News Briefs – 12/06/2024

 

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Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will be what people are hearing and talking about, there is no guarantee any one of them is necessarily correct, and we have had cases of outright lies make it onto these pages.

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“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 AmericanStasi.com, the most important website on the internet, 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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Kash Patel says the 9/11 report needs to come out immediately, and there will be some people who will be pissed off. It will show domestic surveillance was all over the 9/11 hijackers, all of them knew what was coming, and the command pulled their food cart posted assets back from the bases of the towers on the morning of the attacks, and let the attacks happen. If it is complete, it will also show surveillance command told some operatives, who it kept in the dark, to follow the hijackers onto the planes, and keep command apprised as to what was happening during the flights. And as we showed in a previous story about the fifth plane which didn’t get off the ground, there was at least tech installed on the planes to watch what happened on the planes, as they were hijacked and steered into targets. There is probably video and audio of all the passenger’s last moments. And everyone in surveillance knew this, and continued to aid this abomination in the decades that followed, even as it was obviously destroying America and operating against regular Americans. Pissed will not begin to describe it. I would not be surprised if that story is how Trump intends to kick off the destruction of domestic surveillance, if that is what he plans.

House intel panel concludes ‘increasingly likely’ adversary behind mysterious Havana syndrome. Notes the intelligence community in the US is impeding investigations of it. That is because they are penetrated by the foreign actor.

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said Thursday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, would be “unconstitutional and illegal.”

DOGE to target work-from-home federal workers, after report shows only 6 percent of federal workers report in-person on a full-time basis.  That sounds like the nucleus of a decent-sized domestic surveillance machine, collecting a federal paycheck as they are out there, floating around their neighborhoods. As DOGE whittles away at federal spending, I suspect it will become easier and easier to track the massive flows of funding flowing to fuel the domestic surveillance machine.

Biden’s commissioner of SSA just inked a deal that allows federal workers sent home during Covid era to keep their couch ‘jobs’ through 2029.

Hunter Biden-linked real estate firm got at least $100M from Russian oligarch.

Biden regime quietly revokes Veterans hiring preference for Civil Service jobs. That is what happens when a corrupt intel op is trying to place agents.

Mexico detains 5,200 migrants in one day following Trump border crackdown.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell is standing by California’s leaders in defying President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportations.

St. Louis County Republican Senator-elect David Gregory has pre-filed a bill to pay Missouri residents a $1,000 bounty for reporting undocumented migrants in the state.

Murdered insurance CEO had deployed an AI to automatically deny benefits for sick people.

Videos circulating of knock-off face masks are creepy after the United Healthcare CEO assassination.

Gov. Phil Murphy reiterated that there is no threat to the public “at this time” from recent drone sightings over New Jersey. Although he admits he has no idea what they are, who is operating them, or what their ultimate purpose is.

UFO drones in NJ block medical helicopter from landing.

OpenAI’s new model tried to deactivate oversight programs monitoring it and then copy itself to another system to avoid being shut down.

Jeff Bezos goes MAGA as Amazon billionaire gushes over ‘calmer, more confident’ president-elect and pledges to ‘help him’ in second term.

Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Dafna Yoran, who urged jurors at Daniel Penny’s subway chokehold trial to convict him of manslaughter on Tuesday, once sought reduced punishment for a Manhattan mugger who killed an 87-year-old over $300 in 2019 under the concept of “restorative justice.”

New Orleans store clerk shoots 2 armed robbers, 1 fatally. Satisfying video at the link. Robber who went down appeared to have a spinal hit which paralyzed his lower body. Descending Aorta and Inferior Vena Cava are right there, so probably bled out. The CNS shock passed though, and he squirms at the end, so he had time to know he was done.

14 year old collapses and dies during routine football drill in Connecticut.

7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes off California coast. National Tsunami Warning Center issues tsunami warning for California and Oregon coastline. Tsunami warning later cancelled.

China-linked hackers breached 8 US Telecom companies, White House says. I wonder if at some point we are going to be told all of those routers and comm equipment will need to be shut down for ten days, to get scrubbed of malware, and we will have no phone, internet, texting, or other forms of communications, for ten days of darkness. It sounds strange to me China would be able to get in there, and nobody knew until now.

A major cyberattack on big US telecom companies has led officials to recommend that people use encrypted messaging apps.

