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Self-proclaimed Hamas operative in US Air Force indicted over pipe bomb plot
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
UFC Fighter Ahmad Hasanzada arrested on child abuse charges in California
[KhaamaPress] UFC fighter Ahmad Hasanzada was arrested in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, on serious charges of child sexual abuse, sparking widespread shock and concern.

A court in California has arrested Afghan UFC fighter Ahmad Hasanzada on charges of committing sexual acts against a child under the age of 14, a serious criminal offense in the United States.
Bringing the culture with him from the Olde Countrie — back home she’d already be grandmother.
According to AG Fight, the 28-year-old athlete was taken into custody last week in Sacramento. The charges carry greater legal weight due to the more than 10-year age gap between Hasanzada and the minor victim.

Initially held without bail, Hasanzada was later granted conditional release after the court set bail at $400,000. Despite the bail ruling, he remains in jug at the main Sacramento County Jail.

Hasanzada rose to prominence after winning a spot on Dana White’s Contender Series, which led to a contract with the UFC. He was scheduled to make his official UFC debut on April 26 in Kansas City.

So far, neither the UFC organization nor Hasanzada’s training team, Team Alpha Male, has issued any public statement regarding the arrest or the allegations.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy...
sources close to the UFC, cited by sports journalist Marcel Dorff, have confirmed that the organization has terminated Hasanzada’s contract. His spot on the April 26 fight card will reportedly be filled by Gage Young.

This incident has drawn widespread attention and concern from both the Afghanistan’s community and the international MMA scene. Legal experts suggest that, if convicted, Hasanzada could face a lengthy prison sentence under California’s strict child protection laws.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2025 2025-04-27 00:20 || Comments || Link || [115 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Bringing the culture with him from the Olde Countrie — back home she’d already be grandmother.

She?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/27/2025 2:44 Comments || Top||

#2  If a he, there is no grandmothering involved, according to my freshman biology professor.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/27/2025 4:48 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Who would be fired today.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 04/27/2025 6:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Cultural incompatibility on parade.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/27/2025 8:51 Comments || Top||


The mugshot of activist judge Hannah Dugan crying and wearing orange confirmed an AI generated picture
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [140 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1 
Given the demonstrated A.I. ability to create realistic video and pictures. Maybe a Law to requiring such productions be clearly labeled as such.

Think about what could be produced to lie to the Voters, or used to claim it was an A.I. Generated fake, when in fact it is real life.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/27/2025 3:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Hannah's actual mugshot
Posted by: Frank G || 04/27/2025 4:16 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Actually, the second one is even more fun.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/27/2025 11:29 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Snow hits 23-year low in the Himalayas ‐ now it is threatening 2 billion people
[NY Post] It has stopped snowing in the Himalayas.

As a result, the water supply two billion people is under threat.

The mountain range reaches 2500km from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east.

Its high peaks and valleys are covered in ice – or should be.

The annual cycle of melting snow feeds 12 major river basins that wind their way across the Central and East Asian landscape.

These are the major water sources for a dozen nations But measurements have revealed a steady decline in snow falling across the Himalayas in recent decades.
This season, it tumbled to an overall 23-year low.

“This is an alarming trend,” says International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) scientist Sher Muhammad.

“We are observing such deficit situations occurring in continuous succession.”

Some rivers are suffering more than others.

The HKH Snow Update 2025 report reveals snow catchments for the Mekong and Salwen Rivers that feed into Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia are worse than 50 per cent lower than average.

China’s Yangtze catchment has 26 percent less snow. The Ganges River of India and Bangladesh is down 24 percent.

As is the Indus that feeds Kashmir and Pakistan.

The reduced snowfalls would not be a problem if it were a one-off event, but the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) says this has happened in five out of the past six years.

It’s an acceleration of a trend observed over the past quarter century and the implications of this trend are enormous.

“Australian policymakers are vastly underestimating how climate change will disrupt national security and regional stability across the Indo-Pacific,” warns Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) analyst Mike Copage.

DRYING UP
Less snow in the Himalayas means less spring melt and less insulation for any ice or glaciers beneath.
Time for water wars
Posted by: Frank G || 04/27/2025 06:12 || Comments || Link || [194 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sure paying politicians more tax money will make it snow.
Posted by: Warthog || 04/27/2025 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if this is a background lie posted to cover for the current water war?

India shut off rivers to Pakistan.
China shut of rivers to India and Bangladesh after India shut off Pakistan.
China just might have decided to steal Burma's and Indochina's water while they were at it.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/27/2025 11:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't let the 3G dam go dry.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/27/2025 11:39 Comments || Top||

#4  3-G dam is first thing that should go in war
Posted by: Knuckles Unaise9018 || 04/27/2025 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  upper part of the river valleys will suffer

but the lower parts of the river valleys get far more water from the monsoon
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/27/2025 13:28 Comments || Top||


Four earthquakes recorded in Crimea-Black Sea region
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Four earthquakes with a magnitude of up to 2.3 were recorded in the Crimean-Black Sea region. This was reported by Marina Bondar, Deputy Director of the Institute of Seismology and Geodynamics of the V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University.

