[Blaze] A homeowner in Tennessee was able to shoot and kill one of two armed home intruders after they used a Taser on the family dog and threatened his teenage son with a gun.
The Murfreesboro Police Department said officers were called to the home on January Street in Murfreesboro on Friday night at about 8:24 p.m., where they found a masked man shot several times at the entrance to the house.
They later identified him as 52-year-old Kevin Ford, who was declared dead at the scene.
Police said that they found another suspected home intruder at a Salvation Army on Main Street. He had numerous gunshot wounds and was identified as 42-year-old Clifford Wright.
Wright was treated at the Ascension St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital before he was arrested and charged with aggravated burglary, attempted aggravated robbery, convicted felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent felony.
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Seems like breaking into an occupied home in that area of Tennessee during evening awake hours, is likely to end in aeration. They had a master plan for the dog, but the overall strategy was drug hazed at best.
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Oh gawd, that beard... "Not by the hair of your chinny-chin-cheewee-chin!"
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Texas mall gunman scoped out the scene of his crime to track when it would be busiest three weeks before he shot dead eight people in a senseless bloodbath, it has been reported.
A social media account that appears to belong to Mauricio Garcia, 33, is littered with photos of Nazis, guns and ammunition as well as extremist rants about Jews, women and racial minorities, according to Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler.
In the weeks before he committed the senseless mass shooting at Allen Premium Outlets near Dallas, more than two dozen photos of the shopping center and surrounding area were uploaded to an account on the OK.RU platform, including screenshots of Google location information tracking peak visiting times.
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^The OG Nazis were basically less racist (and more practical) than today's internet Nazis. If Mexico had been willing to invade the American southwest, Hitler would have declared them honorary Aryans in a heartbeat.
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Everyone has their own American Dream. His was senseless, destructive and stupid. It is great that he was part of a community. Now that this incident is over, the FBI can get back to surveillance of Rad Trad Catholics.
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Prolly was a content curator for Voz de Aztlan. Flies of all stripes are drawn to sh!t. One big familia.
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.[NYPOST] The Texas mall mass shooter reportedly recorded a bizarre message on his cellphone voicemail — informing his provider that he paid his bill, asking his parents for cash and telling female callers he has "plenty of money."
Mauricio Garcia, who killed eight people and maimed seven others with an AR-15-style assault rifle at the Allen Premium Outlets in Allen on Saturday, appeared to obsess about money in the message, according to records obtained by Fox News Digital.
"Hi, this is Mauricio. If you’re the phone company, I sent you the money, or if you’re my parents, please send money," he says.
"If you are my financial aid institution, you didn’t lend me enough money, if you are a friend, you owe me money. And if you are a female, don’t worry, I have plenty of money," the suspected neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... sympathizer adds, according to the outlet.
It could be his idea of a joke, needing no arcane analysis whatsoever, but mine is a simple world...
The phone number listed in the records goes straight to the odd message. It was unclear when he made the recording.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... it also has emerged that Garcia was kicked out of the US Army in 2008 "due to mental health concerns," law enforcement sources briefed on the investigation told ABC News.
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It sounds like he thought he was a comic genius. I suspect that women were not impressed.
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He was kicked out of the military in 2008 for mental health reasons? You've got to wonder what specifically he did to get booted.
[BLAZE] The 2Bears Tavern Group owns four "LGBTQIA+ establishments" in Chicago. The LGBTQ group proclaimed on Friday, "All 2Bears Tavern Group bars are discontinuing Anheuser-Busch InBev products as a result of the brewer’s anti-transgender actions and statements."
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...Are these people even on the same damned planet any more? "anti-transgender actions and statements"? F'r God's sake, they've bent over backwards to cater to them.
[PJ] Soon there will be three fewer department stores for looters to pick clean in San Francisco.
Nordstrom, Nordstrom Rack, and Saks Off Fifth are all bailing out of what used to be a safer and more vibrant city. Nordstrom cites "rampant criminal activity" and blight as the chief reasons it’s pulling up stakes.
As we’ve reported, Whole Foods closed a key store recently in what used to be a lovely area before drug-addled "homeless" people and "organized retail theft" gangsters began stealing the merchandise. The city "leaders" chose not to enforce laws against tent-dwelling, fentanyl zombies, and crackheads. As a result, the people who are not tent-dwelling fentanyl zombies and crackheads decided to follow the employers and leave. This is what we call a market tell.
