News Briefs – 01/19/2023

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Follow Don Jr on twitter here.

“Make sure those you follow talk about the surveillance, because everyone who is in the game knows. Make them either damage the machine by saying it, or reveal they are part of it by staying silent. Demanding our side talk about the surveillance is really the closest to a Xanatos gambit our side has.”

Visit our surveillance page, the most important page on this site, and see firsthand the massive Stasi-like domestic spying operation in the US which is targeting you and your loved ones.

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DFT – Saudi Arabia To Trade In Currencies Other Than The Dollar

DFT – German Chancellor Says No Recession This Year For Germany

DFT – IMF Warns Global Economy Could Lose 7% Of GDP, If Nations Fragment In Economic Adversity

DFT – Gold May Rise To Over $2100 In 2023

DFT – Twitter Planning Further Layoffs

Couple of interesting deals I saw in my travels. As always, do your own research, and see if maybe you can do better on gunbroker, as I am not tracking these things, and often if you are patient, you can get something even cheaper there:

Smith M&P 2.0 Compact 9mm, FDE, with free Crimson Trace red dot, $379.99 with free shipping after rebate. This is the gun Garand Thumb cannot destroy, as Glocks, 1911s, and H&Ks FTF in his torture test. No safety. Same gun w/dot in black is $449 at that site.

LA Police Gear Level IV 8″ x 10″ Ceramic Ballistic Armor Rifle Plate – $80.99 w/code “DELP10.” I have not tried this code though the deal site which emailed it is legit.

Declassifying the Deep State: Former NSC staffer Kash Patel says he has seen the unredacted intelligence on the Deep State’s political spying, and Americans need to push harder to get to the truth.

Local race flips after investigation finds voting machine irregularities.

Alabama’s new Secretary of State Wes Allen withdraws Alabama from the corrupt ERIC voter registration system.

California: 10.8 million mail-in ballots ‘unaccounted for’ in 2022 elections.

Federal investigators interviewed Biden’s attorneys but failed to use a 302 form to summarize what went on during the interview.

National Archives tells Rep. Comer it has to consult with the Justice Department before sharing Biden document info with Congress.

Trump says documents found at Mar-a-Lago were empty folders labeled ‘classified’ that he’d kept because they were ‘cool.’

Speaker McCarthy rejects White House demand for “clean” debt-ceiling hike.

George Santos reportedly stole $3K from GoFundMe for disabled Vet’s dying dog — the dog died. The scriptwriters went overboard with this one.

Rep. George Santos also known as drag queen named ‘Kitara’ in Brazil over a decade ago. Look anon, anyone could win office, nobody is controlling it, or watching it, or they would have run somebody opposite this guy for sure! You could win, if only you had the time and gumption to just run. So sad you don’t.

US military records 247 UFO’s since March 2021; reported encounters increasing.

President Trump is reportedly planning a return to Twitter and Facebook.

President Donald Trump told Fox News Digital that Facebook “needs us more than we need them,” but confirmed that his campaign is working to set up a meeting to discuss his reinstatement to the platform with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ahead of the 2024 election cycle.

Elon Musk said the Biden administration could possibly “weaponize Federal agencies” against the social media platform if former President Trump begins using his once-disabled account.

What we are up against:

And remember there is no national security these people are fighting for, as there are no nations – only the Cabal/Rothschild-controlled infrastructures. When I see China stole “our” nuke secrets, I kind of feel like those were not really our’s. We don’t elect the leaders who would deploy them. We have no say in their use. And truthfully, the leaders of “our” country who control them now are actively destroying the US, and killing our people with the vax, so they are really our enemies. Those nukes and the secrets are really the Cabal’s/Rothschild’s nukes, and have almost nothing to do with us. Indeed, if the West’s nukes were all taken away, I think you could make a case the world might be more safe, as these people are psychopaths, and I would not put it past them to decide if migrants and no cops are good, using those nukes to set off a world war would really be good. And they will if we ever corner them.

A New York City school for children with brain disorders is being accused of a host of allegations including using students as ‘guinea pigs’ in scientific experiments.

A secretive financial surveillance database established by the Arizona attorney general’s office in 2014 has ballooned into a behemoth tool used by more than 600 law-enforcement entities, which can search for more than 150 million money transfers between people in the US and more than 20 countries, according to internal program documents obtained by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR). Even ACLU is saying it was illegal.

Paul Sperry:

NEW: Hunter Biden’s accountant warned him repeatedly he owed $2 mil+ in back taxes & yet he continued blowing off the IRS & booked a vacation to a foreign resort. But IRS had State cancel his passport due to unpaid liens. Hunter just rebooks his vacation in Hawaii. Entitled much?

Rep. Miller to Newsmax: House to probe Mayorkas for crime in the recklessness at the border so he can be impeached.

Twitter downsizing data center in Atlanta and and shutting down data center in Sacramento. The Atlanta data center may be a Fed operation using that location for access.

From here:

Yuval Noah Harari, Klaus Schwab’s lead advisor at the Word Economic Forum, has announced that human beings are no better than “viruses or bananas” and the WEF has now reached the point where they can “hack humanity.”According to Harari, the idea that humans have free will is over, and for those who oppose, there will be no escaping what Harari refers to as the “Secret Police.”

