Because we all know thunder behaves this way......and plumes of smoke always follows lightening strike....
Londoners described a huge ‘explosion’ before massive clouds of smoke could be seen rising into the sky above north London.
Huge rumbles of thunder could be heard across parts of Hackney Wick, and the incident could have been related to the weather.
Witnesses described a ‘huge flash of light’ followed by the sound of a ‘massive’ bang in Hackney Wick.
The light was seen by residents all the way in Bow. ‘I saw a big flash of light out the window. I genuinely thought it was lightining but then I didn’t hear a thunder’ one resident said.
Meanwhile, another witness in Homerton said she heard ‘a big bang’, so thought it was a loud thunder.
Hackney Police said on Twitter: ‘We’ve received several calls about loud bangs in the Stoke Newington area this evening. ‘No major incidents have been reported to us. The noise appears to have been caused by thunder and lightning.’
However, the police did not make any reference to whether something had been struck in the storm to cause the smoke.
According to LightningMaps.org, several strikes took place in quick succession in Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Hampstead and Camden.
Jo Brodie tweeted: ‘Impressive lightning…Seen from my window in Blackheath, where we now have torrential rain.’
David Wyllie said: ‘Quite a loud explosion (and flash of light) here in Islington but no sign of thunderclouds.’ Barnaby Slater said: ‘Huge flash of light followed by sound of massive explosion and plume of smoke in North London.’
Aubrey Whitfield said: ‘Two huge flashes of light in London and loud bangs. Explosion? Heard in Hackney. Hope everyone is safe.’
Mikan said: ‘I just heard a very loud bang/explosion in North London?? Initially I thought it was thunder but apparently people across London heard it too.’
The London Fire Brigade and the Met Office have been contacted for further information. Source
Local residents and right-wing activists among crowd as protest resumes against East Wall asylum accommodation
A crowd of between 200 and 300 people attended a protest in Dublin’s East Wall on Saturday, the latest in a series of demonstrations against the moving of asylum seekers into an old ESB building.
The crowd of mostly local residents were addressed by amongst others, a former independent councillor Malachy Steenson as well as members of the right-wing Irish Freedom Party.
The protest was the latest of several demonstrations staged in the north inner city community this week following a decision to accommodate a large group of asylum seekers in an office building without prior consultation.
The organisers, a local committee led by Mr Steenson, a solicitor, suspended the protest to facilitate a meeting between two government ministers, Paschal Donohoe and Roderic O’Gorman, and a local committee on Friday. They resumed the protest after that meeting ended without a resolution. Mr Steenson, who describes himself as a republican socialist, said he was one a committee of seven local people who met the ministers. He said the group gave the government seven days to move the asylum applicants out and close the building.
The group was led to believe this won’t happen. Speaking ahead of today’s protest, Mr Steenson told Independent.ie that the group will continue to protest.
“This facility will close,” he said. The issue is a “national issue” not a local one, he said, adding: “People are contacting us from all over the party. This is now national movement that is emerging.”
The protests began last week when local people learned that almost 400 international protection applicants had been moved into a disused ESB office on East Wall Road.
Local people said they had not been consulted, and the occupants of the building were not garda vetted. Source
Cops raid Virginia Walmart shooter's home as first victims are pictured: Store worker, 22, was among six killed by manager who LAUGHED as he opened fire in break room in 'planned attack' before turning his pistol on himself
The Walmart gunman silently opened fire in the break room of the Chesapeake store where he worked last night, picking off colleagues with his pistol before eventually turning the gun on himself. The shooter has not yet been named publicly. Witnesses and survivors have told how he opened fire in the breakroom of the Walmart in Sam's Circuit, Chesapeake, at 10.12pm last night. He opened fire in a breakroom where members of the night shift had just gathered to discuss their shift. One witness said he was 'laughing' during the attack, which is said to have lasted only four minutes. At 10.16pm, by the time cops entered the store, the gunman had killed himself. He killed six people, including 22-year-old Tyneka Johnson, who was named by her family on Wednesday. 'As soon as my team lead said, '"all right, we have a light night tonight," I looked up and my manager just opened the door and he just opened fire.' He wasn't aiming at anybody specifically. He just literally started shooting throughout the entire break room and I watched multiple people just drop down to the floor, whether they were trying to duck for cover or they were hit. 'He didn't say a word, he didn't say anything at all... He just came around the corner and started shooting,' Briana Tyler told Good Morning America. She said that when she started working at the store two months ago, she was told that he was the manager 'to look out for'. 'There was always somethingoing on with him just having an issue with someone but I never expected it would get to this level. He was the manager that everybody had something to say about.' Employee Jessie Wilczewski said she was hiding under a table when the gunman looked 'right at her' and told her to go home. 'It didn’t even look real until you could feel the ... ‘pow-pow-pow,’ you can feel it. I couldn’t hear it at first because I guess it was so loud, I could feel it.'
One witness who survived the shooting told local Virginia outlet WAVY that the shooter had 'issues' with other managers in the store, which led her to believe the attack was 'planned'.
President Biden issued a statement on Wednesday morning, condemning the shooting and repeating his call for stricter gun laws. He has repeatedly called for a ban on assault rifles.
On Wednesday morning, police raided the shooter's three-bedroom home in Chesapeake, which is around three miles from the store.
'Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, one of our most cherished holidays that brings us together as Americans and as families, when we hug our loved ones and count our blessings.
'But because of yet another horrific and senseless act of violence, there are now even more tables across the country that will have empty seats this Thanksgiving.
'There are now more families who know the worst kind of loss and pain imaginable. Jill and I grieve for those families, for the Chesapeake community, and for the Commonwealth of Virginia, which just suffered a terrible shooting at the University of Virginia this month,' he said, referring to the shooting on November 13.
Walmart is yet to give any kind of information about the shooter or the victims.
In a Twitter statement last night, the company said: 'We are shocked at this tragic event at our Chesapeake, Virginia store.
'We're praying for those impacted, the community and our associates.
'We're working closely with law enforcement and we are focused on supporting our associates.'
A second Walmart employee, who showed up for their nightshift shortly after the shooting, told reporters at the scene: 'Thank goodness I showed up late.'
The supercenter was open to the public at the time of the shooting - and cops said the Walmart may have been busy as shoppers were preparing for Thanksgiving.
It was due to close at 11pm on Tuesday night.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said in a tweet: 'Our hearts break with the community of Chesapeake this morning. I remain in contact with law enforcement officials throughout this morning and have made available any resources as this investigation moves forward.
'Heinous acts of violence have no place in our communities.' Source
Another Hollywood actor dies by means of Autoerotic Asphyxiation.
Found hanged in the Hotel Bathroom....
Jason David Frank, the Original Green and White Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Dies at 49
Frank played Tommy Oliver and appeared in the first season in 1993.
Jason David Frank, the actor best known for donning the Green and White Ranger personas as Tommy Oliver in the original run of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, has died at the age of 49.
As reported by TMZ, Frank's representative, Justine Hunt, confirmed he died in Texas."Please respect the privacy of his family and friends during this horrible time as we come to terms with the loss of such a wonderful human being," Hunt said. "He loved his family, friends and fans very much. He will truly be missed."
Frank was there for the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in 1993 and began his tenure as the Green Ranger, who was working against the heroes and for the evil alien sorceress Rita Repulsa. He would eventually become a hero himself, and would even become the White Ranger and the new leader of the team.
Frank was only supposed to be on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for 14 episodes, but he was brought back due to the popularity of the character. He would become a staple in the franchise, and would also appear in Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers DinoThunder, and more.
While he was cast in a few other movies and shows, he became a professional fighter from 2008-2010 as he was an expert in a handful of martial arts styles. He even created his own style of American Karate called Toso Kune Do and was inducted to the World Karate Union Hall of Fame in 2003.
Jason David Frank is survived by his four children. Source
Famous men dead by means of Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation:
1. Robin Williams
2. David Carradine
3. Chris Cornell
4. Michael Hutchence
5. Albert Dekker
6. Hide
7. Stephen Milligan
8. Vaughn Bodé
9. Martin Luther
10. Kevin Gilbert
11. Frantisek Kotzwara
12. Chester Bennington
13. Avicii Tim Bergling
14. Anthony Bourdain
15. Brody Stevens
16. Keith Flint
17. Jeffrey Epstein
18. Sophie Xeon
19. Adam Perkins
‘May not have acted alone’: Prosecutors say Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen may have had an ACCOMPLICE to the crime – as judge delays decision to unseal arrest affidavit and ‘double killer’ remains behind bars
Delphi murder suspect Richard Allen could have an 'accomplice' to the double murder, according to prosecutors fighting to keep his arrest affidavit under wraps - as the alleged killer remains behind bars until next year.
Allen, 50, is accused of murdering both Libby German, 14, and her friend Abigail Williams, 13, as they hiked a trail in Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017.
WTHR reported that the prosecutor said in court that there is reason to believe that Allen is not the only one involved in the killings - though no other names were mentioned.They said: 'We believe Richard Allen is not the only actor involved in this.'
Ron Logan, who died in 2020, had long been the prime suspect in the killings after the girl's bodies were found on his property and Kegan Kline was also named as the possible murderer.
Allen was given court-appointed lawyers after sending a handwritten letter to the judge asking for representation last week.
A judge in Indiana put off his bail hearing until next year and will mull over the decision to unseal the arrest affidavit – as the mother of one of his alleged victims begs for it to remain sealed.
His lawyers have since filed a request for Allen to be released without posting bond or by setting a ‘reasonable bail amount’, which will be considered on February 17 at a bail hearing.
Currently the only details that have been released are that Allen's initial bail was set at $20million following his arrest, though he is reportedly now being held without bond.He has pleaded not guilty to both counts of murder, and prosecutors have sealed his arrest warrant from being accessed by the public. The state has filed a motion requesting a gag order in the case.
Andrew Baldwin, defense attorney for Allen, says that he is the 'wrong guy' and the sealed probable cause affidavit is 'flimsy' adding: 'You expect more than what I saw.'
As part of Allen's petition to be let out on bail, his attorneys say 'because neither the proof of guilt is evident, nor the presumption of guilt strong, the Accused is seeking a hearing to release the Accused.'
Though prosecutors did not name any potential accomplices, both Logan and Kline have long been linked with the slayings. Source
"This is something I inherited. My predecessor had started this, but had set in motion a number of different projects focused on cryptocurrency and trying to look at second- and third-order consequences as well and helping with our colleagues in other parts of the U.S. government to provide solid intelligence on what we're seeing as well." CIA Director William Burns
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William Joseph Burns is an American diplomat serving as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Biden administration since March 19, 2021.
