[Air Force Times] The Air Force is investigating how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly hundreds of highly classified documents, and in the meantime has taken away the intelligence mission from the base where the leaks took place, Air Force leaders said Tuesday.
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told Congress he has directed the Air Force inspector general to go look at the Air National Guard 102nd Intelligence Wing based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira served and look at "anything associated with this leak that could have gone wrong."
Teixeira, 21, was charged Friday in the U.S. District Court in Boston with unauthorized removal and retention of classified and national defense information. He is expected back in court for a hearing Wednesday.
The leaks have raised questions as to how a single airman could have removed so many documents without being detected, why there were not safety checks in place and how the documents could have lingered online undetected for months.
"How could this guardsman take this information and distribute it electronically for weeks, if not months, and nobody knew about it?" Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana asked the Air Force leaders testifying before a Senate defense appropriations subcommittee.
These are questions the Air Force is asking, too. For top secret information across the military, there’s supposed to be accountable control officers who are responsible for recording active top secret documents and ensuring they have been either properly secured or disposed of, such as through a shredder or by burning them.
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Nothing like shutting the safe’s door after the horse is out. Or something. Update on the NAS Whidbey ex-E-5: according to today’s local paper she was discharged honorably. Had sone mental issues, divorce, other wackjob features. But not a BCD.
Angry people
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] One of two men who shot each other's daughters in a road rage incident has seen his charges dropped after prosecutors decided he acted in self-defense.
Frank Allison, 44, opened fire on William Hale, 36, after the two began swerving and brake-checking each other on a Florida highway last year. He shot at Hale's car after the 36-year-old flung a water bottle into his car during the fight.
But authorities decided that his first shot was justifiable under Florida's 'stand your ground' self-defense law, determining that Hale was at fault for the ensuing chaos.
Alisson fired a single shot into Hale's car after the bottle was thrown, hitting Hale's 5-year-old daughter in the leg. Hale responded by emptying his Glock semi-automatic handgun at Alisson's vehicle, hitting his 14-year-old daughter in the back, causing her to suffer a collapsed lung.
Both men initially faced attempted murder charges after the incident, until Alisson's charges were dropped earlier this month. Speaking at the time of the shooting, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said: 'There could have been two dead kids because of two stupid grown men.'
[FoxNews] A SWAT team destroyed a cancer survivor’s home while chasing a fugitive. The city refused to pay for the damage. But a new legal strategy may help Vicki Baker and others.
The SWAT team smashed Vicki Baker's brand-new fence, shot dozens of tear gas canisters through the walls, windows and roof, and used what Baker describes as a "bomb" to blow off the garage door. The goal, police later told her, was to create confusion and to shock their target.
But Baker was not the suspect in a crime and in fact was more than 1,000 miles away when police destroyed her home in McKinney, Texas. Now the 78-year-old cancer survivor is at the center of a landmark federal court ruling ordering the city of McKinney to pay nearly $60,000 in damages for destroying her house while pursuing a fugitive.
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[NYPOST] Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday mocked the social media company’s previous ownership for overseeing an "absurdly overstaffed" operation run like a "glorified deep thinker organization."
In an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Musk joked that running Twitter after letting go of 80% of its staff in the days after his October 2022 takeover wasn’t such a tall task because he wasn’t concerned about censoring users.
"Turns out, you don’t need all that many people to run Twitter," the billionaire business tycoon told Carlson after confirming that 80% of the company’s employees were fired or left voluntarily after his $44 billion purchase of the social media platform.
An incredulous Carlson noted that 80% "is a lot" of people to have leave, to which Musk responded: "I mean, if you’re not trying to run some sort of glorified deep thinker organization, and you don’t care that much about censorship, then you can really let go of a lot of people it turns out."
"I think we just had a situation at Twitter where it was absurdly overstaffed," Musk argued, comparing Twitter to a "group text service at scale."
"Like how many people are really needed for that?" he added.
[NYPOST] Megyn Kelly hit out at a news website on Tuesday for referring to her commentary about Bud Light’s sponsorship deal with transgender ...mutton, dressed up as pork... social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney as a "transphobic tirade."
