Six people, including a six-month old baby, a teenage mother and an elderly woman, were killed in a California, Central Valley farming community
The local sheriff said it was likely a targeted attack by a drug cartel
Massacre occurred around 3:30am Monday in and around a home in Goshen
Authorities said they were searching for two suspects and that the killings may have been related to a search warrant carried out last week at one of the homes
Sheriff said the level of violence and the manner of the attacks suggested experienced killers
Tulare County, a small agricultural region with a population of less than half a million, has historically played a significant role in the transnational drug trade, transporting drugs from Mexico to various markets in the United States.
The county, which is bisected by the 99 Freeway and has a limited law enforcement presence, acres of open land, and a highly mobile population of farmworkers, has been a haven for drug traffickers since at least the 1970s.
In recent years, the area has also become known for the production of methamphetamine and the cultivation of both legal and illegal marijuana.
Notable and violent figures of Mexico's drug wars, such as former leader of the Zetas cartel, Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, have connections to Tulare County as he was born there.
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Something the old time crime bosses would not have tolerated. Family was off limits.
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Norteños (Spanish: [noɾˈteɲos] meaning Northerners; Norteñas for females) are the various, affiliated gangs that pay tribute to Nuestra Familia while in California state and federal correctional facilities.[9] Norteños may refer to Northern California as Norte Califas. Their biggest rivals are the Sureños from Southern California.[3] The statewide north-south dividing line between Norteños and Sureños has roughly been accepted as Bakersfield, California.[3] The gang's membership consists primarily of Mexican Americans. Consider the horrific execution of an entire family as a turf-violation example by the cartel. Far more common a tactic in Mexico, but we are importing all that rapidly.
As for a basis for the insane Biden illegal immigrant surge, consider that Obama era Hispanics include people with connections or thoughts in refernces to Atzlan and Mecha: M.E.Ch.A. (Spanish: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán; "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán") is a US-based organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. The acronym of the organization's name is the Chicano word mecha, which is the Chicano pronunciation of the English word match and therefore symbolic of a fire or spark; mecha in Spanish means fuse or wick. The motto of MEChA is 'La Union Hace La Fuerza'. Research Atzlan and find the Reconquista, which is well underway...
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#2 - spot on
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While I was living in California, there was a movement of Mexican and African American middle class outward from the Bay towards the suburbs. Unfortunately, they brought their kids so schools in places like Antioch and Pittsburg got tougher. Mostly it was kids pretending to be hard. This incident is different. It is the Nortenos grabbing turf outside of Oakland and Richmond. More turf is achieved through increased staffing available through the open border. These are soldiers. They do not go to school, pick tomatoes or hang drywall. The RINOs who want to give out amnesty at the behest of special interest are not going to achieve cheap labor; they will be bringing Juarez violence to every state.
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[NYPOST] The Texas woman who was allegedly decapitated by her husband was found in a pool of blood near the couple’s bed — and her head was located in the shower.
Anggy Diaz’s corpse was discovered Wednesday at the home near the town of Magnolia, northwest of Houston, according to Waller County Sheriff Troy Guidry.
Jared James Dicus, 21, confessed to murdering Diaz, also 21, whom he had only just married in October, according to cops.
According to court documents cited by Fox 26 Houston, Diaz was found on the floor with multiple stab wounds in her back and police found "what appeared to be the head of the victim to be in the shower."
Guidry said Dicus’ father immediately called the cops when they found the victim.
"They [the parents] were addressed by the suspect [husband] and when they saw something wasn’t feeling right for them, they approached the house that they were living in, and that’s when they found what they found," he said.
The knife used in the gruesome crime also has been recovered.
"Everything happened on the property. And all parts and pieces were recovered and submitted for evidence," Guidry said.
Chilling security video shows Dicus calmly walk into the Chepes meat market where his wife worked, swipe a beer and then chug it outside.
A friend of the victim last week told The Post that Diaz had confided that her husband was a jealous person.
"He posted a video saying, ’She is mine,’ to social media, and it was weird because no one was questioning that ... it was out of nowhere," said the friend, who asked not to be identified.
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...well technically, they core it, then invert it, using extra left over for cosmetic construction. Warning, do not go to Thailand or Brazil for 'recreation', the docs got too good. Remember shoulders and hands are the usual clue.
I want to address the violence of Black Hos!
[FoxNews] The professor complains how science is discussed in a 'very violent and hyper-masculine' way'.
