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Israel turns down Hamas's hostage release offer
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former Head Of The FBI Los Angeles speaks about missing children and body parts.
[Twitter]


...“You remember they used to put the kids pictures on the milk cartons and they took them off? I contend. I don't know. I can't tell you why. I contend too many kids were being located through those milk cartons.

Your federal government doesn't want you to find these kids. Because your federal government, particularly the finers, CIA organization out of Washington DC It's the biggest motivating factor behind the missing children in this country today.

Why? Well, there's several reasons. Kids are used for body parts.”

- Ted Gunderson,
(1928 - 2011)
Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI
Posted by: 3dc || 01/22/2024 03:05 || Comments || Link || [30 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Aren't kids' parts too small for transplantation into adults?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/22/2024 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2  They are arriving so rapidly, exact numbers are difficult to ascertain. Are the unused heads kept in coolers ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 5:10 Comments || Top||

#3  How old is the video?
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2024 10:37 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ He died in 2011. Left FBI in 1979. So...old video
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Old video, but he's not wrong. We just weren't listening.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/22/2024 13:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Aren't kids' parts too small

Livers, like goldfish, grow to fill the space.
One lobe can become 4.

Arterial or venal transplants.

Some kidney is better than none.

Skin fits anywhere.
Bone can be grown on a structure for neck and jaw.
Cadaver bone is popular now.

Organ transplantation
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 18:04 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
I cannot see myself voting for Biden this time - Elon Musk
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 01/22/2024 03:26 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I cannot see myself voting for Biden this time

A startling public admission.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 4:56 Comments || Top||

#2  If he's so smart, he wouldn't have done it last time.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2024 6:39 Comments || Top||

#3 
EV's aren't selling like during LSD's years and about to be canned.

So LSD's serve no purpose as the EV $$$$$ funding drys up.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/22/2024 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  More surprising is the people who would vote for him again.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2024 10:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, yeah, because a large number of them are dead.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ or never existed at all. Fraud has gone digital.
Posted by: Angstrom || 01/22/2024 11:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Elon is not the first African-American to express that opinion. The wheels may not be coming off the Democrat machine yet, but they are starting to wobble.

Stand by for a preference cascade as opinions once unthinkable become common.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/22/2024 11:58 Comments || Top||

#8  It appears Dominion can fix that for you.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/22/2024 13:10 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK to Become Only G20 Country Incapable of Raw Steel Production as Top Plant Goes ‘Green', Thousands of Jobs to Be Cut
Decline is a choice.
[Breitbart] The UK is set to become the only country in the G20 without the ability to make steel from raw materials as its largest plant goes “green” and is expected to cut nearly 3,000 jobs in the process.

Indian-owned Tata Steel announced on Friday that it will be scrapping its blast furnaces at the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales and will replace them with an electric-powered arc furnace in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The move, which the poorly-named Conservative government gave £500 million in taxpayer money to help achieve, will mean that Britain will no longer be able to domestically produce steel from raw materials, given that the electric furnaces will only be able to convert recycled materials into steel.

This form of recycled steel is much weaker than that made from raw materials, and therefore cannot be used to make military vehicles and other defence projects. It will mean that Britain will become the only nation in the G20 incapable of producing its own steel from raw materials domestically, The Guardian reported.

The green conversion of the steelworks will also take upwards of four years to complete and will see as many as 2,800 jobs cut, severely impacting the small town of 32,000 that has already suffered under decades of deindustrialization.

Commenting on the scheme, vice-chair of the Port Talbot multi unions Gary Keogh said: “This plant isn’t part of the community, it is the community. We’re now fighting for a way of life. We’re an endangered species… The mood is devastation, uncertainty and probably overnight – certainly in my case – it’s going to be anger.”

Keogh also questioned the supposed environmental benefits of the conversion of the steelworks, saying that Britain will simply look for virgin steel overseas, meaning that even more carbon will be emitted, albeit out of site and out of mind on the other side of the world.

“They want to make their steel in Jamshedpur [India] … bring it thousands of miles across the ocean on ships with diesel engines, and call it green. It’s time people were honest,” he said.
Tata is probably very pleased to have its steel supplier close to the home office ans factories, rather than on the far side of the world.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Not a problem to the hard left in Britian as the Labour Party's constituency is not laborers.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2024 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Crossing the River Severn at Shropshire. Completed in 1780 I believe. Recently received a new paint job. Still in service today.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  I don’t think Winston would be pleased.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2024 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  This form of recycled steel is much weaker than that made from raw materials, and therefore cannot be used to make military vehicles and other defence projects.

Scary, but I'm skeptical. They can't alloy recycled steel?
Posted by: Bobby || 01/22/2024 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Mixing various grades and impurities
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ like the Indians won't and certify it pure.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 15:13 Comments || Top||

#7  They can't alloy recycled steel?

