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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Accused serial killer allegedly gunned down 6 random strangers when he was just 17
[NYPOST] An accused serial killer allegedly bumped off six random strangers in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
when he was just 17 — with cops admitting there may have been more.

Antonio Reyes was already in jug for a 2020 killing when prosecutors on Thursday announced five additional murder charges — as well as four attempted murders, including three kids ages 3 to 9.

''None of these people had ever met Antonio Reyes before, and there's no reason to suspect Antonio Reyes had any reason to target them,'' Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke told news hounds at a presser, according to USA Today.

''One victim was killed when he went to the gas station to buy a pop. — Another victim was sitting in a parked car with a friend on Palm Sunday afternoon. — Another victim's only crime was taking his family to buy a new puppy one afternoon,'' she said.

The accusations against Reyes, now 21, are for a killing spree over nine months in 2020 on the Windy City's Southwest Side. The murder victims were all between the ages of 16 and 31.

“These were six lives that were brutally taken,” Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling said.

“It’s difficult to comprehend how anyone could easily take someone’s life and especially so many in one year. … Who knows how many he may have been responsible for?”

Reyes has been in police custody since 2021 for the murder of Luis Davalos, who was shot in the head in June 2020, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

The attempted murder charges include the three children of one of the victims who was shot dead withe the kids in his car.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It’s difficult to comprehend...

I think I know why law is failing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/01/2025 6:12 Comments || Top||


#3  Our society has become a Petri dish to propagate sociopaths.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2025 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2025 12:08 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Trump says US Justice Department returned boxes of classified documents taken by FBI from Mar-a-Lago
Just a little thing, but more winning anyway.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump says boxes of classified documents that the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago home during an investigation into possible misconduct have been returned to him, and that he will one day display them in his presidential library.

Trump says that the boxes, which contained top secret documents that he had faced charges of improperly taking with him when he left the White House after his first term, have been returned by the Justice Department, now led by his own appointees.

The department “just returned the boxes that Deranged Jack Smith made such a big deal about,” Trump posts on his Truth Social platform, referring to the special counsel who had led the case over the documents.

“They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library,” he writes, without clarifying if all the documents that had originally been kept in the boxes had also been returned.

Trump repeats his position that he “did absolutely nothing wrong” and his claim that the case against him was a political witchhunt.

The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago in 2022 in a bid to retrieve the classified documents, which Smith had accused Trump of stashing at the Florida golf club after leaving the White House the year before.

Photographs had shown the top secret documents — which included records from the Pentagon and the CIA — piled haphazardly and unsecured in a gleaming bathroom at the busy club.

Trump had allegedly thwarted multiple efforts by the previous administration of Joe Biden to retrieve them.

The prosecution was still moving through the legal system when Trump returned to power on January 20. Nine days later, Smith dropped the case, citing a Justice Department policy of not indicting or prosecuting a sitting president. He also resigned from the department.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2025 2025-03-01 03:36 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:


#2 
Did the FBI give back Trump's wife's underwear also?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/01/2025 6:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The cover sheets ought to be a display in the Trump library. I would say Smithsonian but they would mess it up. If there is an underwear drawer display, this will be the most popular library ever. The gift shop is also going to be FIRE.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2025 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Could panty raid the Obamas, but might be surprised which bedroom they are found in.

Or not.

Photographs had shown the top secret documents — which included records from the Pentagon and the CIA — piled haphazardly and unsecured in a gleaming bathroom at the busy club.

This that photograph which shows a hotel room's vertical blinds and careful arrangements?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/01/2025 11:13 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pakistan confirms two new polio cases in Sindh, Punjab
[GEO.TV] Authorities have confirmed two new polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
cases in Pakistain, one each from Qambar district in Sindh and Mandi Bahauddin district in Punjab
...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
...
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, bringing the total number of cases in 2025 to five.

According to the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), this marks the third polio case in Sindh and the first in Punjab this year.

Last year, Pakistain reported a total of 74 polio cases. Of these, 27 were from Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, 23 from Sindh, 22 from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.

Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


China-Japan-Koreas
China has found a fuel source with reserves sufficient for 60,000 years
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Thorium reserves in deposits in China are enough to provide China with fuel for 60,000 years, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) newspaper reported on February 28.

According to the publication, the Bayan-Obo region of Inner Mongolia alone contains up to 1 million tons of the metal. This deposit alone contains enough thorium to cover household energy needs for tens of thousands of years, the authors noted.
The key is whether or not the ore can easily be extracted.
The PRC has already begun building the world's first nuclear power plant based on a thorium molten salt reactor; it will be located in the Gobi Desert. The nuclear power plant, generating 10 megawatts of electricity, is planned to be commissioned by 2029.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, observers from The Strategist earlier noted that China's dominance in the rare earth metals (REM) industry was the result of a 40-year campaign by the Chinese state. Now, China accounts for 80% to 90% of the extraction and processing of rare earth metals, as well as the use of REM in the production of finished products, the authors noted.

China has been mining REEs since the 1950s, initially as a by-product of mining operations in the Bayan Obo mining area. REE production at the Bayan Obo mine increased from 1,000 tonnes in the late 1970s to 11,860 tonnes in 1986, surpassing US production levels.

Posted by: badanov || 03/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  it will be located in the Gobi Desert

In case it goes bangers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/01/2025 6:09 Comments || Top||

#2 

So when will China halt importing foreign oil and use their own?

The extra 10++ Million barrels a day, no longer being sent to China by various suppliers, should cause an over supply and bring down oil prices.

