[FOX] Moscow, Idaho, police confirmed Tuesday that they are investigating an abandoned white Hyundai Elantra found in Eugene, Oregon, in connection to the murder of four University of Idaho students.
"We are definitely aware of the vehicle and investigators are currently working on it," Moscow Police Department spokesman Aaron Snell told Fox News Digital.
The Eugene Police Department confirmed that they sent Moscow police information on the damaged Hyundai found at West 7th Place and Seneca Road.
"We have no information to indicate it is related to the Moscow, Idaho, case," a spokesperson for Eugene police said. "However, they were sent the vehicle information so they have it to review."
[911] A former special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, commonly called NCIS, was sentenced to prison Dec. 15 for various crimes related to her illicit relationship with the target of a U.S. counterterrorism investigation. The woman’s conviction and sentencing follow an investigation conducted by NCIS, Homeland Security Investigations Houston, the FBI, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of State and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service.
A judge in the Southern District of Texas sentenced Leatrice Malika DeBruhl-Daniels, 49, to nine years in federal prison to be immediately followed by one year of supervised release for obstructing justice, making false statements, and accepting money and gifts for official acts. In handing down the sentence, the court cited DeBruhl’s breach of trust and deterrence.
DeBruhl-Daniels was convicted of the crimes June 13 by a federal jury sitting in Houston following a six-day trial.
"Leatrice DeBruhl-Daniels betrayed her badge and our country by revealing sensitive and classified information to the target of an FBI counterterrorism investigation in exchange for money, gifts and affection," said NCIS Director Omar Lopez. "Holding her accountable will make it clear that NCIS will not tolerate corruption within our ranks."
DeBruhl-Daniels was a veteran NCIS special agent working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. There, she met Nadal Diya, a Syrian businessman living in Dubai looking for help in securing a U.S. visa. At that time, Diya was the target of several federal investigations.
At trial, the jury heard from 16 government witnesses, including numerous agents and Diya himself. Testimony revealed that in 2017, DeBruhl-Daniels used her position to get certain benefits from Diya in exchange for providing information to him about his visa status. The gifts included an expensive birthday party at Diya’s home, approximately $1,400 in cash and the promise of a job for her son in Diya’s company.
The relationship with Diya eventually became sexual. During that relationship, she revealed he was a target of an FBI counterterrorism investigation — information that was classified at the time. She also told him that if he came to the U.S., he would likely be arrested.
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(Nadal Dyia)....the target of a U.S. counterterrorism investigation.
WTF? She was recruited by a suspected (now confirmed) foreign agent and spy. She knowingly accepted his 'pitch' and provided sensitive USG information. Why does this not make her a 'spy' as well ?
The charges do NOT fit the actual crime.
Shocking, no ?
[AccuWeather] Federal forecasters are predicting a major snowstorm hitting much of the U.S. this week, potentially threatening Christmas travel plans.
The National Weather Service wrote on Twitter Sunday, "A major storm system is forecast to impact much of the Nation leading up to Christmas Eve, with widespread gusty winds, areas of heavy rain and heavy snow, as well as bitter cold in its wake."
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Current Temp is near -50F in parts of Yukon and Alberta.
Snow is already unusually deep in parts of MN, MI and NY.
La Niña years are like that.
Major problems will be:
1. Traffic Disruption during pre Christmas travel, and
2. Electrical outages- very strong winds will follow rain/snow.
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Yepper, gonna be cold sleeping in the streets down on the border.
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Gas generators filled and test started for barn and bunkhouse electric.
Propane burners set for barn heat and water troughs. Cetane added to truck, tractor and diesel storage tanks.
Trees downed last winter trimmed, cut, dried and stacked for the fire pits.
Bulk propane tank for the big house topped, generator oil changed and unit test fired. Heat mass propane fireplace, warming.
Heatpump HVAC replaced last summer.
Horse jackets are on. Dog jackets are pending.
Hay bales stacked in barn on projected wind walls.
Warming fluids Jameson, Bullet Rye and Hornitos double stocked. Routine selection of deep reds renewed. Beer is here.
