[Gateway] Four Florida teens, including a high school football star, were killed in a high-speed chase earlier this month after allegedly stealing a vehicle.
WLBT reported Saturday that the April 20 pursuit started with a Honda CRV that was reported stolen out of Gainesville and ended in the Waldo area. A license plate reader had detected the alleged theft hours later.
A deputy followed the stolen vehicle while waiting for backup to arrive. Once backup officers arrived to help, they tried to pull the SUV over, but it slowed down and then sped off.
"We confirmed with the Gainesville Police Department that they still had that car entered as stolen, and the officer waited until he had three backup units with him before he initiated the traffic stop," Bradford County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Brad Smith said. "They did start to pull over on the shoulder of the road, but before they came to a complete stop, they accelerated again, and that is when the chase was on."
[NYPOST] The parking valet accused of luring away the teenage child of Slack’s billionaire co-founder is being charged with having sex with the minor — whom he was allegedly "quasi dating" despite being 10 years older, cops said.
Christopher "Kio" Dizefalo, 26, who parks cars for a living in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... , was charged with unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, along with contributing to the delinquency of a minor in relation to the runaway case of 16-year-old Mint Butterfield, according to Marin County booking records.
He was also charged with one count of child stealing — a felony different from kidnapping, used when a victim leaves home willingly but is enticed or coerced by a nefarious actor intending to conceal them from legal guardians.
Mint Butterfield bravely ran away from home on April 21 and was found a week later.
Dizefalo is accused of influencing and sexually assaulting Mint, whose father, Stewart Butterfield, co-founded the workplace messaging application Slack, and whose mother is Caterina Fake, co-founder of the photo-sharing app Flickr.
Together the parents are worth billions.
Mint, who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, "willingly" left their home sometime around April 21, police said, and was deemed "at risk" over previous suicide threats.
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So, princess has some fun and stable boy goes to prison for the rest of his life?
[BLAZE] Former CNN talking head Don Lemon told HBO’s Bill Maher that he feels uncomfortable in "white spaces" — which likely makes bedtime at his house a little awkward.
"I’m often the only person of color in the room," Lemon told Maher, who motioned to his panel and said, "There’s only three of us here."
"Bill Maher calls him out on it, but not the way I would have called him out," Jason Whitlock says. "Hey Don, how uncomfortable you in that bedroom, bro? In your house, you’re the only black person, only person of color in your bedroom, in your house, on your honeymoon."
Whitlock says this because Don Lemon’s husband is the face of the so-called patriarchy, a white man.
[FoxNews] Austin Chief Deputy Medical Director Heidi Abraham said there were more than 30 calls for overdoses on Monday, compared to the typical two to three calls per day. (Credit: Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services)
Austin, Texas, saw an "unusually deadly" surge of more than 50 opioid overdoses between Monday and Tuesday, resulting in eight people dying and several others being rescued with Narcan, according to officials.
At about 9 a.m. on Monday, Austin-Travis County EMS personnel began responding to a sudden surge in opioid-related overdose calls.
Dispatchers received a series of calls in the downtown area, resulting in a rapid response team that included the Austin-Travis County EMS team and others, being deployed to downtown Austin.
When the team arrived, they distributed over 200 Narcan rescue kits throughout the area to counteract the effects of opioid overdoses, while also providing lifesaving intervention to anyone overdosing on opioids.
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Austin's police are useless. Liberal city AG, too. Fortunately State Police on orders from the Governor pick up the slack. Biden is obviously flying in illegals and drugs into the Texas Capital
[Breitbart] The communist dictatorship of Nicaragua saw a growth of nearly 12 percent in the amount of remittance money emigrants sent to the country during the first quarter of 2024, mainly driven by remittances sent from the United States, according to a report published by the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa on Sunday.
According to statistics from the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN), remittances sent to the country during the first three months of 2024 totaled $1.14 billion, marking an 11.8-percent increase from 2023’s $1.02 billion in the same time period.
Of the $1.14 billion received in the first quarter of 2024, the report states, $930.7 million came from the United States, representing a staggering 81.6 percent of the total. The increase, according to BCN, means Nicaragua remains the Central American country with the most growth in remittances received.
