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SDF says has deals with HTS, to send a delegation to Damascus
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Briana Boston, a 42-year-old mother of three, was arrested for making threats to BlueCross BlueShield over a rejected medical claim
[X] This is why we don’t post things that could be interpreted as threats. Who now will care for her children?

… who is now facing up to 15 years in prison, allegedly quoted Mangione, saying, "Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next."

This was a similar message that Mangione left on his bullet casings.

The woman told investigators that "healthcare companies played games and deserved karma from the world because they are evil," adding that she was inspired by the recent news cycle.

Boston was charged with threats to conduct a mass sh**ting or act of terrorism.

Her bond was set at $100,000. She faces up to 15 years behind bars.
Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

OK, threatening or worse anyone, is illegal and immoral.
I am sure, many others have felt utter life consuming frustration trying to hold them to their carefully worded and semi-promised coverages.

The Healthcare & Medical Industrial Complex needs to be held to a Patient Bill Of Rights standard. Patient Rights that prohibit their many haphazard, randomly approved/disapproved claims and randomly adjusted amounts paid.

Rights that are clearly written in plainly written/spoken English. Rights that hold their butts to directly answering and/or rewarding the customer, not the Federal Gov.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/13/2024 6:21 Comments || Top||


#3  Its a sign of the promised government oversight failure. The olde vigilantism follows failed law enforcement.

Like I shared, person who has paid in all their life needs medicine, gets it and is covered, then gets a letter saying, nah no more but here is this cheaper, ineffective, and literally mortally allergenic medicine which we will. Thoroughly reviewed, they said. We can't drop you so fuck off and die, they said.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/13/2024 13:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Lefties going to jail for a problem they created. Anti-trust legislation and regulation is need to prevent insurance companies from owning, pharmacies, pill manufacturers and bill processing operations. Johnson needs to step up where Paul Ryan failed. Ryan failed because he was and is corrupt.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2024 13:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Just yesterday we had a couple of comments supporting the actions of Luigi. I'm not sure why anyone was in a hurry to be on the same side as Taylor Lorenz.
Posted by: Crusader || 12/13/2024 13:45 Comments || Top||

#6  People act like this because they have never been punched in the mouth. Now she will be. It will make her a better person.
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/13/2024 14:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Police say suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing wasn’t a client of the insurer

Raskolnikov: betcha he decided to kill somebody - and then decided whom.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/13/2024 14:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Nobody should support this assassination. Hold this woman and Luigi accountable to the fullest extent of the law, but let’s get the corporate gravy train that is Obamacare back on the docket for demolition. Obamacare created United. All of us are paying for their scam. It’s the leftie’s fault for shining a light on the Uniparty boondoggle.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2024 14:55 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm with Supe @ number 4. If they were any good, they would not have to spend millions on teevee adverts. Example: USAA.

Example of little or no teevee adverts: Netjets, Tikka rifles, Snap On tools. Kershaw cutlery.

You decide.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2024 15:01 Comments || Top||

#10  Supe has a good take on it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/13/2024 16:48 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
A large conversation thread on the New Jersey drones
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Posted by: 3dc || 12/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  We are vulnerable to drone attack and it’s going to get worse
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/13/2024 8:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Pentagon says mystery New Jersey drones not from Iranian 'mothership'

More Biden balloons.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/13/2024 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Dan Bongino is an excitable young man and the drones have him quite excited.

He has one good point: Either the government knows what's happening and won't tell us or the government doesn't know and is helpless to do anything about it. Either way, it's not good.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/13/2024 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Thought experiment/curmudgeon conspiracy theory musings:

Crescendo of large scale "drone" events on the Eastern seaboard approaching Christmas inducing panic, the end of the rudder-less and sclerotic Biden Administration with attendant absences and staff departures/vacancies, massive Chinese illegal immigration surges in the past year, particularly of military-aged young men, and just developing, an epic surge in Chinese military exercises near Taiwan. One could see the targeted assemblage of domestic interdiction and key infrastructure nodes being readied as a move on Taiwan is initiated, with simultaneous US sabotage/disruption/blackouts/civil unrest actions which freeze the government into domestic responses, OCONUS hesitation and undermine any sustained military support ops as Taiwan is invaded.

Or it could just be crackpot inferences and assumptions from the cheap seats while the professionals in DC have everything under control!

https://x.com/GovLarryHogan/status/1867608947525386534
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/13/2024 15:07 Comments || Top||

#6  CIA has a long-standing strategy of seeding the media with UFO stories when they want to change the subject from something shameful they've done that has come out.

It's a way of managing the media narrative away from news damaging to them.

So what has the Deep State done that is shameful that is now coming out?

Well.... Ukraine losing to russia,
or Trump winning the election and his appointments which will expose their Russia lies

witness the frantic efforts by Joe Biden to pardon his son and fauci

and don't forget his son was in a corruption and bribery scandal in Burisma. The laptop scandal wasn't about hookers and crack (although they were there) it was about bribery and paying for access to the democrat criminal enterprise.
Posted by: anon1 || 12/13/2024 15:07 Comments || Top||

#7  this is more psychological warfare from the organised crime democrat wing of the Deep State blob: as Mike Benz says.

