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#1 What's the blue tape for on the soldiers?
Posted by: BrerRabbit 167.160.81.89 2024-08-06 2024-08-06 06:41
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#2 What's the blue tape for on the soldiers?
As there are no 'set' uniforms for the different military groups fighting (both Ukrainian and Russian), this is for friend/foe identification.
These are Ukrainian troops. Russians are using a similar color band system for ID (different colors, though).
Posted by: Mullah Richard 99.72.247.36 2024-08-06 2024-08-06 06:53
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#3
Wondering out loud.
How long before we are reading of a Robo attack on a political figure, or person?
Posted by: NN2N1 174.63.197.182 2024-08-06 2024-08-06 06:56
More vileness about a story we first saw a week ago.
[Breitbart] A 44-year-old elementary school teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio, is facing federal child pornography charges after allegedly being caught in a hotel room with a naked child.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been surveilling the Delshire Elementary physical education teacher, identified as Mark Altherr, for allegedly taking part in child pornography on the internet, Inside Edition reported on Friday.
The suspect is accused of being a member of a website described as a “child pornography community” since 2021 and made several hundred posts on it, according to Local 12:
Local 12 said Altherr was called a “senior member” of the website:
He was arrested at a hotel in Columbus on July 26 after agents reportedly watched the suspect take a child into his room. The Inside Edition article continued:
Believing the girl was “in imminent danger,” the agents knocked on the door and announced themselves, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Altherr opened the door, but tried to shut it, the complaint alleges. Agents entered and found a young girl “completely nude,” the court document said. He was arrested and taken into custody, authorities said.
Law enforcement believes there may be more victims in the case, per WCPO.
“It makes me sick at my stomach,” a man who lives next door to the school told the outlet when he learned of the allegations. “It just makes me so frickin’ sick,” he said.
The suspect is being held at the Butler County Jail while he waits for officials to transfer him to federal custody. In regard to his job, Altherr was placed on administrative leave but the board of education is planning to begin termination proceedings.
[IsraelTimes] US presidential hopeful says a woman had hit the animal with her car; he’d intended to skin and eat it, but instead dumped carcass with bike on top to make it look like an accident
Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he once retrieved a bear that was killed by a motorist and left it in New York’s Central Park with a bicycle on top, sparking a mystery that consumed the city a decade ago.
Kennedy describes the incident in a video that was posted to social media Sunday, adding it will be included in a forthcoming New Yorker article that he expects to be damaging.
Boys will be boys. I mean, c’mon, guys — he was only 60 when it happened!
It’s the latest bizarre incident in Kennedy’s quixotic campaign that has divided his famous family and left Republicans and 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... alike concerned about his potential impact on the presidential contest.
Kennedy has acknowledged a parasite that lodged in his brain and died. He denied eating a dog after a friend shared a photo with Vanity Fair magazine showing Kennedy dramatically preparing to take a bite of a charred animal; Kennedy said it was a goat.
In the video, Kennedy recounts the story to actress Roseanne Barr. He says he was heading to a falconry excursion with friends when a woman driving ahead of him hit and killed the young bear with her vehicle.
He says he put it in his own vehicle, intending to skin it and eat the meat, but the day got away from him.
Eventually, he says, he was in Manhattan and needed to get the bear carcass out of his vehicle. His friends, fueled by alcohol, concocted the Central Park plan as a prank, he said, adding he was not drunk himself.
At the time, bicycle accidents were getting significant media attention, so Kennedy and his friends thought it would be funny to make it look like the bear was hit by a bicycle.
Two women walking their dogs found the dead bear and alerted authorities, touching off a mystery that captivated the city for a few days. Bears are not among the park’s known wildlife population. Just junkies and feral youts
The bike was dusted for prints and the animal sent to Albany for a necropsy, which determined the bear was likely hit by a vehicle and was not a victim of animal cruelty.
But how the bear ended up in Central Park remained a mystery.
"I was worried because my prints were all over that bike," Kennedy tells Barr in the video.
His Wikipedia page makes for fascinating reading, despite the heavy judgementalism of the editors.
#2
Think Black Bear Cub size & weight 1-year is 50-80 lbs. RFK claims he picked it up, loaded it then transported it, what 100 miles, to Central Park unloaded it unseen, and staged it with a Bike?
As the AP stated in its story, then? "The cub’s head was on top of the back bicycle wheel."
Question: Was the head cut off and place on the bike before or after he gathered his road kill?
Also think of the taxpayer costs and lost local business revenues, to clean up and investigate the prank by a 60-year man claiming to be able to lead a nation.
#10
Who would have expected a grizzly tale like that from him? I surely hope that he now considers it a Kodiak moment. In any case there is now trouble bruin for him. I just can't bear to read a thing like this written by a cub reporter.
#13
Did this conscienceless bastard even consider the possible consequences for an innocent young bear of color falsely accused of causing the "accident," brutally coerced into confessing, and unjustly imprisoned, losing the best years of its promising criminal career while receiving mere millions in compensation? Somehow I doubt it.
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[Regnum] The magnetic storm that began on Earth on Sunday, August 4, has ended. This follows from the schedule of the solar astronomy laboratory of the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences on August 5.
According to these data, the storm almost reached the G3 level (strong) from 15:00 Moscow time to 21:00 on August 4, after which it began to weaken.
According to scientists, the magnetic storm began at around 11:00 Moscow time on August 4, when a cloud of plasma from a solar ejecta reached the Earth. "That began on Earth"?
The degree of disturbance of the Earth's magnetic field is measured on a scale of five levels, in which G1 is the weakest disturbance and G5 is the most powerful magnetic storm.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Institute of Applied Geophysics reported earlier that a strong magnetic storm covered the Earth on the night of August 4-5. It was noted that the K-index of geomagnetic activity reached 6.67.
