[NY Post] Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt has died by legal euthanasia, "hand in hand" with his wife Eugenie.
The couple, who were both 93, died Monday in his hometown of Nijmegen, The Rights Forum, a human rights organization Agt founded, announced Friday.
"He died together and hand in hand with his beloved wife Eugenie van Agt-Krekelberg, the support and support with whom he was together for more than seventy years, and whom he always continued to refer to as ’my girl,'" the nonprofit said in a statement.
Both Agt and his wife had been suffering from deteriorating health for some time before they chose to die.
The former prime minister in 2019 suffered a brain hemorrhage while giving a speech at a commemoration event for Palestinians, a cause to which he dedicated the later decades of his life. He never fully recovered.
[ZeroHedge] Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has been readmitted to hospital, the Pentagon said on Sunday afternoon.
Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder gave an update on the defense leader’s condition, saying that the hospital admission had occurred early Sunday afternoon.
“Today, at approximately 2:20 pm, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III was transported by his security detail to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be seen for symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue,” he said.
[10 News] There goes the money
The CEO of one of Nigeria's largest banks was killed on Friday when a helicopter he was riding in crashed in the Mojave Desert in Southern California. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said the crash happened east of Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert in Southern California.
Herbert Wigwe, CEO of Access Bank, was among six people on board when the helicopter crashed shortly after 10 p.m. His death was confirmed by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization and formerly Nigeria's finance minister, in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said the helicopter crashed east of Interstate 15 near Halloran Springs Road, which is near the California-Nevada border and about an 80-mile drive from Las Vegas.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the helicopter — a Eurocopter EC 120 — had six people aboard. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate. The NTSB said investigators would arrive on Saturday and begin gathering information.
The sheriff's department said they had not found any survivors, but declined to elaborate.
KABC-TV reported the helicopter took off from Palm Springs Airport around 8:45 p.m. and was en route to Boulder City, Nevada.
Halloran Springs Road crosses over Interstate 15 in an area known to travelers for an abandoned gas station with a sign declaring "Lo Gas" and "Eat." It's located in a remote area of the Mojave Desert, with an elevation of nearly 3,000 feet. Logs from the California Highway Patrol show there was rain and snow in the area at about the time of the crash.
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The NTSB said investigators would arrive on Saturday and begin gathering information.
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Trump and Kennedy are vilified as with Tucker. Assassination will be the final action the left will deliver. In my opinion an extremely high probability. It's always the left.
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If he survives 2024, Trump could assign Carlson to a senior staff advisory or Foreign Service position and give him a Secret Service detail.
(after purging the detail of any Klingon operatives/detailees of course)
Aw WTF, just make Carlson the DCI with Vivec, Kennedy, or Mike Flynn as his deputy and purge the lot. Foggy Bottom will require a similar treatment. Rinse and repeat with germ killing solvent or ammonia as necessary. Unannounced drug testing at DoS would become mandatory.
Tulsi Gabbard would make a superb Secretary of Defense by the way. Her first task would be to restore Engineering degrees as prerequisites for graduation at the service academies. Her second order of business would be the orderly extraction of all US military personnel from Syria, Jordan, Somalia, Nigeria, and Iraq. US weapons and ammunition equally divided among current warring parties.
All military personnel from closed overseas locations to be reassigned to The Texas National guard with full-time border enforcement duties.
Ranting on: Netanyahu, Argentina's Javier Milei and Hungary's Viktor Orbán to accompany Trump to his inauguration ceremony and dinner.
Inauguration dinner keynote speaker Gov. Greg Abbott thanks Trump for commitment of Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Reaper Drones, bestows honorary Texas Citizenship to Trump.
Gasoline prices plummet to $1.13 per gallon overnight in 31 states.
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I don’t think they will get Trump, but Las Vegas showed us that they aren’t concerned with collateral damage.
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I forget, what was Trump's excuse for appointing Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the UN? If I had to guess, it was probably close to the same reason Trump hired John Bolton, but it's just a guess.
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Nikki Haley did a good job as ambassador to the UN, where her job was to convey President Trump’s policies. She is unfortunately not suited to be a Republican candidate for the presidency.
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.
[NY Post] Former Dutch Prime Minister 
