Ahmad Suradji's magical skills weren't free. Before he would begin to heal the women who came to him, or perform a ritual to make her more sexually attractive, he first charged her the Indonesian equivalent of between $200 and $400. Once he had the money in hand, he began the "spell" that eventually led to the woman's death.
Prior to discovering that he was a serial killer, Ahmad Suradji's neighbors respected him. He would volunteer his time to help out when needed, particularly if the person who needed him was sick. He also gave money to charitable causes. These ostensibly altruistic activities ultimately helped him out, as his neighbors would recommend him to anyone seeking magical healing services.
Most serial killers have a day job. For example, John Wayne Gacy owned a construction and maintenance business. Things were a bit different in Indonesia, where Ahmad Suradji worked as a cattle breeder. His profession required quite a bit of open land, which provided him with a place to bury his victims.
Ahmad Suradji's killing spree lasted from 1986 until 1997, when he was finally captured. It's possible he could have continued his sinister work, had the body of one his victims not been discovered in a local sugarcane field.
After the police identified her and local residents realized she was last seen alive on her way to Suradji for a shamanic ritual, officials searched his house. Inside, authorities found the woman's belongings, as well as those of several other missing women.
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America's oldest World War II vet just turned 112. He stood from his wheelchair and danced
Sydney Page, Special to The Washington Post
Wed, September 15, 2021, 6:15 PM
Every birthday is a milestone after 100 - especially for the oldest World War II veteran in the United States.
Lawrence Brooks turned 112 on Sept. 12 with a boisterous party outside his New Orleans home, including a vehicle parade, two brass bands and, of course, his favorite chocolate cake.
At one point during the hour-long celebration, Brooks confidently rose from his wheelchair. He danced, he smiled and he waved.
This is his third year as a supercentenarian - meaning age 110 and older.
"We like to tell him, 'Mr. Brooks, as long as you keep having birthdays, we're going to keep throwing your birthday party,' " said Peter Crean, a vice president at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
The event was orchestrated by the museum, which has thrown Brooks a birthday celebration for the past eight years.
"He is a fixture here at the museum, but also in the community," Crean said. "He is a wonderful human being who is inspiring to everyone he meets."
Brooks, born in Norwood, La., in 1909, was one of 15 children. He was drafted in 1940 and served until 1945 as a private in the predominantly Black 91st Engineer Battalion, which was stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines.
"We was building roads, bridges and airstrips for planes to land," Brooks recalled in a 2018 video.
After the war, Brooks - who was unable to participate in an interview with The Washington Post because of recent health challenges - worked as a forklift operator until retiring in his 70s.
Brooks is the beloved patriarch of his family: He has five children, 13 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. His wife, Leona B. Brooks, died in 2008.
The National World War II Museum first connected with Brooks in 2013, after a volunteer introduced him to staff.
"He was coming up on his 105th birthday. It was pretty remarkable, and we thought we should have some sort of celebration," Crean said.
"Mr. Brooks represents a generation that saved the world that we know. He was one of 16 million Americans who did his part for his country and the world to make it a better place," Crean said. "He is important to this museum, this city, and he is also important to our country."
So staff began organizing yearly birthday parties for Brooks, all of which - aside from the past two - were at the museum. Each year, the museum hosts a special ceremony honoring Brooks, followed by several musical performances and sweet treats.
Last year, the pandemic forced the museum to put Brooks's traditional birthday festivities on pause, but it refused to cancel the event entirely.
Instead, it brought the party to his doorstep and organized a drive-by parade outside his home, where he lives with his daughter. The museum also campaigned to collect birthday cards, and more than 21,000 notes poured in from around the world.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, and amid the ongoing pandemic, the museum mobilized to throw Brooks another socially distanced, outdoor birthday party to mark his 112th.
This year's celebration was the first time Brooks had used a wheelchair. Every other year he walked with a cane.
"He's beginning to slow down," Crean said, adding that Brooks stayed in Veterans Affairs Hospital during the hurricane to ensure he would have proper electricity and air conditioning. Still, "he is in remarkably good shape for 112. He is vibrant."
The party featured musical performances from the museum's vocal trio, the Victory Belles, as well as several other local musicians....
