[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] James Crumbley was seen crying as he and wife Jennifer each received a landmark 15 year prison sentence over their son Ethan's school massacre.
James was unable to contain his emotion as a Michigan judge ordered him and his estranged wife to spend 10-15 years behind bars on Tuesday.
Fifteen years was the maximum sentence available to the pair, who will each have two years subtracted from their sentences for time served.
The parents were convicted at separate trials in February as juries found they ignored their son's pleas for mental health help while buying him the firearm he used to massacre four classmates in 2021.
Their sentences will be served minus the near-two-and-a-half years they have already served, and they will be barred from contacting to their son's victim's families.
The sentence was read shortly after the heartbroken mother of one of Ethan Crumbley's victims slammed his parents for a lack of remorse, as she pleaded with a judge to impose the maximum sentence of 15 years, which they ultimately received.
Speaking at the sentencing hearing, Nicole Beausoliel, the mother of slain Madisyn Baldwin, 17, scathed the couple as 'failed parents.'
'You've shown no remorse or respect to our family,' the stricken mother said through tears. 'The words involuntary should not be a part of your sentence.'
Her tearful statement was followed by the mother of Justin Shilling, who echoed Beausoliel's grief as she condemned them for not 'cherishing or even wanting your son.'
'But I cherished and wanted mine,' she added. 'You failed your son.'
Based on this kids social posts, being on a suicide watch, other over the top acts, and his reported classroom statements. It shows about a dozen MISSED opportunities for School officials to have averted /100% avoided the school shooting... days, weeks, months prior.
BTW: On October 24, 2022, Crumbley also admitted during questioning that his used own money to purchase the weapon. So was it the parents weapon and did they even know their 15-16 yo had it?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Daniil Ponomarev
[REGNUM] “The troops of the Soviet 4th Ukrainian Front under the command of Army General Tolbukhin went on the offensive against the Nazi troops located on the Perekop Isthmus and the southern coast of Sivash. Our troops broke through the enemy’s heavily fortified defenses on the Perekop Isthmus and, moving forward up to 20 kilometers, captured the city and the Armyansk railway station.” In this operational report of the Sovinformburo dated April 10, 1944, the country learned about the first successes of the Crimean offensive operation, which began two days earlier, on April 8. Fydor Tolbukin had been in command of several operational and strategic formations in the northern coast of the Sea of Azov before the spring of 1944. Continued on Page 49
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Reports from the New Russia militia by Andrey Medvedev, journalist
[VK] Ten years of the “Russian Spring” is a date as solemn and important as it is tragic. Because ten years ago, the Russian people took a desperate step into the unknown, hoping that Russia would come to their aid.
It is believed that the “Russian Spring” was a reaction to the “Maidan” of 2014, that the coup d’etat in Kyiv launched a process in both Donbass and Novorossiya, when a huge, predominantly Russian-speaking region declared a desire for independence and self-determination. But to say this means completely not understanding and not knowing the history of Ukraine and the tragic history of the Russian people, who fell into the millstone of the political decisions of the fathers of the revolution.
After all, it is clear that it was not at all necessary to create Ukraine from the provinces of Little Russia. Especially the Soviet one. In 1914, there were very few “Ukrainians” in Kyiv, and this was not a nationality, but a political orientation. Read Paustovsky, Bulgakov.
In the early 1920s, all this ridiculous nationalism, which reminded the Russians of that time of the current freedom fighters of Ingria or the Smolensk region (the same idiots), could have been easily curtailed, especially with the resources of the Bolsheviks. But instead, the decision was made to build nation statesnon-existent nations.
And when at the X Congress, Stalin promised to eliminate the Russian element in the cities of Ukraine, and when they began to forcefully Ukrainize (Zelensky did not come up with anything new, he was simply repeating the experience of the Bolsheviks), and when they cleaned out the Russian language, it was Novorossia and Donbass that more than other regions of the Ukrainian SSR felt the pressure of Kyiv.
