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Arrest Made In Plantation In Connection To Package Bombs
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Arrest Made In Plantation In Connection To Package Bombs
See also this posted below, and the original Day 3 post summarizing the situation as of last night.
[Miami.CBSLocal] Federal authorities have arrested a man in Plantation in connection to a series of package bombs that have been sent to top Democrats and President Trump critics, according to CBS News.

The man was taken into custody at an auto parts store on State Road 7 at SW 6th Street around 10:30 a.m. A "loud explosion" was heard at the time of the arrest, possibly from a flash bang device used by FBI in the course of making the arrest.

A law enforcement source told CBS4 the man is 56-years-old and they were led to him through DNA evidence.

The man is reportedly from Aventura, according to CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald.

The FBI also wrapped a blue tarp over the top of a white van in the parking lot, to preserve any evidence, before it was put on a flatbed truck and taken to an FBI facility.

Friday morning, the existence of two more package bombs were revealed by authorities.

The 11th suspicious package has been found at an Opa-locka mail facility, it was addressed to New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.

It was discovered Thursday night and it is similar in appearance to the others that were sent to prominent Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump.

In New York Friday morning, police responded to a suspicious package at a postal facility in midtown Manhattan. The package was similar to the others and was addressed to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper at the Time Warner Center where CNN has its New York bureau.

On Thursday, the FBI and the Miami-Dade Police Department bomb squad spent hours at a United States Postal Service mailing distribution center in Opa-locka.

CBS News confirmed several packages may have originated at the facility. Postal inspectors have been poring through millions of pieces of mail, searching for similar packages.

The FBI stated every single suspicious package has the name and address of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz’s Sunrise office. All of the parcels were sent in similar packaging and the devices were made to appear like active bombs. Investigators are working to determine whether the bombs were just poorly designed or if they were simply meant to scare the recipients.

Besides the FBI analyzing the devices in Virginia, CBS News reports investigators are looking through surveillance video from the Opa-locka facility, especially video from cameras in the self-mailing area.

The FBI is also looking for video at neighboring businesses.

Friday’s development comes one day after three additional packages ‐ the 8th, 9th and 10th in the series ‐ were found addressed to Robert De Niro and Joe Biden.
And now we play "Name the Party".
Posted by: gorb || 10/26/2018 11:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How stupid is this guy if the FBI could arrest him less than two days after the bombs are delivered?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/26/2018 12:02 Comments || Top||

#2  He's not stupid, he's a provocateur.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/26/2018 12:12 Comments || Top||

#3  He's a loony
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/26/2018 12:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Did you see the damn van he had? Absolutely nuts, his windows look like conspiracy boards with pro-trump to anti-hillary imagery. Prior arrests in New York, 56 year old Cesar Sayok.

Seems like we attributed to maliciousness what was plain out crazy. Kind of like a Reverse SJW?
Posted by: Charles || 10/26/2018 13:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Okay, dear Rantburgers. All articles are now grouped under the P.3: Non-WoT, Lurid Crime heading for ease of finding, this article was made today’s headline, and links to the other key articles have been added to the articles as a highlighted in-line. Any other links that come up as events unfold please add in the comments so we can keep the discussion going.

Many thanks to you all for being on top of this for us — you are why I check Rantburg first.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/26/2018 13:52 Comments || Top||

#6  It is because we care, TW.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/26/2018 16:43 Comments || Top||

#7  <3 <3
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/26/2018 18:42 Comments || Top||


Suspect arrested after explosive devices sent to Trump critics and CNN
[CNN] Simultanously, Darth Vader posted the Twitchy link to the same story, which shares that the DoJ will have an announcement at 2:30 p.m. ET.
See also this posted above, and the original Day 3 post summarizing the situation as of last night.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/26/2018 11:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Trump critics and CNN"

You repeat yourself.
Posted by: Creling Pelosi3622 || 10/26/2018 12:09 Comments || Top||


#3  his body building capability is on par with his bomb making capability.
Posted by: airandee || 10/26/2018 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  From Skidmark’s Daily Mail link:

Cesar Altier Sayoc, 56, was taken into custody on Friday morning in Plantation, Florida in connection with the 12 suspicious packages that have been discovered this week.

