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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Austin, Texas: Over Three Dozen Bodies Found in Lake Since 2022, Prompting Fears of Serial Killer
[Breitbart] Suicides, simple accidents, a deadly combination of alcohol and deep water — or a clever serial killer on the loose in the Texas state capitol?
What about a gangster hitman burial ground? Professionals need to get rid of bodies, too.
That’s the question haunting Austin, Texas locals after the dead body count in a reservoir named Lady Bird Lake climbed to 38 recovered corpses since 2022 when another man’s body was pulled from its waters last month.

The Austin Police Department (APD) told Fox News Digital that detectives don’t suspect foul play, and the department is working to determine whether the body recovered is a 17-year-old kayaker reported missing.

But the discovery of yet another dead body has reignited fears that a serial killer is hunting male victims in Austin and disposing their bodies in or around the lake. The reservoir was first created in the 1960s as a cooling pond for a power plant but is now used primarily for recreation and flood control.

Local authorities downplay the possibility of foul play.

However, Dr. Carole Lieberman, a forensic psychiatrist and expert trial witness, told Fox News Digital that the theory can’t be so easily dismissed.

“The denials by law enforcement and other authorities that these cases are murders or the work of a serial killer are premature,” she said. “They don’t want the public to panic about a possible serial killer, so they are making light of all the deaths.”

According to data obtained by Fox 7, of the nearly three dozen bodies found, 30 have reportedly been men, with approximately 60 percent between 30 and 49 years old. Fox 7 reported:

“In the past three years, the causes of death have been mainly attributed to accidental drownings. Second is suicide, as well as drug overdoses, and natural causes. Only one case has been ruled a murder; about half a dozen of these cases remain unknown.”

Lieberman said such statistics often don’t tell the whole story:

One cannot rule out that a so-called ‘accidental’ drowning isn’t the result of a murderer unless there were witnesses. Murderers can use drowning as their [modus operandi]. Similarly, suicides must be proven, not just assumed if someone has been depressed.

The psychiatrist added that date rape drugs can render even a man easy prey for a thief or a killer, citing water as an attractive way to dispose of a body:

Water can cause decomposition of the body and can wash away evidence, from fingerprints to DNA. If the water has movement, such as a river or stream, it can propel the body far from the actual scene of the crime, making it more complicated to find the killer. Some killers choose water-based crime scenes with the hopes that their murder will be misconstrued as drowning, which can make it harder, because it can be difficult to differentiate drowning from murder.

In a 2023 statement, Fox Digital reported, APD tried to dispense of public fears that a serial killer was targeting men in the area. The department cited alcohol mixed with a large body of water as the culprit, with the majority of deaths occurring after the surrounding park’s closing time.

“One common theme of the drownings in Austin is the combination of alcohol and easy access to Lady Bird Lake, which has numerous access points,” the department stated in 2023.

APD told Fox Digital this week:

APD has not found any evidence to support that these deaths are suspicious or connected to criminal activity. All of these incidents have been thoroughly investigated, and the vast majority have been determined to involve factors such as mental health issues, natural causes like heart attacks, inability to swim, substance use or underlying medical conditions.

The reservoir has become a major recreational area for the city, bordered by hiking and bike trails and businesses offering non-motorized water craft like canoes and kayaks. While city officials want to avoid sparking unnecessary panic, there are also strong financial interests in maintaining a reputation for public safety at the popular Austin attraction.

The lake was named after the popular wife of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who went by the nickname “Lady Bird.”

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 09:02 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs


After Nearly 62 Years, CIA Finally Admits a Pyschological Warfare Agent from the Agency
[Gateway] President John F. Kennedy was assassinated 62 years ago while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.

Thanks to President Trump the American public is finally discovering the real story behind the assassination.

For years Americans have been holding their own investigations into the death of our 35th president.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. told Tucker Carlson back in August 2023 that he has had discussions with CIA and mob hitmen who were assigned to the JFK assassination.

