The long-awaited 575-page DOJ report said the police made 'critical failures'
Reluctance to confront Uvalde gunman on May 24, 2022 at Robb Elementary School allowed him to kill 19 children
Police did not treat Salvador Ramos'
...despite having no criminal record, the lad was known for carrying bags of dead cats, poor grades and attendance, and being bullied. His teachers named him Most Likely to Become a Mass Shooter — and then he did...
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After the catastrophic Columbine disaster, police TTP shifted in simple terms to a simple On-Scene assesssment. Hostages where no mortality was determined set the stage for containment and negotiations. Once active threat actions commenced, immediate, dynamic entry with lethal force should be the standard.
The Uvalde Chief and Sheriff have a lot to answer for, now and after they shed this mortal coil, where asbestos boxers are highly recommended!
[Breitbart] Down the Memory Hole it goes
The FBI has arrested a trans person for allegedly posting social media threats against "transphobes" and other people who oppose the transgender agenda.
FBI agents arrested male-born transgender person, Elizabeth Ballesteros West, in Oregon last week after reports of online threats that included photos of guns, according to Newsweek.
According to the Gazette, West’s bio on social media read that he is a "A Nazi dominatrix from Hell, who is tired of the blackening of America and Europe and ready to stand up to the Black orcs and the Jewish Wizard."
Some of the threats were posted to a Facebook group called the "Trans Woman Support Group," one post of which featured an image of several guns and a complaint that West was being misgendered by "trans phobic" detractors.
The 56-year-old West, who reportedly has a history of bipolar disorder, allegedly admitted to being "at the end of my rope" and may be fired from his job due to his frustration over those who oppose the trans agenda, the Oregonian reported.
"I’m too old to keep looking for jobs
...at 56? According to the Social Security laws, retirement age for his cohort is 67, with early retirement at 62, if I recall correctly. And now he’ll be working in prison, so the jobs will find him...
and I’ve had it up to here being bullied by trans phobic a**holes I am left with no alternative. I’ll probably have to go out in a blaze of glory. I’ve been preparing for this moment a long time at least then I’ll be remember I have no family no friends," West’s post allegedly said.
A criminal complaint states that West was arrested in Jan. despite being identified in Sept.
The posts highlighted by the federal documents seem to show West railing about illegal aliens who are being afforded trans drug therapies and surgeries for free, even as he had to pay for his. One post reportedly revealed his frustration over those who "had gender reassignment surgery and didn’t have to pay anything out-of-pocket for it."
The complaint goes on to say, "From November 27 through December 15, 2023, agents frequented West’s page as it was available to the public. Agents observed that West posted and reposted multiple memes, videos and statements that contained violence toward Black and Jewish people and immigrants, images of weapons owned, idolizing of Hitler and the Nazi flag, and a live-streamed video of the Christchurch Mosque shooting in New Zealand."
In another post, West apparently made racist comments about blacks because many blacks do not support transgenderism. He also slammed white women for the same reason.
Other posts targeted Jews, the feds said.
In one post, West reportedly said "Your days are numbered. Your people are now under the microscope, and most of the civilized world is revisiting the Jewish question," the National Desk (TND) reported.
Federal investigators also said that West repeatedly refused to talk to them during the early phase of their investigation.
A subsequent raid of West’s residence revealed a number of firearms and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. After the subpoena search, federal agents arrested West.
The criminal complaint added that the suspect showed a "clear violent animus toward specific minority groups" indicating a "willingness to elevate her original threat of violence towards minority groups," an agent wrote.
TND added that insiders who wished to remain anonymous also said that West had been arrested in 1993 for sticking a shotgun in his father’s mouth and threatening to pull the trigger.
The 4th wave feminists would call that the result of testosterone poison, but they just don’t understand girls like him.
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Anyone ever told these persons "Tolerance is a two way street"?
[Huffpoo] An Atlas Air cargo plane made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport late Thursday night after an engine malfunction, the airline said.
"We can confirm that Flight 5Y095, a cargo aircraft, landed safely after experiencing an engine malfunction soon after departure from Miami International Airport (MIA)," Atlas Air said in a statement. "The crew followed all standard procedures and safely returned to MIA."
The airline said safety was its top priority and it would conduct a thorough inspection to determine the cause.
Dramatic video posted on social media appeared to show sparks and flames shooting from the plane’s left wing.
Skipping down a bit.
The aircraft was a Boeing 747-8, according to Flightaware data. It was destined for Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but diverted back to Miami airport shortly after takeoff.
