[FoxNews] New Zealand police have retrieved a pricey diamond-encrusted Fabergé pendant after a bizarre six-day wait that ended only when the suspected thief crapped the egg naturally in custody, according to reports.
The recovery came after officers kept a continuous watch over the 32-year-old man, who allegedly swallowed the rare $19,000 piece during a theft at Partridge Jewelers in downtown Auckland on Nov. 28, according to The Associated Press.
The limited-edition piece is modeled after the Fabergé egg featured in the 1983 James Bond film "Octopussy," and only 50 were produced.
Crafted from 18-karat gold, painted with green enamel and set with 183 diamonds and two sapphires, the roughly 3.3-inch locket opens to reveal an intricate "18ct yellow gold octopus nestled inside, adorned with white diamond suckers and black diamond eyes," according to the store’s description.
The recovery came after officers kept a continuous watch over the 32-year-old man, who allegedly swallowed the rare $19,000 piece during a theft at Partridge Jewelers in downtown Auckland on Nov. 28, according to The Associated Press.
The man, who has not been publicly named, appeared in court on Nov. 29 but did not enter a plea to the theft charge. 6 days? Did he try to plug it in with a Tim Walz rectal tampon? Mayor Pete says, “I'll take it out."
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Given the recovery process what Female would now wear it in public?
Imagine the National Equirer picture and headline.
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Probably cheaper to give him a colonoscopy snd extract it… for medical reason. Not sure I would want to be the officer in charge of sifting the tailings during prep.
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Nonsense! A large Taco Bell meal and you'll have the results the next morning
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I am trying to stay out of tge cruel and unusual category.
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[Phuket News] The content creator, who had over 400,000 followers across multiple Instagram accounts, shared a haunting final post the day before her death.
Denise Ivonne Jarvis Gongora, a Mexican-Canadian influencer who went by the name "Mary Magdalene," died on Dec. 9 at age 33
The content creator fell from the ninth floor of a high-rise apartment in Patong, a beach town in Phuket Island, Thailand, police told local news outlets
Gongora, who had over 400,000 followers across multiple Instagram accounts, shared a haunting final post the day before her death
Denise Ivonne Jarvis Gongora, a Mexican-Canadian influencer who went by the name "Mary Magdalene" online, died on Dec. 9 after falling from the ninth floor of a high-rise apartment in Patong, a beach town in Phuket Island, Thailand. She was 33.
At 1:50 p.m., Gongora’s body was discovered by the apartment’s staff in the building’s parking area, said Captain Channarong Prakongkuea of the Patong Police Station, local outlet The Phucket News reported. Police and family members later confirmed her identity to the Daily Mail.
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DO NOT type in this lady's name into Google images!!! I've taken the hit for you. I'm an old punk rocker and I've seen a lot. But something was very wrong with her.
[IsraelTimes] Lawsuit by Gordon Jewish Community Center accuses neo-Nazi group, its leader and several associates of harassment and trespassing as part of efforts to terrorize the US city’s Jews
A Jewish community center in Nashville has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League and several of its leaders and affiliates, accusing them of orchestrating a campaign of antisemitic intimidation, harassment and trespass aimed at terrorizing the city’s Jewish community.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of the Gordon Jewish Community Center, a 120-year-old nonprofit that serves as a major hub for Jewish life in Nashville. The complaint names the Goyim Defense League, its founder and leader Jon Minadeo II, extremist streamer Paul Miller, who is also known as GypsyCrusader, and several associates.
At the center of the case is a January 2025 incident in which Travis Garland, a Tennessee man affiliated with the Goyim Defense League, allegedly disguised himself as an Orthodox Jewish man and infiltrated the Jewish center’s secured campus. According to the lawsuit, Garland livestreamed the intrusion, mocked Jewish customs and the Holocaust, and refused repeated requests to leave before being forcibly escorted off the property by a security guard.
Garland was later arrested and pleaded guilty in state court to trespassing at the Jewish center, receiving a sentence of nearly a year in jail, according to Nashville television station WTVF.
The complaint alleges Garland acted as part of a coordinated effort, receiving guidance and encouragement from Miller and others who followed the incident in real time via video chat and later promoted it online as a “stunt.”
