THE MAGAZINE FELL FROM THE TERRORIST'S GUN

French Thalys train attacker 'tried to kill me three times': One of three Americans hailed as heroes for overcoming a gunman on a train travelling to Paris has told a French court his main aim was to survive

 

BBC

December 4, 2020

 

Spencer Stone, a 28-year-old ex-serviceman, described via video from the US how he and his friends saw Ayoub El Khazzani pick up a Kalashnikov rifle and prepare to open fire.

He counted three separate attempts the gunman made to try to kill him.

Mr Stone was one of two people wounded in the August 2015 Thalys train attack.

The other was fellow passenger Mark Magoolian.

No-one died but Mr Stone rejected the defendant's claim that he could not kill anyone.

"I think we prevented a massacre," French reports quoted him as telling the court.

Who is on trial?

Ayoub El Khazzani, a 31-year-old Moroccan, is accused of attempted murder as part of a terrorist enterprise, three months before the deadly militant Islamist attacks in Paris.

Three others are accused of helping him plan the train attack.

The main defendant has already admitted his role in the attack, near the town of Oignies in northern France. He told the trial last month he was under orders from Paris attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud to kill Americans and members of the European Commission.

In the end, he said he was unable to carry out the plan. When Spencer Stone came at him he had told the court that "it was too much....I let him grab me".

What the US witness said

Spencer Stone was giving evidence via a video-link from California. Although he had originally flown to France to testify, he was admitted to hospital on arrival and had to return home.

He described how he had been dozing in his seat when he heard a commotion and a train employee rushed past. He turned around to see the gunman pick up the Kalashnikov and his friend tapped him on the shoulder and told him to go ahead.

"I ran towards Ayoub. He took aim at me," the ex-serviceman told the court, according to AFP. "I heard him pull the trigger several times as if he was trying to get the gun to fire. I was surprised I had time to get to him."

He described how he had tackled the attacker to the ground and put him in a chokehold.

But then, he said, the gunman grabbed a pistol and put it to his head. He heard metallic clicks.

"This was now the second time he tried to kill me," he said, but the magazine had apparently fallen from the gun.

At this point his friend, Alek Skarlatos, managed to seize the pistol, but the attacker produced a box-cutter from his pocket, slashed Mr Stone's thumb "almost in half" and wounded him in the neck.

Mr Skarlatos said earlier in the trial that he had seized the pistol and tried to fire at the attacker but the gun did not work.

Asked if he agreed with the defendant's claim that once he had seen the Americans he decided he did not wish to kill anyone, Mr Stone was quoted as saying: "If he'd wanted to stop he wouldn't have tried to kill me three times."

Once the gunman was overpowered, the witness then described how he had helped Mark Magoolian, who was fast losing blood, by taking off his shirt and pressing his fingers on to an artery. Mr Magoolian, a French-American academic, was shot as he tried to wrestle the Kalashnikov away from the attacker.

"I didn't think he'd get out alive so I suggested he pray with me," the American said.

The events on board the train inspired a Clint Eastwood-directed film, The 15:17 to Paris.

The trial is due to hear from the defendant in the coming days and a verdict is expected on 17 December.

BEWARE: COVID VACCINE MIGHT IMPLANT ANTENNA INSIDE YOU

'It raised my concerns with what the vaccine contains': British Black Panther star Letitia Wright doubles down on COVID anti-vax video by 'prophet' who asks if vaccine will implant 5G antennas inside people

 

By Chris Jewers and James Gant 

Daily Mail

December 4, 2020

Black Panther star Letitia Wright has doubled down on her anti-vaccine views after sharing an anti-vax video by a 'prophet' who asked if the injection will implant 5G antennas inside people or create human-animal 'chimeras'.

The British actress was slammed by her Marvel co-star Don Cheadle on Thursday night after she posted the YouTube clip that questioned the efficacy of the Covid jab.

She posted the link to UK Youtuber Tomi Arayomi's post called 'COVID-19 VACCINE, SHOULD WE TAKE IT?' next to a prayer hand emoji.

Arayomi is a Christian who claims to converse with angels and runs a ministry that charges members for lessons at his 'school', and describes himself as 'a well recognised Prophet and the Managing Director of Prophetic Voice TV'. 

Wright's post sparked a fierce backlash with many asking Cheadle to call out 27-year-old Wright for posting the video . The actor called the footage shared by Wright 'hot garbage' and said what was claimed in it was 'F****d up'.

Wright doubled down today, saying she did not mean to offend people but wanted to raise her fears about what goes into vaccines.

She wrote on Twitter: 'My intention was not to hurt anyone, my ONLY intention of posting the video was it raised my concerns with what the vaccine contains and what we are putting in our bodies. Nothing else.'

The actress grew up in London and has starred in a string of movies including Avengers: Infinity War and 2019 Avengers: Endgame.

Star Wars actor John Boyega describes her as a close friend and People magazine yesterday published a joint interview with the two, but he has yet to comment on the episode.

Wright said it was not her intention to make anyone upset and she was not saying 'don't take' the jab, but added: 'I'm just concerned about what's in it that's all.'

The clip she shared was from On The Table - a YouTube channel presented by Arayomi, a law graduate whose mother is a dentist and father is a doctor. He says his ministry: 'seeks to restore the ability to hear the voice of God to every person on every sphere of influence.'

He also heads an organisation called 'RIGnation' that says it is 'is a global movement focused on training prophets to be people and people to be prophets'.

He says: 'Our aim is to raise 7,000 Apostles and Prophets from across the world who are ready to transform the world!'

The description of his YouTube video says: 'Tonight I'm talking about Luciferase, the ingredient allegedly being added to the COVID vaccine to detect those who have not taken it. Luciferase, named by its founder after Lucifer???'

Luciferase is a photoluminescent  enzyme that glows when exposed to light of a certain wavelength.

It has been suggested it could be used in vaccines in developing countries to detect who has already been vaccinated. Lucifer is also Greek for light-bringer.

Luciferase is not used in vaccines deployed in the US, UK, Europe and countries with developed health care systems.

In the podcast Arayomi says: 'I don't understand vaccines medically, but I've always been a little bit of a skeptic of them.'

He complains about being 'peer-pressured' into being made to have a flu shot as a child.

Arayomi also complains about social media network's censorship and accuses them and self-appointed 'fact checkers' of shutting down 'any voice that does not toe the main narrative'.

He also asks whether any coronavirus vaccine creates a human 'chimera' with antennas inside the body that pick up 5G signals and says 'this could be true'.

He says he does not believe in evolution and crticises claims he 'came from a monkey'.

In a separate video, he tells followers how an angel visited him in his office in September and told him that US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was about to dies.

After sharing the video, Wright quickly became involved in arguments with other Twitter users criticising her for sharing the video, in their view irresponsibly.

The actress, who has over 360,000 followers on Twitter, defended her sharing of the video by saying she believed it is important to 'ask questions' about the vaccine.

'I think it's valid and fair to simply ask what's in it,' she replied to one user who was calling her out on the platform.

Further doubling-down on her position following more criticism, she said 'if you don't conform to popular opinions. but ask questions and think for yourself....you get cancelled.'

As the argument grew on Thursday and into Friday, Wright's Marvel Cinematic Universe co-star Cheadle waded into the debate.

Cheadle is known to be outspoken on politics and other issues, and when Twitter users began tagging him in Wright's post, he began to engage with users as well.

After watching sections of the YouTube video, Cheadle Tweeted: 'Jesus... just scrolled through. hot garbage. every time i stopped and listened, he and everything he said sounded crazy and f****d up.

'I would never defend anybody posting this. but i still won't throw her away over it. the rest i'll take off twitter. had no idea.'