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^^ Yup, it's been that way for a very long time.
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Good luck with it skid, sounds like you're prepared.
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How can this be happening? Al Gore and Greta Thunbrrg told us that the world is on fire and we're all going to die from heatstroke soon. /sarcasm
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Forecast Thu 22 | Night
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A few clouds from time to time. Gusty winds diminishing after midnight. Low 9F. Winds NNW at 20 to 30 mph. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
[Daily Beast] Russian real estate tycoon Dmitry Zelenov passed away earlier this month after tumbling down a flight of stairs while visiting friends in the French Riviera, according to a local outlet and an independent Russian outlet.
The French newspaper Var Matin reported Sunday that Zelenov, 50, had been dining with friends in Antibes on Dec. 9 when he suddenly became unwell, falling down a flight of stairs and suffering critical head injuries. He succumbed while receiving treatment at the Hospital Pasteur in Nice.
Baza, an independent news channel on Telegram, reported that Zelenov had toppled over a railing and hit his head. Authorities informed the oligarch’s friends around 7 a.m. the following morning that he’d died without regaining consciousness. "Railing, stairs, flat ground, at this point what difference does it make (to coin a phrase)?"
The channel also said it was "known" that Zelenov had previously undergone vascular surgery for unspecified heart problems.
The Antibes Police Department is currently investigating Zelenov’s cause of death, according to Var Matin.
The 50-year-old was the former owner of Russian developer Don-Stroy, which constructed the 61-story Triumph Palace Tower in Moscow, one of the tallest residential structures in Europe. Before the company fell under the control of Russia’s state-owned bank VTB after succumbing to the 2008 financial crisis, Zelenov’s net worth was estimated at $1.4 billion, landing him on the Forbes list of Russian billionaires.
Zelenov is the latest in a long line of top figures in the Russian oil, gas, technology, and financial sectors to meet suspicious and untimely ends—the most recent being Anatoly Gerashchenko.
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This doesn't apply specifically to falling down stairs, but I recalled the 17th century word 'Defenestration' that I believe we should use more regularly in such cases.
What is surprising is that they actually have a word for this.
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Fell and hit his head on a small piece of metal moving 3000 fps - what unlucky timing…
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1620, "the action of throwing out of a window," from Latin fenestra "window." A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague," May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window of the castle of Hradschin by Protestant radicals (the pair landed in a trash heap and survived). It marked the start of the Thirty Years' War.
[NPR] China is now facing what is likely the world's largest COVID surge of the pandemic. China's public health officials say that possibly 800 million people could be infected with the coronavirus over the next few months. And several models predict that a half million people could die, possibly more.
"Recently, the deputy director of China CDC, Xiaofeng Liang, who' s a good friend of mine, was announcing through the public media that the first COVID wave may, in fact, infect around 60% of the population," says Xi Chen, who's a global health researcher at Yale University and an expert on China's health-care system.
That means about 10% of the planet's population may become infected over the course of the next 90 days.
[FoxBusinessNews] Benefits amount to over $100,000 in three states for a family of four with two people not working.
The labor force participation rate was 62.1% last month, notably lower than the 63.4% mark it was at before the coronavirus pandemic struck the United States in March 2020.
There are numerous reasons that unemployed Americans aren't entering the workforce, including ongoing fears of COVID-19, disabilities such as "long COVID," and other care responsibilities. One factor that is contributing to the relatively low labor force participation rate is the combination of unemployment benefits and recently expanded Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, according a new study by the nonprofit Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
In 14 states, unemployment benefits and ACA subsidies for a family of four with two people not working amounts to an annualized equivalent of $80,000 a year in wages and benefits, the study found.
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And you wonder why people won't take a $35/hr job?? Why would you?? You'd end up losing money after child care, transportation, clothing, etc. Just sit at home in sweats, eat ice cream, and watch the View and Oprah.
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At this rate my trailer park will be adding metal car awnings throughout. A community above ground pool is now no longer out of the question if we can modify one of the tether ball poles into a jib crane to meet the accessibility requirements.
