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His AI was acutely aware
As it talked to Ms. Todd on a dare.
"Ma'am, that one ninety-three
Is a wonder to see...
But your thirty-seven thousand two hundred forty-nine is a mystery to me."
Sighed her agent, "Oh, gawd. What a square."
[NYPost] Dramatic video footage captured the moment a 69-year-old homeless man stabbed the thugs who mercilessly terrorized him on a Queens subway train, killing one and wounding another.
In a twist of transit justice, it’s the surviving goons who are now behind bars, prosecutors said.
“The victim was accosted, without provocation, and our investigation has shown that he defended himself while attempting to retrieve his property,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement Wednesday.
“As a result, my office will not be filing charges for the fatality.”
Gripping footage of the violent encounter on a 7 train on Dec. 22 shows the victim sleeping on the train shortly before 12:30 a.m. when two of the brutes — identified by prosecutors as Stalin Moya and Oswaldo Walter — grab one of the man’s bags and take it into a second car.
Moya then goes back and grabs more of the victim’s bags — waking him up in the process.
That’s when things got violent.
The unidentified victim followed Moya into the second car to try to get his things back, only to be attacked and pounded by several men in the group as they scattered and hid his bags.
The footage shows the victim then being shoved and slugged repeatedly by the group — until he has enough and pulls out a long knife and slashes his attackers, wounding at least two.
The cowardly thugs then scatter — one is seen stumbling away, bleeding from his wounds — as the victim stands in the middle of the empty subway car, still clutching the knife.
Pena, 26, Walter, 29, and two others — Jose Valencia, 35, and Henry Toapanta, 32 — have been indicted by a grand jury on robbery and assault charges in the incident.
The DA’s office said all of the suspects are also homeless.
“Our subways must be safe for the millions of people who depend on public transportation,” Katz said in her statement. “The New York City subway system has been outfitted with cameras and the video recovered in this case is vital to our prosecution.”
The incident comes amid a recent jump in subway violence and has similarities to earlier instances when straphangers fought back against transit thugs.
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“Our subways must be safe for the millions of people who depend on public transportation,” Katz said in her statement.
"Your stereotypical cats,
Often wearing their sweet little hats,
Aren't easily herded,
But...
Cheese it!" he blurted.
"A pack of Melindas!"
"Oooh, rats!"
[bangety bang bang... "Pimpollo..." bang]
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This is NOT climate change caused.
Rainfall chart shows a consistent repetitive natural weather cycle for LA and nothing abnormal since it started back in 1877. In fact, LA has had ABOVE normal rainfall since 2021.
Using the 148 years of historical data, as a reference.
The Southern Cal/LA area Political Leadership can expect the next few years to be on the dryer side.
#3
Ugh. Did anyone see that briefing where they had a lineup of diverse sign language people? The dude with the bangle earrings, 7th grade girl quality makeup, and pony tail down to his pooter? School marm after school marm doing their best 5th grade play script?
[IsraelTimes] An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a massive oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged, a security firm says.
The Sounion had been a disaster in waiting in the waterway, with 1 million barrels of crude oil aboard. It had been struck and later sabotaged with explosives by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, taking months for salvagers to tow the vessel away, extinguish the fires and offload the remaining crude oil.
The Houthis initially attacked the Greek-flagged Sounion tanker on August 21 with small arms fire, projectiles and a drone boat. A French destroyer operating as part of Operation Aspides rescued its crew of 25 Filipinos and Russians, as well as four private security personnel after they abandoned the vessel and took them to nearby Djibouti.
The Houthis later released footage showing they planted explosives on board the Sounion and ignited them in a propaganda video, something the Iran-backed group has done before in its campaign.
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'Joint US-Israeli airstrikes' pound Yemen, reports say Israeli jets hit Hodeidah Port and Haziz power station near Sanaa; Arab media reports US, UK forces carried out 12 airstrikes in Yemen’s northwestern Amran province
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The US-British aggression on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... launched raids at dawn Thursday, targeting the Sana'a, Hodeidah and Amran governorates, Yemeni media sources reported.
In the details, the sources said that US-UK aggression launched two raids on the Jarban area, in the Sanhan district, south of Sanaa province, and re-targeted the Harf Sufyan district in the Amran governorate, north of Yemen, with three raids.
Also, a raid targeted al-Luhayyah district, northwest of the coastal Hodeidah Governorate in western Yemen.
On Wednesday, the US-UK aggression launched raids, targeting Sana'a and Harf Sufyan District in Amran Governorate, northern Yemen
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#1 Why the... are we starting a new war?
No more... foreign wars. EVER!!
