[SeeBS News] Alabama used nitrogen gas Thursday to execute a man convicted of killing three people in back-to-back workplace shootings, the second time the method that has generated debate about its humaneness has been used in the country.
Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. local time at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, the state Department of Corrections said in a statment. He shook and trembled on the gurney for about two minutes with his body at times pulling against the restraints. That was followed by about six minutes of gasping breathing. Oh noes! He may have actually suffered a bit?
The Department of Corrections said Miller had seven visitors on Wednesday and nine on Thursday. His final meal consisted of "hamburger steak, baked potato, and French fries," the department said.
Miller was convicted of killing three men โ Lee Holdbrooks, Christopher Scott Yancy and Terry Jarvis โ in 1999 and the state had previously attempted to execute him by lethal injection in 2022.
The execution was the second to use the new method Alabama first employed in January, when Kenneth Smith was put to death. The method involves placing a respirator gas mask over the inmate's face to replace breathable air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death by lack of oxygen.
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Look it's simple. Build a chair with an air driven spike above it. Put inmate in chair with dead man switch to the spike. Put TV in front of him and make him watch a never ending loop of Kamala speaking. When they can't take it anymore, they let go and the spike comes down. And look, prison suicide, just like Epstein!
[OffThePress] Diddy Becomes Cellmates With FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried
Rapper Sean โDiddyโ Combs has become cellmates with disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, according to several sources.
One of this yearโs highest-profile criminals is imprisoned in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where one of last yearโs highest-profile criminals is being kept, NBC New York reported, citing people with knowledge of the situation. The special unit is a barracks-style area with about 18-20 inmates sharing a common living area.
The small populace makes it likely that the two will see each other often. The unit houses high-profile defendants and cooperators who require special protection.
This area appears to be more tolerable than the rest of the infamous facility, described by one lawyer of an inmate who died by suicide as a โhell on earth.โ
Detainees have said the prison is home to โrampant violence, dreadful conditions, severe staffing shortages, and the widespread smuggling of drugs and other contraband, some of it facilitated by employees.โ
A source told People that Diddy was being โtreated like any other detainee awaiting trial.โ
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If only a fraction of the rumors are true there are lots of very powerful and very rich people who will either make sure that Combs is reliably silenced forever or will face personal ruin and devastation.
Whatever information and material Combs has, he's now in a "use it or lose it" position.
Only if he publicly reveals everything might he have a non-negligible chance of survival.
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Just getting in here first:
"Hillary did not have anything to do with Combs' suicide."
(It's like buying a lottery ticket...)
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/\ I'll take "reliably silenced forever" for $600. Alex.
The fact that Combs is still alive proves that the interested parties are still trying to figure out / neutralize his "Dead Man's Switch" arrangements.
But this is only a matter of (short) time, hence he's in a use it or lose it position.
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The odds that two high-profile inmates in the same cell committed suicide at the same time are astronomical. But as they say, no matter how improbable, once something happens, it happened.
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...so what they are saying is that gatekeepers use their position to record those wanting to pass the level having illegal and deviant s*x and using it to blackmail them? That, sir, sounds like something a tin foil hat would say, and those wackadoos only have a batting average of.... 0.750 . No wait, its updated to 0.800.
Not a working powerline within 10 miles.
No gas stations working.
Waffel House takeout and cash only.
Lowes sold out of generators.
Power lines down for miles.
Water plants running off emergency power, 36 hr reserve fuel.
Loosing about $1200 food and meat.
Damage everywhere.
Many roads closed but the southerns are opening the roads and removing the trees themselves.
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The high winds started here this morning around 6:00 AM with very heavy rain. This is northeast Tennessee. I have had over 7" of rain since Tuesday with a tornado about 15 miles to the east. Lots of trees down with massive flooding in low areas. I lost lots of shingles and there are leaks all over the house. The power went out shortly after 9:00 AM and came back on about 45 minutes ago. But there are no deaths and nowhere near the devastation in Florida and Georgia.
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All of the ATM and credit cards in the world mean nothing when the systems are down.
I recall when Puerto Rico got nailed twice within several days some years ago. Yeah, ATM machines were down. And these globalists want a digital currency.
Wait until an adversary *really* goes after the grid and/or the financial networks.
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[Regnum] In France, student volunteers who were helping archaeologists in excavations in the south of the country found a letter from the 19th century. This is reported by the BBC.
As noted in the publication, when the students were sifting through material found at the site of an old Gallic village in the Dieppe area, they discovered a clay pot with a glass flask. Inside the flask was a message written on a small piece of paper.
"P. J. Feret, a native of Dieppe, a member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825. He continues his research in this vast area known as the Citรฉ des Limes, or Caesar's Camp," the message reads.
The article clarified that Feret was a local celebrity and was the first to conduct research in the area in the 1820s.
