation are fringe movements, remote of even Berlin’s mainstream.
It’ll take a long time for the radical climate activists to recover from this major setback
CRUSHING DEFEAT
Last Sunday’s "Berlin Climate Neutrality By 2030" referendum failed resoundingly despite the more than a million euros spent in a massive run-up campaign that included plastering the city with posters, concerts by famous performers, huge support and propaganda by the media and hefty donations coming from left wing activists from the east and west coasts of USA.
Once the dust of the referendum had settled, it emerged that the "yes" side fell way short of the quorum 608,000 votes needed to pass the measure. Only 442,210 cast a vote in favor, which represents only 18% of Berlin’s eligible voters. The activists expected a far greater turnout. 82% refused to lend any support.
Berlin’s rejection of the climate neutrality by 2030 mandate is a massive body blow to the the radical Fridays for Future and Last Generation movement in Germany, and it will take months for the radicals to recover, it ever, from this setback.
The Berlin initiative to make the city climate neutral by 2030 was led by rich, upper class youths like Luisa "Longhaul" Neubauer. But Berliners, having been harassed for months by activists gluing themselves to the streets and blocking traffic, saw the folly of the initiative and the high costs it would entail politically and financially. They decided resoundingly they’d wanted no part of it.
LASHING OUT AT THE MAJORITY
The agony of referendum defeat was palpable as some of its leaders reacted by lashing out and insulting those who refused to vote "yes", In a video, movement co-leader Luisa Neubauer sank into cynical accusations against the majority, even calling the uncooperative Berliners "fossil cynics" and "climate destroyers".
Neubauer added:
"There are forces in this city that are doing everything to get the last spark of climate destruction out."
In Neubauer’s view these forces include the vast 82% of Berliners who refused to vote "yes". So troublesome democracy can be.
"BUBBLE HAS FINALLY BURST"
Germany’s Pleiteticker here commented on the Berlin referendum:
Social Democrat Dario Schramm wept on Twitter at the gloating that would now come from the other side. But he and other supporters of the green ban politics need not be surprised. For years they have been spreading their ideas of good politics for years in a self-righteous, arrogant and sometimes aggressive manner.
They, mostly members of the upper middle class, have declared war on the lower and lower middle class with their destructive climate measures. Outside the Berlin political bubble and the other urban feel-good oases of Germany, the Neubauers of this world never possessed much support. And now the bubble has finally burst. In the Marzahn, Köpenick and Lichtenberg districts, the majority of voters voted against the referendum. The normal working population of Berlin decided against the journalistic and political elite."
But don’t expect the climate radicals to go away. They’ll be back at it soon enough.
#4
Another lockdown or hefty travel restrictions (in the name of the environment) might be in the cards. I wouldn't put anything past these wretched tyrants.
#2
The Belvidere Apollo Theater sold-out concert began at 7 p.m. 'Death Metal' bands Morbid Angel, Revocation, and Skeletal Remains were on the bill at the venue. The collapse happened about 30 minutes into the concert.
It's weird that the grandchildren of the Belvidere High School kids that experienced the '67 tornado might have been in the Apollo audience last Friday.
[ShabelleMedia] Somaliland forces attacked again on Saturday morning in the city of Lasanod after the US urged warring sides to de-escalate the tension and begin talks.
The breakaway regional troops launched an attack in the western and eastern directions of Lasanod, as confirmed by sources. Both sides suffered losses as a result of the skirmish.
According to reports reaching Shabelle Radio’s news desk, the fighting is going on in the west of Lasanod where the sound of heavy weapons is being heard.
There are no further details about the casualties of the current fighting which is between Somaliland soldiers and SSC fighters who are defending the city from Bihi’s militia.
On Friday, the US state department demanded an "immediate" unconditional cease-fire Thursday in Somalia’s northern town of Lasanod.
The current Lasanod violence that was prompted by the murder of a prominent politician in December 2022 has killed more than 200 people, including women and kiddies.