My high school’s honours physics teacher enthusiastically illustrated every single blessed problem the first quarter using MiGs shooting off missiles. I had to drop down to the regular physics class, where I was bored stiff by the pace, but at least understood what the teacher was trying to explain. I don’t think it was a male-female problem, though, just that he was a tad eccentric. The other girls in the class were fine.
A Colorado professor believes astrophysics is steeped in systemic racism and White supremacy.
Natalie Gosnell, a professor of physics at Colorado College, wants to take an unorthodox approach to teach physics by interpreting it through the lens of race.
"Both artists and scientists are just observing things about the world, making interpretations about those observations, and then sharing their interpretation," Gosnell told Colorado College News.
Yes, but one is doing art, and the other is doing science. They are very different ways of analyzing the universe. And while they can have things to teach each other, that teaching takes place at the end of the process, not in the middle. The lady is an idiot... and probably not a good scientist.
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She should demonstrate gravity off the top of the Science Building.
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Natalie Gosnell, a liberal, attention seeking White Female Professor.
Is also quoted as saying "We aim to cross typical disciplinary boundaries to create art-science pieces that re-inscribe outer space as feminist space.".
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How can there be a "what supremaciss" problem when all they talk about is dark matter and dark energy?
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My time at the Zoo offered many opportunities for hardship. One was dealing with the freaks at CC. My first encounter with them, I couldn’t help but notice the difference. In our uniformity we were individuals of every background working for a common goal. In their “individuality” they were all the same. White dreds and TYE die shirts with Birkenstock sandals.
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deGrasse Tyson is a pop culture huckster. I would not ask his opinion of why a magnet has two poles.
If you want to see him say some stupid, totally wrong stuff, watch any of the YouTube videos of his appearances on Joe Rogan's show.
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My observations of the fields do not match hers. Which is a polite way of saying she's lying. The quote in (3) may be found here; this is how she wants to be known.
I don't recognize her, but my circles and hers may have differed.
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I have a dream...that all this shit will go away!
[FoxNews] A shooting at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event left eight people wounded on Monday evening in Fort Pierce, Florida, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.
The shooting broke out around 5:20 p.m. near Ilous Ellis Park following a "disagreement of some sort" between two groups of people, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office said.
An "MLK Car Show & Family Fun Day" was being held at that park from noon to 6:00 p.m., according to the City of Fort Pierce.
One of the gunshot victims is in critical condition, according to the sheriff's office. Four people were also injured as they were fleeing the scene.
Videos posted on social media showed large crowds enjoying the event before multiple gunshots rang out in the distance, sending people scrambling behind cars.
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"An MLK Car Show? Who won?"
"Well, I guess it was, um, Family Fun,
Since we hid behind cars
When our kids went to war
In the MLK Gun Show, eh, son?"
[Lincoln backfiring; everyone run]
It had to happen
[FoxNews] Local activists said the patron went beyond self-defense when he shot and killed 30-year-old Eric Eugene, who was robbing customers at gunpoint with a fake weapon.
Community activists in Houston are calling for a restaurant patron who shot and killed a robbery suspect during a holdup to be arrested, saying he went beyond self-defense despite many calling him a hero.
Customers were eating inside a local taqueria when 30-year-old Eric Eugene Washington entered and pointed a pistol at them and demanded cash. As he gathered the cash, an armed patron can be seen on surveillance video getting up from the booth he was sitting in and shooting his pistol at Washington multiple times.
"He was within the law when he fired the first initial shots," said activist Quanell X in a news conference in front of the establishment. "But we believe he went from being a law-abiding citizen to a lawbreaker."
Washington ultimately fell to the ground and died. The unidentified shooter has not been charged and has cooperated with authorities.
The man's attorney released a statement saying: "In Texas, a shooting is justified in self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property."
The armed diner has been hailed a hero by many but local activists said he went beyond self-defense when he fired several more times than needed to neutralize the threat posed by Washington, who was holding a fake gun.
"You do not go and shoot someone over and over when they are no longer a threat," said Candace Matthews of the New Black Panther Nation. "He was actually in the clear for a justified kill by shooting him like he did the first time when he was no longer a threat."
The shooter fired a total of nine shots as Washington was leaving the restaurant. Washington was shot as he was on the restaurant floor after he had been disarmed, Fox Houston reported.
"I'm hoping the grand jury does something because if they don't, the message that will be sent will be the wild wild west," Quanell X said. "He should be charged with something," saying the man left the scene before authorities arrived and fired even after Washington was unarmed.