"Call me whatever names you want," the host of SiriusXM’s "The Megyn Kelly Show" tweeted to her 2.7 million Twitter followers on Tuesday.
"I am speaking the truth."
Kelly added: "And neither I nor the millions of other women (and men) who believe in biology/reality/fairness will be dissuaded by your attempts to marginalize us with words like ’transphobic’."
Kelly was responding to a post by the news site The Wrap, which linked to a story with the headline: "Megyn Kelly Goes on Transphobic Tirade Over Dylan Mulvaney."
The news story quoted extensively from Monday’s episode of Kelly’s podcast, during which she said that Bud Light and Mulvaney have "made a mockery of womanhood and girlhood."
Kelly said during Monday’s show that Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch erred by promoting Mulvaney, a trans woman "celebrated by far-lefties all across the country."
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phobia is Latin for fear. Call me back when the Latin for "righteous, healthy disdain" is used instead.
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Try these:
apolactizare
despicio verb
to regard with strong contempt
despectio noun
feeling of contempt or scorn
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It turns out Dylan was a non-binary unemployed "actor" when a friend got him a job modeling girl's clothes. He is nothing more than an actor.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/03/16/footage-of-dylan-mulvaney-before-transition-has-emerged-and-its-very-telling-n1679094
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[Epoch Times] A Ninth Circuit court on Monday went against a Berkeley ordinance that banned natural gas piping in new buildings inside the city. The California Restaurant Association alleged that the Energy Policy and Conservation Act preempts the city of Berkeley’s regulation, which banned natural gas piping in new buildings.
For which we can thank President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell working together to fill empty judgeships across the land... and especially flipping the Ninth Circuit from crazed to mostly sensible.
The Act expressly preempts State and local regulations on the energy use of natural gas appliances used in household and restaurant kitchens, according to the Ninth Circuit judges’ opinion on Monday.
"Instead of directly banning those appliances in new buildings, Berkeley took a more circuitous route to the same result and enacted a building code that prohibits natural gas piping into those buildings, rendering the gas appliances useless," according to Judge Patrick Bumatay.
"States and localities can’t skirt the text of broad preemption provisions by doing indirectly what Congress says they can’t do directly. Berkeley can’t evade preemption by merely moving up one step in the energy chain and banning natural gas piping within those buildings."
Judge Miller Baker, concurring, wrote that the Berkeley ordinance "cut to the heart of what Congress sought to prevent," which is state and local manipulation of building codes for the purpose of regulating natural gas consumption.
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So am I supposed to applaud the fact that the Feds actually have that power - Please cite the section in the Constitution that gives them authority to make laws covering stoves and/or natural gas.
[NYPOST] “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg ...born Caryn Elaine Johnson, a homely American culterral icon on the same tier of significance as Alfalfa, Lupe Velez, or Pia Zadora, only without Alfalfa's singing voice, Zadora's lovely butt, or Velez' Mexican Spitfiree personality. She pontificates regularly on national television, spewing lefty blather and utttering gaffes at nearly the same rate as Joe Biden, whom she purports to admire. She was once married to some white guy, but he appeared in blackface once and was never heard from again... blasted Anheuser-Busch over its patriotic-themed commercial featuring Clydesdale horses, saying that Bud Light’s parent company needed to “get the horses out” following backlash over its decision to partner with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Goldberg took umbrage over the ad because it suggested that “horses are so much more American than trans people.” Well, horses are useful
“Listen, Budweiser, we are all Americans here, we appreciate your beer whether it’s light or regular beer, you have every right and we have every right to buy it if we like it,” Goldberg said during Monday’s episode of “The View” on ABC.
“Don’t let them scare you. Lets us scare you,” Goldberg said at the end of the segment.
My dear, you are hetero with a fondness for white men. You are not part of the “scary we”, just as you are not Jewish by belief or ancestry. There is nothing scary about you except your self-righteous prejudices and your ignorance.
