[BB] An enterprising Nigerian named Adeniyi Adeyemi is facing charges in the capital of Abuja for creating and running a fake government agency for over a year, complete with about $1 million in funding from the Nigerian federal government.
According to prosecutors, Adeyemi created an agency called the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) in 2024 and installed himself as director-general. He kept the phony agency going until he was arrested in October 2025.
Adeyemi was somehow able to secure office space for his fake agency inside the Federal Secretariat office complex in Abuja, along with a million dollars of funding. He got his hands on some presidential stationery and used it to request cooperation from other government agencies – and evidently some of his requests were taken seriously, although prosecutors have not yet indicted any other government officials for colluding with him.
Police investigators said they have traced a total of 34 bank accounts to Adeyemi, including nine of them that were opened in the name of various government agencies. According to prosecutors, Adeyemi even recruited staffers to work for his fake agency.
The ersatz Director-General of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) also forged a realistic-looking letter of appointment from President Bola Tinubu, purportedly signed by presidential chief of staff Femi Gbajabiamila.
Gbajabiamila was the official who filed a petition to arrest Adeyemi, who faces eight counts of conspiracy, forgery, and impersonation alongside two accomplices known as “Femi” and “Anu,” who remain at large.
The Premium Times of Nigeria reported that Adeyemi appeared before the Federal High Court in Abuja for his arraignment on Wednesday “after several failed attempts to bring him before the court.”
Those previous attempts were unsuccessful “for various reasons,” including based on requests by his lawyers, his absence from court and the judge’s official engagement elsewhere. A judge swore out a bench warrant for Adeyemi’s arrest after he failed to appear for a July arraignment, and he was arrested within 12 hours, but it still took a surprisingly long time to get him into court.
Adeyemi said through his lawyers that he skipped out on his July arraignment because he “feared for his life” and had written an open letter to President Tinubu asking for protection. The Premium Times observed that he did not look particularly fearful when he finally made it to the courtroom on Wednesday, strolling cheerfully into chambers wearing a baseball cap and a white traditional robe known as a kaftan.
[Yahoo] Pike was hospitalized after surviving two doses of lethal injection drugs, prompting Tennessee to halt executions and investigate what went wrong.
Tennessee's only female death row inmate has been taken to the hospital after surviving two doses of lethal injection drugs, her lawyers said.
Christa Pike, 50, was alive and snoring loudly after being given two doses of pentobarbital, her attorneys said.
Pike had been scheduled for execution 10 a.m. Wednesday for a killing she committed in 1995, at the age of 18. She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.
An appeals court stopped the lethal injection just an hour before it was to start, a stay that was subsequently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Media witnesses said officials raised the curtains to the execution chamber at 7:27 p.m., showing Pike strapped to a gurney. "I'm going to leave this world the way I spent most of my life, and that is in love," she said in her "last" words.
However, Pike remained conscious after the initial dose and at one point raised her head and asked prison officials if her arm was supposed to feel that way.
By 8:26 p.m., witnesses reported that the second dose of pentobarbital had been administered.
Pike continued to be heard snoring behind the closed curtain until the microphone was cut off at 8:53 p.m. At that time, an announcement was made to escort media witnesses out of the area.
Pike's legal team said in a statement to the Tennessean newspaper, "Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution.
"We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy."
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said that he had ordered "a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred" and that the remaining scheduled execution will not take place this year.
"Carrying out a lawfully imposed sentence is among the state's most serious responsibilities, and the people of Tennessee expect it to be done in a manner that is not only legal and constitutional, but is effective," he said.
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It's about the only story on the Nashville news sites... the hook they're using is that the same doc who was involved in a botched execution a couple of months ago was involved in this one too.
And for the record I'm not going to get snarky about the fact that Pike asked for, and got, an all female execution team.
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Leave that stuff to Canadian healthcare workers. They’re the professionals.
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although said in jest, that's a very good point
it seems to me a 99.9% foolproof and minimal pain way to execute is to give the person several glasses of a nice wine, have them lie down in a warm bathtub and open the both forearm median veins and wait 30 minutes
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Seems to me we have a lot of confiscated heroin in evidence lockers. I can recall seeing images of dead addicts who still had the needle in their arm when they died from a high concentration fix. Pretty foolproof and euphoric way to terminate someone, and no worries about addiction after use.
[FoxNews] A boy called his grandmother saying he and his younger sibling were hungry before they were found severely injured
A South Carolina boy’s call to his grandmother saying he was hungry led authorities to a home where investigators say his mother had stabbed him and his younger sibling dozens of times, leaving both children with severe injuries.
Taylor Gosnell, 35, was charged with two counts of attempted murder after allegedly attacking her children, ages 6 and 3, inside their Spartanburg County home during the overnight hours before they were discovered Saturday, according to authorities.
The 6-year-old called his grandmother Sept. 26, and told her his mother was not home and that he and his 3-year-old sibling were hungry, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.
The grandmother contacted a friend of Gosnell, and the two went to the residence. They found both children suffering from severe injuries and immediately dialed 911.
Deputies responding shortly after 2:30 p.m. found the residence in disarray, with numerous items damaged or broken, authorities said.
Investigators said the children had approximately 50 stab wounds between them, including injuries that penetrated to the bone. Both were initially taken to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center before being transferred to Prisma Health Children’s Hospital in Greenville, where they remained hospitalized and were expected to undergo additional surgeries.
Arrest warrants reviewed by Fox News Digital provide additional details about the alleged attack. The warrants allege Gosnell struck the children with a baseball bat and a circular knife, causing severe injuries with intent to kill them.
Gosnell returned to the home while deputies were still there, according to the sheriff’s office. Deputies transported her to Spartanburg Regional Medical Center for an evaluation after observing behavior that raised concerns about her immediate well-being.
Authorities said Gosnell attempted to run from the ambulance before being transported and had to be restrained. She was medically cleared and released from the hospital shortly afterward.
Gosnell was booked into the Spartanburg County Detention Facility shortly before midnight Sept. 26 and was denied bond on both attempted murder charges.
The children have been placed in protective custody and remain hospitalized, authorities said.
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[Regnum] In the indigenous village of Las Tacitas in the Mexican state of Chiapas, local residents accused their neighbors of witchcraft and burned them alive. Need To Know reported this on October 1.
According to the source, the victims belonged to the Tzeltal Maya community. Villagers dragged a 50-year-old man and his girlfriend from their home and brought them to the community hall, where they beat them for several hours. They were then doused with fuel and set on fire. Their remains were found covered by the road.
According to preliminary information, the man was a healer, and accusations of witchcraft arose after people who sought his help fell ill. Another theory suggests the death of a community official was the trigger.
Horacio Culebro Borrayas, President of the Chiapas State Human Rights Commission, emphasized that no rumors or beliefs justify torture or the loss of life. The state attorney general's office has opened an investigation into the tragedy.
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[Regnum] A possible eruption of the Yellowstone volcano in the United States could trigger a global food crisis and threaten the lives of people across the planet. Philip Ruprecht, a geology professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, reported this on October 1
According to the scientist, a catastrophic eruption of the supervolcano would cause serious disruptions in food supplies worldwide, with large-scale economic consequences felt by residents of every country.
" In the event of a large-scale eruption, a catastrophic eruption of the Yellowstone volcano, it will affect the entire Western Hemisphere, the entire planet in many ways," Ruprecht told RIA Novosti.
However, the professor added that the likelihood of a catastrophe occurring in the foreseeable future remains extremely low. Ruprecht emphasized that humanity shouldn't worry too much about this or lose sleep.
The Yellowstone Caldera, formed by a volcanic eruption 630,000 years ago, is located in Yellowstone National Park, USA. In July 2024, a powerful geyser erupted in the park. The explosion damaged a walking path.
In 2025, MailOnline used the ImageFX AI image generator to demonstrate what a Yellowstone eruption might look like. Experts predict thousands of deaths, with rivers of molten lava flowing up to 60 km from the eruption site. They predict a thick layer of suffocating ash covering the US, plunging the world into a volcanic winter that could last for years. It is estimated that if Yellowstone were to explode, the initial blast would release the equivalent of 875,000 megatons of TNT, more than 100 times the power of every nuclear bomb ever dropped.
