[Motorious] Bet you’ll think twice about using that shuttle service...
Ah, airport parking, one of the prime hunting grounds for car thieves. We’d love to say we’re surprised to see this GMC Sierra had its wheels stolen at George Bush International Airport in Houston, but we’re actually only surprised the thieves didn’t just take the whole truck. Usually they do that and then help themselves to the wheels, seats, bumpers, and whatever else they want to sell on Facebook Marketplace.
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That particular high rise parking unit has seen such entertainment as somebody planting a car bomb in a parked car (big one; punched a hole in the deck under the Mercedes and through the deck above it) and no one saw a thing, and averages finding a dead-in-car guy per year. Welcome to the vibrant big city.
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from the V Kontakte page of Elena Bagira
The events that will be discussed took place in the winter of 1943-44, when the Nazis made a brutal decision: to use the pupils of the Polotsk Orphanage No. 1 as donors. German wounded soldiers needed blood. Where to get it? In children.
The first to defend the boys and girls was the director of the orphanage, Mikhail Stepanovich Forinko. Of course, pity, compassion and, in general, the very fact of such atrocity did not matter to the occupiers, so it was immediately clear: these were not arguments. But the reasoning became weighty: how can sick and hungry children give good blood? No way. They do not have enough vitamins in their blood, or at least the same iron. In addition, there is no firewood in the orphanage, the windows are broken, it is very cold. Children catch colds all the time, and the sick - what kind of donors are they?
First, children should be cured and fed, and only then used. The German command agreed with such a "logical" decision. Mikhail Stepanovich offered to transfer the children and employees of the orphanage to the village of Belchitsy, where there was a strong German garrison. And again, iron heartless logic worked. The first, disguised step to save the children was taken...
And then began a big, thorough preparation. Children were to be transferred to the partisan zone, and then transported by plane. And on the night of February 18-19, 1944, 154 pupils of the orphanage, 38 of their teachers, as well as members of the Fearless underground group with their families and partisans of the Shchors detachment of the Chapaev brigade left the village. The children were from three to 14 years old. And everything is everything! They were silent, afraid to even breathe. The older ones carried the younger ones. Those who did not have warm clothes were wrapped in scarves and blankets. Even three-year-olds understood the mortal danger - and were silent...
In case the Nazis understood everything and went in pursuit, partisans were on duty near the village, ready to join the battle. And in the forest, a sledge train awaited the children - 30 carts. The pilots were very helpful. On the fateful night, knowing about the operation, they circled over Belchitsy, diverting the attention of the enemies. The kids were warned: if suddenly flares appeared in the sky, they should immediately sit down and not move. During the journey, the column landed several times. Everyone got to the deep partisan rear. Now the children had to be evacuated behind the front line.
It was necessary to do this as quickly as possible, because the Germans immediately discovered the “loss”. Being with the partisans became more and more dangerous every day. But the 3rd Air Army came to the rescue, the pilots began to take out the children and the wounded, while delivering ammunition to the partisans. Two aircraft were allocated, special cradle capsules were attached under their wings, where several additional people could fit. Plus, the pilots took off without navigators - this place was also cherished for passengers. In general, more than 500 people were taken out during the operation. But now we will talk about only one flight, the last one.
It took place on the night of April 10-11, 1944. Lieutenant Alexander Mamkin was carrying the children of the guard. He was 28 years old. A native of the village of Krestyanskoye, Voronezh Region, a graduate of the Orel Financial and Economic College and the Balashov School. By the time of the events in question, Mamkin was already an experienced pilot. Behind him - at least seventy night flights to the German rear. That flight was for him in this operation (it was called "Asterisk") not the first, but the ninth. Lake Vechelye was used as an airfield. I had to hurry also because the ice was becoming more and more unreliable every day. Ten children, their teacher Valentina Latko and two wounded partisans fit into the R-5 plane.
At first, everything went well, but when approaching the front line, Mamkin's plane was shot down. The front line was left behind, and the R-5 was on fire ... If Mamkin was alone on board, he would have gained altitude and jumped out with a parachute. But he did not fly alone. And he was not going to give the death of boys and girls. Not for this, they, who had just begun to live, on foot at night escaped from the Nazis in order to crash. And Mamkin was flying the plane...
