Between sundown Saturday and sunrise today, 25 people were shot across Chicago. 3 of them died.
Nearly half of the victims were targeted in a pair of mass shootings, both involving drive-by gunmen who opened fire on large crowds.https://t.co/5KHNxo2akR
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A young Texas boy died after playing a door-knocking prank on his neighbor who opened fire on him.
Police in Houston said the unidentified 11-year-old was playing ding-dong-ditch with his friends at 11pm on Saturday when the incident happened.
The game involves knocking on someone's door or ringing their doorbell and then disappearing before they open the door.
At some point during the children's prank, however, a neighbor came out of one of the homes and started shooting at the children as they ran away, KHOU reports.
The boy was struck in the back, and transported to a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. He was then pronounced dead on Sunday afternoon.
Cops were able to detain the person who allegedly opened fire after using a bullhorn and urging him to come out of the home with his hands up, according to ABC News.
Shortly before 6am on Sunday, officers were seen dropping the alleged shooter back off at his home.
Authorities have since explained that the shooter has not been arrested, and was just being questioned by homicide detectives on Sunday.
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We used to play that game when I was a kid. We'd hide in the bushes and watch while the homeowner opened the door. It doesn't take much to amuse an 11-year-old boy but I guess it wouldn't have been so amusing if they shot at us.
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A variation of this game that we never played is to fill a paper bag with dog poop, set it on the porch and light it on fire after knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell.
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I'll betcha the shooter votes democrat. Obviously didn't know the laws. Didn't know better than to chase and shoot them while fleeing.
the kid was stupid, but the homeowner was even more stupid. Ringing the door bell is nothing. If they kick the door that's different.
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[Regnum] A new tectonic fault is forming under the Atlantic Ocean, which could become a source of powerful earthquakes and tsunamis. This was stated in a study by experts from the journal Nature Geoscience published on August 31.
"The stratification of the oceanic lithosphere occurs off the coast of the southwest Iberian (Iberian. - Ed.) Peninsula. In particular, seismic tomography reveals a high-velocity anomaly, which we interpret as stratification of a block of old oceanic lithosphere," the publication says.
Over millions of years, water has been seeping into the rocks, weakening them, and this has led to the formation of a significant subduction zone in the Atlantic Ocean, which could cause powerful earthquakes, tsunamis and the movement of tectonic plates. This last process could hypothetically lead to the unification of Africa, Europe and America into one continent, the experts added.
Earlier in August, Professor Nikolai Shestakov of the Polytechnic Institute of the Far Eastern Federal University said that the earthquake in Kamchatka, the strongest since 1952, caused Vladivostok to shift five centimeters to the south and back.
The Russian Academy of Sciences noted that after this earthquake, the southern part of Kamchatka shifted to the southeast by almost two meters. Corresponding Member of the Academy Arkady Tishkov pointed out that the shift in the earth's plates caused by this earthquake will continue and may reach significant proportions.
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[Regnum] Plasma ejected by the Sun will reach Earth by the night of September 2 and cause strong magnetic storms. This was reported on August 31 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"The results of modeling the movement of yesterday's plasma emission along the Sun-Earth line have been generated. According to calculations, solar matter will reach the Earth tomorrow, September 1, between 11:00 p.m. and 12:00 p.m. Moscow time. <…> Preliminarily, the most reliable storm level is considered to be G3 (strong events that have not been observed for about three months) with a probability of about 20% of reaching the maximum [the penultimate in power] level G4," the laboratory's Telegram channel states.
It is also specified that the probability of a higher level (G5) is almost completely excluded.
The publication also indicates that intense polar lights are expected at the moment the plasma hits the Earth's magnetosphere and for the next few hours.
Late in the evening of August 30, scientists recorded a plasma ejection from the Sun towards the Earth. Synchronously with the ejection, a flare of the M2.76 level (the strongest since August 26) was registered. In addition, scientists allowed for new strong explosions.
[BBC] A woman has been burnt to death by a mob in northern Nigeria's Niger state after she was accused of blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad, police have said.
Police condemned the killing of the woman - identified in local media as a food vendor named Amaye - as "jungle justice", saying that an investigation was under way to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators.
Local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying a man jokingly proposed marriage to the vendor, and her response was considered blasphemous by some people in the area.
"Unfortunately, it led to a mob attack, and [she] was set ablaze before a reinforcement of security teams could arrive at the scene," state police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun said.
He appealed to members of the public to remain calm and not to take the law into their own hands following the killing on Saturday in Kasuwan-Garba town.
Such killings are not uncommon in northern Nigeria, where blasphemy is regarded as a criminal offence under Islamic (Sharia) law, which operates alongside secular law in 12 mainly Muslim states.
Rights group Amnesty International said that blasphemy was often "weaponised to settle personal scores" in northern Nigeria.
