> Including DM’s
Yes, because he and @Jack had a very Dark one. Now, they're "acting" to save themselves, or get a lesser punishment.
Wonder if that twat acct is still active. Last time I looked it was back up. hummm.
Italian police scoop up 2 tons of cocaine bobbing in sea
ROME (AP) — Italian police scooped up two tons of cocaine, wrapped in protective plastic and bobbing in the sea off eastern Sicily, authorities said Monday.
The financial police squad estimated that the recent “catch” would have fetched about 400 million euros (nearly $450 million) in street sales.
The packages of cocaine were strung together with netting, police said in a statement. There was just enough plastic wrapping to keep the cocaine from getting wet without weighing it down and possibly sinking it.
Investigators hypothesized that a cargo ship left it in the sea as part of a scheme for another vessel to come along and eventually bring it to land. Police aircraft flew over the area of sea as a precaution to spot any other cocaine bundles that might have separated from the netting.
In all, police scooped up more than 1,600 packets of cocaine held in 70 bobbing bundles, the statement said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/italian-police-scoop-2-tons-122335627.html
Today's magic number must be 25. Clinton had a tweet with 25, there was another story regarding Putin and his "test" ships. Keeping eyes open for moar 25's
Trump highlighted RIP again too, so…
Putin critic jailed in treason case for 25 years in harshest verdict yet
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for 25 years by a Moscow court on Monday, the harshest sentence of its kind since Russia invaded Ukraine, after being found guilty of treason and other offences he denied committing.
Kara-Murza, 41, a father of three and an opposition politician who holds Russian and British passports, spent years speaking out against President Vladimir Putin and lobbied Western governments to impose sanctions on Russia and individual Russians for purported human rights violations.
State prosecutors, who had requested a 25-year term, had accused him of treason, among other offences, and of discrediting the Russian military after spreading "knowingly false information" about its conduct in what Moscow calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
In a CNN interview broadcast hours before his arrest, Kara-Murza, whose family home is in Washington, alleged that Russia was run by a "regime of murderers". He had also used speeches in the United States and Europe to accuse Russia of bombing civilians in Ukraine, a charge Moscow has rejected.
After hearing he'd been ordered to spend the next 25 years in a maximum-security penal colony, Kara-Murza, who had calmly listened to proceedings inside a glass courtroom cage, said "Russia will be free", a well-known opposition slogan.
He also smiled and - according to one of his lawyers, Maria Eismont - said he regarded the harsh sentence as recognition of his effective work as an opposition politician.
"When he heard he'd got 25 years he said: 'My self-esteem has gone up, I understand that I did everything right. It's the highest score I could have got for what I did, for what I believed in as a citizen and a patriot,'" she said.
In his final speech to the court last week, Kara-Murza compared his trial, which was held behind closed doors, to Josef Stalin's show trials in the 1930s. He declined to ask the court to acquit him, saying he was proud of everything he had said.
Eismont said Kara-Murza's team would appeal Monday's verdict, which she said had been marred by legal violations.
The Kremlin, when asked about the verdict, said it did not comment on court decisions.
moar
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-court-jails-kremlin-critic-084805636.html