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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Federal judge's son shot and killed, husband injured in attack at their NJ home
I'm not sure if this belongs here, but the FedEx thing probably took some coordination and the son went to a Catholic college.
Now that the killer has been found dead, an unnamed lawyer who argued a case before the judge five years ago, I am moving this to Lurid Crime Tales on Page 3: Non-WOT.

— trailing wife for the moderators at 3:35 p.m. EDT

[Yahoo] The son of a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, has been shot and killed, and her husband shot and injured in an attack at the family's home, according to law enforcement sources.

The judge, Esther Salas, was not hurt.

Francis "Mac" Womack, the mayor of North Brunswick, New Jersey, tells ABC News that the judge's son has died.

The condition of husband was not immediately known, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone told ABC News.

The judge's son opened the door to the family's North Brunswick home at about 5 p.m. Sunday and was immediately shot, sources said.

"He was shot through the heart," Womack said. The son was a freshman at Catholic University.
"Shot through the heart and you're to blame. You give love a bad name" I'd look for Jon Bon Jovi
The judge's husband was then shot multiple times, according to sources.

A suspect "remains at-large," a law enforcement official said.

Investigators have preliminary information that the shootings were carried out by someone dressed as a FedEx driver, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

The mayor said investigators are now "trying to get a hard make on the vehicle" to try and track the suspect.

"As a judge, she had threats from time to time, but everyone is saying that recently there had not been any," said Womack, who is personal friends with the judge and her husband.

In a statement, the FBI Newark office said, "The FBI is investigating a shooting that occurred at the home of Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey earlier this evening, July 19. We are looking for one subject and ask that anyone who thinks they may have relevant information please call FBI Newark at 973-792-3001. We are working closely with our state and local partners and will provide additional updates when available."

The New Jersey State Police, the North Brunswick Police and the Middlesex County Prosecutor's office are also involved in the investigation. The U.S. Marshals have been called to provide the judge with a security detail, according to a law enforcement official.

Judge Salas had received threats in the past, the sources said.

Authorities are investigating whether there is any connection between those prior threats and the shooting, or whether it possibly involved the husband's work as a criminal defense attorney.

"I know Judge Salas and her husband well, and was proud to recommend her to President Obama for nomination to New Jersey's federal bench," New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said in a statement. "My prayers are with Judge Salas and her family, and that those responsible for this horrendous act are swiftly apprehended and brought to justice."

Salas is the first Latina to serve on the federal bench in New Jersey.
Posted by: gorb || 07/20/2020 01:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, soon => son in my comment at the top of the article.

Fixed at 1:52 a.m. EDT
Posted by: gorb || 07/20/2020 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  From the comments:

Just this past week, she was put on the Deutsche Bank case, investigating Epstein.

I eagerly await what they come up with on the FedEx driver ....
Posted by: gorb || 07/20/2020 1:45 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ An interesting coincidence, if you happen to believe in such things.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2020 2:02 Comments || Top||

#4  ..nah, it couldn't be something on the inside?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2020 5:54 Comments || Top||

#5  "This is the Major...."
Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#6  pour encourager...?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 07/20/2020 8:21 Comments || Top||

#7  New Jersey federal judge’s son killed, husband shot at home
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||


#9  Another coincidence makes this Epstein storyline begin to rival the Clinton associates coincidental suicide rate. Sorry sounds like a very professional hitter was involved, or a hallmark of NJ gangbangers is it? Maybe the FBI could check outbound flights to someplace with lots of lederhosen?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/20/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Hitter with a Fed Ex uniform? Son was collateral damage? Was the hitter going after the father or the mother. Deutsche Bank/Epstein money laundering connection? Old law case retribution for things that went badly? Message to others? Neighbor might have had video of the hit. Tying off loose ends?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/20/2020 11:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Salas will be inconsolable. The shooters will have to come back and finish the job.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2020 11:08 Comments || Top||

#12  Either way, mission accomplished. She'll have to recuse herself from the case since she's too emotionally involved now.

But is there a reason she would be an inordinate threat to anyone implicated in Epstein's video library?
Posted by: gorb || 07/20/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#13  Prince Andy?
Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 12:43 Comments || Top||


#15  ..hmmm....wasn't suicide the closure too?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2020 13:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Deceased suspect was an attorney? Geeeesh.
Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 13:05 Comments || Top||

#17  Yep. Case closed up nice and tidy. Suspect shot hisself three times in the back of his head. Clear case. Yessiree.