When Walgreens closed five stores, Mayor London Breed claimed the retailer did it only to cut costs. It was true. Walgreens got tired of — together now — tent-dwelling fentanyl zombies, crackheads, and organized retail theft gangs stealing its stuff. The pharmacy and all-purpose store had to spend fifty times more on security for its San Francisco stores than its others. Security staff could only wave at thieves as they walked out with $950 worth of stuff.
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My prediction is that the stores will begin to have to pull out of Emeryville, Fremont and eventually Walnut Creek as well. Copperopolis ought to be safe.
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[NYPost] A Tennessee high school teacher was pepper-sprayed twice by an unruly student who became incensed after he confiscated her phone during class, new video shows. Yes, we need in person schooling to facilitate socialization.
Dramatic cellphone footage taken during class Friday at Antioch High School captured the rambunctious student confronting her teacher after her phone was taken away as a disciplinary action.
The disobedient student had been "texting and Googling answers for her school work," according to Reddit user @Lazy_Mouse3803, who shared the now-viral clip.
In the minute-long video, a female student can be seen getting up from her desk and walking out of the classroom as the student filming repeatedly exclaims, "Nah, mace is crazy!"
Students in the classroom laugh and joke before following the rebellious student into the hallway, where she can be seen trying to get back her phone from her teacher.
By the time the student filming enters the hallway, the teacher can be heard telling someone in a different classroom: "She just pepper-sprayed me."
The female student follows him out of the classroom, telling him: "Give me my phone!" She then holds the pepper spray close to his face before spraying him a second time, causing him to fall to his knees and yell.
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Honestly? Ten years ago I'm outraged, five years ago, I'm annoyed. Today? "Ho-hum. Red on red."
Interesting that a news site in Iraq would find this this newsworthy.
[Shafaq News] Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has signed a law aimed at "countering the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)" by restricting the purchase or acquisition of real estate in the state by Chinese institutions, companies, and citizens.
The law prohibits government agencies, corporations, and Chinese individuals from owning land in Florida, including agricultural land and land within 10 miles of military installations or critical infrastructure.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, China owned 352,140 acres of U.S. land in 2020.
The Republican Governor explained that the goal is to safeguard national security, including food security, and to push back against the ambitions and influence of the CCP.
"We don't want the [Chinese Communist Party] in the Sunshine State," DeSantis said at a presser.
In addition to the restrictions on real estate ownership, the law prohibits public universities and colleges in Florida from accepting grants or engaging in partnerships or agreements with colleges or universities based in certain foreign countries, including China, unless specific conditions are met.
The law intends to assert economic illusory sovereignty and address concerns about the influence and potential risks associated with Chinese real estate ownership and foreign partnerships in critical sectors. In addition, it reflects efforts to protect national interests and ensure the security of strategic assets within Florida. The Governor explained.
DeSantis said he hopes all states follow Florida's lead.
"We really need to have a unified effort in this country to deter the CCP's ambitions and their influence," he said. "Part of that is asserting our economic illusory sovereignty."
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SB 264, which goes into effect on July 1, bounced between the Senate and House with different amendments and different Democrats expressing concerns last week, until it finally passed Thursday evening.
It targets “foreign countries of concern,” including Russia, Cuba, Iran and North Korea. It puts the biggest spotlight on China, carving out language specifically devoted to how the legislation applies to its government and those connected with it.
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Not sure how that type of legislation can be effective in practice.
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All washed thru shell companies anyway.
But it seems like there is responsible governance.
[France24] More than 600 people were killed last month in violence in the capital of Haiti, which is in the grip of a political-economic crisis, the United Nations said on Monday.
"In the month of April alone, more than 600 people were killed in a new wave of extreme violence that hit several districts across the capital," said the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
"This follows the killing of at least 846 people in the first three months of 2023, in addition to 393 injured and 395 kidnapped during that period — a 28-percent increase in violence on the previous quarter."
The Caribbean nation, the poorest in the Americas, has been gripped by a political and economic crisis since the July 2021 assassination of president Jovenel Moise, with gangs now controlling most of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The small town of Caimanera, Cuba, bordering the American military base at Guantánamo Bay, erupted in protests this weekend demanding freedom, respect for human rights, and access to basic food supplies.
