[NYP] A mob of 500 out-of-control teens took over a Colorado shopping complex Sunday afternoon, erupting into fights, and damaging property.
The unruly horde, a majority of whom were between the ages of 14 and 17, overran the Hoffman Heights Shopping Centre in Aurora, Colo., at around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Aurora police.
The teens had gathered for an unpermitted sporting event before moving toward the shopping plaza, which houses a King Soopers supermarket and a Burger King among other businesses.
Over 70 officers from the Aurora Police Department were called to the scene to attempt to disperse the "unlawful assembly" of children, officials said.
Instead of leaving, the crowd fled into the bordering businesses.
#1
Basic load of ink explosives, like placed in cash bags during a robbery, for the cops. They just toss them like grenades for later identification and apprehension.
[Wash. Compost] Tyler James Robinson, the 23-year-old accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
Tyler James Robinson,
…gay, radical left, romantically involved with a very unbalanced transgender furry, he turned his back on the healthy Republican conservatism of his Mormon family, and set out to punish Charlie Kirk. He immediately afterward told his Discord crowd what he’d done, then afterward his father persuaded him to turn himself in. Whether or not he is Black Bloc/Antifa, he looks like their ideal candidate…
the 23-year-old accused of fatally shooting conservative activist Charlie Kirk, will stand trial for murder charges that could carry the death penalty, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
Robinson is charged with killing Kirk while the activist addressed students at Utah Valley University last September. Prosecutors are seeking capital punishment in a case that shocked the country and deepened fears of political violence.
The Utah judge overseeing Robinson’s case, Tony Graf, ruled Tuesday that there is enough evidence to proceed to a trial on charges including aggravated murder — the only form of murder for which Utah allows the death penalty.
#4
I still don't believe he killed Charlie. He might have been part of the plan, but I don't believe that he's the killer for a second. The story and events are way to f***ed up to believe he did it.
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@#5 - And remember that one kook in the crowd who screamed "I did it, I did it" or something like that. I don't remember his name, but he evidently had a knack of being at one or two other "events".
This thing just smells. The whole goddamn thing smells.
#9
If he says he did it but he really didn't, I'd take that as an indication that he was at least part of a conspiracy and now he's covering for his co-conspirators. That's just as bad as if he pulled the trigger himself.
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#10
Maybe what's bothering DooDahMan is the suspicion that others were involved and nobody's going after them.
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[Regnum] The death toll from devastating flooding and landslides in northern Nepal has risen to 1,003, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority reported on September 1.
"At least 1,003 people have died in Nepal as a result of devastating flash floods," Reuters quoted the agency as saying.
The day before, 951 victims were reported, and on the morning of September 1, the figure rose to 987. The fate of approximately 4,200 more people, including about 600 foreigners, remains unknown.
Rescuers continue search operations in flood-affected areas, registering new victims of the natural disaster every hour.
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I saw the theory about Chinese hydro work nearby the collapsed mountainside but I can't find any on maps. There are several hydro facilities in Tibet but not, as far as I could find, any near the disaster.
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A late-filed resolution at Metro Council on Tuesday is now asking the Nashville Airport Authority to rename Nashville International Airport (BNA) in honor of Dolly Parton.
Why It Matters:
BNA could be renamed after Dolly Parton.
What Happens Next:
The renaming is still up to the airport authority, which will meet on Sept. 17 to discuss it.
For Context:
Travelers react to possible Nashville airport name change in honor of Dolly Parton
Catch Up:
Gov. Bill Lee, BNA announce plan to name Nashville airport in honor of Dolly Parton In related news, Terminals A and B will be renamed D and DD
#2
They have airports in California named after John Wayne and Bob Hope so Dolly Parton sounds OK too. But the way things are these days in California, I don't think they could name anything after John Wayne or Bob Hope anymore.
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RWANDA DEPORTS 16 SOUTH SUDANESE STUDENTS OVER DRUG ALLEGATIONS
Rwanda has deported 16 South Sudanese university students accused of involvement in drug abuse and dealing.
