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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Houston Jack in the Box drive-thru worker opens fire on a family in dispute over french fries
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Anthony Ramos was at the Houston fast food joint with his pregnant wife and his 6-year-old daughter when employee Alonniea Ford opened fire at him

  • Footage showed Ford throwing ice and ketchup at Ramos and his family before she pulled a gun out
Enjoying Fast Food while black ?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 09/27/2023 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  This story is two years old. They just got around to filing the lawsuit.
And, No, not enjoying fast food while black.
Serving fast food while black. The girl at the drive thru window opened up on them. Reportedly over curly fries. YCMTSU
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/27/2023 8:39 Comments || Top||


Adam Britton, BBC croc expert, admits raping 40 dogs
[GEO.TV] In a shocking development in Australia, British zoologist Adam Britton, a prominent crocodile expert, has pleaded guilty to an array of disgusting crimes, the most disturbing of which are habitual sexual abuse and torture of young dogs at his animal shelter in Australia.

Britton, who had moved to Australia from West Yorkshire, admitted to sexually abusing puppies and torturing more than 40 dogs.

These crimes were not limited to animals under his care but also extended to his pets, Swiss Shepherds named Ursa and Bolt, whom he subjected to sexual abuse for nearly a decade.

The extent of cruelty reached such horrifying levels that Britton would film these acts of brutality in what he referred to as his "torture room," a shipping container equipped with recording equipment.

The footage was then posted online for others to witness, adding another layer of depravity to the situation.

Adam Britton, known for his association with esteemed broadcasters like David Attenborough and his work with organizations such as the BBC and National Geographic, faced charges that were so grotesque that Chief Justice Michael Grant took the extraordinary step of clearing the courtroom of both the public and security staff before the prosecution detailed the facts of the case.

Prosecutors revealed that Britton had exhibited a sadistic sexual interest in animals, particularly dogs, dating back to at least 2014.

His crimes involved luring pet owners into giving up custody of their dogs through online platforms like Gumtree Australia, promising them good care. Instead, he subjected these animals to extreme suffering, including sexual exploitation, torture, and death.

While Adam Britton's wife, Erin, worked as a wildlife ranger and met Prince Harry
, she reportedly did not know about her husband's disturbing activities and has since changed her surname.

Britton's crimes have deeply shocked the public, and his case serves as a stark reminder of the importance of vigilance against animal cruelty and the need for strict legal measures to protect animals from harm.

He has been remanded in jug since his guilty plea and will face sentencing submissions on December 13.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe that's why Biden's dog is so angry.

Biden's dog, Commander, bites Secret Service officer in 11th recorded incident

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 4:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The forbidden love that dare not bark its name.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/27/2023 9:46 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/27/2023 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The traditions of the BBC are rum, sodomy and the leash.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 09/27/2023 11:12 Comments || Top||


Meanwhile, in Chicago
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The knockout game.


Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not sure.
Was that a Macho Black Male beating the crap out of a White (no pronouns) not thinking of its surroundings? While a 2nd Black Male attempted to free (no pronouns) of any belongings.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/27/2023 4:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Mmmm...after the Chicago pizza!
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 5:01 Comments || Top||

#3  RETRO:
AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 5:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Another racist in the making, hit hard by reality.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/27/2023 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  FWIW ... outside of the assault itself, I suspect that the greatest damage here might come from the comments of many/most Chicagoans. They would say something like: "He did something to deserve the beating. Wonder what it was?" They would tacitly approve of the vigilantism and violence. And of course, they would assume the White man to be guilty of some crime against the Black men. And that is why we have the City that we do right now.
Posted by: Jolusing Hatfield1692 || 09/27/2023 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Meanwhile in Chicago, the commie playbook: Chicago mayor considers creating city-owned grocery store.
Posted by: mossomo || 09/27/2023 14:13 Comments || Top||


JPMorgan to pay $75 million on claims that it enabled Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking
[IsraelTimes] JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $75 million to the US Virgin Islands to settle claims that the bank enabled the sex trafficking acts committed by financier Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein
...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whores sex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He was really surprised when he commited suiciede...
JPMorgan says that $55 million of the settlement will go toward local charities and assistance for victims. Another $20 million will go toward legal fees.

