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Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal in Gaza
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Moment Miami woman's parking lot s3x with man ends in disaster
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A convicted Miami scammer shot a man as he climbed into the back of a car for sex with her, then accused him of rape, police say.

Valerie Meza-Faublack, 22, was charged with armed robbery and attempted murder after the incident in on January 6 in Hialeah.

Meza-Faublack reportedly claimed she met the man outside the restaurant where she works before he drove her to a warehouse parking lot.

She told police she had paid him $20 to charge her phone but he instead forced her to undress and raped her, according to police.

Meza-Faublack was out on probation from a previous criminal spree when she was arrested.

She allegedly claimed the man 'dragged her out of the driver side door by her hair' and fired at her as she tried to escape.

But police say her story started to fall apart the next day, after they learned she refused a rape kit test at a rape treatment center.

The man then told authorities that he met Meza-Faublack at a bar and she asked him to leave with her.

But, the man said, when they went inside his car to have sex, Meza-Faublack attacked him instead.

'As the victim attempted to climb into the rear passenger seat of the motor vehicle, [Meza-Faublack] unlawfully took possession of his firearm, which was in the driver compartment area, and began shooting into the vehicle where he was occupying the rear passenger seat,' the police report says.

'After the shooting stopped, [the] victim advised he exited the vehicle, physically retrieved the firearm from [her] and fled the scene.'

Surveillance video also contradicted Meza-Faublack's story, as it showed her shooting into the man's car as many as 15 times.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 10:52 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:


Homeless trans woman accused of killing a 68-year-old woman after police find her body in a freezer
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:


Day 3: Years before the O’Keefe undercover op, that plotting Pentagon official was busted for soliciting an underage girl
[X] Two days ago we learnt that Jamie Mannina spilt his guts to a pretty undercover reporter about plotting with some retired generals to undermine President Trump here and was fired by the Pentagon here. Yesterday we saw the follow-up ambush interview here. Is there a single Progressive miscreant left who doesn’t diddle little children? Ugh.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11145 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How was he able to maintain his security clearances?
Posted by: mossomo || 01/17/2025 12:35 Comments || Top||

#2  How was he able to maintain his security clearances?

Says something about the people who hired him.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/17/2025 12:40 Comments || Top||

#3  A review of who kept him on is necessary.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2025 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  OOOOooooh, now I see why the date was a female.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/17/2025 19:58 Comments || Top||


Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist and Trump hater Darrin Bell arrested for AI child p*rn
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]Is child porn going to be this generation’s caught for tax evasion? Not that I object, but all of a sudden there are an awful lot of influential people caught in the headlights for this.

… The creep was well known for hating how Republicans would label pedos as ‘groomers.’

“In a search of Bell's home, investigators found 134 videos of child p*rnography linked to an account owned and controlled by Bell as well as computer generated/artificial intelligence child p*rnography,”NBC reported.

In a recent interview, Bell blasted Trump supporters as “racists.”



Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't feel sorry for Darrin Bell but AI generated child p-rn doesn't actually exploit children the way actual p-rn does. So the reason behind the law may be a problem.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 01/17/2025 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, that and the videos.

It is an interesting question. What if it is modeled after a real child? If this counts, then what about Jamie Lee Curtis' painting of a naked child?

TW, one possibility is that all these people getting exposed were dirty open secrets people were forced to get along with, and with a democrat election day victory would become the forced norm for at least the next 4 years because the alphabet mafia held key positions. They are also very rude people who likely cheesed off normies just wanting to clock in clock out go home. Well, now the culture has officially shifted.

Wait until we find out how wild the Diddy list is. See Neil Gaiman most recently. Strangely, the Newscum law forbidding the sale of fire property is going to keep a lot of incriminated celebrities from just disappearing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/17/2025 12:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Says something about the people who hired him.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/17/2025 12:43 Comments || Top||

#4  What did we just learn about Neil Gaimon?
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2025 13:52 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Sarah's link at Insty about Neil Gaiman
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2025 14:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Zero chance he has that type of sick predilection under control. They haven’t found the other stuff yet.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2025 14:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Now do Ted Rall.
Posted by: KBK || 01/17/2025 14:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Sarah's link

Thank you, Frank G. Ugh. I didn’t pick up anything like that from his books, though whether that’s me being oblivious or him not putting it into his novels, I couldn't say. His short stories strike me as uninterestingly self-indulgent because that is not his natural length, but that’s a different question.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2025 15:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Another open secret in entertainment, and its not a one time thing, he was apparently notorious for constantly hooking up with 'barely legals'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/17/2025 16:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Now how in the hell did that get a Pulitzer Prize instead of George Alexopoulos?