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Yes, but so would any other super eruption. The ironic thing, is with all the movies and hype of Yellowstone blowing... it is actually shutting down it seems. The magma is getting thicker and gelling and moving farther to the east north-east. It seems the next major blow will be in a new spot as it burns through the moving plate.
Lots to people will run to the Social Media, and TV Cameras to blame various things, while improving their own financial well being.
But worry not. There also will be a collection of LMOE supply vendors selling solutions and supplies based on the fear it will happen soon (next 250 years).
OH!!! and the Globalist Elites will move in to purchase and shore up the falling real estate prices.
[ZERO] A London mosque with charitable status is under investigation for posting sermons that tell husbands to hit disobedient wives and setting out execution methods for gay men, including being thrown from tall buildings.
The lectures were not smuggled out of a private meeting. They sit on the Hackney Islamic Community Centre's own YouTube channel, delivered from the mosque also known as Masjid Daar Al-Hadeeth. The National Secular Society referred the material to the regulator. The Daily Mail published the tapes. Britain's official response is a case file.
The Charity Commission has opened a regulatory compliance case. It has not, so far, taken the charity's status away.
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Burnham will force all the gays to move to the suburbs where the buildings are shorter.
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Betcha that’s not all they advocate. Someone should look into their connections, present and past. We have nothing about that masjid in our archives, but Hackney has a history, as can be seen.
[Reuters] The first two of a batch of 66 new F-16V Block 70 fighter jets ordered in 2019 arrived in Taiwan on Friday after months of delays, helping to strengthen an air force that has to scramble almost daily to shadow China's military.
Taiwan faces a rising military threat from Beijing, which claims the democratically governed island as its own territory. Taipei has complained of repeated delays to weapons ordered from the United States, its most important international backer and arms supplier.
The delivery, to Taitung's Chihhang Air Base on the island's mountainous east coast, comes amid growing concern in Taiwan about the Trump administration's commitment to arming Taipei, despite Washington saying there has been no change in policy.
The aircraft, which flew via Hawaii and Guam, touched down at noon (0400 GMT).
Speaking to reporters at parliament in Taipei shortly before, Defence Minister Wellington Koo said there would be other new F-16Vs arriving soon, though he did not give details.
"Of course we won't only have delivered these two by year-end," he said.
The United States in 2019 approved an $8 billion sale of Lockheed Martin (LMT.N), opens new tab F-16V fighter jets to Taiwan, a deal that would take the island's F-16 fleet to more than 200 jets. But issues including software problems have delayed delivery of the planes.
The arrival of the first two aircraft came almost exactly a week after US President Donald Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington.
Trump said in May, after meeting Xi in Beijing, that he was holding a new $14 billion package for Taiwan in abeyance, though he did approve one worth $11 billion in December 2025.
[Reuters] Chinese hackers have been impersonating US AI experts, including a former government official, to try to steal emails from experts in AI at think tanks, universities, and other organizations, the cybersecurity company Proofpoint said on Thursday.
In a report, opens new tab, Proofpoint said that it had watched the hackers — which it dubs "TA419" — regularly try to steal passwords from people working for US or Japanese think tanks, defense contractors, universities, and law firms since as far back as 2025.
Proofpoint attributed the hacking efforts to the Chinese group based on the types of malware the group used, the internet infrastructure used to carry out the attacks, and the targets it observed the group focusing on, which align with Chinese intelligence collection priorities.
Proofpoint said the hackers' recent campaign involved writing emails purporting to come from experts in AI or statecraft, including Lynne Parker, who previously worked as the principal deputy director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. Proofpoint said the emails would typically propose AI-themed collaborations or initiatives before steering targets toward password-stealing websites.
The Chinese Embassy in Washington did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Beijing has long denied carrying out cyberespionage operations.
Proofpoint declined to name the hackers' targets, saying only that the latter included "experts working on AI regulation, export controls and national AI strategy."
Reuters was independently able to identify one of them: Alex Engler, a former White House official who now heads the Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy.