According to Sayoc’s Facebook page, he is a Trump fan who posted pictures and videos of himself at one of the President’s rallies in October 2016.

He posted a photograph of himself wearing a MAGA hat in front of the US Capitol in 2017.

He is Native American, and according to a picture posted on his social media page, he is a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.


NPR just describe him as a registered Republican... and nothing more.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/26/2018 13:04 Comments || Top||

#5  You just know that Democrats and the MSM will use this to "prove" that ALL Trump supporters are violent.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/26/2018 13:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Innocent until proven guilty.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 10/26/2018 13:15 Comments || Top||

#7  For Democrats, an accusation against a conservative is the same as a conviction. They don't need no stinkin trial.

And Trump should be impeached because he led the bombing effort.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/26/2018 13:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Set up like the DoDa Man, ala Richard Jewell.
Posted by: texhooey || 10/26/2018 13:27 Comments || Top||

#9  He is Native American, and according to a picture posted on his social media page, he is a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.

This will be an interesting test of the Indian Civil Rights Act. He can claim Republicanism but cannot vote is he indeed is a member of the tribe. Something of a foreign citizenship.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/26/2018 15:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Anyone else here think the van decorations reek of "gilding the lily"? On the one hand we've got these "bombs" apparently put together by the local preschool drama department, and van windows completely covered, all nicely and evenly laid out, screaming "right wing nut case on board!". I'd bet every window sticker was put on this week, because a van with such decorations wouldn't last long in that area.
Posted by: PBMcL || 10/26/2018 18:34 Comments || Top||

#11  All those stickers on ghe van are new - not faded at all. Just sayin
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/26/2018 19:02 Comments || Top||

#12  And the stickers on the Front door Windows - which would prevent the van from being driver (inability to see to the sides - and Illegal as hell). Yet he apparently drive that across several states to deliver his packages - all on the same day.
Sounds legit to me....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/26/2018 20:03 Comments || Top||

#13 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/26/2018 21:08 Comments || Top||

#14  I'd bet every window sticker was put on this week, because a van with such decorations wouldn't last long in that area.

Surely someone has seen that van before. All his neighbors how long it has been that way.
Posted by: gorb || 10/26/2018 21:53 Comments || Top||


Ex-IMF chief Rato starts jail term in Spain for graft
[PULSE.NG] Former IMF chief Rodrigo Rato apologised to "society" on Thursday just before he began a jail sentence in Spain for misusing funds in a case that sparked outrage at the height of the country's economic crisis
Posted by: Fred || 10/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any more ex-IMF chiefs get jugged and they'll start to look like former Massachusetts House Speakers.
Posted by: Raj || 10/26/2018 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  ..or former IL governors?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/26/2018 7:21 Comments || Top||


Day 3: MAGAbomber sent all 10 pipe bombs via a major mailing facility in Opa-locka, Florida - the largest distribution center in Miami-Dade County
Although the evidence is beginning to suggest that this was intended as a political hoax, until it is proved we’ll keep this story on Page 3: Non-War on Terror. Yesterday’s report is here, and links to the two reports we had the day before. Here’s hoping they quickly catch the rat bastard that dunnit, and whatever little friends of his who helped in any way.
[DailyMail]
  • Authorities investigating 10 pipe bombs sent to Trump's critics this week are now focusing on leads in Florida

  • It's been revealed the bombs were sent through a major USPS mail facility in Opa-locka, Florida

  • The FBI is trying to determine where parts for the pipe bombs were purchased in a bid to track down possible suspects