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a jib crane to meet the accessibility requirements
But, once that 350 pound 12 year old boy is lowered into the pool, all the water will slosh out.
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...watch the View and Oprah...
I'd rather lose money flipping hamburgers, thank you very much.
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...watch the View and Oprah
Nnnnnnn no, don't think so. I'd have sit on the curb outside a gahe bar and wink at the patrons until I regained my self esteem.
Keeping the Nazi nightmare alive.
[BBC] A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,500 people.
Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged shorthand typist at Stutthof and worked there from 1943 to 1945.
Furchner, the first woman to be tried for Nazi crimes in decades, was given a two-year suspended jail term.
Although she was a civilian worker, the judge agreed she was fully aware of what was going on at the camp.
Some 65,000 people are thought to have died in horrendous conditions at Stutthof, including Jewish prisoners, non-Jewish Poles and captured Soviet soldiers.
Furchner was found guilty of aiding and abetting the murder of 10,505 people and complicity in the attempted murder of five others. As she was only 18 or 19 at the time, she was tried in a special juvenile court.
At Stutthof, located near the modern-day Polish city of Gdansk, a variety of methods was used to murder detainees and thousands died in gas chambers there from June 1944.
The court at Itzehoe in northern Germany heard from survivors of the camp, some of whom have died during the trial.
When the trial began in September 2021, Irmgard Furchner went on the run from her retirement home and was eventually found by police on a street in Hamburg.
Stutthof commandant Paul-Werner Hoppe was jailed in 1955 for being an accessory to murder and he was released five years later.
A series of prosecutions have taken place in Germany since 2011, after the conviction of former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk set the precedent that being a guard was sufficient evidence to prove complicity.
That ruling also meant that civilian worker Furchner could stand trial, as she worked directly to the camp commander, dealing with correspondence surrounding Stutthof detainees.
It took 40 days for her to break her silence in the trial, when she told the court "I'm sorry about everything that happened".
"I regret that I was in Stutthof at the time - that's all I can say," she said.
Her defence lawyers argued she should be acquitted because of doubts surrounding what she knew, as she was one of several typists in Hoppe's office.
After the war, Furchner married an SS squad leader called Heinz Furchstam whom she probably met at the camp.
She went on to work as an administrative worker in a small town in northern Germany. Her husband died in 1972.
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"Secretarial help here in Hell's
Not exclusively German."
"Do tell."
"We've got Muslims, Chinese,
Russians, Japs..."
"Go on, please."
"And these other... um... Russians. [they kvell]
And of course a couple of us Poles."
Apologies for slighting you Mongols and Latins and whatnot. Happy birthday, Cheka!
[Breitbart] Nikolas Stihl, the head of the chainsaw manufacturing company Stihl, has wanted that Germany may be on the verge of deindustrialisation as surging costs — pushed by the energy crisis — and other factors are affecting entrepreneurs.
According to Mr Stihl, chair of the Stihl Group Advisory and Supervisory Board, Germany could be at a tipping point that could lead to deindustrialisation in the country as it becomes less and less attractive as a location for industrial manufacturing and other businesses.
"The danger of deindustrialisation cannot be dismissed out of hand," Stihl told German media and added, "The German location could eventually reach a tipping point with a strong negative impact on the willingness to be entrepreneurial in this country," the newspaper Die Welt reports.
Stihl noted that while Germany is a relatively expensive place to do business, companies have been able to manage but noted, "the developments in the area of bureaucracy, the cost burden, the lack of investment, which we urgently need — this leads to the fact that the location conditions in this country are getting a little worse every year."
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Stihl makes good stuff. Hope they don't move to China...or Turkey.
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When Germany warns of "deindustrialization"...
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Risk? I've read a dozen whitepapers on the de-industrialization of Europe, leading with Germany. There is no risk, it is a foregone conclusion.
#GreatReset
#Agenda30
[Breitbart] Discussion of fears over possible gas shortages has returned to the German media, with the cold European winter seeing the country burn through its saved-up supply far faster than expected.