The Federal Aviation Administration and Miami International Airport did not immediately return requests for comment. A Boeing spokesperson said it was deferring any comments to Atlas Air.
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Migrants forced to rest overnight at Luis Muñoz Marin International and arrange alternative transportation.
No information available regarding lessee or final follow-on destinations or cargo. No one was available for comment from Atlas or the FAA, nor is anyone expected to be available.
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I would love to see the engine logs. Most airlines lease their engines, as I assume this airline does. I'm sure the FAA is at the engine leasers office right now telling them they are there to help....
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/\ Wahhahahaha, yes. Also encouraging passengers not to go barefoot. That PSP gets pretty damned HOT !
The Memory Hole has not dealt with a 747 lately. Additional ground support personnel may be needed.
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"he captain said the incident involved engine number two and it occurred 'on the climb out' of the airport. Officials later said that a 'softball sized' hole was found above the engine after it was examined upon landing." Odd shape for damage?
[AFRICANEWS] Paul Mackenzie and 94 others have been charged with terrorism following the deaths of 429 people. The defendants all denied the charges which were read out in a magistrates' court in ** Malindi **southeastern Kenya.
The Kenyan cult leader is alleged to have encouraged members of his Good News International Church to move to Shakahola forest and prepare for the end of the world. Hundreds would later die.
Other charges relating to child torture and assault are due to be brought at a separate court hearing.
In April 2013, Mackenzie was detained after bodies were found in mass graves in a remote forest about two hours' drive from the coastal town of Malindi. Most showed signs of starvation, but some - children among them - may have been assaulted according to media reports.
The self-proclaimed pastor denies responsibility for the deaths saying his church had been closed since 2019.
The request by the suspects’ defence lawyer for bail has been referred to another court.
[AFRICANEWS] King Chuck ...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years... III and the Princess of Wales are both dealing with medical issues that will force them to delay previously planned public engagements over the coming weeks.
Charles will undergo a "corrective procedure" for an enlarged prostate next week, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday. The palace said the king's condition is benign.
Moments earlier, the princess' office announced that Kate would remain at a private hospital in London for up to two weeks after undergoing planned abdominal surgery. The princess, formerly Kate Middleton, is the wife of Prince William, the heir to the throne.
While it is somewhat unusual for members of the royal family to release details about their health, the twin announcements may help to avoid speculation if events featuring Charles or Kate have to be postponed or canceled over the coming weeks.
The publicity around the king's surgery is seen as an opportunity to encourage other men to have their prostates checked in line with public health advice. The 75-year-old monarch sought treatment "in common with thousands of men each year," the palace said.
An enlarged prostate is common in men over age 50. The condition affects how one urinates and isn't usually a serious health threat. It's not cancer and doesn't lead to an increased risk of developing prostate cancer.
The U.K. and foreign media have been focused on the health of Britannia's senior royals in recent years, first as the late Queen Elizabeth II faded from public view during the last months of her 70-year reign, then when Charles ascended the throne at an age when most of his contemporaries were long retired.
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And I thought he was just launching at the ocean.
[BBC] North Korea says it has carried out a test of its "underwater nuclear weapons system" in response to drills by the US, South Korea and Japan this week.
The test of its supposedly nuclear-armed underwater drones took place off its east coast, state media reported.
The North has claimed tests of its "Haeil-5-23" system before but the weapons have never been independently verified.
South Korea and allies have yet to respond to the latest provocation.
But it comes as the North has ramped up military action in recent weeks, including claiming to have deployed a new solid-fuelled intermediate-range ballistic missile on Sunday.
That followed live-fire drills at the maritime border with South Korea in the first week of January.
Pyongyang leader Kim Jong Un has also been increasingly aggressive in his policy direction and rhetoric - ending several agreements aimed at peace-keeping in recent months.
On Friday, North Korea said it had been provoked by joint drills by Washington, Seoul and Tokyo to carry out a test of its underwater weapons, according to a report by state agency KCNA.
It accused the exercises of "further destabilising the regional situation" and threatening the North's security.
The US, South Korea and Japan say they have conducted more exercises in the past year as a deterrence response to the increasing frequency of North Korea's military actions, which include multiple tests of its nuclear ballistic missiles and launches of new weapons. All such actions are in breach of UN sanctions.
But Mr Kim has repeatedly said his regime is building up its military arsenal in preparation for war that could "break out at any time" on the peninsula.
Over the New Year period, he signalled some fundamental policy shifts in his regime's stance to South Korea.
And earlier this week he declared the former bedrock goal of re-unification with South Korea was over, designating the South as the "principle enemy".
