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Andrew Tate detained in Romania over rape and human trafficking case - BBC News
The former kickboxer rose to fame in 2016 when he was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman.

He went on to gain notoriety online, with Twitter banning him for saying women should "bear responsibility" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.

Despite social media bans he gained popularity, particularly among young men, by promoting an ultra-masculine, ultra-luxurious lifestyle.

He regularly appeared in videos with a fleet of expensive sports cars, on private jets, and enjoying expensive holidays.
I think that he moved to Romania when he got enough money to live there without needing a job there. He did so 5 years ago.

"The four suspects... appear to have created an organised crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialised websites for a cost," according to the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) of Romania. AT and his brother Tristan will be detained for an additional 30 days. The two were shown in social media being led away from a luxury villa.
They were later forced to perform in pornographic content under threat of violence, the statement said.

Police also released a video of the raid, showing guns, knives, and money on display in one room.

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In the footage he posted, he was handed a pizza box from a local restaurant, which some users suggested had inadvertently revealed his location.

However, the pizza box is not thought to be relevant.

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Following the arrest, she tweeted "this is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes," referring to the online rumour.
 
Andrew Tate detained in Romania over rape and human trafficking case - BBC News
The former kickboxer rose to fame in 2016 when he was removed from British TV show Big Brother over a video which appeared to show him attacking a woman.

He went on to gain notoriety online, with Twitter banning him for saying women should "bear responsibility" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.

Despite social media bans he gained popularity, particularly among young men, by promoting an ultra-masculine, ultra-luxurious lifestyle.

He regularly appeared in videos with a fleet of expensive sports cars, on private jets, and enjoying expensive holidays.
I think that he moved to Romania when he got enough money to live there without needing a job there. He did so 5 years ago.

"The four suspects... appear to have created an organised crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialised websites for a cost," according to the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) of Romania. AT and his brother Tristan will be detained for an additional 30 days. The two were shown in social media being led away from a luxury villa.
They were later forced to perform in pornographic content under threat of violence, the statement said.

Police also released a video of the raid, showing guns, knives, and money on display in one room.

...
In the footage he posted, he was handed a pizza box from a local restaurant, which some users suggested had inadvertently revealed his location.

However, the pizza box is not thought to be relevant.

...
Following the arrest, she tweeted "this is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes," referring to the online rumour.
Savage. :rofl:
 


Can someone tell me what broke the stalemate in WWI? I'm not a stable genius like Musk is.
 


Can someone tell me what broke the stalemate in WWI? I'm not a stable genius like Musk is.

The German Spring Offensive of 1918, using the troops no longer required on the Eastern Front, was the main factor. Paradoxically, Germany was a victim of her own success.

Having been successfully worn down by the war, and by the blockades that prevented the Central Powers from importing useful quantities of materiel, the German lines had become dependent on a logistical support network that had grown up alongside the near stationary front, and when their forces succeeded in pushing the French and British forces back, their logistics were unable to keep up - mainly as a result of the broken ground that the war had made almost impassable to supply trains*. Their attempt to break the point of contact between British and French armies almost succeeded, but again this worked against the Germans, as it finally gave the Allies the kick in the pants needed to unify command, with the British for the first time in the war allowing a Frenchman, General Ferdinand Foch, to command British forces.

Unable to obtain the necessary ammunition, food, fuel or replacement troops, the advance faltered, and was pushed back; When it reached the old fortified front lines, the German Army lacked the ability to stop the momentum of their retreat, and couldn't reconsolidate the defensive posture that had kept them in France since the front solidified in 1914. The Allies, now bolstered by American men and supplies, pushed the Germans into a near rout, and it rapidly became clear that they no longer had sufficient strength and cohesion to prevent French and British advances.

The tank played a minor role in all of this; The first truly successful use of tanks at Cambrai at the end of November 1917 demonstrated that they could be effective in breaking enemy lines (particularly when used in close coordination with both infantry and air forces), but the successful counterattack by the Germans demonstrated also that, at that time, not much had changed since 1914, with breakthroughs being difficult to achieve, but impossible to consolidate. The ability to reinforce and resupply the line was always the main issue, and that ability always strongly favoured the defenders, who were falling back towards their supplies and reserves, and disfavoured the attackers who were leaving an impassable barrier of fortifications and shell holes between themselves and their logistics trains.

The Germans defeated themselves, by leaving their well established and well supplied fortified front line, at a time when their national ability to support the war effort was almost completely exhausted, and troops were desperately underfed, and low in morale. They pushed the Allies into a position of advantage, while capturing very little that was strategically valuable to either side. And when they were, inevitably, checked and reversed, their retreat turned into a rout.

Had they Germans not launched their Spring Offensive, they likely would have been forced to request an armistice by the end of 1918 or early 1919, due to the starving of their home front; But if they had done so while still occupying the mostly stable front line that they had held for four years, and while still in possession of large areas of France, the terms would presumably have been far less unpleasant to them than the actual terms of the Treaty of Versailles, and might even have been sufficiently tolerable as to avoid the need for round two, twenty years later.

The Great War saw a number of novel weapons that were expected to radically change the outcome (gas, aircraft, camouflage, tanks, etc.), but none of these really had a big enough effect to do that. The tank often gets more credit than it deserves, largely because it was very successful on day one at Cambrai, and that success came only a few months ahead of a general un-freezing of the lines that was directly attributable to the Spring Offensive. From the perspective of the newspaper reading Londoners, it was as though the new British secret weapon had dramatically changed the entire nature of the war on the Western Front, but really, that was more propaganda than reality. That the Germans tripped over their own dicks while successfully pushing back the Allies, was never going to fall so effectively into national myth.