Kyiv, still Soviet, did not like Donbass, was afraid of the Donetsk people. They could not forgive Donetsk for its special status in the USSR, they could not forgive insolence like decisions to take and plant thousands of roses in the city. Look, they've thought of it! It’s not the capital of Soviet Ukraine, but they allow themselves! They were afraid of the forces of Donetsk and Lugansk. Industrial, intellectual. It was people from Novorossiya who were taken to Moscow, to the leadership of Soviet ministries.
It was not during the Maidans of 2004 and 2014 that the attitude towards Donbass was born. This is a product of Soviet experiments. Accordingly, Donbass and Novorossiya all these long years lived in a situation where people were told from morning to evening that they were Ukrainians, that this was their country, but they themselves always felt like Russians.
And in the spring of 2014, the accumulation simply broke through. “If in Kyiv they want to go to Europe, then we want to go home - to Russia.” It all started when Russian people stormed the SBU building in Lugansk. They were ready to die for the dream of returning to Russia.
The first heroes of the “Russian Spring” like Valery Bolotov fought precisely for this. For the right to speak Russian, think in Russian, be Russian.
For this, the fighters of the “Odessa squad” died in the House of Trade Unions. The first hero of the North Military District for me personally is Gennady Kushnarev, who was killed in Odessa.
Another thing is that Russia itself was not ready for the “Russian Spring”. And accept Donbass too. And for a long time we refused to even admit that Ukraine in its current form is a threat to Russia. Now we are openly saying that the meaning of Ukraine’s existence is to be anti-Russia. Just recently everything was different.
And for many years the Russian region fought for itself without the slightest hope for anything. Hundreds of Donbass soldiers did not live to see this day. The first leaders of the republics, the first commanders. And how many peaceful ones! Children, adults, old people... They never knew that Donbass had become Russia. That Mariupol is ours. That they no longer attack Donetsk from Avdiivka.
But they believed that someday this would all happen. What does it feel like to believe in the light while walking in pitch darkness?
The tenth anniversary of the “Russian Spring” is not something to be proud of for us. This is rather an occasion to look back, to understand what we were like. What material benefits were more important to us than the Russians of Donbass.
And what we have become now. And what they should be like to bring all Russian people home.”
This is the Russian video game for PC, the development of which was funded in part by the government of Russia by Mark Dranitzyn
[REGNUM] At the beginning of April, the adventure computer game “ Troubles ” became available to players on the VK Play platform. It was developed by the Russian company Cyberia Nova. The events in the game take place in 1612 in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow and Yaroslavl against the backdrop of the Time of Troubles. The US currently is going through is own version of Time of Troubles.
Heinlein called the current period The Crazy Years.
Long before its release, “The Troubles” received its first critics on the Internet. Their main complaint: Cyberia Nova, which took on the development of a historical role-playing epic, has not released a single known release before.
But the Russian gaming industry remembers a successful example from last year: the debut project from the Mundfish studio - Atomic Heart. The game literally blew up the Western charts with its magnificent graphics, unusual style of Soviet retro-futurism and, of course, humanized robot girls.
BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES AND FLINTLOCK GUNS
The release was postponed several times, but on April 4, “The Troubles” officially went to the masses. In honor of the launch, a costume show-carnival with archers, bells, horse rides and other interactive elements was organized on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.
The main sponsor of “Troubles” was the Internet Development Institute (IDI), allocating 500 million rubles to the project, excluding distribution and marketing. Development of the game took two years.
To an uninitiated person it may seem that these are gigantic resources - monetary and time. In reality, 500 million rubles is a very modest amount for the gaming industry. The budgets of leading game projects are measured in tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars. And the development time takes five to six years.
The already mentioned “Atomic Heart” cost, according to various estimates, from 30 to 100 million. It was developed from 2017 to 2023 in real production hell - 16 hours a day.
