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-Lurid Crime Tales-
New Video Appears to Show DC Police Units Planting a J6 Pipe Bomb
[Treehouse] One of the great mysteries about the January 6, 2021, events is the lack of curiosity by the FBI about who planted the pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC headquarters. Amid all of the available CCTV video and surveillance technology exploited by the justice department, their transparent unwillingness to identify the pipe bomber has always been a dog that did not bark.

The Occam’s Razor explanation for why DC and federal law enforcement have been incurious, points to law enforcement actually planting the bombs. New CCTV video seems to show exactly that.

Shortly after 12:51pm a DC police SUV appears next to the park bench where the pipe bomb was discovered. [Video Below] A man with a bag exits the SUV, points to the bench, pulls up his right coat collar to obscure his face from the camera located across the street, then walks to the bench with the bag. The "pipe bomb" device allegedly was found at 1:05 p.m. by a plainclothes officer from the Capitol Police.
How unlike the Trump office burglary in Virginia
I am not going to repeat the reporting above, the timelines therein, or the granular details painstakingly outlined. The research is solid, informative and accurate. Instead, my focus is about "why" the pipe bombs were planted.

Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy (House) along with Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell and Mike Pence (Senate) did not want the January 6th certification of electors challenged. If you suspect the 85 million votes for Joe Biden might have been manufactured (mail-in ballots), then you understand the DC motive to avoid any electoral challenge that might have resulted in state level legislative inquiry and/or vote counting review.

To avoid the challenge to the electoral certification process, a lengthy and very formal process where the Senate must separate from the House as each state is formally questioned/challenged and a debate/vote on each state’s set of electors takes place (minimum 2 hours each state), an EMERGENCY process triggered by the House Speaker (Pelosi) was needed. That’s where the pipe bombs come into play.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 00:27 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "A man with a bag exits the SUV" (D.C. Police SUV)

What you saw was a "MAN." He may or may not have been a D.C. Policeman.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  During the Gulf War, Baghdad taxis were routinely used to cover the movements of US SOF operators. Movements were oftentimes conducted in pre-dawn hours.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 1:01 Comments || Top||

#3 
Given the data presented on Here Is The Evidence Plus on the same site there is the collected evidence files on 2020 tampering.

Add to that the Heritage and other respected, truthful sites.

Yes, I've been beyond suspecting, since seeing them kick out the poll watchers, cover the voter count room windows and the van video dropping off "found votes".

I sure many, many others are also.

BTW: The numerous GA "mistakes" by Metro Atlanta Area Board of Elections dept. resulted in well over 100,000++ proven fraudulent votes being counted. A review of the "found votes" showed an amazing constancy of about 6% more votes for Biden. Yet the whole process was still certified by the GA SOS & Gov. Kemp.

BTW: The Fulton co. DA cleared the Fulton Co. BOE members of criminal charges, then indited Trump.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/18/2024 9:23 Comments || Top||


Shooter fires on JBSA-Lackland Air Force base, prompting exchange of gunfire
[FoxNews] The incident took place at around 4:30 a.m., and it is unclear if there were any injuries or how many shooters were involved

Security forces at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (JBSA) returned fire early Saturday on at least one drive-by suspect who is accused of firing upon the main gate at the JBSA-Chapman Training Annex, a JBSA spokesperson tells Fox News Digital.

The officers were fired upon at around 4:30 a.m. by at least one suspect in a sedan and immediately returned fire. There were no injuries reported, and the gate was shut for a number of hours.

It is unclear how many shooters were involved and how many times they fired upon the base.

San Antonio police officers also arrived at the scene to assist in the investigation, Antosh said.

A motive for the shooting is not known.
The bars and strip clubs has just closed.
The JBSA-Chapman Training Annex entry gate was closed and reopened at around 9:30 a.m. local time. Drivers were advised to use an alternate gate located north of primary on Ray Ellison Boulevard.

Lackland is home to more than 24,000 active duty members and 10,000 Department of Defense civilians, according to the base website. It includes the 37th Training Wing; 149th Fighter Wing; 59th Medical Wing; the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency; 24th Air Force Wing, 67th Network Warfare Wing; the Cryptologic Systems Group; the National Security Agency; and 70 associated units.
The Houston Chronicle adds:
Security guards at the entrance to a training annex at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland twice came under fire early Saturday morning from unknown assailants. The second ambush sparked a brief gunbattle. No injuries were reported.

The first attack occurred around 2:15 a.m., when Air Force Security Forces personnel at the entrance gate of the Chapman Training Annex on the Southwest Side saw a sedan drive past and heard gunshots and the sound of bullets whistling past them, police and Air Force officials said.

The guards called for backup in case the attackers returned. Shortly before 5 a.m., the same sedan stopped just east of the gate at Ray Ellison Boulevard and Medina Base Road. "For a second time, shots were fired at the Air Force security personnel," said Sgt. Washington Moscoso, a front man for the San Antonio Police Department.

