[FoxNews] California officials say the suspect might be part of a White supremacist group.
California police arrested who they believe to be a serial bombing suspect who is allegedly responsible for seven bombings within a three-month timeframe.
The Fresno Police Department announced the arrest of Scott Anderson, 44, on Wednesday, who is accused of the seven bombings which go back to Dec. 13, 2022, according to FOX affiliate KMPH.
Six of the bombings resulted in vehicle explosions, including one Fresno County Probation vehicle. One mailbox also exploded.
While executing search warrants, officials say that 11 illegal guns, 90 pounds of methamphetamine, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and $50,000 was found. Officials say that they don't know why Anderson allegedly committed the bombings, but said that he might be associated with a White supremacist group. Or just a tweaker gang
The neo-Nazi style flags and mug collection displayed alongside the guns and ammunition boxes in the photo at the link are certainly suggestive, yes.
After an arrest warrant for Anderson was issued, he allegedly left the Fresno area and was spotted in Temecula. During a traffic stop, he was arrested by Riverside County deputies.
He was originally charged federally with malicious destruction of explosive devices as well as felon in possession of a gun, but officials say that more charges could be filed.
Four other individuals were also arrested in connection with the investigation into the bombings.
Anderson is being held at the Fresno County Jail on no bail.
[Gateway] Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was reportedly punished by authorities at the Federal Correctional Institute Tallahassee over a recorded jailhouse interview that aired in January.
The onetime British socialite, who was accused of procuring underage girls for convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, "was handcuffed and slung into solitary confinement for 48 hours after prison authorities accused her of profiting from a media interview," the Daily Mail reported Monday.
"She protested her innocence but was marched off to the Special Housing Unit (SHU) — a ’prison within a prison’ comprising tiny, grim cells where inmates are locked up for 23 hours at a time and fed through slits in the door."
The news outlet quoted unnamed "insiders" as saying that the inmate they know as "Max" "was just minding her own business when they came in, turned her around and handcuffed her."
"She got really upset, she was crying, she was yelling that she hadn’t received any money, but nobody saw her again for three days."
The Mail’s source said, "The SHU is not a nice place."
"It’s like a little box and you’re only allowed out to shower once a day. There’s no contact from anyone, no privileges, they slide your meals through a slot."
According to the report, Maxwell’s interview, which was aired Jan. 23 on TalkTV, would have violated the terms of her 20-year federal prison sentence if she received payment for the appearance.
Also in question was how the interview was obtained. As federal prisoner number 02879-509, she is permitted video calls with only those family members and friends on a list approved by the federal prison, according to the report.
She apparently conducted the interviews during phone calls with her friend, filmmaker Daphne Barak.
Maxwell made headlines for several remarks made during those interviews.
[NYPOST] The boyfriend of the ex-American swim champ found dead last week in the Virgin Islands was once convicted of charges related to the beating death of a 21-year-old tourist, according to a new report.
Three independent sources told Fox News Digital that 34-year-old Kamal "Six Pack" Thomas was dating Jamie Cail, 42, whose Feb. 21 death is now being probed by police.
Authorities said Cail was found unresponsive by her boyfriend in their home, but have yet to confirm the identity of that person.
An autopsy for the Maine native is underway and Sherlocks are "anxiously awaiting" those results that include a toxicology report, a Virgin Islands Police Department official told CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... Tuesday.
Cail, who was a high school swimming hotshot growing up, was apparently involved recently with a man who came from a criminal past.
Thomas, who hails from Georgia, was convicted in the death of James Cockayne after he and others fatally attacked the Pennsylvania man outside a local bar in St. John, Fox News reported, citing court records. The 2007 attack initially led to a first-degree murder charge, but Thomas was able to avoid that criminal count.
He was instead found guilty of assault and weapons charges and sentenced to eight years in prison in 2010 during a second trial, according to local outlet the Virgin Islands Free Press. Four people were convicted of crimes tied to the death, including one man who was convicted of witness tampering, Fox News reported.
Cockayne was killed after he was ambushed, beaten and stabbed multiple times stemming from an altercation outside the bar and died in the street, CNN reported in 2007.
