[WorldNetDaily] A shocking incident unfolded at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day when a cybertruck exploded at the property.
As federal authorities scramble to piece together the details, an alleged email from Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, a U.S. Army Green Beret, has brought the incident into sharper focus.
The email, purportedly sent just days before the explosion, claims to expose hidden military operations and warns of escalating threats to national security.
Livelsberger revealed on the email that the FBI was tracking him for attempting to be a whistleblower.
What you humans call "gravity" is simply the curvature of space-time. Distort space-time appropriately and things "fall" in the direction you want them to go. Conceptually, it is quite simple. However, doing so is left as an exercise for the Reader.
Gravitic propulsion is real easy to achieve. One example of Gravitic propulsion is that of a person standing on top of a high mountain cliff and jumping off it. That person will find him/herself increasing speed until terminal velocity is reached. Landing however still is a problem and work is being tone to improve the ability to land safely. (Parachute, giant inflatable cushions and such.)
An somewhat less radical example is the 'plywood derby' style race cars, often driven by kids in unpowered cars made pf plywood and such which move solely under gravity.
Then there's fixed wings gliders and hang gliders, which use gravity for motion and rising air currents to remain in the air.
[Federalist] David Weiss, the fired Colorado school administrator at the center of a criminal investigation kept secret by authorities, was found dead, and the county sheriff’s office finally clarified that he was under investigation for allegedly possessing child pornography materials.
Weiss, the former chief of staff of Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS), was reported dead by the sheriff’s department in Washington County, Maryland, on Jan. 1. An investigation into the circumstances of his death remains underway. The sheriff’s office said he "was found dead around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning" and his death is believed to be a suicide. At the time of his death, Weiss was reportedly away from his Colorado home visiting family in Maryland.
Weiss was fired last month under unknown circumstances, and parents in the county sought clarification from the school district about why he had suddenly been fired and a criminal investigation opened. The school district refused to answer their questions, with multiple parents telling CBS News that the district terminated Weiss abruptly and without explanation, leading to a "lack of trust" in the school administrators.
Upon Weiss’s death, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department finally disclosed that the investigation was into possession of child pornography material. According to CBS, the criminal investigation is still ongoing, despite Weiss’s death.
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Easy enough to give anybody (teachers, medical personnel, administrators, police, popsicle truck drivers, drag queens, firemen ...) to be certified for work with children an annual poly. Ask them about terror memberships too.
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...an annual test on the subject they're teaching
The problem with that is all the non-subject matter (white guilt, DEI, etc.) that they're required to teach now. Almost takes more time to teach than the actual course materials.
That and the 'canned' classroom materials that are required by the district (and the unions so that no knowledge of the subjects is actually required), therefore that no actual objective teaching or innovation by the teacher is allowed anymore.
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Mullah, I've taught high school (math, chemistry, life-sciences). Believe me, most of the teachers couldn't pass the standard competence exams.
The trailing daughters went to one of the better public school districts in the state of Ohio (also the biggest non-city district, which is why they can afford to offer all sorts of extras that kick up their ranking). The td’s elementary school was one of many in the district that had a Department of Education blue ribbon, with extra awards for the PTA-run science program. But the reason our engineer/scientist/health profession parents got involved was because one of our engineer moms noticed that the top sixth grade teacher was teaching the electricity unit wrong — specifically she was reversing the definitions of direct and indirect current, which meant the experiment meant to show the difference didn’t work. The parents got together and got a grant for lab supplies (Toyota used to have a wonderful science grant program in the 1990s, but surely other companies could be persuaded if they aren’t still doing it), got permission to turn a spare classroom into a dedicated science lab, got agreement on curriculum-appropriate lesson plans for each grade, and took over. We allowed the teachers to keep the kids in order, but we made sure the subject matter was taught truly. ;-)
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A nurse in Virginia has been charged with malicious wounding and felony child abuse for allegedly breaking the bones of several premature babies at Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond.
Erin Elizabeth Strotman, 26, has been arrested in connection to the abuse of multiple babies who had fractured bones as they were in the NICU of the medical center. The NICU has been forced to close as a result as police have conducted an investigation.
