[Regnum] A cat intercepted a Ukrainian drone with its paw, which was flying towards residential buildings in one of the villages in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The corresponding video was published on January 3 by the Ukrainian publication "Strana.ua" in the Telegram channel.
The footage shows a Ukrainian drone flying towards houses, but it was intercepted by a cat sitting on the street. He hit the drone with his paw, causing the UAV to go off course, crash into a pole and fall. According to local publics, this happened during a test of the Ukrainian drone.
In July, Regnum news agency reported that a Russian operator, who was operating a drone in the SVO zone, shot down a Ukrainian drone with a bottle of water. Supporting footage from the drone appeared online.
Earlier, a Cossack with the call sign Tungus from the Yenisei battalion managed to neutralize a Ukrainian kamikaze drone with a bag of food. Upon seeing the enemy drone, Tungus hid in the grass, then stood up abruptly and hit it with the bag.
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The story I want to very much be true is the drone at a Renn Fest taken out by a thrown spear, and now there is a competition for drone operators to assemble a 'drone dragon' and ground participants attempt to spear it.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a formal statement, the FBI has called on Internet sleuths, particularly X users, to please stop solving crimes before they have a chance to do so.
The statement comes just hours after X users discovered all suspects and motives related to the recent terror attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
The statement reads in part:
"It is in the public interest that all X users stop solving crimes immediately. Solving crime is the responsibility of the federal government and local law enforcement. If we do not solve crimes first, we cannot control the narrative, and that's important for national security reasons we cannot discuss at this time."
"You're going to put us all out of a job," said FBI Director Christopher Wray, commenting on the public statement. "We're supposed to be the ones solving crimes. Please stop demonstrating how useless we are."
As an incentive, the FBI is promising not to raid anyone who complies. "All you have to do is not report on suspects, observe obvious connections to other crimes, or complain when we prosecute parents of school-aged children," a spokesman for the bureau explained. "You scratch our back, we leave your back alone. Get it?"
At publishing time, the FBI had prosecuted an X user for interfering with a cover-up.
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Don Surber: ITEM 24: Charlie Kirk tweeted with a video, “A jihadist killed and maimed dozens of innocent Americans in a hate-fueled rampage, and the CEO of Allstate thinks Americans watching the Sugar Bowl need a lecture from him on overcoming ‘an addiction to divisiveness and negativity?’ ”
You’re in terrorist hands with Allah State.
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The journalist tour of the terrorist house was pure gold.
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The FBI has been in hibernation the last 4+ years, due to DC Swamp politics. There are, as we constantly told. "_____ was on their Radar."
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Besides, If "X" users out the actual criminals hours, days, weeks, months, and yes even years, ahead of the DC Swamp. How can pre-written deflective, misinformation Press Releases be used deployed?
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FBI warned of lone wolves inspired by ISIS months before deadly attack in New Orleans
Alternate headline: Rantburgers Warned Of Lone Wolves Inspired By [al Qaeda, Etc] Decades Before Deadly Attack In New Orleans/Boston Marathon/2001 attack on the Twin Towers.
No points to the FBI for that — anyone paying even a little attention has known as much since Al Qaeda’s World Trade Center bombing in 1993. But it would have been nice had the special-agent-in-charge of the New Orleans FBI office actually been working that day, so that his deputy didn’t have to rear up on her hind legs to bray that it was not a terror attack. The rank and file have hard work ahead of them to restore the FBI’s reputation once Kash Patel takes over. To their credit, at least some of them are looking forward to it.
[RealClearPol] Tom Donilon, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013, attempts to rewrite history on the Foreign Affairs website to praise Jimmy Carter as a great foreign policy president. We "learn" from Donilon that Carter left a legacy of peace in the Middle East with the Camp David Accords, enhanced U.S. security in the broader Persian Gulf region by proclaiming the Carter Doctrine, deftly managed our relationship with China by advancing the "one China" policy and ensured the ultimate downfall of the Soviet Union. One wonders why American voters overwhelmingly rejected Carter in 1980 after he accomplished so much (according to Donilon).
There was a time when Democrats had the courage to distance themselves from a failed foreign policy by a president of their own party—and that time was in the late 1970s. The list of prominent Democrats who supported GOP candidate Ronald Reagan over Carter in the 1980 election because of Carter’s failed foreign policy was long and distinguished, and included the likes of Paul Nitze, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Max Kampelman, Norman Podhoretz, Lane Kirkland, Eugene Rostow, Richard Perle, Richard Pipes, and Elliot Abrams, among others. Many of these were known then as "Scoop Jackson Democrats," named after the long-serving Senator from the state of Washington Henry M. Jackson, a key member of the Armed Services Committee. Scoop Jackson was one of the nation’s chief critics of détente, especially as practiced by the Carter administration. Scoop Jackson was on Reagan’s transition team. Kirkpatrick, Rostow, Perle, Abrams, Pipes and Nitze all joined Reagan’s national security team.
