[ZERO] As we discussed last night, Sam Bankman-Fried has now demonstrated that he is both a pathological liar and a sociopath, the kind who in "explaining" to his employees how he stole billions (over $4 billion according to new FTX CEO John J. Ray) from the now bankrupt FTX, an act which left it insolvent and without liquidity, called it "loans" which were "generally" not used for "large amounts of personal consumption" (just "small amounts" used for such trivial items as $40 million penthouses and private jets).
And the only reason we don't officially call him a criminal just yet, is because he has not yet confirmed he used client money from his exchange to fund his personal hedge fund, an act which would cost any other individual decades in jail... but not prominent democrats like SBF or Jon Corzine, of course. Plus it's the US legal system's job to do that, not ours. Although we are growing increasingly skeptical this prominent Democratic donor will ever see the inside of a courtroom.
It's not just us: with much of the entire world demanding to know how this corpulent 30-year-old still has not been thrown in prison, or at least charged with a variety of crimes, the NYT just confirmed to the entire world what a farce the one-time paper of record has become, and how it is willing to whore itself out for clicks - not to mention prominent Democrat donors - because moments after SBF tweeted that he will be speaking with Andrew Ross-Sorkin moderated NYT "summit" on Nov 30...
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He's on their side. He can do no wrong. Oh, he was a little bit too enthusiastic supporting them, but that's no crime. Slap on the wrist and move on.
[NYPost] The alleged Colorado nightclub shooter wanted to be "the next mass killer" — and whined that their grandparents’ plans to move down south would ruin a plot to build a bomb, according to records from a previous arrest.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, flew into a rage and threatened to kill their grandparents when they told them they had sold their house and planned to move to Florida in June 2021, according to records obtained by KKTV 11 News.
The incident ended with the SWAT team swarming Aldrich’s mother’s home, more than a year before Aldrich allegedly stormed an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs and killed five people.
The results in the 2021 bomb-threat incident are under seal and it’s not clear if the charges were dismissed.
However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... advocates are questioning why Aldrich still had access to deadly weapons after the arrest. Colorado "red flag" laws may have removed guns that were in their possession, advocates have said.
Aldrich, who identifies as nonbinary according to their attorneys, was living with their grandparents on June 18, 2021 when they dropped the news of their pending move.
The grandmother later told cops Aldrich said they were "going to be the next mass killer and has been collecting ammunition, firearms, bullet-proof body armor and storing it in the basement of the residence."
The grandchild had bragged about wanting to "go out in a blaze" and had started making what the grandmother believed was a bomb, according to the records obtained by KKTV. Aldrich complained the move would interfere with their "bomb making" and "plans to conduct a mass shooting and bombing," the records stated.
Aldrich claimed the bomb would be powerful enough to blow up a police department or federal building.
It wasn’t the first cause of concern for Aldrich, whose grandparents said had made "homicidal threats" toward them and others. At a family meeting about the planned move, Aldrich loaded a gun in view of them and told them "you guys die today.
"I’m loaded and ready. You’re not calling anyone," Aldrich said, according to the arrest record.
Adrich downed vodka and said they needed the booze for "what he’s about to do" before they went to their mother’s house nearby. Cops were alerted by a 911 call and contacted Aldrich’s mother, who wasn’t cooperative and later texted her landlord to say Aldrich was in the house.
When a SWAT team showed up to the residence, Aldrich’s mother came out of the home saying "He let me go."
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office put out a news release on the arrest, but the results of the case remain unclear with Aldrich telling the Gazette in August that their story on the arrest was "damaging" to their reputation.
"The entire case was dismissed," Aldrich allegedly told the Gazette, adding they had spent two months in jail after the arrest.
Aldrich hasn’t been formally charged but may face a murder and hate-crime rap for the mass shooting at Club Q on Saturday. In a court filing Tuesday, defense attorneys said Aldrich identified as nonbinary and used the pronouns they/them.
The accused appeared in a video court hearing on Wednesday, visibly dazed and battered, and the presiding judge saying "could the defendant please state his name?" The prosecutor also referred to Aldrich as "he" during a press briefing after the hearing.
