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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Paedophile cannibal microwaved a man's head and encouraged his 12-year-old 'girlfriend' to help him eat it
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Arkady Zverev admitted killing Alexander Popovich before eating parts of him

  • Zverev told police that he microwaved Popovich's head and boiled his eyeball

  • 12-year-old girl, who Zverev called his girlfriend, fried man's heart and brains

  • Zverev fell into a coma after trying to take his own life and subsequently died
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 11:57 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What the hell is it with Russians and cannibalism?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/23/2019 22:23 Comments || Top||


Russian doctor murders, dismembers and cooks woman after realising while they had sex that she had previously been a man
[Daily Mail]
  • Mikhail Tikhonov, 27, murdered Nina Surgutskaya, 25, in Kursk, eastern Russia

  • The pair were having sex when Tikhonov discovered she was formerly a man

  • Tikhonov confessed to dismembering Ms Surgutskaya and cooking her body
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 11:40 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's a lesson in there, someplace.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/23/2019 17:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm not saying the doctor isn't guilty, just that I understand.

...cooking her his body.

Look, dude wants to go my miss and take on a traditional woman's name, fine, his call. The gender does not change even if he gets enough hormones that if he were a cow PETA would throw a fit, and he is advertising the wrong tackle.

Like the man said, sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2019 17:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I admit, I don't know what I was expecting. I thought this might be satire. This sounds like something out of the most grotesque of indie horror flicks.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 || 04/23/2019 19:10 Comments || Top||

#4  "How rude!" roared the Russian, "I'm screwed!"
when he learned he'd been doing a dude.
"Now you've ruined the mood..."
moued the choosy old prude,
"but let's try this again when we're stewed!"

Okay, it's a noun. So sue me. Or moue me.
Posted by: Slats Flesing8084 || 04/23/2019 22:35 Comments || Top||


''Texas'' couple who enslaved girl for 16 years get seven-year prison term
Note that they weren't named Tex and Bonnie Sue.
A couple who enslaved a young woman for 16 years at their home in the US have been sentenced to seven years in jail.
Seems like they should each have gotten at least sixteen years penal servitude.
Mohammed Touré and his wife Denise Cros-Touré, both 58, were found guilty in January of bringing the maiden of tender years from Guinea to Texas and forcing her to work for them without pay in early 2000.
I'd call being forced to work without pay slavery.
The couple, both citizens of Guinea, may lose their US immigration status, the US Department of Justice said.
Sounds like a good idea, which means they probably won't.
Mr Touré is the son of Guinea's first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré.
Ahah. Laws don't normally apply to VIPs. Wonder what went wrong?
The pair were also ordered to pay $288,620.24 (£222,702) in compensation.
That works out to $18,000 a year of slavery and about $38 change.
The girl, who has not been named, is thought to have been five years old when she arrived in the US. She was forced to clean, cook and take care of the couple's children for 16 years. They also confiscated her passport and denied her access to schooling.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 11:25 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and denied her access to schooling

Ahh, that's why they were finally scrutinized and not given the VIP treatment.

Southlake Teachers Union got involved.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/23/2019 14:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Could we change the headline to "Foreign Couple Living in Texas..."? To even suggest they are "Texan" is ... unsavory.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/23/2019 15:27 Comments || Top||

#3  According to Wikipedia, 86% of the population of Guinea is Muslim. Islam supports slavery. This is just their culture. We should not criticize or condemn it. /sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/23/2019 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Okay, we now have a person who qualifies for reparations. This enslaved girl should be given everything the couple owns as well as as be a voting member of the parole board that oversees the couple.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/23/2019 17:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Touré? as in Touré Neblitt? Defunct MSNBC talking asshole head?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2019 20:49 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Chilling moment crocodile surfaces in a murky river holding a missing snorkeller in its jaws
  • Darlin Uti, 30, was snorkelling in an Indonesian river to fix an underwater pipe

  • But a crocodile dragged him down by biting his crotch despite Darlin's sister's attempts to save him

  • The next day, the crocodile emerged from the water carrying Darlin's body

  • Rescuers retrieved Darlin's body intact and it was returned to his family

  • There has been a rise in crocodile attacks in Indonesia in the last year
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remind me not to go swimming in southern US rivers!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 04/23/2019 4:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Seeking Cure For Ignorance I grew up in South Alabama. We skied in the rivers but had to stop when the gators started coming back. Then we had to be very careful swimming in the ponds. Water moccasins and gators are just too much.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2019 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Poor Deacon Blues, cut you reminded me of this old joke:

Posted byu/derekds123456
1 year ago
One evening an old farmer went down to the pond...
Long

