BERKELEY — A UC Berkeley professor smelled a rat — over the years there had been $46,855 in damage from computers that failed, and nearly all of it seemed to affect one particular Ph.D. candidate at the college’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department.
The professor wondered if the student’s luck was really that bad, or if something else was afoot. So he installed a hidden camera — disguised in a department laptop, and pointed it at the student’s computer.
According to police, the sly move captured another Ph.D. candidate, 26-year-old Jiarui Zou, damaging his fellow student’s computer with some implement that caused sparks to fly out of the laptop.
Now, Zou has been charged with three felony counts of vandalism, related to the destruction of three computers on Nov. 9-10.
Zou was arrested on Nov. 12 at UC Berkeley’s Cory Hall and declined to talk to police, according to court records. He is due for his first court appearance on Dec. 15 and is no longer in custody, records show.
Let me explain the meaning of my headline for those of you unfamiliar with the authority of the FBI to investigate Federal crimes while State and local authorities… The FBI does not have the authority to investigate Charlie Kirk’s murder unless there was foreign involvement or a clear violation of a Federal statute. The FBI is a federal agency with nationwide jurisdiction, but it can only investigate crimes that violate federal statutes (codified mostly in Title 18 of the U.S. Code) or that have a clear federal nexus. Typical FBI crimes include:
Crimes that cross state lines (interstate kidnapping, fugitive flight, human trafficking, large-scale drug trafficking)
Crimes against federal property, employees, or programs (bank robbery, federal corruption involving federal funds, mail/wire fraud)
Specifically enumerated federal offenses (terrorism, civil-rights violations under color of law, RICO for interstate organized crime, major cybercrimes affecting interstate commerce, child exploitation material crossing state lines, etc.)
Major crimes on federal land, Indian reservations, aircraft, or maritime jurisdiction
The FBI does not have general police powers. It cannot, on its own authority, investigate ordinary murder, rape, robbery, burglary, assault, theft, or street-level drug dealing unless one of the federal elements above is present. State and local authorities handle almost all “traditional” street crime and routine law enforcement. The FBI steps in only when Congress has specifically made the conduct a federal offense or when a clear interstate/federal interest exists.
Based on the indictment of the alleged shooter of Charlie Kirk — i.e., a Utah resident allegedly committed murder in Utah — the FBI has no role or jurisdiction in the matter. Yet, for some reason, the FBI is involved in the case. Why?
This brings me back to the case of Seth Rich. Seth Rich was a 27‑year‑old staffer at the Democratic National Committee who was shot and killed in Washington, D.C., in the early morning of July 10, 2016. Police found him with two gunshot wounds to the back near his home in the Bloomingdale neighborhood; he was taken to a hospital and died about an hour and a half later.
…The assassination of Charlie Kirk, if the indictment of Tyler Robinson is true, was not a Federal crime. Yet the FBI, Homeland Security and DOJ all responded initially as if it was a Federal crime. Now, the matter is being handled as a state crime with no federal jurisdiction.
Based on the video evidence and public information regarding the destructive power of a .30-06 round, I do not believe that Tyler Robinson was the shooter. In fact, I think there is ample circumstantial evidence that would warrant the FBI taking a leading role in the investigation because of possible foreign involvement in Kirk’s murder. But that apparently is not happening…
They have also released grainy, incongruous videos of ‘Robinson’.
It’s a joke they won’t release, at the very least, clear videos of their suspect.
That campus was loaded with cameras.
Why was the crime scene paved over and completely destroyed?
I am not super interested in getting into the weeds like this.
But this case has become foundational for public participation in solving crimes.
If we had had social media and cameras all over the place when JFK was assassinated, the government would never have been able to keep their role in the case secret for 60 years.
The Zapruder film would never have been kept secret and only shown to Dan Rather who either lied about it or was so dumb he could not understand what he was looking at.
Open discussion and crowd-sourced evidence is bright sunlight on any crime and should become standard and expected for all criminal cases that are important to the public.
Owens, Mel and many others have already done better work and better outreach than the government.
It’s obvious to me, the government wants to hold onto old-fashioned ways of totally controlling any subject they choose, including major crimes like Kirk’s assassination. ABN
Erika Kirk has furiously slammed ‘evil’ conspiracy theorists making revolting claims linking Turning Point staff to Charlie Kirk‘s assassination.
The TPUSA CEO, who stepped into the role after her husband’s murder, warned that she would not allow her colleagues to be targeted by online trolls.
Inflammatory claims by provocateurs like Candace Owens have led to threats against TPUSA staff.
Owens, once a friend of Charlie Kirk’s, has told her followers that TPUSA is somehow to blame for his assassination – while carefully avoiding using Erika’s name.
Owens was a prominent TPUSA speaker and director of communications until 2020, when she parted ways amid disagreements.
