A 17-year-old Norteno gang member from Tracy, CA was caught with a gun just three days ago and subsequently released, has now shot 49ers' player Ricky Pearsall. Despite his recent arrest, authorities released him, leading to this tragic incident involving the professional… pic.twitter.com/AKC88PVUoS
Norteños, lit. 'Northerners' are the various affiliated gangs that pay tribute to Nuestra Familia while in California state and federal correctional facilities.[6] Norteños may refer to Northern California as Norte Califas. Their biggest rivals are the Sureños from Southern California.[3] As of 2008, the statewide north–south dividing line between Norteños and Sureños was regarded as running through the southern end of the Central Valley.[3] The gang's membership consists primarily of Mexican Americans.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Dallas TV reporter broadcasting live from the scene of where an officer had been been killed the night before had to duck for cover as a second shooting played out during her live shot.
KXAS reporter Allie Spillyards was wrapping up a story about a Dallas police officer who had been shot and killed for the local NBC station during its 10 p.m. Friday newscast.
That's when what founded like a spray of gunfire erupted on air.
Spillyards was in a spilt screen with the anchor back at the studio when she looked over her shoulder and her jaw dropped the the ground.
Clearly in fear, she began to duck.
The shooting was edited out of the video the station posted to its website.
However, the Texas viewers who saw the live broadcast were concerned for the TV crew.
'Is she and the crew okay?' asked juanmtz214 on a Dallas Instagram account.
Colleagues confirmed that she was safe, but no other details have been released.
Ironically, Spillyards was reporting on Dallas Police Officer Darron Burks, who was ambushed at the same spot the night before.
Burks had been sitting in his patrol car when he was approached by a man, identified as Corey Cobb-Bey, 30.
Cobb-Bey talked to the cop, before leaving and then returning to shot Burks.
Two other officers who later arrived to check on Burks were also shot, although they did survive.
Cobb-Bey was later killed in a shootout with Dallas police.
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[Regnum] Four people were killed in a shooting on a train in the city of Forest Park in the US state of Illinois. This was reported on September 2 by the ABC News channel, citing a police statement.
"Three died at the scene, and the fourth was transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he died," the statement said.
It is noted that the suspect fled the scene of the crime, but the police tracked him down through surveillance cameras and detained him.
As previously reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of July 21, three people died and seven more were injured as a result of a mass shooting in Philadelphia in the United States. The incident occurred during a party attended by 100 to 150 people.
One of the victims, a 33-year-old man, died at the scene. Police believe he was the target of the attack, as he was shot at very close range. Another person was seriously injured and died in hospital. A third died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Police believe there were multiple shooters. About 30 shell casings and firearms were found at the scene.
FOREST PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- A suspect is in custody after four people were shot and killed while sleeping on a CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park on Monday morning, officials said.
CTA workers discovered the horrific scene around 5:30 a.m. just as the inbound train arrived at the station at 711 Desplaines Avenue. Forest Park police said they received a 911 call that three people were shot on a train.
#3
I had to read to the end to see that it was a CTA train and not a Metra Train.
Lived in the metro area since the early 1980s and never had any interest in anything CTA. Metra -> Yes. CTA -> NO.
#4
The video of the bikers is years old. The X community notes is saying that there is a scheduled biker rally in Colorado. The idea that Hells Angels and Mongols are coordinating seems far fetched.
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IIUC, it hasn't rained yet. These anomalies are of water vapor in the atmosphere.
We've only been able to reliably measure this via satellite in the past 20 years or so as the measurement matrix has gotten more dense and the ability to vary the wavelength detection has improved.
Thus the 'six standard deviations' is basically a wild guess.
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Can it be validated by cactus rings?
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^
using biomarkers to estimate annual rainfall is tricky but if you had a big enough sample it would be doable
but it would be impossible to use biomarkers to estimate episodal rainfall
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Ah'm gonna file this winsome curiosity in the 'shit that doesn't matter' [STDM] folder.
#6
The underwater volcano eruption in Tonga blew 150 million tons of water into the atmosphere. Seems like the likely cause of this and many other recent climate variations. This too shall pass.
#3
...April of '95, while I was in KSA, they had a week straight of rain, giving us the nickname 'the Spring Break rotation'. There was literally no way to get to Al-Kharj from Riyadh.
Best part though was one senior NCO decided he was going to go to work just to prove a point. So, grabbing one of the couple dozen Land Cruisers we had at our disposal, he managed to make it to the town proper and almost got to the base.
