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Cannibal Couple Stalked Victims On Dating Site
‘Cannibal couple hunted for victims on dating sites before drugging, butchering and eating them’
A SUSPECTED cannibal couple lured victims using dating sites before drugging, butchering and eating them, it has been claimed.
Dmitry Baksheev, 35, and his wife Natalia, 42, have reportedly confessed to killing at least 30 people in Russia over two decades.
Cops fear Natalia may have also fed human meat to student pilots in the Krasnodar military academy where she worked as a nurse.
The couple were arrested after the dismembered remains of a young woman were found in the academy next to a bucket filled with body parts.
Dmitry admitted the grim killing and boasted about multiple other murders after a phone was found with pictures of him allegedly posing for selfies with dead bodies.
Investigators are seeking to verify the claims after seven bags of body parts were found in their fridge and freezer.
A jar with pickled human remains and 19 slices of skin were also discovered in the macabre flat.
Many cans with steamed meat were found in their kitchen, a source told Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Police fear Baksheev set up meetings with the victims after chatting to them on dating sites.
His wife is reported to have been shown the faces of missing women in southern Russia and identified dozens who she claimed were their victims.
A police source said: “Going through the photographs, the woman has recognised more than 30 victims that they killed and eaten together with her husband.
“A psychologist was sent from Nizhny Novgorod to make her talk.”
Separate reports say Natalia was checked by a psychiatric hospital and found to be “mentally healthy”.
“In their home, many mobile phones of their victims were found, and also video lessons on how to cook meals from human meat,” said the police source.
“This woman had been working in the military academy as a nurse and supposedly she was sharing these cans of steamed human meat with student pilots.”
But so far police have concrete evidence of only two women who were allegedly killed and cannibalised, it is understood.
Baksheev was detained after a man found his mobile in the street and found images of him posing for selfies with a woman’s body parts.
“He took a selfie with the hand in his mouth, at the same time he put the fingers of the dead hand into his nose,” said a police report.
“Then he cut one finger with a knife.”
He told interrogators he began his macabre reign of terror in 1999.
One sickening image appears to show a head being served as Christmas dinner surrounded by mandarins.
A police source added: “The earliest date of their culinary experiment is 28 December 1999 – the date on one of the photographs.
“We can see a cooked human head at the big plate surrounded by mandarins.
“They put olives into the eyes and attached a lemon to the nose.”
A police search found body parts in a rubbish container near the hostel where the pair lived and a red-haired woman’s head in a metal bucket, with human skin nearby.
More human remains were found in a cellar.
Baksheev confessed to throwing away the body parts, telling police: “I did a stupid thing.”
The woman was identified as Elena B, who lived in the same military academy where the alleged cannibal couple resided.
It is believed she was killed in a forest nearby and her dismembered remains were carried to his home by Baksheev in a backpack.
Both suspects have been detained pending further investigations.
A local shopkeeper remembers him coming to top up his mobile and walking away with blood dripping from a cooler bag he was carrying.
Road worker Roman Khomyakov found Baksheev’s Samsung mobile phone and noticed the hideous photographs.
“We were working near Gastello street, putting asphalt on the road, when I found the phone,” he said.
“I opened the photo album and looked only at two pictures.
“At first I did not even understand what was there, it looked like a head and a hand. I thought pictures were real.”
Baksheev reportedly came looking for the phone.
“The man looked homeless. He said: ‘I lost my phone.’
“I recognised him from the pictures in the phone. So I did not return the phone, we said we knew nothing. He left.
“Soon a road police car came passed, and I gave them the mobile phone. I said: ‘It’s your job, sort it out’.”
Police say Baksheev was an orphan from Siberia who was adopted by a childless couple.
He was in his teens when his mother Svetlana died of cancer – and his adoptive father threw him out of the family home even though he was underage.
Some reports say Natalia took him in and married him when he was 18.
Others say that she had other partners and the pair did not wed until four years ago.
His father – who was not named – said: “Before moving out of our flat he set fire to his room.”
He said: “He was convicted four times for stealing things.
“He took loans and gave my name as a trustee. I had to switch off my phone because banks kept calling me.
“I had tried to help him, I found jobs for him several times but what could I do?
“It is useless talking to him. His eyes are made of glass.
