I must say I’m now totally confused. Left: this is how Daria Dugina’s car looks like after the explosion and fire; right: this is how Daria Dugina looks in a coffin after she was reportedly killed in that car. I have a feeling that something doesn’t really “compute”. pic.twitter.com/t3YJ2ecYXg
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Still prefer the theory that it was a rival crime syndicate making a point by (trying to) killing a significant capo now that Putin is showing weakness.
#4
...Don't forget in Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising that the Russians gin up support for an attack on NATO by blowing away a bunch of Moscow kids in a 'terrorist attack'.
[The Last Refuge] This discussion is where it becomes critical to remember the nature of stakeholders in media.
CNN is the national media firm protecting the interests of the U.S. State Dept. The Washington Post is the national media firm protecting the interests of the U.S. intelligence apparatus. The latest Twitter whistleblower information originates in,.. wait for it… “an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.”
The whistleblower is a former technology expert who came from within the research farm of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, is a well-known cybersecurity expert who left government work, entered the public world, and eventually became the head of Twitter security, reporting directly to the CEO.
Peiter “Mudge” Zatko is now saying the background technology of Twitter is vulnerable to manipulation. I’m not going to go into the granules of what Mudge is outlining, instead I prefer to focus on the bigger picture, a scenario we have been outlining for quite a while that could, emphasize *could*, become very explosive, especially considering the legal challenges between the social media platform and Elon Musk.
The nub of the bigger story is essentially that the database of Twitter, and likely other social media platforms, is integrated with the U.S. intelligence system. The database of Twitter is not necessarily vulnerable to hacking by outside entities, although that is the framework used by media reporting this whistleblower issue.
The bigger risk to the surveillance state is discovery that Twitter and the U.S. intelligence community are in a public-private partnership. The Dept of Homeland Security has access by design, not flaw. How the stakeholder media are reporting on the issue shows the nature of the risk,
Head to article and read it.
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After this article was initially published, Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, told CNN, “We have already issued a subpoena for Mr. Zatko, and we found his exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been finding.”
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The nub of the bigger story is essentially that the database of Twitter, and likely other social media platforms, is integrated with the U.S. intelligence system.
[NATIONALREVIEW] A federal judge convicted two men on Tuesday of conspiring in 2020 to kidnap Democratic Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender... The two men, Adam Fox
...accused of being the other ringleader in addition to paid Fed informant Big Dan Chappel...
and Barry Croft,
...pardoned in 2019 for an old conviction for possession of a firearm during commission of a felony, allegedly the group’s bomb maker and a national leader of the 3 Percenters...
face a maximum sentence of life in prison for the kidnapping conspiracy, and were also convicted on one count of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, as the men allegedly planned to blow up a bridge near Whitmer’s home to hinder the government’s response.
Fox and Croft’s first trial ended in a mistrial. Two men pleaded guilty before the first trial and two others were acquitted of all charges in April.
Defense attorneys claimed that the men were entrapped by more than a dozen government undercover agents and informants who "conceived and controlled every aspect" of the plot to kidnap the governor.
The attorneys described Fox as "isolated, broke, homeless" and Croft as a trucker, and argued that they could’ve never carried out the operation by themselves, if not for being influenced by undercover agents.
"In America, the FBI is not supposed to create domestic bandidosbully boyz so that the FBI can arrest them," Fox attorney Christopher Gibbons told the jury, according to ABC News. "The FBI isn’t supposed to create a conspiracy so the FBI can stand up and claim a disruption."
Gibbons maintained that Fox was heavily influenced by a confidential informant named "Big Dan."
...Dan Chappel, who was paid $54,000 for six months work seducing his targets to come up with the most inept plot since Mad Magazine’s Spy vs. Spy. Inept federal agent, too — during the course of this thing he ended up indicted on federal gun charges...
"Adam Fox was not ever predisposed to the crime of kidnapping Gov. Whitmer. He talked a big game but talk is just talk. Adam Fox took no affirmative steps to achieve the ends as Special Agent Chambers
... Jayson Chambers, who was starting a side business as a security consultant at the time...
and Big Dan pushed so hard to achieve," Gibbons said in his closing argument before the jury, CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reported.
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The judge implemented time limits on the defense for cross-examining government witnesses - to not waste the jury's time. Captain Kangaroo was holding court. All that was needed was a Bunny Rabbit hand puppet, a moose and a trash can full of ping-pong balls.
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I've never understood what the FBI (aka the administration) was out to gain from this.
I'll go with discrediting resistance to Covid Procedures, Blamtifa.
Witchmore was in the top 3 most visible of the lockdown governors, with Michigan always on the leader board for most intrusive state. The deal about banning seeds for gardens was outrageous and pointed out that perhaps this was all an act, especially the picture of the seed display right next to the checkout counter. Blamtifa was really show its ass and people were not amused. Feds like hanging up IIIrs, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys anyways. Had the media shout loud and until people noticed the stink, then onto the next target loudly like a piper. What was the next crises, The Sturgis Plague Nexus? It was something big enough that this could just be disappeared.