It's the combine - state dept, biowarfare, cia, nsa, spy state groups, atlantic council, military, foreign policy unit plus corporations they foster relations with

The ecosystem that is indistinguishable from organised crime. that operates separately and independently from the government you vote for

these people that thought they should run the place and doesn't matter if puppet kamala or puppet biden is the head, they will run things behind the scenes

You know - the people you VOTED AGAINST AND VOTED OUT

These people think they have a right to govern without any mandate from the stupid citizens

so they are feeding you a UFO story because they think you are stupid
Posted by: anon1 || 12/13/2024 15:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Mike Benz says: "dismiss, distort, distract, dismay" is their psychological warfare toolkit

so UFO stories is "distract"

That's all this is. Ignore it and look at what they're hiding and pushing off the news.

The revelation that there are agencies who act without the knowledge of the president for 'plausible deniability' giving them the blank cheque to do what they want....
Posted by: anon1 || 12/13/2024 15:13 Comments || Top||

#9  Roswell !!...lived near there in 1951 when missile were being tested at White Sands Proving Ground,

Stories were flying
Posted by: crazyhorse || 12/13/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ Exactly' The Feds are exercising "Maximum Plausible Deniability" so that the boys at Area 51 can field their range toys! Not aliens people...not China (they're not hooping and hollering like they did over a single balloon)...flying only at night (that smacks of NORAD turning their cheeks)!
Posted by: Shuper Clairt5942 || 12/13/2024 17:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Nice thread. I'll do some Titos's shots to catch up with y'all
Posted by: Frank G || 12/13/2024 18:34 Comments || Top||

#12  don't be distracted by fake UFOs - look at how they are trying to take down Trump's team

Matt Gaetz already gone. Now Guilefoyle too

how long before Kash patel, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Jay Bhattacharya all gone too

this is "distract" so you look the other way while they destroy the team
Posted by: anon1 || 12/13/2024 19:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Americans, shook to their bones
And unsteadily holding old phones
On which nothing appears
To discourage their fears,
Are about to be told, "Mars needs drones!"



Now to read above posts (and probably feel like a dangerously irresponsible idiot ;-)).
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 12/13/2024 19:48 Comments || Top||

#14  You know they aren't mine; they aren't trolling now by blasting George Clinton.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/13/2024 20:06 Comments || Top||

#15  [firetruck chasing Indian drone through cornfield]
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 12/13/2024 20:27 Comments || Top||

#16  g'day TW - i posted a story from Lee Stranahan on X earlier - accidentally didn't select the right categories up top so it went to WOT operations (but didn't show)

just posted a story on an important supreme court victory from australia (showing how bad it is here right now for medical freedom) - i correctly selected the categories this time, but still doesn't show.

just to let you know

and also to say hello!
Posted by: anon1 || 12/13/2024 23:17 Comments || Top||

#17  Yes.
Hello TW.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/13/2024 23:41 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Argentina''s Javier Milei Announces 90% Tax Reduction in 2025
[BREITBART] President of Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
Javier Milei announced Wednesday that his administration is preparing a structural tax reform that will eliminate 90 percent of existing taxes in 2025.

Milei announced the plan, alongside other policies he seeks to implement in his second year in office, while marking the end of his first. Among them was a plan to negotiate a trade deal with President-elect Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
's administration once he takes office in January.

Tuesday marked one year since Milei took office on December 10, 2023, and became Argentina's first libertarian president, succeeding socialist former President Alberto Fernandez. At the time he took office, Argentina faced a severe economic crisis that dramatically worsened as a result of Fernandez's disastrous socialist policies. Milei implemented a series of drastic ''shock therapy'' measures to avert the collapse of the country's economy and avoid a hyperinflation spiral.

Milei's policies successfully reduced the inflation rate in Argentina, dropping it from 25.5 percent in December 2023 to 2.7 percent in October 2024 while also allowing the nation to experience ten months of continued trade surplus as of November.

Additionally, Milei spearheaded a dramatic overhaul of the Argentine government during his first year, reducing the number of ministries from 18 to nine on his first day and outright replacing other institutions — such as Argentina's bloated AFIP revenue service, which was dissolved and substituted with a much smaller agency in November. The Argentine president also introduced a series of sweeping reforms that Congress passed in late June.

Milei marked his first year in office by delivering a speech in the evening hours of Tuesday in the company of his ministers and members of his administration. He reviewed the results of his policies and announced a series of upcoming measures.
Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wait wait wut?

So by dropping bureaucratic socialism, not only can the deficit be dealt with properly, people can keep their money to take care of themselves?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/13/2024 13:10 Comments || Top||

#2  That’s what I’m talking about.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2024 14:56 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China quietly carried out a sweeping military operation this week in the Western Pacific itslargest naval deployment in decades
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Earlier this week, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted a massive joint military exercise around the Taiwan Strait and Western Pacific, targeting the entire first island chain.

Taiwan’s military spokesperson said the scale of the naval deployment was the largest since the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis. In a notable first, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Theater Commands participated together in coordination.



According to Taiwan security sources, Chinese aircraft simulated attacks on foreign naval ships, practiced driving away military and civilian aircraft and intercepting commercial vessels during a “blockade exercise,” and rehearsed disrupting sea routes.



“The real objective appears to be asserting control within the first island chain and establishing strategic deterrence ahead of the U.S. presidential transition,” a senior Taiwanese national security official told AFP.

PLA designated 7 reserved airspace zones east of Zhejiang and Fujian. ROCArmedForces have identified PLA Eastern, Northern, and Southern Theater Command naval formations, along with Coast Guard vessels, entering areas around the Taiwan Strait and the Western Pacific.
12:58 AM · Dec 9, 2024



Posted by: 3dc || 12/13/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11124 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Likely their ships will be flawed like Liberty ships AKA Kaiser Coffins.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2024 14:58 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/13/2024 15:46 Comments || Top||



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