[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Ryan Grantham, known for playing Jeffery Augustine in "Riverdale," has been sentenced to life behind bars for killing his own mother. Guess he'll be doing prison movies from now on.
The 24-year-old was sentenced Wednesday in British Columbia, Canada Supreme Court — approximately 6 months after pleading guilty to a second-degree murder charge for the death of his mom, Barbara Waite, back in 2020.
Prosecutors say the disgraced actor recorded his confession and the aftermath of the tragic ordeal with his own camera at the time — in the clip, he admitted, "I shot her in the back of the head. In the moments after, she would have known it was me."
Justice Kathleen Ker described the case as heartbreaking, tragic, and life-shattering while giving him the sentence.
According to prosecutors, Grantham shot his mother in the back of the head while she was playing the piano at home — the following day he loaded his car with guns, ammo, Molotov cocktails, and directions to Rideau Cottage — where Canadian PM Justin Trudeau ...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North... lives.
Detectives investigating the case say Grantham later confessed he was attempting to kill Trudeau and wrote about his goal in a journal.
Per the terms of the sentence, Grantham will not be eligible for parole during his first 14 years locked away.
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^ Was thinking along the same lines. A script that demands shooting a woman in her head and forcing the son to cop to it? Can the Trudeau gestapo go that far? Can hus masters? Surely.
[College Fix] The College Fix recently received more than 50 pages of emails from the United States Military Academy at West Point —15 months after a student reporter filed a public records request.
Many of the pages were blacked out with the exception of several articles included in the communications or the initial greeting or ending. The redactions on the initial request were done by The Fix to protect the mailing address of former student reporter and current Fox News employee Ashley Carnahan, who filed it.
The June 21, 2021 request asked for six months worth of emails to and from West Point Superintendent Darryl Williams for messages that contained the words "critical race," "critical race theory," "systemic racism" or "CRT."
Even the redacted emails reveal requests for assistance in June 2021 with processing what apparently was an overwhelming number of Freedom of Information Act requests for information on CRT at the U.S. Army officer school.
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I heard of a cop that did this. He had to shoot a guy who was trying to kill his wife, and then the wife filed on him for killing the husband. He beat the charge, and then every year on the anniversary he stopped by the cemetery and 'watered' the grave.
When the wife died and was interred there, he made one last trip. He said he felt like he'd made his point.
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Loved em in San Diego and at my Grandparents' in Fallon NV. Franchise is gone here in SD
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Re #2,
When Stars Collide
A horse!?! And... it's hit. Fate is fickle.
Poor Sam's in a bit of a pickle.
So much for that crook.
Then, a comical look...
For the hack's -- "There ya go!" -- Travis Bickle.
Or, "Hi-yo, Yellow! Away!"
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[Breitbart] A security firm called Strider Technologies published a report this week that said China paid leading scientists at America’s Los Alamos National Laboratory hefty sums of money to conduct research for the Chinese Communist government, including research with military applications that could threaten U.S. national security.
The report, titled The Los Alamos Club: How the People’s Republic of China Recruited Leading Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory to Advance its Military Programs, offered a rather straightforward answer to its titular question — China recruited those scientists by offering them up to a million dollars each, and at least 154 of them accepted.
The Strider report is an extraordinarily detailed look at a problem that has been discussed at length in recent years, China’s extremely aggressive “talent recruitment” programs. The People’s Republic of China puts a great deal of effort into recruiting talented foreigners to serve its purposes, often without emigrating to China or leaving the positions they hold in free nations. Often, but not always, these recruitment programs target foreign citizens of Chinese heritage.
The most notorious of these initiatives is called the Thousand Talents Program (TTP). Many of the scientists in the Strider report were involved in TTP or its youth wing.
China’s recruitment activities often look a lot like espionage or technology theft, and sometimes participants are prosecuted for such, including employees of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Other scientists and academics have been disciplined or fired by U.S. institutions for failing to disclose the full extent of their work for China. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in April 2021 told a Senate committee that over 500 federally funded scientists were under investigation for possible links to China and other foreign powers.
Edward William Priestap, also known as Bill Priestap is an American attorney and United States intelligence official. He was the assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division from 2015 to 2018.
..."Many of the scientists were later lured back to China to help make advances in such technologies as deep-earth-penetrating warheads, hypersonic missiles, quiet submarines and drones, according to the report.”
We are literally financing our own destruction in every possible way. It’s not surprising that Communist China would want to plant its own people at Los Alamos. The mindboggling thing is that they were able to plant over 150 of them. No waiting."
"The Trump administration tried to put a halt to this in 2018 with its “China Initiative,” but Biden undid this plan, claiming racism was behind it, and suggesting such efforts were hate crimes."
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I know I have shared this previously, but I'm 1/3 of the way thru Kinzer's 'Poisoner in Chief.' Kinzer does a thorough and quite fascinating deep-dive into many of the origins of this very disturbing topic.
