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US says Hamas seized first aid shipment to enter Gaza via Erez crossing
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Boston Woman Will Not be Charged Over Four Dead Babies Found in Freezer
[Gateway] The Boston district attorney’s office has announced there will not be any charges filed over the four dead babies found in a woman’s freezer in 2022.

Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden released the final investigative report regarding the babies, two boys and two girls, on April 30.

Police were sent to the former home of Alexis Aldamir, 69, in November 2022 after her brother called 9-1-1 to report that they had seen the dead babies while cleaning out the house.

The district attorney’s office explained, "In all, four babies were discovered that day. All were frozen solid. All were found in shoe boxes wrapped in tin foil. Two were male and two were female."

"All of the babies were full term, which means they were determined to be between 37 and 40 weeks of gestational age. All four had their umbilical cords attached and the two females had their placentas attached," the report continued. "DNA tests concluded that the babies were full siblings."

There is no test available to determine how long the babies were frozen. It also remains unknown if they were born alive.

"The autopsy found no signs of internal or external trauma and no evidence of obvious injuries. There were no signs of food, or milk, or formula inside the babies’ stomachs," the DA’s office explained.

The medical examiner ruled the cause of death for all the babies to be "undetermined."

Aldamir was located in a residential healthcare facility, and DNA testing confirmed that she was the mother.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2024 01:07 || Comments || Link || [255 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The medical examiner ruled the cause of death for all the babies to be "undetermined."

Inoperative internal Emergency Release Handles? Planned Parenthood 'Distance Learning?"

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2024 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Boston City Council calls for ceasefire 'in Israel and Palestine'
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 2:02 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ The British-American approach, helping everyone else solve their problems.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2024 2:07 Comments || Top||

#4  ^My comment was along the lines: "It's Boston, what do you expect?"
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 2:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Re: #2 Boston City Council calls for ceasefire 'in Israel and Palestine'

I'm all for a ceasefire in Palestine!

Wait!, where's Palestine located again?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/03/2024 8:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Woman who fatally stabbed her lover 108 times in psychotic weed attack speaks out in first interview since AVOIDING jail as she reveals his aggression during SEX, wicked 'temper' - and makes shock claim: 'We are BOTH to blame'

"Spejcher was so uncontrollable with murderous rage that she couldn't even be restrained with a taser, and detectives had to beat her with batons until the bones in her arms broke."
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2024 9:10 Comments || Top||

#7  The thing I don't understand (yet) - it's not like DA Hayden's a soft on crime Soros type; in fact he's one of the last old style Boston Irish pols, which I'll take over the last Suffolk County DA, Rachel Rollins.
Posted by: Raj || 05/03/2024 9:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Hayden is black, grew up in liberal Newton, lived in Roxbury with his father and describes himself as a "liberal prosecutor."

"As interim district attorney, Hayden increased the number of prosecutors assigned to the civil rights and hate crime unit due to an increase in high-visibility white-supremacist activity in the Boston area."

He's a pol, but he's not Irish.
Posted by: EMS Artifact || 05/03/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||

#9  DEI is awesome.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/03/2024 12:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Did they bury the kids or does she get to keep her collection?
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Evidence disappear from the locker?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2024 15:43 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Suddenly
[Breitbart] A former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems who was among the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX died Tuesday.

Joshua Dean lost his life after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection, the Seattle Times reports.
Wet Market suchi ?
He was aged 45 and reportedly in good health before his sudden demise after a two week fight for life in hospital.

The Times report details Dean’s role in the allegations against Boeing:

Dean had given a deposition in a Spirit shareholder lawsuit and also filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration alleging "serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line" at Spirit.

Spirit fired Dean in April 2023, and he had filed a complaint with the Department of Labor alleging his termination was in retaliation for raising concerns related to aviation safety.

Dean told U.S. outlet NPR in February he believed he had been fired to send a message to others thinking of speaking out.
Appears to working. No one else has stepped forward.
"If you are too loud, we will silence you," he was quoted as saying.

Dean was represented by a law firm in South Carolina that also represented Boeing whistleblower John "Mitch" Barnett, the Times report sets out.