Bud Light’s sister brand Budweiser released an ad over the weekend featuring the famous Anheuser-Busch Clydesdale horses.
In the ad, the animals are seen traversing the country from New York City to the Grand Canyon.
“This is a story bigger than beer,” the ad’s narrator says in the ad. “This is the story of the American spirit.”
At one point, the ad showcases two people raising an American flag as one places her hand over her heart.
The ad followed a half-hearted apology Friday by Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth after the company faced backlash for its sponsorship deal with Mulvaney, a social media influencer with 10 million followers on TikTok.
Goldberg seemed perplexed at the anger over the Mulvaney tie-up, saying: “The company puts out a statement saying they didn’t mean to address an issue that divided people, but I want to know what are you so angry about?”
“Beer does not have, I mean it’s not Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t have a belief system, it’s just beer!” Goldberg said.
Goldberg’s co-host Sunny Hostin said that the Mulvaney controversy revealed the extent to which the US was “highly transphobic” and that the proposed Bud Light boycott had become a “transphobic issue.”
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin praised Bud Light for making a “smart move” in partnering with Mulvaney since it was a way to make “inroads with the LGBTQ community.”
Griffin said that the average LGBTQ drinker “tends to like craft beer and skinny cocktails, not Bud Light.”
Anheuser-Busch’s top executive on Friday offered an apology that critics said was flat as the beer giant reels from the backlash over its sponsorship deal with Mulvaney.
“We never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people,” Whitworth said in press release titled “Our Responsibility To America.”
[NYPOST] One person was killed and multiple others trapped Tuesday after a parking garage collapsed in Lower Manhattan, officials said.
Shocking footage from the scene at 35-37 Ann Street shows multiple cars on top of the concave roof as a woman get can be heard screaming, "Get out!"
"At this time the building is completely unstable," Eric Adams said during a presser at the scene.
A total of six people were hurt — four were taken to the hospital, one person died and one refused medical attention, according to fire officials.
All six had been working inside the building when it collapsed around 4:10 p.m.
"There was a worker who was trapped on the upper floor. He was conscious and alert and moving around calling us," John Esposito, the FDNY chief of operations, said.
"He just couldn’t get down. We were able to put firefighters up there in the building to take him down across the roof of another building."
Officials believe all workers are accounted for, but are continuing to investigate.
"We’re continuing to do searches. There are some cars in there that are crushed. We’re trying to see if we can get up close to make sure there’s nobody in those cars," Esposito added.
The building had active violations dating back to 2003, NYC Department of Building Acting Commissioner Kaz Vilenchik said. There were also active permits on the building, one of which was related to electrical work, but the building was not under construction.
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Looks like the Miami beachfront collapse.
Bureaucrats paid to look the other way.
[OTP] A husband and wife have killed themselves by decapitation with a home-made guillotine so they could offer their heads as a sacrifice in India, according to police.
Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife Hansaben, 35, ’severed’ their heads with a ’guillotine-like mechanism’ into a ’fire altar’ for a ritual sacrifice in Vinchhiya, Gujarat, India, yesterday. If this catches on at Tik-Tok, it'd solve a lot of problems
[NYPOST] The unhinged brute with a long rap sheet who was caught on video whacking an NYPD officer in the head with a bottle told cops that "God told him to do this," law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
Sounds like untreated schizophrenia.
Jose Garcia, 45, was allegedly filmed walking up behind the uniformed female officer as she stood on a busy sidewalk at 231st Street and Broadway in Kingsbridge Monday afternoon. "Allegedly filmed"?
He suddenly lashes out as he walks by — hitting her in the back of the head and then continuing to go after both the officer and her partner.
The shocking recording, posted to the NYC Scoop Twitter feed, goes on to show the officer and another person taking him down.
Garcia, of Kingsbridge Heights, was arrested and charged with assault, obstruction of governmental administration, resisting arrest, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, and harassment, police said.
He allegedly ranted to officers after his arrest that God had "told him to do this," and that there were "people in his house and no one did anything," sources said.
The suspect has 11 previous arrests, many of which appear to stem from his mental health issues, sources said.
