Monstrous migrants flood Italy, rape children, stab cops



Italy is pondering a new tactic in its war on out-of-control crime: chemical castration for violent sex offenders.

Such bold measures may already be too late, however — as long as the country's civilizational castration continues apace.

Eyewitnesses described a scene of sheer barbarism, recounting how the savage threw the woman to the ground, pummeling her face and head with his fists.

Since taking power two years ago, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has focused on law-and-order policies, creating new offenses and increasing penalties.

She's also made plans to draft legislation that would use androgen-blocking medications to chemically neuter those convicted of sexual violence. The decision signals a response to the rising tide of sexual crimes, many of which have shaken the country to the core in recent years.

These crimes, however, may be symptoms of a deeper problem: Italy's slow dissolution under the pressure of continuous mass immigration.

Children raped

The latest horror (in a long line of horrors) involves the rape of a 10-year-old African girl by a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man at a migrant center in the northern Italian region of Lombardy.

This gruesome crime unfolded at the Hotel Il Cacciatore, a contested site that houses around 20 asylum seekers. According to a report in the Daily Mail, the young girl's mother first became suspicious after she noticed alarming behavioral changes in her daughter. Soon after, medical tests confirmed that the little girl hadn’t just been violated; she was also pregnant with her rapist's child.

The child underwent an abortion. Her life, one imagines, will never be the same. Her innocence, brutally stolen, is something she can never reclaim. The scars — emotional, psychological, and physical — will likely remain with her long after the headlines fade. It’s difficult to read a story like that and not feel a sense of absolute anger and dismay.

Sheer barbarism

This assault is not an isolated incident but part of Italy’s wider unraveling. The country, already struggling under demographic pressure and a surge in migrant arrivals, is now grappling with an increase in violent crimes, from stabbings to sexual assaults.

For many, Italy no longer feels safe, and the nation’s attempts to mend the social fabric with punishments such as chemical castration feel more like a desperate last stand than a viable solution. What was once a proud country is now facing an identity crisis, one defined by fear and instability.

Take the case of a homeless Nigerian migrant, for example, who viciously assaulted an Italian woman in broad daylight during an attempted rape. The attack was so violent that she later died from her injuries in a hospital bed.

Eyewitnesses described a scene of sheer barbarism, recounting how the savage threw the woman to the ground, pummeling her face and head with his fists, possibly wielding a stone or some other blunt object.

Stabbed in the back

More recently, two violent incidents involving migrants rocked Milan, Italy’s financial heart.

In one appalling episode, Christian Di Martino, a 35-year-old police officer, was attacked after confronting a man throwing stones at trains and assaulting a female passenger.

The attacker, a Moroccan national living illegally in Italy with prior convictions, stabbed the officer multiple times in the back. Di Martino was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The North African was charged with attempted murder.

Just days later, another violent confrontation unfolded on the streets. An Egyptian man, recently released from police custody after questioning in connection with a robbery, went on a crazed rampage, vandalizing property and hurling rocks at police when they moved to arrest him.

After failing to subdue the man with a taser, the police were forced to shoot him. Wounded, the criminal was finally able to be taken into custody.

The pattern is undeniable. But even more alarming is the systematic erasure of Italian heritage — and with it, the disappearance of its people.

Arrivederci!

In a few generations, Italy will be barely recognizable. Last year saw a staggering 50% rise in migrant arrivals, primarily from Africa and the Middle East. The shift is more than just numbers — this wave is fundamentally altering the demographic makeup of Italy.

What adds to the disaster is the fact that Italy’s population is aging faster than any other in Europe, with fewer young Italians being born to sustain the nation.

By 2040, the situation could reach a breaking point, as dwindling tax revenue from a shrinking workforce makes it impossible to support an increasingly elderly population. Public finances are set to buckle under the weight of this imbalance; the economy, once one of Europe's most robust, could enter a death spiral.

In truth, Italy has already entered a death spiral, literally and figuratively. The Italy of Roman ruins, Renaissance art, and sun-soaked landscapes finds itself overshadowed by a nation at odds with itself.

The streets of Florence, Milan, Rome, and Venice are filling with new faces, new languages, new “norms,” new threats, and new nightmares.

In just a few decades, the Italy we know and love will have vanished, replaced by a nation full of uncivilized individuals with a penchant for uncivilized behavior.

'Vegan leather'? For car interiors, nothing beats the real thing



When you pick up a pair of good leather shoes, or a bag, or a jacket, the first thing you notice is that beautiful, unmistakable smell. There's nothing like it.