Hate crime charges would require proving the suspect was motivated by bias, such as against the victims’ actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity.
Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called the chief of staff and complained that the artillery was keeping him awake... in another bizarre twist, Aldrich’s estranged father has been identified as an ex-con former MMA fighter-turned-porn star, it was revealed Tuesday.
Aaron Franklin Brink, 51, entered the mixed martial arts cage in the ’90s, clocking up 21 victories over the 10 years of his fighting career — including during appearances with the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting, MMA Junkie wrote in a profile.
Brink also took up porn acting at age 27 under the name Dick Delaware, the Denver Gazette reported.
The troubled dad also has an extensive criminal history, including convictions for battery against Aldrich’s mom, Laura Voepel, both before and after the suspect was born, according to state and federal court records.
It was also revealed that the suspected shooter’s name was changed more than six years ago after filing a legal petition in Texas seeking to "protect himself" from a dad with a criminal history.
Aldrich was known as Nicholas Franklin Brink until 2016 when a petition was submitted on Brink’s behalf by their grandparents, who were their legal guardians at the time.
"Minor wishes to protect himself and his future from any connections to birth father and his criminal history. Father has had no contact with minor for several years," the petition stated.
The request for a name change came months after Aldrich was apparently targeted by online bullying.
Last year, Aldrich was arrested after their mother reported her child threatened her with a homemade bomb and other weapons.
Ring doorbell video obtained by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named shows Aldrich arriving at their mother’s front door with a big black bag the day of the bomb threat.
Authorities later said no explosives were found, but gun control advocates have asked why police didn’t use the state’s "red flag" laws to seize weapons she said her child had.
Authorities said the attack was halted by two club patrons including Richard Fierro, who told reporters that he took a handgun from Aldrich, hit him with it and pinned him down with help from another person.
Fierro, a former Army major who now owns a local brewery, said he was celebrating a birthday with family members when the suspect "came in shooting." Fierro said he ran at the suspect, who was wearing some type of body armor, and pulled him down before severely beating him until police arrived.
Fierro said he didn't know if the suspect spoke to him when he subdued him.
"I was cussing at him, I don't care what he said to me. I'm going to see that guy in court, and he's going to see who did him," Fierro said.
A second person, identified by police as Thomas James, also helped subdue the shooter, but he has not yet spoken publicly. Fierro said a third person also helped — a performer at the club who Fierro said kicked the suspect in the head.
The gunman who opened fire at a Virginia Walmart has been identified as Andre Bing, a manager at the store, who killed six co-workers before taking his own life.
A Facebook Live video apparently made by a Walmart employee had been circulating online showing a co-worker whom she calls “Andre.”
The young man is seen joking with the workers before he walks away when the woman points her camera at him. It was unclear when the footage was shot.
Chesapeake Police Chief Mark Solesky said the gunman killed six co-workers before killing himself with a handgun.
The police department said three individuals, including the shooter, were found deceased in the break room of the store while one dead victim was located toward the front of the store. They added that three other victims were transported to local hospitals for further treatment but succumbed to their injuries.
“There is no clear motive at this time,” Solesky said, adding that he had no indication that the gunman was known to law enforcement before the shooting. He also could not confirm that all the victims were Walmart employees.
Andre Marcus Bing biography: 10 things about Chesapeake, Virginia man
He is a resident of Chesapeake, Virginia.
Aside from Chesapeake, he has lived in other parts of Virginia including Suffolk and Virginia Beach.
He has relatives based in Virginia, USA and New York, USA.
He has no criminal history.
He drives a Ford Focus.
He works as a store manager at Walmart on Sam’s Circle in Chesapeake.
He is related to Pervis Bing of Chesapeake, who is 2 years older than him.
In 2019, he bought a house in Chesapeake. He paid $225,00 and took mortgage out of $191,000. On January 17, 2019, his relative Pervis pleaded guilty in Texas, USA to a lesser drug charge in exchange for four years of deferred adjudication.