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Today in New Jersey Governor Murphy held a press conference to announce an extension to help renters. While he was about to give that information a small group of anti-vaxxers were vocally protesting. The Guv, responded by telling them, that they are "the ultimate knuckleheads" and went
further to say because of people like them, others will die. That they need to "take a look in the mirror".
The crowd responded both with cheers and a chant of "Murphy, Murphy, Murphy...." before he got back
to the announcement.
It's nice to have a governor, who truly cares about people and won't put up with, or ignore, bullshit. Bravo !
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On high court appeal, his conviction, and 6 year jail sentence, were overturned. Actually "quashed", so no new adjudication is possible. Supposedly, the indictment was for shi shi abuse of two choir boys, one of whom died from the abuse of the drink. Often, self medication, for many. For others, passive suicide. But the digressing starts now.
This man was one of the top handful of clerics at the largely homosexual Vatican, and he was in charge of the fabulous riches and cash of the whole corrupt outfit. Several reasons were given for this new legal result, but the most important, and highly ridiculous, was that so much traffic occured in the sacristy and elsewhere, that such s*xual ruining of the lives of young men was hard to imagine. Residencies of clerics, cars in the garages, Church basements, etc. Nooks, and nooks, and crannies everywhere.
Our own Priests actually were in cahoots with non clerical, but very homosexual men, such as janitors ("sextons"---tons of sex). And all covered each other's antics, so it was child's PLAY to work around the visiting public. Getting at nine year olds was of course facilitated by the protective Church culture, notably by compliant Bishops, especially in very religious ethnic immigrant communities. But this was aided by tactics so in touch (!) with the developmental stages of us boys, that they would befit any well trained Child Psychiatrist/DevelopMENTAL Psychologist. Knowledge is power.
In the royal scam, first identify boys who seemed particularly needy of something, perhaps protection from bullying, needing a little cash, rankings among other altar boys, etc. Then make sure the families were ot the religious sorts, never to believe their boys of priestly beastly-ality. Vet each boy for likely compliance, and use the Bible for constructing promises never to reveal the goings on of a boy's HARD work to join the elite club. Fire and brimstone, folks.Then set up a series of "testing", highly ordered, as well understood by children in this developmental stage of sticking with rules and rewards.
And so the tests were arranged in highly ordered levels, each requiring about a dozen individual tests. Now here's where it gets interesting. The sextons were the ones involved in all the initial vetting, and in supposed handing out of rewards. Perhaps oddly, viewing things through the scanning electron retospectoscope, some of us noticed that the bullying stopped as soon as the testing was UNDERway. So the non clerics did much of the work, but the clergy got to enjoy many of the benefits. And the testing scheme allowed dutiful compliance with all sorts of deviant homosexual behaviors, which I'm not even sure I can place into any volume of the memoirs, much less mention here, for sensitive CS eyes. Slick.
I'd give anything to have made this all up, peebles. After all, none of us who somehow survive, ever recover completely. Finally, lest any fans of fagos object to describing this charade as an integral homosexual aspect of this Roman Catholic sexually deviant clerical culture, don't take my words for it. Read "In the Closet of the Vatican", written after four years of on site research, by a French openly homosexual journalist. And view the film "Spotlight", about exposure of protection by the Church of these sexualkly abnormal homosexual deviant criminals, by the Boston Globe's spotlight team.
"He who is near to the Church, is often far from God."---old French saying. Cardinal Georgie Boy Pell. Former Father Inn, and Pastor Ben Dover. Et c*m spiritu tuo.
Michael J. Fox has a birthday today.
He turns 60.
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Best known for starring as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy, he later won multiples Emmys for his role on Family Ties. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's at only 29 years old, but didn't go public with the diagnosis until 1998. Two years later, he created the Michael J. Fox Foundation, dedicated to Parkinson's research.
Before Fame
He played a 10-year-old character on the TV series Leo and Me at age 15. He moved to Los Angeles at age 18.
Trivia
He starred as Mike Flaherty on Spin City from 1996 to 2000. He acted sporadically in the decade following the announcement of his Parkinson's diagnosis, but he began acting more regularly in the 2010s, starring as Louis Canning on The Good Wife.
