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Not impossible that 'fracking' triggered - I am not current on either geology or activity in the immediate area, but the first documented human-induced quakes were from over 60 years ago at associated with waste injection wells at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal near Denver. Fortunately even a 5.0 quake will not find much to damage in Hermleigh, TX.
… United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2007, and the go-to judge in Texas for conservative rulings…
decided against yet another Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) rule Tuesday, vacating the agency’s rule that classified forced reset triggers (FRTs) as “machineguns.”
Two of the plaintiffs in the case were Texas Gun Rights, Inc., and the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR). There were individual plaintiffs, as well.
Plaintiffs sued the United States Attorney General, the ATF, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and others over the rule, which made it a felony to possess an FRT. Their suit centered on the ATF’s broadening of the term “machinegun” to include FRTs.
An FRT is a trigger that resets a semiautomatic firearm’s trigger mechanically, thus allowing the gun to be fired faster. However, the gun still fires only one round per trigger pull.
O’Connor noted the semiautomatic action of a firearm is not changed by the installation of an FRT: “When firing multiple shots using an FRT, the trigger must still reset after each round is fired and must separately function to release the hammer by moving far enough to rear in order to fire the next round.”
He applied various court decisions regarding the ATF’s bump stock rule, noting, “FRTs do not fire multiple rounds with a single function of the trigger and, thus, do not qualify as machineguns.”
The FRT rule is the second ATF rule O’Connor has vacated in 2024. On June 13, 2024, Breitbart News reported that O’Connor vacated the ATF’s AR pistol brace rule, noting that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
A new disposition has emerged in the US presidential election. After Joe Biden's emergency and dramatic replacement in the election race, Kamala Harris is ready to take his place . However, not everyone is enthusiastic about her candidacy.
Harris's very low ratings, her lack of talent to be a worthwhile politician, and, of course, the skeletons in the closet all play a role.
Harris, 59, has a long public career behind her. She served as the San Francisco prosecutor and then as the attorney general for the entire state of California. Having gained some notoriety, Kamala was elected as a senator from California in 2016. And finally, she became Biden’s vice president during the previous election cycle.
At first glance, it may seem that Harris's career has been remarkably successful. However, the devil, as usual, is in the details. Harris has been helped throughout her life by two factors: the race-gender card that she loves to play, that is, the "right" skin color and gender, and the patronage of influential politicians in the Democratic Party.
At the very beginning of her career, Harris was actively assisted by Willie Brown , at that time an influential "fixer" and the mayor of San Francisco. There were many rumors about Harris's "special" ties with Brown. It is known that he helped many girls who were close to him to rise. It was thanks to her acquaintance with Brown that Harris was placed in the San Francisco prosecutor's office, and then was elected prosecutor herself.
Once Kamala got her hands on power over people, she immediately began to revel in it. Over the years, Harris has been the subject of countless scandals over her attempts to put innocent people in prison. Her office has been repeatedly caught falsifying evidence or concealing facts about the defendants' innocence from the defense, which is a gross violation of the law.
A separate story is the crazy legal initiatives of the current vice president. For example, she led a campaign to jail parents of students who skip school. Ultimately, however, this initiative was killed in San Francisco. But Harris's career, despite all the scandals, was on the rise. And in 2019, already a senator, she applied for the Democratic presidential primaries.
At one point, it seemed that Harris might even have a chance to win. At the very first debate, she literally tore Biden apart, calling him a racist and a segregationist. The thing is, as a child, Harris was bused to schools far from home that were desegregated. This procedure was called "busing" in America in the 1970s. And Biden, already a senator from Delaware, spoke out against "busing."
However, Harris quickly fell out of favor with the Democratic electorate. She ended her campaign in early 2020 with a 2% rating, without even waiting for the first states to vote in the primaries. But ironically, it was she who was chosen as his vice-presidential running mate by Biden, the very same person she called a racist.
And in this case, the racial and gender factor helped her again, although even then, Harris’s figure raised many questions among Democrats. 2020 passed under the shadow of BLM speeches, and she was accused of putting many black people in prison for marijuana possession as a prosecutor.