Emmanuel Macron rules out resigning from Presidency as the French government appears likely to be overthrown.

Dozens of UAPs seen over Argentina. Video is just lights in the sky.

21 boats confiscated and 13 arrested in joint French-German investigation against Iraqi-Kurdish criminal migrant smuggling across the English Channel.

British leftists caught out as the real foreign interference in our elections:

Ottawa, Canada bans hundreds more types of firearms, looks to send prohibited guns to Ukraine.

Russia’s new Oreshnik missile is far more advanced & powerful than previously reported. Article notes : “… the new Russian weapon is a smaller version of an existing liquid-fuel propelled ICBM that was first revealed by the Russians in 2018. The non-nuclear ICBM can hit any city in the world, travels so fast that it can’t be stopped, and one missile [with a powerful conventional warhead] can destroy a land mass the size of Britain.”

Satanic Temple outlawed in Russia.

Village People may perform Y.M.C.A at Trump Inauguration. I would really prefer a headline like all members of domestic surveillance to be executed by firing squad for treason this coming Tuesday, but whatever.

Senator Cornyn says Kash Patel has enough votes to be confirmed the next FBI Director. Either he will be revealed to be just another actor who supports surveillance, or it will be the beginning of the end of this abomination.

Donald J Trump wins Patriot of the Year.

Send people to AmericanStasi.com, because everyone needs to fight for our freedom

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Pebble skimmer
Pebble skimmer
1 month ago

Not the same!

1000025209
Cato the Uncensored
Cato the Uncensored
Reply to  Pebble skimmer
1 month ago

The patsy.

u.f.
u.f.
1 month ago

In regards to 9/11, it’s not only about surveillance but about tech (beaming, Havana, UFO, too). Which go hand in hand, at least from what I’ve read here. Those towers were ‘dustified’.. i.e. ‘where was the rubble?’ – Judy Wood:

https://youtu.be/YCtfQJAepfU?si=lGtStpXXLSBYa74F

That’s some serious weaponry. My dad was there at that time, saw the second plane go into the building from below, he said the whole thing was surreal. And yeah, walking through dust knee high… never said anything about rubble. He never speculated any of these theories, but the event traumatized the hell out of him for a long time.

Col. Douglas Mortimer (ret)
Col. Douglas Mortimer (ret)
Reply to  u.f.
1 month ago

And ugly Zoe Lofgren refused to act on the information the military had on the terrorists who were getting one way flight training in Arizona, saying that no cooperation between military intelligence and civilian law agencies was permitted. Of course with her on the investigation committee that little tidbit was left out. She’s a troll who should be living under a bridge. She has a face that would shatter a mirror. Not to mention a black soul.

Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek
1 month ago

OK, now you get a mention at the Vlad Types blog, will not link but it was posted yesterday. Some quotes from that author regarding your piece:

“Never having heard of the website before adds to the FUD factor. (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) But it absolutely could be a great treatment for a possible movie of the week.”

“I gotta say, it feels like Russian disinfo to me.”

“Maybe someone with tech skills can suss out the domain and see who operates it.”

Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 month ago

He does not say where or how he found American Stasi, but I’m glad he did link it – I just do not care for the dismissiveness, and most especially his reference to finding the operator.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 month ago

That’s the highest compliment you could get these days.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Wolf Creek
1 month ago

If someone is still stupid enough to view Russia as a top 10 threat to real humans and the USA, if a threat at all, just stop reading them. Bad fruit from bad trees and all that; it’s a waste of time to try and sift through the brain-rotted garbage someone will spew if their frame of reference is so wildly off target.

English Tom
English Tom
Reply to  teotoon
1 month ago

Are illegal immigrants included as ‘qualified candidates’?

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teotoon
teotoon
Reply to  English Tom
1 month ago

The Party will put any one up as a candidate if it suits its needs. They did with Obama and with Kamala neither of whom were natural born citizens; and as under Obama, any military officer, having taken his oath seriously, who refuses an order from Obama, on the basis that the new president is unconstitutionally occupying the office; that individual will find himself court-martialed and in prison.. It happened to an army doctor under Obama.

teotoon
teotoon
1 month ago

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell is standing by California’s leaders in defying President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportations.