A minor disagreement or argument, often "deliberately orchestrated", leads to accusations of blasphemy, "and then the mob lynches the accused instantly", it said.
At least two other people have been lynched over such accusations in the last three years, with critics pointing out that not enough is being done to prevent the killings that have targeted both Muslims and Christians.
In 2022, student Deborah Samuel was beaten and burned alive in Sokoto state after being accused of making blasphemous comments.
Last year, a butcher, Usman Buda, was stoned to death in the same state under similar circumstances.
Though Nigeria's constitution upholds freedom of speech, the country remains deeply divided on matters of faith and justice.
Nigeria's Supreme Court has in the past ruled that blasphemy allegations must be proven in a court of law.
Great news. I await the removal/modification of the little zinger embedded at the end of the 2025 Chinese war film "Dead to Rights" forthwith, which failed to recognize the contributions of about a half dozen of western allies, who also helped to destroy the Japanese Empire.
[Regnum] China will not tolerate attempts to distort the history of World War II. This was stated by PRC Chairman Xi Jinping in his article for the CPC party magazine Qiushi.
Xi Jinping: China will not allow history of World War II to be rewritten
According to the Xinhua news agency, the Chinese leader's article will be published on September 1. Its theme is the resistance of the Chinese people to the Japanese occupiers during World War II. It is noted that the victory over the aggressor was a historic moment for China and restored its status as a great power.
"Any attempt to deny, distort or even embellish the history of the invasion will meet with resolute resistance from the Chinese people and all peoples of the world. It is necessary to uphold the correct historical viewpoint on World War II, protect the authority and position of the UN, and firmly defend the achievements of victory in this war," the news agency quotes Xi Jinping as saying.
The Chairman of the PRC noted that the resistance to Japanese aggression became the longest and bloodiest struggle against occupiers in the history of the country. In the confrontation with the invaders, the Chinese people tempered their spirit and will to overcome difficulties, the politician said.
On September 3, China will hold a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II. The celebrations will be attended by 26 foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov clarified on August 29 that Putin will be the main guest at the Victory Parade on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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Yes, of course the Chinese communists won so Xi can write the history any way he damn well pleases. Can't help wondering though, how he'd write the history of the Cultural Revolution...or the Wuhan Virology Lab.
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It is noted that the victory over the aggressor was a historic moment for China and restored its status as a great power.
Don't recall the Chinese being anywhere near touching the Japanese home islands.
Gaming commission washing their books?
[JustTheNews] Websites and services across the state were shut down for the days following the cyberattack.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo spoke publicly for the first time on a cyberattack that shut down government websites and kept state employees at home, four days after it was discovered.
The hour-long press conference included top Nevada officials who outlined more plans to work around the cyberattack, but no identity or motive was revealed for the attackers.
The state is still working to get government websites and system back up and running, with no date yet to be set for a full return to functionality.
”As you know, over the last several days, our state has been responding to a cyberattack targeting Nevada's systems,” Lombardo told reporters Thursday. “While this incident has posed challenges, I want Nevadans to know one thing clearly. Our government and our partners acted quickly and effectively to secure the critical services our communities rely on.”
Websites and services across the state were shut down for the days following the cyberattack. Some had returned to basic function by the end of the week, but many state websites and offices were were still not fully operational. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles was still unable to accept payments early Friday, with the agency saying that late fees would be waived.
The attack, which was caught on early Sunday, was not publicly addressed until Tuesday evening.
“We didn’t know what was affected in the early infancy of this,” said Lombardo when asked why the state waited to address the cyberattack.
“ As we respond and mitigate and continue to evaluate, I couldn't give you answers ...," the Republican governor said. "The only thing we were aware of was there was an intrusion.”
Lombardo and other state officials declined to elaborate on the identity of the attacker, for fear of obstructing an ongoing investigation into the cyberattack.
“ Over the last several days, too much of the coverage has been focused on the attackers,” Lombardo said. “I assure you the investigation is ongoing and progressing. It's frustrating, I understand, but a lot of that information is confidential.”
Earlier in the Thursday press conference, Lombardo thanked the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for helping with the investigation.
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[ColonelCassad] "Crystal Ball" for the CIA: The HAYSTAC Program Turns the World into a Transparent Aquarium In 2023, the US intelligence community, through its IARPA agency, launched the HAYSTAC program. This is a system that studies the routes of millions of people every day, remembers their habits and behavior, and then begins to signal when someone behaves "not as usual."
The system collects information from many sources. This is data from mobile phones that constantly transmit geolocation. These are surveillance cameras on the streets that monitor people's movements. This is information about trips on public transport, purchases on cards, activity on the Internet. Artificial intelligence analyzes these data streams and creates a model of “normal” behavior for each area of the city, for each time of day.