“Using fear and harassment to threaten and intimidate groups is a despicable act that cannot be tolerated in a multicultural society,” Scott McCoy, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s deputy legal director, said in a statement. “This is the second lawsuit the SPLC has brought against the Goyim Defense League for their actions targeting Nashville’s Black and Jewish communities.”
The lawsuit also ties the January incident to a broader campaign by the Goyim Defense League during a 10-day visit to Nashville in the summer of 2024, when members of the group allegedly harassed Jewish and Black residents, assaulted a Jewish man and a biracial man, and intimidated Black children downtown while waving swastika flags. The SPLC previously filed a separate lawsuit on behalf of a biracial man who was assaulted during that tour.
According to the lawsuit, the Jewish center has spent roughly $75,000 on additional security in the wake of the incidents and says staff and members have altered how they use the campus because of heightened fear.
The lawsuit comes as the Goyim Defense League has faced mounting pressure online and in court. Following a recent investigation by Nashville television station WTVF, websites operated by Minadeo were taken offline by their domain registrar, and several of his accounts were suspended from X. Other Goyim Defense League members have been convicted or indicted in connection with violent incidents during the group’s 2024 visit to Nashville, according to local reporting.
The suit invokes the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and other federal civil rights statutes and seeks court protection as well as financial compensation and punitive damages.
“This lawsuit demonstrates the Nashville Jewish community’s resolve to stand firm in the face of antisemitic intimidation and to hold accountable those who perpetrate it,” said Ben Raybin, an attorney for the Jewish center.
For a time, the Goyim Defense League was among the most prolific distributors of antisemitic propaganda in the United States, with members spreading flyers in Jewish neighborhoods and other public spaces. While the group’s online reach appears to have diminished more recently, Nashville has remained a focal point of its activity.
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[Regnum] A large solar prominence has erupted from the Sun over the past 24 hours. Video footage of the cosmic event was released on Friday, December 12, by the press service of the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The video captures how a huge prominence forming on the star partially disappears into outer space and is partially attracted by the star's gravity.
According to scientists, it took the Sun about 24 hours to unravel the "completely crazy tangle of entangled matter and magnetic field" that had formed on its edge.
The laboratory emphasized that this process in no way relates to the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS or to the impact on Earth, since it occurred very far from them.
On the morning of December 12, two solar flares of the penultimate class A with a power of M were recorded. The first occurred at 08:05 Moscow time and lasted 24 minutes, the second at 08:44 Moscow time and lasted 26 minutes.
Before this, on the night of December 10, four flares of the penultimate power class M occurred on the Sun. They lasted for 20, 10, 11 and 16 minutes, respectively.
On the morning of December 12, two solar flares of the penultimate power class occurred. This was reported by the Institute of Applied Geophysics (IFG).
The first M2.0 flare was recorded at 8:05 AM Moscow time. It occurred in the X-ray range in sunspot group 4296 (S18W73). The event lasted 24 minutes and was accompanied by bursts of type II (with a velocity of 410 km/sec) and IV radio emission, as well as disruptions to short-wave radio communications.
The second flare was recorded at 8:44 AM Moscow time. It occurred in X-rays in sunspot group 4294 (S13W89). Its intensity was M1.1 and it lasted 26 minutes.
Both flares were recorded in the largest sunspot complex of the year, scientists clarified.
Earlier, on December 11, a plasma ejection from the Sun triggered magnetic storms on Earth. The ejection struck Earth quite hard and triggered a G2-G3 magnetic storm, which falls between moderate and strong.
On the night of December 8, a "black" solar flare occurred, a beautiful and rare phenomenon. According to scientists, after the flare, a cloud of dense, cold hydrogen was torn apart and scattered across the solar disk for approximately 1 million kilometers. This dark, faintly glowing, cold substance, against the bright background of the Sun, created the appearance of either a ghostly black flame dancing in the atmosphere of Solonets, or a mysterious dark fog that enveloped a third of the Sun's disk for several hours.
[NPR] RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — It's an extraordinary achievement to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But for this year's laureate, even getting to the ceremony was a feat of its own.
María Corina Machado spent more than a year in hiding after her opposition movement defeated Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in last year's election by a wide margin, according to voting records validated by international observers. Maduro refused to leave office and ordered a massive crackdown on the opposition.
