[NYPOST] A Florida man was arrested on Friday for allegedly making threats against Walt Disney World on Twitter, including that he was going to throw grenades into executives’ homes, authorities said.
Steven Jordan, 31, of Seminole, was taken into custody by Pinellas County law enforcement after a 186-tweet tirade in a three-hour span on Aug. 8, officials said. At least two of the posts were aimed at Walt Disney World.
According to police, the now-deleted tweets said: "@Disney or we will blow up all of your execs houses with C4" and "@Disney I will toss a hand grenade threw their loft window."
Police alleged Jordan also made several threats towards Activision and its executives over the gaming company’s sexual harassment lawsuit.
Jordan’s account was suspended by Twitter on Aug. 9.
Detectives working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement determined Jordan was the owner of the raging account, cops said.
Jordan allegedly admitted to the threatening tweets in an interview, police said.
He was charged with threatening to throw, place or discharge a destructive device. Jordan faced a similar charge in 2019 when he was arrested for falsely reporting a bomb.
He was being held in the Pinellas County Jail on a $10,000 bond.
[NYPOST] A 13-year-old boy was arrested after he allegedly fatally shot a classmate at their Albuquerque middle school on Friday, authorities said.
The shooting was a "lone incident" in which one student shot another in the schoolyard during lunch break at Washington Middle School, Albuquerque Police Department Deputy Commander Kyle Hartsock said in a presser.
A school resource officer was able to "de-escalate the situation" and apprehend the gunman, police said. No other students were maimed.
Police are looking into how the shooter — who wasn’t immediately publicly identified — got the weapon, local reports said.
"It’s just a terrible day for APS. It’s a terrible day for this community," Scott Elder, superintendent of Albuquerque Public Schools, said.
Elder thanked the brave staff of the middle school for protecting the children during and after the shooting, saying they "showed tremendous courage and strength in keeping the other students safe and calm and got them out safely to their families, especially our school resource officer who ran towards the event and tried to help."
There will be no classes on Monday, Elder said, however, staff will be "working with counselors and therapists to help prepare so that when the children return we’ll be equipped to handle them and their concerns in coming back to the school."
One neighbor told KRQE 13 he heard about six gunshots ring out while students were outside in the schoolyard.
"Here we are 10 minutes later and there’s cops everywhere," Ross Rader told the outlet. "I’m frightened right now ... We’ve been experiencing a lot of crime on this block recently."
According to KRQE 13, parents and students said there was a fight at the school on Thursday, but it is unclear if the students in the shooting are the same involved in the argument.
The New Mexico Public Education Department released a statement in response to the shooting, calling it a "horrendous day" for the state.
"Today’s tragic event at Washington Middle School in Albuquerque means the terrible scourge of school violence has landed on our doorstep. While many details are still unknown, we do know that shots were fired, that a child is dead, and that someone is in jug."
"The senseless and violent mostly peaceful death of a child in our protection is, indeed, the worst," the statement said. We share in your grief and pain as we once again are called upon to reflect on our failure — as adults and as a society — to protect and preserve the lives and health of our children."
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[NYPOST] A Dutch man swallowed his car keys while vacationing in Barcelona and pleaded for help inside a supermarket — but he died because no one could understand what he was saying.
The 37-year-old tourist, whose name was not revealed, entered the store in the Sarria district of Catalonia’s capital about 10:15 p.m. Aug. 5 in a state of distress, The US Sun reported.
He was "in an evident state of excitement and causing altercations," according to the outlet, which cited a 20 Minutos report.
Workers notified the municipal police force Guàrdia Urbana, whose officers had to intervene and restrain the man, who soon collapsed outside.
Police tried to resuscitate him before the arrival of medical personnel, who discovered that he had the keys lodged in his throat.
The paramedics removed the keys and rushed him to Sant Pau Hospital, where he died the following morning.
It was unclear if people could not understand him because he was speaking Dutch or if he could not communicate clearly because of the items in his throat, according to the report. Important safety tip: Don't do that.
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The result of a "recreational chemical" misadventure while on holiday?
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[washingtontimes] Future officers at the U.S. Army’s military academy at West Point are being taught several leftist courses that an active-duty military official says are part of Marxist indoctrination.
Three classes in particular at the academy are being taught with what critics say is the goal of social engineering and politicization of the 4,294 cadets: "Social Inequality," "Military Leadership: Leading Inclusive Teams" and "Politics of Race Gender and Sexuality and Diversity." West Point also offers a seminar on diversity and inclusion that features images of Black Lives Matter protesters.
