[KSTP] A woman is dead and four others were hospitalized after police said a shootout between people in two vehicles ended in a crash. Dey don't need no damn po-lice.
The crash happened late Wednesday near Target Field in Minneapolis. Po-lice be racist!
Police said Sherlocks are checking cameras and gathering evidence to see what led up to the crash. It just de local bloods, lettin' off a little steam 'cuz they be so oppressed.
"I heard two big crashes and when I went out to look, and all of a sudden a bunch of smoke coming from near the hotel, I looked outside and heard someone scream," witness Matt Amundson said.
Around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, Minneapolis police were called to Nicolett Avenue and East 18th Street after reports of multiple gunshots.
Witnesses told police people in two vehicles were shooting at each other.
Moments later, those two SUVs crashed at the intersection of Fifth Street and Sixth Avenue North.
One of the vehicles left the road and hit a woman riding a scooter down the sidewalk.
She died at the scene. Her death was ruled as a homicide. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner will release the victim's name along with the nature and cause of death at a later time.
"To the family and friends of this woman, our heart goes out to you," Officer Garrett Parten, with the Minneapolis Police Department, said. "The pain we feel is minimal compared to the pain you're experiencing from the loss of this innocent woman."
All four men riding in the two SUVs were transported to the hospital at death's door.
Police said a preliminary investigation shows those injuries were related to the accident, not from gunfire.
Investigators recovered guns from both vehicles.
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Curse you, Gun Violence!
Will no one stop G.V. before he kills again?
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The 'hood has gone from 'mutual combat' to Jousting!
We just need to monetize this and turn it into a profit center.
Pay per view, merch, sponsorships, yeah baby! Next stop, Thunderdome - Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves
[JustTheNews] Washington, D.C. officials say they will change how the city clears out homeless encampments, following an incident where a man still was inside a tent when officials tried to remove it.
According to WTOP, the incident happened Monday in northwest D.C. when the encampment was being cleared out by officials. A bobcat picked up a tent with a person still inside it, as shouts could be heard coming from the tent.
The person was subsequently taken to the hospital, and is expected to be okay, officials reportedly said.
According to D.C. Deputy Mayor of Public Health, Wayne Turnage, officials checked the tent prior to attempting to remove it. Following the incident, officials will now check each tent individually, while a worker stands by each tent as it is removed, to prevent others from trying to enter it.
The tent encampment was cleared out as part of a new program in the District, aimed at placing unhoused people inside apartments or hotel rooms, and working to enroll them in social welfare programs. Residents of the camp reportedly had been told that the camp would be cleared out.
As WTOP reports, the incident sparked heated exchanges between activists and D.C. officials while the encampment was being torn down.
Once activists told WTOP that they could hear the person “yelling” and that's when they informed the workers there was still someone in the tent.
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Albuquerque did it better. Municipal workers were once running a powerful brush cutter through a patch of weeds along the Rio Grande. The operator sliced and diced a homeless guy taking a daytime nap, completely concealed by the weeds.
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If the homeless were somehow made radio-active, perhaps by injection, they could be detected with a Geiger counter. No more mistaking a person for a pile of smelly rags in a tent.
They would probably need regular booster shots for the radioactivity, of course.
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No need for a needle or knife!
No handling of toxins. No strife.
Now you won't need a mark
To be seen in the dark:
New from Soylent, the Circle of Life!
The Senator said moms at school boards are now being told 'they are criminals'
Paul slammed the Justice Department's decision to draft in the FBI to prosecute 'complaining' parents
He said 'criminalizing dissent is something that we should all be appalled with'
AG Merrick Garland ...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the "respected legal scholar" Obama nominated for the Supreme Court... issued a memo Monday saying the FBI had been engaged to tackle the 'disturbing trend' of teachers being threatened or harassed
The move was spurred by the National School Boards Association which wrote to the Biden administration last week asking for protection from angry parents
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Whatever you think of Mitch McConnell (and you can be excused for thinking lots of bad things about him) he did keep this pice of work off the SCROTUS.
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More likely he was loading the gun he had created.
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Printing you own prosthetic leg would be a cool project. Major Nerd Points!
Virginia and 19 other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government in an effort to prevent 3D gun plans from being distributed online
"3D gun plans" are just data files. Good luck stopping that!
