[LawAndCrime] A Texas man is headed to prison forever after he brutally murdered his girlfriend and her daughter before going on a bender and acting like nothing happened.
Rene Mendez was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his 40-year-old girlfriend Sylvia Ramos and her 19-year-old daughter Brianna Ramos, according to the Webb County District Attorney's Office. A jury on Friday convicted Mendez on two counts of first-degree murder and a judge sentenced him to life behind bars without the possibility of parole. The elder Ramos' brother flagged down a Laredo police officer on March 6, 2023, and began screaming "Come here! Hurry! Run! My sister was killed!"
Cops entered the apartment at 2601 Lomas Del Sur Blvd. and found the victims dead inside. The brother said his sister had been dating Mendez. Officers found him later that day after being called to a nearby Motel 6 for a drug overdose. Mendez survived and was arrested.
Investigators determined Mendez stabbed his girlfriend 55 times, mostly in the neck, and choked her daughter to death. According to a courtroom report from the Laredo Morning Times, prosecutors said Mendez first murdered the younger Ramos by strangling her to death in her bedroom.
He then left the apartment to hang out with a friend. The friend reportedly testified Ramos acted normal as if nothing ever happened. He returned to the apartment hours later and waited for his girlfriend to come home. When she entered the apartment, Mendez took out a pocket knife and went for the jugular.
"He said he didn't mean to do it, but he didn't stop, and three minutes later he left the apartment, leaving Sylvia on the floor in her own blood while her daughter lay dead in her bedroom," Assistant District Attorney Kassandra de Hoyos reportedly said during closing arguments.
Mendez stole his girlfriend's bank card, withdrew $500 from her account and bought $100 worth of cocaine. Prosecutors said he proceeded to ingest 130 pills, cocaine and alcohol in a suicide attempt.
"Then he thought he was over. He didn't expect to wake up, he didn't expect someone to rescue him and be sitting in front of this jury," de Hoyos reportedly said. "Don't get it twisted, addiction was his motive, but addiction didn't cause him to suffocate Brianna, addiction didn't cause him to kill Sylvia with 55 stab wounds. It was that man over there."
[FoxNews] Trinity Shockley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in deal that drops terrorism charges
A transgender high school student in Indiana accused of plotting a Valentine’s Day mass shooting has reached a plea deal, pleading guilty to a single count of conspiracy to commit murder.
Trinity J. Shockley, 18, was charged in February in Morgan Superior Court with conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of intimidation to commit terrorism.
Shockley identifies as a transgender male and often goes by Jamie or Dex, according to authorities.
Court records show a plea agreement was filed Friday, with a hearing held Monday where Shockley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, a Level 2 felony. The two intimidation charges were dropped under the deal. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 24 at 10:15 a.m.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Morgan County Prosecutor’s Office for comment on the matter.
Under Indiana law, a person convicted of a Level 2 felony faces between 10 and 30 years in prison. The Indianapolis Star reported that Shockley’s attorney requested a sentence of no more than 12.5 years in prison and up to five years of probation.
As part of probation, Shockley must meet with mental health professionals, is prohibited from searching for school-shooting content and is barred from entering Morgan County school properties.
Authorities said Shockley’s alleged plan to attack Mooresville High School was uncovered when the FBI in Indianapolis received a tip and contacted the Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department. The FBI later said it "swiftly coordinated" with local officials to investigate.
The tip indicated that Shockley planned a shooting, had access to an AR-15 rifle and had ordered a bulletproof vest. It also said Shockley was infatuated with Nikolas Cruz, who carried out the 2018 Parkland school shooting on Valentine’s Day.
A search of Shockley’s home by the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department revealed a "shrine" to recent mass shooters, including Cruz, Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in a Charleston church, and Ethan Crumbley, who carried out the 2021 Oxford High School shooting in Michigan. Court documents said Shockley also kept a photo album and buttons featuring the shooters’ faces.
Investigators found notebooks in which Shockley identified as "Dex… a transgender male [who has] a lot of homicidal thoughts."