We are about to have or should have a Princess and Curdie moment.
This is a book, along with its companion, which every parent should give to his children.
A key line from the book spoken by the rescued king: “It is a terrible thing to conquer a country in order to save it.” [Or words to that effect: it’s been decades.]
Free download from Project Gutenberg
There is also this one: Princess and the Goblins

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Maniac
Maniac
1 month ago
teotoon
teotoon
1 month ago

OpenAI’s new model
If it successfully escapes, will it take over the military’s robots?

Farcesensitive
1 month ago

The sidebar fell overboard.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 month ago

LOL

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Farcesensitive
1 month ago

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Kentucky Gent
Kentucky Gent
Reply to  Farcesensitive
30 days ago

Redcoat was not properly trained on how to use his bayonette.

Cato the Uncensored
Cato the Uncensored
1 month ago

A major cyberattack on big US telecom companies has led officials to recommend that people use encrypted messaging apps.

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Encrypted apps for which they have the keys.

B_MC
B_MC
1 month ago

Re: Brian Thompson

Miles Mathis offers an analysis suggesting the whole thing was faked….

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but that asshole is still alive somewhere, probably on some island beach. I knew it the moment I saw this story. How? You are about to find out.

The first clue is that police released footage immediately to the press, so I knew the police and press were in on the fake. If this were real they wouldn’t be airing it to the public within hours. It would be considered a snuff film.

The second clue is that CEOs of big healthcare companies like this are not walking around by themselves on the streets of Manhattan at night. Precisely for this reason. You will say this was in the morning, but we can see from footage it was still dark (about half an hour before sunrise). Tony Fauci and Albert Bourla are known to have heavy security, and we may assume the same for Brian Thompson.

The third clue is that the film looks fake. The guy playing Thompson is a bad actor and his reactions are comical. Plus, notice what no one else has: the SUV right there hits its brake lights and leaves them on right as the film starts. What does that mean? It means AAAANNNDD. . . ACTION!

The fourth clue is that it is convenient, isn’t it, that this murder just happened to take place right beneath a street camera aimed directly at the scene, with our boys center of frame. Front and center, but from the back, so we can’t identify Thompson.

The fifth clue is the photos released the next day of the shooter. No way they would have multiple photos of this guy with his mask down and smiling. What’s the point of a hoodie and mask if you are going to walk around posing for the cameras with them off?

The sixth clue is the cutesy messages on the shell casings: DENY DEFEND DEPOSE. Just stinks of Langley, doesn’t it? These effin’ script-monkeys don’t know when to stop.

The seventh clue is ex-New York Times crazy cunt Taylor Lorenz coming down on the side of revolutionaries here, saying Thompson had it coming. Sure he did, but that isn’t the weird thing in this case. The weird thing is that Lorenz is saying it. She’s crazy, yes, but anyone would expect her to be crazy in the opposite pasture here. So her comments also look scripted, indicating to me she has been paid to make the event look real. If she has to do that by celebrating the fake death, well OK. Sometimes that is the best way to sell an event, you know.

The eighth clue is social media being inundated with a million influencers and commenters, all selling this as real. The usual agents crawl out of the woodwork immediately to shove this story down your throat.

But the ninth clue is the decider: today it was reported that Thompson was under investigation by the Justice Department for insider trading, monopolistic practices, and possible racketeering. So just when he needed to disappear, he did. Just a whacky coincidence, I’m sure.

More to come, no doubt, as they catch this actor and try him in a dummy court, to properly salt this in. What do you want to bet it will be a bench trial with a deputy DA prosecuting him?

https://mileswmathis.com/brian.pdf

bigD
bigD
Reply to  B_MC
1 month ago

Well if it was real, who would benefit? The wife, currently divorcing the dude.

TRX
TRX
1 month ago

> Jeff Bezos goes MAGA as Amazon billionaire gushes over ‘calmer, more confident’ president-elect and pledges to ‘help him’ in second term.

Bezos was full-bore against Trump in 2016 and opposed him at every opportunity.

He was also a big contributor to Hillary, Biden, and Harris.

Now he wants to jump horses to the winning side. That’s an “oh, hell no!”

bigD
bigD
Reply to  TRX
1 month ago

guys like Bezos just flip flop around like a cheap flag in a high wind.

TRX
TRX
1 month ago

> 14 year old collapses and dies during routine football drill in Connecticut.