Since 2023, Nicaragua has experienced a dramatic upsurge in the amount of remittance funding received by locals from Nicaraguan citizens abroad who have either fled or been banished from the communist regime. Dictator Daniel Ortega turned remittances into a crucial funding resource for the economically-ailing regime.
La Prensa estimated that some 800,000 Nicaraguas have left their country in recent years due to Ortega’s growing repression after the April 2018 protests, which saw thousands of Nicaraguan citizens flock to the streets to demand the end of communism in their country.
In 2023, Nicaragua received a record-breaking 4.32 billion euros (roughly $4.6 billion) in family remittances, an amount that represented nearly 30 percent of Nicaragua’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Of the total, $3.56 billion came from the United States. In 2022, Nicaragua received a total of $3.22 billion in remittances, or 23 percent of its GDP.
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While the overwhelming majority of the remittances came from the United States, Costa Rica, Spain, Panama, and Canada were all listed as top countries of origin. All five countries collectively amounted to 97.4 percent of all remittances sent.
Reports published in 2023 detailed how the Ortega regime benefits both economically and politically from the increase in remittances.
Nicaraguan analyst José Dávila explained to the outlet Nicaragua Investiga at the time that Ortega’s main benefit from the migrant crisis caused by his communist regime — and the surge in remittances it has led to — is that it calms internal unrest.
“It seems to be the perfect business of the regime that Nicaraguans leave en masse in search of freedom and then send remittances to their families,” Dávila said.
Nicaraguan economist Enrique Sáenz stressed that remittances “are serving as social policy” for the communist regime, as the increase in economic activity means that Ortega does not have to “lift a finger” in terms of wage and social policy.
“These expenditures in consumption contribute to the fact that Nicaraguan businesses – from the neighborhood beauty salon, the grocery store, the barber shop, to the supermarket or the bean and corn producers, etc. – see a growing market through the income of these families, who, without the remittances, would not be able to buy,” he continued. “This contributes to mitigate the social and political unrest.”
Sáenz also stressed that the goods or services paid for with remittances generate direct income to the regime, as all of them are subject to taxation such as the Value Added Tax (VAT), which helps the communist regime balance its budget.
“This definitely helps the Nicaraguan economy in the sense that it finances household consumption and within that consumption many items pay taxes, either the fixed fee or value added,” Sáenz said, “so Ortega also benefits in some way by taxing these transactions that are financed with remittances, and that helps tax revenues.”
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] King Charles III of Great Britain, who is suffering from cancer, returned to public duties on April 30 after undergoing treatment, Sky News reported.
According to journalists, the monarch and his wife, Queen Camilla, visited the Macmillan Cancer Center. There they met with patients and doctors.
“His Majesty’s treatment program will continue, but doctors are very pleased with the progress made, so the king can now resume a number of public duties,” the publication quoted a Buckingham Palace spokesman.
Charles III, when asked by journalists how he was feeling, said that it was much better. It is noted that this was his first appearance in public after doctors recommended that the king avoid public duties during treatment.
Buckingham Palace announced on February 6 that Charles III had been diagnosed with cancer, without specifying the location of the disease, but noting that it was not related to the prostate, with which he had recently had problems. The monarch put aside public duties, continuing to work with documents.
The Daily Mirror reported on February 28 that Charles III had begun preparations for handing over the crown to his heir. The publication noted that this process began shortly after the king was diagnosed with the disease.
In March, rumors about the death of the British monarch began to spread on the Internet. Buckingham Palace had to deny this information.
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King Chuck holds the record as longest-sitting crown prince in English history. He’ll give up the crown when it’s pried from his cold, dead hands. Wills can just wait his turn.
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[REGNUM] The US Congress was outraged by the greed of its own military-industrial complex. Corruption scandals and allegations of misappropriation of funds constantly plague US military corporations. However, recently the situation has been aggravated by the acute technological crisis in which the American defense industry is mired.
