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IEDs kill 10, injure 12 in Syria’s Hama
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Nashville mass murder shines spotlight on trans violence and its enablers
[WND] The mass murder Monday morning by a gender-confused woman of three young children and three adults inside a Nashville Christian elementary school is shining a spotlight on transgender activist violence and extremism — and the "progressive" enablers who provide them cover.

As millions of Americans and people across the world watched the Nashville police body-cam video footage of gun-toting Audrey Hale, a "transgender"-identified woman, stalking her victims at The Covenant School before being shot dead by quickly pursing police, various media and special-interest groups chastised conservatives for focusing on the trans issue instead of gun-control and Republican "anti-LGBT" legislation that supposedly gave rise to the violence.

The former is the preferred media narrative that invariably follows mass-shootings in the United States; the latter is a secondary narrative in the Nashville case because the perpetrator's trans "gender identity" became widely known quickly, thanks in large part to police transparency and independent, conservative citizen journalism.

The public discussion of trans activist violence did not sit well with LGBT sympathizers, including many in the media, who enable it by looking the other way. Few journalists were as blatant as Orion Rummler, a former Axios reporter and self-described "trans man (he/him)," who tweeted: "Several conservative and far-right media figures are using the Nashville shooter’s reported transgender identity to shift the conversation away from gun control. Key to note: The shooter's gender identity is not clear right now."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2023 09:23 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Non-reproducing, chemically engineered monsters. Thank you Big Pharma.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2023 9:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Looks like the truly evil ones are hitting their alma maters. I guess this is a better reason to keep track of what alumni are doing as opposed to shaking them down for money.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/29/2023 12:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I read that she originally intended to hit another school, but it was a hardened target, so that’s why she hit a building she was familiar with.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/29/2023 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Tucker on trans hatred of Christians: "People who believe they are God can't stand to be reminded that they are not."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2023 13:00 Comments || Top||


MEGHAN MCCAIN: Thank God for the Nashville heroes! I watched those brave officers run towards the gunfire thinking only of the terrified children - and now I can FINALLY lay to rest the dark spectre of Uvalde's cowards
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Trump had been the one to put down the school shooter, she'd have been calling for his impeachment.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2023 7:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Not sure why Megan is relaxant, but the police did an excellent job.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/29/2023 12:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Haven't heard from her lately. Led me to hope we could lay to rest the dark spectre of Meghan McCain.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/29/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Given her size, I think you meant "shadow"?
Posted by: Frank G || 03/29/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Well gee I'm just all peachy now that I know Meghan's mind as it is, is at ease.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/29/2023 13:32 Comments || Top||


Thoughts on the Nashville Shooting from a retired DIA analyst, historian, author, and old friend
From Besoeker’s email in-box
Ladies & Gentlemen, WSJ:

I wish to offer the following observation to your Letters to the Edito on the 27 March ’23 article:, "Poll Shows Shift in What Americans Value":

The decline of American values ("Poll Shows Shift in What Americans Value" (WSJ 27 Mar ’03) is best seen in the appalling occurrence of mass shootings, but we address only its symptoms and not origins. I offer the following perspective of my 75 years and of a historian and former analyst of the Soviet Union to explain what has brought us to his state. When I was growing up we were a well-armed country, but these slaughters just did not happen. What has happened between then and now? Every society develops means to keep at bay the demons that lurk malevolently in human nature. Those means are the conscience and moral values instilled by religion, strong families and communities, wholesome national traditions, and customs. Religion is the key. The Founding Fathers believed that only a moral people informed by religion could sustain a democracy. That fraying of our society and democracy is evidence of the decline of those means to control the demons. The latest example is the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee. What then has loosened the demons? We need only look at the policies of the left to assault religion, to unravel the family and community, to lower cultural norms of decency, to encourage drug use, and to denigrate our unifying history and its traditions.

The left has embraced the assault on the natural organization of the human race by erasing the difference between men and women. Worst of all it has embraced the profound evil of the mutilation of children in the cause of this erasure, no different than the cruelties of Dr. Mengele.

Even the Bolsheviks at their blood-thirsty worst never descended to this level of madness. Scripture inveighs against those who destroy the innocence of children stating it would be better is such people had never been born. We cannot control these demons unless we understand what has unleashed them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We cannot control these demons unless we understand what has unleashed them.