Also worth noting is that you can make guns with regular tools. We were making guns back in colonial times, long before the invention of the 5-axis CNC milling machine.
[BBC] Police in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro say they have found a haul of Nazi items and weapons at the home of a man suspected of abusing a child.
Among more than 1,000 items were Nazi insignias, uniforms, flags and images of Adolf Hitler. The haul is worth about $3.5m (£2.6m), the man said.
The suspect was arrested after a couple from his neighbourhood reported him for raping their 12-year-old son.
Police are now investigating his links to Nazi and other far-right groups. From Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin (Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.):
Also, weapons and ammunition from the Second World War were found. The money he spent on his "hobby" came from his parents.
The character turned out to be a big fan of Hitler (portraits and photographs of Hitler in large numbers were found in the apartment) and a homophobe (!), claiming that he was hunting Brazilian homosexuals.
The Brazilian authorities are now deciding whether to judge him as a pedophile or send him to prison, because the character clearly does not have all the houses.
The confiscated catch of Nazi junk is going to be handed over to an historical museum.
The degenerate wrote out a ticket for himself a member of the NSDAP signed by Martin Bormann.
He also awarded himself the rank of SS Obergruppenfuehrer (SS General).
For good reasons, such people should be closed immediately for life, either to jail or to a psychiatric hospital.
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It's almost like a bunch of nazis escaped after WW2 and went to Brazil. (And other parts of S America.)
Oh wait, that can't be right.
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Why not just go to Chile and enlist?
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Among the activities of this group were the organization (Chile Nazi's) of a Miss Nazi beauty contest and the formation of a Chilean branch of the Ku Klux Klan.WIKIPEDIA
I think Zelensky is being a bit unfair. Russian authorities recognize and criticize Soviet actions between 1917 and now.
[Rusvesna] On October 6, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacres.
So, Zelensky called Babi Yar "a place that God left forever, and the devil bypasses." And he said that "the Holocaust pandemic began here."
Further, the president described in paints how people were killed "on an industrial scale."
He quoted the announcement: "All Kiev Jews to come here" (presumably, we are talking about the station where the Jews of Kiev were gathered).
In addition, Zelensky said that in addition to Jews, gypsies, Ukrainians, and prisoners of war were killed. He said that Babi Yar is "a monument to a man who kills."
The head of the Ukrainian state also added that Ukraine is a state where people are important, not ideology (unlike the Nazis). Zelensky also said that the current event is a "test for like-minded people."
At the same time, Zelensky could not resist criticizing the USSR. He said that the Soviet authorities poured waste into Babi Yar, "They simply tried not to notice the tragedy."
The President reproached that stadiums and other facilities were being built near this place. And they did not build a "worthy memorial complex."
The monument to "Soviet citizens and prisoners of war soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army, shot by the German fascists in Babi Yar" was erected back in 1976.
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[REGNUM] The presence of the guard of honor of servicemen at the wedding of Georgy Romanov and Victoria Bettarini in St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg on October 1 was previously agreed with the military and sanctioned by the commander of the Western Military District. This was stated by the director of the office of the "House of Romanov" Alexander Zakatov.
"With regard to the participation of the honor guard, a corresponding instruction was given by the commander of the troops of the Western Military District. The presence of the guard of honor did not violate any laws, norms, statutes and traditions," Zakatov said in an interview with Interfax.
He is confident that the presence of the guard of honor at the private ceremony "showed the whole world that historical traditions are respected in Russia."
According to Zakatov, Georgy Mikhailovich and the head of the "House of Romanovs" Maria Vladimirovna have been citizens of Russia since 1992 and "always show great respect for the state power of Russia and its Armed Forces."
Let us remind you that an official investigation was launched in the Western Military District in connection with the participation of active military personnel in the wedding ceremony.
[REGNUM] Officials of the Western Military District were brought to disciplinary responsibility after the military of this unit was sent to the wedding ceremony of a descendant of the Romanov dynasty as a guard of honor.
As reported on October 6, citing a source in the Russian Ministry of Defense RIA Novosti, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu brought to disciplinary responsibility officials of the Western Military District, who made decisions "on the allocation of military personnel of the commandant's unit for a private event."
