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Texas couple arrested after body of daughter, 3, stashed in acid-filled container

Katherine Lam
Fox News
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:00 UTC
Monica Dominguez and Gerardo Zavala-Loredo
© Webb County Sheriff's OfficeMonica Dominguez, 37, and Gerardo Zavala-Loredo, 32, were arrested in the death of 3-year-old Rebecca Zavala.
A Texas couple was arrested and charged after their 3-year-old daughter's body was found in a container of acid stashed inside a bedroom closet, police said.

Monica Dominguez, 37, and Gerardo Zavala Loredo, 32, were arrested in connection with the death of their daughter Rebecca Zavala, whose body parts were found decomposing in a five-gallon container that appeared to be filled with acid.

The couple faces charges of evidence tampering, endangering a child and abuse of a corpse, police said in a news conference.

Police began investigating the couple's home in Laredo on Thursday after receiving a tip from a neighbor, KGNS reported. Authorities obtained a warrant and began searching the home about 5 p.m. and discovered the container in a bedroom closet.
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Arrow Up

Michigan powerlifter heroically lifts 2-ton SUV off of man pinned under wreckage

Ryan Gaydos
Fox News
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:51 UTC
Man saves man
A Michigan powerlifter was hailed as a hero last week after he helped a man who was pinned underneath a 2-ton SUV.

Ryan Belcher, 29, was at the end of his workday Thursday when he heard a loud crash outside. He explained to "Fox & Friends" on Monday he noticed a Jeep Cherokee flipped upside down, and he rushed outside toward the wreckage. When he got there, he found a man trapped underneath the vehicle calling out for help.

"When I first approached the vehicle, there was a good four men there, and they were all trying to move this vehicle and I seen it wasn't happening and I figured what a better time now to use what I know I can actually do," Belcher said
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Bizarro Earth

Tehran TV cancels broadcast because female referee was wearing shorts


Sputnik
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:56 UTC
female referee
© AP Photo/ Martin Meissner
On Friday, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB refused to broadcast a Bundesliga - professional association football league in Germany - game between German soccer teams Bayern Munich and Augsburg because a female referee, Bibiana Steinhaus, was officiating the match.

The current ruling administration in Tehran does not allow images of women showing appreciable amounts of naked skin to be broadcast on state-owned networks.

​The thirty-nine year old Steinhaus is the first woman to officiate in men's professional football matches in Germany. In 2018, she was named one of the nation's top referees.

Comment: The year is 2019, where in some countries women in shorts at sporting events is deemed unacceptable and, in other countries, men dressed as women competing as women against women is acceptable:

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USA

Coulter lashes out at Trump after he said she's 'off the reservation'


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:38 UTC
Trump Ann Coulter
© Global Look Press / Catherine Bauknight / Chris Kleponis
Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter has put a final nail into the coffin of her long-since-cooled political romance with Donald Trump, calling him an "idiot" and an "emergency" after he said that he "hardly" knows her.

Coulter, an early and once-fervent supporter of Donald Trump's presidency, has ramped up her criticism of the commander-in-chief in the weeks following the shutdown as it became clear that Trump would be unable to negotiate a border wall deal with House Democrats.

Coulter, along with another conservative host, Rush Limbaugh, was blamed by some in the liberal media for goading Trump into the shutdown in the first place. She has accused Trump of chickening out of the fight for his key campaign promise by agreeing to sign a spending bill that provided only $1.3 billion for a barrier along the US-Mexico border instead of the requested $5.7 billion, calling it a "Yellow New Deal."
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Handcuffs

Moscow court orders US investor detained over $37mn fraud allegations


RT
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:38 UTC
Michael Calvey
© Sputnik / Ramil SitdikovMichael Calvey seen at court on February 15, 2019.
The founder and senior partner of Baring Vostok private equity fund, Michael Calvey, will be detained in Moscow for two months after his bail got rejected. The US citizen is accused of a large-scale fraud involving a Russian bank.

The investor was put in pre-trial custody by a Moscow court on Saturday. The court rejected the request of Calvey's defense to release him on 5 million rubles ($75.5 thousand) bail. The prosecution, on its part, insisted that the detention was an absolute necessity, as the US citizen might try and flee the country.

Calvey's defense has already vowed to challenge the detention order.
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Wall Street

Zombie economics & the collapse of global revenue growth

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:38 UTC
Federal Reserve
© ETHNews.com
We have previously discussed extensively (here, here and here) how a decade of ultra low rates ushered in by central banks has spawned a generation of "zombie companies": corporations which under any other conditions would not survive due to their massive debt load and subpar cash creation, yet which continue to thrive thanks to ZIRP and NIRP, which make their interest expense sustainable preventing inevitable defaults, which in turn lead to subpar productivity and a general contraction in economic and corporate output.