"All of those classes are primarily focused on teaching our nation’s young men and women Marxism in the name of ’social equality,’" the military official told The Washington Times, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The leftist courses were implemented under Army Brig. Gen. Cindy Jebb, who recently retired as West Point’s dean of the academic board. Under Gen. Jebb, West Point loosened academic rigor by giving cadets "study days" that ended Saturday classes and produced a four-day workweek for students.
That critical race theory (CRT) is being taught at West Point was first disclosed by Rep. Michael Waltz, Florida Republican, at a House Armed Services Committee hearing in June during an exchange with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Mr. Austin contended that the controversial theory was not being taught in the U.S. military.
Mr. Waltz then quoted from a letter written by the West Point superintendent, Army Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, who confirmed that the academy is teaching CRT.
"Another thing that was raised to me was a seminar that over a hundred cadets attended titled ’Understanding Whiteness and White Rage,’ taught by a woman who described the Republican Party and Republican Party platform as a platform of White supremacy," Mr. Waltz said during the hearing.
Specific courses at West Point said to be neo-Marxist include one, designated PL377, on "social inequality" in the United States. The course requires cadets to discuss the relevance of class, race, ethnicity and gender on social opportunity and inequality.
Course PL300B explores leading "diverse teams" while applying case studies on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, disability and religion as part of diversity and inclusion studies. The seminar designated SS392 teaches concepts of race, gender and sexuality in the U.S. political system, emphasizing inherent inequalities and how they apply to the Army and Army officers.
The military official said the ideologies taught in the classes are part of a "postmodernism" approach that, along with critical race theory, seeks to attack science and reason to reshape society.
Black Lives Matter is a political organization that seeks to dismantle traditional societal norms, including attacking the nuclear family and further socializing public education. Its founders include avowed Marxists.
"This Marxist postmodern ideology has no business in the military," the official said. "The United States cannot have a military that endorses one ideology over another. The military is an organization that gives and receives orders. Therefore, once the ideology is prevalent, it will be mandated throughout the organization. This was a welcomed practice in Nazi Germany. All Brownshirts were ordered to go through a racial and political purity test."
A spokeswoman for West Point had no immediate comment.
A man was stabbed outside City Hall in LA when a fight broke out during anti-vaccine protest on Saturday
Protest held to push back against recent vaccine mandates and requirements
The Los Angeles City Council voted earlier this week to draw up an ordinance to require proof of vaccination to enter many public indoor spaces in the city
On Saturday, LAPD responded to scene where a man was stabbed and the victim was treated by the Los Angeles Fire Department and is expected to recover
On Twitter video footage identified some of the participants as members of the far-right Proud Boys
Punches could be seen being thrown with one man left bloodied
No arrests have been made and an LAPD investigation is ongoing
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When I lived there 35 years ago, I was told the "monsoon season" was when the dew point exceeded 50%. The swamp coolers were ineffective, too.
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at airport in Phoenix 0.8" yesterday
at airport in Tucson 1.03"
some areas probably had a lot more
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Rained overnight in San Diego too, but not in large quantities.
The prophecy was foretold when I got my truck washed yesterday
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Remember also that Phoenix has no storm sewers at all (because most of the time you don't need them.) So when rain falls, there's nowhere for it to go but evaporate back up into the atmosphere.
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Phoenix has stormwater sewer, it may be underused or underbuilt due to the rest of the arid weather, but they do have it. I suspect the washes get overloaded
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#Tunisia: the area of forests affected by fires in #Fernana and #AinDraham, #Jendouba, this week, has reached nearly 5,700 hectares, according to preliminary estimates of the two forestry departments, besides the damage inflicted to dwellings, said a local official. #TAP_Enpic.twitter.com/DME2HzGg54
[NYPOST] Hospitals near the epicenter of a powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti are "overwhelmed" with patients as Haitians erupted into the streets frantically digging through rubble for casualties.
Among the dead is the former mayor of Cayes, Gabriel Fortune, whose body was found in the rubble of a hotel he owned in the city, which is at the epicenter of the quake, 75 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince.
There are several other victims under the hotel’s rubble, according to Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste. The newspaper reported four dead and "many maimed in the emergency room" at the main hospital in the city, Immaculee des Cayes.
"We are mobilizing all of our resources to aid the victims," said Prime Minister Ariel Henry in a tweet, soon after the morning quake struck the south of the country.