"These thoughts never seem to stop, you may believe that I am some edgelord, but in reality, I am just a loser," Shockley wrote in a Dec. 16, 2024 entry, according to court documents. "I am grateful for my chance to live but in reality, I am scared of living. Is it the government you ask? No. It is this sad reality of living with piece(s) of s---… I hope whoever reads this takes acknowledgment and maybe use it for your massacre. :)"
In January, Shockley wrote about wanting to harm others and said people needed to be "killed" and "wiped away from humanity."
Authorities also uncovered Discord and Snapchat messages where Shockley, using the handle "Crazy Nikolaz," described plans for "Parkland part two" and said, "I’ll be honest. I’m close to shooting mine up. I have an AR-15."
Investigators said Shockley planned to carry out the attack at lunchtime "because that would present the most target-rich environment."
According to court documents, Shockley later told police the plan was a joke.
"[Shockley] stated that [Shockley] wanted to recreate [what] Cruz did, but [Shockley] would never do anything like that," the documents said. "It was said out of rage. [Shockley] is trying to get help with it. [Shockley] wanted to be in home school because of how bad the thoughts got…"
Shockley also told police about being bullied after being hit by a suspected drunk driver in September 2022. The crash left Shockley with a fractured skull and brain injuries, according to a WRTV report.
Detectives wrote that Shockley had sought mental health support from the school district, but the request was denied by Shockley’s father, who "did not believe in mental health treatment," according to a school official.
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How many TRANS Murders must we see, before even Liberal-Democrats once again accepted these are dangerous MENTALLY ILL persons?
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Some would call having a shrine to mass killers possibly demonic. Others would call him misunderstood. They and them are plural pronouns - just an observation.
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… tried claiming that her schizophrenia was so bad that she didn't know her actions were wrong."That woman murdering my son replays in my head every single day," the boy's mother, Margot Wood, said.
"It is my living nightmare. The last thing I will ever hear from my son is his scream. And I can still see the tears in his eyes, and it haunts me every day. He was my baby boy."
"Our home isn’t as loud and chaotic anymore, not the way it used to be. There’s no one dressing up for Halloween as a dinosaur," Julian's father, Jared Wood, said.
While the defense mounted a final case for Ellis’s insanity plea, recalling the testimony of doctors speaking to her mental state years before, in the months after the attack.
“The state has made a concession that there is severe mental disease; they acknowledge that there’s schizophrenia, and you heard from Dr. Testa and Dr. West that even when they interviewed her a month later, her psychosis was still active.”
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This disgusting piece of dreck still got off easy.
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[Regnum] A magnitude 6.1 earthquake was recorded in the Sea of Marmara region of Turkey. The country's Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) reported this on October 27.
The tremors were recorded at 10:48 PM Moscow time, with the epicenter located near the city of Sındırı in Balikesir Province. The earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 5.9 km.
It is noted that the tremors were felt in Istanbul, Izmir and a number of provinces of Turkey.
There was no official information about possible casualties or damage.
An earthquake struck Turkey on the evening of October 26, the Turkish Disaster Management Authority reported. The earthquake's epicenter was located at a depth of 13 kilometers northwest of Istanbul, approximately 16 kilometers from the coast. According to various sources, the magnitude of the quake ranged from 3.7 to 3.9.
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[Regnum] On the night of October 29, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will pass its closest point to the Sun, and after October 30, it will be visible from Moscow in the morning hours. This was reported on Monday, October 27, by the press service of the Moscow Planetarium.
"After October 30 and until November 17, comet 3I/ATLAS will be visible from Moscow in the morning sky (from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.) above the southeastern horizon," TASS quoted a planetarium representative as saying.
On Wednesday night, the distance from the comet to the Sun will decrease to 1.36 astronomical units.
NASA's Atlas network of automated telescopes, created to track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids and other small celestial bodies, discovered the comet on July 1. It is the third interstellar body discovered during the network's observations.
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[Regnum] Akita Prefecture Governor Kenta Suzuki announced that he has requested assistance from the country's defense forces due to the increasing number of attacks on residents by man-eating bears.