The flames reached the cockpit. Flight goggles melted from the temperature, sticking to the skin. Clothes, a headset were on fire, it was hard to see in the smoke and fire. From the legs slowly remained only the bones. And there, behind the pilot, there was a cry. Children were afraid of fire, they did not want to die. And Alexander Petrovich flew the plane almost blindly. Overcoming the hellish pain, already, one might say, legless, he still stood firmly between the children and death.
Mamkin found a platform on the lake, not far from the Soviet units. The partition that separated him from the passengers had already burned out, and some of the clothes began to smolder. But death, waving a scythe over the children, could not lower it. Mamkin didn't. All passengers survived. Alexander Petrovich, in a completely incomprehensible way, was able to get out of the cab himself. He managed to ask: “Are the children alive?” And I heard the voice of the boy Volodya Shishkov: “Comrade pilot, don’t worry! I opened the door, everyone is alive, we leave ... "
And Mamkin lost consciousness. The doctors were never able to explain how a man could drive the plane and even safely land it, glasses were melted into his face, and only bones remained from his legs? How could he overcome pain, shock, with what efforts did he keep his consciousness? The hero was buried in the village of Maklok in the Smolensk region. From that day on, all the fighting friends of Alexander Petrovich, meeting already under a peaceful sky, drank the first toast “For Sasha!” ... For Sasha, who grew up without a father from the age of two and remembered his childhood grief very well. For Sasha, who loved boys and girls with all his heart. For Sasha, who bore the surname Mamkin and himself, like a mother, gave life to children.
[The Hill] This week, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) tried to do the impossible. After he and his colleagues presented a labyrinth of LLC shell companies and accounts used to funnel as much as $10 million to Biden family members, Donalds tried to induce the press to show some interest in the massive corruption scandal. "For those in the press, this easy pickings & Pulitzer-level stuff right here," he pleaded.
The response was virtually immediate. Despite showing nine Biden family members allegedly receiving funds from corrupt figures in Romania, China and other countries, The New Republic quickly ran a story headlined "Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden."
For many of us, it was otherworldly. A decade ago, when then-Vice President Joe Biden was denouncing corruption in Romania and Ukraine and promising action by the United States, massive payments were flowing to his son Hunter Biden and a variety of family members, including Biden grandchildren.
Last year, I wrote a column about how the media were preparing a difficult "scandal implosion" to protect the Bidens and themselves from the backlash from disclosures of this influence peddling operation.
The brilliance of the Biden team was that it invested the media in this scandal at the outset by burying the laptop story as "Russian disinformation" before the election. That was, of course, false, but it took two years for most major media outlets to admit that the laptop was authentic.
But the media then ignored what was on that "authentic laptop." Hundreds of emails detailed potentially criminal conduct and raw influence peddling in foreign countries.
When media outlets such as the New York Post confirmed the emails, the media then insisted that there was no corroboration of the influence peddling payments and no clear proof of criminal conduct. It entirely ignored the obvious corruption itself.
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I cannot disagree with Turley. The majority of the media appears to be marching in lockstep. Other forces are calling cadence. The identity of those forces is becoming readily apparent.
[Gateway] Former Trump adviser and chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense under President Donald Trump, Kash Patel sat down with Jan Jekielek from the Epoch Times.
During their discussion Kash Patel discussed the illegal actions by top CIA brass who organized and promoted the dishonest Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation petition.
John Solomon on Tuesday reported that an active CIA employee was recruiting intel leaders to sign the bogus Hunter Biden laptop letter.
Obviously, this may explain why we do not have all of the names of those intel leaders who signed the slanderous anti-Trump letter.
During the second presidential debate in 2020, Joe Biden and hack reporter Kristen Welker teamed up against President Trump.
At one point, Joe Biden interrupted Welker for his planned response to the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell scandal. Joe Biden told the audience 50 intelligence leaders signed a letter saying the laptop was "Russian propaganda."
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“They made it up to help Biden,” says Nick Short, who is the Communications Director for the Claremont Institute. Here are the 50 names:
To obtain, check Nick Short and Claremont.
