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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Naked teacher caught inside school with sex toys, drugs and womens underwear: cops
[NYPOST] A Florida teacher was caught naked inside of an elementary school classroom with sex toys, marijuana and women's underwear — and punched a cop while trying to flee the scene, according to police.

Joe Urias, 34, was found in the K-5 Windmill Point Elementary School in Port St. Lucie — not the school where he taught — when cops responded to a reported burglary on Thanksgiving night, according to a police report obtained by CBS 12.

When the naked teacher spotted the deputy, he quickly dressed himself and ran for the door, the police report said.

As he tried to flee, Urias allegedly punched the deputy in the face, but the officer was able to hold him until backup arrived, the document said.

Officers then found sex toys, marijuana and a makeshift place to sleep in the classroom — as well as women's underwear, the report said.

Urias was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, burglary, possession of marijuana and battery of a law enforcement officer.

He is being held at the St. Lucie County jail on a $31,000 bond, according to jail records.

It was not clear how — or why — Urias was in that particular school. He instead taught at another local one, Somerset College Preparatory Academy, which said it was aware of the allegations against ''an individual formerly employed at our school.''
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A reminder that the worst people in the world are teaching our children
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2024 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2 

Remember, most State Educational systems require staff around children to take a mental Health and sexual perversion Test prior to employment.

It seems testing the testers and recertifying them might be in order.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 5:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Well we can name one of the Dem voters in Florida.
Posted by: alanc || 12/05/2024 9:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Another Florida man story...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/05/2024 18:23 Comments || Top||


UK band Sports Team robbed at gunpoint in California on first day of US tour
[NYPOST] British rock band Sports Team was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight on Monday when they had stopped for coffee in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, on the first day of their US tour.

The band — consisting of frontman Alex Rice, guitarists Rob Knaggs and Henry Young, bassist Oli Dewdney, drummer Al Greenwood, and keyboardist Ben Mack — touched down in California ahead of their first gig in Sacramento on Tuesday.

But after stopping at a Starbucks in Vallejo — nearly an hour away from their show — at 9 a.m., the band's van was ransacked by a group of gunnies.
How lovely — they had a genuine California experience not often vouchsafed to visitors from foreign climes.
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
7.0 Quake off California coast. Major tsunami alert (just called off).
Posted by: 3dc || 12/05/2024 14:44 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Local and national reporting after an hour show no significant impact as of 11:52 PST. Epicenter off Eureka CA and local video feed shows nothing extraordinary .
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/05/2024 14:55 Comments || Top||

#2  BaRT transbay tube was closed and a lot of other things were cancelled or curtailed. Several thousand people in Humboldt county lost power.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/05/2024 17:14 Comments || Top||

#3  We could feel it here in Gerlach Nevada 240 miles north and east from Sacramento.
Posted by: Secret Master || 12/05/2024 17:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Only question is if it was a precursor to a larger quake. Doubtful, but possible.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/05/2024 18:35 Comments || Top||

#5  -Somebody- play meteor simulator an forget to leave the safeties on?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/05/2024 19:54 Comments || Top||


A falling asteroid lights up the sky in Russia''s remote Yakutia
[GEO.TV] An asteroid lit up the sky in Russia's remote far eastern region of Yakutia early on Wednesday, producing a fireball before likely burning up in the atmosphere, officials and scientists said.

The emergencies ministry in Yakutia said all official bodies had been placed on alert as the asteroid approached but that no damage had been reported after its descent.

"Residents of Olekminsk and Lensk districts were able to observe in the night a tail similar to a comet and a flash," it said.

The European Space Agency, writing on X, said the asteroid was believed to have measured 70 cm (28 inches) across and was spotted about 12 hours in advance of its appearance in the sky. It said it entered the atmosphere at 1.15 am local time.

"Thanks to observations from astronomers around the world, our alert system was able to predict this impact to within /- 10 seconds," the agency said.

Astronomer Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen's University in Belfast, quoted by New Scientist magazine, said before the fireball appeared that the asteroid was "a small one, but it will still be quite spectacular, visible for hundreds of kilometres".
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Asteroid Simulator

Given the size, of less than 3ft.

The simulator says it likely blew up or burned up 19 miles above the ground.

Wake me when it's cruise ship size.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 5:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Fess up. How many of you made DC the impact point?
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/05/2024 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't waste a good Asteroid on a Land base hit.
It would only get you amere 900k to 1.2 Million total killed liberals.

For maximum Liberal elimination, go for coastal cities.
LA, SF and NYC using an impact of 4 to 5 miles offshore.

The impact will create a 2,500+ ft tall tsunami.