Wright later posted: 'If you don't conform to popular opinions, but ask questions and think for yourself....you get cancelled.'

Wright, who in addition to Black Panther and the Marvel movies has starred in Death on the Nile, Black Mirror and who is currently starring in Steve McQueen's acclaimed Small Axe, faced wider backlash on Twitter as well.

NHS doctor and BAFTA award winning TV presenter Ranj Singh commented: ''Lucifer' means light-bearer in Latin & Theology (as you probably know).

'Luciferases are enzymes that glow under certain conditions and are really useful in medical science.

'They literally produce light. This has precisely NOTHING to do with religion I'm afraid.'

Cancer researcher Dr David Grimes put: 'Hi - the safety & efficacy of vaccination is not an opinion, it is a fact.

'The evidence for this is simply overwhelming. Anti-vaccine propaganda, by contrast, is a litany of obvious falsehoods.'

He added: 'Endorsing such fictions is the polar opposite of critical thought.'

Actor and musician Alex Sawyer replied to her tweet sharing the video, saying 'This is a frustratingly irresponsible use of a platform.'

'How so?,' Wright replied. 'Did you listen to it fully or jump to conclusions on how I use my platform?'

Composer Matt Morgan wrote: 'Totally fair to question what we might be putting in our bodies.

'But just curious why you listen to/repost THIS guy (who himself admits he doesn't know what he's talking about) rather than actual doctors or epidemiologists who specialize in studying diseases/vaccines?'

Canadian filmmaker and YouTuber Evan Hadfield poked fun at Wright's tweet, saying 'I for one am proud of you, it takes guts to go on the internet and blast to millions that you intend to kill people because you think doctors know less about medicine than my one weird aunt.'

Another user shared a picture that said 'I did my own research' with the footnote: 'Watched someone else's s**tty YouTube video.'

Other users pointed to host Tomi Arayomi's previous comments on the channel that have been perceived to be transphobic, with Wright's fans questioning why she would share a video with someone who has expressed such views in the past.

Arayomi describes himself as 'a well recognised Prophet and the Managing Director of Prophetic Voice TV, an online mission that seeks to restore the ability to hear the voice of God to every person on every sphere of influence.'

As of last year he was a member of the 'British Isles Council of Prophets', which gathers 'prophetic voices' across the UK and Ireland.

The website says the YouTuber received Jesus at 15 and began ministry at 16, serving as a pastor.

Arayomi studied law at Hertfordshire University and has a wife called Tahmar and son called Harvey.

He is said to have published more than 10 books and is a co-pastor at 'My Church' in Windsor, Berkshire.

The website says: 'He believes God has called him to the ministry of transformation on a personal level and on a National level.

'Together with his wife Tahmar and his son Harvey they believe they have been called to train people to be prophets and prophets to be people.'

It continues: 'He has proven this time and time again by influencing decision makers and world leaders in diverse Countries.'

The page adds: 'Tomi believes in the restoration of Prophet and State- he often says - ''the day will come where governments of Nations shall seek the prophets again!'

PREGNANT MOTHER OF 2 STABBED TO DEATH BY MAN SHE CONNECTED WITH ON A MESSAGING APP

Missouri man charged with killing pregnant woman he met on app 

 

By Joshua Rhett Miller 

 

New York Post

December 3, 2020 

A Missouri man has been charged with murdering a young pregnant woman and her unborn child after she was stabbed more than 20 times, prosecutors said Thursday.

Damion Delgado, 27, of O’Fallon, is facing charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Amethyst J. Killian, a pregnant 22-year-old St. Peters woman found dead Friday just a block away from her home. She had been reported missing a day earlier on Thanksgiving.

“This was not a random act of violence,” St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney Tim Lohmar told reporters. “It was a targeted act of violence.”

Killian, a mother of two who was five months pregnant, was stabbed mostly in the head, neck and abdomen, Lohmar said.

She met up with Delgado after connecting with him on a messaging app called TextNow and the pair were “engaged in a potentially dangerous situation” prior to her death, Lohmar said.

“Aside from that, there was no connection between the victim and Delgado,” Lohmar said.

The prosecutor declined to elaborate during the press conference, but a source close to the matter told The Post they had met up for consensual sex. The pair last communicated on the app at 1:15 a.m. on Thanksgiving, a statement of probable cause shows.

Evidence at the crime scene, including droplets of blood and surveillance video from a gas station, led investigators to Delgado, Lohmar said.

Detectives went to Delgado’s home on Tuesday and found that he had attempted suicide by cutting his arms on the front porch of his home a day earlier, Lohmar said.

Delgado, who was taken to a hospital for treatment, was later charged with murdering Killian and her unborn child after his DNA matched evidence at the crime scene and a suspected murder weapon, authorities said.

Lohmar said the second-degree murder count he faces is in connection to Killian’s unborn fetus.

Killian was the mother of a 6-year-old girl, Marley, and an 11-month-old boy, Hendrix, relatives have said. She lived with her mother, stepfather, two children and her boyfriend, KSDK previously reported.

Delgado, who was charged late Wednesday, was in custody Thursday on $1 million bond, Lohmar said, adding that he had “very little” previous criminal history. It was not immediately clear if he’s hired an attorney.

Asked about a motive for the slaying, Lohmar said Delgado has not divulged anything to detectives.

“I wish I knew a motive at this point — we don’t,” Lohmar said. “You’ve got a very, very violent killing. There has to be some motive out there; at this point we don’t know what that is. The person who could tell us that is the defendant and so far he’s chosen not to do so.”

ADOLF HITLER WINS ELECTION BY A LANDSLIDE

Politician named Adolf Hitler wins election in Namibia 

 

By Jackie Salo 

 

New York Post

December 3, 2020

 

A politician named after Adolf Hitler has won a local election in Namibia by a landslide — but he insists his agenda has “nothing to do” with Nazi ideology.

Adolf Hitler Uunona won a seat as a council member for the Ompundja constituency last week — with 85 percent of the vote, BBC reported. He is a member of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organization, also known as the SWAPO party.

However, acknowledging his unfortunate name, Uunona insisted that it “doesn’t mean that I’m striving for world domination,” German newspaper Bild reported.

Uunona said his father chose the eyebrow-raising moniker, though he “probably didn’t understand what Adolf Hitler stood for.”

“As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,” Uunona told the paper.

“It wasn’t until I was growing up that I realized: This man wanted to subjugate the whole world. I have nothing to do with any of these things.”

Still, Uunona said that he has no plans to change his name.

Adolf and other Germanic names are not uncommon in the country, which was ruled by the Germans until 1915, the BBC reported.

ET TU, BARR? ..... WILL TRUMP NOW FIRE HIS AG?

Bill Barr has not denied or claimed he was misquoted saying there is not enough evidence of voting fraud to change Biden's election win

By Howie Katz

Despite Trump calling the report fake news and reports that DOJ continues to investigate election fraud, Bill Barr has not denied or claimed he was misquoted saying there is not enough evidence of voting fraud to change Biden's election win.

There is nothing unusual for DOJ to continue investigating voter fraud even though what the boss has said.  The DOJ is responsible for investigating allegations of government corruption and voter fraud as they come in.  But as with all the prior affidavits of fraud, DOJ will probably not find any hard evidence to support those claims. 

While Trump swallows and regurgitates false conspiracy theories, he calls any reports he does not like "fake news."  And so it is with Barr's statement.

All along, Bill Barr has been one of Trump's staunchest supporters.  But Trump has a habit of lashing out at anyone who displeases him.  The question now is, will Trump fire his AG?

