Another resolution path to prison overcrowding.
[FoxNews] Drug-laced papers have been known to sell for $10,000 per page, according to jail officials.
Synthetic cannabinoids have been increasingly detected in fatal overdoses among incarcerated individuals, according to a recent alert from The Center for Forensic Science Research & Education (CFSRE).
These man-made psychoactive substances are designed to mimic the effects of THC, the primary active component of cannabis.
Reports have also revealed that synthetic cannabinoids are increasingly being smuggled into correctional facilities on common paper items, such as letters, greeting cards, books, postcards and magazines.
The CFSRE has previously warned of "drug-soaked paper strips" causing overdoses among incarcerated individuals.
Remember when the paper was laced with LSD, back in the 1970s? Even I was aware of it…
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[Regnum] A married couple in Australia held an elderly woman in slavery for 10 months. They face up to 25 years in prison, according to Mothership.
The defendants are 44-year-old Chee Kit Cheong and his 29-year-old wife, Angie Yeh Ling Liau. The couple, originally from Malaysia, are accused of inviting an elderly Indonesian woman, who served as a pastor at a church, to Australia to be their newborn daughter's nanny. The woman agreed.
Importing Third World problems. Ugh. And they don’t even have the excuse of being Moslem, with those names — they’re just plain vanilla evil people.
The head of the family then accused the nanny of losing his bank card and forced her to work off the debt. The couple held the elderly woman in slavery for 10 months. The Indonesian woman was beaten, deprived of food, and deprived of sleep. The investigation cited an example of abuse: Chong hit the woman with a vacuum cleaner when she fell asleep while giving him a massage.
The nanny managed to escape from the family and report everything to the police.
In 2024, the Indonesian woman died, but the case was not closed. The trial of the couple, who pleaded not guilty, will proceed.
Good. Try ‘em fair, then hang ‘em high. And send the kid back to Malaysia to live with her relatives.
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[Regnum] The intelligence level of suspected South Korean serial killer Kim So-yeon,
…correct spelling Kim So-Young, per Chantry…
who harassed men on dates, was found to be below normal. The test results cast doubt on the theory that the 21-year-old woman is a psychopathy, according to the Maeil Gyeongjae newspaper.
Kim was arrested on February 19 in Seoul on suspicion of murdering two men. Investigators believe she slipped sedatives into the drinks of the young men she dated. Another victim survived and contacted the police.
Criminal psychology professor Lee Su-jeong explained that Kim's IQ is between 70 and 80, with the average being 100. This means that 90% of people outscore her in this area.
Various IQ systems would classify her as borderline, feebleminded, slow learner - just above mentally retarded - moron, mental age of 8-12 years.
The accused was initially diagnosed with psychopathy, but people with low mental abilities, Lee noted, are not capable of carefully planning crimes.
"Low intelligence and psychopathic traits are completely different categories," the professor said.
According to Lee, the girl may have been influenced by her upbringing. Kim's environment was not normal, and she remembers scenes of violence between her parents, the expert added.
Kim herself claimed during interrogations that she hadn't wanted the men dead, but had merely tried to tranquilize them out of fear of harm. After Kim's arrest, police found three more victims who had ingested the poison but survived.
Kim, who faces a long prison sentence, has become a social media star. In just one week, one of her accounts gained over 10,000 followers. Users sympathized with the young woman, romanticized her image, and called her too beautiful to be a criminal.
Estimates for the average IQ in Africa vary significantly depending on the study and data source, ranging from **68 to 85** for sub-Saharan Africa and **80 to 97** for North African nations.
**Controversial Estimates**: Research by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen (2002–2006) and subsequent updates in 2026 suggest the highest average IQs in Africa are found in **Sierra Leone (91)** and **Mauritius (89)**, with North African countries like **Algeria (83)**, **Libya (83)**, and **Tunisia (83)** also ranking high. These studies correlate national IQ with economic factors and have been heavily criticized for methodological flaws and reliance on unrepresentative samples.
**Alternative Academic Findings**: A critical evaluation by Wicherts, Dolan, and van der Maas (2009) argues that when analyzing acceptably representative samples on standard tests, the average IQ for sub-Saharan Africa is approximately **68**, with some specific datasets showing scores as low as **66** or as high as **71**. Other systematic reviews of literature suggest an average closer to **77** or **82** when comparing against UK norms or using different inclusion criteria, highlighting that intelligence is a complex trait influenced heavily by education, nutrition, and environmental factors rather than genetics alone.
These figures are **controversial** and should be interpreted with extreme caution, as IQ scores can be heavily influenced by socio-economic conditions, access to education, and cultural biases in testing.
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[Regnum] At least 76 new eruptions of the Dukono volcano were recorded in the past 24 hours on the Indonesian island of Halmahera. This was reported on April 7 by the Antara news agency, citing data from a volcanic observation post.
Ash reached a height of 1,400 meters above the volcano's crater, or 2,487 meters above sea level. The eruptions were accompanied by dense plumes of gray and white ash, spreading in a northwesterly direction.
"For the 76th earthquake with an eruption, the amplitude is 6-34 mm, the duration is 19.33-90.65 seconds. Meanwhile, continuous tremors (microtremors) with an amplitude of 1-6 mm (the dominant one is 4 mm) were recorded," said Bambang Sugyono, an observation post officer.