It's a smell you rarely encounter when you get into a new car, even if the interior vaguely looks like leather. Instead, your nose fills with the aroma of off-gassing plastic.

Plastic breaks a lot quicker than leather — it crumbles with flakes, and, when that happens, it's not repairable.

And that's because "vegan leather" or "faux leather" or "leatherette" or "pleather" or whatever a car company wants to call it has never even come near to an actual animal hide.

Let's call it what it is: 100% petroleum-based plastic. How's that for "sustainable"?

Last month, I went to Italy at the invitation of Is It Leather?, a global campaign to educate consumers about leather, one of the oldest materials used by humans. Contrary to what environmental and animal-rights activists say, it's renewable, practical, and humane.

My destination was Lineapelle, the massive international leather trade show held in Milan. There, I met with some of the finest leather crafters and companies in the world. It was an eye-opening experience and a reminder that no matter how some brands try to trick you, nothing beats the real thing.

Our journey started in Pompeii, in the ruins of a tannery dating back to the first century. The ancient Romans used urine to tan their hides; in modern times, we've switched to chemicals such as chromium. Now, that process does produce a fair amount of pollutants, but in recent years leather-makers have pioneered the use of organic compounds like olive leaf extract.

While in Milan, I had a chance to talk with leather crafter and influencer Tanner Leatherstein about something consumers encounter when buying a car. You open the door and look at the interior and seats, and they tell you, "That's Napa leather."

Does that mean anything — or is it just a sales pitch?

Napa leather (so called because it comes from a process pioneered in Napa, California), Leatherstein tells me, is a type of finish "they apply on top of the leather. In automotive, you need a really thick layer of finish for ... resistance and durability."

But Napa leather starts with high-quality, full-grain leather, which means it doesn't need as much finish as lesser-quality hides.

"You can almost think it in terms of makeup," says Leatherstein. "If the hide is too full of imperfections because it's an animal scratching itself everywhere, you need a lot of makeup to make it standardized looking, which means a lot of plastics to cover it."

"But if you have naturally clean hides, which is maybe 10 or 5% of the entire hide population, it doesn't require a lot of makeup because it's naturally beautiful. So now you can accomplish this nice look with a minimal layer of plastic finish on top, [meeting] the requirements, yet you still enjoy that natural chaotic look of the grain, the leather grain."

So if you hear a car interior has Napa leather, that's a good sign. "There's a lot of trickery going on in car interiors," says Leatherstein. "As a consumer, when I'm buying a luxury car I expect real leather, but unfortunately car brands using these plastic materials with leather in the name, and a lot of people think it's leather."

Real leather isn't just nicer, its better for the environment, Leatherstein tells me. "Plastic breaks a lot quicker than leather — it crumbles with flakes, and, when that happens, it's not repairable. You just have to trash it, and plastic doesn't go anywhere — it turns into microplastics, which go into the water and the soil; it goes into your plants and vegetables."

I also met up with saddlemaker and leatherworker Ben Geisler, who walked me through all the various animal hide used to make leather, from cow and sheep, to pig and shark and even alligator.

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The 5 most suspicious things about tech billionaire Mike Lynch’s capsized yacht



On August 19, tech billionaire Mike Lynch died when his yacht capsized off the coast of Sicily after encountering a violent storm.

That same day, miles away in an English village near Cambridge, Stephen Chamberlain, Lynch’s business partner, was hit by a car while jogging and later died.

Lynch and Chamberlain were cleared of fraud charges in the same trial just a month earlier, stemming from the 2011 sale of Autonomy, Lynch’s machine learning data analysis company, to Hewlett-Packard.

The mysterious circumstances surrounding their deaths, combined with the sheer status of those on board the yacht, have sparked worldwide controversy and suspicion.

Taking a deeper dive into some of the popular points of intrigue, here are the most peculiar points about the curious story of Lynch’s death.

The unsinkable ship

The story almost writes itself: Like the Titanic, the unsinkable ship … sinks.

Lynch’s 56-meter luxury yacht, named Bayesian, was built by Italian company Perini Navi, a subsidiary of the Italian Sea Group.

The Italian Sea Group has declared the sailing ships to be “unsinkable bodies.”

'We didn’t see it coming.'

However, the claims of the group’s CEO, Giovanni Costantino, go much farther than that. Costantino went so far as to say that the incident “sounds like an unbelievable story, both technically and as a fact.”

"Being the manufacturer of Perini [boats], I know very well how the boats have always been designed and built," he continued, per Sky News. "And as Perini is a sailing ship ... sailing ships are renowned to be the safest ever."