THIS IS HARD TO EXPLAIN AWAY INNOCENTLY

by Bob Walsh

OK, I saw the surveillance on this.  It is from Georgia.  Fulton County (I think).  They announce that counting will stop for the night.  All the people in the observation area are chased out.  Then the four women in the counting room walk over to a table that has no obvious purpose, no work being done on it, with a floor length table cloth on it.  They bring out a number of what look like wheelie suit cases, take ballots out of them and begin to run them thru the machines. 

Unless this tape is a total fake it is very hard to explain this as other than deliberate, gross fraud.  There is no reason for legitimate ballots to be transported in personal luggage, then hidden until the witnesses are out of the room.  There is no reasonable legitimate reason for the poll watchers to be chased away after the officials announce counting will stop for the night, and then counting begins on the ballots that were in the suit cases.

This does not pass the smell test.  This seems to be in-your-face fuck-you fraud.  I can think of no other reasonable explanation for it. 

EDITOR'S NOTE; Fraud or not, get ready for the inevitable disastrous Biden-Harris administration.  

DOT HATES CATS ..... YEAH!

by Bob Walsh

The federal Dept. of Transportation, in an unusual display of good sense, has just acted to limit animals on commercial passenger aircraft as assistance or support animals to DOGS ONLY.  NO EXCEPTIONS.  I guess they figure if you are so fucked up you need to travel with your emotional support peacock you are too fucked up to fly safely.

You can still take the damn things, but they have to travel as cargo.

The reasoning was that the current regs were having the effect of eroding the support of the general public in the whole "service animal" thing.  

Personally I don't care what the reasoning was, if that was even the real reason.  I don't like to fly and seldom do, but I am uninterested in traveling with some asshole's emotional support miniature horse.

Now if they can require that children under ten be carried as freight, that would be truly wonderful.

BACK IN YOUR HOVELS YOU FILTHY PEASANTS, YOU ARE BREATHING ON IMPORTNAT PEOPLE

by Bob Walsh

Gavin Newsom, God-Emperor of the formerly great state of California, has announced a new lockdown, theoretically tied into ICU bed availability, that will likely effect much of California in the next week.

Hair Salons and Barber Shops will be forced to close, unless their clients include high ranking members of the Democrat party or their immediate family or close personal friends.  Retail outlets will be limited to 20 % capacity, unless they primary sell arugula, tofu and bottled water.  If you are caught driving your car for no good reason your car will be confiscated and your knees broken.  

The lockdowns will continue for at least three weeks from the trigger point, perhaps longer.

Merry Fucking Christmas.  .  

BUT SHE IS BLACK, SO IT'S ALL GOOD

by Bob Walsh

Beverly Chester-Burton, 59, is the mayor of Shivley, Kentucky.   She also teaches school there.  Tuesday night at about 11 p.m. she "fell asleep" (passed out) in the drive-thru at the local White Castle.  She hit a truck and a utility pole on her way out of the drive-thru, causing significant damage to her car and the pole and other vehicle.  She smelled strongly of alcohol and could not walk a straight line.  She refused a BAC test.  

 She at first claimed the accelerator of her car stuck.  She also claimed she hit the pole deliberately to avoid hitting other vehicles.  Her story does not line up with those of multiple witnesses.

She also claimed that she had had two martinis with dinner, more than two hours before the accident.  

She is the first Black mayor of Shivley and was elected in 2018.  She was booked but released the next day.  She will be arraigned today. 

ELEVEN YEAR OLD SHOOTS HIMSELF DURING ZOOM CLASS

by Bob Walsh

An eleven year old elementary school student in Woodbridge, CA. shot himself to death during a zoom class on Wednesday.

It seems that the boy did shut down his terminal just before he killed himself.  Police were alerted to the situation by a neighbor.  The boy's sister ran screaming out of the house to a neighbor, the neighbor called the S. O.

The matter is under investigation.  The parents could have some criminal liability in the matter as CA law is pretty strict about leaving unsecured firearms where minors can access them.

NO JEWS ALLOWED FROM THE JORDAN RIVER TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Squad member Rashida Tlaib under fire from anti-Semitism watchdog

 

 By Sam Dorman

 

Fox News

December 1, 2020

 

A group opposing anti-Semitism is denouncing Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., after she called for Palestinian freedom "from the river to the sea."

That controversial phrasing has been interpreted by the Anti-Defamation League to convey an interest in eliminating the state of Israel.

"Rashida Tlaib RT's [retweets] out the same message that got Marc Lamont Hill canned from CNN," tweeted the account for StopAntiSemitism.org. 

"From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free - code for eradicating the State of Israel and its millions of Jews. Reminder - this is a sitting U.S. Congresswoman."

The group was referring to a former CNN commentator who was fired from the network after a speech he gave at the United Nations in 2018. At the time, Hill denied calling for Israel's destruction. 

"My reference to 'river to the sea' was not a call to destroy anything or anyone," he tweeted. 

"It was a call for justice, both in Israel and in the West Bank/Gaza. The speech very clearly and specifically said those things. No amount of debate will change what I actually said or what I meant."

Tlaib has faced criticism over her support for Palestinians and the way she talked about Jews.

Tlaib was criticized by House Republicans last year after describing the "calm feeling" she experienced when thinking about the Holocaust. However, the congresswoman said her critics were policing and "twisting" her words and defended the comments she made. 

The Michigan congresswoman also made headlines when she sought a humanitarian visit to her grandmother after the Israeli government rejected her and Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., request to enter the Jewish state. Citing the two's itinerary, Israel claimed that their visit was intended to promote boycotts against the nation.

Tlaib later requested the humanitarian visit through a letter that contained a promise not to promote boycotts. But the Michigan Democrat reversed course after Israel accepted her request, claiming she would have to go under "oppressive conditions."

On Sunday, Tlaib referenced her grandmother, or "sity," in a tweet with the photo called out by StopAntiSemitism.org.

"Thinking of my sity Muftieh and family in Palestine today. From Detroit to Gaza, we will always fight against oppression and inequality," she said.

Tlaib's office did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment. Earlier this month, she came under fire for participating in a panel on "dismantling anti-Semitism."

EDITOR'S NOTE: When speaking in English, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he favors a two-state solution.  But time after time when speaking in Arabic, Abbas has vowed "There will be only one state from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, and that will be a Palestinian state."  Abbas then goes on to say there will be no Jews allowed in the Palestinian state.

__________

 

Squad member Rashida Tlaib, accused of being anti-Semitic, to speak on panel about anti-Semitism

 

By Sam Dorman  

 

Fox News

November 20, 2020

 

A panel on anti-Semitism is raising some eyebrows as it includes figures like Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who repeatedly have been accused of bigotry. 

The event, titled "Dismantling Anti-Semitism, Winning Justice," also features professor Marc Lamont Hill and writer Peter Beinart, both of whom have been critical of the Israeli government. Beinart previously called for abandoning a two-state solution and for a Jewish home that is not Jewish state in a New York Times op-ed while Lamont Hill was reportedly fired from CNN over comments he made on Palestine.

Tlaib was criticized by House Republicans after describing the "calm feeling" she experienced when thinking about the Holocaust. However, the congresswoman said her critics were policing and "twisting" her words and defended the comments she made. 

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., condemned those comments last May, calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to "take swift action and make it clear that these vile comments have no place in Congress."

On Friday, the panel was mocked on Twitter, with conservatives suggesting its composition was absurd.

"Were Louis Farrakhan and Richard Spencer unavailable?" the Daily Wire's Harry Khachatrian asked on Twitter. Another user wrote: "This is like having Chris Brown, Mike Tyson, and Tommy Lee have a panel discussion on dismantling domestic violence."

Last year, Tlaib requested a humanitarian visit to her grandmother after the Israeli government rejected her and Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., request to enter the Jewish state. Citing the two's itinerary, Israel claimed that their visit was intended to promote boycotts against the nation.