The contested northern city has witnessed nearly three months of conflict that forced nearly 300,000 persons to flee their houses, some entering Æthiopia’s Somali region.
[Breitbart] Multiple ministers in the government of Australia expressed this week an interest in expanding exports of lithium to India, particularly in response to concerns that America has become too lucrative a market for exports and may corner lithium supplies.
Lithium is a key mineral in the manufacture of electric vehicle and other batteries necessary for the development of a “green” economy away from fossil fuels. Australia is the world’s largest producer of lithium, considerably above the production of Chile and China, the second and third most productive lithium mining countries in the world. Australia’s abundant lithium supply is not matched by refining and other manufacturing capacity, meaning it largely exports lithium to the United States and China, the latter of which currently dominates the manufacture of lithium batteries. Given its prominence as the top lithium battery maker in the world, the Chinese Communist Party has invested heavily in buying up mines and processing facilities in Chile and Australia, as well as other potentially large suppliers in Africa, primarily Zimbabwe.
The government of left-wing Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, discussing Australia’s lithium trade, expressed far more concern with America becoming too attractive a market for its lithium exports in the near future than with China’s potential dominance in the sector. The Indian newspaper the Hindu reported on Friday that Trade and Tourism Minister Don Farrell, speaking to reporters, said his government was concerned that the “Inflation Reduction Act,” a Democrat-led law passed last year to greatly increase government funding for “green” initiatives, would lead to most Australian lithium ending up in the United States.
The “Inflation Reduction Act” included a provision that requires at least 40 percent of lithium imported for battery manufacture to come from countries that have a free trade agreement with America, which includes Australia.
“There are very few countries with both an FTA [Free Trade Agreement] and the largest reserves and we are one of them. So we see great opportunity for Australia,” Farrell told reporters, according to the Hindu. “What we don’t want to see is all of those critical minerals gathered up and headed to the United States.”
Farrell reportedly suggested that India would be a desirable destination for Australian lithium to ensure a variety of purchasers.
“We give you the opportunity of investing in our country. India is building an electric vehicles industry and Australia would like to be part of it,” he said.
The Australian government appeared to be responding to pressure from its domestic lithium corporations, who see America as a “threat” because its market is too comparatively favorable to other countries – and it may discourage Australians seeking to establish lithium refining plants from doing so at home.
“The new policy environment [in the US] creates both an opportunity and threat to Australia’s downstream ambitions,” Mineral Resources, a top Australian lithium producer, said in a letter to the Albanese administration this week.
The letter continued:
The fact that prior to the IRA [Inflation Reduction Act], the US was already one of the world’s most competitive manufacturing economies – and Australia was one of the world’s least – means it will now be more challenging for Australia to move much further down the lithium-ion value chain and for Australian companies to convince overseas joint venture partners and investors to invest in Australia.
“The IRA will also incentivise US companies to invest in Australian mines as means to secure critical minerals, with the added incentives then offered to building battery chemicals in the US,” the letter reportedly continued. “This has the net effect of creating a significant disincentive for US companies to invest further in battery chemical facilities in Australia.”
The Australian Financial Review reported this week that Mineral Resources (MinRes) urged the government to offer tax and other incentives to lithium battery producers in Australia to keep them home, and to keep American companies from buying up lithium mines in Australia.
[FoxNews] While Chris Elston was speaking to a journalist, a trans activist lunged at his throat, swung at his head, and pulled him to the ground
Popular conservative activist "Billboard Chris" appeared to be violently assaulted by aggressive transgender activists at a pro-trans rally in Vancouver, Canada yesterday.
Though police seemed to break up the assault after it began, the conservative activist stated that Vancouver PD "did nothing" to keep the militant trans rally goer from assaulting him beyond making sure he wasn’t injured more in the attack.
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[BBC] Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move.
Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating pattern.