"It’s very difficult to get justice in the Virgin Islands," Cockayne’s mother, Jeanie Cockayne, told Fox News. "Very difficult."
The mother said her family hired private Sherlocks to look into the case and handed information to police, according to Fox News.
The men involved in her son’s death were able to file successful appeals and received multiple trials before they were hit with prison time, Fox News reported.
She additionally said if Cail’s family wants justice for their loved one, "they’re going to need to fight for it."
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...The USVI is some of the most beautiful land this country has to offer.
It is also - if you leave the immediate area of the resorts - a literal dystopia of crime and violence. Never had the desire to go and never will.
[ArsTechnica] One of the world's most important rocket companies, United Launch Alliance, (ULA) may be sold later this year.
The potential sale has not been disclosed publicly, but three sources confirmed to Ars that potential buyers have been contacted about the opportunity. These sources said a deal is expected to be closed before the end of this year and that investment firm Morgan Stanley and consulting firm Bain & Company are managing the transaction.
The sale of United Launch Alliance, or ULA as it is known within the industry, would mark the end of an era that has lasted for nearly two decades. The company was officially formed in 2005 as part of a deal brokered by the US government, ensuring the military had access to both Atlas and Delta rockets to put national security satellites into space. To form ULA, Lockheed Martin and Boeing merged their launch businesses into a single company, each taking a 50 percent stake.
This union was profitable for both parent companies, as ULA held a monopoly on launching national security missions and, effectively, NASA science probes. In return for 100 percent mission success, ULA received large launch contracts and an approximately $1 billion annual subsidy from the US Department of Defense to maintain "launch readiness."
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This union was profitable for both parent companies, as ULA held a monopoly on launching national security missions and, effectively, NASA science probes. In return for 100 percent mission success, ULA received large launch contracts and an approximately $1 billion annual subsidy from the US Department of Defense to maintain "launch readiness."
Hey,...Pete!
[JustTheNews] Many of the roughly 350 passengers were students attending a three-day carnival festival preceding Lent.
The Greek minister of transportation resigned Wednesday following a head-on train collision in which 36 people were killed.
Minister Kostas Karamanlis said it was his "duty" to step down "as a basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly."
The collision occurred overnight between a freight and passenger train and injured roughly 85 others.
Earlier in the day, the station master was arrested and two people were detained for questioning, in apparent connection to the accident, the cause of which as of late Wednesday morning remained unknown.
Police arrested the stationmaster in the city of Larissa, according to the Associated Press.
The person arrested has been further identified only as a 59-year-old male.
The trains collided at a high speed just before midnight Tuesday, near Tempe in northern Greece.
Rescuers searched before dawn for survivors in the wreckage of the multiple derailed cars and at least three cars that burst into flames.
Many of the roughly 350 passengers on the train were students who attended a three-day carnival festival preceding Lent.
[FoxNews] Potential severe weather outbreak with long-lived, strong tornadoes threatens nearly 40 million across South. A large outbreak of severe weather, including tornadoes, widespread damaging wind gusts and large hail, all appear likely from Thursday afternoon into the overnight hours.
[An Nahar] Residents of Vanuatu were hunkering down Wednesday as a cyclone barreled through the Pacific island nation. Isn't Vanuatu the place where everyone lives in water up to their knees because of Climate Change®?
Authorities said that there were power outages in some areas and many fallen trees and branches, but it was too early to assess the extent of the damage with Cyclone Judy still raging. They said there were no initial reports of major destruction or deaths. So it was a really bad storm but everybody's okay except for living in water up to their knees?
Some people had moved to evacuation sites as heavy rainfall flooded their homes.
Others were barricading themselves inside as authorities issued a red alert in the capital, Port Vila, and some other regions — meaning people shouldn't leave their homes unless absolutely necessary.
The cyclone forced businesses and schools to close, and airlines to cancel flights.
Brenda Williams, a spokesperson for Vanuatu's National Disaster Management Office, said Cyclone Judy was packing destructive winds of around 150 kilometers per hour (93 miles per hour) with gusts of up to 200 kph (124 mph).
Williams said the calmer eye of the tropical cyclone had passed over the capital Wednesday morning and they were starting to experience strong winds again as the tail moved through.
