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| Bezos's Ex Donates $640 Million - With Most Going To Far-Left Groups Boosting Migrant Criminals, Trans Athletes |
| 2024-03-24 |
 [ZERO] Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott, the third-wealthiest woman in the US, has awarded $640 million in new charitable donations - with most of it going to far-left nonprofits pushing left-wing causes, including assisting migrants who commit crimes and promoting transgender biological males who compete against women, the NY Post reports.Philanthropy.com - The Ripple Effects of MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy |
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| Crypto exchange Binance reportedly slashes 1K jobs after top execs leave: report |
| 2023-07-17 |
 [NYPOST] Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has cut jobs just days after it was hit by a wave of executive exits, a source familiar with the matter told Rooters on Friday.The layoffs at the world’s biggest crypto exchange come at a time when the industry’s future in the US market is uncertain, with regulators aggressively clamping down on what they deem are illegal activities. Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao for allegedly operating a "web of deception." Binance has said it would defend itself "vigorously." The lawsuits against Binance and peer Coinbase Global underpin SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s tough approach towards the industry, but a US judge recently siding with crypto firm Ripple Labs highlights that the regulator is facing an uphill battle. Applications for spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds from asset management giants BlackRock and Fidelity have also been viewed as a vote of confidence for the industry. |
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| Socially just population policies can mitigate climate change while advancing global equity |
| 2021-05-06 |
 [Yubanet.com] CORVALLIS, Ore. April 28, 2021— Socially just policies aimed at limiting the Earth’s human population hold tremendous potential for advancing equity while simultaneously helping to mitigate the effects of climate change, Oregon State University researchers say.In a paper published this week in Sustainability Science, William Ripple and Christopher Wolf of the OSU College of Forestry also note that fertility rates are a dramatically understudied and overlooked aspect of the climate emergency. That’s especially true relative to the attention devoted to other climate-related topics including energy, short-lived pollutants and nature-based solutions, they say. "More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries have come together to warn that if we continue with business as usual, the result will be untold human suffering from climate change," Ripple said. "We have listed six areas, including curbing population growth in the context of social justice, as a framework for action. "Since 1997, there have been more than 200 articles published in Nature and Science on climate mitigation, but just four of those discussed social justice, and only two considered population," he added. "Clearly social justice and population policy are not getting the attention they deserve in the struggle against the climate emergency." The Earth’s 7.7 billion people contribute to climate change in a variety of ways, primarily through the consumption of natural resources, including non-renewable energy sources, and the greenhouse gas emissions that result from industrial processes and transportation. The more people there are on the planet, the more potential they have for affecting climate. |
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| Teacher found guilty of grooming children to launch terror attacks in London |
| 2018-03-04 |
 [ARABNEWS] A British supporter of ISIS was found guilty on Friday of trying to recruit children he was teaching into an "army" of Umar Haque, 25, showed the children beheading videos and other violent Lion of Islam propaganda, forced them to re-enact deadly attacks on the British capital and made them role-play attacking coppers. "His plan was to create an army of children to assist with multiple terrorist attacks throughout London," said Dean Haydon, head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command. "He tried and he did, we believe, radicalize vulnerable children from the ages of 11 to 14." Despite having no qualifications and being employed as an administrator, police said Haque used the guise of teaching Islamic studies to groom 110 children into becoming Of those children, 35 are now undergoing long-term safeguarding measures involving social services and other authorities. Six of the group gave evidence at Haque’s trial, detailing how he taught them fighting was good and had given them training such as doing push-ups to build their strength. His intention was to use them to attack London targets such as the Big Ben tower, soldiers from the Queen’s Guards, a large shopping center, banks, and media stations, prosecutors said. Believed to have been self-radicalized online, Haque was inspired by an attack in March last year when Khalid Masood plowed a rented car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge, killing four, before stabbing a police officer to death on the grounds of Parliament. He had discussed with Abuthaher Mamun ‐ a 19-year-old who also taught at the mosque ‐ carrying out a similar attack using guns and a hire car packed with explosives. He had made the children re-enact Masood’s assault and told another co-defendant the public deserved to be annihilated. "He tried to prepare the children for martyrdom by making them role-play terrorist attacks. Part of that role-playing was re-enacting attacking coppers," Haydon said. He said the children had been "paralyzed by fear" into not telling their parents or teachers, with Haque saying he was part of ISIS and threatening that they would suffer the same fate as those in the Lion of Islam videos he showed them. Haque was found guilty at London’s Old Bailey Court of a number of offenses including preparing terrorist acts, having previously pleaded guilty to four charges. Mamun, who police said was involved in fundraising and attack planning, and Muhammad Abid, 27, were also convicted of helping him. They will all be sentenced at a later date. |