The last time Russia had the presidency, February 2022, it launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
It means the Security Council is being led by a country whose president is subject to an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes.
The International Criminal Court - which is not a UN institution - issued the warrant for Vladimir Putin last month.
Despite Ukraine's complaints, the United States said it could not block Russia - a permanent council member - from assuming the presidency.
The other permanent members of the council are the UK, US, France, and China.
The role is mostly procedural, but Moscow's ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzia, told the Russian Tass news agency that he planned to oversee several debates, including one on arms control.
He said he would discuss a "new world order" that, he said, was coming to "replace the unipolar one".
But the US has said its hands were tied as the UN charter does not allow for the removal of a permanent member.
[IsraelTimes] Police also issue arrest warrant for attacker after footage goes viral; Iran’s president stresses wearing headscarf is obligatory
Iranian authorities ordered the arrest of two women, the judiciary said Saturday, after a viral video show them being attacked by a man for not wearing the hijab.
Video footage widely shared on social media in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... showed the two female customers, who were not wearing the mandatory hijab or headscarf, in a shop being assaulted by a man after a verbal altercation.
The footage shows the man pouring a container of what appears to be yogurt on the two women’s heads before he is confronted by the shopkeeper.
Authorities issued an arrest warrant against the man "on charges of committing an insulting act and disturbance of order," the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported.
But police also arrested the two women for "committing a forbidden act" by removing their headscarves.
"Necessary notices have been issued to the owner of the shop where this happened in order to comply with legal and Sharia principles according to the regulations," it added.
It comes after the death in jug of Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini in September sparked months of protests after the 22-year-old’s arrest for an alleged breach of the strict dress code for women.
Hundreds of people were killed, including dozens of security personnel, and thousands were arrested in connection with what Iranian officials described as "riots" fomented by Israel and the West.
On Saturday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi reiterated calls affirming that Iranian women should wear the hijab as a "religious necessity."
"Hijab is a legal matter and adherence to it is obligatory," he said.
In late March, the head of the judiciary Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said "removing hijab amounts to enmity towards values, and people who commit such abnormality will be punished."
[ZERO] Reports out of China continue to confirm that scientists there are still seeking to push through barriers with Frankenstein-like experimentation on genes with an eye toward the manipulation of human DNA - any and all ethical considerations be damned. What could go wrong?
The Hong-based South China Morning Post has a doozy of a headline out this week based on a breakthrough announcement by a team of scientists linked to the Chinese military, working in Beijing: "Chinese team behind extreme animal gene experiment says it may lead to super soldiers who survive nuclear fallout."
The project was first unveiled in the Chinese-language journal, Military Medical Sciences, and has been gaining more and more media attention and interest within the scientific community, but is also raising serious ethical quandaries, despite the experiment being defended by its overseers as "totally legal".
According to details, the military scientists say they've successfully "inserted a gene from the microscopic water bear into human embryonic stem cells and significantly increased these cells’ resistance to radiation."
"They said success in this unprecedented experiment could lead to super-tough soldiers who could survive nuclear fallout," SCMP writes. The initiative involved the experimental introduction into human DNA (utilizing embryonic cells) of a key gene found the water bear. The gene in question gives the microscopic creature rare resistance to radiation and other extreme environmental effects.
Scientists have long considered that water bears, also known as tardigrades, may hold genetic secrets which could one day be key to human survival and longevity. The eight-legged tiny animal which is smaller than a millimeter in length, has been described as follows:
Tardigrades are tiny, cute and virtually indestructible. The microscopic animals are able to survive in a pot of boiling water, at the bottom of a deep-sea trench or even in the cold, dark vacuum of space. In August, an Israeli spacecraft carrying tardigrades as part of a scientific experiment crashed on the moon, and scientists believe they may have survived.
Having isolated the Tardigrade's gene capable of producing shieldlike proteins which can protect against radiation and other harms, the Chinese team said it "found a way to introduce this gene into human DNA using CRISPR/Cas9, a gene-editing tool now available in most bio-labs," according to the SCMP review of the experiment.
