[JPost] The Bahamas police have arrested former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the country's attorney general said on Monday, adding that The Bahamas has received formal notification from the United States of criminal charges against him.
A spokesman for the US Attorney's office in Manhattan confirmed Bankman-Fried had been arrested in The Bahamas but declined to comment on what the charges were.
"As a result of the notification received and the material provided therewith, it was deemed appropriate for the Attorney General to seek SBF's arrest and hold him in custody pursuant to our nation’s Extradition Act," the office of The Bahamas Attorney General Ryan Pinder said.
A lawyer for Bankman-Fried could not immediately be reached for comment.
In a series of interviews and public appearances in late November and December, Bankman-Fried acknowledged risk management failures but sought to distance himself from accusations of fraud, saying he never knowingly commingled customer funds on FTX with funds at his proprietary trading firm, Alameda Research.
"I didn't ever try to commit fraud," Bankman-Fried said in a Nov. 30 interview at the New York Times' Dealbook Summit,
“It just something that comes naturally to me. A gift, if you will,” he added.
adding he doesn't personally think he has any criminal liability.
Good luck with that theory — it appears that the legal divisions of at least two countries disagree with you.
FTX, which had been among the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, filed for bankruptcy protection on Nov. 11 in one of the highest-profile crypto blowups after traders pulled $6 billion from the platform in three days and rival exchange Binance abandoned a rescue deal.
The liquidity crunch came after Bankman-Fried secretly moved $10 billion of FTX customer funds to Alameda, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the matter. At least $1 billion in customer funds had vanished, the people said.
Bankman-Fried resigned as FTX's chief executive officer the same day as the bankruptcy filing.
Before his arrest was announced, Bankman-Fried had been expected to testify virtually before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, but his attorneys told CNBC that he will not testify.
His arrest is the first concrete move by regulators to hold individuals accountable for the multi-billion dollar implosion of FTX last month.
Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said on Twitter that the federal government anticipated moving to "unseal the indictment in the morning." The New York times reported that the charges include wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering, according to the New York Times, citing a person familiar with the matter. Read the rest at the link
#16
Yet another "brazen" act to show the contempt for the people they "serve" by the Puppet Show and Jojo Inc! The timing is an intentional and obvious message, with a paper-thin veneer of coincidence for the MSM to hide behind.
#1
No one will say what "complications", except he was in intensive care for 3-1/2 weeks. Maybe it was cardiac myocarditis or pericarditis from the vax.
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Bobby: as near as I can tell: you go into the hospital with COVID, they stop you from taking your normal ACE inhibitors, antihistamines, and aspirin and suddenly you're doing even worse...
Think of everything you'd have been treated with if you got viral pneumonia in 2018... and basically, it won't be there.
Then they give you something called Remdesivir that kills your kidneys.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Unexpectedly. Though it looked more like the man accidentally bumped the much smaller woman as he passed, and she was knocked over. There’s a reason boxing and martial arts tournaments are divided into weight classes.
Trans hockey player Danny Maki was left concussed after a much larger player collided with him during a trans hockey tournament last month
The tournament saw a championship match in which a team dominated by trans women trounced a team of mostly trans men
Despite the NHL promoting the tournament and Vice News filming it, next to nothing has been published about it
Quillette magazine's Jonathan Kay suggested that because of the outcome of the tournament, the NHL has opted not to give it coverage
#4
Usually men’s League stuff is no check to protect us old folks. If it was no check, you would have a much greater chance of being concussed during a recreation free skate that is packed with marginal skaters with knitted headgear. If there was body checking allowed, shame on them. In any case, I hope one of his/her/they teammates enacted some vigilante Justice on the perp, otherwise, they should remove the NHL sponsor off o f the tournament altogether.
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#5
Eventually an actual woman will die as a result of our current fetish. Taking bets on who will be held to blame.
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Skid. Ask yourself If I were rated 76 in men’s sports , would I transfer to female sports. There are the rewards of watching showering women and explaining during intimate moments that the thing they were s…ing on was just a big clit and earning a paycheck.
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#8
You might should.
Incels need every advantage they can fake.
Twitter's former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth and his family have since been forced from their home following a torrent of threats and harassment
Elon Musk implied in tweets that Twitter's former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, who is gay, has advocated for child sexualization
He shared a snip from Roth's P.hD thesis, which mentioned under-18s accessing gay hook-up app Grindr
Roth wrote that, as underage youngsters use the app anyway, an age-appropriate version should be created to offer help to LGBT youth
#1
Roth is a groomer. The fact he was even allowed to pursue his doctorate with his dissertation,is yet more proff we're an unserious and repugnant society it bothers me even more he became the head censor.
He needs to be marginalized after he's released from jail.
#3
The tiny percentage of the population that claims to be ghey are going to be shocked at how short their reign as self-appointed rulers of America winds up being.