Question answered.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/17/2025 20:08 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Kenny Law, 'Moonshiners' star, dead at 68
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:


RIP Bob Uecker, a true baseball legend
[X]
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  His old stuff is still funny.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2025 14:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Major League wouldn't have been half the movie it was without him.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/17/2025 14:54 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
LA house spared by fire is split in half after being hit by another natural disaster
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The photos of the source article show a long row of burnt-out houses right on the beachfront. AFAICT, there was nothing to prevent a homeowner from running an intake pipe down the beach and into the seawater. Along with a fuel powered pump, that water could have been used to fight a fire, if only for buildings directly on the shoreline. The expense of doing that seems very small in proportion to the expense of replacing the destroyed building.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/17/2025 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  That whole area's subsurface is tenuous at best for building foundational support. Not much topsoil and an underlying loose rock structure.

Take away the ground cover (like, in a fire) and the soil in steeper areas looses any support. Given any amount or water (or even a very minor earthquake), it lets go pretty easily.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/17/2025 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Fires and earthquakes.... who knew ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2025 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  So I guess the lack of water for firefighting was a mudslide preventative measure?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Except that the engine necessary for the pump is probably against California law.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/17/2025 12:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Fires and earthquakes.... who knew ?

Evacuations, Road Closures Begin as Fire Engulfs World’s Largest Battery Plant in California
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 13:14 Comments || Top||

#7  It’s retribution for the Snow White reboot. That was too much.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2025 13:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Should probably cancel the live action How to Train Your Dragon, just to be safe.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/17/2025 15:52 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Yesterday's News, er... Conspiracy Theory, Today
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Tucker Carlson reveals shocking 'source of mysterious drones in New Jersey'
The Mail is easily shocked…
Tucker Carlson has made a shocking claim about the mysterious drones that plagued New Jersey for over a month, saying they were controlled by Chinese mothership satellite.

The first sightings appeared over the Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway and President-elect Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster in November, followed by thousands more in the skies.

While the US government was quick to dismiss claims they were foreign adversaries, Carlson claimed he was told otherwise.

He said 'an intel person' told him that the drones 'were in fact Chinese,' explaining the US government took down a Chinese satellite 'that was a command and control satellite for these drones.'

Carlson appeared to be hinting at a Beijing-operated satellite known as GaoJing 1-02 which fell from space on December 21.

Astronomers tracking such devices confirmed the Chinese satellite re-entered Earth's atmosphere above New Orleans and headed north towards Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri before burning up in the atmosphere.

But Carlson claimed it was 'taken down by the US government.'

He made the claims while speaking with independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, who heard a similar explanation for the drones.

'Somebody told me that that the military got one of the orbs, opened it up and it was Chinese,' Shellenberger said.

The GaoJing 1-02 was a commercial satellite used for mapping parts of the Earth that launched at the end of 2016.

It was said to have been decommissioned in early 2023 and floating around in space before burning up in the atmosphere in December.

However, the European Space Agency, which keeps track of all commercial satellites in the sky, showed GaoJing 1-02's mission status as 'Operational' as recently as June 2024, which raises questions about whether it had truly been deactivated.

Shellenberger told Carlson that he 'interviewed a bunch of people' in New Jersey when drones were filling the skies.

Around that time he heard John Kirby, the Defense Department spokesperson, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas say 'We're definitely not getting any drones over the military bases or other sensitive sites.'

'I was like, "Why would you lie about that,"' Shellenberger told Carlson.

The first drone spotted in New Jersey was over Picatinny Arsenal and on December 13, Naval Weapons Station Earle in Monmouth County reported seeing similar aerial vehicles.

Posted by: Gromp Huperelet2185 || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Economy
US warns of risk of economic crisis by end of 2025
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] An economic crisis could engulf the United States by the end of 2025 if the United States Congress does not take urgent measures. This was stated on January 16 by the candidate for the post of US Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent.

He also warned that if the situation does not change, the country will face a $4 trillion tax increase.

