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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Florida man arrested for 'written threats to kill' Trump, Vance days after assassination attempt
[FoxNews] A Florida man was accused of making "written threats to kill" former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance and their families just days after a Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate the 45th president.

The Jupiter Police Department announced that 68-year-old Michael M. Wiseman was arrested on Friday for charges for written threats to kill.
There’s a photo of the miscreant at the link. He looks profoundly unwell.
Authorities alleged that Wiseman wrote threats against the Republican presidential nominee and vice presidential nominee on his Facebook account and also made to members of the Trump and Vance families.
Serious threats or the usual bloviation seen too often in both sides of the aisle, but now being taken seriously by the authorities after they so visibly dropped the ball last weekend?
The police department said it was notified of the threats, including bodily harm, by multiple members of the community.
Once again the common folk do their duty to say something when they see something.
Jupiter, Florida is about 20 miles, or an approximately 30-minute drive, north of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach.

"JPD coordinated the investigation with the United States Secret Service and the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office," the department said. "JPD officers took Wiseman into custody without incident."
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

When will the FBI/DOJ start arresting the numerous Public figures, and Congressional members, guilty of the very same thing?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 6:23 Comments || Top||


Multiple felons open fire in Oakland neighborhood
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Is this a nice little neighbourhood gang or one of the big, seriously criminal ones?

Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Diverse and Vibrant™
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if anyone ever considered an alternate history SF wherein North America has a native bug that just loves cotton plants?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 2:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Divert some Ukraine ammo immediately! They're running low in Oakland.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 2:14 Comments || Top||

#4  No spray. and pray here. They may not be aiming well, but they are aiming.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 07/21/2024 5:57 Comments || Top||

#5  #2 Boll weevil just arrived too late in its migration
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2024 7:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Pittsburg had about the same thing.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/21/2024 10:36 Comments || Top||


#8  ^ Both parents had warrants and fled, leaving a neighbor to take the 7 month old kid to the hospital. Foster care is in the child's future
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 10:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Philadelphia shooting at big block party leaves 3 dead, 6 injured
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 11:01 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
CDC Tightens Border Restrictions for (canine) Dogs
[Epoch Times] A bipartisan group of senators called on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) not to go ahead with a previously announced rule that would restrict the number of dogs coming into the country that’s slated to go into effect next month.

The CDC’s new requirement on importing dogs into the United States is set to go into effect Aug. 1. The agency rules desgined to stop the spread of rabies, mandates that dog owners show documentation and meet age requirements in order to have a dog enter the country. A rule published in the Federal Register says that U.S. Customs officers will enforce the measure at border crossings.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/21/2024 12:13 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The CDC needs to also demand the same for the biggest health issue facing the US. We have over 10 Million Illegals that have brought a number of US eradicated diseases back to our cities in the last 3 years.
Posted by:   || 07/21/2024 12:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Wait till January. If the Trunk get a majority in the House and Senate, revise the Civil Service Act to only protect those at GS-13 and below.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2024 13:28 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Video of The Minute After Trump was Shot
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2024 09:10 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1in 3 Democrats believe Trump faked the assassination attempt.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/21/2024 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Those photoidiots are lucky they didn't get a couple of rounds each for rushing the stage.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3 
Seeing not available and Security warnings when trying to view?
Posted by:   || 07/21/2024 13:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Photos of the audience on 13 July showed hundreds of members of the audience holding their phones up and making recordings. There must be a large number of such recordings available. AFAICT the FBI has not tried to solicit contributions of these (but they should).
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 14:51 Comments || Top||

#5  FBI

"We'll handle it from here."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 15:24 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Microsoft says global outage on July 19 affected 8.5 million computers
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The global outage in Microsoft programs on July 19 affected less than 1% of computers running the Windows operating system, the company reported in a blog post.

It is noted that on July 18, independent cybersecurity company CrowdStrike released an update that began to affect IT systems around the world. The failure led to problems in many areas. Problems were encountered in airlines, banks, hospitals, and media in many countries around the world.

The failure did not affect the operation of computers in Russia.

"The CrowdStrike antivirus update affected 8.5 million Windows devices, or less than 1 percent of all Windows PCs. While this percentage was small, the broad economic and societal impact reflects the use of CrowdStrike by enterprises that support many mission-critical services," Microsoft explained.

As reported by IA Regnum, in many countries around the world on July 19, there were failures in the operation of devices with the Windows system. In the morning, users began to complain about the appearance of the "blue screen of death" on devices with Windows 10. The failure affected many companies and government agencies in Australia, the United States, Turkey, Ireland, India, Great Britain, Japan and other countries.

