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Estonia's parliament declares Russia a ‘terrorist regime'
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Vile couple are arrested after throwing kitten like a FRISBEE off Florida beach and demanding $1,000 to stop
[MAIL] A couple is facing charges after they were filmed torturing a small kitten while swimming at a local beach - throwing the helpless animal feet in the air like a pool toy and into the shoulder-deep water.
Human domestication, why does it hate us.
When approached by outraged onlookers, the suspects, 27-year-old John Laguerre and Jamarria Wayne, 22 - joked and demanded $1,000 from the Good Samaritans just to stop.

The incident transpired late last month in Miami and saw both suspects arrested by officers on the sands of scenic Sunny Isles Beach - but not before resisting arrest and even almost biting one of the officers.

The entire altercation was caught on camera by one beachgoer, and shows the suspects repeatedly tossing the animal much to the horror of other beachgoers.

The kitten, pictured clinging to life after the ordeal, thankfully survived, but was on the verge of death when police intervened, police said.

Both suspects have since been bonded out, with Wayne charged with two felony counts of battery and attempted battery on a police officer and resisting arrest, while Laguerre was hit with resisting arrest and animal cruelty - both misdemeanors.

Following their arrest, the pair failed to return to retrieve their pet - spurring one of the feline's saviors to step up and adopt the animal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2022 10:28 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now tow Laguerre and Wayne 25 miles out for a moonlight swim back to shore
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2022 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  No doubt human victims of their cruelty were the next step.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/19/2022 12:28 Comments || Top||

#3  What is important here is that they knew what they were doing, did in broad daylight and then resisted arrest. Their understanding is that rules no longer apply to them. Now, where did they get that idea?
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/19/2022 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Should've just got everybody else out of the water and chummed for sharks
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2022 13:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Liberia was founded for blacks who wanted to leave. Make them leave
Posted by: irish rage boy || 10/19/2022 14:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Human domestication, why does it hate us.

Doesn't count for non-humans.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 17:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Throw them off hoover dam to the low side. See how they like it.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/19/2022 20:21 Comments || Top||

#8  I prefer Besoeker's comment in #1. Most fitting.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 10/19/2022 21:04 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ I'm good with B's #1 as well
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2022 21:18 Comments || Top||


Rapper and actor 'Super Fly' aka Kaalan Walker headed to the big house
[NBC] Rapper and Actor Kaalan Walker has been sentenced to 50 years to life for sexual assault.

Walker was convicted in April of three counts of forcible rape, one count of assault to commit oral copulation, two counts of statutory rape and two counts of rape by intoxication, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Walker, 27, appeared in the 2018 remake of the 1970s film "Superfly" and starred alongside Halle Berry and Daniel Craig in the 2017 drama "Kings."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2022 06:18 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  this is "war on terror"?
Posted by: 746 || 10/19/2022 8:31 Comments || Top||


#3  746, no. It's Lurid Crime Tales.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/19/2022 12:19 Comments || Top||

#4  three counts of forcible rape

You mean there are different kinds of rape? Oh, yeah, there's date rape...is there a lawyer in the house?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/19/2022 17:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Whoopi: Not Rape-Rape
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2022 20:21 Comments || Top||

#6  There can be only one!

Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2022 20:59 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Incorrect airplane door exit turns out badly for Ga. Southern student
[Cleveland.com] STATESBORO, Georgia — A 21-year-old college student who had taken a short flight with a woman during a date Sunday night was killed when he was hit by the propeller after exiting the plane, reports say.

Sani Aliyu, a sophomore at Georgia Southern University, was killed at about 10:45 p.m. after the single-engine Cessna landed at Statesboro-Bulloch County Airport, the Statesboro Herald reports. Bulloch County Coroner Jake Futch tells the Herald that Aliyu, of Atlanta, and a young woman had flown to nearby Savannah and back during their date.

Aliyu and the woman were passengers on the plane. A pilot and co-pilot also were on board, the Herald reports.

Futch tells the Telegraph that after the plane landed, the woman got out and walked toward the back of the plane. Aliyu got out and walked toward the front and was struck in the head by the propeller, killing him instantly, Futch says.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident.

"Nobody is really at fault or anything," Capt. Todd Hutchens of the Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office says. "It was an accident."

