Shamar Duncan, 22, of Indianapolis, was arrested on a preliminary charge of murder, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said
Duncan was being held in jail and will not be eligible for release from jail while the Marion County Prosecutor's Office reviews the case, police said
His arrest did not appear in online court records, and it wasn't clear whether he has an attorney who might comment on the case
A 26-year-old member of the Dutch Commando Corps, identified by US authorities as Simmie Poetsema, died of his injuries
According to the news video at the link, the soldiers had returned after a fight in a bar, then were hit in a drive-by shooting. Just local lads doing the usual or did the shooters follow our guys home?
[Breitbart] An analysis by National Review shows an unseemly trend among 20 Major League Baseball teams supporting organizations that perform sex change operations on children.
The magazine reviewed the causes and organizations to which these teams are handing out millions of dollars in donations and found that many support sex-change surgery, hormone treatments, and other dangerous procedures for “transitioning” teens and pre-teens.
National Review found that almost every team in the league “promote or fund groups that encourage or provide sex-change procedures and gender-transition hormone treatment for minors as young as 12. Other organizations promote ‘social transitions’ — i.e., nonmedical changes in ‘gender expression,’ including the adoption of new names, pronouns, and clothing — for children as young as three.”
Much of the support these teams are lending is organized under the rubric of the widespread LGBTQ “Pride Nights” that the league pushes.
Along with the yearly events in the stadiums, the teams also donate money to a number of advocacy groups — usually local groups, but often national groups, as well.
The Detroit Tigers, for instance, support the Ruth Ellis Center and Corktown Health in Detroit, the magazine noted.
At the checkout page for tickets to the Pride Night game, the Tigers website offered ‘a chance to support a local Pride organization of your choice,’ with a drop-down menu that included LGBT-focused clinics such as the Ruth Ellis Center and Corktown Health, both of which perform medical gender transitions on minors. On top of masculinizing and feminizing drugs, at least one — the Ruth Ellis Center — included irreversible ‘gender affirming surgery’ in its suite of ‘transition care for transgender youth’ options. Another charity promoted by the Tigers, the Trans Sistas of Color Project, was actively funding groups such as ‘Trans Minors Rights,’ which ‘advocates for empowering transgender youth to make their own decisions regarding puberty blockers’ — i.e., ‘without requiring the consent of a parent.’ (The group’s tagline: ‘Unblock blockers.’)
The magazine noted that the Tigers are only one example and that the MLB “Pride Resource Guide” promotes a long list of “social justice” groups that also push transgenderism on kids.
The report found that five teams promoted groups that push dangerous surgeries on trans kids, including the Detroit Tigers, the Boston Red Sox, the Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays, and the Cleveland Guardians.
Four teams partner with organizations that provide counseling and referrals to youths for such medical procedures. That list includes the L.A. Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, and the Oakland As.
And another five teams promote groups that offer guides and promotion of the transgender lifestyle, including the Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Colorado Rockies.
Finally, six teams support groups that have lobbyists for the trans cause and otherwise advocate for the transgender lifestyle. Those teams include the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, the L.A. Angels, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Washington Nationals.
“It’s a classic case of institutional capture by the Left,” the magazine concluded. It is up to the fans to speak out and urge the league to reverse course on this outrageous advocacy.
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I was done with MLB when they fired Yogi as HC of the Yankees. Checked back in for a while when the Bosox won the penant. Haven't seen a game since.
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Imagine the Pay-Per-View Cage Death Match Event.
In the green tights the Team Treehugger that wants to return California (and the World later) to virgin wilderness that can only support a few starving hunter-gatherers per square mile.
In the brown is Team Corruption, see the gold bling they are wearing and the trail of dollar bills. They want 'Bread and Circuses' to keep the masses voting for them so they can continue stealing everybody blind.
The Winner of the Cage Match gets the dwindling pile of Other Peoples Money™. Let the Fight Begin!
#5
NN2N1 and Chris, I grin and bear it. I still have an internal combustion engine in my car and the heat doesn't seem to bother me all that much. No, we're not all idiots. In all fairness, our local TV and newspapers never mention simple facts like how the state's population has doubled without any corresponding additions to infrastructure. They're busy working, paying their bills, raising families...you know, living their lives. So, how are folks to know until something like this happens?
I dunno. Maybe it should happen more often.