This sounds exactly what a boat manufacturer would say about his product, but to sink that fast, most have surmised, including Costantino, the vessel likely would have had to have taken on water at an alarming rate in order to sink.

Bad weather or bad captain?

“The Bayesian was a model for many other vessels because of its stability and exceptionally high performance,” Costantino told the BBC. “There was absolutely no problem with it.”

That is, of course, unless something went horribly wrong.

Costantino’s remarks seemed to place the onus on the ship’s captain, James Cutfield of New Zealand.

The manufacturer said that before approaching the storm, the captain should have closed every opening, lifted anchor, turned on the engine, and pointed into the wind.

This would have stabilized the vessel, and the ship would have cruised through the storm in “comfort,” he added.

But Costantino said that there must have been a hatch or side entrance left open for water to have surged inside.

Spotlights have since been focused on Cutfield, who survived the ordeal along with his crew and certain passengers. While the six most notable passengers all died, survivors include Charlotte Golunski, a co-founder with Lynch of the venture capital firm Invoke Capital, funded by the proceeds from Autonomy’s sale, and Golunski’s 1-month-old daughter.

“We didn’t see it coming,” Cutfield told the media. It was an interesting statement, since others definitely saw the storm coming.

The storm in question was described by local authorities first as a waterspout, or mini-tornado, but later changed to a downburst, a weather phenomenon that includes powerful downdrafts during a thunderstorm. The downburst results in damaging winds that spread in every direction.

Costantino noted that there was another sailing vessel just 492 feet from the Bayesian that suffered no damage.

The Sir Robert Baden Powell, a Dutch ship built in 1957, somehow weathered the same storm that Lynch’s modern yacht couldn’t.

“A ship from those years cannot have the technology of the Bayesian,” Costantino said. “Yet that ship did not suffer damage. Its crew had prepared it well to face the storm. They even managed to provide assistance to the Bayesian.”

Costantino then pointed to local fishermen, implying that others were more cautious of the weather that day than Lynch’s crew was.

One of those fishermen, Matteo Cannia, told the BBC he saw flashes of lightning and heard thunder and wind and thus decided to go home.

Another fisherman, Fabio Cefalu, had also planned to go out that morning but decided against it due to the weather conditions. He actually went out to sea in a rescue attempt when the Bayesian shot up a flare.

While prosecutors said they believed one person was on watch in the Bayesian’s cockpit that night, a ship surveyor told the BBC that two crew members should have been taking turns on watch due to the storm warnings.

These mysterious events resulted in state prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio telling reporters that there were many possible culpabilities, but it could “just be the captain,” or it “could be the whole crew.”

The banker on board

Among the deceased was Morgan Stanley Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife, Judith.

According to Sky News, the 70-year-old and his wife were on the boat to celebrate Lynch's aforementioned court victory.

The trial was regarding Lynch’s software company Autonomy, which was sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for $11 billion. Though it took less than a year for HP to write down over $8 billion of Autonomy’s value, fraud scandals from the sale took years to surface, culminating in Autonomy’s CFO Sushovan Hussain being found guilty of fraud in 2018.

Lynch and Chamberlain, Autonomy’s VP of finance, faced more than a dozen charges in the trial but were acquitted in the summer of 2024. Read more on Autonomy here.

Bloomer was a defense witness in that trial, the Independent wrote, adding that he was also the chairman of Autonomy’s audit committee during its sale to HP.

Lynch’s lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his wife, Neda, also died on the yacht.

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Chamberlain died the same day

In a shocking coincidence, Lynch’s colleague Chamberlain was struck by a car and hospitalized while jogging in Cambridgeshire, England.

The incident occurred around 10 a.m. the same day as the boating wreck, which happened just hours earlier.

The 52-year-old was running when he was hit by a Vauxhall Corsa driven by a 49-year-old woman, in an area where the speed limit is 60 miles per hour.

The coroner stated that a vehicle was “presented with a runner crossing the road” between two parts of a bridleway, the Telegraph reported. The car caused “significant injuries” to Chamberlain, who later died in hospital from a “traumatic head injury” after being placed on life support.

Police appealed for witnesses, but none came forward. The woman driving the car reportedly remained at the scene and was allegedly giving assistance to Chamberlain.

Chamberlain was also using a fitness app that tracked his movements. Police were able to pinpoint that he had been running for about six miles before he was hit and that his route was plotted out in advance.

Chamberlain was also reportedly still on “administrative leave” due to his trial from company Darktrace, of which he was the CEO.

Darktrace’s intelligence ties

After Autonomy’s controversial sale to HP, Lynch started a venture capital firm, Invoke Capital. His first big investment was in cyber intelligence firm Darktrace.