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#4
Lived in El Cerrito in the late '60s; hard time imagining anything there costing north of $1M.
#6
Why in the hell is no one investigating all these OPENLY faggot pedophiles? I swear reading about the destruction of this country everyday is going to make me go back to drugs.
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#7
Why should we believe they 'fled' from their homes? $10 sez they're on vacation somewhere and this is a convenient excuse for them to play the passive / aggressive victim card one more time.
[AP] Much of the central United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Midwest was braced Tuesday for blizzard-like conditions, while states farther to the south saw tornado warnings from a massive storm blowing across the country.
“Winter”.
An area stretching from Montana into western Nebraska and Colorado was under blizzard warnings, and the National Weather Service said that as much as 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow was possible in some areas of western South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska. Meanwhile, ice and sleet were expected in the eastern Great Plains.
The National Weather Service warned that up to about half an inch (2.5 centimeters) of ice could form and winds could gust up to 45 mph (72 kph) in parts of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. Power outages, tree damage, falling branches and hazardous travel conditions all threatened the region.
"This is a ’we are not kidding’ kind of storm," the South Dakota Department of Public Safety said Monday in a tweet urging people to stock up on essentials, then stay home once the storm hits.
Portions of Interstate 90 and Interstate 29 through South Dakota were expected to be closed by mid-morning Tuesday due to "freezing rain, substantial snow totals, low visibility, drifting snow and high winds," the state's Department of Transportation said. Secondary highways will likely become "impassable," it said.
Farther south, tornadoes, strong winds, hail and flash flooding were expected Tuesday with eastern Texas, much of Louisiana and western Mississippi at greatest risk for severe storms. Early Tuesday, tornado warnings were issued in parts of central Oklahoma and north Texas.
Damage was reported in the Oklahoma town of Wayne after the weather service warned of a "confirmed tornado" shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday. Video footage from Oklahoma TV station KOCO showed substantial damage to a home in Wayne, which is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City.
The severe weather threat continues into Wednesday for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, according to the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
"It will be a busy week while this system moves across the country," said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist at the weather service’s headquarters in College Park, Maryland.
#3
Regionally, our things were more radar indicated rotation. They looked the part on radar other than the noted lack of energy but it was late when it passed through her; still ring the bell though because being wrong the other direction is bad bad.
Hearing stories of unpleasant driving and very local wind damage. Worth paying attention to your forecast with this one.
[Dawn] China said on Monday it would retire an app used to track Covid-19 contacts, a milestone in the country’s rapid turn away from its zero-tolerance coronavirus strategy.
The state-run “Communications Itinerary Card”, which tracks whether someone has been to a high-risk area based on their phone signal, will go offline at 12 am Tuesday, according to an official WeChat post, after more than two years in operation.
The “Itinerary Card” was a central part of China’s zero-Covid policy, with millions of people required to key in their phone numbers to produce its signature green arrow in order to travel between provinces or enter events.
The decision comes just days after China announced an end to large-scale lockdowns, mandatory quarantine in central facilities, and a broad relaxation of testing measures, effectively throwing in the towel on its zero-Covid strategy.
Official reported cases in the country have dropped sharply from all-time highs last month, but top Chinese health expert Zhong Nanshan warned in state media on Sunday that the prevailing Omicron variant was “spreading rapidly” through the country.
First rolled out in 2020 with a four-tier system that assigned different colours depending on users’ predicted level of Covid exposure, the Itinerary Card was tweaked multiple times before a final change this year shortened the tracking period from 14 to seven days.
It is only one of a panoply of tracking apps that have governed everyday life in China throughout the pandemic, with most people using local “health codes” run by their city or province to enter shops and offices.
But social media users nevertheless hailed the Itinerary Card’s retirement, noting the symbolism of Beijing shutting down its main tracking app.
Many posted screenshots of their “last” logins.
“Bye bye, this announces the end of an era, and also welcomes a brand new one,” one person wrote on the Twitter-like Weibo platform.
“Goodbye itinerary card, concerts here I come,” wrote another.
Others asked what would become of the mountains of data collected by the app.
“The Itinerary Card and other similar products mean vast amounts of personal information and private data,” wrote one Weibo user. “I hope there will be mechanisms and measures to log out and delete this.”
[WAPO] BRUSSELS — The de facto capital of the European Union is being rocked by explosive allegations that World Cup host Qatar bribed current and former European Parliament officials to try to influence decisions at the highest levels.
After at least 20 raids across Brussels since Friday morning, including within the offices of the European Parliament, Belgian authorities have confiscated more than $1 million in cash, frozen the technology access of 10 parliamentary officials to preserve data for the investigation and held six people for questioning. On Sunday, a Belgian judge charged four of them, saying they are suspected of money laundering, corruption and taking part in a criminal organization on behalf of a "Gulf State."