FTX is a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange. The exchange was founded in 2019 and, at its peak in 2021, had over one million users and was the third-largest crypto exchange by volume. Since 11 November 2022, FTX has been in bankruptcy proceedings in the US court system following a liquidity crisis.
Gunman kills 5 at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs before patrons confront and stop him, police say
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A 22-year-old gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, just before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others, before patrons confronted and stopped him, police said Sunday.
The suspect in the shooting at Club Q was identified as Anderson Lee Aldrich, according to Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez. He used a long rifle in the shooting, and two firearms were found at the scene, Vasquez said.
At least two people inside the club confronted and fought the gunman and prevented further violence, Vasquez said. “We owe them a great debt of thanks,” he said.Joshua Thurman told CNN affiliate KOAA he was inside the club dancing when he heard gunshots and saw a muzzle flash.
“I thought it was the music, so I kept dancing,” he said. “Then I heard another set of shots, and then me and a customer ran to the dressing room, got on the ground and locked the doors and called the police immediately.”
The violence lasted just minutes. Police received numerous 911 calls starting at 11:56 p.m., officers were dispatched at 11:57 p.m., an officer arrived at midnight and the suspect was detained at 12:02 a.m., police said. A total of 39 patrol officers responded, police said, and Fire Department Captain Mike Smaldino said 11 ambulances went to the scene.
Authorities initially said 18 people were injured but later adjusted that total up to 25. Of those, several are in critical condition with gunshot wounds, though the exact number was unclear, officials said.
The suspect is being treated at a hospital, police added. Officers did not shoot at him, police said. Source
What we know about Anderson Lee Aldrich, the alleged Colorado Springs Club Q shooter
An attacker opened fire in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs late Saturday, killing five people and wounding at least 25, officials said. The club said the suspect was subdued by patrons, and Colorado Springs police said he was taken into custody and hospitalized for treatment of his injuries.
Here’s what we know about the suspect:
Who is Anderson Lee Aldrich?
Colorado Springs police Chief Adrian Vasquez identified the suspect as 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich at a news conference Sunday morning. Investigators recovered two guns on scene and said Aldrich used a long gun during the shooting, Vasquez said. Aldrich remains in a local hospital.
Does Aldrich have a criminal history?
Law enforcement officials said Aldrich’s “interactions with law enforcement” are part of the broader investigation, and they would not say if he’d previously been contacted by police. A man with the same name and matching age was arrested in June 2021 for threatening his mother with “a homemade bomb, multiple weapons, and ammunition,” according to media reports at the time. That man was arrested after a brief standoff.Howard Black, spokesman for the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, would not confirm Sunday morning that Aldrich was the same man arrested in June 2021. Black said the June 2021 incident “is all part of the investigation and will be released as appropriate.”
What do police believe was Aldrich’s motive in the Club Q shooting?
As of Sunday morning, officials declined to answer questions about the suspect’s motive for the shooting, citing the ongoing investigation.
In a statement, Club Q termed the shooting a hate attack.
“Club Q is devastated by the senseless attack on our community,” the club posted on its Facebook page. It said its prayers were with victims and families, adding: “We thank the quick reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hate attack.” Source
JUNE 2021
Bomb threat in Lorson Ranch neighborhood
Friday night COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Friday afternoon around 2:00 p.m., deputies with the El Paso County Sheriff's Offices responded to reports of a bomb threat on Rubicon Drive in the Lorson Ranch neighborhood, just south of the Colorado Springs Airport. The suspect, 21-year old Anderson Lee Aldrich, refused to comply with deputies' orders to surrender. It was reported to the Sherrif's Office that he had a homemade bomb, multiple weapons, and ammunition.A Tactical Support Unit, which includes the Regional Explosives Unit was called in. Around 10 homes were evacuated in the surrounding area, while an emergency text notification was sent out to homes within a 1/4-mile radius of the address. The Regional Explosives Unit cleared both homes and did not find any explosive devices. At around 6:00 p.m., the suspect was taken into custody and has been booked into the El Paso County Jail. Aldrich faces two counts of Felony Menacing and three counts of First-Degree Kidnapping. Source
Georgia mom Debbie Collier's death is ruled a SUICIDE after coroner concluded she burned herself to death while naked in ravine
The death of Georgia mom Debbie Collier, who was found naked and burned in a ravine, has been ruled a suicide.
Collier was last seen on September 10 when she left her Athens home en route to Clarksville, approximately 60 miles away.
The next day, the 59-year-old real estate agent's body was found naked and partially burned in a wooded ravine near Tallulah Falls - with her purse and cell phone nearby. Collier's horrific death was initially feared to have been the result of a homicide.
But this week, it was revealed that the Georgia Medical Examiner's Office has ruled Collier's death a suicide, having suffered 'inhalation of superheated gases, thermal injuries, and hydrocodone intoxication,' according to Habersham County Deputy Coroner Ken Franklin.
Franklin added: 'It's pretty evident that she started the fire. From what I saw and what I considered to be the case is that this was a self-inflicted death, but I was relying on the results of the autopsy and the doctor at the lab to make the final call.' Last week, Collier's daughter, Amanda Bearden, told the Crime on the Record podcast that she believed her mother had taken her own life.