The congresswoman later requested the humanitarian visit through a letter that contained a promise not to promote boycotts. But the Michigan Democrat reversed course after Israel accepted her request, claiming she would have to go under "oppressive conditions."

EDITOR'S NOTE: Inviting Tlaib and Marc Lamont Hill to speak about anti-Semitism is like inviting the fox into the hen house to speak about protecting hens.

A SAD TIME IN CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Shot W.Va. cop 'not going to pull through': Officer Cassie Johnson is "unable to sustain life" after she was shot in the head Tuesday, police said 

 

By Joe Severino

 

The Charleston Gazette-Mail

December 3, 2020

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Police Chief Tyke Hunt said Wednesday evening the city police officer allegedly shot by a resident Tuesday afternoon will not survive.

Officer Cassie Johnson, 28, was gravely wounded when she was shot just before 3 p.m. on Garrison Avenue.

"With a heavy heart, I hate to say she is not going to be able to pull through this," Hunt said outside of Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital. "She is still fighting but her body is unable to sustain life by itself."

Johnson was responding to a traffic complaint on Garrison Avenue when Joshua Phillips, 38, of Charleston, allegedly shot her in the face, said Kanawha County Sheriff Mike Rutherford. The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office believes Johnson also shot Phillips, which sent him to CAMC General.

Hunt said there was no update on Phillips' condition as of Wednesday evening, except he was recovering in the hospital.

Rutherford said the sheriff's office is currently handling the investigation. He said a confrontation on Garrison Avenue led to the shooting, but declined to comment further until witness statements and evidence collection can be completed.

"Once that's finished, we will turn our information over to the Charleston Police Department and the Kanawha County Prosecutor's Office and they will determine what charges [will be filed against Phillips]," Rutherford said.

"I really can't get into more detail, I'm sorry," Rutherford said, "but we don't want to cause a problem with the investigation and have a problem down the road. We want the full extent of the law to apply in this case. We're going to do this right and we're going to do a thorough and conclusive investigation."

Hunt asked for continued prayers for Johnson and her family, and commended Johnson "for even in her passing still being a true hero."

"As one final parting gift to continue to help others, she is an organ donor," Hunt said. "The doctors are working with the family to determine eligibility and work out some donorship there."

Johnson was the first city police officer sworn in by Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin when she began her term in January 2019. Goodwin said Wednesday Johnson is going to be remembered by the community for her commitment to service.

"Her family still needs your prayers, and to this community we still need your strength," Goodwin said. "[She] is a wonderful, bright young woman who is going to leave an amazing legacy for every woman in this city."

The city held a candlelight vigil for Johnson at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Laidley Field.

NO DEATH PENALTY FOR A COP KILLER WITH A TRANSPLANTED FROM SAN FRANCISCO POLICE-HATING DA IN OFFICE

Prosecutors To Retry Man Accused Of Killing Police Officer

 

LAPPL News Watch

December 3, 2020

 

Prosecutors will re-try a case against a man accused of killing a Los Angeles police officer over 30 years ago, but the incoming district attorney will not seek the death penalty again despite the family's wishes for capital punishment. 

Kenneth Earl Gay, 62, is charged with murder in the death of Officer Paul Verna in 1983. The California Supreme Court has twice overturned Gay’s death sentence and in February vacated his original conviction, forcing Los Angeles prosecutors to decide if they would pursue the case again during a fraught election cycle and as anti-police sentiments gripped the country. 

A judge has ruled against a defense motion that would have excluded information from the previous proceedings — a decision that Gay is expected to appeal. The case returns to court Jan. 14. 

The Los Angeles Police Protective League, which represents LAPD rank-and-file officers, said it hopes Gascon keeps moving forward on the case to "ensure a clear message is sent that the murder of law enforcement officers will not be tolerated in our community.” 

“Gay’s heinous crime robbed our city of a police officer who was a proven hero, robbed a wife of her husband and robbed two sons of the chance to know their father," union president Craig Lally said.

ARMED CITIZEN REHABILITATES ARMED ROBBER

Customer fatally shoots would-be robber at Philadelphia takeout restaurant 

 

By Joshua Rhett Miller

 

New York Post

December 2, 2020

 

A pistol-packing customer thwarted the armed robbery of a chicken wing takeout spot in Philadelphia — fatally shooting the suspect, police said.

The 27-year-old man unknowingly walked in on a robbery at a Wingstop restaurant in northeast Philadelphia late Sunday when the 53-year-old suspect “pointed his gun” at the customer, police said.

The man – who had a valid permit to carry a gun – then quickly drew his weapon and shot the suspect in the neck. He was later pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The customer who opened fire, meanwhile, was later taken to be questioned by detectives.

Police recovered both weapons at the restaurant and an investigation into the incident remains “active and ongoing,” a police spokesman told The Post Wednesday in an email.

Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told WPVI that the suspect entered the restaurant while wearing a mask and gloves.

“[He] walked in, went behind the counter, announced a robbery and asked for all the money,” Small told the station.

Three employees inside at the time had no time to react before the 27-year-old customer walked in while using his cellphone, Small said.

“That’s when the robber pointed a gun at that customer and demanded his cellphone,” the police chief said. “[He] pulled his gun [and] fired one shot at the perpetrator, striking him in the neck.”

The robbery suspect, who was reportedly known to police, “deserved what he got,” one nearby resident said.

“Pull a gun on somebody, expect to get shot,” Marius Maiellano told WPVI.

HE WANTED TO KILL SOME COPS, SO THE COPS KILLED HIM

Cleveland kidnap, murder suspect shot dead, abducted nurse found safe 

 

By Joshua Rhett Miller

 

New York Post

December 3, 2020

 

A Cleveland man accused of kidnapping an Ohio nurse and murdering her mother was killed during a shootout at a Louisiana hotel, authorities said.

James Edward Hawley, a 47-year-old felon, was fatally shot late Tuesday by FBI agents at a hotel in Pineville, Louisiana, where Thoue Nichole Bronowski, 45, was rescued after investigators tracked the pair there, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

Police said Hawley, aka Ahmad Ben David, kidnapped Bronowski last week from her Cuyahoga Falls home and fatally shot her mother, Norma Matko, 69, at her Barnesville home early on Thanksgiving Day, the newspaper reported.

Authorities suspect Hawley killed Matko and then drove her daughter to Cleveland in her mother’s car before abandoning the vehicle. Hawley then took Bronowski to Louisiana in a second car, investigators said.

Bronowski, who works as a nurse for Akron Public Schools and as a clinical coordinator for Akron Children’s Hospital, was reported missing on Thanksgiving by her ex-husband, a police report shows.

Authorities said there was a prior relationship between Hawley and Bronowski, but they did not elaborate, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

“We couldn’t have asked for a better result than her being alive,” Cuyahoga Falls Police Chief Jack Davis told reporters. “She has been through a lot … She is going to need time to heal from this ordeal.”

FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jeff Fortunato said Hawley had “posted numerous photos” of himself with firearms on social media and made statements both to others and online that he wanted to “kill some cops,” Cleveland.com reported.

Hawley had been sought on a federal warrant including threatening interstate communications and being a felon in possession of a weapon when he was located at the Louisiana hotel, Fortunato said.

An FBI agent was also wounded in the exchange of gunfire with Hawley and was receiving treatment, Fortunato said Wednesday.

“His ideology was violence,” Fortunato said when asked of Hawley’s apparent motive. “Not to be flippant, but that’s the core thing we’re seeing right now.”

Bronowski, meanwhile, is in the process of being reunited with her family, police said.

DAMN YOU, EU

Why is Europe shedding tears over a man whose greatest desire was to nuke Jews?

