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2018-10-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Day 2: Explosive Devices Sent to Clinton, Obama, CNN, Former Head of Democratic National Committee

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Posted by trailing wife 2018-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Cui bombe?

Cui bono?

Was it Kirov in the Reichstag with a flamethrower?

Posted by charger 2018-10-25 00:13|| 2018-10-25 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Gosh, such convenient timing. The Democrats really have nothing, don't they? Resorting to this kind of "Reichstag fire" tactics. False flags are all they've got.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-10-25 00:49|| 2018-10-25 00:49|| Front Page Top

#3 detail left out of the WSJ account was that Governor Cuomo of NY implied that he had been a bomb addressee but it was just a thumb drive containing .pdf files

Posted by lord garth 2018-10-25 02:02|| 2018-10-25 02:02|| Front Page Top

#4 As soon as it comes out they were sent by a muslim or nazicrat, all this goes down the hole with all the other 'inconvenient truth'

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-10-25 02:02|| 2018-10-25 02:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Noting that "first reports are always wrong", some stories are indicating that these "bombs" were more like Hollywood movie props. False flag? Maybe. Nutcase? For sure.

Posted by PBMcL 2018-10-25 02:07|| 2018-10-25 02:07|| Front Page Top

#6 So it HAS occurred to several people besides myself that these "bombs" addressed to Donks are probably Donks initiated. In other words these phony baloney bombs which were packed with flour or sugar and never meant to go off ( none of them did ) were actually Democratic Party in origin sent to themselves ( quite safe and loaded with nothing more dangerous than toothpaste.) Pipe bombs at their most incompetent . no boom boom and did they even HAVE detonators to explode their funny fantasy bogus look at me democrat gizzards?

If you thought the Donks were google eyes oogity boogity with frustration and hatred ...this is a big serving with a bent spoon.

2016 Trump craziness second act while the Donks "bomb" themselves with pancake mix. And CNN j'accuses its own butt

Posted by Phinegum Smith6430 2018-10-25 04:13|| 2018-10-25 04:13|| Front Page Top

#7 No dems have volunteered to be martyred. Says something for sure...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-10-25 06:45|| 2018-10-25 06:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes Phinegum Smith, 'False Flag' was called here quite early.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-25 06:52|| 2018-10-25 06:52|| Front Page Top

#9 The one sent to CNN was harmless.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2018-10-25 07:48|| 2018-10-25 07:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Robert De Niro's NYC restaurant gets bomb as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-25 07:53|| 2018-10-25 07:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Next time I hear someone call a bomb a"device"...

There are so many stupid or deliberate mistakes, I'm up in the air. Because none of the bombs went off (dummy bombs) must be false flag or threats.

If they don't find the sender rather quickly or at all, now that will be telling. That is, simpleton, clever faker, maybe pro? If more don't turn up today I'm guessing one of the later two.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-10-25 08:04|| 2018-10-25 08:04|| Front Page Top

#12 phony baloney bombs which were packed with flour or sugar

Dust Explosion

"They are also commonly used by special effects artists, filmmakers, and pyrotechnicians, given their spectacular appearance and ability to be safely contained under certain carefully controlled conditions."

Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-25 08:41|| 2018-10-25 08:41|| Front Page Top

#13 I bet they have their canned goods all ready go to go. They'll find him, and he'll conveniently commit suicide or die in 'crossfire' and then the whole thing will be pinned on him. Like Oswald.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-10-25 09:15|| 2018-10-25 09:15|| Front Page Top

#14 Could be Donk designed to stir up the Donk base just prior to a critical election?

Posted by JohnQC 2018-10-25 09:26|| 2018-10-25 09:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Some sources are reporting the Soros and CNN-NY devices were "hand delivered". I never knew NYC was such a hotbed of right-wing bombmaking terrorists.

Put this one on the False-Flag side of the ledger.

Posted by Boss Spoper5850 2018-10-25 09:52|| 2018-10-25 09:52|| Front Page Top

#16 October surprise. This stinks of media and Democrat collusion to influence this election.All bombs found. No bombs exploded. Insufficient postage.Weight at least was tip off. No stamp from postal service. The FBI could have colluded as well. This is a manufactured fake news event.

Posted by Dale 2018-10-25 10:04|| 2018-10-25 10:04|| Front Page Top

#17 These are not bombs. Fake news.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-10-25 10:09|| 2018-10-25 10:09|| Front Page Top

#18 Didnt 0bama's mentor Bill ayers send pipe bombs?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-10-25 10:48|| 2018-10-25 10:48|| Front Page Top

#19 The methods and timing of this is what first aroused my suspicions.