The Virgin Islands, where Epstein had an estate, sued JPMorgan last year, saying its investigation had revealed that the financial services giant enabled Epstein’s recruiters to pay victims and was "indispensable to the operation and concealment of the Epstein trafficking enterprise."
The United States does not have a banking relationship with the Virgin Islands. The cash payment of palletized Swiss francs, euros and other currencies will have to be flown in via unmarked aircraft during early morning hours.
Epstein died by suicide in a federal jail in 2019.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And how much to buy off the neglectful parents?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 5:06 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Target to Close 9 Stores in Four States Citing Theft That Threatens Workers, Shoppers
[Breitbart] Where? Oh. Blue cities. Those bastards! Creating a shoplifting desert! I thought Target favored SJW's TBLM, and Transgendering children?
Target will close nine store in four states, including one in East Harlem, New York and three in San Francisco, saying that theft and organized retail crime have threatened the safety of its workers and customers.

The closings, which will be effective Oct. 21, also include three stores in Portland, Oregon, and two in Seattle. Target said that it still will have a combined 150 stores open in the markets where the closures are taking place. Target will offer affected workers the opportunity to transfer to other stores.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Frank G || 09/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Given the New Normal for those areas
will TLM (Thug Lives Matter) file a lawsuit claiming it discriminate their culture practices?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/27/2023 4:04 Comments || Top||


#3  Time to allow Blue cities to become retail deserts!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/27/2023 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Time for the return of the Gov't reservation store.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  ...expect them to be as honest as they were before.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/27/2023 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  At the same time Target is opening a brand new store not far from me. One that I will never step inside of.
Most retailer's profit margin is in the 5-10% range, so it doesn't take a lot of theft to run it into a loss.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/27/2023 8:58 Comments || Top||

#7  I wonder if anyone looked at a demographic correlation to these business decisions? It sure could be an un-mined shake-down bonanza for the Crump Law Firm?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/27/2023 12:30 Comments || Top||


#9  Looking forward to DM's follow-up story Meatball's Arraignment.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/27/2023 13:28 Comments || Top||

#10  The one nearest me closed years ago.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/27/2023 15:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Krasner will give her a limo ride home with stops along the way to loot some more.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/27/2023 16:09 Comments || Top||

#12  Yup. Perhaps the most smug out of touch with reality headline from DM since Covid.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/27/2023 16:44 Comments || Top||

#13  Target sucks. No Salvation Army bell ringers allowed during the holiday to feed the poor because Salvation Army are a Christian charity.
Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 09/27/2023 22:30 Comments || Top||

#14  If you didn't have the Daily Mail, what would you have to be smug about?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 23:26 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Wild moment US Navy phalanx anti-aircraft gun trains its sights on passenger 737 as sailors laugh and tell the autonomous gun 'no no no'
The New Navy.
[MAIL] Footage shows the anti-aircraft system aiming its Gatling gun at the plane flying through the sky. It's unclear where exactly the incident took place.
If true, no laughing matter. No, not at all.
A sailor is heard shouting: 'No, no, no,' while chuckling as the weapon continues to track it.

It eventually powers down and loses interest in the aircraft and another relieved crew member is heard saying: 'Jesus!'

The pair then laugh and the first sailor continues to say: 'No, oh man.'

The MK 15 Phalanx has a tracking antenna, which is automatically aimed toward what it perceives to be a threat along with its powerful cannon.

It sends the information to its computer system until a probable hit is determined, which is when the electrically driven motors move the gun into the proper position and keep tracking the object.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And Phalanx cannot possibly reach the altitudes that a 737 flies it. It is a close-in weapon system.

Duh.
Posted by: Harcourt Tholuse6841 || 09/27/2023 4:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Suggesting the Phalanx was the only 'alerted' defensive fire system is naive.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 5:04 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Setting aside questions of authenticity and real life safety measures, the video depicts plane far below cruising altitude. You can have my seat on the "in anger" reenactment.
Posted by: Elmique Pheresh4813 || 09/27/2023 5:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Now ask.
What if it was equipped with A.I. controlled?

BTW:
Effective firing range:1,625 yd (max. effective range) 135 yds under a mile.