It is specified that the event took place on October 1 at St. Isaac's Cathedral (St. Petersburg). In the Western Military District, an official investigation was conducted in connection with the incident, "as a result of which violations by individual officials of the requirements of the governing documents were established."
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There's been Russian 'observers' in NATO since there was a NATO. And I am shocked that they were reporting back, unlike everybody else there, who also are supposed to report back.
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[FOX] A contingent of U.S. Special Operations and Marine forces have been secretly operating out of Taiwan as aggressive Chinese actions continue to escalate, a report said Thursday.
U.S. forces have been working to train the Taiwanese military in an attempt to shore up the Indo-Pacific nation’s defenses, first reported the Wall Street Journal.
Officials told the publication that over the last year roughly two dozen members of U.S. Special Operation units and supporting troops have conducted ground training while the Marines have worked to train small boat units.
The news comes just days after a record number of Chinese military planes entered Taiwan's air defense zone.
China’s air force flew roughly 150 fighter jets and bombers into the defense zone over a period of four days.
Though the aircraft did not officially enter Taiwan’s air space, the show of force concerned the international community and prompted the U.S., U.K. and Japan to conduct multi-national military exercises in the region
Taiwan Premier Su Tseng-chang warned this week that "Taiwan definitely needs to be on alert."
"China is increasingly over the top," he said. "We must come together as one and strengthen ourselves, only then will countries that want to annex Taiwan not dare to easily resort to force."
Taiwan identifies as a sovereign nation, but it is officially recognized by China, the United Nations and the U.S. as part of the one-China policy.
The Chinese foreign ministry claimed that U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan emphasized U.S. "adherence to the one-China policy" in talks on Wednesday.
But a statement released by the White House said Sullivan "raised a number of areas where we have concern with the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China] actions," including in the South China Sea.
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Face it everyone, if China invades the Taiwan...
What do you think Uncle Joe will be told he needs to do anything?
Do you trust our DC DOD Brass to do anything, even if ordered?
Seriously
The USA DOD will be facing an enemy 2x's it size and remotely. The distance and logistics already favor CCP.
Because after the BIDEN/DC DOD Brass Afghanistan Mess what Local area Nation would trusts the US to go the distance?
The CCP Army is not PC/WOKE watered down and does not have Transgenders, etc. etc. etc. It is now technically and equally armed, thanks to CCP Spies and US HI-Tech vendors setting up factories and production lines there.
Who knows maybe the DC Swamp and CCP worked out a National Debt deal? ..... Taiwan in exchange for $1.2+/- Trillion in CCP purchase USA Debt.
Given this Socialist Coup, nothing is anything too far fetched to imagine?
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But I thought we had a "Taiwan Agreement". Joe told me so.
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I have read a rumor that US personnel in Taiwan are there mostly to show the Taiwanese how to stay out of the way while Uncle Sam takes care of business. Friendly fire isn't friendly.
#10
US special forces troops are deployed pretty much every freakin where. Just like every embassy has marine guards, every military attache has a couple of 'tourists' that wander around and notice things and talk to people.
Now, unit deployment with equipment is something else.
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We were cooperating and training with their forces back in 1963....secretly deployed my ass. Just ask any boom boom girl.
From October 1, Russia has doubled electricity supplies to China via a link across Amur River, helping to relieve the current energy shortages in northeast China. https://t.co/eeDZtSHS2d
[USBureauOfLaborStatistics] Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 194,000 in September,
Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 19 cents to $30.85 in September, following large increases in the prior 5 months.
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The number of unemployed persons fell by 710,000 to 7.7 million.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) decreased by 496,000 in September to 2.7 million but is 1.6 million higher than in February 2020.
In September, 13.2 percent of employed persons teleworked because of the coronavirus pandemic, little changed from the prior month. The first two items are from the payroll report. The last three are from the household survey. That is why there is a disconnect this month. The post Covid economy is emerging slower than expected and, at least this month, wage gains are essentially all cancelled out by inflation.