According to a representative of the South Sudanese University Students Association in Kigali, the students were among 21 people initially detained by Rwandan law enforcement during an intensified anti-narcotics crackdown.
The deportations began Saturday and continued Sunday, with the students transported through the Rwanda-Uganda border back to South Sudan. Three were temporarily held in Kigali while awaiting travel documents.
#1
Deported from Rwanda, eh? I don't know if that counts as a black mark on your record or as a commendation.
On a positive note, it has been over 30 years since they had a genocide in Rwanda. (a real genocide, the kind where people get hacked up with machetes, not that gay Gaza stuff)
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The word genocide has been cheapened to the point that it means nothing more than a particularly nasty massacre. As far as I’m concerned, even the Nazi Holocaust was nothing more than an attempted genocide that wiped out 2/3rds of Europe’s Jews and 90% of Europe’s Roma.
According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) — following the 1994 Hutu massacre of 200,000-1,000,000 Tutsis, moderate Hutus, and stray Twa — defined the term as follows:
The governing statute of the ICTR defined war crimes broadly. Murder, torture, deportation, and enslavement were subject to prosecution, but the ICTR also stated that genocide included “subjecting a group of people to a subsistence diet, systematic expulsion from homes and the reduction of essential medical services below minimum requirement.” In addition, it ruled that “rape and sexual violence constitute genocide…as long as they were committed with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a particular group, targeted as such”—as was the case in the Rwandan conflict, where the Hutu-dominated interim government organized the mass rape of Tutsi women by HIV-infected men. The tribunal thus was among the first international bodies to formally recognize sexual violence as a war crime.
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[REGNUM] The US has finally acknowledged the obvious: Meta and its products, particularly the social networks Facebook and Instagram, are evil. This, however, required a lawsuit, which began in 2023 with a lawsuit filed by several state attorneys general.
The lawsuit was preceded by an investigation into the influence of the aforementioned social networks on young users. Part of the indictment alleged that the company deliberately designed its platforms to be addictive and even misled the public about it.
Or, to be more specific: the corporation intentionally created features to retain the attention of minors, so that they would spend as much time as possible on the corporation's social networks, while simultaneously targeting them with advertising and thereby generating profit.
Meta, naturally, denied everything.
Tellingly, the case never reached a verdict. The parties reached a settlement agreement, according to which the company will pay the state $18 billion, most of which will go toward funding "initiatives to ensure youth safety online."
That is, from a legal point of view, the corporation got off scot-free, without confirming any of the accusations it was accused of, but nobly agreeing to meet the authorities halfway and paying a not very significant amount—compared to the 200 billion profit for last year alone.
"We want to do the right thing for parents and teens, and that's why we're partnering with state attorneys general to set a new industry standard," the official statement announcing the agreement said.
It's also worth noting that 70% of the $18 billion will be paid out gradually, in annual installments over ten years. Meta will only repay the remaining 30% if YouTube and TikTok are forced to pay and make similar changes to their platforms.
What kind of changes are these?
We're talking about certain measures, features, and tools aimed at protecting children from the pernicious influence of social media, which these same social media platforms have been implementing recently under public pressure. These include canceling notifications during school hours, limiting usage, and so on.
However, the effectiveness of these measures, functions, and tools has been reasonably questioned. Recently, the American Cybersecurity Research Center closely examined 86 such programs and concluded that only 35 of them function as intended.
Thus, it would be rather naive to believe that the Meta corporation's social networks will cease to be evil now that the investigation is over and will begin protecting the fragile psyches of millions of children around the world. After all, this wasn't the first investigation. And it's unlikely to be the last.
Besides, $200 billion a year won't earn itself. Especially if they suddenly stop trying to dupe young people for the sake of super-profits. And yet, the actual admission that Instagram and Facebook have been doing just that—duping young people—for years can already be considered progress.
However, if the cannibal witch from the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" had stopped letting children into her gingerbread house at night, had fed them only a few hours a day instead of 24 hours a day, and had shared the sweets with the US government, would that have somehow justified her child-eating activities?
