[YouTube] After years on the run after faking his death, the leader of the trans terror cult linked to six violent deaths was finally arrested on Feb. 16, 2025. How did the arrests happen and will a judge lower Jack "Ziz" LaSota's bail again? Watch my video to learn about how they were caught and what happened in court.
[NYPOST] A self-professed criminal mastermind serial killer who called himself the ''Michael Meyers'' of Tennessee was just given 159 years for three slayings — on top of his 102-year sentence for killing his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child, authorities said.
Joshua Dotson, 24, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon after the new killings, according to Shelby County Prosecutors.
Joshua Dotson, 24, confessed to shooting and killing three people in Shelby Court, after already being convicted in the gun-slay death of his
Dotson shot and killed Reginald Anderson and Renita Bennett near a Memphis park in May 2020, WREG reported.
He also fatally shot Divieon Parker, 18, in a store parking lot in November 2019, according to the Memphis Police Department.
The new convictions come less than a year after Dotson was convicted of the June 2020 killing of his then-girlfriend Jamesha Covson, 19, and her unborn child — for which he was given two 51-year sentences.
Dotson shot through Covson's door and then gunned her down while she was several months pregnant, according to Sherlocks.
He allegedly killed his young lover because she knew about his previous murders, prosecutors said during the murder trial, according to Action News 5.
During the trial, Dotson represented himself and delivered a shocking defense in court.
In testimony, Dotson referred to himself as a ''serial killer'' and likened himself to Michael Meyers, the fictional slayer from the ''Halloween'' films, Action News 5 reported.
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I wonder what "depression" drugs he may have been on? I wonder what "depression" drugs most of the current crop of serial killers may have been on?
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Has the makings of a good Poll Questions:
So as a Taxpayer, how does it feel to work and pay taxes, to care of Murderers, Child Rapists, Pedophiles, and terrorists for the rest of their lives?
Would you support reinstating a Mandatory Death Plenty for 1st degree deliberately planned murder(s), Drug Cartel, and certain vicious crimes like Terrorist acts?
[NYPOST] NASA just increased the odds that ''city-killer'' asteroid YR4 2024 will strike our planet in 2032.
The space agency claimed that the dangerous space rock now has a 1-in-38, or 2.6%, chance of hitting home — the highest probability of a collision yet, New Scientist has reported.
When the asteroid was initially discovered in December 2024, the odds of a strike clocked in at 1-in-83, before increasing to 1-in-67, to 1-in-53, to 1-in-43 and now, the current frightening figure. Meanwhile, the European Space Agency's odds are slightly lower at around 2.4%.
Since late January, NASA has designated YR4 a level three on the Torino Scale — a standard rubric for the danger of NEOs (Near Earth Objects) that measure over 65 feet in diameter and have a 1% or greater chance of deep impact.
According to the scale, this asteroid is a ''close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers'' and boasts a ''1% or greater chance of collision capable of localized destruction.''
If Earth were to get rocked by YR4 — which measures between 131 and 295 feet in diameter — the resultant energy blast would be equivalent to 8 megatons of TNT, roughly 500 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the Independent reported.
[USNI] These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Feb. 18, 2025, based on Navy and public data. In cases in which a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship.
SHIPS UNDERWAY
Total Battle Force
295
(USS 234, USNS 61)
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[REGNUM] Stunned by the way the Munich Conference went, and especially by the speech of US Vice President J.D. Vance, the leaders of Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Great Britain, as well as the head of the European Council António Costa, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte moved to Paris the day after the event in Germany.
At the emergency summit, they discussed how they should now act in the context of the change in US rhetoric on the Ukrainian issue and the upcoming summit with Russia.
The format of the event itself has left EU member states that were not invited to the consultations perplexed. For example, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico does not understand what the high-ranking EU representatives were doing at the meeting, since the EU does not have the authority to decide on the deployment of foreign troops on the territory of another state.
In turn, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto focused on the composition of the participants: these are precisely the countries that have been constantly causing the danger of escalation of the war for the past three years. As the diplomat put it, these are pro-war, frustrated anti-Trump European leaders who want to prevent the conclusion of a peace agreement in Ukraine.