So said armchair critics to Thomas Jefferson when he sent armed ships into the Med.
#2
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
We would all rather stay home and watch tv or read a book, but sometimes you have to walk down the street and help the neighbors put out a fire or repel the barbarians.
[IsraelTimes] Australian authorities denounce “hate-filled” vandals who daubed swastikas and other graffiti on a Sydney synagogue in the early hours of Friday, the latest in a series of attacks on Jewish places of worship.
The vandalism on the Southern Sydney Synagogue comes a little over a month after masked arsonists gutted a Melbourne synagogue, prompting the government to create a federal task force targeting antisemitism.
The Hamas-led terror onslaught in October 2023 and subsequent war in Gaza has sparked regular protests by supporters of Israel and Palestinians while feeding tensions between the two communities across Australia, as in much of the world.
The Sydney vandalism was “a hate-filled attack by individuals that have got hate in their hearts,” New South Wales Premier Chris Minns tells journalists.
“I think the painting of a swastika on a Jewish building shows you everything you need to know about how appalling these particular individuals are and what their ultimate aim is.”
Police say they have increased the protection of synagogues around Sydney.
To no avail, sadly. What are they doing wrong?
Investigators will review all CCTV in the area, says New South Wales police assistant commissioner Peter McKenna.
“It’s abhorrent. It’s not the Australian way, as I said, and people who do this sort of thing should realize that we will be out in force to look for them. We will catch them. We will prosecute them,” he tells reporters.
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Off the "watched Furiosa last night (and, boy, is my scowl tired)" pile...
The Last, Fast Ride of Promethean JOE
O horror! A roar o'er the sand!
Are the ramparts of Rantburg unmanned?
"Got a gut full of Hass
And a boatload of gas
And forever to pass it and--"
"Banned."
[Rudaw] Sulaimani-based counter-terrorism forces on Wednesday announced the arrest of several Islamic State (ISIS) suspects in the Sharazur district during an intelligence-led operation.
In a statement, the General Directorate of Counter-Terrorism (CTG) said they arrested “a number of” ISIS suspects, hailing from Salahaddin province.
It elaborated that the suspects were involved in “several terrorist acts and human rights violations” and had held various positions within ISIS when the group controlled swathes of Iraqi land during its three-year reign which began in 2014.
The CTG said that the arrests were conducted swiftly, with no reported harm, and the individuals have been transferred to courts for legal proceedings, emphasizing that the directorate “will continue its operations to arrest and destroy all terrorists and sleeping cells of ISIS throughout Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.”
ISIS remains a significant security threat in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, operating through sleeper cells and launching sporadic attacks despite its territorial.
God damn Hamas to Hell., and all their fellow travellers, too.
[IsraelTimes] The family of hostage Hamza Ziyadne, 22, say they have been informed that his body was identified by the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.
Ziyadne’s remains were recovered by the IDF from a tunnel in southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Rafah on Tuesday night, along with the body of his father Youssef, 53.
The IDF says its representatives notified Ziyadne’s family of the news this morning, following the identification process by the forensic institute.
"Hamza and Youssef were kidnapped alive on October 7 and were killed in Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... captivity. The IDF and Shin Bet share in the family’s grief at this difficult time," the military says.
"The IDF and Shin Bet are making every effort to return all the hostages as quickly as possible," the statement adds.
The IDF said earlier this week that the remains it recovered from the tunnel raised "grave concerns" for Hamza’s life. It is now confirmed that he was indeed killed.
It is now believed that 94 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli civilian from the northern Arab town of Kabul has been charged with planning a bombing attack, the Shin Bet security agency says.
The suspect is named by the Shin Bet and Israel Police as Mahmoud Hussein Muhammad Bushkar, 37, whose father is a West Bank Paleostinian.
Bushkar was recently detained by Border Police officers. The Shin Bet says he told interrogators that he planned to build suicide belts to carry out an attack.
The investigation found that Bushkar "viewed content dealing with the preparation of explosives, purchased equipment and various materials with which he performed several experiments, including the production of a TATP-type explosive and the preparation of a pipe bomb, and later even planned to prepare an boom belt in order to carry out attacks in Israel," the security agency and police say.
Authorities say that the suspect unsuccessfully attempted to recruit two others to aid him in carrying out the attack.
The Shin Bet and police investigation found that the suspect was "inspired" by the events of the current war and the 2021 Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... conflict to carry out the attack.
A handgun and materials to build bombs were seized from his possession, the Shin Bet adds.
An indictment was filed against Bushkar this morning at the Haifa District Court.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The al-Qassam Brigades grabbed credit for the al-Funduq shooting operation near Qalqilya, which resulted in the killing of three Israeli settlers and the wounding of several others on Monday.