See, you had to drive through a pretty good-sized swamp just north of the town to get to the base. That swamp was the sewage lagoon for the good people of Al-Kharj, and he managed to go off the road and sink the Land Cruiser.
#4
Mr. Wife and his group were working on a new laundry detergent formula at the Jeddah factory in 1987, Mike. All the finished product stored on pallets under canvas in the courtyard — because it’s always hot and sunny there, right? — washed away.
#5
Grand solar minimum, magnetic reversal, rainfall patterns are changing on a 12000 year cycle
Sahara will be green again, the megalakes are going to fill
That is why the chinese are building dams in Africa in places where you wonder why would they put a dam there?
Or train tracks to the desert nowhere… because that is actuakky the ancient shores of a mega lake that will again fill
They are smart long range the chinese
Sadly the nasty islamist saudis got the oil and now they get the new grow zones too
Adapt2030 on rumble, youtube plus suspicious observers youtube for solar cycles
[NYPOST] Venezuelan authorities on Monday sought an arrest warrant for the opposition's former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, just over a month after election officials declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the disputed election that his opponents say he lost.
The prosecutor seeking the warrant in its request to a judge focused on terrorism-related crimes cites various charges against Gonzalez, a former diplomat, including conspiracy, falsifying documents and usurpation of powers.
[NY Post] Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s plane was seized by US authorities in the Dominican Republic, according to a report.
The Dassault Falcon 900 — which has been pictured with Maduro on state visits all over the world — was taken after US authorities determined that it was acquired in violation of US sanctions and other criminal issues, two US officials told CNN.
The US flew the plane to Florida on Monday, the sources said.
"This sends a message all the way up to the top," one of the US officials told CNN.
"Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters. We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of US sanctions."
Maduro’s plane was estimated to be worth about $13 million.
It was not clear why it had been in the Dominican Republic in recent months.
The seizure was executed by multiple agencies, including Homeland Security Investigations; Commerce agents, the Bureau of Industry and Security; and the Justice Department, CNN said.
The US also worked closely with the Dominican Republic, which informed Venezuela of the seizure, one of the US officials said.
The next steps will be pursuing forfeiture — which will give the Venezuelan government a chance to petition for the airplane — and collecting evidence from the plane, the outlet continued.
The seizure is an escalation in the tense relationship between the US and Venezuela, as the US investigates alleged corruption within the Venezuelan government.
Over the years, the US has tried to disrupt the flow of cash to the Maduro regime, with Homeland Security Investigations seizing dozens of luxury cars and other assets en route to the country, CNN explained.
In August, the US said that there was no evidence that Maduro won the latest presidential election in July.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, 62, ripped the Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council’s (CNE) vote tally as "deeply flawed" and unrepresentative of the "will of the Venezuelan people," in a statement released by the State Department.
The US also reimposed sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector earlier this year in response to the Maduro government’s failure to allow a fair election.
After the contested July 28 election, Venezuela suspended commercial flights to and from the Dominican Republic.
In March 202, the US Department of Justice charged Maduro and 14 other current and former officials with narco-terrorism, drug trafficking and corruption.
There is a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
The situation in Venezuela has a major impact on US politics, as millions of migrants elect to leave the country in favor of crossing the US-Mexico border.
As of June 2024, 7.7 million people have fled Venezuela — the largest displacement in the Western hemisphere.
"We see these officials and the Maduro regime basically fleecing the Venezuelan people for their own gain," a US official told CNN.
"You have people who can’t even afford a loaf of bread there and then you have the president of Venezuela jetting around in a high-class private jet."
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"You have people who can’t even afford a loaf of bread there and then you have the president of Venezuela jetting around in a high-class private jet."
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If the venezuelans want to nationalise their oil and live like socialists then frankly it is none of our business and the US should stop punishing them for the free choices they make
It isnt your business and no exxon mobile is not entitled to venezuelas oil that is for them to decide
US has enough problems policing its own border. Just build the wall and stop meddling
[Epoch Times] The United States and ambassadors of several other countries have condemned Beijing’s recent aggressive behavior in the South China Sea after its coast guard ship rammed into another Philippine vessel on Aug. 31.
U.S. Ambassador to the Phillippines MaryKay Carlson and ambassadors of the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan voiced their concerns on X over Beijing’s escalations in the South China Sea.
In a statement, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the United States stands with the Philippines and condemns the "dangerous and escalatory actions by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) against lawful Philippine maritime operations in the vicinity of Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea" on Aug. 31.
