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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Gov. Kemp Toughening School Security as Hoax Calls Test First Responder Response Time
[Breitbart]
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 07:18 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uvalde shooting victims file $27 billion class-action suit
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Good. Sue the pols and bureaucrats. Not the gun manufacturer.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2022 7:29 Comments || Top||


Raleigh cops release bodycam footage of shootout with 15-year-old who injured cop after murdering his brother, 16, neighbor and three other people - before he sustained gunshot wound to the head
  • The video, roughly 12 minutes long, shows a portion of officers' heated gun battle with Raleigh resident Austin Thompson, and was released Thursday

  • It shows officers attempting to track down the shooter who had taken up in a barn in Raleigh's Hedingham neighborhood after murdering his older brother

  • Before cops arrived on the scene, Thompson, would also shoot dead his neighbors Nicole Connors, Susan Karnatz, 49, and Mary Marshall, 35

  • Also killed was 29-year-old police officer Gabriel Torres, who was off-duty and on his way into work at the time - as well as Connors' dog, Sami

  • Roughly three hours later, the suspect was taken into police custody - after suffering multiple injuries including a gunshot wound to the head
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 04:15 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Wondering out loud....
How much unrestricted access to violent materials and video games may have played a role in this.

Plus, having looked had his photo. He strikes me as a problem child for some reason.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/02/2022 6:13 Comments || Top||



Tyson Foods CFO pleads not guilty to public intoxication, trespassing
[NYPOST] Tyson Foods Chief Financial Officer John R. Tyson pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to charges of criminal trespassing and public intoxication on Thursday — despite being caught on video attempting to sleep in a stranger’s bed prior to his arrest.

Tyson will face the charges at trial on Feb. 15, the Wall Street Journal reported. The 32-year-old executive is heir to the Tyson Foods empire and the great-grandson of the company’s founder.
From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in four generations — it’s the American way. Though usually a stint in jail for stupidity is not involved at either end...
Police in Fayetteville, Arkansas, released bodycam footage last month showing officers attempting to wake up a disheveled and confused-looking Tyson, who had fallen asleep in the bed of a female college student while clad only in his boxers. TMZ and other outlets published the footage online.

The bodycam footage revealed that Tyson — a former JPMorgan investment banker who holds degrees from Harvard and Stanford — tried to ignore the officers’ commands and go back to sleep, promoting them to take action and place him in handcuffs.

Tyson’s arrest occurred just 2 a.m. Nov. 6 after the unnamed woman discovered him in her home and contacted authorities. The woman initially thought she was being burglarized, according to the police report.

Officers said Tyson was "sluggish and uncoordinated" and smelled of alcohol during the arrest. The police were able to determine his identity after finding his driver’s license and clothing at the foot of the bed.

"A college-age female was very alarmed that a male who she did not know was inside of her residence uninvited," the police report said. Tyson was released on bond later the same morning.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unlikely he could have made his way inside, and undressed, in his condition. Or so I've been told, by a friend.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 13:17 Comments || Top||

#2  He was intoxicated in private. It was just someone else’s private. That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 21:25 Comments || Top||


Cross-carrying 'missionary' busted for having fist fight during walk across America
[NYPOST] A "missionary" carrying a cross on his shoulder during a 2,000-mile walk across America is accused of not turning the other cheek — as he allegedly got into a fist fight with a passing motorist and wound up being arrested.

Jesse Michael Boyd, 46, of Vale, was completing the multi-state trek for Full Proof Gospel Ministries alongside his teenage daughter, young son, and two other missionaries when they got the fisticuffs with driver outside Cameron, Montana on Nov. 12.

"He told us we weren’t welcomed in Montana," Boyd told Channel 9’s Dan Faherty of the fight, which he said started when the driver scolded them for where they parked their 2022 Subaru. "He told us there were rifles trained on us and if we moved, we’d be shot."

Although the argument seemed to calm down when the driver — later identified as Bradley Terrell — put his gun away, Boyd said Terrell proceeded to shove him into the ground.

Taking the phrase "do unto others" to new heights, Boyd, his daughter, and fellow missionaries Eric Anthony Trent, 27, and Carter Norman Phillips, 20, proceeded to strike Terrell several times with a flagpole.

All four were subsequently arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault. Although Boyd and his family have returned home to Vale, he continues to wear an ankle monitor as he awaits proceedings from the Montana prosecutors.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One a$$hat meets another a$$hat. A$$hattery results.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/02/2022 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  He should have put down the cross and fashioned a whip from some cords. Alternatively, they could have had somebody cosplaying St Peter cut his ear off with a sword. I blame this on poor catechesis.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 21:21 Comments || Top||


Boy, 10, 'shot his mom dead at close range for refusing to get him a $500 VR headset' - then used her Amazon account to buy one for himself
  • The boy shot his 44-year-old mother Quiana Mann dead at their Milwaukee home

  • The 10-year-old, who is said to have 'rage issues' and hears imaginary people,
    ...early onset schizophrenia?
    has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide and will be tried as an adult

  • He is accused of shooting his mother in the face at close range because she refused to buy him a VR headset

  • The next day, he used his mother's Amazon account to buy an Oculus Virtual Reality headset - which costs up to $500

  • The boy is expected to appear in court on December 8 and could face up to 60 years in prison if convicted as an adult
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I expect to see this happening more and more as Parents toss a smartphone or game tablet at their kids hands to keep them busy, while are on theirs.

