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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Here we go again: 18-Year-Old Indiana Girl Arrested After Allegedly Planning Valentine’s Day School Shooting
[CanadaFreePress] The suspect allegedly identifies as transgender

An 18-year-old girl, who allegedly wrote about identifying as a male and had a “shrine” to mass killers, was arrested and charged this week for allegedly planning a mass school shooting at Mooresville High School in Indiana.

The student, a female who allegedly identifies as a “transgender male,” was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and felony intimidation after one of her friends sent information to the FBI’s Sandy Hook tipline.
Bless the friend who did the hard thing, and thus prevented much worse.
The tipster stated that a friend was planning on carrying out a mass shooting and had access to an AR-15 rifle, according to police.
More from the Daily Wire:
After the tip came in, the FBI tracked down disturbing messages the student allegedly sent under the name “Jamie” on social media platforms Snapchat and Discord. The messages detailed plans for a mass shooting along with photos of a bulletproof vest and AR-15 rifles. In one of the messages, Jamie wrote that she had been planning the school shooting for a year.

According to investigators, the student spoke with a school counselor on Tuesday and disclosed that she was sexually attracted to the 19-year-old shooter who killed 17 people and wounded 17 more at Parkland High School in Florida in 2018.

In 2022, the student was hit by a suspected drunk driver while walking to the bus stop. The crash fractured her skull, broke her femur and arm, and caused two brain contusions, according to a report from WRTV. She allegedly told investigators that she was teased about the accident. “[She] found out later that the male who struck her with his vehicle, committed suicide. She felt like she killed him, but she knows she did not. She blamed herself for him killing himself,” the arrest affidavit states.

The student sought mental health help when she was a freshman, but a school official told police that her father did not allow her to continue receiving mental health assistance. Shortly after the student turned 18 last year, she signed herself up for mental health assistance.

Authorities executed a search warrant at her home, where she lives with her father. During their search, authorities said they found “a collage” on the wall of multiple mass shooters and found three notebooks belonging to the student.

“Each notebook depicted swastikas, the words ‘kill,’ ‘bang,’ ‘I hate you all DIE DIE DIE’ among other obscenities,” the arrest affidavit stated.

According to police, one of the student’s notebook entries — dated December 16, 2024 — stated, “My name is Dex I am eighteen years old. Born on October 26th 2006. I currently live with my father, my mother passed away. I am aslo [sic] a transgender male. I have a lot of homicidal thoughts.”

A January 9, 2025, entry read, “I am death, destroyer of worlds.” A few days later, the writer penned, “These thoughts wont stop. I want to hurt others. All of the time! I want to hurt others. I wish people around me knew about my bad thoughts. I love violence.”

The student is being held without bond at the Morgan County Jail, WTHR reported.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

A simple solution.
Mental Wards.
Or Schools for Transvestites (students and Teachers Only. Then they can go hump, or kill each other.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/17/2025 5:49 Comments || Top||

#2  OK .. what meds was seh on?
Posted by: Warthog || 02/17/2025 8:42 Comments || Top||

#3  she
Posted by: Warthog || 02/17/2025 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4 
She-It
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/17/2025 9:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Seems like a common thread. Hate who you are (often in terms of your sex), then decide it's not your fault, it's "their" fault, so you punish them.

In this case an early article said her father didn't believe in shrinks so she probably wasn't on SSRI's.

Also note she was run down by a drunk driver about three years ago; not sure if she had mental problems before hand, but she did take some head damage.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/17/2025 9:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Anyone confused about their gender is likely to have a lot of other psych problems.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/17/2025 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7 
He
She
He-She
She-He
SH-it
Posted by: NN2N1 || 02/17/2025 12:05 Comments || Top||


#9  That’s why we need to make sure that everyone gets a Valentine from everyone. If that doesn’t happen, there’s the devil to pay.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/17/2025 19:40 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Nigerian paratroopers fail at training

Disaster in #Nigeria caused by lack of training of the Nigerian Army paratroopers! pic.twitter.com/MPRJXwPDPf

— Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) February 17, 2025
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/17/2025 09:14 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everybody can be a paratrooper once.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/17/2025 12:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Jack it is a static line jump.

