[LI] The Wall Street Journal revealed it received a video of local Pennsylvania police officers lashing out at the Secret Service because they told agents days before former President Donald Trump’s rally the roof needed protection.
I mean, when you think everything has come out, we get so much more.
Unfortunately, the outlet didn’t provide the video (emphasis mine):
"I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here...I told them that f—ing Tuesday," said a Butler Township officer in audio captured on his body-worn camera. "I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ’Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’"
[ABC] The president of voting machine company Smartmatic and two other executives were charged with bribing the head of the Philippines election commission in order to get business during the 2016 election, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Raffensperger-Kemp? Nooooo, that's just crazy talk.
Between 2015 and 2018, Smartmatic co-founder Roger Alejandro Pinate Martinez, 49, and Jorge Miguel Vasquez, 62, together with others, allegedly caused at least $1 million in bribes to be paid to Juan Andres Donato Bautista, 60, the former chairman of the Philippines' Commission on Elections (COMELEC), according to an indictment filed in the Southern District of Florida.
Why in Florida? Can’t the Philippines try their own criminals?
The men allegedly overpaid contracts using a slush fund to conceal the bribes.
The co-conspirators then allegedly laundered funds related to the bribery scheme through bank accounts located in Asia, Europe, and the United States, including in the Southern District of Florida, according to prosecutors.
[Epoch Times] The effort to save salmon has meant the loss of manmade lakes and the tourism they generated.
As the Klamath Dam Removal Project—the largest in the nation’s history—nears completion, reaction to the aftermath has been mixed, ranging from celebration to devastation.
Proponents are celebrating the four dam removals after their decades-long battle to restore the free-flowing river, while other residents and property owners say the destruction of the dams and loss of the manmade lakes is crippling tourism and recreation activities as well as hurting wildlife and increasing wildfire risks.
Environmental nonprofit groups and local Native American tribes have pushed for decades to demolish the dams along the Klamath River, saying they damaged the ecology of the river and blocked upstream spawning habitat, causing a decline in salmon populations.
The project is intended to "improve the habitat and health of fisheries by allowing salmon, steelhead, and lamprey access to over 400 stream-miles of historic spawning habitat upstream of the dams," prevent stagnant reservoirs from increasing water temperatures in the summer, and help alleviate poor habitat conditions that contribute to algae growth and fish diseases, according to KRRC.
The demolition of the four dams—John C. Boyle, Copco 1, Copco 2, and Iron Gate—which were built between 1911 and 1962, is expected to be complete by late August. Lengthy article, with many lovely photographs at the link.
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I'm with the fish and the Kalamaths, the most formitable of all the tribes of Norte Americano
To all California Voters that elect the idiots and do so year after year.
DO NOT LEAVE, stay there and see your supported stupidity to the end. Don't contaminate other states and areas by leaving and spread your stupidity.
Do you have a death wish?
Think, weren't y'all also using these reservoir lakes as drinking water supplies? Given y'all have just about drained all rivers, supplying Southern Cal. and the Valley is fighting to get water, just to grow food.
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"The Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Proposition 1) authorizes $7.545 billion in general obligation bonds to fund ecosystems and watershed protection and restoration, water supply infrastructure projects, including surface and groundwater storage, and drinking water protection." "Proposition 1 of 2014 dedicated $2.7 billion for investments in water storage projects."
10 years later, not a single shovelful of dirt for a new water storage system or dam, but they are set to finish the Klamath dam removal. Net new water for the Central Valley, America's single biggest breadbasket for fruits and vegetable-ZERO!
[Independent] Former President Donald Trump’s plane was diverted while heading to a rally in Montana on Friday.
The Associated Press reported that the plane was diverted from Bozeman, Montana due to a mechanical issue but landed safely at Billings Logan International Airport. A staff member at the Billings airport confirmed the incident.
The former president was going to a rally in Bozeman, about 140 miles west of Billings, to support Tim Sheehy, a Republican Senate Candidate, at a 10pm rally.