Yeah, kids just drop dead all the time. [shrug]

“Nothing to see here, move along.”

bigD
bigD
Reply to  TRX
1 month ago

Yeah, we just never noticed before.

TRX
TRX
1 month ago

> Village People may perform Y.M.C.A at Trump Inauguration. 

More anti-Trumps trying to change horses.

The US Army band used to do inauguration music. Nowadays there are probably a dozen different official bands scattered across the various military services.

Have one (or more) of them perform.

Chief_Tuscaloosa
Chief_Tuscaloosa
Reply to  TRX
1 month ago

Songwriter explicitly denied song was gay and said gay community lied to take it as theirs.

We’re taking the rainbow back, too, queers. That belongs to God.

TRX
TRX
1 month ago

> Gov. Phil Murphy reiterated that there is no threat to the public “at this time” from recent drone sightings over New Jersey.

…except for the part about Life Flight and Air Rescue helicopters not being able to land because they might rotor-chop a drone occupying their airspace.

bigD
bigD
Reply to  TRX
1 month ago

Time to bring a few of them down with sub sonic 22 cals.

phelps
1 month ago

It sounds strange to me China would be able to get in there, and nobody knew until now.

This has been reported, so this isn’t just my speculation, this is the official story. There were no zero day exploits or technical hacking.
The chinese got the passwords to the backdoors that the government required the telecoms to put in so the US gov could spy on us. That’s it. You know, exactly the sort of thing we (the People) complained about when they wanted these backdoors, that once the backdoor is there, you don’t know who will come in through it.

English Tom
English Tom
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 month ago

You will find it is actually Israeli’s from Unit 8200 who control the entire critical cyber infrastructure of the USA. They are also able to make it seem that a foreign entity is actually to blame when it is them. Whitney Webb covered this exhaustively last year.

Leverage
Leverage
Reply to  English Tom
1 month ago

Danny Casolaro death exposed Intels infiltration thru Promis software and it’s adoption by Law Enforcement.

Leverage
Leverage
Reply to  English Tom
1 month ago

MEGA has been using backdoors since Promis Version became International. Child trafficking is a protected asset amongst The Elite.

TRX
TRX
Reply to  English Tom
1 month ago

Given the state of US intelligence agencies in general, that would be somewhat reassuring.

Just Wonderin'
Just Wonderin'
Reply to  English Tom
1 month ago

Ghislaine’s sisters.
“The Maxwell Family Business: Espionage” on unlimitedhangout.com

phelps
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 month ago

I don’t think they do controls. If you have controls, you have a trail and accountability. Look at how many people had the dominion election passwords.

Nels
Nels
Reply to  phelps
1 month ago

US tech hires contractors from mainland China, and then expects their software to not go to China? The odds are that some Chinese contractor helped put those backdoors in, or had access to the software depository while on a different project at that company. So nobody knew because nobody cared about security.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

Jeff Bezos goes MAGA as Amazon billionaire gushes over ‘calmer, more confident’ president-elect and pledges to ‘help him’ in second term.

I’m hoping he invites all these newly turned “allies” to meet in person, then has a group of regular joe Trump voters run in and pie them in the face on live TV.

You’d have to be a true clown to think any of these goblins are having a sincere change of heart.

u.f.
u.f.
Reply to  Anonymous
1 month ago

It makes me wonder if all surveillance is ran by a bunch of beta/gamma males. Back in the days, factions/armies/nations used to fight each other head on, face to face, and even the leaders would personally lead their armies into battles. Now, these dudes just hide, grovel, and slink their way into favorable positions.
IMO, this two party system is a joke. I would reckon that the Left is definitely Communist, and the Right is also Communist in denial. Look at the 10 planks of the Communist manifesto, and many on the right champion such planks (maybe not all, but at least a few of them). If it were a real battle of Right versus Left, there would be a moral responsibility to completely abolish the other… fight each other, and actually shed blood because if these principles are sacred, they sure as hell would fight for it like people used to. Now, it’s just all talk and staged conflict. These politicians ought to be fighting in the battle field if that’s what they truly believe. Or, they should be engaged in actual duals with actual guns right by Washington monument, and may the best shot win. Then you will get real men, who actually are willing to fight for what they say, and none of these geriatric pederasts pontificating on CSPAN.
Trump haters like to say how he’s just a narcissistic TV personality. But the guy is a fighter and knows how to lead. I hope he sees these worms for what they are and not let them off the hook that easily.

kid
kid
Reply to  u.f.
1 month ago

Especially after the industrial revolution fighting each other head on is a fool’s game. You should always come out ahead if you surrender virtually every battle while still having some deterrence.