Then, however, the agenda changed, and "progressive" justice became fashionable. Harris immediately changed her tune, supporting the practice of reducing the police, which led to an unprecedented rise in crime in the United States.
There were also questions about her origins. On her mother's side she was Indian, and on her father's side, contrary to the legends that still circulated, she was not a descendant of slaves. Her ancestors were one of the largest slave-owning families in Jamaica; an entire town on the island was named after them - Brown Town. Her great-grandfather Harris Hamilton Brown owned no fewer than 200 souls.
...As vice president, Harris faced real challenges for the first time in her life. She was immediately tasked with resolving the immigration crisis at the southern border of the United States, but she was not interested in it, and she clearly lacked talent. So she let the situation slide, which very quickly led to a collapse in ratings.
Harris's international tours didn't end much better. She was constantly blurting out inappropriate things, confusing the names of countries (like North and South Korea), or laughing when answering difficult questions she didn't know the answers to. It's no surprise that by 2023, Harris topped the list of the most unpopular vice presidents in US history.
Harris' failures were one of the reasons why Biden went for a second term. However, in the end, the Democrats replaced him with her. Again, she was elected not for her talents or successes, which she does not have, but for the "right" racial and gender set.
No one would risk taking the seat away from a black woman, because they would immediately be accused of racism and sexism. And Harris herself, after so many years of humiliation as vice president, would flatly refuse to give up her place in line for the presidential chair.
...Harris will likely have a brief, successful honeymoon in August, with her poll numbers rising, ahead of the convention. But she will have a tough time competing with Trump in September and October.
Recent polls show his support among Hispanics and blacks once again at record levels. It would be ironic if, with Harris at the helm, Democrats find themselves in the midst of a disintegration of their already very shaky minority coalition.
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[NEWARAB] "Plots carry their own logic. There is a tendency of plots to move toward death... The tighter the plot of a story, the more likely it will come to death." For Don DeLillo in Libra, his 1988 fictional account of the liquidation of JFK, the events surrounding that day in Texas were a fait accompli from the moment the plotting began.
On Saturday, another liquidation attempt was made, this time on President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... . Because this is a Trumpian world, the plot, if one existed, was thin and hard to follow; the gravity of the central figure warped everything, including the bullet trained for his head; and the death was moved to the periphery, a meaningless sacrifice for the MAGA machine.
As with all events since Trump’s first election, there was a certain collapse of meaning surrounding the attempt that likely only an early-career DeLillo could parse. Two things have emerged: Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election and his vice president will be marine turned venture capitalist turned Ohio senator, J.D. Vance.
Following the announcement of J.D. Vance as Trump’s number two, there was an outpouring of celebration from a certain faction of the liberal commentariat on Twitter that this was a "beatable ticket." They pointed to his extreme positions on issues such as child sacrifice abortion, immigration, climate change, and the January 6 riot as evidence.
But this is a wilful delusion that demonstrates how little these people have learned since 2016 and their inability to grasp the fact that they are running a corpse. It also shows a critical lack of understanding of who J.D. Vance is and what position he holds in the new political landscape.
J.D. Vance is not a MAGA crackpot or a garden-variety Republican bending the knee to Trump; he represents a bridge between mainstream politics and the Neoreactionary Right, a political force that so far has remained largely on the periphery of electoral politics.
The New Right or Neoreactionary Right or Dissident Right is a broad coalition of disaffected former leftists, race scientists, auteur filmmakers, health gurus, podcasters, bodybuilder satirists, accelerationist fashion designers, Unabomber fans, and bitcoin maximalists. The discourse in neoreactionary circles is often so heavily meme-ified and laundered in irony that it can be difficult to know what they believe or even have in common.
However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... in a Vanity Fair article covering the movement in 2022, which also happens to chart J.D. Vance’s ascent, James Pogue stated, "It is a project to overthrow the thrust of progress, at least such as liberals understand the word." ... and so on, blah blah blah.