Things that went wrong:
1) High winds on the drop zone scattered the formation and blew them off the LZ
2) Planes dropped too near buildings and structures
3) Poor training for the paratroopers
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/17/2025 14:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Poor sods.. I still have the memory of a power line coming at me from a static line jump.
Posted by: Glolutch Tingle1702 || 02/17/2025 15:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Turn into the wind with a dash one bravo. I recall watching the leader of my stick on our second jump at Bennington, running with the wind, his nose was under his left eye
Posted by: Beavis || 02/17/2025 17:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Bennington? FYA, Benning or whatever it’s called now
Posted by: Beavis || 02/17/2025 17:39 Comments || Top||


Illegal gold mine collapses in Mali, killing 48
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] At least 48 people were killed in a collapse at an illegal gold mine in Mali, West Africa, on February 15. The incident was reported by the AFP agency.

The emergency occurred on the surface of a mine where a Chinese company had previously worked. The dead were mostly women, the publication notes.

According to local police, such incidents occur frequently in the region due to the large number of cases of “illegal exploitation of mines.”
Posted by: badanov || 02/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Western Media Scrambles To Dismiss White Genocide Concerns In South Africa
[ZH] The western public has been hearing a lot about "genocide" in recent years, from the genocide of indigenous peoples, to the genocide of Palestinians to the genocide of trans people. The demand is that these concerns be taken seriously whether they are realistic or exaggerated, that reparations be distributed and that refugees be taken in by the millions. The underlying narrative is always the same - "White colonialism" is the ultimate culprit behind every social injustice in the world and marginalized minorities are perpetual victims that require protection.

But what happens when white people are the minority under attack?

That's a question that's simply not acceptable according to the establishment media, and any suggestion that such a thing is possible is treated as an act of xenophobia. White people can never be considered a "marginalized minority". This is the conundrum the western public often encounters when the issue of South Africa is broached.

The country's well known history of segregation and Apartheid, which was dismantled from 1990 to 1993, is publicized and dramatized constantly in the media and by Hollywood. However, the aftermath is barely discussed.

Nelson Mandela, a member of the South African Communist Party and a co-founder of the terrorist group "uMkhonto we Sizwe" in 1961, was elected the first black president of the nation in 1994 and rebranded as a civil rights hero akin to Martin Luther King. After a honeymoon period of around ten years the country's economy went into a steady spiral. Unemployment has now exploded to over 30%....
[Took 'em long enough to 'scramble'.]
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/17/2025 06:52 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Request for Mods: Can you add a "File Under" category for South Africa, say, "Africa South"? Thanks in advance.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/17/2025 7:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Done
Posted by: badanov || 02/17/2025 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Western Media Western Intelligence agencies which have betrayed white Rhodesia and South Africa for decades.....

Meanwhile, global 'Big Pharma' continues to use Africa as a product test-bed.




Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2025 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Gay Muslim Leader Killed in Suspected Terror Attack in South Africa
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/17/2025 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Vandag is ek 'n Jood
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 02/17/2025 10:37 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 - Did he throw himself off the roof of a building?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/17/2025 11:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Whahahaha at #5.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2025 12:32 Comments || Top||

#8  "Africa Subsaharan"

RSA is in Subsaharan Africa? That's news to me...learning every day. Thanks a ton.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 02/17/2025 16:39 Comments || Top||

#9  'Upper Saharan Africa, you North Pole centric bigots!!#3
/sarc
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/17/2025 18:32 Comments || Top||

#10  For some perspective on South Africa (and many other things), may I recommend https://www.kimdutoit.com/
Kim, like Elon Musk, is from South Africa. (Kim is not quite as successful as Elon.)
Posted by: Rambler || 02/17/2025 18:39 Comments || Top||

#11  Upper Saharan Africa...

It is interesting how each region of Africa has its own sort of fuckupedness.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/17/2025 18:58 Comments || Top||

#12  Probably shouldn’t settle them in Minnesota or Michigan. There’s room in Wyoming.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/17/2025 19:38 Comments || Top||

#13  *Anecdotal*

We have a harvest season out here in Ag Land, many people hire what are called Custom Cutters. Basically, a land owner subs out the harvest cutting, usually wheat or such.

Many times they have employees who are from other Ag Centric Cultures: Saskatchewan/Manitoba, Australia, South Africa - it's like a 'Gap Year', as USA calls it, but instead of jet setting party destinations they go do a harvest working from South Texas to North as crops ripen.

Every single South Africa Euro Descendant youngster who have came through, that I've met, were polite, spoke well English, and built like a wire suspension bridge.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/17/2025 19:38 Comments || Top||


Former Mauritian prime minister arrested in money-laundering probe
[AFRICANEWS] Former Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has been arrested and is facing money laundering charges, the state-run Financial Crimes Commission said early on Sunday.