European authorities have yet to confirm the implicated country, but Belgian media identified the state as Qatar and reported that those charged included a European Parliament vice president, Eva Kaili, and her partner, parliamentary assistant Francesco Giorgi, as well as a former member of the European Parliament, Pier Antonio Panzeri. Others reportedly caught up in the investigation include the head of a Brussels-based union and an unnamed Italian national.
Qatar has denied wrongdoing. Whether there is any connection to the World Cup remains unclear.
But within E.U. institutions, this is being talked about as the biggest scandal in recent memory. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the response will test "the credibility of Europe."
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
A temporary lull in the Balkans after Serbia and Kosovo nearly came to blows over an automobile "license plate war" was only a brief reprieve before another escalation. The situation in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, where Kosovo Serbs live, is heating up. Apparently, the parties decided to raise the stakes.
Kosovo police say they deployed police to Serb-populated areas to 'ensure security.'
The Brussels agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on a settlement in Kosovo was signed in 2013 and provides for the creation of a body of self-government for Serbs living in the unrecognized republic. And according to the same agreements, the Kosovo authorities do not have the right to introduce their power structures into the territory of four Serbian municipalities without the permission of their administrations.
After several hundred Kosovo special forces invaded the north of the province without receiving permission from the heads of Serbian municipalities, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that in the coming days Belgrade would send a request to the NATO-led International Mission in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR) for deployment in region of their security forces.
Belgrade has no choice - Pristina has crossed a red line. If representatives of the army and police of the Republic of Serbia, who have every right to be here on the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, do not come here, then the occupation of the north of Kosovo and Metohija with the threat of clashes and pogroms will become a reality.
We are not talking about some unfounded fears and phobias of Belgrade. The outgoing year 2022 broke the anti-record for the number of incidents with Kosovo Serbs that occurred here. And here also Pristina moved its law enforcement agencies to the Serbian municipalities.
In response, on the night of December 10-11, the Serbs began to erect barricades in the northern regions of Kosovo. Vucic addressed the nation on the situation in Kosovo, in which he announced a record number of attacks by Kosovo Albanians on Serbs and stressed that Serbia would demand from KFOR (the NATO mission in Kosovo) the return of Serbian law enforcement structures to the unrecognized republic.
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic responded to the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, to his demand to dismantle the barricades. In short: "The EU only notices the Serbs when they are at the barricades."
All four Serbian municipalities do not have educational institutions as of today. The Serbs are not going to leave the barricades. KFOR promises to overclock them within 48 hours. But the Serbian special forces also advanced towards Kosovo. Serbian resources write that the Nis Corps arrived in Raska along with the 63rd airborne brigade and is only 7 km from the demarcation line. According to some sources, the Serbian gendarmerie in full force of more than 5 thousand people is also drawn to the south.
More of the interesting. German Foreign Minister Annalene Berbock said that the return of Serbian security forces to the province was "unacceptable." She openly states that UNSCR 1244, which provides for the return of a certain number of Serb security forces to Kosovo, should be ignored - because this is "unacceptable." That is, the resolutions of the UN Security Council are unacceptable to her: I honestly want to ask how you can be such an outrageous fool? It is not clear only what her statements are caused by? Narrow-mindedness? Uneducated? Ordinary bullshit? Or a cocktail of all these qualities?
As for the situation itself, we will observe. Apparently, the next step is for Pristina. They will go to a military confrontation with the Serbs, Vučić will be forced to send troops into the Serbian enclaves. The Kosovars will not go to the aggravation, then the Serbs will stop the troops at the border.
[Dawn] Germany plans to tighten its gun laws in the wake of a suspected plot by a far-right group to violent mostly peacefully overthrow the government and install a minor royal as national leader, its interior minister said in an interview published on Sunday.
German police last week arrested 25 people suspected of involvement in the plot, which has shocked many in one of Europe’s most stable democracies.
Many of the suspects were members of the far-right "Reichsbuerger" (Citizens of the Reich) movement that denies the existence of the modern German state, according to prosecutors.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, in an interview with "Bild am Sonntag" newspaper, warned that the Reichsbuerger represented a rising threat to Germany given it had expanded by 2,000 to 23,000 people in the past year.
"These are not harmless crazy people but suspected bandidosturbans who are now sitting in pre-trial detention," Faeser was quoted as saying.
Prosecutors have said the suspects included individuals with weapons and knowledge of how to use them. They had attempted to recruit current and former army members and had stockpiled weapons.
"We need all authorities to exert maximum pressure" to remove their weapons, Faeser was quoted as saying, which was why the government would "shortly further tighten gun laws".