Therefore, to expect that in such conditions “The Troubles” could become the breakthrough of the decade is, to put it mildly, extremely presumptuous.
The game has officially released, its key problems have become visible. Firstly, it’s damp - there are a lot of errors: collapsing buildings, graphical glitches, banal crashes to the desktop. However, already 3 days after the release, on April 7, the developers announced the release of an update: the patch corrects errors in various tasks and fixes various technical flaws.
Secondly, the game still lacks interesting tasks. The key now is to run from point A to point B, listen to the dialogue and run further to listen to the next conversation. At the same time, along the way you can swing your saber and shoot from flintlock rifles.
But what cannot be taken away from the game is its stunning visuals. The artists and designers did a great job. Photogrammetry technology, transferring a real image into a 3D environment, accurately conveys the atmosphere of ancient cities and dense green forests. The characters' outfits look natural and rich.
This is where “Siberia” certainly gave it its all and came close in terms of graphics to modern international projects.
USEFUL EXPERIENCE OF "CYBERPUNK"
Now “Smoot” can be bought for 2015 rubles, the game is exclusively sold on the VK Play platform. This is cheaper than most projects coming out today.
The most important point: the developers promised support for their creation for several years. This is really good and gives hope for correcting errors.
The same superhit game Cyberpunk 2077, in which the Polish studio CD Projekt Red invested 400 million dollars, came out in such an indigestible state that it had to be removed from sale on some digital platforms. The technical problems of “The Troubles”, compared to those in the overseas action film, seem like baby talk.
But the Poles did not give a damn about their brainchild and methodically completed the game over the course of four years. Gamers positively assessed the changes and voted with their wallets.
The secret to polishing Cyberpunk, among other things, lies in communication with end consumers. Throughout the years of development, players actively sent in their comments, and game makers scrupulously took notes on ideas.
As a result, not only the rough edges disappeared, but in many aspects the final product itself changed beyond recognition for the better, becoming a reference masterpiece and earning many honorary awards.
RETURN COWS AND SAVE BEAUTIES
What can help “Smoot” become better?
First, correcting technical errors.
Secondly, a deeper study of the gameplay, the emergence of new tasks. For example, to knock out the robber detachments of Poles from Russian villages in order to gain a reputation among the common people, which is converted into the growing power of the militia of Minin and Pozharsky. The more feats we perform, the more powerful the Russian army becomes and, therefore, the easier it is to free Moscow from foreign invaders. And this, whatever one may say, is the ultimate goal.
Thirdly, the game is filled with small quests: they stole a cow - return it, captured a beauty - free it.
Praiseworthy goals, both.
The main thing is not to stop. Then everything will sparkle with new colors. The worst thing you can do now is fold your arms and say that the project is obviously unsuccessful, let's try another one.
There's a new Russian action/rpg game called Smuta (Time of Troubles). Foreign agents and LIEberals are сalling it "a buggy piece of shit". But the joke is on them. Medieval Russians were amphibious and could easily survive underwater
[American Thinker] Poor little Jack Smith—out of nowhere, a judge in Trump’s "classified documents" case fails to rubber stamp the prosecution’s unethical motions, and essentially declare Trump guilty before a trial even takes place. Judge Aileen Cannon correctly ruled that a jury should be able to contemplate the validity of Trump’s Presidential Records Act defense—but Jack Smith doesn’t want the jury to hear that because it is inconvenient to his case. Here’s this, from Politico:
Tensions flare between special counsel Jack Smith and Judge Aileen Cannon
Amid delays and uncertainty over Donald Trump’s classified documents case, a strained dynamic between his prosecutor and his judge has intensified.
Maybe the judge should remind the jury that the Justice Department let Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton off the hook for possessing and mishandling classified documents, even though they never had the cover of the PRA, and therefore no right to personally have the documents in the first place. They had no defense. After all, Jack Smith, the media, and other Democrats always want equal treatment under the law, don’t they? They certainly wouldn’t want guilty people to evade justice, and Trump to be treated with a bias, would they?