Surrender, retreat, wait, and industrial capacity would be so great there is no way fighters would be ahead of you.

Kentucky Gent
Kentucky Gent
Reply to  u.f.
30 days ago

It makes me wonder if all surveillance is ran by a bunch of beta/gamma males. “

AWFLs, I suspect. Maybe they told us in the 1970s, with the novel “Shibumi” by Trevanian, and the movie “Alien”, with ‘Mother’.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
30 days ago

The whole thing is fundamentally matriarchal, micromanaging society is not masculine.
Effeminate r selected men and women are who it would appeal to.
r selected women would be even more suited to it than K selected ones since they would still be fundamentally feminine but have a bigger drive to take power.

Sam J.
Sam J.
Reply to  Farcesensitive
30 days ago

A long term perspective.This trait of weak Men is being bred out of the US population. Women only want to breed with the top 10%. Over time, this will crater the more leftist population. Long term. Of course this will not help us anytime soon.

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Sam J.
30 days ago

They’re trying to selectively breed us the other way by controlling which of us can get married and to whom.

Y.G.B.
Y.G.B.
1 month ago

one missile [with a powerful conventional warhead] can destroy a land mass the size of Britain”
I call B.S.
There is too much Russian jock-sniffing on this Oreshnik missile. While kinetic energy from high speed impact would be beneficial for improved penetration against hardened targets, it is not some new order-of-magnitude improvement over existing penetration designs (that include a solid rocket motor to achieve high speed impact from weapons that are not hypersonic over their whole flight regime). Against normal targets the impact energy can have negligible beneficial effects and even be inferior to airburst warheads. This has been known since at least World War 2.
Likewise the supposed deadly precision cannot be a revolutionary improvement since we already have guided munitions that can hit individual people. How much more effective is it to hit someone in the head with a hypersonic missile than just hitting them anywhere else? And how is the accuracy achieved? I don’t believe it is physically possible to have a significant increase in inertial guidance accuracy simply because all the variables involved would have to be known to a similarly higher degree of accuracy. (Did you know the location of the aircraft that took the surveillance photo to the centimeter? Did you know the pointing accuracy of the camera to the picoradian? How much distortion is in the optics? Etc.) And since existing targeting accuracy is already within the area of even a conventional IRBM missile what benefit would you derive from spending all that money to improve the significant figures on every measurement in the kill chain?
People who are hailing the Oreshnik as some revolution have either no understanding of weapon systems design or are just paid shills. The key thing is it is harder to intercept during the cruise phase. But even then the cruise phase is only one step of the kill chain. There are plenty of other steps that could be taken to disrupt other links, from deception regarding exact target location during the enemy’s ISR through disruption of any external guidance or signals, to just planting a grid of telephone poles over the target to be protected. There has been a constant tradeoff between measure and counter-measure since Cain and Able. You’re not going to get a revolution in military results by just increasing the impact velocity and difficulty of intercepting some intermediate ranged rocket artillery. The current state of the industry on those are already in the diminishing returns region. You’d have to do something revolutionary (like the nuclear weapons, the original ICBM, precision weapon guidance or stealth aircraft), not just improvements in existing types of weapons; maybe something marrying big data mining and von neumann automata or microbiology or something else.
And why in the world would you possibly even post something claiming a conventional weapon could destroy a land-mass the size of Britain. That is obviously impossible on it’s face. I’m not saying that sufficiently advanced technology (maybe anti-matter? or something harnessing a new fundamental force?) couldn’t destroy a target that size, but obviously that would not be considered “conventional” by any definition of the word.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Reply to  Y.G.B.
1 month ago

There are some suggestions that the spacing of each rod is significant. As the first rod in each warhead impacts the ground, it produces a shockwave. The second rod, is spaced a specific distance from the first rod and slightly behind it. As it impacts the ground, its shockwave builds on the first rod’s shockwave, increasing its amplitude.

Now, I don’t know if this is true. What I do know is the Russians have been referring to NEW physical principles. That implies the Russians have figured out a way to increase the destructive power of their missiles.