Excavation director Guillaume Blondel noted that such time capsules, which archaeologists leave for their colleagues, are a great rarity.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on September 24, during excavations in the ancient city of Labrys, located 30 km from Anapa, archaeologists discovered two large altars dedicated to the ancient Greek god Apollo. According to the group of archaeologists, this ancient city was an important center of the ancient state of Sindica, which existed in this territory before our era.
Earlier, the first birch bark letters in the Far East were found in Yakutsk. The head of the republic, Aisen Nikolaev, said that nine letters were found, which were written in ink in a cursive script from the 17th century.
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[ColonelCassad] Little is written in the French media about the protests in Martinique, which have been going on for over a month. And now, when France decided to send a special police contingent to the islands to suppress the protests, European media finally wrote about it.
Local residents are peacefully protesting against rising prices. This prompted the Gauleiters of the Caribbean island not only to introduce a curfew, but now also to invite the harsh instrument of the repressive apparatus to the islands. Everything is like in New Caledonia.
The police have already used tear gas and will obviously go further. "... to put an end to the violence and damage, as well as the numerous obstacles to daily life and freedom of movement that affect the entire population," local officials justify the suppression of peaceful protests. The authorities' decision prompted citizens to new decisive actions. And now in the photographs we see burnt cars in the middle of the roads and barricades.
Even the liberal Euronews reports that the same special forces that were banned in France in 1959 for the bloody suppression of the Algerian uprising have arrived on the island. After that incident, special forces were used only as a last resort. For example, in 2009, when suppressing riots in Guadeloupe.
[BBC ht Insty] Good Times. Good. Times.
A Japanese warship has sailed through the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China for the first time, prompting Beijing to lodge complaints with Tokyo.
The JS Sazanami, a naval destroyer, travelled south through the strait on Wednesday, accompanied by ships from Australia and New Zealand.
It was on its way to military exercises in the South China Sea, Japanese media reported government ministers saying.
The passage is a significant move by Japan, which is thought to have avoided sailing its ships through the strait in order not to upset China, which claims self-governed Taiwan and the strait.
Japan's government has declined to comment on the ship, citing military operation discretion.
But China on Thursday confirmed its military had responded to "the activities of a Japanese Self-Defence Force ship entering the Taiwan Strait".
"China is highly vigilant about the political intentions of Japan's actions and has lodged stern representations with Japan," foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said.
Chinese state newspaper Global Times, citing an unnamed source, said the Chinese military "conducted tracking and monitoring throughout [the vessels'] entire course and had the situation under control".
There has been an increase in patrols by the US and its allies to assert their freedom of navigation in the 180km (112-mile) Taiwan Strait.
Both the US and Taiwan say it is a key shipping and trade route through which about half of the global container fleet passes, and is part of international waters and is open to all naval vessels.
Beijing, which claims sovereignty and jurisdiction over the strait, disagrees.
For decades the US Pacific fleet was the only foreign navy that regularly transited the strait. But recently, it was joined by Canada and Australia, Britain and France. Two weeks ago Germany sailed two navy ships through the strait for the first time in decades.
China's military accused Germany of increasing security risks by sailing though the strait on 13 September, but Berlin said it acted in accordance with international standards. It was the first time in 22 years for a German naval vessel to traverse the strait.
These transits are highly political and designed to show China that America and its allies do not accept Beijingโs claims.
For Japan, it is also another big step away from its long-held policy of not directly challenging China.
On Thursday, Japanโs chief cabinet secretary did not confirm details of the naval operation, but he said Japan felt a strong sense of crisis after repeated airspace violations by the Chinese military, which he said had occurred one after another over a short period of time.
Taiwan has not commented on the passage, but its defence ministry said on Wednesday that it saw a surge in the number of Chinese military planes operating around the island.
Bec Strating, an international relations professor at La Trobe University in Australia, said Japan's reported transit is "part of a broader pattern of greater naval presence by countries in and beyond Asia that are concerned about China's maritime assertions".
"Japan in particular has been dealing with China's 'grey zone' tactics in the East China Sea," she told AFP news agency.
Grey zone warfare tactics are aimed at weakening an adversary over a prolonged period of time, analysts say.
Last week, Beijing sent an aircraft carrier between two Japanese islands near Taiwan for the first time. In August, a Chinese spy plane flew inside Japan's airspace, prompting Tokyo to condemn the incursion as "utterly unacceptable" and a "serious violation of sovereignty".
The leaders of the Quad group of nations - Japan, Australia, India and the US - said last week that they would expand cooperation on maritime security to counter China's increasing assertiveness in the South China Sea.
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So China flies its aircraft into Japanese airspace and is offended when Japan is part of a joint naval operation in a part of the ocean that they want to be the Middle Kingdom's, but really isn't.