You will see a lot about this paper probably, as Alex Berenson is blowing it up. But it is not quite as mindblowing as he is selling it. While no doubt you do not want to get the boosters, all it basically says is repeatedly exposing mice to a “protein vaccine” (not mRNA-vax) for the Covid spike protein more than four times induced immune tolerance, where the immune system gave up on wiping out the protein, and would begin to stifle its response when it saw the spike protein. Obviously bad, as you want your immune system to respond. I would assume mRNA vaxxes, which make those repeated exposures happen on your own cell’s surface, make the effect greater since your immune system is seeing this protein repeatedly as a part of your cells. I would not want to get the original strain of Covid in such a state. But I have no idea how bad it will be for the vaxxed practically, as there are probably a lot of other things on the virus surface which your immune system could key in on, and make up the difference. But it probably is partly why those vaccinated are more likely to get Covid now. I still say presenting the spike on the surface of your cells, and confusing the immune system’s understanding of self/other is a bigger deal, but we will need to wait for more papers on that.

Parents react to proposed bill that would allow 12-year-olds to get vaccines without parental consent in Connecticut.

Another North Carolina substation was damaged by gunfire this week.

New York to offer ‘free’ taxpayer funded abortion pills at city-run clinics.

Bush think tank, The George W. Bush Institute, presses for increasing aid to Ukraine, admitting more refugees.

Jamie Lee Curtis posted a picture of her home, which revealed she has this picture of a naked child stuffed in a Rubbermaid storage box framed and on her wall:

Antifa militant killed after allegedly shooting and wounding State Policeman just outside the Police training facility near Atlanta.

1% of U.S. counties responsible for 42% of America’s murders.

Black Minnesota police chief is forced to apologize for posting thin blue line symbol to celebrate National Law Enforcement Day after woke mob descended on him.

Derek Chauvin’s lawyer asks a Minnesota appeals court to toss his murder convictions.

Connecticut law would axe fitness requirements for female firefighters.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made a shocking announcement Thursday that she will resign from her role 10 months before her term ends because she doesn’t have the energy to continue the role past Feb. 7 despite previously announcing her intentions to run for a third term. There is something else. These people just show up and repeat what the voice in their earpiece tells them. Everything else is done by staffers and the hidden hands which pull their strings. Some are pointing out on Feb 7th, 2018 Q posted the following, and Ardern will resign on Feb 7th:

Unvaccinated German care home worker, accused of sparking a November 2021 outbreak in her residence that left three elderly women dead, to face criminal trial.

500 ATMs blown up by migrant gangs in Germany in 2022, setting a new record.

The Biden administration is providing $125 million for electrical parts and other supplies to help repair crews in Ukraine keep up with Russian strikes pounding the country’s electrical system, the U.S. international development aid chief said Wednesday.

The U.S. is gearing up to announce a major new weapons package for Ukraine on Friday.

US ammunition pre-positioned in Israel for regional conflicts there has been sent to Ukraine.

The US State Department, with its words about Crimea, is, in fact, pushing the Ukrainian authorities to commit terrorist acts in Russia, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday.

Russia readying quiet mobilization of 700,000 troops for Ukraine war: report.

Helicopter crash near Kyiv kills 14, including Ukrainian interior minister. There are rumors Ukraine shot it down accidentally.

Ratings implosion: CNN’s entire primetime lineup fails to equal the audience of one Fox program.

The Illinois State Rifle Association has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s newly enacted assault weapons ban, saying the week-old law violates the Second Amendment “right of the people to keep and bear arms.”

Matt Gaetz introduces Abolish the ATF Act in response to ‘stabilizing braces’ ruling.

America First Legal joins with Texas & Oklahoma to SUE the Biden Administration for surrendering our sovereignty to the WHO.

2024 poll shows Trump train would run over Ron DeSantis. Trump holds a 17 point lead over DeSantis.

President Trump outlines policy video calling for ban on China acquisition of American infrastructure.

Spread r/K Theory, because we need better scriptwriters

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Just Me
Just Me
1 year ago

re: Idaho
Was reading this article from yesterday:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11649199/Why-Idaho-suspect-Bryan-Kohberger-arrested-5-reasons-conviction-NOT-slam-dunk.html

Near the bottom is a picture of Ethan and Xana.
Any guesses as to what that MASS of data/Ethernet cables behind them could be?

teo toon
teo toon
Reply to  Just Me
1 year ago

Good question; would those two have even had the income to purchase that equipment?
Next: all the photos look off or peculiar: the house gives the same window sparse vibe as the brick data building as the photos of a few days ago. The narrative never mentions the possibility that the Kaylee and Madison are a lesbian couple — it is too damn obvious; hell, from their similar looks, one might even guess they are sisters. The pictures of Ethan and Xana show different ages: Ethan and Xana in the boat are in their thirties; while the couple in the nest photo down show them as late teenagers. Mortensen on the beach looks to be in her mid thirties. Then the picture of the kitchen table shot though the window simply looks staged,

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  teo toon
1 year ago

Pic of Mortensen on beach at sunset is older woman compared to pics of her in shorts on street

Rizzo
Rizzo
Reply to  teo toon
1 year ago

I thought that dude in the boat pic was an older man My god what a tale this all is

Just Me
Just Me
Reply to  teo toon
1 year ago

In different articles I’ve read this week, both Kaylee’s father and sister refer to the 2 deceased girls as our daughters/my sisters.
Weird, weird shit.