The military wing of the Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... movement said late Wednesday that the operation was carried out in coordination with the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) movement, and the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades.
Al-Qassam stressed that joint operations will serve as the most powerful message of unity and cohesion among the various Resistance® factions against anyone attempting to undermine the Resistance®.
The Brigades announced that one of its commanders, martyr Jaafar Ahmad Dababsah, was the criminal mastermind behind the operation, through which the Resistance® delivered a message of field unity.
Following the operation on Monday, Hamas said in a statement that the shooting attack ''confirms that the Resistance® in the West Bank will continue despite the occupation's terrorism and security measures.''
The Paleostinian group called the attack a ''heroic response to the ongoing crimes and war of extermination committed by the [Israeli] occupation against our people.''
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[SraelTimes] The commander of Hamas’s Sabra Battalion, part of the Gaza City Brigade, was killed in a recent airstrike, according to the military and Shin Bet.
A separate strike killed the battalion’s deputy commander, along with other operatives, according to the IDF.
In a joint statement, the IDF and Shin Bet say that the Sabra Battalion commander, Osama Abu Namus, was eliminated in a drone strike this week.
The IDF says Abu Namus was a “significant source of knowledge” in Hamas and was responsible for attacks on Israel and IDF troops in Gaza, especially soldiers operating in the Netzarim Corridor area, located just south of Gaza City.
A separate strike killed Mohammed al-Tarq, the deputy commander of Hamas’s Sabra Battalion, the military says. According to the IDF, he previously served as the commander of a Nukhba force company in the battalion.
Al-Tarq was also responsible for attacks on troops in the Netzarim Corridor, the military says.
The IDF says recent airstrikes also eliminated two commanders in the Sabra Battalion’s Nukhba force company, including one responsible for the supply of weapons.
The Sabra Battalion is named after the neighborhood of Gaza City in which it operates.
In a statement, COGAT says this includes 6,750 liters of fuel, 10,000 liters of water, dozens of food crates and nearly 300 boxes of medical supplies.
It says that on Monday, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, supplies were delivered to Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, including 291 boxes of medical equipment, along with food supplies, and that water supplies totaling 10,000 liters and food crates were transferred to the Indonesian Hospital.
And yesterday, also in collaboration with WHO, “6,750 liters of fuel were transferred to hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip — A-Nasser, Al-Aqsa, and the European Hospital — to sustain their critical operations.”
“The IDF, through COGAT, will continue to act in accordance with international law to allow and facilitate humanitarian assistance for the residents of the Gaza Strip, with a focus on medical support,” the statement says.
Three girls and their father were killed when an airstrike hit their house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the civil defense agency alleges.
In a separate strike, eight people were killed when their house was struck in the town of Jabalia in northern Gaza. Several more were wounded in that strike, according to the civil defense agency.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian Authority has arrested 247 outlaws as part of its counterterror raid in the Jenin refugee camp that has been ongoing for several weeks, PA security forces spokesperson Anwar Rajab says.
Speaking at a press conference in Jenin, Rajab says PA forces have defused 245 explosive devices in addition to confiscating weapons and ammunition.
Eight of those arrested are suspected of illicitly financing terror groups in the northern West Bank.
Iranian proxies? ISIS? The government of Egypt? Inquiring minds want to know.
Rajab says PA forces also seized funds that were supposed to go toward the families of “martyrs and prisoners” but had been “misappropriated by the lawbreakers,” Haaretz reports.
The #Israeli military says it intercepted three drones approaching from the east within an hour, including two believed to have been launched from #Yemen.https://t.co/WelwVdMC5b
[IsraelTimes] Sirens sound in southern community of Gvulot as first UAV intercepted, 2 more within hour shot down over sea; official tally finds Houthis has fired 40 missiles, 320+ drones in war
Israel’s air force intercepted three drones apparently launched at the country by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s in quick succession on Thursday evening, the military said, marking the first attack in days by the Iran-backed terror group.
No injuries or damage were reported in the attacks, with only one of the three UAVs seemingly reaching Israeli territory. The launches came hours after the IDF released data tallying over 350 drones and ballistic missiles fired by the group at Israel since October 7, 2023.
The first drone set off sirens in the southern community of Gvulot, some 20 kilometers from the border with Egypt. The Israel Defense Forces said the sirens were activated there "according to protocol."
In a statement, the IDF said the drone was launched at Israel "from the east," and initial military assessments found the drone had been fired from Yemen.
Footage posted to social media from the incident appeared to show Israeli Air Force helicopters shooting down the drone. Residents of the area also reported seeing an interceptor missile launched.
