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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Report: Illegal Trucker Behind Fatal U-Turn Failed English Language Test
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[Breitbart] The semi-truck driver, who allegedly killed three Americans while making an illegal U-turn in Florida, failed an English language proficiency test and also failed to accurately identify highway traffic signs.

In a press release from the Department of Transportation (DOT), it was revealed that officials with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) had launched an investigation into the deadly crash in Florida, which left three people dead.

During an interview with the driver, who has been identified as Harjinder Singh, investigators administered an English Language Proficiency (ELP) assessment. Singh failed the assessment and only provided “correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions,” and he only accurately identified “1 of 4 highway traffic signs,” according to the press release.

“If states had followed the rules, this driver would never have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. “This crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures. Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles.”

The press release also revealed that on July 15, 2023, Washington State “issued” Singh a “regular full-term Commercial Driver’s License (CDL),” and that on July 23, 2024, the driver was issued a “limited-term/non-domiciled CDL” in California.

Breitbart News reported that the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Department announced on Saturday that “State Troopers obtained a criminal arrest warrant for the driver,” who was reportedly identified as Singh. Singh allegedly entered the United States illegally through the southern border in 2018 and then went on to obtain a “Commercial Driver’s License” in California:

State Troopers obtained a criminal arrest warrant for the driver, Harjinder Singh, for three (3) counts of vehicular homicide. During the course of this criminal investigation and with the assistance of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), State Troopers determined that Harjinder Singh entered the United States illegally, having crossed the Mexico border in 2018. The Defendant then obtained a Commercial Driver’s License in the state of California.

Breitbart News reported that the accident “occurred near Fort Pierce, Florida, on August 12, when a northbound semi-truck allegedly crossed over all lanes” as thedriver attempted to use an “official use only” opening to make an illegal U-turn:

The accident occurred near Fort Pierce, Florida, on August 12, when a northbound semi-truck allegedly crossed over all lanes as the driver tried to use an “official use only” turn opening on the Florida Turnpike so he could head south.

The deaths from the fatal U-turn are the latest in a string of deaths from fatal road accidents caused by foreign truck drivers.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April, noting that proficiency in English “should be a non-negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers.”

“They should be able to read and understand traffic signs, communicate with traffic safety, border patrol, agricultural checkpoints, and cargo weight-limit station officers,” the order continues. “Drivers need to provide feedback to their employers and customers and receive related directions in English. This is common sense.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2025 08:18 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [150 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants


#2  Failed English Language Test

But, he's from India
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/20/2025 10:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Prob find him not competent to stand trial.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2025 13:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Forget the language aspect, as that is a recent thing, how did he pass those tests without knowing traffic signs?

Oh, I know how, I just want to hear it said. Out loud. In court.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/20/2025 14:34 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
They/Them Park Ranger Who Unfurled Trans Flag On El Capitan, Gets a Permanent Vacation
[RS]
… organizing the trans flag protest against the Trump Administration.

SJ Joslin organized the flag protest whilst taking drag queen ‘Pattie Gonia’ up the rock formation as part of a stunt to demand more ‘Trans Rights’ in the U.S.

Source: NBC

Posted by: Frank G || 08/20/2025 09:05 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [127 views] Top|| File under: Nut Jobs

#1  For being so self decreed on leaders of style and panache, they sure are tacky.

Rock Climbers should be well aware choices have consequences, so she is retarded or playing boo-hoo; a quantity of both would be my guess. I love how the article quotes the pronoun preferences then immediately uses the real world one.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/20/2025 10:55 Comments || Top||

#2  "her"!
LOL!
Insane that six months ago people lost their jobs over this bullshit.
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 08/20/2025 11:22 Comments || Top||


Wichita Confederate war memorial defaced in latest skirmish over Civil War remembrance
[Wichita Eagle] In the latest cultural skirmish over how America remembers its Civil War, someone with apparent Union sympathies did a spray paint edit on a monument honoring Confederate soldiers at Wichita’s Veterans Memorial Park. Whoever did it painted over the word "Confederate" in the phrase "In honor of all Confederate veterans of the War Between the States 1861-1865.

