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-Lurid Crime Tales-
American Mass Shootings At Record High, Average 2 Per Day
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2021 06:48 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gang banger shootouts are "Mass Shootings". Wonder why those would be on the rise with all the defund and demoralize the police?
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/30/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  More craptastic reporting from Zerohedge.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 08/30/2021 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Stoking the 'right-wing nationalistic threat' meme.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/30/2021 14:44 Comments || Top||

#4  OK, given their definition, I am tempted to adopt the Instapundit mantra of 'Faster, please.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/30/2021 15:46 Comments || Top||

#5  "Unexpectedly"
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/30/2021 16:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Quoting the ANTI-GUN Article

"We had never logged a month of 60+ mass shootings prior to 2020."

So it was SAFER BEFORE the Socialcrats seized power and funded ANTI-FArt and BLOM?

NOTE: General Methodology | Gun Violence Archive
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org › methodology
"The FBI does not have a definition of Mass Shooting."
So did the Anti-Gun GVA made one up that fits its agenda?

So, it seems Socialcrats and Violence go hand and hand.
Maybe we should ban Socialcrats, ANTI-FArt & BLOM, instead of a CITIZENS Right to Self Defense?

Because Banning citizen ownership has time and time again PROVEN the only 2 groups that will continue to have firearms are the Government and the Criminal Element. History tells us eventually the telling the difference between the 2 becomes a challenge.

BTW:
In my county the LEO response time is 10 to 15 mins.
They usually arrive and ask us to put the weapon away. Then take control of the problem/suspect.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/30/2021 18:11 Comments || Top||


Ten hostages are strapped to getaway cars as human shields as 50 criminals armed with assault rifles and bombs raid EVERY bank in Brazilian city centre
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2021 06:13 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Far inland Sao Paulo state. Weird. It would be as though Washington D.C. had no control over West Virginia.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/30/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Large raids have been happening in Brazil for years. Started with large gangs paying up the Amazonto isolated towns, taking over the town, robbing the bank and then anything that moves, then getting out before the responding federals arrive.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 08/30/2021 20:58 Comments || Top||


FBI suffers another black eye, admits it hid payments to informant in white supremacist case
[Just The News] The revelations come at a sensitive time for the FBI and Director Christopher Wray, who has insisted widespread problems revealed about the bureau's conduct in the now-discredited Russia collusion case have been fixed even as new revelations of misconduct come to light.

The FBI, already under fire for its handling of FISA warrants and confidential informants, is enduring more scrutiny as the Justice Department admits agents failed to disclose to a court that they had paid — to the tune of six figures — a white supremacist publisher for years to be an investigative source.

The admission came in a series of court filings this month in the case of Kaleb Cole, a Washington state man accused of being a member of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen and participating in an intimidation campaign against Jewish Americans and minority journalists. Cole has pleaded innocent and awaits trial.

Cole's lawyers filed a motion to suppress evidence gathered against their client on the grounds that the FBI had failed to disclose in a search warrant application that a publisher of extremist literature had been paid about $144,000 over 16 years to be an informant, including $82,000 for work in the case against Cole. The confidential informant (CI) also had an earlier felony conviction that wasn't disclosed, court records show.

The filings don't identify the informant by name but describe him as a publisher who "owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings."

"The CI began his long career as a professional informant in exchange for consideration regarding his sentence on a federal conviction for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and an unregistered silencer," Cole's lawyers argued in an Aug. 13 motion.

"The failure to include the information about the CI's incentives is made more egregious by the fact that the warrant application incriminated Mr. Cole based almost solely on the alleged observations of the CI," the lawyers added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2021 03:43 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That pesky intelligence source problem again. They really should seek professional help.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2021 3:53 Comments || Top||

#2 

QUESTIONS I HAVE

Given the 1000's of court system "sealed" document leaks we have seen over the years in the NEWS? What if the FBI had listed that informants name on court documents?

How were a few over zealous FBI agents able to make a career out of conducting an investigation based on data from a Media/Social Media CI source?

Since it appears a few overzealous FBI agents were able to obtain warrants without listing the information source? Did these agents deliberately mislead the court system and their district supervisors?

Shouldn't we be looking closer at the "Appointed" Federal Judges that issues these warrants also?

Should the public be demanding stricter guidelines with heavy Legal Repercussions against both Judges and anyone circumventing the legal system?