He noted that he doesn't condone Washington's actions and that he deserved to be punished, but not killed. He also said the shooter dumped a drink on Washington as he was leaving the restaurant and threw a cup at him.
"At the least, it's called abuse of a corpse, that's a misdemeanor crime in Harris County," he said.
Washington's mother, Corine Goodman, said the shooter should have stopped firing as soon as there was no longer a threat.
"If you had to kill him, I can deal with that. I can come to grips with that. He did something wrong, I understand that," she said. "But for him to be shot four times in the back leaving and when he falls down and he shoots him four more times. He abused him."
A grand jury is weighing whether the shooter will face charges.
Washington had a lengthy criminal history. In 2015, he was convicted of a lesser charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection to the shooting death of 62-year-old Hamid Waraich a father of three sons who was engaged, KTRK-TV reported.
He was paroled in 2021 and charged with assaulting his girlfriend in December 2022.
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Washington had a lengthy criminal history. In 2015, he was convicted of a lesser charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection to the shooting death of 62-year-old Hamid Waraich a father of three sons who was engaged, KTRK-TV reported. He was paroled in 2021 and charged with assaulting his girlfriend in December 2022
The robee/shooter did the job that the criminal justice system wouldn't. He deserves a medal.
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You can always count on them to take the side of their own people. They're much like Jewish people in that way. They have loyalty towards their own ethnicity.
It's a weird concept to wrap your head around if you're white.
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You never spent any time in the southern states, have you Herman.
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I was expecting Quanell to sound off. He hasn't been on TV in a while.
Next to be heard from is Sheila Jack-a$$ Lee.
We would normally get Sylvester Turner in here, but he's now the mayor.
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#5 southern states
You mean, like, the Caucasus?
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Quannellex sounds like one of them prescription medicines.
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Almost 40 years ago the jurors in Baton Rouge sentenced a cold blooded killer to community service and probation… look up Plauche Doucet Baton Rouge airport. Houston jurors, take note.
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During the BLM riot season, one of neighbors who is a cop in HPD told me how the brass were afraid the marches in houston would turn violent. So the HPD kept them under control. They were afraid that if they rioted and started burning and looting, it'd be a bloodbath when they got out of downtown and hit residential. And it would have been because SO many people in this area simply won't roll over. You try to destroy their stuff and they WILL KILL YOU. And the laws in this state let you do it. After dark, we are permitted to employ lethal force to prevent virtually any criminal mischief on our property.
SUBCHAPTER D. PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
Sec. 9.41. PROTECTION OF ONE'S OWN PROPERTY. (a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other's trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property.
(b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or
(2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property:
(1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and
(2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary:
(A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or
(B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Sec. 9.43. PROTECTION OF THIRD PERSON'S PROPERTY. A person is justified in using force or deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property of a third person if, under the circumstances as he reasonably believes them to be, the actor would be justified under Section 9.41 or 9.42 in using force or deadly force to protect his own land or property and:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the unlawful interference constitutes attempted or consummated theft of or criminal mischief to the tangible, movable property; or
(2) the actor reasonably believes that:
(A) the third person has requested his protection of the land or property;
(B) he has a legal duty to protect the third person's land or property; or
(C) the third person whose land or property he uses force or deadly force to protect is the actor's spouse, parent, or child, resides with the actor, or is under the actor's care.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
Sec. 9.44. USE OF DEVICE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. The justification afforded by Sections 9.41 and 9.43 applies to the use of a device to protect land or tangible, movable property if:
(1) the device is not designed to cause, or known by the actor to create a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily injury; and
(2) use of the device is reasonable under all the circumstances as the actor reasonably believes them to be when he installs the device.
Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 913, ch. 342, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1975. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.
For the first time, a #Muslim character has been chosen to be the superheroine in a new series produced by Marvel Studios of the #WaltDisney Studios.https://t.co/q5izbh9pWO
"It's Trump's fault!"
[FoxNews] 'It's not FEMALE EMPOWERMENT when the first 'woman' to own the Miss Universe pageant organization was born a MAN,' one user wrote.
The new owner of Miss Universe gave a speech extolling the organization as run by women, for women, and composed of women, as a "trans woman." Twitter users had some questions.
"Welcome to the Miss Universe organization," JKN Global Group CEO Anne Jakrajutatip told the live audience at the 71st Miss Universe competition in New Orleans.
R’Bonney Gabriel, a model, fashion designer and sewing instructor ultimately took the Miss Universe crown, beating out 83 other contestants.