On the same granite panel, they painted over the words "courage," "devotion" and "military duty" in regard to the troops of the Confederacy. On another panel, they altered a sentence honoring Confederate dead copied from a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. The carved inscription reads, "Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple obedience to duty as they understood it, these men suffered all — sacrificed all — dared all — and died."
Black Bloc, I’d bet.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/20/2025 06:16 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [96 views] Top|| File under:


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The USS New Orleans LPD18 Continues To Burn
Time to increase inspections and drills — the Navy got careless under the Biden Politburo.
[CDRSALAMANDER] Via Brian McElhiney and Keishi Koja at Stars and Stripes:

Japan’s coast guard and military are helping the Navy battle a blaze that broke out aboard an amphibious transport docking ship off Okinawa’s southeastern coast on Wednesday evening. “Crews are responding to a fire aboard USS New Orleans (LPD 18) this evening, Aug. 20, (Japan time) which is in the vicinity of Okinawa, Japan,” U.S. 7th Fleet wrote in an unsigned statement emailed to Stars and Stripes. “We will provide more details as they become available.”

The fire started in the front part of the 684-foot-long vessel, a coast guard spokesman told Stars and Stripes by phone Wednesday. “We do not know if it started on the outside or the inside of the ship; we are still investigating,” he said.

Two tugboats and an unspecified Self-Defense Force vessel were participating in firefighting efforts at 6 p.m., the spokesman said.

Camp Foster withdrew the firefighting request at 5:55 p.m. and asked all vessels to stay about a mile away, the coast guard said. The request was reinstated at 7:28 p.m.

The coast guard initially dispatched one vessel and was preparing to join firefighting efforts as of 8:30 p.m., the spokesman said

It looks like the fire is not contained. Doing a last-minute check of the news, as of 11:30 am Wednesday Eastern (12:30 am Thursday Okinawa time), it is still burning.

She has been on fire for almost seven hours so far. That is not good for any ship.

In time, we will know more about what is burning (though lack of significant dark smoke gives me some hints), but we do have possibilities.

As an amphibious ship, the layout is a bit different than a normal warship.

This fire appears to be forward and below the main deck. That is where “stores” are in the above diagram. It is also where the MK-41 VLS void is, but no ships in the class were ever fielded with this capability.

One saving grace is that we are being helped by the Japanese. When in trouble, you could not ask for better help.

Say a prayer for the Americans and Japanese fighting this fire…and be careful as news comes out. First reports are often wrong…but what is happening is clear as day.
Posted by: Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 || 08/20/2025 12:42 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [193 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess the green transition to battery power isn't working out well. /sarc
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/20/2025 18:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Fire apparently out after 12 hours. Saw one report that it was electrical in nature.
Posted by: Nero || 08/20/2025 18:30 Comments || Top||


Officials: No injuries after cargo ship explosion near Key Bridge
[WBALTV] The Fort McHenry Federal Channel was reopened Tuesday after an apparent explosion on a ship near the Key Bridge site closed it on Monday.

Baltimore City Fire Department spokesman John Marsh said no injuries were reported aboard the merchant vessel W-Sapphire, a 751-foot bulk carrier that had a crew of 23 people. Marsh said the carrier showed "signs of damage consistent with a fire and explosion."

The Coast Guard told 11 News the ship was outbound from the harbor on Monday when the explosion occurred.

Baltimore City Fire Department spokesman John Marsh said no injuries were reported aboard the merchant vessel W-Sapphire, a 751-foot bulk carrier that had a crew of 23 people
The Port of Baltimore announced on Tuesday the Fort McHenry Channel was reopened:

"The U.S. Coast Guard has reopened the Fort McHenry Federal Channel into and out of the Port of Baltimore. We appreciate the great work of the Coast Guard, tugs, pilots, and other port partners to reopen the channel as quickly as possible. We also thank our customers for their patience and understanding through this incident."

Mike Singer, a member of the Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay Shipwatchers group, told 11 News that the ship was full of coal and had just left the CSX Coal Dock.

"The ship was coming out at 47 feet in the water," Singer told 11 News. "That is a full coal ship for this port. Ships come out of here full of coal four to six times per week."

The explosion was reported at 6:28 p.m., Singer said.

"I just heard a loud boom and a rumble, felt like a vibration," said Tim Holt, a Dundalk resident. "I didn't see any smoke. Then, I heard a ship blew up by the Key Bridge."

Investigators told 11 News a hatch blew off and went into the water during the explosion. They were trying to find its exact location and remove it, along with any other debris that could pose a problem.

Marsh said firefighters responded by both land and water, and that the ship will be moved to an anchorage area and will remain there until it is cleared by the Coast Guard.

