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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Denzel Washington seeks to replace Equalizer-3 catering staff over blow
[MAIL] Authorities with the paramilitary police in Italy seized 120 grams of cocaine from hotel rooms used by the catering staff of The Equalizer 3 after the film's head caterer suffered a fatal heart attack.

Two caterers were arrested by Carabinieri cops in connection with the drug bust at the hotel on the Amalfi Coast at the Maiori resort, the Italian newspaper Il Giornale reported, according to Variety.

According to reports, after the head caterer's heart attack Monday, officials retrieved a number of small packages of cocaine from his clothing, leading authorities to raid various areas of the production.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2022 05:52 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, yes. People who have a head waiter at their job are so qualified to tell you how you should live.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2022 8:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Love the pic. Tap dancing a requirement to be an Italian cop?
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/03/2022 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  My son told me that at Vincenza (173 Abn) there's always a Carabineri on duty at the main gate. With a Beretta SMG. Can't be having strays wander in.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/03/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Another vote for the pic. Those are truly badass boots and peaked caps. White braid’s a nice touch too. None of that gaudy gold shit.

Versace?
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Oppressor of the Boskonians1460 || 11/03/2022 10:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Saw a couple Carabineri having espresso at a plaza on the Autostrada when I was in Italy. Even on break, they had those Berettas slung behind them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2022 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Carabinieri are indeed badass. They don’t cazzo around.
Posted by: Threaque Whomong9408 || 11/03/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||

#7  White braid’s a nice touch too. None of that gaudy gold shit.
Versace?


Versace would have covered them in gold.

Probably Brioni. Maybe Armani.
Posted by: Threaque Whomong9408 || 11/03/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#8  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Milano_Italy_Carabinieri-01.jpg
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/03/2022 12:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Wait....there was a 2?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/03/2022 12:16 Comments || Top||

#10  I saw a Carabiniero drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic's
And his hair was… perfect
Ha!

He's the silver-sabred gent who ran amok in Trent(o)
Lately, he's been overheard in Parma
You better stay away from him
He'll blow your lungs out, Jim
HA! I'd like to meet his tailor

ah-wooo! They’s Carabinieri
ah-wooo


Posted by: Threaque Whomong9408 || 11/03/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||


Update: Exclusive Summary: Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns


[Sharyl Attkisson]


