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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Brooklyn $300K jewel heist: Gun-wielding robber holds up 62-year-old driver and pepper sprays him in the face before fleeing with six bags of diamonds and gold dust from his car
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 12:11:10 PM || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It wasn't immediately clear if the victim was a jewel merchant ...
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 12:31 Comments || Top||

#2  sounds like an inside job to me..
Posted by: Warthog || 06/09/2021 17:17 Comments || Top||


Rare case of female Wakandan rage - woman charged after allegedly shooting into car with kids inside
[NYP] A Tennessee woman is facing numerous charges after allegedly shooting into a car carrying four children in a wild, broad-daylight road-rage incident that left one passenger wounded, according to a report.

Shanyka Fouche, 22, was a passenger in a Ford Fusion driving along I-55 in Jefferson County on Saturday when she opened fire on a Nissan Pathfinder with two adults and four children — ages 2 to 11 — inside, St. Louis Today reported Monday.

Fouche’s own 2-year-old child was in the car with her when she fired the three rounds around 3 p.m., the newspaper reported.

The children in the victim’s car were not harmed, but a 32-year-old man in the Pathfinder’s passenger seat was struck in the leg.

The family pulled over and called 911.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rare case of female Wakandan rage

Rare, eh? Rare enough that "angry black woman" is a stereotype. Maybe rare compared to male Wakandan rage, which is how 123 people have been shot this month in Chicago.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2021 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2 
Warning !!!
Not safe to date ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/09/2021 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  While in the slammer, she can spell her name "Shank-Ya"
Posted by: Warthog || 06/09/2021 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  "rare case" they must not see all the videos of these ratchets showing their ass all all over the place. Take the writer to Chuck E Cheese one weekend and I'm sure they will more of these "rare cases".
Posted by: Chris || 06/09/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Just the Post calling that Miami shooting location Concert Venue, instead of seedy druggie pool hall.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Rare case of a Boer too subtle!
Deft sarcasm seems to befuddle
As Burgers track spoor
Back to African's door
And deliver indignant rebuttal.
[Vee asseblief u voete af!]
Posted by: Sposh Bluetooth7712 || 06/09/2021 20:29 Comments || Top||


'Hardcore' felon caught peeping on mother, teen at Florida home
[NYPOST] A "hardcore" convicted felon was arrested in Florida after being caught on a security camera peeping into the bedroom of a teenage girl, authorities said.Santos Pantoja, a 39-year-old married ex-con who previously served prison stints for manslaughter and burglary, was caught on camera prowling outside an Auburndale home on May 24, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said last Wednesday.

He was allegedly nabbed again four days later peering into a 17-year-old girl’s bedroom, the sheriff said.

"He’s a bad man," Judd said in a video announcing Pantoja’s arrest. "He’s already been to state prison on two occasions."

Judd said Pantoja was caught on video during each incident and released footage showing the suspect outside the teen’s window during the most recent incident

"He’s got a hitch in his giddy up to be trying to look into a child’s window before 7 o’clock in the morning," an angry Judd said. "Oh, and he’s carrying a sprinkler. I guess that’s so if anybody sees him, he will tell them he’s working on the sprinklers."

Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Santos Pantoja will be available to date for the next few years in a local Fla. prison. ☺☻♂
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/09/2021 6:31 Comments || Top||

#2  White Hispanic.
Posted by: jpal || 06/09/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#3  "He’s a bad man," Judd said

I like this County Sheriff.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/09/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Some up close and personal gator timer is called for
Posted by: Warthog || 06/09/2021 11:27 Comments || Top||


Suspect will likely face additional charges in death of 5-year-old Samuel Olson
[NYPOST] The woman arrested in the disappearance of a 5-year-old Houston boy will likely face additional charges, a prosecutor said — as a judge also increased her bond in her first court appearance.

Theresa Balboa, 29, the girlfriend of Samuel Olson’s father, Dalton, has been charged with tampering with evidence, a human corpse, in the boy’s death.

During a court hearing Monday, prosecutor Andrea Beall of the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said authorities planned to file additional charges against Balboa, CBS DFW reported.

She said a murder or a capital murder probe is pending in the case.