Since April, 47 bear-related injuries and two fatalities have been recorded. More than 60% of these encounters occurred in October.
"The burden on local response services is reaching its limit," Suzuki wrote on October 26 on his Instagram page (owned by Meta, a company recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).
However, the question of whether the army will be deployed to fight bears remains open. The governor acknowledged that there is no current legal framework that would permit the use of self-defense forces for wildlife control. Such a request is more complex than for a disaster relief operation.
In the meantime, the prefectural administration is setting up animal traps and distributing bear-repellent spray along school routes.
In August, a bear attacked two men climbing Mount Rausu in northern Hokkaido, Japan. It dragged one of the hikers into the forest. Police searching for the missing man found only his bloody belongings.
In early October, a bear tore off the head of a 70-year-old mushroom picker in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. A few days earlier, another elderly man had died at the beast's claws.
Is this where tech lords conclude they must stick to unattractive women in order for their intellectual property to be safe? But surely this is not something new…
[Breitbart] China and Russia have reportedly been sending attractive women to the United States to seduce Silicon Valley tech executives and steal their secrets.
Female spies from China and Russia are engaging in “sex warfare” in Silicon Valley, with some of the women even marrying and having children with their targets, an industry insider told the Times of London.
“It’s the Wild West out there,” Jeff Stoff, president of the nonprofit organization Center for Research Security & Integrity (CRSI) and former national security analyst for the U.S. federal government, told the newspaper.
“China is targeting our startups, our academic institutions, our innovators, our DoD-funded research projects,” he added, claiming, “There’s not enough oversight and action. It’s all intertwined as part of China’s economic warfare strategy, and we’ve not even entered the battlefield.”
Foreign spies are also reportedly using social media, startup competitions, and venture capital investments as a means for infiltrating the U.S. tech industry.
Five counterintelligence experts told the Times of London that the Chinese Community Party (CCP) has been hosting startup competitions in the United States in an effort to steal sensitive business plans.
One counterintelligence source said he recently investigated a case involving a “beautiful” Russian woman who worked at a U.S.-based aerospace company, where she met an American colleague, whom she eventually married and had children with.
“Showing up, marrying a target, having kids with a target — and conducting a lifelong collection operation, it’s very uncomfortable to think about but it’s so prevalent,” the source said. “If I wanted to be out of the shadows, I’d write a book on it.”
Earlier this year, the House Committee on Homeland Security warned that the CCP has carried out more than 60 cases of espionage in the United States over the past four years, with the counterintelligence source telling the Times of London that he fears that number is much higher.
Last year, Klaus Pflugbeil, a resident of Ningbo, China, was sentenced to two years in prison for trying to sell stolen Tesla intellectual property for $15 million to undercover agents at a conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. His alleged accomplice, Yilong Shao, meanwhile, is still at large.
The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property estimates that theft of trade secrets costs U.S. taxpayers as much as $600 billion per year, with China being the primary source of the loss.
In 2021, Breitbart News exclusively reported on Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and his relationship with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang. The sex warfare on Silicon Valley could follow a similar pattern to Swalwell’s relationship.
James Mulvenon, chief intelligence officer of Pamir Consulting, told the Times of London that he was one of the many tech executives to have recently been targeted by a foreign temptress, adding, “It really seems to have ramped up recently.”
Mulvenon also recalled a separate incident at a recent business conference in Virginia, where he said two attractive Chinese women appeared, trying to gain entry.
“We didn’t let them in, but they had all the information [about the event] and everything else,” Mulvenon explained. “It is a phenomenon. And I will tell you: it is weird.”
Mulvenon, who has investigated espionage in the U.S. for 30 years, described such seduction tactics used by foreigners as “a real vulnerability” for the United States, “because we, by statute and by culture, do not do that.”
“So they have an asymmetric advantage when it comes to sex warfare,” he added.