“Darktrace wasn’t just an investment; team members from Invoke Capital who have intelligence ties, along with other unnamed intelligence professionals, were heavily involved,” Return’s James Poulos said.

According to the Daily Mail, Chamberlain and other Darktrace executives had deep ties to both U.S. and U.K. intelligence.

'A combination of maths from Cambridge with the credibility of GCHQ and MI5 is unmatched.'

Co-founder Stephen Huxter was a senior member of MI5’s cyber defense team. Huxter also installed Andrew France as chief executive at Darktrace, a former U.K. Government Communications Headquarters operative.

Also, two high-ranking intelligence executives from opposite sides of the pond were reportedly on Darktrace’s board: ex-MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans and the NSA’s Jim Penrose, who rose to the rank of defense intelligence senior level.

Penrose was also Darktrace’s executive vice president of cyber intelligence.

Darktrace wasn’t exactly hiding these connections and even boasted of its intelligence ties in a 2015 Wired interview.

"A combination of maths from Cambridge with the credibility of GCHQ and MI5 is unmatched," said Nicole Eagan, who was the Darktrace CEO after France.

As questions arose about Darktrace, the company was eventually accused of manipulating sales numbers, misrepresenting revenue, and mismanaging expenses. The accusations mirrored those against Autonomy during its sale to HP.

Darktrace’s shares subsequently plunged by more than 17%.

Venture capital firm Quintessential Capital Management even issued a 70-page report that concluded with a statement about being "deeply skeptical" about the "validity of Darktrace's financial statements."

Darktrace replied by saying the company had "rigorous controls in place."

After years of up-and-down stock prices, Darktrace soared 24% thanks to its artificial intelligence-backed products. In April 2024, the cyber industry-focused private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which is the largest stockholder in the NASDAQ stock exchange, purchased the company for $5.3 billion, a deal that will go through notwithstanding the controversy and fallout surrounding the Lynch saga.

From the onset of his career, Lynch has been suspected of having ties to national security agencies. His first company, called Cambridge Neurodynamics, specialized in computer-based fingerprint recognition.

Lynch revealed to Wired in 2002 that he had done work with British intelligence through Cambridge Neurodynamics, stating that "they have the most interesting problems.”

Since Lynch's death, HP has decided to move forward with legal proceedings against his estate. As Reuters reported, HP has filed the lawsuit against Lynch and the aforementioned CFO Hussain.

HP is seeking more than $4 billion in damages.

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Tech mogul Mike Lynch and associate die in separate suspicious accidents after fraud acquittal



An investigation has been launched into the captain of Mike Lynch's yacht, which sunk off the coast of Sicily, killing six. At the same time, Lynch's colleague died in a car accident.

The incidents occurred just a month after Lynch and colleague Stephen Chamberlain were acquitted of charges related to alleged fraud. The charges stemmed from the sale of Lynch's company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard; Chamberlain was the vice president of finance for Autonomy.

Tech entrepreneur Lynch died in the shipwreck alongside his daughter Hannah Lynch, Morgan Stanley Chairman Jonathan Bloomer, his wife, Judith, lawyer Christopher Morvillo, and his wife, Neda.

Shockingly on the same day, Lynch's colleague Chamberlain was struck by a car and hospitalized while jogging in Cambridgeshire, England. He later died after being placed on life support.

An Italian prosecutor has since said that the deceased may have died while they were asleep, when the yacht — named the Bayesian — capsized in a storm off the coast of Italy.

The victims "were asleep whereas the others weren't," Rear Admiral Raffaele Cammarano, the prosecutor, said, according to the Guardian.

Among the 15 survivors was ship captain James Cutfield, who is now under investigation for manslaughter and shipwreck, the Independent reported. The 51-year-old New Zealand native insisted the crew "didn't see [the storm] coming" during a reported two hours of questioning.

Investigators also said that strong winds could have contributed to the sinking of the 56-meter luxury yacht, which was interestingly deemed "unsinkable" by its manufacturer.

Shockingly on the same day, Lynch's colleague Chamberlain was struck by a car and hospitalized while jogging in Cambridgeshire, England. He later died after being placed on life support.

Chamberlain was hit by a 49-year-old woman driving a Vauxhall Corsa driving down a road adjacent to the runner's narrow path.

The woman lives in the village of Haddenham and stopped at the scene to attempt to assist police with the victim, the Daily Mail said.

Despite the incident's peculiar timing, police said there was no evidence of "suspicious or untoward" conduct.