Well, according to the US government, it certainly is. After all, the candy obtained from the cannibal witch could be used to develop initiatives to protect children from cannibal witches. It would seem that this fantasy construct contains an obvious contradiction. But for some reason, it's not obvious to everyone.
On the other hand, what alternative can be devised in this situation? If we simply ban the activities of cannibalistic witches, declaring them unacceptable by law at the state level, then they will no longer share their sweets.
Although in reality everything is possible.
In Russia, a large-scale campaign against harmful radiation exposure to citizens via social media began in early 2022. This led to a ban on Instagram and Facebook. Moreover, this was done in response to a specific political action—the incomprehensibly bizarre permission to wish death on Russians.
From here to actual cannibalism isn't that far off. At least the vector was clearly outlined—in a direction strictly opposed to everything human. In a sense, the Meta corporation did Russia a favor by revealing its true extremist nature and pushing it toward the corresponding organizational conclusions.
The American authorities are fundamentally incapable of such a step. Even if Mark Zuckerberg were caught in a relationship with a real cannibalistic witch, or any other individual who regularly commits unlawful acts against children and involves third parties in such acts.
Yes, that's exactly it: even though the head of Meta wasn't on Jeffrey Epstein's island (at least, no evidence has been released yet), he does appear in correspondence with him. Along with other heads of tech giants, against whom the American authorities are essentially powerless.
And it's not even that they're all cannibals themselves. Maybe some, but certainly not all. The point is that the current form of capitalism in the US implies a fusion of capital—primarily those tech giants—with the American form of democracy. This is precisely what everything has been heading toward since the latter's inception.
Outward signs of this process's completion have been appearing everywhere recently. For example, just this past March, Zuckerberg joined Donald Trump's technology advisory board. His appointment was billed as being to assist in evaluating artificial intelligence policy.
Before that, in August 2025, Zuckerberg complained to Trump that some countries—France, Italy, Spain, and others—had introduced digital services taxes levied on tech companies' revenues. Meta was suffering greatly from this. Trump threatened these countries with tariffs.
This is how harmoniously and harmoniously the alliance between tech capital and American democracy works. Therefore, the declared desire of social media companies to protect children from their own harmful influence is certainly commendable. But it does not at all indicate remorse or a sincere desire to make the world a better place.
Rather, the fact that Meta has effectively (but not, we repeat, legally) admitted its malicious intent suggests that we have no idea of the true extent of that malicious intent.
It sounds scary. But we've long since understood everything about this empire built on the exploitation of human weaknesses.
[FOX] In a bid to tackle the nation’s housing affordability crisis, the Trump administration has scrapped a controversial Obama-era mandate blamed for driving up property costs and stifling the affordable housing supply.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), alongside the Department of Justice, jointly rescinded an Obama-era policy that allowed third parties to file accessibility-related complaints over original building design flaws indefinitely, putting subsequent building owners on the hook for millions of dollars years after a project is completed, even if they were not the original builders.
According to internal agency data, the previous policy forced property owners to spend more than $112 million in accessibility retrofits over the last five years just to qualify for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) refinancing—costs that HUD says directly choked off affordable housing supply.
The rule eliminates the ability to hold current property owners indefinitely liable for architectural deviations committed by original builders decades in the past. Under the updated enforcement framework, the clock for filing Fair Housing Act design and construction challenges begins on the exact date a building receives its official certificate of occupancy.
[NYP] The alleged Chinese spy who seduced ex-Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell met him through a nonprofit accused of Chinese Communist Party ties — which is still placing interns with politicians across the US.
Fang "Christine" Fang worked her way up to president of a chapter of The Asian Pacific American Public Affairs (APAPA) group, which she used to help get interns into other political offices in California, one of the group’s stated missions.
Now-disgraced Swalwell told the FBI he considered glamorous graduate student Fang, whom he first met in 2012 before he took office, as his main point of contact with APAPA, according to declassified FBI files.
[Just The News] An American journalist was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison after he confessed to helping the Chinese government gather "secrets" in the United States.