The cause of the fire is under investigation, the Coast Guard said. The ship has since been anchored closer to Annapolis, near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. It was expected to arrive in the Port of Mauritius in about a month. Built in 2012, the ship is currently sailing under a Liberian flag.
My guess would be coal dust, at first glance.
Just interesting then, not enemy action.
The Coast Guard said crews are waiting for a safety evaluation before they board and inspect the ship.

For Holt, the explosion brought back memories of the Key Bridge collapse.

"Bridge gets hit by one ship, then another one blows up in the same place where the ship hit the bridge," Holt said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [90 views] Top|| File under:


Insider reveals yet another cover-up of health scandal plaguing top secret military bases across America
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] An Air Force veteran who was stationed at Area 51 claims that the US government has covered up a deadly health scandal at military bases throughout the country.

David Crete, a former Air Force Sergeant, was a security guard at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), a classified site that houses the infamous top-secret base.

He's one of many veterans who became seriously ill with the same mysterious symptoms years after working at NTTR.

Crete, who worked at NTTR from 1983 through 1987, claimed that hundreds of his fellow workers have died of severe illnesses, including cancer, since being stationed at the secret facility.

This 'invisible enemy', as Crete described it to the Daily Mail, consists mainly of hazardous radiation contaminating the water, soil, and air around the base, which was built on a site used for nuclear weapons testing in the 1940s and 50s.

Despite a 1975 report from the US Department of Energy warning that the area was severely irradiated, the military continued to station troops at NTTR.

However, Crete alleged that conditions at other bases, missile complexes, and secret labs have caused severe illnesses that the government has yet to acknowledge.

'I think that the government has tried to sweep a whole lot of places under the rug,' Crete claimed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [128 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A powerful flare was recorded on the Sun
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A powerful M1.1 flare occurred on the Sun. This was reported on August 19 by the press service of the Institute of Applied Geophysics named after Academician E.K. Fedorov (Federal State Budgetary Institution "IPG").

“On August 19 at 07:39 Moscow time, an M1.1 flare lasting 50 minutes was recorded in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 4188 (S09E88),” the report says.

Moderate flare activity is expected in the next two days. Class X flares are not excluded.

Scientists noted that the geomagnetic field may be unstable, and the radiation situation may be undisturbed. Also, radio communications may deteriorate during the day.

Magnetic storm started on Earth due to coronal hole on the Sun
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A magnetic storm has begun on Earth due to the action of a coronal hole on the Sun. This was reported on August 19 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

"Judging by the explosive growth of the solar wind speed, the Earth has just flown headlong into a coronal hole. Let's see how strong the magnetosphere is," the scientists reported on their Telegram channel.

According to them, at the moment the magnetosphere is in the green zone.

Earlier it became known that magnetic storms on Earth could intensify to the red level by the end of the day. However, according to their forecasts, in the next 48 hours the geomagnetic activity index, which measures disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field, could move to the yellow and even red zones. There is also a possibility that the solar wind speed will approach the orange level.

More from regnum.ru
Scientists warn of possible intensification of magnetic storms by the end of the day
Magnetic storms on Earth may intensify to the red level by the end of the day. This was reported on August 19 by specialists from the solar astronomy laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

According to scientists, geomagnetic disturbances are expected within the next 48 hours.

“At the same time, observations are lagging far behind the forecast, and the speed values of 800-900 km/s expected by the morning are still nowhere to be seen,” experts noted on the Telegram channel.

Scientists noted that the geomagnetic activity index, which measures disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field, remains in the calm zone for now. However, they predict that it could move into the yellow and even red zones in the coming hours. There is also a possibility that the solar wind speed will approach the orange level.


Posted by: badanov || 08/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [83 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
A devastating blaze erupted at an industrial warehouse in Los Guayos, Venezuela, leaving 4 people dead
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [114 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Did we see this in a movie with Harrison Ford?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/20/2025 12:52 Comments || Top||


'Socialism Defeated': Bolivia Boots Its Ruling Leftists After 20 Years In Power
[ZeroHedge] Was there ever a sweeter headline than this, coming from the Washington Post of all places?

Socialism is defeated as Bolivia heads to presidential election runoff

According to the Post:

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s socialist movement has been defeated for the first time in two decades, according to preliminary election results, as voters chose a centrist senator and a right-wing former president to go head-to-head in a presidential runoff that could bring dramatic change for this South American nation.

