[Daily Caller] A Belarusian model who originally said she had secret recordings that tied President Donald Trump to Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska and showed collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign now says she lied.
Anastasia Vashukevich, who goes by the alias Nastya Rybka on the internet, told CNN in a report published Tuesday that she made up the whole story as a means of getting out of a Thai prison last year.
Vashukevich was doing hard time in Thailand for offering her sex coach talents to the locals. Arrested and convicted for solicitation, she was sent to prison. Allegedly fearing for life behind bars, she decided to attract some international media attention with her story of having information that would link Trump to the Russian oligarchy. (RELATED: Report: FBI Agents Interviewed Russian Oligarch About Collusion Prior To Election)
She asked for political asylum in the U.S. to tell her story. She eventually received deportation back to Russia. Sorry, yet another graphic generator systems error.
[SpringfieldNewsSun] SEARLES, MINN. ‐ Deputies called to a Minnesota home Thursday for a woman's death found her husband, naked and high on methamphetamine following a "death party" he said the couple had before she died.
Duane Arden Johnson, 58, of Searles, was arrested and charged with criminal neglect and receiving stolen
The Mankato Free Press reported that Johnson called 911 around noon Thursday and reported that his wife, Debra Lynn Johnson, 69, had died. Court records obtained by the newspaper said the first deputies to arrive at the couple's home found the words, "Death Parde God Hell" in red spray paint on the front door.A naked Duane Johnson ran out of the house and screamed that his wife was dead before running back inside, the records said. Deputies found him in the bathtub, where he said he was trying to clean little black and white "things" from his skin.
Debra Johnson's body was found wrapped in a sheet at the top of the stairs, the Free Press reported. She was still warm, but rigor mortis was settling into her arms, the newspaper said. Duane Johnson told deputies that his wife had been a patient in a nursing home but begged him to take her home to die. Officials at the New Ulm Medical Center told investigators Debra Johnson had been at a nursing facility following two heart attacks.She also had diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as mental illnesses for which she took antipsychotic medication, the Free Press reported.
Duane Johnson took his wife home against medical advice, the newspaper said.
In her final days, Duane Johnson said, she had stopped taking her medication as they used meth and "rocked out" to their favorite band, Quiet Riot. The court documents allege when Debra Johnson couldn't eat or drink, her husband used snow to moisten her mouth. Duane Johnson said his wife suffered convulsions during that time frame, but would not allow him to call for help, the Free Press reported. He told investigators he held her to keep her from hurting herself during the seizures.
Johnson also told investigators he and his wife had sex about two hours before she died, the newspaper said. After her death, he washed her and wrapped her in linen "like the Bible told (him) to do," the court records said.
Detectives found several guns, including four rifles and two shotguns, in the home, as well as hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Duane Johnson told them he had 47 guns, several of which were stolen.
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"as well as mental illnesses for which she took antipsychotic medication"
Evidently not enough.
I don't know, though. The body was "still warm", and it's -40 degrees there. No neglect involved.
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This was actually a very well thought out operation. The TSA baggage handlers grab the drugs before or after (depending upon on or off plane) the customs or DEA dogs show up.
[AOL] Federal employees are facing 10 years to life in prison after being indicted for using their posts to smuggle over 100 million dollars of cocaine into the U.S. from Puerto Rico.
Twelve members of the drug ring, including TSA baggage screeners and security personnel are facing charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute.
Authorities say as much as 20 tons of cocaine over an 18 year period was smuggled in.
They claim A baggage handler in the ring picked up cocaine filled suitcases at check-in counters and put them into TSA X-Ray machines that another suspect cleared.
After, the baggage handler took them to their respective flights, making sure no police or K-9 units intervened.
According to reports, up to five smugglers were used in each flight, each carrying as much as 33 pounds of the illegal substance at a time.
This comes in the heels of a homeland security report that found many of the major U.S. airports do not have full employee screenings.
Blonde passenger gets evicted from flight. Grossly obese entitlement class passengers gain empty middle seat. Problem solved.
[CBS] A video has gone viral showing an airline passenger fat-shaming the two people sitting next to her before she was kicked off the plane, CBS New York reports. It shows a blond woman sitting in the middle seat of a United Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Newark on January 2. She complains loudly on her cellphone, saying the passengers on her right and left are overweight and she can't take it.
"I don't know how I'm going to do this for the next four hours. This is just impossible, 'cause they're squishing me," the woman said.
"I can't breathe I'm so squished," she said, adding, "At least they'll keep me warm."
Norma Rodgers, a registered nurse from Plainfield, New Jersey, who was one of the passengers sitting next to the woman, recorded the comments on her cellphone and posted it on Facebook. It has since been viewed more than 2 million times.
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"I don't know how I'm going to do this for the next four hours. This is just impossible, 'cause they're squishing me," the woman said.
Well, she didn't have to sit between them for 4 hours.
It's a matter of traveler safety to be able to evacuate one of those tubes quickly. Sorry people but the FAA is institutionally captured by the industry that it is suppose to watch over. The airlines long ago should have been hammered for cramming as many bodies as it can get away with into those things.