Leading specialist of the Phobos center Mikhail Leus reported on July 30 that the magnetic storm that forecasters warned about had covered the Earth. The planet was expected to experience storms of average level G2.
On May 11, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Director of the Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported a magnetic storm of the fifth, highest level, recorded for the first time in the last 20 years. Such storms have not been observed on Earth since September 11, 2005.
[BBC] About 40 people have been arrested in northern Nigeria for waving Russia's national flag during protests against the high cost of living and what they feel is "bad governance".
Amid this crackdown, army chief Christopher Musa warned that it is a "treasonable offence" to fly the flags of foreign countries.
Nigeria has seen six days of nationwide protests, in which at least seven people have died and more than 700 have been arrested.
Demonstrators have been chanting slogans such as "we are hungry", while a minority have been pictured waving Russia's flag and voicing support for Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... According to local media, some of these protesters have called on Moscow to "rescue" them.
The subsequent arrests are seen as an attempt to stifle any fledgling support for Russia in Nigeria, a leading oil producer and a key ally of Western powers.
Several countries in the wider region of West Africa - including Nigeria's neighbour, Niger - have pivoted away from the West and towards Russia after recent military coups.
Civilian governments backed by the likes of La Belle France and the US had rapidly lost popularity - critics accused them of failing to tackle insecurity, corruption and economic problems.
Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu came to power in May 2023 after winning fiercely contested elections.
Satisfaction with his leadership has plummeted, with many blaming his policies for the sharp increase in the cost of living.
He scrapped a long-standing state subsidy on fuel in his inauguration speech, causing pump prices to rise. The move also had a knock-on effect on the cost of food and other basic commodities.
Mr Tinubu has urged frustrated Nigerians to be patient, insisting his policies would bear fruit.
He has appealed for an end to the protests and held a meeting with security chiefs on Monday to assess their scale.
Afterwards, army chief Christopher Musa said: "We are warning in clear terms that we will not accept anybody, any individual flying any foreign flag in Nigeria. That is a treasonable offence, and it will be viewed and treated as such."
[Epoch Times] In a landmark legal decision, a federal judge ruled that Google violated antitrust laws by maintaining its monopoly power in the markets for general search services and general search text advertisements.
The ruling, issued on Aug. 5 by Judge Amit Mehta, concludes a lengthy legal battle initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice and a coalition of state attorneys general. Where have we heard that judge's name before?
The case against Google, filed in October 2020, alleged that the tech giant engaged in anti-competitive practices by establishing exclusive agreements with browser developers, mobile device manufacturers, and wireless carriers.
These agreements prohibited partners from pre-installing rival search engines, leading most U.S. devices to come preloaded exclusively with Google, forcing competitors to find alternative ways to reach users.
The court said Google’s conduct allowed the company to charge "supracompetitive prices for general search text ads," enabling it to earn substantial monopoly profits.
Google said in a statement to The Epoch Times that "this decision recognizes that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available. Boo hoo.
To be fair, not everyone recognizes Google as the best search engine, just the biggest.
The case is seen as the most significant antitrust trial of the century.
The ruling suggests the possibility of structural relief as a remedy, involving changes to Google’s business operations, such as altering or terminating exclusive agreements that make Google’s search engine the default option.
While the court ruling does not specify breaking up the company, potential remedies will be determined in subsequent proceedings.
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[Regnum] The Russian sailing frigate Shtandart, which was previously banned from entering the ports of France and Spain due to sanctions against Russia, was given permission to enter the French harbor of La Rochelle. This was reported on August 5 by the ship's captain Vladimir Martus.
"The Shtandart is allowed to enter the port of La Rochelle to replenish supplies. This region is known for its maritime "character" and positive attitude towards everything maritime," Gazeta.Ru quoted him as saying.
According to the captain, the Shtandart team intends to stay in the French port for one or two days, after which they want to head to the northwest of France to participate in the festival, but the question of this possibility is still being decided. Don't push your luck
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 23 it became known that the Shtandart was prohibited from mooring in the French port of Brest to participate in the sea festival due to the EU's restrictive measures against the Russian Federation. The ship's crew was running out of water at that time.
Later that day, the Russian frigate was also denied entry to Spain. Margus noted that the frigate had never had such problems, adding that many Europeans were also outraged by the decision.
Residents of one of the towns on the island of Il-Arousa began helping the crew of the Russian frigate Shtandart replenish food and water supplies on July 27. Residents of the Spanish island themselves offered to bring water on their fishing boats. Later, the Spanish authorities ordered Shtandart to leave the country's territorial waters.
The press service of the Spanish Merchant Marine Administration reported on July 30 that the Russian frigate was allowed to enter the Spanish port of Vigo. This decision was made to replenish food supplies and also to replace some parts of the vessel.
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men clashed with police on Monday at the Tel Hashomer military recruitment office as they protested the start of the controversial military draft for members of the Haredi community.
Police said three people were arrested.
Footage from the scene showed scuffles between demonstrators and police. Some of the protesters chanted: "To prison and not to the army."
Video on social media showed one protester announcing, "This is Auschwitz, this is the last stop."
Several female journalists reported violence toward them by the rioters, in addition to offensive chanting.
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.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been surveilling the Delshire Elementary physical education teacher, identified as 
...every time you hear the phrase 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[Epoch Times] In a landmark legal decision, a federal judge ruled that Google violated antitrust laws by maintaining its monopoly power in the markets for general search services and general search text advertisements.
The case is seen as the most significant antitrust trial of the century.
