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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Louisiana Judge Placed On Leave For Using N-Word On Video After Black Suspect Burglarized Her Car
[National File] Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet has been placed on unpaid leave after uttering a racial slur in a viral video. Odinet used the "n-word" after a black suspect attempted to rob her family.

The video shows Odinet and members of her family watching a security video of the moment two of them wrestled 59-year-old Robert Handy to the ground in their driveway after he allegedly tried to break into one of their cars early Saturday.

"When the suspect observed the victim arrive, the suspect attempted to flee on foot but was quickly caught by the victim. Victim held the suspect down until officers arrived," reads a police report on the attempted break-in.

Odinet released a statement saying she was on sedatives while the slur was uttered in a video recorded after the incident. She also said that she was shaken from the robbery attempt and issued an apology.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2021 07:38 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Inappropriate language..... for some.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2021 7:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember filling out a crime report once. With my background as a newspaper reporter, (I read a lot of police reports while putting together the paper's blotter column) I automatically wrote "individuals" when referring to the perps. The guy taking my statement laughed and called some of the other guys in the cop shoppe over to share the fun.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Black people use the "N Word" all the time.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/17/2021 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ So do wiggas. Including psychotic ped0phile dwarf wiggas.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||

#5  But don't you try it, white bread...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 11:25 Comments || Top||


TikTok ‘challenge' warns of school shootings nationwide today…
[CitizenFreePress] An anonymous threat made on TikTok has school districts on high alert. The threat, which is also being reported as a "challenge," claims that multiple school shootings will take place on Friday.

As a result, numerous schools across the nation have increased security and issued letters to parents as a precaution. Authorities, however, have deemed the threat to be fake.

"Law enforcement agencies have investigated this threat and determined that it originated in Arizona and is not credible," the official Baltimore County Public Schools reported.

"Many of our schools are being inundated with parent calls this morning asking about these latest threats and their validity," Florida’s Citrus County School District tweeted of the situation. "As of Thursday morning, we have not received any indication of a credible threat to any of our schools."
This may not belong in the WOT category but it is a real thing sponsored by the CCP. Many schools in my area are going remote or requesting police on site today. Major disruption.
Moved to Lurid Crime on Page 3: Non-WoT. with a Commies fiile. Good logic, Walking Unvaxxed.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/17/2021 06:43 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Nothing that needs to be censored, though. Not like it was talk of shooting up a vaccination clinic (yeah, there's a pun, or metaphor, or something in there somewhere.)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I would be up for censoring TikTok. Not allowing it in the US is even better.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/17/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  If I never see a duck lip or insanely outsized girl's ass again, it will still be a long recovery process.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  PS: I am not on TikTok, but am inundated with TikTok links by others. Why does AT&T not kill it as malware spam?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5 
Pretty sure it was just a con to end school early for the Christmas Holidays.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2021 17:50 Comments || Top||

#6  And the sun may come up in the morning.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 20:28 Comments || Top||

#7  no-burger
Posted by: newc || 12/17/2021 20:43 Comments || Top||


Multiple New Hampshire Pawn Shops Hit By Smash & Grab Robberies
Yep, that ol' dirtbag hometown of mine, Manchester, NH has made the roster of damn near complete lawlessness:
Fashionable in Massachussetts, too.
[WHDH, Boston] Police have launched an investigation after at least eight brazen smash-and-grab suspects robbed a pawn shop in New Hampshire early Thursday morning, officials said.

Officers responding to a burglary alarm at Gold and Pawn on South Willow Street in Manchester around 4 a.m. found the front door smashed, as well as shattered glass cabinets inside, according to the Manchester Police Department.

Police noted that surveillance video showed eight people enter the store and take various items, including laptops and jewelry. They were said to be in the pawn shop for about three minutes.

Anyone with information on the incident is urged to contact Manchester police at 603-668-8711.
I know this area fairly well (1/2 mile from where I used to live, 1/4 mile from my high school), and I believe it's (South Willow St. location) the pawn shop once owned by a former client of my last CPA boss. He got out of the business when gold got to $2,000 back in the early 2000's. Great call, Mr. Milardo!

Also - the mayor of Manchester, NH is a Democrat who just won re-election, Joyce Craig.
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2021 00:35 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's the Nashua, NH robbery.
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2021 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Are the Apes running amok in New England too?
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 12/17/2021 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Ni-ahss neighbahood. Rock solid democrat votahs.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 7:41 Comments || Top||


Project Veritas reveals ANOTHER pedophilia scandal involving a CNN producer
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Wednesday night, Project Veritas published graphic texts and videos of a CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
producer fantasizing about molesting his fiancé’s daughter.

According to the outlet, one text exchange featured the producer telling the source how his fiancé’s daughter was "wearing very closely cut bottoms at the pool," before graphically describing how he could see the outline of her genitals.

The CNN producer also allegedly solicited sexually explicit photos of the source’s underage daughter.

The messages and videos were allegedly obtained by a woman who was involved in a relationship with the CNN producer for over a decade, Janine Banani, a case manager for human trafficking victims, as well as those of domestic violence and sexual assault.

The source claimed to have obtained the information for authorities but contacted Project Veritas when she was worried that action might not be taken. The source told the outlet that she "felt disgusted" and felt the need to come forward because "these people with power seem to get away with it."

"I feel disgusted. I feel dirty and I reply (to the texts) you know, it's, it's your girl's kid like your girlfriend's kid. Usually every time we text, it's always about him wanting to see me and a stepdaughter together."

She then provided a recording in which the producer allegedly said, "...after I'm done having my mouth on her, I'm going to walk up and put my crotch very close to her face," he said referring to the minor, "...slowly unzip my zipper and just guide her head a little closer and I'm just going to have her kiss the head and I'm going to put her hand on it so she can feel what the hard flesh feels like."

The source added, "He sent me a text saying, 'I love that she is getting hot. I want to taste how wet she makes you,' and he's talking about who his second daughter, who's 14 years old, even about my daughter."

The source also alleged that the CNN producer offered her money in exchange for nude pictures of her and her daughter.

She added, "I do not want this girl to be a victim. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a detective to people with power seem to get away with. I just want this kid to be safe."

Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Video... 'nuff siad...

Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/17/2021 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  I fail to understand how this guy isn't beaten to within an inch of his life, stuck into a trunk and driven to twenty miles outside of Minot, ND and dropped off buck naked during a two foot snowstorm.
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2021 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  What gets me is that he is so damn confidient and open about it. Enough to talk about it to others and solicit their daughters. And what about his Fiancee? That sounds like a real piece of work - she has to know about it - he openly talks about it but I guess it's ok if her Fiancee wants to bang her daughter.

Is it something in the water over there at CNN or what?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/17/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#4  We'll probably learn that Project Veritas broke some law learning this stuff and so nothing can be done about prosecuting the perp.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/17/2021 1:30 Comments || Top||

#5  What gets me is that he is so damn confident and open about it.

Lot of that about.

Biden and son brazenly sell access to the Chinese in Beijing -- on an official vice-presidential trip -- because they're confident and open about it.

Democrats confidently and openly encourage months of murder, arson, looting and mayhem in 2020 in order to create a public perception of chaos, which they then deflect toward OrangeMan.

Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Mueller, Schiff, Isikoff, Korn, Simpson, Rice Obama and a host of others stage a preposterous Russia Hoax about OrangeMan -- and are confident and open about it.

Sens. Hirono, Warren, and half the Senate put forth an absurd lying nutcase from Palo Alto, where she boards a billionaire's plane and flies (despite her avowed terror of flying) across the continent to lie shamelessly about and slander one of our most distinguished judges -- confidently, openly.

Biden lies about his knowledge of AFG's imminent collapse -- confidently, openly.

Biden, Mayorkas, Harris, Ocasio-Cortez lie about the border fiasco they deliberately created -- confidently, openly.

Powell and Yellen repeat their ridiculous and obvious lie about inflation being transitory -- confidently, openly.

Zuckerberg, Bloomberg, Steyer and Soros spend over a billion dollars to rig elections across the country and push their agenda -- confidently, openly.

And now we have ped0philes, ped0philes, f--king disgusting wretched ped0philes all over our Establishment from the PervOTUS and his depraved spawn to Epstein-Clinton-Andrew-Gates to the C!A and CNN -- confidently, openly assault ing children and laughing about it.

Why? In the words of rapist-in-chief Willie Jeff Clinton, Because they can.


Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 1:52 Comments || Top||

#6  I fail to understand how this guy isn't beaten to within an inch of his life, stuck into a trunk and driven to twenty miles outside of Minot, ND and dropped off buck naked during a two foot snowstorm.

What gets me is that he is so damn confidient and open about it. Enough to talk about it to others and solicit their daughters.

Because there are enough fellow travelers in powerful positions? That Cuties wasn't an accident?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 17:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Left.pedo
Right.babykiller
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 20:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Seems kinda apropos, don't it?

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/17/2021 22:42 Comments || Top||


Multiple jewelry stores in Massachusetts targeted in smash-and-grab robberies
It’s fashionable in New Hampshire, too.
[WCVB] Police are searching for the people responsible for smash-and-grab robberies at several Massachusetts jewelry stores.Surveillance video shared by Touch of Midas in Burlington shows nine people breaking through the front door in the overnight hours between Saturday and Sunday. Those people then used hammers to smash display cases in order to grab fistfuls of jewelry. Those thieves were able to run off before anyone could catch them.

Roland Racicot, the owner of Roland's Jewelry, said thieves broke into his 30-year-old Medford business and stole about $15,000 in merchandise the same night Touch of Midas was robbed. The two stores are approximately eight miles apart.

"You work your butt off your whole life and then you see what happens. And that hurts," Racicot said.

Some of the items stolen from Roland's Jewelry were for sale while others were waiting for repair.

Rita Ranzo said her Movado wristwatch, a gift from her late husband that was being repaired, was stolen from Roland's.

"My husband worked to pay for that. It wasn't cheap. It was expensive. And these people just come in and think they can take it without any consequence?" Ranzo said. "I hope it turns their wrist green. Believe me, I do."
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1 
Time to redesign the store security.
Like adding a a bullet proof Dead Zone double door entrance area.

Or Instant roll up barrier walls like used in the UK banks.

Or Display Flush concept.
Where at the push of a button the display cases drop below sales floor level into a secured vault.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2021 6:27 Comments || Top||

#2  They voted for it. You know the punchline.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  You notice the pattern of antifa only attacking luxury goods shops? Thus nobody can really complain. Luxury goods are super overpriced and who really has any sympathy for jewelry store owners. Ever tried to sell back jewelry? They pay pennies. But if you want it, it's $2000 or GTFO.
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/17/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||


More on the Philly pizza shooting
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Robbery took place at Bold Pizza on Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia on Thursday night

  • Police say a 33-year-old suspect who had just taken part in robbery of a nearby CVS walked into the pizzeria and attacked a worker

  • Surveillance video shows masked bandit reaching for the cash register and tussling with pizza shop employee

  • The 14-year-old son of the owner pulls out a gun and shoots robber in the face, sending him fleeing out of the store

  • Police who arrived followed a trail of blood and found wounded criminal at SEPTA subway stop; he is now in critical condition

  • Police are still looking for suspect's two accomplices who together took part in earlier robbery of CVS pharmacy
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and shoots robber in the face

Doesn't seem to mean what it usto.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Je should have used a 45
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/17/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||

#3  He may have. Story I read yesterday said the perp's lower face was "hamburger"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2021 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  A fun parlor contest: Ask everyone around the fire to tell you what caliber bullet they would prefer to be shot with. M's disdain for Bond's .25 calibre Beretta aside, I pick "none of them."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Pray for sepsis.
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/17/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#6  In one cheek and out the other?
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/17/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Poss hit the mandible and turned teeth and bone to shrapnel.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 13:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Get that man a straw!
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/17/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Feral Yout walks into a bar. Bartender says, "Why the long short face?"
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 14:29 Comments || Top||

#10  "Tongue in cheek
...and ear...and eye orbital..and..."
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2021 14:43 Comments || Top||

#11  "The comments...I'm speechless."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 14:52 Comments || Top||


America's wealthiest pastor Kenneth Copeland - who is worth $770m - dodges $150K property tax on his $7m mansion home by claiming it's a 'clergy residence'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not Biblical. Jesus Christ paid the Roman tax. Government should NOT tax God. But a home can be taxed.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/17/2021 3:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Render upon Caesar that which is Caesar's
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2021 6:35 Comments || Top||

#3  That man didn't make the rules. And as for "the spirit of the law," these days, are you kidding me?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 7:07 Comments || Top||

#4  TV personalities get paid really well for acting on camera.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/17/2021 9:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Same people who hate TV preachers are all in on Dr. Oz in PA senate contest. YJCMTSU.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Same people who hate TV preachers

Well, not really.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 11:13 Comments || Top||

#7  At some point for public relations alone this guy should cough up the cash.

