[NYPOST] A Michigan family is sounding the alarm about sextortion scams on social media after a Nigerian man allegedly drove their 17-year-old son, a high school football player, to commit suicide.
Jordan DeMay, a student at Marquette Senior High School, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 25, 2022, after he was contacted by an Instagram account that appeared to be from a woman with the username "dani.robertts," Fox News Digital reported.
But the account had been hacked and sold to Samuel Ogoshi, a 22-year-old Nigerian who allegedly used the profile to force young men into sending him explicit images of themselves, according to the news outlet.
"I can send this nudes to everyone and also send your nudes Until it goes viral," Ogoshi allegedly messaged DeMay after the teen sent an explicit photo of himself.
"Just pay me rn [right now]. And I won’t expose you," the suspect reportedly responded.
"How much?" DeMay asked.
Ogoshi demanded $1,000, but the boy sent $300, leading the Nigerian man to allegedly threaten to send the explicit image to his family and friends if he did not send additional money, according to Fox News.
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Something similar happened to a local Ohio kid last year. It is more prevalent than people know. Some of the teen suicides will be from that root cause. How many is impossible to know as the extortion is leveraged on shame.
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used the profile to force young men
How does one force someone by using a profile?
Maybe we need stronger families that encourage kids not to pay attention to crap like this, hmmm?
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I have to keep reminding myself that at that age, if someone did something stupid, it was talked about, laughed about, and then all but the most egregious were quickly passed on.
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I was young and foolish once, but there wasn't any Internet to connect me to all sorts of people wanting to prey on me.
Parents, be very, very careful with your children onthe internet. I know there are lots of exciting shiny objects there, and they are going to be adults that have to know about these things soon enough; but provide guidance and direction.
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Ogoshi allegedly messaged DeMay after the teen sent an explicit photo of himself.
There's another message there - never send explicit photos of yourself to anyone, especially if they can't spell "Roberts".
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Had a pederast go after my daughter in a chat room when she was 13.
She rallied the girls and the adults in the group, got the sicko not only kicked but banned on that server. SOB was using three nyms to amplify his cravings as socially acceptable.
Quod Vigilanti
especially if they can't spell "Roberts".
I know who you are...you're the Butt Pirate Robertts!
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Manhattan grand jury has indicted ex-Marine Daniel Penny following the death of homeless man Jordan Neely during a subway confrontation last month.
Exact charges are not yet known and will not be unsealed until Penny, 24, makes an appearance in court at a later date - expected to be July 17. He was initially arrested on a charge of second-degree manslaughter.
Penny is currently free on a $100,000 bail. He surrendered himself to law enforcement officers on May 12 - nearly two weeks after the fatal incident occurred.
In an episode that sparked protests across New York, on May 1, Penny placed Jordan Neely - a homeless schizophrenic -
...a homeless schizophrenic who had 40 prior arrests including violent attacks, and was loudly working himself up to attack riders in that car...
in a chokehold on an F-train. Neely lost consciousness and eventually died.
The grand jury's decision means Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will be able to proceed to trial, where Penny, if convicted, may face up to 15 years in prison.
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Here we go again. It's Rodney King/George Floyd/Michael Brown (I can't remember the names of all the others) all over again. Any time a black man causes any kind of trouble, it's always the white man's fault. The media will hype this case the same as they did all those others. But at least this time I don't expect any riots. BLAMTIFA was hired to organize riots during the Trump administration but they'll stand down for Biden.
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Too bad for Daniel Penny though. If I was a young white man like him, I'd get out of New York ASAP.
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Anyone staying in blue cities at this point need to leave. They are dystopian death traps.
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^^ It would be interesting to see what the 'Jury of His Peers' looks like.
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In this case peers must be people on the voter roll that ride the subway. If there is truly a high level of violence on the NY subway, at least one of his peers ought to be willing to recognize that railroading Penny will be detrimental.
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defense will be able to call to the stand several passengers who felt threatened by Neely, some of whom are black
even in Manhattan, it is hard to see a jury convicting Penny
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They would bankrupt him, but I think there will be a Give Send Go. He may be able to parlay some kind of career out of the notoriety post trial.
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[NYPOST] The professors union at the City University of New York accused CUNY’s leadership of attempting to restrict freedom of expression for chastising a law school student’s fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... commencement address.