Bman
Bman
Reply to  Just Me
1 year ago

Might be power cables going into a power strip / surge protector.
I don’t see a switch, because the girl is covering up the key part.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Bman
1 year ago

At least one cable goes into the tower speaker looking thing behind them.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Just Me
1 year ago

“…MASS of data/Ethernet cables behind them could be?…”

See the speaker? My first thought on seeing those is those cables are audio going to a mixing deck. The cables are much thicker than Ethernet are. The cables do appear to be the same as 1/4″ jack instrument cables. While none of this is cheap, it’s not outrageous either. Nether are mixing boards. Electronics prices have come down and there’s always used equipment around. Looks like whatever the cables are going into or are collected next to has a towel over it, which would be reasonable for a mixing deck to keep dust out of the controls.

Just Me
Just Me
1 year ago

“ Parents react to proposed bill that would allow 12-year-olds to get vaccines without parental consent”

If that were to occur, couldn’t it then be argued that age 12 is the de facto age of consent for everything?

Calling all pedos…

Benny Le Cagot, Esq.
Benny Le Cagot, Esq.
Reply to  Just Me
1 year ago

it’s a good point because {{they}} have used this exact same playbook before. {{they}} got the income tax in 1913 – thanks a million, Teddy R! – and {{they}} all thought that was great! *much more* money and power for {{them}}! but that was just a fun little benefit from the *real* goal: giving women The Vote. because women will always vote for the guy/party that promises to Take Care Of You – and that was the Deep State’s strong right arm the democrats.

the hustle went along the lines you’ve laid out. the main sell was simple and brutally effective, when you consider that Americans have always tried to be the fair-est people on the planet. we’re big on Fair, hate hate hate Unfair. right? we were all taught that George Washington himself took a whipping over a chopped-down tree, because it would have been unfair of him not to do so. the argument – for which there was no effective counter, as history teaches us – the argument was “well, we’re now taking money from women’s wages. because yay Teddy Roosevelt! since the gals are now PAYing for their government, it’s only FAIR they should have a voice in it , too.” and now a hundred years later, here we are: in a country that’s on the verge of collapse, but not before pedophilia/child murder is leagalized

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Just Me
1 year ago

Without a solid grounding in Divine Law. And salvation through the Second Birth via the Holy Spirit.
We are indeed reeds in the wind as historical zeitgeists reshape our morality.

wooderson
wooderson
Reply to  Just Me
1 year ago

Well, my daughter, a high school student, went along with her college friend, and got two vax shots, over our objections. Then she dealt with six months of brutally heavy periods to the point of anemia. Her skin went from flawless to pocked with cysts.

She can’t make an appointment to go to a dermatologist on her own until age 18. She is begging for an appointment.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

re JLC tupperwarekid link
ummm… @COMET.pictures??

Rizzo
Rizzo
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

They just don’t want to hide their sick shit anymore. Does she not realize what that looks like?

wlindsaywheeler
1 year ago

Well, the forum at the Homeland Security website has now been shut down. NO Free Speech for us. Here is the guy that came on the thread of the “On White Supremacy”

Is this DHS where ideas are shared to make contributions for all Americans or has this site turned into some sort of Theology Class. I am appalled reading such hate and divi‐sion and I wonder who moderates this platform. First off, I am an American with Jewish heritage and reading your articles and the bigotry displaced is disgusting.

Not sure of your education but I am a Cold War veteran, I have a BS degree in Criminal Justice with concentrations on Homeland Security and Emergency Management. I have a Masters Degree in Homeland Security with courses in Public Health and Cyber Security. I am an intelligence analyst and certified in OSINT. I combat dis/misinformation and over the years it has become a major issue. I am currently enrolled to take my PNPT test next year.

So not sure what point you are trying to make and it seems you are parroting the White Supremacists chant of Jews will not replace us. I find it appalling that this rhetoric is even allowed on a DHS supported platform. Rest assured I will be contacting each and every mem‐ber of Congress who sit on the DHS committee to take a look of what is happening on this platform.

The DHS Ideascale is for brainstorming to help improve, implement and/or change policies to advance the mission of the department as a whole and serve as public servants for the safety of ALL who reside in this country.

He refuted nothing on the thread. I used nothing but quotes from the Horse’s mouth—and that is NOT allowed! So DHS can label White Supremacists as Terrorists, out-loud, publicly, in our faces, then goes to the ADL and the ACLU to form legislation and public policy, BUT I’M NOT allowed to push back, to give the other side of the story! LMAO.  

Furthermore, they prevented me from adding links to other stories about the 2020 Stolen Election on my Book Review of Patrick Colbeck’s book The 2020 Coup. So I wrote to Judicial Watch to see about that and if they could sue for me about the restriction of Free Speech on a Government Website. 

So they shut the whole thing down. The bureaucrats running this joint don’t even believe in the tenets of this propositional country! Why do we? America is dead and gone for it is a Religious Construct, a Gnostic State which means it is against Nature. And look at the future “intelligence agent” viewpoints above—doesn’t care about reality whatsoever! No concern about the Communist takeover of this country! Facts have NO revelence. 

Talking is NOT going to improve things. I tried at the forum itself —our borders are still open. I convinced NO one! And Republicans now control the DHS Committee—and they are the ones that probably shut it down! LMAO. We are being Genocided—Two Coups—Baby killing—Homos/pedos/trannies everywhere.  
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Farcesensitive
Reply to  wlindsaywheeler
1 year ago

What made you think that a DHS forum was ever going to be anything but a nest of cabal shills?

wlindsaywheeler
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 year ago

I was there to “Fly the Colors” and to show, that we have the goods on them and they don’t fool us. To Fight them on their ground. To take the battle to them!

