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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Report on Violent Crime Falling in Major U.S. Cities Does Not Include NYC
[Breitbart] A recent report about violent mostly peaceful crime dropping in major cities across the United States did not include data for the largest city in the nation.

Axios reported Monday that preliminary data from some major American cities showed violent mostly peaceful crime went down in the first half of 2024.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the outlet’s article eventually said, "The Major Cities Chiefs Association’s preliminary data did not include New York City — the nation’s largest city — since it did not submit violent mostly peaceful crime numbers to the organization for the first half of 2024."
At this point NYC probably doesn’t have the staff to do the extra paperwork.
It is important to note that the association’s violent mostly peaceful crime survey showed the number of homicides reported by police in Los Angeles, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, had not changed from 155, while that number changed from 75 to 85 in Louisville, Kentucky.

In Minneapolis, the number of homicides rose from 29 to 31, while in Raleigh, North Carolina, the number rose from nine to 16.

President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
(D) and fellow Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
claimed in June that crime had taken a dip based on a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report, according to Breitbart News.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the news outlet found that claim to be false because Biden and other Democrats failed to mention that thousands of police precincts were not reporting their data to the agency.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
In 2022 - Of the 18,884 state, county, city, university and college, and tribal agencies eligible to participate in the UCR Program, 15,724 agencies submitted data in 2022. Which is only 83.2% reporting.

Then in 2024
Another FBI data link indicates 72+/-% of the law enforcement groups were participating in the collection. Or only 13,596 of 18,884 reporting.

It seems either certain Metro's want to hide their crime and demographic crime data. Or, it could be those police agencies were hit hard by "Defund the Police" also. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2024 6:33 Comments || Top||

#2  IIUC, Los Angeles is also not included
Posted by: Frank G || 08/14/2024 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  If a tree falls in the woods a perp commits a crime but the district attorney decides not to bring charges, does it show up in the numbers?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/14/2024 10:00 Comments || Top||


#5  Selling fentanyl is not considered homicide even though quite often the victim dies. In fact, they're dying at a rate of 100,000 plus per year.

But then, it might be interesting to see some of the stats for lesser crimes. Especially in California, the number for burglaries and shoplifting would be interesting although, since Prop 47, most incidents of shoplifting don't even get reported.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/14/2024 12:09 Comments || Top||

#6  You mean The Summer of Shove homicide rates? Down to nationwide riots and lawlessness levels is a win?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/14/2024 17:33 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Top Hackers Expose Vulnerabilities in Voting Machines for 2024 Election
[SlayNews] Gray-Hats have been at work....

Vulnerabilities were revealed by hackers at the annual DEF CON conference in Las Vegas.

If they know how, then DC Swamp and DNC know how.

Are we looking at a 2020 redo?
Probably not. But if we can get control of 2024, that’ll be good enough.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  link to video on the hacking in 2020
Posted by: 3dc || 08/14/2024 2:34 Comments || Top||

#2 
Another recent view on the Voting Machine Vulnerabilities found, but it is claimed, the systems Firmware or Software cannot be fixed by November 2024.

Also remember, there is still a congressional subpoena being ignored, by certain _ _ _ agencies. The Subpoena demands they hand over the recently discovered, but hidden. Evidence that was collected live as voter system tampering was happening back in 2020 and again in 2022.

Evidence that shows unauthorized person(s) accessing voting systems and "adjusting" vote counts on a large scale.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2024 6:19 Comments || Top||

#3  DELETE FROM candidate WHERE candidate_name = Donald Trump;

Or

UPDATE Candidate
SET Candidate_Name = Joseph Biden
WHERE Candidate_Name = Donald Trump

In both cases after technician copies the voting machine database onto his personal laptop executing the above commands against the voting machine database file, copy the altered database file back to the voting machine. I actually saw a video of a technician doing this at a voting center after poles closed.
Posted by: Glavinter Peacock7962 || 08/14/2024 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  That's a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/14/2024 12:09 Comments || Top||


Europe
"It's neo-feudalism."
[X]

"It's neo-feudalism."

Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) exposes the WEF's plan to impose a personal carbon allowance, connected to digital ID, using the "climate crisis" as a pretext.

"The CEO of one of the largest Dutch banks said, if everyone gets... pic.twitter.com/hVk4XT7XLi

— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) August 13, 2024
Posted by: 3dc || 08/14/2024 02:39 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  No it isn't. In feudalism there are obligations going in both directions. This is more of a theocracy.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/14/2024 6:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Full blown oligarchy is what they have been shooting for
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2024 11:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Watching Eva ... I agree.
What did she say?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 13:52 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Newsom blames oil companies for gas prices, but his own energy czar disagrees
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 13:57 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under:


Hunter Biden Asked State Dept. for Help on Burisma Deal‐While Joe Was Vice President
[Red State] Normally you wouldn’t expect the New York Times to pursue a story that contains negative information about top-echelon Democrats, but lo and behold, on Tuesday evening the outlet dropped an article revealing that First Son Hunter Biden requested help from the U.S. Embassy in Rome to secure a lucrative deal for the Ukrainian gas giant, Burisma, whose board he famously sat on. Here's the kicker: this was in 2016 while Joe Biden was vice president.

