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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fish-bladders-traded-for-fentanyl-precursors-1.7458395
How Mexican cartels and Chinese criminal networks are moving 'cocaine of the sea' through Canadian ports
Totoaba fish worth tens of thousands being traded for component parts of fentanyl
Vancouver has become a "strategic" post for the Sinaloa cartel in the distribution of fentanyl.
>https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/02/12/kevin-spacey-lawsuit-sexual-abuse-uk/78469106007
>https://news.sky.com/story/historic-blow-to-sicilian-mafia-after-more-than-180-arrests-by-italian-police-13307249
'Historic blow' to Sicilian mafia after more than 180 arrests by Italian police
A total of 1,200 officers were involved in the operation aimed at dismantling mafia clans in several districts of the capital Palermo.
Italian police have arrested 181 people in a crackdown on the Sicilian mafia.
Authorities launched a series of raids early on Tuesday, detaining suspected members of the mafia for alleged crimes including attempted murder, extortion, drug trafficking and more.
A total of 1,200 officers were involved in the operation aimed at dismantling mafia clans in several districts of the capital Palermo.
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said several alleged mafia bosses were among those arrested and described the sting as a "very hard blow to Cosa Nostra". Over 50kg of drugs were also seized.
Palermo mayor Roberto Lagalla also praised the operation, said the arrests "dealt a historic blow to the mafia".
The large-scale sting suggests the organisation, an association of a number of groups, remains a significant criminal force despite setbacks in recent decades.
Police said Palermo's mafia families were still coordinating their activities across the city and its province like they used to in the heyday of Cosa Nostra.
They added that inner city families had regained authority compared to the years in which a faction from Corleone - a town outside Palermo - dominated, that was the birthplace of notorious bosses Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.
But the Carabinieri police said the group had recently modernised, turning to encrypted smartphones.
This allowed the most influential mafia bosses to communicate with one another while avoiding police attention, officers said in a statement.
Such was the level of secrecy the method allowed, that one individual on the run for almost two years continued to "govern the district" - continue criminal activities in his area - communicating only using the mobiles.
The Carabinieri said the use of such devices was "systematic".
"We move forward with determination, because the mafia can and must be defeated," minister of defence Guido Crosetto said, congratulating police on the arrests.
Alongside Tuesday's arrests, additional warrants were also issued for 33 suspects who were already in prison for other crimes.
The Carabinieri also said Cosa Nostra continued to attract young people, documenting an example of one new recruit being given "mafia lessons" by an older associate.
"The young man was allegedly 'taken in charge' by a suspect who offered him specific instructions… as well as advising him on how to relate to the mafia leaders," police said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14406885/leader-vegan-trans-cult-arrested-survivor-horror-jack-ziz-lasota.html
'Tech genius' leader of vegan trans cult is arrested linked to six deaths across America
Jack 'Ziz' LaSota, the 'tech genius' leader of the ominous Bay Area vegan trans 'death cult' known as the 'Zizans,' was arrested after months on the run.
LaSota, 33, who uses she/her pronouns, was taken into custody on Sunday evening in Allegany County, Maryland.
She is being held on charges of trespassing on private property, obstructing a law enforcement officer and having a handgun in her vehicle, according to jail records seen by DailyMail.com.
Michelle Zajko, 32 a member of the cult, was also arrested on charges of trespassing, obstruction and hindering, resisting or interfering with an arrest and having a handgun on her person, records show.
Another member, Daniel Blank, 26, was also arrested. He faces charges of trespassing on private property and obstruction and hindering, records show.
The three have been on the run since 2023 after they were found by officers in Chester City, Pennsylvania conducting a search warrant after Zajko's parents, Rita and Richard Zajko, were found shot to death in their home on January 2 of that year, SFGate reported.
About a week after their deaths, LaSota, Zajko and Blank were each found in separate rooms of a hotel.
LaSota was charged with obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct and was eventually released on bail after five months behind bars. Zajko and Blank were not charged, and following LaSota's release, the three disappeared.
LaSota is allegedly linked to six deaths across the country, including the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont last month.
The agent, David Maland, 44, was shot in the neck around 3.15pm on January 20 in Newport while performing a traffic stop, according to authorities.
Teresa Youngblut was arrested following the violent shootout, which also left German national Felix Bauckholt, also known as Ophelia, dead. They are allegedly members of the 'Zizans' cult.
Youngblut was arrested and is currently facing federal firearms charges in connection to his death.
Zajko is also reportedly connected to Maland's death, as she allegedly purchased the handgun Youngblut used in the shootout, the Baltimore Banner reported.