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Your drivers license gives your weight at 372 lbs. Our coach seats are only rated at a max of 300 pounds. Your options are First Class Fare or purchasing two adjoining seats. Next customer please.
Treat passenger ticketing like cargo and USPS deliveries and the 'problem' will soon be solved.
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The San Diego museum Kilo has a "moon gate" dockside with signage warning visitors of what they're in for below. Never got stuck, but I didn't mind having the place to myself first time through, either. In the airport? Fun fun fun! I'd pay admission to watch that.
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On the bush commuters I often fly on (Cessna 208 Caravans, piston and turbine twins), we also get asked weight or stand on the scales. Flying within the CG envelope is a matter of survival on small planes.
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gah. Kilo Foxtrot. Kinda like the idea -- since it looks like we're going full totalitarian anyway -- of public weigh stations. Nothing intrusive or mandatory, just sensor in sidewalk and a big readout like the speeding-mindfulness setups.
[PULSE.NG] DR Congo's government has asked its UN peacekeeping mission for help against Rwandan rebels planning operations against Rwanda from inside Congolese territory, the UN said on Wednesday.
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[Reuters] The center is now built - behind the 8-foot barbed wire fence that surrounds the entire space station compound. Visits are by appointment only.
Shrouded in secrecy, the compound has stirred unease among local residents, fueled conspiracy theories and sparked concerns in the Trump administration about its true purpose, according to interviews with dozens of residents, current and former Argentine government officials, U.S. officials, satellite and astronomy specialists and legal experts.
The station’s stated aim is peaceful space observation and exploration and, according to Chinese media, it played a key role in China’s landing of a spacecraft on the dark side of the moon in January.
But the remote 200-hectare compound operates with littleoversight by the Argentine authorities, according to hundreds of pages of Argentine government documents obtained by Reuters and reviewed by international law experts. (For an interactive version of this story: tmsnrt.rs/2TlXEMj)
President Mauricio Macri’s former foreign minister, Susana Malcorra, said in an interview that Argentina has no physical oversight of the station’s operations. In 2016, she revised the China space station deal to include a stipulation it be for civilian use only.
[Breitbart] There are three migrant caravans headed to the United States’ southern border with Mexico, according to top Pentagon official John Rood.
Rood testified to the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that one of the caravans contains over 12,000 migrants.
"Current information shows that a caravan of over 12,000 people ‐ there’s three that we are tracking, that the DHS is tracking en route, one that is over 12,000 by the latest estimate," said Rood, who is the under secretary of Defense for policy.
Rood said there are currently more than 2,300 active duty troops at the southern border, down from a high of 5,900 in November.
But defense officials say several thousands more active duty troops are expected to head to the border in the coming weeks, to assist the Department of Homeland Security with laying down more concertina wire, and helping to monitor the border between points of entry.
Democrats, who now control the House, called Pentagon officials in to testify on President Trump’s order of active duty troops to the border in October, which they have called a political stunt by the White House before midterm election.
But defense officials testified that it was the Pentagon ‐ not the White House ‐ decided that active duty troops were able to deploy faster and were better resourced to deal with the caravans headed to the border than National Guard and reserve forces.
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Ship a few hundred illegals to Pelosi and Schumer's 'sanctuary' homes and offices for promises of free housing, food and benefits. That might cure their hypocrisy.
[PULSE.NG] A retired Venezuelan colonel accused of being a leader of the explosives-laden drone "attack" on President Nicolas Maduro Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy... in August has been tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! , his wife said on Wednesday.
"He was kidnapped," Sorbay Padilla said in a video sent to journalists and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists.
She said her husband, Oswaldo Garcia Palomo, is being held at the military's intelligence headquarters in Caracas.
Garcia Palomo, 54, had been in exile in neighboring Colombia but was captured at the end of last week in western Venezuela after secretly returning to the country, local press reported.
His detention comes during high political tension in Venezuela where opposition leader Juan Guaido, backed by the United States, has launched a bid to remove Maduro from power.
Last week Guaido declared himself acting president and has appealed to the military to disavow Maduro.
The government had fingered Garcia Palomo as one of the criminal masterminds behind last year's alleged attack, in which two drones went kaboom! during a military parade in Caracas during a speech by the president.
Seven soldiers were allegedly maimed in what Maduro claimed was an "liquidation" attempt.
He accused Colombia of collaborating with Venezuela's "ultra far-right" opposition in the incident, which he said was funded by unnamed figures in the US.
Venezuela had asked Colombia to deport Garcia Palomo.
Padilla said no one has been able to contact her husband.
The prosecutor's office has charged 43 people in relation to the alleged drone attack, of which 30 were detained. Among them are three members of the armed forces, including two generals and opposition deputy Juan Requesens.
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[PULSE.NG] A Russian politician was locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! Wednesday in the middle of a parliament session in connection with two murders committed eight years ago, an official and news reports said.
Rauf Arashukov, a 32-year-old senator representing the Karachayevo-Cherkessia region of Russia's Northern Caucasus, is suspected of involvement in the 2010 murders of two people and of pressuring a witness to one of the killings, according to Sherlocks.