According to the story, the president was unaware of his son’s efforts. One wonders if Joe knew that Hunter kept himself busy, shall we say, but told him not to share details so he’d have plausible deniability.

The records were released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Times. I keep thinking to myself, wait, is this really the New York Times investigating things like this?

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2024 05:50 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The records were released as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the Times. I keep thinking to myself, wait, is this really the New York Times investigating things like this?

No, you know exactly what it is. NYT is/was a cut-out for an info-gatherinng and purging effort. A cover for action to establish a base-line for future FOIA efforts and releases.

Find out what's available and fix the story.


Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2024 6:01 Comments || Top||




Home Front: Politix
EXPOSED: Did the Trump Shooter Meet with the FBI?
[YouTube] Simply by tracking the Trump shooter's Cell Phone IMEI location data, and the associated Cell phones seen at his home, meeting with him weeks before. It has been discovered at least 1 phone made numerous calls to a location that houses FBI offices in Washington, DC.

The video also raises the question of why _ _ _ DC Swamp Agencies are not forth coming, and only begrudgingly confirm data collected by private investigators, using public sources of information.

Personal Note: With all of this said. I still believe a majority of the _ _ _ Agents are following their oath of office. What we are likely dealing with, is a small subversive political cell that needs to be weeded out and flushed.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2024 05:26 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2024 6:42 Comments || Top||

#2  No time or interest in "good Germans" - dismantle the FBI and spread the various organs to the corners of the empire then start from scratch.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/14/2024 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Connect the dots right here in today's Rantburg...Former agent REVEALS FBI ‘playbook': Grooming the ‘emotionally disturbed'
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/14/2024 12:18 Comments || Top||

#4  I think you meant to ask "WHEN" did the shooter meet with the FBI?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/14/2024 12:32 Comments || Top||

#5  I suppose it would be crazy talk to suggest there is a standing inventory of these foks all unwittingly (or wittingly) recruited and ready to go forth and create mayhem.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2024 13:07 Comments || Top||


MSNBC and Others Silent on Joy Reid's Racist Rant Calling White Sen. Mayonnaise
[Outkick] MSNBC is the self-appointed police force for racist comments in American society. Not a day goes by when at least one of the pundits at the network does not label someone a "racist" — even if they are not actually a racist.

Yet, last week, one of MSNBC's own went on another overtly racist rant against white people. Primetime host Joy Reid thanked Kamala Harris
who got her start in politix between former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' knees
for not picking Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly as her running mate because, unlike Tim Walz
...Kamala's running mate, governor of Minnesota. One man's socialism is another man's neighborliness....
, Kelly is "super white."

Err, not just "super white.

According to Reid, Sen. Kelly is "like a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder bread white."

OutKick asked MSNBC for comment. The network did not respond. MSNBC does not respond to inquiries regarding Reid's bigotry. We've tried before.

Translation: a network that proclaims zero tolerance for racism, refuses to condemn one of its leading hosts for spewing racism for profit.

It's not just MSNBC that's silent.

Where are media critics Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy? The two of them have long stalked conservative pundits to take their comments out of context, to frame them as racists. Somehow, Stelter and Darcy have nothing to say about Reid's racist rant.

Nor does Media Matter for America, a George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
-funded media organization of radical smear merchants.

Where is fellow race lady Jemele Hill, who is always on the prowl to call someone racist?

Hill defended MSNBC last month, claiming the network is neither radical nor left-wing. Since, her galpal Reid accused Trump of faking his liquidation attempt, likened GOP voters to Nazis, and called white people "mayonnaise."

For those who don't speak anti-white, "mayonnaise" is a derogatory term the anti-white brigade uses to refer to white people they do not like %u2013 like our pal Bishop Talbert Swan.

Swan has been known to call the white folks phrases like "mayonnaise dripping demons," "mayo crackers," "mayonnaise deficient monsters", "the mayo posse," and "demonic forces of mayo evil."

What is the black equivalent of "mayonnaise"? We aren't sure.

No white person in public would dare refer to another race using a creamy sauce. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
due to racial double standards, black Americans are allowed to do just that.

And the so-called "anti-racists" in the media have no comment.
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  LOL playing you all along Kelley. Just dumped all over what would have been the best choice. No getting back the dry wine aunt vote now.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/14/2024 16:32 Comments || Top||

#2  This is what they call institutionalized racism.

Always Freudian Projection with the Left.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2024 19:53 Comments || Top||


Trump: 'A Lot of People Just Don't Have the Money' for Groceries
[Breitbart] Former President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
spoke about how ''a lot of people'' do not have the funds to be able to afford ''a whole cart'' of groceries.