I’m also God’s Prosecutor. I preached The Truth—and when they stand before Jesus on Judgement Day—they WILL NOT have any excuse! “Nobody told me”. I told them–NOW, they have NO excuse! They didn’t reform their lives—and so they will get what they deserve. 

I was wondering that very same thing many moons ago after realizing that dialectic, logos, was not working. So, the only other reason for my gift then was as the Prosecutor–laying out the charges, showing The Truth and giving them a chance to change so Jesus has it easy to condemn them. 

I’m scandalized that no one else in ALL of America showed up to help defend the Heritage Anglo-Saxons of America! Not one single Anglican or Episcopalian, or for that matter, any Roman Catholic Bishop, came on to push back against the Communist agenda here in America! That is sad. But I’m happy to do it. 

Farcesensitive
Reply to  wlindsaywheeler
1 year ago

The rest of us have enough to do trying to educate the sheep who might listen and change.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

How long before European and American Prisons are emptied and the Men sent to Ukraine to fight Russia?

phelps
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Won’t happen from America. The blacks and Hispanics who are 40% of the population won’t fight, and will just form marauding crime gangs in Ukraine.
Zelensky will never allow the competition.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

good point. However, it could be voluntary with incentives.

phelps
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

They are criminals.
They will just take the incentives and then go marauding anyway.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

You seem to have a fixed mindset

phelps
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

When you are right, why should you change your mind?

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

The first “feature” I’ve heard of for the Ukrainian war!

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Never.
The western cabal will not do that because it would help the western nations by ridding them of garbage humans.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Might be disinfo, but anon makes a case for chitin being part of the shots and cause for clots. If true, might be more of this once you start eating ze bugs.

Aside from the source of chitin, any take on the theory of its biological effects, AC?

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/412704377/

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

“…
cricket food items contain allergy-causing proteins capable of posing “serious health risks” for people with shellfish allergies. In all, the research team has uncovered 20 specific proteins in cricket foods that may induce a serious allergic reaction.”

https://studyfinds.org/eating-crickets-shellfish-allergy/

Corn Pop
Corn Pop
1 year ago

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made a shocking announcement Thursday that she will resign from her role 10 months before her term ends because she doesn’t have the energy to continue the role past Feb. 7 despite previously announcing her intentions to run for a third term.
 
 
Yep, these puppets thought they were all on the same team but now that the narrative is turning they’re finding out they were merely patsies all along.
 
 
I mean she vaxxed the shit out of New Zealand. No way she stays there for long as eventually they’ll have her neck stretched all the way to Sydney if she does.
 
 
I wonder who the next stooge they install is going to be? Probably the dude at the front of the pitchfork mob yelling “let’s get these vaxx pushing bastards guys!”

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Anyone else think Marjorie Taylor Greene looks like Will Ferrellcomment image

teo toon
teo toon
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

I don’t; but then MTG’s chin is as big as Ferrell’s

Last edited 1 year ago by teo toon
Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  teo toon
1 year ago

Manjaw

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

NO. I’ve absolutely HATED Will Ferrell ever since I saw that child clown video.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Will Ferrell’s career really took off when he started attending spirit cooking dinners

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

> German Chancellor Says No Recession This Year For Germany
As if by merely declaring it he can forestall the inevitable
The gall of these people

Maniac
Maniac
1 year ago

‘1% of U.S. counties responsible for 42% of America’s murders.’

COLOR me shocked.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago
Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Trump return to Twitter:

(Trying again)

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

So according to my research, whenever you see this type of thing, you simply have to assume it is a counterspeech agent.

Either automated or organic, billions of dollars per year are being spent on counterspeech/derad research and building networks of these things.

We are well past the point where we can idly argue with people that seemed to have just stumbled into our sphere. The scale of the funding, the massive organizations involved and the proven level of technological advancement FORCES us to assume it is a dishonest actor.

Let me be clear: we are getting very close to “dead internet” territory. It is entirely possible that everyone arguing is part of a bot network, and perhaps some or all the interactions you see are scripted.

https://twitter.com/schuab_dib/status/1613675502287613952?cxt=HHwWgMDTibvU9uQsAAAA

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Ukrainian authorities committing terrorist acts in russia
LOL 😂

Fart Simpson
Fart Simpson
1 year ago

>> Jamie Lee Curtis posted a picture of her home, which revealed she has this picture of a naked child stuffed in a Rubbermaid storage box framed and on her wall:

PizzaGate

wlindsaywheeler
1 year ago

We are living in very dangerous times; we are descending into massive chaos.

A month ago, the Democrats passes a 1.7 Trillion dollar Omnibus Bill. —A Month later, we are facing a Debt Limit Crisis—and listening to CNN and MSNBC and reading Facebook—It’s all the Republican’s fault! Numerous hosts and talking heads on CNN and MSNBC and the White House Spokesperson-rag-head-doll, are all saying that Republicans have to, HAVE TO, allow for the debt limit to be broached!

What kind of logic is there? That the majority of both Houses of Congress, signed off on a 1.7 Trillion dollar package and then a month later, we have to up the debt limit??????

