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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the cold blooded murder of Sammy Weaver, the 14 year old son of Vicki and Randy Weaver, which initiated the 11 day siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Sammy was shot in the back by U.S. Marshalls, who proceeded to also kill their family dog...
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Really was a low day for the shooters involved and should have been a major wake-up call of government overreach but instead most folks ignored it and kept on truckin.
#4
One of many tragic failures by ATF and allied agencies that reflect arrogance and sordid tactics to make cases and reputations.
This, like Waco, was upward cascading over-reaction by careerists that became deadly needlessly.
[FoxNews] Judge Bruce Reinhart on Monday admitted the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... 's raid on former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was "unprecedented" and formally rejected the Justice Department's argument to keep the affidavit leading to the search under seal, citing the "intense public and historical interest."
Reinhart, in a filing Monday morning, said he rejects "the Government’s argument that the present record justifies keeping the entire Affidavit under seal."
"The Government argues that even requiring it to redact portions of the Affidavit that could not reveal agent identities or investigative sources and methods imposes an undue burden on its resources and sets a precedent that could be disruptive and burdensome in future cases," Reinhart wrote. "I do not need to reach the question of whether, in some other case, these concerns could justify denying public access; they very well might."
He added: "Particularly given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing."
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[ZERO] Following Dugina's assassination, Ukraine was naturally implicated as being behind the murder given her father's significant, albeit enigmatic, reputation as one of Vladimir Putin's most influential ideologues. Kiev urgently washed its hands of any involvement as advisor Mykhailo Podolyak stated "Ukraine, of course, has nothing to do with yesterday’s explosion[.]" Although Ukrainian officials denied any involvement in the attack, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of his anticipation that Dugina's murder would inextricably result in the intensification Russia's military campaign.
Given the reports of Vovk's escape to Estonia, the location of the alleged assassin places Russia in a conflict against a NATO member state even more directly than the proxy war in Ukraine has. In 2016, the European Court of Justice set precedent which would justify any extradition request for Vovk by Russia. The case law that set that standard occurred when the court found that any member state of the European Union is obligated to accommodate an extradition request of any third-party non-member state even if the subject of the request is not a citizen of the EU nation itself. This decision followed a case in which Russia requested to have Estonian national Aleksei Petruhhin extradited from Latvia for drug trafficking offenses.
[The Hill] The Biden administration is discouraging former NBA player Dennis Rodman from traveling to Russia to help free fellow basketball star Brittney Griner, saying such a visit would only complicate existing efforts to secure Griner’s release from Russian prison.
"We put forward a substantial proposal to Russia to seek the freedom of Paul Whelan or Brittney Griner," State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at a briefing Monday afternoon, when asked about Rodman’s stated plans.
"We believe that anything other than negotiating further through the established channel is likely to complicate and hinder those release efforts," he added.
Price stressed that Rodman would not be traveling on behalf of the U.S. government if he did go to Russia. He also reiterated that the administration has strongly advised American citizens against traveling to Russia because of the threat of wrongful detentions and Russia’s war in Ukraine, among other reasons.
Rodman told NBC News over the weekend that he planned to visit Russia to try to help free Griner, a WNBA player who was detained in Russia on drug charges in February and has since been sentenced to nine years in prison.
"I got permission to go to Russia to help that girl," Rodman told the outlet. "I’m trying to go this week."
The White House National Security Council did not respond to a request for comment on Rodman’s plans.
Griner pleaded guilty to the drug charges, but said she didn’t mean to pack vape canisters with cannabis oil in her bag. The U.S. has officially declared her as being wrongfully detained.
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I'll bet just being in his presence would induce hallucinations.
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^ A Contact Buzz
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Monkeypox numbers suddenly surge in post-Rodman Moscow.
Has there ever been a case of a civilian or ex-President getting involved in international affairs that didn't cause someone in the gov to complain that it would complicate efforts? Territoriality and all.
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[RIA Novosti] The Nazis destroyed in Stalingrad not military, but civilian facilities, including residential buildings of civilians, according to archival documents released by the Russian FSB.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the first massive bombardment of this city by Luftwaffe aircraft. Attacks on the settlement destroyed more than half of the housing stock. After heavy high-explosive bombs that demolished the frames of houses to the ground, incendiary ammunition went into action, causing numerous fires. A huge fiery tornado devastated the central regions and spread to the outskirts.
According to eyewitnesses, Stalingrad, which flourished before the war, became like a plowed field with skeletons of buildings and chimneys. More than 40,000 people died that day. About 50 thousand were injured. The bombing of August 23, 1942 is considered the starting point for the heroic defense of this city.