*Horse drawn wagon trains, not railways, although both sides did use narrow gauge railways right up to the front at various places
 


Can someone tell me what broke the stalemate in WWI? I'm not a stable genius like Musk is.

And he's wrong, anyway.

It's infantry + artillery + missiles. And observation sufficient to put artillery (including stuff like HIMARS) on ammo dumps. This makes for a very different battlefield than WWI where interdicting logistics wasn't an appreciable factor.
 
This makes for a very different battlefield than WWI where interdicting logistics wasn't an appreciable factor.
Tell that to the poor bastards who had to resupply the front lines.

Interdiction of logistics beyond artillery range (typically 5-10 miles behind the front line) was not really possible for either side in the Great War, but inside that forward zone, logistics was made extremely difficult by artillery, often supported by aerial spotting, from planes, balloons, and even kites.

In muddy areas, such as the Ypres salient, the artillery could target the roads in the certain knowledge that heavy equipment couldn't be brought up cross country, so having ranged upon the road during the daytime, they could effectively deny the route to supply trains at night as well.
 
This makes for a very different battlefield than WWI where interdicting logistics wasn't an appreciable factor.
Tell that to the poor bastards who had to resupply the front lines.

Interdiction of logistics beyond artillery range (typically 5-10 miles behind the front line) was not really possible for either side in the Great War, but inside that forward zone, logistics was made extremely difficult by artillery, often supported by aerial spotting, from planes, balloons, and even kites.

In muddy areas, such as the Ypres salient, the artillery could target the roads in the certain knowledge that heavy equipment couldn't be brought up cross country, so having ranged upon the road during the daytime, they could effectively deny the route to supply trains at night as well.
Russia has it much worse, though.
 
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) kicked off the first meeting of the House Judiciary Committee last week by cordially inviting an accused murderer to lead the Pledge of Allegiance.

Under its new Republican leadership, the 118th Congress’ judiciary committee may choose to start each hearing with the pledge ― an amendment to the rules put forth by Gaetz, who said it allowed members to invite “inspirational constituents” to lead it.

The first honor went to Corey Beekman, a retired National Guard member accused of killing a man in 2019 whose case has not gone to trial.

Gaetz did not mention this aspect of his guest’s backstory. Beekman led the pledge in his military dress uniform on Feb. 1.

“It is my pleasure and distinct honor to introduce to the committee Staff Sgt. Corey Ryan Beekman, an American hero and a constituent of mine residing in Pensacola, Florida,” Gaetz said in the video still available on C-SPAN. He rolled through Beekman’s life story. Born in Holland, Michigan, Gaetz said Beekman enlisted in the Michigan Army National Guard while still in high school before serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, finally moving to Florida to be closer to family.

Beekman also allegedly shot and killed 32-year-old William Buchanan at a home in northern Michigan in April 2019, between his military service and his move down to Florida.

A 32-year-old woman, Katlin Buck, was injured in the attack, local news reported. However, UpNorthLive noted that Buck’s two children were left unharmed.
 
Donald Trump Jr. said that he lived off gas station sushi for a year after graduating college when his family financially cut him off.

Trump made the revelation while speaking to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez having previously worked as a bartender and how they think that does not qualify her to make high level financial decisions.

Trump told Greene that he had also worked as a bartender when he moved to Colorado after graduating from the Wharton School of Finance to "get some stuff out of my system."

He said it was a "brutal" conversation telling his father that he didn't want to start working immediately, and joked that it "went over very well."

"I was cut off, the only thing that they didn't cut off because they forgot was my gas card, so I had a car and a gas card," Trump said. "I'm the guy that lived off gas station sushi for like a year."

He concluded that his experience as a bartender did not qualify him to make "trillion dollar decisions" or to be seen as a "great financial thought leader like they do with AOC."
Getting sushi off a gas card that's paid by someone else seems like an ever so slightly, teeny weeny bit skewed outlook on what it means to be poor and hungry.
 
Wait... I went to college, got a job as soon as I could grab one, and have been employed there ever since... but I'm a lazy liberal slob... all the while Jr was eating uncooked fish he bought at a gas station for a year because he needed to work shit out... and he is what we are supposed to aspire to?

And keep in mind this is happening at the same time, as we are the same age. And is there a poor people eating sushi thing I didn't know about? Is the inner city saturated with discount sushi places? Are children in poor families looking at the dinner table saying "sushi again?"
 
An Arkansas lawmaker shocked onlookers this week when he asked a transgender health care professional about her genitals at a hearing on a bill that would prohibit gender-affirming care for minors.

Gwendolyn Herzig, a pharmacist who is a trans woman, was testifying Monday in support of the treatment for minors during a state Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.


“You said that you’re a trans woman?” Republican state Sen. Matt McKee asked Herzig. “Do you have a penis?”

The audience erupted, with some audibly gasping and at least one person shouting, "Disgraceful."

"That's horrible," Herzig said, after taking a few moments to gather herself. "I don't know what my rights are, but that question was horribly inappropriate."

Herzig, who holds a doctorate of pharmacy, then added: "I'm a health care professional, a doctor. Please treat me as such. Next question, please."
 
Has it been this long since this was posted too?



Minor note, when you see things where they actually aren't, that is a sign of suffering from a mental illness.
 
Has it been this long since this was posted too?



Minor note, when you see things where they actually aren't, that is a sign of suffering from a mental illness.

Update on that. The brewery that was making the beer backed out once they saw how it was being marketed. So far he hasn't found anyone else to brew it for him

 
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