    Updated Oct. 28, 2022 with "heavy menstrual bleeding"
    Updated Oct. 9, 2022 with organ and corneal transplant failures
    Updated Oct. 8, 2022 with Florida Surgeon General recommending against for men under 40 due to risk of death from heart problems
    Updated Oct. 1, 2022 with menstrual cycle changes
    Updated Sept. 1, 2022 with higher risks for mRNA vaccines
    Updated Aug. 31, 2022 with hemorrhragic stroke risk re: Pfizer
    Updated Aug. 5, 2022 with heart risk re: Novavax
    Updated June 25, 2022 with higher Covid rate among vaccinated
    Updated June 18, 2022 with Novavax heart concerns
    Updated June 14, 2022 with Bell's Palsy and Ramsay Hunt Syndrome concerns
    Updated May 11, 2022 with FDA limiting J&J due to blood clot concerns
    Updated April 26, 2022 with more Guillain Barre paralysis concerns
    Updated March 12, 2022 with studies on vaccine-related tinnitis
    Updated Feb. 14, 2022 with pathologist study on heart deaths in children after vaccination
    Updated Jan. 20, 2022 with new warnings about serious neurological and blood conditions
    Updated Jan. 12, 2022 with additional blood disorder warnings
    Updated Jan 13, 2022 with study confirming menstrual cycle changes in women after vaccination
    Updated Jan. 13, 2022 with concerns about repeat boosters
    Updated Dec. 24, 2021 with Danish study again confirming serious heart inflammation risk from vaccination
    Updated Dec. 16, 2021 with CDC warning of dangerous blood clot risk with Johnson & Johnson vaccine
    Updated Dec. 15, 2021 with CDC confirming Johnson and Johnson vaccine link to Guillain Barre paralysis
    Updated Dec. 14, 2021 with British study showing increased heart inflammation risk from vaccination
    Updated Nov. 21, 2021 with "dramatic" increase in risk of heart injury
    Updated Nov. 14, 2021 with Taiwan suspending second dose of Covid vaccine for children
    Updated Nov. 13, 2021 with concerns over Capillary Leak Syndrome
    Updated Nov. 10, 2021 with Germany limiting Moderna in young people; pregnant women
    Updated Nov. 7, 2021 with study showing 2 of 3 U.S. vaccines under 50% effectiveness after 6 mos.
    Updated Oct. 30, 2021 with UK study showing no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated in peak viral load
    Updated Oct. 29, 2021 with Israel study showing waning immunity in a few months in all age groups after vaccination
    Updated Oct. 23, 2021 with increased rate of preterm birth in pregnant women
    Updated Oct. 10, 2021 with Iceland pausing Moderna over increased heart problems
    Updated Oct. 8, 2021 with Vietnam study about vaccinated people carrying more Delta viral load; spreading Covid
    Updated Oct. 7, 2021 with Finland pausing Moderna vaccine for young males due to heart issues.
    Updated Oct. 6, 2021 with Sweden and Denmark halting Moderna in young people due to risk of heart injuries. Slovenia suspends Johnson & Johnson.
    Updated Oct. 4, 2021 with study about vaccine immunity quickly wearing off
    Updated Oct. 3, 2021 with EU blood disorder concerns and Hepatitis C death
    Updated Sept. 19, 2021 with British study about menstrual cycle changes in women
    Updated Sept. 12, 2021 with study finding teenage boys face much higher heart risk from vaccine than Covid
    Updated Sept. 10, 2021 with Israel study on majority of hospitalized being vaccinated
    Updated Sept. 9, 2021 with CDC study about increased myocarditis/heart inflammation risk, lymphadenopathy, appendicitis, and herpes zoster infection
    Updated Sept. 4, 2021 with acute CNS demyelination after Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
    Updated Aug. 30, 2021 with Functional Neurological Disorder
    Updated Aug. 24, 2021 with waning immunity
    Updated Aug. 17, 2021 with Bell's Palsy analysis, Hong Kong
    Updated Aug. 16, 2021 with Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) study
    Updated Aug. 5, 2021 with heart disorders more common than CDC reported from database
    Updated July 22, 2021 with EU warning about Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis after Johnson and Johnson vaccination.
    Updated July 12, 2021 with new FDA warning of Guillain-Barre autoimmune paralysis cases after vaccination.
    Updated July 12, 2021 with reports of Graves disease autoimmune disorder after vaccination.
    Updated July 1, 2021 with reports of Guillain-Barre paralysis cases after vaccination.
    Updated June 30, 2021 with news of first case of blood clot disorder in double-dose RNA vaccine

Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/03/2022 04:08 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One man's concern is another man's feature...
Posted by: Warthog || 11/03/2022 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Media spin aside, this is the setup for a future disaster. They have cried wolf, and when the wolf actually comes, nobody will listen.

OTOH, maybe that's the plan...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/03/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#3  In related news, the death care business is booming....and NOT from covid deaths.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-funeral-business-is-booming-and/comments
Posted by: Clyde Speaking for Boskone6101 || 11/03/2022 16:31 Comments || Top||


Autopsy report reveals new details about how rapper Takeoff aka Kirsnick Ball died
[WSB-2] HOUSTON, TX. — An autopsy has revealed that Migos rapper Takeoff died from penetrating gunshot wounds to the head and torso.

According to the Houston County Coroner’s office, the bullets also went into his arm. The official manner of his death has been ruled a homicide.
Going out on a limb, I'd have to agree
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2022 03:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Being a "Rapper" in the ATL appears to be a very dangerous occupation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2022 3:23 Comments || Top||

#2  An autopsy has revealed ... Takeoff died from penetrating gunshot wounds to the head and torso

Two death experts, very well read,
stood wondering how this music man
lay on their table dead.
They looked at each other
and in unison said,
"I think it was the lead,
that went into his head."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 3:32 Comments || Top||

#3  New rappers want clout, and the primary way they gain clout is by exploiting their own narcissism as a criminal.