I do not believe this for one second. Too 'tidy'.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/20/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||

#18  So this guy waits 4 years and "finds" a FedEx uniform?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 13:22 Comments || Top||

#19  Sounds like a Mexican thing.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#20  The unnamed dead killer is described as a white man in g(r)omgoru’s article. So unless he turns out to be an Antifa/BLM cadre, it’s just your plain vanilla lurid crime.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2020 15:31 Comments || Top||


#22  How long has the "hit man" been dead actually? A truly excellent hit man would hit the lawyer who was known to be upset with the Judge, then try to hit the judge, and then go back and plant the gun and lawyer's body in place he can be easily found. Sounds like a Hillary type of plan to me.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 07/20/2020 19:27 Comments || Top||

#23  Was the hit man's suicide pistol a percussion cap by chance ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2020 19:31 Comments || Top||

#24  Sounds like a Hillary type of plan to me.

Assisted suicide?
Posted by: gorb || 07/20/2020 20:48 Comments || Top||


At Least 13 Shot as Fight Breaks Out in Peoria Illinois
[BREITBART] At least 13 people were shot, and two left with serious injuries, just before 5 a.m. Sunday morning in Peoria, Illinois.

NBC 5 reported that a fight occurred "near the intersection of Water Street and Hamilton Street."

ABC News reported that those fighting were part of a "crowd of nearly 200 people." Gunshots rang out during the fight.

When police responded they found "an adult male who was shot in the neck and a female who was shot in the back."

Eleven others went to hospitals to have shooting wounds treated as well.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing much good happens in Peoria after 11:00 pm, or before 11:00 pm for that matter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2020 2:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Four killed in Sierra Leone protest after police and army open fire

At Least 13 Shot as Fight Breaks Out in Peoria Illinois

Nine shot, one killed in bloody Saturday as NYC shootings skyrocket

Final Stupidity Tally: 13 killed, 65 wounded in Chicago


It's all so delightfully 3rd World.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/20/2020 9:40 Comments || Top||


Nine shot, one killed in bloody Saturday as NYC shootings skyrocket
[NYPOST] At least nine people were shot, one fatally, across New York City on Saturday — capping another week of violence that saw triple the shootings compared to last year, cops said.

All but one of Saturday’s eight reported incidents occurred in Brooklyn — with six of the shootings in adjacent precincts in Crown Heights, Brownsville, Canarsie and East New York.

The day’s only homicide occurred in broad daylight Saturday afternoon outside the Fly E-Bike store located at 662 Nostrand Ave.

Cops said the dear departed 23-year-old was shot in the left thigh and stomach just after 4 p.m. Shell casings and a bullet fragment were recovered at the scene.

Saturday’s gunplay began at 1 a.m., when an unknown assailant shot a 42-year-old man once in the right thigh at Blake Avenue and Miller Avenue, within the confines of the 75th Precinct.

Just 51 minutes later a 23-year-old man was shot in the right groin just a mile and a half away at 416 Chester Street within the confines of the 75th Precinct, police said.

Another man was shot once in the left leg at around 3:25 a.m. on Stanley Avenue in East New York.

The victim was "highly uncooperative with Sherlocks" and declined police transportation himself to the hospital, NYPD said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can only imagine what the high temps are doing to the normal kill rates.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2020 6:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I want to see what happens when the victim is the Gov. of Michigan, or Oregon or the mayor of Portland or NYC or etc. instead of some J-random black kid.

If they want to fight back they need better target selection.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/20/2020 15:04 Comments || Top||

#3  In dark Central Park they're discussing,
With less than the usual cussing,
What else but the past,
As a crack all-black cast
Wakes a drear Much Ado about Nothing.