In addition, Balboa has been charged with assault for allegedly choking Samuel in November.

During the Monday court appearance, State District Judge DaSean Jones increased her bond from $5,000 to $100,000 in the assault case.

Balboa, who also is being held on a $500,000 bond for the tampering charge, did not speak during the brief court hearing.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences has not officially identified the body found last week by authorities as Samuel.

But Sherlocks have said they believe the body found inside a plastic box at a Best Western in Jasper, about 135 miles northeast of Houston, is the boy.

Initially, Balboa accused Samuel’s mother and a man who presented himself as a cop of taking the boy.
Initially, Balboa accused Samuel’s mother and a man who presented himself as a cop of taking the boy.

Samuel had been living with Balboa since April 30, according to the outlet. Authorities have not said why the child was staying with Balboa. His dad lived at a different address.

Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

It seems we need to start building a few hundred Mental Hospitals for the bumper crop we see growing.

Of course there will be Country Club versions for the DC and Socially Elite.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/09/2021 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I say make the ones for the DC and state capitol crowd exactly like the one in the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/09/2021 11:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Better yet the one in American Horror Story Asylum : Briarcliff Manor.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/09/2021 11:28 Comments || Top||


Three killed, two wounded across NYC as bloody summer approaches
[NYPOST] Three men were rubbed out and at least two maimed across the city Monday and early Tuesday — as Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
has warned of a bloody summer ahead.

A 28-year-old man was killed in Bedford-Stuyvesant after he was struck in the neck on Lewis Avenue near Myrtle Avenue around 4:10 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said.

No arrests have been made, and the circumstances were not immediately clear.

The man’s death came after retired NYPD transit cop Thomas Marrinan, 57, was also killed when he was accidentally shot by a pal during a scuffle with another man.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat......
the target, identified by sources as 33-year-old Michael Soto, was shot in the arm. The dispute broke out because Soto was allegedly harassing Velasquez’s 86-year-old father, and the friends stepped in to confront him.

Soto was taken into custody with charges still pending Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Moment couple are pepper-sprayed by random attacker as they walk down Manhattan sidewalk amid NYC surge in violence
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Proving once again that COVID can cause anything.
Posted by: magpie || 06/09/2021 15:19 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Marine recruit, 19, dies during grueling 54-hour 'The Crucible' training exercise as he was pushed to his limits without food or sleep
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Pfc. Dalton Beals, 19, died Friday during training at a Marine base on Parris Island

  • Marines spokesman Bobby Yarbrough, told Task & Purpose that Beals would be awarded the title of Marine posthumously

  • He is the seventh enlistee to die there since the year 2000; in 2016 one female recruit threw herself to her death after being subjected to verbal abuse

  • The Marines have opened an investigation into Beals' death

  • The teen's mom has described him as 'the most sincere, kindhearted, sweet and amazing young man'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 07:20 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't guess the woman who threw herself to death shouldn't have been trying to be a marine at all if she couldn't handle verbal abuse.
Posted by: Chris || 06/09/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Haven't you heard? Going to make naughty language and hurt feelz DI's go away.

Recruit looks in decent shape, so underlying condition? Or did he literally push himself to death and join The Old Guard?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Could be sudden death syndrome. Like those athletes who just up and die in the middle of a game. Something undetectable until it suddenly popped up under these extream conditions and killed him.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/09/2021 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  What is sudden death syndrome?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 14:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Epstein-itus?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/09/2021 19:27 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Kid Rock uses homophobic slur towards patrons at Smithville, Tennessee bar
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What kind of a lowlife shirtlifter would say that?
Posted by: Grunter || 06/09/2021 5:22 Comments || Top||

#2  In a clip published on the outlet, the singer, 50, had microphone in hand as he was heard telling the crowd, 'You f***ing f*****s with your iPhones out,' and singing, 'You can post this d*** right here,' while gesturing to his crotch.

Filming instead of enjoying the music? I'm with him
Posted by: Frank G || 06/09/2021 6:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, they were told no recording. And while I don't have solid demographic information, I'm pretty sure that a Kid Rock audience is not bothered by the word 'faggot'.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2021 7:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Homo'phobic'? Does that mean I should stop using the phrase 'Tesla fag' every time I see one?
Posted by: Raj || 06/09/2021 9:29 Comments || Top||

#5  He's got a point.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  fuck em. All they wanted was gay marriage. Now we are supposed to bow down to them. I agree, fuck the faggots.
Posted by: Chris || 06/09/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Not so much slandering homosexuals, but chastising a rude crowd.