“He is looking through your body and does not listen.”
Natalia Baksheeva, who is seven years older than her husband, came to live in Krasnodar from Omutinsk town in Kirov region.
Cops uncovered “video lessons for cannibals” at their homes, according to Livekuban.ru.
The couple are being held in Krasnodar as cops investigate.
‘Cannibal couple hunted for victims on dating sites before drugging, butchering and eating them’
YeeHaw! Roy Moore Pulls Out A Gun At His Rally
Roy Moore pulls out gun while speaking at rally
Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore pulled out a handgun during a campaign rally Monday night.
During the rally — which came just hours ahead of the Republican primary runoff Tuesday — Moore said he dealt with nearly three months of negative ads, ABC News reported.
“Ads that were completely false. That I don’t believe in the Second Amendment,” Moore, a former state Supreme Court chief justice, said.
He then turned and pulled out a handgun, while saying: “I believe in the Second Amendment.”
The comment was met with cheers from the audience.
Moore headed into Election Day leading in polls over Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.), who has the backing of President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Strange’s allies had poured nearly $11 million into the race as of Friday, and Strange’s campaign organization has outspent Moore by more than 300 percent.
The winner of the Tuesday runoff election will face Democrat Doug Jones in the December general election as Republican try to keep the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Trump on Monday said that if Alabama voters elected Moore, Democrats would win the general election for the seat.
Conservatives figures like 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon have backed Moore as an anti-establishment Republican.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/352410-roy-moore-pulls-out-gun-while-speaking-at-rall
Trump’s Advisors Use Private Servers
The Brazenness of Trump’s White House Staff Using Private Email
How could six senior presidential aides mimic the strategy for which Trump lacerated Hillary Clinton? Only if they believe they are as immune to the usual rules as he is.
Late Sunday night, Josh Dawsey of Politico dropped a story that, in any other administration, would have been cause for concern but hardly surprise.
“Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December,” Dawsey wrote. “Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, set up their private family domain late last year before moving to Washington from New York, according to people with knowledge of events as well as publicly available internet registration records.”
On Monday, Newsweek reported that Ivanka Trump had also used the domain to communicate with at least one government official, Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon.* By Monday night, The New York Times had reported that at least six officials, including former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, former strategist Steve Bannon, and aides Stephen Miller and Gary Cohn, had used personal accounts for at least some official business.
Administration officials conducting business on personal accounts raises concerns because it suggests some intention to skirt public-records laws and conceal things from the public. While troubling, this is hardly unusual. Sarah Palin was busted for using one. So were officials in the George W. Bush administration. Lisa Jackson, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency under Barack Obama, used an alias for her email.
Of course, the most famous example of someone using a personal email is Hillary Clinton. The case of the Javanka domain is brazen for its mimickry of Clinton’s actions at the State Department, right down to the use of a domain specifically for the family. The only way it could be more slapstick would be if Kushner and Trump also used BleachBit.
There are significant ways the Kushner-Ivanka domain differs from Clinton’s. Neither of them is a Cabinet secretary. (Trump, despite her title as special assistant to the president, says she doesn’t even want to get involved in politics.) Neither of them is running for office (at the moment). The scale of their usage pales in comparison to Clinton’s, and there’s no indication that they deleted any emails. Nor is there any indication that classified information was sent in the emails.
So why doesn’t it stick to Trump? After all, he has his own history of ethical and legal shortcomings, one that is more robust and more concretely documented than anything in Clinton’s record. But the same actions don’t necessarily come off the same way. Some of that is simple partisanship: When your guy does it, it’s different from when the other guy does it. Another compelling explanation for why Trump gets away with the things he critiques is that some of his supporters love that he’s a brawler.
Michael Moore laid this line of thinking out in a recent New York Magazine interview. “They loved the brazenness of it. Even when they didn’t necessarily agree with it, they thought, That took balls. They may not personally think McCain’s a coward, but they think, Wow, that’s who I want. Somebody who’s just going to say shit like that,” Moore said. “Americans, they want somebody who stands up for the things that he or she believes in and says it without any apology.”
The extent to which Trump really is the Teflon Don is debatable. It is true that he has survived things that would have killed a lesser politician’s career a dozen times over; it is also true that his approval ratings are record-breakingly low, his administration is nearly devoid of major accomplishments, and he faces a perilous special-counsel investigation. For now, though, he remains standing.