  • However experts say the bombs may never have been intended to explode

  • The lack of a triggering mechanism suggests they were designed to scare

  • Investigation widened on Thursday after three new packages addressed to Robert De Niro and Joe Biden were seized in New York and Delaware

  • Those devices are similar to others targeting prominent Democrats and some of Trump's biggest foes, including the Obamas, Clintons and CNN

  • Authorities were scrambling to find those responsible as they warned that more packages could be out there

  • Former President Jimmy Carter has been told by law enforcement to remain on alert because he could be a target

  • Devices have been seized in New York, Washington D.C., Florida and California

TIMELINE: Packages target prominent Democrats and Trump's foes
Monday: George Soros
Pipe bomb is found at George Soros' home in Katonah, New York on Monday.
It was located in a mailbox outside the gates of the billionaire's compound.

Tuesday : Hillary Clinton
Suspicious package is discovered at Hillary and Bill Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York, Tuesday night.
The device addressed to Hillary was found during a routine mail screening. Bill was at the home but Hillary was campaigning for Democrats in Florida.

Wednesday: Barack Obama
Secret Service intercept a package en route to Obama's Washington D.C. residence early Wednesday.
It was also discovered during routine mail screenings.

Wednesday: CNN/John Brennan
Suspicious package addressed to former CIA director John Brennan is found in the mail room of CNN's New York Bureau on Wednesday.
CNN evacuated after a pipe bomb and an envelope of white powder was discovered. Brennan has worked as a television analyst.

Wednesday: Eric Holder/Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Bomb squad is called to Florida office of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Wednesday after package is found.
Packages that were intercepted all had Schultz's office listed as a return address.
Package at her office was sent to former Attorney General Eric Holder but was mailed to the wrong address, so was returned to her instead.

Wednesday: Maxine Waters
Suspicious package addressed to California congresswoman Maxine Waters was intercepted Wednesday afternoon by Capitol Police.
Another package was sent to Waters in California.

Thursday : Joe Biden
Authorities locate two suspicious packages addressed to the former VP at mail facilities in Delaware on Thursday.

Thursday: Robert De Niro
New York Police swarm a building associated with the Hollywood actor in Tribeca early Thursday after a suspicious package was found.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cynthia Stafford's state Cong district.
Posted by: charger || 10/26/2018 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Looking increasingly like the Dems' October surprise.
Posted by: Fred || 10/26/2018 1:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I think they still have one or two up their sleeve, and they will be as short-lived and ineffectual as this one. Bye-bye, Blue Wave!
Posted by: Raj || 10/26/2018 1:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Miami-Dade, eh? You mean the donk-dominated county where Algore was planning to manufacture enough votes to beat Bush in 2000? What a... coincidence.
Posted by: PBMcL || 10/26/2018 1:27 Comments || Top||

#5  October Surprise(s)

The Kavanaugh nomination was put on hold September 17 till Blasey Ford could testify.
Either Blasey Ford or her lawyers stalled for time
September 27 Blasey Ford finally testified.
Then the appeaser Jeff Flake collaborated with the Democrats to delay the vote till after an FBI investigation of the Blasey Ford allegations.
So the final floor vote was delayed until October 6.

So the Blasey Ford September surprise bled into October as the first October surprise.
However, none of the Democrats would take up Lindsey Graham's challenge to declare their impeachment intentions toward Kavanaugh.
So the first October surprise quickly faded from the media spotlight and history.

So wouldn't the October 22 MAGA bomber surprise actually be the second October surprise.

Then there was the migrant caravan threat making its way through Mexico.

And now the news media and John Brennan are trying to conflate two different October events;
the October 2 gruesome murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the MAGA bombing plot of this week to attacks by POTUS on the news media.

So what will the third and the forth October surprise be?

