Bloodthirsty mafia boss Putin (Mad Vlad) kills 39, so far

The deaths of at least 39 high profile Russians shows the bloodstained hands of the Kremlin. Those who have died have done so in odd circumstances, such as sudden suicides, falls, and improbable accidents. Sergey Grishin died this week from sepsis after criticizing Putin. Russian scientist Andrey Botikov was strangled with a belt in his apartment last week. He too had criticized Putin. Experts described Putin (Mad Vlad) as running a "modern-day FSB version of Murder Inc." "Anyone seen as a potential threat seems to have an attraction to an open window," said one expert.

Sub human All Boivin on the run - spotted

Seen in Montérégie, All Boivin is still running. He is now on the list of the ten most wanted criminals in Quebec. The only K9 to get away in Operation Radon is All Boivin, 33, the head of the ring. A dozen were busted.

Boivin is a career offender with a violent criminal past, most notably for assault causing harm and cocaine trafficking. In 2018, Boivin savagely tortured his girlfriend, 21. She was beaten for hours, strangled and sprayed with cayenne pepper. Her head was dunked in water, she was kicked repeatedly and her lip was burned with a cigarette. She spent two weeks in hospital with serious injuries, including laceration of her liver and hundreds of bruises.

Boivin was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in April 2019, but this was overturned in the Court of Appeal due to errors of law. He pleaded guilty in Jan 2021 and avoided another trial.

Cops are asking the public to stay alert and to contact authorities if the wanted 'man' is spotted. Boivin is 6 ft tall and weighs 250 lbs. He has brown hair, blue eyes, and a scar on his left shoulder. He should not be approached. Cops remind some that helping this animal means one becomes liable to a charge of obstruction of justice.

Two dead in foiled robbery at Chile airport

An attempted multimillion-dollar airport heist in Chile resulted in a shootout that left a robber and an airport security official dead. The botched heist took place at the Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in the capital of Santiago. Between 10 and 12 robbers attacked as airport workers were moving $32.5m in cash off of a plane. The airport has been targeted in the past. In 2017, an armed group stole $18m, and three years later a similar heist took $15m from an armoured truck.

Two charged in massive TO fraud

Provincial police have charged two men after a lengthy fraud investigation into a $300m contract awarded in 2015 for the redevelopment of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. Busted are Toronto residents John Aquino and Vasos Georgiou. Aquino, 50, is charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000 and one count of secret commissions. Georgiou, 58, is charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000, one count of secret commissions, and one count of fraud on the government.

Hells Angels of the animal kingdom - feral hogs

Wild hogs are described in many ways. Deleterious and invasive is the most generous. Latest is 'Trophy Boar' from a bow hunter in Texas. 30 years ago in the Texas Panhandle, there were no wild hogs. Today they are common. Creeks and rivers serve as a swine highway to expand their range. Like a plague of locusts, nocturnal feral hogs destroy crops, they root and destroy manicured golf courses, raid turkey nests, muddy ponds with their excrement, and destroy cattle pastures. Texas has an estimated 2.6 million feral hogs and you can hunt them year round with no bag limit. You are doing a good deed offing the basterds.

Nasty, vicious, super-adaptable, crafty and disease laden. The feral hog's hellish impact on food chains, irrigation, recreation, and land replenishment is well known. Born of escaped domestic hogs and wild boars imported by sport hunters, they are prolific. Beginning at six months of age a sow (sounder) can spit out 12 piglet litters twice a year. The hellions have few, if any, predators tough enough to take them on. In Canada in the 1980s, Russian boars and European hogs landed as seed stock for meat production and controlled hunting. Oikers escaped, went feral and reproduced. Their numbers in Canada aren't clear, but they have exploded in number over the past decade.Their range now spreads over nearly 800,000 sq km, mostly on the Prairies.

Its said the pigs make good eating.

Montana has a 'Squeal on Pigs' program. Citizens are urged to report the swine so they can be dispatched.

