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-Lurid Crime Tales-
At Least 8 Dead, 1 Injured In Ga. Massage Parlor, Spa Shootings
At least eight people are dead following a series of shootings at an Atlanta area massage parlor and two spas. Police said a 21-year-old man has been taken into custody after a short car pursuit.

They believe he opened fire in a massage parlor in Cherokee County on Tuesday, killing four people and injuring one.
"No happy ending for you!"
Authorities have also linked the suspect to two separate shootings at two spas later in the day, which were across the street from each other in nearby Buckhead. These shootings left another four people dead. All eight victims were Asian women.

More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All eight victims were Asian women.

Asians are the new Jews?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/17/2021 2:37 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Wondering if this wasn't a *ahem* business dispute...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/17/2021 5:40 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Perp was arrested.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 03/17/2021 5:44 Comments || Top||

#4 

HEAVY.COM
Has some additional and somewhat deeper info.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/17/2021 7:06 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd lean towards a fanatic discovering what happens in an "Asian Massage Parlor" and forgetting "thou shalt not murder" over racism or COVID idiocy.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/17/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Vengeance is mine. I shall repay
Posted by: Sayeth The Lord || 03/17/2021 7:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Those were not the CCP spies and agents you were looking for. Those are in the Green Zone in Washington.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#8  I think Rob has it. Passion against sin crime... but forgetting the other mortal sin.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/17/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#9  My research reveals that the perp, Robert Aaron Long, is a Registered [drumroll, please]

DEMOCRAT!
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/17/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Atlanta shooting suspect told police he had "sexual addiction," "indicators now may not be" racially motivated, says Cherokee Cty Sheriff Frank Reynolds.


More: Mayor Keisha Lances Bottoms says suspect was "on his way to Florida", possibly "to carry out additional shootings".

Posted by: DarthVader || 03/17/2021 12:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Overheard a member of the staff saying "his pee-pee so mall" to a co-worker. Or someone stole his wallet. Or he didn't like the way they responded when he got fresh with them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/17/2021 13:42 Comments || Top||

#12  More: Mayor Keisha Lances Bottoms says suspect was "on his way to Florida", possibly "to carry out additional shootings".

Some very relieved young (and not-so-young) women along I-75 today.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/17/2021 15:35 Comments || Top||

#13  got that shit right, I was within 15 miles of this, so someone needs to start me a gofundme page for my therapy. /sarc
Posted by: Chris || 03/17/2021 17:11 Comments || Top||

#14  I guess they didn’t love him long time.
Posted by: Pakvi Roti || 03/17/2021 21:18 Comments || Top||


Family says stimulus check argument led to Indianapolis quadruple murder
[CBS4INDY] Her family said Jeanettrius Moore worked hard at a beauty supply shop to support herself and two little girls and appreciated the most recent $1,400 stimulus check issued to help Americans recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The father of her youngest baby, Malik Halfacre, thought he should get half.

“He wanted some of Jeanettrius’ tax money, stimulus money,” said Wendy Johnson, a cousin who heard Jeanettrius’ account of what led up to a quadruple murder in a house in the 300 block of Randolph Street Saturday night. “She had just got her money, and he wanted half of her money.
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Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  $1400/5=$280.00 - not enough
$1400/0=$1400.00 - enough for Malik to kill 4 people.

Indy math, you got to think about it.

His last name is spelled wrong, its Halfwit.
Posted by: Spunky Whack4410 || 03/17/2021 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Well at least it wasn't another case of systemic racism or white supremacy
/s
Posted by: Clyde Hapsburg5195 || 03/17/2021 6:00 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ White people sent out the checks, Q.E.D.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/17/2021 7:08 Comments || Top||

#4  This is all on Trump, right?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/17/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||

#5  not this time Frank, it's about who was getting the biggest TV
Posted by: Chris || 03/17/2021 17:11 Comments || Top||


Assistant principal and her daughter, 17, are arrested after 'rigging homecoming queen election
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A Florida teen and her mother have been accused of rigging a high school homecoming court election by hacking students' accounts and casting fake ballots.

Emily Rose Grover, 17, and Laura Rose Carroll, 50, were arrested on Monday in Pensacola after Sherlocks uncovered their alleged plot to tamper with the election at Tate High School so that the teen would win homecoming queen last fall.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) said it opened the investigation in November after officials with the Escambia County School District (ECSD) reported that hundreds of student accounts had been accessed without authorization.

