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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Death in the Valley: Two Israelis Murdered Saturday in San Fernando Valley
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[JewishJournal] The LAPD is investigating the homicides in what appear to be unrelated incidents. Three suspects have been arrested.

The LAPD is investigating the homicides of two Israeli men found dead in their residences on Saturday in what appear to be unrelated incidents.

Police were called to a home on the 22200 block of De La Osa Street in Woodland Hills just before 1 a.m. on Saturday, April 26. There, they discovered the body of 47-year-old Alexander Modebadze. The Israeli businessman moved to the U.S. 15 years ago and, according to neighbors, had been living in the house for the past couple of years.

He was found badly beaten, with severe head trauma, and was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the attack was premeditated and staged to look like a robbery. Eyewitnesses told police they saw a group of people entering the house before fleeing the scene. Officers collected evidence and reviewed surveillance footage, along with forensic material, in an attempt to identify the suspects and determine the motive.

"We found very unusual signs at the scene that indicate murder," said detectives from the Valley Police. "We believe that the fact that there were people in the house who fled shortly before the body was found suggests that the incident was criminal, and we are working to locate the suspects involved."

Three suspects were arrested a few hours later and identified as Georgian nationals: Pata Kochiashvili (38), Zaza Outarashvili (46), and Basiki Kutsishvili (52). According to the LAPD, the three broke into Modebadze’s home, held him captive for hours, beat him severely, and caused his death from head trauma. They then fled with stolen property.
Could be a simple case of robbery and murder by vicious illegals or they could be paid agents of Iran. Hopefully the answer will be revealed.
The arrests were made with the assistance of the FBI.
A staged crime scene and the FBI involved? Hmmm…
Kochiashvili was apprehended in the Van Nuys neighborhood, while Outarashvili and Kutsishvili were arrested together in nearby Glendale. Each is being held on $2 million bail.

Witnesses reported seeing several suspicious individuals enter the home late at night and leave shortly after. Neighbors described Modebadze as a sociable man with no known public disputes.

Later that day, at 2:30 p.m., police were called to an apartment on the 12600 block of Riverside Drive in Valley Village, to conduct a welfare check after relatives were unable to reach the resident. Upon arrival, they found the body of businessman Menashe "Manny" Hidra, the brother of Nitzan Prison Warden Moshe Hidhra in Israel.

Police have not disclosed the nature of his injuries, and it is not yet confirmed whether a firearm or knife was used.

There is no apparent connection between the two incidents.
The Jewish Journal has a photo of Manny in front of his clothing store. The New York Post has photos of Mr. Modebadze’s house, and adds about Mr. Hidhra or Khidhra:
Police have revealed few details about that crime, including how he was killed, but they did release photos of a possible suspect: a 30 to 40-year-old Hispanic male.

AOL shares an interesting report from the Los Angeles Times about the two crimes: 'I'm going to die': After frantic 911 calls, LAPD initially missed victims killed inside their homes
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2025 2025-05-03 01:24 || Comments || Link || [126 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It's crazy that there were 911 calls on Wednesday and they didn't discover him until Saturday," said Kaci Harabedian, one of the complex's residents. "

When trouble strikes, the police are only days away.

Curious that the FBI is involved in what appears to be local murder. Perhaps the perps already had their own Known Wolf file.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/03/2025 8:23 Comments || Top||


School bus aide charged with nine felony assault charges and two misdemeanor child abuse charges
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [113 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Seeing, that she is clearly a Black ADULT and the small child is white.

Was this attack Race Hate based?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/03/2025 5:55 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2025 21:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
USAID Depopulation Agenda Exposed
[Prepare For Change] One man used AI to map the entire agenda—and what he uncovered is absolutely mind-boggling. It’s darker and more complex than anyone ever imagined. And the blueprint is still active today.

The Vigilant Fox
Apr 18, 2025

The population control network is so vast, so deeply embedded in our institutions, that mapping it out literally resembles a galaxy.