Restoring all systems to full functionality after a global outage in Windows-based technology could take weeks, the British newspaper Guardian suggested, citing the opinion of experts in the field of digital technology.

Experts believe that similar failures could happen again if various companies do not take care to create proper protection and backup copies of important information.

The massive failure of Windows has shown how important import substitution of foreign software is, the press service of the Ministry of Digital Development noted in its commentary.


Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:


#2  How China swerved worst of global tech meltdown
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 6:04 Comments || Top||


#4  Microsoft has a real business opportunity here.

That is if they can demonstrate a better cybersecurity system that can seamlessly envelop the Crowdstrike work.

Not sure how the lawsuits will play out. Crowdstrike says the existing service agreements cover situations like the outage and the company would only be liable for some minor refunds. But that may not hold up.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/21/2024 8:32 Comments || Top||

#5 
Deflecting our attention maybe?
Because it is interesting, how all this and more seems to suddenly happen, as they trying Kill Trump, push Biden out the door and find a replacement.
Posted by:   || 07/21/2024 10:24 Comments || Top||


#7  Only 8.5 million computers? Seems a bit low-balled. Linux, baby!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/21/2024 15:25 Comments || Top||

#8  But important computers.
Posted by: Cravirt Poodle4329 || 07/21/2024 16:54 Comments || Top||

#9  So what was installed on those 8.5M machines when they rebooted?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 19:07 Comments || Top||

#10  i have used c# for 20 years now and admire it but i dont like their policy of automatic updates. its
my machine and if i say its not broke then dont you fix it. I have migrated my programming to the web and use javascript and dont need c# for that.
so i am thinking of swapping microsoft for linux.
my endeavor is at www.weemfg.com. give it a poke and tell me what you dont like
Posted by: irish rage boy || 07/21/2024 20:27 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Crusading J6 attorney pays huge price for defending pro-Trump patriots
[World Net Daily] WASHINGTON — The turn of a few key events may change the fate of the Jan. 6 political prisoners now staring down the dark tunnel of a decade or more in prison for seditious conspiracy.

While the re-election of Donald Trump in November would almost guarantee the leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers a presidential pardon, a series of recent Supreme Court rulings may likewise end up cutting time off the lengthy prison sentences they were handed for what many consider no greater crime than "wrongthink."

On June 28, SCOTUS ruled the Justice Department's use of 18 U.S.C. 1512(c)(2), in conjunction with the most serious criminal charges leveled against former President Donald Trump and an ever-growing number of Jan. 6 defendants, is unconstitutional.

The statute says an offender who "(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or (2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both."

The trouble is, in all of American history the DoJ had never used this statute to prosecute demonstrators, even when protests descended into skirmishes, riots, arson, assault, death or worse. Prosecutors, in effect, invented previously non-existent crimes, as if they were the U.S. Congress.

The Supreme Court's ruling should put a precipitous halt to the government's over-prosecutorial adventurism of nonviolent offenders whose only crime amounts to misdemeanor trespassing, and consequently vacating the convictions of possibly more than a hundred J6ers.

But as criminal defense and civil rights attorney Norm Pattis drafts the appeal for the Proud Boys who were handed the lengthiest prison sentences of all the J6 protesters, he is preparing to face defiant federal prosecutors who remain hellbent on circumventing the Constitution and the Supreme Court so they can bury their political opposition when they return to the courtroom.

"It appears the Justice Department is just digging in, pretending nothing ever happened, and baiting the defendants to raise the 1512 Obstruction issues on appeal on the theory that the DOJ may be able to salvage those convictions," Pattis told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 09:25 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Supreme Court's ruling should put a precipitous halt to the government's over-prosecutorial adventurism of nonviolent offenders whose only crime amounts to misdemeanor trespassing, and consequently vacating the convictions of possibly more than a hundred J6ers.

I don't look for this to happen until the onerous, Deep State facilitator Merrick Garland vacates the DoJ.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  -in chains.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I would rather have them leave by the gallows
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2024 13:16 Comments || Top||

#4  In chains TO the gallows, along with about 4/5 of the rest of Biden's cabinet and 90% of the "undersecretaries" and other indignitaries.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/21/2024 17:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Video on X shows massive size of Trump rally in Michigan
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 01:45 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I'm not supposed to be here today."
~ The Orange Man
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2 
Which is wrong more often?
A Democrat politician, The MSM, or the local weather guessing person.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 6:16 Comments || Top||

#3  NN2N1, it's a 3 way dead heat at the top of the stretch but the weather thing is fading.
Posted by: alanc || 07/21/2024 12:49 Comments || Top||


US declassifies data on strategic nuclear weapons
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] As of September 2023, the United States had 3,748 nuclear warheads at its disposal, which were intended to equip strategic forces. This was reported by the press service of the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) on the official website.