On November 22, 2022, he allegedly opened fire inside his workplace at Walmart in Chesapeake, fatally shooting at least four people and wounding at least six others, then turned the gun on himself. The Chesapeake Police Department has yet to confirm whether or not he is the gunman.
He is 31 years old.
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So many Mass shooters that don’t fit the needed template. The search continues for the great MAGA criminal.
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Problem (for the leftist narrative, anyway) is, most MAGA people have jobs, family and faith. Even in extremis, they are decent souls at the core and don't do this kind of thing.
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Let this be a lesson. When you find yourself working or otherwise having to associate with some kind of a weird guy, do not tease or bully him. Try to be civil without getting too friendly. Understand that this individual could be the next to go completely off the rails and start shooting people. School children can be especially cruel to anyone who doesn't fit the norm as they see it. Could be they instinctively know such individuals are dangerous. Well, if you think he might be dangerous, leave him alone. Let the police deal with it.
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Every break room I've ever encountered is a one way in and out situation. Not a good place to be when the disgruntled co-worker shows up.
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[NYPOST] A Florida man is behind bars after threatening to burn down a hospital in a Dire Revenge plan aimed at getting the attention of the FBI.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said a family member of 56-year-old Glenn Schaeffer called deputies to report he left his home Monday night dressed in camouflage and possibly armed with a pipe bomb or Molotov cocktails.
Patrol units located Schaeffer and attempted to stop him near US Highway 41 S and Pennsylvania Avenue, but he refused to exit his car and eventually fled.
Later on, deputies made contact with Schaeffer again at his home in Gibsonton and took him into custody without incident.
Deputies searched his vehicle and reportedly found two firearms, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and bottles with an unknown liquid.
The HCSO bomb squad responded to investigate the liquid and the bottles and found the liquid was not flammable. An agent with the FBI’s Tampa Division also responded.
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Hopefully the person who tested the “liquid” noticed the color was wrong and wore elbow length gloves when the opened the 2 liter Mountain Dew containers.
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[Gateway] A top virologist and member of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel who supported granting emergency use authorization for the COVID vaccine has died suddenly.
Dr. Almyra "A" Oveta Fuller, 67, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology and member of the FDA vaccine and biological products advisory committee, died suddenly on Friday morning.
Fuller died on November 18, 2022, after a brief non-COVID-related illness, according to her obituary. everything is Covid-related
She played a crucial role in securing the emergency use authorizations for the three COVID vaccines.
"Obviously, we’re in a pandemic of coronavirus, and we need to use every tool available that is safe and effective," Fuller told Michigan Daily when asked why she voted to recommend the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for pediatric use.
"Based on the data that was presented for the clinical trials with 5- to 11-year-olds, as well as the rollout effects of the Pfizer vaccine over the last 10 months in millions of people, the benefits seem to far outweigh the risk. So I voted yes, to make that available as something that parents who choose to have their children vaccinated can do. My opinion was not so much to make it mandatory but to make it accessible," she continued.
Dr. Fuller also favored including COVID-19 vaccinations on the CDC’s list of mandatory immunizations for school entry, according to Dr. Panda.
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Our tech needs to be based on building blocks and services that are not tied to huge companies trying to sell ads and user' personal data.
As the big outfits sh*t where they eat, the stage is being set for that.
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Lay off enough tech people and you could fill all the vacant jobs!
Except many would have to work...
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WHEN first ancient time, from Jubal’s tongue
The tuneful anthem filled the morning air,
To sacred hymnings and elysian song
His music-breathing shell the minstrel woke.
Devotion breathed aloud from every chord:
The voice of praise was heard in every tone,
And prayer and thanks to Him, the Eternal One,
To Him, that with bright inspiration touched
The high and gifted lyre of heavenly song,
And warmed the soul with new vitality.
A stirring energy through Nature breathed:
The voice of adoration from her broke,
Swelling aloud in every breeze, and heard
Long in the sullen waterfall, what time
Soft Spring or hoary Autumn threw on earth
Its bloom or blighting; when the summer smiled;
Or Winter o’er the year’s sepulchre mourned.
