[CNN] Ruja Ignatova strode onto the stage in a flowing burgundy ball gown adorned with black sparkles. Beams of light flashed, fireballs erupted and Alicia Keys’ "Girl on Fire" blared through the speakers.
"Looks like a girl, but she’s a flame. So bright, she can burn your eyes — better look the other way," the song crooned as a beaming Ignatova thanked the cheering crowd at London’s Wembley Arena.
That was in June 2016, when cryptocurrency was an emerging buzzword and investors were scrambling to cash in. Ignatova called herself the "Cryptoqueen" and touted her company, OneCoin, as a lucrative rival to Bitcoin in the growing cryptocurrency market.
"In two years, nobody will speak about Bitcoin anymore," she said, as investors applauded and whistled.
Sixteen months later, Ignatova boarded a plane in Sofia, Bulgaria, and vanished. She hasn’t been seen since.
Authorities say OneCoin was a pyramid scheme that defrauded people out of more than $4 billion as Ignatova convinced investors in the US and around the globe to throw fistfuls of cash at her company. Federal prosecutors describe OneCoin as one of the largest international fraud schemes ever perpetrated.
She is now one of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives, alongside accused gang leaders and murderers, and is the only woman currently on that list. Of the 529 fugitives on the FBI’s list since it launched in 1950, she’s one of just 11 women.
Ignatova and her partners "conned unsuspecting victims out of billions of dollars, claiming that OneCoin would be the ’Bitcoin killer,’" US Attorney Damian Williams, New York’s top prosecutor, said in a statement last month.
"In fact, OneCoins were entirely worthless ... (Their) lies were designed with one goal, to get everyday people all over the world to part with their hard-earned money."
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They have no chance of catching her now that John Walsh’s show has been canceled. Is she eligible to be drone zapped? Then she really would be on fire.
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Eventually, people holding actual assets of value will be dunned to make the crypto rubes whole.
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Not say it could ever happen in this Admin's Coup's controlled DOJ. 🤣
But could a few $100 Million get the right eyes to look another way.
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Nine people were killed in a mass shooting late Saturday in a city east of Los Angeles following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands, police said.
Sgt. Bob Boese of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said the shooting was reported at 10:22 p.m. and occurred at a business on Garvey Ave. in Monterey Park. The shooter is a male, Boese said early Sunday.
Officials provided no information for several hours after dozens of police officers had responded to reports of the shooting.
Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people with a large Asian population that’s about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from downtown Los Angeles.
Seung Won Choi, who owns the Clam House seafood barbecue restaurant across the street from where the shooting happened, told the Los Angles Times that three people rushed into his business and told him to lock the door.
#1
It is strange that there is very little hysteria about the incident. There was a long gun used. Biden could certainly use a news distraction. Maybe we have reached the point where demonized random Mass shooting is back page stuff. By now there should be flying spittle about the uselessness of sending my hopes and prayers.
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If the festivities were used as cover for a chicom hit team to eliminate some dissidents, we won't hear a peep out of Washington DC about it.
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[Breitbart] Details have emerged about the gay couple in Georgia who allegedly sodomized their adopted sons and used them to make child porn, according to an investigation.
Townhall reported Tuesday:
Not only did the married men allegedly rape the two boys who were adopted through a Christian special-needs adoption agency, they were pimping out their children to nearby pedophiles in Atlanta-area suburbs, Townhall’s follow-up investigation discovered.
…The adoptive fathers, 33-year-old government worker William Dale Zulock Jr. and 35-year-old banker Zachary “Zack” Jacoby Zulock—who was previously accused of raping a child—from Oxford, Georgia, have been indicted by a grand jury on charges of incest, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, felony sexual exploitation of children, and felony prostitution of a minor.
Both men have reportedly pleaded not guilty in the case.
The adoptive parents are accused of performing oral sex on the boys, forcing them to give them oral sex, and anally raping the children.
The outlet noted that in one instance, anal rape injured the older child who is 11 years old.
During a midnight bust in July at their home, authorities tackled Zachary to the ground and dragged William, who was naked, outside, according to the report.
The Walton County’s Division of Family and Child Services was alerted to the situation and the need to protect the children, Local 12 reported August 7, adding the children were placed in custody and safe at the time.
Townhall cited a criminal affidavit that said Zachary filmed the child sexual abuse of the 11 year old.
“The indictment also charges the Zulock co-defendants with soliciting two other men, through the use of popular social media platforms, in the Greater Atlanta metropolitan region to ‘perform an act of prostitution’ with their child that suffered physical injuries from being brutally raped,” the outlet continued.
The alleged members of the pedophile ring are Loganville residents identified as Hunter Clay Lawless, 27, and Luis Armando Vizcarro-Sanchez, 25.