Incidentally, the PRA gives a president the "exclusive responsibility for the custody and management of the Presidential records of their administration while in office." At least, that’s according to the National Archives. Furthermore, the National Archives and Records Administration has "no formal role" in how a president chooses to handle the records. And, Trump was president, and he maintained his administration’s records as he saw fit. He certainly didn’t scatter them across the floor in an office like the picture the FBI and media showed the public to intentionally mislead; they were at Mar-a-Lago, one of the most secure residences in the world! Arguably, more secure than the White House—you can be sure that if cocaine had been discovered in a very private area of Mar-a-Lago, security would know exactly who left it there, and immediately. Apparently, people can leave illicit drugs in secure WH lockers, or right outside the Situation Room, or wherever they now claim it was found (the location of the cocaine has changed multiple times), and WH security somehow can’t determine to whom the powder belongs.
It is so much easier for a law-faring prosecutor when a judge works in lockstep with them! Poor little Jack Smith!
[Townhall] "They're dead, Jim"
This news is both deeply concerning for those who care about the fate of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th -- and entirely unsurprising, given the endless dishonesty of the terrorist group. Yes, an organization that is willing and eager to slaughter, rape and torture many hundreds of people is also willing and eager to lie -- particularly if it helps them manipulate their way to survival. Having executed the massacre six months ago, Hamas' top priority has been to avoid destruction at the hands of the Israelis. Their best tools for doing so have been the civilian human shields they exploit to make Israel's job as hard as possible, the 'international community' (including the Biden administration, horrifyingly) playing along with their supporters' manufactured 'genocide' smears, and the hostages.
Hamas has been very willing to talk endlessly about hostage releases, with Israel offering to free hundreds of convicted Palestinian terrorists and violent criminals from prison as part of a deal. But Hamas keeps rejecting deals, including lopsided ones that would at least buy them significant ceasefires, to boot. Why? It now appears as though Hamas knows a lot of their human bargaining chips are dead:
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Any discussion, action from the White House, DOS, or CIA regarding American hostages taken by HAMAS? US Media concern? No, of course not. These people have been written off.
The truth often lies in what is NOT being discussed.
After ## attempts to work with out a realistic agreement with the Terrorist group called HAMAS and and their supporters. They have repeatedly shown a refusal to seriously discuss, even violated and/or failed to honor previous agreements.
Given HAMAS' clearly documented history in this matter. It clear their negotiations are nothing more than a facade on their part at this time.
A process to hide their treatment and true numbers of surviving civilian hostages, that were kidnapped, tortured, and killed, while in their confinement.
So just announce a Do or Die date, if Hamas does not seriously move toward with the negotiations and quickly agree to a hostage return date.
If not met, them resume tracking down capturing and placing its leadership on trial..
[FoxNews] Accelerated aging — when someone’s biological age is greater than their chronological age — could increase the risk of cancer tumors.
That’s according to new research presented this week at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.
"Historically, both cancer and aging have been viewed primarily as concerns for older populations," Ruiyi Tian, MPH, a graduate student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and one of the study researchers, told Fox News Digital.
"The realization that cancer, and now aging, are becoming significant issues for younger demographics over the past decades was unexpected."
In the study, diagnoses in patients younger than 55 years old were considered early-onset cancers.
The researchers analyzed data from 148,724 people using the UK Biobank database.
They estimated each person’s biological age using nine biomarkers in the blood — then compared that to their chronological age.
Those with a higher biological age had a 42% increased risk of early-onset lung cancer, were 22% more prone to early-onset gastrointestinal cancer, and had a 36% higher risk for early-onset uterine cancer.
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The best news out of that conference is that 8 people with Pancreatic Cancer were given a new DNA-specific (individualized) vaccine and were still alive after 3 yrs
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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.
The sentence was read shortly after the heartbroken mother of one of 
