[FoxNews] DHS Secretary Kristi Noem vowed to deport the suspects, one of whom allegedly has HIV, according to a police report
Two illegal immigrants from Mexico were arrested and charged Friday for allegedly molesting a minor on a Royal Caribbean cruise off the coast of Miami.
Jose Prudencio Diaz, 36, and Ricardo Daniel Mondragon Leal, 37, are charged with child molestation and exhibition on a child in connection with an incident that occurred on an Independence of the Seas cruise.
Additionally, Diaz is charged with having sex with another person without disclosing his HIV infection, and Leal is charged with sexual battery of a minor, according to arrest records.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted about the incident on X Tuesday.
"One of them has HIV. Both have ICE detainers on them. We WILL get these sickos out of our country," Noem wrote.
The defendants were detained without incident, police said. No further information was available at the time of publication.
Unvetted ship employees or guests whose passports were not properly checked?Either way, the company has a liability problem.
[GatewayPundit] Yesterday, a mysterious spiral appeared in the night sky over multiple Parts of Europe, causing many to look up with a mix of awe and fear.
Sputnik reported:
"Residents across multiple countries, including La Belle France, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, were left stunned by a glowing spiral formation in the night sky. The unusual phenomenon sparked widespread speculation, with many turning to social media to share photos and theories."
Today, after the usual number of social media users have spent their time with outrageous theories, the mysterious swirl that appeared in the night sky over Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... was revealed to be have been made by a SpaceX rocket.
The Telegraph reported:
"Social media was abuzz with stargazers on Monday night, who spotted the strange spiral moving slowly across the sky from north to south at around 8pm for 30 minutes."
"Ben Thomson of Hampshire, wrote on X that it was ’too slow for a satellite but appeared to be at a high altitude’. He added: ’It was very bright at its central point and created a swirl effect which was also lit up as it went’."
“Experts said the phenomenon was created by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 5.48pm UK time. The frozen exhaust was illuminated by the Sun as they spun across the sky, creating the glowing blue spiral.
A spokesman for the Met Office said: ‘We’ve received many reports of an illuminated swirl in the sky this evening. This is likely to be caused by the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launched earlier today. The rocket’s frozen exhaust plume appears to be spinning in the atmosphere and reflecting the sunlight, causing it to appear as a spiral in the sky’.”
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[Regnum] Two Alpha Jet jets collided during training flights in eastern France. This was reported on March 25 by the Minister of Defense of the Republic, Sebastien Lecornu.
"There has just been an accident in eastern France involving two Alpha Jets [of the aerobatic team] of the Patrouille de France, which were taking part in a rehearsal. Rescue services are involved, coordination is underway between the Ministry of the Interior and the armed forces," he wrote on the social network X.
Earlier, the Puissance Télévision portal published footage of the accident, showing the planes colliding during training. The site also posted a photo of what appears to be the pilot parachuting amid rising black smoke.
The publication claims that both pilots were able to bail out of the aircraft in time after the collision. One of the damaged aircraft crashed into a Calin silo in the commune of Saint-Dizier, in the sky above which a training flight was being conducted.
According to open sources, the Alpha Jet aircraft was developed by specialists from the French company Dassault and the German Dornier. The aircraft is a light attack aircraft, it is also used as a training aircraft. The aircraft's first flight was made in 1973, and it has been in service with the French Armed Forces since 1977.
Earlier, on March 22, a jet plane crashed during the West Coast Air Show in South Africa. During the demonstration, the pilot of the Impala Mark I made several turns in the air, after which the aircraft lost control and crashed to the ground. The pilot did not have time to eject and died, the spectators were not injured.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in October 2024, two light aircraft collided in mid-air in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Three people died as a result of the accident.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Health chiefs in Washington D.C. have confirmed a case of measles in a patient who visited multiple locations while contagious.
The individual traveled throughout the nation’s capital within the last week, including two Amtrak stations and an urgent care center.
Anyone who is unvaccinated, or who got their MMR shots before 1968, and came into contact with the infected person is being urged to contact their care provider.
The patient traveled on a Amtrak Northeast Regional 175 Train Southbound from Union Station on March 19 between 7pm and 11pm.
They then visited the MedStar Urgent Care Adams Morgan on 1805 Columbia Road on March 22 between 7pm and 11pm, local health officials said.
The growing measles outbreak in the US has infected over 300 people, mostly in West Texas, which is more than the number of total cases in the country last year.
It comes at a time of falling vaccination rates and low trust in public health institutions.
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[Regnum] Argentine President Javier Miley has ordered that archives be opened to documents on German Nazis who fled to the country after World War II. This was stated by Argentine Prime Minister Guillermo Francos in an interview with the DNews TV channel.