STACEY ABRAMS 2020? Are you freaking kidding me?
Posted by: Solomon Chusogum4054 || 07/20/2020 21:19 Comments || Top||

#4  A skeptical toff, from his carriage:
"Such efforts one mustn't disparage,
But Lovey might say
It's a strange choice of play,
Since it ends in an orgy of marriage.
Posted by: Dino and Company8470 || 07/20/2020 21:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Omitted from Shakespeare's First Folio,
A Masque, Abyssinian Polyo:
Unreason, unease,
Negroes' pleas, sneezes, knees,
And a more sympathetic Malvolio.
Posted by: Omith Ebbolutch6332 || 07/20/2020 21:30 Comments || Top||

#6  And then there was 1619, Ye Yeare Unforgivably Meane,
OR, Vilest Virginia,
We wish we weren't in ya...
But, hands up and give us more greene!

Posted by: Elmerens Joluter3914 || 07/20/2020 21:39 Comments || Top||


Viral video captures vicious mob brutally beating couple at airport while security stands by filming
[The Blaze] A disturbing video is making the rounds on social media featuring a mob of black women pummeling a white couple in an unidentified airport.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That guy didn't throw one punch at any of those bitches. I suspect there is more to the story; but, yes, if the roles had been reversed....
Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  What I don't understand is why Ice Apes allowed in People's terminal?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 3:46 Comments || Top||

#3  two people who appear to be airport security guards

More likely baggage handlers
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2020 6:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Heh ! Ice apes.

Had to head to TARDIS for that. Hiya, Grom.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2020 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Once you snap a few of their necks/ gouge eyes/break noses in self defence they will stop.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/20/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Hiya, Dron. Good to hear from you.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 9:00 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Lockdown drove us to drink! Prosecco to cope with home-schooling, family walks with gin in a coffee cup ‐ and 'wine o'clock' starting at lunch. With alcohol consumption soaring, three working mums shame-facedly reveal their drinking diaries
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2020 06:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Isn't hand cleaner alcohol applied on the outside? So, what about the inside?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The real story out of Florida is incredible: 150,000 #SARSCoV2 positive tests in the last two weeks, and effectively NO change in either total hospitalizations or ICU use statewide
[Twitter]
Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  85 babies test positive for COVID-19 in one Texas county
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  It's kind of diabolical. Spike the numbers with more testing with a 30% false positive rate and by counting any sniffle as a 'probable' case. At the same time mandate masks. When the disaster fails to materialize, credit the masks -- even though a cloth mask is completely worthless.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/20/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||







#9  It's kind of diabolical. Spike the numbers with more testing with a 30% false positive rate and by counting any sniffle as a 'probable' case. At the same time mandate masks. When the disaster fails to materialize, credit the masks -- even though a cloth mask is completely worthless.

News of 12,478 additional cases and 87 deaths comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis resists implementing a statewide mask mandate, saying Saturday the state would not be "prosecuting people" who refuse to wear face coverings

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Can't we simply ban people from contracting the virus? That worked for handguns, right?
Posted by: SteveS || 07/20/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||


#12  Here's a hearsay account from the Web: "I’m in Utah. A friend of my wife told her that she and her husband signed up to get the Covid-19 test. The line at the testing facility was so long, they gave up and went home. They got a call two days later from the testing facility saying that they tested positive for Covid-19.—they never had the test. Another friend had the swab test. Her mouth was swabbed four times and was counted as four tests."

Ripley's Believe it or Not.
Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

#13  ..and these same authorities believe that we'll buy their math in the November vote. Integrity in the count whether its covid reporting or voting returns is approaching zero. A zero trust society doesn't work well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||

#14  And people talk about anarchy. We may already have it.
Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 13:21 Comments || Top||


#16  What I am trying to understand, and I couldn't find this information on the 'net, Just how does the test work, what do they look for in the test?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/20/2020 16:53 Comments || Top||

#17  ^Here you go
General Laboratory diagnosis of viral infections

Specific Coronavirus: how accurate are coronavirus tests?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 17:00 Comments || Top||

#18  If it's G, get a second source. Too invested in a predicted outcome
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 17:44 Comments || Top||

#19  I bow to your superior intellect AND intellectual integrity, Frank.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 17:49 Comments || Top||

#20  getting a second source should be de rigueur on ANY source

Your investment in one direction is too obvious
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 17:51 Comments || Top||


Egyptian family stunned after father 'returns from dead'
[ARABNEWS] The family of an Egyptian man who they thought had died and been buried have been left stunned after he appeared to come back from the dead.
"Uncle Moe! We thought you wuz dead!"
"I thought so too."

