[BB] A 15-year-old and a 16-year-old are reportedly in custody after five members of a family were shot and killed in East St. Louis, Illinois, on Sunday. East St. Louis is an excellent city to avoid.
FOX 19 reported that two other people were shot and are in critical condition.
The shootings occurred across three different locations, and “all the victims are related,” according to authorities.
FOX 2 Now identified the deceased shooting victims as 21-year-old Quentin L. Thompson, 24-year-old Devin D. May, 25-year-old Shania Thompson, 49-year-old Cherie L. May, and 74-year-old Patricia A. May.
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East St. Louis was not safe even back in the 90's, while working at Scott AFB. The section of Interstate that runs through it has Emergency Call boxes every 100 yards all the way into St.Louis itself.
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It’s interesting that you see more lefty protests in Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis as opposed to East St Louis, Oakland, Detroit and East Cleveland.
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^ White privilege
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When emigrating from MN to TN, we drove 100 miles out of our way to avoid going thru St Louis.
[PageSix] ‘Jurassic Park’ star Sam Neill dead at 78 after cancer recovery
Neill, the star of the 1993 blockbuster “Jurassic Park,” died at 78 on Monday, his family announced.
“It is with immense sadness that the whānau [family] of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia,” the late actor’s loved ones wrote via Instagram.
“Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterized his whole life,” the statement continued. “The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.”
Neill’s family went on to “express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care.”
They concluded, “More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
Neill’s death comes just two months after he announced he was cancer-free following his battle with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma – a rare and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
“I’ve been living with a particular type of lymphoma for about five years and I was on chemotherapy and the pretty miserable business but it was keeping me alive,” he told Australia’s 7News in April.
Neill, who was born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1947, was forced to seek an alternative when doctors told him chemotherapy stopped working.
“I was at a loss and it looked like I was on the way out, which wasn’t ideal obviously,” he said.
He then took part in a trial for CAR T-cell therapy – a form of immunotherapy that trains T-cells to destroy cancer cells.
“I’ve just had a scan just now and there is no cancer in my body, that’s an extraordinary thing,” he said, reflecting on the success of his trial. “I’m very, very excited that this can happen. It’s time I did another movie.”
Neill previously said he was “not remotely afraid” of dying as he battled cancer.
BRUSSELS, July 13 (Reuters) - European countries reported more than 10,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave that engulfed the west of the continent in late June, official data showed.
The vast majority — more than 9,000 — were among people aged 65 and above, according to data published by EuroMOMO, a network backed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization.
Extreme heat can kill by causing heat stroke, or aggravating cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, with older people among the most vulnerable.
"To have this kind of excess at this time of year is unusual. It’s really high," Lasse Vestergaard, Chief Physician at Denmark's Statens Serum Institut, which hosts EuroMOMO, told Reuters.
"It is difficult to explain this high excess mortality by anything but the extreme heat," Vestergaard added.
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[Regnum] The death toll from the twin earthquakes in Venezuela has reached 4,490, National Assembly Speaker Jorge Rodríguez announced on July 12.
"Dead: 4,490 people. Injured: 16,740 people. Rescued: 6,462 people," Rodriguez noted on Telegram.
120,794 families received assistance. 19,583 people are housed in temporary camps, and another 17,907 residents are left homeless. A total of 108 temporary camps have been established across the country. 31,837 emergency personnel, 30,535 volunteers, and 2,422 international rescuers are participating in the relief efforts.
Two powerful earthquakes, measuring 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude, struck northern Venezuela on the evening of June 24. The natural disaster caused widespread destruction, and a state of emergency was declared in the country.
A Venezuelan teenager who survived 17 hours trapped beneath rubble after June's twin earthquakes is putting a human face on a disaster that has killed more than 4,000 people and left thousands more homeless. Sheryl Peña reports.
[ZERO] French political figure Éric Zemmour is arguing that robotics represents the true economic future of France, offering a technological solution to labor shortages in factories and farms rather than relying on mass immigration.
Moving down to the bottom line:
Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock and arguably one of the most powerful men on the planet,
How does the writer figure that? I’m not disagreeing, I just want to understand the logic
openly said last year that the countries with xenophobic immigration policies are going to have a higher standard of living, faster productivity growth, and will be better able to accommodate the social impact of artificial intelligence advances over the coming years.