"His aircraft had mechanical issues, and he was diverted into the Billings-Logan Airport," a spokesperson for the airport told The New York Post. "He’s continuing to Bozeman on a private jet," they added.
Trump’s campaign confirmed that the ex-president had landed in a video posted to Truth Social around 5.30pm but it did not mention anything about the reported technical issues surrounding his arrival in the state.
[via Yahoo Finance] Former President Donald Trump's Trump Media & Technology (DJT) late Friday reported another quarter of sub-$1 million revenue. Operating losses soared while net losses declined. DJT stock was little changed in late trading after the Donald Trump stock suffered a third straight big weekly loss. Why I said this was a good stock to short and just a coincidence that there was heavy put option buying before the assassination attempt.
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37 days. Actually amazing time given it had to be written with accompanying transmittal correspondence, go from Philadelphia to New York by carriage or horseback, and sail.
Wiki cite:"In 1775, the 62-ton schooner Quero, sailed by John Derby from Salem, Massachusetts to the Isle of Wight in 28 days (April 28 to May 25)"
[ZERO] The Pentagon on Thursday was asked by a reporter during the daily briefing whether Ukraine forces' use of American weapons in its ongoing Kursk incursion is "consistent" with US policy of what Ukraine can and cannot do with US weapons. It has become clear that Ukrainian troops are currently using American weapons to attack Russian territory, troops, civilians, and infrastructure.
Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh answered without hesitation that "yes it is consistent with our policy" and explained that Washington has supported the need for "crossfire" from Ukraine back across the border onto Russian positions from which it is being attacked, even if that is on Russian territory. She framed what is happening in Russia's Kursk oblast—an offensive which has entered day four—as 'defensive' in nature.
Singh still tried to point out that it remains US policy for Ukraine to avoid striking deep into Russian territory using American arms; however, when pressed about the scenario of a direct attack on Moscow, she simply said: "I’m not going to put a specific range on it" and thus refused to rule it out. But she did caveat that "we still don't support long-range attacks into Russia." Singh additionally explained, "I'm not gonna draw a circular map for you here of where they can and cannot strike." The Kremlin is likely to remain unconvinced when hearing this clear escalation in rhetoric from the Pentagon where attacking the Russian capital is discussed, even if theoretically. Watch the full exchange related to the Kursk offensive below:
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Ukraine destroyed the transformer farms leading into an out of the Kursk reactor and the reactor had to be shut down. It powered quite a bit of the Russian rail system near Ukraine.
They might have the reactor itself captured within a day so... Chernobyl 2 has to be worrying Putin and Moscow. So I agree with Besoeker... it will not end well.
Taipei, August 9, 2024, 10:04 — IA Regnum. The Taiwanese army has tracked nine ships and 18 aircraft of the People's Liberation Army of China approaching the island in a day. This was reported on August 9 by the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense on the social network X.
Taiwan's military said 12 Chinese aircraft crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait, entering the air defense identification zone in the southwest and southeast of the island.
In response, the Taiwanese army deployed aircraft, ships, and ground-based anti-aircraft missile systems to monitor the targets.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 27, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Taiwan was and remains part of China and will never be a “separate state.” He stressed that Beijing will definitely take countermeasures when the forces supporting Taiwan in its desire to secede commit provocations.
On July 12, Beijing imposed sanctions on a number of American military-industrial companies selling weapons to Taiwan. The Chinese Foreign Ministry also accused Washington of seriously interfering in China's internal affairs and damaging its territorial integrity.
US President Joe Biden on June 4 allowed the possibility of sending US troops to Taiwan, which he said could happen if China "uses force" against the island.
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Oh and they constantly interrupt my video chats with the wife (who has been there for most of the year on her family's issues). she say Trump... call dropped. she says communist anything call dropped. She say Biden or Xi or Russia or Ukraine or Harris. Call dropped.