"We were deeply saddened to hear about the tragic incident that involved one of our students Sunday night," Aileen Dowell, associate vice president and dean of students at Georgia Southern, said in a statement to WSAV Channel 3. "I have already been in touch with his family and professors and we have mobilized all available resources to provide counseling and any other assistance the university can give."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2022 06:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is on the pilot. When you have people who don't know their way around airplanes, you have to take care of them, just like you have to take care of people who can't swim around a pool. The prop is invisible when it's turning.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 10/19/2022 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Mighta just been a really bad date.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 8:56 Comments || Top||

#3  afterthe plane landed, the woman got out and walked toward the back of the plane. Aliyu got out and walked toward the front

So I gather the date was going poorly anyway. Propellers saved you the after-date anxiety.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/19/2022 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Paging Mr. Darwin to the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/19/2022 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  So much for getting a little head on his date
Posted by: Frank G || 10/19/2022 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Inshallah? Sani Aliyu appears to be a Nigerian name.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2022 13:30 Comments || Top||

#7  aliyu akbar
Posted by: irish rage boy || 10/19/2022 14:48 Comments || Top||

#8  But now some poor slob has to hose off ‘Mr. prop spinner head’s’ brains off the bird then do a sudden stoppage inspection on the prop and engine…… will his estate cover that???

Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/19/2022 16:00 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 outstanding!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/19/2022 16:24 Comments || Top||

#10  There's something weird about this story.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/19/2022 17:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Takers on the first thing hit was a smart phone, or a Garmin?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2022 20:56 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Bird flu deaths soar to near-record high: 47million have been culled this year - amid fears virus could jump to people
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Millions of birds have either died from bird flu or been culled in the US this year

  • The 47million deaths among birds makes it the second most deadly outbreak

  • Just over 50million birds were killed or culled during a 2015 outbreak

  • Some experts fear that an outbreak to this level will spillover into humans

Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 07:49 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  YES! it also started in CHINA back in 1996

Bottom line,
with all this news, the price of Chicken wings could soon challenge Bacon.

Does anyone else get the feeling it's like the DC SWAMP and their MSM cohorts are desperately testing the waters for a good Panic issue?

80% killer C-19
Nuke War
SUN Flares to bake the Earth
Water shortage
Fuel Shortage
Food Shortage
Sexual Abnormalities
Drugs
etc... to name a few in the last 6 months
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 13:10 Comments || Top||

#2  There are reports of bird flu culls somewhere around the world every few months.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/19/2022 13:34 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
US midterm elections: Record turnout as early voting starts in Georgia
[BBC] A record number of voters turned out in the US state of Georgia on the first day of early voting, with the state the site of several key races in the November midterm elections.

Almost double the number of people - 131,000 - cast their ballots than in the same period of the 2018 midterms.

The figure nearly matches the number of voters on the first early voting day of the 2020 presidential election.

Georgia is home to some of the country's most closely-watched races.

The midterm elections on 8 November will determine seats in the two chambers of Congress - one-third of those in the Senate and all in the House of Representatives - as well as some governors and local officials.

As the elections will decide control of Congress, they will have a major impact on the remaining two years of Joe Biden's presidency. At the moment, Democrats hold a majority in both the House and Senate which has helped Mr Biden pass legislation.

According to data released by election officials on Tuesday, the number of early voters who cast their ballots in Georgia on Monday marked an 85% increase on the first day of early voting in 2018.

Almost 12,000 absentee ballots were cast, bringing the state's total first day turnout to more than 143,000.

During the 2020 presidential election, 136,739 people voted on the first day. Turnout is historically much higher in presidential elections than in midterm elections, which fall in the middle of a president's four-year term of office.

Current polls suggest that the Republicans are likely to regain control of the House, while the Democrats are expected to narrowly retain the Senate.

Several key races are taking place in Georgia. The state is one of only a few - along with others such as Arizona, Pennsylvania and Ohio - which could determine control of the Senate.

The tight senatorial race, between former NFL player Herschel Walker and incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock, is considered one of the most significant.

The race is also one that has been marked by controversy, with Mr Walker facing multiple claims that he fathered children by several women and that he allegedly paid for a girlfriend to have an abortion. Mr Walker supports a complete ban on abortions.