"You know, we always used to think shrinking population is a cause for negative growth. But in my conversations with the leadership of these large developed countries that have xenophobic immigration policies, they don’t allow anybody to come in, shrinking unemployment, excuse me, shrinking demographics. These countries will rapidly develop robotics and AI and technology. And if the promise, I didn’t say it’s going to happen, but as a promise of all that transforms productivity, which most of us think it will, we’ll be able to elevate the standard of living of countries and the standard of living of individuals even with shrinking populations," said Fink.
"And so the paradigm of negative population growth is going to be changing. And the social problems that one will have in substituting humans for machines is going to be far easier in those countries that have declining populations," he said.
When Fink talks about xenophobic countries, he is talking about countries like South Korea, China, and Japan, where robotics and AI are being used to deal with the demographic situation instead of mass immigration.
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^ #2
No Data Centers they just steal massive amounts of limited Electricity and Water , while being used by Big Brother against rapidly decreasing numer of TAXPAYERS for the system.
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[REGNUM] Washington's leading hawk, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, died unexpectedly of an illness at the age of 71, immediately after his latest visit to Ukraine, where he visited, among other things, military factories.
Graham is an interventionist to the core: there hasn't been a single war involving the United States that he hasn't supported, be it Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, or, of course, Ukraine. Back in 2010, the senator called for bombing Iran, a full 15 years ahead of current events.
He was first elected to the Senate from South Carolina back in November 2002, having previously served for many years as a local congressman. Graham embodied the cohort of hawkish neoconservatives during the George W. Bush era. They dominated the Republican ranks and largely shaped US foreign policy at least until the 2006 elections, when Democrats took control of Congress.
In the 2000s, the Senate was a veritable "hawkish gang," consisting of a trio of characters— John McCain and Joe Lieberman, along with Graham, who was close to them. All are now deceased.
They sought to work with representatives of both parties and helped advance the militaristic agenda at the legislative level. However, the influence of this "gang of three" began to wane as fatigue with the Iraq adventure grew.
McCain ran a disastrous presidential campaign in 2008 and lost to Barack Obama, who ran on an anti-war platform. Eight years later, Graham decided to try his luck, running in the 2015 Republican primaries. It all ended in the most humiliating way possible: Graham's poll ratings never exceeded 1%. He was forced to drop out of the race early and support the candidacy of Jeb Bush, who ultimately lost decisively to Donald Trump.
During the 2016 election campaign, Graham hurled insults at Trump, the primary winner, calling him a lunatic. But after Trump's unexpected election as president, the senator was one of the first Republicans to hastily change his tune, began building bridges with the winning team, and quickly became a close ally of the 45th president in the Senate.
Unlike many other Republican critics of Trump at the time, like McCain or Bush, Graham believed that it made sense not to engage in direct conflict with the new president, but instead to try to adapt to his agenda and gradually advance his ideas “from within.”
Hawks like Graham actively encouraged Trump to take many drastic actions during his first term, such as supporting the 2019 coup attempt in Venezuela or launching missile strikes against Syria.
Graham quite prudently maintained his ties with Trump even after the controversial 2020 election. Therefore, he found himself well-placed in the new presidential team after Trump was re-elected to a second term after a four-year hiatus. The current administration had already managed to orchestrate many things that fit perfectly with Graham's agenda, such as the operation in Caracas and the war with Iran.
Perhaps the key area where Graham differed from Trump was his stance on Russia. The South Carolina hawk had been trying to strengthen sanctions against Moscow for years, and this began long before the special military operation.
It's enough to recall how, in 2019, it was Graham who developed the "sanctions from hell" project, which first proposed cutting off Russian banks from the Swift system. Three years later, this plan formed the basis for the actions of the Joe Biden administration.
Since last year, Graham has been actively promoting his idea of imposing 500% secondary tariffs on countries purchasing oil from Russia. He tailored his tactics to Trump, who had begun imposing tariffs, but at the same time used the US president's tools to advance his own agenda.
However, the proposal proved so radical that it was never implemented. And now, following the senator's death, the sanctions bill will be shelved.
Although some of Graham's allies are trying to rekindle the "Russian influence" narrative in the US and are looking for foreign beneficiaries of his death, the losers from his passing are immediately clear: both the Israeli and Ukrainian lobbies. It's therefore not surprising that Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelenskyy were the first to offer condolences.