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| Isis follower tried to create jihadist child army in east London |
| 2018-03-03 |
 [Guardian] A dangerous extremist who attempted to build an army of child jihadists by radicalising pupils has been convicted of a range of terrorism offences.Umar Haque, 25, taught an Islamic studies class despite having no teaching qualifications and being employed as an administrator. He was allowed to supervise classes of 11- to 14-year-olds on his own, during which he re-enacted attacks on police officers and showed students videos of beheadings. Police fear Haque attempted to radicalise at least 110 children, some of whom he was in contact with at the Ripple Road mosque in Barking, east London. Thirty-five of the children are receiving long-term support. Haque also worked at the £3,000-a-year Lantern of Knowledge Islamic school, where he was again allowed access to children alone under the pretence of teaching Islamic studies when he was in fact employed as an administrator. Jurors were told he attempted to radicalise children at the school, but were unable to agree on a count of disseminating a terrorist document which related to his time at the school. Haque was convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey on Friday of a number of offences, including plotting terrorist attacks. He had previously admitted four charges of collecting information useful for terrorism and one count of disseminating a terrorist document in relation to his attempts to radicalise children at the mosque. He was acquitted of conspiring to possess firearms. |
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| ‘ISIS-inspired’ mosque teacher, 25, ‘prepared students for terror acts by showing them beheading videos, plotted attacks on targets including Big Ben and the Queen’s Guard |
| 2018-01-17 |
 [DailyMail] An ISIS-inspired mosque teacher prepared his students for acts of terror with physical training and role playing classes as he plotted strikes on targets including Big Ben and the Queen's Guard, the Old Bailey heard.Umar Ahmed Haque, 25, allegedly planned atrocities across London when he was working at the Lantern of Knowledge Islamic boys secondary school in Leyton, east London, where he taught. He denies showing videos of beheadings to pupils at the school or plotting terrorist acts, but admits training children at the Ripple Road Mosque in Barking, east London, where he also taught. Haque, who allegedly planned attacks on Big Ben and the Queen's Guard, has confessed to having copies of the ISIS magazine Rumiyah. Prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said Haque decided in 2016 and early 2017 to carry out one or more violent attacks in this country. Haque became obsessed by the Westminster attacks of March 22 2017 in which which five people die and more than 50 people injured. 'It proved to be for him a subject of fascination and contemplation, as you will hear him say in due course,' Mr Heywood said. In covert recordings with fellow accused terrorist Abuthaher Mamun, 19, Haque said, 'We are here to cause terrorism, we are a death squad sent by Allah. Haque expressed fears of a 'snitch' and discussed the justification for killing civilians, jurors were told. Mr Heywood said of Haque: 'There is justification of killing civillians, there is reference to the need to deter what Mr Haque calls 'the enemy'.' Haque praised the late Osama bin Laden  ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again...and IS fighters in Africa as well as Khalid Masood, and had told the police he was a 'loyal soldier' of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , the court heard. On 11 April 2016 he attempted to fly from London Heathrow to Istanbul and was stopped by security officers. He claimed he was going on a pilgrimage to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... after a few days holiday in Istanbul. Haque was in possession of two mobile phones which he had used to visit news sites about the terror attacks in La Belle France and Belgium and Syrian beheadings. Haque is on trial with Nadeem Ilyas Patel, 26, who allegedly plotted with him together to obtain a firearm. Patel denied that charge but admitted to having a Walther P99 handgun adapted to discharge a noxious liquid or gas. Muhammad Abid, 27, denies failing to disclose information about Haque's terror planning. Mamun, 19, denies trading in financial options in order to finance the attack allegedly plotted by Haque. All four men were detained in a string of raids on May 17 after an investigation by MI5 and the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command. Haque, of Forest Gate, east London, denies two counts of preparing to commit acts of terrorism, one count of dissemination of terrorist publications and one count of conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. He admits to dissemination of terrorist publications, and four counts of collection of information likely to be useful to a terrorist. Abid, of Manor Park, denies failing to disclose information about Haque. Mamun, of Barking, denies preparation of terrorist acts. Patel, of Forest Gate, denies conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence. He admits possession of a prohibited weapon. The trial continues. |