Kind of sick that a Pastor has a house worth that much. I'm not sure he's reading the same holy book as the rest of us.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/17/2021 13:01 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm not sure he's reading the same holy book as the rest of us.

In the library on the bookshelf next to Handjobs for the Homebound, Infirm edition
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#9  There's an old joke about running a business, that when The Clergy walks in the front door, sneak out the back.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 16:39 Comments || Top||

#10  If them's the rules, then them's the rules. Blame Caesar (or Brandon!) if you don't like them. There is a reason people hire expensive accountants and lawyers.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/17/2021 20:21 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
McDonald's to use packaging to promote COVID-19 vaccines
[Today] McDonald's will soon be serving its customers a friendly reminder to get their COVID-19 vaccine. The fast food chain has partnered with the Biden administration on its "We Can Do This" campaign to help share vaccine information with its customers across the country and the restaurant plans to spread the word in multiple ways over the coming months.

As part of the campaign, McDonald's will debut COVID-19 vaccine information from trusted third parties on its Times Square billboard later this month. The billboard is located right above one of the iconic McDonald's restaurants in the country, so the company is hoping to get a lot of eyeballs on it.
And yet, CA and NY are disincentivizing vax shots by treating the vaxxed and unvaxxed the same

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2021 07:33 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any bets there is Federal taxpayer $$$$$ behind it?
Posted by: N2N1 || 12/17/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Pretty bold move from a company featuring the Heart Attack Big Mac.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#3  As successful as milk cartons.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 20:27 Comments || Top||


Joe Biden Warns ‘Winter of Severe Illness and Death' for Unvaccinated Americans
[Breitbart] FJB
Just like when FDR had his televised fireside chats, inspiring confidence
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/17/2021 00:01 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Inspiring leadership. Not.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/17/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  But at least there will be no flu deaths this flu season.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/17/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  If I refuse to die (vaccinated but not boosted) am I in league with the Jan 6 insurrectionists losers?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 8:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Fuck off Brandon.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/17/2021 9:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Sniff THIS, Brandon
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 9:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Pretty much guarantees that COVID is the *last* thing we should be worried about.
Posted by: Grailet Speang1824 || 12/17/2021 9:37 Comments || Top||

#7  It is official. ABC news radio reported the J&J brand as having a rare but dangerous side effect of blood clotting. "Still safer than catching the Covid" they allot, but that is a long ways from Totally No Side Effects.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 13:32 Comments || Top||

#8  cracks in the dam
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 14:20 Comments || Top||

#9  ...With apologies to Messrs. Ackroyd, Murray, Ramis, and Hudson:


Dr. Peter Venkman President Biden: This city nation is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.

MayorThe Nation : What do you mean, "biblical"?

Dr. Raymond Stantz President Biden : What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, The Nation, real wrath of God type stuff.

Dr. Peter VenkmanFauci : Exactly.

Dr. Raymond Stantz President Biden : Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!

Dr. Egon Spengler Fauci: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...

Winston Zeddemore President Biden : The dead rising from the grave!

Dr. Peter Venkman Fauci: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... MASS HYSTERIA!

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/17/2021 15:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Winter of our Discontent.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 16:07 Comments || Top||

#11  It occurs to me that this messaging isn't for the unvaxed/unboosted, they have at this point run decision jenga and are unlikely to shift without extremes, but for those who have been shot and considering not taking the boosts as information about all the rumors concerning side effects come to light, and that maybe even The Weirdos, who have a remarkable batting average, will be proven right that the side effect risk is cumulative - that is, each additional jab has increased odds of a side effect, or even that mixing brands also increases chances for side effects.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 16:35 Comments || Top||

#12 
BTW: has anyone notice how the media was telling us Omicron HIT Europe HARD ☺ over a Month ago.
But here in the USA, we are only see a few 100 cases here and there in the USA.

AN BTW: CDC reports U.S. omicron cases have been mostly mild. WHO Update: with several 1000 cases world wide ONLY one Death with Omicron was reported as of Dec 13, 2021.

Adding FACT to the False JB Flame On: "South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital …“They are able to manage the disease at home,” Pillay said of his patients. “Most have recovered within the 10 to 14-day isolation period.” said Pillay. And that includes older patients and those with health problems that can make them more vulnerable to becoming severely ill from a coronavirus infection, he said."
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2021 18:10 Comments || Top||

#13  Can't wait!
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||


'Antiracism and Healthy Equity Center' claims 'birthing people' are at higher risk of premature deliveries in over-policed neighborhoods
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) on December 8 published a report into premature births in certain Minneapolis communities

  • It is titled: 'Association of Residence in High–Police Contact Neighborhoods With Preterm Birth Among Black and White Individuals in Minneapolis'

  • Rachel Hardeman, director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity at the university, said her findings were damning

  • She found that 'birthing people' - both black and white - in heavily-policed areas had a significantly raised chance of preterm birth

  • Hardeman reported that white 'birthing people' living in 'high police contact areas' had a 90% higher chance of preterm birth versus different parts of the city

  • Among black Americans, it was a 100% higher chance of preterm birth compared to residents in what are deemed 'low-contact areas'

  • Foreign-born black residents of 'high police contact areas' had a far lower chance of preterm birth than those born in the U.S.