It's good for about 2 to 3+ Million liberals killed at those 3 locations

Example:
SF 4 to 5 miles offshore:
An estimated 2,363,310 people would die from the fireball alone.
A 260+ decibel shock wave get you another estimated 221,252 people.
An estimated 901,728 people would die from the 30,403 mph wind speed blast.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm beginning to wonder if the increasing frequency of reporting is NOT due to farther reaches of remote sensing but the occurrence of a 'harbinger density function'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2024 12:23 Comments || Top||


Sex-crazed workers at troubled VA facility had 12-person orgy
[NYPOST] A congressional investigation into sexual misconduct allegations at a troubled Veterans Affairs facility in Tennessee revealed that at least 12 officials who worked there took part in an orgy — and one employee had sex with 32 different co-workers.

Several VA officials in the state have resigned amid the probe into the Mountain Home VA Medical Center, also known as the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center, as the investigation has intensified, according to Breitbart News.

A bargaining unit biomedical employee had sexual relationships with 32 different women who worked at the facility — and he and several of the women bragged about it on an online government communication portal that VA officials use to communicate, sources told the outlet.

At least two employees fessed up to having sex on the VA hospital’s grounds, the report said.

Twelve staffers also engaged in an orgy together, according to Breitbart, which said it was not yet clear if that took place on government property.

"The fact that the culture would even allow this to happen in the first place is absolutely wild and it all starts at the top," a senior congressional aide familiar with the investigation told Breitbart News on Tuesday.
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
“Your job is to make sure it’s lethality, lethality, lethality! Anything else that distracts from that shouldn’t be happening.”
[X]


… Anything else that distracts from that shouldn’t be happening.”
Posted by: 3dc || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The question is "lethal" to whom?

Sorry, I couldn't resist!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/05/2024 1:03 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Cuba''s electric grid collapses after power plant failure leaving millions without light
[GEO.TV] Cuba's national electrical system collapsed early on Wednesday morning after the country's largest power plant failed, the government said, the latest of several such failures as the island's grid falls into disarray amid fuel shortages, natural disaster and economic crisis.
"The treadmill hamsters died"
The country's energy and mines ministry said the Antonio Guiteras power plant in Matanzas, the island's top electricity producer, had shut down at around 2am, prompting the grid collapse.

Cuba's oil-fired power plants, already obsolete and struggling to keep the lights on, reached a full crisis this year as oil imports from Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...

, Russia and Mexico dwindled, contributing to multiple nationwide blackouts over two months.

The system failure on Wednesday morning had left the capital Havana almost completely in the dark, according to a Rooters witness. Lights before sunrise could be seen only in a handful of large hotels and government buildings across the city's skyline.

Reports of blackouts elsewhere in Cuba on social media suggested the entire island of around 10 million people was without power, though the government had yet to confirm the extent of the outage.

The energy and mines ministry said it was working to reconnect the electrical system.

Cuba's grid collapsed multiple times in October as fuel supplies dwindled and Hurricane Oscar struck the far-eastern end of the island, then again in November with the passage of Hurricane Rafael.
Posted by: Fred || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  What happened to the 'power ships'?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/05/2024 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  That was Brasil
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2024 2:14 Comments || Top||

#3  So a Communist run nation, getting its oil from a communist run nation, that sold most of its oil rights to another communist nation (CCP), is screwed.

Where is that communists helping communist comradery now?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/05/2024 4:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Cuba also uses 'Power Ships'.

Their grid system has deteriorated so badly that even these wouldn't be of much help anymore.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/05/2024 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Wait long enough and these communist governments implode under their incompetence and corruption. You need to have elections every once in a while to throw the old rascals out and install a new set of rascals, otherwise the old rascals get so fat and lazy that everything fall apart.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/05/2024 11:19 Comments || Top||

#6  You need to have elections every once in a while

Pretty much doesn't work.

Chicago residents fume at liberal mayor over migrant funding after fiery meeting: 'America first!'
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2024 12:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, there's a 51st state that probably wouldn't vote Democratic!
Posted by: Secret Master || 12/05/2024 17:19 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Philippine vessel rams Chinese warship in South China Sea
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A service vessel belonging to the Philippines rammed a Chinese Coast Guard vessel off Scarborough Reef in the South China Sea. This was reported on December 4 by Liu Dejun, spokesman for the PRC Maritime Police Department.

According to him, the collision was deliberate. The crew of the Philippine vessel had been warned several times.

"The Philippine service vessel No. 3003 ignored repeated warnings from the Chinese side, made a sharp turn, went into reverse and deliberately crashed into the Chinese Coast Guard vessel No. 3302," Liu Dejun said in a statement.

The official representative of the department emphasized that the actions of the Philippine vessel created a serious threat to the Chinese warship. The PRC Maritime Police Department also called the incident a provocation.

The Chinese side also added that the Philippines is trying to mislead the international community about the standoff between the two countries' ships that is taking place in the South China Sea.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, in October 2023, incidents of collisions between Chinese and Philippine ships were also recorded near the Ayungin Shoal in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. The PRC Coast Guard Administration then stated that they were deliberately organized by the Philippines.