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...That bird was from my old hangout at Kunsan AB, (8th FW Wolfpack) about four hours south of there. Glad the pilot made it out and praying for no casualties on the ground, ROK in that neck of the woods is a pretty crowded place.
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In return for the US's safeguard, South Korea pledged not to pursue its own nuclear program.
If I was the SKs I would not admit to any design and technical evaluations on the subject. I wouldn't trust the American DoS any further than I could throw the Secretary.
Business, not politics. Though the business seems more like a self-indulgence than something that will generate profits once the seed money is spent.
[MSN] Former First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of a healthy food and beverage company she co-founded that is targeted at fighting childhood obesity.
The former first lady spearheaded the Let’s Move campaign, a program aimed at ending childhood obesity, during her time at the White House. She announced her latest venture at the Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything Festival on Wednesday, May 3.
"We're hoping not to just provide healthy and delicious drinks and snacks for kids, but to jumpstart a race to the top that will transform the entire food industry," Obama wrote in a PLEZi Nutrition blurb announcing the launch. "Because let's face it, even after everything we accomplished during the White House years, it is still simply too hard for kids to grow up healthy."
While Obama is PLEZi Nutrition’s co-founder and strategic partner, the company is led by a team of public health, nutrition, and parenting specialists.
PLEZi Nutrition is rolling out its first product, a fruit juice for kids, in four flavors containing 75% less sugar than average leading 100% fruit juices.
PLEZi is already available at some major retailers, including Target, Walmart.com and Sprouts Farmers Market.
In the news release, the company announced that it plans to roll out other healthy snacks and beverages "focused on lowering sugar content and lowering sweetness to help adjust kids’ palates to crave less sweetness."
The healthy soda alternative brand currently has four flavors out- tropical punch, orange smash, sour apple, and blueberry blast. On Target.com, PLEZi retails for $3.50 for a pack of four 8 fl. oz bottles.
Obama also announced that the company is donating $1 million to an initiative by FoodCorps, a nonprofit organization that is working to help all 50 million students in the U.S. receive education about nutrition and free school meals by 2030.
PLEZi Nutrition will also contribute 10 percent of its profits to the broader movement to improve child nutrition.
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About six months ago I made a joke to my kid, and you will Eat Ze Bugz.
Was told there was a visitor at school who promoted just that.
Good news is, visitor was surprised that students are not city kids looking for a trend as was told to fok off. Bad news is it was a practiced, experienced presentation.
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Anything that puts Big Mike in front of cameras these days is suspect, the timing is just too coincidental! Wearing my tinfoil hat, I wonder if it's designed to give them some focus group reaction to her performance and favorables amongst the Karen's and Clueless that constitute the non-minority base of the Demokrat party?
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Kamala and Michelle would make an excellent Celebrity DeathMatch.
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If inflation continues up and wages stay stagnant the obesity problem will begin to fix itself. Until then I will stay away from eating Big Mike's Kale Burgers
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#12 again with the unfair male vs female challenges...
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Is it really healthy? How much real juice does it contain or is it just flavored sugar water?
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Description PLEZi is a juice drink blend for kids that is a delicious alternative to 100% juice and other sugary drinks. With only 6 grams of sugar per 8oz serving (and no added sugar!), it has 75% less sugar than leading 100% fruit juices, which average over 25 grams of sugar per 8oz serving. 2 grams of fiber.
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I'm partial to the Ocean Spray Cran and Cran-blend 5 cal Diet juices. All the kidney/bladder cleanse without the calories. She seems like she needs a bile cleanse. Forever
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A colonic wouldn't hurt.
Then, a steady diet of dark greens: collards, kale, broccoli, spinach, etc.
Lots of water
Start the morning with fresh fruit on an empty stomach, even canned pineapple would suffice.
Feel free to pass this to Stacey Abrams but skip the colonic. We don't need another pandemic.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Every time Americans are told that everything is fine, it only seems to get worse. The current banking crisis was supposed to "fade away" after the collapse of the Silicon Valley banks and Signature Bank, writes Economiccollapseblog.
That did not happen. The reassurance then was that everything would "end" with the collapse of First Republic. The bank collapsed, but the crisis is not going to subside.
By now, most of you already know what is happening with the shares of PacWest, Western Alliance, First Horizon and countless other regional banks. in all my years i have never seen banking stocks fall so fast.If this avalanche continues to gain momentum, pretty soon we will have to stop talking about "banking crisis" and start talking about "banking apocalypse".CNN summed up the current state of affairs
better than anyone else...
