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Hamas says committed to ceasefire
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-War on Police-
Man pleads guilty to kill*ng a New Mexico State Police Officer who stopped to help him with a flat tire
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… while he was still alive

Police later connected Smith to the murd*r of paramedic Phonesia Machado-Fore, though he has not been formally charged yet

Smith was already on the run on March 15, 2024, after stealing a car and a 9mm gun

He got a flat tire while driving. Officer Justin Hare stopped to help and even offered Smith a ride into town to fix it

Smith admits to shooting Officer Hare once, then going around Hare's car and shooting him two more times

He then got into the police cruiser while Hare was still alive, drove for about five minutes, and took him out of the car before leaving him on the side of the road.
Posted by: Fred || 01/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He has an outstanding warrant in Carolina for a murder which he was fleeing from. Throw in interstate flight, he's got three hots and a cot for life.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/20/2025 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  New Mexico does not have Capital punishment anymore. North Carolina does though they have not used it in years. If ever there was a deserving case, Smith is it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/20/2025 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Murders across State lines could be a Federal crime
Posted by: Frank G || 01/20/2025 10:32 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
FBI Warned Agents It Believes Phone Logs Hacked Last Year-China Again
Ugh. Thank goodness the grownups are about to take over. The FBI should be mortified as well as worried.
[InsuranceJournal] FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off a race within the bureau to protect the identities of confidential informants, a document reviewed by Bloomberg News shows.

FBI officials told agents across the country that details about their use on the telecom carrier’s network were believed to be among the billions of records stolen, according to the document and interviews with a current and a former law enforcement official. They asked not to be named to discuss sensitive information. Data from all FBI devices under the bureau’s AT&T service for public safety agencies were presumed taken, the document shows.

The cache of hacked AT&T records didn’t reveal the substance of communications but, according to the document, could link investigators to their secret sources. The data was believed to include agents’ mobile phone numbers and the numbers with which they called and texted, the document shows. Records for calls and texts that weren’t on the AT&T network, such as through encrypted messaging apps, weren’t part of the stolen data.

AT&T publicly disclosed the breach in July and said it included six months worth of mobile phone customer data from 2022. The hackers threatened to sell the data unless the telecommunications company paid an extortion fee.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Aren't warnings supposed to come *before* the event? Afterwards, they are either notifications or history.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/20/2025 9:18 Comments || Top||


California restaurant pushing out free pizzas 'nonstop' to help feed wildfire victims, first responders
[FoxBusinessNews] Pizza Girl in Venice has handed out more than 1,000 pizzas for those impacted by fires.
How lovely. May it be returned to them tenfold.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More progress in containment of wildfires.

As of early am, local time, 59% containment of Palisades fire and 87% containment of Eaton fire.

The smaller fires in Ventura and San Bernardino counties that began 12 -15 January are completely contained.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 01/20/2025 13:25 Comments || Top||


MAGA garbage truck to join Trump inauguration parade
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
86 killed in Nigerian fuel tanker explosion
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A fuel tanker explosion in Niger State in western Nigeria has killed 86 people, local outlet This Day Live reported on January 19.

The bodies of the victims were removed from the scene of the accident. The death toll stands at 55, said Alhaji Abdullahi Baba Ara, director general of the state emergency management agency.

He specified that 80 of the dead were buried at night. Another five bodies were taken away by relatives of the dead to be buried in the city. One person died after being hospitalized.

Authorities initially reported 50 people killed after a tanker exploded in Dikko. The accident occurred on January 18 at around 11:00 GMT on the Abuja-Kaduna expressway near the Baddegi gas station. The tanker overturned on its side and a tanker truck pulled up to pump out the fuel. During the pumping, gasoline spilled on a generator, causing an explosion and fire.
Inshallah. No amount of care can prevent what Allah wills, so why bother?
Most of the dead were people who ran to the tanker hoping to collect fuel.
Had they not run over to collect free stuff, they’d still be alive.
The fire also destroyed several houses and shops.

Accidents involving fuel tankers are common in Nigeria. In October 2024, more than 180 people were injured and more than 80 were wounded when a tanker truck overturned and exploded.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, in February 2022, at least 17 people were killed in a road accident involving a fuel tanker in the Nigerian state of Ogun. In November of the same year, in Kogi state, a fuel tanker with failed brakes collided with several cars in the oncoming lane. At least 12 people were killed in the explosion.

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Posted by: badanov || 01/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11182 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
Protesters storm South Korea court after it extends Yoon''s detention
The strange political journey continues.
[GEO.TV] Hundreds of supporters of South Korea's arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol, stormed a court building early on Sunday after his detention was extended, smashing windows and breaking inside, an attack the country's acting leader called "unimaginable".

Yoon on Wednesday became the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested as he faces allegations of insurrection related to his stunning, short-lived Dec. 3 declaration of martial law that has plunged the country into political turmoil.

Shortly after the court announced its decision around 3am (1800 GMT) on Sunday, Yoon's supporters swarmed the building, overwhelming riot police trying to keep them at bay.

Protesters blasted fire extinguishers at lines of police guarding the front entrance, then flooded inside, destroying office equipment, fittings and furniture, footage showed.

Police restored order a few hours later, saying they had arrested 46 protesters and vowing to track down others involved.
Posted by: Fred || 01/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Former Space Force commander nominated to serve as Air Force undersecretary: President-elect Donald Trump
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/20/2025 08:20 || Comments || Link || [11142 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He was fired from his post for calling out DEI. Lost his pension. Now he's the boss.
Posted by: ed in texas || 01/20/2025 15:23 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ A wrong put right.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2025 16:51 Comments || Top||

#3  ^^ 110%, B.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/20/2025 17:51 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2025-01-20
  Hamas says committed to ceasefire
Sun 2025-01-19
  Sunday a.m.: Planned start time of ceasefire passes without Hamas sending names of hostages to be freed today, so IDF continues Gaza strikes
Sat 2025-01-18
  Top border lawmaker pushes to declare bloodthirsty gang a terrorist organization: 'Take the gloves off'
Fri 2025-01-17
  Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal in Gaza
Thu 2025-01-16
  Israel, Hamas ceasefire accord
Wed 2025-01-15
  Top Shiite cleric tells Aoun ''weapons not sacred''
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