In October 2021, Washington last announced data on the quantitative composition of its nuclear arsenal. After that, the authorities began to hide this information.

According to the agency, the 2023 figures indicate that the stockpile has declined 88% from its peak of 31,255 warheads at the end of fiscal year 1967. Compared with the end of fiscal year 1989, the decline was 83%. At that time, the United States had 22,217 of these weapons.

As reported by the Federation of American Scientists, in 2024 the United States already had only 3,708 nuclear warheads.

The NNSA also noted that Washington dismantled 12,088 nuclear warheads between fiscal years 1994 and 2023. Since September 1991, the number of non-strategic nuclear weapons in the country has been reduced by more than 90%.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, on June 7, US Presidential Aide Pranay Vaddi said that US President Joe Biden had signed new instructions on the conditions for the use of nuclear weapons. He did not rule out that the US nuclear arsenal could increase in connection with them.

On June 8, during a speech on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, commented on this statement by the United States, noting that the Russian authorities will respond to Washington’s statements about increasing its nuclear arsenal in accordance with its nuclear doctrine.

On June 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia will continue to develop the nuclear triad, as it is a guarantee of strategic deterrence and balance of power in the world.

Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We'll hear about the vax in 75 years.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 5:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Fox News reports that a local sniper team did fire a shot during the assassination attempt on Donald Trump
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

… out Crooks but missed.

A USSS sn*per was the one who took out Crooks in what they call a "one in a million shot."

"We're also told a local police sn*per took a single shot as well, but missed."
Salt to taste. If true, look for the controllers.

I think that may be in response to this:
Audio Analysis Is 100% Clear: Trump & Crowd Were Shot At By Two Separate People

[PeakProsperity] There’s zero doubt. Two separate weapons were fired toward Trump and the Crowd. One fired 3 rounds, the other(s?) 6 or 7 depending on how many sniper rounds were fired at Crooks. This indicates a conspiracy to assassinate Trump.
Video and audio at the link, so you can decide for yourself, dear Reader.
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Even when the first videos were played on 7/13 I could hear 4 different sets of shots. The first 2 bursts definitely sounded like two different sources, then much later there were another 2 isolated shots.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Recording of 7 shots recorded. Beyond Crook at 400 and 1200 or 1400 locations. I tried to find this information posted yesterday. Even the water tower possibility issue. Those 7 shots showed two different firearms. None of which were of sniper team. The eye shot was of sniper team. That stops Crook instantly. Only trigger pulling afterward. Going to site you will be met by the FBI and will be refused entry. Information is disappearing.
Posted by: Dale || 07/21/2024 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Fox News reader comment:

NickLocarno
7 hours ago

There are already enough odd coincidences, security 'lapses' and things that don't add up to consider this a criminal conspiracy. Unfortunately, the likely conspirators are in charge of the investigation. The only hope the American people have of getting to the truth is an independent investigation (which isn't really possible since the FBI has contaminated the evidentiary chain of custody) and/or Congress grabbing on and never letting go until all questions and discrepancies have been explained. The stakes can literally not be higher. If there is no day of reckoning when a former president and current presidential candidate comes within an inch of losing his life, there NEVER will be for anything or anyone in government.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 6:29 Comments || Top||

#4  https://rumble.com/v57mcyy--trump-assassination-audio-forensics-analysis-1-chris-martinson-at-peak-pro.html Found it on
Rumble.
Posted by: Dale || 07/21/2024 7:03 Comments || Top||

#5 
Audio Forensics say 3 weapons?
Posted by:   || 07/21/2024 10:18 Comments || Top||


#7  How to create / capture video on your computer screen (Win 10 or 11)
I've been doing a lot of this for the last week. I remember all the stuff after 9/11 that popped up on the internet & then disappeared forever.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 14:56 Comments || Top||

#8 
Information is disappearing.

It is also being created bit by bit. The FBI uses its Evidence Concoction Team to do that.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 14:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Though 'local' was not the local local.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/21/2024 15:55 Comments || Top||



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