The 62-year-old was found dead in an apparent suicide in March.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2024 00:50 || Comments || Link || [190 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Faulty foreign manufactured components? How close are we to discovery ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2024 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Omerta corporate style?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 05/03/2024 2:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Why does death so often follow the Donkey ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2024 5:43 Comments || Top||

#4  "...Mister Bond - once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence.

Three times is enemy action."

-Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 05/03/2024 6:27 Comments || Top||

#5  The Phase 2 Boeing Employee retirement package.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/03/2024 9:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Mike: I used that same line yesterday discussing this topic with a retired Boeing engineer. He worked in the military side so currently in no danger of slipping on a banana peel, so to speak.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 05/03/2024 9:21 Comments || Top||

#7  The West's institutionalized and ritualized systems of error detection and correction are eroding away before our eyes.

This is but one further example.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 05/03/2024 14:57 Comments || Top||

#8  In Russia he would've fallen out of a window.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 05/03/2024 17:13 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Forty 'apex predators' are released into Florida wild to kill venomous snakes
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Conservationists released 41 eastern indigo snakes into the wild on Tuesday

  • Indigo snakes are the longest snakes species in the US growing up to 8ft long
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [186 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There was an old lady who swallowed a fly,
...
Posted by: SteveS || 05/03/2024 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Was one of them named Plissken?
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2024 12:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like the pitch line for a Predator type movie.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2024 18:04 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Pint-sized hero sprints mile to save parents injured in tornado: ‘Please don't die'
[NYP] A brave 9-year-old caught in a furious tornado with his parents sprinted more than a mile away after disaster struck to help save their lives — telling the injured couple: "Please don’t die, I will be back.'"

Little Branson Baker and his parents were desperately trying to find shelter from the deadly tornadoes that swept through Oklahoma Saturday when they found themselves directly in a storm’s path.

Their car was lifted by the powerful winds and thrown into a patch of trees, crunching the pick-up truck into an unrecognizable mess and seriously injuring the front-row passengers.

Both Wayne and Lindy Baker suffered broken backs, necks and ribs. Wayne also broke his sternum and arm, as well as lost part of his finger, while Lindy’s jaw and right hand broke. She also suffered a punctured lung.

Somehow, their brave son crawled out of the mangled mess and ran more than a mile in the dark through downed power lines and debris to a neighbor’s house and brought help back to his family.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2024 01:44 || Comments || Link || [79 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cool story, Little Dude.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2024 7:33 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
US army releases mysterious 'Ghost in the Machine' recruitment video
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [116 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I could not figure out how to watch the video without ads. Obviously, I am not the target audience. I give it zero stars.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2024 12:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Great album, I'm assuming this features "Spirits in The Material World".
Posted by: Crusader || 05/03/2024 16:46 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Chinese treating their (slaves) Workers in Africa
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [114 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  To be fair, they look to still have their kidneys. It could be worse.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 05/03/2024 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  "White Supremacy"?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/03/2024 7:39 Comments || Top||



#5  NASA administrator mocked for moon comments?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2024 8:32 Comments || Top||


Britain
King Charles snubs Prince Harry. Be sad.
[GEO.TV] King Chuck
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...
has seemingly given a clear message to Prince Harry
as the latter plans to visit the UK.

The 75-year-old monarch of Britannia, who is rejoining public life after a hiatus from cancer treatment, is open for reconciliation with his younger son.

Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams says: "The King has always kept the door open to Harry, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he would invariably get a warm reception. It will take its time," shared the expert.
"Don't bring the bitch"
"But clearly the situation has changed in recent weeks beyond all expectations. I don't think it would be too difficult, it depends how you define reconcile," Richard told The Sun.

The expert, however, added that Harry will try his best to meet the monarch, despite his tough schedule.

He added: "We know security regarding Harry and Meghan and the children would be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, I would find it extraordinary if they wanted to see the King that there would be a problem."

Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [238 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He may be extinct within the next 7 years...
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 05/03/2024 9:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Even money Mee-again is lining up an American lawyer to sue her onto the throne.

