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[Gateway] "Almost all of the people associated with (JFK’s assassination) were involved with the Miami Station, which was the largest CIA Station at the time and was basically the Cuban Station", Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. "The people who were involved were people like Bill Harvey and David Atlee Phillips, who was clearly involved in my uncle’s assassination. By all evidence, he was Lee Harvey Oswald’s handler at the CIA. E. Howard Hunt made a confession. David Morales, who was the chief hitman, ran the Operation Phoenix program in Vietnam, he killed ten thousand people, he also gave a confession of being in Dallas."
The Cuba Station was "angry at my uncle for not sending in air cover during the Bay of Pigs invasion", Kennedy said. "After the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, my uncle developed this friendship with Khrushchev, and he shut down all the attacks on Cuba by Alpha 66 and other groups who were harassing Cuba and sinking Russian ships. They were operating flotillas out of South Florida, and doing raids. My uncle (JFK) and father (RFK) sent the Coast Guard to confiscate their ships and weaponry and arrest those that kept doing it."
Breaks ranks with the Klingons following failed Bay of Pigs fiasco, but did NOT terminate clandestine operations. Appears to have been a serious control problem.
[FoxNews] Calese Carron Crowder's rap sheet stretches back to 2005 with dozens of arrests in Los Angeles.
A serial creep from Los Angeles County is back on the streets after dozens of arrests for a slew of sex offenses and other crimes stretching back to 2005, despite being caught on video accosting women just days ago.
Calese Carron Crowder, 37, was identified as the man seen on viral TikTok videos who appears to follow women around a Burbank Barnes & Noble bookstore "sniffing" their backsides. Glendale police arrested him for allegedly peeping on a Glendale home with children inside last week, according to authorities.
Crowder has felony convictions of robbery and burglary, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital, and despite having been ordered to register as a sex offender, his name did not appear on the state's registry when checked Wednesday morning.
Crowder was accused of peeping into a Glendale home with children on Aug. 6, and a Barnes & Noble shopper posted her encounter with him to TikTok on Aug. 8. He was arrested on Friday and walked free on Tuesday after a California judge placed him on probation. clearly, that doesn't work
Crowder previously served time in state prison on burglary and robbery charges and had been sentenced in February to a year in jail for indecent exposure in Santa Clarita, court records show. However, Crowder was released early anyway, law enforcement sources told Fox News Digital.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the horse, as the Germans say.
[FoxNews] Keith Agee, 20, and his mother, Sheila, were allegedly texting about his plans to kill Brooklyn Sims at The Home Depot in Pensacola
The mother of a man accused of murder in the Florida panhandle is now also behind bars after police discovered text messages allegedly showing her help plan the shooting death of a woman working inside The Home Depot.
Keith Agee, 20, was arrested by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office Friday afternoon in connection with the deadly shooting of 18-year-old Brooklyn Sims hours earlier at the home improvement retailer on Davis Highway in Pensacola. Police did not share the relationship between Agee and Sims, but Pensacola news outlet WEAR said the two have a 2-year-old daughter together.
The sheriff's office revealed Monday night that Agee's 50-year-old mother, Sheila, was involved in planning the targeted attack.
"According to text messages, it’s clear that Keith Agee’s mother, Sheila Agee, knew and participated in the plan to kill Brooklyn Sims. Additionally, text messages between mother and son highlight the mother’s involvement in helping locate the victim," the ECSO wrote on Facebook.
The department released the alleged text messages between the mother and son on its Facebook page, claiming they took place right before Sims was shot and killed.
"The murder itself is unbelievable, but to know the mother knew about it and helped coordinate it is incomprehensible," Sheriff Chip Simmons said via Facebook.
[Breitbart] A Michigan man who identifies as a Muslim woman has filed a legal claim to retrieve his amputated testicles from his ex-boyfriend’s refrigerator.
"Defendant retains possession of my surgically extracted testicles, preserved in [a] Mason jar, kept in [the] fridge next to the eggs. Demand immediate return of my human remains specimen and damages of $6,500," 40-year-old Brianna Kingsley wrote in an affidavit against 37-year-old William Wojciechowski, according to a report by Reduxx.
In April, Kingsley posted a TikTok video titled "The Unboxing of Dee’s Nutz," which showed him clad in a lace veil and a pink dress, removing a clear bag with a biohazard label.
The video was captioned, "Transgender woman unboxes her surgically extracted lady balls that was [sic] packaged by the Hospital that performed her gender-affirming bottom surgery."
In the video, Kingsley held up the bag reportedly containing his testicles, then returned them to the box before performing a curtsy.
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There may be no dignity left in journalism, as I try to imagine the kind of editor who would conclude that was in the public interest or constituted news worthy of reporting. As Mike said, words fail!