The question is whether that applies to others. Trump’s aides and advisers seem to have come to believe that the force-field of gravity distortion that protects the president will apply to them too. Whether they are right is less clear.
Think of Michael Flynn’s mixing of private- and public-sector work, his decision not to make required disclosures, and his decision to lie to the vice president—and, perhaps, the FBI. Think of Paul Manafort allegedly advising a Russian billionaire even as he ran the Trump campaign. Think of Anthony Scaramucci’s R-rated circus-act of a 10-day tenure as White House communications director. Each of them behaved as though they too were immune to standard pressures. But Flynn was fired and is under multiple investigations. Manafort is too, and his home was raided before down by FBI agents; he has reportedly been told to expect to be indicted. Scaramucci was fired before he’d had a chance to get off the ground.
Kushner, so far, is still standing, but it’s easy to imagine that if he were not related to the president, he too might have been shoved out onto Pennsylvania Avenue. Like his boss and father-in-law, Kushner brings serious liabilities from his business career. He has multiple unexplained contacts with Russian officials, from the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting to a disputed meeting with the head of a Russian state-controlled bank, plus a report that he tried to set up a back channel with Russian officials. His clearance forms were highly incomplete, and he offered an implausible excuse. In fact, there were so many worrying moments that, according to The Wall Street Journal, some of the president’s lawyers wanted Kushner removed from the White House this summer. Trump refused.
A common knock on the Clintons was that they behaved as though the rules did not apply to them. Already, some members of Trump’s inner circle are acting the same way. Feeling immune to ordinary strictures can be alluring, but as Hillary Clinton learned, sometimes you only discover too late that it’s an illusion.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/the-brazenness-of-jared-and-ivankas-personal-email-server/541017/
Megan Kelly Is Done With Politics On Her New Today Show
NBC host Megyn Kelly declared Monday that she is “done with politics for now” during the debut of her new daytime show, leading Twitter to mock the former Fox News anchor for attempting to leave her past behind and move into a softer kind of news coverage.
“The truth is, I’m kind of done with politics for now,” Kelly said on “Megyn Kelly Today.” “I know. You know why, right? We all feel it. It’s everywhere, and it’s gotten so dark, and I’m just like, over [it].”
Twitter users quickly responded to Kelly’s comments, writing that she may not be completely done with politics and referencing her past reporting, Mashable reported.
http://freebeacon.com/culture/megyn-kelly-mocked-twitter-saying-done-politics/
President Trump Blast Iran Nuclear Deal While Speaking At U.N. General Assembly
President Donald Trump criticized the Iranian government and questioned the fortitude of the Iran nuclear deal during his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Trump called for the world to confront Iran, and painted a picture of the “reckless regime” whose chief exports he described as “violence, bloodshed, and chaos.”
“The longest suffering victims of Iran’s leaders are, in fact, its own people,” Trump said. “Rather than use its resources to improve Iranian lives, its oil profits go to fund Hezbollah and other terrorists that kill innocent Muslims and attack their peaceful Arab and Israeli neighbors.”
Trump specifically condemned Iran for “undermining peace” in the Middle East by sending support for Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
With widespread speculation as to whether the Trump administration would keep the Iran nuclear deal, which the Obama administration entered into, the president called the agreement an “embarrassment” and spoke out strongly against it.
“We cannot abide by an agreement if it provides cover for the eventual construction of a nuclear program,” Trump said.
“The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into,” Trump said. “Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United States and I don’t think you’ve heard the last of it, believe me.”
Trump called on Iran to free Americans and other foreigners being “unjustly detained” by the Iranian government, and said the Iranian regime is more frightened by its citizens than almost anything else in the world. Trump identified the “vast military power of the United States” as the one exception.
“This [the power of the people] is what causes the regime to restrict Internet access, tear down satellite dishes, shoot unarmed student protesters, and imprison political reformers,” Trump said. “Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the people will face a choice. Will they continue down the path of poverty, bloodshed, and terror? Or will the Iranian people return to the nation’s proud roots as a center of civilization, culture and wealth where their people can be healthy and prosperous once again?”
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-slams-iran-nuclear-deal-un-speech/