Centrist senator Rodrigo Paz and former president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga won the most votes Sunday in a crowded race for president in this country of 12 million people, according to unofficial results from an early count that shows the two far out in front in a trend analysts say is irreversible.

Their victories mark the end of a socialist era for Bolivia, where the leftist movement of former president Evo Morales has dominated politics since his historic 2005 election as the country’s first Indigenous president. As the country faces its worst economic crisis in 40 years, voters here demanded a change.

Hell has frozen over in Bolivia -- which is often a bellwether for the direction of South America's politics.

The report notes that several conservative candidates didn't make the final cut for the runoff, Quiroga has been around for a long time, and Paz is a moderate. But something like this represents progress, given the long grip socialism has had on the battered Andean country, which is known for its valuable natural resources. And to read the article, Paz doesn't sound like a moderate -- he sounds pretty conservative, seeking to let markets determine prices.

Meanwhile, the performance of the socialists in office over 20 long years was execrable, and the Post gave an accurate-sounding rundown:

[Socialist Evo] Morales’s so-called “economic miracle” was once hailed as a socialist success story during his three terms as president. His government was credited with lifting millions out of poverty and into the middle class. He funneled billions of dollars into public works projects that transformed society, including aerial cable cars that float over the Andes here in the high-altitude administrative capital. Morales’s continued popularity, after three terms and a controversial attempt at a fourth, helped propel the 2020 election of Arce, his former economy minister and chosen successor.

But much like his leftist Latin American contemporaries at the start of this century, Morales’s government spending depended on an influx of cash from the global commodities boom. Everything changed after the plummet in prices of natural gas, Bolivia’s main export. Gas exports declined, imports rose and the central bank began running out of dollars. Bolivia, which once supplied half of its own diesel fuel, produced only 12 percent by 2023.

In recent months, Bolivians have been forced to sleep in their cars to wait to fill their tanks amid widespread fuel shortages. Inflation, which until 2023 was controlled at 2 percent, was more than 16 percent in July. Those who depend on government-subsidized food products have had to form long lines to buy bread.

“We’re bankrupt, there are no jobs here, everything is more expensive and the money is never enough,” said Julia Ayala Casa, as she voted for Paz in southern La Paz in a traditional pollera skirt worn by Indigenous Aymara and Quechua women here. “We have to get in line just to buy oil. There’s a line for everything.”

(Hey, New York City! This, too will be yours if you are foolish enough to elect Zohran Mamdani.)

In short, the country went down the same way Hugo Chavez's Venezuela went down, a big influx of natural resources cash, an even bigger round of government spending, and all of a sudden, the ruling clowns ran out of other people's money. Happens every time.

Left unsaid in the Post report was the example of next-door Argentina, which decisively rejected socialism after a long period of misrule, embraced libertarianism and is now seeing economic growth it's never seen before, growth the so-called experts were 'surprised' to see happen. That cannot be lost on millions of Bolivian locals, many of whom have worked in Argentina as illegal aliens. Instead of continuing to flee socialism, they took their country back.

I'm just surprised the ruling socialists didn't rig the election enough to keep themselves in power. The article describes how Morales and other leftists have sought to spoil their ballots ahead of the coming runoff, but that's a rearguard action that won't work.

The victory must have been too big to cheat. They didn't, so there must be something good still there to work with. Bolivia may, this time, save itself.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [184 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FWIW

paper ballots
ID required
results announced morning after voting
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/20/2025 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Ref #1: Paper, it worked fine for over 250 years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/20/2025 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  It's OK Miguel, you have reservations in NYC after the next mayor takes office.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/20/2025 18:33 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
FDA issues warning, investigating after radioactive shrimp bound for Walmart detected at major US ports
[FoxBusiness] The agency, which issued a do not eat or sell advisory, has recommended the retail giant recall the seafood

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday said it is actively investigating after a shipment of Walmart shrimp tested positive for a man-made radioactive material.
"These are REALLY jumbo shrimp!"
U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) alerted the FDA to the detection of Cesium-137 (Cs-137) contamination in shipping containers and frozen shrimp products processed in Indonesia at four U.S. ports, including Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, and Savannah, Georgia, according to a news release from the FDA.

Officials collected multiple samples for radionuclide analysis, confirming Cs-137 in one sample of breaded shrimp. The shrimp supplier, PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati (aka BMS Foods), was added to the "red list," meaning its products cannot be sold in the U.S. until the issue is resolved.