"The Henrico County Police Division is utilizing all available resources to ensure a thorough investigation into this matter," the police department commented on the case. "This involves reviewing dozens of videos from inside the NICU. As previously mentioned, detectives are re-examining the 2023 and 2024 cases as part of this broader investigation."
Strotman graduated as a nurse in 2019 and is originally from Virginia. After being employed at the hospital, police opened an investigation into mysterious fracture injuries of four babies that happened in the summer of 2023. Additionally, three more were hurt this year in the last few months.
One couple, Dominique and Tori Hackey, reached out to Virginia Child Services to inform the organization last year that one of their twin sons had suffered a broken tibia while in the NICU. At first, hospital workers attempted to say it could have been accidental so they knew
until Child Services finished their investigation and revealed that their son Noah had suffered level 1 physical abuse while in the NICU's care.
A letter from CPS stated, "Following a [thorough] CPS investigation this agency has determined the disposition of this report to be founded level 1 for physical abuse of Noah by an employee by the Henrico Doctor's Hospital NICU." Noah has since fully recovered from his injuries.
In a statement to news hounds, the Virginia Department of Health said, "We are working closely with other state and local partners, including the Henrico Police Department and Virginia State Police."
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Nicholas Roske, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022, is seeking to suppress statements he made to Sherlocks, claiming they were obtained through warrantless searches and seizures that violated his constitutional rights.
On June 8, 2022, Roske contacted 911 near Justice Kavanaugh's Maryland home, stating he was experiencing suicidal and homicidal thoughts and required psychiatric help. His sister, whom he had texted that he loved her, had also urged him to contact law enforcement.
According to court records, when a Maryland police officer arrived, Roske was questioned without being read his Miranda rights. While his rights were later given to him at the cop shoppe, Roske's attorneys claim he was not in the mental state to voluntarily and knowingly waive those rights, per the Washington Times.
''While federal agents advised Mr. Roske of his rights and obtained his signature on a rights-waiver form, this waiver was not made voluntarily and intelligently. At the time, Mr. Roske was acutely suicidal, visibly exhausted, and had repeatedly expressed his need for psychiatric care,'' the filing said.
Roske's legal team also claims that searches of his pockets and belongings violated his Fourth Amendment rights. During the 911 call, the dispatcher advised him to set his bag, which contained a firearm, away from him. He complied, placing the bag roughly 20 yards away and informing officers about its contents. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Roske contends that subsequent searches of his possessions were conducted without a warrant and are therefore a violation of his rights.
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Searching whitehouse.gov yields nothing on the Obama birth certificate. But the Obama White House government archives site has what they claim is his long form certificate here. The same site has his short for certificate https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate.pdf (not a hot link to get around Fred’s spam shield,
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[Regnum] Experts have registered the second highest class X flare on the Sun in a day, the Institute of Applied Geophysics (IAP) reported on January 4.
“At 15:48 Moscow time, an X1.8 flare was registered in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 3947 (N11E51),” the institution specified on its website.
The energy release process lasted 22 minutes. On January 4, an X1.1 flare was also recorded on the solar disk, which lasted 24 minutes.
Flares on this celestial body are divided into five classes depending on the power of X-ray radiation: A, B, C, M and X. The last level is the strongest.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 3, the IGP reported an X1.2 flare on the Sun. Its duration reached 25 minutes. On the same day, the northern lights were observed in the Irkutsk region. Photos of this phenomenon were distributed by Internet users. It was also seen in Yakutia, Transbaikalia, Buryatia and other regions of the Far East. Experts explained this phenomenon by a powerful magnetic storm that hit the Earth on the night of January 2.
In July 2023, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Petrukovich warned in a conversation with the Regnum news agency that powerful solar flares would continue until 2025. The expert specified that the star is experiencing a period of high activity, which repeats approximately every 11 years.
“On January 4 at 01:41 (Moscow time) in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 3947 (N11E59) a flare X1.1 lasting 24 minutes was registered,” the report states.
The IPG also clarified that five more class M outbreaks were recorded.