She told the hosts that her mother had begun to share 'key, intimate things' with her in the weeks leading up to her death and said: 'Looking back on it, it just almost seemed like she was giving me all of her things.'
Bearden added that the last time she saw her mother alive, her mother had 'tears in her eyes. I’d never seen her that sad.'
Franklin told the New Habersham: 'I'm glad it's over, but I'm sorry for the family and all that they have had to go through. All of the questioning and suspicion and things they've had to go through made it difficult for them to live a normal life. I feel sorry for them and my prayers go with them.'
On September 30, the Habersham County Sheriff's Department issued a press release providing a timeline of the crime, and released surveillance video. Source
Jihadists slaughter at least 26 women by slitting their throats after Boko Haram commander accused them of being WITCHES who caused the sudden death of his children in Nigeria
Boko Haram jihadists slaughtered at least 26 women by slitting their throats after their commander accused them of being witches who caused the sudden death of his children in Nigeria.
Around 40 women were held in a village near Gwoza town in Borno State, north-eastern Nigeria, on the orders of jihadist commander Ali Guyile after his children suddenly died overnight, according to relatives and a woman who escaped.
They said the commander had accused the women of causing the children's deaths through witchcraft. On Thursday last week, 14 women were slaughtered in Gwoza town and a few days later, another 12 were killed by the Boko Haram jihadists.
Accusations of witchcraft are not uncommon in Nigeria, a religious conservative country almost equally divided between the mostly Muslim north and Christian south. Northeast Nigeria is at the heart of a conflict involving security forces and Boko Haram and rival Islamic State West Africa Province jihadists that has killed more than 40,000 people.
The survivors of the most recent Boko Haram attack said Guyile, a 35-year-old commander, asked his men to arrest the group of 40 women from homes known to practise witchcraft.
Talkwe Linbe, one of the accused women, said she managed to escape and fled to the regional capital Maiduguri after the killing of 14 women on Thursday. 'He (Guyile) said he would investigate our involvement in the deaths of his children,' she said.
'On Thursday he ordered 14 among us to be slaughtered. I was lucky I was not among them.'
Her relationship to Boko Haram was not clear, but jihadists often force residents in territory under their influence into work or relationships. Source
4 University of Idaho students found dead in home outside campus in what police are calling a homicide
A homicide investigation is underway after four University of Idaho students were found dead Sunday at a home just outside the campus, police and the university’s president said.
Officers responding before noon to a call of an unconscious person discovered the fatalities, the Moscow Police Department said in a news release.
“It is with deep sadness that I share with you that the university was notified today of the death of four University of Idaho students living off-campus believed to be victims of homicide,” university president Scott Green said in a statement to the campus community. Police have not released the causes of death or identities of the victims. Police have indicated “there is no ongoing threat,” the university tweeted Sunday without elaborating. The stunning discovery comes as another US college campus – the University of Virginia in Charlottesville – is reeling as authorities hunt early Monday for a gunman, identified as a UVA student, accused of killing three people and wounding two Sunday on school grounds. A lockdown there remains in place.
At the University of Idaho – where students Sunday afternoon initially were advised to shelter in place amid the homicide probe – in-person and online classes Monday are canceled and set to resume Tuesday.
The deceased students’ families have been notified, and the university is working to assist with the police investigation, Green said. Anyone with information about the case has been asked to contact Moscow Police.
“We are grateful for the support of the community and the ongoing efforts of the Police Department. The university is committed to supporting students and families during this difficult time,” Green said.
CNN has reached out to the university and to the police department for more details. Source
Moment 'female bomber' is arrested by Turkish police after CCTV 'showed suspect holding a rose fleeing the scene' following explosion that killed six including a little girl and her father
New footage shows the moment the Syrian woman believed to be behind a bomb attack on a bustling street in Istanbul was arrested by Turkish police.
The explosion killed six people, including a nine-year-old girl and her father, and injured 81 others after Ahlam Albashir allegedly planted a bomb in the popular shopping street of Istiklal Avenue on Sunday shortly after 4pm local time.
Today police footage shared with Turkish media that shows officers arresting Albashir, who is from Syria, at a house where she was allegedly hiding. During her interrogation, Albashir confessed to planting the bomb and said she was trained as a 'special intelligence officer' by Kurdish militants, Istanbul police said. She had entered Turkey through north-west Syria's Afrin region, the police added.
The suspect's arrest comes as CCTV appears to show the suspected bomber running away from the scene of the explosion while holding a red rose in her hand, reports local newspaper Aksam.
Minutes after the blast, the suspect, wearing what appears to be a hijab, is seen running through a crowd of bewildered people who were looking behind them at the aftermath of the bombing. She is the only person looking forwards.
Albashir, who is believed to have planted a bag containing the bomb on a park bench, is among 46 people detained by police since the attack.
Turkey accused the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - seen as terrorists by Ankara - of carrying out the explosion after Albashir told police that she had trained with the Kurdish militants.
But the PKK today denied any role in the weekend attack in Istanbul.
'Our people and the democratic public know closely that we are not related to this incident, that we will not directly target civilians and that we do not accept actions targeting civilians,' the group said in a statement published by the Firat news agency.
Firat is close to the PKK, which is listed as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies.