She said the center and southern islands were in line to be hit and they were still waiting on damage reports from many places.
Shadrack Welegtabit, a political advisor to the climate change minister, said people had been warned of the impending cyclone earlier in the week and had been preparing by stocking up on fresh drinking water and food, and by strengthening the exteriors of their homes.
"It's too early to assess the damage; we're still in the middle of it," he said. "The other half is coming soon."
Located to the east of Australia and the north of New Zealand, Vanuatu is home to about 300,000 people.
It’s a strategy, so they’ll need money for it so that maybe someday they’ll have a product that works — or not, exactly like Obamacare.
[FoxNews] The Biden administration rolled out a National Cybersecurity Strategy Thursday that aims to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure from a "complex," transnational and "borderless" cyber threat environment.
Officials said the U.S. will "re-imagine" cyberspace as a "tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security and prosperity, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, trust in our democracy and democratic institutions and an equitable and diverse society."
The strategy aims to rebalance the "responsibility" to defend cyberspace by shifting the burden away from people, small businesses and local governments and onto the organizations that are "most capable and best positioned to reduce risks for all of us" and seeks to plan for future cyber threats.
[IsraelTimes] Private users, business owners remain unaffected; new bill effectively completely banning Chinese-owned app to be pushed by Congress amid spying concerns.
The White House on Monday gave federal agencies 30 days to purge Chinese-owned video-snippet sharing app TikTok from all government-issued devices, setting a deadline to comply with a ban ordered by the US Congress.
Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young in a memorandum called on government agencies within 30 days to "remove and disallow installations" of the application on agency-owned or operated IT devices, and to "prohibit internet traffic" from such devices to the app.
The ban does not apply to businesses in the United States not associated with the federal government, or to the millions of private citizens who use the hugely popular app.
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... a recently introduced bill in Congress would "effectively ban TikTok" in this country, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
"Congress must not censor entire platforms and strip Americans of their constitutional right to freedom of speech and expression," ACLU senior policy counsel Jenna Leventoff said in a release.
"We have a right to use TikTok and other platforms to exchange our thoughts, ideas, and opinions with people around the country and around the world."
Owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, TikTok has become a political target due to concerns the app can be circumvented for spying or propaganda by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The company did not immediately respond to the White House guidance.
China’s foreign ministry slammed the ban.
"We firmly oppose the wrong practice of the United States to generalize the concept of national security, abuse state power, and unreasonably suppress firms from other countries," spokeswoman Mao Ning said Tuesday.
The law signed by US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry... last month bans the use of TikTok on government-issued devices. It also bans TikTok use in the US House of Representatives and Senate.
National security concerns over alleged Chinese spying have grown over the past month after a Chinese balloon traversed US airspace and was eventually shot down.
The Canadian government on Monday banned TikTok from all of its phones and other devices, citing fears about how much access Beijing has to user data.
Effective Tuesday, "the TikTok application will be removed from government-issued mobile devices. Users of these devices will also be blocked from downloading the application in the future," the government said in a statement.
The European Commission banned the app from its equipment too.
TikTok has repeatedly rejected accusations it shares data or cedes control to the Chinese government.
TikTok’s breakneck rise from a niche video-sharing app to global social media behemoth has brought plenty of scrutiny, particularly over its links to China.
The company was forced to admit ByteDance employees in China had accessed Americans’ data but it has always denied turning over personal information to the Chinese authorities.
TikTok has moved to soothe US fears, announcing in June 2022 that it would store all data on American users on US-based servers.
Bans have not halted TikTok’s growth.
With more than one billion active users it is the sixth-most used social platform in the world, according to the We Are Social marketing agency.
Although it lags behind the likes of Meta’s long-dominant trio of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, its growth among young people far outstrips its competitors’.
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OH, NO! The Greys hadn't been sampling humans! They were inserting some zombie/dimmocrat cells to make us compliant!
(I would put a SARC or an LOL but I'm afraid it is true!)
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] The boyfriend of the ex-American swim champ found dead last week in the Virgin Islands was once convicted of charges related to the beating death of a 21-year-old tourist, according to a new report.
...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