“One of them was in the Black Sea, 90 kilometers from Yalta, and three earthquakes on land in the area of ​​the Uchan-Su waterfall,” she noted in a conversation with RIA Novosti.

Bondar specified that these earthquakes were weak, but due to the shallow location of the epicenter and the location of the epicenter on land, some residents were able to feel the tremors.

According to the expert, the strongest of the tremors are characterized by an energy class of 8.4 and a magnitude of 2.3.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, an earthquake occurred in western Turkey on April 23, which lasted for about 10-15 seconds, followed by aftershocks. The tremors, felt in several provinces, caused panic in Istanbul. The source was located at a depth of almost 7 km underground. According to the Istanbul Governor's Office, 151 people were injured in the earthquake, there were no casualties as a result of the tremors.

Posted by: badanov || 04/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [96 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Given the shallow depths.
Kinda wondering if something else is going on, and the Earthquake is a cover story?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/27/2025 3:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Putin's fault. Or Bush's fault.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/27/2025 17:10 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
USDA threatens Mexico's beef imports over fear of flesh-eating parasite spreading northward: report
[NY Post] The US Department of Agriculture reportedly warned Mexico it will cease all live animal imports unless the country enforces stronger measures to stop a flesh-eating parasite from spreading northward.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins issued a scathing letter to her Mexican counterpart Saturday threatening to block the importation of live cattle, bison and horses if the government fails to combat the spread of New World screwworm by April 30, Fox News reported.

“We are now at a critical inflection point in our shared campaign against this pest, and I am very concerned about our collaboration,” the letter, obtained by Fox, said.

“The outbreak in southern Mexico continues to expand, and every day that passes without full deployment of sterile insect technique (SIT) operations represents a lost opportunity to contain this pest and prevent its spread beyond the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.”

The screwworm primarily targets the periphery of fresh wounds in warm-blooded animals — as well as birds, deer and humans — where it deposits hundreds of eggs that hatch into flesh-eating maggots, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ewwwwwww
Posted by: Frank G || 04/27/2025 05:43 || Comments || Link || [159 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why would you eat food from a country where they think it's okay to dump raw sewage into the ocean?
Posted by: Guillibaldo Sproing8656 || 04/27/2025 12:06 Comments || Top||

#2 
Sometimes I wonder if there is a VEGAN agenda behind all these sudden viral outbreaks regarding eatable meats.

It's been 1 thing after another since Clinton, Obama & Biden.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/27/2025 16:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Gee, not more fear pörn from the US authorities; namely, the Pfizer-Trump administration which would just love to pump drugs and vaccines into your food.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 04/27/2025 17:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Outbreaks of screwworm are usually treated with the release of sterile male flies…wounds are treated with a topical spray…..don’t think vaccines would be used in this case.
Posted by: Threper Protector of the French3795 || 04/27/2025 21:59 Comments || Top||


Europe
Amateur treasure hunter finds nearly 1,500 ancient Roman coins in Romania
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In Romania, amateur treasure hunter Bebe Manjak has found almost 1,500 ancient Roman silver coins. This was reported by the Jam Press agency.

According to the agency, the 43-year-old man decided to walk with a metal detector through the hilly terrain near the village of Letki-Veke. During the walk, his detector found something metallic at a shallow depth. Manjak began to push aside the upper layers of soil, and soon he began to come across silver coins.

"The coins kept coming up. My hands were shaking. I didn't want to leave anything behind. When you realize you've made a hard-won discovery, part of you wants to celebrate, and another, more instinctive part of you tells you to hurry," he said.

The publication specifies that the treasure hunter eventually found 1,469 silver denarii that had been buried in that location about 1,700 years ago. Some of the coins depicted the Roman emperor Trajan, who ruled in the 1st–2nd centuries AD. Manjak also dug up ceramic shards.

The man specified that, according to Romanian law, he had only 72 hours to hand over the artifacts to the authorities. At the same time, if the find is classified as treasure, the finder is offered a reward of 45% of its value. In the end, he met the deadline, but the total value of the find remains unknown.

It was also specified that Manjak gave the authorities the coordinates of the place where the coins were found, and archaeological excavations will be organized there.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, in September 2024, specialists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered a treasure trove during excavations in Veliky Novgorod dating back to the last quarter of the 10th century. The treasures were located on the Sofia side of the city. The hoard contained about 1.9 thousand items, of which 1.8 thousand were silver coins. We are mainly talking about dirhams of the Arab Caliphate. According to archaeologists, the oldest of the coins was issued between 974 and 975. In addition, the institute's employees found about 80 pieces of jewelry.

Posted by: badanov || 04/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [117 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, it isn't called "Romania" for nothing.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/27/2025 8:31 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
NKor Choe Hyon Class Multipurpose Destroyer/Air Defense Frigate
[X]
Posted by: 3dc || 04/27/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [96 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  It will make an excellent reef
Posted by: Frank G || 04/27/2025 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I start to say something snarky, but they managed to put a frigate hull in the water, which is more than I can say for the US Navy.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/27/2025 8:54 Comments || Top||



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