The United States offered their condolences to Turkey over the suspected terror attack - but this was rejected by Ankara as Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Washington of supplying weapons to Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
It comes after a nine-year-old girl Ecrin and her father Yusuf Medyan were confirmed to be among those killed in the attack, with 81 others injured. A 15-year-old girl and her mother were also among those killed in the attack.
Mr Medyan worked for Turkey's ministry of family and social services, Sky News reports. The department's minister, Derya Yanik, said: 'I curse this treacherous attack that killed a father and his daughter.
'As the state, we stand by the families of our brothers and sisters who lost their lives and with our wounded people with all our means. No evil focus will be able to disrupt our unity and solidarity.'
Turkish television broadcast footage purporting to show Albashir being detained at a house where she was allegedly hiding. It said police searching the house also seized large amounts of cash, gold items and a gun.
Police later also released a photograph showing the suspect standing between two Turkish flags, in handcuffs.
The minister told reporters that Kurdish militants had allegedly given orders for the main suspect to be killed to avoid evidence being traced back to them. Source
'Female suicide bomber' is blamed for blast that kills at least six people and injures 81 on busy Istanbul street: Fireball explosion rips through packed shopping district popular with tourists as President Erdogan says attack 'smells' of terrorism
At least six people have been killed and more than 80 injured after a huge explosion ripped through popular shopping street in Istanbul today in what Turkey's Vice President has claimed was a terrorist attack, potentially authored by a female suicide bomber.
Shocking videos posted online showed the moment a fireball erupted on the street amid a loud blast as pedestrians turned and fled in horror.
Other harrowing clips showed bodies and an empty pushchair lying on the ground in the immediate aftermath of the explosion before the scene was cordoned off by forensic teams. Istiklal Avenue, popular with both locals and tourists and lined with shops and restaurants, was packed with people when the blast rang out at around 4:20pm local time (1:20pm GMT).
Four people died at the scene, with another two succumbing to their injuries in hospital, and it is feared casualty numbers will increase overnight.
The cause of the blast is not clear but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it had 'smell' of a terror attack.
He did not specify who may have been behind the explosion but stated a woman was thought to have been involved.
In a televised statement he said: 'Our nation should be sure that the perpetrators of the incident on Istiklal Street will be punished as they deserve.
'It would be wrong to say this is undoubtedly a terrorist attack but the initial developments and initial intelligence from my governor is that it smells like terrorism.'
He added: 'Efforts to take over Turkey and the Turkish nation through terrorism will not reach its goal.'
Vice President Fuat Oktay meanwhile visited the scene alongside interior minster Suleyman Soylu, declaring the blast appeared to have been authored by a female suicide bomber, though he gave no evidence.
Oktay said: 'We believe that it is a terrorist act carried out by an attacker, whom we consider to be a woman, exploding the bomb.'
Social media users said shops were shuttered and the avenue closed down as forensic teams and emergency services moved in to examine the scene. But by evening, the avenue was buzzing with tourists and onlookers and some shops stayed open in a show of defiance.
'We are not afraid, we heard the explosion but we are open as long as the police don't come and ask us to close,' said Mustafa Guler, manager of the Keyif Nevizade restaurant in the neighbourhood.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, though Istanbul and other Turkish cities have been targeted in the past by Kurdish separatists, Islamist militants and other groups. Source
Nurse accused of amputating man’s foot for her family’s taxidermy shop
As the registered nurse amputated her patient’s right foot on the afternoon of May 27, she told colleagues that her family owned a taxidermy shop, the affidavit alleges. Her co-workers recalled her saying that she planned to take the 62-year-old patient’s foot from the nursing home in Spring Valley, Wis., and display it at the shop.According to them, she said she wanted to put a sign next to it: “wear your boots kids.”
Brown, 38, was charged Thursday with two felonies: mayhem and intentionally causing great bodily harm to an elderly person. The Pierce County district attorney has enhanced the possible punishment for each charge by up to six years because she’s accused of victimizing someone 60 or older.
Brown, who declined to talk about the accusations against her when reached by The Washington Post on Monday afternoon, faces up to 92 years in prison if convicted. Court records do not list an attorney for Brown.
Kevin Larson, administrator and chief executive of the Spring Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center, said in a statement that he and his staff “will continue to fully cooperate with the investigation into this matter.”
“The person identified is not employed with our community,” Larson added.
The 62-year-old man wound up at Spring Valley in March, Pierce County District Attorney Halle Hatch wrote in the affidavit. He had fallen at his home and, when the heat went out, suffered severe frostbite on both of his feet. Several nursing home employees described his feet as “black like a mummy.”
The man’s ill health extended beyond the frostbite. In the weeks leading up to May 27, hospice nurses cycled in and out of his room, expecting that his death was imminent, the affidavit states.
A few days before the amputation, the man rolled out of bed, Tracy Reitz, the nursing home’s director of nursing and clinical services, told Pierce County sheriff’s investigator Pete Koch. His already severely damaged right foot was further mangled in the fall, requiring Reitz to wrap it.
The man, who was “slightly coherent,” stared at his foot and apologized for the smell it was producing, Reitz told Koch.
Around this time, Brown asked Larson, the nursing home’s administrator, for permission to amputate, the affidavit states. Larson said no, telling her to merely stabilize the foot instead because he thought the man would die within hours. Defying those expectations, the patient held on for several days, Larson said, prompting Brown to amputate the foot because she “believed it was the right thing to do,” according to the affidavit.
