[NYP] Two pals took turns shooting each other in the head with a rifle while wearing kevlar helmets inside a home — with one man now being charged with the other’s murder, according to authorities.
Sean O’Donnell, 37, was taken into custody at his home in Houston, Texas, on Aug. 17, in connection to the shooting death of Aaron Prout, 34, a native of the UK, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
The two pals were inside O’Donnell’s home — firing at each other with a rifle while wearing the bullet-resistant helmets when Prout was seriously injured by the gunfire.
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Idiot's family: "Let's sue the Kevlar company."
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I had thought that the young marine who was testing the John Wayne safety of his 1911 was stupid. But this really takes the cake! First-degree murder is the correct charge here. We only have the perpetrator story who knows what really happened.
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Here's a gun control suggestion for any pols reading this: No bail for any gun-related offenses, five-year mandatory sentence just for having the gun, apart from any sentencing for the crime itself.
[NYPOST] A 15-year-old boy with a rap sheet was arrested — while still wearing an ankle monitor — for a deadly shooting this week during a kaboom of violence in The Bronx, police and sources said Friday.
The teenager, identified by law-enforcement sources as Daniel Martinez, was charged with murder for the shooting death of Kelvin Mosquea, 34, outside NYCHA's Sack Wern Houses Tuesday, authorities said.
The broad daylight shooting is believed to have been the result of a robbery gone wrong, sources said — and added to a weeklong wave of gun violence for the Boogie Down, which saw seven shootings since Saturday, leading four dead out of a dozen injured, officials said.
Stopping the bloodshed will be the primary goal of 1,000-cop deployment Mayor Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... said soon would swarm violent mostly peaceful hotspots in the Bronx on foot, although he played coy Friday as to where.
''If we tell you where they're located, then the bad guys would know where they're located,'' he said during an event with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
The shooting allegedly by the baby-faced Martinez unfolded as he walked up to Mosquea in front of the public housing building on Croes Avenue near Seward Avenue and accused him of stabbing his friend, sources said.
Martinez, joined by a second person — who remained on the loose Friday — then allegedly shot Mosquea in the chest as they attempted to rob him, cops and sources said.
Mosquea was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.
The NYPD's gang database showed Mosquea had links to the Black Stone Gorilla Gang, according to sources. Martinez does not appear in the database but the shooting is being eyed as possibly gang-related.
The other possibly gang-related Bronx shooting in the past week was a shootout during a basketball tournament in Haffen Park on August 23.
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Curious, guess the pressure's on.
Wonder what NYC regions are losing their's.
[AL] A renewed investigation into the unsolved 1967 murder of the wife of McNairy County, Tenn. sheriff Buford Pusser debunks what has for decades been depicted in movies and implicates the long-dead lawman in his wife’s shooting, officials said Friday.
The sheriff, who died in a 1974 car crash, long said Pauline Pusser went with him on a call on Aug. 12, 1967 when a car pulled up alongside them and shots were fired, killing her and leaving Buford shot in the face.
She was 33 and left behind three children.
The scene was depicted in the 1973 movie “Walking Tall,” with Buford Pusser portrayed by Joe Don Baker. The movie spawned sequels and remakes. Baker died earlier this year at age 89.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and District Attorney General Mark Davidson said that the evidence instead shows Buford Pusser most likely shot his wife, put her in a car and then shot himself.
[WND] Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner recently used a reporter's question about new federal housing assistance requirements as a means to explain a thing or two about government welfare programs.
Video of the exchange at the link. He is awfully patient with the overeducated idiot.
[Declassified with Julie Kelley] Five years ago, cities across the country were attempting to recover from the aftermath of the destructive George Floyd riots. The Minnesota Man, 46 at the time, was allegedly "killed" by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020 after attempting to buy cigs with a counterfeit bill.
The collective media immediately portrayed Floyd as a doting father, an aspiring rapper, and a hardworking bar bouncer who once had hopes of being a professional basketball player. A "gentle giant" is how Floyd’s relatives remembered their deceased loved one, a description somberly regurgitated by news outlets, social media influencers, and politicians of both parties.