I'm sure that will work out so well.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2024 9:09 Comments || Top||

#3  So nothing happened. That’s good for multiple paragraphs.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2024 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  "Harry, I'm old, I've been sick, and I don't feel like hearing her crap, now or later. Bye."
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/03/2024 14:36 Comments || Top||


Economy
April 2024 Labor Report shows some economic slowdown
[BLS] Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 175,000 in April, and the unemployment rate changed little at 3.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in health care, in social assistance, and in transportation and warehousing.
Also, the employment gain for March was revised downward a bit and the average work week decreased somewhat. The average wage gain slightly is lagging recent inflation. As has been the case for the past few years, much of the employment gains are due to immigrants joining the labor force but that is because the native labor force has been decreasing as the boomers retire.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/03/2024 08:17 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
New carbon-dating techniques enable ‘absolute chronology' of First Temple-era Jerusalem
[IsraelTimes] Weizmann scientists say radiocarbon breakthrough provides previously unavailable means for dating urban sites; shows Jerusalem was larger, more developed than previously thought

An Israeli team has achieved a breakthrough in advanced radiocarbon dating techniques, enabling for the first time an "absolute chronology" of Jerusalem in the Iron Age, the time of the Kingdom of Judah and the First Temple, according to a Tuesday blurb from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

The researchers studied 100 samples of securely dated and scientifically excavated organic material and concluded that ancient Jerusalem was larger and more urban than previously proven, especially during the 10th-12th centuries BCE, during what is commonly thought to be the time of King David and King Solomon.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [166 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Prove The Truth. Pretty much the exact opposite of what "science" strves for these days.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2024 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  TRUTH is twisted out of facts to fit one's cosmology.

What has been shown is greater granularity in the measurement of carbon decay.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2024 9:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Unfortunately still no evidence yet of the 1st Temple itself (although part of the retaining wall for Herod's Temple was probably already there during the 1st Temple) or of the King Solomon's palace. A lot of the remains, if they exist, would be 10 or more feet below currently inhabited and/or heavily used structures.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/03/2024 10:48 Comments || Top||

#5  King Herod supposedly cleared the Temple Mount down to the bedrock before building his improved version, which would have destroyed evidence of what existed before.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ And the ancients always seem to surprise archeologists with what they managed to do without modern heavy equipment.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2024 11:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Herod did not destroy it all Trailing Wife.

Deep down in the bowels of the Temple Mount remain some of the original stone work to the original structure. The Jews dont talk about this much. But down there, mostly hidden, you will find a few megalithic sized stone blocks that weigh hundreds of tons, including one weighing 570 tons that rivals the ones found in Byblos and Baalbek (Pregnant Woman).
Posted by: mossomo || 05/03/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||

#8  All sorts of underground things have been found and written up, mossomo, from the Davidic kingdom, the Canaanites, and all the way back to the Stone Age. The Times of Israel has archeology in Israel as a keyword linking to lots of articles over the years. See here

I just meant the Temple Mount itself — sorry for being unclear.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2024 14:52 Comments || Top||



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  US says Hamas seized first aid shipment to enter Gaza via Erez crossing
Thu 2024-05-02
  Turkish police detain over 200 May Day protesters in Istanbul
Wed 2024-05-01
  Hundreds of NYPD cops storm Columbia campus to clear out anti-Israel mob
Tue 2024-04-30
  7 people, including child, killed in attack on Shia mosque in NW Afghanistan
Mon 2024-04-29
  Israeli foreign minister says hostage deal would defer Rafah operation
Sun 2024-04-28
  Pro-Hamas protesters crash White House Correspondents Dinner
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Thu 2024-04-25
  IDF is ready to start the operation in Rafah immediately
Wed 2024-04-24
  Israel military strikes northern Gaza in heaviest shelling in weeks, central Gaza ditto
Tue 2024-04-23
  NYPD cops in riot gear arrest dozens of NYU students, faculty at pro-Hamas encampment on campus
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  Yale students tear down an American flag on campus
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  SDF capture 38 ISIS suspects
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