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Prosecutors announce Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly will not be retried after deadlocked jury

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© Angela Gervasi/Nogales International via AP, PoolGeorge Alan Kelly, right, exits the Santa Cruz County Courthouse with defense attorney Kathy Lowthorp, Friday, March 22, 2024, in Nogales, Ariz.
George Alan Kelly, the Arizona rancher charged with murder in the shooting of a Mexican national on his border property, will not be retried, prosecutors with the Santa Cruz County Attorney's office said.

The state charged Kelly, 75, with second degree murder after he allegedly shot and killed a migrant, Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, on his land in January 2023.

The decision not to retry Kelly comes a week after a mistrial was declared following a deadlocked jury.

Kelly's defense confirmed to Fox News Digital that there was "one, lone holdout" juror who wanted to convict, while the remaining jurors sought an acquittal.

Comment:
Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly's wife testifies in murder trial, describes armed men near borderlands home
Migrant shot dead by Arizona rancher, 73, was cartel drug smuggler, says ex Border Patrol chief, as prosecutors DOWNGRADE charges from 1st to 2nd degree murder amid growing public outrage
Sanity: Judge declares mistrial in case of Arizona rancher charged with murder of Mexican national on border property


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43% of small US businesses unable to pay their rent in full, highest delinquency rate since lockdowns

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The delinquency rate for US small businesses climbed to a three-year high this month, reflecting the impact of rent spikes and declining revenue, according to a monthly survey.

The Small Business Rent report from Alignable, which provides an online networking platform for owners, found that 43% of small businesses were unable to pay their rent in full due to economic headwinds. That's the highest rent delinquency rate since March 2021.

Independent restaurants are having the most trouble, with 52% not paying April rent on time. On the other hand, just 20% of small manufacturers are delinquent.


Comment: 'Just'...


Comment: Without some kind of windfall (such as foreign asset theft?) or miracle in funny money fed accounting, this situation is only likely to get worse; and, what with the US taxpayer signed up to a failing proxy-war in Ukraine, and now a genocide in Gaza, in addition to hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that have stepped across the border of late, it's likely that the economic situation will deteriorate fast.

Although this dire outlook - shared by governments across the West - might explain, in part, why the establishment is going all out with its agenda:


Black Magic

Ex-mortuary worker pleads guilty to selling 24 boxes of body parts stolen from Arkansas cadavers

Candace Chapman Scott accused of stealing stolen body parts to Jeremy Lee Pauley
© Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, East Pennsboro Township Police DepartmentCandace Chapman Scott accused of stealing stolen body parts to Jeremy Lee Pauley
A former mortuary worker in Arkansas pleaded guilty to transporting stolen body parts across state lines, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Candace Chapman Scott, 37, of Little Rock, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

Scott sold 24 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for almost $11,000, prosecutors said.

Comment: What were they purchased for and by whom? Another NBC report states:
The 15-page indictment doesn't go into extended detail about what the body parts were purchased for, but it does mention that Maclean allegedly shipped human skin to a man in Pennsylvania "and engaged in his services to tan the skin to create leather."
While Associated Press claims:
The buyer is not identified in the federal indictment, but separate state charges in Pennsylvania name him as Jeremy Lee Pauley, of Enola, Pennsylvania.

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The indictment alleges Scott approached Pauley in October 2021 and began offering to sell him remains from the medical school that the mortuary was supposed to cremate and return.

"Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully in tact, embalmed brain?" the indictment alleges Scott wrote to Pauley in her first Facebook message.

The indictment alleges that over the next nine months, Scott sold Pauley fetuses, brains, hearts, lungs, genitalia, large pieces of skin and other body parts. At one point, the indictment alleges Scott sold the remains of a fetus at a discount, writing "he's not in great shape."
For more on Pauley see here. The Inquirer reported on March 6th 2024 that Pauley was sentenced to probation "in a related state case for illegally possessing human flesh in his self-described "oddities" collection but Pauley still faces sentencing in a related federal case:
Pauley still faces sentencing in a related federal case, in which he pleaded guilty to conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property for trafficking of human body parts. Six others had been charged in that case.