My prayer is for a November 6 surprise;
the liberal strategist tactics fail and the Democrats lose big time on November 6
so America can continue to become better and not get worse after years of decline under the Democrat agenda.
Posted by: boomerc || 10/26/2018 5:11 Comments || Top||

#6  also various words misspelled might give a clue
Posted by: lord garth || 10/26/2018 7:07 Comments || Top||

#7  another possible clue

the first package was sent to Soros; his staff destroyed the package before it could be examined

may be a coincidence, maybe not
Posted by: lord garth || 10/26/2018 9:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Spartacus and Clapper got packages too
Posted by: Frank G || 10/26/2018 10:43 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm confused. These were sent from Florida, but none of them were postmarked?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/26/2018 10:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Someone just got arrested.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/26/2018 11:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Yep...they arrested the DNC bomber.....
Posted by: crazyhorse || 10/26/2018 11:21 Comments || Top||

#12  Former President Jimmy Carter has been told by law enforcement to remain on alert because he could be a target

Poor jimmuh, didn't rate a bomb.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/26/2018 11:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Its a set up guys, he was driving a van plastered with Pro-Trump anti-media stickers and the media is having a field day with it
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 10/26/2018 14:34 Comments || Top||

#14  Poor jimmuh, didn't rate a bomb

That's because he at least had the class to tone it down.
Posted by: gorb || 10/26/2018 14:45 Comments || Top||

#15  Who the hell came up with the name MAGAbomber? Sounds like something CNN would come up with to blame it on Trump.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/26/2018 17:27 Comments || Top||

#16  So what will the third and the forth October surprise be?

Remember that compound in New Mexico where they were training kids to do school shootings?

Does anyone seriously believe that was the only place where that was happening?
Posted by: charger || 10/26/2018 17:56 Comments || Top||

#17  It seems like we know far more about Trump supporter(?) and fake bomb maker Cesar Sayoc in one week than we know about Las Vegas country music festival shooter Steven Paddock in over a year.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/26/2018 22:55 Comments || Top||

#18  Who the hell came up with the name MAGAbomber?

I think it was someone at the Daily Mail, Crazy Fool — no one else seems to be using it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/26/2018 23:49 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Prankster sent mayor penis-shaped candy. Cops were asked to investigate.
[NJ.com] Someone thought it was a good idea to send the mayor of Hamilton Township a bag of penis-shaped candy as a prank.

Mayor Kelly Yeade received a package of penis-shaped candy, sent through the website Dysfunctional Veterans, last week.

The group's website, and its accompanying Facebook page, describe its community as "a brotherhood and sisterhood of veterans rooted in sarcasms and the things that remind us we are not alone."

The Dysfunctional Veterans website sells a variety of items such as T-shirts, hats, mugs, flags, patches, and pranks.

The website offers "Eat a bag of d----" under its prank gift category with the following description:

"Don't you wish you could just tell that special idiot you know to eat a bag of d----? Wouldn't it be even better if you could actually give them a bag of d---- to eat? Now you can!"

Yaede's office received the candy last week, when the mayor wasn't in.

"My staff intercepted it and then asked the Hamilton Township police department to find out the origin of the package," Yaede told NJ Advance Media. "When I was alerted to it I didn't give it a second thought, and laughed it off."
It wasn't me who ordered the investigation. Apparently one of my staff was a little teste.
Dysfunctional Veterans made a post on their Facebook page about the police investigation including a screen shot of an email they received from the Hamilton Township Police Department, requesting to speak to someone at the company about the purchase.


MAJOR CRIMES: The Honorable Mayor of Hamilton NJ received a BAG OF DICKS... She has enlisted the help of her police department to investigate who sent this! Not just any cop either - she has a MAJOR CRIMES detective on it! As usual, we don't turn over the names of our customers unless we are compelled to by a court. The detective was cool by the way... go easy on him.
Anonymously send a BAG OF DICKS here --> https://bit.ly/2yvGOVv

Yaede then put an end to the brief investigation into who sent the candy.
"I took all the dicks off the case."
"It was a prank and that's all I took it as," Yaede said.
Good thing it wasn't you who made such a dick move.
Posted by: gorb || 10/26/2018 00:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/26/2018 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Several politicians have gotten a bag and have threatened legal action against those that sent it.