"There are still documents that have not been made public, especially those related to banking operations. President Miley gave the order to open access to all documents that any state body may have," Francos told the TV channel's journalists.
According to him, the Argentine leader's decision is connected with the visit of American Senator Steve Daines, who is fighting "for all documents from the time when Argentina protected those who fled Nazi Germany to be published." Francos noted that the order was given immediately after a request from Daines.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in 2023, the issue of declassifying the list of Nazi war criminals who hid in the country from punishment was discussed in the Canadian government.
At that time, according to the journalists of The New York Times (NYT), it was stated that the list that could be made public included 883 people who fled to Canada after the end of World War II. This concerns the second part of the report on war criminals in the country, which was prepared in 1986. At that time, only the first part was published, and the second was classified.
[KhaamaPress] Elon Musk’s political involvement, including support for far-right parties, has significantly impacted Tesla’s sales in Europe, causing a sharp decline.
Tesla sales in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... dropped by 44% last month, reaching the lowest market share for the company in five years. Analysts attribute this decline to various factors, including Elon Musk’s involvement in politics and his controversial support for certain political figures.
According to data from Jato Dynamics, Tesla sold fewer than 16,000 vehicles in Europe last month, marking a 44% decrease compared to the brand’s average sales in 25 European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries, the UK, Norway, and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... In January 2024, Tesla’s sales in Europe also fell by 45%, dropping from 18,161 units to 9,945 units. Despite this decline, the UK saw a 21% increase in new Tesla registrations, with models 3 and Y becoming the second and third most popular vehicles after the Mini Cooper.
Analysts suggest that Tesla’s sharp decline in sales in Europe could be influenced by several factors, including the halt in production of the current Tesla Y model, increased competition in the electric vehicle market, and the effects of Elon Musk’s political involvement.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has recently caused a stir with his support for the far-right AfD party in Germany and his participation in controversial conservative gatherings. Some believe that his political stance has led potential Tesla buyers to distance themselves from the brand.
The combination of political controversy, increased competition, and production issues has resulted in Tesla’s market position weakening in Europe. This trend could have long-term effects on the company’s growth and sales in the region.
[KhaamaPress] In major cities across The Sick Man of EuropeTurkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , widespread protests continued for the sixth consecutive night, resulting in the arrest of over a thousand people and severe crackdowns by security forces. The unrest, which began after the arrest of Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, has now evolved into one of the largest movements of civil disobedience the country has seen in over a decade.
Reports indicate that during the sixth night of protests, Ottoman Turkish police used tear gas, plastic bullets, and water cannons to disperse the crowds. Images from major cities like Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir show intense confrontations between protesters and security forces.
Turkey’s Interior Minister confirmed that over 1,133 people have been arrested across the country, with the number increasing since the protests began on March 19. Among those detained are at least 10 journalists who were covering the events.
The level of violence has been described by eyewitnesses as shocking, with police allegedly using excessive force against peaceful demonstrators. The protests began after Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest on March 19, charged with "financial corruption" and "ties to terrorist organizations." Opposition groups view the arrest as a political maneuver to eliminate Imamoglu, a major rival to President Erdogan in the upcoming elections.
What started as protests in Istanbul quickly spread to over 55 provinces out of 81 in Turkey. Slogans such as "Erdogan Resign" and "Justice for Imamoglu" echoed through the streets.
In response to the protests, the Ottoman Turkish government has implemented strict measures, including banning public gatherings in major cities and limiting access to social media platforms like X, YouTube, and Instagram, in an attempt to control the situation. Erdogan has labeled the protests as a "violent mostly peaceful movement" and accused the Republican People’s Party (CHP) of inciting unrest.
The widespread crackdown has sparked international condemnation. The European Commission, along with countries like Germany and La Belle France, has criticized the actions, seeing them as a regression of democracy in Turkey. This growing international concern highlights the political and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... implications of the ongoing events.
[The 'A' Register] After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.
Like many government projects before it, the US Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS) promised big things when it was kicked off nearly a decade ago.
According to a memo [PDF] signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth late last week, the program was intended to streamline a large portion of the DoD's legacy HR IT systems, but it's being axed after officials concluded pouring more funds into it would be "throwing more good taxpayer money after bad."
DCHRMS started in 2018 with a planned development timeline of one year and a budget of $36 million, "but instead it's taken eight years and is currently $280 million over budget - that's 780 percent over budget," Hegseth said in a video announcing the DCHRMS and other spending cuts. "We're not doing that anymore."
[ZeroHedge] After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.