I've seen that movie, watched it a second time, in fact. The red pill represented reality. The other pill was the lie.
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Freaks point fingers and call normal people "freaks".
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I've never understood the word salad thrown at the right. I'm not sure I know what a neoconservative is. Most of the 'right' just sees themselves as Americans.
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The New Arab - Wikipedia
The New Arab or Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (Arabic: العربي الجديد) is a London-based pan-Arab news outlet owned by Qatari company Fadaat Media. It launched an Arabic-language website in March 2014 and an Arabic language daily newspaper in September 2014. The English version of its website is The New Arab. NEWARAB is Muslim Brotherhood propaganda.
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That's why we post from it. If you know what it it, you can form informed opinions.
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NEWARAB is Muslim Brotherhood propaganda.
Good find, IS. It’s important to know which particular flavour of propaganda we’re analyzing — and to recognize its tropes when they show up elsewhere.
[100PercentFedUp] Remember just a few weeks ago when Barack Obama helped Biden raise $28 million?
So what happens to all that money and $70 Million more, since Biden dropped out, or was or is removed?
Does it all go directly to Kamala? NO!
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has very detailed and strict regulations in how it must be handled. The list of items presented offers some details.
Item #4 may be the major hurdle of transfering $$$$ to Harris in itself.
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[IsraelNationalNews] Till now not a single person has died of hunger in Gaza. They die in other parts of the world from Islamic genocide, in places like Sudan, Nigeria or the Congo, but nobody cares about it. The rights of Palestinian Arabs are above the rights of Sudanese Christians, Kurds, Boers in Southern Africa, or Baha’is in Iran.
Palestinian Arabs are the highest caste of mankind because they are a strike force aimed at destroying Western Judeo-Christian civilization.
The offensive is being waged on a broad and powerful front, which includes China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Islamists and, most importantly, Western globalists who hate their own peoples and Israel as a symbol of the triumph of Biblical prophecy.
The Jewish state, like the Jews before it, is once again at the forefront of history. Israel, outpost of Western civilization, is the enemy of the New Church of Globalism, and must disappear in the name of the triumph of the "Red-Green revolution."
This "Red-Green revolution" involves the destruction of the very foundations of Western civilization: family, morality, freedom, rationalism, humanistic values, science, art, culture, national traditions, classical literature and philosophy.
In place of the existing civilized states of Europe and North America, a gigantic "consumer plankton" should arise, cemented by the merciless laws of Sharia.
Today, few people remember the "Alliance of Civilizations," but it became the most outspoken expression of this project.
The "Alliance of Civilizations " of Obama, Zapatero (Prime Minister of Spain) and Erdogan, created in 2004, was nothing else but voluntary acceptance of dhimmitude status for Europe and the USA in a future Caliphate.
Active participants in the project included former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General.
The Alliance declared that "politics, not religion, is at the heart of the growing Muslim-Western divide". This message demanded "correct" political decisions.
Which ones?
First aim: A radical change in the Western world through:
Education of youth
Mass migration from the Third World
Brainwashing by "liberal" media
Preaching of Islamic dominance as a "religion of peace"
Support of Iran, Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama's bows to the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, desperate humiliating attempts to appease the ayatollahs, courtship with Erdogan, the idea of a mosque on of WTC grounds, a kūfīyä on Zapatero's neck, - all are the displays of this outlook.
20 years later we see that these goals have been achieved.
* The young generation is at the mercy of woke progressive constructs and is completely deprived of both national and cultural roots and critical thinking.
* Mass migration from Third World countries abounds almost everywhere (except Eastern Europe) and has radically changed the very ethnic structure of Western societies.
* The media has created a great Orwellian dystopia.
* Islam has become the supreme religion to which all other religions must submit: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism.
* Aggressive Islamization has become a sign of the times.
The second key aim was the "end" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
As Israel is the main irritant to Muslims, it loses its right to exist. "Furthermore, the Arab-Israeli conflict has become a critical symbol of the deepening rift" (Press release of "Alliance of Civilizations"). Zapatero and Erdogan recognized this idea almost openly, Obama does it less obviously, but the essence does not change.