Officials said the product appears to have been prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions, causing it to be contaminated with Cs-137.

After CBP flagged the contaminated shipping containers, the FDA issued an import alert on Thursday for chemical contamination.

Walmart allegedly received potentially contaminated raw frozen shrimp imported after the date of first detection by CBP, but from shipments that did not alert for Cs-137, according to the release.

Walmart immediately recalled the shrimp at the direction of the FDA.

"The health and safety of our customers is always a top priority," Walmart wrote in a statement to FOX Business. "We have issued a sales restriction and removed this product from our impacted stores. We are working with the supplier to investigate."

The FDA said it is continuing to coordinate with CBP to prevent any contaminated products from reaching consumers.

The agency added it is working with Indonesian seafood regulatory authorities to investigate the root cause of the contamination.

FDA officials said consumers should not eat or serve Great Value raw frozen shrimp from Walmart with lot codes: 8005540-1, 8005538-1 and 8005539-1.

Those who have recently purchased the affected shrimp should throw them away, officials said.

Cs-137 is a man-made radioactive material created during nuclear reactions. Trace amounts of Cs-137 can be found in the environment, including soil, food and air.

Any unexpected finding of Cs-137 in a food product is evaluated by the FDA to determine if follow-up action is warranted on a case-by-case basis.

Related: 5 things to know about Japan's Fukushima water release in the Pacific
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [330 views] Top|| File under: Commies


#2  Suddenly, they support nuclear power.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 08/20/2025 1:22 Comments || Top||

#3  "...Walmart allegedly received potentially contaminated raw frozen shrimp imported after the date of first detection "

Now the question is.
How many tons are already in nationwide store freezers, and/or sold, before shipments were halted?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/20/2025 4:37 Comments || Top||

#4  "Those who have recently purchased the affected shrimp ???? should throw them away ????, officials said."


Hell No!
Return them, Make WW refund the $$$$.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/20/2025 6:04 Comments || Top||

#5  ...so you move the Cs-137 to the trash pits? Shouldn't hazmat be the proper handling instructions?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/20/2025 7:09 Comments || Top||

#6  so where did it come from? "Medical" devices or fission of U-235?
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/20/2025 8:39 Comments || Top||

#7  China is the only country from that part of the world with C 137
Posted by: 746 || 08/20/2025 12:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.04 years ...

...one of the more common fission products in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.


Wikipedia
Posted by: Bobby || 08/20/2025 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Four sides has this sleazy trapezium:
Blasé Indonesians, ["Jeez... cesium?"]
Poor mortified Japs,
Brazen Chinks, ["Not our lapse!"]
And, in silent all-caps... ["IS CHINESIUM."]
[Walmart Geiger counter goes crazy]

Okay, I guess that's five.
Posted by: Sonny Omiper4678 || 08/20/2025 14:30 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ *Golf Clap*
Posted by: Frank G || 08/20/2025 14:47 Comments || Top||

#11  A source leak during Food Irradiation might cause contamination.
But!!!! That raises a very serious processing safety issue question.

How was it missed at the packaging location?

REF:
Many foods are irradiated to kill bacteria and extend via shelf live. See WiKi Food Irradiation which states Cs-137 is one of several Isotopes used.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/20/2025 20:05 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
In Case You've Run Out of Conspiracy Theories: FBI, DOJ, Caught Lying about Oklahoma City Bombing Footage, Pics of Security Cameras on Murrah Building Highlight 30 Years of Courtroom Lies
[GatewayPundit] Federal officials, in public and in federal courtrooms, are lying about the existence of video footage from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Utah Attorney Jesse Trentadue believes his brother was interrogated and tortured to death in August 1995 because federal authorities mistakenly thought he was “John Doe #2” in the Oklahoma City Bombing. For the past 30 years, Trentadue has filed 7 major federal FOIA lawsuits seeking documents and evidence, and has already obtained 2 million documents. Trentadue doggedly pursues the many lies federal authorities have told over the years about the bombing, and the illegal federal program “PATCON” that he believes was involved in his brother’s murder, and which is still ongoing today.

One of the critical lies, which still informs the mainstream narratives and dominates most media coverage of the case, is that there was no second bomber alongside Timothy McVeigh that day. McVeigh was convicted of the bombing and executed on June 11, 2001.