Article doesn't even say anything about a slur, just 'gonna take pictures, take a picture of this!'.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  take a picture of this

Perhaps a term of affection.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 12:45 Comments || Top||

#9  He is a rap star. So what. This is soft comment compared what happen when rap stars get the mic...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 06/09/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Hey Boss!
How you doin?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 14:31 Comments || Top||

#11  If he was black (where black rappers say this shit and worse all the time) this would not be news.

Fuck all ya racist wank wastes.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/09/2021 15:57 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Pearl Harbor on Lockdown UPDATE: Fake Bomb Threat Called In


Followed two hours later by:


Hopefully today the reason for the lockdown will be revealed. While we wait, we can rejoice that it was not a major attack.
Update from the Star Advertiser at 7:30 a.m. ET
Two phoned-in bomb threats claiming an bomb was on the destroyer USS William P. Lawrence in the shipyard’s Dry Dock 4 led to a lengthy Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam lockdown today, bottling up thousands who were told to shelter in place and avoid windows in the event of flying glass, officials said.

Personnel working in Dry Dock 4, where work on surface ships is conducted mainly by contractors, were evacuated to Dry Dock 1 during the lockdown, officials said.

Bomb-sniffing dogs could be seen working along the waterfront. No bomb was found, the joint base said. Motorists who were not able to leave the joint base due to the lockdown vented their frustration on social media.

At 9:39 a.m., entrances to the joint base were secured and the shelter-in-place order was given for what the base referred to as a "security incident."

The Hickam side of the base ended its shelter order first, followed by an "all clear" that cancelled the security watch at about 1:30 p.m.

A "person of interest" was sought out, questioned, and found to have no involvement, an official said.
Posted by: Chans Tingle4088 || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Meghan Markle's new book fails to top the bestseller list
[PAGESIX] Princess Meghan Markle
...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions and not many brains, Markle's most important characteristic is that she is Black, even though she doesn't look it. Her mother, y'see, is half black and her father is white, which would make her a quarter Black. Her half brother described her (to her husband, before their marriage) as a jaded, shallow, conceited woman that will make a joke of you and the royal family heritage. Once married, she was too classy for the Royals and she and Harry decamped to Beverly Hills, kind of like the Clampetts did, thus making a joke of Harry and the royal family heritage...
’s debut children’s book, "The Bench," failed to top the bestsellers list in the UK on its release date, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.

Markle, who welcomed her second child with husband Prince Harry
on Friday, made it to the No. 205 spot on the Amazon UK chart, according to the report. It is currently at No. 67 in children’s books.

As of Tuesday morning, "The Bench" — which also features an illustration of the Sussexes’ newborn daughter — currently has a rating of 4 stars out of a possible 5 with 20 reviews.
*snort* those are the publisher's interns voting
"The Bench," which was illustrated by Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, artist Christian Robinson, explores "the special relationship between father and son, as seen through a mother’s eyes," according to the book’s description.

Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If I understand the bestseller grift, the payoff is not in copies sold, but that you get a big-ass advance up front.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  When its politics your party buys them up to ensure the publisher gets their money back. I don't see who would be paying for the books in this case. I think the Publisher backed a bad bet.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/09/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Every moron in Hollyweird will buy two. Probably people who work on the back lots for peanuts will each get a copy with the retail price deducted from their pay.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/09/2021 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Clem || 06/09/2021 11:45 Comments || Top||

#5  The Bitch.

Great title work.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 16:24 Comments || Top||


Washington State Residents May Get Free Marijuana Joint with Coronavirus Vaccine
[Breitbart] It looks like the customer base for vaccination is about saturated.