The race to become Georgia's governor, meanwhile, pits Democrat Stacey Abrams - who was widely credited with helping Joe Biden win the state in 2020 - against its current Republican Governor Brian Kemp. Mr Kemp is currently leading in the polls.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 09:10 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Here in my neck of the woods (CSRA Mid-GA)
Poll Monitors and etc. are already reporting some math issues.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 12:33 Comments || Top||


There's lithium in thar hills! Great 'white gold' Rush in Nevada sees more than 17,000 mining claims for the precious metal used in electric cars and smartphones... but it's all on tribal land
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Nevada is rich in lithium and has attracted many investors and companies looking to extract the soft metal used in electric car batteries

  • Data shows that there have been more than more than 17,000 placer claims on lithium sites in Nevada

  • Three-quarters of the sites sit on tribal land, including Thacker Pass that is set to be mined being one of them

  • In 1865, Native Americans were killed at the site by government officials

  • Locals fear their ancestral homelands will be turned 'into a sacrifice zone for electric car batteries
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wait for it ....
Environmentalist find rare snail that only lives in Lithium Nevada mining areas. EPA to spend $10 Billion in researching its population and its Pronouns.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2 
To be followed by Biden halting all Lithium Mining in the USA and calling on South America & Africa, to provide more Lithium to the USA.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 6:49 Comments || Top||

#3  History doesn't exactly repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Like that little detail has ever stopped the US before.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/19/2022 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe my med costs will drop also.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#6  So we buy our lithium from the Chinese who are unconcerned with such matters.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2022 12:46 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Herman Grinetle6726 || 10/19/2022 13:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Does the runoff go through Sacramento?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2022 15:00 Comments || Top||

#9  So we buy our lithium from the Chinese

I understood the ore would be mined in Nevada, shipped to China for refining, then shipped back for manufacturing, which may be less toxic.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 17:43 Comments || Top||

#10  ^-- See Lumber
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/19/2022 18:39 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Philadelphia police attacked by ATV, dirt-bike riders who hurled bricks and bottles at officers
[FoxNews] A group of violent Philadelphia ATV drivers was caught on video attacking police by throwing bricks and bottles at the officers before fleeing the scene, police said.

The group unleashed its assault on police just one day after a Republican city councilman accused the administration of Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, of instructing officers "not to enforce the law."

The Philadelphia Police Department shared video on Tuesday that showed "a large group of people riding dirt bikes and ATVs" around a gas station near Delaware Avenue and Spring Garden Street, police said.

According to police, a dirt-bike rider initially crashed near the gas pumps and ran off. Investigators later determined the bike had been reported stolen from New Jersey.

However, the situation then devolved further, police said.

"As officers attempted to secure the stolen dirt bike the crowd began to circle the officers while throwing bricks, bottles and other objects at them," Philadelphia police said. "One marked police vehicle was kicked repeatedly and had it’s (sic) windshield broken with brick before the group fled the area."

Video footage shows the chaos unfolding — with one ATV driver doing doughnuts near the gas pumps as a dirt-bike rider approaches and hurls an object at a police vehicle.

Police body camera video shows the crime from a different view as sirens can be heard in the background.

Just one day earlier, Philadelphia City Councilman at-large David Oh responded to a different video that showed hordes of dirt-bike and ATV riders.

"This has to stop," he wrote.

Oh also wrote that police "are instructed by the Mayor’s Administration not to enforce the law."

"That has resulted in this escalating problem of reckless driving, no insurance, intentional disregard for public safety, likely possession of illegal firearms & potential violence," he added.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1 


Seeing so many of these scenarios happening in major LSD controlled areas now. I am wondering if the LSD Mayor's and City Council's real agenda goal is to handicap local Law Enforcement to the point that they can call in the FED's.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  What's the point of enforcing the law when all you get is paperwork, insults and God forbid a confrontation should escalate to a racism/brutality/cop inhumanity thing. I think the cops understand this by now. No, they'll just take their salaries and strong arm the law abiding thank you.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/19/2022 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I have seen the guys in Philly on dirt bikes riding wheelies and on the sidewalks. Its out of control.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/19/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Rises Further To 20.77% Under Buhari Government
Posted by: Fred || 10/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Joe Biden - "Here, hold my beer ice cream cone"

Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
How the Pentagon is FUNDING China's hypersonic missiles: US firms handed grants by the DoD are selling US tech to firms that pass it on to Beijing army
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The Washington Post has uncovered evidence of more than 300 sales of U.S.-origin technology to dozens of entities involved in China's hypersonic missiles

  • Investigators analyzed records dating back to 2019, and found out the sales - often through intermediaries - were carried out by almost 50 firms

  • Under U.S. law, companies cannot sell technology to China for the use in their missile programs, and saying they were unaware is no shield

  • Analysts say that the controls need to be tightened up, noting that the U.S. and China are involved in a hypersonic arms race
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 07:33 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  U.S. firms supplying Chinese entities with their software or equipment - often with the use of middlemen.