The Deity was there; a nameless spirit
Moved in the breasts of men to do him homage;
And when the morning smiled, or evening pale
Hung weeping o’er the melancholy urn,
They came beneath the broad, o’erarching trees,
And in their tremulous shadow worshipped oft,
Where pale the vine clung round their simple altars,
And gray moss mantling hung. Above was heard
The melody of winds, breathed out as the green trees
Bowed to their quivering touch in living beauty;
And birds sang forth their cheerful hymns. Below,
The bright and widely wandering rivulet
Struggled and gushed amongst the tangled roots
That choked its reedy fountain, and dark rocks
Worn smooth by the constant current. Even there
The listless wave, that stole with mellow voice
Where reeds grew rank on the rushy-fringed brink,
And the green sedge bent to the wandering wind,
Sang with a cheerful song of sweet tranquillity.
Men felt the heavenly influence; and it stole
Like balm into their hearts, till all was peace:
And even the air they breathed, the light they saw,
Became religion; for the ethereal spirit
That to soft music wakes the chords of feeling,
And mellows everything to beauty, moved
With cheering energy within their breasts
And made all holy there, for all was love.
The morning stars, that sweetly sang together;
The moon, that hung at night in the mid-sky;
Dayspring and eventide; and all the fair
And beautiful forms of nature, had a voice
Of eloquent worship. Ocean, with its tides
Swelling and deep, where low the infant storm
Hung on his dun, dark cloud, and heavily beat
The pulses of the sea, sent forth a voice
Of awful adoration to the spirit
That, wrapt in darkness, moved upon its face.
And when the bow of evening arched the east,
Or, in the moonlight pale, the curling wave
Kissed with a sweet embrace the sea-worn beach,
And soft the song of winds came o’er the waters,
The mingled melody of wind and wave
Touched like a heavenly anthem on the ear;
For it arose a tuneful hymn of worship.
And have our hearts grown cold? Are there on earth
No pure reflections caught from heavenly light?
Have our mute lips no hymn, our souls no song?
Let him that in the summer-day of youth
Keeps pure the holy fount of youthful feeling,
And him that in the nightfall of his years
Lies down in his last sleep, and shuts in peace
His dim, pale eyes on life’s short wayfaring,
Praise Him that rules the destiny of man.
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If Longfellow had understood the profit potential of Hallmark cards, he would have churned out limericks of suitable length for all holidays.
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"Gov, all through the year have we striven
To make a chimerical living..."
"'Tis not in the cards
That you'll prosper as bards...
But I'll pay by the word for Thanksgiving."
[France24] Parisian chefs are moving to the countryside to be closer to the produce they use in their kitchens. Among them are Australians James Henry and Shaun Kelly, the owners of Le Doyenné. Voted "Best Restaurant of 2023" by Le Fooding, a print and digital guide to hotels and restaurants, Le Doyenné opened in July in the small town of Saint-Vrain (Essonne), 40 km from Paris in an area that is short of high-end restaurants.
[NYPOST] What started out as a mundane weekend shift for a crew of firefighters in Alaska ended up as anything but that when they got a call to rescue a baby moose from a basement.
The moose, estimated to be a 1-year-old bull tipping the scales at 500 pounds, had a misstep while eating breakfast Sunday morning by a home in Soldotna, about 150 miles southwest of Anchorage.
"It looks like the moose had been trying to nibble on some vegetation by the window well of a basement window and fell into it, and then fell into the basement through the glass," said Capt. Josh Thompson, with Central Emergency Services on the Kenai Peninsula..
The youngster elk found itself trapped one floor below ground level.
A biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was able to tranquilize the moose, but the animal wasn’t completely unconscious.
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Buy the kid a gerbil next time. Moose aren’t pets unless your name is Captain Kangaroo.
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Kinda strange. The chap was fired but then says he's been "...ordered by AP not to comment".
[Semafor] A 10-minute miscommunication on Slack [in the link] between journalists at the Associated Press resulted in an erroneous report last week that appeared momentarily to bring tensions between NATO and Russia to their highest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Last Tuesday, AP posted a news alert saying that a "senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people," and noting that leaders in Poland were "holding an emergency meeting due to a ’crisis situation.’"