Related, courtesy of Chans Tingle4088: CDC Says 8 Mainers Have Died With Covid-19 After Being Fully Vaccinated
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was gonna vote Bee but then I thought..wait this is Washington State and Inslee is such a cretin that this could be true! Always go with your first instincts.
Posted by: Warthog || 06/09/2021 9:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, a whole joint. That's worth about $5.
Posted by: Chris || 06/09/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||


Brazilian model who is nearly SEVEN FEET tall reveals an undiagnosed tumor caused her incredible growth as a child - as she says marrying a man 16 INCHES shorter than her helped her to embrace her height
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
She changes light bulbs - He changes the oil on Hummers...great match !
Posted by: Flamble Lumplump2225 || 06/09/2021 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Date able a foot at a time.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/09/2021 8:36 Comments || Top||

#3  What a playground!
Posted by: Cesare || 06/09/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  She had a benign tumor growing on her pituitary gland that had caused an overproduction in her growth hormone, a condition known as 'gigantism'

"PEO Soldier to the white courtesy phone. PEO Soldier."
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 12:44 Comments || Top||


Exclusive: Gauteng woman gives birth to 10 children, breaks Guinness World Record
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Judge orders Virginia gym teacher to be reinstated after he was suspended for refusing to allow biological boys to compete as girls because transgender policy went against his Christianity
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Byron Tanner Cross, 38, was suspended from Leesburg Elementary in Loudoun County, Virginia, two weeks ago, after speaking at a school board meeting

  • He was arguing over two policies put in place by the public school board: one mandating teachers use the pronouns a transgender child identifies with

  • The other one would allow transgender kids to take part in sports with the gender they identify with

  • The second one also allows kids to use the locker room and bathroom of the gender they identify with

  • Cross had filed a restraining order and temporary injunction, demanding his job back and asking that his views not be censored again

  • Judge James E. Plowman ordered the school district to restore Cross' job

  • The temporary injunction is set to stay in place until December 31 unless any alterations are agreed to before then

  • If either side wants a trial, the judge says they must start that process by June 16

  • Plowman suggested that the school district would lose a case against Cross at trial, arguing that Cross' First Amendment rights were impacted adversely
Courtesy of DarthVader, PJ Media has more on the story here.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 07:08 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


#2  ACLU Attorney: ‘Absolutely Fair’ for Trans ‘Women’ to Compete with Girls If true, this means ACLU = BS on stilts
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 06/09/2021 15:23 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Harris says Mexico talks 'candid,' pledges investment to stem migration
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] US Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and now Joe Biden's wing nut. She's displaying her level of competence in her hanling of the Biden Border Surge
told Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that relations were entering a "new era" as they agreed on Tuesday to deepen economic ties and invest in Central America to try to lower a record spike in migration.

Harris said talks with Lopez Obrador billed as focused on root causes of migration were "candid," covering topics ranging from migration to security, vaccines, the pandemic, and the drug fentanyl.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking


#2  How about we invest in some border security instead?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/09/2021 12:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Move chip manufacturing and it's attendant toxic pollutants to Mexico.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 14:29 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian sailors rescue stranded dog from Arctic ice
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 12:11:41 PM || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China, ASEAN foreign ministers agree to avoid provocations in South China Sea
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Foreign ministers of Southeast Asia and China agreed during a meeting to exercise restraint in the South China Sea and avoid actions that could escalate tensions, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said on Tuesday.

The ASEAN statement referred to a meeting on Monday in China of the ministers and comes after separate diplomatic protests in recent weeks made by Malaysia and the Philippines over the conduct of China’s military and fishing fleet.
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


How China Steals US Tech to Catch Up in Underwater Warfare
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Cyber
FBI investigates ANOTHER cyber attack, this time at NYC Law Department: City officials disable computer network in legal offices after finding ransomware that is commonly used by foreign governments
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The hack was detected at the NYC Law Department on Monday morning

  • City officials disabled the computer network to try to contain its data

  • Sources say ransomware was detected that is commonly used by foreign governments and criminal hackers

  • They didn't say what the ransomware is

  • It's unclear if the hackers asked for a ransom like the Colonial Pipeline hackers

  • NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday he doesn't think data was compromised but information is 'emerging'

  • It comes as another cyber attack- this time on members of Congress - emerged
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When will these morons quit windows and use an obscure operating system... maybe one of the Inferno variants ... you know one of the OS's that hackers use so they are protected..
Wikipedia on Inferno
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm running Ubuntu on my air-gap cluster so I can feed the CUDA cards. Using Tails on my laptops and Kali when I want to go exploring.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 6:45 Comments || Top||

#3 

Question:
Why didn't we see these type of Hacks during the TRUMP administration?