"From now on it’s going to be run by women, owned by a trans woman for all women around the world to celebrate the power of feminism!" Jakrajutatip declared as the audience burst into applause.
Jakrajutatip, who purchased the parent company of Miss Universe for $20 million in 2022, continued to celebrate a new era in the Miss Universe competition.
"Diverse cultures, social inclusion, gender equality, creativity, a force for good, and a force for the beauty of humanity."
Jakrajutatip is a well known Thai reality TV star.
But some Twitter users debated whether women themselves were actually better off with a transgender owner at the helm of Miss Universe.
"It’s not FEMALE EMPOWERMENT when the first ‘woman’ to own the Miss Universe pageant organization was born a MAN," conservative influencer James Bradley wrote.
Political commentator Ian Miles Cheong called out Jakrajutatip for lecturing women on "what it means to be a woman." "Listening to that transgender Miss Universe owner lecture the public on what it means to be a woman really takes the cake."
The west is "completely detached from reality," one user wrote in response to Cheong.
New Culture Forum founder and journalist Peter Whittle said that it was hypocritical for an organization designed to champion women should be run by a woman. "The new boss of the Miss Universe contest proclaims it will now by run by women and will celebrate feminism, inadvertently forgetting perhaps that he is, in fact, a man."
"I see America is not the only thing to have gone to s--- since Donald Trump stopped running it!" El American editor Ben Kew wrote. Former President Donald Trump sold the Miss Universe Organization in 2015.
The Spectator editor-at-large Ben Domenech gave one of the shortest responses to the video of Jakrajutatip’s speech. "Dude, come on."
Do you put your feet up in front of the TV? Maybe shopping is your way to unwind? Perhaps you're a bit more adventurous and enjoy a stroll in the countryside?
That doesn't quite cut it for some people, who choose to run a 200-mile ultra-marathon in a disused railway tunnel instead.
The Tunnel Ultra is a race like no other. It's easy to find longer events. Some even involve repeating the same loop for days on end. But nowhere else can you take part in a race so twisted that you spend more than two days in darkness doing a one-mile shuttle run 200 times, or so punishing that one runner went temporarily blind - then thanked the race organiser for the privilege.
No outside support is permitted, headphones are banned and runners are not allowed to run side by side. Oh, and there is a strict time limit of 55 hours.
The Tunnel website describes it as "a mind-bending test of extreme endurance and sensory deprivation". It is more health warning than marketing slogan.
The race takes place in Combe Down Tunnel, a mile south of Bath city centre, and starts at 4pm on a Friday in March. No more than 40 runners make it that far, partly because of a strict - and deliberately opaque - qualification process and largely because the tunnel is not big enough to accommodate many more. "Even the start line is weird," says Mauduit. "You have to stand one behind another in a queue."
Combe Down was restored as a cycle path in 2013 after 47 years under weeds. It is the UK's longest foot tunnel - and the obvious setting for an ultra-marathon if your name is Mark Cockbain.
All of which adds up to a notoriously low finish rate. Of the 31 runners who started the inaugural Tunnel, only two completed it, and 13 in total in the three years it has been in existence.
[MAIL] This is the moment an angry beanie hat-wearing reveller is knocked out after being smacked across the face with a pool cue.
Footage shows the man lunging across the table and wildly swinging at people before a punter turns his cue into a weapon and delivers a brutal full-force blow to his face.
He crashes to the ground motionless as a group of revellers then piles in with cues and glasses. It is unclear what triggered the chaos. Police have said no arrests have been made yet.
One reveller told MailOnline: 'It was threatening to kick off all night. There was a load of them by the pool table. Then a big row broke out and the lad with the hat was going at them all
"Progressivism"
[FoxNews] Progressive effort to enforce top-down social reform expanded federal law enforcement and criminal activity.
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a progressive effort to enforce social reform via expanded federal power and popularly known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16, 1919.
"The manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited," the amendment states.
Prohibition remains unique among the 27 amendments in three ways.
It is the only amendment that limited the rights of U.S citizens rather than restrict the powers of government, as was originally intended by the Bill of Rights.
It quickly proved hugely unpopular despite initial overwhelming support by state assemblies.
And it proved so bad that it was overturned by the 21st Amendment in 1933.
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Quoting Google .....
The Senate vote was 65 to 20, with the Democrats voting 36 in favor and 12 in opposition and the Republicans voting 29 in favor and 8 in opposition.
The House of Representatives then passed a revised resolution on December 17, 1917.
