[NY Post] A Kentucky dad who has racked up more than $100,000 in unpaid child support was arrested as he got off a cruise trip in Florida after several years on the lam, according to officials.
Dominic Weaver’s vacation ended with him in handcuffs after he was taken into custody by local cops exiting the cruise ship in Miami sometime last week and brought back to Bluegrass State, Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell told a local Louisville news station.
The 47-year-old owes somewhere between $114,000 and $120,000 in child support, according to O’Connell.
Weaver was previously sentenced to five years of probation for flagrant non-support in 2019, according to Law and Crime.
"I don’t know when he left, but he fled the jurisdiction, and from the date of his sentence until today, and even today, he’s not paid one cent of child support," the Kentucky county official told WDRB. Well that probation seems to have worked.
O’Connell said Weaver has four cases with the child support division.
"This is one of the most egregious events that brings something to light that I think I’ve ever seen," O’Connell told the news station.
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[ShabelleMedia] Somalia accused Æthiopian forces of a deadly attack on its troops in a border region on Monday, just days after the two countries signed an accord aimed at resolving months of tension.
The Somali foreign ministry said in a statement that Æthiopian troops had attacked its forces stationed at an airstrip in the border town of Doolow in Somalia’s Jubaland state around 10:00 am.
It said the attack targeted three bases manned by the army, police and National Intelligence and Security Agency, and had caused fatalities, without giving a precise number.
But Jubaland state officials said the Æthiopian troops, who are also based at the airstrip as part of its mission against Islamist turbans, had intervened to protect a group of local politicians.
Somalia’s federal government has been clashing in recent weeks with forces of the semi-autonomous Jubaland over control of key areas in the state.
"The incident started this morning after the (federal) forces who were stationed here were given instructions to shoot an aircraft carrying a Jubaland state delegation... including state politicians, cabinet members and the governor," Jubaland security minister Yusuf Hussein Osman said at a presser in Doolow.
He said a firefight ensued in the town until Somali federal forces were "disarmed and some of them maimed".
"The pro-Jubaland forces and the Somali government security forces clashed and the Æthiopian forces who are stationed within the airstrip area intervened in support of the pro-Jubaland forces," a local resident, Mohammed Hassan, told AFP by phone.
"The pro-Somali government forces were later overpowered after the fighting spread in other areas inside town," he added.
Somalia is a federation of semi-autonomous member states — Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , Jubaland, Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... , Hirshabelle and South West — that have often clashed with the central government in Mogadishu.
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The incident threatens to upend a deal brokered by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member, but not the most reliable... less than two weeks ago to end a nearly year-long dispute between Somalia and Æthiopia.
That dispute began in January when Æthiopia signed an agreement with another breakaway region of Somalia — Somaliland ...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells.... — to lease a stretch of coastline for a port and military base in exchange for recognition, although this was never confirmed by Addis Ababa.
Somalia viewed this as a breach of its illusory sovereignty, sparking a fierce diplomatic and military row.
That appeared to be resolved when Æthiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud met in Ankara on December 12 and signed a deal that is expected to offer land-locked Æthiopia an alternative sea access in Somalia.
However,
if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... Somalia’s foreign ministry said the agreement was undermined by Monday’s incident in Doolow.
"Regrettably, these actions by Æthiopia constitute a blatant violation of the Ankara Declaration," it said in the statement.
"The Somali Federal Government warns that it will not remain silent in the face of such clear violations of Somalia’s illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity."
[BenarNews] Macabre killings, casual torture, misdirection and snooping were part of "the anatomy of enforced disappearances" linked to deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister the loathesomeSheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated... , an inquiry commission said in its first report.
The five-member commission learned about how forced disappearances were carried out based on accounts from surviving victims of such incidents — that is, those who resurfaced.
The commission, led by a retired Supreme Court judge, presented its report last weekend to Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate who became Bangladesh’s interim leader days after Hasina fled to India on Aug. 5.
Officers from the military and various security forces including the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) were interviewed by commission members. The United States, which sanctioned RAB in December 2021, accused it of more than 600 forced disappearances over 12 years.
The commission has recommended RAB be disbanded.
A longtime human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist, Jyotirmoy Barua, said any claims by Hasina or her supporters that the commission’s members were politically motivated would not hold water.
"The members of the commission are not directly or visibly politically connected — none have a political background," he told BenarNews.
A Bangladeshi human rights lawyer, Sara Hossain, concurred.
The commission head was known for his impartiality, and the other four members had long investigated human rights violations under governments led by both major political parties, she told BenarNews.
Here are 10 shocking revelations from the commission’s report, which is based on its scrutiny of 758 forced disappearance cases:
1. The number of forced disappearance cases likely exceeds 3,500, the commission said. It received 1,678 registered complaints. Of the 758 people’s cases it has scrutinized so far, 204 people, or 27% of alleged victims, are still missing. "[T]he massive scale at which it was unleashed on the population during Sheikh Hasina’s regime is a novel phenomenon," its report said.