''We've got to get the prices down,'' Trump told Elon during a live interview on X. ''You know, when I look at bacon costing four or five times more than it did a few years ago. When you look at some of the food products in grocery stores, people know — they can't believe it. They used to be able to buy a whole cart, and today, a lot of people just don't have the money. They go in and they can't buy anything.''

During the interview, Trump also spoke about how people in the country ''can't buy groceries because they don't have enough money.''

''The election's coming, and the people want to hear about the economy and the fact that they can't buy groceries because they don't have enough money to buy groceries,'' Trump said. ''The inflation has killed them, food prices are up 50, 60, even 100 percent in some cases.''

Under the Biden administration, grocery prices have increased. In 2021, the prices for food increased by 6.3 percent, and 10.4 percent in 2022, according to TheStreet. In 2023, the increase in food prices ''slowed'' to 2.7 percent.

The outlet noted that supply chain issues, increasing production costs, and higher demand were some of the factors behind food prices increasing.
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: badanov || 08/14/2024 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  The outlet noted that supply chain issues, increasing production costs, and higher demand were some of the factors behind food prices increasing.

You mean production costs like transportation? Frack, drill, crush back to the 2019 level of gas and diesel and you'll cut production costs.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2024 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  * offer not available in California
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2024 7:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Those guys have some moves.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/14/2024 12:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I mean the ones in badanov's video.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/14/2024 12:15 Comments || Top||

#6  My cost of living increase this past year of $4.69 isn't enough to buy a pound of ground beef even at the cheap store.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/14/2024 12:31 Comments || Top||

#7  I showed my age the other day with a gallon of milk, bag of chips, thing of paper plates, pack of tea, and a soda, and pulled out only a $20.

"LOL what is this, 2019?!" and pulled out another $20.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/14/2024 12:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Just got back from buying 2 tube's of bathroom shower caulk. With Ga. sales tax, almost $11. each.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2024 13:12 Comments || Top||

#9  ^^^ We are in an inflationary house fire.
Posted by: Glavinter Peacock7962 || 08/14/2024 13:50 Comments || Top||


#11  A "Retail Apocalypse" Is Gaining Momentum All Over America.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 15:16 Comments || Top||

#12  It's those greedy gas station attendants, Jack!

Hey Daily Mail...maybe it is because of printing off a bunch of funny money to have NGOs bring in millions of unemployable 3rd worlders and pay for their food, shelter, and crime?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/14/2024 16:46 Comments || Top||


Harris Will Talk to Press, She 'Needs to' 'Make Determinations as to Where She's Going to Be on Policy'
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:





#5  So what they are saying is a veteran politician who was selected to be a vice-president, and who has made a vice-president pick on her own, has no policies?

OK.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/14/2024 14:10 Comments || Top||


Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters becomes first local election official to be convicted of security breach after helping 2020 election deniers
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the first local election official to be charged with a security breach after the 2020 election as unfounded conspiracy theories swirled, was found guilty by a jury on most charges Monday.

Peters, a one-time hero to election deniers, was accused of using someone else's security badge to give an expert affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell access to the Mesa County election system and deceiving other officials about that person's identity.

Lindell is a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Donald Trump

...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...
His online broadcasting site has been showing a livestream of Peters' trial and sending out daily email updates, sometimes asking for prayers for Peters and including statements from her.

Prosecutors said Peters was seeking fame and became 'fixated' on voting problems after becoming involved with those who had questioned the accuracy of the 2020 presidential election results.

[X]
…"Defendant Darrell Blackburn, who worked in the now defunct elections administrator's office, has been charged with six felony charges, five of them tampering with the document, one theft by a public official."

"This individual was specifically assigned to see that paper was allocated properly see that paper was allocated properly.... The result is he didn't do his job for Harris County."

According to the indictment, Blackburn had a secret 2nd full-time job, and because of that, he couldn't properly fulfill his duty with Harris County. I don't really buy that garbage because the ballot paper shortage was deliberate to prevent Republicans from winning but it's at least good to see accountability every once in a while

His LinkedIn account was wiped from existence moments ago.


Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given all the factual evidence we have now on the 2020 Fraud Election.

It is no longer a conspiracy theory.

It is a FACT.

Given the masses amount of voter fraud uncovered, it is understandable, why MORE & MORE challenge any claims that it was a valid, honest, accurately counted election, and NOT a Coup by the Left.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/14/2024 8:37 Comments || Top||



Science & Technology
Science journal buries high myocarditis risk from COVID vax, claims shot reduces heart attacks
[JustTheNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If there’s no mechanism given for this it suggests the data they’re using was bad to begin with. By, for example, filtering out heart problems starting in the two weeks after a vaccine is administered by misrepresenting them as from Covid.
Posted by: Thing+From+Snowy+Mountain || 08/14/2024 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Science journal buries high myocarditis risk from COVID vax, claims shot reduces heart attacks from the already dead
Posted by: Warthog || 08/14/2024 9:30 Comments || Top||



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