This disaster occurred 31 years ago today. Very suspect chain of events, and this is just one take.
Here's a relatively short video from about six months ago.
[Wikipedia] The official investigation concluded that the vessel’s bow visor failed in rough seas, allowing water to flood the car deck and causing the ship to capsize rapidly. The sinking highlighted the vulnerability of roll-on/roll-off ferries to flooding, similar to the MS Herald of Free Enterprise accident seven years earlier.
MS Estonia, a cruiseferry built in 1980, sank on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, between about 00:50 and 01:50 (UTC+2) as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, en route from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden, operated by Estline. The vessel carried 989 people, including 803 passengers and 186 crew, most of whom were Swedish and Estonian. Only 138 people were rescued, one of whom later died. Most victims succumbed to drowning or hypothermia in water around 10–11 °C (50–52 °F). In total, 852 people died, making sinking of the MS Estonia one of the deadliest peacetime sinkings of a European ship, after the Titanic in 1912 and the Empress of Ireland in 1914.[1] It remains the deadliest peacetime shipwreck to have occurred in European waters and was one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century.[2][3]
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Three people have been killed and eight were injured after a boat pulled up to a North Carolina tourist spot and opened fire.
The shooting took place between 9pm and 10pm on Saturday night.
A boat paused in the marina near the American Fish Company in Southport, NC and a person on board fired into the crowd at the pub.
The shooter then fled the scene on the water using the Intracoastal Waterway toward Oak Island.
Town officials issued an urgent warning to locals to avoid the area and remain in their homes.
They wrote in a Facebook post just before 10pm: 'There are reports of an active shooter in the Southport Yacht Basin.
'There is an unknown number of injuries. Avoid the area and remain in your homes.
'Please report any suspicious activity immediately to 911.'
The boat was described as a 'white center console boat.'
The Brunswick County Sheriff's Office confirmed on social media that they were assisting the city of Southport with the incident. They were one of multiple law enforcement agencies responding.
As of 11.30pm a person of interest was being questioned, according to Star News, but no one is in custody.
Southport, NC is about 30 miles south of Wilmington, NC on the Cape Fear River.
The yacht basin from which the suspect fired is on the southeastern corner of the state, 'where the Intracoastal Waterway, Cape Fear River and Atlantic Ocean converge,' according to NBC.
American Fish Company boasts itself as one of the neighborhoods 'favorite hangouts.' On Saturdays their live band Bacon Grease takes the stage from 7pm to 10pm.
The restaurant is one of many that line the marina.
A person matching the shooter's description was spotted loading the vessel at a marina on Oak Island, approximately 5 miles west of the scene, at around 10 p.m., according to Southport city officials.
The US Coast Guard detained the person of interest, who is being held by Oak Island police, awaiting transfer back to Southport for questioning.
Officials didn’t release the identity of the person of interest or reveal any motivation behind the deadly shooting.
The suspect involved in the 'highly premeditated' mass shooting that left three people dead in North Carolina has been identified.
Nigel Edge, 39, was taken into custody Saturday night. Edge identifies as a combat veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to police.
Edge, who cops described as a 'lone wolf' in the incident, was armed with an assault rifle, police said Sunday in a press conference. Other firearms were also found in his vehicle.
He faces three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted first-degree murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Edge, who resides in Oak Island and is 'familiar' among the local police department, is being held without bond. He will make his first court appearance Monday.
The motive behind the attack remains unclear. The deceased victims have not been identified and at least one of the survivors is in critical condition, officials said.
'Sadly, a lot of the victims in this case appear to be not members of the community, but people who are here on vacation,' District Attorney John David said.
The shooter was the lone occupant of the boat.
According to records obtained by the Daily Mail, Edge has been behind numerous lawsuits filed in the state this year.
One of the legal filings accuses a Southport church of trying to kill him, according to the lawsuit filed in May. In it, he claimed the Generations Church was behind a 'civil conspiracy' drawn up by the LGBTQ community and white supremacist pedophiles to kill him because he is a 'straight man,' the filing said.
Edge filed a similar lawsuit in January against Brunswick Medical Center, where he accused the facility of being part of a conspiracy launched by 'LGBTQ White Supremacists' who were this time out to get him because he survived their attack in Iraq, per the lawsuit.
Both lawsuits were dismissed with prejudice, records showed.
It sounds like he was definitely unbalanced, poor man. The Trump people now heading the VA want it known that the VA has only been assisting half of America’s veterans, and they would really like those who hadn’t done so to go to the website to register, so they can figure out how best to help those neglected, now that DOGE methods applied to the department are freeing up resources. (I just came back from a Patriot trip to Washington, DC at the invitation of my naval brother-in-law by marriage, and one of the extra treats was a report to the group by one of the new senior men at the VA. He very earnestly asked that we all spread the word of their request to register, so here I am doing my bit.)
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd, three people familiar with the matter said Friday.
The bureau had reassigned the agents last spring but has since fired them, said the sources who insisted on anonymity to discuss personnel matters.
The number of FBI employees fired was not immediately clear, but two people said it was roughly 20.
The photographs at issue showed a group of agents taking a knee during one of the demonstrations following the May 2020 killing of Floyd, a death that sparked widespread anger after millions of people saw video of his arrest. It led to a national reckoning over policing and racial injustice.
But the change comes amid a broader effort by President Donald Trump's new FBI Director Kash Patel to root out what the president has called 'woke' and politicized elements within the bureau.
Five agents and top-level executives were known to have been summarily fired last month in a wave of ousters that current and former officials say has contributed to declining morale.
One of those, Steve Jensen, helped oversee investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol.