Investigators alleged that Carroll, an assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, which is part of ECSD, used her credentials to break into the accounts and cast votes for Emily, who ultimately won the title.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Usually when a party affiliation is not mentioned, we guess. :)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Farm club for future Democrat operatives.
Posted by: Angush Gleans8212 || 03/17/2021 21:41 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Order Of Jesuit Priests Pledges $100 Million To Pay Reparations To Blacks For Slavery…
[NYP] An order of Catholic priests has pledged $100 million in reparations to the descendants of people whom they owned as slaves during the early decades of the American republic.

The announcement by leaders of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States is one of the largest initiatives of its kind by any institution, and the largest thus far by the church, the New York Times reported on Monday.

The order has committed to raising the full sum in three to five years, with $15 million deposited in a trust already, reported the Guardian.

All of the money raised by the Jesuits will eventually go to the newly created Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation, which was established in partnership with a group of descendants.

The Rev. Timothy P. Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, told the Times that this is the beginning of "a very serious process of truth and reconciliation."

Kesicki called the history of Jesuit slaveholdings "shameful," adding that it’s "been taken off the dusty shelf, and it can never be put back."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2021 07:49 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't remember if Jesuits were involved in the actual African Slave Trade (although they had their fingers in everything at the time), but they sure were involved with that activity in Southeast Asia.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/17/2021 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  That's probably a check of maybe $1,000 or $1,500 per full-blood descendant -- assuming they can even be traced with confidence to the slaves. But what about the quadroons, octoroons, hexadecaroons etc?

Do they get a fraction of the $1k -- $250, $125, $66.66?
Posted by: Maggie Fleart7461 || 03/17/2021 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Now the Jesuits (always the last to get the Word) will have to pay off the Paraguayan Guarani that they enslaved, and the American Indians as well.
Posted by: b || 03/17/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  How about those of us who suffered in Jesuit high schools? Where's ours?????
Posted by: Tom || 03/17/2021 13:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Catholic priests... reparations to the descendants of people whom they owned as slaves during the early decades

I guess the Catholic priests know best then.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/17/2021 13:16 Comments || Top||

#6  This is not the Babylon Bee?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/17/2021 13:32 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^^ Liberals read The Bee and institute the gleaned up-side-down world as their policy, faster than you can say JACK ASS, their party's symbol.
Posted by: Glaving Sninesh8804 || 03/17/2021 13:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh yes, religions do favor particular political parties and they do vote and uphold the party policies.
Posted by: Glaving Sninesh8804 || 03/17/2021 13:52 Comments || Top||

#9 
An a 1,000,000 watt lightbulb came on.

As we know "Jorge Mario Bergoglio" of Argentina became what we call the Socialist Pope.

Pope Francis, also holds the Notoriety of being the first Jesuit to be elected Pope - ever.

Given this we can also draw a line from his SOCIALIST Agenda and Views, to him directing this donation for Anti-USA/Anti-Capitalist Political agenda reasons.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/17/2021 13:54 Comments || Top||

#10  *****Bingo^^^^^^ - Give this MAN a Cigar !
Posted by: Guillibaldo B. Hayes8115 || 03/17/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#11  "The order has committed to raising the full sum in three to five years,"
Does that mean they will sell assets or seek donations to get the sum?
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/17/2021 14:37 Comments || Top||

#12 
The answer is right before your very eyes,

Saturday Night, Catholic Church, what does this bring to mind ?

BINGO

More BINGO games per Catholic perish, more money for 'reparations'.

FISH FRY FRIDAYS

Pesce, Calamari, Frutti de Mare and more.

The lists can go on...
Carwash-Baptism-Blessings 4 your Bentley!
Ceiling and Wall Frescos - Michelangelo Style!
Triathlons - Run, Ride and Walk (Perhaps on Water)
Catholic Relics and Antiques
Posted by: Don Vito Clutle6950 || 03/17/2021 15:01 Comments || Top||

#13  They'll probably have to bring back 'Indulgences'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/17/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||

#14  ^ too late. BLM already cornered the market on indulgences
Posted by: Thusoque Slesh2796 || 03/17/2021 15:58 Comments || Top||

#15  I don't think this indulgence ever went away, maybe the vergin none(s) could stomp out a few batches for the friars...