Thomas Pauken II, who previously lived in China for more than a decade, prepared confidential reports for a contact in China, according to an affidavit from May. The handler allegedly told Pauken that his reports were being sent to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Pauken was arrested by the FBI in February at a Washington hotel after allegedly encouraging a Trump administration official to make contact with a woman in China he believed to be a Chinese intelligence agent. He pleaded guilty in June to acting as an unregistered agent for China in the U.S.
[InfoNationalFront] The Dominion Society’s First Annual Conference: A New Standard Has Been Set for Nationalists. The controversial conference was a success and was able to proceed even after strong institutional opposition.
This weekend, in the Greater Toronto Area, took place the inaugural annual conference of the Dominion Society of Canada.
…an anti-immigration, Canadian nationalist group founded in mid-2025 by former People's Party of Canada Executive Director Daniel Tyrie and others. The People’s Party had split off from the Conservatives in 2018. Both the People’s Party and the Dominion Society are accused of being “far right”, whatever that means in Canada…
Despite incredible efforts by Canadian institutions to prevent the event, the organization was able to go ahead and host the event successfully. Several nationalist speakers, such as Alexandre Cormier-Denis, Fortissax, Jared Taylor, and, of course, Daniel Tyrie, delivered speeches.
The National Front Corporation, in collaboration with NF Info, sent a representative on site.
OPEN REPRESSION BY CANADIAN AUTHORITIES
Despite the legitimacy of the Dominion Society’s actions and methods, a few days before the conference, Hamilton Police issued an alert on X asking citizens to forward any information that could help locate the venue where the conference would be held. Allegedly, Hamilton Police then called the suspected locations to: “make the venues aware of who they were booking with”. The statement blew up on X generating more than 16,000 related posts in the hours following it’s publication. This open (and probably illegal) repression by the Hamilton police force has, ironically, made the event gain international reach, generating millions of views on X.
The Canada Border Services Agency also engaged in maneuvers to prevent international speakers from attending the conference. Martin Sellner, a peaceful Austrian activist, saw his travel authorization left unanswered despite applying nearly a month in advance (typical processing times are around 3 to 5 days). Meanwhile, Charlie Downes, a speaker from Great Britain representing the Restore Britain party, had his travel authorization revoked just days before his planned departure. The 25-year-old speaker was nevertheless able to bypass the travel ban by taking a flight to the United States and then crossing the border by land. Canadian authorities took the time to search the vehicle with a K-9 unit and subsequently questioned Mr. Downes on several matters. He stated at the conference that border officials questioned him for around 20 minutes on a wide variety of subjects, including Restore Britain funding sources.
Obviously, in addition to all these hurdles, mainstream multiculturalist media published defamatory articles targeting the organization. Other non-profit organizations such as the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, B’nai Brith, etc., also joined the fray by issuing reports and statements demanding that authorities block the entry of the speakers and insist on the cancellation of the event.
[NYPost] On a visit to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston last week, President Trump promised American astronauts would establish a permanent presence on the Moon before pushing forward to Mars.
“Our nation will conquer … this vast frontier that we have before us … We will explore it, we will tame it, and we will win it,” he said of America’s present “golden age” of space exploration.
But researchers thinking of truly big ideas say we’ll never get there with today’s inefficient chemical rocket technology. And they point to an important breakthrough.
“We’re really pushing for permanent infrastructure, like a bridge replacing ferries to cross a river,” Pete Swan, president of the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC), a nonprofit research and advocacy hub, told The Post.
It’s a simple yet mind-bending concept: an ultra-strong electrified cable running from a point on the ground at Earth’s equator, extended out beyond geostationary orbit (GEO), where a counterweight will float in space keeping it taut. Vessels then climb the cable to deliver goods, people and machines, passing through the atmosphere and into space.
“The beauty is that raising it with electricity saves our atmosphere from pollution, it doesn’t leave any debris along the way and it will be routine, daily, inexpensive, safe. It’s gonna be a bridge to space.”
