André Chapeta died Friday morning at a Rio de Janeiro hospital from burns he suffered after he was allegedly set on fire by his wife, Ana María Paixaõ
On Monday, the 50-year-old victim was sitting at a table inside the fish market Paixaõ doused him with flammable liquid and flicked a lighter
Paixaõ was taken to a police station Thursday morning, but was released later in the day because a judge had not approved an arrest warrant
Civil Police chief Flávio Ferreira told Brazilian news outlet G1 that he believes the incident was motivated by the woman's jealousy over her husband.
He told channel R7 that the couple's 30-year-old relationship was allegedly marked by bouts of domestic violence.
Paixaõ told investigators that she had been beaten prior to setting Chapeta on fire and reacted in self-defense, an allegation which they rejected.
'What she says is not what the image shows. The image shows the victim sitting in a chair. She arrives, coldly, throws the liquid and sets him on fire,' Ferreira said.
'She was not at that moment in a vulnerable situation, she was not in a situation in which she would be imminently attacked.
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The video at the link is odd, if you watch the long video it shows her douse him and light him. Then it cuts to outside and someone dumps a whole lot of liquid on someone and lights them. So is this two different incidents or did the guy get lit twice?
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Benefits cards are a lie. They create in the minds of the users that they are paying for whatever they are transacting for. They are of course doing nothing of the sort. They are merely conduits for re-distributed wealth taken from actual earners.
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create in the minds of the users the notion that
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Let me guess? I take multi-generational unwed mother for $100, Alex.
[NYPOST] Ethan Crumbley, who gunned down four students at a Michigan high school in 2021, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, a judge ruled on Friday.
Ahead of his sentencing, the 17-year-old acknowledged that he is a “really bad person.”
“I am a really bad person. I have done terrible things that no one should ever do,” he told the court, CNN reported.
Crumbley, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, opened fire at Oxford High School outside of Detroit on Nov. 30, 2021, killing four students and wounding seven others.
He pleaded guilty last October to all 24 charges against him, including first-degree murder and terrorism. Just two months ago, a judge ruled that the teenager would be eligible for life imprisonment — the harshest possible punishment in Michigan.
The sentencing comes after emotional testimony from witnesses earlier in the day as Judge Kwame Rowe mulled Crumbley’s fate.
“We are miserable. Our family has a permanent hole in it that can never be fixed, ever. And there doesn’t appear to be a way out. So, to this day, you are winning,” Buck Myre, father of 16-year-old victim Tate Myre, told the teen.
The heartbroken mother of Madisyn Baldwin, 17, recalled seeing her daughter’s lifeless body at the medical examiner’s office after the shooting.
“I looked through the glass. My scream should have shattered it,” Nicole Beausoleil said.
The night before the massacre, Crumbley recorded a manifesto claiming he was “going to be the next school shooter” and said he planned to kill as many people as possible.
He also wrote disturbing journal entries in which he daydreamed about shooting up the school. Crumbley wrote that he didn’t want to die and wanted to be remembered.
Crumbley and his parents, Jennifer and James Crumbley, met with school staff on the day of the shooting after a teacher found some of his horrific journal scribblings, including a gun pointed at the words, “The thoughts won’t stop. Help me.”
He was allowed to stay in school after his parents resisted taking him home, and his bag, which contained a gun, was never checked.
Baldwin, Myre, 16, Hana St. Juliana, 14, were shot dead on the day of the massacre. Justin Shilling, 17, died of his wounds at the hospital the following day.
Attorney Ven Johnson, who represents the four deceased victims, called Friday’s ruling “a pivotal step towards justice for our clients and all survivors.”
“Despite the two-year delay, the gravity of the situation endures, and this sentencing is a crucial stride towards accountability,” he said in a statement.
“We wholeheartedly support Judge Kwame Rowe’s decision to condemn him to life in prison without parole.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A female military veteran said to have mental health issues was filmed trying to set Martin Luther King Jr's childhood home ablaze.
The unnamed would-be arsonist, 26, was seen pouring the contents of a five gallon gasoline container onto the wooden porch of the historic Atlanta home on Thursday.
In a clip of the incident, a witness twice asks: 'What are you doing?'
The woman signals with her hand for him to leave her alone. 'That's gasoline,' he tells her.
Those witnesses later said that they stepped in when they saw her attempting to ignite a lighter on the lawn, The New York Times reported.
Eyewitness Zach Kempf, 43, who was visiting the federal landmark from Salt Lake City, stepped in after the woman walked to the front yard to get a lighter.
The woman was also seen trying to yank the screen door off the front of the property, which was built in 1895 and was MLK Jr's home until he was 12.
