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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Michigan transgender Muslim woman loses case against ex who she sued for throwing out jar of her former pair of testicles that she kept in the FRIDGE
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A transgender Muslim-identified woman in Pontiac, Michigan is suing her ex-boyfriend for throwing away her testicles

  • Brianna Kingsley, 40, also known as Zahrah Bri-Zee Muharib, is seeking $6,500 after her former lover William Wojciechowski, 37, disposed of the surgically removed testicles

  • The body parts had been 'rotting' in his fridge for more than a year
    That seems appropriate symbolism.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [32 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's so much weirdness here that it's like a freeway accident, don't look, eyes on the road, keep driving.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/09/2024 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  This simulation sucks
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/09/2024 9:29 Comments || Top||

#3  "They were her favorites!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Every day the folks at The Bee find it harder to write material.
Posted by: EMSArtifact || 02/09/2024 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  (RAISES HAND)

...Pardon me, but what the HELL did I just read?

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 02/09/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#6  I guess William had the balls to do it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/09/2024 13:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Zahrah Bri-Zee Muharib

Heh, even in islamic the avatar sounds like a cheesy teenage stripper name.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/09/2024 13:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Useless as something on something...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/09/2024 13:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Pro tip - use a Sharpee to blackout the expiration date on the cap of the pickle jar or how is somebody not going to make that mistake.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#10  BTW, there is no way I’m opening the meat drawer after finding that hidden behind the relish.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 15:13 Comments || Top||

#11  even in islamic the avatar sounds like

Just guessing, but it seems to me the “lady” only identifies as Moslem for the dress-up possibilities. I can’t imagine her character would go over well in a real congregation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/09/2024 16:39 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
1989: 'A Spy Story' review
[Foreign Crime Drama] 1989: A Spy Story is a German film on MHz Choice about a Stasi spy who desperately works to hide her identity after her CIA co-workers discover there is a mole in their operation. Saskia Starke (Petra Schmidt-Schaller) is a well-heeled West German "Cultural Attaché" in the U.S. Embassy (and CIA station) in Berlin. When word comes down of an East German defector who has information on a Stasi mole in the station, Saskia has to sneak out of her husband’s birthday party to find the defector and eliminate him. But the threat is not gone, because the Berlin wall is about to fall, leaving Stasi spies vulnerable to exposure. Although 1989: A Spy Story is not a true story, it is based on true events and features some historical figures, such as Markus Wolf (Robert Hunger-Buhler), head of the Stasi’s foreign intelligence division.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/09/2024 03:06 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  When the Berlin Wall came down, everything did not go as anticipated. Not all documents and networks were handed over to the US.

A fictional story based on true events that is certianly worth viewing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/09/2024 3:13 Comments || Top||

#2  I know it's a sin to miss the Cold War but I do miss all the great spy stories.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/09/2024 14:23 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Man Fires Gun on January 6th at Capitol's West Terrace
[Rumble] J6Footage.org EXCLUSIVE footage of a man who has NEVER BEEN ARRESTED NOR CHARGED with discharging his firearm on Capitol grounds on January 6th.
Narrated amateur cellphone video taken of the peaceful crowd on the West Lawn of the Capitol Building before anyone entered. At about 1:50 minutes: a youngish gentleman in a red jacket climbs the scaffolding, then shoots his handgun twice in the air. Overexcited patriot or FBI-linked agitator trying to stir up trouble?
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Overexcited patriot or FBI-linked agitator trying to stir up trouble?

I'd bet $$ that handgun is Gubbamint-issued
Posted by: Frank G || 02/09/2024 8:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Signaling agent ?

Revolver firing blanks? Non-lethal attack by gov't people commences immediately afterward. Wearing red winter jacket or coat, possibly wearing body armor.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/09/2024 9:56 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  If he wasn’t working for the government he would have been picked off by a Fed shooter or later arrested and jailed.
Since you’re just hearing about him now I’m guessing he’s a Fed.
Posted by: Xyz || 02/09/2024 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  The media have admitted that the J6 Committee was low quality dinner theatre. If this guy was not a Fed, he would have been all over their presentation. They had the video. Same with the pipe bombs and Ray Epps. We are told to ignore the omozukai in the bunraku.
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 15:50 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Thousands flee in eastern DR Congo as M23 rebels advance near Goma
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Thousands of people are fleeing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
as fighting intensifies between the Congolese army and the M23 gang.
...known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army. Founded in 2012 as a Rwandan Tutsi sock puppet, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time, but in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and then Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. M23 started acting up again in late 2022, possibly again at Rwandan instigation...
Fighters reportedly surrounded the strategic town of Sake on Wednesday, a crucial step before reaching Goma, the capital of North Kivu. Capturing Sake would deal a logistical blow to Congolese soldiers.

The Congolese army and United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
peacekeepers have been struggling to contain M23’s advance. And as fighting continues, thousands of those who fled Sake have arrived in Bulengo, about 10km (six miles) west of Goma.