Prior to the raids, authorities had already confiscated weapons from more than 1,000 Reichsbuerger members. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... at least another 500 are still believed to hold gun licenses in a country where the private possession of firearms is rare.
#1
I guess every establishment under the globalist thumb needs to have their own little 'insurrection', 'coup plot', 'extremist militia', etcetera.
I can imagine some wretched think tank in a NYC tower selling 'coup plots! Get your coup plots cheap! Personalized core strategy team as insurance for a year!'
#4
I dismissed this as non-organic immediately due to the lack of UHaul trailer, khaki pants and consistent hat-cuts. Without those three elements, rest assured, this was kabuki theater only.
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Haven't they been through this before? Asking for a friend.
[WIRE] Former CIA Director John Brennan kicked a virtual hornet’s nest when he attempted to defend Dr. Anthony Fauci after a late-night Twitter-swipe from the platform’s new owner Elon Musk.
Following Musk’s cryptic announcement revealing that his pronouns are "Prosecute/Fauci," Brennan jumped to the former (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious) NIAID Director’s defense, calling him "a national hero."
"Dr. Fauci is a national hero who will be remembered for generations to come for his innate goodness & many contributions to public health," Brennan tweeted.
He then went on to take a swipe at Musk, adding, "Despite your business success, you will be remembered most for fueling hate & public divisions. You may have money, but you have no class."
Critics quickly came for Brennan, arguing both that he was wrong about Fauci and that his own lack of candor with the American people might disqualify his opinion.
"Dr. Fauci killed countless Americans, destroyed countless businesses, destroyed the education and daily lives of countless children, and lied repeatedly to accomplish all of that. No wonder an America-hating communist piece of garbage like @JohnBrennan thinks he’s a hero," actor Nick Searcy tweeted.
#3
“Term used by idiot science deniers who weren’t loved enough as children and now have developed a dislike for authority. They claim there’s a conspiracy theory involving the COVID 19 lockdowns and vaccines, meant to keep them down and reign through tyranny. Needless to say; they are big dumb.“
[CyberSecurity] LockBit’s claims regarding what it has stolen should be taken with a grain of salt. “It should be noted that not all of LockBit’s past claims have been true,” Brett Callow, a threat analyst at Emsisoft, tweeted Monday.
LockBit - a group the U.S. DOJ describes as one of the "most active and destructive ransomware variants in the world" has announced that it targeted systems belonging to the California Department of Finance and gave the agency a Dec. 24 deadline, when the group is threatening that it will publish the stolen files.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Looking at this as a possible cover for alternative uses.
This would / could be a neat way to funnel $$$$ back to certain Political SIG's for upcoming elections or to fill certain pockets for cover.
#1
Except what they don't say is that they only got more energy than the lasers took, which is NOT all the input energy for this. It's a good milestone but NOT yet on the brink of actually viable.
#5
One not-so-little problem with fusion like this is that while you can get energy out, you need to couple it to something else to get a usable form of energy--water to make steam to turn turbines, or maybe ionizing gas to (maybe someday) use MHD effects to generate current. But whatever it is, it can't be close or it will interfere with the lasers doing the compression. So you wind up with low energy densities with this approach.
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#6
Don't know, the solar panels around here were acting more like kites today.
[FreeBeacon] Bio Bidet's BB-1000 has 'the absolute strongest spray pressure of any electronic bidet seat on the market.'
The U.S. Navy under President Joe Biden spent hundreds of dollars on a luxury bidet complete with a remote control and a massaging feature, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon through a public records request.
A December 2021 government requisition order obtained by the Free Beacon shows the Navy spent $553 on Bio Bidet's BB-1000 bidet seat attachment for a toilet on the USNS Yuma, a high-speed military transport ship. The picture at the link is worth a thousand words.
The description of the thing in the next paragraph is not really suitable for a family website.
#1
Was this model specially developed for our Surgeon General?
He is the very model of a modern Admiral Surgeon General. That enema function had to be the selling point in the end.
#6
Coming to a news article soon: "The inquiry board discovered the collision occurred because the executive officer was using the bidet instead of personing their / they station on the bridge."
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#7
Not the Bee. Here's a buck.
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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.
[JPost] The Bahamas police have arrested former FTX CEO 
[MAIL] Gary Friedkin dead at 70: Happy Days star - who played Ewok in Star Wars - passes away in Ohio after long battle with COVID-19
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[WAPO] BRUSSELS — The de facto capital of the European Union is being rocked by explosive allegations that World Cup host Qatar bribed current and former European Parliament officials to try to influence decisions at the highest levels.
[CyberSecurity] LockBit’s claims regarding what it has stolen should be taken with a grain of salt. “It should be noted that not all of LockBit’s past claims have been true,” Brett Callow, a threat analyst at Emsisoft, tweeted Monday.
Go ahead, call me old fashioned. 
