[CBSnews] Grenade found in grandfather's belongings kills Indiana man, injures 2 teens.
A man was killed and two teenagers were injured after a hand grenade that was found in a grandfather's belongings went off in an Indiana home, police said.
Shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday, the Lake County Sheriff's Office responded to a call about an explosion at a home in the Lakes of the Four Seasons neighborhood, Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. said in a statement.
Police found a man, identified by the Lake County Coroner's Office as 47-year-old Bryan Niedert, unresponsive. He was later declared dead, police said.
Niedert's 14-year-old son and 18-year-old daughter were taken to a local hospital with shrapnel wounds, according to police.
The grenade exploded after someone in the home found it among a grandfather's belongings and pulled the pin, police said.
The Porter County Bomb Squad was called to secure the area and determine whether there may be additional explosive devices, police said.
"They're attractive occasions of sin
That make a cacaphonous din
And get under my skin...
Common sense FTW!"
[issues edict for adding
a lock and a pad
so the chucker can key in a PIN]
[BBC] It's hard to not be accepted for who you are. It's harder still if the ones not accepting you are your parents.
And that's why a recent Starbucks ad about parents rekindling ties with their adult daughter - a transgender woman - has touched a chord with many.
In the ad, the couple meet their daughter in a coffee shop after being estranged from her for years and the father shows his acceptance of her decision to transition by addressing her by her chosen name, Arpita, instead of Arpit.
The ad was released earlier this month with the hashtag - It Starts With Your Name - and has since been viewed over a million times on YouTube and has over eight million views on Twitter. Many users praised the brand for its message of inclusivity, and for featuring a transgender model in the lead role.
"A parent's love and acceptance to their trans kid is truly everything," wrote one user, while another said that it was "about time to move past transphobia".
But the ad was also criticised by some users who accused the brand of tokenism and claimed it was "against Indian culture".
Model Glorious Luna at couturier Gaurav Gupta's store opening in Mumbai
This isn't the first ad to spark a conversation around the transgender community in India.
In 2021, an ad by Indian jewellery house Bhima won hearts for telling the story of transition of a trans woman. It featured transgender model, Meera, who had told the BBC that doing the ad "helped me become more comfortable with myself".
India has an estimated two million transgender people. Despite a Supreme Court ruling that they have equal rights as other genders, many continue to suffer abuse and stigma. Several transgender people are alienated by their families and have to resort to begging, prostitution or performing at events to earn a living.
However, people from the community say that things are slowly changing for the better, at least in certain spaces, and that they and their stories are finding some amount of representation in mainstream culture - whether it be in ads, movies or fashion shows.
The recently concluded Lakme Fashion Week - one of India's biggest and most respectable fashion events - had two transgender women and a non-binary person in its pool of models for the first time, and they walked the ramp for some of India's top designers. The event also presented a collection by Saisha Shinde - as established designer who came out as a transgender woman in 2021.
Mainstream fashion magazines are profiling trans models; a few top designers are dressing them for events and roping them in for their campaign launches and store openings.
[FoxNews] 'There are reasons defamation laws exist, and we plan to pursue that,' Sarah Comrie's lawyer said.
A prominent civil rights attorney deleted his viral tweet that attacked a female New York City hospital worker hours after her lawyer threatened defamation lawsuits in a Fox News segment against those who defamed her.
Ben Crump, who has been a lead attorney in several police brutality cases, tweeted a viral video with more than 4 million views of a verbal altercation between a pregnant New York City physician assistant and multiple young Black men before deleting it hours later after the segment aired and went viral on Twitter.
"This is unacceptable!" Crump captioned the tweet with the video. "A white woman was caught on camera attempting to STEAL a Citi Bike from a young Black man in NYC. She grossly tried to weaponize her tears to paint this man as a threat. This is EXACTLY the type of behavior that has endangered so many Black men in the past!"
There was no follow-up tweet with a correction or an apology.
Sarah Comrie, a physician assistant at Bellevue Hospital, was put on leave after the video sparked outrage. Her attorney, Justin Marino, said Comrie is six months pregnant and had just finished a 12-hour shift prior to the viral footage.