The Chinese side specified that the coast guard tried to push back the Philippine vessel, which had taken "unauthorized actions", resulting in a minor collision with the Chinese boat. Two hours later, a Philippine coast guard boat arrived at the scene of the incident. According to Beijing, the ship deliberately rammed the starboard side of the nearby Chinese fishing vessel in reverse.

In turn, the Philippines authorities in the West Philippine Sea stated that the collision of the vessels was allegedly caused by dangerous maneuvers of the Chinese naval police ships. For many years, China has been waging territorial disputes with several countries in Southeast Asia over the Paracel Islands and the Spratly Archipelago in the South China Sea.
Posted by: badanov || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  good for them
Posted by: 746 || 12/05/2024 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Ramming Speeeed!
Posted by: Raj || 12/05/2024 0:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I believe I was the last American to visit the Paracels. The major island had elements of a guano operation, and there existed the remnants of a French encampment that also included a prison of sorts. The islands were the seeding grounds for tortoise (which are now likely gone giving Chinese eating habits). Archived in Hue were ancient maps proving Vietnamese occupation of the islands over the centuries. It is thought that the TET offensive invaders destoyed many ancient Vietnamese territorial maps (including I believe the maps on the Paracels) as the invaders used the books in their defensive positions. In sum, the Chinese claim to the Paracels, like other islands in the South China Sea is based on a single map produced in the 14th century by a Chinese explorer, and not upon occupation.
Posted by: Albert Pelosi3459 || 12/05/2024 5:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Gather round, ladies and gents — Rantburg U is now in session, Professor Albert Pelosi3459 presiding!

Seriously though, that’s fascinating. People know the most interesting and unexpected things here.:-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/05/2024 15:36 Comments || Top||


Europe
Macron to address nation after no-confidence vote in cabinet
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Following the vote of no confidence and the expected resignation of the government, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron will address the nation. This was reported on December 4 by the BFMTV channel, citing the Elysee Palace.

The French leader is expected to speak on December 5 at 20:00 local time (22:00 Moscow time).

The overthrown government lasted less than three months.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 4, the French National Assembly supported a resolution of no confidence in the government of Michel Barnier. With a minimum of 288 votes, the vote of no confidence, put forward by the left-wing party "France Unbowed", was supported by 331 deputies. After this, the cabinet of ministers must resign along with the prime minister. Before this, a vote of no confidence in the French government was put forward in 1962.

Ahead of the vote, Macron said he would not step down voluntarily until his term expired. Calls for his resignation were a "political fiction," Macron claimed. He said he was proud of the citizens' trust and confident in his usefulness to the country. Macron also assured that his energy would keep him with the people until the "last second."

More from regnum.ru
France's National Assembly backs no-confidence resolution in government

The National Assembly of France supported a resolution of no confidence in the government of Michel Barnier. The broadcast on December 4 was conducted on the website of the lower house of the French parliament.

With a minimum of 288 votes, the motion of no confidence, brought forward by the left-wing party "France Unbowed", was supported by 331 deputies. Thus, the cabinet of ministers must resign together with Prime Minister Barnier. The previous motion of no confidence in the French government was brought forward in 1962.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the composition of the new government in France was announced on September 22. It did not include representatives of the left coalition and the right forces, which took first and third place, respectively, in the July elections.

After the election results were announced, the then Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced his intention to resign. French President Emmanuel Macron granted his request on July 16. On September 5, former European Commissioner and former head of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Barnier was appointed the country's new Prime Minister.

French politician and leader of the Patriots party Florian Philippot said that the government led by Barnier intends to drive people to despair and therefore must resign.

Ahead of the vote, Macron said he would not step down voluntarily until his term expired. Calls for his resignation were a "political fiction," Macron claimed. He said he was proud of the citizens' trust and confident in his usefulness to the country. Macron also assured that his energy would keep him with the people until the "last second."

Posted by: badanov || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the little fag needs to join his butt buddy in Canadiastan
Posted by: 746 || 12/05/2024 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  "I like ze boys and hate le Juifs."?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/05/2024 6:33 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Security forces, Katz fight over Jewish detentions as extremists clash with forces
[Jpost] Jewish extremists resisted the removal, including throwing rocks at soldiers and wounding two IDF troops.
Settlers, not Antifa. But the extremists on both ends of the spectrum are vicious idiots.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Achieves Record-Breaking 24th Flight as Company's Valuation Soars
[Breitbart] Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket today from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, setting a new record for rocket reusability.

Space.com reports that SpaceX continues to push the boundaries of rocket reusability and dominates the private space industry, as evidenced by the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on its record-breaking 24th flight. The mission will deliver 24 Starlink internet satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). The company’s recent success has caused its potential valuation to reach $350 billion, making it one of the most valuable startups in the world.

The launch can be viewed at the the one hour mark in this livestream:
YouTube video can be seen at the link.

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/05/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:



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