If it continues to squander money in the old fashioned way, without giving any output, then the United States risks outright losing the new arms race to Russia and China.
At a meeting of the Armed Services Committee in Congress, rather boring hearings took place with the participation of US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall . And then suddenly the unexpected happened - one of the legislators, Congressman from Florida Michael Waltz, pulled out a bag of bolts and bushings. And he asked the minister straight to his face: does he know how much it costs?
The Pentagon pays 90 thousand dollars for this very set of “certified” bolts for its fighter jets, and you can buy it online for a couple of tens of dollars. This results in a markup of 3,000 times, on which the military-industrial complex lobbyists and their contractors profit.
The puzzled Air Force Minister could only shrug his shoulders in confusion.
Waltz, who gave the minister a beating, served as a Green Beret for 20 years, visited Afghanistan several times and saw with his own eyes the corruption inside the US military machine.
The most telling example is the $80 billion worth of weapons left behind in Afghanistan. Why bother with transportation or repairs if you can simply order a new one and please your “friends” in the military-industrial complex.
Unscrupulous apparatchiks and lobbyists have always profited from military contracts in the United States. This happened from the very beginning of the military-industrial complex, during World War II and immediately after, during the era of Truman and Eisenhower.
However, during the Cold War, Washington had to be in a state of very tough competition with the socialist camp. Therefore, they tried to moderate the greed of military manufacturers by forcing them to work for results.
The situation changed dramatically after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the formation of a unipolar world under the auspices of the United States. There was no longer any need to compete with anyone - Russia was weakened by internal crises, China was not yet the current industrial giant. But the Europeans did not have the proper subjectivity and were dependent on the United States.
At that moment, the process of monopolization began in the American military-industrial complex. The Pentagon itself largely condoned it - there was an idea that large defense giants would be better able to fulfill military orders than mid-level companies.
As a result, the number of major military corporations in the United States decreased by about ten times. Moreover, they themselves became bound by joint contracts so that competition actually grew into cooperation.
Competition, the engine of progress, simply disappeared from the American military industry market. This immediately affected the quality of products, which went down sharply, and the cost of contracts, which began to go through the roof.
Moreover, there are contracts for literally everything. Let's say an oil pressure switch for NASA rockets costs $100 at retail, but they buy it for 10 thousand. They had to spend $120 million on valves for Apache helicopters, and a subsequent audit found that they should have cost 4-5 times less.
And this is still a relatively small investment. What can we say about serious equipment - the same F-22 or F-35 fighters, the maintenance of which cost several trillion dollars. As a result, the Pentagon had to purchase much less of them than previously planned.
Fighters turned out to be too expensive and constantly broke down: F-35s spend almost 60% of their time on the ground and under repair. This is straining the American military budget, which simply cannot keep up with all the spending.
Problems for the American military-industrial complex have been accumulating for years, but have become especially aggravated in the last four to five years. The deadline for delivery of almost all weapons is seriously increasing.
For example, it now takes an average of nine years to build one submarine in the United States instead of six.
The next generation of frigates will be launched with a lag of three to four years. Things are even worse with new aircraft carriers, which are completely behind schedule.
Lockheed Martin Corporation was able to assemble only half of the promised number of new F-35 fighters in 2023. Deliveries of the new upgraded F-15EX are also severely delayed.
At the same time, spending on all defense programs is growing rapidly. Take, for example, the replacement of old Minuteman III missiles with new Sentinels. Spending on new intercontinental missiles has already increased by 35% to $120 billion.
Now Congress is threatening to scrap the program altogether, leaving the United States with old Cold War-era missiles for decades to come.
This state of affairs is affected by a whole set of problems. US military corporations have become too large, clumsy and bureaucratic. They have nowhere to rush and there is no need to save money, because they understand perfectly well that the Pentagon has no choice: the contracts will have to be placed with them anyway.
Inefficiency at all levels of decision-making leads to long-term construction, inflated estimates and total sloppiness.
In recent years, new misfortunes have begun to emerge: there is an acute shortage of engineering personnel - many qualified workers quit during the pandemic, when production stopped.