Posted by: Whopuns Splat7703 || 03/17/2021 16:04 Comments || Top||

#16  In soviet american, indulgences perform you.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/17/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||

#17  Jesuits are about as socialist as you can get and still claim to be "Roman Catholic". And with some of them like Fr James Martin, its questionable if they can even do that considering the heretical and heterodox scrawlings and positions they advocate (gay marriage)
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 03/17/2021 19:55 Comments || Top||

#18  Prolly 30-40% of em are ghey
Posted by: Hupomoque Pholuting4839 || 03/17/2021 20:03 Comments || Top||

#19  No worries. Congress will reimburse them with tax payer debt.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/17/2021 22:05 Comments || Top||


Teacher Rips Woke School District for 'Racist Insanity' (short video)
[PJ] School districts across the country have adopted Marxist critical race theory, but few have done so to the degree of Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in the Washington, D.C, suburbs of northern Virginia. LCPS adopted curriculum from the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and removed Dr. Seuss books from its library shelves in the name of combatting racism. LCPS recently instituted a plan to combat "systemic racism" that includes training for teachers.

Lilit Vanetsyan, an educator and a reporter with Right Side Broadcasting Network, tore into LCPS for its endorsement of Marxist critical race theory, which teaches that hidden racism permeates American society and which encourages students to deconstruct the world around them to find hidden racism. This ideology fueled the violent Black Lives Matter and antifa riots last summer.

"Hi, I’m a teacher speaking on behalf of every fed-up teacher in this nation," Vanetsyan said at a school board meeting. "This school district is [more radical than] almost every single school district in the nation that continues to force teachers through mandatory training where we are told to examine our whiteness, white privilege, white supremacy, micro aggressions, upon every other thing that is absolutely stupid and racist."

"Now, this same school district wants to threaten to fire teachers who do not agree with the critical race theory," Vanetsyan added. "You are the face of privilege. You do not speak for us if you do not work with us."

"If you keep up this racist insanity, you will have successfully stripped us of every single ounce of love of teaching," the educator declared. "Keep this up, and you will lose all of your teachers at the same rate that you have been losing these incredible families."

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2021 07:06 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  you will have successfully stripped us of every single ounce of love of teaching

And after that, for un-white people.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/17/2021 13:17 Comments || Top||

#2 
This school district is [more radical than] almost every single school district in the nation

except Montgomery County, Maryland,

School District Shells Out Nearly Half a Million Dollars on anti-racist audit on the district.

and Fairfax County, Virginia
Virginia's Largest School District Adopts New Anti-Racist Curriculum

Both within an easy drive from each other...

Cancer of Woke in Education Sweeps the Suburbs of Washington DC would be more accurate headline
Posted by: Glaving Sninesh8804 || 03/17/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  This is how the nation's Deep State bureaucrats approach the education of their own children. Is it any wonder that our government and our nation are so royally f---ed up?
Posted by: Betty Jolung1258 || 03/17/2021 17:39 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
GoFundMe to pay off Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's mortgage goes bust
[NY Post] A GoFundMe page set up to pay off the mortgage on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s $14.6 million California estate has gone bust — after raising a measly $110, a report says.
$110? Lolololol *gasp* Lolololol
Anastasia Hanson, 56, of California told Britain’s the Sun that she started the fundraising effort because she seriously felt sorry for the multimillionaire royal couple — after Harry publicly whined to Oprah Winfrey about being financially cut off by Buckingham Palace.

"When they came to the USA, they were without jobs and with limited funds," said Hanson, who lives about 25 minutes from the princely pair’s palatial estate in swanky Montecito.

"They’ve stated that they’ve had a very rough time, so this fundraiser is a way to give help, compassion, and love by paying their home loan in full."

In Markle and the prince’s bombshell TV sit-down last week, Harry defended their inking of a multitude of uber-lucrative media deals since leaving royal life, saying, "My family literally cut me off financially, and I had to afford security for us."

Hanson’s online bid to try to financially help the royals was started a few days ago — and shut down by Saturday after just three donations, the Sun said.

Hanson kicked in $5, while "A Supporter" gave $100 and "Anonymous" bestowed $5 on the fund.

The page had read, "I am Anastasia Hanson of Ventura, California and I am raising funds to pay off the mortgage for the Montecito, California home of Harry and Meghan.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have decided where they want to live and purchased an 18,000 square foot mansion, that rests on 5.4 acres, in Montecito , California, about 90 miles from Los Angeles.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
On-line Panhandling...Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't...