And the analyst of the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights, Zoltan Koskovics, ironically asked the question: “Are they going to talk about Ukraine without Ukraine?” It is Vladimir Zelensky who, in any unclear situation, likes to hide behind the thesis “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine”, reassuring himself with the conviction that his Western allies will not deceive him.
The key topic at the meeting in the French capital was the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine - one of the options for security guarantees that Europe could provide to Kyiv. However, there is no clear understanding of what this might look like.
“The latest version of European planning calls for a ‘deterrent’ force of several brigades, perhaps 25,000 to 30,000 troops, that would not be deployed along the line of contact but would be ready to show force if Russian forces resumed the war,” The Washington Post reported.
If necessary, reinforcements will arrive from outside Ukraine to help them. For example, France, whose president put forward the initiative to introduce troops in 2024, proposed deploying European military brigades in Ukraine beyond the line of contact, rather than on it, and is itself ready to send about 10,000 of its troops. However, this issue is so sensitive and serious that it is extremely unlikely to be resolved in one evening.
In Paris, as a correspondent for the French television channel BFMTV reported, the participants in the meeting were divided into two camps: the British and Swedes were for sending troops to Ukraine, while the Poles and Germans were against it.
This scenario seems quite realistic, judging by the statements of the leaders of these countries.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced his readiness to send troops and will discuss the issue with Zelensky in the coming days. And during his visit to Washington, he will be able to personally express to Trump his opinion on the need to back up the deployment of European troops with American guarantees. Moreover, he believes that cutting aid to Kiev against the backdrop of the emerging process of conflict resolution would be a big mistake.
Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergaard did not rule out sending troops to Ukraine, but only after the conflict is resolved to guarantee sustainable peace, and with a clear mandate for these forces. And this is said by a country that has rich traditions of armed, but still neutrality - before joining NATO, Sweden should not have participated in wars, although it had an army for self-defense.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz generally considers all these discussions premature: as long as the armed conflict continues, there can be no talk of European troops in Ukraine. And perhaps the main reason for this opinion is completely different - the reluctance to take any action on the Ukrainian track before the United States. As in the case of sending heavy equipment, Scholz expected that American President Biden would do it first.
A German government source summed up Berlin's position this way: "We will not participate in scenarios where European and American security diverge, for example if European soldiers are deployed without the full participation of the US."
And there will be no Polish military on Ukrainian territory, the issue is closed, emphasized Prime Minister of the Republic Donald Tusk. He is convinced that real security guarantees for Ukraine should be developed within the framework of NATO with the cooperation of the USA and Europe. According to the Minister of Defense of Poland Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, a better guarantee of security than sending thousands of soldiers is large investments of American, Polish and European companies in Ukraine, since this is more reliable in itself.
The meeting in Paris lasted about three hours and ended without a common communiqué or a final press conference. Probably, the whole thing was due to disagreements between the participants, who were unable to come to a common position.
What can we say if even within one country it is not possible to reach a consensus.
For example, British MPs insist on holding a vote on Starmer's initiative in the House of Commons. Ursula von der Leyen left the event with the standard phrase: "Ukraine deserves peace with reliable guarantees." Scholz was irritated by this entire discussion and noted in a conversation with journalists that further support for Ukraine without damaging the development of Europe itself is possible only in the case of the allocation of separate funding, and not by cutting expenditure items in the social sphere.
And only Tusk told the truth about the results of the urgently convened summit - there are none. "Such meetings do not end with decisions, since this is not a body that can make any binding and final decisions," said the Polish Prime Minister, noting that "it is necessary to realize that these negotiations must be conducted between Russia and Ukraine for them to bring real results. It is known that in connection with the involvement of President Trump, the US position will be leading."
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni missed almost a third of the three-hour discussion. When she arrived, her colleagues were already in the Elysee Palace, but this did not irritate the evening's host, Emmanuel Macron.
Moreover, "Italy's sister" was the only one to be honored by a walk with the French president to the car. Perhaps the leader of the Fifth Republic behaved this way because Meloni is one of the few European politicians who has a good relationship with Trump (she was even invited to the inauguration) in the hope that she would put in a good word in Washington if necessary?
