[Townhall] Philadelphia journalist Josh Kruger was shot and killed at his home in the Point Breeze neighborhood overnight, with police saying they do not currently have any suspects.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports before 1:30 in the morning, police responded to reports of gunshots and screams on the 2300 block of Watkins Street. Outside, officers found Josh Kruger shot multiple times and collapsed in the street. Despite being rushed to the hospital, he succumbed to his severe injuries just before 2:15 a.m.
Philadelphia police say they believe someone was able to gain access to Kruger's home, as there is no sign of forced entry, before Kruger was shot at the base of his stairs. After the shooter fled, Kruger got outside his home for help.
Kruger recently posted on his Facebook account someone came to his house searching for their boyfriend — "a man I’ve never met once in my entire life.” The person called themselves “Lady Diabla, the She-Devil of the Streets” and threatened him.
In addition to writing for different local outlets in Philadelphia, Kruger was a former city spokesperson. On his X account, Kruger often downplayed the crime crisis in the city, along with criticizing conservatives for pointing out the problem, including days leading up to his death.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Another cop/neck death!
A woman from Mesa, Arizona is devastated after her pet emu died after police officers tried to restrain it using a rope and force it into their patrol car
Video sees officers struggling with the unusual pet with a deputy seen having his hands around the bird's neck at one point trying to drag it into the vehicle
Moments later the six-and-a-half-year-old pet emu appeared lifeless with severe damage to its neck despite the bird not having displayed any aggression
Police officers are not trained like zookeepers. They can’t be expected to know how to handle something that unusual.
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Google "emu claw" then ask yourself how you would have handled it.
Side Story.
Back in the 1990's there was short craze to raise Emu's for restaurant & Supermarket food. But the EMU market died after a few years.
In North GA.& Western NC. a number of EMU Farms just turned the unsellable birds loose and took the tax write-off.
Later that year a few Metro-Atlanta City Deer/Elk/Bear hunters in the northern GA/WNC mountains, saw them and had the papers & media reciting their tales of seeing Giant Mutated Quail or Birds.
"Hunter discovers Dinosaur Birds in North Ga. Western NC Mts."
There were demands for the EPA to find the Bio-Hazard causing the Giant Bird mutation. There was even demands to list and protect the newly discovered Dinosaur Birds under the Endangered Species Act.
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Limu Emu? Where is Doug?
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Cops agency never ends. Can they be expected to not get mixed up with things they dont know how to handle? No. They suck ass. They do whatever they want to do. Lack of training, not trained, who cares. Saint Cops. They'll do it with best intentions and still kill/maim/damage without or little consequence.
Bastards could have called an Animal Warden, a Park Ranger, or a freaking vet. Or maybe, thinking out of the box, find the owner to handle the situation.
To think an adult male can put hands on an animal and to not think they know they are hurting the animal and causing it harm insults our intelligence.
#14
Isn't getting a live Emu in the back of your SUV a bit like a dog catching the tire?
Especially, you fucking city grown cunts, if you don't secure the feet. Bind the feet, and wait for the proper tools and knowledge you goddammed retards.
I'd say a proper punishment is to put these officers in a basketball court sized cage with a wild Emu and recreate this apprehension.
[FoxNews] Helicopter Hunt: California residents horrified by plan to curb island's deer population: 'Violent and ugly'. Catalina Islanders oppose deer population management plan.
"Catalina’s deer population, which is at 8x – 10x the density of the mainland, is suffering while also devastating our fragile ecosystem as they attempt to survive," the Catalina Island Conservancy stated in its restoration plan.
The mule deer, introduced to the southern California island in the 1930s, have surged in population due to the lack of natural predators. Visitors frequently and illegally feed the deer, which often roam in popular tourist spots.
Some alternatives have proven to be ineffective, including the current hunting program, which only allows 200 a year to be killed, the L.A. Times reported, and California laws prevent the conservancy from providing mule deer with additional food while water would increase the possibility of disease transfer.
[DrRoySpencer] The Version 6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2023 was +0.90 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean. This is above the August 2023 anomaly of +0.70 deg. C, and establishes a new monthly high temperature record since satellite temperature monitoring began in December, 1978.
------------- some speculation that this is partly a response to the Tonga Undersea Volcanic Eruption of 2022 which injected the upper atmosphere with a lot of water vapor
To quote a comment seen at WattsUpWithThat, where Dr. Spencer’s post was reblogged, “The Earth is still in a 2.56 million-year ice age in a cold interglacial period that alternates with very cold glacial periods. Outside of the tropics people still need to wear warm clothes and shoes, live in warmed houses, use warmed transportation, and work in warmed workplaces most of the year.”
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Well the earth did add about 1.915+ Billion more people, since just 2000, to the world population.
An at 341.21 Btu's per day (100 watts per day) of heat generated per human per day, that's = 653,565,630,261+/- more Btu's (1.9154117858e+11 watts) of heat added to this Earth per day.
Plus we are at, or near a Solar Cycle Maximum and seeing increased Solar ejections, and increases in the usual 173,000 TW of incoming solar radiation.
Kinda makes a person wonder, whether the Tins Hats warnings about the Climate Change Elite & activists are using a Pandemic, location focused epidemics and war to reduce the climate (Heat), have some validity or not?
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Are we sure this is not proof that Greta and AOC were correct?