This time, the Air Force guards returned fire with their service weapons, typically 9mm handguns, and the sedan sped off. No one was injured in the exchange of gunfire, said JBSA spokeswoman Stefanie Antosh.

Police said they found shell casings near where the car had stopped, but it wasn’t known how many rounds were fired.

Antosh said there was more than one shooter in the sedan but the exact number was unknown, as was the attackers' motive. No details of the car’s make, model or color were released.

Lackland resumed normal operations. It was not clear if Air Force Security Forces would assign more personnel to the gates at Lackland and other facilities on JBSA, which include Randolph AFB, the Army’s Fort Sam Houston and the Camp Bullis training ground.

SAPD officers responded to the scene of the shooting and helped to collect evidence. The department was investigating the incident as an "aggravated assault with deadly weapon."

The Chapman Annex, located just west of Lackland’s main facilities, is the home of Air Force special warfare training. Long known as the Medina Annex, it was renamed in 2020 for Air Force Master Sgt. John Chapman, a combat air controller who was killed in a battle in Afghanistan on March 4, 2002, and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

The gate where Saturday's shooting occurred faces Valley Hi Elementary school. A display of an F-104 fighter jet stands behind the guard shack, which was attended by a lone security officer on Saturday afternoon.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under:


California thieves strike three 7-Eleven stores in under 20 minutes
Professionals looting to order.
[NYPOST] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, bike mob ransacked three separate 7-Eleven stores in under 20 minutes just hours after Democratic Gov. Gavin Governor Hair Gel Newsom
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
signed a ''landmark'' package to crack down on retail thefts.

Approximately 20 bicycling riding thieves targeted the Hollywood area convenience stores two miles apart on Friday night, according to NBC Los Angeles, citing the LAPD.

The brazen bunch broke into each store and stole food and drink items beginning with the 7-Eleven located at 7040 West Sunset Boulevard just after 8 p.m.

The store was left with a broken window.

An employee at a second store near Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave. was allegedly assaulted around 8:16 p.m., the outlet reported.

Friday night’s mayhem is the most recent smash-and-grab incident plaguing The Golden State.

One store manager told the outlet that the teens caught on video surveillance cameras on Friday, looked like the same group that struck two other 7-Eleven locations in the area last week.

Between 2019 and 2022, California saw a 22% increase in shoplifting and 16% and 13% upticks in commercial burglary and robbery, respectively, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
Posted by: Fred || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and they say the younger generation doesn't have a work ethic...
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/18/2024 10:09 Comments || Top||

#2  To be featured as a Olympic event in 2028?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2024 18:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Everything this POS does now is Smoke and Mirrors for 2028 POTUS debacle
Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2024 18:21 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hits off the coast of Kamchatka
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 was recorded in Kamchatka Krai on the morning of August 18. This was reported by the regional branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Preliminary, residents of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Vilyuchinsky urban districts, Yelizovsky and Ust-Kamchatsky districts felt tremors with a force of five to seven points.

The epicenter of the earthquake was located 108 km from the regional capital.

Scientists have registered underground tremors in the Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky urban district at a depth of 6 km.

Then there was a repeat earthquake at a distance of 116 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with a magnitude of 4.7.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Kamchatka Krai reported that there is no tsunami threat. Emergency services have begun to inspect buildings.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the afternoon of June 29, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 occurred off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean. The epicenter of the tremors was located at a depth of 58 km, and the epicenter of the earthquake was in the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 100 km northwest of the village of Nikolskoye in the Aleutian Municipal District.

On the night of August 11, an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 was recorded in the Romanian county of Arad in the Banat seismic zone. The epicenter was located at a depth of 5 km. The tremor was felt within a radius of about 100 km from the epicenter.

More from regnum.ru
Falling meteor spotted in sky over Ukrainian cities

Residents of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities noticed a falling meteor on the night of August 17. Video footage of the celestial body was published on social networks.

Residents of Ukrainian cities noticed a falling meteor in the sky
Residents of Kyiv, Kharkov, Zhitomir and other cities in Central Ukraine reported the fall of a meteorite.



As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of May 2-3, residents of Ukraine observed a glow of unknown origin in the sky. The unusual phenomenon was noticed by residents of Kiev, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk and western regions of Ukraine.

There are several theories about the origin of this strange glow. According to one, it could have been the launch stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after the launch of two WorldView Legion satellites.

According to another version, the unusual aurora may be a manifestation of the polar lights, as a powerful magnetic storm hit the Earth at night. Thus, Ukrainian media suggested that the country's residents observed a "rare pink polar lights".

Posted by: badanov || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Land of volcanoes. 300 with 20+ some active. I thought Iceland was the worlds hot spot.
Posted by: Dale || 08/18/2024 5:16 Comments || Top||

#2  The scientists drilling into an active Icelandic volcano
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 12:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The weird way the Los Angeles basin alters earthquakes

Can Dogs Predict Earthquakes?