Among the documents published now are photocopies of memorandums and special reports compiled by the state security agencies of the USSR, which provided data on Nazi air raids on settlements and objects of the Stalingrad region in the summer and autumn of 1942.
In particular, an overview of the raids on the region in July 1942 is given: for example, on July 22, Stalingrad was attacked by 18 Heinkel-111 and Junkers-88 aircraft. 40 high-explosive bombs (FAB) with a caliber of 50 to 500 kilograms were dropped on the city. As a result, six one-story houses were destroyed, 21 people died, 25 were seriously injured, 60 people were slightly injured.
The next day, July 23, enemy bombs fell on various areas of the Stalingrad region.
Then the Nazis bombed the Serebryakovo station and the village of Mikhailovsky.
"Two warehouses with grain were broken. There is destruction at the canning factory, 20 people were killed, 75 people were injured," the review noted. Also on July 23, bombs fell on the village of Novoannenka. "Dumped 25 FAB," the document said.
The attack resulted in the destruction of railroad tracks as well as several wagons. In addition, 20 people died and 40 were seriously injured.
In addition, enemy planes bombed the settlement of Filonovo, causing "significant damage to the station station."
By the evening of July 23, according to the report, "activation of enemy aviation operations over the Volga began." Luftwaffe planes, both singly and in small groups, bombed river boats and mined the Volga in the Kamyshin-Cherny Yar area.
From July 22 to 24, the Germans attacked the territory near the Archeda railway station and the station itself.
"As a result of the bombing on July 22-24, more than 220 houses and all station buildings were destroyed and damaged," the review noted.
Also, the fire of the Nazis led to the destruction of the mill and the premises for receiving bread, 600 tons of which were under the rubble.
"30 wagons with bread, 12 wagons with horses, 10 wagons of cement, one tank of gasoline, five steam locomotives and four wagons with products of military units were destroyed," the document said.
It spoke of a large number of dead and wounded.
In the afternoon and evening of July 24, bombs fell on the Log station.
"20 houses were destroyed. 60 people were killed and 180 were injured," the review said.
According to the head of the Akhtubinsky district department of the NKVD, state security lieutenant Obukhov, on November 4, 30 enemy bombers raided the district center of Srednyaya Akhtuba. This is evidenced by a top secret report addressed to the deputy head of the NKVD department for the Stalingrad region, captain of state security Proshin.
"Airplanes dropped several dozen high-explosive bombs ... 16 people were killed, 23 people were injured. Several dozen houses were destroyed," Obukhov reported.
Earlier, Georgy Sannikov, a veteran of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, said in an interview with RIA Novosti that he was a 13-year-old boy who witnessed the first bombing of Stalingrad in August 1942. According to the interlocutor of the agency, his father came home from the marketplace all covered in blood of people who were next to him and died from fragments during bomb explosions. The Sannikov family was lucky enough to evacuate across the Volga in time, and from there the sun was not even visible - it was covered by a huge black cloud from the fire at the oil depot.
[KANEKOAsubstack] A deep dive into a Michigan election company's patents, employees, domain registrations, and internet archives reveals an alarming Chinese connection.
Konnech Inc., a U.S. software company based out of East Lansing, Michigan, helps manage the poll workers, poll locations, campaigns, assets, mail-in ballots, and supplies necessary to run elections in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Although, the American technology company, which was founded in 2002, is used by the U.S. Department of Defense and 'thousands of election offices across North America', Konnech Inc., previously built a ‘communication platform’ called ChineseBrief.com for the Confucius Institute.
Furthermore, many of the company’s software engineers and employees graduated from Chinese universities such as Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing Language and Culture University, China Agricultural University, and HuaZhong University of Science and Technology.
For instance, Eugene Yu, the CEO of Konnech Inc., graduated from Zhejiang University in Zhejiang, China, with a bachelors degree in 1982 before receiving his MBA from Wake Forest University in 1988.
Moreover, in Queensland, Australia’s 2020 elections, “count reporting problems on election night” were partly the result of “a new computer system not being tested as planned because ‘coding resources’ were locked down in Wuhan”, according to the digital news company InQueensland.
In fact, these Wuhan coding resources led to four members of the Queensland Parliament — MP Crandon, MP Lister, MP Simpson, and MP Robinson — asking the Queensland Premier on July 15, 2020, why Konnech was given the contract to produce the software administering Queensland’s elections using “China based coders”?
MP Robinson asked, “Can the Premier guarantee that Konnech, Inc. does not have a connection to the Chinese Communist Party through its China based subsidiary Jinhua Konnech Inc.?”
And that is where today’s story begins.
JINHUA KONNECH INC.
Consider that a patent application was filed in China for a system of “network voting of absent electorates” by Jinhua Konnech Inc. on February 4, 2015, for an inventor named Shao Guojun (邵国君).