Like many government projects before it, the US Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS) promised big things when it was kicked off nearly a decade ago. According to a memo [PDF] signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth late last week, the program was intended to streamline a large portion of the DoD's legacy HR IT systems, but it's being axed after officials concluded pouring more funds into it would be "throwing more good taxpayer money after bad."
DCHRMS started in 2018 with a planned development timeline of one year and a budget of $36 million, "but instead it's taken eight years and is currently $280 million over budget - that's 780 percent over budget," Hegseth said in a video announcing the DCHRMS and other spending cuts. "We're not doing that anymore."
That's not to say the DoD is giving up on modernizing its civilian HR systems - the memo noted that the Pentagon still wants a new solution, with Hegseth directing officials to develop a fresh plan within 60 days to achieve the project's original goals.
While the headline item in the memo is the cancellation of DCHRMS, Hegseth ordered cuts to additional programs, contracts, and grants too.
The memo mentioned the cancellation of more than $360 million in grant programs "in areas of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and related social programs, climate change, social science, COVID-19 pandemic response" and the like, stating these efforts were not aligned with the DoD's current priorities.
We've reached out to the Defense Department to get a more complete list of the programs being terminated, but Hegseth did single out a couple in the video. In particular, he pointed to a $6 million grant for decarbonizing the emissions from US Navy ships and a $9 million university grant to develop "equitable AI and machine learning models."
"I need lethal machine learning models," Hegseth said. "Not equitable machine learning models."
The memo also directed the cancellation of $30 million in contracts with Gartner and McKinsey for analysis products and what Hegseth described as "unused licenses" from "external consulting services." The move echoes the ongoing scrutiny of federal consulting contracts, such as reviews of deals involving Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
In total, the memo states DoD is eliminating $580 million of government spending, though only $170 million will be able to be reallocated.
Hegseth credited Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency for its ability to root out the canceled programs, which, in addition to the cuts announced at the end of last week, now totals $800 million "in wasteful spending canceled over the first few weeks" of the Pentagon's DOGE review - but it won't be the last.
"Stay tuned," Hegseth said. "We have a lot more coming."
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" Hegseth directing officials to develop a fresh plan within 60 days to achieve the project's original goals."
These are sort like naval building projects, people keep adding things and changing things trying for the 100% solution and the 'next' big thing. Settle for 80% and get it done.
[FoxNews] Critics immediately said the order will disenfranchise millions of voters.
Prove it. Show us the disenfranchised, O critics.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order requiring people to provide proof of American citizenship when they register to vote and demanding that all ballots be reviewed by Election Day.
The order requires government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship on its voter registration forms, directs the attorney general to enter into information-sharing agreements with state election officials to identify cases of election fraud or other election law violations and conditions federal election-related funds on states complying with federal election integrity measures.
"There are other steps that we will be taking in the coming weeks," Trump said just before signing the order. "We think we'll be able to end up getting fair elections."
"It's an honor to sign this one," he added. "I sign all of them, but to sign this one is a great honor."
The U.S. has failed "to enforce basic and necessary election protections," the order states.
Election experts immediately criticized the move, saying it would disenfranchise millions of voters.
"This executive order would block tens of millions of American citizens from voting," the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University wrote on X. "Presidents have no authority to do this. This order, like the SAVE Act now before Congress, would hurt voters and suppress the vote."
The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, is a bill being pushed by Republicans that would make sweeping changes to voter registration, including requiring voters to present documents proving U.S. citizenship.
[FoxNews] 2 foreign nationals were arrested after they allegedly flew drones over military bases in Florida, California
Federal officials face a looming threat of foreign nationals utilizing drones to surveil United States military bases after two recent arrests and a string of mysterious incursions suggest the country’s airspace is ill-equipped to handle the rapidly evolving technology.
In late 2024, the Department of Justice announced charges against Yinpiao Zhou, 39, for allegedly flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and taking photos of the facility. The Chinese-American citizen was detained as he attempted to board a China-bound flight and was charged with violation of national defense airspace and failure to register an aircraft.
"Anyone operating a drone over a restricted space, like a military base, would be subject to prosecution," Ken Gray, a former FBI agent and military analyst, told Fox News Digital. "A foreign national operating [a drone] raises a concern about that person being involved in some type of espionage or intelligence gathering."
An affidavit revealed Vandenberg’s drone detection systems registered Zhou’s drone flying over its base on Nov. 30, 2024. When base authorities tracked the drone’s origin to a nearby park and confronted Zhou and a second individual, he allegedly attempted to conceal the drone in his jacket.
Two months later, a Canadian tourist was arrested for allegedly flying a drone over a defense installation in Florida.