Crazy as it sounds, the engineering checks out, according to researchers who spoke to The Post.
However, the bottleneck to the space elevator idea has always been the tether material, because it must be scalable, 100 times stronger than steel, exceptionally lightweight and capable of efficient spooling in order to get the whole thing in place.
Next month, the ISEC is set to announce they have their most promising candidate yet—a two-dimensional material called polycrystalline graphene, already widely used in the consumer electronics industry.
Graphene is basically just one unbroken crystal of ordinary pencil lead atoms, long thought to be an ideal candidate for such a project, the researchers said. Polycrystalline refers to a patchwork process that makes the molecule more scalable.
“It looks like we found the material,” said Swan. “We’re a heck of a lot further along than we were six months ago. Technology doesn’t go on a linear line, it grows.
“Every once in a while, somebody makes a discovery and all of a sudden the capabilities go from linear to really huge jumps in capability. That’s what’s happening in our tether material arena.
“[Polycrystalline graphene] is so flippin’ strong. They’re taking it and making it into bulletproof vests, one layer can stop a .38 bullet from a pistol.”
Stargazers have dreamed up ladders to space for well over a century with the idea popularized by famed British sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke in his 1979 novel “The Fountains of Paradise,” where the mega structures he envisioned were called “orbital towers.”
“The beauty is that raising it with electricity saves our atmosphere from pollution, it doesn’t leave any debris along the way and it will be routine, daily, inexpensive, safe. It’s gonna be a bridge to space.”
All that clean electricity that comes from nowhere, generated magically without coal, gas or the raw materials in solar cells. Wonderful. /sarc
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All that clean electricity that comes from nowhere
[AI] shuttle tether experiment
The most prominent shuttle tether experiment was the **Tethered Satellite System (TSS)** program, a joint venture between **NASA** and the **Italian Space Agency (ASI)** designed to study the electrodynamics of a conducting tether moving through Earth's magnetic field. The program consisted of two primary missions: **TSS-1** on STS-46 (1992) and **TSS-1R** on STS-75 (1996).
**TSS-1 (STS-46, 1992)**
* **Objective:** Deploy a 1.8-meter diameter satellite 250 meters from the Space Shuttle *Atlantis* on a 20 km conducting tether to verify gravity gradient stabilization and plasma electrodynamics.
* **Outcome:** The mission achieved only partial success; the tether deployment mechanism jammed, preventing full extension, though useful data on tether dynamics was collected.
**TSS-1R (STS-75, 1996)**
* **Objective:** Reflight the system on the Space Shuttle *Columbia* to deploy the satellite 19.7 km (12.2 miles) away to generate electricity and study ionospheric interactions.
* **Outcome:** The experiment was highly successful scientifically but ended in failure during retrieval. After deploying 19.7 km and generating **3,500 to 5,000 volts**, the tether snapped due to an electrical arc caused by plasma formed from trapped air bubbles in the insulation. The satellite and the broken tether drifted away from the shuttle and were lost.
**Key Findings and Legacy**
* **Power Generation:** The experiments demonstrated that electrodynamic tethers could generate significant voltage and current, with TSS-1R producing currents up to 480 milliamps.
* **Failure Analysis:** The breakage in STS-75 highlighted critical challenges with tether insulation and plasma physics in low Earth orbit, specifically how high voltages can ionize trapped gases, leading to short circuits.
* **Scientific Value:** Despite the loss of the payload, the missions provided invaluable data on space plasma, ionospheric electric fields, and the behavior of long conductors in orbit, informing future concepts for tether-based propulsion and power systems.
#7
Been to Pattaya 8 or 10 times including WestPac. Lived in TH for 3 years (hence the screen name). If BKK is the toilet - Pattaya is the septic tank.
Rough place as Russian OC took over decades ago. Investigated a missing person case and pretty sure he was killed in/near Pattaya. Google Rex Judd/Missing Thailand.
No intention of every returning.
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I've heard lots of Russians go to Thailand for vacation. Not that they have many places to spend money (SWIFT), but that OC is there is no surprise.
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.
