[IsraelTimes] Two leaders of a white supremacist group have been arrested on charges of seeking to spark a "race war," including attacks on Jews, immigrants colonists, and members of the LGBTQ community, using an online forum known as "Terrorgram," US officials say.
What small percent of the readership are not FBI agents?
Dallas Humber, 34, of Elk Grove, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and Matthew Allison, 37, of Boise, Idaho, were taken into custody on Friday and were to make their first appearances in a federal court today, they say.
"Today’s indictment charges the defendants with leading a transnational terrorist group dedicated to attacking America’s critical infrastructure, targeting a hit list of our country’s public officials, and carrying out deadly hate crimes — all in the name of violent mostly peaceful white supremacist ideology," Attorney General Merrick Garland says in a statement.
Humber and Allison face multiple charges including soliciting hate crimes and the murder of federal officials, distributing bomb-making instructions, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
According to the indictment, Humber and Allison used the encrypted Telegram platform to promote their white supremacist ideology and communicated with followers on a forum dubbed the "Terrorgram Collective." That's cute. I wonder if any actually used that term or is it just clickbait?
They promoted the belief that "violence and terrorism are necessary to ignite a race war and ’accelerate’ the collapse of the government and the rise of a white ethnostate," it says.
Humber and Allison allegedly joined Terrorgram in 2019 and became leaders of the group in 2022 after another leader was arrested.
Followers were led to believe they could become "saints" by "committing an attack in furtherance of white supremacist accelerationism," the indictment says.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A Wyoming man who rescued a 14-year-old girl from a sex abuser was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for 'kidnapping' him, while the pedophile received a similar sentence of 10 to 14 years.
In April, Timothy J. Ott, 31,
…the kidnapper…
pleaded guilty to kidnapping Zackary Minard, 23,
…the pedophile…
who was found in bed with a teenage girl.
When the mother discovered her 14-year-old daughter in bed with Minard, she contacted her boyfriend, Ott, who rushed to the house with a 35-year-old friend in tow.
Last month, Ott was ordered to serve nine to 10 years in prison. District Judge Michael McGrady further ruled that the 31-year-old must pay the abuser $1,065 in restitution.
The 31-year-old confronted the abuser and soon a violent fight broke out, during which the young girl vomited, according to Cowboy State Daily. While the friend repeatedly kicked Minard, Ott took the then 22-year-old by the ankles and dragged him outside, Gillette News Record reported. The young girl vomited? Wow, that's a pertinent detail
After letting the abuser get to his feet, they ordered him into the trunk of a red 2007 Chevy car, which he promptly did. Minard claimed to authorities that Ott deliberately drove in an erratic manner, so that he would be thrown around against hard metal objects while in the trunk. The abuser thought that he was being taken to some remote location in order to be killed.
Eventually, the car came to a stop and Ott punched Minard multiple times, breaking his nose. The two men left the then 22-year-old out in the rural country, where the temperature was about 35 degrees.
Before driving away with his friend, Ott told Minard to walk back to town and consider what he had done.
The next day, the 31-year-old returned to the scene to look for the abuser, fearful that something might happen to him. However, Ott learned that Minard had already been found and was now being treated at a hospital. The 'kidnapper' spoke with the police, confessed to his crime, and expressed regret that things went 'too far.'
Only a few days after his arrest, authorities found paraphernalia with trace amounts of meth in Ott's possession. The judge gave Ott a three-to-five-year prison sentence for the illicit drug, but is allowing him to serve it concurrently with his time for kidnapping.
In his interview with authorities, Minard admitted to having sex with the underage girl. In addition to his prison sentence, the 23-year-old must pay $3,000 in fines, as well as $500 in restitution to the Wyoming Division of Victim Services.
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The police are there to protect the criminals. It's why they were created.
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In Wyoming, no less. Louisiana judge did ok back in 1984 with Gary Plauche, who got a suspended sentence for executing his son's kidnapper at the Baton Rouge airport.
It doesn’t get much lewder than this. The only thing missing is a shoot-‘em-up with the cops. Note the miscreant’s changing pronouns throughout the article — someone is having fun with it.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A property manager from Oklahoma who began transitioning in prison had previously decapitated a friend in his home state it emerged today as he admitted the murder of a New York antiques dealer.
Alex Ray Scott, 28, fled the Sooner State in 2019 to escape allegations she molested a five-year-old, but not before dismembering Robin Skocdopole, 63, with a chainsaw. The revelations emerged as she appeared heavily made-up at Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday to admit killing Kenneth Savinski, 64, with a decorative plate, kitchen knife and 'maybe a pen' in January 2020.
'Scott agreed to take the FBI to the last known location of Skocdopole's head,' the Department of Justice said in a release.
'Unfortunately, when Scott took FBI to the location, no additional remains were found.'
Scott came to the authority's attention in January 2020 when she walked into a Manhattan police station covered in blood, and told officers: 'I think I may have killed someone last night.'
By then police had already found the body of the elegant antiques dealer in his Upper East Side apartment on 83rd Street near Park Avenue. Savinsky who met Scott on a dating site, was found with his throat cut and deep gashes to his head in the blood-spattered apartment.
Scott had been seen walking out of the apartment building, wearing Savinski's black jacket and counting money with noticeable hand injuries. Scott then allegedly used Savinski's credit cards to pay for a hotel room in New Jersey, where the killer woke up the next day, covered in blood and apparently with little memory of what had happened the night before.
Savinski's was one of five credit cards found on Scott, and investigators began tracing the owners of the others, one of whom was Skocdopole.
