[Red State] "Yesterday, I learned that — and this is going to come out soon — that the NSA leaked the contents of my emails to journalists in an effort to discredit me. I know because I got a call from one of them saying ’oh, this is what your email was about,’ " Carlson said.
"So, it is not in any way a figment of my imagination. It’s confirmed, it’s true," he continued, adding that Biden administration is trying to gain "leverage" to threaten "opposition journalists."
"It’s happening to me right now, and I think it’s shocking and I don’t think we should put up with it in a free country," he said.
When host Maria Bartiromo asked if there was no way anyone else could have seen the emails, Carlson said the only other person was his executive producer.
He added that just before his show aired on Tuesday, he got a call from a reporter who read the email back to him.
"There is no possibility that anyone else could have known. And then again yesterday I get a call right before air, like 7:15, from a journalist I know and like, not many left, but I do like this person. He repeated back to me what’s in my email, he got it because the NSA leaked it, so, yes, entirely real," Carlson said.
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Spying on journalists, the Senate and others seemed to be de rigueur for the Sotero admininstration; the era when Constitutional firewalls/freedoms were ignored or broken down. It didn't just start with Sotero. Some of this went on during "W" era.
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Defund the NSA. That's the only way to stop these abuses. Unfortunately, Congress will never do that. What? You think DoJ will go after them? They're just as bad if not worse.
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^1, if that was the basis for monitoring Carlson it strikes me as legitimate. NSA absolutely should be monitoring Putin, so anyone in contact with him gets monitored too.
[PJ] The pro-death ghouls on the left will stop at nothing to make sure abortion is dangerous, legal(ish), and common—quite a departure from the days when Bill Clinton said it should be "safe, legal, and rare." The powerful death cult even opposes commonsense measures to ensure that abortion clinics are safe and sanitary. They pitch a fit anytime lawmakers or health officials try to force them to clean up their filthy clinics or hold them to the same standards as other medical facilities. One thing I’ve learned over the years of being an advocate for unborn babies is that abortion proponents don’t value human life—at all. They may pay lip service to the concept, screeching about abortion being a human right, but they don’t mean it.
[BREITBART] The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) will feature Critical Race Theory
...teaches that skin color is the most important characteristic of any person, which translates to separate but equal with a different bunch in charge. All whites are born racist and racism permeates every aspect of society, which should be dismantled and the remains turned over to the kind of dipshit who pushes this nonsense... champion Ibram X. Kendi Wednesday during its biennial TEACH (Together Educating America’s Children) professional development conference.
Kendi, the author of Antiracist Baby, has received the backing of the Biden Education Department.
In April, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s office proposed a rule that called for the development of "culturally responsive teaching" in American History and Civics and held up the widely discredited "1619 Project" as a model for schools to teach these subjects.
The rule intends to establish priorities for grants in American History and Civics Education programs that incorporate Critical Race Theory-based curricula, such as the "1619 Project."
The department elaborated on its proposal, with a reference to Kendi:
Accordingly, schools across the country are working to incorporate anti-racist practices into teaching and learning. As the scholar Ibram X. Kendi has expressed, "[a]n antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences—that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group. Antiracist ideas argue that racist policies are the cause of racial inequities." ... It is critical that the teaching of American history and civics creates learning experiences that validate and reflect the diversity, identities, histories, contributions, and experiences of all students.
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I will say I'm happy that my children are past school age.
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Were it not for his name, Ibram Xolani Kendi (born Ibram Henry Rogers) his bio reads like one of those privileged academic white people with a head full of mush.
Chicago police found Keegan Casteel, 32, at 5:45 p.m. on July 4 with the two weapons in a W Hotel room
The weapons were found in the window sill of Room 1208 on the 12th floor of the hotel overlooking Ohio Street Beach in the 600 block of North Lake Shore Drive
Casteel was arrested after cops received a tip from a housekeeping employee
Cops found a .308 caliber semi-automatic rifle that was not engraved with a serial number - and had a round in the chamber
Cops also found a high-power scope with laser-sight attachments, a number of bullet magazines and a .45 caliber handgun
Related: Heavy.com makes him sound like a reasonably responsible citizen — car repair shop owner and master technician, Iowa gun license, married with two children, a series of minor misbehaviours of the adolescent male type that ended when the kids came along — who didn’t bother or couldn’t get the matching Illinois and Chicago licenses for a trip to Chicago with the wife and kiddies, and made the mistake of leaving his weapons out where the hotel maid could see them. But he did break Chicago law by bringing in the weapons, and the prosecutor will be able to justify worrying that he intended to massacre the crowd below like that sociopath gambler in Las Vegas a few years ago.
