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[Regnum] A series of deaths have been recorded at the Burning Man festival in Nevada: three participants died within a few days. The Los Angeles Times reported this on September 8. Participants getting wild and crazy, drugs and such reputedly freely available, and the average age is creeping up, as is the average income — more deaths are likely.
"A man named Sampson Tshombe
…described at various sites as either in his mid-50s or 62…
died on Thursday after being found on the street during the festival and taken to a temporary hospital on the festival grounds," the report said.
The following day, 51-year-old Armando Ramirez of Truckee, California, died on the way from the festival to a hospital in Reno. A day later, the body of 60-year-old Craig Mann was found in the trailer he shared with his partner.
The causes of death for all three participants have not yet been announced.
Burning Man takes place annually in the Nevada desert approximately 190 km north of Reno. The first festival took place in 1986, and today the event attracts tens of thousands of participants annually.
In 2025, the body of a Burning Man participant was discovered at the festival, having died under unclear circumstances. His family later identified the victim on social media as Vadim Kruglov. Kruglov was an artist and the creator of a giant mirrored heart installation created for the festival.
Friends of the deceased organized a fundraiser to transport his body to Russia. They raised nearly $16,000, exceeding the initial goal of $15,000.
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Seems like a waste of money to go to that when you can
Have all the same experiences in Portland 365 days a year.
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....IIRC Mann was determined to have died quite peacefully in his sleep.
The thing is...no matter WHAT the cause, people are always going to say, "He died at Burning Man," and then start acting like Eric Idle in the Monty Python 'Nudge Nudge Wink Wink' sketch.
[Motorious] Tom Cotter's usual beat on Barn Find Hunter is the backroad tip and the overgrown driveway, but episode 203 sends him somewhere different: the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan. The 90-acre campus holds more than 400 vehicles and a cluster of marque-specific museums, and on this visit Cotter was drawn in by an exhibit built around cars that vanished from view for reasons far more serious than neglect.
That exhibit, titled Hidden Treasures: Classics Preserved in the Shadows of War, was assembled with the Classic Car Club of America and tells the story of three automobiles deliberately concealed in Europe during World War II so occupying forces couldn't seize them. Museum executive director John Hansen walked Cotter through the display, which recreates the actual hiding spots, from cellars to outbuildings, that kept each car out of sight for years.
[NYPost] An Indiana homeowner was charged for fatally shooting an unarmed “suspicious” man who was allegedly trying to enter his home and break into cars in his neighborhood.
Martell Pickens, 30, is facing charges of reckless homicide on Monday for allegedly shooting 25-year-old Khadolphee Taylor outside his Fort Wayne home on May 7, according to the Allen Superior Court.
Pickens told Fort Wayne police he was woken up around 2:45 a.m. and noticed a “suspicious” man walking around his neighborhood, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by WANE.
Pickens alleged that Taylor tried to break into various cars.
Surveillance footage from Pickens’ home showed Taylor attempting to break into the residence, which prompted Pickens to go outside armed with a Glock .45 caliber handgun to confront him, according to the affidavit.
Around the same time, a neighbor called 911 to report the activity.
“What are you doing?” Pickens was heard asking on the footage as he warned Taylor to “back up.”
Taylor then continued to advance towards him before Pickens shot him, according to the affidavit.
Officers found Taylor bleeding from a single gunshot wound to the chest. He was then rushed to a nearby hospital and was later pronounced dead.
Pickens admitted to police that he shot and killed Taylor, according to the affidavit.
Pickens also allegedly acknowledged that Taylor was unarmed and appeared to be under the influence before he shot him, court documents obtained by 21 Alive show.
Investigators later learned that about 20 minutes before the shooting, police had conducted a traffic stop involving Taylor.
Officers noted Taylor appeared to be intoxicated or mentally impaired, found he was driving with a suspended license, had his car towed and instructed him to walk home, according to the affidavit.
Months after investigators pieced together the full picture, Fort Wayne Police Detective Brian Martin laid out the case against Pickens.
“Based upon the investigation, Pickens knowingly armed himself and voluntarily exited the safety of his residence to confront Taylor,” Martin wrote in the affidavit obtained by WANE.
“During that confrontation, Pickens intentionally discharged a loaded firearm, striking Taylor in the chest and causing his death.”
Martin wrote that there was “probable cause to believe Pickens recklessly killed Khadolphee D. Taylor by engaging in conduct constituting a plain, conscious, and unjustifiable disregard of harm, the disregard involving a substantial deviation from acceptable standards of conduct.”
Pickens was arrested on Monday and booked into the Allen County Jail. He is being held without bond.
If convicted of reckless homicide, Pickens faces one to six years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Under Indiana’s “stand your ground” law, deadly force can be justified when a homeowner reasonably believes that force is necessary to defend themselves on their own property, according to Purdue Global Law School.
An interesting conundrum for the jury. Possibly the outcome will depend on whether Fort Wayne juries are red or blue.