Wait. Do the pay offs involve inflated value art pieces?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/19/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Chaim || 10/19/2022 12:00 Comments || Top||

#3  We fund everything China does.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/19/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Yep, we sure do. I just go back from making my daily donation at Depot.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2022 13:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Ah, the goofballs are at work again.

Dron referred to “art at inflated prices” — which seems to refer to the corrupt Biden practice of laundering Chinese communist “donations” to the Biden through the practice of selling Hunter’s paintings (no, this isn’t made up) to anonymous buyers. I linked to a video about a NYC art dealer quizzed about Hunter’s paintings.

Hunter, is that you?
Posted by: Chaim || 10/19/2022 15:13 Comments || Top||

#6  No problem. You see they have a verbal agreement that they won’t give the tech to China. They crossed their heart and everything! So nothing to worry about!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/19/2022 15:27 Comments || Top||


Thirty former RAF pilots are paid £250,000 each to train Chinese to shoot down Western aircraft in possible threat to national security
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • British fighter pilots are training the Chinese to shoot down Western aircraft

  • Officials warned up to 30 pilots have moved to China after securing contracts

  • The former British pilots will be paid £250,000 to teach Western procedures
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Step 1. See the F-22 Raptor......err, all I see is a missile coming at me! *BOOM*

Game over, please try again.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/19/2022 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Hired guns in China, who'd thought?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  military service doesnt always confer proper loyalty
Posted by: 746 || 10/19/2022 8:43 Comments || Top||



#6  Maybe we will find out that Fauci is paying for this through his budget just like everything else that can potentially destroy us.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2022 12:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Name and shame the treacherous pilots! Former colleagues slam RAF Top Guns who trained Chinese how to shoot down aircraft as 'traitors'

Yes. I'm sure their families will be proud.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/19/2022 13:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Hoping some of these folks went with some clear instructions...
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 10/19/2022 15:14 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ I was thinking the same thing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/19/2022 16:28 Comments || Top||

#10  Tex Hill would be so confused!!!
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 10/19/2022 21:15 Comments || Top||


New Chip Sanctions on China Impact US Exporters - US Citizens Must Quit Jobs in China
[BusinessTimes] THE Biden administration landed its heaviest blows yet in this month’s escalation of the US war on China’s semiconductor ambitions.

The sweeping new restrictions unveiled Oct 7 affect not only the sale of advanced integrated circuits, sophisticated chipmaking equipment and supercomputer parts but also China’s ability to hire top talent.

In the short term, the restrictions will limit Chinese chipmakers’ ability to make certain types of electronic devices that are at the heart of modern products ranging from household appliances to mobile phones, smart electric vehicles and advanced military weapons. In the long term, the policies may spur China to try to accelerate its self-sufficiency drive in semiconductors and the equipment to produce them, industry experts say.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 10/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  BTW Joe, did you shut off H1Bs from China?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/19/2022 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Very poorly written sanctions - where shall I begin …

1) US citizens (working in China) lose jobs. Collateral damage.
2) US companies supplying China with material lose 37% of their business ($6Bn) which will also result in job losses.
3) Dutch, Korean and Japanese companies exempted from regs. So they’ll pickup that 37% business and the sanctions effectively have no impact for the first year.
4) In the interim China builds chips like gangbusters to tide them over until they master the intermediate technology steps

Meanwhile Japan and Holland experience reduced manufacturing capacity as energy imports impact production. Lots of fun on the horizon. And FYI Kaliber missiles originally designed in the 80’s; so Russian, Chinese and Indian weapons platforms not dependent on bleeding edge chips …
Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 || 10/19/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||


Europe
French General Strike Starts Wednesday
[NYPOST] French trade unions began a nationwide strike on Tuesday, asking for higher salaries amid decades-high inflation and posing President Emmanuel Macron one of his stiffest challenges since his reelection in May.

