[ZERO] Former socialite and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell told Britain’s Talk TV in a jailhouse interview that she believes her former associate and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. If it's any solace, so does nearly everyone else.
A former Virginia teachers’ union president was arrested on Monday for pilfering more than $400,000 from her organization.
Ingrid Gant, who led the Arlington Education Association for six years, was charged with four counts of embezzlement following a six-month investigation, the Fairfax County Police Department announced in a press release. An independent auditor who worked with police found that Gant awarded herself many bonuses and improperly made charges to her organization’s debit cards.
Gant is the second teachers’ union head to face charges for abuse of funds just this month. In a strikingly similar case, a former teachers’ union treasurer in Reading, Pa., was charged on Jan. 6 for embezzling more than $400,000 since 2016, the Reading Eagle reported. The treasurer resigned in September when confronted with the improper expenditures.
June Prakash, the president of the Arlington Education Association, declined to comment. Her organization says it “is pursuing all legal channels to recoup any lost funds and hold those responsible accountable.”
Oklahoma City: Elementary school staffer Robert Davis was arrested over child sex crimes. He identifies as pansexual & has symbols of the occult & LGBTQ on his social media. Additionally, I found disturbing illustrations he posted of adult male characters holding crying children. https://t.co/YERj9EnUWApic.twitter.com/PqNV1db9Rv
[NY Post] A Florida woman was pulled from a storm drain for the third time in two years last week. It's not always Florida Man. See her picture at the link and draw your own conclusions...
The Delray Beach Police Department said officers and firefighters responded to a report of a woman possibly in distress while swimming in a canal near the 500 block of Lindell Boulevard around noon on Wednesday. The department said officers located the woman, identified as Lyndsey Jane Kennedy, and asked if she needed help.
Kennedy reportedly ignored them and climbed into a storm drain pipe. Delray police said she refused to come out and began crawling farther into the culvert pipe, which crossed under Lindell Boulevard.
Firefighters were able to keep Kennedy between two sections of pipe while the Delray Beach Fire Rescue Special Operations Team utilized a ladder and a rescue harness to pull her out.
Kennedy appeared to have minor injuries and was treated at the scene before being transported to a hospital for further evaluation.
Delray police said the fire department previously rescued Kennedy from a storm drain in March 2021 after she had been missing for three weeks.
According to local news outlets at the time, Kennedy told police she went swimming in a canal near her boyfriend’s house on March 3, the same night her boyfriend reported her as missing. While swimming, she said she entered a doorway in the shallow part of the canal and noticed a tunnel. She continued following tunnels until she realized she was lost.
Kennedy was eventually rescued near the intersection of West Atlantic Avenue and SW 11th Avenue after a woman called 911 to report a woman yelling for help from inside the drain. She said she had stopped walking in that area because she could see light and people walking past her.
The woman, who was 43 at the time, told police she had been walking in the sewer system for about three weeks. She also said she had been living off an unopened can of ginger ale she found in the drain while looking for a way out.
Three weeks on a single can of ginger ale? Riiiiiight.
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[RedState] If you’ve not yet consumed crickets, you may soon — particularly if you’re a partaker of European fare.
The European Union is putting the “pow” in “powder.” It’s giving eaters an explosion of insect compliments of a pinch of arthropod. From now on, those overseas will be bound to eat ground cousins of grasshoppers.
Following a three-year review, Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 went into effect Tuesday. It allows food producers to put cricket powder in flour-based products.
In its scientific opinion, the [European Food Safety Authority] concluded that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder is safe under the proposed conditions of use and use levels. … [T]hat scientific opinion gives sufficient grounds to establish that Acheta domesticus (house cricket) partially defatted powder when used in [an assortment of food] fulfills the conditions for its placing on the market…
Cricket powder will be permitted in the following:
Multigrain Bread and Rolls
Crackers and Breadsticks
Cereal Bars
Dry Pre-Mixes for Baked Products
Biscuits
Dry Stuffed and Non-Stuffed Pasta-Based Products
Sauces
Processed Potato Products
Legume- and Vegetable- Based Dishes
Pizza
Pasta-Based Products
Whey Powder
Meat Analogues
Soups and Soup Concentrates or Powders
Maize Flour-Based Snacks
Beer-Like Beverages
Chocolate Confectionary
Nuts and Oilseeds
Snacks Other Than Chips
Meat Preparations
The original application to start bugging people’s plates came courtesy of Cricket One, a company promoting “classic protein for a modern world.”
Bug Armor (exoskeleton) is Chitin.
Bug Protein is ground up bugs.
Bug Protein contains Chitin.
Chitin digests into Chitosan.
Chitosan is cancer food.
Literally the white paper I read, they were using chitosan as a substrate to cultivate cancers for research.
A NIH article /study concludes - Chitosan promotes cancer progression and stem cell properties in association with Wnt signaling in colon and hepatocellular carcinoma cells.
Another paper I read - they target a Chitin Glucosamine found in cancer cells as a possible treatment for cancer.
"... although not found in normal mammalian cells, a chitin (β-1,4-linked N-acetyl-d-glucosamine) or a chitin-like polysaccharide (e.g., hyaluronan) may exist as a cancer-associated glycan..."
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*Shrug* Peanut Butter and Chocolate Milk contain 'bug parts' as well. Ever notice that Chocolate Milk isn't rated 'Grade A' like other milk? It's because insects get into the cocoa powder and get ground into itty bitty pieces during processing and they can't feasibly remove them. Same with that chocolate bar... Yum! Insect Protein!
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I remember back in school when the Killjoys had their moment of gross out the kids about modern food production. Chocolate Ice Cream was 'the worst'. Flour has a higher allowed parts per unit too, IIRC.
Its something to keep to a minimum rather than aspire saturation.
I am adventurous in my eating. There are bugs I'd try as a meal. Not as a lifestyle. Not crickets.
Along the lines of mossomo there, I remember when The Best Diet Protein Is Seafood, and all sorts went strictly seafood, and ended up with heavy metal poisoning.
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#3 Magpie, that is actually good news! Now after my workout, when I want protein to help build up the muscles I've just exercised, a good chocolate bar will be just the thing!
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When eating chocolate covered ants just pretend they're Raisinettes.
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Interesting that crickets is listed as one of the "clean food" in the Bible. Yet, I don't know any Jewish people eating them willing.
That’s the locust native to the Middle East, Seeking cure. When that flies, they eat everything green down to the ground, so God gave special permission. But about half the Jews of the world live where thr locust doesn’t, and most of the rest live in Israel, which understands both pesticides and preparing for this regular catastrophe, so they never get to the point where locusts are the only option.
[Guardian] Investigation into Verra carbon standard finds most are ‘phantom credits’ and may worsen global heating.
Thus their readers are made to understand that the things they do to help this imaginary problem would actually be making it worse if it were a real problem. And so the Guardian’s smugly Progressive readers find themselves in a cleft stick: do they accept that there is no problem, and stop wasting the nation’s money and effort trying to fix it, or do they insist there is too a real problem, and stop wasting money and effort making it worse? As for me, I intend to be charmed as I watch their efforts to reconcile the thing.
[InsideHook] A celebration of the ideal winter drink on National Irish Coffee Day — with some recipe assistance from two iconic bars.
It seems obvious now: The best winter drink should always involve hot coffee and whisky in some form.
But Irish Coffee is a relatively young drink. A quick recap: This sterling winter tipple got its start at the Foynes Airport in the midwest of Ireland in 1942, where a seaplane on its way from New York to Rome ran into engine trouble and landed. A chef at the airport, Joe Sheridan, whipped up a hot drink of coffee, cream, Irish whiskey and sugar. One passenger, a San Francisco newspaper writer named Stanton Delaplane, became obsessed with this "Gaelic coffee," and his passion eventually led to the drink’s recreation at the Buena Vista Cafe a decade later.
"The Buena Vista started serving Irish Coffees in 1952 and now makes an average of 2,000 Irish Coffees a day," explains Tim Herlihy, co-founder of Lost Irish (an Irish whiskey that’s made from casks sourced from six continents and triple distilled using all three whiskey production styles.) and co-author of From Barley to Blarney: A Whiskey Lover’s Guide to Ireland with NYC’s heralded team at the Irish pub The Dead Rabbit. "It’s become an icon for Ireland’s favorite cocktail."
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The action at the Buena Vista is something to see.
The bartender lines up about 20 glasses in the trough, grabs a pot of coffee, and walks down the line pouring. Then he goes back down the line with a spoon and sloshes out any extra coffee, to leave room for the spirits and cream.
He then grabs a bottle of Irish and walks the line, pouring out a steady stream. This is followed with a shaker of whipped cream, a glop in each glass.
The glasses are set up on the bar and disappear almost immediately as the waiters grab them.
[Washingtonian)The Smithsonian Institution Building—better known as the Smithsonian Castle—will close Feb. 1 for what’s projected to be a five-year renovation. That means babies born today will be walking and talking by the time it reopens, so you may as well swing by this week for one last peek.
Aside from being an impressive place to stroll through—the 19th-century building is a designated National Historic Landmark—the Castle also houses a small but diverse collection of Smithsonian art and artifacts that provide a sampling of what each Smithsonian museum has to offer. The building’s "Welcome to Your Smithsonian" exhibit delves into the institution’s history as well as the life of its founder, James Smithson, who you can pay respects to inside the building’s crypt. The crypt, which will remain undisturbed throughout the renovation, is the final resting place of Smithson and is open to the public.