Oftentimes, that cachet devolves into real crime and real death, when their erstwhile fans take them a little too seriously.

So, life comes at these rappers fast, usually at around 1400 fps, as a 9mm slug.
Posted by: badanov || 11/03/2022 4:08 Comments || Top||

#4  O.k., who cares about some rapper? Now, let's see some video footage from the Pelosi residence.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/03/2022 4:08 Comments || Top||

#5  [WSB-2] HOUSTON, TX. — An autopsy has revealed that Migos rapper Takeoff died from penetrating gunshot wounds to the head and torso.

...Well, that'll do it.

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/03/2022 4:32 Comments || Top||

#6  From the BBC story: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63483768

Is this genuine or trying to get rid of evidence?
...
Other musicians asked fans not to share videos of Takeoff's final moments on social media.

"Delete all footage and people talkin' about it so it doesn't exist," Wiz Khalifa wrote. Former Fifth Harmony singer Lauren Jauregui echoed the message, writing: "I wish this could go without saying but please do not watch or circulate that video. We're all so desensitized to death and it's so sad."
Posted by: James || 11/03/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||


Ohio Police K-9 locates burglary suspect with bullet hole in arse, hiding in shed
[Breitbart] Alleged burglar Jeffery L. Carl was found hiding in a shed at 3:25 a.m. Wednesday after a Franklin, Ohio, homeowner shot him in the butt.

Journal News reports that Carl allegedly "attempted to burglarize a Park Avenue house" early Wednesday when the homeowner shot him.

Dayton Daily News observes that Carl fled the scene on foot after being shot and a police K-9 found him "hiding in a shed not far from the victim’s residence." Carl had been shot in the butt.

FOX 19 notes that Carl was taken to a hospital to have his wound treated, then transferred to the Franklin Police Department.

He is charged with burglary.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2022 02:54 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Would pay money to hear an audio of the med team that worked on him.... 8)
Posted by: || 11/03/2022 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  "Here, have a seat"
"Owwwwww!"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Details, please.
Posted by: Paul Palomino Pelosi || 11/03/2022 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 10:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Turning tail and running probably worked out better in this case or the shrapnel could have resulted in a Spinal Tap scene reprise at the perp's next TSA screening.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/03/2022 12:49 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
CIA director admonishment to stop doubting Brazil's election NOT working
Things that make you go hmmmm...
[Guardian - 5 months ago] The CIA director William Burns urged Jair Bolsonaro to stop questioning his country’s voting system, it has been claimed, amid growing fears the Brazilian president might refuse to accept defeat in this year’s election.

Polls suggest Bolsonaro, a far-right populist famed for his adulation of Donald Trump, will struggle to secure a second term when about 150 million Brazilians head to the polls in October to choose their next leader.

Bolsonaro’s leftist rival, the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is currently in pole position, and will formally announce his candidacy at a convention in São Paulo this weekend.

[CBS - 1 Nov 2022] Bolsonaro supporters block Brazil roads for a 2nd day as president refuses to accept election loss
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Polls suggest Bolsonaro, a far-right populist famed for his adulation of Donald Trump.....

And his (Bolsonaro's) quest to remain free of Chinese influence in Brazil. The parallels within the pattern analysis of available entities and methodologies are revealing....but not surprising. 'Regime change' here at home and abroad ?

NPR - According to the court, Positivo Tecnologia, a Brazilian company, won the most recent bid to produce electronic voting machines for this year's election. Smartmatic and Dominion also confirmed their equipment is not being used in Brazil.


NPR reporting on conspiracy theories? Oh, well then ok. I feel better about the process now....but not much better.


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2022 2:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I think once you have a nationalist party in, the best thing in this era would be to do away with elections altogether. Let people vote directly on municipal and local matters and not leaders. The leftist oppositions can be pruned to a handful of squeeky voices on teevee and that's it.