President Trump, although he clearly had nothing to do with the incident and quickly condemned what had happened, nonetheless was blamed for Floyd’s demise and the subsequent chaos. "Since the start of his term, the President has turned the Oval Office into an instrument of racial, ethnic and cultural division," Time magazine claimed in just one example of the deceptive media fault-finding spin. "Given the tone from the top and the grassroots anger, it’s a surprise this confrontation didn’t come sooner."
Over time, the real George Floyd came to light, as did the circumstances of his death. But those responsible for creating the mythical character allegedly representative of America’s systemic white supremacy and police brutality curse never acknowledged the truth—even as the hero worship of Floyd has slowly, and noticeably, disappeared since 2020.
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[Regnum] A jump in energy release occurred in the active region 4197 on the Sun, a series of moderate-power flares were registered, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported on August 30.
"A noticeable jump in energy release was registered in active region 4197 about two hours ago. A series of moderate-power M-level flares is currently occurring here," the laboratory wrote on its Telegram channel.
Scientists noted that, judging by the video, the explosive processes are localized in one area. They do not affect the entire complex of sunspots. So far, no imbalance of the entire active complex has been observed, the IKI RAS suggested.
Previously, scientists reported that the active region 4197 on the Sun, which had accumulated a large amount of energy, turned towards the Earth. The region had already been assigned the maximum Beta-Gamma-Delta category due to its huge energy reserves, but no significant flares had been recorded there so far.
[GEO.TV] Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Saturday lauded the timely response of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), commissioners, and deputy commissioners in safeguarding populations, noting that more than 600,000 people and 450,000 livestock have been shifted to safer locations.
Maryam Nawaz also commended the efforts of the district administration in Narowal for completing water drainage at Kartarpur Gurdwara within 24 hours, where flood levels had reached 12 feet.
Acknowledging the support of Pakistain Army in rescue operations, she praised the coordinated teamwork of all departments, describing their performance during the crisis as commendable.
[GEO.TV] Sindh's Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has warned that as many as 1.6 million people across 1,657 villages could be affected if floodwaters enter the province in the coming days.
Speaking to the media on Saturday, Memon said the provincial government had activated its machinery and was taking advance measures to deal with the situation. Ministers are on the ground, while the district administration is also actively engaged, he added.
The minister's remarks come as vast swathes of land have been left inundated in floodwaters in Punjab where at least 30 people have been killed and more than 1.5 million have been affected due to swelling Sutlej, Chenab and Ravi rivers due to torrential rains and water discharge by India.
With efforts underway to move people to safe locations, as many as 481,000 people have been evacuated from flood-hit areas in the province.
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A million lives saved.
Wonder why they can't evacuate Gaza.
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Shutdown USAID and provoke them until they are broke.
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Well so far this century the DoD has proven that a good defense is a great offence. Might as well change the name back as it is now the Department of Ass Whoopin'.
[IsraelTimes] Egypt has signed four agreements with international firms worth more than $340 million to explore gas and oil in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta, the Petroleum Ministry says in a statement.
They include a $120 million deal with Shell and a $100 million deal with Italia’s Eni, the statement says.
For national use, reducing their expenses, or for sale, boosting the national income to support their rapidly rising population. Both are good.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of @Russian_OSIN
Commentary by Russian military journalist Bris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The Pentagon is preparing a cyber army of AI agents to dominate information wars According to The Intercept, the US Special Operations Command from theoretical research to the systematic creation of modern AI tools for conducting information wars.
We are talking about the purchase and integration of agent AI systems for the technological enhancement and scaling of military information support operations (MISO), the main task of which is to conduct propaganda campaigns abroad.
Smart AI systems must minimize the involvement of the human factor, and the goal is to "influence foreign target audiences" and, most importantly, to "suppress dissenting narratives." Propaganda operations for the formation of public opinion can be carried out at the level of target communities.
Special attention is paid to the possibility of testing and optimizing propaganda campaigns in digital models of societies before their deployment. In this way, information support operations (MISO) reach a fundamentally new technological level. This initiative is a direct response to similar developments by geopolitical competitors, in particular China and Russia, which allegedly already use AI to wage a "war for public opinion."The creation of special systems also implies complex analytical and counter-propaganda work.