Family Life
His father was a police officer and his mother was an actress. He married actress Tracy Pollan in July 1988 and the couple had four children together.
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....except for minor details, he hit it all. Fair erections, drain swamp, stolen erection, VP Ron Desantos (?), State based GOP erection reform, and much more. But here's the kicker. As an alternative to the rino drenched RNC, a new coffer for donating to the next elections. And under the control of Mr. Trump himself.
Simultaneously the cause of yellow puddles, VERY yellow, under both Dems and rinos. And public radio, the teachers' unions, infrastructure, taxes, fiscal frugality, tight borders, and much more. But how wonderful for the Man to be full of such courage, conviction and vigor. Only a few short months to recover. Brass cullonyes. And now to run for congress in GOP Florida. On the road to house speaker ship. And more.
Brilliant. Earthshaking. Inspiring. Typical Trump. Churchillian---down goes the gauntlet, real fascists. Doubt it all, or any part of it, at your own risk.
From Wikipedia;
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George Soros, the world's greatest investor
Heralded as the "World's Greatest Investor", and "King of the Hedge Funds", in the 1980's Soros ardently strived to expand the wealth of his Quantum Fund which he in turn used to finance his efforts to bring down Communism and establish Open Societies in those Eastern European countries still feeling the effects of stagnant economies and repressive leadership. Still vilified by many on the right, who prefer to brand him "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England", and continue to denounce him, occasionally with conspiracy theories, he remains admired by many on the left. ....
Philanthropy
Soros at the 2012 Festival of Economics
Additional narratives on his personal life and Soros's efforts to further human rights in Hungary, China, and Russia, complete the later section of Slater's biography. Soros's foundations were highly active in opposing Apartheid in South Africa, and in countering what Soros viewed as the restraints on economic growth or reduction in civil liberties posed by Soviet influence in many Eastern European countries including first his native Hungary, then Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, and the Balkans. For his work in his native Hungary towards his efforts to modernize the country, Soros was presented with the Medium Cross of Hungary's Republican Order with Stars, the country's second-highest decoration.
Soros's Open Society Foundations were also active in opposing Apartheid in South Africa. By the early 90's Soros's foundations, which fought to increase civil liberties often by stimulating science and other aspects of the economy, were active in eighteen countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and the new states of Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkistan. When Yugoslavia broke apart, new foundations came into being in Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia. In smaller efforts, Soros supported pro-democracy movements in Burma, and school construction projects in Albania.
Central European University
In September 1991, funded almost exclusively on his own, and staffed with globally recognized academics, Soros's founded Central European University with its first campus in Prague, Czechoslovakia and with other campuses in Budapest, Hungary and Warsaw, Poland. By 2019, Soros's annual gift to operate the University reached 20 million dollars, and his personal total endowment is approximated at $880 million. As Slater noted, the CEU may have been what he considered his greatest achievement, for "with 400 students from 22 countries, the CEU was Soros's dream, the project that meant the most to him". More impressively, by 2019, the University had graduated 16,000 students.
Drug policy reform
Chapter 28 covers Soros's opposition to long prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders. Soros has come under attack frequently by leaders of the America's "war on drugs", who abhor his attempts to deal with narcotics as a public health rather than a criminal problem and have more recently attacked him for supporting referendums in five states to legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Since 1993, Soros has donated roughly 15 million to groups and foundations that favor altering America's drug policies. The Lindesmith Center, founded in 1994 by Ethan A. Adelman as a project of George Soros's Open Society Institute to conduct research in aid of drug policy reform. He gave a one million dollar donation to ballot initiatives proposing more lenient drug laws in California and Arizona and 1.1 million in August 1997 to provide clean syringes to drug addicts to prevent the spread of AIDS.
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Legendary TV host and radio personality Larry King has passed on at the age of 87. It's reported he had been hospitalized in December and fighting a v i r u s.
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...or any mix of the above, found that for a variety of reasons, Malta might not exactly be a main lode for finding grounded females with potential for making committed long term partners? Just wondering out loud.
I'm thinking, as with most migrations, that there might exist strong selective pressures at work. As when pretty poor ladies selectively migrate to certain large cities.