Drag queen straddles girl at North Carolina public school, video shows


Two North Carolina men charged after discovery of nearly 1,000 explicit photographs of children
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2023 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Where is MSM villainization of Jane Fonda? Given, Jane Fonda called for the murder of Christians about 2 weeks prior to this, then this happens at a Christian School.

If it were a Conservative, they'd be digging into the sewers looking into even the amount of used Toilet Paper her generated.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/29/2023 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Fonda, the communist gift that keeps on giving. She should have been tried for treason and shared he fate of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg 60 years ago.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2023 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  bracing for the Manifesto of the shooter

also wondering about the shooter's social media accounts - they haven't been found, maybe were erased before the shooting
Posted by: lord garth || 03/29/2023 10:55 Comments || Top||

#5  When our command element took over a headquarters building at the former Mather Air Force Base, we got the USMC complex that had housed their Navigator Training Unit. The center Urinal in the bathroom had Fonda's picture perfectly positioned for comment!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/29/2023 10:56 Comments || Top||

#6  bracing for the Manifesto of the shooter

^'rewrite of'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2023 11:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Not sure why she wore a red hat and published a manifesto. Either do the false flag or don’t do it. I guess that is a small thing amongst the despicable evil.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/29/2023 12:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Communism was supposed to take over but it did take over the liberal mind and they are continuing to push for it, and to push for things that will help them enforce it. Most modern problems make sense when seen in that context. Break up the family and religion and patriotism as these unite and are the things that keep the USA inoculated from communism. Then disarm the population because a large segment were never fall for the bull and will have to be dealt with.
Posted by: ruprecht || 03/29/2023 14:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Like I was pondering the other campfire, its like the went through The Bible and everything which is a cautionary tale they make policy.

The really depressed side of me thinks that Brandon's Ice Cream Parlor monologue was that everyone in the back was laughing it up, then he went out to the podium, and lost track of the mood he was supposed to project and just kept trying to yuck it up like it was back stage.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/29/2023 15:58 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Report: China Has Spent $240 Billion ‘Rescuing' Belt and Road Countries to Save Its Own Banks
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2023 09:10 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Good news amongst the bad.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/29/2023 12:37 Comments || Top||

#2  So, bad money after bad.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2023 13:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Anything to put down China. USA against anything that makes China look good as a competitive rival.
Posted by: Dale || 03/29/2023 16:37 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ "Only Murica bad" foamers are over at the ZH comments, Dale...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/29/2023 17:31 Comments || Top||

#5  This doesn't involve the USA. This is about the Chinese government rescuing Chinese banks who have extended Belt and Road loans that will never be repaid.

The Chinese government will get paid by taking over strategic assets (ports, railways, airports, mines, roads) in the defaulting nations. In addition, the Chinese got paid up front by using Chinese labor in the construction.
Posted by: Fleter Crasing2148 || 03/29/2023 17:32 Comments || Top||


Economy
Everyone Is Just Pretending Nothing's Wrong
[QTR] Even if the stock market holds up, something is going to have to break in a big way.

This is about the simplest way I can try and explain how I feel about the state of the economy and markets, delivered to you honestly and devoid of detail, as someone who truly neither has the patience nor the attention span to dive into the intricacies of the Eurodollar system or the path printed money takes during QE or QT.

The fact is that I just don’t care about how the bowels of the system works. I don’t need to care. All I need to know is that money creation as a method of "solving" recessions can’t continue in perpetuity: the dollar amounts necessary for bailouts become astronomical, too quickly, and inflation becomes a pressing issue. Then, as we are now, Central Bankers get stuck between an "inflation vs. recession" rock and hard place. It’s a flawed system that once exploited a loophole (money printing) to slap band-aids on problems. We then thought we could do it in perpetuity to keep ourselves and voters consistently comfortable by presenting the illusion that everything had done "back to normal" - and now we’re finally going to have to deal with very uncomfortable consequences of our actions.

How’s that for a book report from someone who didn’t actually read the book? And I didn’t even need to mention "swaps" or "interest rate futures" to fake sounding smart.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  "can’t continue in perpetuity"

Don't they say that is what WWIII will be for.

Posted by: mossomo || 03/29/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Trilateral Commission Declares 2023 ‘Year One' of the New World Order
[News With Views] "Countless people ... will hate the new world order, be rendered unhappy by frustration of their passions and ambitious through its advent and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to estimate its promise we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people." -H.G. Wells, The New World Order (1940), p. 129.