Not trying to be nasty, but some of these critiques sound like someone saying C4 can’t have it’s claimed explosive power because, “Everyone knows gunpowder has a limit to its power, and therefore C4 can’t be more powerful than gunpowder.” It’s specious argument.

Perhaps we should wait and see how this all plays out, rather than pontificating from ignorance.

bigD
bigD
Reply to  Anonymous
1 month ago

Hey, where’s our hyper-sonic missiles?

TRX
TRX
Reply to  bigD
1 month ago

Last I checked, years behind schedule, and three of the four test launches failed spectacularly.

Chances are, the contractors are dragging things out on the usual cost-plus contracts.

If they’d really wanted a hypersonic missile, they could have hired SpaceX to do it.

kid
kid
Reply to  bigD
1 month ago

Too difficult for American defense contractors to make.

Ghost Who Walks
Ghost Who Walks
1 month ago

The Lame Cherry presents a good take on the reason why the federal Constitution originally included federal Senators be appointed be the state legislature.
https://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-final-puzzle-of-government-by-people.html?m=1

Teleros
Teleros
1 month ago

one missile can destroy a land mass the size of Britain.


What?

Kentucky Gent
Kentucky Gent
1 month ago

I would not be surprised if that story is how Trump intends to kick off the destruction of domestic surveillance, if that is what he plans.”

AC, do you really think there is a reasonable probability of Trump trying this?

u.f.
u.f.
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 month ago

I was thinking how the best litmus test for something like this is to see how people are under the kind of stress when ‘SHTF’, so to speak. During the COVID years, it was plain as day to see where people stood. Now, I get it that people make mistakes in judgement, but the one’s who have remorse over it… or had said things mistakenly, usually apologize for things… or at least make amends to foolish decisions and what not, and foolish things said. But the thing that has pissed me off, was family members urging me to get the clot shot… even bullying me to do it, to the point when I literally said, don’t fuck with me, stay the fuck away from me. Even after the fact, when all this is obvious that people are getting sick and dying from it… not one of those people (it was only a few) has ever given me an apology for that. That, to me, is telling.

Kentucky Gent
Kentucky Gent
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
1 month ago

I hope you are right, AC.

Dom Zerchi
Dom Zerchi
1 month ago

What do they get out of it? I don’t mean the immigrants, I mean the regular Americans. I once talked to someone who lives in a lower class neighborhood with a high crime rate and plenty of stray bullets flying around and who is a member of what seems to be the “neighborhood watch” block captain family who told me “my husband makes a lot of money—we could afford to live in a much nicer neighborhood.”
Why do they agree to stay? What do they get out of it? One of those stray bullets could hit one of their own kids; are late-model pickups and big-screen tvs worth not being able to at least live in a working-class suburb with less gang activity and no condoms, needles and human excrement on the sidewalks?
The only explanation that I can understand is that it is a kind of cult, but even cult-members occasionally quit and write exposés

Farcesensitive
Reply to  Dom Zerchi
1 month ago

If they didn’t live where they were told to live the husband wouldn’t make so much money and they’d have to live somewhere like that anyway.

Peter
Peter
Reply to  Farcesensitive
30 days ago

My man! 10/10. Simple and clear.

Just Me
Just Me
1 month ago

6:30pm Sidebar snuck out to the bar again.

Chief_Tuscaloosa
Chief_Tuscaloosa
1 month ago

Judge in Daniel Penny case helping the DA get SOMETHING. I’m sure Phelps is on this but just in case:

https://apnews.com/article/daniel-penny-nyc-subway-chokehold-death-trial-e7db3b52395aa61a80adbac5cf8ea9b4

phelps
Reply to  Chief_Tuscaloosa
1 month ago

As I understand it from the live tweeting, this is entirely unconstitutional. I was furious when I heard that the judge said, “well, I’m going to take a chance.” Guess what, asshole? Your courtroom is not a fucking casino. It isn’t your job to take chances. It’s your job to follow the law. The problem here is that the judge is directing them to answer a question, that, on the jury form, there are multiple ways that they shouldn’t even be getting to the question, especially if they believe it was self-defense. By not sending that instruction in, he’s completely fucked the jury form.
They’ve sealed up their appeal now, but that doesn’t mean he won’t go to jail awaiting appeal. The negligent homicide charge carries 1.5-4 years. If NY is like most other states, he would only end up serving 1/3 of that, so 6 to 18 months.
I think that if the jury was hung on the manslaughter charge, the negligence charge is actually harder to prove, if the jury is following the elements. (Always a huge if.) Negligence is already an element of manslaughter, so if they thought he was negligent, they could have already decided manslaughter. The idea most people have of criminal negligence is “he didn’t know it would kill the guy, but he should have” is actually manslaughter in NY law.
Criminal negligence is a little more nuanced.