I'm pretty sure.
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I have not seen any consideration (it may exist) of the immense amount of carbon currently sequestered as CaCO3 - limestone. It was all environmental CO2 at some time. It makes me wonder what’s buffering the system in a range that manages to have both photosynthesis and coral reefs, oyster shells etc.
[AFRICANEWS] Security forces in Madagascar fired tear gas on opposition candidates leading a protest in the capital Antananarivo on Monday, amid rising political tensions ahead of presidential elections next month.
Eleven of the 13 presidential candidates in the running had called on supporters to march on the central May 13 square to protest what they have described as an "institutional coup" to favour incumbent Andry Rajoelina.
But law enforcement officers moved to disperse the crowd of a few hundred people before it reached the planned destination.
Former president and leading opposition figure Marc Ravalomanana, who was among the protesters, was led away to safety by his security detail.
The rally was not given the green light by authorities and hundreds of security forces patrolled the city centre in the morning.
Voters in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world despite vast natural resources, head to the polls to elect a president on November 9.
Rajoelina, 49, resigned last month in line with the constitution in order to run for re-election.
The president of the Senate was supposed to take over but declined for "personal reasons", leaving the task to a "collegial government" headed by Prime Minister Christian Ntsay, an ally of Rajoelina.
The move was accepted by the country's top court, sparking the anger of the opposition.
[FoxNews] The National Security Agency (NSA) will launch a new artificial intelligence security center to both protect U.S. AI systems and defend against external threats.
The new security center launches as the U.S. government has increased its use of algorithms and AI systems in defense and intelligence and is seeking to safeguard systems from theft or sabotage. The NSA center will also be responsible for protecting the homeland from external AI-related threats, according to a report from Yahoo News on Monday,
Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, NSA director, told the Associated Press that the new center could be incorporated into the NSA's existing Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, which works with the private sector and internal partners to strengthen U.S. defenses from near-peer rivals such as China and Russia.
Christopher Alexander, the chief analytics officer of Pioneer Development Group, told Fox News Digital such a center is "desperately needed for intelligence analysis and is crucial for national security."
"The most obscure details can complete an intelligence estimate and that requires intelligence analysts who can comb through every piece of information, recognize a [pattern] and turn that data into information – and ultimately a finished analysis," Alexander said. "AI and machine learning can take on the role of literally 1000s of lower-level analysts. It works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the sheer amount of data collected allows for whole new methods of analysis."
CHICAGO (AP) — A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off.
During a Dec. 9, 2020, call to the White House, Dershowitz told Trump that Brandon Bernard, at 40, wasn’t the man he was when Todd and Stacie Bagley were killed in 1999 and that he deserved to have his sentence commuted to life in prison.
Trump sounded sincere when he said he wished he could spare Bernard’s life, but he added apologetically that he’d already promised the victims’ relatives that Bernard would be put to death, Dershowitz said about the 20-minute call.
"’They’re on their way. They’re on their way,’" Trump kept saying, Dershowitz recalled. The relatives, Trump explained, were on the road to the prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where federal executions are carried out and it was "’too late to pull them back.’"
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Nobody is the same person they were at 18. Including but not limited to the 18.5 year olds. It is a moronic 'throw everything at the wall sumpin' is bound to stick' defense.
He CHOSE to do what he did. At this point given the low rate of solved cases, and even fewer solved cases resulting in the death penalty, it is no accident he ended up where he was.
And No, the rest of the social order should not prostrate themselves with faux grief over this callous murderer.
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The Iowa couple is the same as they were back when he killed them: Dead. Until he can remedy that, F&*k him.
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When they can resurrect the dead, we can talk about it. It was the appellate process that dragged the proceeding this long. That was Bernard's choice. Blame that.
Kafka's Bernard's Birthday, or, Brandon's Big Score
"My client, then only a kid,
Twenty years ago--"
"Did what he did.
And that guy and his wife,
At the end of their life,
Would've died for a twenty year bid."
[FoxNews] The U.N. Security Council voted Monday to send a multinational armed force to Haiti led by Kenya to help combat violent gangs, marking the first time in almost 20 years that a force is deployed to the troubled Caribbean country.
The resolution drafted by the U.S. and Ecuador was approved with 13 votes in favor and two abstentions from China and the Russia Federation.
The resolution authorizes the force to deploy for one year, with a review after nine months. The vote was held nearly a year after Haiti’s prime minister requested the immediate deployment of an armed force, which is expected to quell a surge in gang violence and restore security so Haiti can hold long-delayed elections.
A deployment date has not been set, although U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently said a security mission to Haiti could deploy "in months."
Meanwhile, Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Alfred Mutua, said last week that the force could deploy within two to three months, or possibly early January. He also noted that key officers are being taught French.
It wasn’t immediately clear how big the force would be. Kenya’s government has previously proposed sending 1,000 police officers. In addition, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Antigua and Barbuda also have pledged to send personnel.
"With this action, the council has ignited a beacon of hope for the beleaguered people of Haiti," said Martin Kimani, Kenya's U.N. ambassador.
Last month, the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden promised to provide logistics and $100 million to support the Kenyan-led force.
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.
[AFRICANEWS] Security forces in Madagascar fired tear gas on opposition candidates leading a protest in the capital Antananarivo on Monday, amid rising political tensions ahead of presidential elections next month.
