[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Gary Oliva, 54, has long been a suspect in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, whose body was found at her home in Boulder, Colorado on December 26, 1996
In letters to high school classmate Michael Vail obtained by DailyMailTV, Oliva claims he killed JonBenét by accident
'I let her slip and her head bashed in half and I watched her die. It was an accident,' he wrote from Limon Correctional Facility, Colorado
Oliva is serving a 10-year-sentence for possessing child pornography
When Oliva was arrested in 2016, police discovered he had 335 photos of JonBenét including photos from the six-year-old's autopsy
Vail, 55, of Ventura, California, has urged police to charge Oliva for JonBenét's death since Oliva is due for parole in 2020
Chillingly, Vail tells DailyMailTV that on December 26, 1996 Oliva told him: 'I hurt a little girl'
Investigators believe several men were involved in JonBenét's death and Vail hopes Oliva will identify them
The incriminating letters have been presented to Boulder police and murder case investigators are now looking through the new information
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[ABC7Chicago] Jake Thomas Patterson, 21, has been formally charged with two counts of intentional homicide, one charge of kidnapping and one count of burglary. Charging documents in Wisconsin typically contain at least a partial narrative of what happened at a crime scene, as prosecutors try to prove there's probable cause to support the allegations.
Some people are simply evil.
When found guilty, I can think of no more deserving candidate for Scaphism (the boats).
Geisha Williams is stepping down as the CEO of PG&E Corp., the largest utility in the U.S., while potential liability over recent California wildfires drives the company into bankruptcy.
PG&E announced Williams’s departure Sunday and its plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a day later. Investigators found that the power utility had caused 17 major wildfires in 2017, and evidence suggests the company may be responsible for others in 2018 as well. (common stock down about 50% today at posting time)
Wild fires because they didn't trim trees near powerlines!
Oh, nobody noticed the overgrowth? Good luck reading and functioning by candlelight. Your power grid days may be over.
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As the company value, because of past and future liability claims, declines into Junk Bond territory -- who would buy it? The Chinese?
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Geisha Williams
Born Geisha J. Jimenez
1961/1962 (age 56–57) Cuba
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Miami
Nova Southeastern University
Occupation Businesswoman
Title Former CEO, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Term March 2017 - January 2019 Salary $8,597,220 (2017)[1]
Our elites are worth every penny. How many tree trimmers could have been hired for $8.6 million?
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Wild fires because they didn't trim trees near powerlines!
And pay attention to the documented (yes, it was) damaged/missing high-wire support saddles, cracked/bent insulators and bent/broken lattice spreaders on the aerial pylons in the canyon where the cables came down.
The lack of the above maintenance corrections would have allowed the heavy high-voltage cables more flexibility to whip around in the wind with forces beyond what the structures were designed to handle. Kinetic energy and all that icky science stuff.
A 200-foot clear cut under the lines would have been good too, but any sparks on a windy day travel a long way.
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This is a good example of when white collar workers should be held responsible for criminal charges.
A few years in stir for ol' Geisha and maybe some others might start paying attention to their responsibilities rather than just their pay check or politics.
[Free Beacon] The Michigan State Housing Development Authority is changing its race and gender quota policies that former Attorney General Bill Schuette determined were illegal before leaving office.
"MSHDA is reviewing its documents and policies to ensure they comply with the Attorney General opinion," Katie Bach, communications director for the MSHDA, said. "We will work with the Office of Attorney General to ensure that the letter and spirit of the opinion is followed."
The policies Schuette ruled illegal had required contractors to ensure that a certain percentage of the work was done by minority groups and by women.
Bach said that this ruling only affects developments that receive 100 percent of its funds from the MSHDA, but not developments that are only partially funded by the MSHDA. About five percent of MSHDA projects receive 100 percent of its funding from the agency. In total, Bach said that approximately three projects would be impacted, which amounts to about $42 million of the total $630 million of statewide investments.