No, don't make a face, the Left is doing just this. They're just going to leave you with an appearance of franchise while consolidating right and left into one hive.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 2:40 Comments || Top||

#3  If Bolsonaro had commented on elections in the USA what do you think the USA response would have been? Since when is it the CIA's job to publicly approve of elections held throughout the world?
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 11/03/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Since when is it the CIA's job to publicly approve of elections held throughout the world?

Since at least 1950.

Neither Truman or Eisenhower could get a fix on what the SOB's were doing with their overseas operations or budget. The Klingon end-state was a deep concern to both. After Kennedy, White House attitudes and concerns were no longer an issue. Once Obama was installed it was a gentle Nordic down-hill.


Posted by: Besoeker || 11/03/2022 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5  I think that the CIA tried to use CNN as a mouthpiece for these talking points but now that it isn’t in airports anymore the campaign had no effect.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/03/2022 11:24 Comments || Top||

#6  I think the reason for doubt is because similar to US 2020 election the downstream votes went to Right leaning candidates but somehow the Presidential results skewed Left. Just like against Trump
Posted by: Airandee || 11/03/2022 11:55 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea launches ICBM towards Japan day after firing 23 missiles near South Korea; US condemns 'violation'
[FoxNews] "Pay attention to Meeeeeeeee!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2022 09:15 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Shoot 'em down
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/03/2022 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Shoot down the Japs?
Dat’s rayciss
Posted by: Snakes Spaising9720 || 11/03/2022 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Shoot 'em down

While they're still on the launch pad.
Posted by: jpal || 11/03/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||


#5  North Korea hits out at ‘awful’ mistake by US
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2022 14:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Did we issue the 'sternly worded letter'?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/03/2022 23:23 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Hopefully, with a suitably stern font and *not* that lavender stationary the State Department has been using lately.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/03/2022 23:47 Comments || Top||


Florida Monkey Business
[FoxNews] Reported Chinese land buy in Florida for primate testing won't end well, expert warns. Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel says this could be a risk to the entire country.

Animal rights activists are voicing concerns over a reported recent purchase of 1,400 acres by a Chinese bioresearch firm in Florida for the purpose of primate breeding and quarantine.

JOINN Labs purchased the property off US-98 in July from a cattle and timber company for about $3.1 million, according to the Citrus Chronicle.

Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, who also serves as an adviser to PETA, told Fox News the primate experimentation "industry" is characteristically secretive and dangerous.

"Everyone has to recognize that this is a really significant risk, a risk to the monkeys who never make it out of these experiments or this industry alive — or worse, of the Florida residents, a risk to the entire country," she said.

Jones-Engel said during the pandemic, 100,000 wild monkeys were brought into captivity in "filthy, disease-ridden" farms in Asia, where they were packed into crates and flown to the United States, often arriving ones that were diseased or dead.

Fox News host Jesse Watters pointed to that process, citing a highway crash on a frigid January night that led to several monkeys escaping into the forest of Montour County, Penn.

One passer-by initially thought the crated animals were housecats, with Watters noting the Good Samaritan later came down with conjunctivitis from her contact with the animal. The escaped primates were later captured and euthanized.

Jones-Engel noted that in addition to such incidents that endanger the public, results from experimentation on non-human primates are often negligible.

"The failure of these monkey experiments to actually lead to any meaningful improvements in human health, and now we have a Chinese company who is coming in saying, ‘Hey, we want a foothold in this industry — we want to place this massive quarantine and breeding facility in Florida,’" she said.

"This is not going to go well for anyone," the expert added, noting the increased potential for "zoonotic disease" to emanate from such animal subjects.

Watters later noted the monkeys in the Pennsylvania incident were en route from JFK Airport in New York City to a federal CDC facility in the nation's interior.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' office said the purchase is an example of the type of activity by China that the governor is trying to stop.

"The governor has been consistently opposed to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s growing influence in Florida, and this proposed facility is a prime example of the type of activity that we are acting to prohibit," read the statement.

