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-Short Attention Span Theater-
LA Times Columnist Floats Replacing Feinstein with Kamala Harris, Finding Better Running Mate for Biden
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2023 06:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is like an online dude making baseball unrealistic trade proposals that benefit his home team but will never happen. Harris has no interest in being trash canned to her old job. She thinks she’s great. It will take a Supreme Court slot to remove her from the ticket willingly.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/18/2023 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Once you nest the IF statements three deep, you are asking for trouble...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2023 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  # True, but when Big Mike enters the room, she'll be one of the 1st to take to the knee.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/18/2023 10:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Re #2. Been there, done that.

I can name that tune write that code in six notes nested-ifs.
Posted by: Vinegar Flulet1231 || 08/18/2023 15:55 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Why Is There Such A Frenzy To Buy Up The Properties That Were Just Burned Down During The Fires In Hawaii?
H/T 49Pan
[ZeroHedge] Lahaina was hit harder than anywhere else by the fires, and it turns out that property owners in the area have been getting pressured to sell for a long time.

So now that disaster has struck, those that wish to get their hands on these prime properties are in a feeding frenzy.
A REAL Fire Sale
When 2020 began, the average home in Lahaina was worth about $600,000.

Today, the average home in Lahaina is worth about a million dollars.

Now there is a race to take advantage of those that have just had their homes burned down, and it has gotten so bad that even Hawaiian Governor Josh Green is speaking out against it…

Hawaiian officials are warning residents that unscrupulous investors are trying to take advantage of the fire disaster on Maui to take over properties.

Gov. Josh Green reported that residents are being approached about selling fire-damaged home or land sites by people posing as real estate agents.

He said those people may have “ill intent” and issued a warning to scammers.

“You would be pretty poorly informed if you try to steal land from our people and then build here,” Green said in a press release Monday.

But does he have another motive?

Green has been captured on video saying that he is “already thinking of ways for the state to acquire that land”…

The Hawaiian governor Josh Green revealed plans for the state to potentially purchase properties in the seaside town of Lahaina, which was devastated by the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history.“I’m already thinking of ways for the state to acquire that land so that we can put it into workforce housing, to put it back into families, or make it open spaces in perpetuity as a memorial to the people who were lost,” Green commented amid the ruins.


Meanwhile, it is being reported that the police chief on Maui just happens to be the exact same guy that was “the incident commander” during the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017…

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier is no stranger to responding to mass tragedy. Nearly six years before disaster struck in the form of wildfires that ripped through parts of the island and killed at least 99 people, he was on the ground in the aftermath of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Pelletier was named chief of the the Maui Police Department in 2021 after more than two decades working in Las Vegas. On Oct. 1, 2017, Pelletier was the incident commander covering the Strip when a gunman unleashed a hail of bullets on a country music festival, killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Map Shows Oprah's Maui Properties as Hawaii Wildfire Spreads
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2023 3:57 Comments || Top||



#4  I guess we went after them to do controlled burns one too many times. Keep publishing the charitable people making the offers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/18/2023 7:11 Comments || Top||

#5  A 'frenzy' for newly cleared, oceanfront property? Who knew ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2023 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Given the number of people killed and the value of the properties this could be a Gordian Knot of probate, long and involved. Betcha its going to a miraculous expedition of resolutions.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/18/2023 7:50 Comments || Top||

#7  FROM 8-16-23

#1
Keep reading variations of the same heads up in Darker Gray back channels.

To keep an eye out and watch the HAWAII GIS DATABASE to see who had, and who acquires the properties in the coming year or 2.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-08-16 03:58|| 2023-08-16 03:58
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/18/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#8  A 'frenzy' for newly cleared, oceanfront property? Who knew?

We get beachfront property clearing events from time to time here in Florida. They seem to get handled in a fairly straightforward and transparent manner. Sort of like our elections since Palm Beach County was cleaned up.

Maybe blue states could learn from red states?

Naaaaaah. That's just crazy talk...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2023 8:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Due to sea level rise from global warming, there is a rush to build yacht parking.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/18/2023 9:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Now that's what you call a fire sale!
Posted by: Zorba Tholugum4787 || 08/18/2023 12:23 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Tucker on Twitter, Episode 17: Vivek Ramaswamy interview
Posted by: badanov || 08/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:



Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Reflection of the second assault on Sevastopol
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

The subject is relevant to Rozhin, as Sevastopol is his hometown.

Video is in Russia but is translatable. Link in the article goes to a second source on the December, 1941 German assault on Sevastopol

[RealHistory] Historian Miroslav Morozov on how the second assault on Sevastopol was repulsed during the Great Patriotic War.

Posted by: badanov || 08/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
Pfizer Gave Australian Employees COVID Shots From Separate Batch
[ZeroHedge] I have reported elsewhere that the rates of adverse effects inflicted by the COVID-19 mRNA injections varied from batch to batch from December 2020 to January 2022, per critical work conducted by rogue Danish researchers.

In layman's terms, how sick these shots made the recipients, on average, depended on which batch they were taken from.

Now, in testimony in the Australian Senate, a Pfizer goon called Krishan Thiru – whom I have reported on previously due to his stubborn unwillingness to answer basic questions about whether his employer tested for transmission in its shoddy COVID-19 trials (it didn't) – has admitted that the corporation reserved a set-aside batch of COVID shots for its employees in Australia, which bypassed normal regulatory oversight, while giving the general population separate batches.