Projects that receive federal funds have certain federal requirements by which contractors must abide. Projects that receive tax credit financing assistance already have no equal employment opportunity requirements.
These affirmative-action-style policies by public institutions became illegal in Michigan after the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative passed as a ballot initiative in 2016, successfully amending the state constitution. The text banned a public institution being able to "discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting."
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More like a state-level 'deep state' thing where the hacks will continue to do the old things and resist / drag their feet as much as possible on implementing this new policy.
[BBC] Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes - the largest defeat for a sitting government in history.
MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain's exit from the EU on 29 March.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has now tabled a vote of no confidence in the government, which could trigger a general election.
The confidence vote is expected to be held at about 1900 GMT on Wednesday.
Reality Check: What are the biggest government defeats?
Mr Corbyn said it would allow the House of Commons to "give its verdict on the sheer incompetence of this government".
But DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party, which keeps Mrs May in power, would be supporting her in Wednesday's confidence vote.
She told the BBC MPs had "acted in the best interests of the entire United Kingdom" by voting down the deal.
But she added: "We will give the government the space to set out a plan to secure a better deal."
Some 118 Conservative MPs voted with the opposition parties against Mrs May's deal.
Only three Labour MPs supported the prime minister's deal: Ian Austin (Dudley North), Kevin Barron (Rother Valley) and John Mann (Bassetlaw).
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When the UK embraced Europe they turned their back on the Commonwealth to some extent. Has May made any attempts to restore the old dynamic or create a free-trade zone with the commonwealth or something?
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I was totally wrong! He actually raised it from 9000 Bolivares to 35000 Bolivares. This is a raise from 3 US$ to 12 US$.
Tomorrow is another day, of course. Better splurge today.
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All the people fleeing Maduro's marxist policies should lower the density of population and thus allow some deflationary effect.
Unfortunately it was generally the most market-productive people who escaped, thus lowering the productivity for the economy more that even their (high) numbers would suggest, as workers create wealth they create employment pressure.
In short the government is spending vastly more than it can extort.
[ELUNIVERSAL] The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela considers it necessary to inform the Venezuelan people and the international community that the onslaught of a group of satellite governments subordinated to the US imperialist plans continues, fueling the obsessive objective of setting in motion a destabilizing plot. against the legitimate Venezuelan democratic institutionality.
In this way, the governments of Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... , Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay and Peru have been marching and countermarches through statements and statements in which one day they say and the next they contradict , in relation to its peculiar interpretations of the Venezuelan legal system, pretending to illegally assume the power to determine the legitimacy of the Venezuelan institutions.
Beyond the absurdity of this procedure and its unusual lack of rigor and adherence to international law, it is an object of concern that these hesitant behaviors are the response to the reprimands they have received from the US government for having offered the rectification required by the Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros.
The governments concerned act by lending their voices to the nefarious chorus that their leader is directing to trigger situations of internal political instability that justify the foreign intervention that the US warmongering factors have been announcing without flushing.
But in spite of its nefarious intentions, in Venezuela the constitutional institutionality is in force through the operation of all its public powers, each one in its place, according to the mandate of the Constitution and not of the caprice of these satellite governments, for which, The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will continue to analyze in detail the hostile attitudes of these governments and will be able to take decisions that guarantee the protection of the State and its institutions, in defense of the Republic and national illusory sovereignty, under the unwavering precept of its sole principal: the Bolivarian Constitution of 1999.
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"Immanentize the eschaton! Do you have any toilet paper?"
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Toilet paper? Use Bolivares. They are cheaper. (Dirtier, too, I guess).
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[ELUNIVERSAL] Italian extreme leftist Cesare Battisti, captured on Saturday in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, was handed over to the Italian authorities in that eastern Bolivian city on Sunday to be transferred directly to Italia where He is convicted of homicides during violent actions in the 1970s.
Battisti, 64, was a runaway from last month when he fled Brazil, where he had initially found refuge under the government of leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , AFP said.
