It was a grisly scene inside Apartment 3722 at the Hamptons, a gated community in Tampa, Florida.
One body lay face up on the floor, wedged between a wall and an air
mattress. A handgun was stuffed in a holster on the dead man’s waist.
The other body, clad in a black T-shirt and shorts, was slumped back on a
futon, a shattered and bloody iPhone on his lap. A police investigator
would later write that the two men had been “shot multiple times at
close range with an assault rifle.”
There were some obvious clues that this was no ordinary double
homicide. Tacked to the wall near the bodies was a large black-and-white
flag bearing the insignia of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, Adolf Hitler’s
elite paramilitary unit. On a nearby shelf was a black Stahlhelm, the
distinctive helmet worn by Nazi soldiers during World War II. There were
multiple copies of “Mein Kampf” and a prominent place was
reserved for “The Turner Diaries,” the infamous novel of race war in
America that has inspired generations of terrorists, among them Timothy
McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. A framed picture of McVeigh sat on a
dresser.
On that night in May 2017, the police quickly took two suspects into
custody and developed a rough outline of what had happened. One of the
suspects, Devon Arthurs, 18, said the victims were his roommates, and
members of a neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division. Arthurs said
that he’d decided to leave the group, and that he’d killed the men to
keep them from carrying out what he said were their plans for violence.
The second suspect detained by police, Brandon Russell, also lived in
the apartment. Russell told the authorities he’d just returned home
from a weekend of training with the Florida Army National Guard. And
then Russell revealed something that should have set off alarms among
federal investigators assigned to track the growing threat from armed,
violent right-wing extremists. He said, and the police quickly
confirmed, that the single-car garage attached to the apartment was full
of explosives.
Explosives experts from the Tampa Police Department and the local FBI
field office soon found components of a crude pipe bomb as well as
radioactive materials. The search turned up ammonium nitrate and
nitromethane, the mixture used by McVeigh to destroy the federal
building in Oklahoma City in 1995. There were sacks of explosive
precursors, including potassium chloride, red iron oxide and potassium
nitrate. There were homemade fuses fashioned from brass 5.56 mm rifle
cartridges. In a closet, they found two Geiger counters.
And there was a cooler with the name Brandon scrawled on the lid in
black marker. Inside, the investigators discovered HMTD — hexamethylene
triperoxide diamine — a potent, highly volatile peroxide-based
explosive. It has become a favored tool of terrorists both here and
abroad, who cook it up in small batches using recipes circulating on the
internet and in improvised weapons manuals.
At Tampa police headquarters, investigators put Arthurs and Russell
in separate interrogation rooms. They wanted to know about the killings,
about the neo-Nazi group and about the explosives.
Arthurs said the apartment had served as a nerve center for
Atomwaffen Division, a white supremacist organization of 60 to 70 people
that has spoken openly of its hopes of igniting race war in the United
States. If the authorities could access the group’s encrypted online
chats, Arthurs said, “it’d be easy to track down each member.” The
interrogation was videotaped, and a recording was obtained by ProPublica
and Frontline.
“The things that they’re planning were horrible. They’re planning
bombings and stuff like that on countless people, they’re planning to
kill civilian life,” Arthurs said. A detective asked if Atomwaffen had
drawn up a list of specific targets. “Power lines, nuclear reactors,
synagogues, things like that,” Arthurs replied.
“I’m telling you stuff that the FBI should be hearing,” Arthurs said, adding that he thought lives could be saved.
To this day, it is unclear if the FBI talked with Arthurs or what
steps it took to shut down Atomwaffen. The FBI declined repeated
requests to discuss the case. But this much is clear: Within months of
Arthurs’ warnings, Atomwaffen members or associates had killed three
more people.
Missionary or not, if you go somewhere where it is widely known they don’t want visitors and it is literally illegal to contact them or go on their land, and you get clapped, that is your own fault.
Stop trying to colonize everyone and mind your business.
this man wasn’t a tourist — he was an intruder.
Left out of the headlines and first paragraphs:
He was killed on his THIRD visit.
The first time the locals shot arrows at the kayak he used to get from the fishing boat he hired to the shore. That dissuaded him for a day. Then he came back with a large fish as a gift. The locals accepted the fish and told him to leave. He whipped out his Bible and they shot up the Bible (as one of his missionary relatives described it to the BBC “The Bible saved his life!”). Still not taking the hint he returned the next day and, having had enough of his bullshit, they filled him with arrows.