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Headline should read ". . . since 1945". China may have cause to remember the last time Japan became frisky, and not be quite so provocative. Japan right now isn't terribly militaristic, but constant Chinese provocation could change that.
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-He is set to become the next Prime Minister of Japan. -Ishiba is recognized for his deep interest in military issues and is often dubbed a "gunji otaku," or military enthusiast, in Japan.
-He is a member of the ultranationalist Nippon Kaigi Group, which seeks to restore Japan to itโs former glory. -Ishiba has long been an outlier, willing to criticize and go against his own party.
-He was one of nine candidates and defeated Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, who aimed to become Japanโs first female leader. -Ishiba is the first Evangelical Christian to hold power in modern Japan since the Second World War.
[Telegraph] Chinaโs newest nuclear attack submarine has sunk in a shipyard accident, in a setback to the countryโs attempts to overtake the United States in a naval arms race, according to US officials.
The sinking of the first of a new Zhou-class of nuclear-powered submarines triggered a scramble for Beijing to cover up the incident, officials told The Wall Street Journal.
The newly built vessel, which features a distinctive X-shaped stern, was sighted on satellite images alongside a pier at Wuchang Shipyard as it was being equipped for sea in late May.
It is claimed to have sunk later that month or in early June. Suspicion was said to have been raised when floating cranes were seen at the site soon afterwards.
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Embarrassing yes, but sinking at the dock sounds more like a workplace oopsie than a "blow to China's military plans". Maybe someone forget to properly secure the screen door.
[Breitbart] The bloodbath keeps getting worse at the Walt Disney Company, with a new round of layoffs expected to impact hundreds of corporate employees this week.
An estimated 300 people are affected by the layoffs that started Tuesday and are continuing at least through Thursday, according to a Deadline report. The employees affected are all in the U.S., with multiple divisions impacted, including legal, human resources, finance, and communications, according to a separate report from The Wrap.
The layoffs represent the latest round of cutting at Disney, which has been trying to right its financial ship amid continued cord-cutting as well as pessimistic consumer sentiment tied to record inflation under the Biden-Harris administration.
Last year, Disney eliminated a whopping 7000 jobs worldwide, with CEO Bob Iger promising an additional $2 billion in additional cost savings.
Disney recently swung the ax across multiple TV properties, including ABC News — which recently aired the rigged presidential debate — and Fauci documentary channel Nat Geo. ABC News’ evening show suffered a ratings drop following the debate as viewers made their sentiment known about how the network stacked the deck against former President Donald Trump.
This week, a company spokesperson attributed the most recent round of cuts to a company effort to make "corporate-level functions" operate more efficiently. Less Woke Assholes?
"We continually evaluate ways to invest in our businesses and more effectively manage our resources and costs to fuel the state-of-the-art creativity and innovation that consumers value and expect from Disney," the spokesperson said, in the statement sent to multiple outlets.
"As part of this ongoing optimization work, we have been reviewing the cost structure for our corporate-level functions and have determined there are ways for them to operate more efficiently." "Good luck in your new adventures and challenges"
Disney has also been dealing with the ongoing consumer backlash to its embrace of woke identity politics, especially the promotion of transgenderism in its entertainment aimed at children.
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Did someone at Disney miscalculate the Liberal-Pervert impact on Family attendances?
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Interesting, but the blood-suckers who were let go for making / supporting lousy decisions are now free to spread their cancer to other enterprises.
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[REGNUM] Hundreds of shepherds who have come out to the central square of Bucharest are demanding the resignation of the government and a reduction in the influence of the European Union on Romania's internal affairs. Farmers are outraged by the mass slaughter of sheep, which the authorities are carrying out in accordance with the European protocol in the context of the spread of plague among animals. Meanwhile, Romania is turning from a supplier into an importer of meat.
Opposition politicians joined the protest. Among them was the outrageous member of the European Parliament, Diana Sosoacฤ. At one of the first sessions of the European Parliament, the Romanian shouted at Ursula von der Leyen that she was killing people in Ukraine. And when she was forcibly removed from the session hall, she put on a dog muzzle in protest against the restrictions on expressing her position.
The paradox of Romanian politics is that the current cabinet, headed by the social democrat Marcel Ciolacu, cannot be called very pro-Western. The protรฉgรฉs of the PSD (Social Democratic Party) are trying to maneuver between the directives of Euro-Atlantic structures and national interests.
THE LONG-SUFFERING PATRIOT
The situation with the transfer of one of the two Patriot air defense systems on combat duty in the country to Ukraine is indicative. The corresponding decision of the National Defense Council, taken under pressure from the United States, took place in June of this year. In early September, this deal, unpopular in Romania, was approved by the parliament.
But it has not been implemented yet, and there is no certainty that it will be implemented, at least until the presidential elections in the USA. After all, if Donald Trump suddenly wins, it is not at all a fact that Bucharest will receive the promised compensation instead of the air defense missile system given to Kiev.