The strike, which will primarily affect public sectors such as schools and transportation, is an extension of the weeks-long industrial action that has disrupted France’s major refineries and put petrol stations’ supply in disarray.

Trade union leaders are hoping workers will be energized by the government’s decision to force some of them to go back to work at petrol depots to try and get the fuel flowing again, a move some say put in jeopardy the right to strike.

French government spokesperson Olivier Veran said more requisitions of staff could occur during the day, as drivers keep queuing in front of petrol stations.

“There will be as many requisitions as deemed necessary … Blocking refineries, when we have reached an agreement on wages, this is not a normal situation,” Veran said.

The left-wing CGT union has called for continued walkouts into a fourth week at TotalEnergies, despite the oil company reaching a deal including a 7% increase and a bonus on Friday with other, more moderate, unions. The CGT is demanding a 10% pay increase, citing inflation and the firm’s huge profits.

Eurostar said it was cancelling some trains between London and Paris because of the strike.

French public railway operator SNCF said that traffic on local connections was down 50% but that there were no major disruptions on national lines.

As tensions rise in the euro zone’s second-biggest economy, strikes have already spilled over into other parts of the energy sector, including nuclear giant EDF, where maintenance work crucial for Europe’s power supply will be delayed.

A representative of the FNME-CGT union on Monday said strikes were affecting work at 10 French nuclear power plants, with further maintenance delays at 13 reactors and French power production reduced by a total of 2.2 gigawatts.

Civil service workers’ unions have also called for joining Tuesday’s strike, with possible disruptions in schools and other public facilities.

The strikes are happening in a tense political context as the French government is set to pass the 2023 budget using special constitutional powers that would allow it to bypass a vote in parliament, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Sunday.

Demonstrations are scheduled all over the country, with one in Paris starting at 1200 GMT.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against soaring prices. The leader of hard-left party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed), Jean-Luc Melenchon, marched alongside this year’s Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Annie Ernaux. Melenchon called a general strike for Tuesday.
Posted by: Griter Slash1619 || 10/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
China's election fixer, Konnech's Yu, escapes the U.S.
[NewsOthersMiss] ...leaving his spy network intact at MSU.

The source is Michigan State University (MSU), E. Lansing, Michigan.

According to the FBI and China, the world’s top election fixer is the Chinese spy, Jianwei “Eugene” Yu.

He runs the China-based company, Konnech.

They specialize in selling voting machine systems that:

  • fix elections, and

  • send election results, and

  • store 25 million voter registration profiles in China

Konnech is owned by the Chinese National Army which owns the China Communist Party (CCP).

Konnech’s servers were vacated from their location Friday.

They store, send, and receive data from all over the world.

Their rent is paid by David Washburn, Ex. Dir. and owner of Red Cedar Ventures LLC using five million dollars of MSU’s Foundation money.

Red Cedar is a venture capital firm across the street from Michigan State University Foundation (MSUF).

The books are kept in the same building by Rebekah Skrzyniarz, the MSUF’s Treasurer.

Well, at least, up to Friday when Yu’s Konnech vacated its U.S. headquarters in E. Lansing, MI.

According to MSU, since Red Cedar and Konnech are private companies, their lease and revenue-sharing agreement are exempt from public information disclosure.

Konnech fixes elections on three continents:

  • Australia

  • Canada, and the

  • U.S.

Yu fled the country on Friday leaving Los Angeles for his homeland, China, after postings a:

  • million-dollar bond in Michigan’s 55th District State Court in Mason for a misdemeanor, “fugitive from justice”

  • $500,000 bond in Los Angeles (LA) for “embezzling public funds” in the amount of $2,645,000

A copy of the eight-page LA County indictment is linked here:

The million-dollar bond in Michigan was posted by another suspected Chinese spy, Donna H. Wang, M.D.

She is a Professor at Michigan State University.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies


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White House pulls inspiration from 'Operation Dark Storm' in The Matrix film to combat global warming: Official want to spray particles into the stratosphere to limit sunlight hitting Earth - but it could cost $10 BILLION per year
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Way to trigger a mini-ice age, guys. Thank goodness this is only at the proposal for research stage.
  • The White House's five-year plan to tackle global warming involves spraying particles into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight back into space

  • This is a similar technique used in The Matrix 4 animated film to block the sun in order to slow advances of machines trying to take over the world

  • Officials want to research the possible uses of spraying sulfur dioxide

  • This gaseous pollutant has reflective properties and when released at large amounts from volcanoes, cools temperatures
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OMFG, are they F*CKING INSANE?!! Do they want a frigging ice age? Shit like this is how you get one. They wanna terraform something to be perfect, shove them all in a rocket and dump them on Venus. After they demonstrate how to bring about Utopia, maybe then they can try here. We're already expecting a bad winter and that cuts the growing seasons, you pull this crap and we might be lucky to see food grown in greenhouses.