This smells like journalism.
Scrap steel is iron, carbon and various impurities, some of which are added to steel in small amounts to dramatically change its character. If you process it like high-grade iron ore, you are back to square one and can turn it into anything.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/22/2024 17:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Yamato, built with scrap steal.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 17:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
House Jan. 6 Committee Deleted Files Days Before GOP Majority in House: Report
[Messenger] 'It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation,' Loudermilk told Fox News

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 deleted hundreds of files just ahead of Republicans taking the majority in the lower chamber in January, according to and Oversight Subcommittee chairman who is leading a probe into the Select Committee.

The Oversight Subcommittee of the House Administration Committee is currently leading its own probe into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., says that the panel had asked the Select Committee to turn in all documents related to its probe, according to a Fox News report.

Among the missing documents, Loudermilk cites "specific transcribed interviews and depositions to the White House and Department of Homeland Security."

Upon looking at a forensic analysis of the data they did turn in, Loudermilk's letter accuses Thompson of having deleted material on Jan. 1, 2023, days before the GOP gained majority of the House. He also says that materials were saved under undisclosed passwords.

"It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation. It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules," Loudermilk told Fox News Digital.

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has more here.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 10:46 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  I'd like to think that people will go to jail for this but I'm pretty that nothing like that will ever happen.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/22/2024 11:50 Comments || Top||

#2  However, there are ways to recover deleted files from computer hard drives. And if the files are "saved under undisclosed passwords", the hard drive can be removed from the computer and analyzed by another computer. I wonder if anybody in Congress knows anything at all about computers.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/22/2024 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Most of the gummint's "cybersecurity" experts were in on the steal in 2020. We'd be better off contracting the FSB's data techs to recover the stuff.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2024 11:57 Comments || Top||

#4  "Wiped? Like with a cloth?"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 12:02 Comments || Top||

#5 

Sources say over 117 have been recovered and were found encrypted.

Lets say they used Triple DES maybe sometime in 2030. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/22/2024 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Gee. Shouldn't a National Archives whistleblower be screeching to the press about this?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2024 12:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Just the News reports 100 files were recovered...Republicans recover over 100 files deleted by Jan. 6 committee days before GOP took majority: Report
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/22/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||

#8  It might be interesting if they released the contents of those files.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/22/2024 12:55 Comments || Top||

#9  It might be interesting if they released the contents of those files.

Look for a lot of "I promise not to *** in your mouth" type promises and nothing more.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2024 13:00 Comments || Top||

#10  According to Abu Uluque’s link, that’s over a terabyte of material.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/22/2024 13:34 Comments || Top||

#11  #1 People did and are going to jail. Just not the right people.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/22/2024 13:45 Comments || Top||

#12  Something I learned over the last 3 years is that obstruction of Congress carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/22/2024 19:16 Comments || Top||


Dear Scott Kirby CEO @UnitedAirlines and Drag Queen practitioner
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 01/22/2024 02:53 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  He is also on the board of CVS
Posted by: 3dc || 01/22/2024 3:09 Comments || Top||

#2  A pharmaceutical connection? Who could have imagined ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 5:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't care if he's a drag queen if he could just run an airline that was safe and reliable. I don't fly much anymore but my memories of United Airlines from the days when I had to fly to other cities for work are not good.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/22/2024 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I flew United from Louisville KY to Chicago for a Oracle CIO conference. About Indianapolis IN the pilot announced 'a technical problem' and a necessary return to Louisville KY.

A successful landing and taxi without 'gating'. Parked on the ramp and up comes a fuel truck.
Glug, glug, glug and we were back on our way to Chicago. 3x more travel time, no extra miles.

Amusingly, a keynote speaker at the conference was the United CIO touting improved efficiency of their scheduling algorithms and maintenance cycles.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 15:08 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Could've been worse. "Crashed without adequate fuel" Technical problems.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 18:48 Comments || Top||

#6  The airlines took the bailouts, so they do govts bidding. The consumer is much farther down the line.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/22/2024 18:53 Comments || Top||


Chicago mayor treated at hospital for panic attacks amid illegal immigrant crisis, reporter claims
[The PM] Two Chicago journalists reported that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has become so "stressed out" that he was hospitalized for panic attacks. John Kass and Anita Padilla broke the news on WGN-AM's Chicago Way Podcast on January 16, saying that Johnson needed medical help due to increasing stress.

They were talking about the illegal immigrant problem on air when Kass said "No amount of anti-depressants can cure him of this problem."

"I know, it's so true," Padilla said. "And you know, I actually, you brought it up, I was gonna bring it up."

"The panic attacks?" Kass asked. "The mayor's panic attacks? Can we talk about that?"

"Can we talk about that?" Padilla asked. "Because sources told me, two sources told me that he has been in the hospital for these panic attacks. And he is stressed out because this is a big, big job for him."

"He wasn't ready for it," Kass said.

"He's not ready for it, he is not ready for it," Padilla said. "He is not. He's not a leader. I'm sorry. He's not a leader. And you know a leader you know, brings people up and supports them and the Chicago Police are still waiting to see where that comes from. Yeah, he put in a good superintendent. But I still think that he needs to prove himself to the police. You know, where does he stand on that? But this immigration issue? This is not helping him at all this situation."

