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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Teenage girls 'stabbed homeless man, 59, to death while trying to steal his alcohol': Police charge EIGHT teens, aged 13 to 16, with MURDER after they 'swarmed' victim on Toronto sidewalk
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/21/2022 05:49 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Victorian morality is over. Where do you think the Greeks got the idea of the Furies from? Welcome to decivilization, Canada.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/21/2022 8:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Canadians are absolutely certain they are superior to US citizens in every respect.

American libs agree with them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2022 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I don’t think that this type of club activity will help your college admission chances.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/21/2022 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The total IQ of a mob is calculated by subtraction not addition.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/21/2022 9:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Toronto Nice™
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2022 11:05 Comments || Top||

#6  North NYC.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/21/2022 12:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Yeah. Toronto.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/21/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Canada is killing the sick and infirm (and kids without parents consent I read recently). now they have girl gangs killing homeless. The kind polite Canada seems to have been replaced by some cross of Logans Run and Clockwork Orange.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/21/2022 17:03 Comments || Top||

#9  I think it's more like "Lord of the Flies" meets "The Time Machine" with Morlocks and the Eloi.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/21/2022 18:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Build the wall!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/21/2022 20:44 Comments || Top||

#11  This is all so embarrasing. The girls merely wanted his bottle of booze which he could gave easily given up and replaced. /S

Hatred of Toronto is the single biggest unifying force throughout Canuckistan.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 12/21/2022 22:20 Comments || Top||


NYC's 'bling' Bishop Lamor Whitehead hit with federal charges for fraud schemes
[NYPOST] "Bling" Bishop Lamor Whitehead — the flashy Brooklyn pastor who was robbed at gunpoint during a church service earlier this year— was arrested by federal agents Monday for allegedly scamming a member of his congregation, among other charges.

Whitehead — who preaches a "prosperity gospel," drives a Rolls-Royce and often wears pricey jewelry and Gucci suits — was indicted on two counts of wire fraud, one count of extortion, and one count of making material false statements for lying to the FBI, federal prosecutors said.

If convicted, he faces a maximum of 65 years in prison.

The feds allege Whitehead, 44, swindled one of his parishioners out of $90,000 of her retirement savings by promising to use the cash to buy her a home — and instead blowing it on luxury goods and clothing, according to the indictment.

In another alleged scheme, he extorted a businessman for $5,000 and asked the man to lend him $500,000 — promising he could "obtain favorable actions by the New York City government" in exchange for the cash and interest in real estate transactions, the indictment states.
Posted by: Fred || 12/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No reflection on Rev. Warnock

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/21/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Shades of the Al Sharpton character when his hustle was more street oriented, not the boardroom/DNC/MSNBC grifter has has become.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/21/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||


Human heart found in Tennessee salt facility launches homicide investigation
[10 News] Ya think? "Hey! Any of youse missing this?"
HUMPHREYS COUNTY, Tenn. — An investigation is underway like none other in an absolutely bizarre case. This comes after the gruesome discovery of a human heart in a Tennessee Department of Transportation salt barn.

The case is now being treated as a homicide, which is now in the hands of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. They'll work on determining where the heart came from, who it came from and why it ended up in a salt bar. They know there was only the adult human heart believed to be from a male.

"Anytime we go on the scene where there's a body or remains, we treat it as a homicide, and then basically prove different," said Chris Davis, sheriff of Humphreys County.

Authorities have found no other remains on the premises of this TDOT salt barn in Humphreys County.

So, how to explain this one gruesome discovery?

"Somebody, somewhere, knows," said Sheriff Davis, but he added that clues have been hard to come by.

A TDOT worker moving salt discovered the heart last week.

Those who have seen it describe the heart as dehydrated from the salt — about the size of a tennis ball. They told NewsChannel 5 it appeared undamaged as though it had been surgically removed.

"A heart doesn't naturally leave the body as part of the decaying process, so clearly, there is some human involvement here. And the question is if it's criminal in nature," said NewsChannel 5 legal analyst Nick Leonardo.

For now, the sheriff said that's the assumption.

There is now a two-pronged investigation.

First, the TBI will seek to track the origin of the salt delivered to the barn, but that may prove difficult.

Morton provides bulk salt for roads in Tennessee and draws from some 20 facilities across the country.

For now, there's no evidence the heart came from any of those facilities.

And second, the crime lab is working on a DNA sample from the heart ...

It may now be several weeks before authorities can come up with a full DNA profile. Then they can try checking databases to try to determine who or where the heart came from.

Those close to the case admit it's possible the mystery of the heart will never be solved.

Some had wondered if the heart could be that of little Joe Clyde Daniel, a child who disappeared nearly five years ago from nearby Dickson County.