"This will be the largest tax increase in the history of this country, and its consequences will be devastating," he said in a speech he decided to deliver before the Senate Finance Committee.

The text of the document is quoted by Bloomberg. According to Bessent, due to large budget expenditures, the US government faced a deficit of funds, which amounted to 7% of GDP, which is the highest value in the last four years.

The candidate for Treasury Secretary called for putting finances in order and cutting unnecessary spending, which increased by 40% during the specified period. Bessent believes that the United States should prioritize investments that would help economic growth.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, on January 15, candidate for the post of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that excessive commitment to globalism to the detriment of national interests has weakened the economy and security of the United States. He also expressed the opinion that other countries have learned to manipulate this order in their own interests, harming the US.

In early January, American investor Jim Rogers warned that the world will face a global economic crisis in 2025. He believes that the reasons for a deep global recession will be the record high government debt of the US, Japan, China and Germany, as well as the longest period of American economic stability since 2009.

At the end of December, it became known that the US national debt for 2024 had grown by $2.4 trillion, and this amount exceeded the total debt of the Russian Federation by more than eight times. In total, the US national debt then amounted to $36 trillion.

Posted by: badanov || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:




Europe
Greenland's prime minister says Arctic island doesn't want to be part of the US: 'Always be a strong partner'
[FoxNews] Múte Egede said the autonomous Danish territory has a lot to offer to its 'close friends'.
The negotiations continue.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I’m not sure that his words will make much of a difference.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2025 13:56 Comments || Top||

#2  This is just maneuvering. Giving my crystal ball a rub...
Greenland declares independence. Denmark happily loses a big drain on their treasury. Greenland and the USA form a Compact of Free Association and everyone lives prosperously ever after.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/17/2025 15:59 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Thirty-three people have died in Istanbul after having drunk tainted alcohol while 48 others have received hospital treatment
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Bud Light?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/17/2025 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ "Did you die?"
"No, but it made me trans"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2025 9:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Wild Turkey?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 14:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Must have run across some old inventory of Zima that wasn’t refrigerated.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2025 14:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Its just Raki.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/17/2025 14:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Every once in a while I'll get a batch that causes concern. Try it out on mother-in-law before I put in the mason jars. Worked ok so far.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/17/2025 17:35 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Wicked smart
Posted by: Frank G || 01/17/2025 18:44 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought all alcohol was haram in Islam. How did this even happen?
Posted by: Rambler || 01/17/2025 18:58 Comments || Top||

#9  A knock-kneed Caucasian in khaki
Roared, deep in his cups, "Pour! More raki,
Mohammed be, er... [E.F. Hutton]
Salaamed!"
Okay, I'm stuck. But lookit, "raki" [cue theme] kinda almost rhymes with "sake."
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 01/17/2025 21:51 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Human Rights Watch: Trump’s return to power ‘threatens rights’ both within US and abroad
[IsraelTimes] Donald Trump’s return to power could see him repeat rights violations committed during his first presidency and heap pressure on already faltering international institutions, Human Rights Watch warns.

The Republican’s “return to the White House not only threatens rights within the US but will also affect, by commission and omission, respect for human rights abroad,” the organization says in its annual report.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2025 2025-01-17 02:52 || Comments || Link || [11144 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
While Human Rights Watch, does do some good occasionally. Could this baseless Trump rant be an lame attempt to get some badly needed media exposure, to rake in some $$$$$ donations?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/17/2025 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  BTW: Human Rights Watch quickly came out against HAMAS, a few days after the Hamas Oct 7th, 2023 attack
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/17/2025 9:08 Comments || Top||

#3  ^And then the scumvermin started "supporting" poor Gazan civilians - making sure that Israel will lose.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 01/17/2025 9:38 Comments || Top||


#5  Somehow I'm not terribly concerned about HRW's warning.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/17/2025 13:02 Comments || Top||

#6  It's disappointing IT carried the story.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 01/17/2025 17:32 Comments || Top||

#7  The Times of Israel reported HRW’s claim, not that the claim is true.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2025 19:11 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The Technocratic Blueprint - A Century In The Making
[ZERO] "Humanity will attempt to overcome its limitations and arrive at fuller fruition," declared Julian Huxley in 1957, coining the term "transhumanism."