A summary of how things are going in the banking crisis:
- Fed: “The banks are all right.”
- Treasury: “The banks are all right.”
- Banks: "We're fine."
- Wall Street: "Sell everything, the banks are on fire!"
On Thursday, PacWest released a carefully worded statement intended to reassure investors… The point was to keep working to stabilize the situation.
However, the announcement triggered a backlash and a massive wave of panic that sent the bank's shares down more than 50%.
On Thursday morning, the debacle at the regional banks picked up again, with shares of several banks suffering significant losses.
- PacWest sank 50.6%;
- Shares of Western Alliance fell by 38%;
- A First Horizon fell by 37%;
The headlines are now full of these three names, although there are still many institutions that are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
A recent study showed that another 186 banks are at risk of bankruptcy. Even if only half of the depositors are uninsured, who could lose part of their deposits in the event of a bank failure, they will withdraw their funds.
So what's the bottom line?
Things were already bad, and now that the Fed has decided to raise interest rates again, things are about to get even worse.
At this stage, there are very few truly safe banks. Depositors continue to withdraw money from the system. The bonds held by these banks continue to lose value, and more and more loans become bad every day.
This banking crisis is not only far from over, but it is just beginning.
Banking is a game of trust. At this rate, no regional bank will be able to survive bad news or misleading data as stock prices inevitably follow and insured and uninsured deposits are withdrawn.
Bill Ekman has warned that our entire regional banking system is "at risk" because rapid rate hikes have led to assets depreciating and depleting deposits. The zeroing of shareholders and bondholders has significantly increased the cost of capital of banks, and large losses are looming.
He's basically right, with one exception.
Even if all deposits in the system are fully insured to the maximum, many people will still withdraw their money.
As ZeroHedge aptly pointed out, many wealthy people move funds from checking accounts that bring in almost nothing to money market funds that pay about 5%.
Not necessarily only the wealthy, but anyone who has savings not needed for the next six months and the time and energy to chase larger returns.
Sure, the Fed could bail out the banks by cutting interest rates, but that won't happen any time soon.
So get ready for new bank falls.
Before the collapse of the First Republic, Gallup conducted a survey in which Americans were asked if they were concerned about the fate of their money in the US banking system.
It turned out that almost half of Americans are concerned about this problem. The American banking system is experiencing enormous difficulties. But the distrust of US residents in the banking system is just one of the elements of a broader social crisis.
The rest of 2023 is very worrying. However, what 2024 will bring is extremely more worrying.
Despite the Fed's claims that a delay in raising the debt ceiling in the coming weeks could spell disaster, it is unlikely that the ceiling will not be raised after the Biden administration's latest round of trading with the Republicans. Both sides understand that the US default will hit everyone, so mutual blackmail is used more to extract domestic political concessions than the desire of one of the parties to bring the matter to default and refuse to print unsecured dollars.
However, the general crisis of the hegemon adds an additional dimension to the ongoing cabal, as several more bubbles are ready to burst in the near future, which in fact gives rise to a certain intrigue regarding the stability of the American financial system and the Western neoliberal economy. It is unlikely that we will see any one-time collapse and the notorious."
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Easy-peasy. Just go to treasurydirect dot com and set up an account. When you compare the yield on a T-bill with your passbook savings or checking account, you'll be disgusted.
And ever wonder why your bank's CD rates are lower than US treasuries? Because they are offering, say, 4%, and using that same money to get, say, 5% from a T-Bill. Easy-peasy for the banks to make money.
How many years now have the banks gotten away with offering virtually zero interest on our money? And then many banks bought 10- or 30-year T-Bonds at barely 1% over a year ago, now all of those bonds are under water, often "held to maturity" on their balance sheets. But when a bank needs money in a hurry (Silvergate, Silicon Valley), they then have to sell these bonds on the open market for a loss. Ouch.
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^^^ Silvergate eliminated their dividend from Preferred stock not long before it went to $1. Sure, a big difference from common stock, but it was a bad sign. But how that thing in La Jolla is still trading is a mystery as regulators were all over that place before Signature and Silicon Valley banks made the news.
