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Dayyum. For years now I've been sleeping in my vehicle at Ohio truckstops, figuring with all the lights and people I would be unlikely to get into trouble. This incident draws attention to all the vehicles parked at truck stops with or without the driver inside. All too easy for a couple to dodge police pursuers, zig zag through a parking lot, force their way into an idling vehicle, perhaps abduct the driver and hijack the vehicle. I wonder if this will catch on.
[FoxNews] Operation Cross County XIII was a nationwide operation and located 59 missing minors
Florida officials said Wednesday that nearly 40% of the people arrested in one part of the state in a recent operation cracking down on child sex exploitation were in the U.S. illegally — amid continued concerns from Republicans about criminals and sex offenders coming in across the southern border.
Officials said that seven out of 19 people arrested in Bay County, Florida, were in the country illegally. Five have no record showing lawful entry into the U.S. One man was admitted on a B-2 visitors visa that expired in 2021, and another was admitted on a J-1 student visa that also expired in 2021.
Of those arrested in Bay County, 14 were arrested for traveling to engage in sexual activity with a minor. Five were arrested for possession of child pornography.
Operation Cross Country XIII was a nationwide operation involving the FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Nationally it led to the identification or arrest of 126 suspects of child sexual exploitation and human trafficking offenses.
That operation also located 59 missing children during the two-week operation.
"Sex traffickers exploit and endanger some of the most vulnerable members of our society and cause their victims unimaginable harm," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement announcing the results of the national operation. "This operation, which located 59 actively missing children, builds on the tremendous work the FBI has undertaken over many years to rescue minor victims and arrest those responsible for these unspeakable crimes."
In the operation headquartered in Bay County, the operation was held over a three-day period in July and involved cooperation between the FBI, HSI and Florida law enforcement.
Those arrested are the latest illegal immigrants to be tied to sex offenses, amid an ongoing national debate about the border crisis that the U.S. has been dealing with since 2021.
Republican critics, of whom Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been one of the loudest, have accused the Biden administration of making America less safe by adopting "open border" policies. Critics have noted the enormous number of migrants who have evaded Border Patrol. There were approximately 600,000 "gotaways" in FY 2022, officials have estimated.
The administration has denied the accusations, saying it is focused on rebuilding an asylum system decimated by the prior administration, while narrowing the focus of its ICE agents to focus on illegal immigrants who are public safety and national security threats. It has also called on Congress to pass a sweeping immigration reform bill and provide additional funding as it has requested. It has also touted its anti-smuggling operations in the U.S. and with international partners.
Last week, Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said that agents had encountered three sex offenders in a single day.
On Thursday, Texas Department of Public Safety announced that its troopers had arrested an illegal immigrant from Mexico for the possession or promotion of child pornography.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] He should have known tobacco was bad for him.
Firings in 3, 2, 1...
The thief was clearing the shelves in the store and throwing cigarettes and tobacco items into a trash can
A stunned onlooker filmed the incident and encouraged the employees to wait until the police arrived
The workers eventually had enough and came together to restrain the suspect after hitting him with a large wooden stick
Shoplifting has reached unprecedented levels across America with brazen thieves strolling out of stores with their arms full of stolen goods.
The National Retail Federation said that the scourge - which grew worse during the pandemic - cost the industry almost $100billion in 2022.
David Johnston, who represents the organization, said: 'These acts are occurring more openly and thieves have become more brazen and aggressive in stealing merchandise.
[NYPOST] Looks like the idea of seeing Princess Meghan Markle ...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, 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 good 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... in the Oval Office might not be so far-fetched after all.
President Biden’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens, has reportedly "endorsed" the "Suits" alum as a woman she would back for the White House, according to the Daily Mail.
The Duchess of Sussex, 41, has long been rumored to have been eyeing a career in politics, with unconfirmed reports suggesting she’s been forging connections with top Democrats since quitting royal life in 2020.
And it looks like Markle might have a way into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. if she was to launch a career in politics.
Biden Owens, a veteran political strategist and campaign manager for her brother, has spoken out about her keenness for the mom of two to venture into politics, previously agreeing that Markle would "make a good presidential candidate one day."
Proving that to indeed be the case, Markle tops a current poll of Democrats asking which woman they would vote for, according to the outlet.
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A fucking moron wanted to lead a bunch of fucking morons.
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If Big Mike is in the "rub out those who bug you" game now, MeeAgain better watch out...