Or is this, in this case a way to taint or claimed tainted any criminal evidence collected in a few of the high profile Politically motivated cases NY has brewing?

Either way it helps promote the Harris/Biden Admin goal of a federally controlled, monitored and secured Internet.

Will 2025 have us registering Desktops, and Laptops?
Note: Smartphones are already registered Trackable/Traceable devices.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/09/2021 6:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Will 2025 have us registering Desktops, and Laptops?

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5 

Skidmark - look at the end to end encrypted SMS App called Signal or WhatsApp
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/09/2021 17:02 Comments || Top||


Cyber criminals target Congress: 60 members from both parties are left UNABLE TO ACCESS data for weeks in latest ransomware hack
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • In latest ransomware attack, members of Congress are hacked

  • At least 60 lawmakers left unable to access constituent data for weeks

  • Target was iConstituent, a tech vendor that provides constituent services

  • Issue is still being resolved as lawmaker frustration grows

  • Unclear who is responsible for attack

  • US government and companies have been targeted by Russian cyber hackers

  • President Biden will discuss matter with Putin when they meet next week
One can only hope there is no connection Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Pakistani IT team, the one headed by Imran Awan.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We're Congressmen; we don't need no stinkin' data!"
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/09/2021 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  ....both parties are left UNABLE TO ACCESS data for weeks in latest ransomware hack

A debacle without a downside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/09/2021 2:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Re: #1 - "We're Congressmen; we don't need no stinkin' constituent opinions!"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/09/2021 6:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Criminals hacking criminals? Is there no professional courtesy there?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/09/2021 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  "President Biden will discuss matter with Putin when they meet next week"

I a sure Vladimir will have a very hard time listening to this Ukrainian loving fraudster.



Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 06/09/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Hidden behind the story is the fact that only 60 members of congress (out of what? >500?) even consult the data over weeks of time.

That should be the headline.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/09/2021 9:25 Comments || Top||

#7  And yet, they still want backdoors in software so they can spy on citizens.
Posted by: Angstrom || 06/09/2021 15:54 Comments || Top||

#8  This hack is to be blamed on Pakistani IT professionals
Posted by: Airandee || 06/09/2021 17:26 Comments || Top||


Economy
Biden to face global challenges from China, Russia as he departs for first foreign trip
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 12:12:04 PM || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Europe
French President Macron Gets Bitch Slapped In Public
[Breitbart] Two people have been arrested
Voici! Thought he was slapped by one person!
after French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face by a man while visiting the commune of Tain-l’Hermitage on Tuesday, an incident that has been widely condemned by political party leaders.

The incident took place during Macron’s "Tour of the French territories" in the department of Drôme and was caught on video and spread across social media. The video shows the French president approach a man to shake his hand, before the member of the public slaps Macron across the face before being tackled by security and police.

Courtesy of Clem, Zero Hedge adds:
Thinking he was approaching a "fan" behind a metal barrier, Macron walked up to a man in the crowd and grasped his hand, only for the man to then shout in his face, "Down with Macronia" (à bas la Macronie) - according to France24 - while simultaneously delivering a hard slap.

While the attacker's motives remain unclear, there are reports quoting him as also yelling "Montjoie Saint Denis", recognized as a historic battle cry of military members under the old French monarchy.

Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wouldn't call that a bitch slap.
Posted by: Chris || 06/09/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
$250 BILLION bill to compete with China approved: Dems and Reps unite to back investment in research, AI and semiconductor production to win science and tech race with Beijing
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Senate on Tuesday voted 68-32 in favor of the new spending

  • Supporters said it was the largest investment in science and tech in decades

  • Joe Biden said he hopes to have it on his desk to sign soon

  • The bill is designed to take on America's rivals, mainly China

  • Much of the cash is to increase semiconductor development and manufacturing

  • The U.S. share of semiconductor manufacturing globally has steadily eroded from 37 per cent in 1990 to about 12 per cent now

  • That is despite demand for products which require the vital components ballooning
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 07:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Crony capitalism. It'll end up in the pockets of the politically connected, not the entrepreneurs we need. See: Solyndra.
Posted by: Nero || 06/09/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Exactly. Slap tariffs on China and then let good old American entrepreneurs do their thing. Won't cost the taxpayers a single penny.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/09/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  One wonders how much of it will be router to labs... in china. Lets ask Dr. Fraudci.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/09/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Why bother? Anything someone comes up with, they'll steal. Either through the usual poor computer security or the long traditional means of bribery.