Robert Kennedy, Jr. told The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft in May 2023 that his father’s initial impulse was to call the CIA and ask about their involvement. Kennedy is convinced of CIA involvement in his uncle’s assassination.

Robert’s father, Robert Kennedy, was later assassinated in San Francisco during his campaign for US president.

Now, according to AXIOS, for the first time since President Kennedy’s assassination, the CIA has admitted that an officer specializing in psychological warfare ran an operation that "came into contact with" Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination in Dallas.

The newly released documents reveal CIA operatives got into a scuffle with Oswald in a New Orleans’ bar. The DRE was an anti-communist group and Oswald was reportedly handing out pro-Castro propaganda.

The CIA was covertly funding the DRE.
Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE)

From the report: A year before Oswald became known as pro-Castro, the Pentagon formulated a plan called Operation Northwoods to stage a false-flag attack in the United States, blame Cuba and then attack it.

AXIOS has more.

How much more on the Kennedy assassination is out there that we still don’t know about?
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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [115 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Confirming what many have suspected for a very, very long time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2025 6:24 Comments || Top||


#3 
How much more on the Kennedy assassination is out there that we still don’t know about?

The information has been buried and obfuscated so deeply for so very long, I have no hope the truth will ever come to light. The same thing was unrolled again 13 July 2024.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/06/2025 11:10 Comments || Top||

#4  American with 'CIA' credentials........

Fails smell test.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2025 12:37 Comments || Top||


WATCH ‐ ‘F**k Him Up!': Men Rescue Woman from Suspected NYC Subway Attacker
[Breitbart] A male suspect was charged after an incident at a Brooklyn subway station Sunday in which a 20-year-old woman was targeted, resulting in several Good Samaritans stepping in to rescue her.

The suspect, 42-year-old Fredrick Marshall, allegedly began trying to argue with the woman, then grabbed her and locked her in a bear hug, at which point she screamed, the New York Post reported on Thursday

Marshall was reportedly a stranger to the woman and followed her onto the J train platform at Norwood Avenue in Cypress Hills on Sunday morning. Tensions escalated when he allegedly began arguing with her.

Video footage shows the suspect, wearing white, as he held onto her and tried to move her down the platform. Several people watched in disbelief as she screamed and others followed the pair as they moved away from another train and near the tracks.

Someone is heard shouting “Let her go!” repeatedly until the suspect finally does release her. However, when she tries to run away, the suspect grabs her again and they fall to the ground. Several men then drag the suspect off of the woman and appear to kick him.

“Fuck him up!” one man is heard saying as the group holds him down. The distraught woman then gets to her feet and runs away from the scene.

As one of the men walks away, he says to the suspect, “Somebody try to tell you to something, chill the fuck out! Now you got it”:

Law enforcement said medical personnel treated the woman at the scene for shoulder pain and minor injuries, adding that Marshall was arrested and officers found a knife and blackjack on his person.

According to the Recoil website, a blackjack is a short, weighted, concealable weapon that can be used to bludgeon a person.

The Post reported, “He was charged with third-degree assault, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, third-degree attempted assault and second-degree harassment, according to a criminal complaint.”

“Marshall — who cops say has no prior arrests — was granted supervised release during his arraignment the next day, as the charges are not bail-eligible, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office,” the report added.
Suicidally nuts.
Social media users were quick to respond to the Post‘s story, specifically about the men who stepped in to rescue the victim. One user commented, “Justice served fast and fierce.”

In late 2024, crime prevention activist and New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa said his public safety organization known as the Guardian Angels would return to the city’s subways, the news coming after a horrific arson murder of a sleeping passenger, per Breitbart News.

“We’re going to have to increase our numbers, increase the training and increase our presence as we did back in 1979,” Sliwa explained.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [92 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  We’ll see more of this.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2025 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Yeah. Everybody - and I mean everybody - is sick of it.
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/06/2025 12:07 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
NORAD intercepts plane in Trump's Bedminster no-fly zone: 'No excuses'
[FoxNews] Officials warn pilots about entering restricted New Jersey airspace during Trump's stay

A fighter jet scrambled by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercepted a civilian aircraft Saturday afternoon after it entered restricted airspace over Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Donald Trump is spending the holiday weekend.