Since Kirk’s death, she has escalated accusations of internal ‘betrayal’ at TPUSA, challenging the official narrative around the lone shooter and prompting TPUSA to invite her to a public livestream debate.
Erika, who did not name Owens specifically, told Fox News on Wednesday: ‘Come after me, call me names, I don’t care. Call me what you want, go down that rabbit hole, whatever.
‘But … when you go after the people that I love and you’re making hundreds of thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they’re in on this? No.’
I have avoided Erika Kirk’s role in the assassination investigation.
I remember saying only one thing about her, something kind about her words.
I am not going to change my tune except to say Kirk’s assassination belongs to the public now and TPUSA cannot be exempted from analysis because Erika says they are ‘family’.
The larger point is Owens has opened a novel avenue of investigation. She is doing incisive, transparent crowd-sourcing and speculative analysis.
Her work has been way better than the FBI’s.
I hope we see much more of this kind of real-time open discussion of major world events.
Everyone knows the government lies all the time and so does the press. ABN
Last night Candace dropped the most explosive 30 minutes of the entire Charlie Kirk investigation:
A 35-year military whistleblower (Harry Myers—walked into a classified final-planning meeting at Fort Huachuca, Arizona on September 9th, 2025 (the literal day before Charlie was murdered).
Inside that room: 12+ lieutenant colonels (you don’t see that many outside the Pentagon) TPUSA Security Contractor Brian Harpole walking out with a gray-haired “boss”
And the officer who personally interrogated Harry for seven straight hours, accusing him of being a spy and a bomb threat? CAPTAIN NEFF.
Candace begged us: “Help me find out who this Captain Neff is.” We did. In less than 24 hours.
His name is allegedly Captain (possibly newly promoted Lt. Col.) Daniel R. Neff And he is allegedly the first cousin of none other than
@BlakeSNeff —Charlie Kirk’s longtime producer at Turning Point USA.
Here’s the receipt trail (publicly available, no classified leaks):
Commissioned U.S. Army 2007, ROTC Distinguished Graduate (top 7% nationally) out of Misericordia University, Pennsylvania
Pinned 2nd Lieutenant by his parents in a ceremony; saluted by his WWII-veteran uncle
Initial assignment: Aviation branch, Fort Rucker (now Fort Novosel) – helicopter training
Current specialty aligns with Force Protection / base security (exactly the role Harry described)
Age ~37–39 in 2025 → matches Harry’s description: “about 36, brown hair”
Family from the same Pennsylvania/Nazareth corridor as Blake Neff
Visual match to the photos now circulating is damn near identical
UPDATE: If the informant she talks about in the first part is telling the truth, this has become a huge story.
If the dude is telling the truth, both he and Candace are in real danger.
If he is lying and participating in a psyop, she is still in danger but maybe a little less.
In psyops, a common technique is to push out a plausible but false story that draws the public into a minefield which eventually blows up, discrediting the true conspiracy and those who are researching it.
I am saying this simply to alert readers to this possibility.
This series is still very much worth watching and I plan to continue doing that. ABN
A second Democrat-run state has been hit by accusations of fraud within the Somali community, prompting a vile response from one lawmaker who was quizzed about it by a constituent.
As Minnesota grapples with one of the biggest fraud scandals in US history, a whistleblower in Maine has now stepped forward alleging state taxpayers have been defrauded out of funds meant for social services.
Christopher Bernardini told NewsNation he worked as a ‘billing guru’ for Portland-based Gateway Community Services for seven years until April 2025 – while they were allegedly defrauding Maine’s Medicaid program.
The company’s founder and CEO, Abdullahi Ali, is a Somali-American who ran for president of Jubaland, a state in Somalia, last year while juggling his role as executive director.
He came under fire at the time amid reports from The Maine Wire that he had boasted of funding the militia to ‘help the troops buy weapons, bullets and food’ while he was in America.
The comments sparked concerns about whether any of the $28.8million in payments his LLC received via MaineCare had been misappropriated.
The Daily Mail has contacted Gateway Community Services for comment.
Maine appears to be one of the most corrupt states in USA.
With a population of a mere 1.3 million, billion dollar plus fraud is major crime, with tendrils running throughout the state government.
Vote fraud, woke fraud, payola fraud to friends and relatives, constant lies and coverups — Maine appears to have it all, including a complicit news media who have actually been paid by the Mills administration to supposedly do public outreach or something but in reality have chosen to not report on any of this fraud, and never run a story critical of Maine Dems.
Traditional Maine culture is high-trust, mild-mannered, kind and honorable.
Foreign and political scam artists have exploited it to the max.
The state is in such bad shape only the federal government can save it. There is no political, judicial, legal, or journalistic entity within the state strong enough to fix the state. ABN
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