Now creating false fronts which deal in dead end or ultimately failed/fake technology in sort of a honey trap, that would be an interesting investment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/09/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Talk to Russians. Not only their expertise on managing sensitive information exceeds the Americans by orders of magnitude, their motivation to clip China's wings does as well.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/09/2021 14:15 Comments || Top||

#6  ^^Talk to Israel...
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||

#7  I've got this feeling that much of the money will be siphoned off to re-elect party cronies and rig elections to make this happen. Trump's America first polices were working until Covid-19 hit across the world.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/09/2021 14:30 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
The UnitedNations Security Council has voted to reelect Antonio Guterres as the UN secretary-general
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yawn...
Posted by: Warthog || 06/09/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Socialism just won't die or go away.
Posted by: Raj || 06/09/2021 9:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Once again rejecting Barack Obama as king of the world.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  I seriously doubt they want to listen to him whining either.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/09/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Being related to a Nigerian Prince isn't enough royal lineage to overcome the nouveau rich lack of culture. These positions are reserved for those of The Olde Line.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq plans nuclear power plants to tackle electricity shortage
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Iraq is working on a plan to build nuclear reactors as the electricity-starved petrostate seeks to end the widespread blackouts that have sparked social unrest.

OPEC’s No. 2 oil producer — already suffering from power shortages and insufficient investment in aging plants — needs to meet an expected 50% jump in demand by the end of the decade. Building atomic plants could help to close the supply gap, though the country will face significant financial and geopolitical challenges in bringing its plan to fruition.

Iraq seeks to build eight reactors capable of producing about 11 gigawatts, said Kamal Hussain Latif, chairman of the Iraqi Radioactive Sources Regulatory Authority. It would seek funding from prospective partners for the $40 billion plan and pay back the costs over 20 years, he said, adding that the authority had discussed cooperation with Russian and South Korean officials.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


#2  2003 U.S. invasion, which was also motivated by false allegations that Iraq wanted to develop weapons.

Now even Iraq's desire to build nuclear weapons is "false".
Posted by: KBK || 06/09/2021 8:52 Comments || Top||



Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Fire rages out of control near Jerusalem, residents evacuated
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 08:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Arabs new/old way of war.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/09/2021 13:46 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Iranian parents 'who stabbed their son to death in honour killing over his unmarried status confess to murdering their daughter and son-in-law years earlier'
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

So their culture semi-allows Honor (US) Killings.
But does it allow Preemptive survival methods?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/09/2021 6:41 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Anti-vaxxer tells Ohio legislature: The vaccines are magnetizing people and making forks stick to their foreheads
[HotAir]
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/09/2021 14:51 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are they going pointy-end first?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 15:22 Comments || Top||

#2  There are good reasons to decline the vaccine. These are not among them.
Posted by: Angstrom || 06/09/2021 15:51 Comments || Top||

#3  When eating utensils are flying at peoples' heads perhaps it's time to rethink this whole vaccination idea.
Posted by: jpal || 06/09/2021 16:26 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/09/2021 16:37 Comments || Top||

#5 

Best and quickest way to shutdown opposing opinions on an issue. Simply conduct a parade of kooks opposing what your selling or want.

Our family decided to wait for a more real long term data, before under taking the rapidly developed C-19 mRNA Vax.

Because the proof in any NEW Medical solution is the overall LONG TERM effects.

EG. Morphine for Teething babies, Mercury for Syphilis, Radium Water, Fen-Phen foe weight loss, Heroin—The Cure for a Cough, smallpox vaccine is deadly,GcMAF has been promoted as a cure for cancer,HIV, autism and other conditions.