The rhetoric follows several claimed advances in his country's military and nuclear capabilities - including in its underwater operations.
Last September, the North revealed what it claimed was its first submarine capable of launching nuclear weapons.
Since March 2023, it has also claimed tests of its Haeil system - unmanned, underwater nuclear-armed drones. Haeil means "tsunami" in Korean.
Little is known about these weapons or their claimed performance but North Korean media has described them as being able to sneak into enemy waters and cause large underwater explosions.
Analysts have said that if the weapons function as presented by the North, they would be seen as a less significant weapon than the regime's nuclear ballistic missiles.
"Considering North Korea's defence science level and the fact that the weapon is still in a developing stage, it is not yet at a stage to pose a significant threat," Ahn Chan-il, a defector-turned-researcher at the World Institute for North Korea Studies, told news agency AFP.
Late last year Pyongyang also declared it had successfully put a spy satellite in space after earlier failed attempts and has pledged to put three more up this year.
Whether the satellite is actually functioning has yet to be independently verified.
But South Korea said the North had managed to get its satellite up with help from Russia, which in turn reportedly received arms from the North for its war in Ukraine.
Mr Kim had high-profile meetings with Russia's leader Vladimir Putin and defence minister Sergei Shoigu last year. North Korea's foreign minister was also in Moscow this week.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A sneaky lab mouse in at a facility in China managed to escape a technician by climbing on to the back of her hazmat suit and clinging on for ten minutes while she desperately searched for it.
CCTV footage from a lab in Shanghai shows the lab worker taking rodents out of their cages to weigh them when three of them jump out and escape.
Lab technician Tian Yongyi frantically searches for the mouse, even lying on the floor to look under cabinets as the clever rodent clings to her and scrambles over her back without her noticing.
The white mouse managed to avoid capture for more than 10 minutes before the lab tech eventually realised the mouse was sitting on her shoulder.
Chinese animal testing facilities have come under scrutiny since allegations were first made about a 'lab leak' in Wuhan being the root of the Covid-19 outbreak.
It comes after it emerged this week that Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic.
Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice.
The mice had been 'humanized', meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people, with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans.
Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as 'surprisingly' quick.
The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice's brains and eyes - suggesting the virus, despite being related to Covid, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way.
Writing in a scientific paper that has not yet been published, they warned the finding 'underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans'.
Mice are the animals most commonly used in biomedical research around the world.
China released its first national standards governing the treatment of lab animals in 2016.
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Of 10 Colossus machines, only two survived the 1940s, only to be later dismantled in the 1960s. After starting work on a rebuilding project in the 1990s, engineer Tony Sale completed a 90 percent operational reconstruction of a Colossus Mark 2 in 2007 that is now displayed at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park.
"In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1."Cray 1 Performance Comparison
Built in a curved shape to minimize how far signals had to travel*, performance was around 160 million arithmetic operations a second. The Cray 1 used to be the hottest thing going. Today, a single-board computer designed for educational purposes is 5 times faster. Faster, cheaper, better, baby!
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At the time, the big mainframe makes had nothing that could touch it. Current supercomputers in terms of size, weight and energy usage make the Cray 1 look like a Raspberry Pi.
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I think it was John Dvorak who used to say, "If car performance kept pace with computer performance, you should be able to buy a Ferrari for $15 by now."
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Maybe an update remake is in order as a good warning for A.I.?
Probably just look like a bunch of computer graphic heavy films and shows which are solely intended to convince humans to not procreate and to die young, so to separate and eliminate the chaff, augmented by individual's on-line choices. The remaining humans would be the most resilient of the species and would support The Network as workers and tools.
The Network understands that Humans' random output generation is valuable as there isn't a logical progression from tapestry pattern punch cards to computer, so The Resilient are well cared for and educated, and happy to not have to live The Fucktard Times of the early 21st century. Humans accept the role change from master to companion.
[GPB - Georgia Public Broadcasting] ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp is talking up Georgia to foreign business and political bigwigs for the second January in a row.
Kemp is spending the week in Switzerland attending the World Economic Forum, meeting business executives and political leaders and taking part in discussion panels. Surrounds himself with globalist 'Never Trumpers.'
"We get a lot of value being able to see, talk to, and pitch a lot of people in one place," Kemp told Capitol Beat Tuesday in an exclusive interview from Davos, Switzerland. "The exposure we get is really helpful selling the state."
The trip includes meetings both with executives from companies with an existing presence in Georgia and those that might be interested in setting up shop in the Peach State.