Around 4:30 on the afternoon of May 27, Brown corralled and deputized her co-workers, identified only as Nurse 3 and Nurse 4 in court documents, to help her change the man’s bandages, the affidavit states. When they went in, Nurse 3 stabilized his foot while Nurse 4 held his hand. Both nurses told investigators that, as Brown changed the bandages, she expressed disbelief that no one had amputated his foot, according to the affidavit.
Brown then did it herself, cutting the foot with gauze scissors, Nurse 3 told investigators. The man didn’t seem to be in any pain, the nurse said.
Nurse 4 had a different perspective. She said she was busy holding the man’s hand when, all of sudden, his foot had been cut off, the affidavit states. Only after realizing what had happened was she able to figure out why the man’s grip was “extremely tight and he was moaning a little bit.”
Two days after the amputation, the man told another unnamed nurse that he had “felt everything and it hurt very bad,” according to the affidavit.
After amputating, Brown talked about taxidermy and mentioned the “wear your boots” sign, both nurses told the sheriff’s investigator. Nurse 3 said Brown mentioned taking the foot home to epoxy it, among other things, the affidavit states.
“She thought it was weird that Brown wanted to bronze the foot,” Koch wrote in the report. Source
Dover migrant centre petrol bomber who was driven by 'right wing' terrorist ideology died from asphyxiation in his car at BP petrol station, inquest hears
A far right terrorist who firebombed a detention centre holding refugees died of asphyxiation, an inquest heard today.
Andrew Leak, 66, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, threw two or three 'crude' incendiary devices at the Western Jet Foil site, in Kent.
Flames surrounded the hoarding of the site, with security staff rushing to extinguish the fire. Only two small injuries were reported. Leak, who had driven more than 100 miles from his home in High Wycombe to Dover, then drove to the BP garage in Dover and took his own life.
The opening of the inquest, held in Maidstone, gave Leak's cause of death as asphyxiation. Bina Patel, area coroner for Mid Kent and Medway, read out a statement with further details.
She said Kent Police had been called at 11.22am by an immigration officer expressing concern about a man at the Western Jet Foil car park throwing objects at the gates and officers.
'He had then made his way to the BP garage and was found there at 11.30am,' Miss Patel said. 'Police got there and found a Seat car registered to Mr Leak and he was the sole occupant.'
The inquest heard that results for post mortem toxicology tests are pending. Miss Patel adjourned the inquest for a provisional date and time of 10am on Friday, January 27, at County Hall.
Last week, terror police confirmed Leak was motivated by 'extreme right wing terrorist ideology'. The divorced father of two had a history of deluded online rants against Muslims and declared before the attack: 'If you're not ready you will not survive what is coming'. Leak's Facebook profile was littered with pictures of Batman villain The Joker and he shared photos of himself in a balaclava and disturbing masks. Other vile social media posts included paranoid theories on the Covid vaccine and even suggesting the World Economic Forum was connected to Nazism.
Neighbours revealed he had been worried about money after his benefits were cut. He told friends that he only had £36 in his account and that he would have to sell some of his clothes to have enough cash to survive on.
Leak is also understood to have suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and had battled cancer and mental health issues in recent years, telling one neighbour that he had his penis removed because of a late stage tumour around four years ago.
He had a history of sharing far right content from extremist groups including Traditional Britain Group, Turning Point UK and the US based Islamophobic movement ACT for America.
Leak shared a transphobic article from conservative news site The Blaze and would reference far right activist Tommy Robinson, a study of his profile by campaign group Hope Not Hate found. Source
Tiffany's jewelry tycoon, 71, plunges to her death from Norwegian Spirit cruise ship at 3am off Tahiti coast as it's revealed gems were stolen from her cabin - and boyfriend took TWENTY HOURS to report her missing
A wealthy tycoon who owns Tiffany jewelry empire in Turkey has died after plunging to her death from a cruise ship during a dream South Sea Islands holiday.
Dilek Ertek, 71 - the distributor of Tiffany in Turkey for over 20 years - fell into the South Pacific off the coast of Tahiti from the Norwegian Spirit ship on October 26.
Respected Turkish newspaper Sabah reported that her family have urged police to investigate Miss Ertek's Swiss national lover, who was with her on the trip. Her son Gokce Atuk says jewelry had gone missing from the safe in his mother's cabin.
And despite ship CCTV footage showing she probably fell at 3am, her unnamed lover only reported her missing some 20 hours later, according to local media. Experts seem baffled over how Miss Ertek - who was just 5ft2 and tee-total - was able to fall over the metre-high guard rail to her cabin.
The 74-year-old partner was kept under observation by the ship's crew in a separate cabin before they then docked in Tahiti three days later.
He was reportedly questioned by police in Tahiti before being released due to a lack of evidence. He has since returned to Switzerland.
A search at sea for Miss Ertek's body has been discontinued.
Miss Ertek had boarded the vessel on October 24 in Papeete Island, French Polynesia, to celebrate her birthday in Bora Bora, a small South Pacific island on November 5.
The cruise was set to end in Honolulu, in Hawaii. Source
Jordan Bardella: heir of France's Le Pen at just 27
Jordan Bardella, a self-confident 27-year-old, looks set this weekend to confirm he is the rising star of France's far-right politics and the favoured heir to veteran leader Marine Le Pen.