2. Forced disappearances were not carried out by a few bad apples, the commission reported. The finesse with which each of the steps involved in a disappearance were carried out and the responsibilities divided across agencies — all over a span of 15 years — did not happen by accident, the report said. "[T]hese systems reflect a deliberate design orchestrated by a central command structure," the report added.
3. With so many involved, how did the network remain undetected for a decade-and-a-half? That, too, was no accident, the commission found. "[S]security forces would ... falsely attribute their actions to other agencies. ... The forces would also exchange victims amongst themselves, with one force abducting, another incarcerating, the third one killing or releasing the victims," the commission learned.
4. Even as they stayed undetected, the perpetrators could be brazen. The report said one victim of forced disappearance who was returned was even told that Hasina was giving him "a second chance," but with conditions. "You must refrain from politics, leave the country, and return only when the situation improves," he was told, the commission’s report said.
5. Abducting people without anyone around them noticing — known as "silent pick-ups" — was a vital part of forced disappearance operatives staying undetected. That was entirely impossible without electronic surveillance, which was widespread, according to the commission’s interviews with RAB and military officers.
6. Victims were detained for varying periods, ranging from 48-60 hours to several weeks or months, and in some cases, up to eight years, the report said. Some of the kidnapped were mixed in with legal detainees and some were stashed in secret cells. The commission said it had identified more than eight secret detention facilities where victims were held across the country. Many other such centers had been destroyed, it said.
7. The remarkable consistency in forced disappearance practices across the country included congruence in torture rituals, which were also "profoundly brutal and disturbingly methodical," the commission report said. One victim described RAB sewing his lips shut without anesthetic — "akin to stitching cowhide." Another recounted, RAB again, electrocuting his ears and genitals.
8. A forced disappearance case ended in one of two ways, the commission learned. The victim was killed or turned loose into the criminal justice system. For those the operatives decided to kill, they wanted to ensure the body would be difficult to identify. But RAB and other forces couldn’t resist making a sport of it. One survivor said a police officer pushed him onto a highway in front of a vehicle, which swerved away from him. The officer didn’t try again.
9. A victim who was let go may have had his or her life spared, but the perpetrators made sure they, perversely, destroyed that life. The captors would file a slew of cases against the victim in an attempt to justify the forced disappearance. This perpetuates "the sufferings of victims, who are forced to navigate a deeply flawed and punitive legal system for years afterwards," the commission report said.
10. India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has since 2014, when it came to power, been Hasina’s steadfast supporter. Before that, India’s Congress government too favored a Hasina administration. Did this closeness also involve prisoner exchanges, including of Bangladeshi forced disappearance victims? The commission said it did, basing its assessment on two cases and interviews with soldiers deputed to RAB Intelligence.
[NY Post] 48 hr rule
A London driver was busted for attempted murder after he jumped a sidewalk and crashed into a crowd of people early Christmas morning, sending four to the hospital, according to police.
The 31-year-old man was driving on the wrong side of the road in Shaftesbury Avenue in the heart of London’s busy West End theater district around 12:45 a.m. when he smashed into the pedestrians, the BBC reported.
One of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries, according to the Metropolitan Police — who confirmed this was an isolated incident and not terror related. Would you even say it if an "Allahu Akhbar" was issued?
Police believe the suspect "was involved in an altercation at a nightclub prior to getting in his car and mounting the pavement," Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stuart Cundy said.
Authorities cordoned off an area outside of the Sondheim Theater, where the popular musical Les Misérables is currently playing, according to Sky News.
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"In the Sondheim's diverse new Les Mis,
Pak detective in shalwar kameez
Runs his ramshackle car
Over penitent star
As old enmity crosses the seas."
[PJMedia] Voters and politicians alike this year are increasingly turning to the Trumpian Republican Party. The governor-elect of American Samoa and the governor of the Northern Mariana Islands are both planning to join the GOP.
After Donald Trump and the Republicans’ sweeping victory in the 2024 election, Governor-elect Pulaalii Nikolao Pula of American Samoa and Governor Arnold Palacios of the Northern Mariana Islands revealed their decisions to become Republicans. Pula cited GOP “values of respect for God, Country and Family,” while Palacios praised “President Trump and the Republican Party’s message of freedom, opportunity, and strength.” Both governors cited Trump in their statements.
[France24] The Flamanville 3 EPR nuclear reactor, France's most powerful to date, finally began providing electricity to French homes on Saturday after a plethora of technical setbacks led to a 12-year delay and a four-fold increase in the project's overall cost.
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.
[NY Post] A Kentucky dad who has racked up more than $100,000 in unpaid child support was arrested as he got off a cruise trip in Florida after several years on the lam, according to officials. 
...Republic of Somaliland is an unrecognised sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, recognised internationally as a de jure part of Somalia. It is located in the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden with approximately 5.7 million residents as of 2021. The capital and largest city is Hargeisa. The government regards itself as the successor state to British Somaliland, which united from 1960 to 1991 with the Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic. Under the Siad Barre regime, Somaliadestroyed ninety percent of Hargeisa Per international law, once you're in, you gotta stay in, no matter how bad it smells....
