[Rumble] Former Secret Service officer Dan Bongino provides primer on 'Surveillance Detection' with video. Skip the promo adverts, begin at 25:30.
Important takeaway tip: Use your iphone to photograph and retain your vehicle and license tag number, residence (street view), and individual family members for police emergency reporting. Email a copy(s) to your laptop for backup.
Free bonus tip: If you own firearms, photograph each of them along with their SN's (serial numbers) as well. Do NOT store on iphone or laptop.
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From a ITSEC view point.
Pretty much any thing on any C-phone or WiFi Device can be remotely copied, given the right equipment and skills.
I store all this data plus Pics of:
Vin#, IMEI codes for the C-phones, the usual State ID & vehicle doc's. On 2x 8gb SD chips, both PWD protected. One in my scan shielded wallet, and 1 at the house.
[Blaze] A worker with the State Department and Justice Department was charged with espionage after allegedly sharing classified information with an intelligence official, according to a Thursday press release from the Justice Department.
Abraham Teklu Lemma, a 50-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen of Ethiopian descent and residing in Maryland, worked as an IT administrator for the Department of State and a management analyst for the Department of Justice.
According to the DOJ, as part of Lemma’s work with the federal government, he was granted top-secret security clearance and access to classified systems. Between December 2022 and August 2023, Lemma allegedly "copied classified information from Intelligence Reports and deleted the classification markings from them," the agency reported.
"Lemma then removed the information, which was classified as SECRET and TOP SECRET, from secure facilities at the Department of State against protocol. The materials related to a specific country and/or geographic region. Lemma accessed, copied, removed, and retained this information without authorization," the DOJ explained.
Court papers do not identify the country Lemma is accused of spying for, and a Justice Department spokesman declined to comment. But the documents do refer to travel back and forth over the past year and a half to a country where he has family ties.
The New York Times, which first reported the arrest, identified Ethiopia as the country for which Lemma is alleged to have spied.
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A conjecture: Abraham Teklu Lemma, a 50-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen of Ethiopian descent and residing in Maryland, worked as an IT administrator
No one thought that background might be a problem?
[FoxNews] The Pentagon quietly reversed its gender pronoun policy for award citations on Tuesday after it had previously updated its Manual of Military Decorations and Awards to require the use of "gender-neutral" pronouns for six joint awards.
"This change revises the language used in Joint award citations … and updates references," the adjustment, known as "Change 6" states.
In August, the Department of Defense (DOD) issued an unannounced change to the manual to require award citations to use "themself" — a word not recognized by standard English — instead of "himself" or "herself."
The language was discovered by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation. The foundation reported that the end-of-tour award for Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was returned because he used gender-specific pronouns for his citation.
The awards required to use the gender-neutral pronoun included the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award.
But that change was met with blowback from GOP lawmakers and the Heritage Foundation. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote a letter to the Pentagon on September 8, saying he "would welcome a reply that this whole episode was just a practical joke, or a decision you immediately reversed when it came to your attention."
The DOD later issued a "clarifying comment" that stated "themselves" can be replaced with "himself" or "herself," a Pentagon official previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation. Miller’s award was ultimately approved with male pronouns.
Cotton, who sits on the Senate Committee on Armed Services, told Fox News Digital in a statement Friday: "This was no mistake."
"The administration has been trying to woke-ify the military since Joe Biden took office," he said. "They got caught this time and reversed course, but the Department of Defense should never have adopted this absurd left-wing terminology in the first place."
...28, has convictions for felony burglary and waving a gun around while intoxicated, so it was illegal for him to have a gun that night. He was on staff as a “paramedic” for the People’s Revolution Movement, a faction of Milwaukee’s Black Lives Matter. He was shot in the arm while aiming his handgun at Kyle, who was on the ground. Gaige later posted on Facebook that he regretted not killing the kid...
He was the establishment's darling during the trial to make an example of Kyle Rittenhouse. Gaige, a convicted felon with a long criminal history, was illegally carrying a pistol that he pulled on Kyle Rittenhouse as the young man was trying to escape from the violent BLM mob in Kenosha, Wisconsin during the 2020 "Summer of Love."
For his trouble, Gaige got his bicep blown off by Rittenhouse.
He was then paraded in court as a victim and the mainstream media ate it up.
Well, after Rittenhouse was acquitted and the Left failed to undermine the right to self-defense in America, ol' Gaige decided to change his name to Paul Prediger.
Thus is that name entered into the Rantburg archives for future reference.
On September 2nd, a black man named Marvin Thomas hit "Paul Prediger" with his SUV in a Milwaukee crosswalk.