Mohammed El-Gammal, who is in his 40s, was found wandering out of a cemetery in the village of Kafr al-Hosar in the Sharqiyah region north of Cairo.
"Where am I?"
"This is the cemetery!"
"So I am dead?"
"Maybe you should lie down til it passes?"
"It don't pass."

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
his family thought they had held his funeral four months ago after they incorrectly identified another corpse as being El-Gammal.
"Yep. That's him all right!"
"Sure looks like him!"
"Smells like him!"
"Yup. Sure got a good resemblance."
"I'd know him anywhere."

El-Gammal, who had worked as a teacher and is married with children,
I saw that show once.
had suffered from mental illness and would often disappear for up to a month at a time, a village resident told Youm 7 news website.
"Yessir. I'd look around and he wouldn't be there!"
But in January he went missing and never returned.
"I mean, it's been months, ain't it?"
His family kept searching for him until they received a call from a relative who worked at a local hospital.
"Hey! Guess who I just saw!"
"Ummm... Who're we missing?"

The relative told them that an unidentified dead body had arrived at the hospital and the family went to see if it was El-Gammal.
"He's unidentified."
"Could be Uncle Moe, I guess."

They all believed the corpse was his apart from one of his sisters.
"I don't think it's him."
"Why not, Aunt Fatima?"
"It don't look like him."

The report said a DNA sample was taken from the body but the result was never received by the family and the funeral took place on March 21.
"Well, it was somebody's DNA. You sure it wasn't his?"
Four months later, the real El-Gammal was found alive by youths over the weekend and taken to the nearest cop shoppe.
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I am shocked to find that the FBI was not involved in this.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/20/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Out walking in the Middle East,
I met a man who was deceased.
Here wasn't there again today.
Perhaps he's gone upstairs to stay;
But then again, he might come back
If he's inclined, and has the knack...
And should we meet sometime, both livin',
I hope this rhyme can be forgiven.
Posted by: Blackbeard Sheater7701 || 07/20/2020 22:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Still have Clive Cussler Sahara Dust Mummies on my Bingo Table.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2020 23:29 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Ky. couple on house arrest after not signing positive COVID-19 self-isolation order
Posted by: Dopey Thaiter8666 || 07/20/2020 09:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Translation: they refused to sign their confession
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/20/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  No they refused to self-isolate after testing positive.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 12:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Did they test the test to eliminate a false positive?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/20/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#4  False positives are the reason people are allowed to self-quarantine.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 13:08 Comments || Top||

#5  how benevolent
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 13:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Technically this isn't 'self quarantine'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||

#7  They refused to sign after testing positive and not saying they were going anyway after given this result.
Posted by: warthogswife || 07/20/2020 15:53 Comments || Top||

#8  ^If you test positive, you go into quarantine. It's like a breathalyzer test: you test positive, you don't get into your car and drive away.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 16:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Driving is a privilege. Living freely is not.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 16:18 Comments || Top||

#10  So what is putting other people into harm's way?
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/20/2020 16:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Driving is a privilege. Living freely is not.

Tell it to Mary Mallon.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 16:25 Comments || Top||

#12  Hysterical much?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 16:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Something being glossed over here is that the reason the local authorities came down on these people the way they did was the couple in question refused to sign some papers. Now, I also understand they made some unfortunate noise about some planned trip they didn't want to postpone, but the story the authorities tell is if they just signed the papers and agreed to what was in the papers they signed things would not have come to this pass. Is that accurate? Who can know? I see pretty much the same thing that Children and Youth Services is notorious for, to wit, throwing their weight around because they can. These people need to be under home monitoring while the jails are being emptied "because COVID." It doesn't wash, pass the smell test, fly or any of those other catchy phrases for being "on the up and up."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2020 16:40 Comments || Top||

#14  Hysterical much?

Now that's a good, well reasoned response, to my argument.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 16:49 Comments || Top||

#15  I think they became "notorious" through Media Hysteria which evidently reaches overseas. A 30% Sketchy test is no reason to deny Citizens' rights.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||

#16  Have it your way, citizen.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 16:52 Comments || Top||

#17  Under what laws were they placed under house arrist? Was there a trial?