With a maximum firing range:6,000 yd about 3.4 miles
But we are talking civil NON-armored Jet, that bird strikes have brought down.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 09/27/2023 6:08 Comments || Top||

#5  After 27 years, TWA Flight 800 is still fresh in the memory of many.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 6:12 Comments || Top||


#7  If the system is on, it's supposed to track targets. There's multiple "enable fire" switches that have to be turned on before it goes bang.
The Navy (and everybody else that has anti-air weapons) routinely track civilian targets, to make sure that the equipment works. For that matter, the subs do it too, just nobody gets to see it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/27/2023 9:07 Comments || Top||

#8  The reaction of the sailors watching the CIWS seems to indicate what they were seeing was not the norm.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/27/2023 9:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Oh look, crazy conspiracy theories. What a surprise.
Posted by: Otto Gurly-Brown9938 || 09/27/2023 9:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Why did the word "SkyNet" suddenly pop into my brain?
Posted by: Warthog || 09/27/2023 11:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Skynet testing its weapons.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/27/2023 12:46 Comments || Top||

#12  And Phalanx cannot possibly reach the altitudes that a 737 flies it. It is a close-in weapon system.

They do take off and land at sea level airports, and there was no zoom used on that camera.

If they are noob sailors it would be out of the norm. I wouldn't underestimate that age group's inability to understand common things, especially if they think they are on the verge of tiktok famous.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/27/2023 16:22 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese weapons export declining | Poor quality & weak performance taking toll
[YouTube-Defense Updates] China supplies weapons to over 53 nations, most of which are not markets for big arms suppliers such as the United States or Russia.
China's arms exports find significant markets in countries such as Pakistan, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, as well as various nations across Africa and the Middle East.

But just like its overall economy, not everything is going well when it comes to weapons export.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), China's arms shipments fell 7.8 % between 2016 and 2020 when compared to the preceding five-year period.
Its global market share has shrunk from 5.6% to 5.2%.

In this video, Defense Updates analyzes why Chinese weapons exports are declining significantly?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/27/2023 10:09 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Was manufacturing hit by COVID?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 12:52 Comments || Top||

#2  That and the horrible demographics, combined with the other countries de-coupling from China and the loss of jobs with youth unemployment rates at near 50%.

China is in for some interesting times.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/27/2023 13:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Two reasons a company's product quality is poor: They are trying to up their profit margins by skimping or they can't afford to do any better.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/27/2023 13:32 Comments || Top||

#4  File under Chinese threats to Taiwan.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/27/2023 16:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Might be why their pharmaceutical vendors in the states are shutting down.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 17:17 Comments || Top||


North Korea to 'Expel' U.S. Soldier Who 'Defected'
[PJ] We don't want him back!
North Korea announced that it would “expel” U.S. Army private Travis King, who ran across the South Korean border into North Korea during a tour of the joint security area in July. According to the Associated Press, “King was transferred to American custody in China,” a U.S. official said.

“The relevant organ of the DPRK decided to expel Travis King, a soldier of the U.S. Army who illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK, under the law of the Republic,” KCNA said. The report said the investigation into King “has been finished.”

King made his escape prior to boarding a plane to take him back to Fort Bliss, where he was expected to be separated from the military after being charged with assault. Naturally, North Korea saw a propaganda bonanza in King’s defection.

The North Koreans claim that King “confessed that he illegally intruded into the territory of the DPRK as he harbored ill feeling against inhuman maltreatment and racial discrimination within the U.S. army and was disillusioned about the unequal U.S. society.”

BBC:

In recent years, a number of American citizens who illegally entered North Korea – excluding those convicted of criminal activity there – have been freed within six months.

Private King is a reconnaissance specialist who had been in the army since January 2021 and was in South Korea as part of his rotation.

He had previously served two months in detention in South Korea on assault charges before being released on 10 July and was due to be sent home to be disciplined before he crossed into the North.

The U.S. government decided not to invoke POW status for King, largely because there were no hostilities and it was King’s decision to run across the border voluntarily.

There were possible mental health issues involved in King’s actions. His uncle says that King was grief-stricken over the death of his six-year-old cousin.