The first major Democratic salvo against Carter’s foreign policy was fired by Jeane Kirkpatrick in an article in Commentary in 1979 titled "Dictatorships and Double Standards." Kirkpatrick’s first sentence set the theme of the article: "The failure of the Carter administration’s foreign policy is now clear to everyone except its architects, and even they must entertain private doubts, from time to time, about a policy whose crowning achievement has been to lay the groundwork for a transfer of the Panama Canal from the United States to a swaggering Latin dictator of Castroite bent." Kirkpatrick criticized Carter for failing to adequately respond to a massive Soviet conventional and military build-up, watching as the Soviets extended their political influence in Africa, Afghanistan, and the Caribbean Sea, and undermining long-time U.S. allies in Nicaragua and Iran to the detriment of U.S. security interests. Carter, she said, wielded the cudgel of "human rights" against America’s allies regardless of the strategic consequences.
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...They also forget just how close the Lion Of The Senate, Teddy Kennedy, came to getting nominated instead in 1980. He was setting up for a floor fight at the convention - and may well have won it - had Mike Wallace not asked him during an interview about committing involuntary manslaughter.
His response made Kamala Harris sound like Cato the Elder, and that sank him then and there.
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^^ Back when some news folks were actual journalists.
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I promised to myself that I would not comment further on Jimmy Carter's death, but it bothers me to see so many otherwise sensible conservatives spouting the "Bad President, good man" line that the Democrat/Media Complex has been spinning for 40+ years. Thus, I feel the need to drop some truth bombs, propriety at time of death notwithstanding.
Yes, he hammered a few nails on some houses for poor people. But that alone does not make one a "good man," when the rest of the track record is so awful.
After Carter lost in spectacular fashion in 1980, he did not do what every other President before him did and retire to a quiet, private life. He could have farmed peanuts in Plains with Rosalynn. Instead, he bitterly engaged in active and public efforts to undermine the policies of the elected Republicans who came after him. He INVENTED the jealous, manipulative ex-President model that Obama put on steroids in 2016.
Jimmy Carter flew around the world for decades, un-asked by America, on self-appointed missions of national importance, almost always involving gleefully interacting with raging antisemitic terrorist and/or Communist leaders, always working against the official policies of the ACTUALLY ELECTED Presidents. Carter's hatred of Israel bordered on pathological, and reeked of a sort of cloaked antisemitism that has become quite fashionable today. Somehow Jimmy Carter convinced himself that he was such an important and historic figure that he stood outside and above the U.S. systems of election and governance, even though no one other than the Yassar Arafats and Hugo Chavezs of the world asked him to do so.
Jimmy Carter was a bitter, angry narcissist who cloaked his lifelong, seething rage at the indignity of being body-slammed by Ronald Reagan (someone he considered lesser than himself in every regard) with that genteel "Southern gentleman" accent, vague scripture references and the occasional hammered nail. He purposely and vengefully wreaked havoc on America's official foreign policy for decades and he INVENTED the concept of a meddling ex-President poisoning American political discourse. (In that regard, Obama has been Carter v.2.0--we have Carter to thank for that.)
Literally every aspect of the man's self-serving public life was harmful to America, he knew that, and he did it all anyway because narcissists always operate like that--they cannot help it, and they can never admit fault. Carter's "good man" image was a carefully constructed and nurtured illusion, one that he gladly worked with the corrupt media to maintain.
So please consider these factors before pronouncing "Bad President, good man." Sometimes truth needs to be said even when some find that truth untimely."
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Absolutely agree. Thank goodness President Trump v.1 and v.2 have/will work with Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu to unravel all that Carter, Obama, and the Biden-Harris administration strove to achieve.
[NY Post] President Biden and his staff are going out guns blazing — all barrels blasting away to do as much damage as possible to America before they go.
Just look at the dirty-laundry list Joe (or whoever’s actually making the decisions) has rammed through as his last days tick down.
More bans on drilling for oil and gas, even after his war on domestic energy helped cripple America strategically and inflict massive price pain at the pump and elsewhere.
How much damage will Joe & Co. do?
Heck, he even moved to squeeze natural-gas exports.
That’s as the administration agreed to yet another inane Paris Accord climate goal to drive down US emissions by close to 70% by 2035.
If any of that holds — and the White House insists drilling ban, for one, will be tough to roll back — expect yet more suffering for Joes not named Biden.
The White House also loosened visa requirements for foreign workers while inking a labor agreement with federal union that will let more than 40,000 Social Security Administration employees stay hybrid.
Plus, the clemency avalanche, starting with the blanket pardon for crooked son Hunter that Joe promised he would never give, followed by hundreds of commutations for vile bribe-takers, con artists and other sleazoids — as well as letting literal child murderers dodge the death penalty.
Don’t forget the $4.28 billion in student debt relief Biden OK’d just before Christmas (a present for the affluent paid for by the poor: classic progressivism!).
Or the last-minute drive from the White House to throw all the billions from the CHIPS Act and other prog boondoggles out the doors and windows while they still can.
Or the veto of a bipartisan bill to expand the federal judiciary to un-clog key courts, which the Bidenites turned against because they wouldn’t get to pick the new judges.
It’s clear from the scope and energy of these plans that Joe himself (who can barely stay awake for a full workday) isn’t the chief force behind any of it: It’s staffers driving the car here.
The same staff who’ve been calling most shots for four disastrous years, and so led to a historic and humiliating defeat for Democrats.
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Like an abusive spouse who kills their partner rather than allow anyone else to have them.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a formal statement, the FBI has called on Internet sleuths, particularly X users, to please stop solving crimes before they have a chance to do so.
