Random News and Notes 9 February

We start off this Monday edition of RNN with a story out of Chile that will get your blood pumping and serve as an instructional video.

The video, taken somewhere near Santiago, shows an ‘encerrona’ ambush in Quilicura, where criminals try to block and rob a vehicle at gunpoint. The driver accelerated past, sending one of the would-be hijackers tumbling off the road.

The driver reacted the way he should have. That is he accelerated, forced his way through and kept right on going.

That is how you deal with any ambush: get out of the killbox. Don’t fight it out, move. Fast.

It looks like the Navy snatched another sanctioned dark fleet tanker. US forces boarded the M/T Aquila II yesterday in the Indain Ocean. Aquila II left port in Venezuela without permission back in January along with three other tankers.

Aquila II is a Suezmax tanker, the largest tankers that can transit the Suez, and can carry between 800,000 and 1 million barrels of oil.

There isn’t much context for this one, but it’s too good not to share. A highschool kid saved a dog from an iced-over pond in Virginia.

Well done that man.

Two Tier Kier is facing trouble in the UK. Trouble of his own making. You see, Starmer appointed a known associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Mandelson, as UK ambassador to the US. Starmer fired Mandelson last September and apologized to victims, but the fallout led to resignations this week from chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and communications director Tim Allan.

Starmer says he isn’t resigning any time soon. If he does, there will have been 5 different Prime Ministers in the UK since 2022. What the British people deserve is a general election, but the slimy turds at the top of the Labour party will not allow that to happen.