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The former CEO of the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network defrauded hundreds of thousands of investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency, New York attorney general alleges in a new lawsuit. https://t.co/MwZ75soiYV

— ABC News (@ABC) January 7, 2023

'How does a child have a gun?'

A British woman expresses her anger after a school teacher, Abby Zwerner, was shot in class by a child during an altercation in Virginiahttps://t.co/uIeY7YX6zK pic.twitter.com/cAeir69rty

— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 8, 2023

Eggs in rural Mexico!
100.00 pesos = USD 5.33 for a flat
3.80 pesos for six eggs = .20 cents USD
I think I need to get into the egg smuggling business!

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US Probes FBI Ex-Agent’s Ties with Balkan Officials
Samir Kajosevic Podgorica BIRN January 24, 2023 11:58
A US federal grand jury is probing whether former senior FBI agent Charles McGonigal received payments or gifts from government officials in Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina or Kosovo.

The US federal grand jury has opened an investigation into payments or gifts that former FBI agent Charles McGonigal may have received from officials in Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, US media reported on Monday.

McGonigal, who used to head the bureau’s counterintelligence division in New York, has been charged with allegedly working with a sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska after he retired and concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars he received from a former employee of an Albanian intelligence agency while he was a top official at the bureau.

McGonigal, who retired from the FBI in 2018, has pleaded not guilty charges.

According to the indictment, McGonigal concealed from the FBI the nature of his relationship with a former foreign security officer and businessperson who had ongoing business interests in foreign countries and with foreign governments.

“McGonigal requested and received at least 225,000 US dollars in cash from the individual and travelled abroad with the individual and met with foreign nationals. The individual later served as an FBI source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying over which McGonigal had official supervisory responsibility, the US Department of Justice said on Monday.

Citing a subpoena issued in November, media reported that the grand jury requested any materials on McGonigal’s communications or meetings with government officials in the Balkans or people associated with them.

Prosecutors allege that during several trips overseas to Albania, Austria, and Germany, McGonigal failed to disclose on US government forms that he met “the prime minister of Albania, a Kosovar politician and others”.

Prosecutors also requested information on McGonigal’s travels to Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, but also any payments or gifts provided to former FBI agents from those countries since April 2017.

The federal court in Manhattan has also charged McGonigal and former Soviet and Russian diplomat Sergey Shestakov with violating and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and money laundering.

According to the indictment, McGonigal and Shestakov conspired in 2021 to provide services to Oleg Deripaska in violation of US sanctions imposed on the Russian billionaire for alleged meddling in the 2016 American presidential election.

Following their negotiations with an agent of Deripaska, McGonigal and Shestakov investigated a rival Russian oligarch in return for concealed payments from Deripaska, the indictment claims.

McGonigal was also charged with unsuccessfully pushing for the lifting of the sanctions against Deripaska.

In a post on Truth Social after the Department of Justice announced the charges, Trump said: "The FBI guy after me for the Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX, long before my Election as President, was just arrested for taking money from Russia, Russia, Russia. May he Rot In Hell!"

BREAKING: The bodycam footage of the attack on Paul Pelosi has been released.

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— ALX (@alx) January 27, 2023

Sure, your fancy SUV may have ventilated seats and Wi-Fi, but does it have electrified door handles? The Guardian reported on Jan. 25 that a new vehicle has hit the market targeted at the particularly fearful driver -- the Rezvani Vengeance. Costing up to $499,000, the Vengeance has bulletproof glass, strobe lights, wing mirrors that emit pepper spray and no back windshield -- instead, the driver can monitor a live video stream of what's going on behind the car. Sure to win you a popularity contest in the pickup lane at your kid's school, the Vengeance also has a loudspeaker so you can call to little Timmy without leaving the safety of your seat. Extras include bulletproof vests, helmets and gas masks. The Irvine, California, company teases potential buyers on the website: "Vengeance is yours." Wow. [Guardian, 1/25/2023]

On May 17, 2019, a high-altitude spy #balloon entered #Chinese airspace and was shot down by a J-10C fighter jet using a PL-10 missile. pic.twitter.com/3bf9kNCQXx

— International Defence Analysis (@Defence_IDA) February 6, 2023

September 10, 2019
Recently, the authoritative Chinese media CCTV broadcasted a documentary called “The Place We Stand”. In the sixth episode of the documentary “Wu Hui: Yunling Red Eagle Flying”, the PLA Air Force’s J-10 fighter only took 30 seconds to launch an air-to-air missile and successfully shot down an espionage balloons which crossed the border. This is the first reported real battle of J-10C fighter since its service.

rumbeando wrote:

On May 17, 2019, a high-altitude spy #balloon entered #Chinese airspace and was shot down by a J-10C fighter jet using a PL-10 missile. pic.twitter.com/3bf9kNCQXx

— International Defence Analysis (@Defence_IDA) February 6, 2023

September 10, 2019
Recently, the authoritative Chinese media CCTV broadcasted a documentary called “The Place We Stand”. In the sixth episode of the documentary “Wu Hui: Yunling Red Eagle Flying”, the PLA Air Force’s J-10 fighter only took 30 seconds to launch an air-to-air missile and successfully shot down an espionage balloons which crossed the border. This is the first reported real battle of J-10C fighter since its service.

https://www.china-arms.com/2019/09/j-10c-shot-balloon-with-pl-10/

Lawmakers propose letting Massachusetts prisoners donate organs for reduced sentences

Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus. pic.twitter.com/aKwedtrr2G

— U.S. Naval Institute (@NavalInstitute) February 3, 2023

My god, @TempleUniv are also cutting health insurance for striking grad students. I’m case you wondered why the phrase ‘class warfare’ exists. This is pure, unconscionable violence from a putative institution of learning. https://t.co/NrYPejw6pi

— Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) February 8, 2023