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| Man Who Robbed Bank to Avoid Living With Wife Sentenced to Home Confinement |
| 2017-06-16 |
 [Free Beacon] A 71-year-old man who robbed a bank in Kansas City, Kan. to avoid living with his wife was sentenced to home confinement this week.A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Lawrence John Ripple to six months of home confinement; three years of supervised probation, including 50 hours of community service; and ordered him to pay $227.27 to the bank he robbed, according to the Kansas City Star. Ripple robbed the Bank of Labor in Kansas City in September. He walked into the bank and handed a note to the bank teller that said, "I have a gun, give me money." After the bank teller handed over $2,924, Ripple sat down in the bank lobby waiting to be arrested by police. Court records said Ripple wrote the note in front of his wife, telling her he would rather be in jail than live at home with her. Chekasha Ramsey, Ripple's public defender, told U.S. District Court Judge Carlos Murguia that the defendant suffered from depression after undergoing heart surgery in 2015. "Ripple said that he felt better after finding the right medication and said prison would be more of a punishment for his wife than for him," the Star reported. |
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| Musa told wife to blow herself up |
| 2016-12-29 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] After police cordoned off the Ashkona myrmidon hideout early Saturday, Maynul Musa instructed his wife Trisha Moni to wear a boom jacket and blow up herself along with their four-month-old daughter instead of surrendering to law enforcers. Trisha, however, did not carry out the instruction as her motherly love for the baby stopped her from detonating the vest. So, she decided to surrender, according to her statement to an official of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the DMP during interrogation. Sensing that police encircled the den, Trisha communicated with her husband using an encrypted messaging app and wanted his advice about the next course of action. "Musa then asked his wife and all other women to wear the boom jackets and blow themselves up," the official said. Musa took the helm of radical group "Neo JMB" as most of its top leaders died in anti-terror operations following the July 1 Gulshan café attack. The other top leaders are either tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! or under police surveillance, officials say. The last time Musa visited the Ashkona flat on the ground floor of a three-storey building was on Tuesday when he brought bombs and grenades there. Two other forces of Evil who go by the name of Firoz and Selim in theorganization also used to visit the den. Replying to a query, the CTTC official said "Neo JMB" still has one expert bombmaker. Other bomb experts are dead or behind bars or on the run. A police source said a myrmidon, aged around 18, managed to escape from the flat just before the operation. Another woman, Jebunnahar Shila, widow of Major (retd) Jahid alias Murad, surrendered along with her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and with a 9mm pistol and six bullets during the anti-militant operation codenamed "Ripple 24". According to CTTC officials, Trisha has expressed remorse for being within myrmidon circle. But Shila has not. Also during the operation, a suspected myrmidon named Shakira detonated her boom jacket while rushing to police with her four-year-old daughter Sabina in an apparent motive to blow herself up in the midst of coppers. She was, however, still a few steps away from the law enforcers. Shakira was killed in the blast with part of her body badly damaged and Sabina suffered severe injuries. A police official was also maimed. "Analysing our intelligence and information from the forces of Evil who surrendered, it seems that the woman [Shakira] could carry out suicide kabooms with her daughter elsewhere [had she been alive]," CTTC unit chief Monirul Islam told news hounds at Ashkona yesterday evening as a search was going on in the den. Shakira first married Iqbal, father of Sabina. After Iqbal died from cancer, she married Suman. Suman, a suspected myrmidon, has been missing for over a month, the official added. Around 7:30pm yesterday, a police team left the spot with the body of deceased myrmidon suspect, 14-year-old Afif Kaderi, for Dhaka Medical College morgue. Morgue sources said the body reached there around 11:30pm. Afif, son of "Neo JMB" leader Tanvir Kaderi, who did away with himself during a raid at Azimpur on September 10, got killed around Saturday afternoon during the operation. Rejecting the call for surrender, Afif shot up police, and the law enforcers retaliated by firing shots and gas grenades. Officials say the boy did away with himself or died in the police firing. Monirul said the forces of Evil burnt Tk 12 lakh, a laptop, some mobile phones and documents. It seems that they were using the hideout as their office, he added. During the search starting at 10:30am yesterday, bomb disposal unit of the CTTC recovered seven grenades, two boom jackets -- one with six bombs and the other with four -- and two unwent kaboom!bombs from the vest that Shakira detonated. Two 9mm pistols with two live ammunition, and huge bomb-making materials were also found at the den. Officials later defused the grenades and bombs. |
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| ‘Neo JMB Leader' Musa: He covered his tracks to stay off dragnet |