Getting Machado out of Venezuela and safely to Oslo required an operation worthy of a thriller. At the center of that mission was U.S. Special Forces Veteran Bryan Stern, the bearded, broad-shouldered founder of Grey Bull Rescue Foundation. Stern and his team of U.S. military veterans have pulled off hundreds of extractions around the world. But this one, he says, was different.
"She's the second most popular person in the Western Hemisphere after Maduro," he said." Because of that signature, that's what made this operation very hard."
Stern and his team had only a week to plan Machado's escape, a mission they called Operation Golden Dynamite — a nod to Alfred Nobel, the Peace Prize founder who also invented dynamite.
A land route was ruled out — too many checkpoints where she'd be recognized. So, they decided to move by sea.
But they had to be careful. The U.S. military has built up a significant presence off Venezuela's coast, destroying nearly two dozen alleged narco-trafficking boats in recent months, killing at least 87 people. Stern wouldn't discuss details, but says he coordinated with U.S. officials who were aware they'd be operating in the area.
He was careful to avoid using a boat that could turn into a target. "I didn't want a big giant boat with big engines that could go fast and cut through waves," he said. "That's what the narcos use — and the U.S. military likes to blow them up."
Then their plan hit another snag: Machado's boat never arrived at the predetermined rendezvous point in the Caribbean Sea.
"We were supposed to meet in the middle, but when that couldn't happen, we pivoted and went to them," Stern said.
In pitch darkness, with 10-foot waves smashing the sides of both boats and only flashlights to guide them, nerves frayed. Each crew worried the other could be cartel members, government agents, or worse.
"I could be Maduro's guys, I could be cartel guys — anything really," Stern said. "Everyone is skittish approaching each other in the dead of night at sea. In 10-foot waves? This is scary stuff."
Finally, once they were close enough to hear one another, a voice cut across the water.
"It's me — María!"
Stern hauled her aboard. With the wind at their backs, the final leg to a Caribbean island — which he declined to name, but is widely reported to be Curacao — was mercifully smooth. A private plane was waiting to take her the rest of the way to Oslo.
Stern says Machado was tougher than the crusty veterans helping her escape.
"We're all bitching and moaning — it's cold, it's wet, we're hungry, it's dark," he said. "She didn't complain once."
Stern admits he was a bit star struck by Machado. He'd followed her fight for democratic change for years. He'd always assumed Venezuela's "Iron Lady" got her nickname from her political steeliness. But after that night, he says it's something more.
"She's gnarly," he said, laughing. "Pretty awesome."
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[Regnum] A historic drop in software developer Oracle's shares has wiped out $24.9 billion in the net worth of its co-founder, Larry Ellison, Bloomberg reported on December 12.
The company's shares fell 11% after a profit report that highlighted a sharp rise in capital expenditures on data centers for neural networks, as investors feared the costs were too slow to convert into revenue.
Despite the decline, Ellison's stake in Oracle is still worth approximately $202.8 billion, and he's more than $94.9 billion richer than he was a year ago. He also remains the third-richest person on the planet, behind Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk ($462 billion) and Google co-founder Larry Page ($268 billion).
However, his liquid assets are estimated at approximately $34.8 billion, some of which is in illiquid assets, and about 30% of his stake in Oracle is pledged as collateral for personal debt.
Investors are concerned about Oracle's rising AI spending—to $12 billion per quarter—and its rising debt load, which Morgan Stanley forecasts will nearly triple by 2028. The cost of Oracle's default insurance has also risen to a two-year high.
This is a sharp reversal from September, when Oracle shares rose 36%, after which Ellison temporarily displaced Musk as the world's richest person. Since then, Oracle shares have fallen by approximately 40%.
Oracle might have an OpenAI problem. Might?
Oracle (ORCL) stock has tumbled over 40% from its September peak, erasing more than $360 billion from its market capitalization. Nearly $67 billion of that decline occurred on Thursday alone, as Oracle’s second quarter results failed to assuage a key concern for investors — that the company is too heavily reliant on OpenAI (OPAI.PVT).