The Professional Staff Congress (PSC) defended graduate Fatima Mohammed
...more fully Fatima Mousa Mohammed, a BDS supporter of Yemeni descent...
after last month’s commencement address was labeled as "hate speech" by the CUNY Board of Trustees.
The PSC — which represents the faculty at the CUNY Law School — said the board’s "mischaracterization" could have a "chilling effect" on campus academic freedom.
During her May 12 speech, Mohammed attacked the State of Israel and Zionists for the indiscriminate killings of innocent Paleostinians and called the NYPD and the military "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... ."
The law school grad accused Israel of "indiscriminate" murder, encouraging "lynch mobs" and lauded resistance to "Zionism around the world."
"Israel continues to indiscriminately rain bullets and bombs on worshipers, murdering the old, the young, attacking even funerals and graveyards... our silence is no longer acceptable," she said.
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First they came for, well, everyone, really,
But I was so darn touchy-feely
That that Bonhoeffer quote
Cut my infidel throat.
I surrendered... but oh-so-genteelly!
Every time I go into a store these days, at the mall or anywhere else, I have trouble finding items and clerks tell me I have to buy it online. That's part of the problem. But then, if the mall is in San Francisco, that's a whole other problem.
[LaTimes] The owners of the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall have stopped paying their loan and are giving up the property to lenders, adding to deepening real estate pain in a city struggling to bring back workers and tourists after the pandemic.
The mall, co-owned by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and Brookfield Corp., has $558 million in outstanding mortgage debt. Management will be turned over to a receiver.
The move comes a month after Nordstrom Inc. said it was closing its store at the site, citing a drop in customer traffic and the changing dynamics of the city.
The mall is in the heart of San Francisco’s Union Square district, one of the downtown’s main shopping and tourist areas. Westfield San Francisco Centre is the city’s biggest shopping center and features the historic Emporium department store dome, rebuilt after San Francisco’s devastating 1906 earthquake and painstakingly restored for the mall’s 2008 opening.
"Given the challenging operating conditions in downtown San Francisco, which have led to declines in sales, occupancy and foot traffic, we have made the difficult decision to begin the process to transfer management of the shopping center to our lender to allow them to appoint a receiver to operate the property going forward," Molly Morse, a spokesperson for Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, said in a statement.
San Francisco has been among the hardest-hit cities since the pandemic as office vacancies soar, retail vacancies rise and concerns about safety deter visitors. Last week, Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. said it was stopping payments on loans tied to two downtown hotels with $725 million in outstanding debt.
Sales at Westfield San Francisco Centre fell to $298 million last year from $455 million in 2019, while foot traffic dropped 43%, Morse said. Traffic and sales at other Westfield properties increased during the same period.
Westfield’s decision to stop paying its debt was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
In a statement, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the move was "coming for some time" and pointed to plans by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to leave the U.S. market entirely. The Paris-based company planned a "radical reduction of our financial exposure to the U.S. over the course of 2022 and 2023," Chief Executive Jean-Marie Tritant has said.
The company last year sold the Westfield Santa Anita mall for $537.5 million to Southern California real estate investor Wen Shan Chang, who changed the Arcadia shopping center’s name to the Shops at Santa Anita. It was the largest mall sale in years.
"With new management, we will have an opportunity to pursue a new vision for this space that focuses on what the future of downtown San Francisco can be," Breed said. "Whether that’s attracting new types of business or educational institutions, or creating a totally different experience, we need to be open to what’s possible." BTW, I hate buying things online. I want to see where it was made (make sure it wasn't Made In China), check the fabric, make sure it's the size I need. Hell, I might even want to ask technical questions of someone who actually knows something about the item. Can't do any of those things online.
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Last week some investment firm walked away from two prime downtown SF hotels; I think the loan in question was $775 million. The dominoes are starting to fall.
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If you've invested everything you own in San Francisco real estate, the time to sell out and leave was two or three years ago. Some time before the pandemic anyway. If you're still there you're screwed.
I would think that the rich, rich elite in San Francisco are waiting for the real estate market to hit rock bottom at which time they'll buy it all at bargain basement prices and then make even bigger fortunes when the city recovers.
It's really tough for me to imagine that a city as beautiful and as strategically located as San Francisco could become a ghost town and remain in a permanent state of Detroit. It would violate some basic law of physics. I could be wrong.
But the decline will certainly be disastrous for those without the resources to either flee or wait for the rebound and it won't be pretty for anybody.