Watch:
[Warning: Ouch]
"I went on top of the hood and then was dragged under and stuck underneath the vehicle for a good 20 feet," said Grosskreutz, who refused to give his name during the interview. He reportedly suffered multiple broken bones and a lacerated liver.
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Johnny Carson once had a guest who was a US Forestry Service employee who was struck by lightning on multiple occasions. Johnny asked him, "Do you think God's trying to tell you something?"
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I approve of this message. Feel good story of the day
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Cultivating a good relationship with your Guardian Angel is a good way to avoid these embarrassing vehicular hijinks. Instead Gaige has decided to go it alone and is living a life of intertwined episodes of Court TV and Jack Ass.
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To bad he survived.
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Noted, that no one stopped to clean up the Environmental Carbon Footprint in the street.
Does Milwaukee have a lot environmental street issues like this?
Is it worse than what they have been drinking?
[FoxNews] Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards
...D, his resumé includes West Point and eight years in the Army, ending as company commander in the 82nd Airborne. He went home to join the family law firm before going into politics. As governor he is fond of reversing Bobby Jindal’s executive orders, just like President Joe Biden...
said the state is days away from requesting a federal emergency declaration related to the saltwater intrusion of the Mississippi River that threatens drinking water.
The governor already issued a state of emergency declaration earlier this month, and he noted that the state has already had some assistance from federal partners.
Saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has started to creep into the drought-stricken Mississippi River, threatening drinking water in New Orleans and other areas.
"Unfortunately, we just haven’t had the relief from dry conditions ... so that intrusion is worsening, in the sense that it’s moving further up the river," Edwards said.
The Mississippi is also forecast to reach historic lows over the next few weeks, he added.
Plaquemines Parish, in the southeastern part of the state, is already under a drinking water advisory due to high salt levels in the water. Bottled water is being distributed to residents.
He added that the state is "being proactive" about the issue, including heightening an underwater levee used to block or slow the wedge of salt water and bringing in 15 million gallons of fresh water for residents in impacted areas.
[ChannelNewsAsia] China warned on Thursday (Sep 21) at the United Nations not to underestimate its "strong will" on Taiwan, while saying Beijing preferred peaceful means to take the self-governing democracy.
Well sure. It’s so much less expensive when the target surrenders without forcing death and destruction.
Addressing the General Assembly, Vice President Han Zheng repeated Beijing's stance that Taiwan - around which the mainland has staged repeated military exercises - constitutes an "inalienable part" of China.
"No one should ever underestimate the firm resolve, strong will and the power of the Chinese people to safeguard their sovereignty and territorial integrity," he said.
"Realising China's complete reunification is a shared aspiration of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation," he said.
"We will continue to strive for peaceful reunification with the greatest sincerity and the utmost effort."
[CNN] China’s exports of two rare minerals essential for manufacturing semiconductors fell to zero in August, a month after Beijing imposed curbs on sales overseas, citing national security.
The usual problem of monopolies.
China produces about 80% of the world’s gallium and about 60% of germanium,
...mostly because the rest of the world was happy to let China do the dirty work with cheap labour, rather than because the stuff can’t be found elsewhere...
according to the Critical Raw Materials Alliance, but it didn’t sell any of the elements on international markets last month, Chinese customs data released on Wednesday showed. In July, the country exported 5.15 metric tons of forged gallium products and 8.1 metric tons of forged germanium products.
When asked about the lack of exports last month, He Yadong, a spokesperson from China’s commerce ministry told a press briefing Thursday that the department had received applications from companies to export the two materials. Some applications had been approved, he said, without elaborating. Value added (since they can make chips themselves now)?
[USNews] The Pentagon holds a strategic U.S. stockpile for germanium but currently has no inventory reserves for gallium, a spokesperson said on Thursday, after China announced export restrictions on the two metals used in semiconductors.
"The (Defense) Department is proactively taking steps using Defense Production Act Title III authorities to increase domestic mining and processing of critical materials for the microelectronics and space supply chain, including gallium and germanium," the spokesperson said.
Germanium is used in high-speed computer chips, plastics and military applications such as night-vision devices, as well as satellite imagery sensors. Gallium is used in radar and radio communication devices, satellites and LEDs.
China's abrupt announcement on Monday of controls from Aug. 1 on exports of some gallium and germanium products, also used in electric vehicles (EVs) and fibre optic cables, has sent companies scrambling to secure supplies and bumped up prices.
While major defense contractors like Lockheed Martin Corp may not buy gallium and germanium directly, they likely purchase semiconductors from suppliers who source Chinese gallium and germanium, said Arun Seraphin, executive director for the National Defense Industrial Association’s Emerging Technologies Institute.
Restrictions on that supply potentially “slows down the production of DoD systems” or “ratchets up the cost,” he said.