Manila stated that the Chinese Coast Guard vessel "deliberately rammed and collided with the BRP Teresa Magbanua three times, despite no provocation from the Philippine Coast Guard," and corroborated its assertion with three videos on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that appear to show moments before and during each collision.
The latest skirmish between the Chinese regime and the Philippines occurred near the Sabina Shoal, which China refers to as the Xianbin Jiao (Xianbin Reef) and the Filipinos call the Escoda Shoal.
It’s part of the disputed Spratly Islands over which both Beijing and Manila claim sovereignty.
According to the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), up to 200 nautical miles off the coast of a nation counts as its exclusive economic zone, and the Sabina Shoal—which is much closer to the Philippines than it is to China—falls within the Philippines’s exclusive economic zone.
A 2016 Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling in The Hague also found that the Chinese regime had no legal basis for its territorial claims over the South China Sea. Beijing stated that the court doesn’t have the power to rule on territorial disputes and passed a domestic law that it claims allows its coast guard to detain foreigners it views as trespassers while ramping up aggression in the area.
It’s the fourth sea incident and the third collision incident in a month over which Beijing and Manila publicly traded accusations. The Inclusion of air incidents makes it the seventh skirmish.
Allstate to raise California home insurance rates by 34% on average. Map details hikes up to 650%
Data included in the company’s filings show that the greatest increases will happen in Fresno, Madera and Mariposa counties. A lone homeowner in the 95325 ZIP code in… pic.twitter.com/j5gKUOb93E
… in the 95325 ZIP code in Mariposa County will see rates increase by 385%, while the 95369 ZIP code in Merced County will see rates go up an average of 214%. Homeowners in Sonoma and Napa counties will also see particularly large increases, with rates in the 95442 ZIP code in Sonoma rising an average of 164%. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Our House apprised value (not that anyone would buy it 7.7%)
went from $145K to $220K,
Car & House insurance went a little over $1325,
Annual property taxes went up another $723,
Food, Med's & OTC med's are up 18% to $32% depending on the item,
Water & Power Costs are up 7.8% here,
The county increased the School Tax 3%,
The county has a RAIN TAX now, because it stole $$$$ out of the Maintenance budget and now has need of it.
Medical Insurance with a $1K deductible, is up another $1245 a year for the wife.
Which means we'll be losing $4K+ a year in buying power compared to just 2023.
All told, the O'Biden/Harris &other State/Metro LSD Puppet Regimes have hosed the economy.
An the DC Swamp thinks giving us a 2,5% SSA COLA is enough?
Now If the DC Swamp gave us the COLA equivalent of what they gave themselves.
Along with what was passed out to the 10.4 MILLION ILLEGALS, the100's of Billions to Ukraine and etc. We'd be living like kings.
[BBC] Police units around the world have joined forces in a series of covert operations targeting one of West Africa’s most feared criminal networks - Black Axe.
It started out forty years ago as a Nigerian student fraternity in Benin City, Edo State, then blossomed into an international crime syndicate with an estimated 30,000+ members that generates billions of dollars in revenues from internet fraud, s3x trafficking, money laundering, and the occasional murder.
Operation Jackal III saw officers in body armour carry out raids in 21 countries between April and July 2024.
The mission, co-ordinated by global policing agency Interpol, led to the arrest of 300 people with links to Black Axe and other affiliated groups.
Interpol called the operation a "major blow" to the Nigerian crime network, but warned that its international reach and technological sophistication mean it remains a global threat.
In one notorious example, Canadian authorities said they had busted a money-laundering scheme linked to Black Axe worth more than $5bn (£3.8bn) in 2017.
"They are very organised and very structured," Tomonobu Kaya, a bigwig at Interpol’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre, told the BBC.
According to a 2022 report by Interpol, "Black Axe and similar groups are responsible for the majority of the world’s cyber-enabled financial fraud as well as many other serious crimes".
Mr Kaya said innovations in money-transfer software and cryptocurrency have played into the hands of group, which are renowned for multi-million dollar online scams.
"These criminal syndicates are early adopters of new technologies... A lot of fintech developments make it really easy to illegally move money around the world," he said.
Operation Jackal III was years in the making and led to the seizure of $3m of illegal assets and more than 700 bank accounts being frozen.
Many Black Axe members are university educated and are recruited during their schooling.
The organization is a secretive criminal network with trafficking, prostitution and killing operations around the world.