In the meantime I would expect the elites to have their own private security details to make sure the filth doesn't break into their mansions. But then, what happened to Paul Pelosi? Well, something weird about that case.
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Changes need to be made at the state and city levels for things to improve.
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Changes need to be made at the state and city levels for things to improve.
Exactly. And my hope would be that at some point even mad men like Gavin Newsom would understand that. Either that or people with clearer vision would get control. I can dream, can't I?
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Any hope is foolish. I lived and worked there for 5 years in the late 80s while attending SF State. The writing was most definitely on the wall then and all has since come true and more. Nothing will change as the vast majority of those who are left voted for this crap. I'll watch the final bon fire out of state.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] At least 8 citizens have been killed due to a heat wave as a result of the power outage in residential neighborhoods in the coalition-led city of Aden, south of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , for the past 24 hours.
According to medical sources in the city on Wednesday, most of the deaths were elderly and newborn children, due to respiratory complications.
The sources added that the ongoing electricity cuts and the rise in temperatures contributed to doubling the suffering of the people in the city, amid the delay of the coalition countries, whose armed factions have controlled the city since 2015.
Aden hospitals receive many cases of dyspnea that the elderly suffering from due to the power outage in their homes because of the depletion of fuel from the city’s power station, which estimates 2,000 tons per day at about one million and 200,000 dollars.
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[Power Technology, hat tip to Epoch Times] The UK government has announced £4.3m ($5.4m) in funding for the development of space-based solar. The funding will be used to develop solar panels to be deployed in space alongside wireless technology that will transmit the electricity they produce to Earth.
Speaking at London Tech Week on 13 June, Grant Shapps, the UK’s Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, announced the universities and tech companies that will receive a share of the funding.
"Space-based solar energy farms could deliver clean energy day and night, far more efficiently, and of course in all weathers," Shapps told audiences. "Space-based solar could generate up to 10GW of electricity by 2050 [...] it would be sufficient to power about three quarters of Britain’s homes," he went on.
"With the climate clock ticking, innovation has never been so important," Shapps said on Tuesday. "Half of the emissions reductions required to meet net zero by 2050 will have to come from technologies which are not yet commercially totally available. Or even partially."
The announcement comes amid several recent developments in the space-based solar industry, which Shapps referred to in his speech. The California Institute of Technology has successfully transmitted solar power to Earth from space in a world first. Additionally, the University of Pennsylvania has developed new ultra-lightweight solar cells for use in space. I suppose this is in the Green New Deal, right? Somewhere?
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Not to mention that the transmitted energy, in the form of microwaves, would necessarily heat up the target reciever areas and the air above it. It's not like they're gonna have a big wire hanging down from space.
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With the climate clock ticking, innovation has never been so important
Booga Booga!
Not to mention that the transmitted energy, in the form of microwaves, would necessarily heat up the target reciever areas and the air above it. It's not like they're gonna have a big wire hanging down from space.
[NYPOST] Bud Light is no longer the bestselling beer in the nation as the Anheuser-Busch-owned brand suffers the consequences of a boycott that was called in the wake of its marketing partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney ...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested... . A feather in the Wharton School's cap.
Modelo Especial, the Mexican lager, was the most popular beer brand in the country during May, according to data compiled by consulting firm Bump Williams.
In the four weeks that ended June 3, the Modelo brand represented 8.4% of retail beer sales, according to data cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Modelo, whose US division is owned by Constellation Brands but which is sold internationally by Anheuser-Busch InBev, beat out Bud Light, which represented 7.3% of retail sales.
Sales of Bud Light have been steadily declining week by week since the Mulvaney controversy sparked boycott calls on social media.
In the week that ended on June 3, sales of Bud Light were down 24.4% compared to the same week a year ago, according to Bump Williams.
Beer brands in the Anheuser-Busch portfolio have also seen sales lag in recent weeks, including Budweiser and Michelob Ultra.
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If the quality of your product is marginal, in a marketplace with many choices, provoking your customers will not end well. The stock price rebounded some, but it will go down again.
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Ironically Modelo was owned by Anheuser-Busch until 2013 when it was forced by American regulators: to sell the label to Constellation Brands.
Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD 0.85%increase; green up pointing triangle NV offered to sell an additional $2.9 billion of assets to Constellation Brands Inc. STZ 1.22%increase; green up pointing triangle in a dramatic bid by the world’s largest brewer to rescue its $20 billion takeover of Mexico’s Grupo Modelo SA after U.S. antitrust authorities sued to stop the huge cross-border deal.