| 2016-12-29 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Before leaving home for the so-called Jihad, runaway "Neo JMB" holy warrior Maynul Islam Musa destroyed everything that could link him to his home, so that law enforcers could not track him. The last time Musa visited his village home at Baghmara in Rajshahi was in early April, just days before he went traceless. He had told people at home that he was going abroad. He then destroyed all his photos and belongings there. "His photographs were in our family albums. He cut those out one by one with a pair of scissors and set fire to those. He did not even leave one of his shirts for me before leaving," said his mother Sufia Akter. "I do not have anything of my son," she sighed. When asked about the reason, Musa told his mother, "Photographs will bring no good but sins." Musa went to his in-laws place about 12km from his village home and destroyed all photos and belongings of him there as well, said his sister-in-law Nisha Moni. According to police, Musa is one of the top leaders of "Neo JMB", who is trying to reorganise the outfit and carry out a assassination. To cover his tracks, Musa, once an English teacher of Life School in Uttara-13 in Dhaka, destroyed documents and evidence from his Uttara home and the school before becoming traceless, his former colleagues and police said. He was very active on social media but he removed his friends from his Facebook account and eventually deactivated his account. "When his involvement in militancy came to light following the killing of Maj (retd) Jahid, I found his phone switched off. I tried to see his Facebook page but did not find it," one of his former colleagues at the school told The Daily Star preferring anonymity. Major (retd) Jahid, who was killed in an anti-militancy drive in Mirpur on September 2, and Musa used to live in the same apartment building in Uttara. They had both left their homes almost at the same time. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... police found and recovered some information about Musa from the documents and computers police seized from the school in mid September. The evidence allowed law enforcers to track Musa to the Ashkona den on Saturday. Musa managed to evade arrest that day during the counter terrorism unit-led operation codenamed "Ripple-24". During the drive, a female holy warrior suspect, Shakira, killed herself by detonating a boom jacket while 14-year-old Afif Kaderi, son of slain holy warrior Tavir Kaderi, was killed in the shootout with police. Before that, two female holy warriors, Musa's wife Trisha Moni; and Maj (retd) Jahid's widow Jebunnahar Shila, surrendered to police. Musa was then texting them to commit suicide. MUSA LIED TO ALL Days before going into hiding, Musa told his mother that he would go to Bahrain to work with one Bahrain expatriate Faisal. After the death of his father Abul Kalam Azad in December last year, he went to his Buzrukkola village home to take Tk 3 lakh. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... he told Nisha that the Life School was sending him to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... "The school has similar institution in Saudi Arabia and he would be provided with a job there. We are in a hurry as the school authority gave us the offer but we have to collect certain amount of money within a given time," Nisha quoted Musa as saying. Mizanur Rahman, principal of the school, told The Daily Star yesterday that they had no branches in or outside the country. "We, eight people, have set up the school in 2014 investing our savings," he added. |
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| 2016-12-25 |
[Dhaka Tribune] Police’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit conducted Operation Ripple 24 at a house in Ashkona Purba Para area of Dhaka’s Dakkhinkhan yesterday which led to the capture of two female bully boyz and rescue of three children. Two others were killed in the raid ‐ a woman killing herself by detonating a boom jacket and a teenage boy whose cause of death remains unclear.12am: CTTC teams arrive in Ashkona following a tip-off that wanted Lion of Islam Musa was staying in the house. |
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| Scientists Find 'Miracle Molecule' In Red Wine, Blueberries |
| 2012-08-21 |
 (CBS) -- There may be another health benefit drinking red wine."Ummm? Whuzzat? [Hic!]" Scientists report a so-called "miracle molecule" found in red wine might help improve mobility and prevent falls among older adults. "Yersh... [Hic!]... I fin' a coupla quarts o' red wine helpsh me nagiv... nerviv... get aroun' better. [Hic!]... It'sa miracle!" The ingredient is called 'resveratrol.' "Thash whuddit is! [Hic!]... It ain' Ripple, it'sh revermatol... 'r somethin' like that..." Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Duquesne University Jane Cavanaugh says they tested the effect on laboratory mice. "Who're you?" "I'm here to shine up fer the rebbermatol tesht!" "You ain't a mouse! Beat it before I call a cop!" "As these animal age, they lose some of their motor coordination. Very similar as to humans do as they age. "Yersh. I once fell downa flight o' stairs, never felt a thing... Well, the nex' day, sure. But a coupla quarts o' ratspermatall took care of it PDQ..." And when we gave them out the resveratrol, the older mouse has less loss of motor coordination." "[Hic!] It keeps the pink elephants and green antelopes away, too... It don't do much good widda polka-dot warthogs, though... Y'gotta sing Akumbe mtatta or somethin' like that..." Resveratrol is also found in grapes, blueberries and other dark-skinned fruits. "Shay! Whudder you? Some kinda racist?" "We just used blueberries in our study and actually when they eat the whole fruit it's actually more effective than the resveratrol alone and you don't need as much." "'Coursh not. Y'gotta let it ferment firsht..." A person would have to drink at least a bottle of wine compared to only a handful of fruit to get the same amount. "Budda quart o' Ripple hash lotsa other good effex..." |
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