Hells Angels, Flying Tigers 1942

A Curtiss P-40 Warhawk was rescued after being buried 50 years ago on a South Pacific Island. 13,738 were produced during WWII. Most famous were the “Flying Tigers.” They were volunteers in service to the Chinese Air Force against the Japanese. The unit’s 3rd Pursuit Squadron of 10 planes was comprised of Marine Corps aviators. They called themselves the Hell’s Angels.

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HAMC official history says the name comes from a World War II veteran from the Flying Tigers. Flying Tiger Arvid Olson was a close friend of one of the founders of the Hells Angels.

The "Death’s Head" logo can be traced to two U.S. Army Air Corps patches, the 85th Fighter Squadron and the 552nd Medium Bomber Squadron.

CCP laundered billions in Italy

In September 2022, the Italian Tax Police (Guardia di Finanza), visited a couple in Brescia, a man and his wife. They had sent to Slovenia and other Eastern European countries 4.5 million euros as alleged payments of ferrous materials that had never entered Italy. Cops decided to dig in the garden, where they found metal drums full of banknotes for a total of eight million euros. Another three millions euro were found buried in the couple’s cellar. All this money had come from China. “Operazione Via della Seta” (Silk Road) involved hundreds of Tax Police agents for several years.

What they discovered is a bombshell. Evidence was uncovered conclusively proving that the Chinese Communist Party routinely cooperates with criminals — the Italian Mafia, Colombia’s drug cartels, and Russian oligarchs close to Putin — to launder billions. The whole operation has been traced back to those who organized it in Beijing and Shanghai: a pool of banks led by the Bank of China, the fourth largest bank in the world and which is a puppet of the CCP itself. The way of sending money to China and taking a part of it back to Italy (or elsewhere) is extremely complicated, and involves real banks in other countries, including in Switzerland.

2 Americans dead - 'accidentally' kidnapped by Mexican cartel

Two US citizens kidnapped by drug traffickers were found dead while two others escaped that fate. Officials said it was a case of mistaken identity. The victims crossed the border into the city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state for medical reasons. Survivors Latavia Washington McGee and Eric James Williams were returned to the United States. One suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and the other was unharmed. The US State Department advises against travel to Tamaulipas due to dangers including "gun battles, murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, forced disappearances, extortion, and sexual assault."

Doped Gold - Perth Mint

A leaked internal assessment revealed that the Perth Mint might be forced to repatriate $9 b worth of gold bars after masking the sale of diluted or ‘doped’ gold bullion to China. Gold bars can never be made 100 per cent pure, so there will always be some other material that makes up bullion. The industry standard is for bars to be 99.99 per cent gold, known as 'four nines' gold. Refiners keep their gold as close to 99.99 per cent as possible – because any gold over that threshold isn't paid for by the customer. The mint's processes produced 99.996 per cent pure gold, meaning about 0.006 per cent of each bar was "giveaway", so to reduce that amount, silver was added to the mint's bars. The Western Australia government-owned mint started doping its gold in 2018.

The mint saved $600k per year as a result of its doping scheme. In September 2021, the doping scheme started to unravel. Two bars violated Shanghai Gold Exchange’s requirements and included excessive silver. Up to 100 tonnes of gold supplied to the Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) didn't meet Shanghai’s exact purity criteria for silver content.

It wasn’t just one faulty batch, it was the majority of the gold bars produced throughout the course of the three-year doping scheme.

The mint tried to keep this knowledge from China. The Perth Mint stopped its gold doping program the moment the failed assay was detected.

Spanish wine thieves corked for 54 months

Included in the haul was a 217-year-old bottle of Château d’Yquem worth €350k.

A court in Spain has sentenced two people to 54 months in prison after the theft of €1.6m worth of wine from a high-end restaurant in a heist that made headlines around the world. Owners of Atrio hotel and restaurant in the city of Cáceres sounded the alarm after discovering 45 bottles of wine missing.

Nine months later, a former Mexican beauty pageant contestant and a Romanian-Dutch man were arrested in Croatia. The wines are gone. Priscila Lara Guevara and Constantín Dumitru were sentenced to four and a half years in prison.