"This Italian subject, will be delivered by Interpol Bolivia to Interpol Italia to be transferred on a flight sent by the authorities of Italia," Bolivian Interior Minister Carlos Romero announced at a presser earlier this year at the Interpol headquarters. in Santa Cruz, confirming an announcement from Rome.
The head of the Italian Government, Giuseppe Conte, had advanced it shortly before, after having a telephone conversation with the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro.
The plane with police and members of the secret services that the Italian Government sent on the same Sunday to go to find Battisti landed in Santa Cruz shortly after 3:00 pm local (19H00 GMT), the AFP found.
A PUZZLE FOR MORALES
A Bolivian government source had confirmed Sunday his capture by police on a street in Santa Cruz.
Battisti, 64, was nabbed You have the right to remain silent... on Saturday at 6:50 pm local with "alcoholic breath," said the Bolivian source close to the investigation.
The Italian was in possession of Brazilian documentation, cell phone and credit card in his name. Since then he has been detained in Interpol premises in Santa Cruz.
Throughout Sunday, the Battisti case was the subject of an intense game of political, judicial and diplomatic ping-pong between Rome, La Paz and Brasilia at the time of defining their fate.
Brazilian Institutional Security Cabinet Minister Augusto Heleno had assured hours ago that, before being sent to Italia, Battisti would make a stop in Brazil.
There, the far-right Bolsonaro government had promised to return it as a "gift" to Italia - where conservatives also rule - ending an era of affinity between leftist governments and activists responsible for acts of violence during the "years of lead "of the cold war.
"THE PICNIC IS OVER"
Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the Brazilian head of state, tweeted on Sunday that "Brazil is no longer a land of bandidos."
"The 'little gift' is coming," he exulted. "My first thought is for the victims of this murderer ... protected by the lefts of half the planet." The picnic is over, "Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini tweeted.
"Justice will finally be done for the victims of terrorism," former Italian government chief Paolo Gentiloni reacted more soberly.
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[APNEWS] The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBT activists in Russia charged Monday.
The new allegations come after reports in 2017 of more than 100 gay men tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and subjected to torture, and some of them killed, in the predominantly Moslem region in southern Russia.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and other media outlets have interviewed some of the victims, who spoke about torture at the hands of Chechen law enforcement officers. Chechen authorities have denied those accusations, and federal authorities conducted a probe into the earlier reports but said they found nothing to support the charges.
Alvi Karimov, a front man for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, told the Interfax news agency on Monday that the latest reports are "complete lies and don’t have an ounce of truth in them." Karimov insisted that no one has been detained in Chechnya on suspicion of being gay.
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[BBC] Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given a 15-year jail term in November but, on Monday, a court said the sentence for drug smuggling was too lenient.
The ruling is likely to worsen a diplomatic row between the countries.
"It is a horrific, unfortunate, heartbreaking situation," his aunt, Lauri Nelson-Jones, told the BBC via email.
"It is our worst case fear confirmed," she added. "It is rather unimaginable what he must be feeling and thinking."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the ruling.
"It is of extreme concern to us as a government, as it should be to all our international friends and allies, that China has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply the death penalty," he said in a statement.
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But it's OK for China to send their fentanyl to us.
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For a member of the tribe, this was either desperate or really, really stupid. Either way, his membership needs to be revoked - it's a disgrace he never thought such an outcome was possible.
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Nothing to do with drug smuggling. It's all about China showing who the big dog is after Canada snatched up that chick from Huwei for the Americans.
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Nothing to do with drug smuggling. It's all about China showing who the big dog is after Canada snatched up that chick from Huwei for the Americans.
Not really. That would involve ramping up tariffs on Canadian exports to China. This is a fairly routine drug sentence appeal that went against the defendant, as appeals often do in China. What's not understood is that China's appeals process figuratively resembles Russian r0ulette. You could get a better sentence or even exonerated. Or you could lose your head. In that respect, it is very traditionally Chinese - government appointees are basically demi-gods (as opposed to the living gods who rule China).