"And you know, when you call yourself a 'sanctuary city', you call yourself a 'sanctuary state' and guess what's gonna happen?" Padilla said.

"Don't blame Texas," she continued, "because Texas if you look at what they're dealing with, they have a massive influx. We don't even show the videos on television, the amount of people that are just standing around, you know, and now they're desperate because what happens when people don't have money or they don't have food, they they start breaking into things. They start committing crimes they start working for the cartels, they start doing human trafficking, they start becoming victims of human trafficking. So they had to do— what are they gonna do with all these people— they had to get them out of their city, and well, sanctuary city, you're the sanctuary city. So you're gonna get what you asked for."
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  There are effective medications for such ailments. The potential of polysubstance use should be examined closely however.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 5:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Getting what they voted for. Good and hard...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2024 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  How's all that diversity working out for you?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/22/2024 9:49 Comments || Top||


#5  “ Really? Is he looking for work?” - FAA spokesman
Posted by: Warthog || 01/22/2024 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  They’ve discovered that he is not a leader. Seems like that would have been a good thing to discover before he was put in charge of a huge city.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2024 10:29 Comments || Top||

#7  ...the spice the graft and patronage must flow
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/22/2024 11:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Snicker.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/22/2024 12:33 Comments || Top||

#9  'Hopeful Migrants' in Chicago Arrested for Mass Looting
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/22/2024 15:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Stealing the watches and sunglasses Americans won't steal.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||

#11  I wonder if he has the Austin disappearing syndrome.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 18:05 Comments || Top||

#12  the Austin disappearing syndrome.

I still think there is something hinky about the story that he just wandered off and had elective surgery for a few days.

A random You-tuber provides this summary:
All personnel in the National Command Authority are tracked 24 hours a day by the NMCC or National Military Command Center. The location of every single National Command Authority Figure is relayed every shift changed at the NMCC and this information is mirrored in the White House Situation Room.

It is highly unlikely that the White House or or the NMCC would not know the location of the Secretary of Defense for multiple days across multiple shift changes.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/22/2024 22:00 Comments || Top||

#13  /\ Yep, a definite smell.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/22/2024 22:43 Comments || Top||


‘They Memed Themselves': First Lady Jill Biden Speaks at ‘Hunter High' School in Utah
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not sure how Jill’s staff could have planned and made this stupidity happen.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2024 10:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The closest alternative venue was at Joe's Fuckin' Senile High
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 10:21 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sure there are already "journalists" saying it's a Photoshop and anyone transmitting it should be banned from the internet for spreading "misinformation," "election interference," general meanness and so forth.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/22/2024 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't find the .jpg, but Hailey and Sununu had a gathering in a business over the weekend. The vid showed them standing under a sign that said "Steamers."

I though it appropriate.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 01/22/2024 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ An oyster house?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/22/2024 18:06 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Meet Amy Pope, an Obama acolyte who heads the IOM that is funding and coordinating the illegal alien invasion of the USA
[Twitter]


...but “a tool to unlock human potential to advance economic development.”
Posted by: 3dc || 01/22/2024 02:32 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  “So Amy, How many of the invaders undocumented future Dem voters are you personally housing? “

I think we both know the answer…
Posted by: Warthog || 01/22/2024 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  She looks dumb - who's really running that business?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/22/2024 10:24 Comments || Top||

#3  The UN - we pay them to try to destroy us.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/22/2024 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  She looks like the Con Artist Ho from Theranos: Elizabeth Holmes
Posted by: Frank G || 01/22/2024 10:36 Comments || Top||

#5  #2. Of course, that's why she got the job. She seems uniquely incurious.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 01/22/2024 14:00 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2024-01-22
  Israel turns down Hamas's hostage release offer
Sun 2024-01-21
  DeSantis suspends, endorses Trump
Sat 2024-01-20
  Pakistan decides to end the crisis with Iran and restore full diplomatic relation, as does Iran
Fri 2024-01-19
  US attacks 14 Yemeni Houthi missile launchers
Thu 2024-01-18
  Pakistan expels Iranian ambassador after air strike
Wed 2024-01-17
   Iran strikes Pakistan killing two children
Tue 2024-01-16
  IDF troops raid Hamas command center, destroy weapons depots in Khan Younis
Mon 2024-01-15
  In Ecuador, 41 hostages taken in prisons were released
Sun 2024-01-14
  IDF: Troops patrolling border eliminate ‘terror squad’ that infiltrated Israel from Lebanon
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  Hezbollah condemns US strikes that killed five in Yemen
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   US and UK strike against Houthi targets across Yemen as turbans flee
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  Iranian missile fired during IRGC exercise hit petrochemical facility
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  Berri says Israel violating all rules of engagement, Mikati says Lebanon ready to negotiate
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  IDF says it located the largest weapons production site since the beginning of the war
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