$110.00 wasted, doesn't even fill the Bentley.
Posted by: Shaving Donero3418 || 03/17/2021 3:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, it's quite obvious that racists are not contributing to this GoFundMe endeavor. /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 03/17/2021 4:26 Comments || Top||

#3  The address of the $14 million estate;
765 Rockbridge Rd, Montecito, CA 93108
East of Westmont College and Santa Barbara
I'd prefer my father's mansion in Swansboro.
My father called it God's country.
My father's place is like Reagan's Rancho del Cielo (west of Santa Barbara) kind of isolated, natural area.
Posted by: boomerc || 03/17/2021 5:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Location, Location, Location....

Bum boasts he makes $200 an hour panhandling
Posted by: Knuckles Chick3050 || 03/17/2021 5:27 Comments || Top||

#5  The entire GoFundMe phenomenon disgust me. I think the broad that sprayed Gorilla Glue in her hair has netted about $500k from her own stupidity (and the stupidity of those who send her money.) So it does my heart good to see there's still a limit to people's gullibility sometimes, even if it isn't exercised nearly often enough...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/17/2021 7:15 Comments || Top||

#6 

So not even the groups that initially used these rich pampered whiny brats for Newsbites and Political agenda chipped in?

Where were the Hollywood, Cal., NY and other Liberals?

These 2 brats have quickly learned the Southern Golden Rule.

Family takes care of Family,
as long as it acts like Family
.

PREDICTED FUTURE
I am pretty sure he'll divorce her in the coming next 2 years. Then after placing the blame on her for his actions. He'll take strides to apologize to the Royal Family. Which will likely allow some small forgiveness and a small annual $$ Royal allowance.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/17/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Wallace Simpson ?

It's just a bit more than a simple likeness.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2021 7:28 Comments || Top||

#8  It's an old story.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2021 7:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Where were the Hollywood, Cal., NY and other Liberals?

You REALLY don't expect them to use their own money, do you? If anything, they'd be lobbying for the federal government to pay the mortgage as part of covid relief or something.
Posted by: Tom || 03/17/2021 13:13 Comments || Top||

#10  #6, maybe they'll let him hang out with Andy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/17/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#11  [bets farm on this being a very efficient, successful troll of both couple and GoFundMe... and probably loses, this being 2021]
Posted by: Glumble Shimp3262 || 03/17/2021 21:26 Comments || Top||


Britain
Flight from London to Tel Aviv diverts after laser hits cockpit, blinding pilot
Remember when little jihadis were having fun trying to blind pilots taking off from American airports some years back? Hopefully they haven’t started up again across the pond. On Page 3: Non-WoT until we know something about the miscreants.
[IsraelTimes] A Virgin Atlantic flight that departed from London to Tel Aviv yesterday night turned back some 20 minutes after takeoff after a laser beam hit the cockpit and temporarily blinded the pilot.

The flight landed safely and passengers were housed in local hotels before boarding a later flight.

Virgin says the flight "returned to Heathrow after take-off due to a laser beam incident upon departure."

"The safety and security of our people and our customers is paramount and this was a precautionary step taken by the operating crew."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Britain to expand nuclear warhead stockpile by over 40% as global threats rise
A good thing they cut their foreign commitments, freeing up funds for little trinkets like this.
[AlAhram] Britannia will grow its nuclear warhead stockpile by more than 40% to ensure its security in a more risky global environment and as it faces new technological threats, PM Boris Johnson said

Britannia will grow its nuclear warhead stockpile by more than 40% to ensure its security in a more risky global environment and as it faces new technological threats, Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
said on Tuesday.

The country had previously been reducing its nuclear weapons stockpile, and in 2010, the government set a cap of 180 warheads for the mid-2020 period. Johnson scrapped the earlier limit and said the number would now rise to a maximum of 260.

In its security and defence review, Britannia said it faced risks from nuclear-armed states, emerging nuclear states and state-sponsored nuclear terrorism, and its nuclear deterrent was needed to guarantee its security and that of its allies.

"Some states are now significantly increasing and diversifying their nuclear arsenals," the government said. "The increase in global competition, challenges to the international order, and proliferation of potentially disruptive technologies all pose a threat to strategic stability."

The move was criticised by The Elders, a group of former global policymakers who campaign for peace.

"While the UK cites increased security threats as justification for this move, the appropriate response to these challenges should be to work multilaterally to strengthen international arms control agreements and to reduce - not increase - the number of nuclear weapons in existence," said Mary Robinson, chair of the group.

Questioned over the policy in parliament Johnson said Britannia was still committed to global nuclear arms reduction.

Britannia also said it planned to replace its current nuclear warhead with a new one which would be able to operate throughout the lifespan of four new submarines being built and due to enter service in the early 2030s.

It will work with the United States to ensure the new warhead remains Trident-compatible.