In all honesty
I want to know the results of this 16 year investigation.
What did it accomplish?
Did it save lives and property?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/30/2021 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Property Well, there's the new house the agent in charge bought
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/30/2021 6:31 Comments || Top||

#4  J. Edgar Hoover building, a hive of scum and villainy the white supremacy conspiracy in America. We've got to protect our phoney baloney jobs, boys.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2021 6:49 Comments || Top||

#5  To paraphrase Keith Laumer "In J. Edgar Hoover times it was a hive of scum and villainy - and the organization deteriorated since then.".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/30/2021 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  In no particular order, other US Government agencies and activities leading the race to the bottom include the CDC, US Postal Service, BATF, Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security, IRS, DoD, and DNI.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Link is 404.
Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 || 08/30/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Think I got it fixed, but here is a backup link. You may have to scroll down a bit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Not another Feeb diddling the dog story.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#10  #6 What have you got against the dynastic cluster fcuk that is DOE?

Keep in mind that in the event of govt 'shutdowns' they send their non-essential, their words not mine, workers home. That number is almost universally above 90% of the work force.
Posted by: Cesare || 08/30/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ Whahahahaha.... Having done a little work at Oakridge and in the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick, I can assure you the absence of DOE was simply an oversight.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Makes you wonder how much of Crime, Inc. is either a partnership with the FBI ala Whitey Bulger or an actual FBI-run operation like the Whitmer kidnapping plot.
"Give us some jobs for our Confidential Informants and a steady stream of expendable dupes for the prosecutors, and we can look the other way on the big stuff"
Posted by: SteveS || 08/30/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#13  How to help FBI: gouge their eyes out so as to protect them from such suffering in the future. It's for the own good, ya know.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/30/2021 15:32 Comments || Top||

#14  Just think about the articles in a few years about how the FBI lead Antifa, BLM, Proud Boys, Jan 6 insurrection….
Posted by: Airandee || 08/30/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||

#15  ^ Pretty much already the established case by all we know, or was at one time. E. Tarrio of the PBs is still somewhat in question. We do know he was working with FBI but that relationship might no longer be in place and probably ended in 2018. Now that he's been sentenced, I'm thinking they've gone their separate ways.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/30/2021 16:26 Comments || Top||

#16  Yeah, like when Ed Norton kicks his own ass in his boss' office.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2021 18:57 Comments || Top||

#17  In Broadway-upon-the-Potomac
All bombs are no longer atomic:
The books've gone comic,
The system more gnomic,
Consumers -- bye boomers! -- anomic.
Posted by: Thuling McGurque7901 || 08/30/2021 20:16 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Colonial Pipeline shuts down fuel lines due to Hurricane Ida
The 5,500-mile Colonial pipeline that supplies almost half of the gasoline on the East Coast shut down Sunday Afternoon. The initial press released stated it was a preemptive measure and only "Temporary".

But is looking like 2 to 3 days min.

However, Six refineries that process 1.92 million barrels per day of oil into gasoline and other petroleum products, either shut or curtailed some production. That includes two Valero Energy (VLO.N) plants in Louisiana that combined process 335,000 barrels per day and Phillips 66's 255,000 bpd Alliance, Louisiana, refinery.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/30/2021 05:25 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope you realize you're the asshole shouting at the top of your lungs "YOU DUMBASSES! YOU CANNIBALIZED YOUR BUSINESS JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE I ELECTED MADE YOU!"
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/30/2021 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Try building a refinery in those East Coast states. NIMBY.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds to me like y'all should be filling y'all's tanks while it's still cheap, to last y'all the two decades or so until we get a sane government and can get production online.

How many thousand gallons can a civic hold?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/30/2021 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  I remember (roughly) a bumpersticker I saw during the 70's oil panic here in the 'Oil Patch': "If Yankees don't like Refineries they can freeze in the dark..."
Posted by: magpie || 08/30/2021 14:07 Comments || Top||


Hurricane Ida hits Louisiana, toughest test of levees in years
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Colonial Pipeline has shuts down Fuel delivery lines due to Hurricane Ida

The 5,500-mile Colonial pipeline that supplies almost half of the gasoline on the East Coast shut down Sunday Afternoon. The initial press released stated it was a preemptive measure and only "Temporary".


But it is looking like 2 to 3 days min.


Note: As we have been previously told during the 3-5 day May 2021 Ransomware attack. The Colonial Pipeline TX-LO to NC carries about 100 millions gallons a of fuel a day, that means 6 refineries that process 1.92 million barrels per day of oil into gasoline and other petroleum products, either shut or curtailed some production.