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why would you leave your guns laying in a window?
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...Read the heavy dot com link.
Something's fishy, I just don't know what.
Mike
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I know exactly where this hotel is and, depending on what side of the building the family was staying, would have a pretty good view of Navy Pier (although it is almost 700 yards away from the hotel). There are some pretty popular parks right across Lakeshore Drive (or whatever they're calling it now) that are a lot closer.
Round in the chamber does sound suspicious, if true. They don't say if the weapons were encased in any way. 'Rifle’s serial number was not visible' is another red flag.
Hauling in your weapons from your car overnight in Chicago (or anyplace) is a pretty good method of not having them stolen IMHO.
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"A round of bullet"
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Other than the DWI charge, everything else in his past is low level dumbassery.
The defaced serial number could get him in federal trouble.
Assuming he wasn't planning a massacre, his big mistake was not knowing that IL doesn't recognize any other state's permits. I also can't figure why he'd bring a long gun with him on a non hunting trip.
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Was it "defaced" or was it a home-built?
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A hinky story. Keegan could be in a lot of trouble if Chicago wants to push it. I'd like to hear Keegan's side of the story before the rush to judgement. Lightfoot has a lot to say but then again she has a lot of problems in Chicago; she's a nutjob with a lot of crime problems. It could be "nab the out-of-state guy and make it look like she is doing something about all the shootings in Chicago." He proposed to his girlfriend right after his arrest. Thought he was with his wife and kids. Keegan seems like a dumbass.
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Keegan should tell Chicago authorities that he was meeting Jussie Smollett at Subway and when he got back some Rednecks put the weapons in his room.
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Don't be shocked when you learn Keegan just took delivery of these firearms from an FBI undercover agent.
It is easier to keep track of your known wolves if you meet with them regularly. Providing a bit of guidance and support helps keep the file folders thick.
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As of October 2020, his Raytheon stock holdings were worth ...
"I'll take 'A LOT More' for $400, Alex"
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It's all about how African-Americans feel -
More about how the mostly white, social justice warrior class believes they ought to feel, with no consulting the benighted natives whose objections only show they don’t understand what is in their best interest.
Political scientist Lynne Chandler García said the Constitution brought about 'inequality' and that George Washington was a racist. She argued that the history of the U.S. proved that 'racism has shaped both foreign and domestic policy'
Garcia, who teaches the Marxist theory at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs, said she agreed with the Joints Chiefs Staff General Mark Milley who recently announced critical race theory (CRT) 'is not unpatriotic'
CRT teaches that racism is a social construct, an idea invented to exploit and control minorities. It says racism is embedded in U.S. institutions and laws
Seems the USAF Academy is taking the concept of Red Air a bit too far. A tour of duty in Norad Alaska or Greenland might refocus them on the USAF mission.
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I think I will go with what MLK Jr. said: "the idea that we should judge someone on the content of his character rather than the color of his skin." Skip all the nonsense and gobbledygook invented by the social sciences. Truth is truth.
CRT smacks of discrimination as does affirmative action. Meritocracy and selecting the best person for the job will result in stronger organizations--regardless of sex or skin color.
Wednesday's update is the last, "unless things seriously deteriorate in the future." I found it a useful tool to counter the 'we're all gonna die' narrative. R.I.P.
Visualize the day-by-day progression of the Coronavirus in the United States as a whole and on the individual state level. Scroll down to view daily data for all 50 states.
Data sources: WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC, DXY, 1point3acres, Worldometers.info, BNO, state and national government healthdepartments, and local media reports.
Thank you to everyone who has visited over the last 15 months. It's been an interesting ride. Tonight's update will be the last one unless things seriously deteriorate in the future. God bless you all.
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Don't worry. The Ficus in Chief will manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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[AlAhram] The organisation also hailed Egypt’s effort to achieve self-sufficiency in producing coronavirus vaccines so that it can become a hub for exporting doses to Africa.
China’s going to have a much harder time disrupting the world with its next pandemic.
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Good catch, g(r)omgoru. Still, it’s practice for making something that actually works in the future, and probably something statistically as effective as distilled water isn’t likely to do much harm if done imperfectly. When Mr. Wife started up his company’s factory near Cairo, they first had to clean the empty pipes of mummified gerbils, and the workers were persuaded to wear their company-issued safety shoes when they heard that walking barefoot through the raw materials would cause sterility. It wouldn’t, of course, but in these modern times one can’t have factory workers trotting around barefoot.
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I would have meant to mean saline if I weren’t falling asleep at the time...