With its current submarines, Britannia said it would stick to its existing policy of always having one submarine of its four nuclear deterrent submarines on continuous patrol.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not bad, considering the UK will be a majority muslim country in less than 19 years...
Posted by: Spunky Whack4410 || 03/17/2021 5:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't rely upon the clown in the White House to cover your ass, or know what day this is.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea could be preparing to carry out their first weapons test since President Joe Biden came into office
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Why not? They've figured out that he can be rolled.
Posted by: Tom || 03/17/2021 13:14 Comments || Top||


North Korea Tells New U.S. Administration to Cease War Games
North Korea, Who Had Frequent Dialogues With Trump, Have Been Ignoring the Biden Admin. Maybe They Can Smell A Fraud When One Comes Calling. So The Militant Biden Regime Decided to Start Playing Stupid Games on the Border. Sound Familiar?
SEOUL (Reuters) - The sister of North Korean leader, Kim Yo Jong, criticised ongoing military drills in South Korea and warned the new U.S. administration that the smell of cordite wafting over the border would not help bring peace, state news reported on Tuesday.

When asked about Kim Yo Jong’s statement, Blinken told a briefing in Tokyo that he was aware of her comments, but that he was more interested in hearing what America’s allies and partners think about North Korea.

Blinken and Austin are travelling in Asia this week for foreign policy and security talks with allies in Japan and South Korea, among other stops.

The new U.S. administration is expected to wrap up a review of North Korea policy in coming weeks. And Blinken said Washington is considering whether additional pressure on North Korea could be effective.

The timing of Kim’s comments seems designed to ensure that North Korea will be at the top of Blinken and Austin’s agenda when they land in Seoul, said Ramon Pacheco Pardo, a Korea expert at King’s College London.

"Until now, the discussion was focusing on The Quad, dealing with China and the North Korea policy review," he said. "Now Kim’s statement will be central to discussions."

Kim’s statement was the North’s first public message to Washington since President Joe Biden took office in January. It was delivered a day before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are due to arrive in Seoul for their first talks with South Korean counterparts.

"We take this opportunity to warn the new U.S. administration trying hard to give off powder smell in our land," Kim said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA. "If it wants to sleep in peace for coming four years, it had better refrain from causing a stink at its first step."

For all the imagery of Kim’s words, the joint springtime military drill begun last week was limited to computer simulations because of the coronavirus risk as well as the ongoing efforts to engage with the North.

But her message was clear.

"War drills and hostility can never go with dialogue and cooperation," Kim Yo Jong said.

North Korea has so far rebuffed entreaties from the United States to engage in dialogue, the White House said on Monday, as a chill in relations that began under then-President Donald Trump has extended into Biden’s presidency.
Another Piece of US Media Lies and Propaganda. Ⓒ
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Europe
Bulgaria seizes millions of fake dollar, euro banknotes destined for Ukraine, W. Europe
[AlAhram] Police raided three sites in Sofia and seized fake banknotes worth $4 million and 3.6 million euros ($4.30 million), produced at a printing facility at an unnamed university in Sofia

Police in Sofia arrested a man and a woman after seizing millions of counterfeit U.S. dollar and euro bills aimed for distribution in Ukraine and western Europe, a senior Bulgarian interior ministry official said on Tuesday.

In operations carried out on Monday and Tuesday, police raided three sites in Sofia and seized fake banknotes worth $4 million and 3.6 million euros ($4.30 million), produced at a printing facility at an unnamed university in Sofia, the head of the interior ministry's unit for combating organised crime, Lubomir Yanev, said.

"We have data indicating that the detained are part of a larger scheme linked with the trafficking of counterfeit U.S. dollar bills to Ukraine and the fake euros to western Europe," Yanev told a news briefing. He did not elaborate.

In January, Bulgarian authorities charged four people after printing presses and equipment for the production of counterfeit banknotes and documents were found following searches at 30 locations across Bulgaria in a joint operation with Europol and the U.S. Secret Service.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  millions of counterfeit U.S. dollar

How do you know they're fake or just a rush printing?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/17/2021 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  I mentioned this story to the people running my go-to lunch place (they're from Sofia). She says - 'Bulgaria is a mafia country.'
Posted by: Raj || 03/17/2021 20:27 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
LHC to take notice of manhandling and ink attack on Shahbaz Gill
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Following yesterday’s attack on the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
leader Shahbaz Gill, Lahore High Court has ordered immediate action against the preparators.