The Castle also houses a cafe, gift shop, and central visitor center (which will be expanding online).
According to the Smithsonian, this will be the first major renovation of the Castle in more than 50 years. It’ll largely focus on restoring the interior, which has been altered over the years, to its original historic appearance. Notably, among other restoration work, the Upper Great Hall will be returned to its original two-story height, creating a venue for public programming once again.
Once it’s closed, passersby can still admire the towers and gothic motifs from the Enid A. Haupt Garden, which will remain open throughout the renovation.
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Construction becan March 17, 1930. Ribbon cutting opening April 11, 1931.
Intended to be the world's first 100+ story building, construction of the Empire State Building began on March 17, 1930. Construction was completed in a record-breaking 1 year and 45 days. Beautiful inside and out, the Empire State Building is an architectural marvel beloved across the world.
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By Sarah Bahr: Jan. 13, 2021
The Smithsonian’s eye-popping $2 billion expansion plan was supposed to propel it into the 21st century. Complete with an ambitious expansion of its 19th-century... Castle, that would have added dining, retail and restrooms, and new National Mall entrances to the National Museum of African Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery... The first phase, including repairs to the e Hirshhorn Museum, was already underway. But on Wednesday, the organization said its master plan would no longer include any of those elements, and [would] focus on restorations to the interior and exterior of the Castle, and interior and underground improvements to the Arts and Industries Building, which has been largely closed since 2004 for renovations.
[Blaze] The airport crew member who died horrifically a few weeks ago when she stepped in front of a plane engine was repeatedly warned about the impending dangers, according to a report issued on Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Courtney Edwards, a 34-year-old mother of three children, was a Piedmont Airlines ground handling agent at Montgomery Regional Airport. Shortly before 3 p.m. on New Year's Eve, she and other ground crew members gathered for two brief safety meetings because the captain of an approaching plane had radioed ahead to warn everyone that he would keep the engines running for a two-minute cooling-off period after the plane landed. The in-cabin auxiliary power unit had apparently not been working.
Crews were instructed to steer clear of the engines until they had been informed that the engines were no longer running and the yellow warning light had been turned off. After the Envoy Air Embraer 170 plane from Dallas landed and the right engine was in the process of powering down, the plane's first officer opened his window and reiterated to crew members that the engines were still running. By that time, one crew member had noticed that Edwards had nearly been knocked over by the plane's exhaust and issued yet another warning for Edwards to give the engines a wide berth.
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Oh come on. This is going to be "LOL so stupid" but these companies shove these people out there and time them to the second. There is constant pressure from management to unload the plane and get the bags on the conveyor belt. No matter how fast they do it, the command from above is always to increase metrics.
A predictable tragedy which was the fault of the company. But keep shitting on the workers if that makes you feel like a big man.
[GEO.TV] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... has ordered a five-day lockdown in the capital over "respiratory illness", a report said on Wednesday, in what appears to be the first citywide restrictions since the country declared victory over Covid-19 in August 2022.
Residents of Pyongyang have been ordered to stay in their homes from Wednesday to Sunday and must submit to multiple temperature checks each day, Seoul-based specialist site NK News reported, citing a government notice.
The notice did not mention Covid but said that the illnesses currently spreading in the capital included the common cold, the report said.
The government order comes a day after NK News, citing sources in Pyongyang, reported that people in the city appeared to be stocking up on goods in anticipation of a lockdown.
It is unclear if other areas have imposed similar lockdowns and state media has not announced any new measures.
Experts suggested that North Korea's largest city is likely dealing with the re-emergence of Covid.
"Covid is disappearing and reappearing depending on the temperature, not just in North Korea but around the world," said Go Myong-Hyun, a researcher at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies.
The Korean peninsula is currently in the grip of what weather forecasters have described as a Siberian cold snap, with temperatures in Pyongyang dropping as low as minus 22 degrees Celsius (-7.6 Fahrenheit).
"It was quite premature for North Korea to celebrate its victory over the virus... with the drop in temperature, Covid has re-emerged," Go told AFP.
"North Korea must have prepared for it to some extent, but it seems that the virus reappeared a little sooner than they thought."
China trade
North Korea's neighbour and key trading partner China recently abandoned its zero-Covid policies and battled a wave of infections that overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.
North Korea has maintained a rigid blockade since the start of the pandemic but does allow some trade with China.
In May last year, North Korea officially acknowledged its first Covid outbreak but declared victory over the virus just three months later, calling it a "miracle".
Experts, including the World Health Organisation ...Kind of like the Center for Disease Control only run by the UN, with about the results you'd expectt... , have long questioned Pyongyang's Covid statistics and claims to have brought the outbreak under control.