  • Hardeman's use of the term 'birthing people' is part of a growing trend, as people attempt to be more inclusive and socially aware

  • Critics have said it is nonsense to avoid the term 'mothers', because only those born female can give birth
Posted by: Fred || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hardeman's use of the term 'birthing people' is part of a growing trend, as people are dumb as a puddle of mud fucked by retards attempt to be more inclusive and socially aware

Yeah, I stole that one from Ace - sue me!
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, I don't suppose 'non-birthing' people have a problem with pizza showing up early, anywhere.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 0:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Whereas "non birthing people" have approximately zero premature deliveries. Odd, that...
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/17/2021 15:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Seems to me, in over-policed areas, rather than premature birthulation, little Davontious would be too shy to come out.

She found that 'birthing people' - both black and white - in heavily-policed areas had a significantly raised chance of preterm birth

I wouldn't trust stats from anyone using the phrase 'birthing people'. Could it be that "areas of high police contact" are run-down, crime-ridden neighborhoods where people don't spend a lot of time or money on healthcare?
Posted by: SteveS || 12/17/2021 20:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Now that right there is a Whitish attitude.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 20:33 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Model Katrina Scott Is Sports Illustrated Swimsuit's 2021 Rookie of the Year
[People] Meet the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2021 Rookie of the Year!

SI Swimsuit has crowned model and mom Katrina Scott as this year's official Rookie alongside seven other women who make up the 2021 Rookie class: Yumi Nu, Nyma Tang, Kathy Jacobs, Tanaye White, Leyna Bloom, Maggie Rawlins and Natalie Mariduena.

Scott made her debut in the SI Swimsuit 2021 Issue where she modeled on the beaches of Florida. She then caught everyone's attention when she walked in SI Swim's runway show during Miami Swim Week this past July while undergoing IVF treatments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2021 11:05 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A blonde? How'd she get in there? I thought sports was all about showing everyone that whites are ugly and unfit for awards.
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/17/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  If she doesn't have a dick, that's a big deal.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah'm afraid to look.
Is she a heifer?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 13:33 Comments || Top||

#4  No, she looks like the women Victoria's Secret used to employ until about 5-8 years ago.
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/17/2021 13:47 Comments || Top||

#5  If she doesn't have a dick, that's a big deal

Ah, but "Leyna Bloom," the 2021 SI Swimsuit Cover Girl LadyBoy, does. Or did.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 14:18 Comments || Top||

#6  *Meh* Elle Macpherson clone.
Posted by: magpie || 12/17/2021 15:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Mother (via IVF), entrepreneur, budding model... Not many get the chances she has at her age. One wonders how she got the audition.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2021 15:44 Comments || Top||

#8  I hired someone like her while I was a corporate consultant to Citibank. All of the female managers took one look at her and their jaws dropped thinking I hired her for her looks.

Until the first staff meeting where she outlined dozens of problems with a mortgage software program they were about to release. Then they realized they couldn't do without her, she was saving their jobs that was already on the cliff's edge from a disastrous Beta release.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/17/2021 17:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Elle clone?
Nothing wrong with that!
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 20:25 Comments || Top||

#10  Face is even worked badly. A bit more and she get the Batman Joker face...
Posted by: Kofi Panda2845 || 12/17/2021 20:28 Comments || Top||


Enraged monkeys kill 250 DOGS by dragging them to the top of buildings and dropping them off 'out of revenge' after pups killed one of their infants in Indian village
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Horrific incidents reported in Majalgaon and Lavul village in India's Maharashtra

  • According to local reports, there are now barely any dogs left in Lavul village

  • Villagers say monkeys drag dogs up to high place and drop them to their death

  • But without any dog targets the monkeys are now reportedly turning on children
Slow News Day....
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/17/2021 10:12 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  TV Zoo

A young scientist searches to find out what's causing a rash of violent animal attacks.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Road Song Of The Bandar-Log

Here we go in a flung festoon,
Half-way up to the jealous moon!
Don't you envy our pranceful bands?
Don't you wish you had extra hands?
Would n't you like if your tails were -- so --
Curved in the shape of a Cupid's bow?
Now you're angry, but -- never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!

Here we sit in a branchy row,
Thinking of beautiful things we know;
Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do,
All complete, in a minute or two --
Something noble and grand and good,
Won by merely wishing we could.
Now we're going to -- never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!

All the talk we ever have heard
Uttered by bat or beast or bird --
Hide or fin or scale or feather --
Jabber it quickly and all together!
Excellent! Wonderful! Once again!
Now we are talking just like men.
Let 's pretend we are... never mind,
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!
This is the way of the Monkey-kind.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe the monkeys thought they were gay?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  But without any dog targets the monkeys are now reportedly turning on children

I thought Planet of the Apes was scifi fantasy not a how to guide.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Wise kats stay out of quarrel.
Posted by: borgboy || 12/17/2021 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  For our white and our excellent nights--for the nights of swift
running,
Fair ranging, far seeing, good hunting, sure cunning!
For the smells of the dawning, untainted, ere dew has departed!
For the rush through the mist, and the quarry blind-started!
For the cry of our mates when the sambhur has wheeled and is
standing at bay!
For the risk and the riot of night!
For the sleep at the lair-mouth by day!
It is met, and we go to the fight.
Bay! O bay!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 14:01 Comments || Top||


Florida man is forced off United Airlines plane for wearing red women's underwear over his face as a mask - and other passengers march off in support of him
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ummm
One of my female customers did the same. No consequences. But she is good looking.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/17/2021 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Were they used panties? It's an important social issue...
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2021 0:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe cuz they were crotchless?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#4  And who, friends, defends this poor slob,
Women's undies pulled over his gob,
Who was plainly mistaken
For -- color me shaken! --
A Moslemah in her hijab?
Posted by: Sninesing Big Foot3944 || 12/17/2021 3:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Mocking of the Covidian religion is blasphemy and will not be tolerated. How long until people are encouraged to burn such blasphemers alive, as is done in The Land of the Pure™?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 7:03 Comments || Top||

#6 
Was it a thong and did not provide proper cover? ☺☺☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2021 7:06 Comments || Top||

#7  ROTFLMAO!!!
Posted by: Sonny Black || 12/17/2021 9:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Legendary.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||


#10  Not all heroes wear capes.
Posted by: Chusoth Munster2533 || 12/17/2021 16:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Gotta give high-fives to those who, on the spurt of the moment, we're like, "Hell yeah, this is dumb as balls." and walked out too.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 17:21 Comments || Top||


GM does something right..
Posted by: Warthog || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can understand the sentimental feeling...