"She's been called a racist," Marino told Fox News on Friday. "She's been called a thief. There are reasons defamation laws exist, and we plan to pursue that."
Crump deleted his tweet hours after the Fox News segment. Marino said Comrie had to go "in hiding" after the video went viral.
The men in the video with Comrie said they had paid to use the bike, despite her lawyer saying that receipts show she purchased it.
"Around that time these individuals were claiming that that was their bike," Marino said, "someone pushed the bike while she was on it, back into the docking station so it locked again."
Marino said he was hired because Comrie feared she may lose her job.
Crump did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on whether he plans to apologize for his tweet.
[Substack] The Amish didn't lockdown, social distance, mask, or take a vaccine. It was business as usual. Few died. I offered $2,500 for anyone who could name >5 Amish who died. No takers. Just excuses.
The traditional Amish do not vaccinate. And they are a tight knit community. So they are the perfect placebo cohort. We just compare the rate of death of the unvaccinated Amish with the rate of death of people in the same area.
I recently learned that it’s likely that in the >50,000 person unvaccinated Amish community in Lancaster, PA there are less than a handful of people who died from COVID. Lancaster is the largest Amish community in the US.
Wow.
If nobody in the world can name more than 5 Amish unvaxxed people who died in Lancaster, PA, it means the entire pandemic response (lockdowns, business closures, school closures, church closures, testing, masking, social distancing, mandates, not testing people for immunity before vaccination, and vaccination) was completely unnecessary and counterproductive. Whoops!
So my "Can you name >5?" challenge posted to Twitter is an objective test that should be trivial to win if the medical journal papers are right about there being a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
So far, nobody could name >5 unvaxxed Amish people in Lancaster, PA who died from COVID. In fact, they can’t name anyone. Zero.
People just came up with excuses, referenced vaccinated Amish who died, thought a Mennonite is the same thing as an Amish person, etc. The list of excuses was endless. The number of qualifying names? Zero.
If you want objective proof that our society was destroyed for nothing, my Amish bet is your proof.
The Amish did nothing and their death toll was 30X lower than ours. They operated as if nothing happened.
Will we learn from them? Not a chance.
The CDC will never do a study on the Amish; it would be too embarrassing for them. It would show the world that the CDC everything they demanded of us was both harmful and unnecessary; it made things worse. And the stuff the CDC said to not do? Well, that’s what the Amish did. You know; like that horse paste....
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So, the austere Amish lifestyle does not engender sufficient ancillary physiological conditions that led to general systems failure? Who would have thought.
#7
Having worked with Amish for many years I would have to say I have found them a delightful group. They suffer many of today's ailments perhaps at a greater frequency. Covid was a no show but among the general population Covid related deaths have been historic. Amish riddle, on what side of the horse does the horse hair grow best?. On the outside.
#12
Sturgis and two Super Bowls. Some Branch Covidians called it the "Super Spreader Bowl" (clever, what?).
Clever and so pathetically fucking wrong. I meant to mention that some time ago, but I was digging out from all of the retractions and apologies and acts of contrition that it took a while.
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not sure the autopsy reports on Amish deaths were done the same as general population
and, as others have said, the general health of the population may be better than the average population
in addition, their culture has some degree of social distancing as a general practice.
Personally, I expected Covid to devastate the homeless population because of the general poor health, etc. but, as far as I can tell, that didn't happen
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Being outside and in shape is almost as good as following Fauci’s dictates.
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@#4 - Not only that, a volcano can spew so much C02 that the tree huggers won't know what hit 'em.
And if we get a bad eruption that causes a global temperature drop, say good-bye to any decent crop harvests with the sun being blocked for at least a year.
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It's called freedom of movement. Ask them where they want to go and they do. Congratulations Eric, you are a model of America for them. What is happening to your city is what has been happening to the country for years. As ye sow...
[BBC] Facebook's owner, Meta, has been fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling people's data when transferring it between Europe and the United States.
Issued by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), it is the largest fine imposed under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation privacy law.
GDPR sets out rules companies must follow to transfer user data outside of the EU.