Authorities in Vermont said that weapon was purchased by the same person who bought the firearm used in the murder of Zajko's parents years earlier, according to court records.
LaSota is also accused of being at the scene when a Vallejo, California landlord, who tried to evict her and members of the cult, was attacked by the group.
The landlord, Curtis Lind, was stabbed with a sword, but still managed to shoot and kill one of the cult members in self-defense, according to police.
Though she was believed to be at the scene, LaSota was never arrested. Two others were charged with murder and attempted murder in that case.
Despite surviving the initial incident involving the cult, Lind was killed on January 17 after he was found with his throat slashed, The Baltimore Banner reported.
Maximillian Snyder, 22, of Kirkland, Washington, has since been charged with his murder and is believed to be connected to the 'Zizans.'
The group has been described as an ideological group of 'rationalists', SF Chronicle reported. It is said to be named after LaSota, whose nickname is 'Ziz.'
She is a computer programmer who graduated from University of Alaska Fairbanks with a degree in computer engineering.
She interned at NASA and Oracle and, like many young tech entrepreneurs, 'moved to the Bay Area for proximity to the tech industry which I considered sort of my destiny,' she wrote in a 2019 blog post.
There, she had a stint at Google, took part in an apprenticeship by the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) and became part of a rationalist movement in Berkeley, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Jessica Taylor, a former research fellow at the AI research non-profit MIRI previously told DailyMail.com she met LaSota around 2015 or 2016 at an MIRI or rationalist event.
'We talked about things like when people make commitments (like New Year's resolutions) that try to coerce or bind their future self and how this is confused and alternatives to it,' she said, adding that these are 'fairly normal ideas for self-help or rationality around CFAR.'
Taylor said it was only later that 'stuff got weird' and more extreme, pushing the belief that people have 'conflict between their two brain hemispheres, only one of which is good.'
LaSota began sharing these ideas and beliefs in a blog, titled Sinceriously.
Taylor said LaSota amassed something of a following through the blog, including her own friend Baukholt.
The lengthy blog posts, which ran from 2016 to 2019, included titles such as 'My Journey to the Dark Side,' 'Vampires and More Undeath,' 'Punching Evil,' 'Self-Blackmail' and 'Engineering and Hacking Your Mind.'
In one, LaSota described 2016 as the year she made a 'turn to the dark side.'
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https://www.icj.org/eu-urgent-action-needed-to-sustain-global-development-aid/
EU: urgent action needed to sustain global development aid
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with over 60 civil society organizations, has joined an urgent appeal calling on EU leaders to take immediate action to address the global development aid crisis triggered by recent decisions by the U.S. administration.
On 20 January 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order imposing a 90-day freeze on all U.S. foreign aid. This decision has already led to immediate and devastating consequences, including the closure of clinics, the suspension of life-saving disease treatment programmes, the disruption of human rights and rule of law initiatives, and a funding crisis for NGOs worldwide.
The reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule —a U.S. policy barring foreign organizations receiving U.S. global health funding from providing, counselling on, or advocating for abortion services— further threatens access to essential sexual and reproductive healthcare services.
The appeal urges the EU, as the world’s largest foreign aid provider, to step up its leadership and ensure continued support for democracy, human rights, global health, and humanitarian assistance. Among the key recommendations, signatories call on the EU to:
Provide emergency funding to mitigate the financial shortfalls created by the U.S. aid freeze and Global Gag Rule;
Prioritize funding for sectors most affected, including reproductive rights, gender equality, and LGBTIQ rights;
Reduce administrative barriers to ensure accessibility of funding for civil society organizations;
Take diplomatic action to urge the U.S. administration to reverse course.
https://x.com/IRF_Ukraine/status/1891466865664245800
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“Let me conclude, and this becomes difficult…” he said, before wiping his eyes and walking off stage to the crowd’s applause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Heusgen
>will begin executing a series of novel maneuvers, called aerobraking, to change its orbit
why do they gotta spin it up like that, just call it aerobraking, not "series of novel maneuvers"
so gay
Anthony Weiner Says He's Managing 'Personal Demons' and Ready to Return to Politics After Sexting Scandals
Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner is interested in running for local office, telling the New York Post, "I'm really good at this" in a new interview.
Weiner said he's managing his "personal demons" and has been encouraged by his ex-wife Huma Abedin to get back into politics.
The comments come almost six years after Weiner completed a prison sentence for sending sexually explicit messages and photos to a 15-year-old girl.
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>It Will Destroy Them
all for a larp
GM agents
>how many in the age range of 120 to 360 voted for Biden?
https://www.delta.com/us/en/about-delta/diversity
60 Minutes was USAID funded?