"I send out my sympathies to the relatives of the victims of this violent mostly peaceful earthquake which has cost many lives and a great deal of destruction."
Jerry Chandler, Haiti’s director of civil protection, told the AP that the corpse count stood at 29 and that teams will be sent to the area for search and rescue missions.
"The situation unfolding in Haiti right now is devastating, and we must do all we can to support the Haitian people today and in the months to come," tweeted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
"My thoughts and prayers are with them and our Haitian communities here in New York"
The chairs of the Congressional Haiti Caucus also expressed their sympathies to Haitians in a statement Saturday. We have a Congressional Haiti Caucus? Who knew?
"This earthquake could not have come at a worse time for the people of Haiti; the nation is in the throes of a political crisis, the effects of the compounding COVID-19 pandemic, and is still recovering from the disastrous earthquake that hit the island’s southern peninsula more than a decade ago," said the statement.
"We remain committed to championing adequate aid to the region, supporting bilateral relations and policies that will ensure Haiti’s full economic and political recovery, and the emergence of a durable, Haitian-led democracy."
[IsraelTimes] Haiti’s civil protection agency says at least 227 people have been killed, with hundreds injured and missing, in an earthquake that shook the Caribbean country earlier today.
"The corpse count from the earthquake has risen to 227, including 158 in the south," near the epicenter of the quake, the agency posted on Twitter, adding that hundreds more were maimed and missing.
Initial estimates said just 29 people were killed in the 7.2 magnitude quake.
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Building codes?
Or said another way, enforced building codes. Santa Domingo is more prosperous than Haiti, despite being the other end of their common island. My guess: it is a bit harder to bribe the building inspectors.
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"Overwhelmed hospital" joins concern trolls and "I'm a lifelong Republican but I voted against Trump" in the pantheon of "uh, yeah. Sure..." headlines.
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I don't think the Clinton grifters/criminals will be welcome in Haiti this time.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Shaun I do be black! King ...a Wannabe Negro black activist. Really. He's black. Just look at his haircut. They need his leadership! You're supposed to be intimidated, even though he looks like a dweeb.... took announced on Wednesday that his fashion startup "A Real One" would begin selling 'limited edition' t-shirts and hoodies to his 'community.' The grifter pastor turned 'civil rights activist' enters the fashion business with a series of lingering controversies and failed ventures swirling around him.After a much-fanfared revival of Frederick Douglass's abolitionist newspaper, "The North Star," crashed and burned in part due to his alleged "radical incompetence," King rebranded as a 'crusader' against racial justice.
He raised millions of dollars in the name of Black Lives Matter, but not without serious questions about where that money went. He also faced questions about his own racial identity that earned him comparisons to Rachel Dolezal, and condemnation from some of the families he was purportedly helping.
The former Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... campaign surrogate claims that "A Real One" has been in development for over a year, but at the time of writing has not uploaded any designs or concept art to the page, which has since amassed nearly 77 thousand followers.
The announcement came shortly after it was revealed that King had moved into a luxurious home in North Brunswick, New Jersey, with his family.
This has prompted a resurfacing of allegations, and controversies surrounding Shaun King, journalist Ernest Owens took to Twitter to lambast the 49-year-old activist as "The Grifter Who Stole Christmas."
Doing something useful instead of pointing out well-known problems.
[EpochTimes] Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Aug. 12 that he is launching a Rapid Response Team to dispense monoclonal antibodies to tackle Florida’s rising number of COVID-19 cases and reduce serious symptoms, preventing the potential for hospital overcrowding.
"This is probably the best thing that we can do to reduce the number of people that require hospitalization," DeSantis said at a news conference in Jacksonville, adding that vaccines were strongly encouraged and were effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths by at least 70 percent.
"Clear benefits to this early treatment is keeping people out of the hospital and reducing mortality," he said.
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Monoclonal antibody therapy is little known because of utter incompetence at the state and federal health authority levels dating back to the issuance of the EUA by the FDA starting last November. I sent a query to my state health department asking where these drugs were available, and did not get an answer. Just for curiosity I sent the same query to the SD state health department and got the answer the next day, which was along the lines of "We don't know, contact every hospital in the state and ask them." So at least SD answered my query unlike my own state.
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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.
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[NYPOST] A Dutch man swallowed his car keys while vacationing in Barcelona and pleaded for help inside a supermarket — but he died because no one could understand what he was saying.
...a Wannabe Negro black activist. Really. He's black. Just look at his haircut. They need his leadership! You're supposed to be intimidated, even though he looks like a dweeb....