Does that sound NORMAL to you? And that democracy is superior to monarchy? That “The PEOPLE” know better!!! Really!?!

The disconnect between reality and consequences and the illogicity here—the Illogic of so many “intelligent” people is mind-blowingly mind-boggling!

I’m floored. Where am I living?

These people are Insane! Including the 12 Senate Republicans that signed off on the 1.7 Trillion bill—And we are living with these people? This is Lunacy!
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Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  wlindsaywheeler
1 year ago

“…1.7 Trillion dollar package and then a month later, we have to up the debt limit??????…”

Good catch. I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even notice that. What the hell is going on? Where did that money go?

Farcesensitive
Reply to  wlindsaywheeler
1 year ago

You are being ruled by the Aristocracy right now.
Stop pretending that the people voted for any of this.

TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> but confirmed that his campaign is working to set up a meeting to discuss his reinstatement to the platform with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ahead of the 2024 election cycle.

So, the Zuck shut him down before, but now out of the goodness of his heart his (or his controllers) will let DJT use Facebook as part of his 2024 election campaign?

They might be planning that Facebook would be a honeypot for Team Trump’s efforts; let them in, let them put maximum effort into it, then put them in Facebook jail or simply close their account again, as they did before. And to a bunch of other people and organizations, too.

Another Dave
Another Dave
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

It’s all so tiresome.

Ed
Ed
1 year ago

1% of U.S. counties responsible for 42% of America’s murders.

Fake news. This is something of a pet peeve of mine, so I will spend some time to deconstruct this.

There are 3,033 counties in the United States (number found immediately via Google search). I couldn’t find the median population, but most of these are rural counties with populations of about 20,000 or so. Wikipedia has a page up on county statistics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_statistics_of_the_United_States).

So 1% of 3,033 counties amounts to 30 counties. The Wikipedia article lists the top 12 in population, and they combine for a population of about 40 million people. The population of the United States according to the last census (inaccurate, but its the statistic these articles are using) was 332 million people. So the top 12 counties in population in the United States contain 13% of the total US population. The top 30, or 1% of the counties, can be estimated to contain 20% of the total US population.

So it would be unusual for the top 1% of US counties in population to have less than 20% of anything statistically, since they contain about 20% of the US population, and they will all contain large cities and have more reported crime. So what the headline is describing is unremarkable.

But people will click on this, since most people have no idea there are over 3,000 counties in the United States, that most are rural counties with populations of about 20,000 or so, and that a majority of Americans live in urban/ suburban counties that make up a small percentage of the 3,033.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Ed
1 year ago

Cities cause crime.
The point is made quite well by the article.

Ed
Ed
1 year ago

About Jacinda Arden, the Prime Minister of Finland is literally a party girl who obviously has nothing more to do with Finnish government policy than, for example, I do. The Z blog pointed out in yesterday’s blog post, nearly all these pols are figureheads, and this includes what should be important people such as the German Chancellor, let alone the first minister of a country as unimportant as New Zealand.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Ed
1 year ago

what is the Z Blog. Link pls

Ed
Ed
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago
Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Likely he means

http://thezman.com/wordpress/

zman is sort of like between say here, where most think the deep State is a huge massive thing, and the rightist Republican Party. He’s in the middle of that. Not so big on pointing out the Jews but Doesn’t necessarily censor criticism of them. Like a more right Fox news. Or that’s my read on him.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Ed
1 year ago

Arden is Prime Minister of New Zealand. Sanna Marin is Prime Minister of Finland. Agree that they’re all mostly figureheads. Disagree that NZ isn’t important to TPTB. Zerohedge articles from a couple of years ago pointed out all the doomsday bunkers being built there. Interesting VD post the other day about New Zealand’s role for the elite, post apocalypse. It’s geographic location would be ideal. Island Nation, largely undisturbed, close to Antarctica, close (but not too close) to China/India. Kinda like a New Great Britain.

TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> New York to offer ‘free’ taxpayer funded abortion pills at city-run clinics.

But… but… they’re going broke trying to house a few thousand “migrants” who were relocated there! Where will they find the money for this? Oh, the humanity!

phelps
1 year ago

Derek Chauvin’s lawyer asks a Minnesota appeals court to toss his murder convictions.

From the article:

Former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, representing the state of Minnesota, countered the defense’s claims by calling Chauvin’s trial “one of the most transparent and thorough … in our nation’s history.”
He said that many of the arguments before the appeals court “do not come close” to justifying a reversal, and that even if they did, “the evidence of Chauvin’s guilt was captured on video for the world to see.”

If that’s the legal arguments coming from the state, then he’s got a good chance at a new trial. Unfortunately, this is news reporting, so they are likely ignoring the actual arguments and just picked out these two lines for the Narrative.

TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> Bush think tank, The George W. Bush Institute, presses for increasing aid to Ukraine, admitting more refugees.

I have to admit that, while I wasn’t particularly happy with GWB’s actions in office, I didn’t suspect he was actually working for the other side until stuff like this started coming out a few years ago.

I’m starting to get the idea that it might be a good idea to simply euthanize politicians as soon as they’re elected and just prop the enbalmed bodies up in their offices. They’d be a lot less likely to backstab their constituents that way.

wlindsaywheeler
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

You didn’t discover this sooner? I never voted for GWB II. I knew all along,—well, I voted for Bush I and then I discovered his globalist lying ways. And of course the Spotlight outed him. Never voted for Dole nor McCain. They’re all the same–globohomo frauds.