If the devices are all as shown in the Daily Mail photos:

BIG white lumpy envelope (instead of box) with huge address lettering (subtlety is not our friend, apparently). No stamp cancellations, unless scrubbed for security, shown in published photos (may have been hand-delivered somehow, but why put 3-bucks worth of stamps on them then? Maybe to fool the Mail Rooms?).

Using an $12 4-digit LCD timer (better than a blinking Red LED, so there's that) although the black electrical tape does give it a nice 'homegrown' appearance. Why spend the money on a LCD? A blank 555 chip/board would be cheaper, smaller and less obvious as to when it would time out.

Then there's a problem with the detonator battery (unless it's a 2nd item stuck inside the pipe itself). The nano-battery(s) in the timer wouldn't have enough juice to trigger a b-cap, 2301 Igniter, or even a short piece of nichrome wire, unless I'm unaware of some new nano-amp firing method. Cellphone batteries would have enough juice, but they'd be way too big for the timer in the photo. CR2032 or CR2430 might be enough if 'stacked', but then almost larger than timer.

And that they were delivered seemingly simultaneously. One (or even handful of) nutjob couldn't do this. Very coordinated.

The fact that none of these went off is sort of telling, too. Found right away, like someone almost knew where to look for them.

Then there's the '2-week prior' timing of this......

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-10-25 11:24|| 2018-10-25 11:24|| Front Page Top

#20 Real or not, I cant imagine the DNC being this stupid. I am certain we will find some far left fringe group that did this as a false flag. If the far right fringe did it, they would have exploded, the militias know how to make pipe bombs. The left will ride it for all its worth, but the crackpot that did this will be found, hopefully before the elections, and Just as the DC shooter was found, they will be leftists.

Posted by 49 Pan 2018-10-25 11:30|| 2018-10-25 11:30|| Front Page Top

#21 So Debbie Wasserman Schultz can't even spell her own name correctly?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-10-25 12:29|| 2018-10-25 12:29|| Front Page Top

#22 Ahmed the Clock Boy is doing Grad Studies work

Posted by Frank G 2018-10-25 12:44|| 2018-10-25 12:44|| Front Page Top

#23 Here you go, Frank G:

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-10-25 12:55|| 2018-10-25 12:55|| Front Page Top

#24 Funny, DWS has not been an anything since she was fired for getting caught rigging the 2016 primary against Bernie Sanders.

In fact, the whole target pattern would suggest that, a pissed Sanders supporter or disillusioned hardcore democrat.

Then again, the CNN piece is a total fraud. Someone noticed the postage was completely off for an item that weight.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-10-25 14:04|| 2018-10-25 14:04|| Front Page Top

#25 It started with Soros - could he have sourced a false flag? I would not put him past it, he has organized people to do things like tank currencies, etc. before. Awfully convenient that these were delivered all over the place on the exact same day and that at least 2 of them in NYC were hand delivered.

So its either a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that is competent enough to do a time-on-target but not competent enough to build a decent explosive device or package the bomb, or even get the postage right... Or someone out there is trying awfully hard to make it look like there is one.

Posted by Boss Spoper5850 2018-10-25 14:13|| 2018-10-25 14:13|| Front Page Top

#26 Looking more and more like a false flag. I suspect it is some hard core demoncrat that wants to make it look like Trumpkins are trying to kill all of the left's leadership and spokespeople. Doubt this is a full hoax effort by the official left.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-10-25 14:58|| 2018-10-25 14:58|| Front Page Top

#27 Someone noticed the postage was completely off for an item that weight.

Someone just bought a page of stamps and split them among the bundles. Didn't want the PO to weigh them I guess.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-25 16:14|| 2018-10-25 16:14|| Front Page Top

#28 My $0.02 is on it being either a local florida 'reporter' who moonlights as a democrat operative or a local democrat party guy who is tied to some of these Democrat led domestic terror groups like Southern poverty law center or antifa or something. And they will have 'taken' their own life as the FBI closes in. Ie, found dead with two 'self inflicted' gunshots to the head.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-10-25 19:23|| 2018-10-25 19:23|| Front Page Top

#29 My $0.02 is on it being either a local florida 'reporter' who moonlights as a democrat operative or a local democrat party guy who is tied to some of these Democrat led domestic terror groups like Southern poverty law center or antifa or something. And they will have 'taken' their own life as the FBI closes in. Ie, found dead with two 'self inflicted' gunshots to the head.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-10-25 19:23|| 2018-10-25 19:23|| Front Page Top

#30 The observer thinks there were not enough stamps.

And they get weighed regardless; recently had a deal kicked back to me for not enough stamps.

The way the addresses were taped onto the package it would be really, really hard to not catch some sort of DNA sample.

I like the 'Oh my a bomb! I'm just gonna set it next to this deal of clorox wipes and take a couple casual pictures. No biggie."

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-10-25 19:26|| 2018-10-25 19:26|| Front Page Top

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