[Breitbart] Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said on MSNBC’s "The Sunday Show" that a "rise in white supremacy" was the United States’ greatest domestic terror threat.
Host Jonathan Capehart asked, Today marks one year since white supremacists opened fire in a black neighborhood at the Top Supermarket in Buffalo. The president, yesterday at his commencement address for Howard University graduates, called white supremacy the major domestic terrorist threat in this country. Is that correct? "
Mayorkas said, "It tragically is. And the terrorism context, domestic violent extremism is our greatest threat right now. Individuals are driven to violence because of ideologies of hate, anti-government sentiment, false narratives, personal grievances. Regrettably, we have seen a rise in white supremacy. The principal under lying our work is that when one community is targeted, Jonathan, when one community is targeted, we as a country are targeted." Like all the Feebs dressed up/masked identically as white supremacists in khakis this weekend?
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I am beginning to wonder is there shouldn’t be an amendment or corollary to the famous saying that stipulates that if the lie is stupid enough it just annoys people when you repeat it endlessly trying to get people to believe it.
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Mayorkas: Western Civilization White Supremacy the Greatest Terrorism Threat to U.S.
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Actually I agree....white supremacy in the form of the Democrat party and their never ending need of possessing slaves, ie minorities, illegals, etc, the demonization of any slave off the plantation makes what the Democrats really believe. Once again they are simply projecting what they think onto their enemies.
[Breitbart] Republicans must be "hammering" away at illegal immigration as "economic warfare" against working- and middle-class Americans, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) told Breitbart News.
In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Saturday, Vance called on Republicans to discuss illegal immigration as a fixture of "the cheap labor lobby" which seeks to inflate the United States labor market to drive down wages and employ an underclass of cheaper foreign workers with little-to-no bargaining power.
[Breitbart] House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) suggested Friday that former President Barack Obama knew of the Biden family’s foreign deals with adversaries of the United States.
Speaking with Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show, Comer said Obama must have known about the Biden family business.
"I believe, Lou, that it’s because he knew what Joe Biden was doing the last year of his vice presidency," Comer said in reference to payments worth millions the family’s business collected.
Comer revealed Wednesday that over the course of several years the family business received over $10 million from schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling.
"He knew his son [Hunter Biden] was no good, and he knew this was nothing but a political liability not just for our country, not just for the democrat party, but for Obama’s legacy," Comer added. "Because a lot of this happened during the Obama administration."
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The idea that Obama knew about Biden’s corruption is likely accurate, but it seems like a cul-de-sac to me. Maybe Donald Rumsfeld knew as well. Where does that take us? Everybody knew about Epstein, Weinstein and Joe Biden’s corruption as well. Let’s see the evidence and who else participated.
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I suspect the quickest and easiest method to put them all behind bars would be to pursue income tax evasion. Appears to be a lot of money floating around. If we had an honest (un-weaponized) IRS, that is where I would begin with....the money
[BEE] REHOBOTH, DE — President Biden has retired for the weekend to his beach house in Delaware, enjoying a well-deserved rest after working a brutal five hours over this past week.
"President Biden has simply run himself ragged in service to our county," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told the press. "He showed off his incredible, youthful vigor by putting in an astounding five hours of work this week, marking a four-hour increase from previous weeks. Biden will need an extended break at his beach house to recover from the strain."
Biden's accomplishments over the past week ranged from staring blankly at members of the press corps while they shouted questions, reading reporters' questions to them from cards he'd been given in advance, sharing folksy anecdotes about how much his dad loved the gays back in 19-dickety-2, and telling people without legs not to jump. Sources close to the president said they haven't seen him this energetic since a shampoo factory opened down the street from his beach house. "It's remarkable," a presidential aide remarked. "He started working after lunch, then plowed right through his post-lunch nap. One day he worked all the way to 2:30! The guy's a machine."
At publishing time, citizens across the nation were waiting in rapt anticipation to see just how much damage Biden could do next week with just a few hours of work.
[PJ] You can take this with a grain of salt, but according to Niall Ferguson, a historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, there is a strong possibility that former Donald Trump will emerge the victor in the 2024 presidential election.
In an op-ed for The Spectator, Ferguson argued that "A second Trump act is not just possible. It’s fast becoming my base case."