TRX
TRX
Reply to  wlindsaywheeler
1 year ago

[shrug] What can I say? I was a slow learner.

Fart Simpson
Fart Simpson
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

George Dubya Chimpy was a horrible president

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

Pictures of Pres. Bush with homosexual prostitute. This guy got a White house pass to be a press corespondent.

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Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Sorry for the double post. The links didn’t show up at first???

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

I think something went wrong. the links disappeared???

Pictures of Pres. Bush with homosexual prostitute. This guy got a White house pass to be a press corespondent.

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TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> 1% of U.S. counties responsible for 42% of America’s murder

And without looking, I already know those counties contain cities with high population densities.

The more crazies there are, the more crazies you get. They *love* urban pestholes.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

We now know what counties to build the walls around.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

Crazies exist to be exterminated.
That’s how Cities ensured that they are good places to live. There needs to be a constant sending of the crazies and murderous criminals into the afterlife.
Death Row needs to be faster and less cumbersome than the red tape that it suffers currently.
Especially for all proven beyond reasonable doubt

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

The 2nd is that cities were historically constructed to be beautiful like with Art Deco.
And with proper amenities they were more bearable.

TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> Derek Chauvin’s lawyer asks a Minnesota appeals court to toss his murder convictions.

That’s pretty much standard procedure, as long as there’s money to pay the lawyer.

TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> Connecticut law would axe fitness requirements for female firefighters.

That’s because fitness is sexist!

And they’re not the first to do that; a number of municipal FDs have been doing it for years.

Wait until the Wheelchair Posse realize they’re being denied equal job opportunities. Those ladders are ableist, you know.

teo toon
teo toon
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

I cannot wait to see the construction of wheel chair lifts for the fire engine ladders.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  teo toon
1 year ago

https://www.firerescue1.com/fundraising/articles/firefighter-with-cerebral-palsy-surprised-with-new-wheelchair-I5duUjFcLrBXWQ6a/

*The individual doesn’t actually go on fire service calls. “Luther is currently a public educator volunteer at Myrtle Beach Fire Department and Surfside Beach Fire.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

Egalitarianism is a toxic ideology. It converts all peoples into a grey mush. And abolishes sex distinction.

TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> Matt Gaetz introduces Abolish the ATF Act in response to ‘stabilizing braces’ ruling.

Pointless grandstanding. If he was serious, he’d introduce a bill to remove firearms from the agency’s purview. If he was really serious, he’d press for the repeal of the Gun Control Acts of 1934 and 1968, and the various smaller gun control acts.

TRX
TRX
1 year ago

> 2024 poll shows Trump train would run over Ron DeSantis.

I question why DeSantis would *want* to be President. He knows what the deep state did when they were blindsided by Trump; he knows they’re ready to do far more to any other outsiders trying to drive their gravy train.

Also, given how we know the electoral system works nowadays, the very fact that he got elected would make me wonder if he was a deep state agent. Nobody is getting elected for anything unless it’s pre-approved.

Another Dave
Another Dave
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

Exactly.

That’s why I want to know what Trump is doing, considering the last two election results.

Exactly how is anything going to be different?

Just Me
Just Me
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

Because his globalist GOP handlers want him to.
You know their motto:
Anyone but Trump.

Not So Anonymous
Not So Anonymous
1 year ago

I have zero doubt that Cabal (interesting that you added “Rothschild’s” today) would love to use nukes and/or a diverted asteroid and/or a superbug and/or supervolcanos to wipe out most of humanity and create the evolutionary bottleneck they seem to crave and feel entitled to constitute, all while waiting out the catastrophes in cosmopolitan mountain and underground bunkers, which are the most retarded moral hazards ever created…however, they are limited, for some reason. That reason must be…God. Right? So why would they suddenly be allowed by God to trigger those catastrophes if they’re cornered? Makes no sense. That’s not how the story goes, that’s not the comedy God promised us. I do suspect they’ll try to *manufacture the appearance* of such triggers, in order to psych us out and gaslight us into doing shit to ourselves. But then, I also suspect there are far more awakened people in the world by now than we’ve grimly estimated.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Not So Anonymous
1 year ago

Their entire plan is motivated by attempting to prove God is wrong, or better, doesn’t exist at all. They know that if you killed off all but one man and one woman they would still find God in nature and in the love they have for each other and their children. They want an overpopulated hell world full of scarcity and misery so normal people turn from God due to tribulations and their cohort of demons can steal resources to fund their “screw you dad!” Rebellion against God plots.

There is also a a strong argument the enemy is not allowed by God to harm you without your consent. So it’s highly unlikely that natural disasters will ever mass-kill people without us agreeing to work on the tech or some shit like that.

English Tom
English Tom
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

@Anonymous

They are actually seeking to displace God with themselves. This is the level of their insanity. When it says in the bible, not a sparrow falls etc, meaning God has total awareness of everything happening. These maniacs intend to use AI to replicate this, especially with the internet of things and the internet of bodies.

They seek to have everything, say each grain of rice and everything else on such a granular level, given a unique identifier and monitored by the AI.

Their attempt at playing God is nothing but a shabby pretence. God will not be mocked.

