The misogynistic cake hole brothers Tate get raided again.

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has been detained after masked police officers raided his home in Romania.

Controversial influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania after masked police officers raided his home as part of a fresh investigation.

Tate, who is already awaiting trial over human trafficking and rape charges, and his brother Tristan, are being held “for 24 hours” for questioning by Romania’s anti-organised-crime agency, DIICOT, their spokeswoman said.

Their residence, located in the capital city of Bucharest, was raided on Wednesday as “part of a search related to a new investigation”, according to the spokeswoman.

DIICOT said in a statement that four search warrants were executed for homes in and around Bucharest in connection with “the crimes of forming an organised criminal group, trafficking in minors”, “sexual relations with a minor” and “money laundering”.......

Quite frankly this pair shouldn't be allowed to roam the streets.

How is a Chicken coop a "military target"?
https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1827559840819855685

A rocket fired from Lebanon in this morning's Hezbollah attack struck a chicken coop in the Western Galilee community of Manot.

Firefighters are working to extinguish a blaze sparked by the rocket impact.

... a random hit by a primitive missile that cannot hit any target precisely?

... a random hit by a primitive missile that cannot hit any target precisely?

or a near miss from a chrome dome?

... a random hit by a primitive missile that cannot hit any target precisely?

or a near miss from a chrome dome?

Such a Chrome Dome? You suggest an accidental drop by Israel? No? I don't get it...

WTF!

There’s been a shock development in the case of a tradie who was fined almost $12,000 by his council for filling in a dangerous hole near his home.

A Melbourne landscaper who was fined $11,500 for filling in a dangerous hole near his home has had the infringement scrapped after widespread backlash.

Adam Marsal, 40, said he was only trying to do the right thing when he filled in a large hole that had been left by a fallen tree in the nature strip near his Cranbourne Road home in Frankston late last year.

The roughly two-metre hole, just behind a bus stop, had been left untouched for close to six months and Mr Marsal had “seen people tumble off the side”.

But to his surprise, Mr Marsal was contacted by Frankston City Council officers earlier this year requesting he come to discuss the unauthorised works, after a tip-off by another local.

After an extraordinary police-style interrogation by a council worker he received two infringement notices in June.

One fine was to himself and another to his company for “depositing waste of more than 1000 litres” in violation of the Environment Protection Act 2017.

In a stunning backflip this week, the council withdrew the substantial $9,600 fine against Mr Marsal’s company after the tradie engaged lawyers......

.....After his story was featured on A Current Affair in mid-July, Mr Marsal then received another letter from council requesting access to his property for a building inspection.....

These useless and out of touch council members really need to be sacked over their total incompetence.

A bulk billed castration fest should be had.

French man stands trial accused of orchestrating dozens of rapes of his wife, police reveal how they caught 50 alleged abusers.

A man accused of repeatedly drugging his wife so men he met online could rape her for nearly a decade had already attacked his wife “at least 200 times” before the mass abuse began, a French court has heard.

An investigator leading the probe into the man accused of orchestrating repeated rapes of his wife told a court Wednesday of painstaking efforts to identify the perpetrators via the husband’s detailed records of the assaults.

Dominique P., a 71-year-old retiree, had abused his wife between 2011 and 2020, drugging her with sleeping pills and then recruiting dozens of strangers to rape her.

He documented the decade-long abuse of his wife, Gisele P., with meticulous precision, allowing French police to track down more than 50 men suspected of raping her while she was drugged.

Police commissioner Jérémie Bosse Platière said in court on Wednesday that he believed the man had already raped his wife at least 200 times before the strangers started arriving at their house.......

The £51 MILLION Park & Ride That You Can't Use - Eynsham, West Oxfordshire - Waste Of Money?
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A U.S. defence company found to be as leaky as a sieve with secrets.

Australian links revealed in global defence company scandal involving China, Russia and Iran.

An American weapons company made illegal technology transfers to Australia at the same time some of its staff members breached strict US regulations by taking their work laptops containing sensitive military secrets into Russia and Iran.

Last week, defence giant RTX, formerly known as Raytheon, agreed to pay a $US200 million ($300 million) fine following 750 violations of the Arms Export Control Act and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), including exchanging data and products with prohibited countries such as China.

US State Department documents reveal several of the voluntarily declared breaches involved exports "without authorisation" of "classified defence articles" to Australia and other nations, related to military programs such as Tomahawk Cruise Missile and the RIM-162 Evolved SeaSparrow Missile.

Other violations contained in the State Department's "Proposed Charging Letter" included "Unauthorised Exports Related to Sensitive Military Platforms Resulting from Misclassification" which were sent to Australia between 2017 and 2022.

During this time, several RTX employees also travelled to "proscribed destinations" such as Russia and Iran where they logged onto work laptops containing information on sensitive US military programs including the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defence System, B-2 Spirit bomber and F-35 aircraft.

In a 2021 incident, an RTX worker logged onto his company laptop, which contained aircraft secrets, while visiting St Petersburg, then reported to the cybersecurity team several "alerts" that were "incorrectly dismissed" as false positives because of a transition to a new cybersecurity tool.

Another violation involved providing Chinese citizens information about "an aluminium display housing component of the F-22 Raptor Fighter Aircraft" in Shanghai, data that was later determined to be more sensitive than the RTX employees initially believed.