Which will effect gas availability and Prices for a few days to a week.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/30/2021 7:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Two to three days? They probably thought it would be time for some repairs...
Posted by: magpie || 08/30/2021 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  This shutdown only covers the TX to NC stretch. The terminal in NC is full and continues pumping to NJ, the end point. Liquid pipelines have terminals with storage tanks every few hundred miles, to allow for variations in flow rates.
This is mostly about the shut in refineries in LA not producing any flow input.
As to prices, well, any excuse to raise prices.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/30/2021 17:56 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China Is "Cleansing" Online Content Of Anyone Critical Of The Country's Economy
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2021 06:42 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  So, China is doing what the Commie media and academia have been doing here for a while.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Totalitarian governments gotta total. This is the same toolbox applied to a new topic of discussion.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/30/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Related:

ARM China Seizes IP, Relaunches as an ‘Independent’ Company
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/30/2021 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  We're doing the same thing here. Why, it's like we're run by similar gummints or something.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/30/2021 15:34 Comments || Top||


Report: China Forcibly Quarantines 5,000+ near Myanmar Border
[Breitbart] Local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in China’s southwestern Yunnan province forcibly quarantined over 5,000 residents of Jiegao district this week in an effort to curb the spread of the district’s latest Chinese coronavirus outbreak, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.

“More than 5,000 people from Jiegao district in Yunnan province were asked to pack their belongings on Monday [August 23] and Tuesday [August 24] and board buses taking them to a group quarantine centre in the city of Mangshi, 100km (62 miles) away,” the Post revealed, citing local government sources and residents.

A government source in the Yunnan city of Ruili, located 3.5 miles northwest of Jiegao district, told the Post on August 25 local CCP officials planned for the “evacuated” residents to stay in a group quarantine center for 14 days, during which time provincial health officials would “thoroughly screen everybody” for the Chinese coronavirus.

“He said the total evacuation of all the residents in the district had been completed, adding that the measure was the ‘last resort’ because the district had been locked down since March but had continued to report local infections,” the Post added.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  That's what happens when you don't halve effective vaccine.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 08/30/2021 2:57 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/30/2021 3:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder what tribe they were?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/30/2021 14:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Meanwhile, in Israel cases are at their highest two months after reinstating mask mandates.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 08/30/2021 15:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Israel's highest is less than USA lowest.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/30/2021 15:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Grom - the numbers are fake.
Posted by: Saltie Fork || 08/30/2021 19:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Eric Adams raises $2 million for law-and-order mandate during mayoral race
[NYPOST] Democrat Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
isn’t trying to beat Republican Curtis Sliwa in the mayoral general election in November — he’s gunning to blow him out of the water.The retired NYPD captain-turned-pol has raised $2 million over the last 43 days, a war chest for what’s essentially a skirmish with a pre-ordained victor, his supporters told The Post.

Sliwa, by comparison, has garnered $200,000 in contributions.

"He’s growing to crush Curtis Sliwa," Councilman Eric Ulrich, a Queens Republican who supports the moderate Democratic candidate, told The Post.

Adams is seeking to win by a wide enough margin so that he can have a mandate to pursue his law-and-order agenda at a City Hall with a lefty legislature.

The Brooklyn beep raised the seven-figure sum by casting a wide net— hitting up both Democrats and Republicans from Queens to the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard—and keeping a brisk schedule of up to five events a day, sources said.

Ken Fisher, a politically connected real estate attorney, hosted a recent fundraiser for Adams at the Sky Bridge Terrace at 2 World Trade Center that brought in $50,000.
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Adams is seeking to win by a wide enough margin so that he can have a mandate to pursue his law-and-order agenda at a City Hall with a lefty legislature.

Anyone buying that line of bullshit?
Posted by: Raj || 08/30/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  RINO Councilman Eric Ulrich, the only Republican to hold office in Queens, is obviously looking for a job.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 08/30/2021 9:41 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
China will study how to build a massive spacecraft over a half-mile long
h/t Instapundit
[digitaltrends]-The Chinese government is inviting scientists to help build an enormous, 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) long spacecraft that it wants to construct in orbit. The wild concept is to build a giant orbiting craft the size of 10 city blocks from components sent up by rockets one piece at a time.

The concept is outlined in a project document from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (in the attachment titled "Guide for major projects of the Ministry of Mathematical Sciences"), which describes how the organization is looking for proposals for constructing an "ultra-large spacecraft with a size of one kilometer," saying this goal represents "a major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources, exploration of the mysteries of the universe, and long-term living in orbit."
But they don't have proper pronouns!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/30/2021 12:45 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The whole dang society seems to be compensating for something. No matter how unworkable and unstable their designs, bigness is a must.