Thousands are "on the road right now", trying to escape the violence and get to Goma, Al Jazeera’s Alain Uaykani said, reporting from Bulengo on Wednesday.

"They have been fighting for a week right now, but this morning, again, rebels have tried to take over the main city," he explained.

It remains unclear whether the army or the rebels are now controlling the area, Uaykani added.

"The situation in Sake is very bad with heavy fighting between soldiers and M23 rebels. They have attacked with heavy guns and bombs fell on the city ... this is why we are leaving for Goma," Justin Musau, a displaced person from Sake, told Al Jazeera.

’TARGETING GOMA’
In a region already plagued with militia violence, M23 rebels launched a major new offensive in March 2022, sparking a conflict that has led to military intervention and mediation efforts by East African regional leaders. They brokered a ceasefire last year but it has been repeatedly violated.

Clashes between the rebels, army forces and self-defence groups that support them have escalated recently, forcing entire communities in Masisi and Rutshuru territories to flee to perceived areas of greater safety on the outskirts of Goma.

Meanwhile in Goma on Wednesday, a rocket landed near a university. There were no casualties from the attack, which blasted a crater into an area of open ground in the Lac Vert neighbourhood northwest of Goma, but it underscored the potential threat to the city of approximately two million people.

The DRC government this week promised that it would not let Goma, situated close to the border with Rwanda, fall into M23 hands. The gang briefly overran North Kivu province in 2012.

On Wednesday, M23 said in a statement that this was not its goal and described its actions as "defensive manoeuvres".

The DRC, Western powers and a UN expert group said the Tutsi-led rebel group is supported by Rwanda. Rwanda has denied all involvement, but the accusations have led to a diplomatic crisis in the region.

42,000 DISPLACED
Civilians have borne the brunt of the violence in the restive east, with many killed in bombings and reprisal attacks.

About 42,000 people have been displaced from Masisi alone since February 2, the UN’s humanitarian office OCHA said on Tuesday.

M23 made major advances in the town of Mweso last month, bringing the conflict even closer to Goma, which is about 100km (62 miles) away.
Posted by: Fred || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, give it back to Belgium in exchange they can have the Brussels EU contingent.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/09/2024 14:27 Comments || Top||


Madagascar Approves New Law To Surgically Castrate Paedophiles
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bully!
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/09/2024 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  An expanded 'Doctors Without Borders' fly-away surgical team holds some rather promising possibilities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/09/2024 2:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Will a surgical chainsaw be used?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/09/2024 2:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Laws are good. Laws are nice. It's the process of serving them that fucks the citizen while appeasing his sense of indignation. Anyway, let's see how many end up castrated.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 02/09/2024 2:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Ref #3: The number of possibilities appears virtually endless.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/09/2024 2:22 Comments || Top||

#6  a reasonable sentence.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 02/09/2024 9:49 Comments || Top||

#7  There's a 'woman' in Michigan interested in the remains.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 11:52 Comments || Top||

#8  I had to make a comment with the phrase "dick transplant" in it just to see if it would get past the spam filter.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/09/2024 11:57 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Newsom for Kamala.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 12:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Do they give people the parts to take home with them? Maybe they aren’t Muslim
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 16:03 Comments || Top||

#11  Like what they do in Michigan?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/09/2024 16:43 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Madrasa teacher allegedly rapes girl in Gopalganj
[Dhaka Tribune] A minor girl was reportedly raped by a madrasah teacher at Muksudpur upazila in Gopalganj on Wednesday night.

The incident took place at the Bashbaria Parijaan Begum Mohila Koumi Madrasa around 8pm.

Quoting the rape survivor’s family, Muksudpur cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Ashraful Alam said that the girl’s family took her to the Muksudpur Upazila Health Complex after seeing blood on her dress.

"Police did not find any teacher in the madrasa on the night of the incident," the OC said.

The survivor’s father said that her daughter accused a madrasa teacher for this incident.

"She could not speak further as she lost consciousness," continued her father.

"How could the teacher rape my daughter? I want justice for my daughter," the victim’s father said.

Muksudpur Upazila Health Complex duty doctor Dr Dwip Saha confirmed the rape incident.

"The girl was sent to Faridpur Medical College Hospital for treatment as her physical condition deteriorated," said Dr Dwip Saha.
Posted by: Fred || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's crime against Islam - because girl.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/09/2024 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2 
#1 That's crime against Islam - because girl.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-09 00:46


...Guy's clearly a prevert.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 02/09/2024 10:33 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Five killed in clashes with police as protests rock Haiti
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] "Mostly peaceful"


Five armed environmental protection agents were killed in festivities with police near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, as violent mostly peaceful protests seeking the removal of Prime Minister Ariel Henry paralysed the country.

Haiti has been engulfed in unrest since Monday, with thousands of people in the city and the rest of the country demanding that Henry step down in line with a political agreement forged in 2022.