Another, Brian Driscoll, served as acting director in the early days of the Trump administration and resisted Justice Department demands to supply the names of agents who investigated Jan. 6.
A third, Chris Meyer, was incorrectly rumored on social media to have participated in the investigation into Trump´s retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
A lawsuit filed last week by three of the fired agents alleged that Patel understood that the firings were 'likely illegal' but had to carry them out because he was ordered to do so from the White House.
Patel has denied taking orders from the White House on whom to fire and has said anyone who has been fired failed to meet the FBI's standards.
Some who worked on criminal cases against Trump and led field offices across the country have reportedly also been removed from their positions, often without any reason, according to the Washington Post.
When reached by The Daily Mail, a spokesperson for the FBI declined comment.
Yet some former FBI officials told CNN they worry that the recent staff changes are a sign that the bureau is bypassing its regular disciplinary process - as the agents have previously been found to have done nothing wrong.
'This notion that the bureau would go after these people, it's just disgusting,' a former official told CNN.
The agents in question had been based in DC when former police officer Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on George Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes as he cried out that he couldn't breathe.
The viral incident sparked mass protests across the country that at times turned violent and left cities vandalized.
As the protests continued, Trump - who was in his first term in office - urged then-Attorney General Bill Barr to regain control of the streets.
Barr, in turn, ordered the FBI and other agencies to help with crowd control and to protect federal monuments.
But FBI agents are not generally trained to do crowd control, and deploying them to face off against the demonstrators raised concerns about a possible deadly confrontation.
On the day of the kneeling photo, some of the agents recalled a recent incident in which National Guard soldiers handled a similar confrontation and decided to take a knee in an effort to de-escalate tensions.
The plan worked, and the protesters moved on.
But when the picture was published, some of the agents were ostracized and personally attacked by their peers, according to CNN.
Some senior officials at the agency even believed the women involved put themselves and their team at a tactical disadvantage.
Top officials then reviewed the incident, and ultimately found that no disciplinary action was necessary 'because there was no violation of policy that they could point to.'
'What the bureau asked those agents to do is go out on foot patrol, something they were never trained to do. They were asked to be police officers,' a former official told CNN.
'In no way were they making a political statement.'
A 2024 report from the Department of Justice's inspector general also found that the FBI deployments to protect the monuments 'lacked adequate planning' and 'failed to provide sufficient guidance to personnel regarding their mission and legal authorities.'
It also said that 'by sending armed agents to respond to civil unrest for which they lacked the proper training or equipment, created safety and security risks for the agents and the public.'
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I always thought that this was just an FBI version of the Pelosi kneel video with the South African scarfs. Not sure the agents did the wrong thing here. In that I think the entire FBI is too corrupt to be rehabilitated, I usually am happy with any reduction in their headcount. This seems like low level folks doing a role that they were not trained for.
What I would like to see is the firing down from Wray, everyone who worked for him, everyone who worked for them and down until the infection is removed. The hierarchy in the local offices needs to be purged as well. Wray made a point of visiting all of them. I would like to know what he said during those sessions. That would help determine how many layers need to go. In the end, I can’t see much being left. Patel wants to trim branches. I want to see it taken down to a rotten sump.
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[KavkazUzel] Those wishing to perform the Hajj in 2026 must submit documents by the end of January, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Chechnya reported.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," Chechnya's quota for the 2024 pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia was 3,000, but this year, 3,500 pilgrims from Chechnya went on the Hajj. The latest group, which also included relatives and associates of Ramzan Kadyrov, departed for Saudi Arabia from Grozny airport on May 31. Pilgrims from Chechnya often try to save up for the Hajj trip themselves, but $5,600 is a significant sum, and relatives always try to contribute financially.
Hajj, the pilgrimage to the Muslim holy sites in Mecca, is one of the five pillars of Islam. Every Muslim who has reached adulthood and is able to do so is required to perform the Hajj at least once in their lifetime. The pilgrimage to Mecca typically occurs at the beginning of the 12th month of the Muslim lunar calendar and culminates with the Feast of Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha. There is also a so-called "lesser Hajj"—Umrah.
Anyone wishing to perform the Hajj in 2026 must submit documents by the end of January 2026, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Chechnya reported.
"At the end of January 2026, Saudi Arabia will close its online platform for registering pilgrims, after which it will no longer be possible to obtain a visa or permit to perform the Hajj," the Muslim Spiritual Directorate (SDU) announced on its Telegram channel.
Have fun, guys, but remember to be on your best behaviour. Saudi police don’t mess around.
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[Regnum] Solar flare activity will increase significantly on September 27, according to a forecast from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Scientists have warned of increased solar activity on Earth on September 27.
At the same time, scientists noted that the geomagnetic situation will remain calm and stable for now.
"The geomagnetic situation is calm. Flare activity is significantly elevated, with the potential for further growth," the Telegram channel reported.
According to the laboratory, solar flare activity was also significantly increased in the past 24 hours, but with uncertain risks for Earth.
Two powerful solar flares have been recorded over the past five hours. This was reported on September 27 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
"The Sun has been experiencing a noticeable increase in activity since the end of yesterday. Over the past five hours, two strong M-class flares have been recorded, classified, however, at the lower limit, as well as several lower-level "C" events, " reads a message published on the IKI RAS Telegram channel.
Scientists currently view the solar activity surge as local, that is, a short-term response to one-time energy emissions. However, synchronization between active centers at the edge and center of the solar disk may indicate signs of global growth. The solar dynamics will be monitored in the future, noted the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
On September 27, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported that solar flare activity would increase significantly, with the potential for further growth. However, scientists noted that the geomagnetic environment on Earth remains calm and stable. Flare activity was also high in the previous 24 hours, but without any specific risks to the planet.
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.