One man has put in the work to connect the dots—with the help of AI. His name is Andrew Arnold.

According to Arnold, one of the earliest launch points of the population control agenda began in the 1930s, with birth control experiments conducted in Puerto Rico. These trials were quietly carried out on marginalized communities—without their knowledge or consent—and were planned and funded by elite foundations and government-connected institutions.

But that was just the beginning.

As Arnold continued digging, the connections only got darker. The same elites pushing global birth control programs were also deeply embedded in the military-industrial complex. Members of Skull and Bones, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Council on Foreign Relations weren’t just involved—they were leading the charge.

He also found that the UN’s population division was seeded by U.S. intelligence-linked think tanks in the 1950s. What looked like neutral, data-driven planning was actually a soft-power weapon for global demographic manipulation.

Even Planned Parenthood, Arnold explains, was never just about "women’s health." It evolved from a web of eugenics-driven organizations tied to powerful families like the Rothschilds and Warburgs—used not to empower, but to control populations under the banner of reproductive rights.

Population control didn’t go away—it simply rebranded. Arnold describes it as a long-term playbook for global dominance. And once you see how the military, academia, and elite philanthropy merged into one calculated system of engineered depopulation, it’s impossible to unsee.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2025 09:15 || Comments || Link || [148 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Puerto Rico Pill Trials
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2025 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Incredible. Shocking. But I'm afraid we're getting too accustomed to such stories and they're getting more believable with each new revelation.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/03/2025 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  One might argue that population control makes the planet more livable for those who are chosen to live and have babies. But who is really doing the choosing?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/03/2025 10:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Planned Parenthood was pushing family planning — and therefore eugenics birth control — in the 1920s, according to an anecdote shared in Cheaper By The Dozen, the story of that large New England family fathered by industrial efficiency expert Frank Gilbreth and mothered by a psychologist. Sometime before Mr, Gilbreth died in 1924, someone sent the local FP expert to call on Mrs. Gilbreth as a practical joke, which she handled with her usual aplomb.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2025 13:33 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Snowfall in Moscow on the night of May 2 broke a 116-year-old record
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On the night of Friday, May 2, heavy snowfall hit Moscow and the Moscow region. As a result, the capital region broke the 116-year-old record for the amount of precipitation. This was reported by leading specialist of the Phobos weather center Evgeny Tishkovets.

According to the weather forecaster, a record amount of snow fell in Moscow and the Moscow region during this time, and the trees that fell as a result damaged cars and tore down power lines.

“The capital region has broken a 116-year-old precipitation record,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, heavy snowfall began in Perm on the morning of April 28 and continued for almost a day. As a result of the bad weather and limited visibility, the work of the Bolshoye Savino International Airport was suspended. Snow removal equipment continued to combat the consequences of the rampant elements throughout the night.

It was later revealed that the snowfall in Perm was the strongest such natural phenomenon for the city in the 21st century. The amount of precipitation was higher than expected and exceeded 30 cm at a number of stations.

Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [82 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Global Warming is here to stay!
Posted by: Old Salty || 05/03/2025 11:58 Comments || Top||


Magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits off coast of Chile
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A strong earthquake measuring 7.5 has occurred off the coast of Chile. This was reported on May 2 by the country's seismological service and emergency prevention service.

The tremors were recorded at 08:58 (15:58 Moscow time), their epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 218 km from the city of Puerto Williams on the island of Navarino (Tierra del Fuego archipelago), where 1.6 thousand people live. The earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 10 km.

A tsunami warning was also issued due to the tremors, with the country's National Disaster Prevention and Response Service reporting that the coastal area of ​​the Magallanes region in the south of the country would be evacuated because of the tremors.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on April 27, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 was recorded in the south Pacific Ocean near Macquarie Island, which is part of Australia. The epicenter of the tremors was located at a distance of about 1.5 thousand km from the large island of Tasmania. The threat of a tsunami was not declared at that time.