Mr. Wife managed to teach his Egyptian team to make First World laundry detergent, though it took eight months of on-site supervision with the occasional break to come home and regain the weight lost to alternating food poisoning and dysentery — it was his first 3rd World country, and the learning curve was steep. But we were still married at the end of it, and other than losing the same twenty pounds repeatedly, he came away loving the country, so win-win.
"Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy"
Oh. Privateering uses similar methods to piracy, but the captain acts under orders of the state authorizing the capture of merchant ships belonging to an enemy nation, making it a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors.
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Gotta figure they're looking at how to set up the next episode.
A skeptical man is always open to other possibilities, but I found the accident story believable. IIRC, it was a very windy day. A loaded container ship has a huge sail area. When a ship is in a channel, if it gets too close to the bank, the Bernoulli effect kicks in and forces the ship closer to the bank. The close end of the ship is more strongly affected and it turns sideways. Add in maneuvering complications from high winds, and there you are - stuck in the middle of the effin' Suez Canal.
That said, seeing how easy it was to generate a little global chaos has to give bad actors some ideas for a re-run.
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"Believe in Bernoulli or die
As your airplanes all fall from the sky."
Or believe even more
So those airplanes will soar
With no limit how high they can fly!
[RT] Haiti's national police have arrested multiple men suspected of assassinating President Jovenel Moise, the government announced, adding that a shootout with the alleged perpetrators is still ongoing.
The suspected assassins were arrested "shortly before 6pm" local time on Wednesday, Haiti’s minister of communication Frantz Exantus announced on Twitter.
While Exantus did not identify any of the alleged perpetrators or say how many had been brought into custody, Haiti’s national police chief later told a presser that two "mercenaries" had been captured, while four others were killed in a firefight. He added that three coppers who were briefly taken hostage by the purported assassins had been freed, though still vowed to kill or detain the remaining button men.
Unconfirmed footage alleged to show the armed standoff has circulated on social media, in which barrages of gunfire are heard as a column of black smoke appears to rise from a building in the distance.
Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph’s office said earlier that his administration was ensuring the "continuity of the state" following the "villainous liquidation," later adding that the PM had been in touch with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Unknown button men, allegedly announcing they were agents of the US Drug Enforcement Agency, raided Moise’s residence on Wednesday morning and gunned him down. Moise’s wife Martine was also injured in the attack, and was flown to a Florida hospital at death's door.
The assassins "spoke English and Spanish," the government said, declaring a state of siege and launching a manhunt after the perpetrators.
"We decided to declare the State of Siege [in] the whole country," Joseph said in a televised address broadcast on national television following an emergency meeting of Haiti’s Council of Ministers. "We don’t want the country to plunge into chaos," he added.
A declaration of a state of siege is preceded only by a state of war. It involves a curfew, control over the media and civilian population, and closure of borders. Martial law is temporarily imposed and the army is deployed to aid police in maintaining law and order.
It is scheduled to stay in place for 15 days, an order published in the nation’s official gazette on Wednesday said.
In his speech, the prime minister asked the people to "keep calm" and aid the government through these "difficult times." He also repeatedly stated that the situation is "under control."
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in a nighttime attack on his residence on Wednesday. First Lady Martine Moise was also injured in the assault and reports claimed she died of wounds. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... later Haiti's ambassador to the United States announced she was "stable, but at death's door," Rooters reports.
Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph condemned what he called the "barbaric act" perpetrated by a group of unidentified individuals, who spoke "English and Spanish."
A local media outlet identified an assailant as a Colombian earlier on Wednesday, but this information has not been officially confirmed yet. Joseph vowed to bring the assassins to justice, saying that they would "pay for what they did in court."
The liquidation has already drawn condemnation from some foreign nations, including the US and the UK. Haiti’s neighbor, the Dominican Republic, reportedly ordered the closure of its borders over the incident and increased surveillance.
Moise had been ruling Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, by decree, after legislative elections due in 2018 were delayed in the wake of disputes, including on when his own term ends.
In addition to the political crisis, kidnappings for ransom have surged in recent months, further reflecting the growing influence of armed gangs in the Caribbean nation.
Haiti also faces chronic poverty and recurrent natural disasters.
The president faced steep opposition from swathes of the population that deemed his mandate illegitimate, and he churned through a series of seven prime ministers in four year. Most recently, Joseph was supposed to be replaced this week after only three months in the post.
In addition to presidential, legislative and local elections, Haiti was due to have a constitutional referendum in September after it was twice postponed due to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Supported by Moise, the text of the constitutional reform, aimed at strengthening the executive branch, has been overwhelmingly rejected by the opposition and many civil society organizations.
The constitution currently in force was written in 1987 after the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship and declares that "any popular consultation aimed at modifying the Constitution by referendum is formally prohibited."
Critics had also claimed it was impossible to organizing a poll, given the general insecurity in the country.