The rights of that patent were then transferred on October 7, 2015, from Jinhua Konnech Inc. to Jinhua Hongzheng Technology Co., Ltd. (金华鸿正科技有限公司), a Chinese election technology company, which was also founded in 2015.
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This is one of the many reasons why I wasn't worried when Nancy Pelosi flew to Taiwan. Pelosi and Biden are so badly corrupted by the Chinese communists that she would never do anything they didn't want her to do. It was all for show to make it look like they're not corrupted.
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If you think about it, nefarious foreigners of all varieties would most likely support the election of the least competent candidates. It’s simply a coincidence that those are most commonly democrats.
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[ZERO] Aduhelm is the brand name under which the Alzheimer’s drug Aducanumab is marketed. It is developed by the U.S. company Biogen. The drug is to be administered as an intra-venous infusion every four weeks.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Aducanumab in June 2021, making it the first Alzheimer’s disease medication approved by the FDA since 2003. It is also the first ever approved Alzheimer’s drug targeting the presence of amyloid beta (a type of protein) plaques in the brain.
However, almost everything about this drug is controversial, from the theory on which the drug is developed, to its clinical trials data, to the FDA approval itself. This article aims to distill the complicated information down to a few points, which might help patients make more informed decisions.
The most common side effect is painful brain swelling, which occurred in about 35% of patients in the clinical trials. Biogen reports that this side effect is most commonly seen as short-term swelling in areas of the brain that usually resolves over time. Some people may also have small spots of bleeding in or on the surface of the brain with the swelling. Over 20% of people in clinical trials had headaches related to the brain swelling. Healthcare providers prescribing Aduhelm will be required to do magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans before and during treatment with AduhelmTM to check for brain swelling.
In addition, 8-9% of clinical trial participants experienced confusion, delirium, disorientation, vision changes, and diarrhea. Falls occurred in 15% of the patients taking Aduhelm during the clinical trials. Allergic reactions, such as swelling of the face, lips, mouth, or tongue and hives, can occur during an Aduhelm infusion.
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^^ From National Council On Aging (NCOA)
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Painful brain swelling is a hangover symptom.
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They've been chasing amyloid beta and tau for 20 years. Drugs have been trialed that reduce these proteins, they just don't do anything about Alzheimer's. They are hitting their target. It's just the wrong one.
[Guardian] Regular exercise lowers your risk of developing Covid-19 or falling seriously ill with the disease, with about 20 minutes a day providing the greatest benefit, a global analysis of data suggests.
Regular physical activity is linked to a lower risk of Covid-19 infection, severity, hospitalisation and death, according to the new pooled data analysis of the available evidence published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
A weekly total of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity physical activity appears to afford the best protection, the study suggests.
"Regular physical activity seems to be related to a lower likelihood of adverse Covid-19 outcomes," the team of Spanish researchers wrote. "Our analysis reveals that individuals who engage in regular physical activity have a lower likelihood of Sars-CoV-2 infection, Covid-19 hospitalisation, severe Covid-19 illness and Covid-19-related death than physically inactive individuals, independent of design and instrument used."
Experts know that regular exercise has a protective effect against the severity of respiratory infections.
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Gyms may have been closed, but nothing stopping a little yard work, wood splitting or even a walk in the neighborhood (from outpost in idiillic Puget Sound, far from the cesspool called Seattle). Your mileage may vary.
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they scared people from going outside when they should have been promoting walks and going to the park and beech and such. Big missed opportunity, instead the liquor industry (and eventually the weight loss industry) profited.
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Gyms may have been closed, but nothing stopping a little yard work, wood splitting or even a walk in the neighborhood.
Depends on where you were standing. We out here basically gave the finger to the protocols even when being publicly shamed on state news TV. Australians were being busted for walking their dog in their back yard. Michiganders were accused of bio-terrorism for wanting a garden. Daily Mail posted an international hit piece on a lady who got upset about a stalker hunting her for walking a grocery store against the protocols of covid.
El Salvador was the first country (I came across) who encouraged exercise and a healthy diet as a primary defense against the covid.
The article may come across as a bit snotty, unless one is of the persuasion that perhaps this should have been released around week 6 of two weeks to flatten the curve, had serious people been in charge.
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Sometimes you just hav to walk against the light. I also dont pay Emporer Jay his 8 cent plastic bag ransom either. I use bags from the produce or bakery section.
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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
[ZERO] Aduhelm is the brand name under which the Alzheimer’s drug Aducanumab is marketed. It is developed by the U.S. company Biogen. The drug is to be administered as an intra-venous infusion every four weeks.