Nothing has come from it yet though.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/26/2018 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Could have been worse.
They might have been exploding dicks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/26/2018 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Cream filled candies?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/26/2018 15:32 Comments || Top||


Sinead O'Connor has converted to Islam
[NY Post] Well.... she is a nutbag, now she has appropriate packaging
Posted by: Frank G || 10/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sinead O’Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to the Arabic word for “martyr.”

No worse than being named for a nasal decongestant, I suppose. Except for the Islam part.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/26/2018 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Vocal chords of gold, brain of tofu...
Posted by: magpie || 10/26/2018 0:12 Comments || Top||

#3  No disrespect to tofu, of course.
Posted by: gorb || 10/26/2018 0:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Bet she winds up killed by one of her fellow 'muslims' inside of 2 years.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/26/2018 0:29 Comments || Top||

#5  "Nothing compares to,
Nothing compares to,
Nothing compares to tofu..."
Posted by: Raj || 10/26/2018 0:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Her Christian faith sustained her blah blah blah. Then she got down on the Pope and went to the competition.

She should have joined the Mafia. They have the same exit plan, and the pay's better.
Posted by: Fred || 10/26/2018 0:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Who?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/26/2018 1:06 Comments || Top||

#8  ...name to Shuhada Davitt.

Sinead, who has struggled with mental health issues...


Did she do this under a manic phase or a depressive one? Not that it matters. She’s been a busy woman in addition to her singing career, according to her Wikipedia page, having had four children by four different men, some of whom were her four husbands, having been ordained as a priest by a heretical Catholic group, and having changed her name to Magda Davit only last year. It’s so exciting to think what bright ideas she’ll be having a year from now.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/26/2018 1:15 Comments || Top||

#9  another 15 minutes of fame at age 50
Posted by: lord garth || 10/26/2018 4:10 Comments || Top||

#10  works for me.. a face made for a burka.
Posted by: Heriberto Protector of the Bunions1603 || 10/26/2018 5:05 Comments || Top||

#11  so when she gets bored with that, will she be surprised regarding the islamic exit interview?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 10/26/2018 7:17 Comments || Top||

#12  The only "religion" that would take her.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/26/2018 9:15 Comments || Top||

#13  STUPID to ADVANCED STUPID
Posted by: ranture || 10/26/2018 9:27 Comments || Top||

#14  Anyone heard from Cat Stephens recently?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/26/2018 9:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Wonder if she's seriously visited an Muslim countries and seen Islam in its real glory, not the dog & pony show put on for westerners in Ireland.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/26/2018 10:33 Comments || Top||

#16  Did Islam accept her?
Posted by: Airandee || 10/26/2018 11:42 Comments || Top||

#17  The crossdressing Cat Stevens. Christaphobia in plain view.

She has a long history hating the Vatican.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/26/2018 15:27 Comments || Top||

#18  I'm sure she'll settle down once she joins Campus Crusade For Cthulhu.

"It Found Me!"
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/26/2018 16:11 Comments || Top||

#19  ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/26/2018 17:49 Comments || Top||

#20  Darth, please don't comment with your mouth full.
Posted by: gorb || 10/26/2018 17:55 Comments || Top||

#21  The crossdressing Cat Stevens.

Heh, that's a winner!
I saw her on the tube many moons ago back when Saturday Nite Live was funny. She sang something and then tore up a photo of the Pope. The audience booed. She looked shocked, "You should be on *my* side!"
I suspect Daddy Issues.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/26/2018 18:03 Comments || Top||

#22  So in a couple years when she converts to the Fifth Congregational Church of Rodney, and tears up a picture of Mo, how long does she have to live?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/26/2018 21:47 Comments || Top||


Gravity claims two more lives at Taft Point in Yosemite National Park
[USA Today] Two visitors have died in Yosemite National Park after falling from an overlook, the National Parks Service said in a statement Thursday.