[Newsweek] Trump Falklands Swipe Tests ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Versus ‘Special Relationship’
Donald Trump’s remarks concerning the British and Argentinian claims to the Falkland Islands have created friction with the United Kingdom and put wind in the sails of his ally Javier Milei—while also hinting at the president’s calculus when it comes to the United States’ regional and global interests.
The Falklands are a self-governing British Overseas Territory in the south-west Atlantic Ocean, whose citizens are seen almost universally as British both within and outside of their borders.
But Argentina, which refers to them as Islas Malvinas, claims sovereignty over the islands—a long-running area of diplomatic dispute which erupted into war in 1982. After Argentina invaded the islands, the resulting 74-day conflict led to the deaths of 255 British and 649 Argentine soldiers, as well as three islanders.
And into this ever-tense arena entered Trump this week, when a reporter asked the president about the U.S. position on the islands—still officially one of neutrality—during an event at the White House.
“I always review positions,” the president responded. “And that’s one of them.”
THE DONROE DOCTRINE...
Trump followed up Monday’s remarks with the suggestion, made during an interview with the British channel GB News, that the U.S. would not back the U.K. if Argentina again tried to stake its claim to the islands by force.
After responding to a question on coming “to the aid of the U.K.” by stating that the islands are “a long way away” from Britain itself, Trump turned to the Iran war and told the interviewer: "Your country was not there to help me. We didn't need help, but I did ask NATO, and I asked your former leader, 'why didn't you send a couple of ships?'"
The remarks have been seized upon by Argentina’s president—a firm proponent of his country’s claim to the islands. In a televised address to the nation on Friday, translated by Sky News, Milei said that he would sanction oil companies working in the region, that Argentina would “need to recover” the Falklands, and that the issue was “above any political difference” in the country.
A day after Trump’s GB News interview aired, Milei told his country that the “winds of change” were blowing in Argentina’s favor when it came to the Malvinas.
And Trump’s apparent decision to side with a regional allied power over a stalwart historical ally appears to align with the geopolitical worldview that has come to define his second term in office: The Donroe Doctrine. A play on the 19th century Monroe Doctrine, the label has come to describe America’s recent more assertive approach to the Western Hemisphere.
...OR THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
But the remarks and any support this gives for the Donroe interpretation of Trump’s geopolitics also seem to represent a further departure from the longstanding “special relationship” between the U.S. and U.K.
The UK departed from any special relationship with The Donald when they got involved with the Steele Dossier in 2015, and it went downhill from there. The current government, with or without Sir Keir Starmer, is the worst of the lot.
As well as the military foray into Venezuela and the ousting of its president—now apparently giving way to a comprehensive energy exploitation plan which appears set to heavily benefit the U.S. market—the U.S. has also increasingly put limiting Russian and Chinese influence within North and South America as one of its top strategic priorities.
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The UK is no longer the country it was under the iron lady. It is weak, bitter, islamic and anti-western. It is a good pressure point to push England to do what its treaties says it needs to if it wants to keep the Falklands.
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If the Falklands became an issue again for the UK, I don't think the Pom's could count on strategic airlift from the US this time around. Something tells me it just wouldn't happen.
It is reported the 163+ million IDs were collected from a IDSCAN.NET breech.
IDSCAN specializes in in-person identity (ID) verification and serves businesses such as Hertz, FedEx, some Murphy Express Gas Stations, and there are many others businesses that have scanned and submitted your ID's to the IDSCAN database.
The ID's scanned included over 153 million driver's licenses, 10 million ID cards, 3 million international travel cards, and 579,000 medical cards.
[MiddleEastEye] Untreated sewage from Gaza may have helped cause a huge algae bloom that shut down five of Israel’s six major desalination plants on the Mediterranean, Israeli news outlet Ynet has reported.
Scientists are trying to assess possible environmental fallout from Gaza’s destroyed wastewater infrastructure, the report said.
In an alarming development, the algae bloom spread along Israel's Mediterranean coast, disrupting seawater desalination plants that provide much of the country's drinking water, CNN reported, citing Mekorot, Israel's national water company.
Desalination provides at least 65 percent of Israel's drinking water, with most plants located on the coast.
“An event of this kind has never occurred before in Israel … it was an extremely rare event,” said Lior Gutman, a spokesperson for Mekorot.
Five of Israel's six major desalination plants, including Ashkelon, Ashdod, Palmachim, Sorek A, and Sorek B, were temporarily shut down.
Israel’s water authority said the water sector was stable as authorities increased supplies from the Sea of Galilee, groundwater wells and reservoirs while restricting some agricultural and public irrigation.
But the crisis has exposed the fragility of Israel’s dependence on desalination to major environmental disruptions.
'A PERFECT STORM'
Gaza’s wastewater treatment system has been heavily damaged during the war, with some 40,000 cubic metres of untreated wastewater reportedly flowing into the sea each day, figures cited by Ynet and Palestinian authorities said. Sounds like Tijuana, Mexico
Algae blooms require warm water and nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen, said Avner Gross, head of Ben-Gurion University’s Climate Change Laboratory.
He said satellite imagery showed similar algae-filled waters around Egypt’s Nile Delta, where agricultural runoff pours into the Mediterranean.
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.