He allegedly acted as part of an organised group that included his father, a statement by the Russian Investigative Committee said.
Arashukov was on the senate floor when coppers entered and read out a warrant, according to senate speaker Valentina Matviyenko.
"He tried to get up and leave the session. I told him to sit down," she told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
he said he will retain his senator post despite the probe until a court finds him guilty.
Parliamentary journalists did not witness the arrest as the cameras were turned off without explanation, said a correspondent for Rossiya 24 state TV.
A court in Moscow later denied bail to Arashukov, deciding to keep him behind bars for two months while the probe continues.
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I never did notice the extremely-partial government "shutdown," but some people thought it was a big deal. Not private employers, apparently:
Private payrolls grew in January at a much faster pace than expected as the labor market shrugged off the longest U.S. government shutdown in history, according to data released Wednesday by ADP and Moody’s Analytics.
"Shrugged off"? I don’t know, maybe they welcomed it.
Companies added 213,000 jobs this month, the data show. Economists polled by Refinitiv expected payrolls to grow by 178,000.
The strong jobs growth comes even as the U.S. government was shut down for 35 days in a standoff between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over his demand for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Even as."
"The job market weathered the government shutdown well. Despite the severe disruptions, businesses continued to add aggressively to their payrolls," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
"Weathered." "Despite the severe disruptions." Really? What disruptions were those? Did they consider that a brief respite from a small portion of government heavy-handedness may have been irrelevant to job growth, or even a positive factor? Evidently not.
On Jan. 17-18, nearly 120 soldiers with the Royal Canadian Dragoons participated in basic winter survival training while the temperature dropped to ‐31 C.
The soldiers, part of the immediate response unit (IRU) vanguard, left in the morning on a 12-kilometre march and returned the next day after spending the night outside.
Approximately 20 soldiers reported frostbite or minor hypothermia, and "a very small number" had to be hospitalized for more serious cold-related injuries, said public affairs officer Capt. Daniel Mazurek...Richard Blanchette, a retired major-general and the chair of the Royal Canadian Legion's defence and security committee, said that the injuries sustained by the soldiers during the training were not "normal."
Blanchette said those types of injuries can occur when training conditions are extremely difficult ‐ but also if the equipment wasn't suitable for the situation.
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Since I submitted this I got an email from the guy I buy my winter weight parkas from:
I received some feedback about the Canadian military problem from guys who think as I do the people responsible for purchasing these bags should have to use them themselves before being issued. Things might be different.
My representative in Canada told me the article was incomplete because the report also included cold feet, hands and body. So the problem gets worse once you have all of the facts. Poor quality boots and poor quality hand wear.
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No different than Ranger trainees drowning in bad weather. The flag pole demands keeping to the scheduled training plan regardless. Time, time, time. You exist to serve the schedule.
Lost a fellow cadet at summer training. The wet bulb says 'no go'. Schedule said 'go'. Command says 'go'. Family says 'goodbye'.
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We did not have these problems with the Alaska National Guard units in NW Alaska. Even at 45 to 55 below zero they were fine because they lived and subsisted in that environment all their lives. However, white bunny boots are great at -65F.
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AP ~ Years ago (many years ago), the commandant of the NWTC was an Aleut speaker. He was one of the only native level speakers on active duty. Are there any left ?
[STAT] SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO ‐ Robert McIntyre would like to get a few things straight. That "waiting list" of people plunking down $10,000 to have his company preserve their brains for future uploading? Just 30 "early supporters" of his research, he said; no one has been promised or even offered anything, certainly not silicon-based mental immortality. It's only 'ghoulish' if you're under 70 and do NOT suffer from an enlarged prostrate, arthritis, occasional gout, multiple dental implants, and male-pattern baldness.
The elderly woman in Portland, Ore., whose brain McIntyre obtained (via body-donation company Aeternitas Life) right after her death last year so he could practice his vitrification-cum-cryopreservation technique? Just some early research to improve brain banking, "which we feel we accomplished," he said.
Reports that his 3-year-old startup, Nectome, aims to "preserve your brain to bring you back in the future" (according to the website of its venture capital funder) or to "back up your mind," as per a now-disappeared tease on Nectome’s website? "What we’re focused on is preserving long-term memory," insists McIntyre, 30, sitting at a conference table in Nectome’s new, two-room headquarters within shouting distance of San Francisco’s airport, "not reading or decoding it. The field of memory preservation doesn’t exist. We’re trying to create it."
It has not been an easy year for McIntyre or Nectome, but they’re determined to claw their way out of scientific purgatory.
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So apparently minority students are so stupid and behind the glorious master race that we need to keep the standards low so they can at least scrounge for the crumbs their betters leave them.
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.
[Daily Caller] A Belarusian model who originally said she had secret recordings that tied President Donald Trump to Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska and showed collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign now says she lied.
Venezuela's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy...
On Jan. 17-18, nearly 120 soldiers with the Royal Canadian Dragoons participated in basic winter survival training while the temperature dropped to ‐31 C. 