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This insufferable bitch needs a good car wreck.
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She's an outstanding bad example. In that respect she's a national treasure.
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I was certain this was the Bee or a joke. How insanely stupid and out of touch would you have to be to hold that point of view? Apparently, the Biden dementia gene has early onset for both XX and XY chromosome sets.
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I now schedule at least 2 hour connections on domestic flights; and sometimes even that’s not enough. Then you may spend a couple of days waiting for an open seat (ATL-DFW)
[Epoch Times] Like a piece of the Shire that fell out of a Tolkien novel, Katherine’s hobbit-inspired home emerged from the ruins of an old stone wall once buried in overgrowth in a French forest. Inside and out, an Art Nouveau motif depicts magical Celtic beasts on cob walls. An earthen, living roof, and big green front door complete the fantasy feel. Several interesting photos, and 'the rest of the story', at the link.
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France doesn’t need Hobbiton. They need Helms Deep.
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It looks like a nicer place to live in than many most of those 'ultra-modern' houses I saw on the HGTV while at the dentist.
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Does it work on garage door openers? It sounds like a superb burglary/surreptitious tool, more proof that old school solutions are far more reliable.
[Mil News] Lt. Gen. Maria Gervais, Army Training and Doctrine Command Deputy Commander, and Army Maj. Jessica Dawson, a West Point associate professor, used their authority and government access in an attempt to unofficially investigate and punish an active-duty whistleblower for criticizing the Biden administration and various Army leaders.
According to private text messages and emails obtained by Breitbart News, Gervais and Dawson used official government resources to hunt for the anonymous whistleblower, identify them, and have them punished for speaking against the Biden administration and Army leadership, despite a lack of evidence.
Despite lacking evidence, Gervais and Dawson reportedly labeled the whistleblower an "insider threat" and repeatedly accused him of serving as "counterintelligence." Breitbart News noted that the accusations by Gervais and Dawson were seemingly used as an effort to involve the Army Criminal Investigative Division (CID), which has the power as an independent agency to investigate serious felonies.
According to Pat Wier, a Navy reservist and civilian defense attorney, an investigation by CID would first require the designation of a significant threat. He described Gervais and Dawson’s accusations as "wrongful."
"His alleged actions did not rise to the level of a serious crime, or any crime at all," Wier said. Instead, Breitbart reported that based on private communications, the investigation seems to have been an attempt by military officials to utilize government powers to punish the whistleblower for political dissent.
According to Breitbart, Gervais and Dawson’s investigation lasted almost a year, aided by current and former progressive military members. The investigation resulted in the public identification of the suspected whistleblower, an Army general’s former aide filing an inspector general complaint against the whistleblower, and the inspector general’s system being politically weaponized against the whistleblower’s social media posts that criticized the Biden administration.
The inspector general complaint resulted in a 15-6 investigation into the whistleblower, which led to Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Samuel Shoemate being charged for violating Army Regulation 600-20 by "posting derogatory and disrespectful images/memes on multiple social accounts ... towards different Senior Officials and Military Leaders."
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Any involvement or investigation outside CW2 Shoemate's immediate chain of command would have been inappropriate and possible a violation of the UCMJ.
TRADOC and USMA? WTF? Perhaps Maria and Jessica had other axes to grind. An Article-32 investigation into their 'year long conduct' (and potential co-conspirators) is obviously warranted, but will likely never happen.
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Article 88 of the UCMJ prohibits officers from using "contemptuous words" against the President, Vice President, and a variety of other officials. "Service members convicted of an Article 88 violation face a maximum punishment of dismissal, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and 1 year of forced confinement."
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^ When does Milley get charged?
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M. Murcek, it only applies to officials currently in office. So if Milley said something contemptuous about Trump after Trump had left office, it wouldn't count.
BTW, from what I understand, Article 88 also applies to regular RETIRED officers - in theory they can be recalled to active duty and court martialed. For some reason, it doesn't seem to apply to retired reserve officers, so I can say anything I want about Biden, Harris, and all the other idiots in command.
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[Breitbart] National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers released by the FBI at the end of July show the U.S. has enjoyed four years of one million-plus gun sales a month.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) goes through the FBI’s figures following their release each month, and Public Affairs Manager Director Mark Oliva commented on the July 2023 numbers, saying:
This is a remarkable milestone of four continuous years of over 1 million background checks for the sale of a firearm. That’s no small achievement and is indicative of the strong and sustained appetite for law-abiding Americans to take ownership of their Second Amendment rights. It also shows the resilience of the firearm and ammunition industry to meet this continued demand for high-quality firearms that today’s gun owner expects.