After the couple was taken into custody, their assets were seized, and their mansion was deemed property of the state, according to the couple’s criminal defense attorney, John E. Haldi.
According to a family member, the home, decorated with LGBTQ themed items, has multiple surveillance cameras and a windowless room behind a moveable bookcase. The family apparently used another windowless room as a home theater.
Video footage from August shows the outside of the home with a sign on the door that reads, “Do not enter. Property of the Walton County Sheriff’s Office. Do not enter.”
During a recent interview, Townhall reporter Mia Cathell said, “As family observed, their lavish lifestyle just materialized out of the blue about a year after they adopted these boys.”
Cathell added the next installment of her investigation will reveal more details about the adoption agency involved and “how a same-sex couple was able to receive services from them.”
[Breitbart] Longtime Fox News executive Alan Komissaroff died at the age of 47 after suffering a heart attack at his home earlier in the month, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace announced Friday.
Komissaroff was a "Fox News original," having joined the company at its conception in 1996, marking his first job after college.
Scott and Wallace announced his death in a memo to colleagues:
For two years they were in lockdown with no school. Perhaps that had something to do with it.
[FoxNews] Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee in DC expressed concern that youth culture is being corrupted and creating an environment that is conducive to crime.
#2
That is like being surprised that Tupac Shakur was murdered. Maybe everyone in the DC Police Dept has failed to read any of their newspapers and internal crime statistics for the last 50 years. Did changing the basketball team name from the bullets to the wizards solve anything? Will their next press conference cover the dangers of smoking?
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That song, "Both Sides Now" also was covered by US folk singer Judy Collins in 1968 (going from memory here).
Crosby Stills and Nash member Stephen Stills conducted a brief affair with Collins, and even wrote a song about it which became one of their hits, "Judy Blue Eyes."
#6
This is a story from the Woke Republic of Canada. I would think that the gym owner would be in a reeducation camp already but his surname is Sikh. There must be some kind of woke computer simulation taking place in the background to determine the final outcome.
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So, that would be the Peeholes Dumbocr@pic Rethuglic of Canuckistan?
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"Fields of Fire" by Jim Webb was one of the real stories of the Vietnam War. It took the Gulf war to get me out of the Vietnam veteran closet and confirm my support for our military. The book "Stolen Valor" was instrumental in my conversion from shame for serving to proud to have done my duty. Now when people say "welcome home" or "thank you for your service" I tell them I would do it again, no questions asked.
When I was a teenager in the 1980s, popular culture had basically one message on the Vietnam War: that it was conceived in American arrogance, was perpetrated by American savages, and accomplished little but psychological devastation and national disgrace. Francis Ford Coppola’s "Apocalypse Now" (1979), Oliver Stone’s "Platoon" (1986) and "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989), Stanley Kubrick’s "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), Brian De Palma’s "Casualties of War" (1989)—these and a thousand other productions, documentaries and articles told my generation that the war had been a gigantic fiasco that turned those who fought it into war criminals and frowning, guilt-ridden drug addicts.
The war ended officially on Jan. 27, 1973, with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. That’s 50 years ago next Friday—an anniversary that will likely occasion a round of retrospective think pieces and cable-TV segments on the war’s legacy. More will follow in 2025 to mark the final American pullout from Saigon in 1975.
The country has moved on since the ’80s. The Vietnam War no longer elicits the sort of ostentatious regret it did a generation ago. To confine the discussion to Hollywood, "We Were Soldiers" (2002) was one of the first major films to portray the average American soldier in Vietnam as decent and valorous; more recently "The Last Full Measure" (2018), though indulging in the usual antiwar pieties, acknowledges the bravery and decency of American soldiers. We’ve moved on in politics, too. The great scourge of supposed American war crimes in Vietnam, John Kerry—the man who averred in 1971 that American soldiers serving in Vietnam perpetrated war crimes "in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan"—was the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 2004. He felt obliged to refashion himself as a war hero, and he lost. "Swiftboating" meant telling the truth about that lying POS
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I guess he tried some regular heroing. I checked the link to see if this was some kind of bizarre gardening accident that the police would’ve decide was better off unsolved.
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What people will do to get out of their Marvel contract.
#9
Companies that make industrial strength outdoor equipment marked to a segment they call "HOWAs." Home Owners With Acreage. Deep pockets and often a misplaced sense of confidence in the user's ability.
Like Alec Baldwin's gun accident, this is a case of insufficient training with a potentially dangerous machine.
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marketed, not marked.
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In the meantime, a new Marvel hero will assume the duties.
The unnamed boy shot teacher Abigail Zwerner on January 6 in the classroom
Other teachers complained to Richneck Elementary that he was violent
He sent one a note saying he hated her and wanted to watch her 'burn and die'
The family claimed in a statement released to the press via an attorney that he has an 'acute disability' which means he is requires him to be accompanied in the classroom by a parent.