Seems they can just cut the illegal ankle bracelets off and they still would not violate any legal laws!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/20/2020 16:57 Comments || Top||

#18  Self-isolation implies own recognizance.

If the weight of law can come down, what is that due process? Can the results be viewed or challenged? I'm going to go out on a limb here and considering their behavior they were not tested voluntarily.

How is this house arrest order served? Papers presented at the residence? Phone call? From Courthouse, Police, some testing agency?

Is it a fine, or better yet a tax?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2020 17:05 Comments || Top||

#19  Grom, they did not refuse to self-isolate, they refused to sign a contract to do so. They actually said they would self-isolate but not by forced contract.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/20/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#20  #19 Yea, well, I'm sorry for her - but actions have consequences. Actually, IMO, she & hubby are better of with ankle bracelets - no way that pair would not break any contract they've signed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 17:24 Comments || Top||

#21  Can I suggest foreign opinions are of little concern among American citizens with a US Constitution? Just saying...
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 17:45 Comments || Top||

#22  Well, half our judges are more interested in foreign law / opinions / customs / reactions / etc. than they are in the Constitution, so there is that to consider.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2020 17:55 Comments || Top||

#23  Whether you give a damn about those opinions or not is up to you. They will be voiced whatever you may think about them.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/20/2020 19:26 Comments || Top||

#24  as it should be
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 20:37 Comments || Top||

#25  OK, so they voluntarily get tested to be safe for grandma.

Do not agree to travel restrictions in case they have an emergency and need to get somewhere, such as the ER.

Health Department and Sheriff show up with ankle monitors and if they travel Law Enforcement is notified.

So these people were doing everything adult, and got hammered for it. Notify law enforcement, is the Health Department sharing personal health information with other entities. My ass would be in a sling named HIPAA.

Plan to get an attorney; I bet attorneys are planning on getting them.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2020 22:09 Comments || Top||

#26 
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Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 22:25 Comments || Top||


Jeremy Roenick Accuses NBC of Heterosexual Discrimination in Wrongful Termination Lawsuit
[The Wrap] Jeremy Roenick is suing NBC Sports for wrongful termination, saying that he was fired for saying something deemed vulgar, while a gay colleague who made similar comments was not reprimanded.

Back in February, Roenick was a guest on a Dec. 19 episode of Barstool Sports’ Spittin’ Chiclets podcast, where he joked about wanting to have a threesome with his wife and Kathryn Tappen, another NBC Sports host. The former NHL star described a day when the three of them were out by the pool while on vacation and were asked by another vacationer about "the situation" between all of them. "I play it off like we’re going to bed together every night, the three of us," Roenick said. "If it really came to fruition, that would really be good, but it’s never going to happen."

Roenick apologized for his comments a few weeks later but was suspended and ultimately fired.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Back in February, Roenick was a guest on a Dec. 19 episode of Barstool Sports’ ..." - dafuq?? Can he can travel back in time?
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/20/2020 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  "Back in February, Roenick was a guest on a Dec. 19 episode

They are 'journalists', bless their little hearts. Layers and layers of fact checkers and editors, you know.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/20/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  I learned a long time ago that you own every round you fire and every word you write. Either of those 2 can get you fired or put you behind bars. Attention to detail matters - Marine OCS taught me that one.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/20/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  A bit off-topic: Is 'roenick' Afrikaans for 'redneck'? I seem to recall seeing this word here before.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/20/2020 9:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Since it's NBC he's suing, I'm fine with it - hope he gets $10 million.
Posted by: Raj || 07/20/2020 9:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Barstool does sports analysis and commentary; completely off of NBC's radar.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2020 19:09 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Online media in Benin ordered to shut down
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Four killed in Sierra Leone protest after police and army open fire
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] But... ummm... Black Lives Matter, right?
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
UAE launch Mars probe after weather delay
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow. United American Enterprises? Not the United Arab Emirates, right? Oh, wait - the UAE bought one.