Problems remain with logistics and supply of many categories of raw materials, especially rare earth metals from China. And each submarine or fighter requires tens and sometimes hundreds of kilograms of rare earths.
That is why the process of increasing arms production is going so hard in the United States. They almost doubled the production of shells to 30 thousand per month. But, for example, it was not possible to double the production of Javelins from 2 to 4 thousand per year during two years of conflict in Ukraine.
And to resume assembly of the Stingers, old retired engineers had to be brought back to work.
There are also big problems with the growth of missile production, including for air defense systems like Patriot. Now only 500 of them are produced per year - on the Ukrainian front this can be used up in a couple of weeks.
Meanwhile, China has already overtaken the United States in terms of naval size. China has launched 17 destroyers and frigates over the past two years. The US will need more than six years to do the same.
Russia and China already have hypersonic weapons in various forms. The latest hypersonic tests in the United States ended in failure, and the promised adoption of the first American hypersonic missiles by 2028 may not happen.
The current crisis within the American military-industrial complex has erupted at the most inopportune moment for Washington. The US military machine is mired in the Ukrainian conflict and the Middle East wars.
At the same time, there remains an urgent need to increase the production of weapons and at the same time compete with two opponents, Russia and China. The states have to literally be torn between all the challenges.
Their example shows that even with the world's largest defense budget, maintaining a military empire and presence around the world is becoming unaffordable.
And, most importantly, money alone cannot solve all problems, engineers from all over the world cannot be assembled, and technological chains with lost competencies cannot be set up.
There is no way out of the current crisis yet. There are calls to split the military monopoly giants into smaller companies, but at the expense of their lobbyists they will try to avoid this.
In the meantime, the number of problems is growing rapidly. And the moment quantity turns into quality, the position of the US military machine can become truly bad.
From a comment this morning from Skid.
[Laura Ingraham at FOX] The New York City Police Department released a video showing a professional "protest consultant" who was seen on other social media videos instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators as they took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University overnight Monday.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke about outside agitators during a press conference Tuesday evening.
"What should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators. We were extremely cautious about releasing our intel information because our goal was to ensure the safety of the students, the faculty, and without destruction to property," Adams said. "We have sounded the alarm several times before about external actors who attempted to hijack this private protest."
Adams and members of his administration shared information about the outside actors who were creating "serious public safety issues" at the protests.
Lisa Fithian - Wikipedia: Lisa Fithian is an American political activist and "protest consultant". Early life [ edit ] Lisa Fithian, American political activist and protest consultant, [1] began her work in the mid-1970s as a member of student government in her high school and at Skidmore College .
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"What should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators.
Not certain "co-opted" is the appropriate term of reference. Military advisor, more correctly stated. Someone should be shadowing this creature to locate and identify her handlers and funding sources. There is obviously a much larger cadre in play here.
"Everybody works for somebody."
~ John Kiriakou - Doing Time Like a Spy
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] …1,200 miles away to new mega-city Nusantara surrounded by jungle tribes, with 6,000 to be relocated from October
Indonesia is ambitiously planning to move nearly 2mn people to a new city
The forest metropolis aims to open to civil servants this year, completed by 2045
Seen from above, the prospective new capital of Indonesia is little more than a network of track roads and concrete exoskeletons today.
But the southeast Asian country, home to more than 275 million people, hopes desperately for Nusantara to be ready to house its first 6,000 residents by October, with Jakarta slowly dissolving into the sea 1,200 miles away.
With 40 per cent of the capital already below sea level, some 10.6 million people in the inner city (and 30 million in the wider area) could face displacement - and urgently need a longer-term solution.
But conservationists and local tribes, settled in the region for generations, warn the project is already starting to disrupt the natural order, cutting off access to water and endangering life.
Construction on the $35bn project of Nusantara began only in 2022, but the Indonesian government hopes it will be ready to open its doors within a matter of months - with completion to coincide with the centenary of independence in 2045.
Photos from this year, coupled with stunning CGI projections, show how the plan is taking hold as some 200,000 workers rally to usher in a new era for the archipelago.
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.
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