Park rangers were trying to recover the bodies of the man and woman who fell from Taft Point, a popular overlook at an elevation of 7,500 feet, as of 2 p.m. ET. The deaths are being investigated, but no other information is available yet, including the identities of the visitors, the statement said. Yosemite is located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

This is not the first time this year visitors have faced danger in Yosemite. Tomer Frankfurter, an Israeli teenager, fell to his death from Nevada Fall last month. Two hikers died in June while climbing El Capitan, and another died while climbing Half Dome in May.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not the fall that gets you, it's that damn sudden stop.

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/26/2018 9:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Gotta feed the engine.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/26/2018 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Look for the Dems to push a costly big government program entitled a "War on Gravity."
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/26/2018 10:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Well known for its geysers, Yosemite is also famous for its falls.
Screams black humor comment of the day.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/26/2018 14:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Geysers? Yellowstone
Posted by: Frank G || 10/26/2018 14:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah, but that doesn't fit Steve's narrative, Frank.

I was thinking these were two liberals that, because of their vantage point, could see the RED WAVE!
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/26/2018 15:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Stupidity isn't illegal. But it can be fatal.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/26/2018 16:07 Comments || Top||

#8  It's not the deceleration that kills you but the jerk.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/26/2018 18:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Thank you, Steve S. I needed that today...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/26/2018 21:05 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
NASA's alien-hunter has gone dark and scientists aren't sure why
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don’t want to say it was aliens, but. it was aliens.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/26/2018 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  It is never aliens... until it is aliens.

This isn't a real big surprise. Kepler has been running on fumes for almost a year and it is operating way past its engineered life span anyway (just like all the telescopes are).

Fortunately the new planet looker is now up and running and can take over.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/26/2018 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/26/2018 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  What if Aliens lived in Dark Matter?

Would Dark Lives Matter?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/26/2018 13:01 Comments || Top||

#5  These puns are driving me CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAZZZZYYYYY!
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/26/2018 18:08 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Your Weekly East Boston MS-13 Gang Update
[Universal Hub] - The US Attorney's office reports that Elmer Alfaro Hercules, 20, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of being an illegal alien in possession of firearms and ammunition.

Hercules and alleged MS-13 member Nery Rodriguez Diaz were arrested in the Bremen Street Park, near Marion Street, on May 22.

Diaz has yet to either plead or come to trial.

Hercules, a Salvadoran national, had sentencing set for Jan. 17 by US District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor, who has been handling MS-13 cases related to a 2016 sweep. Hercules faces up to ten years in federal prison.

In 2015, a federal judge ordered Hercules's deportation - in absentia.
Posted by: Raj || 10/26/2018 09:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just declare open season on them. The problem will go away after a little while.
Posted by: gorb || 10/26/2018 10:18 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Meet The Obscure Russian Bank Helping Venezuela Defy U.S. Sanctions
[Zero] A new Bloomberg report has exposed deepening Russian-Venezuelan ties as the Nicolas Maduro government attempts to thwart aggressive U.S. sanctions amidst continued economic collapse while cut off from the global economy. Bloomberg names a little known Moscow-based state-run bank called Evrofinance Mosnarbank as a "key player" based on high level sources with direct knowledge of the bank's role in giving Venezuelan companies access to the outside world, confirmed by recent statements of Caracas officials themselves.

It's not the first time the obscure bank has made headlines as last May it was revealed to be the world's only financial institution to sponsor Venezuela's experimental and now already in trouble before official launch state-backed cryptocurrency - called the petro - allowing investors to buy the petro by wiring a minimum of 1,000 euros to a Venezuelan government account at Evrofinance.