The report, which would have represented a Russian missile striking a member of NATO, immediately sparked fear of a dramatic escalation of tensions between the US and Russia.
But national security officials said the report was false, and the Associated Press retracted the piece a day later. On Monday, it fired James LaPorta, the national security reporter for the wire service who got the initial tip that set the story in motion.
LaPorta’s firing was first reported by the Daily Beast, and confirmed by the Washington Post. Both stories quoted AP sources and put the blame squarely on the reporter. The Beast reported that LaPorta left "the impression that the story’s sourcing had been approved."
But the slack messages on which the incident played out tell a different story, of honest mistakes, internal confusion, and a lack of a clear process that led to a disaster for one of the few news organizations whose Twitter presence is an authoritative account of world affairs.
On Tuesday afternoon at 1:32 PM ET, LaPorta wrote in an internal Slack channel that he’d been told by a senior US intelligence source that Russian missiles crossed into Moldova and Poland. LaPorta described the source as an "official (vetted by Ron Nixon)," referring to the publication’s VP of news and investigations.
But while Nixon had approved the use of that specific anonymous source in the past, people involved said, Nixon was not aware of that tip or that story. LaPorta did not exactly claim that Nixon had approved the source in this case, but his words were interpreted by the editors to mean that he did.
Lisa Leff, an editor on the European desk, immediately asked if the wire service could send an AP alert, or if they would need confirmation from another source.
"That call is above my pay grade," LaPorta replied.
When Leff asked if LaPorta could put together a story, he told the Slack channel that he was not around.
"I’m actually at a doctor’s appointment. What I passed along is all I know at the moment," he said.
Deputy European news editor Zeina Karam ultimately decided to publish, believing that Nixon had vetted the source, and the alert was sent out at 1:41 PM ET, less than ten minutes after LaPorta’s initial message.
But the story was false. The initial tip may have been a true accounting of what senior officials thought in the minutes after the explosion in Poland. But it was wrong, as is often true amid the fog of war and wartime journalism. NATO officials later determined that the missiles were likely fired by Ukrainian air defense. The Associated Press took the story down, and issued a correction saying that "subsequent reporting showed that the missiles were Russian-made and most likely fired by Ukraine in defense against a Russian attack."
LaPorta was suspended on Thursday morning, according to a source familiar with the situation, and fired on Monday after a review by the wire service.
In a statement to Semafor, he said that he would "love to comment but I’ve been ordered by AP not to comment."
MAX'S VIEW
The Associated Press blasts alerts out to its hundreds of news partners around the world at lightning speed, and updates stories continually as they evolve. But the fact that a story that theoretically could’ve triggered armed conflict between NATO and Russia required less than ten minutes, one anonymous source, and just over a dozen Slack messages for the wire service to publish suggests a systemic editorial failure, not one reporter’s blunder.
The central miscommunication came when LaPorta wrote that his source had been vetted by Nixon. AP decided that this constituted a violation of the organization's policies, which require sources to be vetted every time.
But LaPorta didn’t say Nixon had approved the source for that story. His ambivalence about publishing the item at all, and the fact that he said he was not present to write the story, left the decision in his editor’s hands. They hit publish. The Slack exchange shows no indication that editors considered the geopolitical ramifications of the report. And there’s no indication they sought a second source.
AP did not anticipate disciplining the editors for the blunder, a spokesperson told the Washington Post.
ROOM FOR DISAGREEMENT
The Associated Press said the incident was part of a pattern of behavior. In a statement, spokesperson Lauren Easton said that the publication is continuing to review the incident. But she implied that the decision to fire LaPorta was not based just on last week’s story, though she did not clarify what those incidents were.
"When our standards are violated, we must take the steps necessary to protect the integrity of the news report. We do not make these decisions lightly, nor are they based on isolated incidents," she said.
She continued: "The story did not meet our standards. We continue to look into every aspect of what happened."
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(1) Scapegoat?
(2) Most importantly, however, who was the anonymous 'senior US intelligence official' that fed LaPorta a false narrative which risked WWIII?