The Inquirer reported last year how Pauley built an oddities business in Enola and how authorities shut it down.

Pauley was a well-known figure in the oddities world, part of a decentralized community whose members are interested in antiquities, quack medicine, the paranormal, natural history, and taxidermy. Aficionados buy and sell objects of interest at flea markets, oddities shops, and global Facebook groups. Many of the dealings are in strange — but benign — goods.



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Best of the Web: Analysis reveals the US cities Biden is flying hundreds of thousands of migrants in controversial program, sparking national security fears

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A new analysis reveals which U.S. cities where the majority of the migrants are arriving on President Joe Biden's program flying up to 30,000 undocumented migrants each month to be released into the U.S.
The vast majority of migrant flights President Joe Biden's White House is transporting directly from foreign countries to U.S. airports to bypass the southern border are landing in Florida.

A new analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reveals that 326,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela arrived in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' state since the program started in January 2023.

Lawyers for Biden's immigration agencies refused to disclose through a FOIA request data on which airports were receiving the undocumented migrants, claiming it would compromise safety and create national security 'vulnerabilities.'

While the latest analysis reveals the eight cities with the highest number of arrivals, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) revealed last month that the flights landed in at least 43 different American airports from January through December 2023.

Comment: See also: The Texas migrant drama is a distraction: US elites will keep the border wide open


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Soldier claims 'nobody willing' to join Ukrainian army - media

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Draft evasion in Ukraine has taken extreme forms, a soldier serving with the infamous neo-Nazi Azov regiment has reportedly told local news outlet TSN. "Literally no one" is willing to go to the front lines, the serviceman allegedly claimed.

The man, identified only by his combat nickname 'Niko', said he continues to fight despite being injured and losing his leg in battle because there is simply no one to replace him.

"No one is willing to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine nowadays," he told TSN.

People "do whatever they come up with" to escape the military draft, including "swimming across the Tisza River and drowning themselves in there," the soldier said. He was referring to recent reports about dozens of men losing their lives in attempts to flee Ukraine and avoid being conscripted amid the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

Smoking

Biden drops cigarette ban to court black voters - WSJ

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The plan to target menthol flavored products had divided the African-American community, the Democrats' traditional base.

The White House has indefinitely postponed plans to ban menthol cigarettes, after polls showed a drastic drop in African-American support for President Joe Biden ahead of the November election, according to the Wall Street Journal.

About 81% of black smokers used menthols as of 2020, the year when Biden got 91% of the black vote. Recent polls showed only 68% of African Americans planning to support the Democrat this time around, however.

"It's clear that there are still more conversations to have, and that will take significantly more time," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement on Friday, noting the feedback the proposed ban received from civil rights and criminal justice reform groups.

The ban was first proposed in April 2021, as part of Biden's "Cancer Moonshot" initiative. The White House argued that outlawing menthol cigarettes would help "people of color" improve health outcomes. Menthols account for more than 30% of all cigarettes sold in the US each year, and are the most popular among black and Hispanic smokers.

Comment: Via Biden's social justice: Minorities can smoke AND vote.


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Power outage at major UK airport causes havoc for travelers

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A power outage has brought a major airport to a grinding halt as passengers crowd inside the terminal building. Stansted Airport in Essex has suffered a malfunctioning of nearly all its systems, including security, check-in desks and baggage conveyor belts.

Bosses at the airport have apologised for the inconvenience caused, but travellers have been caught up in such chaos that some have reported missed flights. Pictures from passengers show wall-to-wall of people waiting to collect luggage in what is assumed to be arrivals.

A spokesman for Stansted said: "Apologies for any inconvenience caused. We are experiencing an ongoing partial power outage that is affecting a number of airport systems, including check-in, security and baggage."