The sheriff says no because the heart found at the salt facility belonged to an adult male.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Heart failure and salt: The great debate
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/21/2022 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ 😁
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/21/2022 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Start by investigating who packs a lunch and who utilizes the overpriced, unattended, snack bar system. It would have had to have some in through a lunchbox as it sounds entirely too fresh for one of those snack bar fridges.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/21/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Very snarkly, Skid
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/21/2022 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  These salt facilities are usually a large quonset hut open on both ends where road salt is stored for easy access. They are all over the state and are untended.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/21/2022 13:44 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
NFL legend Franco Harris dead at 72
Steelers and NFL legend Franco Harris has died at 72, according to multiple reports.

Harris, who played fullback for Pittsburgh for over a decade in the 1970s and early ’80s, was a four-time Super Bowl champion and a Pro Football Hall of Famer. He made the Pro Bowl nine times and was the NFL’s rushing touchdown leader in 1976.

Harris was perhaps most famous for being the recipient of the “Immaculate Reception” in 1972, one of the most famous plays in NFL history, catching a ball thrown by Terry Bradshaw that appeared to bounce off a Raiders defender and running it for a game-winning touchdown. His death comes just two days before the 50th anniversary of the play, which will be commemorated on Saturday as the Steelers and Raiders play each other.

Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 12/21/2022 23:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Great Cultural Revolution
Crematoriums in China struggle as COVID spreads
[12ft] It seems, at least this go around, the CCP citizens are fed up with their leadership / elite and real C-19/22 numbers and info is getting out.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/21/2022 07:32 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Yes, staff does 'struggle' a bit with the live ones.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2022 8:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully, they are buying carbon offsets to keep their immolation of their population neutral with respect to the environment.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/21/2022 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I just don't see present day communist Chinese being that wasteful with so much free resources.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Kinda like border numbers.

Reports: China Deploys Police Guards to Crematoriums to Hide Coronavirus Deaths

In other news: Wood chipper futures are rising.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/21/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Miss the opportunity to engage the Soylent Corporation earlier.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/21/2022 19:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Dr. Fauci: "It's Nice that Some People Idolize Me and Put Me on a Pedestal" (VIDEO)
Dr. Fauci will be stepping down from his post after 54 years as a scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

Fauci was the director of the NIAID for 38 years.

Dr. Fauci lied about funding the Wuhan lab’s research on gain-of-function which ultimately led to the Covid pandemic.

Fauci is a megalomaniac drunk on power.

This is why an unelected bureaucrat like Fauci should never have this much power ever again.

After destroying millions of lives with Covid lockdowns and promoting the experimental Covid vaccines, Fauci gushed over people idolizing him.

"It’s nice that some people idolize me and put me on a pedestal," Fauci said on Tuesday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2022 04:46 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Auto-da-Fé anyone?
Posted by: Warthog || 12/21/2022 7:24 Comments || Top||

#2  I think we all would like to see him on a pedestal; half of us would prefer a pedestal with a trap door.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/21/2022 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  There are people in this land who worship Satan also.

That does not make it the right thing to do.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2022 9:19 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Kim Jong-un's Sister Threatens to Launch ICBM Towards America in Unhinged Rant
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/21/2022 07:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  A 'barely coherent string of insults and threats', eh? Perhaps she was trying to speak to Old Joe in his own language.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/21/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Suck a Minuteman, girl.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/21/2022 11:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Haven’t they shot several ICBMs in the rough direction of the US already? Is this an NK version of ranting us a second time? Most of all, if they do get lucky and hit us, do we have a response planned that is carbon neutral?
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/21/2022 13:56 Comments || Top||

#4  ooohkay. Have fun lady. Fort Greeley is laughing their asses off.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/21/2022 14:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Iran is always days / weeks / months from having a bomb. NKor has / does not have ICBMS that can reach some / all of CONUS.

Consider the source. The same people who told you Russia installed Trump as prexident of the USSA.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2022 15:38 Comments || Top||

#6  She's just frustrated because Kim can't get it up.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/21/2022 17:15 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey court acquits 103 retired admirals accused of ‘coup’


*shrug* They’ve sat in prison for years and been stripped of their possessions — turning them loose now, poor and unable to find work, is just an additional punishment for daring to think themselves part of the checks and balances of Ataturk’s original Ottoman-busting plan.
Posted by: badanov || 12/21/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Twitter Files: Company Allowed Government to Wage Influence Operations Abroad
See also here.
[Breitbart] Twitter maintained a strict ban on foreign influence operations over the past half-decade — except in the case of the U.S. government, which was permitted to use the platform for "psychological influence operations" abroad, according to a new installment in the Twitter Files.