Wish I'd borrowed a ton of money to finance my education, I could be cheating some bank out of it now, instead of paying for other cheats.The Biden administration is leaning toward canceling up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those who make less than $125,000 a year, according to a new report.
Ten thousand dollars won’t go very far against college loans heading toward $200,000 for four years at a name school, whether for something useful or the equivalent to a degree in Italian Renaissance poetry...
CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... reported that the announcement could come Wednesday, and that additional forgiveness for specific parts of the population are on the table as well. Is this expected to be a permanent thing? Or are future college loans expected to be paid back?
Liberal Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... of Massachusetts have pressed for a far more sweeping loan forgiveness program. The income cap was seen as a way of insulating the White House from criticism that the debt relief is benefiting those who can afford their payments, per CNN.
Sources told the network that the White House will also weigh in on the Aug. 31 expiration of the moratorium on student loan payments.
Last month, the Education Department told loan service providers not to contact borrowers about resuming payments, according to reports.
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Fine - as long as it applies to anyone whoever took out student loans who's still alive. Why should those of us who paid off their student loans get the shaft? It's all about equity, man!
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Kind of dilutes the value for education that those of us paid off by ourselves.
Although we did get a better product back then.
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Where is the constitutional lawsuit that only congress can approve spending budgets?
Why no pushback on the other student loans already forgiven for failing schools?
Congress should pass law extract the forgiven money from the universities that receive student grants.
Another give away before an election to buy votes!
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Why should those of us who paid off their student loans get the shaft? It's all about equity, man!
Why Komrades...people of the collective like yourselves owe it to others to take on your fair share of debt. To do otherwise would be hoarding wealth. Do you have a certification in Hydrodamalis Gender Construct Stanza? I certainly hope you are not of the kind to deny education.
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Tried something like that during Obama. IIRC if a person got involved in a community program, such as volunteer fire, I'd imagine other types of community service in urban settings perhaps soup kitchen, picking up trash in parks, whatever, there would be student debt forgiveness.
Not sure how that works, if the debt forgiveness out-valued having a paying job. I think the goal was Funemployment! but someone ruined the gig with a noble condition.
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Tried something like that during Obama. IIRC if a person got involved in a community program, such as volunteer fire, I'd imagine other types of community service in urban settings perhaps soup kitchen, picking up trash in parks, whatever, there would be student debt forgiveness.
If you recall, it was hard to get the 'volunteer' to show up after the first day of the job.
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Never underestimate the predictability of Free Shit People.
#20
Why should I, who never had a student loan but worked my ass off, have to support some spoiled brat who was stupid enough to sign a very large loan for a totally useless 'basketweaving ethnic studies' major?
#21
Socialism. Socialist government subsidizing leftist professors high salaries to pump leftist garbage into students heads. Students cant pay it back because no one will pay much for what they learned from leftist professors.
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And the looting of the remaining wealth of the nation continues. Obama/Biden has tripled the national debt and doubled the illegal alien residency. Since Biden is a mere Puppet Show, I suspect the Magic Kenyan has done more to damage America than anyone since Hitler/Hirohito.
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Abilities and Needs, Komrade CrazyFool. Abilities and Needs.
You have the ability to pay off debts. That graduate has the ability to apply the theories of Retrogradiant Hydrodamalis Magentafollical Observations to prove Polyester is Racist; can you do that? I F^kn' Love Science!
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I have an aquaintence who has a Master's in English Literature, a Bachelor's in English and a Bachelor's in poetry. She is happy that she will at least get a 10 grand reduction in her student loan because she can't pay it back because she can't get a job in her prefered fields. She refuses to work period.
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My BA is English. I worked straight out of school as a newspaper reporter for three years. So, I had a job related to my degree. Then I wound up in IT for the next 40 years. I thought about a Masters' briefly, but I could not justify stepping away from a steady paycheck. I had no student debt.
Is my experience typical? Probably not. Is it proof that you can go somewhere with a liberal arts degree? I'd say so.
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I love getting calls from scammers telling me that the government is going pay off my student loan. They usually just hang up when I tell them I paid off my loan 40 years ago when the cost of mailing my check every month got to be more than the interest on the loan.
Yes, there was a period of three years when I didn't pay off on the loan - when I spent three years active duty in the Navy.
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Insightful comment from Greg Price on CTH:
"Here are some facts: Only 37% of Americans have a 4-yr college degree, only 13% have graduate degrees, and a full 56% of student loan debt is held by people who went to grad school.
Biden's plan to cancel it would be like taking money from a plumber to pay the debt of a lawyer."
8:44 AM · Aug 23, 2022
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Trump and/or DeSantis should announce that if the President can forgive $10000 of student loans then next President can forgive $10000 in purchase of Firearms for any adult making less than $125k and can legally own a gun.
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I suspect many will stop working or work under the table not reporting their income to stay under the $125K.
