https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/europe/ukraine-russia-pow-execution-sword-intl/index.html
Kyiv investigates alleged Russian execution of Ukrainian soldier with sword inscribed ‘for Kursk’
As it turned out, the sword also belonged to Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
23andMe
All seven independent directors resigned
>Dough
https://downdetector.com/
explosives found at the Trump rally were being used to help train a bomb sniffing dog and are not a threat
https://pagesix.com/2024/03/26/celebrity-news/fans-question-what-happened-to-sean-diddy-combs-adopted-daughter-ava-baroni-after-sex-trafficking-raid/
Video of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs with ‘adopted’ daughter Ava Baroni resurfaces after feds raid his homes
The production of liquid cocaine involves dissolving cocaine in water, solvents or other products containing chemical compounds such as mannitol, glucose, cellulose or lactose. It is then placed inside products such as shampoo bottles or hidden among sugar cane molasses, making it easier for them to be trafficked in containers or carried by drug mules.
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/colin-kaepernick-attorney-ben-meiselas-diddy-hillary-clinton-1203184719/
Meiselas Interning for Diddy and Hillary Clinton
While there are many notable attorneys in the world, it’s a safe bet that Ben Meiselas has had one of the most remarkable careers of any 33-year-old lawyer working today.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-new-york-rally-false-bomb-threat-e3f8c44132602c97bb7c4acce2ec63b9
False reports of explosives found in a car near a Trump rally spread online
Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said police questioned and detained a person who “may have been training a bomb detection dog,” near the site of the rally and “falsely reported explosives being found.”
Lt. Scott Skrynecki, a spokesperson for the county police, said in follow-up messages that the person, who police have not yet identified, was a civilian and not a member of a law enforcement agency.
He also said the person was not working at or affiliated with the event, which is expected to draw thousands of Trump supporters to the arena that was formerly the home of the NHL’s New York Islanders.
police questioned and detained a person who “may have been training a bomb detection dog,” near the site of the rally and “falsely reported explosives being found.”
the person was a civilian and not a member of a law enforcement agency.
>SOMEONE seems to be trying to push the narrative
>the person was not working at or affiliated with the event
Taiwan Foreign Legion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/16/ryan-routh-ukraine-recruit-taiwan/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-63678601
Why Taiwanese are among Ukraine's foreign fighters
Taiwan has mandatory military service, which makes those who complete it eligible to join Ukraine's foreign legion.
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/16/ryan-routh-ukraine-recruit-taiwan/
The suspect has also expressed support for Taiwan.
A website named Taiwan Foreign Legion, which lists a man named Ryan Routh as the international volunteer center coordinator and the only contact, calls for international volunteers to support Taiwan in the event of a future conflict with China. On the site, Routh claims to have spent two weeks in Taiwan “going to every single government office and speaking to everyone that I could possibly find to encourage more preparation for war.”
Taiwan’s economic and cultural office in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the suspect’s possible activities on the island.
Remus Cernea, a Romanian journalist who is listed on the Taiwan Foreign Legion website as a supporter of the effort, told The Washington Post that while he met Routh on several occasions in Ukraine and spoke with him about Taiwan, Cernea was never involved in any organization to defend Taiwan.
“I see him like a very idealistic person,” Cernea said. “He talked about values, about freedom and about democratic values. But what he did yesterday, what he did is against the foundation of democracy because we cannot accept violence in politics.”
In Routh’s self-published Ukraine book, he also expresses his views on Taiwan.
“Shall we let Taiwan fall?” he writes. “We should encircle Taiwan with military ships and support with military might. If we wait, such as we have done in Ukraine, it will be a 10 minute war and we will all be standing around like fools yet again.”
>We should encircle Taiwan with military ships and support with military might.
>Musk gonna be the guy that fires them.
“The individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found and that individual is currently being detained by police,” the statement said.
>individual with the bomb dog falsely reported explosives being found
but he was a civilian and not involved with the security?
Another explosion rocked Cologne this morning - in front of a clothing store.
This was reported by the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.
The circumstances are unknown, there are no casualties. The windows in the building are broken, there was a small fire.
Police say the incident is similar to the explosion outside the Vanity club on Monday night, where cameras captured a man in a hoodie planting an explosive device and setting it on fire. They are looking for him.
>Violent Crime is up 40%
>Rape is up 42%
>Car Theft is up 42%
>Aggravated Assaults are up 55%
>Violent Attacks on Strangers are up more than 61%
<David Muir is down by 12%
Routh ex worked for Victoria's Secret
In another X post, Routh declared his support for former Republican presidential candidates Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley.
In 1997, police arrested Routh for committing larceny after he unlawfully took property with the intent to keep it.
In 2002, Routh faced a felony conviction for possessing a weapon of mass destruction.
In 2010, Routh faced another felony conviction for possession of stolen goods.
The stolen goods were reportedly sold to fund his crack cocaine addiction, according to a police affidavit used to obtain a search warrant.
https://x.com/StephenKing/status/1836139968697077869
>Hub Of Migrant Trafficking Network In Springfield, Ohio
>American University of Beirut Medical Center replaced the pagers of their doctors and staff 2 weeks ago.
I'm not sure what to do with my hands.