I had a 1970 Dodge Cornet 440 Super Bee.
Purchased in 1974 for 1,500. 6 to 10 mpg
Wife Totaled it... She lived... But I lost the car.

End up with a 1970 Nova with 350 purchased in 1978 used for $1,450. < 10mpg

BTW: Gas was around 16.9 Reg to 29.9 Prem a gallon and we were complaining. But you could purchase 120+ Octane (and needed it) at the pump in those days.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2021 6:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice, back when GM wasn’t run by bean counters and focus groups: a big block manual Impala. But did you catch theerror in the beginning, first wreath trip to the barn, the tractor is a Ford.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/17/2021 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Hemi is cancelled...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 8:30 Comments || Top||


The Great Panda Escape: 6-Year-Old Panda Climbs Zoo Wall
[NYPost]
Posted by: Slish B. Hayes2116 || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Send the Pandas back to China.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/17/2021 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Confucius say, "Son of a Han!
Their cute little panda bear gone!
American stirrer
Of shit create furor
By sending her back... to Taiwan."
Posted by: Sninesing Big Foot3944 || 12/17/2021 2:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Dude, you are suppose to do it at night.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
J&J Vax Get the Jab from CDC
[ET] A panel of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unanimously voted on Thursday to recommend the agency tell the public that the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are preferred to the jab from Johnson & Johnson (J&J).

Hours after the vote by the advisory panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky endorsed the recommendation.
A conclusion, one supposes, of the Phase 3 part of the study in which we are supposed to participate.
The panel voted after hearing presentations on a serious combination of blood clotting and low blood platelet levels that has been seen at higher than background rates in people who have gotten the J&J vaccine.

The link prompted a near-nationwide pause in administration of the vaccine in April but health agencies lifted the pause after determining the benefits of the shot outweighed its risks.
How's that April decision looking now, CDC?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/17/2021 10:59 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Caught this on ABC Radio news update this morning.

Now do the other rumors; like the guy I know of, younger than I, EMT, who died suddenly of a heart failure. Lived a clean life.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 13:57 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Baltimore Police Officer in Critical Condition After Being Shot Several Times in Execution-Style Attack
[Gateway Pundit] A Baltimore police officer is in critical condition after being ambushed and shot while sitting in a patrol vehicle early Thursday, authorities say.

Dr. Thomas Scalea said at a briefing outside the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Shock Trauma Center that the officer was shot multiple times and was on life support, The Baltimore Sun reports.

Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the officer was on duty but not responding to a call in the Curtis Bay area of southern Baltimore about 1:30 a.m. when the shooter approached from behind and opened fire and the officer’s vehicle accelerated and crashed.

Officers responding to a report of a crash found the officer, who appeared to be suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds, then worked to get the wounded officer to Shock Trauma as quickly as possible, police said in a news release. The officer, who was not immediately identified by name or gender, was listed in "guarded condition," police said.

"This was a cowardly, brazen act to walk up and open fire on a police officer who was doing what we asked that officer to do — to go out to protect and serve," Harrison said in a statement. "Our prayers are with the officer’s family. We are determined to find those responsible for this heinous crime and will not rest until we do."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

So or later, if the Subversive radicals keep it up...

We may see a return to the old style clandestine cleanup teams that sought out the bottom of societies cesspool. In order to return law, order and safety to the Streets.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2021 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  ...missed the article from Texas that a man who was out on bail awaiting trial for two years for a road rage killing was shot in the back and killed while entering a store?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2021 6:49 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ more like this pls.
If the morons who rule over us are determined to create Anarcho-Tyranny in this country, what other remedy is left us?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Classified JFK assassination files FINALLY released: Lee Harvey Oswald was in contact with member of KGB two months before shooting and CIA was told 'Russia was planning to pay hitman $100k to kill the president' a YEAR before he died
Wednesday the announcement, herewith the results.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • More than 1,500 files were released by the National Archives at noon on Wednesday about JFK's assassination

  • They include memos by CIA officers in the immediate aftermath of the shooting on November 23, 1963

  • One details how Lee Harvey Oswald met with a KGB agent on September 29, 1963, in Mexico City

  • The documents also included previously sealed files on Operation Mongoose, the CIA's plan to destabilize the Cuban government and remove Fidel Castro from power

  • Unsealed files from the 1975 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities state that President Kennedy's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, was part of the secret National Security Council group overseeing Mongoose

  • Not all of the files will be released; the NSA is holding some back pending further review

  • The secrecy has fueled conspiracy theories about JFK's assassination

  • The President was killed in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas

  • Oswald denied shooting JFK in his interviews with police; he was killed two days later while being transported by police by a nightclub owner who shot him

  • Biden had promised to make the files public by October but he delayed, claiming COVID back logs stalled the release
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is consistent with what I have suspected for a long time. It always seemed to me that there was a cover-up, and that the best explanation was that we were afraid to publicly confront the USSR because the people might force action that could escalate to nuclear war.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/17/2021 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Not all of the files will be released; the NSA is holding some back pending further review

The NSA is still... "reviewing" after 60 years ?

Could it be that Oswald was no stranger to US authorities ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/17/2021 3:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Oswald to Moscow then to Havana then to Dallas was always enough for me.
Posted by: Grunter || 12/17/2021 4:36 Comments || Top||

#4 
My problem with all this is simple.


After 50+ years and numerous release delays, partial releases and reschedules.

PLUS: "Not all of the files will be released; the NSA is holding some back pending further review" An what still needs review (protected) after 50+ F'ing years of being sifter thru a .0001 micron filter a dozen times?

Now it raises the questions like:
How many people on Operation Mongoose met with odd or untimely deaths?

Whom had the KGB compromised in Congress/US Gov?

Were any of the US political elite steering families involved?

An what still needs review after 50+ F'ing years that has not been sifter thru a 1 micron filter a dozen times.

So how can we trust a damn thing now?Because, at this point even if they did release the real truth, over 1/2 of the readers would still question it.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2021 5:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Sources and methods may still need protecting. What if we have a multi-generation source in Russia? Or a wire tap that's been undetected all this time?