Oliva added:
This milestone was achieved in the midst of the continuous attacks by the Biden administration which has demonstrated nothing but contempt for the Second Amendment and has twisted the levers of government to impede the ability of law-abiding citizens to legally possess firearms of their choosing. Americans are sending a clear signal each and every month. The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is not up for negotiation.”
The FBI data shows there were 2,015,789 background checks in July 2023, and the NSSF determined 1,023,903 of those checks were for gun purchases and/or transfers.
All you freaking deepstaters and government types. Think about that. Think about 4 years and at least 50 million more guns bought. Think about what that says for a society.
Think about what gut feeling a society who is buying guns en masse is having.
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I'm thinking it's time to buy more ammo before the next scamdemic "crisis" turns it into unobtanium.
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Given the ammo prices limited stock that I see in stores and on Ammoseek.com, likely too many NEW gun owners are not doing much more than learning basic load-n-fire skills.
BTW: Saw something really out of the ordinary last week at a Wally World in KY. That store was selling RCBS equipment, dies, items and reloading various supplies.
[Gateway] The day after radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) leader Julius Malema sang the "struggle song" "Kill the Boer" in Johannesburg’s full 90.000 seat FNB Stadium, a 79-year old farmer was brutally murdered and his wife severely injured. Elon Musk said "they are openly pushing for genocide" in South Africa.
There were already 5 farm attacks in four days before Malema’s inflammatory speech, as Gateway reported. The day after the speech, on July 30, 79-year-old farmer Theo Bekker was brutally tortured and murdered on a farm in the Grootvlei area in Mpumalanga province (formerly known as East Transvaal). He was severely beaten with a pipe before his throat was slit. The four attackers, between 16 and 19, then severely assaulted his wife, Marlinda. The attackers fled with four firearms in Marlinda’s vehicle before losing control of the vehicle and crashing. All four were arrested.
On August 1, an elderly male victim was murdered in Biesiesvlei, North West province, after the front door was broken down, according to Afriforum security spokesman Jacques Broodryk. There were 9 farm attacks and 2 murders July 22-30, Broodryk said.
Why haven't we seen this Racist and Genocidal group raked over the coals on
The View,?
Where are the MSM talking heads?
After all Don't All Lives Matter Also?
But on a more serious note.
Why has DC given close to a $ BILLION DOLLARS of US Taxpayers money over the last 2 years, to South Africa alone?
Better question, with a $32+ Trillion National Debt and 37.9 million US Citizens in poverty and 580K Homeless. Why is US Taxpayer $$$$ even flowing out of the USA?
Given DC helps the world leaders pockets out, to the tune of about $60.4+/- Billion a year in aid. That equals about $103.6K / per homeless person, for the estimated 580K homeless.
Or, $1.5 Million to treat / house each of the DC-Gov estimated 400K seriously Mentally ill Homeless a year that pose a danger to others and themselves?
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I love the idea that when communism is finally wiped out, they'll all be stuffed and on display at the Chicago zoo.
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I used to visit the branch of the National Archives near Midway airport to research the history of my extended family. NARA has a lot of material on them. The neighborhood was sketchy before the yoof war broke out in Chicago. Years ago NARA staff told researchers it was better not to leave the facility for lunch breaks. There was a small kitchen with fridge, microwave, and table for researchers to accomplish this.
[WorldNuclearNews] The USA's first newly constructed nuclear power plant in more than 30 years is now serving customers - it reached first criticality in March, was connected to the electricity grid in April and is now officially generating electricity for customers, Georgia Power has announced.
Georgia Power Chairman, President and CEO Kim Greene said the achievement was a "testament" to the company's commitment to building a reliable and resilient energy future and "marks the first day of the next 60 to 80 years that Vogtle Unit 3 will serve our customers with clean, reliable energy".
Work started on two Westinghouse AP1000 pressurised water reactor (PWR) units at the Vogtle site, near Waynesboro, in 2013. Southern Nuclear and Georgia Power, both subsidiaries of Southern Company, took over management of the construction project in 2017 following Westinghouse's Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Bechtel Inc was contracted to manage day-to-day construction.
The announcement comes days after the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a so-called 103(g) finding authorising fuel loading and the start of operations at Vogtle 4, which is now in the final stages of construction and testing. The 157 fuel assemblies that will make up the first core are already on site, and the unit is projected to be enter service late this year or during the first quarter of 2024.