"The nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation state.... A global human conscience is for the first time beginning to manifest itself.... [W]e are ... witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... composed of international businessmen, scholars, professional men, and public officials. The ties of these new elites cut across national boundaries, their perspectives are not confined by national traditions, and their interests are more functional than national. These global communities are gaining in strength and ... it is likely that before long the social elites of most of the more advanced countries will be highly internationalist or globalist in spirit and outlook." -Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era (1970), pp 56-59.

"For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents ... to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." -David Rockefeller, A Memoir (2002), p. 405.

"Today, a new dividing line exists in politics and society. It is the division between globalism and nationalism, between cooperation and protectionism, between embracing the new and preserving the old." -Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Annual Report, 2022.


Well, it’s happened. At a confab in New Delhi, India, its Annual Plenary Meeting (March 10-12), the Trilateral Commission declared 2023 ’Year One’ of the New World Order.

One speech comes to our attention courtesy of James Baker, who served in the (Trilateral Commission controlled) Carter administration and is described as having served on the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. Baker did not identify the speaker. Apparently doing so would have violated Commission rules. In any event, this is what the speaker said:
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/29/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Soon to be seen on Time Magazine's "Year of the Year" cover page.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2023 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Winston Smith for man of the year.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/29/2023 12:46 Comments || Top||

#3  B - I think you were one paragraph from the gold:

"In other words, the free enterprise capitalism you may have learned about in college is dead. It is being replaced by “industrial policy,” i.e., global corporatism the primary method of which is technocracy: key decisions are made by so-called experts and imposed on populations in top-down fashion. As I’ve stated many times before, Western powers are not democracies. In genuine democracies, informed voters would put a stop to such shenanigans at the ballot box."
Posted by: mossomo || 03/29/2023 12:55 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
'It's a dangerous race that no one can predict or control': Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and 1,000 other tech leaders call for pause on AI development which poses a 'profound risk to society and humanity'
Kindalike stem cells.
Bush stopped research until regulatory practices could be developed.
AI is suddenly too easy for the masses AND MUST BE CONTROLLED!
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2023 08:35 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  AI vs. Migrants

Study: Up To 80% of Jobs Could Be Disrupted by AI
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2023 9:20 Comments || Top||

#2  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: ChatGPT ‘Will Make a Lot of Jobs Just Go Away’

Yeah, so did MRP.

Ah'm thinkin' Theranos again.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/29/2023 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Forbin Project?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/29/2023 11:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Yup Skid - the take away is must be controlled.

AI will be similar to the Internet and how the Internet changed the landscape of the corporate power structure. Some established companies wont make the evolutional transition. And companies know this, and they want regulations to protect their fiefdoms.
Posted by: mossomo || 03/29/2023 12:45 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2023-03-29
  IEDs kill 10, injure 12 in Syria’s Hama
Tue 2023-03-28
  ISWAP Commander, Abu Muhammed, Allegedly Executes Deputy Over Military Attack On Hideout
Mon 2023-03-27
  Nigerian Troops ‘Storm ISWAP Hideout, Kill Commander, 40 Other Terrorists’ In Borno
Sun 2023-03-26
  Putin says Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus
Sat 2023-03-25
  Syria, Saudi Arabia to restore ties after decade of estrangement
Fri 2023-03-24
  Finland to Grant Asylum to All Afghani Women and Girls
Thu 2023-03-23
  Saudi Arabia Postpones Return of ''Presidential Council''
Wed 2023-03-22
  Trump Grand Jury Session Abruptly Canceled
Tue 2023-03-21
  Biden plans to arm the Palestinian fox to guard the Israeli henhouse
Mon 2023-03-20
  Nasrallah meets with senior Hamas and PIJ delegations
Sun 2023-03-19
  61 arrested in Paris during anti-pension reform protests
Sat 2023-03-18
  ‘Mastermind, handler’ of Peshawar mosque attack traced; TTP faction involved in blast: KP police
Fri 2023-03-17
  Another 2,000 suspected gang members land in El Salvador's mega-prison
Thu 2023-03-16
  Woman Stabbed in UK ‘Terror Attack' was an American Spy – Report
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  Saudi-Backed Coalition Sends Three More Brigades to Confront STC in Aden


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