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Talked to my tractor guy just back from a regional Kubota sales conference in Ft. Worth. The news was grim. While they can sell everything they can make (in Japan), it can't get here. Surplus scheduled for 2022 won't show up until 2023. Kubota has moved to a just-in-time inventory sales model. You buy one, they build it and ship it. No more sales off the lot.
the logistics problem you noted didn't show up on the 2021 GDP 2nd Q (ending 30 June) estimate released 1 Oct.
the initial estimate of the 2021 GDP 3rd Q (ending 30 Sept) is due in late Dec 2021
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Just-in-time manufacturing and logistics is a big contributor to the bottlenecks we're seeing.
If demand isn't smooth and predictable, the whole just-in-time, integrated demand & supply chain model collapses. Demand is now staggered, skittish, binge & bust.
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I recall in threat assessment analysis that one of the key metrics was the identification of "single point of failure nodes" and the design of systems around them that don't have alternatives. Just in time logistics and the insanity of a manufacturing chain linked across an ocean to a political enemy (China) is astonishing. Port throughput, labor shortages, covid insanity and concentration of virtually all trans-modal shipping points to a couple of ports, each run though a state (California) of massive over-regulation and congestion. You couldn't design a system more ideal for failure if any of the parts failed, let alone most of them. The oil spill from drift anchoring ships waiting a month for offload is just the icing on the cake. o use a favorite USMC expression, what a Jugf*ck!
[CNBC] In April 2020, on a Tesla earnings call, Musk lashed out at Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, government officials calling their temporary Covid-related health orders "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... " in an expletive-laced rant.
In 2020, Musk personally relocated to the Austin area from Los Angeles where he had lived for two decades.
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Tesla already owns several thousand acres at Harold Green Road and Texas State 130. This was planned as a manufacturing site. They could place an HQ there relatively easily.
I'm not sure but I think this is in Travis county but outside the municipal boundary. Is this correct?
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Austin isn't much different than Cali.
BIG difference in taxes.
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Oh jeez. More of them.
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Uncle Sugar’s been tossing around money like budgets don’t matter.
[AnNahar] The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will "provide up to $29 million to deliver reliable energy across all regions of Leb ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... ," the U.S. Embassy said on Wednesday.
The Embassy added in a statement that USAID has awarded a contract to IMC Worldwide, Inc. to implement the Innovation for Affordable and Renewable Energy for All (INARA) Activity under the Initiative to Deliver Essential Assistance and Services (IDEAS) Project that is designed to provide up to $29 million to deliver reliable energy across all regions of Lebanon.
"The USAID is seeking to increase the supply of electricity generation at the community level and to increase the cost-effectiveness, eco-friendliness, sustainability, and reliability of power supply, while clarifying and strengthening the enabling environment for renewable energy-based electrical power generation," the Embassy said.
"We are excited to introduce this new project, which will target all regions of Lebanon and improve the delivery of basic services," Eileen Devitt, USAID Mission Director, affirmed.
"We believe that projects like this are important to energize communities to seek out affordable, sustainable, local solutions to challenges they face every day," Devitt added.
Since 2012, USAID has implemented more than 15 green energy ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... solutions to keep homes and businesses lit, reduce fuel consumption by 30 percent, and minimize pollution for nearly one million people.
More than 20 projects are still being implemented across Lebanon to provide backup electricity and access to water.
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An el lined with beaucoup barbed wire,
The train ran from Cairo to Tyre
For our neighbors to use
While enjoying the views,
And we called it the Green Ghetto Flyer.
For 'tis but a short step from envy to aspiration, and thence to cooperation, prosperity, and peace, glorious lasting peace, throughout the Middle East!
[AnNahar] Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Thursday that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is ready to rebuild Beirut port and that Iranian firms can build two power plants in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... within 18 months.
With what funds?
He stated in a joint presser with his Lebanese counterpart Abdullah Bou Habib that "Iranian specialized companies are willing to build two power plants with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts in Beirut and the South within 18 months."
He added that his country is "fully ready to rebuild Beirut port if the Lebanese side asks for that."
Abdollahian voiced his remarks after meeting with President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... and Prime Minister Najib Miqati, on his first visit to Lebanon since taking his post after Iran’s presidential elections this summer.
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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.
[KSTP] A woman is dead and four others were hospitalized after police said a 
...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the "respected legal scholar" Obama nominated for the Supreme Court...
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
Najib Miqati