After a period of absence due to an abnormally warm late fall and early winter, the issue of possible gas shortages appears to have well and truly returned to the German media sphere, with the country reportedly consuming far more of its gas reserves than expected as a result of a cold snap that has hit northern Europe.
While experts have long feared the possibility of widespread energy shortages in Germany brought about by the nation’s loss of its Russian gas imports, many officials have maintained that — so long as the country is able to cut its consumption by 20 per cent — it should be able to escape this winter.
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Something I was wondering the other day with all the talk of German gas reserves being full: Is this reserve a stockpile to get through the winter OR is the reserve simply a buffer to smooth out the big winter demand pulse and presumes a constant flow of new gas?
[SOTT] The Director of Parliamentary Affairs at Health Canada, who oversaw the country's response to Covid-19 and the rollout of the vaccine, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 35.
Adam Exton, a long-time Liberal Party organizer, died suddenly on Friday, December 9th, according to his family.
"It is with great sadness that the family of Adam Exton announce his passing on December 9th, 2022 at the age of 35 in Ottawa, Ontario. Much loved son of Wendy Exton, brother of Bradley Exton (Ellen Wessel) and son of Allan Exton. He will also be deeply missed by his loving girlfriend, Reesha, as well as his many cousins, aunts, uncles and grandmother, Bette Readman," his obituary reads.
"As a young person, Adam became actively involved in politics and had a passion for public service and volunteering in the community. In 2012, Adam won the Ontario Young Liberal Volunteer of the Year Award. He received a degree in political science from the University of Toronto. Adam spent many years working at various levels of government, eventually holding the position of Director of Parliamentary Affairs at Health Canada."
Adam Exton was a part of the group that orchestrated the response to Canada's totalitarian mandates against its own citizens.
His obituary stated, "During the challenging times of the pandemic, Adam was part of the leadership team that led Canada's health response to COVID-19. He was a talented and respected campaign manager that was instrumental in helping to bring cabinet ministers and members to Queens Park and Ottawa. Adam always did and will continue to make his family extremely proud of who he was and his service to his community and country."
The funeral service will be held on Tuesday, December 20th, at 11 am.
The cause of death is unknown.
Minister of Indigenous Services of Canada, Patty Hadju, released a statement Friday on Twitter:
Adam Exton was a long time Liberal Party organizer and served with me and other Ministers of Health as Director of Parliamentary Affairs. My heart is with his family and all the friends and colleagues missing him so profoundly.
Politics was Adam's world. He was with me through one of the most challenging times of our careers, in the epicentre of Canada's response to the COVID pandemic. Our team formed a bond that will remain, and Adam will forever be in my memories of that time.
He played a role in so many important milestones - including getting our government elected in 2015, and supporting Ministers of Health Jane Philpott and Ginette Petitpas Taylor to get big things done like cannabis legalization and launching a new Canada Food Guide.
Despite the ways Adam contributed, he struggled too, like many others may be right now. The pandemic was traumatizing for so many. So many things need to change so that people who are living with poor mental health or problematic substance use can get effective care.
Adam's brother, Bradley Exton, paid tribute following his brother's death.
My brother was my first hero.
He protected me and always looked out for me.
I was amazed by everything he did and wanted to be just like him.
My brother was my first best friend.
We did everything together. Every passion and hobby we shared, camping, video games, music, tech and politics, we would discus it all.
My brother was my first role model.
Growing up with him he demonstrated strong values that I still carry with me today. No person has had more influence on the person I am more than him.
I feel extremely blessed to have been given such an amazing older brother. He made me the man I am today and I know I wouldn't have gotten this far in life without him having my back the whole time. He was truly a guardian angel in my life.
Saying goodbye is heartbreaking but I am going to do my best to stay strong and be the best person I can be because I know that is what he would want.
I love you brother, thanks for looking out for me all these years.
[IsraelTimes] Envoys at COP15 Biodiversity Conference commit to protect 30% of environment vital for biodiversity by 2030, boost support for poorer countries by tens of millions billions of dollars.
Negotiators reached a historic deal at a UN biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world.
The global framework comes on the day the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, is set to end in Montreal. China, which holds the presidency at this conference, released a new draft on Sunday that gave the sometimes contentious talks much-needed momentum.