Wouldn't it be kinder to treat him?
News report courtesy of Omiting Theting7288:
NY Cop (fem) is hit in the head by bottle while investigating smoke shop and owner of bodega in Brooklyn (Egyptian?) assaulted by 4 men (white)
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there were "people in his house head and no one did anything,"
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Curiously, when the third leg is complete the geometric presentation suggests the opportunity for a 3D In-ISAR imaging web. Perhaps for tracking and targeting polar orbiters.
Good thing our people at McMurdo are collecting meteorites, monitoring climate change and looking for alien traces.
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"Quantity is its' own form of quality"!
Once again the debate returns. The Germans and Japanese lost strategically because of the industrial might of the United States. Our output of the tools of war and the vast quantities we gave our allies, especially the Russians, ultimately won the war.
Today, that vast industrial base is, in large part, across the Pacific. The roles are reversed, and war is looming. We make great stuff, but not in vast numbers, and today, the strategic petroleum reserve is at the lowest level in decades, and we have depleted war stockage levels of weapon systems to feed the proxie-quagmire in Ukraine. And we are led by a Puppet Show Presidency while behind the curtain a cabal of enemies, idiots and adolescents deeply influenced by the CCP continues to shred our cultural and economic legacy. Had to imagine this is all coincidental...
[NYPOST] The FBI helped shut down a clandestine Chinese "cop shoppe" in Manhattan after the arrest of two alleged operatives earlier this week — but The Post is told that there are several more of these illegal organizations scattered across the US.
In addition to the Chinese cop shoppe above a noodle restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown, there is another station at an undisclosed address in New York City, as well as an outpost in Los Angeles, according to a new report by Safeguard Defenders.
The Madrid-based human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... group initially published a report last year detailing 100 clandestine Chinese cop shoppes around the world.
In addition to Los Angeles and New York, the non-profit has found so-called "overseas service stations" in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... and Houston as well as in cities in Nebraska and Minnesota.
These law enforcement organizations, operated by the Chinese Communist party, are tasked with spying on Chinese nationals around the world.
"We found at least four listed in the US by PRC [People’s Republic of China] public security authorities, plus flagged an additional four overseas Chinese service centers in the US set up by the UFWD networks responsible for manning the stations," a spokeswoman for Safeguard Defenders told The Post Tuesday.
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Seems like hiring some competent IT guys ought to be fairly cheap with all the tech layoffs. It is possible that all the laid off tech folks might not possess useful skills.
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So, a firewall hardware failure that stopped traffic?
Or a failure that allowed some bad actor access?
[BenarNews] Members of a Christian congregation in Indonesia’s Bogor city got their own church this month after a 15-year dispute with local authorities and Moslem residents.
The Christian minority in Indonesia represents about 11% of the population
The Indonesian Christian Church of Yasmin, known as GKI Yasmin, inaugurated the new church building in Bogor, a city about 37 miles south of Jakarta, at an event attended by two cabinet ministers on April 9, which was Easter Sunday for Christians.
Church front man Arif Zuwana said most of the congregation welcomed the new church, but some declined to attend because the building was moved from its original site under pressure from neighbors and despite a 2010 Supreme Court ruling allowing construction to continue there.
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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.
[Air Force Times] The Air Force is investigating how a lone airman could access and distribute possibly hundreds of highly classified documents, and in the meantime has taken away the intelligence mission from the base where the leaks took place, Air Force leaders said Tuesday.
[FoxNews] A SWAT team destroyed a cancer survivor’s home while chasing a fugitive. The city refused to pay for the damage. But a new legal strategy may help Vicki Baker and others.
[NYPOST] Twitter CEO 
[NYPOST] 
The Act expressly preempts State and local regulations on the energy use of 
[OTP] A husband and wife have killed themselves by decapitation with a home-made guillotine so they could offer their heads as a sacrifice in India, according to police.
[NYPOST] The unhinged brute with a long rap sheet who was caught on video whacking an NYPD officer in the head with a bottle told cops that "God told him to do this," law enforcement sources said Tuesday.