On the day in question, he had been allowed to attend school alone, taking with him a 9mm handgun that his family legally owns.
#3
If you think about it, these school administrators come from the same academic environment as the 'progressive' DAs who treat predators and sociopaths as 'victims' rather than the real danger they pose to the rest of society.
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Born or raised vicious and emotionally unstable.
Society used to have padded cells, with daily regiments of Haloperidol or Thorazine for these kids, before the LSD's and the NEA found a political agenda use for them.
But look at the bright side.
There are only 3.5 million about more Americans that have various forms and levels of schizophrenia. Little steps. little steps. ☺
#2
I was expecting more fun in those facts. I am devastated that there is no juicy gossip, bizarre rituals or hysterical hijinks involving popcorn.
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The History Guy has ruined me. I expected pirates.
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To NN2N1's point, I understood the ticket sales go to Hollywood while the theaters live off the concession sales.
Based on the sly smile of a theater owner...
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This basically supports the theory that our government has absolutely no intention of ever telling us where the virus was created or how it was released.
But I will continue to ask questions and inquire. I'll never be an Isidore Rabi, but I will continue to ask questions:
Judaism is a religion of questions.
Isidore Rabi, winner of a Nobel Prize for physics, was once asked why he became a scientist. He replied: "My mother made me a scientist without ever knowing it. Every other child would come back from school and be asked, 'What did you learn today?' But my mother used to say, 'Izzy, did you ask a good question today?' That made the difference. Asking good questions made me into a scientist."
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A former presidential adviser in DR Congo who was removed from the cabinet and detained last week has been transferred to the main prison in Kinshasa after a six-hour hearing with prosecutors, according to state media.
"Fortunat Biselele, an influential ex-private adviser to President Felix Tshisekedi was transferred on Friday night to the central prison of Makala" following the marathon hearing, government news agency ACP reported.
Two videos released by the agency showed Biselele, escorted by soldiers, climbing the steps to the prosecutor's office early Friday evening.
A substantial police presence was also visible at the entrance to the office, according to an AFP journalist.
Later that night, a witness told AFP he had seen Biselele getting into a vehicle under police escort.
Biselele was removed from the presidential cabinet on January 14 and taken into custody, but the official reasons for his detention remain unknown.
An article published by the newsletter Africa Intelligence, however, said he was "suspected of collusion" with the government of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
The outlet reported that Biselele had tried to "bring Kinshasa and Kigali closer together at the start of Tshisekedi’s mandate."
Relations between the two governments have since hit rock bottom, with the DRC accusing Rwanda of supporting M23 rebels who have taken territory in the DRC’s east.
The United States, several European countries and United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... experts agree that Rwanda is assisting the M23.
Kigali, however, has denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! while accusing the DRC’s military of colluding with a rebel group descended from the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
On Thursday, it accused Kinshasa of abandoning a deal aimed at bringing peace to DR Congo’s volatile east as tensions spiral.
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China is asshole. Now their clients know, too. In other words, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Many infrastructure projects worldwide funded by China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are plagued with construction flaws, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, adding more costs to a program criticized for its lending practices.
In Ecuador and Pakistan, officials have discovered cracks in a pair of hydroelectric plants. Uganda identified defects in the Chinese-built Isimba Hydro Power Plant and construction of a hydropower plant further down the Nile has been delayed because of various construction defects, including faulty cables, switches and a fire extinguishing system that needs to be replaced.
Locals at a social housing project in Angola are complaining about cracked walls, moldy ceilings, and poor construction.
Still, China is receiving payments from countries that borrowed money to build the projects as part of Beijing's BRI, a massive infrastructure project launched in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping that aims to stretch from East Asia to Europe in a bid to boost global trade.
China has spent nearly $1 trillion in the last decade building those structures from east Asia to Europe. But some development experts say China is burdening countries with unsustainable debt as it asks for repayment.
"We know that China is very opaque about the terms of its assistance," Samantha Custer, the lead report author at AidData, a research lab at William & Mary University, told NPR. "They will include in lending contracts explicit non-disclosure clauses prohibiting the lender from saying how much was borrowed and under what terms."
The $2.7 billion Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant in Ecuador could break down quickly because of the defects.
"We could lose everything," Fabricio Yépez, an engineer at the University of San Francisco in Quito, who has closely tracked the project's problems, told the Journal. "And we don't know if it could be tomorrow or in six months."
"We are suffering today because of the bad quality of equipment and parts" in Chinese-built projects, said René Ortiz, Ecuador's former energy minister and ex-secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Beijing last year reportedly revamped its troubled BRI, and Xi in 2021 noted that the international environment for BRI was becoming "increasingly complex," stressing the need to expand cooperation and strengthen risk controls.