However, Dak Hardwick, vice president of international affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association, said the export restrictions will likely have little short-term impact for defense companies, which tend to buy materials for critical systems far in advance.
[AmericanThinker] On Wednesday, thousands of Canadian protestors standing for traditional family values and the protection of childhood innocence swept into Ottawa, the capital, for the “much-anticipated Million Person March” to voice their opposition to the grooming and indoctrination of children in the public school system.
From LifeSiteNews:
This morning [Wednesday], thousands of concerned parents, children and citizens descended upon Canada’s capital of Ottawa, and other cities across the country, for the much-anticipated Million Person March against LGBT indoctrination in the nation’s schools.
Exclusive footage from LifeSiteNews shows at least 3,000 pro-family Canadians having gathered near Parliament Hill at the Ottawa protest, rivaled by an estimated 350 counter-protesters.
According to LifeSite’s John-Henry Westen, who was on the ground at the Ottawa march, there was a noticeable number of children present on the pro-family side of the protest, with very few if any children present on the pro-LGBT side. Westen also estimates that the pro-family side outnumbered the pro-LGBT side by roughly ten to one.
Last week I wrote a blog on a clash of religions taking place in Michigan—either the progressives didn’t get the memo that by and large, Muslims take their pro-family beliefs very seriously, or, because they’re entitled progressives, they assumed they had every right to dictate how others raise their children.
So, it shouldn’t come as a shock (unless you’re an obtuse leftist) to learn that the march was organized by Muslim Canadians, a fact made very evident when you looked at the crowd and saw all different cultures and backgrounds represented, marching in figurative lockstep against the perversion and sexualization of children.
Journalist Keean Bexte said he believed the numbers in Ottawa alone were closer to 10,000:
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[Gateway] Chicago residents have just about reached their limit with city officials who are bending over backwards to accommodate illegal immigrants while US citizens are being widely ignored. Meetings across the city are attended by outraged residents who have asked about closing the state or city’s borders in order to thwart Joe Biden’s failed immigration policy.
On Thursday, The Gateway Pundit reported that Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed a $29 million contract with Garda World to construct six camps across the city to house 200 to 1,400 migrants per zone. Migrants will receive bedding, laundry, showers, and three meals per day, which is more than most homeless people are afforded despite being citizens.
Homeless migrants have been housed at police stations and at Chicago O’Hare airport, behind black curtains to keep them concealed from the public view. The local police union even suggested that City Hall house migrants, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.
The City of Chicago has budged millions for the migrant crisis and expects to spend $302 million by the end of the year. This is seemingly in addition to federal funding. So where is that money going?
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Why is the city of Chicago losing population? It's a mystery.
Chicagoans can always vote for someone else, but I'm not holding my breath (and by the way, you're stuck with Mayor Johnson for four more years. Sorry!)
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[FoxNews] Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson was elected in 2019 and has been a vocal supporter of law enforcement
The mayor of one of the largest cities in the U.S. announced in a Friday op-ed that he is leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a Republican.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed with the headline "America’s Cities Need Republicans, and I’m Becoming One," Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson explains that he is leaving the Democratic Party because "the future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism."
"Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP," Johnson wrote.
"In other words, American cities need Republicans — and Republicans need American cities," he continued. "When my political hero Theodore Roosevelt was born, only 20% of Americans lived in urban areas. By the time he was elected president, that share had doubled to 40%. Today, it stands at 80%. As America’s cities go, so goes America."
Johnson has been a vocal supporter of police as other cities, including the Texas capitol of Austin, have moved to defund police departments in the wake of the George Floyd riots.
In February, Johnson posted a Fox News Digital article on social media outlining how Austin police officers are retiring in droves due to low morale resulting from defunding and encouraged those officers to move to Dallas and work there.
"When you have a mayor who supports the police not only in his words but his actions, you see what happens to crime in your city," Austin Police Retired Officers Association Dennis Farris told Fox News Digital on Friday.
"Mayor Johnson has led from the front and it showed when he was re-elected without one single challenger — that’s unheard of in a major U.S. city."
Dallas saw a significant decrease in crime after Johnson took office in 2019. Johnson told Fox News Digital in 2021 he attributed that success to three things — a strong police chief, having "a budget that reflects public safety being your city's top priority" and ensuring there’s "community buy-in" for crime reduction.
He gave the Hispanic police chief of Dallas, Eddie Garcia strong support who together brought crime down between 30-40% in just one year making Dallas number 1 safest major city in the US per the WSJ.
[Dawn] The premier, talking about Pakistan's strong ties with China, said, "We are very clear that there are people who would qualify Pakistan as China’s Israel."
What is it when a politician accidentally speaks the truth?
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.