A twenty-year-old then could still be alive today, so there may be actual people being protected.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/17/2021 8:18 Comments || Top||

#6  there may be actual people being protected.

The democratic party?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#7  And roughly at the same time the Democrat party started leaning into communist ideology.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/17/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||


Retired Navy Commander Fills His Bucket List
[DM] An interesting guy. He served, then created success in private life and now does actual science.
Ex-US navy commander Victor Vescovo has become the first person to reach the bottom of all four of the world's deepest ocean trenches.

Vescovo reached the bottom of the Kermadec Trench in the South Pacific Ocean at the weekend in the submersible DSV Limiting Factor — a two-person submersible built by Florida-based company Triton Submarines.

In doing so, the 55-year-old explorer completed a personal goal of diving to the four deepest known areas on Earth.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One of Splat's 'trained killers'?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  The submersible's tender has a name inspired by Florida music, too:

Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 8:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Businessman Assists Teachers, Needy Families in Mazar-e-Sharif
Nice to see his charity going to the legitimate poor instead of supporting jihad.
[ToloNews] About 10,000 aid packages of flour, oil and other foods will be distributed to school teachers and poor families in Mazar-e-Sharif city by an Afghan businessman.

The process of helping teachers and families started on Wednesday in the city.

Mujtaba Osmani, coordinator of the program, told a TOLOnews’ news hound: "7,000 packages are for teachers, 1,000 are for teachers of Madrassas (religious seminaries) and 2,000 packages will be given to families who were identified as needy."

The teachers, who have not been paid for the past three months, were grateful for the program to assist teachers and needy families.

They stated that their families are struggling with a deteriorating economic situation. "At this critical and bad moment, all teachers and people need assistance," said Hamid, a teacher.

"Our salaries should be paid, I have not received my salary for four months," said another teacher.

In the meantime, Qudratullah Abohamza, governor of Balkh, said some efforts are underway to resolve the economic problems of teachers and that salaries will be paid.

"There is no worry, be sure, salaries which remained unpaid, will be paid, Inshallah," said Abohamza.

The teachers added that such assistance is vital in a situation where the price of basic goods like food and fuel is climbing and families with low income face serious challenges.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Children's remains were found near the former concentration camp in the Oryol region
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA Novosti] Children's remains found at the site of construction works in the city of Bolkhov Oryol region near the place where during the Second World War settled hosted by Nazi occupiers camp for Soviet prisoners of war, information about the discovery transferred to the Investigative Committee, told RIA Novosti the head of the regional branch of " Search Engine traffic Russia," Sergey Shcherbaty.

“We were looking for Red Army soldiers who died and went missing during the Great Patriotic War."

During the occupation, dozens of prisons and concentration camps operated on the territory of the Oryol region. In Bolkhov, the Nazis set up a POW camp in the building of the Karl Marx School .

The Red Army men, exhausted from hunger, worked on the construction of German defensive structures for 10-14 hours a day. When the prisoners were escorted through the city to work, they were brutally beaten with rifle butts and sticks.

From torture, torture and hunger, as well as executions in the concentration camp, 500 prisoners of war died, whose corpses were taken out of the city by the Nazis and thrown into a ditch.

Russian law enforcement agencies, search engines and historians are doing a lot of work to identify new facts of the crimes of the Nazi invaders and their accomplices against civilians during the Great Patriotic War in different regions of the USSR. The data obtained are necessary for a legal assessment of those atrocities, regardless of the time of their commission.

The first lawsuit regarding the massacre of civilians and prisoners of war in the village of Zhestyanaya Gorka was upheld by the Novgorod court in October 2020.

This was followed by similar processes in a number of other regions. In August, the Pskov regional court, at the suit of the prosecutor's office, recognized the newly revealed crimes committed in 1941-1945 by the Nazis on the territory of the former concentration camp in Moglino, as well as in different areas in the Pskov region, where more than 75,000 civilian Soviet citizens were killed, more than 377,000 prisoners of war, forcibly driven away for forced labor more than 192 thousand citizens of the USSR .

In September, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov reported on the impending claims on this topic in the Bryansk and Rostov regions .

Posted by: badanov || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tunnelers?
Or the last of the OZ little people?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 20:31 Comments || Top||


Europe
Man is jailed for life for driving Mercedes into German carnival parade last year, seriously injuring 90 people
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Maurice Pahler, 31, given life term for German carnival attack in February 2020

  • He was convicted of 89 counts of attempted murder after driving into crowds watching parade in Volkmarsen in Hesse

  • Prosecutors said attack was deliberate, and he filmed it using a dash camera

  • But not motive was given - Pahler has never spoken to police about the attack, gave no testimony, and refused to cooperate with psychologists
    It seems reasonable to assume this was therefore not jihad — jihadis tend to shriek their devotion to the skies.
Deutsche Welle adds:
A psychiatric assessment of Maurice P. concluded that he suffers from a severe personality disorder that includes narcissistic, schizophrenic and paranoid traits.

However, he was not deemed to be in need of stationary psychiatric care.
Unexpectedly.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:


#2  So the guy in Germany, certified crazy, gets the full ride while the [criminal but not yet crazy] Waukeshoid may get much less.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  "There's no logic to this loss"

Not to you fucking corrupt morons. The rest of us can spot the logic a mile away: the killer is a BLM-supporting race-warrior who mouthed hated of whites again and again and again, all over his squalid social media accounts.

He drove over an hour from his home in Milwaukee to 89%-white Waukesha for the express purpose of slaughtering dozens of happy, ordinary white people at their joyful Christmas parade.

His logic is Woke logic.
Democrat logic.
The logic of your cynical, vile, America-destroying race-Marxism.

So GFYourselves, you illegitimate posturing scumbags
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 2:13 Comments || Top||

#4  "But no motive was given..."

Wonder why? .... was it something that would make the German-EU Socialist Diversity agenda to be failing?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/17/2021 6:33 Comments || Top||

#5  A psychiatric assessment of Maurice P. concluded that he suffers from a severe personality disorder that includes narcissistic, schizophrenic and paranoid traits.