Local authorities advised residents and tourists to stay within a 4-kilometer radius of the volcano's crater and to wear masks to protect themselves from ash. Dukono's activity has been increasing since March 30 and continues to this day. On April 6, the eruption was recorded on seismograms with a maximum amplitude of 17 mm and a duration of 49.69 seconds.
In mid-March, a series of eruptions were recorded at Lewotobi Volcano in the southeastern part of the Indonesian island of Flora. Five eruptions occurred at the summit of Laki-laki, also known as Male Lewotobi. Gray smoke rose from the crater to heights of 800 to 2,000 meters. The volcano's activity was assigned a Level 3 alert status.
[Daily Mail where America gets its news] A queer Canadian academic who identifies as trans and is a parent to three non-binary children, was torched online after wanting to be called an absurd name.
The Assistant Professor of Queer Studies in Education at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan asked that others use the name j wallace skelton in lieu of third-person pronouns.
Skelton, who has a PhD in Education,
…so she must have studied early child development….
noted on Facebook that the name should be spelled with lowercase letters - as he reiterated that he gave birth to three children who identify as nonbinary and queer.
And that, my dears, is proof of child abuse. How could a baby know such a thing about itself? Children don’t think in terms of sexuality until they approach puberty when allowed to develop normally. Before all they know is the anatomy: boys have a p3nis and babies grow in the bellies of grown up girls.
'When you misgender someone, you tell a lie about them and a truth about yourself,' reads Skelton's personal website.
Users online expressed their extreme disapproval, describing the assistant professor as 'sick', 'mentally disturbed', and 'a self-hating woman'.
Skelton, who appears as a man sporting a goatee, began working at the University of Regina in 2022, where he invites students to take courses in queer and trans studies.
The trans activist believes these courses 'invite us to move beyond binaries, and to expect, respect, and celebrate people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.'
'It's about making classrooms safe and welcoming and celebratory for 2SLGBTQ people, refusing to see heterosexuality and cissexuality as normal—heck about refusing the idea of normal,' he added.
'It's about centering the views, experiences, and knowledge of 2SLGBTQ people, and about queering and transing curriculum. For me, it means doing this informed by Queer of Color Critique, Disability Justice, Feminism, and Social Justice.'
Other posts online by Skelton show him pushing the message that 'Education is Political'.
'When people argue that we should “keep politics out of education,” what they mean is that only their politics should inform education,' wrote Skelton.
He notes on his website that his academic work centers on young children and that he is committed to creating queer- and trans-centered spaces.
Skelton's PhD thesis description reads as 'an exploration of the desires of 2SLGBTQ children and children of 2SLGBTQ parents in education, and the desires of their parents.'
In the thesis, he describes himself as 'White, Jewish, fat, not visibly disabled, and not living in poverty.'
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A baby...itself? I thought non-binary didn't exist.
In Spanish the word is non-binaria or non-binario depending on, well, you know...
#7
^ I'll use yours if you'll use mine (which I'm kinda desperate to share, if I'm honest, having gotten to use 'em in anger only a couple of times). Hey, asshole, my pronouns are "ma trigga, dat trigga."
#9
That’s ok, Snakes Lumplump2498 — between British English and American they mean precisely the same thing. It’s just that the British version sounds to the American ear like it must be more refined.
I have no idea what Brits think about our variant, though there’s a whole thing over there about using American vocabulary to sound more worldly.
#10
Mind's ear's hearing the "Brit" version with a subcontinental tinge. Maybe just a side effect of spending so much time in cheap (US) hotels lately.
Hey, thanks for the Snark o' Whatever over yonder. Just channeling the collective. ;)
[Just The News] Clay Fuller, President Donald Trump's pick to replace former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, won a special election in Georgia Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press.
Fuller won with 54% of the vote compared to Democrat Shawn Harris, who secured 46% at time of publishing, with 45% of the vote counted.
Fuller and Harris placed in the top two positions in a March special election, leading to Tuesday's runoff. The district is heavily Republican and Fuller was the solid favorite to win the seat.
Fuller's arrival in Congress is expected to prove a boost to House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has struggled to maintain unity within the narrow Republican majority.
[Allen Control Systems] ACS was founded by CEO Mike wior, president steve simoni and, CTO Luke Allen. Simoni and Allen are former U.S. Navy nuclear engineers who met in the service. Both were instrumentation and control systems engineers for Navy nuclear reactors and have backgrounds that span robotics, computer vision, machine learning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science.
After serving in the Navy, Simoni and Allen founded Bbot, a software and robotics restaurant technology startup, where they met Mike Wior, CEO and co-founder of Omnivore, a restaurant POS transaction system. Simoni and Allen’s company was acquired by DoorDash in 2022, and Wior’s company was acquired by Olo in the same year.
They created ACS in recognition that the battlefield has evolved rapidly to include machine-warfare threats. ACS is building autonomous weapon systems with a focus on counter unmanned systems for this new era of drone warfare and to completely change battlefield economics.
The ZSU-23-4 combined a proven radar system, the non-amphibious chassis based on GM-575 tracked vehicle, and four 23 mm autocannons. This delivered a highly effective combination of mobility with heavy firepower and considerable accuracy. The ZSU-23-4 outclassed all NATO anti-aircraft guns at the time, and it is still regarded as posing a major threat for low-flying fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.
Accurate fire while on the move.
Concept upgrade with a modern optical/radar target discriminator AI and Metal Storm weaponery.
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.