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Sorry we almost started WWIII. If hundreds of millions of people got killed, well, we had good intentions.
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Once upon a time gossip was considered to be a sinful, dirty activity. This lad surely seems to be reaping punishment of a sort right now.
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LaPorta almost secured a contributors slot at CNN, but instead he ends up as a sandwich artist. Should have skipped out on the doctor and submitted the $20 charge on his expense report. I don’t think his CIA sponsor will be making his December rent payment for him.
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"Do you want fries with that anonymously sourced scrap of propaganda, sir?"
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Gotta wonder why he won’t/can’t comment: what’s the AP gonna do; fire him?????
The founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX has written to its former employees apologising for his role in its collapse and continuing to insist its downfall can be solely explained by a misplaced $8bn (£6.7bn). pic.twitter.com/aiqAwJg28K
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The guy seems to be like an artificial snow making machine with regard to evidence against himself. In the end his Energizer Bunny routine will be fruitless. The Deep State will still have a noose waiting in his jail cell.
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IPhone workers are living in a closed loop cut off from the rest of humanity. It’s a metaphor for Klaus Schwab’s plan for the rest of us.
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Given the prison like conditions & hours, the workers are forced to work. When looked at from a liberal agenda prospective on the human rights and Social Justice issues. Why would any Liberal person support such abuses by purchasing and Iphones.
[Shafaq News] A jury convicted Yasir Darraji on Monday of murdering his ex-wife, whose strangled body was found burning in her car on Spokane's South Hill on Jan. 30, 2020.
Yasir Darraji, a 33-year-old Iraqi immigrant, was silent and did not react when the jury delivered its verdict in Spokane County Superior Court. The jury had been in deliberation since Thursday and found him guilty of second-degree murder and harassment of his ex-wife, Ibtihal Darraji.
Yasir Darraji maintained his innocence throughout the trial, which began Oct. 31. His sentencing is tentatively scheduled for Dec. 8.
Investigators called the case an "honor killing."
After the couple moved to Spokane in 2014, Yasir Darraji began an affair and Ibtihal wanted a divorce, according to court documents. By late 2015, Yasir Darraji's girlfriend was pregnant.
Prosecutors argued that Yasir Darraji was angry his ex-wife was becoming more "Americanized," going out drinking and dancing, practicing Christianity and dating other men.
In February 2016, Ibtihal Darraji filed a declaration in Spokane County Superior Court, claiming Yasir Darraji had attacked her several times. She said he sent photos of her without a hijab to her family in Iraq to anger them and threatened to send her children back to Iraq, where he said his family would kill her if she tried to get them back, according to court documents.
Things continued to escalate in late 2019 and early 2020, prosecutors said.
Speaking through a translator, Yasir Darraji testified that he had argued with his ex-wife the night of her death when she came to pick up their son.
He became concerned when he smelled marijuana smoke from her car, then she became upset when he asked her about it. She drove away without their son, he said.
He went out later that night with the intention of driving for Lyft, the rideshare app, he said, but he could not recall everywhere he drove that night.
Cellphone data showed Ibtihal and Yasir Darraji's phones traveling together from Yasir Darraji's apartment in Spokane Valley to the South Hill where her car was found.
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.
[ZERO] As we discussed last night, Sam Bankman-Fried has now demonstrated that he is both a pathological liar and a sociopath, the kind who in "explaining" to his employees how he stole billions (over $4 billion according to new FTX CEO John J. Ray) from the now bankrupt FTX, an act which left it insolvent and without liquidity, called it "loans" which were "generally" not used for "large amounts of personal consumption" (just "small amounts" used for such trivial items as $40 million penthouses and private jets).
[NYPOST] A Florida man is behind bars after threatening to burn down a hospital in a 
[Gateway] A top virologist and member of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel who supported granting emergency use authorization for the COVID vaccine has died suddenly.
Thanksgiving
[NYPOST] What started out as a mundane weekend shift for a crew of firefighters in Alaska ended up as anything but that when they got a call to rescue a baby moose from a basement.
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