[WEATHER.COM] Tropical Storm Hilary will strengthen into a hurricane off Mexico's Baja Peninsula. While it will then weaken, Hilary's remnants will likely bring locally heavy rain to parts of California, including the Los Angeles Basin and Desert Southwest. including the current moderate monsoon, 5 day rain totals up to 4" which is an enormous amount for this part of the country - probably will be some localized floods and August maximum precipitation records
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expecting close to 2" in San Diego Sat-Mon. All depends on the storm's path
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new predictions for the San Jacinto Mountains go up to 10"
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Oh, goody. Flooding in your downtown, Frank.
But you knew that already.
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Yup. I'm back working on a site in the SD River floodplain. Monday should be interesting.
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Didn't want to stay retired Frank?
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I had 4 1/2" of rain last monday.
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It's not like they have a bunch of live-fire Infantry exercises going on.
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Military.com has some additional info.
When gleaned for additional info. It points to some mental & trauma related issues. Note the USAF given response and the careful wording, and slow pace of the investigation.
In a way the slow pace of the 17 Death investigations points to a possible unifying cause of death. Otherwise, the USAF could have released causes data for the cases NOT related to each other.
So it does bring up some deeper laying issues.
EG. "Tinker Air Force Base," Col. Abby Ruscetta, the Tinker installation commander, said in an emailed statement. "Our focus moving forward is to let everyone know we value them, and we stand together as a team."
Woodruff initially told Military.comon Tuesday that Air Force policy prohibits the installation from disclosing the number and causes of deaths, including suspected suicides still under investigation.
"I'm sorry, but we are not going to release the number of deaths at Tinker," Woodruff told Military.com in an email. "We have ongoing investigations and to protect the families and the units, we won't comment on those numbers. It is Air Force policy that we do not disclose information about deaths or their circumstances."
Military.com has reached out to possible Whistle Blowers.
Posting it has created a ProtonMail anonymous email account for those willing to send encrypted emails concerning the deaths.
The ProtonMail account vs. using a Military.com email address, could suggest possible _ _ _ snooping and _ _ _ tracking concerns. Which would in itself raise deeper questions.
I'd bet on a either a USAF distraction, or a creative emotional follow-up explanation in the near future.
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Why do I get Abby is scrambling to avoid the kind of press coverage that would find lax drug enforcement and end her expectations of a General Officer slot in the estrogen-oozing, transformation-ally woke USAF emerging leadership?
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Should have probably spent some time learning the language of the people you hate, before taking the step that assures that you have seem the last non-Korean person for the rest of your life. Enjoy the kimchi. Maybe your mom will will send you a care package of Charmin.
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[FoxBusiness] Discord.io, a third-party service that allowed users to find and share servers for the voice, video and text chat app Discord, is shutting down following a data breach.
In a post on its website, it said Discord.io suffered a "major data breach" on Monday night resulting in content from the database being leaked to "unknown actors."
"We were made aware of the breach later on in the day, and after confirming the content of the breach, we decided to shut down all services and operations," it said.
"We are still investigating the breach, but we believe that the breach was caused by a vulnerability in our website's code, which allowed an attacker to gain access to our database. The attacker then proceeded to download the entire database, and put it up for sale on a [third] party site," Discord.io wrote.
TechRadar reported that a hacker stole the data of 760,000 users, and posted a sample on Breached Forums in order to potentially sell it.
Non-sensitive information about accounts was leaked, including internal users IDs, information about avatars, statuses, coin balances and streaks in its free minigame, API keys, registration states and the last payment date and expiration date of premium memberships.
Some potentially sensitive information about accounts was also impacted, including usernames, Discord IDs, email addresses, billing addresses and salted and hashed passwords.
Addresses and salted and hashed passwords "should only concern a small number of people," the notice said.
Discord.io said it does not store any payment information and that all payments are processed using PayPal and Stripe.
The site will remain down "until further notice."
"We will continue to investigate the possible causes of the breach, and we will take steps to ensure that this does not happen again," Discord.io said. "This will include a complete rewrite of our website's code, as well as a complete overhaul of our security practices."
Users who signed up on the site before 2018 – using previous username and password registration – are urged to change passwords on any other site that might have used the same password.
As Discord.io only stores user-ids and not Discord authentication tokens, there is no need to change passwords or take any other action on Discord itself.
All active subscriptions on Discord.io have been canceled and subscribers will not be charged again and will receive a full refund if they purchased a premium membership within the last 30 days.
[IsraelTimes] Advocacy group says recent weeks have seen 180 incidents of persecution against members of faith, which is shunned in Islamic Republic
A 90-year-old man is among dozens arrested in past weeks in a new crackdown by Iranian authorities against Baha’is, Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, a group said Wednesday.