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In a related scheme, when the Transcontinental Railroad was being built, both companies were throwing down anything basically they could get their hands on, as the gov’t paid them as well as signed over vast land tracts for each mile of track laid. In many cases, cottonwood ties didn’t last a year. And the gov’t was aware of this practice. As well as making circuitous routings for completing even more miles. Once the check cleared, so to speak, crews went in and did a realignment as well as replacing crappy bits.
#5
All these projects are built to the same high standards that China uses for its own projects. I expect that success of Belt and Road despite the results of these projects always being horrible is predicated on a combination of intimidation and bribery.
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Is anyone surprised that China builds faulty everything?
Communism is one large fraud and only lasts as long as they can get away with it.
#7
When the Brooklyn Bridge was under construction the supplier of the wire used for the cables substituted the specified wire with a cheap substitute.
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^ Fortunately, everything was overspecced on a project like that.
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Interesting to check the concrete's Fly Ash (or whatever they use for filler) content.
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NUMBER 6 GOT IT ! just look at the united states government and that trickle down effect!
[Breitbart] Education Minister Chris Hipkins is set to become New Zealand’s next prime minister after he was the only candidate to enter the contest Saturday to replace Jacinda Ardern.
Hipkins, 44, must still garner an endorsement Sunday from his Labour Party colleagues, but that is just a formality now. An official transfer of power will come in the days to follow.
Ardern shocked the nation of 5 million people on Thursday when she announced she was resigning after five-and-a-half years in the top role.
The lack of other candidates indicated party lawmakers had rallied behind Hipkins to avoid a drawn-out contest and any sign of disunity following Ardern’s departure.
Hipkins will have only a little more than eight months in the role before contesting a general election. Opinion polls have indicated that Labour is trailing its main opponent, the conservative National Party.
Hipkins rose to public prominence during the coronavirus pandemic, when he took on a kind of crisis management role. But he and other liberals have long been in the shadow of Ardern, who became a global icon of the left and exemplified a new style of leadership.
[Breitbart] After several months, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offered $25,000 rewards on Thursday to anyone who can provide information leading to arrest and conviction of suspects in several attacks against pro-life pregnancy resource centers across the country.
"Today’s announcement reflects the FBI’s commitment to vigorously pursue investigations into crimes against pregnancy resource centers, faith-based organizations, and reproductive health clinics across the country," said FBI Director Christopher Wray. "We will continue to work closely with our national, state, and local law enforcement partners to hold responsible anyone who uses extremist views to justify their criminal actions."
[WATM] In 1943, at the height of World War II in Europe and beyond, two men met at a building overlooking the River Thames in the Westminster area of London. One of the men was Air Ministry engineer William Godfray de Lisle and the other was an officer of the British Combined Operations Department, Maj. Sir Malcolm Campbell. Campbell’s office oversaw raids on German positions throughout the European theater. De Lisle was there to show the officer a new weapon he’d designed. It was a .22-caliber rifle designed with an internal suppressor, supposedly one of the quietest weapons ever made. The men decided the best way to test its volume would be to fire it over the heads of the Londoners below and into the river.
No one heard a single shot. Campbell ordered De Lisle to create a 9-millimeter version, and later a .45-caliber version of the same weapon. The .45 would be just as quiet and even produced no visible muzzle flash. At 50 yards, no one would hear the weapon’s discharge. It seemed to be the perfect clandestine weapon.
Its firing test revealed a decibel range that topped out at 85.5, the same volume of a truck passing by. Without any kind of suppression, a normal handgun will create upwards of 168 decibels. Most suppressed firearms will only be slightly lower, between 117 and 140 decibels, which is the same volume as many firecrackers. Not exactly the level of noise a secret operation might prefer. The bolt action of the De Lisle weapons was actually louder than the shot it fired.
[FoxNews] WKRP, Cincinnati? "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty." "Galaxy SDSSJ0826+5630 Drive-Time Morning Zoo coming at ya!"
#8
Since the DC Swamp is so far out in the ozone/space from those that elected them.
Does this mean WE THE PEOPLE that were speaking out about Constitutional rights and social morality issues, during the Regan Admin. will soon be heard in DC?
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.
[CNN] Ruja Ignatova strode onto the stage in a flowing burgundy ball gown adorned with black sparkles. Beams of light flashed, fireballs erupted and Alicia Keys’ "Girl on Fire" blared through the speakers.
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Nine people were killed in a mass shooting late Saturday in a city east of Los Angeles following a Lunar New Year celebration that attracted thousands, police said.
[Breitbart] Longtime Fox News executive Alan Komissaroff died at the age of 47 after suffering a heart attack at his home earlier in the month, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace announced Friday.
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[JustTheNews] Company was involved with Wuhan lab suspected of possibly leaking COVID virus.