The bank is increasingly involved in Venezuelan markets, with its unique capital structure set up to delicately evade punitive oversight mechanisms while tapping into alternative markets ‐ something said to be the brainchild of Vladimir Putin and the late Hugo Chavez ‐ especially useful now as Maduro is forced to depend on the likes of Turkey, China, Russia and Iran.
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#1  They fully understand the political and economic impact of refugees, displaced persons, and caravans.
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Venezuelan Exiles Turn to Prostitution to Feed Families
[An Nahar] Back in Venezuela, they were teachers, coppers and newspaper carriers, but were forced to flee their homeland in search of work and money to survive.

But the women, without identity papers, ended up working as hookers in sordid bars in Colombia, saving all they can to provide for their families back home, still in the throes of economic crisis.

Mother-of-three Patricia, 30, was beaten, raped and sodomized by a drunken client -- but she keeps on working in a brothel in Calamar, in the center of the country.

"There are customers who treat you badly and that is horrible," she says. ""Every day, I pray to God that they are good (to us)."

Alegria is a teacher of history and geography but in a Venezuela gripped by chronic hyperinflation, she was earning just 312,000 bolivars a month: less than a dollar.

Her salary was not enough "even for a packet of pasta," the 26-year-old mother of a four-year-old boy told AFP.

In February, she crossed the border into Colombia.

She initially worked for three months as a waitress in the east, a job which offered room and board, but Alegria was never paid, getting by on tips.

"I sent my tips home to my family," she said. Six people, including her son, were relying on her.

Eventually, even those were confiscated, so Alegria made her way south to Calamar, which is located in an area scarred by decades of armed conflict.

The region is a hub for drug-trafficking, and a bastion of dissident former FARC guerrillas.

With nine other women, Alegria -- a pseudonym she gave AFP for this story that means 'happiness' -- hookers herself every night in a bar in the town of 3,000 people.

Each client pays between 37,000-50,000 pesos ($11-16), of which 7,000 is kept by the establishment's manager. On a "good night," Alegria can earn the equivalent of between $30 and $100.

- 'BECAUSE OF THE CRISIS' -
"We never intended on prostituting ourselves. We're doing it because of the crisis," says Joli, her voice cracking.

This 35-year-old lost her job as a newspaper carrier in 2016 because "there was no more paper to print them."

After four years of recession and years of financial mismanagement, Venezuela's crisis has seen poverty soar as basic necessities such as food and medicine became scarce.

Inflation is set to hit a staggering 1.4 million percent this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, which says 2019 will see that figure reach an astronomical 10 million percent.

Joli left her three children with her mother before trekking from town to town and job to job looking to make ends meet.

When she crossed the border into Colombia without a passport, she had nothing but the clothes she was wearing.

Some 1.9 million Venezuelans have fled the crisis-ridden country since 2015, according to the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...

- OUT OF OPTIONS -

Joli's story is a painful one.

She is divorced from the father of her children, but he died of renal failure, denying her the help she needed to raise them.

Then, she said, the man she was due to marry "died of a heart attack due to a lack of medication."

"My back was against the wall," Joli said.

She said she couldn't even find work as a cleaner because of her Venezuelan accent so ended up in Calamar, so she turned to sex work. In June, her 19-year-old niece, Milagro, joined her at the brothel.

"At first I felt terrible," said the teenager.

But she stuck to it, trying to help her sick mother, her brothers and a two-year-old child.

Her mother has since died.

Beside the financial hardships and obvious unpleasantness of the work, many women struggle with hiding the truth from their families.

"They don't know what I do, even my mother," admits Alegria. "It would be too difficult for her after sacrificing five years of her life to pay for my studies."

She dreams of teaching in Colombia but without a passport, it's impossible.