And while we won't spend more time on a topic that has been extensively dissected here in the past, we'll point out several observations from a recent presentation by Goldman which details the creeping zombification of the world, as increasingly manifest in both economic and market indicators, starting with the collapse in long-term real global GDP growth, which is now at a "historical low." Whereas much of investor focus in recent months has been on cyclical growth risks, spurred by concerns over rising interest rates, a slowing US fiscal boost, QT and US/China trade relations, Goldman's Peter Oppenheimer points out that we are already in if not growth hell, then certainly purgatory, as "there is a more important structural story on growth that is likely to have a meaningful impact on equity and asset market pricing over the medium term: trend growth has slowed."
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NPC

No imaginary transgression is too small for the mob of virtue-signalling SJWs on Instagram

Kathrine Jebsen Moore
Quillette
Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:20 UTC
whte yarn knitting needles
"Knitting is just so white. Let's hope it gets better." I overheard this puzzling remark in my local yarn store in Edinburgh, Scotland, last week. The store is in the affluent area of Marchmont, just outside the city centre. Its Edwardian and Victorian tenement flats, adjacent to huge green spaces, are popular with students and families alike. Two customers were chatting to the store owner: "It's about time we had the conversation," one of them offered. Her companion nodded in solemn agreement.

Knitting, which helps lower the blood pressure and keep the mind busy, has enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in recent years. The Internet has allowed for the proliferation of new platforms from which to buy yarn and patterns, and has helped connect artisans and hobbyists worldwide. Usually, it's a calming and creative pastime focussed on aesthetics rather than politics. However, a short browse through the knitting posts on Instagram steered me in the direction of the source of the exchange I had overhead and the "conversation" it had produced.

Comment: What could be a more clear sign that society is losing its collective mind?

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Handcuffs

6 illegal immigrants linked to Mexican cartel arrested in NC for massive drug trafficking operation, officials say

Frank Miles
Fox News
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:48 UTC
Drug gang
A massive drug operation with ties to a Mexican drug cartel resulted in the arrest of six immigrants in the country illegally. From left to right, upper row: Oscar Rangel-Gutierrez, Raul Rangel-Gutierrez, Regulo Rangel Gutierrez; lower row ( L to R) Rodolfo Martinez, Rigoberto Rangel-Gutierrez and Francisco Garcia-Martinez.
Six illegal immigrants with ties to a Mexican drug cartel - a rival of the powerful Sinaloa cartel, whose notorious leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was convicted last week- were arrested in an elaborate drug trafficking operation in North Carolina, according to reports.

The massive drug operation included transporting large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine across state lines - for instance, from Texas to Georgia and North Carolina, WSOC reported.

The feds identified the suspects as Oscar Rangel-Gutierrez, Regulo Rangel-Gutierrez, Francisco Garcia-Martinez, Rodolfo Martinez, Raul Rangel-Gutierrez and Rigoberto Rangel-Gutierrez.

"Members of the investigative team believe - based on wire intercepts, surveillance and other facts discovered from the investigation - that Oscar and Regulo transport illicit proceeds, derived from the sales of narcotics, when they travel from Myrtle Beach to Charlotte," according to federal court documents, as WMBF reported.

Comment: See also: Drug lord El Chapo found guilty on all counts at trial

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Flashlight

Apprehensions up 400% on US-Mexico border as smugglers try to overwhelm US officials

Peter Svab
The Epoch Times
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00 UTC
Migrants
© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesMigrants stand together along the U.S./Mexican border wall as they wait to turn themselves over to the U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Tex., on Feb. 12, 2019.
Border Patrol apprehensions of illegal trespassers increased by nearly 440 percent in the El Paso Sector in the past four months compared to a year ago. Local Border Patrol officials believe the human smugglers and drug cartels are trying to overwhelm the authorities in order to get more contraband through.

The El Paso Sector, covering some 270 border miles in westernmost Texas and the whole stretch across New Mexico, used to be one of the least eventful. During the slow months of October 2011 to January 2012, it averaged about 20 apprehensions of illegal border crossers a day-a rather light workload for an agent force of 2,400 (pdf).

Fast forward to those same months seven years later, and the workload has increased more than 14-fold, while the workforce remains the same.

Most of the blame falls on human smugglers and drug cartels, who "work hand in hand" and have moved their operations toward El Paso from south Texas, where increased Border Patrol presence starting a few years ago made their operations difficult, according to Ramiro Cordero, Border Patrol Special Operations Supervisor in the El Paso Sector.

"They did start hitting us here in El Paso, I'm going to say about a year, year and a half ago, little by little," he said in a Feb. 14 phone call.

Since the 2019 fiscal year started in October, however, the influx has intensified. Four months in, the nearly 35,000 apprehensions have already surpassed the number of apprehensions for the whole of fiscal 2018.

Comment: President Trump enacted his power to declare a national emergency regarding the US southern border with Mexico. See also:

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Video shows Yellow Vest protesters smashing up police van while it's stuck in traffic


RT
Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:58 UTC
Lyon yellow vest
© Alternative Police Nationale / FacebookA photo of the damaged police van in Lyon
A terrified French policewoman was left in tears after an astonishing and violent attack on a police van by a swarm of Yellow Vest protesters in Lyon.

Distressing footage of the attack on Saturday shows two road safety officers stuck in gridlocked traffic as they are increasingly surrounded by Yellow Vest protesters, who suddenly turn on their vehicle.

The officers can be seen filming the angry protesters as they swarm and throw rocks and bricks at the van, shattering the windows. Protesters jump on the hood of the vehicle and continue to bombard it with projectiles as the driver becomes more upset and tries to guide the vehicle safely through the lines of traffic.

Comment: If the officers in the video lost an eye, had their hand blown off, or were killed, then the violence would be on par with that which the police mete out to Yellow Vest protesters on a regular basis: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Will Globalists' War on Nationalism Lead to Bloody Revolution?

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