The Paris-born politician is odds-on to be selected by members of the anti-immigration National Rally (RN) party as their new president at a congress on Saturday. Le Pen decided to step back from the role after 11 years at the helm.
Formerly known as the National Front, the party had been run by Le Pen's father Jean-Marie for 40 years before that.
Bardella would be the first party chief outside the family dynasty in a half-century.
"The fact the party president will not have the name Le Pen is the sign of openness and confidence that Marine has in the new generation," Bardella told AFP during a recent trip to eastern France.
Not that the ultra-loyal protege, who was elected to the European parliament in 2019, is planning to try to overshadow her.
"I am a continuity candidate, with the aim of building on the incredible legacy that Marine is handing over," he added.
He expects and wants Le Pen to take a fourth run at the presidency in 2027 after her record 41.5 percent in April's election run-off against President Emmanuel Macron. She then fronted the party's parliamentary election campaign in June which saw the RN capture 89 seats, a 10-fold rise making it the biggest opposition party in the national assembly. Source
Doughnut shop hit with a molotov cocktail after drag-queen art show
Around 2:30 a.m. Monday, Sarah Swain and Brian Hunter were jolted awake by a phone call from the fire department. The doughnut shop the couple owns in Tulsa had been targeted — again — just two weeks after they’d hosted an art exhibit featuring drag queens. Early that morning, a person in a dark hoodie, red cap and gloves was captured by a security camera quickly walking toward the Donut Hole with a baseball bat and a note in one hand and a bottle in the other. The assailant, who still hasn’t been apprehended by police, posted the note on the neighboring business’s door and then stood before the Barbie-pink facade of the doughnut shop. They took three thundering swings at the glass door until it shattered, then lit the bottle on fire and threw it inside.The damage from the molotov cocktail was minimal, the owners told The Washington Post. By Wednesday, the Donut Hole was back open, and its employees were ready to serve up hot cups of joe and the fresh doughnuts Swain decorates every day. But Swain said there’s an unnerving sense of shock that someone would take to violence over “something so small as having a ceramic doughnut exhibit with drag queen servers.” “We just want to make doughnuts,” Hunter said. “We’re just a small business. Like we’re just trying to make doughnuts and have fun. We don’t understand.”
Drag exploded in popularity. Then came the protests and attacks.
The Oct. 15 event had been filled “with overwhelming support, love and laughs,” Hunter said. That night, the doughnut shop transformed into “The Queens Dirty Dozens,” a concept envisioned by artist Daniel Gulick. A cartoon silhouette of Queen Elizabeth II decorated the shop. Instead of performing, drag queens dressed in their best 1950s housewife outfits served colorful ceramic doughnut sculptures. People lined up, down the block, hoping to enjoy the pop-up.But the morning after the event, Swain and Hunter returned to the shop to find pieces of shattered glass where the front door had once been. Someone had smashed it overnight, Hunter said — though the motive behind the vandalism isn’t clear. Source
BLOODY HELL King Charles reveals he’s related to sinister figure from history
THE King has told actor Luke Evans how his bloodline shows he is related to Vlad Dracula.
The Hobbit star had just finished the 2014 film Dracula Untold when he first met His Majesty, who was then Prince of Wales.The actor, 43, played a fictional version of the 15th century Romanian ruler Vlad III, also known and Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Tepes and Vlad Dracula.
In the movie, Vlad turns into a vampire.
Speaking on The Jonathan Ross Show, Luke said: “I remember the first time I spoke to Charles. I was super nervous.
“He came up to me and said, ‘What are you working on?’ and I said, ‘I’ve just finished a movie about Vlad, who turns into Dracula.’ And he went ‘Funnily enough, I’m related to Vlad Tepes.’ Source
“May the curate of my Son, Pope Pius IX never leave Rome again after 1859; may he, however, be steadfast and noble, may he fight with the weapons of faith and love. I will be at his side. May he be on his guard against Napoleon: he is two-faced, and when he wishes to make himself Pope as well as Emperor, God will soon draw back from him. He is the master-mind who, always wanting to ascend further, will fall on the sword he wished to use to force his people to be raised up. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879)
BARON ALEXANDER VON TSCHUGGUEL IS THE FORERUNNER TO THE ANTICHRIST:
LA SALETTE PROPHECY ON FORERUNNER TO ANTICHRIST
"A forerunner of the Antichrist, with his troops drawn from many nations, will wage war against the true Christ, sole Savior of the world; he will shed much blood and will seek to annihilate the cult of God so as to be regarded as a god." Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879)
MARIE JULIE JAHENNY PROPHECY ON FSSP RAD TRADS:
"During the time of the approach of the punishments announced at La Salette,an unlimited amount of false revelations will arise from hell like a swarm of flies; a last attempt of Satan to choke and destroy the belief in the true revelations by false ones." Marie Julie Jahenny of La Faudais (d.1891)
PROPHECY OF MELANIE ON TWO POPES:
"I didn't see, I don't see any Great Pope or Great Monarch before an extremely great tribulation, horrifying, terrible and general for all Christendom. But before that time, twice there will be a short lived peace; TWO shaky, servile, doubtful popes" Mélanie
THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF CHASTISEMENTS
God will abandon mankind to itself and will send punishments which will follow one after the other for more than thirty-five years. Our Lady of La Salette 19 Sept. 1846 (Published by Mélanie 1879)
LA SALETTE + FATIMA TIMELINE
1. Two Popes. (13 March 2013)
2. Manifestation of the Forerunner to the Antichrist (21 October 2019)
3. Death of Two Popes(_ _ / _ _ / 2022)
4. NIGHT ILLUMINED BY UNKNOWN LIGHT DURING NEW MOON (_ _ / _ _ / 2022)
5. Start of Thirty Five Years Worth of Chastisements (_ _ / _ _ / 2022)
6. Rise of the Political Power of the Forerunner to the Antichrist (_ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _)
7. Creation of Forerunner's Nationalist Army (_ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _)
8. Persecution of the Catholic Church by the Forerunner and His Nationalist Army(_ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _)