Kempf said the woman had a 'nervous energy' about her, adding: 'But she wasn't aggressive.'
He added 'Obviously, the house is so important, and I’m really glad nothing happened to it. But I feel like now I’m mostly just concerned for her well-being.'
The woman is then said to have relented in her attempts to burn the home and started to walk away. Two cops visiting from New York restrained her, with another part of the video shared showing the woman with a knee on her back.
Shortly after her arrest, the woman's father and sisters arrived at the scene. They said that they had been trying to track her down because they were worried about her and found her through a tracking app on her phone.
The home is located in Atlanta's historic Sweet Auburn section and is undergoing renovations and is closed to the public until 2025.
Congress declared the home a National Historic Site in 1980, and the National Park Service began offering tours of it in 1982.
The home was built in 1895 for a white family and bought by King's maternal grandfather in 1909 for $3,500. King's mother inherited it. King's younger brother, A.D. King, and his family were the last of the King line to live there.
Police said they have arrested 26-year-old Laneisha Shantrice Henderson and charged her with criminal attempt arson and criminal attempt interference with government property.
Police say two tourists from Utah who were in the area saw Henderson pouring gasoline on the home and interrupted her. . . . Video from a witness shared with Channel 2′s Michael Doudna shows a woman dressed in all black pouring gasoline on the windows and in the bushes of the home.
On Thursday at around 5:45 p.m., officers with the ADP responded to a report of vandalism in progress at 501 Auburn Avenue. That is where they say they found Henderson, who according to a preliminary investigation, had poured gasoline onto the property. She was immediately placed under arrest and transported to the Grady Detention Center for psychological evaluation. Henderson will be transferred to Fulton County Jail once discharged.
An ADP spokesperson had no further comment on Friday to Newsweek, aside from saying the investigation is ongoing and could change as it progresses.
According to records obtained by Newsweek, Henderson is from Brandon, Florida, and is registered to vote, but does not currently belong to any political party in the state.
A police report shows that officers seized a gasoline can and fuel at the scene, along with Henderson's iPhone and a black Chevrolet Cruze.
Local news station WSB-TV says it spoke to Henderson's father, who related that she is a veteran going through a mental health episode. Her father told them they had been trying to find her for two days.
[NYPOST] The University of Pennsylvania is expected to ask its president, Liz Magill, to resign Friday over growing outrage at her failure to condemn calls for the genocide of the Jewish people — a move celebrated by billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who said she would be "one down."
Reportedly and is expected to — no evidence on the internet that anything was done as of 9:45 p.m. ET Friday evening. Let’s look for something in Saturday’s news, dear Reader.
The Ivy League school’s board of trustees held an emergency meeting Thursday to deal with the fallout from Magill’s disastrous congressional testimony Tuesday, which has already driven a Wall Street titan to try to claw back a $100 million donation and led to calls for her ouster.
Board chairman Scott Bok is expected to talk to Magill about resigning on Friday, a source familiar with the proceedings told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... "One down," wrote Ackman, one of the most outspoken critics of colleges failing to stop rising antisemitism.
"There is hope for UPenn," he wrote while sharing the CNN report.
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Who before was regent at u of Virginia and before Dean of Law School at Stanford Law School from 2012 to 2019.
Yes the same Stanford Law School with the FTX scandal parents teaching in it.
National Inquiring minds want to know the spider web
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/\ Thanks for the link to Ringside and "Foreign policy realism, unrealism, and surrealism."
This Washington Post obituary of Henry Kissinger includes the following passage:
In his comprehensive biography of Dr. Kissinger, journalist Walter Isaacson came to the conclusion that he “had an instinctive feel for power and for creating a new global balance that could help America cope with its withdrawal syndrome after Vietnam. But it was not matched by a similar feel for the strength to be derived from the openness of America’s democratic system or for the moral values that are the true source of its global influence.”
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Could his systematic selling of American industry out to China represent an example ?
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Announcement from Chair of Board of Trustees: “I write to share that President Liz Magill has voluntarily tendered her resignation as President of the University of Pennsylvania. She will remain a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law.”
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Scott Bok, chairman of the university’s board of trustees, shared a letter with the UPenn community Saturday afternoon, announcing that Magill voluntarily handed in her resignation. She will retain her position as a tenured faculty member at Penn Carey Law.
“It has been my privilege to serve as President of this remarkable institution,” Magill said. “It has been an honor to work with our faculty, students, staff, alumni, and community members to advance Penn’s vital missions.”
Following the announcement, Bok also tendered his immediate resignation.