So, sort of like Nancy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2021 6:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Why do the politicians and news outlets (I know, redundant statement) keep reporting the type of vehicle that these nutters use to intentionally maim/kill others? It's not like the type/make/model, of the vehicle makes any difference.

The human attackers are the ones at fault and whatever they use is only a tool to achieve their goal.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/17/2021 7:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Of course, in Germany, being jailed 'for life' means what - about 10 years?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/17/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#8  I think 7 years, with a minute off for every second of good behavior.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#9  in Germany, being jailed 'for life' means what - about 10 years?

Normally, yes, but the article makes clear he will stay in prison until he accepts psychiatric treatment — in lieu of a locked psychiatric ward for the violent insane.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2021 10:43 Comments || Top||

#10  So, he takes LSD twice "under supervision" and is released. Eurine dribble.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 10:48 Comments || Top||

#11  It's not like the type/make/model, of the vehicle makes any difference.

Clearly they're heavy, gas hog, CO2 belching SUVs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 11:07 Comments || Top||

#12  "The court also ruled that there was a "particular severity of guilt" in the crime, which in Germany means that the accused will not be automatically eligible for a parole hearing after 15 years as is usual with other life sentences."

Looks more like 25 years before parole could be granted but if he's considered a danger after this time he will remain locked up.
Posted by: European Conservative || 12/17/2021 17:20 Comments || Top||

#13  Thank you for clarifying, European Conservative.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2021 17:58 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey Halts All Stock Trading As Currency Disintegrates, Central Bank Powerless To Halt Collapse
[ZH] Another day, another collapse in the Turkish lira, only this time there was a twist: as the hyperinflating currency implodes, Erdogan has finally had enough of the relentless pummeling, and is starting to shut down Turkey's markets.

But first, let's back up: heading into Friday, the lira accelerated its historic descent, weakening past the 16 per-dollar mark for the first time ever, as the central bank's pledge to end a four-month cycle of interest rate cuts on Thursday failed to convince investors that inflation can be brought to heel. That was just the start however, and the currency plunge only accelerated crashing as low as 17.14 just hours later, bringing declines this week to 17%. YTD the currency has lost more than half of its value!

As a reminder, the central bank yesterday cut its benchmark one-week repo rate by a further 100 basis points to 14%, its fourth reduction since September spurred by demands from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to lower borrowing costs in the face of surging consumer prices as part of his batshit insane monetary policy Erdoganomics whose only possible outcome is the collapse of Turkey's economy and hyperinflation. The resulting sell-off accelerated a 54% plunge in the currency so far this year as real rates fall further below zero with inflation now standing at an annual 21.3%.

Erdogan then responded to the economic pain caused by rising prices by ordering a 50% increase in the minimum wage next year, guaranteeing even more inflation as it will increase production costs that will see inflation accelerate by a further 2% to 8% next year, Erkin Isik, chief economist at QNB Finansbank, wrote in a note to clients.

In any case, once the lira plunged to 17, the central bank spent another billion or so intervening, its 5th intervention just in December. Needless to say, this intervention like all those preceding it, had a half-life of just a few minutes, and shortly after the USDTRY was trading back at just shy of all time highs.

And then, a stunning new development: as Bloomberg reports, all trades on Turkey’s benchmark stock index Borsa Istanbul 100 were halted after a sudden plunge in stocks - which until now were trading gingerly higher as one would expect in a time of runaway inflation - triggering a market-wide circuit breaker.

Trading of equities, equity derivatives and debt repo transactions were "halted temporarily" at 4:24 p.m. in Istanbul after the index reversed gains and fell as much as 5%, according to a public filing. Trading was scheduled to restart at 4:54 p.m, however we are confident it will only lead to more selling.

And this is what the realization that hyperinflation has arrived and may not be good for stocks looks like:

Of course, such attempts to halt a panic only make it worse, and sure enough, the furious selling only accelerate after the reopen, leading to another halt...

... and headlines such as these:

HSBC MSCI TURKEY UCITS ETF SINKS TO RECORD LOW

TURKISH STOCK INDEX CRASHES 9%, MOST SINCE MARCH

The bottom line, as Delphine Arrighi from Guardcap Asset Management, said "Turkey has entered some uncharted territories here by responding to rampant inflation with rate cuts. As long as real rates remain negative, dollarization will continue to add pressure on the currency."

For what it's worth, our view is clear and what is happening is very much charted: it is our view that Erdogan is purposefully hoping to spark economic collapse and hyperinflation...

Is Erdogan trying to singlehandedly destroy the Turkish economy to deflect attention from the billions he has pillaged
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 16, 2021

... to deflect from the historic pillaging he and his cronies have done over the years. And the only way to do that is with a broad economic collapse that he can pin on "foreign intervention" and in the ensuing chaos, quietly sneak out of the country. A few coup or two should help.

Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2021 12:28 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  So the adventures in Libya and Africa may come to an end?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 13:34 Comments || Top||

#2  currency and stockmarket crash
Posted by: 3dc || 12/17/2021 13:41 Comments || Top||

#3  I imagine if Erdogan couldn't afford to be Putin's Judas Goat on his own, Putin would have to pay him to do it.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/17/2021 13:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Surely this is being reported somewhere reputable?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/17/2021 14:21 Comments || Top||


#6  Sorry, Rob. I got the ZH link from Rantingly. Like Gateway Pundit, they can occasionally be right...
:-)
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2021 14:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Zerohedge is a lot more credible than any mainstream media outlet.

After hyping fake Smollett attack as 'MAGA' terror, corporate media BURY actor's hoax trial. On the morning and evening newscasts, from November 29 through the morning of December 6, CBS allowed NO coverage of the trial. ABC managed a scant 22 seconds and NBC offered the most, a still meager 178 seconds.
https://youtu.be/w6s9Njtyuh4?t=55
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/17/2021 14:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Allah is my witness, I thought the Lira would fly.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/17/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Coming soon to a Wall Street near you
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/17/2021 16:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Loaning money at interest is haram. They should feel closer to Allen for losing their asses...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 19:02 Comments || Top||

#11  8 - Snark O' The Day nominee
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2021 20:44 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
‘Israel Has Transformed Into a Dictatorship’
Israeli politicians do enjoy their hyperbole.
[GatesOfVienna] In the following video an Ethiopian Jew who is a member of the Knesset in Israel describes the draconian totalitarian laws that have recently been enacted by the new leftist government, ostensibly in response to the latest surge of the Eternal Corona.