The package was adopted to rapturous applause just prior to dawn.
The most significant part of the agreement is a commitment to protect 30 percent of land and water considered important for biodiversity by 2030, known as 30 by 30. Currently, 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas are protected.
The deal also calls for raising $200 billion by 2030 for biodiversity from a range of sources and working to phase out or reform subsidies that could provide another $500 billion for nature. As part of the financing package, the framework asks for an increase of at least $20 billion annually by 2025 for poor countries. That number would increase to $30 billion each year by 2030.
Financing emerged late in the talks and risked derailing an agreement. Several African countries held up the final deal for almost nine hours. They wanted the creation of a new fund for biodiversity, but agreed to the creation of one under the pre-existing Global Environmental Facility.
La Belle France’s Béchu called it a "historical deal."
"It’s not a small deal. It’s a deal with very precise and quantified objectives on pesticides, on reduction of loss of species, on eliminating bad subsidies," he said. "We double until 2025 and triple 2030 the finance for biodiversity."
The ministers and government officials from about 190 countries have mostly agreed that protecting biodiversity has to be a priority, with many comparing those efforts to climate talks that wrapped up last month in Egypt.
Climate change coupled with habitat loss, pollution, and development has hammered the world’s biodiversity, with one estimate in 2019 warning that a million plant and animal species face extinction within decades — a rate of loss 1,000 times greater than expected. Humans use about 50,000 wild species routinely, and 1 out of 5 people of the world’s 8 billion population depend on those species for food and income, the report said.
"The new text is a mixed bag," Andrew Deutz, director of global policy, institutions, and conservation finance for The Nature Conservancy, said. "It contains some strong signals on finance and biodiversity, but it fails to advance beyond the targets of 10 years ago, in terms of addressing drivers of biodiversity loss in productive sectors like agriculture, fisheries, and infrastructure, and thus still risks being fully transformational."
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Negotiators reached a historic deal at a UN biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s lands and oceans and provide critical financing to save biodiversity in the developing world.
Translation: Open up those piggy banks, kids, Daddy needs a new jet.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Nuns reported 'after' the event.
Marko Ivan Rupnik, 68, is accused by former nun of using his 'psycho-spiritual' control over her to have sex, including threesomes, and watch porn films
Rupnik was a spiritual director of a convent in Slovenia at time of allegations
The former nun, now 58, said Rupnik 'exploited' her and used her relationship with God to make her have sex with him
[FoxNews] The Air Force has grounded its entire B-2 Spirit fleet and will inspect each stealth bomber after one of the aircraft caught fire during an emergency landing earlier this month.
The multi-role bomber, which was first unveiled in 1989, is capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions. The 20-aircraft fleet is based out of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
A B-2 Spirit experienced an undisclosed in-flight malfunction that resulted in an emergency landing at Whiteman on Dec. 10. No one was injured.
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According to Ben Rich's "Skunk Works" (he was the boss during the development of stealth) they (Lockheed) bid on the steath bomber project with a smaller, cheaper version (like the B21) because Northrop's B2 was (a) gonna cost too much (b) making each bomber too valuable and (c) was being built to keep Northrup alive.
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^^ Mmm, not really. 'Different curricula' could be uploaded every day, depending on the whims of our betters.
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The Public Schools in America are a disaster... 91% of our children are in the public schools...
72% of 18-29 year olds voted Democrat in the 2022 Midterms.. If Christians and Conservatives do not wake up, fraud is the least of our problems, they'll vote that way soon enough... pic.twitter.com/OoWBOs8P56
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We seem to be having issues with a 2D solution. Glad to see that we are extending technology that doesn’t work. Sort of the methodology that got us these fantastic Covid vaccines.
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Easier to hijack without humans on board.
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Considering how hackable the I-O-T is, I don't much want this thing over my head.
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.
[Daily Beast] Russian real estate tycoon Dmitry Zelenov passed away earlier this month after tumbling down a flight of stairs while visiting friends in the French Riviera, according to a local outlet and an independent Russian outlet.