“Today, following the resignation of the University of Pennsylvania’s President and related Board of Trustee meetings, I submitted my resignation as Chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, effective immediately,” Bok said in a statement. “While I was asked to remain in that role for the remainder of my term in order to help with the presidential transition, I concluded that, for me, now was the right time to depart.”
Both departures come after a bipartisan group of 74 congressmen urged Magill, Harvard University president Claudine Gay, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Sally Kornbluth to step down in light of their contentious testimonies on Capitol Hill earlier this week.
When asked to directly answer whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate university policy, Magill said “it is a context-dependent decision” for UPenn. “If the speech becomes conduct. It can be harassment, yes,” she added.
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[AFRICANEWS] Burundi's Supreme Court sentenced former prime minister Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni to life in prison on Friday (Dec. 08).
He was convicted on charges including attempting to overthrow the government, illicit enrichment and destabilizing the economy, a judicial source said.
The former general was named PM in July 2020 then dismissed in September 2022.
His ouster came just days after President Evariste Ndayishimiye warned of a "coup" plot against him.
The court sitting in session at the prison where Bunyoni was detained followed the prosecution's requests.
It also ordered the authorities to confiscate four houses and buildings as well as a land parcel and 14 vehicles belonging to Bunyoni.
Five others in the dock including the two main co-defendants, a police colonel and a senior intelligence agent, received "sentences ranging from three years to 15 years," .
The seventh defendant, a driver, was acquitted, the judicial source added.
51-year-old Bunyoni pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to all charges at the start of the trail. At the time, he said he should be acquitted because of a lack of evidence.
A close ally of former president Pierre Nkurunziza, Bunyoni was an influential figure in the ruling CNDD-FDD party.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Thousands of tons of dead fish have washed up on a beach in northern Japan, prompting speculation that the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant has wrought havoc on local ecosystems.
The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating an unsettling sliver blanket that covered almost a mile of shoreline.
Officials could not come up with an explanation for the phenomenon, but Takashi Fujioka, a Hakodate Fisheries Research Institute researcher, posited a number of theories as to why the fish could have died en-masse.
He said they may have become exhausted due to a lack of oxygen while moving in a densely packed school in shallow waters, or may have suddenly entered cold waters during their migration and succumbed to shock.
There have been several recorded cases of similar phenomena springing up on several parts of Japan's coastline.
But this particular phenomenon occurred just three months after Japanese authorities began releasing treated radioactive water back into the sea - a move which angered its neighbours including China and South Korea.
China has since banned Japanese seafood and criticised the country as being 'extremely selfish and irresponsible', with the Chinese Communist Party's flagship newspaper The Global Times writing it could open 'Pandora's box' and trigger fears of a 'real-life Godzilla'.
South Korean protestors also attempted to enter the Japanese embassy in Seoul carrying banners which read 'The sea is not Japan's trash bin'.
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There have been several recorded cases of similar phenomena springing up on several parts of Japan's coastline ... But this particular phenomenon occurred just three months after Japanese authorities began releasing treated radioactive water back into the sea - a move which angered its neighbours including China and South Korea..
[Breitbart] Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink satellite internet service has successfully completed a rigorous nine-month testing period with the U.S. military in the Arctic. Passing the military trials opens the door to Pentagon contracts for the billionaire’s space company.
Bloomberg reports that SpaceX Starlink has emerged as a valuable asset in the realm of military communications following its successful completion of extensive U.S. Air Force tests in the Arctic. This achievement paves the way for potential Pentagon contracts, potentially enhancing the strategic communications infrastructure in the increasingly competitive Arctic region.
The series of tests, which concluded in June, were focused on evaluating Starlink’s effectiveness in meeting the Pentagon’s operational needs in harsh Arctic conditions. Brian Beal, a principal engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, confirmed that Starlink provided “reliable and high-performance communication,” particularly in on-the-move scenarios, despite challenging environmental conditions including high winds and extreme cold.
Starlink’s success in these tests is critical given the strategic importance of the Arctic, a region where the U.S. is keen to expand its influence in the face of growing competition from Russia and China. The Arctic’s challenging climate and remoteness have historically limited communications capabilities, a gap that Starlink’s portable terminals are well-positioned to fill.
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With most new StarLink sats able to talk sat to sat with laser beams. Relations between a signal in and a signal out are pretty hard to make. This is even more complex with more then 5,500 Starlink sats already in the network.
Yes! Starlink is the ultimate shell game!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A female military veteran said to have mental health issues was filmed trying to set Martin Luther King Jr's childhood home ablaze.
The University of Pennsylvania is expected to ask its president, 