Later that day, a magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck southeastern Turkey, with its epicenter 44 km from Elazig province, home to about 300,000 people.

Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [55 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
U.S. adds 177,000 jobs in April, unemployment unchanged at 4.2%
[BLS] A total of 272,000 jobs added in May, unemployment rate edged up to 4.0%.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 177,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Employment continued to trend up in health care, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and social assistance. Federal government employment declined.

Health care added 51,000 jobs in April, about the same as the average monthly gain of 52,000 over the prior 12 months. In April, job growth continued in hospitals (+22,000) and ambulatory health care services (+21,000).

Employment in transportation and warehousing increased by 29,000 in April, following little change in the prior month (+3,000). Job gains occurred in warehousing and storage (+10,000), couriers and messengers (+8,000), and air transportation (+3,000) in April. Transportation and warehousing had added an average of 12,000 jobs per month over the prior 12 months.

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labor participation rate, part time working when they want full time and other indicators were only marginally different from March

Rantburgians will mostly like that the April decrease in Federal employment was about 9k which brings the 2025 total decrease to about 22k.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [81 views] Top|| File under:



Europe
Woman dies when a bomb she is carrying explodes in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police say
[AyPee] A woman was killed early Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki when a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands, police said.

The 38-year-old woman apparently was carrying the bomb to place outside a nearby bank around 5 a.m., police said.

Several storefronts and vehicles were damaged by the explosion.

Police said the woman, whom they did not publicly identify, had a criminal record related to drugs and prostitution and had been involved in at least one robbery and thefts in the past. The Greek police’s division for organized crime was investigating the incident, while authorities were also investigating whether the woman might have had ties to extreme leftist groups.
Greece’s Communists and Anarchists have been blowing things up — and shooting things up —since the 19th century. That’s why most of their nicest things are ruins.
Greece has seen occasional bombings, as well as targeted killings, attributed to various organized crime groups. The country also has a long history of politically motivated violence dating back to the 1970s, with domestic extremist groups carrying out small-scale bombings that usually cause some damage but rarely lead to injuries.

While the groups most active in the 1980s and 1990s, whose preferred targets tended to be politicians, foreign businesses and diplomats, have been dismantled, new small groups have emerged.

Last year, a man believed to have been trying to assemble a bomb was killed when the device he was making exploded in a central Athens apartment. A woman inside the apartment was severely injured. It was unclear what their intended target might have been. The blast had prompted Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrisochoidis to warn of an emerging new generation of domestic extremists.

In April, a new group calling itself Revolutionary Class Struggle claimed responsibility for a bomb that exploded in central Athens near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway services operator, and the planting of another bomb near the Labor Ministry in early February.

The explosion near the train offices resulted in limited damage to the building and no injuries. It had been preceded by an anonymous call to local media 40 minutes before the blast warning about the device, leading police to evacuate and cordon off the area. The group that claimed responsibility said the bombing was part of an armed struggle against the state.

The bombing at the train offices came shortly after the second anniversary of Greece’s worst railway disaster, in which 57 people were killed and dozens more injured when a freight train and a passenger train heading in opposite directions were accidentally put on the same track. The deadly accident sparked widespread anger and exposed severe deficiencies in Greece’s railway system, including in safety systems. Some of the relatives of the victims led mass protests against the country’s conservative government on the occasion of the accident’s second anniversary.
Posted by: Joe of the Jungle || 05/03/2025 04:04 || Comments || Link || [128 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Oops!
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2025 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Not what was meant by "She's da bomb", but it fits.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/03/2025 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Revolutionary Class Struggle?!?!

Ah, the classics. None of this fancy new jihad stuff for Greece. Just OG terror
Posted by: Secret Master || 05/03/2025 13:34 Comments || Top||

#4  C'mon now, where's the old "Why haven't we heard a name yet?" spirit? I'm going with Turkish provocation. Or Venetians.


Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 05/03/2025 16:28 Comments || Top||


It's All About Money: Why the Spanish Blackout Investigation Was Classified
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Vladimir Dobrynin

[REGNUM] As promised by Spanish newspapers, the country's "relevant" authorities have begun to study the causes of the global power outage ("apagon") that occurred in the kingdom on April 28 and lasted for about 12 hours in most regions.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 05/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [119 views] Top|| File under:



Home Front: Politix
Stephen Miller Top Contender to Replace Mike Waltz As Trump's National Security Advisor
[RedState] Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's fiery deputy chief of staff and one of his top advisors, is reportedly the top contender to replace Mike Waltz as Trump's next National Security Advisor.

Waltz abruptly left the position on Thursday. Initially, there was speculation that it was tied to "Signalgate," after it was revealed that Trump administration officials used the Signal app to discuss sensitive military operations and that a journalist was mistakenly added to a private group chat. But Trump then announced he was nominating Waltz to serve as UN Ambassador.

According to Axios, five sources familiar with the situation told the outlet that Miller was likely to get the job — if he wants it. More on that in a bit.

One of the sources (in the White House) told Axios that Miller has made the Homeland Security Council run "like clockwork" and that the organization is "infinitely more effective than the NSC [National Security Council] with a tiny fraction" of previous staff.

The 39-year-old founder of America First Legal, a 501 nonprofit organization that prides itself in "fighting back against lawless executive actions and the radical left," is a fearless defender of the administration's legal push for immediate deportation of illegal aliens without court hearings. Meanwhile, Democrat-nominated federal district court judges continue to unconstitutionally block Trump's efforts to deport illegals, many of whom were convicted of violent crimes in their home countries, while some are also members of the notorious MS-13 or Tren de Aragua gangs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2025 00:17 || Comments || Link || [61 views] Top|| File under:


Trump administration plans major downsizing at U.S. spy agencies
[MSN] The Trump administration is planning significant personnel cuts at the Central Intelligence Agency and other major U.S. spy units, downsizing the government’s most sensitive national security agencies, according to people familiar with the plans.

The administration recently informed lawmakers on Capitol Hill that it intends to reduce the CIA’s workforce by about 1,200 personnel over several years and cut thousands more from other parts of the U.S. intelligence community, including at the National Security Agency, a highly secretive service that specializes in cryptology and global electronic espionage, a person familiar with the matter said. The person, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.
When they focus their efforts instead of wasting staff time on various politically correct/social justice/DEI issues they won’t need nearly as many people to get the job done.
The specifics of the planned cuts have not been previously reported.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [184 views] Top|| File under:


#2 
I hope the 5% RIF focuses on eliminating the CCP, DC Elite, and Globalist Political Plants, and the usual do nothing, desk jockeys & the MSM leakers.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/03/2025 6:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Needs to start at the top. No "retirement" false reduction calculating or hidden annuitant hiring exemptions.

* Don't forget the 'Other Gov't Agency' (OGA) embeds.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2025 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Incarceration is another form of RIF.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2025 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Ha !
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2025 9:57 Comments || Top||

#6  When they focus their efforts instead of wasting staff time on various politically correct/social justice/DEI issues they won’t need nearly as many people to get the job done.

Oh, you mean like conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected POTUS? If I was Trump I'd assign a division of Marines to escort every last one of them to the parking lot at Langley with pink slips in their hands.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/03/2025 11:10 Comments || Top||

#7  I mean, how do you know which ones are there to serve their country and which ones are there to serve the Deep State? The only safe thing to do is purge them all.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/03/2025 11:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Abu takes the trophy. Global shi* disturbers the lot. Bring on the Marines.
What's another empty building in D.C.?

You wanna pull the Deep State out by the roots, that's how you do it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2025 11:58 Comments || Top||

#9  with pink slips entrails in their hands
Posted by: Wholuper Clomoting9725 || 05/03/2025 20:03 Comments || Top||



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