Poor Mrs. Uluque freaks out if the thermometer shows anything above 70 degrees. I don't believe she'll be cutting our energy consumption until the grid fails and we're all sitting in hot, humid darkness...and NO TV!!! I suppose you could say poor me because I'll be the one who has to listen to her bitching and moaning about it. I tell her it'd be a lot worse if we lived inland but that doesn't comfort her much. In her defense, she did NOT vote for Newsom.
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Abu ... I acknowleage 30% of the state is still. Having lived in the Valley/Fresno/Kernden is generally sane.
#7
The few years I lived in California there were enough sane people to make it bearable. Things got worse and when I left I felt like I had escaped from behind enemy lines. The few I knew who were sane have also left in the years after I did.
#11
I seem to remember some people predicting this kind of thing and asking questions about the future of the grid...who could they have been hmmmmmmm?
According to The Camera People, terrorists.
The batting average of The Conspiracy People continues to improve, even if this one was a meat ball - but its smoking softballs out of the park like this one which make the prime time highlight reel.
[Insider] A US Navy battleship that is over one hundred years old and saw action in two world wars is on the move for the first time in more than three decades to undergo much-needed repairs.
First launched in 1912 and commissioned two years later, the USS Texas engaged German U-boats off the New England coast in World War I and was later deployed during World War II to support the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, before it was eventually turned into a floating museum in 1948.
The battleship left San Jacinto, Texas, on Wednesday morning and is expected to reach the Gulf Copper Shipyard in Galveston by nightfall, where it will undergo $35 million in repairs to a hull damaged by decades in the water, the Associated Press reported. The work is expected to take two years.
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They actually did have concrete casement at one point. Water got in, caused alot of corrosion. So they broke off the concrete and patched the hull. Now the patches over the patches on the patches are starting to give, so it's off to drydock for major fixes.
The BB35 Foundation has a neat "hard hat" tour, where you sign releases, put on badges and a skull bucket, and go crawl through the magazines and engine rooms. (People musta been smaller then...)
There's a bunch of small 110v sump pumps in the bottom of that hull.
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^ thanks!
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They're readying it for Texas Independence, secretly fitting it out with new turbine engines, modern electronics, missiles, and laser technology to become the flagship of the Texas Navy.
[PJMedia] For many Americans, the summer of 2022 has been a blistering hot and humid miserable existence. It’s just one of those years when one truly appreciates the comfort provided by something as simple as an air conditioning unit. How did we live without them?
But for some 22,000 Xcel Energy customers in Colorado who wanted to be a little more comfortable on Tuesday when the thermometer was pegged at 90+ degrees, a bizarre message flashed on their thermostats indicating they’d lost the ability to control the temperature in their own homes.
According to KMGH-TV, "Energy Emergency" was part of the message that flashed on thermostats as temperatures skyrocketed and Xcel customers desperately tried to crank the A/C.
"Temperature locked temporarily during energy emergency. Due to a rare energy emergency that may affect the local energy grid, your temperature slider has been changed from 8:00 pm — 8:00 pm because you enrolled in a Community Energy Savings Program," the full message read.
However, customers enrolled in the otherwise innocent-sounding "program," like Tony Talarico, had absolutely no idea they could lose full control of the ability to cool down their house during a nasty heat wave.
"Normally, when we see a message like that, we’re able to override it," Talarico said, according to KMGH-TV. "In this case, we weren’t. So, our thermostat was locked in at 78 or 79."
"To me, an emergency means there is, you know, life, limb, or, you know, some other danger out there — some, you know, massive wildfires," Talarico said. "Even if it’s a once-in-a-blue-moon situation, it just doesn’t sit right with us to not be able to control our own thermostat in our house," Talarico continued. The news outlet added that some customers’ homes reached a disgusting 88 degrees.
What a nightmare.
What was the "emergency" Xcel used to snatch away control from its customers? The company said it was due to an outage in Pueblo, Colo., combined with the heat wave and subsequent heavy use of air conditioning. One might assume a large energy company would have been prepared for some late summer heat. Xcel has always been a shitty energy company. Glad I don't have to use them anymore now that I've moved out of the metro area.
#1
I grew up in Oklahoma and south Alabama in the 50's and 60's. Temperatures were often in the mid to high 90's. No air conditioning. We delt with it.
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This is another reason I don't want all that "smart" stuff in my home.
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But they signed up for cheap electricity, not some unexpected consequences!