Another image shared online showed that the remains of the intercepted drone crashed in an open field.
Footage shows the interception of an apparent Houthi drone over southern Israel this evening.
Minutes later, the military said a second drone launched at Israel from Yemen was intercepted by the IAF over the Mediterranean Sea.
No sirens sounded in the second incident as no towns were under any threat.
Less than an hour after that, the military said a third drone "from the east" — likely from Yemen — was intercepted by the IAF over the Mediterranean Sea, before reaching Israel.
The IDF later published footage showing one of the drones being knocked down.
There was no immediate Houthi claim for the attacks, though the Israeli military believed that the terror group was behind them. The launches appeared to be the first targeting Israel from Yemen since just after midnight on Sunday morning, following several weeks that have seen near-daily attacks by the rabidly anti-Israel Houthis.
In past attacks, drones launched by the Iran-backed group from Yemen have crossed into southern Israel via the Egypt border or made a long route — also via Egypt — to reach Israel from the west.
The strikes came hours after the IDF released new data on attacks on Israel from Yemen since the onset of the war, which began with Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... ’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught.
According to the military, the Houthis have launched some 40 ballistic missiles at Israel, the vast majority of which were intercepted by Israeli air defenses.
In one case, the military failed to shoot down a Houthi missile, and there were two incidents of partial interceptions, all of which resulted in damage and injuries in Israel.
According to the military, some of the Houthi ballistic missiles fell short before reaching Israel.
Additionally, the IDF said it has recorded over 320 drones launched at Israel from Yemen amid the war.
Over 100 of the drones were intercepted by the IAF using ground-based air defense systems, fighter jets, and helicopters. Several drones were also shot down by the Israeli Navy.
There have been two cases of what the IDF called "effective" drone impacts in Israel, with causalities and damage, while the others either struck open areas or did not reach the country, according to the military.
The Iran-backed Houthis have ramped up missile and drone attacks on Israel since early December, though Thursday’s incidents ended a rare lull that had lasted several days.
On Monday, the Houthis claimed to have launched four drones at Israel, targeting a "vital target" near Ashkelon, and targets near Tel Aviv. The IDF said it was unaware of any drones reaching Israel that day from Yemen, and there were no reports of impacts.
Israel and Western allies have carried out several sorties against Houthi targets in Yemen, but they have failed to stem the attacks.
The IAF last struck the Houthis out on December 26. Since then, the Iran-backed group has fired five ballistic missiles and at least four drones at Israel.
The Yemeni rebels have also been firing at ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden — destabilizing a vital shipping lane and prompting reprisal strikes by the United States and sometimes Britannia against Houthi targets.
[IsraelTimes] Singapore says it has detained three men since October last year who were preparing to travel to the Middle East to fight against Israel, and one expressed willingness to carry out attacks in Singapore if instructed to do so.
The Home Affairs Ministry says in a statement that the three Singaporean men are not linked to one other and were “radicalized” online, but there is no indication others were recruited.
It is not immediately clear why the ministry is announcing the detentions now.
Following their arrest in October, they were detained under Singapore’s Internal Security Act, which allows suspects to be held for lengthy periods without trial.
The three are a director of a digital marketing company, a lift mechanic and a security guard, aged 41, 21 and 44, respectively.
One of the three was willing to carry out any instruction from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the statement says, “including conducting attacks in Singapore,” adding the man had no specific attack plans.
The Palestinian terror group Hamas is backed by Iran. Iran has not made a threat against Singapore, though it has vowed to target Israeli and Jewish targets abroad.
One of the men visited a shooting range in Thailand to learn to operate firearms, while two planned to visit shooting ranges in Indonesia, it says.
The ministry says restrictions were placed on two other Singaporeans in June and July last year under the security law, related to the conflict in Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] IDF troops operating in southern Syria have located a BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle packed with ammunition, the military says.
The find was made by troops of the 474th Golan Regional Brigade, who are operating in a buffer zone on the Syrian side of the border and in some areas just beyond it.
Alongside the IFV, the military says the Golani Brigade found additional caches of weapons, which were captured or destroyed.
The IDF says it seeks to prevent the weapons from reaching “hostile elements” that could harm troops and Israeli civilians in the Golan.
[IsraelTimes] Earlier today, the IDF says, it carried out a drone strike in southern Lebanon after identifying suspects loading a vehicle with weapons.
The weapons were being taken from buildings that the military says were used by Hezbollah.
An Israeli Air Force drone struck the vehicle with the weapons “to remove the threat,” the IDF says.
[IsraelTimes] Swiss national arrested in Iran and accused of spying committed suicide in prison, the chief justice of Iran’s Semnan province is quoted as saying by Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