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Nothing to do with drug smuggling. It's all about China showing who the big dog is after Canada snatched up that chick from Huwei for the Americans.
The *draconian* appeals process is another reason why the rate of wrongful convictions there is probably extremely high. An appeal carries with it the potential for a penal sentence to be converted to a death sentence, potentially carried out within a year. Given the wide variety of non-homicide-related offenses in China that are eligible for the death penalty, it's a wonder that anything other than a death sentence is ever appealed. When government officials are demi-gods, this is the kind of justice system they get.
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I don't doubt the Chinese justice system is messed up from a Western point of view, but this guy isn't the first Canadian to have legal problems in China since the Canadians arrested Meng Wanzhou back in December. Once is an accident, twice co-incidence and all that.
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I don't doubt the Chinese justice system is messed up from a Western point of view, but this guy isn't the first Canadian to have legal problems in China since the Canadians arrested Meng Wanzhou back in December. Once is an accident, twice co-incidence and all that.
This MOT was first sentenced in November, before the Huawei case. Appeals in China are really, really Mickey Mouse affairs, which is why it was conducted just 2 months after initial sentencing. This moron drew the short straw. It would be nice to see this sleazy Huawei c-word get the needle, but even if we handed down death sentences for economic crimes, which we don't, the Canadians would not extradite a suspect in a case where the death penalty might be handed down without DOJ assurances that it would not be imposed.
[REUTERS] Pawel Adamowicz, the liberal mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, died on Monday of his wounds a day after being stabbed by a former convict who rushed the stage during one of Poland’s biggest annual charity events.
Thousands of people gathered in Polish cities to mourn the death of Adamowicz, who had been mayor of Gdansk for 20 years and espoused liberal causes including giving refuge to migrants colonists colonists at odds with Poland’s conservative nationalist government.
"We couldn’t win," Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski told news hounds via private broadcaster TVN. Doctors had operated on Adamowicz for five hours, the state news agency PAP said.
Polish officials said the day of Adamowicz’s funeral would be a national day of mourning.
TV footage showed thousands turning out for commemorative vigils, including in Gdansk, fount of the 1980s Solidarity movement that was instrumental in bringing an end to Communist rule, as well as Poznan and the capital Warsaw.
The attacker was identified by Polish authorities as a 27-year-old named Stefan, who was released last month from prison where he had served 5-1/2 years for a 2014 conviction for attempted bank robbery. His full name has so far been withheld.
PAP said without citing a source that the man has been treated in prison hospital previously for schizophrenia.
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[Guardian] From June last year, Dilip Trigunayak would stride out each morning to the banks of the Ganges and will the holy waters to recede. The clock was ticking. In six months, the floodplains where he stood would be the site of the largest human gathering in the world, probably ever.
"I would watch the water levels going up and down," the bureaucrat says. "From then my anxiety started."
More than 120 million Hindu devotees, as well as tourists, are expected to visit the north Indian city of Prayagraj over the next few weeks for the Kumbh Mela, a vast spiritual festival at the point where two sacred rivers, the Ganges and Yamuna, converge.
As the rivers have emptied of monsoon rain in recent months, Indian authorities have swung into action, reclaiming the riverbed and laying the skeleton for a temporary city that at 15 sq miles (39 sq km) is two-thirds the size of Manhattan.
The festival started on Tuesday morning when tens of thousands of Hindu ascetics charged ‐ roaring, naked and ash-smeared ‐ into the water, sanctifying it for the tens of millions of pilgrims who will follow in the coming days and weeks.
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After my friends threw watermelon rinds off a hill I said, "I always wanted to be standing on a hillside overlooking the rind". They threw their remaining rinds at me.
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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.
[Guardian] From June last year, Dilip Trigunayak would stride out each morning to the banks of the Ganges and will the holy waters to recede. The clock was ticking. In six months, the floodplains where he stood would be the site of the largest human gathering in the world, probably ever.