One evening an old Alabama farmer went to go down to the pond, as he hasn't been there in a while, he grabbed a five gallon bucket and some fruit. As he neared the pond, he heard some voices shouting and laughing. As he came closer he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end. One of the women shouted at him "we're not coming out until you leave!" The old man frowned, "I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or get out of the pond naked". Holding the bucket up he said "I'm here to feed the alligator..."
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 04/23/2019 11:40 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Cats shaved to look like DINOSAURS
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 11:42 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We have officially reached the decedent era of our civilization. This always proceeds the collapse.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/23/2019 15:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Dunno... have a cat that channels a velociraptor a couple of times a day. Raptor haircut might be a better safeguard than hanging a sign on her.
Posted by: Varmint Spesh4746 || 04/23/2019 18:07 Comments || Top||

#3  -shakes head, walks off-
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2019 18:25 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
John Bolton tweets about Venezuela
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia to scrap nuclear powered cruisers.
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Dos vidanya.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/23/2019 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Dupe?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 04/23/2019 4:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes — good catch, Seeking cure. Deleting the other one now.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2019 5:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Who needs battleships when you have the Democrat-Media combine wrapped around your finger?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/23/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#5  If you read the article it says 2 remain in operation...
Posted by: Spanky Whuter1088 || 04/23/2019 14:48 Comments || Top||


Europe
Ringleader of North Korean Embassy raid in hiding from hit squads
[EDITION.CNN] The head of a shadowy North Korean dissident group wanted by US authorities for his connection to the raid on Pyongyang's embassy in Madrid in February is in hiding from North Korean hit squads, his attorney told CNN on Monday.

Andrew Hong, the leader of the group, Cheollima Civil Defense, was not in his apartment when US marshals arrived on Thursday and his lawyer, Lee Wolosky, said he does not know his client's current location.

Video of the encounter shared with CNN by a source close to Hong shows six uniformed officers entering the unit and shouting "police" before beginning a search.

US authorities' interest in Hong is not publicly known, but another Cheollima Civil Defense associate, Christopher Ahn, was enjugged
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
Thursday in Los Angeles on a provisional warrant from Madrid, law enforcement officials said.

"He certainly fears for his safety. We do have reason to believe that North Korean hit squads have been dispatched to target Mr. Hong and perhaps others, and he is taking necessary steps to evade those hit squads," Wolosky said.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Someone bankrolled this group of Nork embassy raiders.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2019 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Sunday it was a Marine, now US Marshals engaging in an extradition request from Spain, for DPRK.

"Members of the dissident group escaped from the compound in embassy vehicles with two thumb drives, two computers and two hard drives, the court documents say."

Somebody wants that content.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 12:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Somebody wants that content.

Does the fact that the raid was successful imply it wasn't a CIA op?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/23/2019 15:20 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Infant Nashwa, left paralysed due to alleged medical negligence, passes away at Karachi hospital
[DAWN] Nine-month-old infant Nashwa, who was left paralysed earlier this month after she was allegedly injected with the wrong dosage of a solution at the Darul Sehat Hospital in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, passed away on Monday.

The infant's father, Qaiser Ali, spoke briefly to news hounds after his daughter passed away this morning. "My daughter fought very hard but she lost," he said, overcome with emotion.

"Please do something so that another person's daughter is not lost," he pleaded. "Otherwise news reports like this will keep running, and officials will keep paying visits, but nothing will change."

A first information report registered by Ali on April 15 stated that on April 6, he had taken his twins to the hospital for treatment of diarrhoea.

On April 7, one of the two children, identified as Nashwa, was allegedly administered an overdose of potassium chloride (KCL) intravenously rather than via drip, the FIR said. Minutes later, her lips turned blue and she began having trouble breathing.

She was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for 45 minutes, after which her breathing function was restored, and then placed on a ventilator.

On April 12, when Nashwa was taken off the ventilator, doctors informed the father that she "may have suffered a brain injury" due to lack of oxygen supply to the brain that might have been a result of CPR performed on her for 45 minutes.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


CM takes notice of female patient's alleged rape, murder at Karachi hospital
[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Monday took notice of the alleged rape and murder of a female patient at a hospital in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, and demanded a detailed report of the incident, his spokesperson said.

Last week, the Awami Colony police had incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
a paramedical staff member of a hospital over allegations of causing the unintentional death of a 24-year-old woman by administering the "wrong solution" to her.

According to the victim's family, she was taken to a renowned hospital in Karachi's Korangi area for treatment of a gum infection but she ended up losing her life at the facility.

