[Hot Air] Reporters have been nudging Jen Psaki for two days to say something disapproving and for two days she’s dodged. Wednesday:
"I don’t think we have a particular view on that other than to say that we certainly note the unprecedented nature of it," Psaki replied...
"While we have heard a number of raised concerns about the leak, our focus is on highlighting what the content in there would put at risk for women across the country ... I would note that many Republicans have wanted to talk about that and not about whether they support the protection of a woman’s right to choose, a woman’s right to make decisions with her doctor about her health care, maybe not a surprise given that by more than a 2 to 1 margin, American want the Supreme Court to support abortion rights."
[WBTW] Thieves can crawl under cars, trucks and SUVs and steal a catalytic converter in less than a minute, according to experts.
The repairs can set drivers back hundreds to thousands of dollars.
The National Insurance Crime Bureau tracks thefts reported to insurance companies. It said catalytic converter thefts have increased more than 975% from 2018 to more than 14,000 in 2020.
The converters are placed on vehicles to help prevent air pollution. They’ve been required by the federal government since 1975 on most vehicles.
Thieves steal the part because of the precious metal inside, such as platinum, palladium and rhodium. They melt down the metal or sell the stolen part for big money.
The type of car you drive could put you at an increased risk of falling victim to thieves, according to a new list from CARFAX.
These are the 10 models most targeted by catalytic converter thieves in the U.S., according to the company that tracks vehicle history.
1. 1985-2021 Ford F-Series pickup trucks
2. 1989-2020 Honda Accord
3. 2007-17 Jeep Patriot
4. 1990-2022 Ford Econoline vans
5. 1999-2021 Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks
6. 2005-21 Chevrolet Equinox
7. 1997-2020 Honda CR-V
8. 1987-2019 Toyota Camry
9. 2011-17 Chrysler 200
10. 2001-21 Toyota Prius
Many of the models likely make the list because they are easy to crawl under. Cars such as the Prius are on the list because more precious metals are used in a hybrid’s catalytic converter and are worth more, according to CARFAX.
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Big problem for some time now. Dealerships being hit on lots as well. Breakdown in NJ or NY on interstates drop a transmission in 10 minuets. Tires whatever.
[COVE] This would be the time I usually write "so, when’s AG Garland going to give up his own fossil fueled travel and make his life carbon neutral? How about the operations of the DOJ?" But, this is actually rather dangerous, as they are weaponizing the climate cult via the Department Of Justice.
This is using the power of the federal justice department to go after any who engage in Wrongthink on ’climate change’. This is the logical (sic) extension of what the Cult of Climastrology has been working towards, having the federal government threaten non-adherents with investigation and prosecution, and then prosecution. It’s meant to scare people, to cow them, make them be quiet, make them Comply. Using the federal government as an authoritarian entity. Creating Green Shirts with prosecutorial powers.
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Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust
"Nazi Oaks" details the anti-Semitic historical background to the early German green movement of the 1800's that was later absorbed by the Nazi Party in the 1930's and 40's. While many histories have decried the industrial nature of the holocaust, such views cannot explain the motive behind the greatest crime committed in the 20th century. The holocaust itself was carried out under a green cover because Nazi racism was largely rooted in the Social Darwinism of German Romanticism that laid the ecological foundations for what today is otherwise known as environmentalism. As an important ingredient of the argument, "Nazi Oaks" also demonstrates the anti-Christian bias of the environmental movement in America which paralleled the anti-Semitic bias in Germany during the 1800's. "Nazi Oaks" describes why the holocaust is best understood as a modernized form of human sacrifice carried out under biological/ecological camouflage that is rooted in the sacrificial oak imagery of ancient paganism. The word "holocaust" itself means "whole burnt offering."
#3
That water filled drainage trench on your property is now a navigable waterway. You just lost your house along with most of your property. Enjoy communism.
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When the green grift collapses - it will - all hardcore greens will be sentenced to live in the woods and fill a daily quota of picked up deadfall. Which will then be burned out in the open.
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It's all coming together. OEJ defines XYZ as a crime against "EnvirJus". KGB, er DGB defines contrary opinions as disinformation, DoJ files charges.
[Foreign Policy Research Institute] After six weeks of combat, where is the Russo-Ukrainian War going? Modern technology both facilitates and hampers the answer to that question. Every day, this war is evaluated from every angle and perspective, but modern technology provides only a soda-straw view of the war’s entire canvas. This article will try to discern that larger canvas of the war, including a focus on casualties, information operations and morale, and logistics to see how they and the tactical correlation of forces may influence several possible strategic outcomes.
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Truth is, Russia has always sucked at logistics. In the days of the USSR, massive amounts of food 'got lost' or spoiled because it couldn't get to where it needed to be. Part of that is caused by lack of transport, part of it is the natural xenophobia Russians have towards anybody "not from around here".
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Is it early or do the trolls not work weekends?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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...waiting for the checks to clear. That or they've run through all their casting call for trolls which they sent here to adjudge performance.