Studies of medical errors have estimated errors may account for as many as 251,000 deaths annually in the United States (U.S)., making medical errors the third leading cause of death.

Eg. VACCINE MISTAKES:
Cutter incident 1955 Polio Vax was actually live Polio virus.

Swine Flu VAX - "flu epidemic that never was." That vaccination campaign was later linked to cases of a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Even CNN did hit piece about the C-19 VAX when it was Trumps baby. back on September 1, 2020... but supports it??


My point is simple.

There is a reason....
THEY CALL IT PRACTICING MEDICINE.

They still learn everyday from passed mistakes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 06/09/2021 16:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Best and quickest way to shutdown opposing opinions on an issue. Simply conduct a parade of kooks opposing what your selling or want.

Allahpundit, pushing this.

This is My 2nd Grade Book of Magic trash.
Adult version: Bandage or tape, magnet, make-up, fork.

Or you can do it like we did back in grade school: plastic fork, chrome spray paint, rubber cement.

Fuggin seriously - if they were magnetic all the time, not just when the camera is on, they'd have air particulates attaching all over themselves, including into their eyes and ears. Metal door handles, belt buckles, opening the damn fridge, paper clip problems, shit just obvious. Look around you right now and note all the things you would have a problem with if you were magnetic enough to keep something weighty like a fork stuck to a moist surface like skin.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 17:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Press a quarter or a bottle cap to your forehead right now. I guarantee it will stay there.
Posted by: Lowspark || 06/09/2021 17:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Lowspark: I know.

But... stuff like this is how propaganda is done. You actually convince some stupid people or actors to say your straw man.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/09/2021 19:57 Comments || Top||

#9  A very useful discussion — thank you, guys. g(r)omgoru, I’m sure this quick and thorough rejection is why you posted it
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/09/2021 20:17 Comments || Top||

#10  When I think utensils I think Uri Geller.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 22:16 Comments || Top||


Worldwide internet blackout that saw sites including Amazon, UK government and Spotify crash was caused by ONE Fastly customer changing their settings
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 11:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OK folks, we're on Gold Master Release Candidate 19. Time to get Finance down here for an all hands on QA effort.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/09/2021 12:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't buy it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/09/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#3  "If we built bridges the way we build software - the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization"
-- From an old fortune file.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/09/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||

#4  But the Linsuckers are sure their software is perfect. Because it isn't Windows. That's like saying "But, but, I'm an independent." Like Boinie Sandahs and Angus Kink.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/09/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#5  -Linsuckers have nothing on Macsuckers... :)

(Entering this from a Mac...)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/09/2021 14:32 Comments || Top||

#6  One software bug shutting down everything is realistic.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 06/09/2021 17:14 Comments || Top||

#7  At first I thought it was Putin again.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 06/09/2021 17:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Okay. Read. Source article said nothing useful.
Just "Something bad happened and it's one guy's fault".
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 23:04 Comments || Top||

#9  sorry, I'm not very good with the internet
Posted by: Chris || 06/09/2021 23:27 Comments || Top||


NASA's Juno spacecraft captures stunning photos of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede as it flies within 645 miles of the satellite - the closest a craft has come in more than 20 years
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 07:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Fastest Evolving Regions of the Human Genome
[YouTube]
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 06:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Note the microbiome evolution too. Also the regulatory function of supposed "Junk DNA"
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  One change every hundred letters over 6 million years gets passed down.
Each human has about 100 mutations from their parents but almost none get passed down.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 6:37 Comments || Top||

#3  1/2 of our DNA are due to virus infections since the beginning of DNA.
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 6:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Since we have wars and purges that kill millions one wonders if political memes are selecting preferred genes or micro-biomes

Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 6:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Those would be the religious tendency genes.
Posted by: KBK || 06/09/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Looking about, I sometimes think the self-preservation gene is in decline.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 14:27 Comments || Top||


Do YOU have what it takes? Applications to become the European Space Agency's next astronaut close next week - with people with 'lower limb deficiencies or short stature' encouraged to sign up for future missions to the MOON
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Midgets on the Moon should be a movie
Posted by: SteveS || 06/09/2021 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2 
Candidates - "Then & Now" - Smaller the object the less "space" they take up.