“When my son was on life support, and when my son passed away … Travis started [being] reckless [and] crazy when he knew my son was about to die … It seemed like he was breaking down. It affected Travis a lot. Because he couldn’t be here. He was in the Army, overseas,” King’s uncle said.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/27/2023 09:43 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No, no, keep him. We'll pay you.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 09/27/2023 11:15 Comments || Top||


#3  Deemed un-useful, would not benefit their propaganda programs.
Posted by: mossomo || 09/27/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Neener neener, we called no takebacks!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/27/2023 15:42 Comments || Top||

#5  The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry
Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 09/27/2023 16:20 Comments || Top||

#6  how big a POS you gotta be not to be used as slave labor?
Posted by: Chris || 09/27/2023 23:52 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
US trade commission files anti-trust lawsuit against online retailer Amazon
[Aljazeera] The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a long-anticipated anti-trust lawsuit against online retailer Amazon, accusing the company of harming consumers by stifling competition.

The lawsuit, which was joined by 17 state attorneys general and filed in Amazon’s home state of Washington, follows a four-year investigation.

"The FTC and its state partners say Amazon’s actions allow it to stop rivals and sellers from lowering prices, degrade quality for shoppers, overcharge sellers, stifle innovation, and prevent rivals from fairly competing against Amazon," the FTC said in a statement on Tuesday.

In laying out its charges, the FTC alleged that Amazon had engaged in unfair tactics to "illegally maintain its monopoly power" over the industry of online retail.

For example, the agency accused Amazon of punishing sellers who offer lower prices elsewhere, burying them "so far down" the website’s search results "that they become effectively invisible". The FTC also said Amazon forces sellers to use its warehouses and delivery services, inflating costs for both consumers and sellers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 07:04 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ....stifling competition.

You mean like Henry Ford's automotive production line and the Model-T ?

Market SummaryAmazon.com, Inc.
125.98 USD
−5.29 (4.03%) yesterday

Now watch pols and the monied aristocracy buy on the dip. Yes, Government Market Manipulation-101 via the courts.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Bezos has been criticizing Biden lately.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/27/2023 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Skipped right over hints and allegations to dropping news on NPR. Who I am sure was absolutely fair:

MARTIN: NPR's Alina Selyukh is with us now to tell us more. She has a monopoly on this story. Sorry, I had to do it.

ALINA SELYUKH, BYLINE: Here I am (laughter).


Snarf! Snarf! Snarf! Snarf!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/27/2023 18:04 Comments || Top||


Klingons set to launch new AI 'open source' social networking search tool
[MAIL] The CIA is set to launch its own ChatGPT-style AI tool to help sift through mountains of data for clues in ongoing investigations.

Intended to mirror the famed OpenAI tech, the Central Intelligence Agency's latest initiative will use artificial intelligence to help analysts better access open-source intelligence, agency officials said.

The CIA's Open Source Enterprise division developed the tech, which is also intended to be rolled out across the US government's 18 intelligence agencies in an effort to rival China's growing intelligence capabilities.

'We’ve gone from, newspapers and radio, to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, to voting machines and it just keeps going,' said Randy Nixon, director of the CIA's AI division.

Nixon noted that analyzing the level of data across the web is a significant challenge that the AI program would help handle, adding: 'We have to find the needles in the needle field.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 02:51 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AI-powered brain implants could potentially enable communication, thought, and emotion monitoring.

How about data and skills uploading? I always wanted to be a concert pianist.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2  RETRO:
AI Identifies 160 Possible 'Crews' of Criminal Cops in Chicago
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 5:59 Comments || Top||

#3  AI is not magic.

City of Chicago Crime Data
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 6:03 Comments || Top||

#4  CENTCOM is very interested in ChatGPT 2.0
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 6:25 Comments || Top||

#5  "A large language model (LLM) is a language model characterized by its large size."

Something Kamala might have said.

ChatGPT popularized web-scraping LLMs that blossomed very quickly when opened to the public.

One reason Twitter monetized it's text mining API was because so many industry targeted LLMs were being built.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 6:48 Comments || Top||

#6  I've been following a lesser known evolution of distributed block-chain 'AI' that does not embody the popular 'recommender' supervised machine training solutions.

Bittensor: A Peer-to-Peer Intelligence Market
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 7:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Other than Facebook?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/27/2023 15:40 Comments || Top||


Fauci Was 'Smuggled' Into CIA Headquarters To 'Influence' Covid-19 Origins Investigation
[ZERO] Dr. Anthony Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters, "without a record of entry," where he "participated in the analysis to "influence" the Agency's" Covid-19 investigation, according to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Fauci's alleged CIA meeting was revealed in a Tuesday night letter from Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) to the Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services, which demands documents, communications and other evidence between Fauci and the CIA.