North Korea has one of the world's worst healthcare systems, with poorly equipped hospitals, few intensive care units and no Covid treatment drugs, experts say.
It is not believed to have vaccinated any of its 25 million people, although reports indicate it may have received some vaccines from China.
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If it's an "ordered lock-down" did they do it for the same reasons as China's?
China's appeared to be that too many old party officials had multiple organ transplants so masks and vaccinations had nothing to offer as protection to the immunology-suppressed CCP transplant sub-grouping.
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There are True Believers™ here who want to see a return to lockdowns and mandated masks. Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle and mass disobedience will be what they get for their trouble.
Nice preview of what "seizing all the guns" would look like, just not as messy.
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Maybe it’s just asthma.
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[CNBC] JP Mancini II has always been attracted to luxury. He just assumed the barrier of entry was too high.
Then, last January, he decided to rent out his $400,000 boat. Upon listing the 37-foot boat, docked in Key West, Florida, on a rental platform called Boatsetter, he booked 11 trips in a month. The next month, that number doubled.
Sensing opportunity, the 32-year-old sales professional began listing his boat on other rental platforms like Get My Boat — and bought a second, smaller boat for rentals in Hampton, Virginia, where he lives. Today, Mancini’s two boats bring in an average of $38,800 in revenue per month, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.
That’s off only 30 minutes of work per day, spent managing bookings and making sure the boats’ captains — who are hired and paid by individual renters — are maintaining his watercrafts properly, Mancini says.
Over the past year, Mancini says he took home $190,000 after expenses from his boats — about $100,000 shy of what he made at the peak of his full-time sales career, but with far fewer hours worked. Instead of using the money to pay down the $550,000 in loans he took out to buy the boats, Mancini says he plans to funnel it toward more watercraft purchases and other real estate opportunities.
Here’s how Mancini used his sales experience to launch his "mostly passive" six-figure boat business, and what waters he plans to charter next.
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smart but maybe not smart enough...fame invites inspection...esp. from the IRS although other seedy groups may want a cut of the action. Hmmm..wonder if any of those trips were drug cartel related? Inquiring minds in the ATF want to know.
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This is like the old mortgages daisy-chained on multiple rental homes game. Banks tend to get quite upset and it is illegal to do with homes.
3dc had a landlord caught doing this with home while 3dc was in college. The bank most impacted agreed not to send him to jail if he married the bankers daughter. She was one of the more evil people (but good looking) that 3dc ever met. 3dc thinks the landlord made a mistake marrying her. Jail would have been preferable.
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This is like the old mortgages daisy-chained on multiple rental homes game.
It’s probably illegal in some places, but not others. The key is not to be caught in a bubble of interest in what is being rented that then pops, leaving a bunch of mortgages and not enough nearly enough income to pay them... and which point the things being mortgaged are taken away by the bank.
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So much for my "If floats, flys, or f*&ks - rent it" mantra.
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So you're letting just anyone with the cash hop in and motor away with your ~$1/2M asset without really knowing if they, or the 'professional' they hire, can even operate the thing (30 minutes a day is pretty sparse in the background investigation field), much less returning it to your boat-slip in one piece.
Waiting to hear about the Coast Guard towing it back all shot up due to some miscommunication as to what the 'guests' had onboard.
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Bill: still applies. I asked my 85 yr old Mom and she stands by it. He assumes all losses due to confiscation or accidental losses
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[Gateway] Project Veritas on Wednesday night released explosive video of Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations, admitting the pharma giant is exploring ’mutating’ Covid-19 via ’directed evolution’ so the company can continue to profit off of vaccines.
"One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses," Walker told the undercover Project Veritas journalist.
"Don’t tell anyone. Promise you won’t tell anyone. The way it [the experiment] would work is that we put the virus in monkeys, and we successively cause them to keep infecting each other, and we collect serial samples from them," he said.
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Now if you could figure out some way to keep selling people vaccinations that don't work for more than a couple of months then you could get rich off it.
♫ Hey its vince with Shamnow, and you'll be saying Now! every time Phizer goes live. Its like a vaccine, its like a booster, its like a cuddle. Use it for your parties, for your peers, for your support groups, for your co-workers in HR.
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.
[ZERO] Former socialite and convicted sex trafficker 
[NY Post] A Florida woman was pulled from a storm drain for the third time in two years last week.
[InsideHook] A celebration of the ideal winter drink on National Irish Coffee Day — with some recipe assistance from two iconic bars.
Construction becan March 17, 1930. Ribbon cutting opening April 11, 1931.
[CNBC] JP Mancini II has always been attracted to luxury. He just assumed the barrier of entry was too high.
[Gateway] Project Veritas on Wednesday night released explosive video of Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations, admitting the pharma giant is exploring ’mutating’ Covid-19 via ’directed evolution’ so the company can continue to profit off of vaccines.