A first information report (FIR) was lodged on the dear departed's brother's complaint against the paramedic named Shahzeb and Dr Ayaz Abbasi, the latter of whom has obtained a pre-arrest bail from a local court.

The woman's family further alleged that the victim was raped before being injected with the solution, although the relevant Section for the alleged crime was not added to the FIR.

Deputy Inspector General East Amir Farooqi told Dawn that the police are investigating the allegation and the charge will be added to the report once the probe is concluded. DNA samples collected from the victim's body as well as the suspects have been sent for examination.

The officer said a preliminary medical report has revealed "sexual activity" but that they were waiting for final report from the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

The chief minister, in his statement today, termed the incident "unacceptable" and inquired about the progress of the investigation.

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Monday took notice

"Oh yeah, that."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 12:42 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
French amb. is retiring today - here is what he thinks.
[The Atlantic] Gérard Araud, the charmingly blunt French ambassador to the United States, is famous for two things: the lavish parties he hosts at his Kalorama mansion, and his willingness to say (and tweet) things that other ambassadors might not even think, much less state in public.

Araud ends his nearly five-year tenure in Washington today, and when I spoke with him last week, he was, even by his usual standards, direct to the point of discomfort. He told me his view of the U.S. (“The role of the United States as a policeman of the world, it’s over”) and Donald Trump (“brutal, a bit primitive, but in a sense he’s right” on free trade), and he shared his opinions of John Bolton (he’s a “real professional,” even though “he hates international organizations”) and Jared Kushner (“extremely smart, but he has no guts”).

He also had a warning to anyone who assumes it will be “business as usual” once America’s Trump fever breaks. The idea that the Trump presidency is some sort of accident, he says, is a fantasy.
Hit the article in the title link for a good read.
Bayoumy: What’s the biggest misconception Americans have about the French, and vice versa?

Araud: There is a misconception about Trump which is American and French: saying Trump is an accident, and when Trump leaves power, everything will go back to business as usual. That’s the dream of Washington, D.C.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Iraq orders probe into pro-Saddam chants at local university
Gone, but not forgotten.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi Minister of Education and Scientific Research Qusay al-Suhail has ordered a probe into chants shouted by some university students in Diyala province in commemoration of former president Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party.

A number of students chanted pro-Baath slogans during a ceremony marking their graduation from the University of Diyala’s Faculty of Law.

"The repeated incidents of glorifying the tyrant (Saddam Hussein) and his Baath party during ceremonies held at universities are very dangerous," Alghad Press news website quoted Suhail as saying in a blurb on Monday.

"We do not rule out that some external and internal powers drive the youths to do such acts in violation of the law and the Constitution," the minister added.

Suhail further called on the security staff to "keep a watchful eye on the celebrations" held at the universities so as not to be exploited by the parties hostile to Iraq and its people.

After its interference in Iraq against Saddam Hussein in 2003, the U.S. issued a list of 55 wanted figures from Saddam’s government. Five of those, including Saddam, were executed, six were killed, eight died in jail and 16 were released before U.S. troops pull out in 2011.

Five Saddam aides are still on the lam, including his deputy, Ezzat al-Douro, who was declared dead several times but appeared recently in a video commemorating the establishment of Saddam’s now-defunct Baath Party.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2019-04-23
  IS claims Sri Lanka blasts
Mon 2019-04-22
  Sri Lanka explosions, 24 arrested, 290+ dead, 8 kabooms
Sun 2019-04-21
  3 churches bombed at Easter services in Sri Lanka 262 Dead
Sat 2019-04-20
  Woman killed after shots fired during violent riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Fri 2019-04-19
  Islamic State Declared A New Wilaya In Africa
Thu 2019-04-18
  German Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Recruiting ISIS Members To Syria
Wed 2019-04-17
  Houthis in Yemen introduced a new airburst ballistic missile that spreads 14,000 pieces of shrapnel over a large area
Tue 2019-04-16
  Violence and dozens of arson attacks in Copenhagen after anti-Islam politician throws Koran in migrant neighbourhood
Mon 2019-04-15
  Notre Dame Cathedral is burning
Sun 2019-04-14
  Taliban’s shadow governor for Helmand succumbs to injuries sustained in an airstrike
Sat 2019-04-13
  Algerian police fire water cannon at protesters
Fri 2019-04-12
  Sudan President al-Bashir officially arrested
Thu 2019-04-11
  Ecuador withdraws asylum from Julian Assange, arrested by UK police
Wed 2019-04-10
  Election Council Rejects Erdogan's Party Demand for Full Istanbul Recount
Tue 2019-04-09
  Maryland man accused of stealing U-Haul truck in 'ISIS-inspired attack'


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