She tells her loved ones she works in a bakery but, sick of lying, she finally confessed the truth of an emergency team of medics from Doctors of the World (MDM) in Calamar.
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Canadian tour operator cancels flights to Nicaragua
[PULSE.NG] Canadian tour operator Transat has cancelled all flights to Nicaragua this coming winter over the crisis that has left more than 320 dead in the Central American country, the company said Thursday
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#1  Well, there's always Chicago. Certainly a shorter flight.
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#2  Similar murder rates too
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Peru's Keiko Fujimori fighting for her freedom, and her party
[PULSE.NG] Peru opposition leader Keiko Fujimori's long-cherished presidential ambitions hung in the balance Thursday as a court moved closer to deciding whether to jail her pending the outcome of a corruption probe
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Europe
Father of two jailed in France for feeding them on Coca-Cola
[DAWN] The father of two boys, aged three and four, has been tossed in the calaboose
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in La Belle France for feeding them nearly exclusively on Coca-Cola, the children's lawyer said.

The father, who can "neither read, nor write, nor count, doesn't realise the seriousness of the situation and spent all his welfare money on alcohol," Carole Papon, a representative of the association French Victims 87, said on Wednesday.

Within a few days of welfare payments being made "the family had nothing to eat. They only had Coca-Cola to drink," she said.

The father, who was described as violent towards his wife and children, was tossed in the calaboose
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
for three months on Wednesday in Limoges, central La Belle France.

The eldest boy had to have seven sugar-rotten teeth removed, and the second does not speak. Both have been taken into care where they have been introduced to meat and vegetables.

"There was nothing in their flat," Bruno Robinet, the deputy public prosecutor, told AFP.

"There was no fridge, the children slept on a mattress without covers and there were no toys... Their father fed them on cakes and coke," he added.
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India-Pakistan
Indian officials raid Amnesty International's regional office
[Al Jazeera] India's Enforcement Directorate (ED), a government agency that investigates financial crimes, has conducted raids at the regional office of Amnesia Amnesty International in what activists claim are efforts to silence dissent.

Indian media reports said the raids at the premises of the rights watchdog in Bengaluru in southern Karnataka state began at 1:30pm (8:30 GMT) on Thursday afternoon and were ongoing.

A statement released by ED said its searches were conducted for alleged violation of foreign direct investment guidelines by Amnesty India. The agency accused the rights group of bypassing rules regarding foreign donations by "floating a commercial entity".

Amnesty India did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera's request for comment.

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#1  Maybe limit the hotels and restaurants they use to three stars maximum. They'll evaporate overnight.
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Bail plea of suspect in minor girl’s rape, murder case rejected
[DAWN] KARACHI: An antiterrorism court has rejected the bail application of a detained suspect in a case pertaining to alleged abduction, rape and murder of a six-year-old girl.

Police claimed to have booked three suspects along with their two absconding accomplices for allegedly abducting the minor girl on April 12 and murdering her after subjecting her to sexual assault within the remit of the Orangi Town cop shoppe.

The victim’s body was found in a deserted area on April 12.

The incident sparked a violent protest by her family and residents of the area.

One of the three detained suspects had moved an application seeking post-arrest bail on the basis of an affidavit said to have been signed by the slain child’s parents.

The ATC-I judge pronounced his verdict, which was earlier reserved after hearing arguments from the defence and the prosecution.

In his order, the judge observed that the case record showed that the accused was connected with the serious crime of kidnapping of a minor girl, who was subsequently murdered after being raped.

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Government
Nothing To See Here, Folks! 500 Ballots Go Missing In Bent County, Colorado
[Denver.CBSLocal] A rural Colorado county will send new ballots to some of its voters after the initial round failed to reach them.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said Wednesday that Bent County is re-issuing one fifth of the county’s 2,500 ballots. The office says the original ballots were never delivered and the U.S. Postal Service hasn’t been able to locate them.

The 500 new ballots are expected to arrive Friday. They will be processed by hand locally rather than being sent to a Denver area postal facility first.

It’s the second county in the state to report significant problems delivering mail ballots in this year’s election.

More than 60,000 ballots were sent to voters in Adams County this week after they were found on a delivery truck.
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#1  "Paging Al Franken. Mr. Al Franken to the white courtesy phone, please."
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