The pilot flew into a temporary flight restriction (TFR) zone just before 2:40 p.m. ET, according to a NORAD statement.

The aircraft was safely escorted out of the area after a standard "headbutt" maneuver was used to get the pilot’s attention.

This was the fourth restricted airspace violation of the day and not the last.

NORAD says another incursion happened later, making for five unauthorized entries in a single day over presidential airspace.

NORAD responded swiftly, using its layered defense system of radar, satellites and fighter aircraft designed to protect U.S. and Canadian skies. The airspace over Bedminster is locked down any time Trump is in town.

Officials are warning private pilots to do their homework before takeoff.

"If you’re flying anywhere near Bedminster, NJ, you’d better check NOTAMs 1353, 1358, 2246, and 2247," 1st Air Force (America’s AOC) posted on X. "No excuses! Stay sharp, stay legal, and stay out of restricted airspace."

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 09:21 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Texas has deployed a TON of air, land, and water rescue assets to Kerr County
[X]
…especially given the devastation. Hundreds of game wardens, state troopers, and National Guard all RAPIDLY deployed. And they’re doing a fantastic job.

They’re working around the clock, and they will NOT stop until everyone is accounted for,
@GregAbbott_TX
says.

They're just doing that to make California look bad.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [87 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I looked at some precip data. Several stations had over 10" and some even had over 15" in 48 hours.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/06/2025 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Coming back from Rockport yesterday, we overtook a Texas Highway Patrol convoy heading north on the road between Victoria and Cuero: two inflatable launches on trailers and several patrol SUVs. We presume they were heading north to assist.
My daughter is supervising the resale of a property in Kerrville, and has been going there every week for a couple of months - she knows the area passingly well. The flood just came out of nowhere, without warning, in a matter of a few hours.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 07/06/2025 9:21 Comments || Top||


#4  NWS issued Flood Watch in plenty of time.

Flood Warnings were a bit late but that is because these are based on observations. Also, flood warning have to be heard and if you aren't on line (which many campers weren't) you aren't going to hear them.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/06/2025 13:55 Comments || Top||


The Sun has thrown out another record-breaking prominence
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Sun has thrown out its sixth prominence of record-breaking size in a week. This was reported on July 5 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"The Sun continues to set records for the size of prominences ejected into space. The new video, filmed today in the first half of the day on the right edge of the Sun, is no less amazing than all the previous ones," the laboratory's Telegram channel said.

Scientists have managed to record a new giant plasma structure measuring over a million kilometers. It was ejected toward the north pole of the solar system between 9:00 and 14:00 Moscow time.

About a day before, specialists registered a similar-sized plasma emission near the star's south pole. At the same time, the laboratory emphasized that none of these structures affected the Earth and do not pose a threat to the planet.

Earlier, a large plasma emission occurred in the area of ​​the Sun's south pole. According to experts, a cloud of rare size and density formed as a result of the destabilization of a giant solar prominence. Since it was located on the far side of the Sun, it was impossible to observe it from Earth.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 31, scientists recorded the largest solar ejection since the beginning of the year. The power of the flow was only slightly less than that of the flow in May 2024, which caused a category 5 magnetic storm on Earth. At the same time, the plasma cloud traveled to Earth at a speed of more than 1000 km/s. It reached the planet almost a day earlier than scientists predicted.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [46 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Quick-Acting Young Brothers Save Toddlers Who Wandered onto Roof in Detroit
[Breitbart] Detroit public safety officials are praising four brothers as heroes for rescuing two toddlers who wandered onto the roof of a home in their neighborhood.

In a story first reported exclusively by WDIV Channel 4, Isaiah said Elijah Christopher told the NBC affiliate they were walking to the hardware store when they noticed two small children on a rooftop.

“We seen some little kids on a roof,” Isaiah told the station. “We ran over to check where they was at.”