Posted by: Lampedusa Lover of the Boskonians4088 || 06/09/2021 0:22 Comments || Top||

#3 
Michael Jackson Liked "Short Statured" People

Posted by: Flamble Lumplump2225 || 06/09/2021 0:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Baha...like that'll happen in the next 20 years. ESA can't do shit.
Posted by: Jiggs Trotsky5854 || 06/09/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Gurkhas In SPAAAACE! Lo Oxygen, Lo Temps -- No Problem!
Posted by: magpie || 06/09/2021 9:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Hell, a Ghurka is a good choice:) Besides, if there is secretely aliens, they'll come back, toss it's head on the desk and says, "Look what we found!"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/09/2021 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Just think how far you can toss a dwarf on the moon. It could be the start of a whole new industry.
Posted by: Jeremiah Uleack1446 || 06/09/2021 19:22 Comments || Top||


MQ-25 T1 unmanned tanker made the first ever refueling of a F/A-18 Super Hornet
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pretty soon we'll have drones refilling drones..Skynet anyone?
Posted by: Warthog || 06/09/2021 12:56 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The Music Stops at Beirut's Fabled Nightclubs
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] At some of Beirut’s most popular nightclubs, where the Middle East’s jet set would gather and dance into the early hours, the music has stopped and disco balls are gathering dust above abandoned dance floors and gutted buildings.

Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch...
’s party-goers are now largely restricted to pubs, as nightclubs reel from the triple blow of the pandemic, a massive explosion at the city’s port on Aug. 4 that caused extensive damage and a crippling financial crisis.
add in: Shiite hate for anybody enjoying themselves
The economic meltdown has wiped out thousands of jobs, erased around 90% of the local currency’s value against the US dollar and left over half the population below the poverty line.

COVID-19 restrictions are only just beginning to lift, and the chemical blast that killed hundreds of people also left large swathes of the city destroyed, including some of its biggest clubs.

"We are now standing at AHM, or what is left of AHM after Aug. 4," said Samer Makarem, head of marketing at Factory People which owns AHM and The Grand Factory clubs, pointing to a building with no roof left and debris strewn across the floor.

"Nightlife in Lebanon was famous. Beirut is known as ... one of the best party cities in the world," he told Rooters. "The best DJs in the world used to come to Beirut, consistently, every single weekend."

AHM and The Grand Factory are both located just a few hundred meters (yards) from the port where 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited last summer.

Makarem said he estimated renovation costs for both clubs at more than $500,000, a daunting sum to find at a time when banks are holding on to scarce hard currency.

Student Issa Kaaki was drinking outside a pub in the nearby Mar Mikhael area where many of the venues have been restored.

"It’s not the same for any of us," he said of the clubs’ closure. "Now as you see there’s nothing to do. You just go down, you get a drink, there is nothing left. We used to party, we used to have a good time, now it is off."

Not far away, the B018 club used to attract locals and tourists alike to all-night dancing until its famous rooftop opened as sunrise approached.

"Now we are closed, blackout all the time ... the lifestyle in the city totally changed," Jad Nassar, B018’s manager, said.

His club, a few meters from Beirut port, was shielded from the worst of the blast because it is mainly built underground, but its music system, rooftop and other infrastructure have been badly damaged.

Nassar said the venue would have opened by now, but coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
restrictions prevented it from doing so.

"I used to go to AHM, Garten, B018, Project and many other places to club from 8 pm till 5 am, have drinks, enjoy life and meet new people," said Mahmoud Kanso, another student.

"We hope they will reopen and the situation gets better."
Posted by: Fred || 06/09/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  The music stopped long ago.
On April 13th 1975, members of the Lebanese Phalanges killed 27 Palestinian passengers of a bus. ... This dark April 13th was designated as the official date of the start of the conflict. From the massacre and the arming of the Palestinian groups, trouble escalated. The “battle of the hotels” emptied the big hotels of Beirut almost immediately. This battle destroyed one of the most powerful symbols of the economic boom: Lebanese hospitality and tourists reception.
And Lebanon nightlife never really recovered.
Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 || 06/09/2021 20:58 Comments || Top||



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