Oracle’s AI-fueled growth targets outlined in its first quarter sent the stock to a record on Sept. 10, briefly making its founder, Larry Ellison, the world's richest man. In September, the company told investors its remaining performance obligations (RPO) — or the value of its future revenue from customer contracts signed — had soared nearly 360% to $455 billion.
It was later revealed that ChatGPT developer OpenAI accounted for at least $300 billion of its customer commitments as part of the Stargate project. Since then, its stock has struggled.
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However, his liquid assets are estimated at approximately $34.8 billion, some of which is in illiquid assets, and about 30% of his stake in Oracle is pledged as collateral for personal debt.
That's the writing of someone who has really low accounting skills. "Illiquid assets" shouldn't count towards "liquidity". This is "duh" stuff.
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Musk is considering taking SpaceX public because: "A test satellite with lots of solar cells is powerful enough to do solar powered AI in space and connected to Earth via StarLink." so Musk can make MUCH more money from selling AI in space than he does from SpaceX and StarLink alone. Oracle would likely buy among many others. Musk is talking about launching them from Earth now but eventually making them on the moon with robot factories then launching them all over space with EM slingshots.
#Serbia#UAE#Sudan | Serbia 🇷🇸 as an emerging "autonomous ecosystem" for the assembly, modification and remanufacturing of Chinese 🇨🇳 drones for the Sudan 🇸🇩 conflict via UAE 🇦🇪:
Serbia is an emerging "autonomous ecosystem" for the assembly, modification and remanufacturing of Chinese drones for the Sudan 🇸🇩 conflict via UAE:
Africa Intelligence revealed a complex UCAV supply chain in Sudan 🇸🇩, after the analysis of the rest of a drone used by the RSF in December 2024. The drones used by the RSF, identified as CH-92/CH-95 models, were not simply Chinese-made: they show clear signs of assembly, modification, or partial re-manufacturing inside Serbia.
Serial numbers, hardpoint markings first seen at Serbia’s 🇷🇸 2023 Military Show, 2023-dated parts, and Czech 🇨🇿 Woodcomp propellers all indicate integration work outside China.
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Sounds like the start of a warehouse targeting package.
Allah is sending a really blatant message to the Turks: “I don’t love you anymore, not even a little.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Gigantic sinkholes hundreds of feet deep have been opening up throughout Turkey, mirroring a biblical prophecy.
The Book of Numbers, Chapter 6, describes the earth opening up and swallowing people as divine punishment for rebellion, a connection that some are drawing after the massive collapses in the Konya Plain, a key wheat-growing region.
Many have interpreted the growing phenomenon as a sign that 'God is on the move.'
However, scientists point to far more earthly causes. Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority has reported 648 massive sinkholes in the Konya Plain, primarily the result of severe drought and excessive groundwater pumping.
Researchers at Konya Technical University have discovered more than 20 new sinkholes in the past year alone, adding to the nearly 1,900 sites already mapped by 2021 where the ground was slowly sinking or starting to cave in.
Before 2000, only a handful of sinkholes appeared each decade, but climate change and prolonged drought are blamed for the dramatic increase over the past 25 years.
Today, dozens of enormous collapses occur annually, some more than 100 feet wide.
Falling groundwater tables are driving the problem, causing drier wells, stressed ecosystems, dwindling crops, and land subsidence. Farmers pumping more water to save sugar beet and corn crops are further exacerbating the situation.
Turkey Today reported that some farmers have already lost crops or had to abandon fields deemed too dangerous
According to NASA's Earth Observatory, Turkey's water reservoirs reached their lowest levels in 15 years in 2021.
The groundwater table in parts of Konya has dramatically dropped over the past few decades, according to Turkish geological studies.
[DM] A new era of drone warfare has forced the US military to reshape its strategy as it prepares for its biggest showdown in the Indo-Pacific theater.
American troops currently stationed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, have increased their training and usage of the aerial threats as they gear up for a potential war with China in the region. Such a war would be the biggest since WWII.
President Xi Jinping ordered his generals to be prepared for a possible invasion of Taiwan as early as 2027, with the US set to defend the island nation if so.
The US has long been reliant on using expensive and cumbersome ordnance, but is now moving towards utilizing electronic warfare, which China have already done.