 

By Tsvi Sadan

 

Israel Today

December 3, 2020

 

Assuming Israel’s culpability, the European Union this week rushed to condemn the assassination of Iran’s nuclear project manager, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. “This is a criminal act and runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights the EU stands for,” said the EU foreign service’s spokesperson. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrel later sent condolences to the Fakhrizadeh family.

Decent people can’t allow themselves to brush aside the tacit meaning of this supposedly moral stand. Simply put, the EU laments the death of a person whose greatest desire it was to nuke Israel. Unambiguously, the EU condemns those who try to frustrate Iran’s efforts to execute its version of the “Final Solution.” The ashes of millions of Jews are fertilizing Europe’s soil, and now what, more ashes are needed to help Palestine’s desert bloom again? Damn you, EU.

Those who appreciate symbolism should note that Fakhrizadeh was killed on November 27, and the EU condemnation came on November 29, a date that can’t possibly slip Europe’s memory. On this day 72 year ago, the UN ratified Resolution 181, that divided the Holy Land into two states, one Jewish and one Arab (not “Palestinian”). Israel accepted this resolution, thereby becoming a state recognized by the international community.

As we all know, the Arabs rejected the motion and launched an all-out war to nip the prospect of a Jewish state in the bud. This second attempt to eliminate the Jews, that came just two years after the Holocaust, ended in Israel’s resounding victory. What can condemnation of Israel defending itself on this date of all dates possibly mean if not a repudiation of the Jewish state’s very existence?

It should by now be beyond dispute that in the despicable minds of the EU delegates Israel has become a pariah state embodying every conceivable human evil. Today, the EU sees Israel as a white, colonial, racist entity carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people (who have multiplied by the millions since 1948, but so what and who cares). Therefore, for the good of mankind, Israel should at the very least strip itself of any Jewish identity, including Jewish sovereignty in the Holy Land, seen now as a territory taken unlawfully from the indigenous Palestinian people. It is this sense of morality that bring tears to the eyes of Josep Borrel, who weeps at the sight of the corpse of a man who fit Hitler’s mold. Indeed, what a regrettable loss.

The EU is too shrewd to say out loud what its condemnation of the killing of Fakhrizadeh really means – the extinction of Israel/Jews. But others are doing it for the honorable EU, Jewish Voice for Peace among them. On December 15, JVP will host a webinar entitled “Dismantling Antisemitism, Winning Justice.” Among the panelists is US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who is working awfully hard to establish a Palestinian state where Israel once was, and she will talk about how to dismantle antisemitism. Can it get any more Orwellian than that?

In his column (I am encouraging you to read) published in the JewishPress, David Israel can’t help but note, considering the records of the panelists, that “this JVP webinar with these four participants is a leftist Wannsee Conference.” That Jews are engaging in this kind of horrific endeavor is not the point here. The real point is exposing EU participation in efforts seeking to end Israel’s existence.

ANOTHER CRAZY CONSPIRACY THEORY, THIS ONE ABOUT THE CIA

This retired three-star falsely claims US soldiers died attacking a CIA facility in Germany tied to election fraud

 

By Howard Altman and Davis Winkie

 

Army Times

December 1, 2020

 

It is a scenario that makes the antics of animated spy Archer seem plausible by comparison, spun by the former assistant vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force.

In his unfounded version of events, U.S. special operations forces died in an attack on a CIA computer facility in Germany that was hiding information about a massive, covert effort to flip votes from President Donald Trump to his opponent, Joe Biden.

But even though big Army and U.S. Army Special Operations Command have told Military Times that there was no such attack, or loss of life, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney is sticking by his claims. They became so widely distributed on social media that numerous accounts on Twitter falsely claimed that five soldiers killed in a Sinai helicopter crash were really killed in the firefight with the CIA.

McInerney, in an email to Military Times, did not offer more information regarding the sources of what he told a conspiracy-laden website over the Thanksgiving holiday. Nor did he respond to the Army statements about their falsehood.

He did, however, double down on his claims.

“President Trump won in a landslide and the Dems left so many footprints that this TREASON must be stopped!!!,” he told Military Times. “This will be the last free election we have and I predicted it on 2 Nov on the Steve Bannon Show!”

Who is he?

Thomas G. McInerney was once a highly respected military leader who became the Air Force assistant vice chief of staff.

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1959 and later earned a master’s degree in international relations from The George Washington University in 1972.

Though a West Point graduate, he joined the Air Force and flew more than 400 combat missions during the Vietnam War, earning among other honors the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster and Bronze Star Medal with “V” device and oak leaf cluster.

He assumed his role as the Air Force assistant vice chief of staff in July 1992.

But somehow, he went off the rails.

After retiring, McInerney spent more than 16 years as a military analyst for Fox News Channel, He was fired from the network in 2018, according to the Arizona Republic newspaper, after inaccurately claiming during an appearance on Fox Business Network Thursday that torture “worked on” Sen. John McCain, who endured a brutal 5 ½ years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.

The comments about McCain were among a string of false and controversial statements made by McInerney, according to writer Jack Murphy, a Green Beret and Ranger veteran.

His latest tale

New military-flavored conspiracy claims emerged over the weekend in connection to the widely debunked Dominion election fraud theory, which claims that voting machines deleted votes for President Donald Trump or switched votes to Joe Biden. That theory gained widespread traction when Trump — without verifiable evidence — amplified its claims, various sub-theories have emerged claiming the involvement of the Army.

The new claim is that Army Special Forces soldiers were killed in Frankfurt, Germany, in a firefight with the CIA guarding a secret CIA server farm that allegedly held evidence of Dominion’s so-called election theft. This updated version of a weeks-old theory originally amplified by U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, came from an interview with McInerney, who offered no evidence to support his claim.

McInerney made these claims in an interview with Brannon Howse of Worldview Radio & WVW-TV, a conspiracy-tinged website with stories like “Voter Fraud, Treason, Psychological Gaslighting Enemies Inside the Wire” and “The Existential Threat to Our National Security; Is the CIA Using Technology to Enslave and Control The American People?” and “The Democrat’s Plan For Secession if They Lose the 2020 Presidential Election and Their Partnership with China to Defeat America From Within.”

In his interview with Howse (which was preceded by an exclusive first interview with retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn since his pardoning by Trump) McInerney said that Trump and attorney Sidney Powell have “got the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion working with them, because in all of this, we have not seen any footprints of the DOJ or the FBI, nor the CIA on the friendly side.”

Howse then raised the issue of U.S. Special Forces troops seizing the server farm in Germany.

“In addition, the U.S. special forces command seized a server farm in Frankfurt, Germany, because they were sending this data from those six states through the internet to Spain and then into Frankfurt, Germany,” McInerney told Howse. “Special operation forces seized those, that facility, so they have those servers and they know all this data they are providing.”

Howse then asked if the “seizure went down without incident.”

“Well, I’ve heard it didn’t go down without incident, and I haven’t been able to verify it,” said McInerney. “I want to be careful in that. It’s just coming out, but I understand — my initial report is — that there were U.S. soldiers killed in that operation. Now, that was a CIA operation, and so that’s the very worrisome thing.”

Howse pressed the issue.

“But you are saying that was a CIA facility, and that was where the server was taken from by these Special Forces, was a CIA facility in Germany?” Howse asked the retired general, who now operates a cloud computing company.

“That’s correct,” McInerney responded. “Frankfurt, Germany. We have all this information.”

U.S. military officials did not mince words about the veracity of McInerney’s claims.

“The allegations are false,” a USASOC spokesman told Military Times. The command has not had a fatal incident since two soldiers died in a helicopter crash in California this August, and the most recent Special Forces combat deaths resulted from an insider attack that killed two in Afghanistan on Feb. 8.

An Army spokesman also denied this theory when reached by Military Times, describing the allegations as “definitely false.”