Despite Brussels' position, Romania maintains high levels of public spending. Bucharest's budget deficit is the largest in the EU, which recently even led to a downgrade of the country's credit rating.
Unlike neighboring Bulgaria, Romania is in no hurry to part with Russian business, which has solid assets in the Carpathian-Danubian country. On the contrary, its positions are even strengthening.
On September 25, it became known that the Serbian company NIS received a license as an electricity supplier on the Romanian market. The largest shareholder of this company is the Russian Gazprom.
At the same time, Bucharest is luring away companies that change their location due to geopolitical upheavals. For example, on September 20, a car tire plant of the Finnish company Nokian Tyres began operating in the northwest of the republic.
Previously, this production was located in Russia and Ukraine. Cholaku, who attended the opening of the new plant, said that he views this event as the beginning of a program to restore heavy industry in the country.
DISAPPOINTED EXPECTATIONS
The SDP, which controls the government, is also hinting at a possible distancing from its main political partner, the European People's Party (led by Ursula von der Leyen) in the new national parliament. This is the National Liberal Party (NLP), which is still in coalition with the SDP.
Thus, the chairman of the National Council of Social Democrats, Mihai Tudose, does not rule out the possibility of creating a coalition with populist Eurosceptics from the Alliance for the Unification of Romanians following the December parliamentary elections.
Five MEPs from the latter voted, by the way, against a resolution recently adopted in Brussels calling on Ukraineโs partner countries to allow Kyiv to carry out military strikes deep into Russian territory.
Of course, the prospect of such a parliamentary majority in the largest country in South-Eastern Europe cannot please the supporters of maintaining the European dictate. In this regard, attempts are being made to weaken the "too independent" Social Democrats.
The distribution of seats in the renewed European Commission ended in great disappointment for the SDP. In its current composition, Romania received the clearly not very significant post of Commissioner for Human Resources and Skills. The administrative frivolity of this position lies in the fact that it does not have a single European directorate subordinate to it.
This situation is perceived almost as a personal defeat for the leader of the PSD, Ciolacu, since according to Romanian law, it is the Prime Minister who nominates the candidate for European Commissioner from his country.
In previous European Commissions, the Romanians were entrusted with much more serious areas of work: agriculture, regional development, transport. Along with their influence on international affairs, they brought generous investments into the national economy.
At the start of the campaign to create a new team for von der Leyen, the Romanian Prime Minister publicly stated that his country was fighting for the position of European Commissioner for the Economy. He probably also proceeded from preliminary behind-the-scenes agreements. After all, in the summer elections to the European Parliament, the SDP greatly helped the European People's Party, having gone through the election campaign in an equal alliance with the clearly weaker PNL (a local creature of the European "populists").
However, the socialist prime minister's stated ambitious goal turned out to be unattainable, for which Ciolaku is now being heavily criticized.
A BLOW FROM THE PAST
Finally, the investigation into the circumstances of the overthrow of the president of socialist Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, in 1989 could deal a serious blow to the Social Democrats.
The military prosecutor's office has completed the proceedings against the first president of post-revolutionary Romania and head of the National Salvation Front, Ion Iliescu. The nearly 95-year-old politician is accused of causing deaths during the overthrow of Ceausescu, as well as crimes against humanity.
But the most important and sensational thing is that Iliescu allegedly asked the Soviet Union for military assistance to suppress the security forces that remained loyal to the dictator. The latter is considered by modern Romanian law enforcement officials as high treason.
At the same time, the shooting of Ceausescu without an actual criminal case is considered by investigators to be murder. And the change of power in 1989 itself is interpreted not as a revolution, but as the seizure of power by one part of the nomenklatura from another.
For the current SDP, such assessments are dangerous because it is perceived as the successor of the National Salvation Front. Meanwhile, Ceausescu's popularity is growing year after year, especially among the left-wing electorate, on which the Social Democrats rely.
Therefore, the trial of Iliescu can be used to the detriment of the party that currently dominates Romania. For the followers of Ceausescu, it can be presented as the heir to the murderers of the "genius of the Carpathians". And for the pro-European voter, it can be shown that there was no popular revolution in 1989 and that the country continues to be ruled by the proteges of the communist nomenklatura.
Moreover, the biography of Ciolacu himself is quite suitable for illustrating both hypotheses. He began his political career in the Romanian Communist Party, then ended up in the National Salvation Front and even participated in the events of 1989, and later became a member of the PSD.
Thus, the Romanian Prime Minister faces a difficult choice: whether to continue the pragmatic course, exploiting the nostalgia of his compatriots for a strong Romania, or to become more obedient towards Euro-Atlantic structures.
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.
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[Breitbart] The bloodbath keeps getting worse at the Walt Disney Company, with a new round of layoffs expected to impact hundreds of corporate employees this week.