The United Arab Emirates has succeeded with the initial stage of its first ever Mars mission, thanks to the launch of an H-IIA rocket built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Sunday. The rocket carried the Al Amal (Hope) Probe for the UAE, a Mars orbiter that is set to arrive at the red planet by February 2021, and spend a Martian year (687 days) on orbit around Mars collecting data about its atmosphere. LINK
Posted by: Bobby || 07/20/2020 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Taking shariah to the stars.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/20/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Just what we need - marslims...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

#4  So the UAE didn't actually launch a probe, they just paid for it. That's Arab 'News'.
Posted by: Raj || 07/20/2020 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  I missed the fatwa about proper prayer with two moons.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2020 16:01 Comments || Top||


Kuwait’s ruler, 91, undergoes a ‘successful’ surgery
Yesterday he was just in for a checkup.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Same doctors as RBG?
Posted by: Iblis || 07/20/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Thousands protest in Russia's far east, challenging Kremlin
[France24] Mass rallies challenging the Kremlin rocked Russia's Far East city of Khabarovsk again on Saturday, as tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the arrest of the region’s governor on charges of involvement in multiple murders.

The massive unauthoritized crowds gathered despite local officials’ attempts to discourage people from taking to the streets, citing the coronavirus epidemic and an alleged averted terrorist threat.

Local media estimated the rally in the city 3,800 miles east of Moscow drew 15,000 to 50,000 people, while city authorities put the number at 10,000. Hundreds of people have rallied in the city every day this week against the arrest of Sergei Furgal, reflecting widespread anger over the arrest of the popular governor and a simmering discontent with the Kremlin’s policies.

Furgal, the Khabarovsk region governor, was arrested on July 9 and flown to Moscow where he was put in jail for two months. Russia’s Investigative Committee says he is suspected of involvement in several murders of businessmen in 2004 and 2005.

Furgal has denied the charges, which relate to his time as a businessman importing consumer goods ranging from timber and metals. Khabarovsk residents dismissed the charges against him as unsubstantiated and denounced the Kremlin for targeting a governor they elected.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2020 06:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
JobKeeper 2.0: Coronavirus wage subsidy will be extended to MARCH next year with tough eligibility tests and a new rate of $1,200 - here's everything you need to know
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2020 11:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Australia
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 12:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Thanks, Frank, you've saved me the trouble. Although, I would have noticed because I can't read or speak Australian.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/20/2020 17:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ˙ʇɐɥʇ ɹoɟ ddɐ ɹoʇɐlsuɐɹʇ ɐ sᴉ ǝɹǝɥ┴
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2020 17:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Well I just read that unemployed Americans are getting 600$ extra per week, thus often getting more than they would if working.

And you call US socialists?
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/20/2020 19:16 Comments || Top||

#5  That shit's stopping, and yes, you are, generally
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 19:21 Comments || Top||

#6  People are not getting 2400$ unemployment benefits here.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/20/2020 19:22 Comments || Top||

#7  EC, I have a few of my former employees apply to unemployment compensation here in Ohio. Former as in not employed by my company prior to 3/1/2020. A lot of them were allowed/denied/supervisor allowed or denied altogether. It was not easy to get unemployment especially if your current or former employer disputed the claim. If you quit your job in fear of C-19 you had a real hard time getting benefits (from the state). A Few employees who were granted unemployment by the state received (usually) small weekly amounts. They may have gotten the $600 from the Feds, but, they didn't get much from employers who challenged the claims. Employers who did not challenge the claims got hosed. Fed unemployment claims have not been reported to individual employers so I can't speak to how much they were receiving. Hope that helps.
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 || 07/20/2020 20:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Thanks, that was interesting.
We have made it through fine up to now. Many of our employees are still working from home and check in once a week.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/20/2020 20:06 Comments || Top||


Europe
Assad's uncle, 'butcher of Hama,' hired Israeli lawyers - report
When it comes to lawyers, always hire the best you can afford.
[Jpost] Rifaat, now 82 years old, was convicted of embezzling Syrian state funds by a Gay Paree court on Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison.

Rifaat Assad, uncle of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
, hired Israeli lawyers as advisers after he was charged with embezzlement in La Belle France, according to Ynet.

Assad's uncle, also known as the "butcher of Hama," was a high-ranking commander in the Syrian military and led a brutal campaign to suppress opposition to the Assad regime in Hama in 1982, killing tens of thousands. Rifaat later attempted a coup himself against his brother, Hafez, and escaped to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
after the coup failed.