Unless, of course, China has developed an Oil-eating Flu Virus also.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/01/2025 6:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Thorium reactors were all the rage twenty years ago; Saudi Arabia was very interested. Then their possibility just dropped off. Why?
Posted by: Thavins Ebbolusing6295 || 03/01/2025 6:37 Comments || Top||

#4  RETRO
Thorium’s Long-Term Potential in Nuclear Energy: New IAEA Analysis

In August 2021, China announced the completion of its first experimental thorium-based nuclear reactor.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/01/2025 6:47 Comments || Top||

#5  ^#3 Why? Because there are technical reasons that make Uranium-233 (what a Thorium-232 breeder reactor breeds) less suitable for making nuclear weapons. You have the option of chemically isolating Plutonium-239 with the Uranium-235/238 cycle if you plan on *cough* peaceful recycling.
Posted by: magpie || 03/01/2025 8:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Hey Uyghur kid. School is out. Let me outfit you within this 19th century miner’s gear. Good news - you are off the kidney donor’s list.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2025 9:10 Comments || Top||

#7  See, and woulda thought it was gonna be hamster style treadmills.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/01/2025 15:32 Comments || Top||

#8  lots of nations have large thorium reserves, e.g., India, Brazil and the US have over 500k tonnes
Posted by: Lord Garth || 03/01/2025 20:29 Comments || Top||


Russia and China attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees
[CNN, from a Red State Link] Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by CNN.

The intelligence indicates that foreign adversaries are eager to exploit the Trump administration’s efforts to conduct mass layoffs across the federal workforce.

Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired employees with security clearances and probationary employees at risk of being terminated, who may have valuable information about US critical infrastructure and vital government bureaucracy, two of the sources said. At least two countries have already set up recruitment websites and begun aggressively targeting federal employees on LinkedIn, two of the sources said.

A document produced by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said the intelligence community assessed with "high confidence" that foreign adversaries were trying to recruit federal employees and "capitalize" on the Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs, according to a partly redacted copy reviewed by CNN.

It added that foreign intelligence officers were being directed to look for potential sources on LinkedIn, TikTok, RedNote and Reddit.

Posted by: Bobby || 03/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Seems like a good time for CounterIntel if they are that susceptible to offers from the other side? Perhaps unemployment isn't enuf? How about imprisonment and ruin?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2025 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  GITMO
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2025 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  The Village
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2025 10:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Probably already lined up for the take, just accelerated hiring.

Right, Milley?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/01/2025 12:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Russia and China can have 'em. I'm betting they'll wish they hadn't.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/01/2025 13:37 Comments || Top||

#6  We are a month and change into a historic demonstration of the Administrative State taking repeated groin shots. If now is the time that a previously upstanding CIA agent is deciding that it’s a good time to become a double agent, I think we have left reality. All the sketchy folks already did their treason and are trying to hide their tracks. It won’t work.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/01/2025 14:00 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel decides to establish formal ties with trio of European far-right parties
[IsraelTimes] FM Sa’ar says opening of dialogue with Sweden Democrats, France’s National Rally, Spain’s Vox is based on their present actions, not antisemitic roots: ‘I didn’t see reason not to’
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Far right" should be added to "Godwin's Law". It had no actual meaning any longer. The headline for stupid people might as well be "Israel establishes ties with Hitler", which would be just as confusing as that stupid headline.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/01/2025 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  "Far right": "right" refers to direction and far to the distance from (self-appointed) "elites" who been drifting far to the left.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/01/2025 2:03 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
8 people arrested for spitting at church in Jerusalem’s Old City, say police
All religions have their self-righteous idiots.
[IsraelTimes] Eight people were arrested last night on suspicion of spitting on a church in the Old City of Jerusalem, police say.

According to the police, the suspects include both adults and minors, and two of them were also arrested in connection with a similar incident that occurred two months earlier.

“We will not tolerate expressions of hatred toward anyone, Christians, Jews or Muslims, in the Old City or anywhere else in Jerusalem,” says Commander Dvir Tamim, chief of the David area of the police’s Jerusalem District. “We condemn this ugly phenomenon that harms the unique fabric of life that has existed in this area for many years, which includes visitors, worshippers and travelers of all religions, side by side.”

Tamim says tensions will be particularly heightened in the Old City in the coming period, with the start of Ramadan, and he calls for calm in the area. He also says that police will continue to use technological means, including high-tech cameras, to identify and catch suspects in such incidents since most go unreported.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/01/2025 2025-03-01 02:26 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Microsoft to shut down Skype in two months, company says switch to Teams
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Microsoft will be shutting down Skype for good this year on May 5 after the video call service has been around for 21 years. The shutdown comes after the service had to deal with competition from other video call platforms such as Zoom and others.

According to CNBC, the company announced on Friday that it would be shutting down Skype's operations and Jeff Teper, President of Microsoft 365 told the outlet in an interview, "We've learned a lot from Skype over the years that we've put into Teams as we've evolved teams over the last seven to eight years."

"But we felt like now is the time because we can be simpler for the market, for our customer base, and we can deliver more innovation faster just by being focused on Teams," Teper added.

The tech giant is encouraging Skype users to use Microsoft Teams as opposed to Skype as the video service comes to a close. Over the next few days, Microsoft will be allowing for those using the video call service to log onto Teams using their information stored on Skype. All credits that customers have bought or subscriptions will move over to Teams.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now if I could still keep my Windows 10 past October...
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2025 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  We use Zoom and Google meets. For a brief moment, I had to remember what Skype even is/was.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/01/2025 2:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Teams is pretty good. Our company switched over from Zoom when the security issues with that platform became apparent.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/01/2025 7:08 Comments || Top||



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