Solar flares are divided into five classes depending on the radiation power. Level X is the highest. Class M is the fourth most powerful. Flares usually result in emissions of solar plasma, clouds of which, reaching the Earth, are capable of provoking magnetic storms on the planet.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 3, the IPG recorded the first flare of the highest class X in 2025. The institute noted that the energy release process was observed for 25 minutes.
On the morning of December 30, specialists registered two X-class solar flares. They were recorded in the western part of the solar disk. On the morning of January 1, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported that a G1-class magnetic storm ("weak") had begun on Earth. By the evening of that day, it had reached the G3 level, which is classified on a five-point scale as "strong."
Forecaster Leus reported that the magnetic storm on Earth has ceased
At the same time, short periods of weak magnetic storms cannot be ruled out in the next 24 hours: the Earth's magnetosphere will change in the range from unstable to slightly disturbed, the forecaster noted in his Telegram channel.
"The weak magnetic storm of class G1 that began on Earth this morning has ceased. The geomagnetic field is currently in a weakly disturbed state," Leus wrote.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier on January 4, the Institute of Applied Geophysics reported that six flares occurred on the Sun, one of which was a powerful X-class flare.
Solar flares are divided into five classes depending on the radiation power. Level X is the highest. Flares usually result in emissions of solar plasma, clouds of which, reaching the Earth, are capable of provoking magnetic storms on the planet.
On January 1, Leus reported that a G1-class magnetic storm (“weak”) had begun on Earth. By the evening of that day, it had reached the G3 level, which is classified as “strong” on a five-point scale.
Wow. The times really are changing — even incoming Democrats are getting MAGA. If everybody just improves a little…
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Supervisor Matt Dorsey has called for immediate measures to address open-air drug usage, including at least 100 nightly arrests, involuntary holds, and mandatory treatment and detox. Dorsey, a former addict, stated in a letter dated Friday that city public safety agencies had 30 days to develop a plan of action.
The demand follows the ongoing drug-driven criminal activity on the quarter mile stretch of 6th Street in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, which has had high levels of open-air drug use and crime. Authorities estimate at least 200 people are lighting up illicit drugs in the area on any given night.
Dorsey said it is past time to confront the issue head-on, which is why he is advocating for mass arrests of drug users and placing them in "compulsory detox and treatment" to save their lives. He wanted to see no less than 100 arrests per night and accused the city of enabling drug addiction, according to the letter.
"Historically, most of the work that we're doing is focused on drug pushers, and I think that's something that needs to continue, but we also need to be making criminal justice interventions in public drug use," Dorsey told ABC 7 News. "We do need to be making arrests of drug users with an eye toward making sure that any criminal justice intervention we make is a medical and life-saving intervention."
Dorsey stated in the letter that the plan of intent would hold "those estimated to be engaging in drug-related lawlessness criminally accountable."
"As we begin the new year, new approaches are urgently needed to restore order to our streets, to diminish San Francisco's attraction as a destination city for drug use and drug dealing, and to make lifesaving interventions in behavior that's deadlier and more costly than ever before," said Dorsey, who acknowledged his journey recovering from drug addiction.
"I know I'm not alone among recovery community members in believing strongly in the life-changing possibilities of recovery and drug treatment - including court-mandated treatment. Like many other San Franciscans, in long-term recovery and otherwise, I think it's past time for our City to move boldly beyond practices that have amounted to drug enablism and neglectful cruelty," he wrote. Dorsey asked for an approach to "get drug-related offenders off the streets - and optimally into drug treatment - rather than simply moved to different streets."
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Will there be a quota on prosecutions or is this just going to generate police OT to no purpose?
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...and what are you gonna do with them?
They will receive a citation which goes on their Permanent Record, a free ticket to detox, and then we turn them loose. If we were the Department of Natural Resources, we would call it "catch & release" - bag 'em, tag 'em and them run free.
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.
[Federalist] David Weiss, the fired Colorado school administrator at the center of a criminal investigation kept secret by authorities, was found dead, and the county sheriff’s office finally clarified that he was under investigation for allegedly possessing child pornography materials.
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