Many thanks to RY for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:


Video link
Video transcript:


00:01 Shalom. It’s 4:00am, on Friday.
00:08 Like thieves in the night,
00:13 right now, they pass a draconian legislation...
00:18 One can argue that Israel has been transformed into a police state.
00:23 In fact, it’s the Knesset coalition, members of Meretz, Labor party,
00:27 all the progressive Left, liberal democrats —
00:31 they pass a draconian law stating that it’s possible to arrest an Israeli citizen in the street,
00:36 to enter his/her home without a police warrant,
00:39 and to transform Israel into a dictatorship.
00:43 Now, after 73 years since Israel’s independence,
00:48 officially, owing to the Left, Israel has transformed into a dictatorship.
00:54 This is the ’contribution’ of this Knesset,
00:57 that such a law is passed in the Israeli Knesset, by Meretz, and the Labor Party.
01:01 They enact this cruel legislation against the citizens of Israel.

Posted by: 746 || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Raj || 12/17/2021 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  No siree bob. No one here but us manga-nanimous B(r)anch COVIDians!
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 2:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Former Ranburg commenter, Gee I wonder who that could be ?
URGENT: A huge Israeli study shows natural Covid immunity is far superior to the vaccine-generated kind
And getting vaccinated if you have natural immunity appears basically useless.

Finally, the study offered a disturbing signal that vaccination may ultimately interfere with the development of lasting immunity in people who are infected after being vaccinated. (An excerpt)
Posted by: Black Bart Lumplump1868 || 12/17/2021 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  A certain Mod is going to slap you guys with a Trooper image soon.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/17/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Each moderator acts for us all, Vespasian Ebboting9735.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2021 10:47 Comments || Top||

#6  I wrote #4 with a smile on my face, no harm intended.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/17/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#7  Guess they haven't been to Australia or New Zealand recently.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/17/2021 12:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Paging grom, come in grom.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Jones4656 || 12/17/2021 13:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Possibly related content on freep republic:

"Netanyahu in the Knesset: "With this law the Left wants to shut us up on social media!".
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/17/2021 13:46 Comments || Top||


#11  ^ All gather now for the Two Minutes Hate
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/17/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 - blanket statements are usually wrong in the exceptions, but the American Democrat Party Jewish constituency, they seem to value left wing liberalism over Jewishness
Posted by: Frank G || 12/17/2021 14:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Anti-Semitic? No. We all support Israel. With our taxes.
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/17/2021 14:55 Comments || Top||

#14  But apparently it's not enough of a dictatorship to stop what really needs to be stopped:

Weirdo Smuggler Flew From Scotland to Israel With 300 Lobsters in Suitcase.

And... well, I hate Lobster.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/17/2021 19:57 Comments || Top||

#15  I wrote #4 with a smile on my face, no harm intended.

I’m not subtle, dear Vespasian Ebboting9735, so you need an emoticon ;-) or a LOL to let me know things like that.

Friendly teasing is good. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/17/2021 21:09 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
'Significant amounts of water' found in Mars' massive version of the Grand Canyon
[CNN] Mars has its own version of the Grand Canyon, and scientists have learned this dramatic feature is home to "significant amounts of water" after a discovery made by an orbiter circling the red planet, according to the European Space Agency.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, launched in 2016 as a joint mission between the European Space Agency and Roscosmos, detected the water in Valles Marineris on Mars. This canyon system is 10 times longer, five times deeper and 20 times wider than the Grand Canyon.

The water is located beneath the surface of the canyon system and was detected by the orbiter's FREND instrument, or Fine Resolution Epithermal Neutron Detector. This instrument is able to map hydrogen in the top meter (3.28 feet) of Martian soil.

Most water on Mars is located in the planet's polar regions and remains frozen as water ice. Valles Marineris is just south of the planet's equator, where temperatures typically aren't cold enough for water ice to remain.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/17/2021 09:57 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Used to be referred to as "Rasmussen Gorge" Read that someplace.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 12/17/2021 11:35 Comments || Top||

#2  5x10x20 the GC?
So that's where all the air went!
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 13:37 Comments || Top||

#3 
Exercise in Clairvoyance

2022 March 17 Headline

Ireland Launches 1st Ever Mission to Mars

In its first ever space mission, Ireland reaches for Mars, to use the newly found abundant water supply for agricultural purposes, that is to raise barley, malt, and hops. This is all in an effort to bring Beer and Whiskey to new reaches of our solar system and ultimately to the far reaches of the Universe.
Irish whiskey (Irish: Fuisce or uisce beatha) is whiskey made on the island of Ireland. The word 'whiskey' (or whisky) comes from the Irish uisce beatha, meaning water of life. Mars is after all named for Roman god of war and agriculture. The Irish are well known for their Red Beer as well.
Off to Mars it is, the Red Planet, don't forget the Irish Yeast Killian, or it'll be off with Yeast head.

Posted by: Daffy Whuth3528 || 12/17/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||

#4  I will be thrilled to see the first data from a manned mars mission that basically says this is all bunk. Then the idiots publishing this crap will switch to only observations of "planets" too far away for their "results" to be found wrong.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 18:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I just hope that when we terraform Mars that we do it right this time. Whoever worked on it last were amateurs.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/17/2021 20:04 Comments || Top||


Flying to 17,500 Feet on a Paramotor..no oxygen.
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not much chute lift if you can't breath.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Not as bugnutz as bungee cord jumping, but, shows bravery...
Posted by: magpie || 12/17/2021 17:53 Comments || Top||


NASA is preparing to build new rocket launch site at Cape Canaveral for SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy spacecraft
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thinking Bosa Chica may fall to the Mexicans?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/17/2021 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  NASA was never going to operate SpaceX missions from there. It's a testing and development site, maybe a commercial site for SpaceX launches contracted to other customers.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/17/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Stupid headline -- SpaceX is building the equipment on leased ground.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/17/2021 8:15 Comments || Top||



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