Just No.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/19/2022 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine the lawsuits: "Global Terraforming causes Monsoon to fail for decade in Southeast Asia!" (Prove that it doesn't cause Bad Weather --I dare you!)
Posted by: magpie || 10/19/2022 0:53 Comments || Top||

#3 
The Wachowskis have proven it,
it's gonna be fun.
We new age scientists,
with our hair in a bun.
We're going to finally
tear gas the everlovin' Sun!
It worked in the movie, ok?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/19/2022 4:10 Comments || Top||

#4  ...There's an excellent sci-fi novel called Fallen Angels where the greens finally get their way and end 'global warming'...only to find that 'global warming' was the only thing keeping the worst ice age of all at bay...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/19/2022 7:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, I've read that. I loved how the heat was turned off at night to 'save' energy and essentially weed out old and sick people by hypothermia.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/19/2022 7:25 Comments || Top||

#6 
The LSD's want Solar Power and Clean Energy and they also want to reduce sunlight that is the source that generates that power?

Seriously, this isn't a Babylon Bee joke, is it?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 7:37 Comments || Top||

#7  BTW:
Given the push to cremate instead of bury and the fact Crops and Vegetables NEED the SUN grow.

Have the LSD's started building Soylent Green Factories yet?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 7:51 Comments || Top||

#8  We don’t need this Bidet’s nuclear winter will do the same thing
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 10/19/2022 7:52 Comments || Top||


#10 

Pick your weapon and Nuke your Favorite RUSSIAN City
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 9:29 Comments || Top||

#11 
Ere did this world hang,
and thousands upon it liv'd.
But some pestilence, some... thang,
to the rulers wickedness gived.
And now it just hangs there,
all life hath been seived.



Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/19/2022 9:40 Comments || Top||

#12  Really cool, NN2N1. Thanks.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/19/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#13  They’re fucking insane.

Get these lunatics away from the nuclear trigger
Posted by: Elmomp Ulaimp6887 || 10/19/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#14 
Remember it is only 7,830 km from Minot MM Silo to Moscow
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/19/2022 10:07 Comments || Top||

#15  I remember a plan to cover the oceans in iron oxide to prevent global cooling.

Can't we please find a cure for insanity (yes I know a .45 will do it, but...)
Posted by: AlanC || 10/19/2022 10:51 Comments || Top||

#16  I don't think the 10 billion will be spent putting material into the sky to block the sun. They'll pay for launches because of the optics, and then pocket the rest of the cash each year.

Then they will start to accurately talk about the global temperatures and credit their scam with the end of climate change, but insist the change will reverse or get worse then ever if we ever stop spending the 10 billion a year!.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/19/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||

#17  Why do these ideas always come from Entertainment, and then always from The Bad Guy or Plot Device of Dystopian Future?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/19/2022 12:04 Comments || Top||

#18  Can we do the spray particles and ditch the whole Ukraine funding thing? Maybe we can spray Cheeze Wiz instead for cheaper.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/19/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||


#20  We're already expecting a bad winter and that cuts the growing seasons, you pull this crap and we might be lucky to see food grown in greenhouses.

What do you think their intent is? Greenhouses? Think again.
Posted by: Pheans Sproing5936 || 10/19/2022 15:49 Comments || Top||

#21  Humans are destroying the planet, and we'll destroy the planet to prove it!
Posted by: Angstrom || 10/19/2022 19:43 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hero's welcome for Iranian athlete who competed without a hijab: Huge crowd cheers outside Tehran airport in early hours as rock climber returns… but her safety is far from guaranteed
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/19/2022 08:49 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  And she has disappeared...
Posted by: mossomo || 10/19/2022 12:49 Comments || Top||

#2  disappeared between Iraq and a hard place
Posted by: Herman Grinetle6726 || 10/19/2022 13:00 Comments || Top||



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