Scott told interviewers that she had lived at Skocpodole's single-story home in Broken Arrow, but no-one picked up the phone there to investigators.
The Broken Arrow Police Department was dispatched to the address with a search warrant in February 2020 and found the house empty of all possessions but splattered with blood. Three months later some of Skocpodole's dismembered remains were found in a nearby creek with a medical examiner concluding that both a chainsaw and a manual saw had been used to cut them up.
By then Scott was awaiting trial for Savinski's murder at a Rikers Island detention center reserved for female adults and adolescents after she began transitioning while in custody.
But it was May 2023 before Scott admitted to Skocpodole's murder and agreed to take part in a fruitless search for the 63-year-old's missing head.
The FBI was leading the investigation into Skocpodole's death because it took place on one of Oklahoma's native American reservations. They discovered that Scott, herself a member of the Cherokee Nation, had been fitted with an ankle monitor in July 2019 as she awaited trial for forcing a co-worker's five-year-old son to engage in oral sex.
She was renting a room in Skocdopole's home at the time and told friends that her landlord had moved to Dallas for work when Skocdopole vanished in August. Investigators later spoke to friends to reported receiving 'vague and oddly worded' emails from Skocpodole explaining his disappearance which Scott later admitted writing.
And data from Scott's ankle monitor data and bank history confirmed that she had purchased and then returned a chainsaw at a local Walmart, while further analysis of the tag led them to where the killer had disposed of some body parts.
In October she fled to Long Island where she was arrested for fleeing the child sex charges and told police he had gone there to kill herself.
Unaware at that point of Skocdopole's disappearance they took Scott to a psychiatric hospital for observation and later back to Tulsa to be charged with two counts of lewd molestation.
She had worked for a property management firm in Tulsa and in 2017 was pictured at a fashion show event in support of the Children's Abuse Network of Tulsa which raised $30,000.
But she was back in New York by Christmas 2019, staying on friends' sofas and arranging hook-ups on dating sites, the last of which was with Savinski.
In May of this year she was sentenced to 45 years by a US District judge for the Second Degree Murder in Indian Country of Skocpodole.
Details emerged today as she admitted his guilt to the second-degree murder of Savinski.
She is expected to serve at least 22 years in prison as part of a plea deal with the New York court but will be returned on release to Oklahoma to serve out her sentence there.
[AFRICANEWS] A South African hunter is believed to have been eaten by crocodiles after he went missing during a safari hunt in Zim-bob-we.
Crocodiles have been known to do that…
44-year-old Scott van Zyl, who owns a professional hunting company, disappeared last Friday on the banks of the Limpopo River in Zim-bob-we, British news portal The Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
The dogs he was hunting with returned without him and his rifle and personal items were intact in his pickup truck.
A search team traced his tracks to the banks of the river and found his backpack.
Police and park authorities decided to shoot two suspected Nile crocodiles and ''found what could possibly be human remains in them'', a member of the search party told The Telegraph.
The remains are reportedly being tested by forensic experts to verify if they belong to Scott van Zyl.
Crocodile attacks are common near river banks with at least four people killed in Zim-bob-we in the past month.
In March, a 19-year-old Mozambican football player Estevao Alberto Gino was killed by a crocodile along the Zambezi river in western Mozambique.
''The crocodile came out of the water abruptly and took him by the waist. After that, the animal ran back into the water,'' the founder and coach of his amateur side club, Eduardo Carvalho told the media.
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[The Federalist] Aclassical charter school that was preserved after Republican-backed candidates took over the local school board just posted the top state test scores in the district. Students at Merit Academy, a 3-year-old K-11 public school that opens its 12th grade in 2025, also posted the best scores among the four districts that families in the Woodland Park exurb of Colorado Springs can choose from under open enrollment.
While test scores scratch the surface of student and school academic quality, these do help vindicate Teller County parents dissatisfied with extended school lockdowns, an increase in screen-based schooling, and creeping politicization of taxpayer-provided education. Due to these frustrations, this group of parents started a new public classical school in 2021 and took over their school board that fall to keep Merit open and growing. Merit nearly doubled in size the year after that. Charter schools are public schools run by independent boards that can be closed if students perform poorly.
The Denver Gazette offers a data visualization tool for state English and math tests. It shows Merit Academy’s top standing in the Woodland Park Re-2 district on both measures of academic performance.
Taiwan’s exports to the US topped the record for any month’s shipments to China, underscoring rapidly shifting East Asian supply chains.
The archipelago’s shipments to the US rose to $11.89 billion in August, data from the Finance Ministry in Taipei showed on Monday. That beat the previous high of $11.72 billion to China in 2021.
Also, Taiwan’s exports climbed to a record last month, coming in at $43.64 billion.
The new monthly record is partly the result of a yearslong campaign by the US to rewire Asian trade, highlighted by President Joe Biden’s sweeping tariff hikes on a range of Chinese imports. Japan’s exports to the US have been above shipments to China for 22 months, the longest stretch since 2017.
In December, the US overtook China as South Korea’s top export market, though in recent months the China figure has been greater.
The new monthly record also comes as the US’s artificial intelligence boom drives a surge in Taiwanese exports, especially for tech-related shipments. The US has been the biggest customer for the chips, made by the likes of Nvidia Corp. and critical to powering graphics and training AI services. Companies in the Netherlands and Hong Kong have also been big customers.
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Looking at the graph in the tweet and reading the attached Bloomberg article, it looks like the comparison is Taiwan exports to the US vs Taiwan exports to China.
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.
A South African hunter is believed to have been eaten by crocodiles after he went missing during a safari hunt in Zim-bob-we.