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Search Youtube for MGTOW and watch the Tiktoks of entitled western women and you'll understand why there are passport bros and 'no good men' in the dating pool. Trad wives are only to be found in the Amish and Mennonite communities, unlikely to centers of 'Tech Lords'.
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"The average weight for adult American females is approximately 170.8 pounds."
"In the United States, women have an average height of 5 feet 3.5 inches."
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I am certified completely safe from this.
I guess this means they need to try to separate the spies from the run of the mill goldiggers.
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American women aged 20 years and above weigh an average of 170.8 pounds (lbs), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Trusted Source.
How many of them do not need to be in New York City, but could just as easily do their thing in Miami, Dallas, or Houston, where being Israeli is not about to become a severe handicap?
[IsraelTimes] US-Israel Business Alliance report highlights impact on city’s economy, a week before mayoral election, which BDS-supporting Mamdani is expected to win
Nearly 600 Israeli-founded companies have created more than 27,000 jobs in New York City, generating billions of dollars for the city’s economy, according to an economic report released on Monday.
The report was compiled by the United States-Israel Business Alliance, which works to foster business ties between the US and Israel. It pointed to both the value of the New York City market for Israeli businesses along with their impact on the city’s economy.
The survey came out a week before the city’s mayoral election. The frontrunner, Zohran Mamdani, supports the Israel boycott movement.
There are 590 companies founded by Israelis in New York City that have directly created 27,471 jobs, with an average income of $160,126, including benefits and bonuses, said the report, which was based on 2024 data.
The companies generated $8.1 billion in total earnings, adding an estimated $12.4 billion in value to the city’s economy and $17.9 billion in total gross economic output.
There are 20 Israeli-founded "unicorns," or companies worth more than $1 billion, based in the city, the report said.
The report estimated that the companies supported more than 50,000 jobs indirectly, for example, by buying and shipping local products.
The business alliance first released a report on Israeli companies in New York City in 2019. Since then, 142 Israeli-founded companies have set up shop in the city, creating 3,674 jobs.
Fifteen Israeli unicorns joined the city’s economy in the past six years.
The report defined an Israeli-founded company as a firm that has at least one founder who grew up in Israel.
"The data affirms that Israeli founders continue to be indispensable to New York," Aaron Kaplowitz, the president of the business alliance, said in a statement. "In addition to creating local jobs and bringing much-needed revenue to local communities, Israelis are integral to propelling the state’s innovation economy forward."
"When Israeli tech entrepreneurs think about entering the U.S. market or positioning their companies for global growth, New York City is at the top of the list," Kaplowitz said.
The United States-Israel Business Alliance conducted 18 months of research to compile the report. The group commissioned ABLE Operations, an independent analytics firm, to model the companies’ economic impact.
For the entire state of New York, 648 Israeli-founded companies created more than 28,000 jobs in 2024, the report said.
The New York City mayoral election will take place on November 4, with Mamdani heavily favored to beat out former New York governor Andrew Sonny Cuomo, a pro-Israel centrist.
Mamdani is a New York State assemblyman who got into politics through extensive pro-Paleostinian activism, which included support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel.
The current mayor, Eric Adams ...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve... , is a proponent of Israel who earlier this year set up a business council to boost economic collaboration between New York City and Israel
[Breitbart] Amazon is preparing to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday as it looks to rein in expenses after pandemic-era overhiring, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Reuters. The reductions would amount to nearly 10 percent of Amazon’s roughly 350,000 corporate employees, but a small share of its 1.55 million total workforce.
If carried out at that scale, the move would mark Amazon’s largest layoff since the company eliminated about 27,000 positions starting in late 2022. Managers in affected units were briefed Monday on delivering notifications, with cuts expected to start Tuesday morning, Reuters reported.
The reductions are expected to touch multiple divisions, including human resources, devices and services, and operations. Amazon declined to comment to Reuters. Shares rose in afternoon trading ahead of the company’s quarterly earnings later this week
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This might explain why we have been noticing less and less items at various 3rd party AMAZON/UPS/FEDX palette buying salvage stores (called BIN's Stores).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