AI services must perform data scraping in the information field, analyze the situation in cyberspace and react in real time to information sources in accordance with MISO goals. An important point is the requirement for systems — "get access to the profiles, networks and systems of individuals or groups who try to oppose or discredit our messages." AI learns to make targeted and effective counterattacks. Researchershave talked and written about this more than once. Only the scale is completely different.is in charge and there will be no pilot MVP for $400.
Despite the ambitiousness of the plans, part of the expert community expresses skepticism about their feasibility and consequences. Specialists such as Emerson Brooking point to the propensity of large language models to hallucinations.
The problem of hallucinations in the LLM for the Pentagon is not viewed as a technical flaw, but as a manageable tactical risk. SOCOM does not set the impossible task of creating a "non-hallucinating" AI, since the probabilistic nature of the models makes it impossible at this stage of technological development. The error (hallucinations) becomes a controlled variable, the permissible level of which is determined exclusively by the tactical tasks and goals of a specific MISO operation.
One of the key architectural solutions can be the widespread implementation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Instead of allowing the AI agent to generate information from its shared "memory", the system will forcefully generate each thesis on a pre-approved and verified database consisting of intelligence, directives and strategic narratives. LLM on the basis of synthesis can wrap the facts in a rather convincing linguistic form.
The concept of such an idea can be implemented on the basis of conditional checks and balances, where, for example, 1️⃣ one AI-agent generates content, 2️⃣ the second acts as the "red team", attacking the ego for logical inconsistencies and potential hallucinations, and 3️⃣ the third (editor-in-chief) evaluates the conformity of the final "product" [impact content] for MISO purposes. Who works with n8n roughly understands what it is about...
👆Earlier last year it was reported that 🇺🇸🎖SOCOM is going to use ultra-realistic deep fakes to conduct ❗️secret operations.
To the question about the future of open comments in 8-10 years. There is no reason not to flood any open comments with generated targeted propaganda or counter-propaganda content. Accordingly, this will lead to the inevitable verification of access to comments in order to cut off AI-generated comments that are replacing the usual "troll factories" that will continue to exist for some time, but will gradually give way to more technological solutions.
SAN PEDRO, United States (AFP) — Floating blue paddles dance on the waves that lap a dock in the Port of Los Angeles, silently converting the power of the sea into useable electricity.
This innovative installation may hold one of the keys to accelerating a transition away from fossil fuels that scientists say is necessary if the world is to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
“The project is very simple and easy,” Inna Braverman, co-founder of Israeli start-up Eco Wave Power, told AFP.
Looking a little like piano keys, the floaters rise and fall with each wave.
They are connected to hydraulic pistons that push a biodegradable fluid through pipes to a container filled with accumulators, which resemble large red scuba tanks.
When the pressure is released, it spins a turbine that generates electrical current.
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[Regnum] Active region 4197 on the Sun, which has accumulated a large amount of energy, has turned towards the Earth. This was reported on August 30 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“Active region 4197, whose rapid growth and exceptional size are currently attracting the attention of all global space weather centers, has reached the central solar meridian tonight, that is, exactly on the Sun-Earth line, and in the next two days will pose the greatest danger to the planet in its entire existence,” the laboratory’s Telegram channel said.
The region has already been assigned the maximum Beta-Gamma-Delta category due to its huge energy reserves, but no significant flares have been recorded there so far. Experts expect solar flares of the highest X rating in the next few days, which will be the strongest in recent months.
Solar flares are classified by the level of X-ray radiation, they are divided into several categories: X - the most powerful, M - average, C - weak, and A and B - almost imperceptible. When moving to the next letter, the power increases by 10 times.
On August 19, scientists reported that a magnetic storm had begun on Earth due to a coronal hole in the Sun. Specialists noted that the geomagnetic field could be unstable, and the radiation situation could be undisturbed. Also, scientists indicated that radio communications could deteriorate within 24 hours.
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.
[NYP] Two pals took turns shooting each other in the head with a rifle while wearing kevlar helmets inside a home — with one man now being charged with the other’s murder, according to authorities.
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
[AL] A renewed investigation into the unsolved 1967 murder of the wife of McNairy County, Tenn. sheriff Buford Pusser debunks what has for decades been depicted in movies and implicates the long-dead lawman in his wife’s shooting, officials said Friday.
...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