Their followers today in the White House and Brussels are inexorably moving towards their goal.
It’s unbelievable but the impression is that they were all just waiting for some monstrous event, like the 7.10 massacre. Less than a couple of months after the massacre of Jews, the White House and Brussels started talking about an immediate cessation of hostilities and the immediate creation of a Palestinian Arab state (!) within the 1949 borders under the hidden actual control of Hamas.
Biden demanded Israel stop the operation in Rafah. Thomas Friedman demanded that Israel withdraw from Gaza and return Sinwar to power. Schumer, on behalf of the Democratic Party, called for the overthrow of the legitimate government of Israel, which is too obstinate and unyielding. Western Europe launched a massive unilateral recognition of the "state of Palestine." The UK and France are next in line. The UN and other globalist structures have launched an unprecedented persecution of Israel.
A significant part of the American and European elite has nothing against Israel as such. Some of them are even Jews, like Blinken or Shumer, or have Jewish spouses, like Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer. But they know that they are just cogs in the great globalist machine and must submit to it.
Naturally, the Iranian Ayatollahs, Muslim Brotherhood and Erdogan's appetites are only growing. Left without Western support, moderate Sunni regimes are backed into a corner. This explains the desperate flirtations of al-Sisi, Crown Prince Mohammed, the UAE, Bahrain and King Abdullah with Iran and Hamas.
They risk sharing the fate of Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Syria, and their growing weakness and vulnerability inevitably will bring the alliance of globalists and Islamists closer to their cherished goal: the creation of the world Caliphate.
The ring is shrinking right before our eyes. The Islamists are openly or covertly supported by Western globalists calling for immediate creation of "Palestinian state" under the thinly disguised rule of Hamas.
The next Holocaust will cease to be an abstraction and become a reality. Israel will be left with only two options: to die without a fight or to destroy the enemies by means of a nuclear weapon.
Obama foresaw this, and that is why he was so persistent in demanding Israel open its nuclear program for IAEA oversight.
Today, his current followers believe that the current ruling elite in Israel will not dare to use a lethal arsenal even in a critical situation. And they are right.
But times change, and the elites change with them. Considering the tragic and painful history of Jews, from Maccabeus and Jerusalem's zealots to the Warsaw ghetto and the Six-Day War, I would not be too quick to draw conclusions.
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And every day, the cost seems less terrible due to actions of both our neighbors & "world community".
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muslims divide the world into two parts. Dar al-islam (peace) and dar al-harb (war). islam seeks to subject dar al-harb(US) to muslim rule. thats their stated goal. why do we allow them to live here?
[TheAtlqntic] Before Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams took off for the International Space Station in early June, NASA removed some of their suitcases from their Boeing-made spacecraft. The ISS was in urgent need of a new pump for the system that recycles urine into water, so the personal items had to go. There’s no laundry on the ISS, but no matter. For their inaugural mission on Boeing’s Starliner, Butch and Suni, as the astronauts are known, were planning to stay on the space station for only about a week.
But one week turned into another, and then another, and then seven. Before Starliner launched, NASA had set a 45-day deadline for keeping the spacecraft in orbit for the sake of the capsule’s batteries, which hadn’t been tested in space yet. Today is day 48. According to NASA officials, the batteries are still performing well, and Starliner could remain docked to the space station as late as mid-August while the agency and its aerospace contractor troubleshoot issues with the spacecraft...
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I remember several SF stories from 70-80es with the plot: astronauts stuck on space station - saved by the hero. Guess DEI & heroes don't go together.
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SpaceX has already offered to send a capsule up, but NASA has said to hold off. Because Boeing knows that would be the end of their manned space business.
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TPTB will wait until they need a distraction in the news cycle to make it an emergency
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Dareth, I would not put it past our current Deep State to sacrifice those astronauts in order to give Musk a black eye if he tries and they can cause him to fail.
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.
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
[100PercentFedUp] Remember just a few weeks ago when Barack Obama helped Biden raise $28 million?