"We can do new nuclear energy in America, and we must continue to do new nuclear in America," said Westinghouse President and CEO Patrick Fragman. "The lessons-learned, and the experience gained through these vital units at Vogtle, as well as the competencies and capabilities we built with our supply chain, prepare Westinghouse well for continued new nuclear units to address our climate change and energy security objectives."
According to Westinghouse, the AP1000's proven technology, leveraging modular design and construction methods, offers the benefits of Nth-of-a-kind status with a global fleet and a mature supply chain, improving the economics and mitigating schedule risks for future customers. Four AP1000s are already in operation in China, where six further reactors are under construction. The reactor has recently been selected by Poland for its nuclear energy programme and is earmarked for construction at the Kozloduy site in Bulgaria. Ukraine is planning to build up to nine AP1000 units.
Vogtle is already home to two operating PWRs. Once all four units are online, it will become the largest generator of clean energy in the USA, Georgia Power said.
Vogtle units 3 and 4 are co-owned by Georgia Power, Oglethorpe Power, MEAG Power and Dalton Utilities, and will be operated by Southern Nuclear.
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The eye watering over time and budget on this project is a testament to everything that is wrong with American business and gummint regulatory apparatus. Many lessons here that have probably been totally ignored or mis-interpreted by all the usual suspects.
But, more, faster please...
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a testament to everything that is wrong with American business
Low bid materials and labor?
Are the domes and cooling pools made of Mexican cement?
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More than likely totally unrelated.
But my CDV-717 MOD1 has been reading 11+ to 13.2 rad/hr the last few days on my side of rural middle ga. and only 1 to 3 rad/hr traveling in to town. But given recent wind directions and the serious t-storms maybe SRP again.😈
That is equal to getting 24 MRI's, or is it CT's a day.
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Swear to G-d first time I took my boat in the sounds around Daufuskie and caught a flounder, I thought it was some creature from a Monty Burns nuke plant.
I won’t even mention, I’d brought the boat down from Lake Oconee and had no anchor, running down the beach as the tide swept it off was enlightening
[Science Alert] Last week, a group of South Korean physicists made a startling claim. In two papers uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, they say they have created a material that "opens a new era for humankind".
LK-99, a lead-based compound, is purportedly a room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor. Such a material, which conducts electricity without any resistance under normal conditions, could have huge implications for energy generation and transmission, transport, computing and other areas of technology.
The South Korean researchers say LK-99 can be made in a baking process that combines the minerals lanarkite (Pb₂SO₅) and copper phosphide (Cu₃P). They say the resulting material shows two key signs of superconductivity at normal air pressure and at temperatures up to 127 ℃: zero resistance and magnetic levitation.
They propose a plausible theory of how LK-99 might display room-temperature superconductivity, but have not provided definite experimental evidence. The data presented in the papers appear inconclusive.
One of the signatures of a superconductor is the Meissner effect, which causes it to levitate when placed above a magnet.
In a video demonstration, the researchers position a piece of LK-99 over a magnet. One edge of the flat disk of LK-99 rises, but the other edge appears to maintain contact with the magnet.
At present, all we know about LK-99 comes from the two arXiv papers, which have not been peer-reviewed. Both papers present similar measurements, though the presentation is unconventional. However, there are some differences in the content, and also in authorship, which does not inspire confidence.
So what happens now? The processes of science swing into action. Climate Change Cultists take note:
Experts will closely review the papers. Researchers at other laboratories will attempt to reproduce the experiments described in the papers, and see whether they end up with a room-temperature superconductor.
These crucial steps are necessary to establish the validity and reliability of the LK-99 claims. If the claims are validated and confirmed, it could mark one of the most groundbreaking advancements in physics and materials engineering in the past few decades.
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all we know about LK-99 comes from the two arXiv papers, which have not been peer-reviewed.
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.
...unlikable American former starlet married to the formerly likable Prince Harry. Chock full of lefty political opinions, 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 
[WorldNuclearNews] The USA's first newly constructed nuclear power plant in more than 30 years is now serving customers - it reached first criticality in March, was connected to the electricity grid in April and is now officially generating electricity for customers, Georgia Power has announced.
They propose a plausible theory of how LK-99 might display room-temperature superconductivity, but have not provided definite experimental evidence. The data presented in the papers appear inconclusive.