"In their laboratory experiment, nearly 90 per cent of the human embryonic cells carrying the water bear gene survived a lethal exposure to X-ray radiation, according to the team led by professor Yue Wen with the radiation biotechnology laboratory at the Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing," the report continues.
#2
They'll create Frankenstein rather than super soliders. I'm affront by these creepy mad scientists with their anti ghuman science. How about curing cancer or something?
#3
I understand North Korea is prone to this sort of thing. Currently I read somewhere they experiment on the inferior Korean types. The desire to purify the Korean gene pool. No brakes here. Anything is possible.
#8
....too late. The domestic ones have already spread to Atlanta, The Swamp, Philadelphia, NYC, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, LA, SF, Portland and Seattle.
#9
Those types of experiments will not work, but the evil people will continue to pursue them until the CCP collapses. It is like the stem cell experiments from aborted babies. Nothing positive came of that method, while stem cell research from other sources yielded progress. Evil experimentation will never be fruitful; the world was not created that way.
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[Dawn] The prevalence of glaucoma in children is increasing at a rapid pace in Pakistain which requires proper intervention, according to a statement released by al-Shifa Trust Eye hospital.
This may be due to the high incidence of consanguinity or family marriages in Pakistain, it said.
As long as one cares only for preserving property and nothing for the health and happiness of anyone involved, close-cousin marriages are a wonderful thing.
Timely medication and surgical treatment can help control this disease with a good visual outcome and can save many children from lifelong visual disability or blindness, said Prof Dr Sumaira Altaf, head of the Paediatric department at the hospital.
She said that glaucoma in children has become a growing cause of concern worldwide and in Pakistain as millions are suffering from it.
Treatment of glaucoma in children needs specialised medical and surgical care and frequent follow-ups hence parents of children suffering from childhood glaucoma have to face psychological and financial stress, she added.
Dr Altaf said that the hospital provides free-of-cost medical and surgical treatment to 80 percent of the patients who are treated by experienced and skilled paediatric ophthalmologists.
On average, 22 to 25 paediatric eye surgeries are performed daily including various types of surgeries for glaucoma,
she said, adding that the successful treatment of these patients has resulted in a high number of referrals to the trust’s hospital from all over the country.
A large number of cases of paediatric glaucoma have secondary causes either due to trauma, previous eye surgery, associated eye anomalies or injudicious use of steroids.Dr Sumaira highlighted that the vision of many unfortunate children has been compromised because of the careless use of over-the-counter steroid eye drops.
Moreover, harmful medicines are frequently prescribed by salesmen at pharmacies, relatives, quacks, and sometimes by general practitioners, who are ignorant that these medicines lead to complications and irreversible blindness.
Pharmaceutical companies should also mention the side effects of these medicines on their packaging as knowledge regarding paediatric glaucoma is scarce, she said, adding that examination at birth by an ophthalmologist is recommended for every child to rule out any eye abnormality.
She said that an annual eye examination by an ophthalmologist is recommended for detection of early signs of glaucoma or other ocular problems so that an intervention could be done before it is too late.
Dr Sumaira said that al-Shifa Department of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Rawalpindi has fully equipped OPD clinics with relevant resources.
The competent team of ophthalmologists, caters to an OPD of 250 to 300 children daily while 22 to 25 paediatric eye surgeries are performed daily under general anaesthesia."Our paediatric ophthalmology department is playing a key role in our fight against childhood blindness," she said.
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.
[FoxNews] Moussa Diarra, 57, is charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[FoxNews] While 
[BBC] Russia has taken the presidency of the 
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[ZERO] Reports out of China continue to confirm that scientists there are still seeking to push through barriers with Frankenstein-like experimentation on genes with an eye toward the manipulation of human DNA - any and all ethical considerations be damned. What could go wrong? 