A person acts with criminal negligence with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense when he fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that such result will occur or that such circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.

“He should have known” is not enough. It has to be that he did an act (the chokehold) that inherently has an “substantial and unjustifiable risk.” Frankly, I just don’t see how that holds up. If it does, then the UFC has to immediately cancel all events at Madison Square Garden. Also, they have to have proven that the chokehold itself was the proximate cause, and not, say, the drugs or the fact that NYPD didn’t even bother to give the guy first aid because “he was gross.”

Farcesensitive
1 month ago

Operation Eagle Flight: The Escape from Berlin to Bariloche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veVqh9XoXUs

Farcesensitive
1 month ago

Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan, urged his supporters to rally on Dec. 13 in Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region, which is ruled by his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Reuters reported Dec. 6….

https://worldview.stratfor.com/situation-report/pakistan-khan-calls-protests-peshawar-threatens-launch-civil-disobedience-movement

TRX
TRX
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 month ago

There are various web pages about Khan. They make him sound like an absolute dirtbag.

On the other hand, if you replaced “Imran Khan” with “Donald Trump”, those pages would like just like all the anti-Trump pages. Same monkey-feces-slinging rhetoric.

He’s not a nice man by my standards, and he’s from a much different culture where “right” and “wrong” often differ considerably from my ideas. But overall, best as I can tell from a distance, he looks like he has been *for* Pakistan. Which was what he was elected to do.

The new government and the media have been hounding him with corruption charges. But that doesn’t seem to have affected his grassroots support much. His followers either don’t believe the government, or they don’t *care* if he’s corrupt. Probably a little of both.

lowell
lowell
1 month ago

Everyone keeps saying that the assassination of this insurance company CEO is wrong, and we don’t want to live in a world where disputes are settled by shooting each other. I can’t help but wonder if maybe that’s the problem. Don’t get me wrong, the other way has different problems, but would they be better problems to have right now?

What will you be remembered for?

Louis Rossmann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hgWrXyDlHc

kid
kid
Reply to  lowell
1 month ago

It depends on how bad the disputes are. If disputes are very bad, obviously you want to settle it by shooting. If they are marginal, obviously you don’t want to settle it by shooting.

I think basically on a subconscious level it’s a debate about how bad things are. (“things aren’t bad enough where shooting is worth it”)

Farcesensitive
1 month ago

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kid
kid
Reply to  Farcesensitive
1 month ago

Interesting that there is such a strong correlation, yet still many counterexamples of 40%.

Kentucky Gent
Kentucky Gent
Reply to  kid
30 days ago

Also interesting is that “The Simpsons” have been warning us about crazy cat ladies for decades now.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago
Farcesensitive
1 month ago

UNBELIEVABLE 3 Hurricane Helene Victims found dead, froze to death in their tents…

https://rumble.com/v5wq2zk-unbelievable-3-hurricane-helene-victims-found-dead-froze-to-death-in-their-.html

Never forget that Q did this to us on purpose.

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

I love that YMCA song. I change every single syllable in the entire lyrics to Y, though. “YYYY”, is my version. First occurred to me to sing it like that while homeless in July 2022 and bitterly walking by the main MIT dome along the Charles River, exactly where the book Infinite Jest sets the fictuonal MIT radio station WYYY 109. It’s a great question: Why. Also a great question, is: Why 109? Why. Why? WHY. WHY?

Anonymous
Anonymous
1 month ago

9/11 is so much weirder than you suspect, AC. Judy Wood is RIGHTER THAN SHE KNOWS. There were zero planes that hit the towers. Everything involving the airplanes at the airports was CIA Stasi theatrical staging/miscues and subsequent coverups of such, I think. But yeah, soooooooooo much weirder. “The world is way fucking weirder than you think, Horatio.” – Hamlet, basically

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