The national media's really having a great week, aren't they? [NH Union Leader] - BRENTWOOD — New York Times bestselling author Brendan DuBois
…a prolific and popular author, the former newspaper reporter and Jeopardy! champion lives with his wife in New Hampshire…
was arraigned on six Class A felony charges of possessing child sexual abuse images on Thursday morning.
DuBois, 64, is currently being held under preventive detention without bail. New Hampshire Circuit Court Judge Polly Hall is taking the request for bail under advisement.
The award-winning and bestselling Seacoast mystery and suspense writer turned himself in to Exeter police on Wednesday.
The arrest affidavit for DuBois shows the Exeter Police Department received two "cybertips" from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in March of two Google Drive files suspected to be child pornography. The files were uploaded on Jan. 18 and subsequently flagged by Google.
Investigators traced the IP address of the Google Drive account associated with the images to the Exeter residence of DuBois and his wife, Mona Pinette.
On May 7, investigators executed a search warrant on Dubois’s home, during which Dubois declined to speak with investigators but Pinette agreed to. Pinette informed investigators that only she and her husband knew the password to their home’s private Wi-Fi network and that the two own separate computers, never using one another’s devices. Read on for highly incriminating Google searches and other fallout.
[HOLLYWOODREPORTER] Shelley Duvall, the saucer-eyed, rail-thin waif who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman, and avoided the ax wielded by an unhinged Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died Thursday. She was 75.
Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas, Dan Gilroy, her life partner since 1989, told The Hollywood Reporter.
“My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy said.
In November 2016, a disheveled Duvall appeared on an episode of the syndicated talk show Dr. Phil and revealed that she was suffering from mental illness. “I am very sick. I need help,” she said. Four years later, THR‘s Seth Abramovitch visited her for a memorable story.
Before she fled Hollywood for her native Texas in the mid-1990s, Duvall had a thriving career as a versatile, one-of-a-kind actress and head of her own production company, Think Entertainment, which created star-studded, innovative children’s programming for cable television that netted her two Emmy Award nominations.
While attending junior college in her hometown of Houston, Duvall was discovered by Altman staff members and talked into taking a screen test. She then made her onscreen debut as teenage seductress and Astrodome tour guide Suzanne Davis in Brewster McCloud (1970).
A decade later, Duvall sang and starred opposite Robin Williams as the iconic comic-strip character Olive Oyl, the strong-willed damsel in distress, in Altman’s live-action adaptation of Popeye.
In between, the childlike star collaborated with Altman as a mail-order bride in McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971); as the woman who has a Mississippi romance with bank robber Keith Carradine in Thieves Like Us (1974); as the groupie L.A. Joan, fond of hot pants and platform shoes, in Nashville (1975); as the wife of President Grover Cleveland in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976); and as Millie Lamoureaux, a fantasizing attendant at a Palm Springs health spa for the elderly, in 3 Women (1977).
Asked by The New York Times in 1977 why she chose to keep working with Altman, she said: “He offers me damn good roles. None of them have been alike. He has a great confidence in me, and a trust and respect for me, and he doesn’t put any restrictions on me or intimidate me, and I love him.
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Suburban Commando is a riot. Like it or hate it, the casting for the movie Popeye was perfect.
[NYPOST] CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews — who was accused of sidelining white journalists and blocking an acclaimed correspondent’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop — is stepping down at the network, the company said Wednesday.
The controversial news boss, who was named president just last August, is exiting after she made headlines in February over the firing of Catherine Herridge, a respected senior investigative news hound who had been doggedly covering the Hunter Biden laptop story for the network.
At the time, media insiders speculated that Herridge’s exit was linked to her reporting that President Biden may have kept evidence that he had foreign business dealings while in office.
Another reason, according to sources, may have been Herridge’s role in a 2021 human resources probe of Ciprian-Matthews over favoritism and discriminatory hiring and management practices.
As revealed by an investigation by The Post in January, Ciprian-Matthews had racked up HR complaints from staffers over unfair hiring and management practices, particularly against white female journalists. Among those who complained was Herridge, according to sources.
[FoxNews] The snakes discovered by Chinese authorities include the Texas rat snake and the milk snake
A would-be snake smuggler was apprehended at Futian Port in China, which borders Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Chinese state media Weixin posted that the smuggler was attempting to transport 104 live snakes into China, where the reptiles can be legally farmed and eaten.
Live animals, however, cannot be legally transported across the border per Chinese law.
China is considered to be a haven for exotic animal smugglers, with many of them being kept as pets or used in medicine and cuisine like shark fin soup. Snake soup is considered a Cantonese delicacy.
Live animal markets, or ‘wet markets,’ continue their popularity despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
The would-be smuggler has not been named, and his punishment unspecified, in China's customs authority social media post.
[Epoch Times] A case of the bubonic plague was confirmed in an individual in Colorado’s Pueblo County, officials said on Tuesday.
As I recall, bubonic plague is endemic in the American West — prairie dogs are a host. Just about every year there are a couple of infections, easily treated with modern antibiotics.
On Tuesday, the Pueblo County Department of Public Health said that it "confirmed a human case" in a resident of the county, adding that it will continue "to investigate a potential source and asks the public to take the precautions" to limit the spread of the bacterial infection.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the plague circulates via fleas, occurs in wild rodents, and rarely spreads to people. Infected fleas that bite people are the primary vectors of the plague, while the bacteria can also be transmitted by touching infected animals or inhaling droplets from the cough of an infected individual or an animal.
Human cases of the plague, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, are not unheard of in the United States. In March, a New Mexico man died of the disease, while officials in Oregon confirmed a case in February, which they said may have been linked to an infected cat. Inquiring Minds want to know when the sick or deceased individuals entered the US.