- cite.
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My guess - institutional investors who don’t have friends in low places. They are expecting customers to wander back to the Trough and Brew eventually. The are busy calculating ratios of fundamentals on a spreadsheet, likely while taking swigs from a piping hot latte. They have no understanding that Bud Lite is toast permanently. There is no floor other than zero on Bud Lite as there was not on tulips back in the day.
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[Free Beacon] The White House was being as "forthcoming" as possible last week when it denied, and then admitted, that China was using Cuba as an intelligence-collection hub, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Monday from the White House.
Kirby acknowledged that China has for years been developing "intelligence-gathering capabilities in Cuba" and "elsewhere in the hemisphere" to spy on the United States. Kirby's comments come days after he flatly dismissed a Wall Street Journal report that China had struck a deal with Havana to set up an eavesdropping base in Cuba as "not accurate."
Biden administration officials first backtracked over the weekend, admitting that China has been using Cuba as an intelligence-gathering hub since the last administration—but quibbling that the Journal story framed the spy operations as a new development.
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Kirby acknowledged that China has for years been developing "intelligence-gathering capabilities in Cuba" and "elsewhere in the hemisphere"
Translation: 'Years' = Biden administration.
Antnie Blinken headed to China for spanking over Cuba site disclosure ?
Years was it? Not a "hub." How about a downlink and re-transmission site then? Fauci funded? USG shared facility? US contractor support personnel? Miami R&R? Comfort womens ?
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I would not limit the Chinese efforts to the Biden Administration. Hunter began working with the Chinese in the Obama Admin. Feinstein and McConnell for much longer. The Penn center indicates a long term relationship. Cuba has probably been a target for their unAmerican activities for as soon as the Russian interest in Cuba waned.
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[Substack] After years of official pronouncements to the contrary, significant new evidence has emerged that strengthens the case that the SARS-CoV-2 virus accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
According to multiple U.S. government officials interviewed as part of a lengthy investigation by Public and Racket, the first people infected by the virus, "patients zero," included Ben Hu, a researcher who led the WIV’s "gain-of-function" research on SARS-like coronaviruses, which increases the infectiousness of viruses.
More than three years after the pandemic’s outbreak, many around the world had given up on learning the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the highly infectious respiratory virus that has killed millions, and the response to which shut down businesses and schools, upended societies, and caused enormous collateral damage.
Public officials in the U.S. and other countries have repeatedly suggested that uncovering the pandemic’s origin may not be possible. "We may never know," said Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who oversaw pandemic response for two administrations.
Now, answers increasingly look within reach. Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus.
As such, not only do we know there were WIV scientists who had developed COVID-19-like illnesses in November 2019, but also that they were working with the closest relatives of SARS-CoV-2, and inserting gain-of-function features unique to it.
When a source was asked how certain they were that these were the identities of the three WIV scientists who developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19 in the fall of 2019, we were told, "100%"
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What the FUCKKKKKKK does it matter. The same US officials are just as complicit as those slant eyed bastards.
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So when will, we the victims, see a class action lawsuit against China?
It should be worth a few $$ Trillion at the least. Which part of could also be used to wipe out the US - China related Nation Debt.
BUT!
Let us not forget the Pharmaceutical industry that just happened to have billions of Vax-ccident doses ready within a month or so. All to make $$$ Billions from this initially claimed Bat Wet-Market source, but now admitted WUHAN Lab accident?
How about impeachment and criminal charges for the lying politicians?
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America hasn't been the same since that miserable little runt bastard started lying to us, advocating bullshit, meaningless ineffective fixes that were far worse than the virus itself to the overall population, and spent countless hours having his pompous little-man ego stroked for years as he made money on the side. He needs to spend a lot of time in prison!
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The virus had to have a disease vector to spread across the globe. Those poor bastards who worked in the lab were selected by the CCP to serve that purpose.
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As were the ones sent to Milan.
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Now its easy to become upset, and play who blames who.
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.
[NYPOST] A Michigan family is sounding the alarm about sextortion scams on social media after a 
[NYPOST] The professors union at the City University of New York accused 
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
[Power Technology, hat tip to Epoch Times] The UK government has announced £4.3m ($5.4m) in funding for the development of space-based solar. The funding will be used to develop solar panels to be deployed in space alongside wireless technology that will transmit the electricity they produce to Earth. 
...the transexual 