Sam J.
Sam J.
1 year ago

I was reading Moon of Alabama and found out about a new weapon the Russians have. It’s going to be decisive. They have an acoustical system that can locate artillery by sound. All ours, that I know of, use radar which can be tracked. You can’t track this passive system.

“…Over the last months Russia deployed a very different counter-artillery detection systems with the rather ironic name of Penicillin:Penicillin or 1B75 Penicillin is an acoustic-thermal artillery-reconnaissance system developed by Ruselectronics for the Russian Armed Forces. The system aims to detect and locate enemy artillery, mortars, MLRs, anti-aircraft or tactical-missile firing positions with seismic and acoustic sensors, without emitting any radio waves. It locates enemy fire within 5 seconds at a range of 25 km (16 mi; 13 nmi). Penicillin completed state trials in December 2018 and entered combat duty in 2020.

The Penicillin is mounted on the 8×8 Kamaz-6350 chassis and consists of a 1B75 sensor suite placed on a telescopic boom for the infrared and visible spectrum as well as of several ground-installed seismic and acoustic receivers as a part of the 1B76 sensor suite. It has an effective range for communication with other military assets up to 40 kilometres (25 mi) and is capable to operate even in a fully automatic mode, without any crew. One system can reportedly cover an entire division against an enemy fire. Besides that, it co-ordinates and corrects a friendly artillery fire…”

Combine this with the huge advantage the Russians have in actual artillery pieces, and the Ukrainians are doomed.

For some reason it appears half of all Ukrainian forces are crammed up around Bakhmut,

“…The forces which are currently getting mauled in the Bakhmut area constitute 50% of Ukraine’s battle ready forces….”

They’re hiding something very important there they don’t want the Russians to find. I’m not sure why whatever it is it wouldn’t be easier to just move it but…they are determined to make it difficult to take. I don’t think they can keep it. This seems to me to be significant information, yet we don’t hear a thing about it. The Russians will likely kill a large proportion of the Men there. I don’t blame the Russians. I think they have no choice. It’s very sad.

Read the link. It’s the bleakest thing I’ve ever seen for the Ukrainians. This whole war is nothing but a massive Jewish genocide of White people.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/01/ukraine-sitrep-media-ignorance-counter-artillery-war-three-lost-armies-.html#more

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Artillery sound ranging is an old, proven technology. It was largely discarded when radar ranging was perfected in the 1940s. Sounds as if the Russians have reintroduced the concept with the system described here.

From what I can tell, the Ukrainian are obsessively holding Bakhmut for two reasons. The first is it is the key location to the Ukrainian line of fortifications that run north-south through Bakhmut. Once the Russians capture that town, they will have broken through the main Ukrainian defence line in the Donbass. If they lose Bakhmut, the Ukrainians will be forced to evacuate all of their forces from Donbass. That’s the military reason.

The second reason is a repeat of Germany’s failed Eastern front strategy of World War II. Hitler was infamous for ordering his generals to hold areas long past the time they should have retreated. The Ukrainian generals have begged Zelensky to allow them to retreat to a new defensive line further west, but Zelensky has ordered them to hold Bakhmut at all cost. That cost will be the ultimate destruction of the Ukrainian army, and with it, the Ukrainian state.

phelps
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

From what I can tell, the Ukrainian are obsessively holding Bakhmut for two reasons. 

Nah, it’s the salt mine. The thing is massive. It’s an entire city, and the ukes have been putting all their supplies and HQs in it, because it is so deep underground it is invulnerable to arty and probably even bunker busting nukes. They thought they were 100% safe there, because if the Russians ever got that far, the war was lost anyway.
So, Q.E.D. They were right.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

Now the Russians can put things down there.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Azov are themselves evil people. In terms of how they want to genocide Russians.
I feel sorry for all Ukrainian forced to fight for them.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

We’ve had shot triangulators on humvees for years now, surprising they’re just getting around to expanding the tech to other counter-measures now.

phelps
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Right, but those are for LOS small arms. Dealing with the echos and over-the-horizon ground wave sounds is much more processing.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  phelps
1 year ago

If they could get this to be fairly accurate it would be a serious game changer. I think we went to radar because it was accurate. Their system includes visual tracking of the rounds incoming, making tracking more accurate. I bet heat from the rounds would make them easy to track.

phelps
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Exactly. Humans with big ears (IIRC that is what they called the devices) can give really good estimates, but radar was precise enough to direct fire on without an observer.
If this auditory/seismic system is as accurate as radar AND has no EMCON impact, it is a real game changer for counterbattery.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

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Uranium centrifuge and nuclear weapons in the salt mines. Made in<> Russian made sure that could not take them out. Entrance one rouble. Exit two roubles. It’s harder to get out.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

It could be.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  map
1 year ago

It’s illegal aliens taking over the construction market and making a dogs mess of it. That’s the answer. Only really educated people are so stupid as to not immediately see this. It confounds me greatly sometimes how people supposedly so smart are such idiots.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

People are putting out traumatic videos for children to view:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urg399PMZ98&ab_channel=Raymundo2112

Very concerning for parents. The war on children continues apace.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Reddit tries lucid dreaming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwMJrPyfESc&ab_channel=StarvHarv

Reddit moment.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Remember this prophecy

teo toon
teo toon
Reply to  Anonymous
1 year ago

Vonnegut: “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
No, the one-eyed man is persecuted and cast into prison; but, the two-eyed man is crucified; as demonstrated by history.
A man with two glass eyes is called Pope or Pontifex Maximus ; and a man with one glass eye, while blind in the other, is called Professor, Priest, or Rabbi. Also demonstrated by history.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Why Psycho-Pass is very relevant TV show about a Sci-fi Totalitarian society that is realistic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqbt8ioJK0&ab_channel=MaxDerrat

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago

Twitter downsizing data center in Atlanta and and shutting down data center in Sacramento.