Fraud allegations

Lynch founded software company Autonomy in 1996 and sold it to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for $11 billion, according to Fortune. The fraud scandals surrounding the deal took years to make their way through the courts, eventually culminating in former CFO Sushovan Hussain being found guilty of fraud in 2018 by an American jury.

Lynch and Chamberlain faced over a dozen charges but were acquitted of all accusations in the summer of 2024.

Through his venture capital firm, Invoke Capital, Lynch made future investments in companies, including Darktrace. This company reportedly had a large overlap of executives with Autonomy. Six out of eight top executives at Darktrace were from Autonomy, while half of its board also came from the previous venture.

Darktrace would later be accused of manipulating sales numbers, misrepresenting revenue, and mismanaging expenses. The accusations mirrored those of Autonomy, plunging shares by upwards of 17%.

Quintessential Capital Management issued a 70-page report that concluded with a statement about being "deeply skeptical" about the "validity of Darktrace's financial statements."

Darktrace replied by saying they had "rigorous controls in place."

After years of up-and-down stock prices, Darktrace soared 24% thanks to its artificial intelligence-backed products. In April 2024, Thoma Bravo purchased the company for $5.3 billion.

The deaths of the entrepreneurs, along with the attorney and high-level banker, will certainly raise further questions about the incidents, whether they are a result of a spectacular coincidence or not.

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Female Olympic boxer forfeits bout after 46 seconds to opponent mired in gender controversy: 'One punch hurt too much'



A female Olympic boxer threw in the towel after just 46 seconds into her fight Thursday after determining her opponent — who's been mired in a gender controversy — was hitting her too hard.

Italy's Angela Carini took a punch from Algeria's Imane Khelif in the women's 66-kilogram division — and then Carini signaled to her corner that she was done.

After Carini, 25, abandoned the fight, and Khelif's hand was being raised in victory, Carini was seen breaking down in tears and falling to her knees before eventually leaving the ring.

'She quit after taking one punch; she told me she didn't feel she could fight.'

Carini and her coach spoke to Italian press agency ANSA after the match to explain what happened.

"I got into the ring to fight," Carini said. "I didn't give up, but one punch hurt too much, and so I said enough."

"I'm going out with my head held high," she added.

Her coach Emanuele Renzini said Carini hadn't planned ahead of time to forfeit the match.

"It would have been easier not to show up, because all of Italy had been asking her not to fight for days," Renzini said. "But Angela was motivated and wanted to do it."

He added, "Of course, when she met her opponent at the draw, she said 'it's not fair.' But there was no premeditation here today. She quit after taking one punch; she told me she didn't feel she could fight."

As Blaze News previously reported, the International Boxing Association disqualified Khelif at the 2023 world championships. IBA President Umar Kremlev said at the time that Khelif had "XY chromosomes." Males have XY chromosomes; females have XX chromosomes.

But the International Olympic Committee decided to drop the IBA as a governing body in June 2023 and put the IOC's Paris 2024 Boxing Unit in charge. The Paris Boxing Unit's rules have been described as more relaxed. The Guardian reported that the IOC noted Khelif's disqualification in its internal system, saying the fighter was "disqualified just hours before her gold medal showdown against Yang Liu at the 2023 world championships in New Delhi, India, after her elevated ­levels of testosterone failed to meet the eligibility criteria."

Khelif reportedly blamed a "conspiracy" against Algeria as the reason for any gender-related accusations.

"People have conspired against Algeria so that its flag doesn't get raised, and it doesn't win the gold medal," Khelif said.

The Algerian Olympic Committee also weighed in, calling claims surrounding Khelif's gender "baseless," according to Fox News.

"COA strongly condemns the unethical targeting and maligning of our esteemed athlete, Imane Khelif, with baseless propaganda from certain foreign media outlets," the committee said on Wednesday. "Such attacks on her personality and dignity are deeply unfair, especially as she prepares for the pinnacle of her career at the Olympics. The COA has taken all necessary measures to protect our champion."

ANSA cited a gay-centric Italian communications company that claimed Khelif actually is "intersex" and not transgender.

"In contrast to the reports that have been circulating, the Algerian athlete Imane Khelif is not a trans woman," said Rosario Coco of Gaynet Communications. "From the information we have about her, she is an intersex person who has always socialized as a woman and has a sporting history in women's competitions."

Khelif isn't the only fighter surrounded by this type of controversy in the women's boxing category.

Lin Yu‑ting of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) will fight Uzbekistan's Sitora Turdibekova in the 57 kg round of 16 Friday.

The IOC said that Lin was "stripped of her bronze medal" in 2023 at the world championships "after failing to meet eligibility requirements based on the results of a biochemical test."

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