Since 2022, RTX's local subsidiary, Raytheon Australia, has been a strategic partner for the federal government's Guided Weapons and Explosives Ordnance Enterprise (GWEO), which aims to "accelerate the establishment of a local long-range guided weapons and munitions manufacturing industry".......

Lose lips sink ships. The lessons learned are forgotten. I think that old sign the Official Secrets act with a loaded piston on the table might need to come back. Then again with a POTUS putting secrets in a publicly accessible ballroom ... .

From the you just can't make this up department:
Disabled Vet Cited for 'Liquid Littering' After Blowing Bubbles in California

“The Bubble Pirate” found himself being treated like a true criminal after attempting to bring joy to children at a California public park.

But Sandy Snakenberg, a 63-year-old disabled homeless veteran and self-styled “bubbleologist,” was only blowing bubbles when he was cited on Aug. 24 in San Diego’s La Jolla Cove.

Rangers with San Diego Parks and Recreation cited Snakenberg with “liquid littering.”

at the same time some of its staff members breached strict US regulations by taking their work laptops containing sensitive military secrets into Russia and Iran.

Russia and Iran.... Crazy. These are either bought traitors, spies or fundamentalist ideologues... I don't believe that even a careless person can be this stupid. Is it possible for an American to book a flight to Tehran (e.g. via Europe or VAE, Qatar) or Moscow without raising a red flag at US intelligence services? Unbelievable.

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We all know that there's a housing crisis going on around the world, but 1 Sydney council has a plan to free up thousands of long term vacant properties.

Randwick mayor wants to introduce levy on developers who leave their property vacant for a year or more.

In the inner Sydney suburb of Randwick, home to thousands of healthcare workers, four hospitals, and countless students taking classes at one of the state's largest universities, a multi-storey block of units sits derelict and empty.

According to Randwick Mayor Philipa Veitch, the apartments at 21 Cook Street have been this way for years.

A property tracking website shows they were last sold in 1996. The last time an apartment was listed for rent was in 2010.

Five years ago, Randwick City Council approved its demolition and the construction of a residential building made up of 20 units.

But the site is still blocked off by temporary fences, adorned by signs which warn the public not to enter.

"It's very hard to rent a property or buy a property in our area, and it's crazy that you're seeing empty homes, including an entire empty block of flats here, not being used," Cr Veitch said.

If the Greens councillor has her way, there may soon be financial penalties in place for land owners who keep their properties empty or engage in activity known as land banking.

Land banking is an investment scheme which involves buying blocks and holding them with the aim of selling when it has been approved for development.

The proposal from Randwick Council, which they plan to table at the Local Government Conference in November, would penalise people financially who sit on land or property and use the money to build social housing........

So if that's going on here it must be going on in a lot of other places around the world.

The U.K. and the U.S. depopulated this island for their own purposes and now those people want it back.

What I found on the secretive tropical island they don't want you to see.

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by crystal blue waters.

But this is no tourist destination. It is strictly out of bounds to most civilians - the site of a highly secretive UK-US military base shrouded for decades in rumour and mystery.

The island, which is administered from London, is at the centre of a long-running territorial dispute between the UK and Mauritius, and negotiations have ramped up in recent weeks.

The BBC gained unprecedented access to the island earlier this month......

It's a win for the displaced natives.

UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century.

The deal – reached after years of negotiations - will see the UK hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a historic move.

This includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, used by the US government as a military base for its navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft.

The announcement, made in a joint statement by the UK and Mauritian Prime Ministers, ends decades of often fractious negotiations between the two countries.

The US-UK base will remain on Diego Garcia – a key factor enabling the deal to go forward at a time of growing geopolitical rivalries in the region between Western countries, India, and China.

The deal is still subject to finalisation of a treaty, but both sides have promised to complete it as quickly as possible........

It seem that our 2 major mighty white commercial boy's club TV broadcasters are both in trouble.

‘Elephant in the room’: Nine stars lash out after bombshell report into ‘toxic’ culture.

Channel 7 has won a bid for an “unprecedented” media blackout over court documents, including potentially “salacious” emails.

It's no wonder that I prefer the watch the ABC and SBS channels instead, unless there's a good movie or doco on those other 2.

It seems that that Kiwi naval ship that run into a reef, burned and sank is still causing a stink in more ways than 1.

Anger among affected communities as Samoa suspends Manawanui ship clean up for CHOGM.

In short:

The response to a sunken New Zealand Navy ship will cease while Samoa hosts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

The resort where King Charles III will stay in Samoa is only several kilometres from the shipwreck.

What's next?

Nearby fishing communities say they have lost income due to the shipwreck and accuse the Samoan and New Zealand governments of neglecting their needs.

Telecoms cable break reported between Finland and Germany

The C-Lion1 submarine cable, which runs between Finland and Germany, has a malfunction [...]

All telecommunications running on the submarine cable have been cut off. A cybersecurity expert tells Yle that the cable break is likely to be intentional.

It is the only Finnish submarine cable that runs directly to Central Europe. At a press conference on Monday, Cinia's CEO, Ari-Jussi Knaapila said that C-Lion1 has never broken before.

Why cut that now?...

What to distract from?

Or what to threaten??


All in a deadly political world...
Martin

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