[ABCnews] A powerful explosion set off a fireball on a container ship loaded with hazardous goods at a major port on China's Pacific coast, state media and authorities said Friday.
Surveillance camera video posted online by state broadcaster CCTV showed a huge burst of white smoke followed by an orange and yellow fireball that dispersed debris and completely engulfed containers stacked at least three high.
No injuries were reported from the explosion and an ensuing fire at the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, just south of Shanghai and one of the largest in the world. A container on the docked ship is believed to have exploded, CCTV said.
An aerial photo posted by the broadcaster showed black smoke rising from a stack of containers at one end of the ship and from an area on the dock. The rest of the ship and its containers appeared undamaged.
The Zhejiang Province Emergency Management Administration said the ship was loaded with Class 5 hazardous materials, but it didn't say what they were.
Wall Street mounted a major comeback at the closing bell, culminating in a win on Friday and a turn-around that nearly wiped away Monday's heavy losses.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose close to 0.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) increased 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) gained 0.1% or about 50 points.
Traders poured back in after Monday saw the worst rout of the year, and Wall Street's "fear gauge," the CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX), soared to its highest levels since the throes of the pandemic. But encouraging labor data and reassurances from analysts and economists helped to level-set the panicked mood.
All three major indexes
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[Jpost] French police arrested an Egyptian Olympic wrestler on suspicion of sexual assault in the early hours of Friday outside a cafe he had visited in the French capital, the Paris prosecutors office said.
The wrestler, who was not named, was arrested for allegedly touching the buttocks of another customer at the cafe, prosecutors said in a statement, adding that an investigation had been opened. Wanna bet it wasn't a female customer?
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I thought they were suppose to keep this restricted to the Olympic boxing arena
[Federalist] While President Joe Biden spends yet another weekend in Delaware after the collapse of his 2024 campaign his son, Hunter Biden, is facing new and damning facts from Special Counsel David Weiss.
According to a new court filing, the younger Biden took millions of dollars from a Romanian real estate tycoon in exchange for U.S. policy changes toward corruption in the country.
He’s been identified as Gabriel Popoviciu.
The exchange took place while President Joe Biden was the Vice President during President Barack Obama's administration.
The central question regarding the shady, overseas Biden family business has always been whether Hunter -- who was business partners with his father and often flew on Air Force Two to make deals in foreign countries -- was influencing changes in U.S. government policy in exchange for payment. In other words, was the Biden family accepting bribes? According to new information unearthed by the Special Counsel, the answer is yes. "Bribes" or handling charges? You decide.
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I suspect they are now eager and encouraging the DOJ et al to bring out everything they know about the miscreant son's criminal behavior over the years. Daddy can't pardon what they don't know so the laundry list needs to be as comprehensive as possible before Jojo drops the paperwork on the way out the door to Rehoboth.
Thing is, what if another aneurysm pops or he just goes room temperature overnight? SO, I imagine the cattle prods are out at DOJ to package everything quickly.
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.
Proponents are celebrating the four dam removals after their decades-long battle to restore the free-flowing river, while other residents and property owners say the destruction of the dams and loss of the manmade lakes is crippling tourism and recreation activities as well as hurting wildlife and increasing wildfire risks.
[ZERO] The Pentagon on Thursday was asked by a reporter during the daily briefing whether Ukraine forces' use of American weapons in its ongoing Kursk incursion is "consistent" with US policy of what Ukraine can and cannot do with US weapons. It has become clear that Ukrainian troops are currently using American weapons to attack Russian territory, troops, civilians, and infrastructure.
[ABCnews] A powerful explosion set off a fireball on a container ship loaded with hazardous goods at a major port on China's Pacific coast, state media and authorities said Friday.
[Federalist] While President Joe Biden spends yet another weekend in Delaware after the collapse of his 2024 campaign his son, Hunter Biden, is facing new and damning facts from Special Counsel 