[TASS] Russia was not involved in the cyber attacks on US and other Western companies, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg Television.
"As regarding to what you have just mentioned about the recent attack on the United States and other Western countries infrastructure, I would like to say that Russia didn't participate in such attack, Russia didn't stay behind the curtain of such attacks," he said.
Russia was not involved in the cyber attacks on US and other Western companies, Anatoly Antonov said.
"As regarding to what you have just mentioned about the recent attack on the United States and other Western countries infrastructure, I would like to say that Russia didn't participate in such attack, Russia didn't stay behind the curtain of such attacks," he said.
The issue of cyber threats has become more relevant in the US in recent months. In early May, hackers from the DarkSide group hacked the systems of US pipeline company Colonial Pipeline. According to the US intelligence, the hacker group may be based in Russia or Eastern Europe, however, it has no links to any government. On May 31, a hacker attack on the US meat processing company JBS was recorded. According to the White House, a criminal organization likely to be located in Russia may be behind the attack on JBS.
On June 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... dismissed the accusations against Moscow of its involvement in cyber attacks on US companies as ridiculous. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov assured that Moscow will consider any requests by the US regarding the JBS hacker attack if there are any. He stressed that Russia has no information regarding the organizers of cyber attacks on JBS.
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...and the recovery of the Red October was a 'rescue mission' with 3/4 of the Soviet fleet in the North Atlantic, right? Suck my other nut, Andrei...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The U.S. software firm hit by a REvil ransomware attack that crippled hundreds of companies worldwide has failed to bring its services online after discovering an 'issue' that delayed the redeployment.
Kaseya, the Miami-based company at the center of the hack, said in an alert on Tuesday night that 'an issue was discovered that has blocked the release' of its key service, which provides system monitoring and management for IT service providers.
'We apologize for the delay and R&D and operations are continuing to work around the clock to resolve this issue and restore service,' the company added, saying another status update would be issued on Wednesday morning.
The delay in the planned deployment came as another embarrassment to the company, soon after CEO Fred Voccola vowed in a video message that service would be restored 'in the coming hours'.
[Zachs] Raytheons business unit, Missiles and Defense, clinched a $2 billion contract to conduct the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) Weapon System. The award has been offered by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Eglin Air Force Base, FL. SECDEF's old firm. Is it just me, or do I detect a pattern ?
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Look. Every single sales pitch they give the Pentagon is a huge "Don't p*ss down my back and tell me it's a warm rain" package of lies. Why should this be any different?
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Crooks will be crooks. That really doesn't make me angry. What makes me angry is they have no regard for the people watching all of this take place. They simply don't give a fok.
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And if their products fail to blow the Chinese to kingdom come when we need that, SCROTUS will determine from their secure bunker that the American taxpayer does not have standing to sue...
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Do contractors now need to be "Woke" to do business and win defense contracts?
Looks like it. I had wondered why Raytheon went 'Woke,' now I know.
NASA is retiring the last Lockheed S-3B Viking still flying today, marking the end of a nearly fifty-year career for the iconic aircraft. While NASA’s Viking was used as a research aircraft, the U.S. Navy’s S-3s saw widespread use throughout the Cold War as anti-submarine warfare aircraft and even as a Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) aircraft, before moving on to serve in other roles, including as aerial refueling tankers and for electronic intelligence gathering.
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, which operates the S-3B in question, today announced its impending retirement, which will follow a final ceremonial flight. “This is the last S-3B flying today anywhere in the world,” said Jim Demers, the Center's Flight Operations Manager. “It’s been a workhorse for NASA, but we just can’t source its unique parts anymore.”
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[PJ] The pro-death ghouls on the left will stop at nothing to make sure abortion is dangerous, legal(ish), and common—quite a departure from the days when Bill Clinton said it should be "safe, legal, and rare." The powerful death cult even opposes commonsense measures to ensure that abortion clinics are safe and sanitary. They pitch a fit anytime lawmakers or health officials try to force them to clean up their filthy clinics or hold them to the same standards as other medical facilities. One thing I’ve learned over the years of being an advocate for unborn babies is that abortion proponents don’t value human life—at all. They may pay lip service to the concept, screeching about abortion being a human right, but they don’t mean it.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
[RT] Haiti's national police have arrested multiple men suspected of assassinating President 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The U.S. software firm hit by a REvil ransomware attack that crippled hundreds of companies worldwide has failed to bring its services online after discovering an 'issue' that delayed the redeployment.
[Zachs] Raytheons business unit, Missiles and Defense, clinched a $2 billion contract to conduct the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) Weapon System. The award has been offered by the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Eglin Air Force Base, FL.