*******************
“Oddly enough, the Atlanta data center is in the same regional complex as Georgia Tech University, which is the same university under U.S. government contract (think Rodney Joffe and the Trump-Russia Alfa Bank hoax) for cybersecurity research efforts.

Shortly after Twitter expanded its data center in Atlanta, on Nov 29, 2016, Georgia Tech received a $17.3 million contract from the U.S. Dept of Defense for “cybersecurity” research. Three days later, Georgia Tech announced new collaboration with China’s Tianjin U, which hosts the APT hacker groups and is a partner of China Telecom and Huawei.”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/01/18/twitter-downsizing-data-center-in-atlanta-ga-near-ga-tech-and-shutting-down-data-center-in-sacramento/

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 year ago
Farcesensitive
1 year ago

Lebanon’s National Assembly again failed to elect a president on Jan. 19, after it convened for the 11th time for the sole purpose of electing a new leader for the country, Reuters reported the same day. Additionally, the Lebanese pound fell to a new record low of 50,000 pounds against one U.S. dollar. …

https://worldview.stratfor.com/situation-report/lebanon-parliament-fails-elect-president-again-pound-hits-record-low

map
map
1 year ago

As an aside, I’d like to point out a change in recent science fiction tropes that may be of some interest.

In “The Last of Us” the Zombie/Parasite has been given a materialist explanation. The zombie is caused by a fungus. Apparently, there are fungi that are capable of burrowing into the brain stem of, say, an ant, and pumping out hallucinogens that can direct the behavior and actions of the ant. The fungus can also feed on the animal internally for sustenance, but is also capable of preventing decomposition.

Has anyone noticed that the “time travel paradox” storyline has been fixed? Apparently, the time traveler is now a universal constant, where the traveler is not capable of actually changing the future if it somehow prevents the time traveler from becoming a time traveler. IOW, the time traveler’s future is going into the past. If something changes that, then the timeline forks into a separate universe, thus creating a multiverse.

The time traveler can still change small events that don’t affect him becoming a time traveler. This accounts for things like the Mandela Effect.

I wonder why this was introduced?

Rizzo
Rizzo
Reply to  map
1 year ago

Look up the John Titor story from the 80-90s. They have been seeding this idea for some time now

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  map
1 year ago

“…Has anyone noticed that the “time travel paradox” storyline has been fixed?…”

Where did you get this from? I watched The Last of Us 2023 E01 and don’t remember anything of the sort. How do you know things that haven’t happened yet?

map
map
Reply to  Sam J.
1 year ago

Time travel paradox is separate from The Last of Us.

I did not correctly transition between two different unrelated points.

Ed
Ed
Reply to  map
1 year ago

“Has anyone noticed that the “time travel paradox” storyline has been fixed?”

I don’t think it has. The MCU introduced time travel as a major plot device in “Endgame”, and didn’t come up with any consistent rules for it, to the point where the director and writers disagreed in public what they were after the movie was released. They sort have been fixing things on the fly, and the concept seems to be separate universes with different timelines, and time travel is just traveling between the different universes. If they are doing this, this concept is not new, it was used in Turtledove’s “Crosstime Traffic” series.

Several other, contradictory, explanations were used in “Endgame”, but it looks like they are going with the multiple timelines in multiple universes concept.

That the time traveller can’t change the past to the point where the time travel itself doesn’t take place is a good sci fi rule for these stories, but I can’t think of any story or movie where that has explicitly been stated. I like the use of time travel in “Twelve Monkeys”, where stuff keeps popping up in the present, like messages on an answering machine, because of things being changed in the past by the time travellers, and then the scientists respond by sending more time travellers to the past to try to make changes, but they are constantly adjusting based on the current changing present situation, so never come up with a coherent plan and settle for just trying to get information from the past instead of trying to get a better past. A “no change can prevent the time machine” rule would work with that concept. But with the multiverse its not really needed.

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Ed
1 year ago

Isaac Asimov’s “The End of Eternity” is an interesting read nowadays. He wrote it in 1955.

A group of time travelers formed a government that wanted to restrict human development. They sent “adjusters” back to abort technological development, political movements, and any research that might lead to time travel. Their ideal was a mostly-pastoral history, with a few millennia of moderately high tech, just enough to support the elites in the style they desired.

Every now and then people would realize something was *wrong* with history; too many things simply didn’t make any sense. They were discredited or killed.

After learning about the WEF and Davos, their actions don’t seem nearly as far-fetched as when I first read the book.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  TRX
1 year ago

They could have very come up with some of their ideas from that book. It fits.

map
map
Reply to  Ed
1 year ago

To be truthful, I actually came up with this idea about a year and a half ago, seeded by a conversation between Bruce Banner and some sorceress trying to explain the events in Endgame.

I’ve noticed variations of this spreading around storylines like in the new series “Peripheral.”

A multiverse is just proof that a time traveler exists, because the major changes that he makes, whether intended or not, have to be incorporated somewhere, and that is in the forked timelines.