Or maybe he was just trying to smooth things over, because the Italian Prime Minister was unhappy with the meeting. She thinks Macron's summit formula is wrong. In her opinion, it would have been better to gather in Brussels rather than Paris, and not invite representatives from all EU countries, and in general, European summits should not turn into anti-Trump get-togethers.
Meloni agrees with the US vice president's call for Europe to be more self-reliant and insists that subsequent forums should be aimed at working with Trump to end the Ukraine conflict.
“Trump, according to the prime minister, should not be taken head-on with individual initiatives and provocative poses,” notes the Italian newspaper La Stampa.
After seeing his colleagues off, Macron called Trump and then called Zelensky.
The conclusion from this unplanned dinner at the Eiffel Tower is this: there is no consensus on the advisability of sending troops to Ukraine even among the eight members of the European Union, and that's without taking into account Hungary and Slovakia, who are the most in favor of ending the conflict and restoring relations with the Russian Federation. They haven't even gotten to the details yet, where, as we know, the devil is.
Having been refused participation in negotiations on the fate of Ukraine, European politicians are deeply offended and want to act in defiance of Trump. But at the same time, they realize that they cannot pull Ukraine on their own, and they do not want to take on the risks entirely, preferring to secure guarantees from the United States. But the United States does not want to get involved in this story any more.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Shares in European defense companies are rising amid NATO's announcements of increased military spending.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said the alliance's spending target would be well above 3% of GDP.
NATO officials said significant increases in defense budgets were needed to continue supporting Ukraine and deter Russia from any potential attacks on NATO territory. Shares in Germany's Renk Group rose 12% to €28.08 in early trading on Monday, while Rheinmetall gained 8.4% to €885.8 and Hensoldt gained 6.5% to €43.33.
In the UK, BAE Systems rose 5.25% to £12.93 and QinetiQ gained 3.4% to £3.81. In France, Thales rose 3.75% to €171.55 and Dassault Aviation gained 4.75% to €227.20. Italy’s Leonardo rose 4.3% to 33.05 euros, while Sweden’s Saab rose 6.5% to 260.5 Swedish crowns.
Mark Rutte said the alliance’s spending target would be significantly higher than 3% of GDP, up from the current 2% target set in 2014, and that its members would have to comply with a strict timetable to be agreed at a summit in The Hague in June. NATO’s new spending target signals an expansion of Europe’s defence industry, as leaders seek to buy and develop European weapons, resisting calls to order more US systems.
Defence stocks have been rising steadily since February 2022, as investors bet the conflict would persuade governments to invest in the defence sector. But a 5% jump on average is a significant indicator, suggesting investors are likely to be informed of specific decisions by EU leaders, including increased defence production and future support for Ukraine.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, meanwhile, said the 27-member EU currently spends 2% of its GDP on defense, but that it needs to increase that by "hundreds of billions of euros" in annual investment. In addition, the EU's executive body will exempt defense from spending caps imposed by EU governments.
European arms manufacturers also received support at a meeting of key European leaders in Paris on Monday, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. The meeting focused on defense capabilities in Europe and what the EU could offer Ukraine as security guarantees in the event of a ceasefire.
In general, if we are being objective, European leaders heard the US message, feigned surprise, someone even shed a tear, and began to arm themselves in earnest.
On the issue of the fact that the war in Ukraine is not the only issue. The conflict will drag on for years one way or another, at least as long as the globalists retain control of Brussels.
[IsraelTimes] The US Senate confirms wealthy financier Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary, putting in place a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s hardline trade polices.
At the Commerce Department, Lutnick, who was CEO at the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, will oversee 50,000 employees who do everything from collecting economic statistics to running the census to issuing weather reports. But he’s likely to spend a lot of time — along with Jamieson Greer, Trump’s nominee to be the top US trade negotiator — managing the president’s aggressive plans to impose import taxes on US trading partners, including allies and adversaries alike.
The Senate vote to confirm Lutnick was 51-45.
Lutnick was CEO at Cantor Fitzgerald when its offices were hit in the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center. The firm lost two-thirds of its employees — 658 people — that day, including Lutnick’s brother. Howard Lutnick led the firm’s recovery and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Lutnick, who is Jewish, has promised to sell off his business holdings. They’re complicated. His financial disclosure statement shows that he had positions in more than 800 businesses and other private organizations.