'Exploration of the mysteries of the universe'. Like gravity.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/30/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Great. We've gone from Space Battleship to Space Junk.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2021 13:48 Comments || Top||

#3  A half-mile long spaceship in Earth orbit is basically a forward operating base on the highest of the high ground.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/30/2021 13:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Part of the purpose of the Great Wall of China was to "overawe barbarians"
Posted by: magpie || 08/30/2021 14:11 Comments || Top||

#5  It's also a really big target.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/30/2021 14:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Half mile long 'Rods from God' platform. That can hold a lot of Rods. Depending on the orbit they can threaten just about anyone.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/30/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#7  However controls the orbitals controls Earth.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/30/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Will it be hackable?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2021 17:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Hey, someone has to.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/30/2021 19:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Confucius say, "Pardon my bragging,
But Han who pull heavenly wagon
Is man of great strength,
Flexibility, length,
And drink tea made from penis of dragon."
Posted by: Thuling McGurque7901 || 08/30/2021 19:38 Comments || Top||

#11  "Possibry bollow flum Raszro. Memly velly serective ratery."
Posted by: Thuling McGurque7901 || 08/30/2021 19:42 Comments || Top||

#12  An object in orbit struck by a much, much smaller object in an opposite orbit will have a very, very bad day.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/30/2021 21:13 Comments || Top||

#13  a much, much smaller object in an opposite orbit

1/2 M V Squared, baby! With the accent on the V.

But Han who pull heavenly wagon

The name China - Chung Quo - means Middle Kingdom, halfway between the gods in Heaven and us big-nosed barbarians down here on Earth. Having a ginormous orbital station would be a nice piece of symbolic propaganda and testament to Han Superiority(tm).

Posted by: SteveS || 08/30/2021 21:30 Comments || Top||


Tesla using Autopilot crashes into police car in Florida
[AP via Market Watch] Federal probe opened earlier this month after series of similar crashes.

ORLANDO, Florida — A Tesla using its partially automated driving system slammed into a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser Saturday on an interstate near downtown Orlando and narrowly missed its driver, who had pulled over to assist a disabled vehicle.

Earlier this month, the U.S. government opened a formal investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot driving system after a series of similar collisions with parked emergency vehicles.

The trooper whose cruiser was hit shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday had activated his emergency lights and was on the way to the disabled vehicle when the Tesla hit the cruiser’s left side and then collided with the other vehicle, highway patrol spokeswoman Lt. Kim Montes told The Orlando Sentinel.

The report said the 27-year-old man in the Tesla and the driver of the disabled vehicle suffered minor injuries and the trooper was unhurt.

Tesla TSLA, +1.53% did not immediately respond to an email sent to its press address.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2021 08:24 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kamikaze mode
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/30/2021 9:07 Comments || Top||

#2 
This is the buzz-ump-teenth time; Tesla EV kills a Gasoline Motivated Vehicle - Must be in the programming - "Your mission Teslev, is to wipe out Gamoves; Now get out there and get'em."
Posted by: Spavirong Snoter5057 || 08/30/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||

#3  one wonders if the flashing lights confused or blinded the Tesla. You would think they would test for tha.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/30/2021 11:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Did antifa hack the AI?
Posted by: Sneremble Spinelet8920 || 08/30/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Contemporary AI is operating at the level of insect intelligence. This can be put to good use bot overestimating capabilities is dangerous.

Here's a video from July showing the Tesla AI identifying the moon as a traffic light.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 08/30/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Rise of the Machines
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/30/2021 14:56 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2021-08-30
  US Airstrike Hits Suicide Bombers Targeting Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-29
  Last British flight evacuating civilians from Afghanistan leaves Kabul
Sat 2021-08-28
  Biden Pledges to 'Hunt Down' Those Behind Airport Attack
Fri 2021-08-27
  Karzai, Abdullah house-arrested by Taliban in Kabul
Thu 2021-08-26
  Bomb explodes in northern gate of Kabul airport
Wed 2021-08-25
  Taliban Vows to Help Fight Climate Change
Tue 2021-08-24
  Firefight at Kabul airport kills Afghan guard
16,000 more leave Afghanistan
Mon 2021-08-23
  US Embassy Tells Americans: Do Not Go to Kabul Airport
Sun 2021-08-22
  9 Talbanis surrender to Resistance Forces in Andarab; 6 of them Paks
Sat 2021-08-21
  U.S. charges man who made bomb threat near U.S. Capitol
Fri 2021-08-20
  IMF suspends Afghanistan's access to funds
Thu 2021-08-19
  US freezes assets of Afghanistan central banks as Taliban takeover
Wed 2021-08-18
  Former Vice PR and Now President Of Islamic Republic Of Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Amrullah Saleh In Panjishir
Tue 2021-08-17
  Reports say Ghani in Oman to escape to US
Mon 2021-08-16
  Taliban Declares Victory and Announces ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan' From Presidential Palace


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