Wonder if spontaneous looter packs are similiar?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 12:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Too much ,CBS, on the BBC
Posted by: Beldar Barnsmell8620 || 08/18/2024 21:15 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
X Shuts Down Operations In Brazil After Supreme Federal Court Justice Allegedly Threatens Legal Rep With Arrest
[DC] Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) abruptly shut down its operations in Brazil on Saturday after the company claimed Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to have a legal representative arrested over non-compliance with content removal demands, Reuters reported.

X posted the announcement Saturday, citing concerns over "censorship orders" issued by Moraes. The company claimed Moraes secretly threatened to arrest one of the company’s legal representatives in the country if they did not comply with court orders to remove certain content from the platform, Reuters reported. (RELATED: European Gov Berates Top Official For Sending Threatening Letter To Elon Musk Ahead Of Trump Interview)

X Global Affairs asserted that, despite multiple appeals to the Supreme Federal Court, the Brazilian public had not been informed of the orders and that X’s Brazilian staff had no control over the content removal decisions, according to the statement. The statement also emphasizes, while the service itself would remain available to users in Brazil, the platform’s decision to close operations was made to protect the safety of its employees.

Last night, Alexandre de Moraes threatened our legal representative in Brazil with arrest if we do not comply with his censorship orders. He did so in a secret order, which we share here to expose his actions.

Despite our numerous appeals to the Supreme Court not being heard,... pic.twitter.com/Pm2ovyydhE

— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) August 17, 2024


This platform is being asked to censor content in Brazil where the censorship demands require us to violate Brazilian law! That is not right. https://t.co/ovsIA1QBNg

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 14, 2024


Posted by: Frank G || 08/18/2024 10:00 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China-Japan-Koreas
Former Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk catches fire in China
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The former Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk caught fire in China's Susitun Park. This was reported by the Chinese publication Penpai.

There are no reports of casualties.

Earlier, on August 16, the Susitun Park Fire and Rescue Brigade reported a fire during the dismantling of an aircraft carrier, but did not specify which aircraft carrier caught fire.

The Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk was sold to a Chinese company in the 1990s and used at a theme park in Shenzhen, southern China. In 2016, the carrier was moved to Susitun Park.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on February 24, in the city of Nanjing in the province of Jiangsu in eastern China, at least 15 people died and 44 were injured as a result of a fire in a multi-story residential building. 25 units of equipment and 130 people were involved in extinguishing the fire and in the search and rescue operation.

Posted by: badanov || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  They using the same subcontractors as the US?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2024 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  They using the same subcontractors as the US?

They ARE the same subcontractors. It is China after all.
Posted by: alanc || 08/18/2024 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  "Remember the Minsk!"
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/18/2024 10:08 Comments || Top||

#4  used at a theme park

Hey, Disney!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  I 'spose it's out of warranty.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/18/2024 12:35 Comments || Top||


Europe
Three Ukrainians Suspected of Setting Fire to 34 Boats in Medulin Port in Croatia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Croatian police are searching for three Ukrainian citizens aged 25 to 28 who threw Molotov cocktails and burned 34 boats in the port of Medulin, the newspaper Jutarnji list reported on August 17.
Hard working miscreants…
The incident, according to the publication, occurred in May 2024. According to preliminary information, the attackers, who arrived in Croatia from Poland, threw a bottle with a Molotov cocktail at a yacht belonging to a 65-year-old man. The fire spread to nearby boats. A total of 22 vessels burned completely, another 12 were partially damaged. The damage from the incident was estimated at 2 million euros.

According to security forces, the perpetrators have left Croatia and they are planned to be placed on an international wanted list.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, in December, police officers in Germany had to call in special forces to detain an armed troublemaker from Ukraine. The incident took place in Dresden. The 47-year-old Ukrainian got to the airport by train, but when asked by a station employee to show his travel ticket, he started a row.

The knife-wielding man behaved aggressively, slashed several train seats and broke a glass panel with a fire extinguisher. He pushed away the police officer who arrived and barricaded himself in the toilet. The police had to call in a special forces unit. The service officers broke down the toilet door and detained the man.

Posted by: badanov || 08/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  More productive than looting 7-11s.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2024 11:45 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Calley & Casey Means: How Big Pharma Keeps You Sick
[TCN] Whistleblowers Calley and Casey Means expose how Big Pharma co-opted government agencies and the food industry to poison America and keep us sick.

Casey is the co-founder of Levels, a health technology company with the mission of reversing the world’s metabolic health crisis. She received her BA with honors and MD from Stanford and has previously served on Stanford faculty. She left a successful career in traditional medicine to devote her life to tackling the root cause of why Americans are sick.

Calley is Casey’s brother and is an advocate/whistleblower about the corruption of the food and pharma industries. He’s also the co-founder of Truemed - a company that enables Americans to purchase healthy food and exercise tax-free. https://www.TrueMed.com/

Buy Casey and Calley’s book, "Good Energy" here - https://www.CaseyMeans.com/GoodEnergy
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 00:03 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under:

#1  On a related note, GOF mutation found in monkeypox virus.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/18/2024 7:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Is eating one's self to death a population control strategy? Does Big Pharma leverage such a strategy ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ why, it appears so.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||



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