The two boys then ran towards a woman who was a neighbor, who told them to stand by while she went to grab a ladder. But after the woman returned with the ladder, the boys’ two older brothers Calvin and Jabari Jackson showed up and took over the rescue effort.

Calvin held the ladder while Jabari scaled it and and reached the roof, though he said he has a fear of heights.

“I was really scared at first, but I just balled it (my fears) and threw it out the window so I can get this kid safe,” he told WDIV.

The children on the roof, ages one and two, apparently had climbed out of a second story window. Jabari was able to put the children back inside through the same window.

Afterwards, the boys knocked on the door of the home, but no one answered.

Calvin said he and his brothers saw a man peek out of the window twice during the amazing rescue of the toddlers, but they were confused as to why the man didn’t answer the door.

WDIV reported that Detroit police are calling the boys heroes. There’s been no word yet whether child welfare officials are investigating the incident.

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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 09:05 || Comments || Link || [35 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "they were confused as to why the man didn’t answer the door." "the man" probably knew there was an arrest warrant outstanding in his name.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/06/2025 11:06 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Well-preserved Greek and Roman tombs discovered in Egypt
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Archaeologists have discovered well-preserved tombs from the Ptolemaic and Roman periods in southern Egypt during excavations in Aswan. The discovery was made by a joint Egyptian-Italian mission, the country's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported.

The rock-cut tombs were found in a cemetery near the Aga Khan mausoleum on the west bank of Aswan. They contain hieroglyphic inscriptions that are in good condition.

As noted by the department, one of the discovered tombs is located at a depth of more than two meters underground, with a stone staircase of nine steps leading to it. Inside this tomb, a limestone sarcophagus about two meters high was found, located on a rocky platform. Its lid is made in the form of a person with bright features of a human face.

The sarcophagus has hieroglyphic texts. Archaeologists have established that the owner of the tomb was a high-ranking official from Aswan. Mummies, including those of children, were also found in the sarcophagus.

Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Mohamed Ismail Khaled said the finds and inscriptions would provide rich scientific material for Egyptologists. He said tomography and biological analysis of the mummies found are planned.

As previously reported by Regnum News Agency, in the Saqqara region south of Cairo, Egyptian archaeologists discovered the tomb of Prince Waser-if-re, the son of King Userkaf.


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Posted by: badanov || 07/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [77 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Monkeys living in the ruins of an abandoned city.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/06/2025 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Cries that they were black Africans in 3.... 2....
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2025 11:04 Comments || Top||


Britain
The 'unloved' town abandoned by tourists: How once-thriving seaside jewel is now packed with derelict ghost hotels leaving locals 'heartbroken'
[MAIL] While for some it still brings back fond childhood memories of a fun-filled seaside holiday, Blackpool is long past its heyday.

It is now one of the most deprived towns in the UK.

Plagued by drugs, poverty and crime, the seaside resort has been in decline for decades.

It has the highest proportion of alcohol-related deaths in England and was recently named the local authority area where men have the lowest life expectancy.

And while it may come as a shock to those who visited the resort religiously during its booming post-war years, to anyone who takes a stroll down the promenade today, the deprivation is clear as day.

Buildings that once housed shops and cafes lay empty, and the 'forgotten' streets behind the promenade are left in ruins.

But one of the biggest indicators of the 'unloved' town are the plethora of previously bustling hotels that have since shut down and been left crumbling for years.

When MailOnline visited Blackpool, not only were hotels left abandoned and boarded up, but the buildings were seen rotting and disintegrating, becoming a zone for fly-tipping and in some cases, had been targets by gangs for cannabis farms.