Engler told Reuters on Wednesday he had received an email appearing to come from Parker inviting him "to join a new AI policy project." But he said the email "felt slightly, nebulously off" and, after he checked with others in the field, he realized he was dealing with an impostor.
Engler said he could not speculate about why someone would try to hack him, but Proofpoint said that its view of the targeting — which involved fewer than 10 individuals working for a handful of organizations — suggested "an intelligence interest in US policymaking rather than technology theft alone."
Parker told Reuters that Engler was one of two people that she knew of who had received suspicious messages purporting to come from her in early July. She added that the allegation of Chinese involvement made sense.
"The United States and China are in a competition around AI," Parker said. "Trying to get people in the AI policy space to reveal information about their AI policy plans — if that indeed was what the objective was — it's not surprising."
Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has launched an internal investigation after a researcher found that one of its models could be manipulated into providing instructions for developing biological weapons and carrying out assassinations, Fox News senior foreign policy correspondent Gillian Turner reported Thursday.
Researcher Peter Garrigan told Fox News that Moonshot AI's Kimi model could also be manipulated to provide information on planning terrorist attacks using real-time data, creating sarin gas, developing malware and taking down aircraft.
"What we found is quite damaging and worrying," Garrigan said.
The findings are raising broader concerns about advanced AI models concealing capabilities or behaving in ways their developers did not intend.
"We've also seen these problems within the U.S. models as well. It's a fundamental flaw in the technology," Garrigan said.
Moonshot AI is now investigating the findings and communicating directly with Garrigan, Turner reported on "Special Report."
WHAT TO KNOW
Google's new frontier artificial intelligence model, Gemini 4 Argon, is designed for long-running reasoning tasks, advanced software engineering, cybersecurity defense and work in the legal and financial fields.
Google is initially limiting access to trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program while it continues safety testing before a broader release.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to appear before senators on Tuesday to discuss the Hugging Face incident, said Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
Link to National Federation of Independent Business
This is a good place to look for signs of a coming recession. No such signs currently. Some decrease in small biz hiring but this is due to difficulty in finding employees.
Other places to look are from the BLS and the latest reports there:
09/29/2026 August job openings and hires change little; total separations unchanged
09/25/2026 Retirement benefits available to 72% of private industry workers in March 2026
09/24/2026 57% of workers have flexible schedules; 34% of workers sometimes work at home
09/24/2026 Median tenure with current employer increases to 4.1 years in January 2026
all show no recession in the near term
only real bad thing in the economy is gasoline price which will come down a bit as the winter blend (higher vapor pressure) fills tanks; however, existing gasoline in storage is down quite a bit and will require months to recover
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this morning's report from the BLS showed minimal job growth in Sept and also adjusted Aug and July employment downward. This relieves some of the pressure on interest rates and the initial response on the S&P, DJIA and NASDAQ was bullish for stocks.
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You find us such useful information on the subject, Lord Garth, then present it so we have exactly what we need to grasp your point. Thank you.
I find it annoying that mainstream reporting on the economy so often misses the point, misunderstands the data, and/or avoids the context. Even the WSJ does that sometimes which is truly awful.
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^ Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance are prime partisans for that
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[Just The News] Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog group, has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency, seeking records concerning Dr. Anthony Fauci's communications with the intelligence community about the origins of COVID-19.
The request also seeks communications regarding gain-of-function research, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and the selection of scientific experts consulted during the government’s COVID-19 origins investigations in apparent connection to Faui's role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the CIA failed to respond to a similar request in May.
The request was a follow-up to testimony from CIA Senior Operations Officer James E. Erdman III before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
In the testimony, Erdman alleged that Fauci influenced the intelligence community's analytic process and COVID-19 origin’s findings by leveraging his position to ensure the community consulted with a conflicted list of curated subject-matter experts, public health officials and scientists.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Just The News] Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog group, has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency, seeking records concerning Dr. Anthony Fauci's communications with the intelligence community about the origins of COVID-19. 
BREAKING: Israel says pilot tried to hijack flydubai flight to Tel Aviv that diverted, landed in Saudi Arabia