This allegation is even more interesting in light of a report from two weeks ago that the CIA bribed analysts to say Covid-19 did not originate in a Chinese lab.
Clandestine deception and effective covers for action can be costly.
According to a 'senior-level' CIA whistleblower, the agency 'tried to pay off six analysts who found SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in a Wuhan lab if they changed their position and said the virus jumped from animals to humans.'

"According to the whistleblower, at the end of its review, six of the seven members of the Team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China," reads the letter from Wenstrup.
A particularly valid assumption having determined the source of Wuhan project funding.
"The seventh member of the Team, who also happened to be the most senior, was the lone officer to believe COVID-19 originated through zoonosis.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 02:12 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This allegation is even more interesting in light of a report from two weeks ago that the CIA bribed analysts to say Covid-19 did not originate in a Chinese lab.

Clandestine Plandemic Clandestine Projectdemic, as many have suspected for some time.

No comments yet from the '51 Intelligence Professionals."

No comments from Reedley, California unlicensed Chinese BIO facility employees. In fact, they can no longer be located.

Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2023 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  To paraphrase Einstein: "Our gummint is not only more corrupt than we imagine, it's more corrupt than we are able to imagine."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/27/2023 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Fauci was only there to negotiate and direct. Outline who can be ignored or directed without cost, who can be bought and for how much, and who has integrity and will need destroyed reputationally or physically.
Posted by: airandee || 09/27/2023 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  To be fair, the entry lanes at Langley have a special lane for malicious gnomes. They get so many of them.
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/27/2023 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  To Ed in Texas. I always thought that the large check-in area in the CIA foyer was a joke. It was eyewash for simpleton government and foreign visitor pukes.
Posted by: Jerens Black9355 || 09/27/2023 8:57 Comments || Top||

#6  We knew he was in the bag, but dang, bundled to a spookery.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/27/2023 15:50 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Former Iraqi PM: Iraq allocates over $10 billion for ''Iraqi-Chinese framework agreement'' in tripartite budget
[Shafaq News] Former Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced during the fourth session of The China-Arab States Forum on Reform and Development in Shanghai that Iraq has allocated more than $10 billion in the tripartite budget for the implementation of the "Iraqi-Chinese Framework Agreement."

Abdul Mahdi highlighted China's comprehensive strategic partnerships with 14 Arab countries, including Iraq, emphasizing that trade exchange between China and Arab countries in 2022 amounted to $431.442 billion, representing a 30% annual increase.

He noted that 17 Arab countries have become members of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and highlighted the progress made in China's Belt and Road Initiative with Arab nations. Abdul Mahdi also mentioned the Arab foreign ministers' support for the initiative and strengthening the Arab-Chinese Cooperation Forum mechanism.

Iraq, among other Arab nations, has approved substantial funds in its state budget for 2023-2025 to support the "Iraqi-Chinese Framework Agreement."

The Belt and Road Initiative, launched in the 19th century to connect China with the world, is considered one of human history's most extensive infrastructure projects. It aims to enhance regional connectivity and build a brighter future. The project is set to be completed by 2049, coinciding with the centenary of the founding of China.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I wish them all the success in the world.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2023 12:59 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Tel Aviv soccer derby delayed amid crowd trouble, 70 arrested for stockpiling weapons
It appears England/Europe do not have a monopoly on soccer yobs.
[IsraelTimes] The Tel Aviv soccer derby between Maccabi and Hapoel is delayed by at least half an hour amid crowd trouble and arrests over fans stockpiling weapons.

Police say 70 Hapoel Tel Aviv fans are detained for questioning after officers uncover a store of fire bombs, flares and iron bars that the fans planned to use in confrontations with their rivals.

Amid heightened security, long lines form at the entrance to Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium and some fans try to break through the turnstiles.

Police could be seen using mounted officers and batons on fans trying to get in.

Clashes also break out between rival fans outside the stadium. There are no immediate reports of casualties.
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#2  From the headline, I was expecting RPG's.
During the reign of the Gaddafi, the was a story about one of his sons playing on a soccer team. Bodyguards of course. At one match, after a bad play, the crowd began booing and throwing things. The bodyguards fired into the crowd. The crowd returned fire. The match was called.
(I wondered if I should start watching soccer, maybe I been missing something.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 09/27/2023 8:51 Comments || Top||



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