Rifaat, now 82 years old, was convicted of embezzling Syrian state funds by a Gay Paree court on Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison. According to the court ruling, his assets in Gay Paree and London will be seized. Rifaat denies any wrongdoing and plans to appeal, according to the BBC.

The former Syrian official hired the legal services of a number of Israeli attorneys, including Mordechai Tzivin and Gilles-William Goldnadel, a French-Israeli attorney. He also received legal advice from a former MK from the Likud Party, a former bigwig in a government office in Jerusalem, a German Jewish entrepreneur, a Spanish Jewish businessman and two well-known French attorneys, according to Ynet.

A few years ago, a number of Rifaat's legal advisers introduced him to a former Mossad official in Gay Paree. The official has since passed away and was not serving in any official position when he met with Rifaat.

Rifaat's legal battle began in 2014, when legal NGO Sherpa filed a complaint against him, claiming that his property empire was far more valuable than his known income.

In 2019, it was decided that Rifaat should stand trial for crimes allegedly committed between 1984 and 2016, including organized money laundering, aggravated tax fraud and misappropriation of Syrian state funds, according to the BBC.

Rifaat claims that he received the money as gifts by the Saudi royal family. His property in La Belle France and London, worth about €90 million, includes two Gay Paree townhouses, a stud farm, a chateau and 7,300 square meters of office space in Lyon.

In 2017, his portfolio of 507 properties in Spain worth about €695 million was seized by Spanish authorities as part of an investigation into alleged money-laundering by Rifaat and 13 other people.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Germany's military missing over 60,000 rounds of ammunition
[Deutsche Welle] Germany's armed forces, the Bundeswehr, has confirmed it is missing more than 60,000 rounds of ammunition. Another 48,000 rounds from an elite special unit with links to right-wing extremism
[Yeah, of course.]
are also unaccounted for.

Germany's Bundeswehr is investigating after tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition were reported missing from its inventory, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday.

The reason for the missing ammunition remains unclear, he told news agency DPA.

An earlier report from newspaper Die Welt on Friday had said at least 60,000 rounds of Bundeswehr ammunition had gone missing since 2010, according to a confidential reply to a government information request filed by several parties in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag.

Only around 36,000 of over 96,000 missing cartridges of varying caliber have been located, the government reportedly said.

More missing from unit with far-right ties

This figure excludes some 48,000 rounds that went missing from the army's elite Special Forces Command (KSK) unit, which recently came under fire after right-wing extremism was uncovered among its ranks.

"We are now investigating intensively and assessing our practices ‐ not just in the KSK," the ministry spokesman said.

The investigation will examine whether the missing ammunition is the result of sloppy work, rounds left abroad, or criminal activity, he said, adding that none of the possibilities could be ruled at this time.

"Sloppiness will be stopped, every case of diversion will be reported and the public prosecutor's office will be called in," the spokesperson said.
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#2  "Sloppiness will be stopped, every case of diversion will be reported and the public prosecutor's office will be called in,"

I bet this sounds spiffier in German.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 6:08 Comments || Top||

#3  "Sloppiness will be stopped, every case of diversion will be reported and the public prosecutor's office will be called in,...

Yep, just like all of those 2016 New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne were.....
Posted by: Clem || 07/20/2020 7:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Why do I get the image of a clerk at the firing range requiring each and every round fired to signed for in triplicate! (60,000 in 10 years is *mumble* only 6,000 per year *mumble* bean counters...)
Posted by: magpie || 07/20/2020 15:09 Comments || Top||

#5  I didn't know we had that much left
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/20/2020 16:13 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Oh snap!
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 16:20 Comments || Top||

#7  If right wing extremists are stealing ammo, what are left wing extremists stealing?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/20/2020 17:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Votes.
Posted by: gorb || 07/20/2020 21:24 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
MAJ. Josh 'Cabo' Gunderson puts the F-22 Raptor through its paces
[F-22 Demo Team] For the very first time, we're giving you an exclusive look at the complete F-22 Demo profile flown by Maj. Josh "Cabo" Gunderson. The F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team performs precision aerial maneuvers at airshows across the world to demonstrate the unique capabilities of the world's premier 5th generation fighter aircraft. The team also performs with the Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation to showcase modern day fighter jets flying in formation with World War II, Korean, and Vietnam era aircraft.