A police source said the five agents of the National Agency for Protected Areas (BSAP), an armed government bureau now in open rebellion, had been shot on Wednesday after refusing to drop their weapons and firing in the direction of police. Three other members of the agency were arrested.

According to an agreement concluded in December 2022 following the liquidation of President Jovenel Moise a year earlier, Henry was supposed to hold elections and then cede power to newly elected officials on February 7, 2024.

But Henry has remained in power, with an aide saying the prime minister intends to form a government of national unity.

The Western hemisphere’s poorest nation has been in turmoil for years, with armed gangs taking over parts of Haiti and unleashing brutal violence, leaving the economy and public health system in tatters.

The 2021 liquidation of Moise plunged the country further into chaos. No elections have taken place since 2016 and the presidency remains vacant.

The protests have been called by several opposition parties and joined by employees of the environmental agency.

On Tuesday evening, a cop shoppe in the northeastern province of Ouanaminthe came under attack, local media reported. Major roads and schools have been closed across the country since Monday.

The Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, said on Wednesday that it was reinforcing its borders due to the violence.
Posted by: Fred || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Banditti

#1  Wait. Chaos? In Haiti?
I think I need to lay down.
Posted by: bman911 || 02/09/2024 12:55 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Fer gawd's sake, don't tell him about the cholera! And take that stupid blue helmet off.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/09/2024 13:37 Comments || Top||

#3  What ever happened to Papa and Baby Doc Duvaliers?

Any Clinton's involved?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/09/2024 14:24 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Over $3 BILLION flowed from US venture capital firms to China to aid military and spy capabilities: Lawmakers reveal how American dollars are 'subsidizing' the CCP's 'malign' efforts in bombshell report
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The House China Select Committee report states that U.S. venture capitalist companies have helped 'build and strengthen' China's authoritarian regime

  • U.S. venture capital is financing the 'production of weapons systems designed to kill Americans and advance China’s warfighting capabilities'

  • And worse of all is that American families are 'unwittingly contributing' and 'fueling our own destruction'

Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Commies


North Korea ends all economic cooperation with South Korea
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Rather starve?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/09/2024 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  "We'll eat Juche!"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/09/2024 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  So the whole 'rice4peace' thing is dead?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 11:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Won’t that dip their tree bark exports?
Posted by: Super Hose || 02/09/2024 16:04 Comments || Top||

#5  OK...what am I missing here?

Are there minerals or something they send south?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/09/2024 16:38 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
2 Jewish Israelis detained for allegedly spitting at Christian cleric in Jerusalem’s Old City
Every group has their nasty little idiots.
[IsraelTimes] Two Jewish Israelis from Jerusalem have been detained on suspicion of spitting at and insulting a Christian clergyman in the Old City of Jerusalem, police say in a statement.

According to police, the incident occurred last Saturday and was reported to police, who tracked down and nabbed the two suspects — including one minor, age 17. The two were sent to house arrest as the investigation continues, police say, vowing zero tolerance for such incidents.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/09/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IMO, ultra-orthodox are not really Jewish.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 02/09/2024 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  It's the hats, right?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/09/2024 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  This happens constantly and increasingly. The Talmud is full of hate for Christians abs Christianity. Including their belief that Jesus is spending the afterlife being boiled in excrement.
Posted by: Cromorong Slamble2634 || 02/09/2024 14:04 Comments || Top||

#4  The Talmud is full of hate for Christians abs Christianity.

You’ve clearly never actually seen a Talmud, Cromorong Slamble2634. The Talmud contains centuries of rabbinic discussions (called Gemara) about Jewish law extracted from the Jewish bible (the Mishnah) — anything and everything can be found in it, including folklore and contemporaneous bits of history, generally with multiple viewpoints. Nor is the Talmud the final word on any subject, but rather is a jumping off point for discussions that continue to this day. Contrary to your ignorantly parochial view, Jesus Christ and Christianity are only a small part of the over 10,000,000 million words bound in thirty-eight volumes. But don’t feel bad: Islam is also mentioned, as half the world’s Jews lived under Moslem rule for over a thousand years, a history no less colourful than the Jews’ experience under Christendom.

The BBC wrote a nice little background article on the general subject some years ago. See here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/09/2024 18:26 Comments || Top||

#5  End of the day, this Christian doesn't care what other people's special pieces of paper say about me or my faith.

That bothers a lot of people.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/09/2024 18:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Yours is the right way, M. Murcek. But Cromorong Slamble2634 so eagerly throws out memorized quotes from the the miasma of Jew-hater beliefs, so provides beautiful teachable moments.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/09/2024 19:31 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm hippin' ya, Herb, like a Pal would:
Them Jews got a nice Hebrew Talmud
That's not a bit nutsy...
And one, kinda shmutsy,
Kept hidden: an Arabic Talmud!

Freakin' Lear... how does he get away with that?
Posted by: Slusogum Lumplump3246 || 02/09/2024 20:21 Comments || Top||



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