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There's an unreported but well known scam going on in China where these tiger parents are drilling their boys to be selected for an all expenses paid education in America. Officials too are in on it, they recommend the young chinaman to be enrolled in institutes and the chinaman enjoys a full education, reporting this, espying that. The officials who are handlers even have a cut in salaries or enjoy favours sometimes. The chinaman's motive is not the espionage itself. No, it's being called back when he has proved himself worthy, and elevated to party approved posts in the scientific establishment. There is much prestige and privilege in it for the whole family and an a secure government career for the chinaman. Near unlimited grants and whole institutes and infra built around what the clever chinaman has claimed will take China where America won't be getting for another few years! Again, the officials who approved the chinaman get cuts. And business is good. There's no 'getting caught' unless the chinaman produces absolute zilch. As long as there's some output, the officials conclude the 'science is progressing'.
Now some, who are jumping through hoops in China only to get out of it, they renege later and the CCP even goes after them. Unless they can keep them fed with bullshit. Or data that needs to keep coming. In that case too, nothing conclusive or really productive is exchanged.
You can gauge for yourselves from this, what would be the level of exploitation of your research and the quality of their assimilation of it.
The ones who sell out entire schematics, software code, research on your armament and jets etc., I'll bet they all wear uniforms or suits.
[Red State] Grim news on the markets as they closed out the week sharply lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended Friday at 29,665, though it dipped down to 29,250 earlier in the day. The NASDAQ Composite closed the day at 10,868; the S&P 500 at 3,693.
The AP reports:
Stocks tumbled worldwide Friday on mounting signs the global economy is weakening just as central banks raise the pressure even more with additional interest rate hikes.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.6%, closing at its lowest level since late 2020. The S&P 500 fell 1.7%, close to its 2022 low set in mid-June, while the Nasdaq slid 1.8%.
The selling capped another rough week on Wall Street, leaving the major indexes with their fifth weekly loss in six weeks.
Not a very encouraging sign, despite the recent passage of the "Inflation Reduction Act." Friday’s dismal Wall Street news, of course, comes on the heels of the Federal Reserve’s 75-basis-point rate hike, announced Wednesday.
Per the Washington Post:
The full weight of the Fed’s actions since March — pushing a key interest rate up by 3 percentage points already, with more increases still to come — may not be felt until later this year or next. But financial markets are taking in the central bank’s promise and sending alarms back out — making clear that no matter how many times Fed officials say they’re going to do whatever they can to crush inflation, the idea still roils Wall Street.
The Post, of course, is also concerned about the potential negative ramifications (for Democrats) in the midterms:
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And yet, half of all people relying on the level of the stock market for the health of their retirement plans will continue to vote for "progressives."
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Adjusted for the 14% inflation, from March. 2020 to Sept. 23, 2022 the Dow's 35% gain was about 20%.
But then how many of the DOW Stock gained vs. Lost their A$$?
Well, according to authoritative sources, ONLY nine companies in the Dow are up in 2022.
The 5 worst-performing stocks so far this year:
Cisco Systems (CSCO),
Home Depot (HD),
Salesforce (CRM),
Nike (NKE)
and, the worst of the 5 was Walt Disney (DIS) so far this year is down 39.05%.
I seem to remember 3 or 4 of these, jumped on the WOKE, BLM, Take a Knee, ?? Sexual oddity, etc... Liberal Bandwagons.
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^ Absolutely, and until shareholders start defenestrating Woke CEO's, things won't change. ESG corporate policy must stop
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Ref #3: Tulsa,OK's ONEOK, Inc. (OKE) At $52.76, pretty good over the long haul. Been in business over a hundred years. Pays a 7.09 percent dividend. In spike of these enviro-bitches in D.C., oil and gas is going to be around for a while
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When I cashed mine in I’d “forgotten” that in addition to paying federal tax you also pay states tax. Ugh. Reinvested it in my own name and doing well. I’m hoping that if the government decides to roll the 401k’s into Social Security (for our own good) that they don’t try to capture all the stock held by individuals in the market as a whole. If that happens then lead futures are the hot ticket.
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#9 Frank,
I lost a little over a 1/4 millon when the Dot.com bubble burst. Sure could use it now... in retirement. But I never put another penny in stocks since.
Because we all are happy when the Kurds can afford to stand on their own two feet without outside support.
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) profited a net amount of about $1.5 billion in crude oil sales between April and June, selling a barrel of oil for $100, according to an audited report published by the KRG on Saturday.
The KRG published its quarterly report, audited by Deloitte, which includes the government’s oil sales and income for the second quarter of this year.
The government exported 37.6 million barrels of crude oil and sold 237 thousand barrels to local refineries between April 1 to June 30, revealed the report.
The average price of a barrel of the exported oil was $100 while the KRG sold a barrel for $54 to local refineries.
The KRG collected $3.8 billion in the sales, pocketing nearly $1.6 billion net amount after paying the financial entitlements of oil companies and debts as well as transportation and storing fees.
The government made over $1.3 billion in oil sales during the first three months of 2022.
The KRG reported a total net income of over $3.9 billion throughout 2021, having exported over 152 million barrels of oil.
The surge in oil prices in 2022 has helped the KRG to resume paying its civil servants in full and almost on time after years of financial crisis - blamed on the war against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) and disputes with Baghdad.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...hereditary prime minister of the Great White North...
[College Fix] The College Fix recently received more than 50 pages of emails from the United States Military Academy at West Point —15 months after a student reporter filed a public records request.
[Red State] Grim news on the markets as they closed out the week sharply lower. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended Friday at 29,665, though it dipped down to 29,250 earlier in the day. The NASDAQ Composite closed the day at 10,868; the S&P 500 at 3,693.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