When the system notices deviations from this norm – for example, a group of people gathering in an unusual place, or a car driving along an odd route – it flags it as a potential threat. The program is backed by some of the largest contractors in the American military-industrial complex.
Raytheon and L3Harris have been building surveillance systems for the Pentagon for decades. Leidos specializes in intelligence technology for the CIA and NSA. The program involves eight prime contractors and 27 additional organizations. Quality control is carried out by three leading US research centers, including the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which works on the most secret military projects.
The program is led by Dr. Jack Cooper, who has been the head of IARPA’s Directorate of Analysis since January 2025. The main mission, according to Dr. Cooper: “There is a huge amount of geospatial data being created today, and more is being created as time goes on. This is an unprecedented opportunity to understand how people move, and the goal of HAYSTAC will be to create an understanding of what normal movement looks like at any time and in any place."
By August 2025, the program is in the middle of the second of three phases. This means that the basic algorithms have already been created and the system is being tested on real data. There are about two years left until the full completion of the program. The technology is already working in experimental mode. Where exactly it is being tested and on whose data remains classified information. The system creates detailed behavioral profiles for each person. Daily routes, travel times, meeting places become part of a dossier that is analyzed for "suspiciousness." Any deviation from the norm established by the algorithm can become grounds for closer attention by the secret services.
HAYSTAC is part of an ecosystem of predictive surveillance programs being created by the US intelligence community.
For example, the EMBERS program was previously launched, which analyzes social networks to predict protests, successfully predicting unrest in Brazil (2013) and Venezuela (2014), processing millions of messages daily.
As his paranoia increased this past spring, Soelberg shared with the AI chatbot his suspicions that residents of his hometown, an ex-girlfriend, and even his own 83-year-old mother were involved in a surveillance campaign targeting him.
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The system collects information from many sources. This is data from mobile phones that constantly transmit geolocation. These are surveillance cameras on the streets that monitor people's movements. This is information about trips on public transport, purchases on cards, activity on the Internet. Artificial intelligence analyzes these data streams and creates a model of “normal” behavior for each area of the city, for each time of day.
For some reason, the Wikipedia entry for the History of Nauru makes no mention of cannibalism. I do like the part about the island being run by an escaped Irish convict in the 1800s, though.
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there were dozens of witnesses in that trial so losing one witness's testimony might not mean much
also, there was a lot of video, texts, etc.
their conviction of seditious conspiracy could be a model for convicting Brennan, Comey, Schiff, etc. so keeping them in prison may serve a greater purpose
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Whenever the media start singing songs of betrayal, chaos, and internal discord in the Trump camp, I get suspicious. It is not just because they are lying crapweasels, but that is a big part of it. I want to hear the rest of the story.
[IsraelTimes] President Xi Jinping gathered the leaders of Iran, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member, but not the most reliable... , Russia and India among dignitaries from around 20 Eurasian countries on Sunday for a summit aimed at putting China at the front and center of regional relations.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit is being held in the northern port city of Tianjin until Monday, days before a massive military parade in the capital Beijing to mark 80 years since the end of World War II.
The SCO comprises China, India, Russia, Pakistain, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Belarus — with 16 more countries affiliated as observers or "dialogue partners."
More than 20 leaders including Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and his Ottoman Turkish counterpart His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... are attending the bloc’s largest meeting since its founding in 2001.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... touched down in Tianjin on Sunday with an entourage of senior politicians and business representatives.
China and Russia have sometimes touted the SCO as an alternative to the NATO military alliance. This year’s summit is the first since US President Donald Trump ...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried.... returned to the White House.
Putin is expected to hold talks on Monday with Erdogan and Pezeshkian about the Ukraine conflict and Tehran’s nuclear program, respectively.
Many of the assembled leaders will be in Beijing on Wednesday to witness the military parade, which will also be attended by North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... .
[ShabelleMedia] A UN official confirmed Thursday that the United States has informed the Office of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) that it would not participate in the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the country, scheduled to take place on Nov. 6 in Geneva.
OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told Xinhua that the Office is aware of and regrets the U.S. decision to withdraw from an important peer review process of the intergovernmental UN Human Rights Council, in which all UN member states regularly participate.
She noted that the Office will continue to engage with the U.S. government, as well as with civil society, academia, businesses, and other stakeholders, on human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... issues.
The UPR is regarded as a key platform within the UN framework for countries to exchange views on human rights issues.
Since the first cycle of the UPR began in 2008, all 193 UN member states have undergone three reviews. The fourth cycle, which commenced in 2022, is currently underway. The United States previously underwent reviews in 2010, 2015, and 2020.
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My guess is that they will be chaired by the worst rights voilayors and that they will ignore those nations and will condemn the US and Israel. Did I get it right? I assumed the UN default conditions were in effect.
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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.
[BBC] A woman has been burnt to death by a mob in northern Nigeria's Niger state after she was accused of blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad, police have said.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