Meta says it will appeal against the "unjustified and unnecessary" ruling.
At the crux of this decision is the use of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) to move European Union data to the US.
These legal contracts, prepared by the European Commission, contain safeguards to ensure personal data continues to be protected when transferred outside Europe.
But there are concerns these data flows still expose Europeans to the US's weaker privacy laws - and US intelligence could access the data.
[Jpost] Two men were sentenced on Friday for conspiring to attack US electric substations in a plot motivated by white supremacy and intended to sow civil unrest and economic distress, the US Justice Department said.
Christopher Cook, 21, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 92 months in prison, and Jonathan Frost, 25, of Katy, Texas, and West Lafayette, Indiana, was given 60 months, DOJ said in a press release.
Cook and Frost each pleaded guilty in February 2022 to one count of conspiring to provide material support to extremists. Jackson Sawall of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was also charged and pleaded guilty in February 2022 and will be sentenced at a later date, DOJ said.
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Guilty of conspiring to provide support… sounds like some suckers got caught in another scheme dreamed up by the Feebs. Seems like the only criminals they can catch are the ones they create.
Indian Police Arrest Nigerian Man, Female Accomplice Who Pose As High-ranking Government Officials In Foreign Countries To Defraud Women On Dating Sites | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/iWADoFsbrCpic.twitter.com/oafjRvRg4N
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Indian Gurugram Police’s cybercrime department said it has arrested a 38-year-old Nigerian man identified as Daniel Gozie for allegedly defrauding a woman of Rs 1.73 lakh after he posed as a The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... -based high-ranking government official on a matrimonial website with the help of an accomplice.
“I am a Nigerian PRINCE in need of a BEAUTIFUL WIFE. Please respond eith a deposit of 50,000 ruppeessmto cover the cost of the paperwork because I have seen your picture and want to GET MARRRIED right away.”
The police said that Gozie was arrested from Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area on Thursday alongside his 33-year-old female accomplice identified as Gabriella Sharmila, a native of West Bengal’s Darjeeling.
Indian Today reports that five mobile phones that were used in the fraud have been recovered from the suspects who are both members of the same gang police said it busted on May 11, 2023.
City police said that it arrested six people on May 11 including four Nigerian nationals, for making fake profiles of wealthy Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) on a matrimonial website as part of a racket to dupe women on the sites.
The victim’s complaint was filed on March 31, 2023. She connected with a man on a matrimonial website who introduced himself as Shiva Jadhav, a project manager at ’Diamond Construction Limited’ in Turkiye.
She said in the police complaint that the "accused talked to me regularly and after some days he told me that he was sending a gift parcel for me, which contained some gold jewellery and other items."
The victim said a woman contacted her claiming to be calling from the Mumbai airport, adding, "She told me that a parcel has arrived from Shiva Jadhav in my name and to get this parcel I have to deposit Rs 38,500 as tax."
The victim said that even after depositing the amount in a bank account shared by the woman, the victim kept getting calls asking for more fees to receive the parcel. A total of Rs 1,73,000 was taken from her.
An FIR was filed at Cyber Crime Police Station, South Gurugram based on the victim’s complaint and the accused were arrested on Thursday.
Gurgaon ACP (Crime) Varun Dahiya, said, "During interrogation, the accused revealed that they contact women through social media and matrimonial sites and befriended them after posing as high-ranking government officials, businessmen and doctors in foreign countries."
According to the ACP, after winning their trust, the victims are told that they will receive a gift parcel at which point another member of the gang, posing as a government tax or customs officer, calls the victim.
Dahiya said, "The arrested woman revealed that she had got the money transferred after posing as a customs officer. The accused Nigerian used to provide SIM cards and bank accounts to commit fraud."
The police ACP said that the suspects are currently in police custody and being questioned.
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Nigerian fraudsters actually arrested for shenanigans. We’ll have dogs and cats sleeping together next.
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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.
[Substack] The Amish didn't lockdown, social distance, mask, or take a vaccine. It was business as usual. Few died. I offered $2,500 for anyone who could name >5 Amish who died. No takers. Just excuses.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