The Twitter Files are a series of disclosures of internal documents to journalists, a project championed by the platform’s new owner, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The latest batch was published by Lee Fang, a journalist at the Intercept.

According to Fang, despite public pledges to shut down all government-backed platform manipulation, Twitter made an exception for the U.S.

"Twitter gave approval & special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological influence ops," wrote Fang. "Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used covert identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around 2 years or more. Some remain active."

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2022 01:53 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Goes a bit deeper than originally thought does it? How shocking.

All of this activity conducted by Twitter employees/'former' USG personnel as an ad hoc additional duty? Security clearance billets involved or passed? Facility Security officer (FSO) questioned ?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2022 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Twitter is the preferred platform that our government uses to influence the world to hate us and screw us over.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/21/2022 5:48 Comments || Top||

#3  It's nice to know that it wasn't just Americans they tried to take out.
Posted by: Vernal Panda8567 || 12/21/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Whusoger Shavish7113 || 12/21/2022 14:23 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Ow!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2022 15:36 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Germany puts orders for Puma tanks on hold after exercise when they all broke down. Every one.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/21/2022 10:45 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Did the batteries run down?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/21/2022 13:47 Comments || Top||

#2  "The companies responsible for this project are Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall Landsysteme, which created a joint venture, Projekt System Management GmbH (PSM). " see.... The US was not involved, ccp parts?
Posted by: Javising Whagum4398 || 12/21/2022 13:56 Comments || Top||

#3  The 'Fainting Goats' of tracked vehicles
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/21/2022 14:37 Comments || Top||

#4  It seems to be several issues. Targeting systems failing to stay calibrated on some, suspension issues on others, engine failures on others.

In a wartime environment they most likely to do ok, especially in defense. But the list of issues is to wide to ignore and points to a shit development and procurement program for it. The Germans do make some damn fine weapons. This ain't one of them.... yet.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/21/2022 14:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Nice to know crap is produced other places besides Detroit, Windsor, Ontario and China.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2022 15:35 Comments || Top||

#6  The Puma is an infantry fighting vehicle not a tank. Nice to see the reporter put some effort into doing some research for the story.
Posted by: Chantry || 12/21/2022 19:17 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Metal = Tank. Always.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2022 19:34 Comments || Top||

#8  And high capacity bullets in clip.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/21/2022 19:46 Comments || Top||

#9  Automatic Assault Bullets in Rounds of Cartridge!
Posted by: Frank G || 12/21/2022 19:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Guess they should have stuck with the original Sd.kfz. 234/2 version.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/21/2022 20:14 Comments || Top||

#11  How much of the problems are caused by buggy software?
Posted by: Whusoger Shavish7113 || 12/21/2022 21:19 Comments || Top||


Watch a Lockheed Martin inflatable space habitat explode
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/21/2022 09:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Overpressure test at their Roxborough facility. Burst at 6x pressure at 285psi.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/21/2022 9:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Homeless Americans sleeping in cardboard boxes on the sidewalks. Oh the irony.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/21/2022 9:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Now hit it with one of these beauties.

Space Debris and Human Spacecraft
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/21/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||


#5  "Just let Musk develops these things. His companies and people work like I and mine did in the 60s through early 2003.
Posted by: Javising Whagum4398 || 12/21/2022 14:03 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2022-12-21
  Terrorism Victims Sue Biden For Sending Money To Palestinian Government
Tue 2022-12-20
  Sudan protesters face tear gas, stun grenades on uprising anniversary
Mon 2022-12-19
  Russia launches fresh wave of 35 Iranian-made suicide drones hitting Kyiv energy hub in huge explosion
Sun 2022-12-18
  Bomb blast kills at least 9 Iraqi police officers near Kirkuk - sources
Sat 2022-12-17
  Iranians hit the streets in restive southeast as protests enter 4th month
Fri 2022-12-16
  Oberlin College pays $36.6 million judgement in full
Thu 2022-12-15
  DOJ Arrests Sam Bankman-Fried For Running Out Of Bribery Money
Wed 2022-12-14
  Ugandan army says 11 Islamists killed
Tue 2022-12-13
  Ukraine tightens the noose on Putin's armies: 'Saboteurs' destroy bridge in Melitopol choking off key supply route for Russia's troops
Mon 2022-12-12
  Lockerbie bombing suspect in US custody two years after being charged
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  Mass graves of 800 civilians found in Severodonetsk
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  Bulgaria will send military aid to Ukraine for the first time
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  A Russian couple were detained by Mexican law enforcement in Tijuana, Baja California with $587,550 in cash with them
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  Five electricity substations in Oregon and Washington are attacked just days after two in North Carolina were shot up causing widespread power outages
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  Iraqi security arrests 11 ISIS terrorists in different governorates


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