Justice Malik Shehzad Ahmad Khan after expressing concern over the matter ordered the authorities to identify the culprits using the close-circuit television (CCTV) footage.

The judge however insisted that the police must not harass anyone who has not been proven guilty.

Ink hurled at Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill by a Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) worker has caused infection in his eye. According to details PML-N workers hurled ink at the SAPM on the premises of the Lahore High Court (LHC) where he arrived to appear in a case.

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Syed Shibli Faraz condemned the attack on Prime Minister’s Special Assistant Shahbaz Gill by the PML-N people.
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Four young siblings found dead from Quetta home
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Four children aged between five and ten were slaughtered and one was severely injured inside their home in Quetta on Monday. Police said the tragic incident of siblings murder took place near Ghulam Rasool Mengal railway crossing on Sariyab Road and was reported by a shopkeeper. The injured child was transported to the hospital where she is said to be in a critical condition.

Police said that the parents of the children were not at home when unidentified people slit their throats.

The children were reportedly found with their throats slit.
Not just “found dead”, but “murdered”.
The father of the children, Attaullah, is employed as a junior clerk at the Directorate of Education and lived near the Ghulam Rasool Mengal Phatak in Sariab with his four children.

The SHO of the New Sariab Police Station, Abdul Hayee Baloch, said that when police personnel entered the house they found the bodies of the slaughtered children in a room.


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#1  "Old enmity" blamed... and inequitable division of stimulus check.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian PM Condemns Politicization, 'Piracy' of Vaccines
"Nobody suffers like we do! An' it's all your fault, cuz yer MEAN!"
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Paleostinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh criticized the politicization of the provision of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
vaccines, describing it as "piracy."
Speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting, Shtayyeh warned that the problem of COVID-19 vaccines not reaching Paleostine "is not in the provision of funds, but in the companies fulfilling their obligations."

He noted there is "tremendous demand and limited supply" of the vaccine in Paleostine.

"We have activated all our diplomatic, political, international and medical channels," asserted Shtayyeh, adding that great progress has been made to obtain the shots, whether through donations from the COVAX global initiative, or those paid for by the government.

He hoped these efforts will result in the arrival of the first batch of vaccines soon, saying it will be possible to launch a national campaign for herd immunity to create a safe environment against the pandemic.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling......
Ministry of Health front man, Kamal al-Shakhra announced that the actual number of coronavirus cases in Paleostinian territories is actually double the recorded infections.

Paleostinian authorities have registered more than 235,000 cases, 2,509 deaths and 212,688 recoveries, while they have only received 12,000 vaccine shots.

The government imposed a five-day lockdown in the West Bank, starting Monday, to counter the spread of the coronavirus.

Shakhra told Voice of Paleostine radio that Paleostinian territories have witnessed a spike in cases, with 28 percent positive tests being confirmed in the past two weeks due to the wide spread of the British and African variants.

Paleostinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kailah announced Monday 2,298 new COVID-19 cases, 166 of which were recorded in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, and 25 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Posted by: Fred || 03/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Palestinian Authority

#1  Speaking at a weekly cabinet meeting, Shtayyeh warned that the problem of COVID-19 vaccines not reaching Paleostine "is not in the provision of funds, but in the companies fulfilling their obligations."

TRANSLATION: "And we'll start letting the stuff get through when the companies start putting a few more zeroes on my checks. This stuff ain't gonna grift itself, y'know."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/17/2021 5:46 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Great White Shark Feeding Frenzy
[Garden&Gun] It’s not for nothing that people call Captain Chip Michalove of Outcast Sport Fishing in Hilton Head, South Carolina, the shark whisperer—he catches great white sharks to tag them for scientists and was the first person in the state of South Carolina to do so. But the gathering of huge great whites he saw feeding on a whale carcass off Myrtle Beach last Thursday tops anything he’s experienced yet. "I didn’t want to leave," he says. "If the weather had allowed, I would have stayed out there for days."

Unfortunately, the whale was a North Atlantic right whale—the most endangered whale in the world—that had died after becoming entangled in fishing gear. But for the great whites, listed as a vulnerable species themselves, it was a welcome opportunity. "By looking at the currents and the wind, we were able to find the whale, and for forty-five minutes we didn’t see a thing," Michalove recalls. "Then they showed up, and it was a show."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/17/2021 05:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Myrtle Beach

Go for the bikes, stay for the food!
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/17/2021 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Now this is a shark feeding frenzy,
Posted by: Mercutio || 03/17/2021 10:42 Comments || Top||



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