The Baha’is, whose faith is not recognized in the Islamic Republic, say they have been the victims of a new wave of repression over the past year.
In the latest crackdown, almost 60 Baha’is were reported to have been arrested in Iran in the last weeks, said the Baha’i International Community (BIC), which defends the interests of members of the faith.
Another 180 incidents of persecution, such as interrogations or raids against businesses, have been recorded in recent weeks, BIC said in a statement.
Those arrested include Jamaloddin Khanjani, a 90-year-old who had already served 10 years in prison.
Khanjani, a former member of a now disbanded informal leadership group for the Baha’is in Iran, was detained with his daughter Maria Khanjani on Sunday, it said.
Two other former members of the group, Mahvash Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, who were arrested in July 2022, received confirmation of their 10-year prison terms which were upheld this week on appeal, it said.
Acclaimed writer and poet Sabet, 70, suffers from significant health issues and has been transferred to hospital from prison numerous times in the past year, it added.
Like Khanjani, Sabet and Kamalabadi had completed previous 10-year sentences and were released in 2018.
“The cruelty meted out to the Baha’is in Iran has no limits,” said Simin Fahandej, the BIC’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva.
“Arresting a 90-year-old and others with health issues who already spent 10 years in prison for their faith shows the government’s desperate attempt to continue its fruitless efforts to destroy the Baha’i community in Iran,” she added.
Nine other Baha’is were arrested on the same day as Khanjani, including the owners and employees of a number of pharmacies that were shut down by the authorities, it added.
Iranian authorities earlier this month said nine followers of the Baha’i faith had been arrested on corruption charges, linking the arrests to the alleged hoarding of pharmaceutical goods.
The Baha’i faith is a relatively modern monotheistic religion with spiritual roots dating back to the early 19th century in Iran.
Iran brands Baha’is “heretics” and often accuses them of being agents of arch-foe Israel, as the spiritual hub of the faith is headquartered in the port city of Haifa.
But the community dismisses such suggestions, saying Haifa emerged as a center of the faith well before the State of Israel was established in 1948.
Baha’is in Iran complain of discrimination in their daily lives, making it a struggle to open businesses and even bury their dead. They also complain that they are systematically denied access to higher education in Iran.
[IsraelTimes] ’We hope that Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... will become an oil state,’ says Beirut’s energy minister, as country looks to potential fruit of border agreement with Israel to get it out of its deep crisis
An offshore drilling rig has arrived at its location in the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon’s coast and will start operations in the coming weeks to search for gas, Lebanese cabinet ministers said Wednesday.
The rig is expected to begin drilling in September in Lebanese waters near the border with Israel after the two countries reached a deal last year on their maritime border. Lebanon and Israel have formally been at war since Israel’s creation in 1948.
Cash-strapped Lebanon hopes that future gas discoveries will help the small Middle East nation pull itself out of the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history.
Minister of Transport Ali Hamie wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the rig arrived Wednesday morning at the location where it is scheduled to begin work. The rig faces the southern port city of Tyre.
"We hope that Lebanon will become an oil state," Lebanon’s Energy Minister Walid Fayyad told news hounds in Beirut, adding that the results of the drilling are expected in two or three months.
In 2017, Lebanon approved licenses for an international consortium including La Belle France’s TotalEnergies, Italia’s ENI and Russia’s Novatek to move forward with offshore oil and gas development for two of 10 blocks in the Mediterranean.
The borders of one of the two blocks were disputed by Israel until the maritime border deal was reached last year with the previous government headed by Yair Lapid. Then-opposition chief Benjamin Netanyahu had lambasted the deal as a surrender of national resources to an enemy state, but hasn’t moved to cancel it since he returned to power.
In January, Lebanon, ENI, TotalEnergies and state-owned oil and gas company Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... Energy signed an agreement in which the Qatari firm replaced Novatek. Under the deal signed in January, Qatar Energy will take Novatek’s 20-percent stake in addition to 5% each from ENI and Total, leaving the Arab company with a total stake of 30%. Total and ENI will each have 35% stakes.
Under the US-mediated deal between Lebanon and Israel that was signed in October, the disputed waters would be divided along a line straddling the "Qana" natural gas field in the Mediterranean. Total said gas production would be based on the Lebanese side, but Israel would be compensated for gas extracted from its side of the line under a separately signed deal between Total and Israel.
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.
[FoxNews] Calese Carron Crowder's rap sheet stretches back to 2005 with dozens of arrests in Los Angeles.
[Breitbart] A Michigan man who identifies as a Muslim woman has filed a legal claim to retrieve his amputated testicles from his ex-boyfriend’s refrigerator.
[FoxBusiness] 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