Cyber-crime, targeting individuals and businesses, is the organization's largest source of revenue.
Multiple so-called "Jackal" police operations have taken place since 2022.
Dozens of Black Axe and other gang members have been arrested and their electronic devices seized during these transnational raids. This work has enabled Interpol to create a vast intelligence database, which is now shared with officers throughout its 196 member countries.
"We need to have data and to collate our findings from these countries to help build a picture of their modus operandi," said Mr Kaya.
Despite multiple international arrests, some experts feel not enough is being done to address the root of these crime syndicates in West Africa.
"The emphasis must actually be on prevention not on outright operations against these criminal groups," said Dr Oluwole Ojewale, West Africa Regional Co-ordinator from the Institute for Security Studies.
Nigeria, which has witnessed widespread anti-corruption protests in recent weeks, is one of Africa’s largest economies, but has as many as 87 million people living below the poverty line, according to the World Bank. It is also the main recruitment ground for Black Axe.
Interpol said it was carrying out training exercises with key Nigerian stakeholders and police officials. But corruption, and allegations of collusion between Black Axe and local authorities, remain major obstacles.
"It is the politicians who are actually arming these boys," said Dr Ojewale. "The general failure of governance in the country has made pressures for people to be initiated [into Black Axe]."
Despite its current global reach, Interpol’s Jackal Operations have their origins in Ireland.
Following a series of police raids by the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (GNECB) in 2020, a handful of Black Axe members were arrested, paving the way for the exposure of a far wider network.
"They were very under the radar, very low-key," said Michael Cryan, detective superintendent at the GNECB, which led the operation.
"The amount of money being laundered through Ireland was astronomical," he added.
The police subsequently identified 1,000 people with links to Black Axe in Ireland and have made hundreds of arrests for fraud and cyber-crime.
"Bank robberies are now done with laptops - they’re far more sophisticated," said Det Supt Cryan.
He estimates €200m ($220m; £170m) have been stolen online in Ireland in the past five years, and that only accounts for the 20% of cyber-crimes that are believed to be reported.
"This is not typical or ordinary crime... People who make decisions need to know how serious this is," he said.
Irish police operations in November 2023 revealed that cryptocurrency - which can be sent rapidly between digital wallets around the world - is becoming an integral element in Black Axe’s money-laundering operations.
More than €1m in crypto-assets were seized during one operation.
Interpol has deployed its own new technology in an attempt to tackle these innovations, launching the Global Rapid Intervention of Payments system (I-GRIP).
The mechanism, which enables the authorities in member countries to freeze bank accounts around the world with unprecedented speed, was used to halt a $40m scam targeting a Singaporean business last month.
Interpol's Mr Kaya said technology like this would make it harder for criminals to move money across borders with impunity.
[FE] It’s one thing to acquire nice stuff over time. It’s another thing to keep it that way. Cars, carpet, alligator skin boots—anything you use and abuse—has a shelf life. But guns? No reason great ones can’t last generations doing what they were designed to do, i.e., shoot, if they’re well taken care of. But a weird thing happens when these SAAMI-certified hunks of steel are allowed to routinely bump and slide around in the back of an ATV or even in a dirty canvas bag on your way to and from the range. Add a little moisture and a sprinkle of neglect and presto, the indestructible 1911 that was once the belle of the ball soon begins looking like Merle Haggard’s guitar pick.
It’s a shame it took me half a lifetime to figure out, but investing in a dedicated $125 case to protect $3,500 worth of guns sure isn’t the dumbest thing I’ve ever done. But it’s not just any case that I picked up; it’s a Condition 1 waterproof, dustproof hard case that’s custom cut to hold 5 handguns and 20 magazines. For me the organization value alone is worth it, based on my history of arriving at the range only to realize I forgot extra mags. Besides that, I love the fact that each pistol is sandwiched vertically in rigid foam so I can clamp the lid shut and literally toss the whole case in the back of my truck and not worry about them until I get where I’m going. Once on the range, I’ve found the case is equally handy when used as a pistol holder that keeps five guns clean, on-hand and pointed slightly downward. It beats the hell out of my normal MO of having guns spread out everywhere all over the tailgate, flagging everyone around.
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.
[NY Post] Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro’s plane was seized by US authorities in the Dominican Republic, according to a report.
The latest skirmish between the Chinese regime and the Philippines occurred near the Sabina Shoal, which China refers to as the Xianbin Jiao (Xianbin Reef) and the Filipinos call the Escoda Shoal.