By 1922, 46 states had ratified the amendment. With only 2 states rejecting the amendment: Connecticut & Rhode Island.
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Number of deaths in America's wars since the repeal of Prohibition vs the number of deaths due just to DUI* since the repeal of Prohibition. Guess which is highest.
* not including the classical - "here hold my beer while I do this"
Beware the onion Jihadi!
[Jpost] The 10 Philippines Airlines crew members arrived in the country on two separate flights, one from Dubai and one from Riyadh on Friday, and were caught by customs with 27 kg of onions, 10.5 kg of lemons and a kilogram of strawberries and blueberries, local media sources reported.
The confiscated foods were found in the flight attendants' suitcases when they arrived at Manila International Airport.
#7
"Worn on our belts. Which was the fashion at the time"
/Grandpa "Chuey" Simpson
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I've had wild onions growing on every property I ever owned and seen them on many properties as a kid. Is there something about Philippine dirt that makes onions difficult to grow?
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Does it rain a lot? You need a dry season to finish onions if you want them to keep.
Feds turn reservist spy?
[FoxNews] Baimadajie Angwang was accused of gathering intelligence on the Tibetan immigrant community to report back to the Chinese consulate in NYC.
Brooklyn federal prosecutors reportedly dropped their case against an NYPD officer previously indicted for allegedly spying on behalf of the Chinese government.
In 2020, Baimadajie Angwang, a New York City Police Department officer and Army reservist granted secret-level security clearance by the Department of Defense, was described as the "definition of an insider threat" by FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office William F. Sweeney.
He was arrested in September of that year after initially joining the country’s largest police department in 2014.
But by Friday, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace’s Office filed vague documents saying their further investigation "obtained additional information bearing on the charges," N.Y. Daily News reported.
Without providing more specifics to their reasoning, prosecutors asked Judge Eric R. Komitee to dismiss the indictment, the New York Post also reported.
Angwang, who initially overstayed his visa and was later granted asylum in the United States by claiming he had been tortured by the Chinese government partly due to his Tibetan ethnicity, was accused of using his position as a community liaison officer in the 11th precinct in Queens as a means to spy on Tibetan immigrants and provide the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with access to senior NYPD officials through invitations to serious events.
In fact, federal prosecutors had said Angwang failed to disclose that both his mother and father were Chinese Community Party members. His brother and father both worked for China’s principal military force, the People’s Liberation Army (PLC). All three of them live in China, according to court documents.
Federal prosecutors had wanted a jury to hear wiretapped conversations between Angwang and his Chinese handler at the PRC Consulate in New York City.
In one such talk, Angwang, a naturalized U.S. citizen, allegedly said he wanted to get promoted within the NYPD to "bring glory to China." In another call, he told his handler that superiors in Beijing "should be happy … because you have stretched your reach into the police," according to the criminal complaint.
Angwang’s attorney John F. Carman alleged to the Post that federal prosecutors now are hiding behind the Classified Information Procedures Act to dodge explaining why the indictment was dropped "in an effort to give the impression that this was a legitimate prosecution, which it was not."
"Mr. Angwang is a great American who served his country in combat in Afghanistan and our government repaid him by treating him like he was the leader of the Taliban," Carman said.
#Italy’s Carabinieri police on Monday arrested Matteo Messina Denaro, the country's most wanted mafia boss who had been on the run for three decades. pic.twitter.com/O6AKlNWxM9
Italy's No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.
Messina Denaro was captured at the clinic where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, said Carabinieri Gen. Pasquale Angelosanto, who heads the police force's special operations squad.
In a police photo showing him sitting in a police van, Messina Denaro was wearing a brown leather jacket and white skull cap and his trademark tinted glasses. His face looked wan. He was taken to a secret location by police immediately after the arrest, Italian state television reported.
A young man when he went into hiding, he is now 60. Messina Denaro, who had a power base in the port city of Trapani, in western Sicily, was considered Sicily's Cosa Nostra top boss even while a fugitive.
He was the last of three longtime fugitive top-level Mafia bosses who had for decades eluded capture.
Messina Denaro, who tried in absentia and convicted of dozens of murders, faces multiple life sentences.
He is set to be imprisoned for are two bombings in Sicily in 1992 that murdered top anti-Mafia prosecutors, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. Among other grisly crimes he was convicted of is the murder of a Mafia turncoat's young son, who was strangled and his body dissolved in a vat of acid.