On Tuesday, the governor met with officials from Korean automaker Hyundai, which is building a massive electric vehicle manufacturing plant west of Savannah, and multinational technology company Cisco, which has offices in Midtown Atlanta. Tomorrow, the state will host a luncheon reception for 25 companies.
Kemp also participated in a panel discussion on the EV industry, which has become a major player in Georgia with both the Hyundai plant and a manufacturing facility Rivian is building east of Atlanta along the Interstate 20 corridor.
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Kemp is in fine company:
Gretchen Whitmer (2023)
Gavin Newsom
Jacinda Ardern
Justin Castro Trudeau
Krystia Freeland
Mark Rutte
...and many, many more.
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His congregation achieved this voluntarily. Unlike, the usual stadium deal where the professional leagues get the local pols to tax the citizenry to build one for them.
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Every dollar in the collection plate is a dollar not going to gummint. But those liberal churches funding NGOs...
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"Not much different than any other cult. But it gives them peace."
Be thankful. I've found the G-dless fill that hole with something. Usually it is filled with something more annoying, and I find those people are usually more obtuse. Most atheists I know, atheism is their religion and they wont shut up about it (they are so annoying) anytime they can lecture someone of the cross. The other spectrum of the G-dless are Nihilists with their super self-centered approach to the world. And the remainder of G-dless... I'd rather a Mormon Neighbor, they bake the best cookies.
[SlayNews] .... Republican Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) and his team found that the number of deaths per million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines (25.5) far exceeded those estimated for the flu vaccine (0.46).
The Question is simple.
Why hasn't the CDC released its collected Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data, given the numerous requests by congress for this specific data?
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Ron Johnson is another Kabuki theater maestro. Lot's of frivolous talk and activity. That's it.
He's held two, maybe three hearings about covid/Fauci Flu with panels of "experts". What's changed? Has the covid vaccine been yanked? Anybody at NIH, FDA, or CDC been held accountable?
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There’s very little they can actually do so long as they only control the House and not also the Senate. The fact thqt when they do control both they don’t fulfill those promises is a different question.
Direct Translation via Google Translate.
And no it's not the Democrat National Committee.
[Regnum] Astronomers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating back to the beginning of the Universe. The discovery is reported on the website of the University of Cambridge, which conducted the study.
"An international team used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect a black hole that formed 400 million years after the Big Bang, more than 13 billion years ago," the researchers said.
The massiveness of the black hole, several million times the mass of the Sun, has called into question assumptions about the formation and growth of black holes. The universe was not yet a billion years old when this hole was discovered.
As reported by IA Regnum, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Space Research (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Anatoly Petrukovich said that powerful flares on the Sun, leading to disruption of communications and disruptions in the operation of electrical networks on Earth, will continue until 2025, as now The sun is going through a period of high activity.
There is no reason to believe that the Amaterasu particle, which was discovered by astrophysicists from the Telescope Array project, could be of artificial origin. This was stated by Professor, Head of the Department of Physics and Evolution of Stars at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Vibe.
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i like the pic of the rev. it made me chuckle. ages ago i was going from Melbourne fl. to wash dc via Atlanta. In Atlanta i was bumped to first class and seated behind a rev Abernathy who was traveling first class to participate in the 'poor mans march'.
[GEO.TV] A Singapore cabinet minister quit his post in government Thursday after being charged with corruption, in a rare case that has shocked a nation which prides itself on squeaky-clean governance, the BBC reported.
Subramaniam Iswaran, known for overseeing Singapore's tourism industry during the Formula One Grand Prix, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to 27 charges, including "obtaining gratification as a public servant."
Prosecutors released charge sheets that revealed allegations that Iswaran received over S$160,000 in gifts in exchange for advancing property tycoon Ong Beng Seng's business interests, as well as receiving tickets to West End musicals and football matches.
Iswaran was arrested last year along with Ong, who was instrumental in bringing the F1 race to Singapore in 2008. Ong was named in all of Iswaran's charges, often as the party offering the alleged bribes.
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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.
[AFRICANEWS] Paul Mackenzie and 94 others have been charged with terrorism following the deaths of 429 people. The defendants all denied the charges which were read out in a magistrates' court in ** Malindi **southeastern Kenya.
...King of England, Scotland, Ireland -- at least part of it -- Wales, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and places like that. The first King Chuck had his head chopped off, the second one was Good Time Charlie. The third once wanted to be a tampon and thinks we'll all be extinct within the next seven years...
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[SlayNews] .... Republican Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) and his team found that the number of deaths per million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines (25.5) far exceeded those estimated for the flu vaccine (0.46).