The team is stationed at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, Virginia. In March 2007, the team participated in its debut air show at Tyndall Air Force Base. Since then, the team has performed more than 250 demonstrations across the world.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/20/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think I need a cigarette now.
Posted by: gorb || 07/20/2020 1:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Very cool.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2020 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I can't wait to see what the F-35 will do!!!
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 07/20/2020 19:54 Comments || Top||


-PC Follies
'Strike for Black Lives': Thousands to walk off job to protest racial inequality
[FoxNews] Organizers of a national workers strike say tens of thousands are set to walk off the job Monday in more than two dozen U.S. cities to protest systemic racism and economic inequality that has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dubbed the “Strike for Black Lives,” labor unions, along with social and racial justice organizations from New York City to Los Angeles, will participate in a range of planned actions. Where work stoppages are not possible for a full day, participants will either picket during a lunch break or observe moments of silence to honor Black lives lost to police violence, organizers said.

“We are ... building a country where Black lives matter in every aspect of society — including in the workplace,” said Ash-Lee Henderson, an organizer with the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of over 150 organizations that make up the Black Lives Matter movement.

“The Strike for Black Lives is a moment of reckoning for corporations that have long ignored the concerns of their Black workforce and denied them better working conditions, living wages and healthcare,” said Henderson, who is also co-executive director of the Tennessee-based Highlander Research and Education Center.

Among the strikers will be essential workers: nursing home employees, janitors and delivery men and women. Fast food, ride-share and airport workers are also expected to take part in planned events.

The strike continues an ongoing global reckoning on race and police brutality set off by the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police in late May. At noon in each U.S. time zone on Monday, workers are expected to take a knee for about eight minutes — the amount of time prosecutors say a white police officer held his knee on Floyd’s neck.

When the strike was announced on July 8, partnering unions included the Service Employees International Union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Federation of Teachers, United Farm Workers and the Fight for $15 and a Union. Several more worker collectives have since joined, along with social and racial justice groups.

In Manhattan, essential workers will gather outside of the Trump International Hotel to demand the Senate and President Donald Trump pass and sign the HEROES Act. The House-passed legislation provides protective equipment, essential pay and extended unemployment benefits to workers who have not had the option of working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers said New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is expected to rally with workers.

Strikers in Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed on May 25, will include nursing home and airport workers demanding a $15-per-hour minimum wage, organizers said. In Missouri, participants will rally at McDonald’s locations in St. Louis and Ferguson, a key landmark in the protest movement sparked by the death of Michael Brown, a Black teenager who was killed by police in 2014. The Ferguson strikers will also march to a memorial site located on the spot where Brown was shot and killed.

Organizers said many strikers are taking particular aim at corporations such as Walmart and McDonald's, which they say should be held accountable for widespread mistreatment and exploitation of hourly workers of color. In the wake of Floyd protests, McDonald's expressed its support for Black victims of police violence and vigilante attacks.

On Friday, a group of McDonald's workers filed a federal lawsuit against the corporation in Florida, alleging that managers at a corporate-run store in Lakeland subjected them to a “racially hostile work environment” and also had mistreated Black customers. The workers alleged that after they reported their concerns to corporate leaders, their managers retaliated by slashing their hours and changing their work responsibilities.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/20/2020 10:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's hoping many of them keep right on walking to the unemployment line.
Posted by: Raj || 07/20/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Quit job? No unemployment
Posted by: Frank G || 07/20/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  ^That's why I never quit a job in my life.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/20/2020 11:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Well we know who the non-essential employees are now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/20/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  And when very few strike? Because unless the unions force them, I don’t think very many will actually strike.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/20/2020 12:44 Comments || Top||

#6  It was supposed to happen at noon local time. it is now just after 2:00 in the Eastern time zone — any reports of groups of workers walking off the job or taking a knee for the recommended eight minutes?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/20/2020 14:07 Comments || Top||

#7  tw - nothing of note in the greater Boston area.
Posted by: Raj || 07/20/2020 14:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Another Million 10-50 thousand (according to the National Park Service!) person march...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/20/2020 16:52 Comments || Top||

#9  taking a knee for the recommended eight minutes?

Kamela Harris.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/20/2020 22:50 Comments || Top||



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