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This crops up from time to time in the US, I remember cases even back in the 80's. It's rare but happens. I'd be MORE worried about Hanta virus in Colorado.
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It is always here in the Prairie dog population. Wiped out a large colony hear Broomfield back in 2006. Usually when a human gets it they are fucking around with the prairie dogs and get bit several times by fleas. Usually happens every couple years.
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[Regnum] A dry cargo ship sailing under the Cameroon flag was arrested in the Odessa region. Earlier, the Usko Mfu vessel called in Sevastopol, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office reported on July 11.
It is specified that Usko Mfu was detained in the port of the city of Reni, and then arrested. Ukrainian security forces also detained the captain of the dry cargo ship, a citizen of Azerbaijan, accusing him of "violating the procedure for entering Crimea."
Searches were conducted on board the dry cargo ship, during which ship documentation, the AIS ship identification system, a computer, as well as documentation issued by the administration of the Sevastopol Sea Trade Port were seized.
According to the Ukrainian side, in November last year, Usko Mfu left Sevastopol loaded with grain weighing more than three thousand tons, intended for a Turkish company. In May of this year, it again called at the port of Sevastopol, where it unloaded cargo from Turkey. Subsequently, the dry cargo ship left the port, indicating the destination as Istanbul, but in reality, it allegedly called at one of the ports of Moldova.
The prosecutor's office claims that before entering the port of Sevastopol, the ship's AIS was allegedly switched off "to conceal illegal activity." Ukrainian authorities accused the crew of violating maritime safety requirements and Ukrainian legislation and are currently deciding on a preventive measure for the captain.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in March 2018, Ukrainian border guards detained the fishing vessel Nord, registered in Crimea, in the Sea of Azov, accusing the crew of violating the procedure for leaving the territory of the Russian peninsula. The sailors' passports were confiscated and the Russian consul was not allowed to see them. Seven crew members were able to return to Russia only in October 2018 after they were exchanged for seven Ukrainian citizens - members of the crew of the vessel YAMK-0041. The captain was able to return to Russia only in February 2019.
[THE-EXPRESS] La Belle France is on the verge of a "financial crisis" and consequent economic decline after the surprise success of a hard left coalition in this weekend’s elections, the country’s outgoing finance minister Bruno Le Maire has warned.
Speaking on the political situation, UK-based banking expert Bob Lyddon has told Express.co.uk the result signals an end to Emmanuel Macron’s policy of "controlling debt and public spending", warning the inevitable "deadlock" is no better than a victory for Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally.
In a possible hint at future chaos, riot police clashed with left-wing demonstrators in Gay Paree on Sunday evening.
The hastily assembled Popular Front (NFP) - spearheaded by left-wingers including former Presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon - is pledging to increase public spending by £125 billion if they successfully form a government.
They have also proposed a 90 percent tax on incomes over £340,000 a year - but Mr Le Maire suggests such a move could cost more than £250 billion with La Belle France already saddled with a budget defunct of 5.5 percent.
The Finance Minister explained: "The most immediate risk is a financial crisis and La Belle France's economic decline.
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For what it's worth, I haven't seen any protests at the Tour de France this year, at least to this point. That could change but not likely in the mountain stages coming up this weekend (Pyrenees) and later on next week (Alps), as there tends to be too many normal people ready to counter them and I've only seen protests on flat stages, even the ones by the farmers from 10 - 20+ years ago.
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Weathly (or, just common-sensical) French have moved to southern (French-speaking) Wallonia to escape French taxes for years. I wonder if that'll increase.
This Melenchon putz...just another millionaire Socialist. Aren't they all? I mean, just ask Bernie. And Lizzie.
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Yes, they can, but WILL they? Every time Le Pen runs, the other parties gang up just to shut her out. But her party got quite a few more seats, if I recall correctly.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] US Army is made in China
The report, which is sad for the Pentagon, was published by Govini, an Arlington, Virginia-based company that in 2019 received a five-year, $400 million contract from the Pentagon to provide data, analysis, and information on Defense Department spending, supply chains, and acquisitions.
The report also says that dependence on the Chinese supply chain is present on every major weapons platform, including U.S. aircraft carriers.
It is separately noted that the existing dependence on China cannot be resolved even in a decade. Because a “supply chain” on this scale is an entire economy, since it is a network of many firms that buy and sell from each other.
Spent 400 million dollars to establish the fact of dependence on China.
[FoxNews] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long admired Donald Trump.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban departed the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to meet with former President Trump in Florida, a source familiar with the meeting told Fox News Digital.
The New York Times first broke the story, citing a Trump campaign official and a person close to the former president. The report did not indicate what the pair would discuss at this impromptu meeting, but Orban has crisscrossed the globe over the past week after assuming the role as president of the European Union.
Orban arrived in the U.S. this week to attend the multi-day NATO summit, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of the organization's founding and occurs at a time when members remain concerned about Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and what the future holds for the broader European Union.
Hungary’s presidency will last six months as part of a rotating leadership scheme for the bloc and does not provide much actual power, but Orban wasted no time in using that office to start holding discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping before his meeting with Trump.
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Orban probably thought, "might as well ditch the NATO summit". They probably hate his guts given his latest trips to Peking and Moscow. How dare he try to mediate the UKR-RUS spat.
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Orban completes his Leaders of the World tour without them, and with Trump, and suddenly Biden is a home run, a touchdown, and a soccer game with more than 1 goal, all wrapped up in one.
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.
[NH Union Leader] - BRENTWOOD — New York Times bestselling author Brendan DuBois 
[NYPOST] CBS News president 
[FoxNews] The snakes discovered by Chinese authorities include the Texas rat snake and the milk snake
[Epoch Times] A case of the 
[THE-EXPRESS] 
[FoxNews] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long admired Donald Trump.