$10,000 doesn't even graze the cost of 11 years of college that I paid for my daughter.
This so sucks.
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[Breitbart] Representative Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC’s "Deadline" that former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... was the first president of the United States "without character."
Schiff said, "We have seen a pattern with Donald Trump, and that is when he’s not held accountable. He goes on to commit worse misconduct. He wasn’t held accountable for his Russia misconduct that led to Ukraine. He wasn’t held accountable for the worst misconduct in Ukraine that led to a literal attack on our democracy on January 6."
He continued, "If he’s not held accountable and ever given an opportunity to exercise power again, we can expect things that are worst still. We are forewarned about this man."
He added, "We always knew the importance of character in the Oval Office, but we didn’t really know until we had someone without character occupy that office. So, I have to think that whatever motivation brought those documents to Mar-a-Lago had nothing to do with the president wanting to do his homework or the national security needs of the country. There’s only one thing that’s ever been important to Donald Trump, and tha
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The dem idea of "character" is being able to lie with a straight face and backstab their best friend. Compared to that, what chance does a prole have of getting a fair shake from them?
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Trump was probably the first President who outright enjoyed being President so he can help people.
[AMERICANTHINKER] Liz Cheney, who sits on the Jan. 6th Committee, has made her political agenda clear from the beginning. Although an "investigation" is supposed to be a search for the truth, Liz Cheney made agonizingly clear many times that she didn’t need to wait for the results of the investigation. From the beginning her stated aim was "make sure that Trump never gets near the White House again." Permanent Washington also made their aim clear. The Jan. 6th Committee "investigation" was for her, and many others, mere political theatre to achieve a predetermined political agenda.
Had Cheney been interested in the truth, she might have insisted that the committee seat the appropriate number and type of Republicans to cross-examine the prosecutorial witnesses. She did not do so. At every turn she interpreted any testimony in the worst way possible for Trump, e.g., she has recently stated that Trump "commanded" a "heavily armed mob" to try to stop the counting of electoral votes. She and her Jan. 6th Committee have, however, given no evidence whatsoever that Trump "commanded" an armed mob to use violence to stop the counting of electoral votes. Her very strong statement requires that she prove both causality and intent. However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the committee has only demonstrated a degree (even that not clear) of correlation between Trump’s remarks and the riot, namely, that Trump made some remarks and some people went to the Capitol and rioted. The committee has not proved that Trump’s remarks caused the mob to riot at the Capitol or that Trump intended that his remarks cause the mob to riot at the Capitol. Demonstrating causality or intent is never easy in social situations: "Since intent is a mental state. it is one of the most difficult things to prove." It is certainly not easy given the very murky events surrounding Jan. 6th, events that the committee in their "Star Chamber" has conspired to keep murky. For Liz Cheney, however, everything about Jan. 6th is as clear to her as her seething hatred of Donald Trump ...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US... Such intransigence is neither normal nor healthy. Bill O’Reilly thinks that her hatred of Trump stems from the fact that Trump savaged her father’s performance as vice-president. This does seem the most likely explanation. Many of us, no matter how many philosophical texts we have studied, would quickly lose our tempers when someone comes after our fathers, especially when they are as abrasive as Trump can be. It is precisely for that reason however that Liz Cheney is not suited to sit in judgment of Donald Trump. The American people will be the losers when such a committee becomes the instrument of someone’s personal Dire Revenge.
If Liz Cheney had stated her criticisms of Trump in more measured terms, that he had made some inflammatory statements, that he was unwise to claim the election was stolen, that he took too long to do anything to stop the mob violence, etc., many of us would have at least listened to her case. Unfortunately, she has instead made grossly exaggerated accusations that she represents as established fact but which have simply not been demonstrated. In brief, Liz Cheney appears to be unhinged. Instead of demonstrating that there is something wrong with Donald Trump she has unwittingly demonstrated that there is something wrong with Liz Cheney.
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Liz never lived in Wyoming. Don't dig to deep into why she thinks and says what she does. She never was a Republican just a child of a politician.
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Liz Cheney had only one job, namely to represent the people of Wyoming. The sole judges of how well she did her job are the people of Wyoming, and they have spoken.
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"Agony"? No sympathy for self-inflicted wounds...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NATIONALREVIEW] A federal judge convicted two men on Tuesday of conspiring in 2020 to kidnap Democratic Michigan governor 
The Biden administration is leaning toward canceling up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those who make less than $125,000 a year, according to a new report.
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
[AMERICANTHINKER] Liz Cheney, who sits on the Jan. 6th Committee, has made her political agenda clear from the beginning. Although an "investigation" is supposed to be a search for the truth, Liz Cheney made agonizingly clear many times that she didn’t need to wait for the results of the investigation. From the beginning her stated aim was "make sure that Trump never gets near the White House again." Permanent Washington also made their aim clear. The Jan. 6th Committee "investigation" was for her, and many others, mere political theatre to achieve a predetermined political agenda.
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