[Dawn] A 21-year-old German man was found guilty on Monday of attempting to form a neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... terrorist group inspired by the US-based Atomwaffen Division and planning attacks with guns and explosives.
The young man, named as Marvin E., was sentenced to three years and ten months in jail, the higher regional court in Frankfurt said in a statement.
Marvin E. had taken steps to found a branch of Atomwaffen Division, known for its racist and anti-Semitic ideology, in the German state of Hesse, the court said.
We really enjoyed the years we lived in Hesse, which includes the city of Frankfurt am Rhein and lovely old towns and villages in the picturesque Taunus hills. People were very kind to us there, although Mr. Wife was spoken firmly to for working more than his mandated 38.5 hours per week. It’s illegal for salaried workers to exceed their contracted hours, and the Works Council will get involved.
"He had completely adopted their ideology and had decided... to found an independent group with the name ’Atomwaffen Division Hesse’, based on their ideological model," it said. The purpose of the group would have been to carry out attacks on politicians, Jews and migrants colonists, according to the court.
Marvin E. had taken steps to acquire firearms, was storing five bombs containing steel balls, and had ordered materials on the internet to construct further bombs.
He had also researched potential targets in the run-up to his arrest in September 2021.
Founded in 2015, Atomwaffen Division is a violent mostly peaceful bully boy group with cells in multiple US states.
Its members have been accused of plotting attacks against Jews, Moslems and other purported enemies with an aim of destabilising Western democratic countries.
In the United States, several members of Atomwaffen Division have been placed in durance vile I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! for threatening journalists and activists campaigning against anti-Semitism and racism.
[Auto Wire] A pair of YouTubers, Roman Mica and Nathan Adlen of the channel TFLEV, recently uploaded a video of their experience driving from California to Florida in an EV. The pair decided to use a Hyundai IONIQ 5 to do a Cannonball-style run, although they weren’t breaking speed limits. Instead, they wanted to see how quickly they could make such a journey, clocking in at 46 hours and 46 minutes.
Learn why charging electric cars in public can be tricky here.
The trip was done to raise money for a children’s charity, but it also helped expose how difficult it is to drive long distances in many parts of the country using an EV. Among the many challenges was rural areas not having many chargers available, fast chargers not working, and balancing speed plus onboard amenities with the need to preserve battery power.
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"rural areas not having many chargers available"
Yeah, the public should cater to their boutique vehicles, even though no one in the 'great middle' sees any reason to build a whole new infrastructure system. "If you build it, they will come."
How about we don't build it, and you just stay home?
It's a win-win.
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Ever seen a "Last gas for next 150 miles" sign, kids?
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The tabletop game Car Wars was not supposed to be a goal.
What we've done locally is stretch a wire from the tallest building, a clock tower on top of City Hall, and they can charge off of that wire, so long as they are in contact when the tower is struck by lightning.
An EV race would look something like a three day grand prix with a total of 50 laps. Charging station would have a pit crew of some 6 stationary bikes, bunch of Lance Armstrong dudes trying to re-charge their Formula Amp carriage. Winner gets a Bud Light facial.
[BenarNews] Philippine military bases where the United States has been granted expanded access are not intended to be used for offensive action against any country, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said as he wrapped up a four-day visit to Washington. Marcos’ remarks as he spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a local think-tank, marked his first categorical public rejection of such a scenario and it was also a message he said he had conveyed recently to China’s foreign minister.
"I assured him that, no, these are not intended to be military bases to attack, to move against anyone ... not China, not any country," he said in response to a question from BenarNews at the CSIS event on Thursday.
Marcos also replied that the U.S. had never asked Manila to contribute Filipino troops to combat operations should war break out between the U.S. and China over Taiwan. The sites under the bilateral Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement were conceived to respond more efficiently to natural disasters driven by climate change, and the U.S. had not brought up using them as "staging areas" for offensive action, he said. He added, however, that with increasing tensions, especially in the Taiwan Strait, security and defense had become part of the mission.
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Based on the contents of the new Navy recruitment campaign, the Philippines might now be considered a boring liberty call for sailors.
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The hookers who'd waited for weeks
Now jostled to sneak a few peeks
And a dude with big hair
Said, "It hardly seems fair
That they charge us to look at the freaks."
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.
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
[NYPost] A Tennessee high school teacher was pepper-sprayed twice by an unruly student who became incensed after he confiscated her phone during class, new video shows.