Federal prosecutors allege Xiao Guang Pan, 71, used a drone to photograph sensitive defense installations at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, according to the DOJ. Pan allegedly took photos of munitions bunkers, Space Launch complexes, a submarine wharf and payload processing facility as he flew his drone on three separate days in January.
Chinese-Canadian, eh? We seem to have a theme…
"The response to [drones] is not standard," Gray said. "Depending on the place the drone is spotted, their response could be anything from just making note of it to trying to detect where the drone is coming from, and the success of those types of responses has really varied drastically."
A string of high-profile mysterious incidents thrust drones into the national spotlight as public speculation grew.
In February, the highest-ranking general for all air defenses in North America took to Congress to sound the alarm over nefarious drones flying over the U.S., two months after a swarm of drones wreaked havoc over New Jersey’s skies for weeks.
"The General’s comments provide further proof that the Biden national security team was dismissive and downplayed the risks presented by the mystery drones spotted all over New Jersey, especially those that flew over sensitive sites within my own district, such as Naval Weapons Station Earle," said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., in a press release.
While the White House insists the drones seen across the Garden State were "authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons," the revelation has done little to calm Americans’ unease.
Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, commander of NORTHCOM and NORAD, expressed concern over the influx of mysterious drones flying throughout American airspace, specifically over sensitive military sites. The four-star general cited widespread reports of drones infiltrating classified locations throughout the country in his attempt to turn up the heat on lawmakers’ response to the increased sightings.
"The primary threat I see for them in the way they’ve been operating is detection, and perhaps surveillance, of sensitive capabilities on our installations," Guillot said in a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. "There were 350 detections reported last year on military installations, and that was 350 over a total of 100 different installations of all types and levels of security."
Last year, Virginia’s Langley Air Force base was defenseless as drones invaded the skies above for 17 nights, according to a report obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
Two months earlier, five mysterious drones invaded the skies over a government nuclear weapons experiment site in Nevada, stumping officials.
"Due to the use of drones in Ukraine, we see that drones pose a real risk of being used as a weapon system against targets," Gray told Fox News Digital. "Even hobby-level drones can be modified to carry explosives or other types of dangerous substances that could be used to cause all kinds of problems for people on the ground."
Military officials are also faced with the increasingly hard task of determining where the drones are originating from. NORAD’s radar systems were developed during the Cold War, making them ill-equipped to detect and identify drones.
"Radar coverage would not cover something as small as a drone operating at altitudes of less than a couple of hundred feet," Gray said. "So the ability to see where [the drones] originate or where they are being recovered really depends upon either having an aerial asset that is tracking it, following from the air or teams on the ground that are operating to determine where the drone is being recovered."
[FoxNews] Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain, have unearthed sketches believed to be 200,000 years old.
The evacuation was led by the Municipality of Marbella’s Department of Culture, Education, and Historical Heritage, which found a stone block with etchings, according to a press release.
"The significance of this discovery is twofold: on the one hand, it confirms the presence of settlers in Marbella during the Early Middle Paleolithic, a period little known in Spain and unprecedented in the province of Malaga," the release says.
"Furthermore, it provides this unique stone, which contains a set of graphic representations of human origin that could be 100,000 years older than the oldest cave art depictions," it continued.
The stone was unearthed at the Coto Correa site in Las Chapas and is known for housing the oldest remains in the city.
A study is being conducted by the Department of Culture to confirm the age of the stone and its origin. .
"The techniques applied for absolute dating consist of quartz analysis of different sediment samples, which will allow for a precise chronology of the samples," says the press release.
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So curious ... I see 4 quadrants of the unit circle, an equilateral triangle in q1 forming an bound isosceles triangle with the axes, and a 45 deg ray in q4.
If that ray represents a Z axis then perhaps we have a map.
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'Tis ogham the aliens taught 'em
That points to the stuff that they sought. Um...
"For water and game,
Mating, fortune and fame,
Follow arrow to... uggh... Foggy Bottom."
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"These Ancient Stone Etchings Could Be an Extremely Early Form of Animation"
They could flip the stone tablets really fast back in the day, but then they cast the yetis to the fringes of civilization and animation was set back several thousand years.
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.
[GatewayPundit] Yesterday, a mysterious spiral appeared in the night sky over multiple Parts of Europe, causing many to look up with a mix of awe and fear.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
“Experts said the phenomenon was created by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 5.48pm UK time. The frozen exhaust was illuminated by the Sun as they spun across the sky, creating the glowing blue spiral.
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[FoxNews] Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain, have unearthed sketches believed to be 200,000 years old.