Ferguson quickly dismisses the idea that Trump’s legal issues will hurt him because criminal cases against leading political figures often do not hinder their political success. In fact, he observed that they’re already backfiring because of the perception that Democrats are abusing the legal system for political purposes.
As for the primaries, Ferguson notes that Republican candidates that have an early lead in the polls, as Trump does, typically end up the nominee. "Early frontrunners have won Republican primaries in six out of eight competitive races since 1972, when the modern system of primaries was introduced," he notes. "The two exceptions were John McCain in 2008 and Trump himself in 2016."
If Donald Trump maintains his current average polling numbers throughout the first half of 2023 but fails to become the Republican Party’s choice for the presidential nomination, he would become the highest-polling candidate ever to be unsuccessful in securing the nomination. So the odds are clearly in his favor.
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We know that the DC Swamp and Coup will do everything in its power to keep Trump ad MAGA from gaining power.
As the election grows closer, I expect they will go into high Anti-MAGA overdrive, pulling out any stops and nothing is too far-fetched to think or try.
The most likely will be their rigged Court system. But, I don't rule out even legal attempts on his family's freedoms, since their Media will just rewrite it to cover their actions.
As it would mean 100's high-and-mighty politicians, Rich $$$ Elites $$$, and agency uppity-ups would be exposed and charged with TREASON, Murder, Mayhem, false imprisonment, a political coup and more.
Whatever the case I pray they fail at every stage, and attempt.
An IF Trump is able to retake the WH, despite their well oiled slippery voting and accountability system.
We need to legally flush the system of these Anti-Constitutional Felons.
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Re #1. A problem that the left has is, their shenanigans that work so spectacularly the first time fail on re-application. They Borked Robert Bork but could not Bork Kavanaugh or Barrett.
They will trot out masks, quarantines and mail in voting again but it won't work like last time.
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If we had fair and open elections, yes. With the deepstate, demoncrats and the press pushing so hard on the scales I have serious doubts.
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# My fear prediction sez it will work again, but that this will be that final nail in EVERYTHING. Faced with a 2nd rigged election, 45% of this nation will choose to go their own way. Another 35%, which controls govt, industry and media will go to war to prevent that even though they are outnumbered.
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^ that's when they discover all the crippling edicts on power and transportation they issued bite them in their a$$. Tagged with jamming as many non-productives into urban areas, then without power or the necessary sources of food, will make just holding the fort beyond their resources.
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^^^^
If the above speculation plays out as described, there are external factors to be considered as our fragmentation invites something once un-imagined since 1812.
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Oh, I'm sure if there's any serious moves towards balkanization, the UN and China are ready to send in plenty of "peacekeepers."
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^ The WEF nods in agreement.
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Trump might be the victor, but I have my serious doubts they will let him win. When men decide to seize power, they rarely (if ever) relinquish it.
[TheHill] The New York Times ran a piece headlined, "House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden." That is putting aside evidence against all the family members around Joe Biden. It also ignored that other evidence clearly shows Biden lied about this family not receiving Chinese funds or that he never had any knowledge of his son's business dealings.
The fact is that the Times may indeed be trying for another Pulitzer Prize. The newspaper previously won a Pulitzer for the now debunked Russian collusion story. It was later revealed that this story was based on a dossier funded by the Clinton campaign and placed in the media by Clinton officials.... this is sometimes how Pulitzers are made. Roughly 100 years ago, New York Times reporter Walter Duranty won the Pulitzer for his coverage of the Soviet Union despite serving as an apologist for Joe Stalin. Duranty refused to report on actual conditions from mass killing to starvation in the "worker's paradise."
Thus, when the Soviets were starving to death as many as 10 million Ukrainians, the Times ran a Duranty story with the headline "Russians Hungry but Not Starving."
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[IsraelTimes] Round of hostilities branded a success due to initial strikes targeting Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... leaders, but fighting dragged on longer than expected, with next battle likely not far away
The five-day battle between Israel and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Gazoo
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[Breitbart] House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) suggested Friday that former President Barack Obama knew of the Biden family’s foreign deals with adversaries of the United States.
[PJ] You can take this with a grain of salt, but according to 