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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [179 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fly-tipping is a term that I had not heard.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2025 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Illegal dumping, also called fly dumping or fly tipping, is the dumping of waste illegally
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2025 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Fly-tipping is like cow-tipping, but you need a tweezers and must be really really fast.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/06/2025 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  LOL, Steve
Posted by: Matt || 07/06/2025 12:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Wow!
Won't the homeless migrants be happy.
Are the unused churches being mosqued?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 12:30 Comments || Top||


The Biggest Exodus of Wealth Is Happening in a Western Nation, And the US Should Take Note | The Gateway Pundit
[Survive The News] The United Kingdom’s suppressive policies have consequences — with some wealthier individuals seeking greener pastures.

On June 24, Forbes reported that the U.K. is facing a massive transfer of wealth out of the country, "the largest single-year exodus of wealth ever recorded."
How many of them were previously French citizens who had fled predatory socialist government policies there for the welcome of London’s “City”?
Projections indicate 16,500 high-net-worth individuals — those whose "liquid investable wealth [is worth] $1 million or more" — are seeking residency in other countries.

Founder of Apex Capital Partners Nuri Katz helps people like this by offering guidance should they wish to relocate.

Katz stated this shift doesn’t signal that the upper class is fleeing in terror so much as it is making a backup plan that can be used when needed.

"These people are not actually leaving the U.K. They are simply getting paperwork in different countries, but aren’t necessarily making the move," Katz clarified.

"To have one million dollars in liquid assets, basically money in the bank, generally you’d have to be worth close to $10 million," he explained of the criteria to be considered a high-net-worth individual.

Forbes, citing the study released by Henley & Partners, wrote that only 30 percent of high-net-worth individuals "opt for investment migration programs," with most choosing "work visas, ancestry visas, retirement visas, family visas, or... birthright second passports."
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Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [171 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey,...California.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  The EUropeans can exit to USA, where do Americans exit?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/06/2025 3:08 Comments || Top||

#3  ...we have states. It's sort of interesting how many both home and abroad don't comprehend the extent that states have to shape their own fate within the union.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2025 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Right. Texas is not California, New York not Florida.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2025 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  The EUropeans can exit to USA, where do Americans exit?

Israel, it's God land.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 07/06/2025 13:06 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China 'is preparing to launch industrial-scale forced organ harvesting', as Beijing reveals plans to triple number of transplant facilities in province home to Uyghur Muslims
Totalitarian governments do things like that. It’s a profit center at a time when thr government desperately needs improved cash flow in the face of Trumpian tariffs and other painful measures.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] China is preparing to dramatically scale up forced organ donations from Uyghur Muslims and other persecuted minorities, rights groups have claimed.

A statement published in December 2024 by China's National Health Commission announced plans to triple the number of medical facilities capable of performing organ transplants in the Xinjiang region, home to the vast majority of Uyghurs in the country.

Six new transplant institutions are due to be built by the end of the decade, bringing the region's total to nine, according to the Plan for the Establishment of Human Organ Transplant Hospitals in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (2024–2030), issued by Chinese authorities.

The expanded facilities will reportedly be authorised to perform transplants of all major organs, including hearts, lungs, livers, kidneys and pancreas.

But official figures show Xinjiang's voluntary organ donation rate stands at just 0.69 donors per million people – less than one-sixth of the national average of 4.6.

The move has prompted warnings from rights campaigners and international human rights experts who say the planned expansion aims to fuel industrial-scale organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience.

'This massive expansion in Xinjiang, a region already under scrutiny for systematic repression, raises deeply troubling questions about where the organs will come from,' said Professor Wendy Rogers, Chair of the Advisory Board at the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC).

'There is simply no justification for such growth in transplant capacity given the region's official organ donation rate, which is far below the national average.'

Beijing has repeatedly denied accusations by human rights researchers and scholars that it forcibly takes organs from prisoners of conscience.

The planned expansion outlined by the National Health Commission includes facilities across northern, southern and eastern Xinjiang, including in the capital Urumqi.

Of the nine total hospitals set to be operational by 2030, seven will perform heart transplants, five will offer lung transplants, four will carry out liver operations, and five will conduct kidney and pancreas procedures.

Critics say this network will far outpace the needs of the region's population, suggesting that the only reasonable explanation is that authorities are planning to forcibly harvest organs from detainees.