Real world fallout

The false claims about the Army’s role in the election put out by McInerney have gained a lot of traction. Tens of thousands of people, for instance, have since taken up the claim about the supposed role of the 305th Military Intelligence Battalion, reposting it even on college football message boards and repeatedly vandalizing the battalion’s Wikipedia page.

One Twitter user even shared a video of a tank moving through the desert with a slowed version of Tame Impala’s “The Less I Know The Better” playing in the background, claiming it was troops from the battalion.

The 305th Military Intelligence Battalion is a training unit based at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and has been assigned to Army Training and Doctrine Command — meaning that it hasn’t been participating in any operational missions — since 1990. It conducts initial entry training for new soldiers in military intelligence positions. No unit in the battalion’s lineage has gone overseas for combat operations — much less to surveil or fight the CIA — since World War II.

Another twist of the new theory alleges that the five soldiers killed in a helicopter crash while assigned to the Multinational Force of Observers Sinai mission on Nov. 12 were “really” killed in the purported Frankfurt shootout with the CIA. The proponents of the theory, which has been shared by tens of thousands of people on social media, offered no evidence in support.

The soldiers killed in the crash were assigned to Task Force Sinai’s Aviation Company, which is not a special operations unit. Only one of the soldiers had ever served in a USASOC unit, a helicopter repairer who had previously deployed as a member of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. Staff Sgt. Kyle McKee was not Special Forces-qualified, though, and he was no longer assigned to USASOC at the time of the crash.

In an unexpected silver lining to the theories, a fundraiser for McKee’s pregnant widow and two sons that had not received donations since before Thanksgiving now has more than 140 new donors apparently moved by the conspiracy theory. One individual accompanied a $500 donation with a note reading, “He lost his life fighting for truth!”

McInerney told Military Times that he is “very concerned” about the spread of misinformation and the effect it has on the families of the soldiers who died in the Sinai helicopter crash.

But while he did not originate the claim that about the Army aviators, which emerged via social media postings in the wake of his interview with Howse, he did not dispute it, either, telling Military Times he has “even greater concern for the most massive cyber warfare package that struck the Nation on 3 Nov.”

When Military Times asked McInerney to provide evidence to support his claims, he forwarded a lengthy conspiracy newsletter that, among other things, described Rudy Giuliani’s recent conduct as “shocking and professional” and discussed whether Trump should declare martial law to overturn the election results.

MEMORANDUM

TO;  GAVIN NEWSOM, GOD-EMPEROR OF CALIFORNIA

FROM:  HEWLETT PACKARD CORPORATION

RE:  FUCK THIS SHIT, WE'RE OUT OF HERE

Yes, it's true.  The Hewlett Packard Corporation, which started in a garage and was the progenitor to Silicone Valley, has told the formerly great state of California to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.  They are tired of the anti-business bullshit and are moving in down the street from Howie.

They are not the first, and they sure as shit won't be the last.  I just hope there will be enough business left in CA to pay my pension for another 25 years.

ARECIBO RADIO TELESCOPE COLLAPSES

by Bob Walsh

The massive radio telescope in Puerto Rico, made famous by the James Bond film Goldeneye, collapsed into a heap of rubble just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday

 The 57-year old structure was damaged back in August when a cable broke, leaving a major owie across the 1,000 foot dish.  It also damaged the receiver that is suspended above the dish.  Then in November a main suspension cable broke and things went downhill from there.  (Deferred maintenance is a bitch.)  The telescope is now considered to be unrepairable.

The LIDAR facility and a 12 meter telescope on sight are still fully functional so the site will not be shut down.

The thing was originally built with Defense Department money and has also been used to track asteroids.  

The National Science Foundation owns the facility.  It is operated by the University of Central Florida. 

WHO WOULD EVER HAVE THOUGHT THAT HIS TATTOOED FACE IS THAT OF A MURDERER?

3 Texans could face terrorism, hate crime charges in Vegas after 11-hour, 2-state rampage

 

Associated Press

December 2, 2020

 

LAS VEGAS – A prosecutor in Nevada said Tuesday that three people from Texas could face terrorism and hate-crime charges following several Thanksgiving day shootings in suburban Las Vegas, including one that killed a man at a convenience store, and more shootings before their arrests in rural Arizona.

Michael Schwartzer, a chief deputy Clark County district attorney, said that Shawn McDonnell, Christopher McDonnell and Kayleigh Lewis could face the death penalty in Las Vegas stemming from the 11-hour two-state rampage, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

 

                                         Christopher McDonnell

 

Kevin Mendiola Jr., 22, of North Las Vegas, was killed and three other people were wounded in one shooting at a Henderson convenience store. Schwartzer said other people including motorists reported being targeted on southern Nevada freeways and roads before 1 a.m. Nov. 26.

“Once we get our arms around this, it’s going to be quite a case,” Schwartzer said. “We’re still trying to find out what happened.”

The McDonnells are brothers and Lewis is married to Christopher McDonnell, Schwartzer said. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has said the three were from Tyler, Texas. Their prosecution in Las Vegas could include crimes in Nevada and Arizona under a court doctrine of “long-arm jurisdiction.”

The trio was arrested Nov. 26 following several vehicle-to-vehicle shootings in the area of the Colorado River town of Parker, Arizona; a chase involving the Arizona Department of Public Safety; a vehicle crash; and the wounding of Shawn McDonnell by two troopers wielding assault-style rifles in La Paz County, Arizona.

Troopers reported that Shawn McDonnell pointed a handgun at them before he was shot, and that a search found three handguns, two machete-style knives and a baseball bat in a wrecked black Toyota Camry with tinted windows.

In Nevada, Christopher McDonnell, 28, faced a judge Tuesday on murder, attempted murder, battery and firearm charges. Henderson Justice of the Peace Stephen George set a Dec. 15 bail hearing.

McDonnell’s court-appointed attorney, Curtis Brown, said later that it was too early to comment about the case.

Schwartzer said Christopher McDonnell told investigators his brother told him to “shoot the black guy” and referenced an “upcoming war,” and the multiple instances of shootings on highways and roads could constitute one continued act of terrorism, the Review-Journal reported.

The La Paz County sheriff’s office said investigators identified three who said they were victims of vehicle-to-vehicle shootings on U.S. 95 in the Parker area and two more who drove to Lake Havasu before stopping.

Lewis was being held at the La Paz County jail pending a court hearing, and Shawn McDonnell was hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

“We have not tied anything or anyone together and we believe the victims were random,” the statement said.

SAN FRANSICKO BANS TOBACCO SMOKING IN aPARTMENT BUILDINGS, BUT NOT POT SMOKING

San Francisco bans smoking inside apartments; pot smoking OK

 

Associated Press

December 2, 2020

 

SAN FRANCISCO — City officials in San Francisco have banned all tobacco smoking inside apartments, citing concerns about secondhand smoke. But lighting up a joint inside? That’s still allowed.

The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 Tuesday to approve the ordinance making San Francisco the largest city in the country to ban tobacco smoking inside apartments, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The original proposal sought to ban residents from smoking marijuana in their apartments, but supervisors voted to exclude marijuana after cannabis activists said the law would take away their only legal place to smoke. It’s illegal under state law to smoke cannabis in public places.

“Unlike tobacco smokers who could still leave their apartments to step out to the curb or smoke in other permitted outdoor smoking areas, cannabis users would have no such legal alternatives,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who wrote the amendment to exempt cannabis.

San Francisco now joins 63 California cities and counties with such a ban.

Those against the ban argued that it infringed on their rights inside their homes. Supporters said it’s important to protect the health of nonsmokers — particularly low-income residents who live in dense apartment buildings.