Even though multiple eyewitnesses noticed two men exiting the Ryder truck transporting the bomb to the Alfred P. Murrah building that day, the narrative from federal officials is firm that McVeigh acted alone while in Oklahoma City.

This issue would be easy to solve if there were video of the truck arriving and the explosion.

The government has claimed, consistently in public and in court, that no such video exists. The FBI Section Chief David M. Hardy has said in court filings under oath, that no such video exists.

But documents show FBI Agents taking possession of such video, and even describing the contents of such video, in their reports. Jesse Trentadue believes that multiple videos exist of the truck and the bombing, and federal officials refuse to release it because it shows a second bomber whom Trentadue believes was a federal agent.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/20/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [305 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jones, McVeigh's lead defense counsel, dances delicately around this issue in his book, "And Others Unknown".
Twenty years ago, nobody would have entertained this theory for an instant. NOT THE FBI!!!!
Today....simplest explanation.
Took six fibbies and six fed informants to get a few Michigan guys off their bar stools and put together a kidnap plot against the governor.
Mass casualties don't bother them...see Waco.
Is there anything so horrible that one would dismiss it out of hand if the feds were accused?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/20/2025 5:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Stephen Jones, McVeigh's lead defense counsel, dances delicately around this issue in his book, "And Others Unknown".
Mass casualties don't bother these guys. See Waco.
Is there anything so horrible one would dismiss out of hand an accusation that it was the feds who did it? NOT THE FBI!!!!!
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 08/20/2025 5:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Yup.
The Oklahoma City bombing was an inside job.
So was the Boston bombing. So was J6.
Who here doesn't know by now the FBI cooks up their own plots?
Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 08/20/2025 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Was it a complete and total surprise? Just asking.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/20/2025 15:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Musk makes major U-Turn after promising to upend US politics with third party… and goes all in on Trump's successor
[MAIL] Elon Musk has backtracked on plans to remake US politics by launching a third party and instead wants to use his immense wealth to help JD Vance become the next president.

The billionaire Tesla founder intends to shift his focus back to his companies after a tumultuous stint working with President Trump and has become wary of upsetting Republicans, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Musk has decided to join other tech titans and rally behind the person they believe is the likely successor to Trump: Vice President JD Vance, who has made recent moves that suggest he will run in 2028.
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#2  This is what is refered to as 'failure to launch'.
(snicker)
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/20/2025 17:25 Comments || Top||

#3  demands that Apple provide the British government a "backdoor" to personal user data,

Once upon a time, in an on-line cryptography class, the point was made that a backdoor in a cryptography algorithm is the same thing as a flaw in the algorithm. A flawed algorithm can be cracked. While the backdoor may be convenient for the Good Guys(tm) who only ever do good things, the flaw means it will eventually be exploited by those with less good intent.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/20/2025 17:39 Comments || Top||


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Scientists have found new signs of an 'alien ship' approaching Earth
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The unusual glow emitted by the space object 3I/ATLAS may indicate its alien origin. This assumption was made on August 18 by an astrophysicist from Harvard University (USA) Avi Loeb, the Daily Mail newspaper reports.

"A mysterious interstellar object hurtling through our solar system has just given scientists new evidence that it may be a spaceship from another part of the galaxy," the article says.

The scientist said that the unusual glow was recorded using a picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The light was concentrated on the side facing the Sun and faded sharply as it moved away from the source. This does not correspond to the principles of reflection of sunlight by typical comets, since their light is scattered more evenly.

In addition, the object completely lacks a gas-dust cloud, a mandatory attribute of any comet when approaching the Sun. Scientists have discarded several natural explanations, such as the evaporation of ice, friction with the interstellar medium, or radioactive decay, because they do not correspond to the collected data.

Loeb said 3I/ATLAS could be a man-made craft that emits light visible from millions of miles away. If so, it would have a powerful power source.

In this case, the size of the mysterious cosmic body was greatly overestimated due to optical illusion, and its diameter is not 19 km, but 90 m. However, it is too early to say that this is an artificial device.

“This cannot be ruled out, but more compelling evidence is needed to confirm this hypothesis,” the astrophysicist emphasized.

Scientists expect to receive a final answer on October 3, when 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Mars. New images should shed light on the origin of the object.

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#1  Deceleration flare
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/20/2025 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  or the BEM equivalent of a ranging laser.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/20/2025 8:36 Comments || Top||



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