The Wall Street Journal witnessed the army parade some of their newest acquisitions in a series of exercises last month across several Hawaiian Islands.
Troops launched a large variety of different machines on 600 flights over the two weeks, flying through dense jungle foliage and battling intense.
The aim of the exercises was to test the drones in thick and muggy tropical conditions, as drones tend to wobble in the heat due to overworked motors.
It's not just the drones either, with the outlet witnessing soldiers whizzing around the islands on a new series of watercraft designed to move across beaches.
One official told the outlet that the vehicle, which was unnamed in their report, is their biggest game changer since the invention of night vision.
And should a war break out, old school cannon artillery has been replaced by a Himars missile platform that can be transported on the rear of a truck.
The Wall Street Journal reported that 16 of those systems are already on the ground in Hawaii awaiting deployment.
The type of fighting in the region would be vastly different from the desert regions of the Middle East where US troops have spent the most of their time in recent decades.
As drones, which are both cheap and expendable, look to dominate future battles soldiers are also taking their own precautions against them.
Command posts deep in the jungles of Hawaii are being stripped back to the bare necessities.
Camouflage nets and thick shrubbery being used over vehicles, while troops paint their faces with thick green paint, the outlet reported.
Major General James Bartholomees, commander of the Army's 25th Infantry Division that focuses on the region, said that the use drones make everyone visible.
He said: 'The truth of the modern battlefield is that everyone can be seen. It’s a bit of a cat-and-mouse game that we’re watching and learning from in Ukraine.
'There are vignettes that are easily seen on YouTube of how you see a drone that’s defeated in one way, that then there’s a counter that’s already planned.
Some soldiers now carry M4 assault rifles that are equipped with a 'smart shooter' scope that locks onto a drone and fires a round when lined up.
Troops are also being handed wearable drone blockers, which detect incoming aerials and then jams the drone with an electromagnetic 'arrow'.
According to Sgt. First Class Kamakaniokalani Mann Tomita the shift towards modern technology has been both drastic and dramatic.
He told the outlet that in a year his infantry platoon has went from having one drone to seven types to experiment with.
Most recently he said that he learned how to use a flock of drones in a kamikaze-style attack.
Tomita described how seven drones went up and with just a few touches of a screen two left the pack and hit the target. 'It's very, very terrifying to be frank', he added.
The exercise was a run through on what could be a very real reality someday if a US ally's island territory comes under attack, with US troops dropped in not long after.
If Beijing was to invade and the US decided to come to the island's aid then American soldiers would find themselves fighting in islands between Japan and the Philippines.
With that in mind, officials brought in a new combat training facility in Hawaii in 2022, named the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center.
Just last month, 8,000 personnel from the US, Taiwan, France and Malaysia congregated at the site and carried out a litany of training exercises.
It marked the first time that US soldiers were able to train with the new equipment that the Army is trialing.
In the new year one of the brigades will travel to Philippines to stress-test the equipment.
Command Sgt. Maj. Shaun Curry of the 25th Infantry Division added: 'We can quickly turn lessons learned.
'Did it work here in Hawaii and then does it work in the first island chain in 100 degrees heat, in 100% humidity.'
It's not just a change in military technology that has changed either, their whole procurement process is looking to shift dramatically.
Officials are looking to break down what is an arduous process by giving commanders on the ground more flexibility.
To further ready troops, the US will also need to increase the production of drones, which the Army is looking to spur on in the next few years.
Benjamin Jensen, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, warned that officials need to ensure there is enough to go around.
He told the outlet: 'The one fear I have is that we develop an army of amazing prototypes but we don’t have a deep-enough magazine depth.'
Staff Sgt. Thanh Ho, a drone specialist, also admitted to the outlet that as far drones are concerned the US is 'a little behind, we need to play the catch-up game'.
He is part of a new faction called the multifunctional reconnaissance company which involves human scouts and drone pilots working as a team.
The ultimate goal is to find and eliminate enemy drone operators, with one soldier joking with the outlet that 'nerds' are now being brought in for the frontline work.
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What about the CCP rebuilding the old WW-II US airbase on Yap island in Micronesia not far from Guam? Why didn't the Biden Regime attempt to stop it?
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.