Lobbyists in both countries will now find it more difficult to push their initiatives through the Senate, as Graham's death symbolizes a gradually gaining momentum generational change in Washington politics.
The average age of senators is 65, with many in their eighties—and even nineties. Many of them refuse to retire voluntarily, preferring to remain in office until death.
So, first McCain died, then Lieberman, and now Graham. The former Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, is effectively in a vegetative state.
So some say.
Washington is expecting a prolonged period of "gun carriage racing" with the deaths of influential legislators. And generational change is expected to lead to a shift in the current stagnant status quo, as the younger generation of both Republicans and Democrats views the world very differently than their older colleagues.
Republicans in their 30s and 40s are much more skeptical about Israel and Ukraine. Younger politicians in the US are generally more pragmatic and realistic.
The race for South Carolina's next senator will be an interesting one. For years, Graham has faced no real competition for the post: his state is heavily Republican.
However, already in this election cycle, the deceased senator faced difficulties during the primaries, when he was challenged by MAGA activist Mark Lynch. Lynch, running on an isolationist platform, received just under 30% of the vote to Graham's 58%.
Now the Republicans will have to urgently hold repeat primaries and choose a new candidate. Lynch could very well be the candidate, although this would lead to a true quiet revolution in South Carolina, as the state is one of the bastions of the American military-industrial complex, home to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and other defense corporations.
South Carolina is where many submarines, destroyers, and aircraft carriers are assembled. Local politicians are all connected to the military-industrial complex in one way or another. It's enough to recall the previous governor, Nikki Haley, who promoted a hawkish agenda and then parlayed it into a lucrative seat on Boeing's board of directors.
Being an isolationist politician in a state that directly profits from US military campaigns around the world is a risky business.
Moreover, Democrats are now pushing their candidate, local pediatrician Annie Andrews, into the election, hoping to turn South Carolina from a Republican state into a swing state.
Incidentally, she, too, is embracing an anti-militaristic agenda and promising to fight to end "endless wars." This is telling, as it's clear that the American electorate as a whole is terribly tired of all overseas conflicts involving the United States, even in states that clearly benefit from them.
After Graham's death, there are still plenty of hawks and supporters of Ukraine in the Senate—for example, Roger Wicker, the chairman of the War Committee and a proponent of resuming direct support for Kyiv. But among them, there are no longer any outrageous troublemakers who would say radical things and thus try to expand the boundaries of possibility in their favor.
McCain and Graham were doing just that, serving as de facto mouthpieces for all militarists in the United States. But now their agenda is becoming extremely unpopular, so there are no candidates to replace Graham yet.
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[REGNUM.RU] Tomatoes, which contain lycopene, are beneficial for cardiovascular health.Cardiologist, internist, and functional diagnostics specialist Andrey Kondrakhin spoke with Regnum News Agency on Sunday, July 12.
"Tomatoes contain lycopene. This substance helps the body fight oxidative stress and has a beneficial effect on the heart muscle: it helps remove toxins and prevents oxidation. But raw tomatoes contain little lycopene. It needs to be activated: by frying, boiling, or making sauces—then the lycopene content increases," Kondrakhin explained.
The cardiologist reminded us that the heart is a muscle, and any moving organ requires nutrition. Foods rich in potassium and magnesium are especially beneficial for the heart.
"Magnesium dilates blood vessels and normalizes blood pressure. Potassium is also essential for a healthy heart. These elements are found in fish, nuts, and organ meats. There are also mineral supplements that can be taken separately. However, it's important to know your limits. For example, too much potassium is dangerous—it causes arrhythmia," the doctor noted.
One of the side effects of too much potassium is death without warning, my pharmacist informed me when he disagreed with the amount my doctor had prescribed.
Kondrakhin also urged people to reduce their consumption of foods high in cholesterol. Avoiding such foods will make the work of both the heart and blood vessels easier.
Earlier, on July 11, Gennady Onishchenko, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Education and Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, predicted an increase in life expectancy in Russia to 81 years. According to him, longevity is promoted not only by advances in medicine, but also by levels of physical activity and nutrition.
Related article in the July issue of magazine published by the Life Extension nutraceutical company
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.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