As the shots were free for all Australians at the point of service (Pfizer got the government to foot the bill) and there was no supply shortage, there is no apparent legitimate reason for Pfizer to give its employees shots from a separate batch.

But there is one very likely nefarious reason.

Given the totality of the evidence – the massive spike in cancer and heart attacks (and innumerable other devastating health effects) worldwide post-2020, the varied side effect rates based on batch, and Pfizer reserving a select batch for its own employees in Austrtalia (and most likely in every country where it operates) – the picture of what Pfizer has done, and the forethought and malice with which it committed what is likely the greatest crime in world history, begins to paint itself.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2023 06:49 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thought experiment: Let's assume they were given a placebo rather than the mRNA vaxx. Was this done because they knew the mRNA vaxx didn't work or because they knew it was dangerous? And, yes, I do know about the and/or potentiality.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/18/2023 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  There are many reasons why they might have done that - all of them bad. Let’s assume that they did that other places as well and weren’t caught.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/18/2023 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Let’s assume that they did that other places as well and weren’t caught.

Covid: US President-elect Joe Biden gets vaccine live on TV
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2023 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  I'll take flu shots foy $600. Alex.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2023 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Was it Pelosi who had her photo shoot, but the safety sleeve was still on the needle?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/18/2023 16:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Georgia Indicts Millions Of Voters For Conspiring To Elect Trump
[BEE] ATLANTA, GA — In yet another stunning move, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has announced the indictment of every Trump voter on charges of conspiracy to elect an election denier.

"Those who engaged in criminal conspiracy to vote for that yucky fart-face Donald Trump will be brought to justice," Willis said as she announced the hundreds of thousands of indictments. "These MAGA voters committed the heinous act of disagreeing with the ruling elites, which threatens the bedrock of democracy itself. In order to keep Donald Trump from regaining power, we must deal with his legion of domestic terrorist voters. No one is above the laws that we made up for this indictment."

Democrats and Republicans alike celebrated the move behind closed doors, agreeing that returning to the status quo of electing leaders who would bathe in corruption and enrich themselves to the detriment of the public was in the best interest of all Georgia residents. "It's time to put Trump behind us," said Governor Brian Kemp. "We suffered for four long years under his reign of peace and prosperity, but those days are now at an end."

When asked how they managed to track down every Trump voter in the state, officials said it only required them to hack into the electronic voting machines to access voter data and create a list of who everyone in the state voted for. "Being able to hack into these machines and manipulate data is an important part of keeping our elections free and fair," Willis explained.

At publishing time, the Biden Administration had reportedly taken notice of the indictments in Georgia and initiated plans to roll out similar indictments on a nationwide scale.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Great BB Satire Aside.

Don't put anything past these radical LSD run Metro's.

Remember back in Feb. 2022 over 40,000 sworn affidavits regarding election fraud were delivered to the Gov. Kemps & GA-SOS Raffensperger offices nothing was done, NO investigation, nothing.

A generally shared OPINION on why? Kemp and Raffensperger kept their offices, so why would they risk their jobs calling for an investigation and honest recount?.

BTW:
How many of the 100's of GA Voter Mules were arrested in GA's Fulton or Dekalb counties? 35 voter fraud cases in Georgia turned over for prosecution. Anyone hear of the conviction rates and pubishments?

PLUS
Why wasn't Stacey Abrams hauled into court and charged for her comments and the many uncovered campaign voting, financing and spending issues?

OR
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis strongly objecting to the GA. House passing and setting up an investigative review committee of GA DA's sources of funding. Calling it Racist given 14 of the recently elected GA DA's were Black LSD DA's and were strangely funded by guess who?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/18/2023 7:33 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
LK-99 isn't a superconductor ‐ how science sleuths solved the mystery
[Nature] Replications pieced together the puzzle of why the material displayed superconducting-like behaviours.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah they got a bit splashy news but this is how science works, they shared their data and helped others try to replicate it and then it was figured out what was actually happening. The Koreans shouldn't be maligned for this, as they did what they were supposed to.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/18/2023 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, science is never 'settled' in the real world.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/18/2023 7:16 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ it 'trends' to practiced repeatability.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/18/2023 10:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Science often seems to break down to "Huh, that's weird." More often than not.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/18/2023 12:24 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2023-08-18
  Gunmen kill 31 civilians in Niger
Thu 2023-08-17
  IRGC brings military reinforcements in Syria’s Homs, Deir ez-Zor
Wed 2023-08-16
  Hundreds of migrants arrive on Italian island of Lampedusa
Tue 2023-08-15
   Philadelphia teen charged with plotting potentially 'catastrophic terrorist attack'
Mon 2023-08-14
  DR Congo kills 14 in militant attack
Sun 2023-08-13
  Al-Shabaab bases destroyed in central Somalia
Sat 2023-08-12
   IS attack on bus kills 23 Syrian soldiers
Fri 2023-08-11
  Molotov cocktail thrown at Swedish embassy in Beirut amid Quran-burning tensions
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  6 dead in passenger bus kaboom in Lower Shabelle
Wed 2023-08-09
  Burkina: at least 20 dead in an attack by suspected jihadists
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  Two policemen among four martyred in North Waziristan, Peshawar attacks Dawn Report
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  Hamas sentences 7 Gazans to death by hanging for ‘collaboration’ with Israel
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  Al Shabaab big turban meeting in Hiiraan airstruck, dozens may be toes up
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  Three Al-Qaeda members killed in Abyan
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  ISIS leader confirmed dead - 4th Number 1 toes up, 5th Number 1 tees up


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