It is estimated that between 60,000 and 100,000 transplants are conducted in China each year - vastly more than the country's official donation system can support.

Since 2006, practitioners of the Buddhist practice of Falun Gong have been the primary victim group of forced organ harvesting, with the Uyghur population now thought to be at risk.

MailOnline previously covered the nightmarish story of Cheng Pei Ming, a rural villager and Falun Gong practitioner from China's Shandong Province, who endured unimaginable suffering from forced organ transplants before eventually escaping and making his way to the United States.

Although China claimed in 2015 to have ceased using organs from executed prisoners, no legal reforms accompanied the announcement, and harvesting organs from prisoners of conscience was never explicitly outlawed.

Meanwhile, Uyghur Muslims held in Chinese detention camps have reported undergoing blood tests, ultrasounds and other organ-focused medical scans, procedures consistent with assessing organ compatibility.

'The concept of informed, voluntary consent is meaningless in Xinjiang's carceral environment,' said David Matas, a veteran human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who has investigated forced organ harvesting in China for nearly two decades.

'Given the systemic repression, any claim that donations are voluntary should be treated with the utmost scepticism.

'The lack of legal safeguards, the history of abuse, and the ongoing repression in Xinjiang all point to the urgent need for independent scrutiny of this transplant expansion,' added Dr Maya Mitalipova, a geneticist who has testified before the US Congress about reverse organ matching techniques and biometric surveillance in China.

'This could be industrial-scale organ harvesting under a state-controlled system.'

The United Nations and several democratic governments have repeatedly voiced concern over credible reports of forced organ harvesting and systemic repression of Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and other minority groups in China.

In June 2021, 12 UN special rapporteurs and human rights experts raised the alarm over allegations that minorities in Chinese detention were subjected to blood tests and organ scans without consent.

Their findings suggested that results were entered into a national database used to allocate organs.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [97 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Note the deafening silence of the Islamic world.

This level of brutality and atrocity is actually shameful for the victims in an honor shame culture, hence the silence.

Conversely 10/7 was seen as shameful for Israel which made Israel's adversaries feel empowered.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/06/2025 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Tim Walz pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2025 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Genghiz Khan had the reputation of being history's largest supplier of human heads. He made a pyramid of heads outside the ruins of Baghdad.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/06/2025 11:14 Comments || Top||



Home Front: Politix
Deadly Texas flood exposes 'neglected' weather alert system Trump aims to modernize
[FoxNews] After a Texas flood killed at least 32 people Friday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem addressed criticism about notification prior to the flood, saying the administration is working on updating the National Weather Service and NOAA's "neglected" and "ancient" systems.

Citing her time in Congress and as governor of South Dakota, Noem said that while the weather is difficult to predict, there have been instances when officials and citizens expressed the need for quicker warning and clearer notification before deadly weather.

"That is one of the reasons that, when President [Donald] Trump took office, he said he wanted to fix and is currently upgrading the technology," Noem said during a news conference with state officials Saturday afternoon.

"The National Weather Service has indicated that with that and the [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] (NOAA), we needed to renew this ancient system that has been left in place with the federal government for many, many years."
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 00:14 || Comments || Link || [114 views] Top|| File under:

#1  current flood alert system used is one that interrupts regular radio with a message

probably we need a flood alert system as good as the one we have for tornado alerts
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/06/2025 7:58 Comments || Top||

#2  The local news showed the timeline last night. The first warning (like a 'watch') came about midnight, followed by two upgrades. But the final 'get out of Dodge' came about 4 am. The Camp, where there are 20+ missing, had over 800 campers.

Perspective.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2025 8:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Leftists blame Trump/Musk cuts (to take effect in October)
Red State
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#4  The river rose 26 feet above flood stage in (something like an hour - I've slept since that report), but was well below the record, from 1987.
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#5  Some time ago [pre P.Trump] FedBizOps published a RFI for a flood alert system. I don't recall a follow-on solicitation.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2025 8:46 Comments || Top||






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