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Have you ever  dreamed to see the day you'd hate watching people being quite thankful to other people for what they've done for them? Well, wait no more!

Kremlin sent out kids from Mariupol to ‘thank’ their invaders at anniversary event

Anna Naumenko, a black haired 15-year-old girl, was sent onstage with her sister, Karolina, at the Feb. 22 event to thank a Russian soldier named Yuri Gagarin for “saving” them from the shattered city on the Sea of Azov, according to The Guardian.

“Thank you Uncle Yura for saving me, my sister and hundreds of thousands of children in Mariupol,” Anna told the soldier, whom The Kyiv Independent reported as having allegedly “saved” 367 children from the town.

But it was also the Russians who left the children motherless – their mom, a blogger named Olga, was killed by shrapnel from an April 2022 explosion while she ran out for cigarettes, The Guardian reported. She was buried near a hospital.

The family had reportedly been hiding from the Russian shells in a Mariupol cultural center, then in an administrative building, the Independent said.

UK Defence Committee Chair Calls for Inquiry
After Chinese-Made Security Cameras Found at Army Bases

The chairman of the UK Defence Select Committee has called for an inquiry after an investigation found that surveillance cameras from Chinese technology companies Hikvision and Dahua are still in use at British army bases, months after they should have been replaced over security concerns.

In November 2022, the UK government banned the installation of new surveillance equipment from China on sensitive government sites, and more than a year after the Ministry of Defence reportedly issued guidance to not use or install Hikvision cameras.
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The report said Hikvision cameras were seen at sites including an army training and weapons testing site at Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, and the Westminster Barracks of the 1st Battalion London Guard, while Dahua cameras were found at Hyde Park Barracks, minutes away from Buckingham Palace.

The investigators visited a dozen other sites but couldn’t get close enough to identify the brands of the surveillance cameras.

Hikvision and Dahua, both ultimately controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), were blacklisted in 2019 by the U.S. Commerce Department for being implicated in enabling human rights violations and abuses against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in China’s Xinjiang region.

Alec Baldwin sued by 3 ‘Rust’ crew members after pleading not guilty in shooting

The individuals claim they have suffered anxiety and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021. She was 42.
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The plaintiffs in the new suit — including dolly operator Ross Addiego, set costumer Doran Curtin and key grip Reese Price — were in the church set at New Mexico’s Bonanza Creek Ranch when Baldwin’s gun fired, killing Hutchins and striking director Joel Souza.

Addiego, Curtin and Price allege they were in close proximity to Baldwin, 64, when the gun was fired and sustained “blast injuries” from the ear-splitting sound of the shot.

NYC Chinese criminal gang steal identities of 3,000,
targeting ‘look-alikes’ of illegal immigrants

At least 3,000 Asian-Americans had their identities scalped from a Texas driver database before officials got wise to the scheme – but shockingly none of them have been notified of their identity being compromised over two months later.

The criminal group first obtained personal information of Asian-Americans through the dark web and used it to order duplicate driver’s licenses through the state’s website, the Texas Department of Public Safety [DPS] – which issues licenses – admitted.

When ordering a new copy of a license through an online portal, which was run by a third party, the criminals were able to use information such as previous addresses or mother’s maiden names which they had nefariously obtained to answer security questions. They were then able to order new licenses for as little as $11 which they sent to “third-party addresses.” The DPS admitted 2,400 licenses had been shipped in this way.

Asians of various ethnicities were victimized.
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The scheme came to light when a vendor who handles payments notified the DPS to an “increase in customers challenging credit card charges for online transactions,” reported the Texas Tribune.

I guess this is another topic you'll hate to have read, making it the second in a row.

‘Deranged’ new horror movie has viewers leaving theaters to vomit: ‘Hellish’

viewers are claiming that they have been left with nightmares and had to walk out of the theater to vomit. One theater-goer even claimed his Apple watch alerted him about his heart rate — twice.

“The Outwaters” was released on February 9 and has since received mixed reviews from both critics and distraught fans.

The indie found-footage film follows a group of friends in their 30s who adventure to the Mojave Desert to shoot a music video — until all hell breaks loose.
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The movie is written and directed by Robbie Banfitch, who also stars in the “Blair Witch”-style film.

“I’m still processing #TheOutwaters. I am not sure if it worked for me,” Leandro Calado tweeted. “The sounding made me so uncomfortably dizzy that I had to leave the theatre to vomit. This never happened to me before. It’s more disturbing than scary if that makes any sense.”

Crew that beat 79-year-old in NYC jewelry heist made off with $1.1M

Cops said the four thieves — including one dressed like an Amazon deliveryman — remain on the loose following the harrowing Feb. 22 robbery that left the victim at Diamond Collect in Flushing battered with a blood clot to her head.
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“She gets knocked on the floor, pistol-whipped, both kicked her, they drag her to the back trying to get her to open the safe with a gun. It’s pretty harrowing.

“She says they don’t say anything to her,” Essig said. “She, heroically, closes the safe and takes out the key. And that’s when he has the gun on her asking her to open up the case.”

Yuchi Lin, the mother of shop owner Eva Chen, was manning the counter at the store around 2:30 p.m. while her daughter was grabbing lunch, police said.

That’s when the faux Amazon deliveryman placed a package outside the locked door, hid around the corner — and pounced when Lin opened the door to grab the box.

Two of the crook stormed into the store wielding a gun and a hammer while the other two waited outside as lookouts, Essig said.

 Beware of the fake deliveries, guys!  Creepy thugs could be behind them.

Ghislaine Maxwell to say she was held ‘under inhumane conditions’ in appeal

...she was held in solitary confinement in the Brooklyn Detention Center “under inhumane conditions” during her trial.

The court papers are expected to argue that Maxwell was subjected to “sleep deprivation,” we hear, and could not get proper access to her legal counsel to prep for her blockbuster trial.

Maxwell’s team will also argue that she was subject to “malnourishment” and “living with vermin in her cell,” along with “overall deplorable conditions.”

Her lawyer, Arthur L. Aidala, said in a statement on Tuesday, “By the time of trial, she was so disoriented and diminished that she was unable meaningfully to assist in her own defense, much less to testify.”

...other mistakes were made in the case — including a controversy during Maxwell’s trial when one juror told the judge that he’d failed to disclose his own history of child abuse during jury selection.
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The judge in the case, United States Circuit Judge Alison J. Nathan, previously shot down Maxwell’s request for a new trial, and she was convicted on five of six counts, including sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. She was sentenced to 20 years behind bars.

Biden picks Julie Su for labor secretary, despite massive California fraud

President Biden said Tuesday he will nominate deputy labor secretary Julie Su to replace Marty Walsh as labor secretary — despite Su overseeing billions of dollars in fraudulent handouts when she held the same post in California.

Su, 54, was the Golden State’s labor secretary from January 2019 to July 2021 and took heat for her agency’s sluggish distribution of COVID-19 unemployment benefits. According to a nonpartisan report from August, payments to roughly 5 million California workers were delayed during the pandemic — while around 1 million more had their benefits wrongly denied.

But that looked like a minor hiccup after Su admitted in early 2021 that California’s Employment Development Department may have paid out as much as $31.4 billion in unemployment funds to fraudsters. More recent estimates have put that amount as high as $40 billion.

White House deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton defended Su’s performance in California during a Tuesday gaggle on Air Force One.