Cigarette smoking kills more than 480,000 people per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths caused by exposure to secondhand smoke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Department of Public Health will be responsible for enforcing the new law. Under the ordinance, the department must first try to educate violators and help smokers quit. Repeat offenders could be fined $1,000 a day but can not be evicted for a smoking violation.

The ordinance must pass a second vote of the board next week and the mayor must sign it. Once that happens, the new law would go into effect 30 days later.

SOMETIMES IT PAYS TO GO TO PRISON

California Paid $400 Million In Jobless Benefits To Inmates

 

LAPPL News Watch

December 2, 2020

California sent about $400 million in fraudulent unemployment benefit payments to state prisoners, a state official said Tuesday, nearly triple the amount disclosed last week and a number that could grow as a criminal investigation continues. 

Nine county district attorneys and a federal prosecutor are investigating unemployment fraud involving payments from the California Employment Development Department, which was under intense pressure to quickly process millions of claims as the economic impact from the coronavirus intensified last spring. 

Criminals took advantage by submitting numerous fraudulent claims, many of which were approved by the state. 

Prosecutors discovered the fraud included inmates working with people outside the prisons and last week estimated $140 million was paid to about 20,000 prisoners between March and August. 

But Crystal Page, spokeswoman for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency that oversees the unemployment office, said a review of records now pegs the figure at about $400 million.

WILL HE END UP BUSTED FOR HER DEATH?

Husband of Houston Instagram influencer found dead by the side of a road says he's receiving death threats

 

By Steve Campion

 

KTRK

December 2, 2020

 

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The husband of an Instagram influencer told Eyewitness News Alexis Sharkey wasn't always the happy person she portrayed on social media.

Tom Sharkey spoke to our Steve Campion about his wife in a phone conversation Tuesday. Sharkey sounded very upset and emotionally distraught. He said he's been struggling very hard.

He called Alexis his "everything" and said they shared a Thanksgiving meal together Thursday morning. He said the loss of his life partner has left him destroyed.

Sharkey said he's received death threats since his wife's disappearance and death made headlines across this country. Sharkey described his marriage as happy. He said they weren't filing for a divorce.

"She wasn't happy. She was stressed. I would cuddle her to try to make her strong. She was an amazing woman. Sir, my wife was an amazing woman. She really was. There's always other sides to everything. I was the one holding her, cuddling her, and building her back up," said Sharkey. "I don't need to set the record straight. I'll let it play out the way it is. I know what my life was with my wife."

The six-minute conversation was disjointed, moving from thought to thought. Sharkey told Campion he figured out the woman found on Red Haw was his wife.

He said he went to the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office on Sunday morning, looking for Alexis.

"It's horrible. People are talking tons of crap. I'm getting death threats and stuff. None of that bothers me. What bothers me is that world and everybody in it focuses on all of the stuff that doesn't matter ... should have been focused on finding my wife," said Sharkey. "Everybody was still looking for her, and I located her Sunday morning in the coroner's office. They couldn't ID my wife. They didn't know who she was. She was just there."

Sharkey said when he last saw his wife, he warned her not to drive.

"She understood me. I understood her. We didn't fight when she left. I just told her she couldn't drive under the influence," said Sharkey. "She left anyhow. This is where we're at."

The husband didn't elaborate on those claims or offer specifics about the circumstances.

He told Campion he's been cooperating with homicide detectives and said he turned over all of his wife's messages, emails, and phone calls. He said he feels confident the Houston Police Department can figure out what's going on, "going to find everyone that was involved."

He abruptly ended the conversation.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm not a jerk," said Sharkey. "I'm just destroyed."

__________

 

‘Absolutely foul play’: Mother of Houston Instagram star Alexis Sharkey wants answers after daughter found dead

 

By Jacob Rascon

 

Click2Houston

November 30, 2020

 

HOUSTON – The last time they talked, Stacey Robinault and her Instagram star daughter, Alexis Sharkey, were planning Christmas in Pennsylvania.

“We haven’t seen her since last Christmas and that’s the longest we’ve ever gone,” Robinault said. “We were desperate to see her and excited to see her.”

Sharkey, the oldest of three sisters, grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania, graduated summa cum laude with a biology degree and planned to apply to medical school.

“Then, she took a year off, and that year knocked her onto a different path, which happens,” Robinault said.

Sharkey moved to West Texas, where she met and married Tom Sharkey and became a full-time social media influencer. They moved to Houston in January.

“She loved what she did,” Robinault said. “She had been working with an online company and was selling all health-based haircare and body-care products.”

Robinault’s nightmare began on Saturday night when her daughter’s husband and friends called to say Sharkey was missing and that they had reported her disappearance to Houston police.

“One friend said, ‘I ran over to her apartment and she’s not there, and we were supposed to meet up,’” Robinault said. “When you start to hear these stories and you just know that’s not right, something’s wrong -- she’s never that far away from her device; [she’s] standing up her friends; [her] husband doesn’t know where she is, all of that. All of that strikes fear.”

On Monday, homicide detectives told the family that the naked body found on the side of the road a few miles from the Sharkey’s apartment by a garbage truck driver on Saturday was, in fact, Alexis Sharkey.

“We are wrecked. We are completely wrecked,” Robinault said. “The family is just so devastated -- her cousins, her sisters, her 13-year-old sister. It’s just so difficult.”

News of her death would have been devastating no matter what, Robinault added, but the mysterious circumstances make matters much worse.

“The way in which she was found -- my child would never do that to herself,” Robinault said. “That doesn’t even make sense. That is absolutely foul play.”

“There is nothing to me that suggests that this was an accident,” she added. “And there’s nothing to me that suggests anything else, other than that this was done to her. And I believe that in my mother’s gut.”

RELEASED FROM JAIL A WEEK EARLIER, ALASKA TEEN KILLS FOUR FAMILY MEMBERS

Palmer teen fatally shot 4 family members, including 2 young cousins still in bed, charges say 

 

By Tess Williams

 

Anchorage Daily News

December 1, 2020

 

An 18-year-old went on a shooting rampage early Monday, killing four of his family members — including two children — at their homes in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, charging documents said.

Malachi Maxon now faces multiple first-degree murder charges. He was released from jail a week before the shooting spree and was on electronic monitoring following an arrest for a family assault, the charging documents said.

Alaska State Troopers said they were called to a home in the area of Sylvan Lane and Hollywood Road, near Wasilla, just after 3 a.m. Monday. When troopers arrived, they discovered that 18-year-old Cody Roehl had been shot but was still alive, according to a sworn affidavit filed by Alaska State Troopers investigator Ted Nordgaarden.

“Roehl was transported to a local hospital where he died from his injuries,” the affidavit said.

One of Roehl’s family members told investigators that Maxon had been at the house earlier in the night and when they went to bed, Nordgaarden wrote. Maxon is cousins with Roehl.

“There was no altercation, verbal or physical between Maxon or any member of the family,” the affidavit said.

Roehl’s family member heard a loud noise downstairs and saw that Roehl had been shot on the couch, the court document said. Maxon was no longer in the home and a white Jeep Liberty was missing from the garage along with a semi-automatic Glock pistol, according to the affidavit.

Video from the home showed the Jeep leaving around 3:05 a.m. Investigators located Maxon on the 300 block of North Valley Way in Palmer about a half hour later, the affidavit said. The Palmer Police Department received several reports of gunshots in the area around the same time.

When officers arrived, they found the front window of an apartment had been broken, the affidavit said. Inside, 43-year-old Kimora Buster was dead on the floor, investigators said.

Seven-year-old Ellison Buster died in his bed of gunshot wounds, the affidavit said. His 10-year-old sister, Sienna Buster, had also been shot in her bed but was still alive, Nordgaarden wrote. She was taken to a hospital, where she died from the gunshot wounds.