It said he was taken into custody following searches by detectives from the commission at different locations, including at his residence.

Commission spokesperson, Ibrahim Rossaye said they found and seized cash to the value of $2.4 million dollars from a business linked to him.

The former prime minister's lawyer, said on Sunday his client has been provisionally charged and has denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!


Jugnauth was prime minister from 2017 until November last year when his Militant Socialist Movement suffered a crushing defeat in the general elections.

Following the polls, new Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam announced a public finances audit.

Days previously, he had questioned the accuracy of some government data compiled by the previous administration.

Last month, the country's former central bank governor was detained and released on bail after being charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.
Posted by: Fred || 02/17/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China and YouTube working together against the USA
[X]
Skip through the beginning advertisement

Posted by: 3dc || 02/17/2025 00:34 || Comments || Link || [11125 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I can confirm that videos from this channel were recommended to me in anonymous / not logged in mode frequently before the election if I searched something about China.

"China is A**hole!" and those siding with China shouldn't be trusted. That includes some who are, IMHO undeservedly, darlings of the right, like e.g. Orban.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 02/17/2025 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  I watched through to the end and ... pretty much as he describes, nothing. No links to any of his other content. None at all. Instead, a bunch of other bland/generic stuff I have no interest in pursuing.
Posted by: Chicago Lurker || 02/17/2025 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Well since YouDamnTube won't let me see anything without signing in and giving a them a lot of info I damn well won't, I include them on the same list as the CCP.
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/17/2025 9:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Disengagement of Troops with China Provides India a Small Opening
[OneIndia] India's recent troop disengagement with China in eastern Ladakh offers a slight diplomatic opening, according to foreign policy expert C Raja Mohan. However, he emphasised that significant challenges persist. Mohan highlighted the importance of India enhancing its relationship with the US to boost technological and economic growth. Despite some easing, such as resumed flights and visas, 50,000 troops still face each other, and a $100 billion trade deficit remains.

India and China have announced measures to mend ties, including resuming the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra and restoring direct flights. These steps aim to normalise relations following troop disengagement in eastern Ladakh. The announcements came after talks between Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong in Beijing. Mohan noted that while military disengagement has occurred, de-escalation is yet to be achieved.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/17/2025 2025-02-17 00:45 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Science & Technology
Chilean national arrested in Texas with jamming device that disabled officers' communications
[FoxNews] Ignacio Castillo Contreras, 22, was charged with residential burglary and interfering with a radio frequency licensed to a government entity

A Chilean national was arrested in Texas after a burglary, during which he was able to interfere with arresting officers' communications by using a radio jamming device.

Ignacio Castillo Contreras, 22, was charged with residential burglary and interfering with a radio frequency licensed to a government entity in connection with the incident on Feb. 8, according to West University Place Police.

During his probable cause hearing, Contreras said he is not a U.S. citizen and has only been in Houston for a couple of months, Fox 26 reported. He said he was living in a hotel.

Police said officers discovered a radio frequency jamming device in Contreras' backpack after he broke into a home in the 6400 block of Sewanee Avenue.

Officers within the vicinity of the device were unable to properly use their body-worn cameras and key fobs to lock and unlock patrol vehicles, court documents show. They were also unable to communicate through police-issued hand-held radio devices.

"A radio frequency tracking device sends a lot of signals very high intense signals around you," tech expert Juan Guevara Torres said, according to Fox 26. "It blocks signals from going to point A to point B."

In my opinion, as a tech expert, I can tell you that whoever did this has some tactical knowledge on how to use this device and where to place them," Torres continued.

Former Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said Contreras' ability "to jam up the local police officers who were responding to the calls their radios key fobs getting into their car and body cams makes it a dangerous situation for law enforcement," according to Fox 26.

"If you imagine an ordinary criminal committing a crime with a radio frequency jamming device, now add to that someone with real bad intent who wants to harm a lot of people like a terrorist, a mass murderer, and it gets scary quick," Ogg said.
Was it marked “Made in China”?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/17/2025 08:20 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Trial Run for something else. Plus a spate of federal felonies for the jammer.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/17/2025 16:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like this might be related to why border agents will stop wearing body cams: Townhall

a post on the website Reddit claimed that the app BLE Radar uses Bluetooth to scan for low-energy devices. This includes phones, smartwatches, and speakers. Apparently, this can also track CBP body cameras from a distance of 100 yards and can also trigger improvised explosive devices
Posted by: Bobby || 02/17/2025 18:42 Comments || Top||



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