This now belongs under business as usual rather than WoT, I think, as this kind of bickering with violence is the Iraqi/Arab base state.
[Rudaw] Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the Iraqi army’s festivities with Kurdish farmers northwest of the disputed province of Kirkuk where tensions have been simmering.
The escalation began on Monday when Iraqi security forces forcibly barred Kurdish farmers from Kirkuk’s Sargaran subdistrict from accessing their confiscated lands.
Footage captured by Rudaw showed Iraqi army and anti-riot units clashing with civilians as they attempted to enter their farmland. In one instance, an Iraqi security officer is seen as trying to forcefully remove a local from his tractor.
In response, Sudani ordered the Joint Operations Command to "form a high-level committee" to "investigate all aspects of the incident," read a statement from Iraq’s Security Media Cell. He also dispatched the justice ministry’s undersecretary, Burhan al-Qaisi, to the province to address the issue of "common lands of interest between the federal regions and the Kurdistan Region."
Sudani called on Iraqi and Kurdish security forces to "adhere to the laws...exercise a high level of self-restraint," and "act patriotically and wisely" to prevent further tensions.
The head of the Farmers Defense Committee, Mohammed Amin, told Rudaw on Tuesday that "a delegation from Iraq’s Council of Ministers" would meet with the farmers in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... adding, "we will announce the results [of these talks] later."
The recent festivities come despite recent advancements in Iraq’s legislature, including the passage of the Property Restitution Law last month.
The law aims to return lands seized, in Kirkuk and other disputed areas, during the Baath era to their original Kurdish and Turkmen owners. These lands were previously given to Arab settlers, a tactic believed to have been part of the Baathist regime’s efforts to alter the demographic makeup in disputed regions.
The escalation in Kirkuk sparked wide-scale reactions from the Kurdistan Region.
The Kurdistan Region’s Presidency slammed the Monday incident as "rejected and unacceptable," while the Kurdistan Regional Government described the Iraqi army’s use of force as "unconstitutional" and "contradicting the principles of the new Iraq." Erbil urged an immediate halt to military intervention and called for perpetrators to be brought to justice.
This is not the first such incident. In November, Iraqi armed forces also blocked farmers from preparing their fields for the winter season. Kurdish farmers at the time also blamed Arab settlers for preventing them from accessing their lands.
[NYPOST] Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. That was to show how humble he is. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... has developed pneumonia in both his lungs and will remain in the hospital as he battles the infection, according to reports.
The pontiff's condition is complicated by his advanced age; he turned 88 in December.
''Laboratory tests, chest X-ray, and the Holy Father's clinical condition continue to present a complex picture,'' the Vatican said in a statement.
He remains in good spirits, with a Vatican spokesperson saying he has been grateful for the world's prayers since he was first admitted to the hospital on Friday.
Francis spent last week battling a bout of bronchitis and went to the hospital after it worsened.
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Praying for the devil.
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The Pope is a gravely ill 88 year old man.
None of the Charlie Hebdo victims he thuggishly mocked 10 years ago, will ever be a gravely ill 88 year old man or woman.
[NYPOST] Elon Musk's xAI claims the newest version of its flagship ''Grok'' chatbot outperforms rival products offered by the likes of Sam Altman-led OpenAI and China-based DeepSeek — potentially giving the billionaire an edge in the AI arms race.
Dubbed ''Grok 3,'' Musk's new AI model scored higher on tests in math, science and coding than OpenAI's GPT-4o, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude and DeepSeek's V3 models, according to a chart released by the startup during a live-streamed launch event late Monday.
Musk said Grok 3 would be ''an order of magnitude more capable'' than its previous version ''in a very short period of time.'' Grok 3 used 10 times of the computing power than Grok 2 during its development.
''Grok-3 across the board is in a league of its own,'' Musk added.
The chatbot, which was previously described by Musk as ''scary smart,'' is available to premium subscribers on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Musk's startup also revealed a new tool called ''Deep Search,'' an AI search engine powered by Grok that explains the reasoning behind its responses to user queries.
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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.
[NYPOST] NASA just increased the odds that ''city-killer'' asteroid YR4 2024 will strike our planet in 2032.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
[NYPOST] 