Comment: The above incident is notable because it's just the latest in a litany of outages and disruptions effecting critical - below is just a small selection of other incidents:


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Bird flu detected in India results in quarantine of 2 doctors, 6 workers

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Amid a bird flu outbreak in Ranchi, two doctors and six staff members of the Regional Poultry Farm in Hotwar have been quarantined at the JSIA building in Ranchi, which has been converted into a bird flu ward.

According to officials, a team of medical experts from Ranchi have taken the samples of infected people.

Almost all cases of H5N1 infection in people have been associated with close contact with infected live or dead birds or H5N1-contaminated environments.

The Ministry of Animal Husbandry has implemented various measures following the confirmation of the bird flu outbreak, including a complete ban on the sale and purchase of all birds and conducting surveys around the epicentre.

Comment: Whilst bird flu isn't yet looking like the WEF's desired 'Disease X', with mass culls, detections in various creatures, including cattle (that were fed the excreta of infected birds), strict border controls, and the concocting of another experimental mRNA injection, bird flu does at least threaten to cause significant upheaval: USDA claims bird flu is spreading in cows with detections in 32 herds in 8 states, is criticized for withholding data


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Russia takes out major energy facilities in three regions of Ukraine

Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant
FILE: Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.
Russia attacked Ukrainian energy facilities in three regions on Saturday, damaging equipment and injuring at least one energy worker, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said.


Comment: Injuring just one worker in such major strikes speaks to Russia's precision targeting, and its continued attempts to avoid civilian casualties.


Galushchenko said on the Telegram messaging app that the Russian strikes targeted the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine and the western regions of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk.

DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, said its four thermal power stations were hit.

"The enemy again massively shelled the Ukrainian energy facilities," DTEK said in a statement. "The company's equipment was seriously damaged. At this very moment, energy workers are trying to eliminate the consequences of the attack."

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Military expert Alexander Zimovsky: The collapse of the Ukrainian energy industry turned out to be much closer than the Ukrainian authorities expected. After today's latest high-precision destruction of thermal generation facilities in the Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of Ukraine, Zelensky was forced to come out with a special address "to the nation."

By the way, the Burshtynska Thermal Power Plant, in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, was covered with sea-based Calibers. Rumors about the final victory of Ukrainian naval drones over the Black Sea Fleet turned out to be somewhat exaggerated. And the skeptics were put to shame.
March 24: Swathes of Ukraine go dark after Russia pummels energy infrastructure

For more, The Duran's Alexander Mercouris has been providing daily detailed and insightful updates and analysis on the Ukraine proxy war since it began::





Cult

Best of the Web: Northern Ireland Unionist leader Jeffrey Donaldson and his wife appear in court on child rape charges


Comment: His party is the ultra-loyalist, ultra-'biblical' one representing Ireland's small but vociferously 'traditional' pro-UK, protestant christian minority...


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Jeffrey Donaldson has made his first court appearance in Northern Ireland on sexual offence charges amid a heavy security presence.

The former Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader is scheduled to appear at Newry magistrates court in County Down on Wednesday morning to face allegations of sexual abuse against two people.

It will be the first time the 61-year-old has been seen in public since 28 March when he was arrested and questioned along with a 57-year-old woman.


Comment: That would be his wife.


Comment: Polished media appearances only get you so far. Eventually, when you're a degenerate, the truth will out.

According to Belfast Live, Donaldson was charged with historic sexual offences against two children:
The man who was subsequently named by the DUP as Jeffrey Donaldson, was charged with rape, gross indecency and indecent assault.

His wife, subsequently named in court as Eleanor Donaldson, was charged with causing unnecessary suffering to a child, aiding an abetting a charge of rape and aiding and abetting and charge of indecent assault.
It has long been common knowledge in the north of Ireland that the Unionist community is run by sadistic pedophiles. This is 'official reality' just catching up...

See also: Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's mentor was a sadistic child abuser