>Fed slashes interest rates by a half point
Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws.
she jewish?
https://downdetector.com/
Hsu said an enigmatic Taiwanese woman known only as “Teresa” approached him three years ago with a deal to let BAC import pagers from Taiwan, and later to manufacture pagers under Gold Apollo’s trademark. He said they originally wanted to slap the Gold Apollo label on their own designs, but he convinced them to use his own popular pager models.
Hsu said he was under the impression that BAC would make pagers for European customers, and perhaps East Africa, but they never said anything about doing business in Lebanon. He said BAC paid his company from a “Middle Eastern bank account” that once encountered some “inconvenient” difficulties with transmitting funds to Gold Apollo’s Taiwanese bank.
“There was nothing in those devices that we had manufactured or exported to them,” he said of the pagers that exploded on Tuesday. He claimed there were some structural differences between BAC’s products and the pagers directly manufactured by Gold Apollo, including a chip incorporated in the BAC design that is not used by Hsu’s company.
>BAC paid his company from a “Middle Eastern bank account” that once encountered some “inconvenient” difficulties with transmitting funds to Gold Apollo’s Taiwanese bank.
>Six large drums filled with toxic chemicals encased in concrete were discovered buried under a Long Island park
https://archive.is/8LIAE
After drums unearthed on ex-Grumman site at Bethpage park, another call from town for full soil excavation
Workers clad in hazmat suits gathered Wednesday by a pit at Bethpage Community Park where six chemical drums were unearthed last week as Oyster Bay's supervisor echoed his call from a day earlier for a full soil excavation on the property where Grumman Aerospace dumped toxins decades ago.
A sign by the 10-foot by 25-foot pit read “Caution: Exclusion Zone” as the heavily-protected workers appeared to be handling samples and an excavator sat idle nearby — just feet from the recreation spot's shuttered skate park.
Last year the town sued Northrup Grumman, Grumman Aerospace's successor, criticizing the pace and thoroughness of a cleanup on the grounds stemming from the company's 2013 agreement with the state Department of Environment Conservation.
Contractors with Northrop Grumman found the 55-gallon drums about 7 feet underground while drilling a well Thursday to check an existing soil treatment system at the park, Supervisor Joseph Saladino told Newsday on Tuesday.
He said some of the drums had flammable chemicals and were unearthed between the 18-acre town park's shuttered ballfield and its fenced-off skate park. Much of the park, including a playground and indoor skating rink, remains open. Town officials said they closed the skate park in January as a precaution after Northrup Grumman's remediation work expanded in the area.
During a visit to the pit Wednesday, Saladino called on the DEC to mandate a full cleanup at the park by removing all soil and trucking it off Long Island. The supervisor also said a layer of clay had been found under the concrete-encased drums, characterizing the action as "another level of precaution" taken when the drums were buried.
Brian Nevin, an Oyster Bay spokesman, added that a plan to safely remove the drums from the pit is being developed.
The DEC said Tuesday it would do testing to determine the contents of the six chemical drums. The agency also said it would use “ground-penetrating radar, as well as subsurface drilling and sampling to determine the full nature and extent of contamination” and further investigate whether any more drums are buried on the site.
The DEC also said preliminary testing of the drums' content turned up “chlorinated solvents and waste oil/petroleum” — compounds the agency said were “consistent with known historic operations” of Grumman and the U.S. Navy at the location that are the focus of the ongoing remedial effort on the property.
Northrop Grumman officials said Tuesday they are working with the DEC to address the situation.
Between the 1940s and 1960s, Grumman used the land for disposal of wastewater sludges and solvent-soaked rages. Grumman donated land for the park to the town in 1962 and the park was a centerpiece of the Bethpage community for decades.
Then in 2002, contamination from polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, was found in ballfield soil and the DEC — which regulates the site — discovered just how extensively it had been used as a chemical dumping ground. It was found to be a major contributor to the groundwater plume of carcinogenic chemicals that spread from former Grumman grounds and now is more than 4 miles long, 2 miles wide and 900 feet deep.
Separate from the 2013 agreement the DEC made with Northrup Grumman to address the ballfield contamination, the agency later made a half-billion dollar deal with Grumman and the U.S. Navy to contain and clean the plume.
But the DEC never confirmed a whistle-blower's 2016 claim that in the 1990s, chemical drums had been discovered and reburied at the Bethpage park.
Saladino told Newsday on Tuesday the discovery of the drums last week shows that account was true.
On Wednesday, Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said the discovery of the drums is “alarming.” She said the drums pose a threat to drinking water, regardless of what chemicals are inside them.
“A full examination” of the site is needed to uncover “more hidden dangers that threaten public health,” Esposito added.
Bethpage resident Khairun Rizvi, who lives just a few hundred feet from where the drums were found, said Wednesday she wasn’t aware of the discovery and expressed concern that neighbors weren’t notified.
“They should’ve sent us a letter,” said Rizvi, 31, noting that Northrop Grumman previously communicated with the neighbors about remediation work.
She said she noticed the skate park was closed during a visit to the park with her two children — ages 2 and 3 — but wasn’t sure of the extent of work being done nearby.
“I’m very shocked because it’s near where kids play,” Rizvi said.