By 2022, Yuval Noah Harari would announce its dark fulfillment:

"Humans are now hackable animals. The whole idea of free will... that's over. Today we have the technology to hack human beings on a massive scale. Everything is being digitized, everything is being monitored. In this time of crisis, you have to follow science. It's often said you should never allow a good crisis to go to waste, because a crisis is an opportunity to also do 'good' reforms that in normal times people would never agree to. But in a crisis, you have no chance, so you better do what we - the people who understand - tell you to do."

Like Truman Burbank in 'The Truman Show,' we inhabit a world where reality itself is increasingly engineered. And like Truman, most remain unaware of the extent of this engineering until shown the patterns. But unlike Truman's physical dome with its obvious cameras and artificial sets, our manufactured environment operates through sophisticated technological systems and invisible digital constraints. The mechanics of this reality engineering - from media manipulation to social programming - were explored in detail in our previous analysis. Now we turn to the driving force behind this manufactured world: technocracy, the system of control that makes such reality engineering possible on a global scale.

The technocratic architecture wasn't merely passed down through institutions - it flowed through bloodlines. At the heart of this dynastic web sits Thomas Henry Huxley, known as "Darwin's Bulldog," who helped establish scientific materialism as the new religion while serving on the influential Rhodes Round Table. His son Leonard carried this torch forward, while grandsons Aldous and Julian became key architects of the modern world order. These weren't random connections but rather the careful cultivation of multi-generational power networks.

The connections deepen through marriage and association. Charles Galton Darwin, grandson of Charles Darwin, wrote "The Next Million Years" in 1952, outlining population control through technological means. His son would later marry into the Huxley line, creating a powerful nexus of influence spanning science, culture, and governance.

This intergenerational project has evolved with technological capability. Where Rockefeller once declared "we need a nation of workers, not thinkers" while building his educational information factory today's technocrats face a different equation. As artificial intelligence eliminates the need for human labor, the focus shifts from creating compliant workers to managing population reduction - not through overt force, but through sophisticated social engineering.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink recently made this shift explicit, explaining how AI and automation will reshape population dynamics: "In developed countries with shrinking populations... these countries will rapidly develop robotics and AI technology... the social problems that one will have in substituting humans for machines will be far easier in those countries that have declining populations." His candid assessment reveals how technological capability drives elite agendas - as human labor becomes less necessary, population reduction becomes more desirable.

Climate change messaging, declining birth rates, and the normalization of euthanasia aren't random developments but logical extensions of this evolving agenda.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/17/2025 05:13 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As artificial intelligence eliminates the need for human labor ...

More Tech Pink Slips: Microsoft Lays Off Employees from Multiple Divisions Including Gaming

Pruning DEI hires?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 12:55 Comments || Top||



Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket blasts off in challenge to Elon Musk's SpaceX
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:


Starship upper stage lost on seventh test flight, debris seen spewing in sky
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And he writes a check, and says "Is the next one ready?"
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/17/2025 8:52 Comments || Top||


Anduril Industries chooses Ohio for 4,000-job autonomous weapons manufacturing facility
[Cleveland.com] A California-based defense technology company plans to build a 4,000-job facility in central Ohio to manufacture “autonomous weapons systems” for the U.S. and its allies, a development state officials say represents the largest single job creation project in state history.

Anduril Industries plans to invest more than $900 million to build the facility on 500 acres in Pickaway County near Rickenbacker International Airport, a civil-military public airport south of Columbus, according to a Thursday press release from Gov. Mike DeWine’s office.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Anduril, forged from the shards of Narsil, it is the sword Aragorn carries throughout the Fellowship of the Ring quest storyline.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/17/2025 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Must not have wanted to deal with the Cleveland snow line.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/17/2025 13:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Anduril, Palantir... are all the defense tech nerds hobbit fanciers?
Posted by: SteveS || 01/17/2025 16:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Pickaway County is apparently part of metropolitan Columbus.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/17/2025 19:43 Comments || Top||


Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 01/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, it blew up. I bet they learned something interesting.

Q: What is the difference between Math and Engineering?
A: Engineering is much louder.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/17/2025 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Jeepers, did that idiot really get 175k views by pretending to be stupid enough to bust SpaceX for poking fun at euphemism through humorous-ish use of euphemism? Maybe I do belong on Twitter. Or is it a Titania thing and I'm missing the joke?
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 01/17/2025 20:45 Comments || Top||



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