Feel free to save this flyer and boost to other social media like your IG and facebook. People in this town are still struggling very badly after the hurricane and could use all the help they can get.
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THIS THANKSGIVING:
Please consider offering a donation to the indigenous community in Lumberton N.C. The Lumbee people are still suffering after [devastating] hurricanes, flooding and systemic poverty.
Not to get controversial or anything but can we stop with making fun of women being abused by their husbands and playing it off as ‘straight culture’
I lost 10 followers for saying we shouldnt make fun of domestic abuse victims.
can we also please stop making fun of men being abused by their wives thanks
Good addition
Can we also stop acting that domestic abuse is just a “straight” thing?
It’s literally teaching our baby gays that any same sex relationship their going into is safe and they don’t need to be worried about being abused and controlled.
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First things first, black holes have one basic rule:
They are so incredibly dense that to escape their surface you’d have to travel
faster than light. But light speed is the cosmic speed limit … so nothing
can escape a black hole’s surface!
Black
hole birth announcements
Some black holes form when a very large star
dies in a supernova explosion and collapses
into a superdense object. This is even more jam-packed than the crowds at your
local mall — imagine an object 10 times more massive than the Sun squeezed into
a sphere with the diameter of New York City!
Near one black hole called GRS 1915+105, NICER found disk
winds — fast streams of gas created by heat or pressure. Scientists are still figuring out some puzzles about these types of wind.
Where do they come from, for example? And do they change the way material falls
into the black hole? Every new example of these disk winds helps astronomers
get closer to answering those questions.
Merging
monster black holes
But stellar mass black holes aren’t the only
ones out there. At the center of nearly every large galaxy lies a supermassive
black hole — one with the mass of millions or billions of Suns smooshed into a region no bigger than our solar
system.
There’s still some debate about how these
monsters form, but astronomers agree that they certainly can collide and
combine when their host galaxies collide and combine. Those black holes will
have a lot of gas and dust around them. As that material is pulled into the
black hole it will heat up due to
It also turns out that these supermassive
black holes are the source of some of the brightest objects in the gamma ray
sky! In a type of galaxy called active galactic nuclei (also called “AGN” for short)
the central black hole is surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that’s
constantly falling into the black hole.
But not only that, some of those AGN have jets
of energetic particles that are shooting out from near the black hole at nearly
the speed of light! Scientists are studying these jets to try to understand how
black holes — which pull everything in with their huge amounts of gravity —
provide the energy needed to propel the particles in these jets. If that jet is
pointed directly at us, it can appear super-bright in gamma rays and we call it
a blazar. These blazars make up more than half of the sources our Fermi
space telescope sees.
Catching
particles from near a black hole
Sometimes scientists get a two-for-one kind of
deal when they’re looking for black holes. Our colleagues at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
actually caught a particle from a blazar 4 billion light-years
away. IceCube lies a mile under the ice in Antarctica and
uses the ice itself to detect neutrinos, tiny speedy particles that weigh
almost nothing and rarely interact with anything. When IceCube caught a
super-high-energy neutrino and traced its origin to a specific area of the sky,
they turned to the astronomical community to pinpoint the source.
Our Fermi spacecraft scans the entire sky
about every three hours and for months it had observed a blazar producing more
gamma rays than usual. Flaring is a
common characteristic in blazars, so this didn’t attract
special attention. But when the alert from IceCube came through, scientists
realized the neutrino and the gamma rays came from the same patch of sky! This
method of using two or more kinds of signals to learn about one event or object
is called multimessenger astronomy, and it’s helping us learn a lot about the
universe.
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-waikiki was once a taro patch that fed all the native hawaiians on that side of the island.
-oahus current population numbers were once all native hawaiians. Now they comprise less than 5% of it.
-native hawaiians comprise less than 15% of the total population of hawaii but are most of the homeless and well over half the prison populace over non-violent petty offenses.
-native hawaiians have the lowest life expectancy, lowest income and least chances for education out of damn near all ethnic groups in the u.s.
-hawaii is stolen.
Living and working in the Waikiki is so sad sometimes for this reason. Especially when people claim that it’s a fake Hawai’i. Like, all of Hawai’i is the real Hawai’i and people need to put some respect on the stories of stolen lands like these.
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