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Found out today people called up to assist supervision of very large transfer of military products to who knows where. Interstate heavy transport of military equipment. People retired FEMA in their 80's dispatched to one location that I am aware of. That location is Dulles international Airport for my contact Monday. Same person was dispatched Jan 6th and one other event he could not elaborate but I believe Ukraine related. All sorts of security equipment. They scan everything and they can see if you wear underwear or not. Sign of our times.
#7
The acid test for whether the political right in America can break the GOPe stranglehold will be if we can stop stuff like the Ukraine Adventure™. I want Rand Paul for Sec of State and Sec of Health simultaneously.
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In war time both sides prefer the version that makes them look best, leaving us to decided who was the bull-shitter.
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I suspect these government agencies are having manpower problems that everyone else is having.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Gauleiter of the Poltava region said that the Kremenchug Oil Refinery was completely destroyed as a result of a series of missile attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on the infrastructure of a strategic enterprise.
Of course, one should not take these statements on faith, perhaps some kind of fuel processing activity is still possible at the plant, and statements about complete destruction are made in order to avoid control finishing strikes.
The fact that the plant was badly damaged is a fact - in Ukraine, problems with fuel immediately worsened, and the prices for 92nd and 95th gasoline at gas stations immediately began to fly into space. But what about the complete destruction of the Kremenchug Oil Refinery still needs to be checked.
It is worth noting that if the attacks on the Kremenchug and Odessa oil refineries had been inflicted back in March, then the fuel crisis in Ukraine would have begun much earlier.
In fact, it has already become clear that Ukraine simply cannot compensate for the products of the Kremenchug refinery on its own.
Therefore, in the current situation, they are going to use gasoline supplies from Europe at European prices as a crutch. This will help avoid the lack of gasoline at civilian gas stations, but its prices will be from 70 to 110 hryvnia per liter.
Refineries are difficult (if not impossible) to restore. A new refinery for 2-4 million tons of oil costs about 350-500 million dollars.
Ukrainian commanders were forbidden to take the bodies of the dead from Russians and separatists. The General Staff sent a new order to the troops. According to the document, commanders of all levels are prohibited from organizing the exchange of the dead. It is also forbidden to negotiate with Russians or separatists on this issue. According to our source, the new order was prepared by the Ministry of Defense based on the decision of the Office of the President. The document is classified, but it does not indicate what such a decision is connected with. Commanders who disobey are threatened with dismissal.
Actually, there was no big secret before. Against the background of reports that some exchanges of prisoners are taking place (more than 300 people from each side have already been changed), there is practically no information about the exchanges of the dead. The commanders from the field noted that all proposals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take their dead were met with a refusal.
In view of this, our funeral teams are engaged in the burial of the dead UAF soldiers, collecting the dead as the troops advance. Videos on this topic are released regularly.
The reasons for the refusal are quite understandable - if the corpses are taken away, then they must be buried, which means that even more information about the real level of losses will seep into Ukrainian society. And the point here is not even in the payment of compensation (although in them too), but, above all, in concealing the real size of the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which are now hastily trying to compensate at the expense of reservists and the Volkssturm.
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The possibility of the Russian far east being picked apart by China will probably be a large noise maker, mostly because of Kamchatka. Big nuke bases.
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So we make war against a country that is not a threat to us and the country that is a threat moves to take the spoils. You might almost be tempted to believe that Biden is getting paid by the CCP. Oh wait...Biden is getting paid by the CCP.
Wouldn't it frost their balls if Putin nuked Peking?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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The left in the US is very invested in keeping Ukraine as a trap for pub presidents. Which means even they know there will be another pub president.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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/\ Trump & Musk solution:
Offer Russian soldats (and their Russian brides) a path to US citizenship if they break ranks and defect to Poland. Guaranteed US employment, language training, Twitter account (or Twitter job) and/or two years free college.
You don't have to take that shi* anymore. Come here, live the dream !
Know how to drive a URAL-4320? Super! We need truck drivers.
Already parachute or Spetsnaz qualified? Great! Three year enlistment with hefty sign-on bonus. Bring jump log and graduation certificates. Self-paced Fort Bragg transition course. Paid Relo to North Carolina, then Florida, or Colorado. You pick the Zipp code.
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There's the old story of the SOF guy who said there are 25 people in the US who need to be "removed" to straighten things out. Musk's Starship. Space the bastids.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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China isn't invading China for same reason it hasn't invaded Taiwan: The dams, especially the Three Gorges. That thing goes, China goes with it. And both of the Nations in their crosshairs have the capability to reach them.
It's why China specializes in infiltration and corruption. The way they've set things up makes if far to easy to destroy. And with that level of destruction, the Mandate of heaven will have passed out of Communist hands. Meaning bye-bye people at the top.
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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.
How about stamping or attaching a VIN plate or corresponding serial number at the factory ? 
[COVE] This would be the time I usually write "so, when’s AG Garland going to give up his own fossil fueled travel and make his life carbon neutral? How about the operations of the DOJ?" But, this is actually rather dangerous, as they are weaponizing the climate cult via the Department Of Justice.
Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust