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Just the beginning. Soon it will be locked to prevent global warming. Then brown outs due to all the "green" energy. Then because your social credit score is crap because you complained online.
#8
Hey everyone, remember when we were called paranoid wackadoodles for even bringing up the possibility of remote monitored thermostats being controlled remotely?
And I thought ol' Governor Pooperlickin raised taxes to solve such infrastructure issues?
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^1- I remember those days well. Patch screen doors. Fans, Grocery stores not air conditioned. Wood or coal heating. My problem was I had chicken pox in a mid summer heat spell. Milkman deliveries(best milk with cream on top). Ice block deliveries. Charles chips deliveries. Jewel Tea deliveries. I still wish they had returns on soda bottles or Green Stamps or even top value stamps.
#3
The 'Pilsen' and 'Little Village' Hispanic neighborhoods aren't too bad (as compared to other delightful ChiTown areas), and the newcomers will already know the language.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bet she won't do it again. The key lesson is not to get in the middle of that kind of situation — people often react instinctively to accumulated threat perception, not the individual. I musta watched that 15 times! And the policeman reacted to her charging in the same way each time, right? Instinct!
The footage showed male NYPD Officer Kendo D. Kinsey
...who is not a slight man...
punch a woman in the face so hard she flew from her feet and landed on her back
Depicted a chaotic scene as a swarm of officers struggled with a group of people outside of an apartment building reported to be in Harlem
A slim woman in a skirt ran into the chaos and began speaking to one man being detained by officers, when she got into an altercation with Kinsey
Kinsey approached the woman and tried to push her out of the crowd by shoving at her head with his arm ...not at all the same thing as a punch. So which is it?
The woman slapped at the Kinsey's arm and then he responded by punching her in square in the face
The incident happened on W136 Street in Harlem around 5pm on Tuesday as the Detective Kendo D. Kincey and his colleagues attempted to arrest 22-year-old Elvin James, wanted in connection to an August 12 murder.
NYPD told DailyMail.com the man was found with a loaded firearm and a large amount of controlled substances on him, and that when they attempted to arrest him a number of individuals began to assault them.
The NYPD said besides James, two women - Tamani Crum, 19, and Faith Harrell, 27 - were arrested for charges including assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.
A third woman, 26, was given a court summons for spitting on an officer.
#3
Where was the gun "registered"? Ohio doesn't have any permit or registration process, has a preemption law to keep localities from imposing any, and the owner of the firearm has nothing to do with the legality of self-defense.
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Celebrating increased resilience wherever we find it.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s electricity production has increased by over 30,000 megawatts (MW) in six years, an unprecedented leap towards achieving surplus levels, Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy spokesperson Ayman Hamza said on Sunday.
[Breitbart] The Kenyan national police service’s investigative unit, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), allegedly determined in recent days that three Venezuelan nationals had illegal access to Kenya’s electoral commission servers five months ahead of the country’s general election on August 9, during which a disputed presidential vote occurred, Kenya’s the Nation newspaper reported Monday.
The Nation reported the development on August 29 loosely citing an alleged “forensic analysis” by Kenya’s DCI that it said it had “learnt” of, though the newspaper did not cite specific or anonymous sources nor did it state how it obtained the alleged information.
The newspaper reported:
The three Venezuelans who were arrested upon landing in Nairobi two weeks before the General Election had not been contracted by the electoral commission but had access to its servers five months before the disputed polls, a forensics analysis shows.
The analysis, of computers confiscated from Salvador Javier, Jose Gregorio and Joel Gustavo by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), shows that the three were among dozens of non-Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) staff who had extensive access to the agency’s servers, the Nation understands.
The Nation said that the Kenya DCI’s alleged investigation into the Venezuelans’ access to Kenya’s electoral commission servers “is currently among various electoral fraud matters being investigated by the DCI, whom the Azimio coalition wants to be summoned to the Supreme Court to testify in their petition.”
The newspaper referred to Raila Odinga, who was the presidential candidate for Kenya’s opposition Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition party in the country’s August 9 general election. Odinga is currently contesting the results of the August 9 presidential vote. The chairman of Kenya’s election commission, Wafula Chebukati, declared current Kenya Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the presidential election on August 15 with 50.49 percent of the vote, though “[f]our out of the seven commissioners disowned the result,” Reuters noted on August 30.
Odinga alleged that the vote’s result was fraudulent immediately after the final tally was announced and has since submitted an official petition to Kenya’s Supreme Court contesting the election’s result. Kenya’s Supreme Court is expected to issue its verdict on the matter on September 5.
Odinga on August 22 specifically alleged that Venezuelan nationals had interfered in Kenya’s latest presidential election. Speaking to a crowd of his supporters, Odinga said his legal team had “enough evidence to show foreigners, those people from Venezuela, were brought into the country to try to steal our victory but it won’t be possible.” Odinga cited the alleged interference of Venezuelans in Kenya’s August 9 presidential in his official Supreme Court petition, according to the Nation.
“In the petition, Mr Odinga’s legal team argues that three Venezuelans had the ability to remotely access and manipulate [the Kenya] IEBC [Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission]’s data,” the newspaper noted on August 22.
The Nation published an excerpt of the petition, which read:
Combined with the capability of the foreigners and anyone in possession of the contents and information in the electronic devices to remotely access and manipulate the entire IEBC data; and the manifest discrepancies and irregularities manifest during the General Election and the tallying, verification of count and declaration of the presidential election result; it is the inevitable conclusion that not only was the presidential election not secure, it is not verifiable, accountable, neutral or transparent.
IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati had claimed that the three Venezuelan nationals recently arrested by Kenyan authorities were “contracted by IEBC to provide support on behalf of Smartmatic International, the company contracted to provide electoral management technology by the commission,” the Nation recalled on August 29.
“Detectives who have been on the case since July now believe that was not the case, and that the three worked for a different entity linked to the North Eastern politician,” the newspaper noted on Monday, referring to an unnamed Kenyan politician.
Kenyan police arrested the still-unnamed Venezuelans in question at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in late July after authorities found Kenyan election materials stored inside their luggage. The Venezuelans had flown to Nairobi from Istanbul, Turkey.
“Smartmatic, the Greek company that won the tender to run the all-encompassing Kenya Integrated Elections Management Systems (Kiems), also insisted that three Venezuelans arrested at the airport with election kit stickers in their luggage were their full-time employees through a subsidiary company,” the Nation noted on August 22.
[ShabelleMedia] Kenya’s Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... on Tuesday ordered a recount of votes in 15 polling stations across the country as a dispute over this month’s presidential election results continues.
A petition was filed by 77-year-old Raila Odinga and his running mate Martha Karua to nullify the results of the Aug. 9 elections in which William Ruto was declared as president.
The top court ordered that the recounting exercise be concluded by Thursday, and also directed the election commission to give the petitioners access to any server(s) at the tallying center for storing and transmitting voting information.
A high-level delegation of African jurists arrived in Kenya on Monday to observe court proceedings that kick off on Wednesday. A bench of seven judges will preside over the appeal, which must be decided by Sept. 5. If they order the cancellation of the result, a new election must be held within 60 days.
Five-time presidential candidate Odinga rejected the "flawed" election results, calling them a "major setback" to democracy in the East African country that could trigger a political crisis. He had filed legal challenges in 2013 and 2017 as well.
Ruto won nearly 7.18 million votes, 50.49% of the total, while Odinga got 48.85% or over 6.94 million votes.
A new book claims the NSA tried to pressure GCHQ to censor Edward Snowden's leaks
Head of British spy agency took a frantic early morning call from the NSA
Sir Iain Lobban refused despite the potential damage and danger to lives
The book lays out number of disagreements between Five Eyes spying partners
These are the claims to be published in a new book on Thursday, The Secret History of Five Eyes, by film-maker and investigative journalist Richard Kerbaj.
#2
Good point, the west off the Pacific coast is literally starving for water already. Lake Mead is going away.
That plant needs to be either west coast or east of the Mississippi.
#4
Well, I understand he is trying to bring Maoism back.
Which is my only comfort with Biden. No matter how badly he messes up the US, Xi is apparently intent on messing up China worse and faster.
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Not a good sign really. The Russians had 'Supreme Leader' Stalin (who killed everybody!), Khrushchev (Cuban Missile Crisis), and years later after the scare the first two gave the -- Putin. Having a a faceless bureaucratic blob at the top is less, shall we say, adventurous in the Global Thermonuclear War™ fashion.
Life is just full of jollies when one lives under a totalitarian government.
[Breitbart] The endless nightmare of China’s “zero Covid” coronavirus lockdowns continued this week, as millions of people in major cities were marched back into quarantine restrictions.
A rare street protest broke out in the city of Chongqing on Saturday night, prompting local officials to belatedly lift restrictions that ran for ten days after the last case of Chinese coronavirus was detected.
Almost four million people were ordered on Tuesday to quarantine at home for a week in Hebei, the province that surrounds Beijing. Another 13 million were ordered to undergo mandatory testing in the port city of Tianjin.
The southern tech hub of Shenzhen shut down the world’s largest electronics market on Monday, suspended public transportation, and locked down entire neighborhoods for at least the remainder of this week.
Residents of the quarantined Shenzhen neighborhoods were told they could only leave their houses for coronavirus testing. Businesses and restaurants were closed and mass transportation was shut down. Government workers quickly erected fearsome metal barriers around the quarantine zones, some of them featuring barbed wire.
“The upcoming period will be the most stressful, high-risk and grim period for epidemic prevention and control in our city,” a Shenzhen health official said at a press conference on Monday.
Lockdowns were also announced on Tuesday in the northeastern port city of Dalian, the northern city of Shijiazhuang, and Chengdu in the southwest. Chengdu, a provincial capital with a population of about 21 million, said it would delay the beginning of its fall school semester.
Xining, another provincial capital with a population of 2.5 million, ordered lockdowns until Thursday in several areas and suspended public transportation.
The Chinese public is increasingly displeased with the endless “zero Covid” lockdowns, which are supposedly imposed after very small numbers of coronavirus cases are reported by the always-unreliable Chinese government. Tianjin, for example, ordered mass testing for 13 million people after supposedly discovering only 51 “mild” cases of Chinese coronavirus. Shenzhen only admitted to having 35 infections among its 18 million citizens when it locked down.
Disgruntled citizens also complained about the lack of warning before shutdowns, which Chinese officials prefer to impose by surprise because they fear residents might flee districts and cities.
“The notice to close came abruptly, we only had a few hours to put our stock into warehouses and lock up,” a merchant at Shenzhen’s tech market told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
In Chongqing, riot police were deployed on Saturday night to control an angry group of residents who said their compound was kept under quarantine even though no one has tested positive for Chinese coronavirus in at least ten days.
“Lots of people are kicking up a fuss … the SWAT team is here,” one protester remarked in a viral video of the demonstration. Another complained that entire districts have been locked down after a single positive test result.
China’s endless waves of mass coronavirus testing are a further source of misery, especially in areas suffering under triple-digit temperatures from the current heat wave. Both citizens and hazmat-suited health workers have been filmed collapsing from the heat.
The Chinese Communist Party and its dictator Xi Jinping adamantly refuse to admit their zero-Covid lockdown strategy is anything but a complete success, especially with Xi preparing to seize an unprecedented third term in power at the five-year Party Congress. The Chinese Politburo on Monday announced October 16 as the starting date for the week-long event.
While China’s captive citizens can only look through the bars of the apartment-prisons with envy at a world that has long since moved on from the Wuhan pandemic, Chinese state media continues pushing the Communist line that other nations should be locking down more often – and not just for Chinese coronavirus.
The Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily on Tuesday harangued the United States for not using stricter measures, including mass testing and quarantines, to combat the all-but-forgotten scourge of monkeypox:
[Aljazeera] Australian home prices took their biggest dive in 40 years in August as rising interest rates and cost-of-living pressures slashed demand, threatening to undermine household wealth and confidence.
Figures from property consultant CoreLogic out on Thursday showed prices nationally sank 1.6 percent in August from July, when they fell 1.3 percent. It was the largest monthly drop since 1983 and dragged annual price growth down to 4.7 percent, compared with a peak above 21 percent late last year.
Sydney again led the retreat with values diving 2.3 percent in August and 2.5 percent from a year earlier, a world away from the 25 percent gains enjoyed over a bumper 2021.
The malaise also spread to other major cities, with Melbourne down 1.2 percent, Brisbane 1.8 percent and Canberra 1.7 percent. Overall, prices in the capital cities fell 1.6 percent in August, to be down 3.8 percent for the year.
Even the regions started to falter as prices fell 1.5 percent, ending a pandemic-driven bull run as people shifted to country living and greater space.
CoreLogic’s research director Tim Lawless noted home prices were still comfortably above pre-pandemic levels, but that this equity buffer looked likely to be squeezed further.
"It’s hard to see housing prices stabilising until interest rates find a ceiling and consumer sentiment starts to improve," said Lawless.
[Red State] We’ve seen FBI whistleblowers flooding members of Congress with allegations of politicization, bias, and misconduct including investigations regarding Hunter Biden and President Donald Trump.
That must have been making Democrats nervous with what was being revealed. Attorney General Merrick Garland sent out a letter to Justice Department employees telling them they shouldn’t be talking to Congress, although he claimed in the letter that whistleblowers were not impeded by his letter. Sure, then why are you sending out such a letter at this time? It practically screams cover-up and that he’s trying to shut down people talking.
But if he thought that would stop things, it doesn’t sound like that’s going to work.
FBI agents are now talking through Kurt Siuzdak, who represents whistleblowers at the Bureau, and he says that they are telling him that Wray has lost control and should resign.
"I’m hearing from [FBI personnel] that they feel like the director has lost control of the bureau," he said. "They’re saying, ’How does this guy survive? He’s leaving. He’s got to leave."
FBI whistleblowers talking to Congress about corruption and retaliation say in their disclosures that Mr. Wray was often notified of the problems within the bureau but never took action to resolve them.
That includes recent whistleblower disclosures to House Judiciary Committee Republicans about agents being forced or coerced into signing false affidavits, sexual harassment, and stalking claims. It also includes fabricated terrorism cases to elevate performance statistics, as reported this month by The Times.
"[The FBI agents] are telling me they have lost confidence in Wray. All Wray does is go in and say we need more training and we’re doing stuff about it, or we will not tolerate it," Mr. Siuzdak said.
The GOP members of Congress have not been happy with the answers they have been getting from Wray about all these questions. One of the names that came out in all these complaints had been the Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office, Timothy Thibault. He had been involved in both the Hunter Biden and Trump investigations. He was just given the boot this week and walked out of the office with an escort. But when members of Congress were grilling Wray under their oversight responsibilities, Wray was not forthcoming. He said those were "ongoing personnel matters."
When they wanted to ask him more questions for 21 minutes, Wray said he couldn’t stay because he had "catch a plane." But as we reported, he was taking his private plane to go to his vacation home. This, despite misleading Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that he had other "business" to do.
The problem is they can’t quiet all this just by dumping Thibault and perhaps trying to shove blame off on him, there are just too many problems. If the Republicans take back Congress, they’ve already promised they are going to go after this like a dog after a bone to clean up the FBI. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said that if the FBI buried verified information against Hunter Biden by labeling it as misinformation, they are "institutionally corrupted to their very core." The GOP needs to clean house.
The GOP can’t clean house until they have veto-proof majorities in both Houses of Congress. They don’t now.
Place your bets, on if he will:
1. Resign,
2. Be removed,
3. Catch the C-19/22 or Cancer and be replaced due to extended illness,
OR #4
a staged assassination for votes or accidental death.
OR #5
In the hospital ICU after being attacked by a racist, Homophobic, Anti-climate, Diesel driving, Trump'er supporter. where the media, surprisingly, all have the same story running within 30 mins.
#3
"The voice on the phone said for Mr. Wray to come to Ft. Marcy Part at 2 am - alone - to collect the bombshell evidence that would put Trump in prison..."
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If he falls from a balcony we can blame the Russians.
#8
A GOP Congress could withhold FBI funding. If Biden wants to go to the mat over this, let him. Shut down the whole government and see how Joe deals with it.
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Defund the IRS too.
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Protective cover sheet in the foreground is labeled SECRET//SCI. Must be something new in the world of protective cover sheets. The link offers a Google view of the current family of protective cover sheets.
#2
You can buy almost all of these new covers on Etsy, as a download only though.
I found one -
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I have been out of the game for a while now, but never recalled that SECRET level material had an SCI adjunct classification possible, but that would not move it to a TS/SCI level??? Is this actually an artificial construct for media consumption by the DoJ?
#4
I had to look it up since I never heard of it when working for the DoD. Here is the brief answer.
Regardless of the type of clearance obtained, when an individual obtains access or is read into a program or contract, that access is recorded in the security clearance system of record – typically the Joint Personnel Adjudication System, or Scattered Castles. In some cases, an individual may be read into an SCI program, regardless of the clearance level, although additional vetting will be required.
So, it is possible to have a secret clearance, and SCI access. Just like having a Top Secret clearance also doesn’t mean you have a ‘TS/SCI’ clearance. Like most security clearance questions, your eligibility will come down to the agency you’re serving, and the government’s needs.
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SCI access requires an SBI, and some require a CI polygraph, others amp it up and need the infamous Lifestyle poly. Usually, the type of access needed for SCI requires a background investigation that is thorough enough to qualify for a TS clearance.
Secret/SCI is usually SCI for sources and methods, mostly used in the SIGINT world.
[IsraelTimes] NYPD says juvenile and adult detained for assaults on Jewish men last week, says arrests for anti-Jewish crimes up 45% this year, amid surge in antisemitism
The New York Police Department on Monday announced two arrests for suspected hate crimes against Jews, as antisemitic attacks continued to surge in the city.
New York City Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell said at a presser a man had been arrested on Thursday for striking a Jewish man in the face.
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Strange, the Pro-Trump Moral Majority gets blame for Antisemitism and other Race crimes.
But a quick google of articles (currently) shows such crimes almost always tend to be at their highest during LSD controlled government administrations.
BTW: When will we see the racial demographics for the Attackers?
Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Engineers with NASA have repaired an issue with the space agency's Voyager 1 spacecraft, but have yet to identify the cause of the problem, officials confirmed on Tuesday.
The probe had been sending garbled data about its status, including information about its health and activities to mission controllers, despite otherwise operating normally.
NASA also said the rest of the probe appeared healthy as it continued to gather and return scientific data.
"The team has since located the source of the garbled information: The AACS (had started sending the telemetry data through an onboard computer known to have stopped working years ago, and the computer corrupted the information," the agency said in a statement, referencing the probe's attitude articulation and control system.
Engineers still aren't sure why the system began sending the telemetry data through an onboard computer known to have stopped working years ago. That computer corrupted the information.
"We're happy to have the telemetry back," Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd said in a statement.
"We'll do a full memory readout of the AACS and look at everything it's been doing. That will help us try to diagnose the problem that caused the telemetry issue in the first place. So we're cautiously optimistic, but we still have more investigating to do."
The system keeps Voyager 1's antenna pointed at Earth as it relays data. All signs suggest the AACS is still working and its signal is strong, but the returning telemetry data is invalid.
The system first began malfunctioning in May, prompting NASA engineers to investigate what went wrong with the aging space probe.
Launched in 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes are both still active, exploring deep space. Both are still communicating with NASA, despite being launched 45 years ago. The spacecraft are two of only five space probes from Earth that have left the solar system
They carry eight-track tape players for recording data and have about 3 million times less memory than today's cellphones, transmitting about 38,000 times slower than a 5G Internet connection.
Voyager 1 is currently 14.5 billion miles from Earth, and is sending back scientific data.
In 2017, Voyager 1's primary thrusters showed signs of degradation. Engineers then switched to another set of thrusters that had originally been used during the spacecraft's planetary encounters. Those thrusters worked, despite having not been used for 37 years.
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The probe had been sending garbled data about its status, including information about its health and activities to mission controllers, despite otherwise operating normally.
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This is how the movie always starts...#2 And I Agree.
I am very thankful that Captain Kirk is still amongst us.
V'Ger A sentient, massive entity which threatened Earth in 20 2271, en route to find its "Creator." In doing so, V'Ger destroyed anything it encountered by digitizing it for its memory chamber. James T. Kirk,20 2270s (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) V'ger wasbecomes a massive entity because NASA repairs issue with Voyager 1 space probe and one of the most extraordinary lifeforms ever encountered by the United Federation of Planets. It generated enormous levels of power and threatened Earth with destruction until it found a way to evolve. V'ger chose its own name.
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American-made quality tech and gear from back in the day when pronouns and equity didn't matter and NASA and the aerospace industry built amazing stuff because only the best materials and people, regardless of race/gender/religion, were used.
Today, not so much! Credentials from formerly trusted institutions these days are suspect on any body less than 15-20 years in the field! Make of it what you will, but I got this old by being a tad paranoid.
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? = your answer = the future > something you will never see; never you nor me > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ikHoBKVlCA --- but guess what, if you read the article and noted the " corrupted computer" = early AI in the making = Artificial Intelligence = No, the Embryo of V'ger...
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I just pray that if it does a Rapid Unplanned Disassembly (RUD) that it does it away from the facilities and miles in the air. Avoids casualties it does...
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