9. Murder of Fatima Pope & Faithful on top a Steep Mountain by Forerunner and his Army.
10. The Rise of the Great Monarch & Great Pontiff (near the end of the 35 year Chastisement)
11. The death of the Forerunner to the Antichrist.
REMEMBER - THE 35+ YEARS WORTH OF CHASTISEMENTS DO NOT START UNTIL THE TWO POPES ARE DEAD......
“The great chastisement will come, because men will not be converted; yet it is only their conversion that can hinder these scourges. God will begin to strike men by inflicting lighter punishments in order to open their eyes; then He will stop, or may repeat His former warnings to give place for repentance. But sinners will not avail themselves of these opportunities; He will, in consequence, send more severe castigations, anxious to move sinners to repentance, but all in vain. Finally, the obduracy of sinners shall draw upon their heads the greatest and most terrible calamities. Mélanie
“We are all guilty! Penance is not done, and sin increases daily. Those who should come forward to do good are retained by fear. Evil is great. A moderate punishment serves only to irritate the spirits, because they view all things with human eyes. God could work a miracle to convert and change the aspect of the earth without chastisement. God will work a miracle; it will be a stroke of His mercy; but after the wicked shall have inebriated themselves with blood, the scourge shall arrive Mélanie
“What countries shall be preserved from such calamities? Where shall we go for refuge? I, in my turn, shall ask, What is the country that observes the commandments of God? What country is not influenced by human fear where the interest of the Church and the glory of God are at stake? (Ah, indeed! What country, what nation upon earth?) In behalf of my Superior and myself, I have often asked myself where we could go for refuge, had we the means for the journey and for our subsistence, on condition that no person were to know it? But I renounce these useless thoughts. We are very guilty! In consequence of this, it is necessary that a very great and terrible scourge should come to revive our faith, and to restore to us our very reason, which we have almost entirely lost. Mélanie
MARIA OF THE CROSS,
Victim of Jesus nee MELANIE CALVAT,
Shepherdess of La Salette
"I protest highly against a different text, which people may dare publish after my death. I protest once more against the very false statements of all those who dare say and write First that I embroidered the Secret; second, against those who state that the Queen Mother did not say to transmit the Secret to all her people." Mélanie
REVEALED: Paul Pelosi's attacker planned a SUICIDE mission and had a list of other politicians he wanted to kill - as his former boss says he was completely awash in conspiracies: 'MAGA, Pizzagate, stolen election - all of it'
The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home with a hammer was on a 'suicide mission,' prosecutors said in court Tuesday, in a filing that revealed the suspect had plans to target other politicians as well.
The bombshell declaration comes as more information about the attacker, Bay Area resident David DePape, continues to come to light - as he faces attempted murder charges for beating Pelosi's husband Paul to within an inch of his life.
DePape, 42, appeared in court for the first time Tuesday, pleading not guilty to what officials are now claiming was a premeditated attack.His right arm strapped up in a sling, the suspect delivered the plea through a public defender while wearing a prison issue jumpsuit.
The injury was said to be the result of last Friday's early morning struggle with 82-year-old Paul Pelosi, which saw DePape rain blows on the man after demanding to see his wife, who was in Washington at the time. He remains hospitalized after undergoing surgery.
The jaw-dropping filing provided new and chilling details about the attack in San Francisco's affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood - including insight into DePape's belief in conspiracy theories that may have spurred him to view Pelosi as an enemy of the country.
Meanwhile, a landscaper, who employed DePape in the years leading up to the attack, has revealed the suspect became involved in right-wing conspiracy theories such as QAnon and MAGA, falling into isolation and darkness. Frank Ciccarelli, a San Francisco-based carpenter who builds houses and makes furniture for a living, hired a then homeless DePape off the streets in 2016, saying at the time he looked to be a soft-spoken liberal living the lifestyle of a Bay Area hippie.
Speaking to The New York Times Tuesday of his former employee: 'He really believed in the whole MAGA, 'Pizzagate,' stolen election thing.
'You know, all of it, all the way down the line,' the landscaper, who helped arrange for DePape to move into a converted garage in Richmond, said.
He recalled how DePape, at the time, came off as a quiet, likeable, and a steady worker who built decks with him for six years, describing him as politically liberal.
However, after falling into and out of homelessness, DePape would fall into isolation and darkness, his ex-boss said, spending more and more time online where he trolled forums rife with conspiracy theories and bigotry.
Ciccarelli described how he laid witness to DePape's steady descent into right-wing extremism over the years, which he said started when DePape would turn off famously liberal radio news network NPR on morning rides on the way to jobsites. Source
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