"On September 22, the governor held a press conference in Miami to unveil proposed legislation designed to counteract malign influence by China and other hostile nations through, among other means, prohibiting certain land purchases. Additionally, the governor signed Executive Order 22-216 to prohibit state entities from procuring technology products and services from companies owned by, controlled by, or domiciled in China and other foreign countries of concern."
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Bus the homeless primates to San Francisco.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/03/2022 11:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't understand how a foreign government can buy your land and plant their Project X type snafu-waiting-to-happen in your backyard.

How can a CPC owned company do their bioresearch in Florida?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  primate breeding in Florida

Isn’t that what Little Haiti’s for?
Posted by: Threaque Whomong9408 || 11/03/2022 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  "Monkey Jungle" a longtime great tourist trap in Miami!
Posted by: borgboy || 11/03/2022 13:47 Comments || Top||

#5  A pox on the plan.
Posted by: James || 11/03/2022 14:10 Comments || Top||


Down Under
5 lions break free of enclosure in Sydney zoo
I seen dis movie.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"I miss dinner. Chow time's come and gone."


Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 2:46 Comments || Top||

#2 
"Scuse me, sir! Spare a boy a sammich?"

Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 2:48 Comments || Top||

#3 
"Where to now? You said you had contacts."

"Yeah, Mo. You said there's all kinds of opportunities out there!"

"Hush. Someone's coming. Maybe they'll give us a lift back!"

Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 2:51 Comments || Top||

#4 
"Groan... ohh, man! Lou? You still there?"

"ZzzZZZ"

Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/03/2022 3:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, now there's a idea for addressing homelessness.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/03/2022 6:59 Comments || Top||

#6  “Marlin Perkins and Dave to the Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom White courtesy phone please. And ensure the Land Rover has a full tank.”
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/03/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#7  5 lions break free of enclosure...

thereby showing more balls than the average Aussie, who is still in lockdown...
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Big Foot1341 || 11/03/2022 9:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Bob wakes up to discover he is spooning Mufassa.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/03/2022 19:57 Comments || Top||


Economy
Fed raises Prime by 75 basis points - again
[MSN] The Fed, as widely expected, raised its key short-term rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to a range of 3.75% to 4%, a decidedly "restrictive" level intended to fight inflation by further slowing an already wobbly economy. Since March, the Fed has hoisted its federal funds rate; what banks charge each other for overnight loans -- from near zero, its most aggressive such initiative since 1980.
Rate was close to zero in Jan 2022. Powell hinted that the next few rate hikes might be less than 75 basis points. NYSE liked that. Mortgage rates probably will hit 8% soon.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/03/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How does this affect the Federal 'budget'? Don't we pay interest on the National Debt?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/03/2022 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  They'll just print more money for the higher debt payment. Slow Joe says that'll work
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2022 8:36 Comments || Top||


#4  From the Epoch Times -

Interest on Government Debt Set to Exceed Total Annual Defense Spending
By Petr Svab November 2, 2022 Updated: November 2, 2022

The United States is on pace to spend more to maintain its debt than on its own military. In the third quarter, the federal government spent over $184 billion on interest payments on its debt. That means an annual cost of over $730 billion. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense 2022 budget was about $720 billion.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/03/2022 12:17 Comments || Top||

#5  "a range of 3.75% to 4%, a decidedly "restrictive" level "

This is laughable to anyone over 50. We remember Fed funds rates over 20% (not a typo.) AND inflation is still at 8.2%. These rates aren't even close to being "restrictive."
Posted by: Tom || 11/03/2022 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Tom

True that current rates are not restrictive enough yet.

That's why another two, or maybe three, rounds of rate increases are very likely.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/03/2022 17:47 Comments || Top||

#7  The United States is on pace to spend more to maintain its debt than on its own military. In the third quarter, the federal government spent over $184 billion on interest payments on its debt. That means an annual cost of over $730 billion. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense 2022 budget was about $720 billion.

That is the debt trap we are in. Any interest rate above zero is highly inflationary since the only way to pay the interest is to print or borrow money. Printing money means inflation now. Borrowing means even higher inflation (not very far) down the road.
Posted by: Angease Peacock5533 || 11/03/2022 17:55 Comments || Top||



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