The arrest Monday came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture in 1993 of convicted "boss of bosses" Salvatore "Toto" Riina, in a Palermo apartment after 23 years on the run. Messina Denaro went into hiding in summer of that same year, as the Italian state waged a crackdown on the Sicilian crime syndicate following the murders of Falcone and Borsellino.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni tweeted that Messina Denaro's capture is a "great victory of the state, which shows that it doesn't surrender in the face of the Mafia."
Italy's Mafia boss who set the record for the longest time on the lam was Bernardo Provenzano, captured in a farmhouse near Corleone, Sicily, in 2006 after 38 years as a fugitive. Once Provenzano was in police hands, the hunt focused on Messina Denaro, but despite numerous reported sightings of the boss, he managed to elude arrest, until Monday.
That all three top bosses were ultimately arrested in the heart of Sicily while they conducted decades of a clandestine life won't surprise Italy's police and prosecutors. Law enforcement have long said that such bosses rely on contacts and confidentiality of fellow mobsters and complicit family members to move the fugitives from hideout to hideout, supply basic needs, like food and clean clothing and communication, and a code of silence known as "omerta."
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Great news! Thousands and thousands of babies will now live!
We tried to follow suit here in South Carolina till our 3 of our idiot Supreme Court "justices" decided that our state constitution demands killing babies. In South Carolina!!!!
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[Red State] The World Economic Forum gets underway Monday in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday as hundreds of world leaders, business titans, and politicians will gather to privately discuss the issues of the day and make recommendations to reduce climate change, hunger, and poverty.
If you’re not concerned about the WEF’s doings, read RedState writer Nick Arama’s excellent article from Monday, "Michael Shellenberger Drops a Chilling Thread About the WEF That Gives Elon Musk the ’Willies.’"
But how do all these leaders get there? Do they fly commercial then take a train, the likely option if you or I were to go? Do they rent a car, or ride alongside the unwashed masses on a bus?
Nope. Many of them drive in surrounded by huge convoys of gas-guzzling vehicles, while another bunch flies in on private jets, some of them on incredibly short flights. An estimated 1,500 private flights flew in and out of nearby airports in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, while Greenpeace puts the 2022 number at around 1,040. (When the radical environmental group highlights the incredible hypocrisy of the folks shaming you on climate change, you know they’re on shaky ground.)
"But it keeps the rats away!"
[FoxNews] Police arrested the child's mother
Israeli police conducting a raid at a residential building in Haifa on Sunday found a toddler locked in a cage.
According to the Israeli news agency TPS, officers were looking for drugs in an apartment when they found the child, who is 1 year and four months old, in an iron structure with a pillow and bottle. Five older children were also present, but the mother was not.
"This is one of the most serious and difficult cases I’ve come across," Police Corporal Yossi Atias said, according to TPS. "The police in cooperation with welfare officials of the Haifa municipality carried out an emergency operation with immediate concern for the other children of the family who were there. We take seriously any harm to the helpless and will work hard to handle the case."
The mother, who police identified as a 35-year-old Haifa resident, was eventually located and brought to the residence, and police arrested her on charges of false imprisonment, child neglect, and abuse.
Police said they also recovered a large quantity of what they believed to be drugs from the building, including crystal and hashish, TPS reported. In addition to the mother, two other suspects were arrested.
Israeli police conducted a number of operations in recent days to crack down on drugs, as well as organized crime. According to the Jerusalem Post, police arrested 40 people between two other busts on Sunday and Monday.
Sunday's operation was in Ashdod, where police arrested seven suspects at what they believed to be a plant-based drug laboratory. Cops had been investigating the alleged operation for five months.
On Monday, police arrested 33 suspected drug dealers after an informant supplied information over the course of eight months. According to the Post, the informant had purchased large amounts of drugs including MDMA, cocaine, LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, and more from them.
Cops reportedly seized suspected drugs, cash, and 14 vehicles.
"In the past year we have been putting a heavy emphasis on operations in the heart of crime syndicates and we will continue doing so without respite for the wellbeing and safety of the people of Israel," police Insp.-Gen. Kobi Shabtai said in a statement.
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.
[NYPOST] The Texas woman who was allegedly decapitated by her husband was found in a pool of blood near the couple’s bed — and her head was located in the shower.
[MAIL] This is the moment an angry beanie hat-wearing reveller is knocked out after being smacked across the face with a pool cue. 
[Red State] The World Economic Forum gets underway Monday in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday as hundreds of world leaders, business titans, and politicians will gather to privately discuss the issues of the day and make recommendations to reduce climate change, hunger, and poverty.