Police found a 6-year-old child in the bed with Ellison Buster but said the child was not injured. There were more spent cartridge casings nearby, which investigators said indicated that Maxon was likely trying to shoot the 6-year-old, who was asleep near the wall.

Investigators said Maxon had been living with the Buster family for the last few days and Kimora Buster was his aunt. The affidavit does not indicate a possible motive for the shootings.

Troopers said they stopped Maxon around 4:07 a.m. while he was driving the Jeep on the Glenn Highway near Mirror Lake. He was arrested without incident, according to troopers.

While he was being moved from one location to another, Maxon tried to escape, the affidavit said. He grabbed a trooper’s pistol and tried to pull it from the holster but was subdued, Nordgaarden wrote.

Maxon was taken to the Mat-Su Pretrial Facility and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday. He is facing four charges of first-degree murder, a charge of attempted first-degree murder, second-degree theft, first-degree vehicle theft, third-degree assault and first-degree attempted escape.

The Buster family said they are grieving the tragic loss and started an online fundraiser late Monday to support the surviving family members

A WEE BIT OF EXCITEMENT IN CRICIUMA, BRAZIL

Bandits storm Brazilian city in bank heist, leave street littered with cash

 

By Joshua Rhett Miller

 

New York Post

December 1, 2020

 

A heavily armed gang took over a southern Brazilian city overnight — grabbing hostages, shooting two people, robbing a bank and leaving a street littered with cash, according to reports.

Roughly 30 hooded suspects descended onto the streets of Criciúma in the state of Santa Catarina in 10 cars just before midnight in a takeover that lasted around two hours, Globo News reported.

The city’s mayor, Clésio Salvaro, told reporters the “bandits” had looted three or four sites — including a Bank of Brazil branch.

Several people were taken hostage and forced to block streets to stymie the ensuing response from authorities, photos from the outlet show. They were later released without injury, according to Salvaro.

At least two people were shot and wounded, including a police officer and a guard. The officer, who was struck in the chest, was listed in stable condition, the outlet reported.

Video posted to Twitter early Tuesday appears to show city streets littered with cash — and residents scurrying to grab as much as they can while laughing in amazement at their find.

Salvaro warned Criciúma’s 217,000 residents late Monday to “stay at home,” telling them that the city had been targeted in a “major assault.”

“I have no idea where they are from, but they are specialized,” Salvaro said. “We have never experienced this in the history of the city.”

Four people who grabbed some of the cash left behind — about $153,000 — were arrested for theft, a Globo News reporter tweeted early Tuesday. Cops also recovered another $57,000 that had been scattered on the streets, Globo News reported.

The 10 cars used in the onslaught were later found in a cornfield on private property in neighboring Nova Veneza. The amount of cash stolen during the heist had not yet been calculated as of early Tuesday, Globo News reported.

The state-run bank said in a statement it will remain closed, adding that it doesn’t provide details of amounts stolen during an “attack on its premises,” the outlet reported. 

A PRO-PALESTINIAN FOREIGN POLICY TEAM

Biden's team blind spot on terror

 

By Moshe Phillips

 

Israel Hayom

December 2, 2020

 

President-elect Joe Biden's first major foreign policy appointments are being hailed as centrists and experts. None of them are known as radicals, ideologues or Israel-bashers. News outlets have made much of the fact that the stepson of a Holocaust survivor is one of the key appointments. But a closer look at their backgrounds and associations raises disturbing questions about their views on Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken, National Intelligence Director-designate Avril Haines, and UN Ambassador-designate Linda Thomas-Greenfield have an interesting professional association in common: They are among the cadre of leaders of a little-known advocacy group in Washington, DC called Foreign Policy for America, which has a very disturbing perspective on Israel.

Foreign Policy for America (FPA), established in 2016, has two leadership bodies, both of which are quite small, indicating that their members are not just window dressing or names on a letterhead. The board of directors has just twelve members, one of whom is J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami. It also has an advisory board, with just twenty members. Blinken, Haines, and Thomas-Greenfield are among them. Ben-Ami's J Street is also based in DC and is a Jewish pressure group that, judging by its actions, seems to have been created specifically, and almost exclusively, to lobby for an independent Palestinian state. The FPA's executive director, Andrew Albertson, also has a long record of supporting J Street and he can be seen on YouTube as far back as 2011 heaping praise on the group.

Blinken and Ben-Ami are both alumni of the Clinton Administration. A fact that Blinken pointed out when he addressed the J Street annual conference in March 2012. In his speech, Blinken showered compliments on J Street for having "emerged as an influential and constructive voice."

FPA says on its website that its purpose is to "oppose xenophobia and military-first foreign policy." It lists the twenty issues that are the group's top concerns. One is the "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." That section of the website consists of a seven-paragraph summary of the causes and history of the conflict, with two large pull-out quotes from J Street publications and link to the J Street website, followed by tips on how to press Congress to be more sympathetic to the Palestinian Arabs.

This is on FPA's "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" issue page. Besides J Street the only other organization FPA suggests its readers review material of, in order to "Learn More," is an Israeli organization called B'Tselem. In 2018, the Simon Wiesenthal Center labeled B'Tselem a "campaigner against its own country."

In the FPA's version of history, the conflict began "in 1947, in the aftermath of World War Two." No mention of the Palestinian Arab pogroms of 1920, 1921, 1929, and 1936-1939. Of course not; mentioning that there was massive Palestinian Arab terrorism before Israel even existed would remind people that the Palestinian Arabs oppose Israel's very existence.

FPA then briefly summarizes the various Arab-Israeli wars, without indicating that the Arabs were the aggressors. Wars just suddenly erupt for no apparent reason.

This "history" soon reaches the 1993 Oslo Accords. Guess why they haven't produced peace? "The peace process has become complicated by growing settlements in the West Bank, continued Israeli military presence in the West Bank, and a blockade on Gaza," according to FPA.

No suicide bombers. No machine-gunning of attendees at Passover seders. No lynchings by terrorists waving their bloody hands. No rockets fired into kindergartens. None of that affected the Oslo process. No, the word "terrorism" literally does not appear in the FPA's entire history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

This is the distorted view of the world to which the incoming secretary of state, National Intelligence director, and UN Ambassador have contributed their names.

That's not all. Intelligence director-to-be-Haines and three other members of the FPA Advisory Board – Robert Malley, Ned Price, and Donald Steinberg – signed the public letter earlier this year urging the Democratic Party to adopt more pro-Palestinian language in its platform.

Among other things, they expressed "opposition to violence, terrorism, and incitement from all sides." Just like FPA, the signers of the letter were incapable of uttering the term "Palestinian terrorism."

Not surprisingly, that letter is featured on the J Street website.

More broadly, FPA seems to be deeply uncomfortable with the war on terror. The website's "Use of Military Force" section – another one of its twenty areas of focus – consists of a long attack on previous presidents for aggressively pursuing terrorists around the world.

FPA complains that anti-terror actions in "Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan" have been "extraordinarily costly," that is, too costly. They want to pass legislation to limit presidential authority in the war against terror, so they can reverse policies such as "detentions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and training operations in (the) Philippines."

That's the worldview that the Biden foreign policy team is coming from: ignoring terrorism in Israel and trying to tie the hands of those who are fighting terrorism around the world.

There are, of course, additional reasons for concern about the team of the incoming administration. For example, the newly-announced Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs is Reema Dodin, a Palestinian-American activist, who has publicly justified Palestinian Arab suicide bombings as "the last resort of a desperate people."

J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami is delighted that so many of his FPA colleagues will have major positions in the Biden administration. They are "exactly the type of leadership this country deserves," he tweeted. Many Israelis, and many friends of Israel around the world, are probably not yet convinced