Look what Internet already taught him:
How to cock, aim and fire a gun
How to order on Amazon
Likely also knows 10 y/o's don't go to prison

Either way, this 10-year-old will likely be walking the streets in about 8 years.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/02/2022 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  But Quinoa will still be dead
Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2022 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  The real Michael Myers.
Posted by: JHH || 12/02/2022 12:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Feral.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 13:18 Comments || Top||

#5  I always wonder how many of these peeps are taking SSRIs and such?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/02/2022 13:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Probably don’t want to pick him up as a foster kid.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 15:45 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Former Chinese President, Jiang Zemin, breathed his last on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, at 96
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I realize he was 96, but you gotta wonder, after Xi had him publicly removed at the party conference...
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/02/2022 8:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Coinvent timing, either way.
Posted by: Nguard || 12/02/2022 11:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Austere economic scholar...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Nice ;-)
Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2022 12:59 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Seeking 'leader of the rat pack': New York City posts job listing for Rat Czar that pays up to $170,000 - qualifications include 'swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor, and general aura of badassery,' as well as proficiency with PowerPoint
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Here's a job for you Berserker.
  • Adams announced a job posting for what he's terming the Big Apple's 'Rat Czar' on Thursday, more formally known as Citywide Director of Rodent Mitigation

  • The job, which pays between $120,000 to $170,000, is being listed for anyone with a background in urban planning, project management, or government work

  • Adams tweeted: 'There's NOTHING I hate more than rats' and asked for someone with 'the drive, determination and killer instinct needed to fight' them

  • It also suggests you have a: 'swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor and general aura of badassery.' A knowledge of PowerPoint is also necessary

  • A city councilmember told CBS News that the city has had a 71 percent increase in rat sightings since 2020
    Golly. I can’t imagine why New York City is getting worse and worse in every possible way.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 03:09 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They left out the requirement that they can play a flute.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/02/2022 4:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Next up, Plague.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2022 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Fear a rodent with PowerPoint.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/02/2022 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  he's [Adams] made it clear that he's willing to pay big money for someone who can get rid of the city's rats.

Don't vote for them, impeach them or jail them.

The missus has some badass feral cats she has rescued that she would rent out on a short-term basis just as long as the job doesn't require taking up residence in NYC.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/02/2022 10:35 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/02/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Well...do you want a swashbuckler or a powerpointer? "I know enough about power point that you need to hire an orderly and let me do my job."

urban planning, project management, or government work

Ah, the get'r done swashbuckler is the disposable part.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2022 13:39 Comments || Top||

#7  You could hire a swash-buckling PowerPoint badass OR maybe just find someone with the organizational skills to pick up the damn garbage.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/02/2022 14:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Piece made think of Christopher Walken from Mouse Hunt.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2022 14:36 Comments || Top||

#9  You could hire a swash-buckling PowerPoint badass OR maybe just find someone with the organizational skills

urban planning, project management, or government work


I think they just want the Powerpoint with snarky commentary to validate a budget point. The 1 hour 'Rat Pack' seminar would be famous for sneaking in flasks full of Domain Leroy. Invitation only.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2022 15:05 Comments || Top||


ABC execs in 'emergency meetings' over alleged Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes affair
[NYPOST] ABC execs have been holding "emergency meetings" to address the mayhem since news broke that "Good Morning America" anchors Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes have been carrying on an alleged secret love affair, The Post has learned.

One source close to the situation said it’s possible that Robach, who is married to actor Andrew Shue, and Holmes, who is married to lawyer Marilee Fiebig,
....oooohhhhhh — it’s not wise to do something actionable to a lawyer...
will "keep their jobs if their ratings hold up" in the coming weeks.

"It’s ultimately about the ratings," the source said, adding that based on the attention this story is getting, "ratings are going to go through the roof."

Another ABC insider close to the situation, however, noted that ABC News president Kim Godwin did not have any knowledge of the affair. A third source said the duo could face disciplinary actions if the co-hosts did not disclose the relationship.

"If ABC didn’t know, they should enforce company policy," a high-level Hollywood source said. The details of ABC’s policy on inter-office relationships could not be immediately learned.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "ratings are going to go through the roof."

Rules are for little people.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Invite Matt Lauer onto GMA to discuss the situation.
Posted by: airandee || 12/02/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Should be good since every couple in a commercial nowadays is interracial. Hell, Joe and Mika are in a cross-species marriage
Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2022 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I am in my 50’s and GMA and The Today Show is as relevant to me as the Rose Bowl parade. My folks might have an opinion. Unless they decide to have their affair on camera I predict no impact on ratings. Based on what is already available on everyone’s phones, they will have to do something exceptionally twisted to interest new viewers.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 21:08 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
CNN bloodbath: Network fires Chris Cillizza and correspondents Alison Kosik, Alex Field, host Martin Savidge and Robin Meade - AND scraps HLN's live programming in ruthless round of layoffs
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 04:04 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CNN aka Clinton News Network, or Communist News Network, just became too "creative" in it reporting for even the Far Left viewers to take them serious.

It is not surprising that Internet Sites and Blogs has made them and NEWSPAPERS obsolete.

Eg. Rangburg and CitizenFreePress and a dozen other internet based sites, have had more reader/views than any individual 1 hr. CNN segment. Doing so at about 0.01% of the CNN operating budget

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/02/2022 6:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Their fan base became more selective.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I never heard of any of them.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/02/2022 16:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Puppet Show
Chris Chillizza
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 16:26 Comments || Top||


CNN boss Chris Licht guts HLN amid cost-cutting bloodbath
[NYPOST] CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
boss Chris Licht has gutted sister network HLN, terminating all live programming as part of ongoing layoffs and budget cuts.

Licht slashed HLN’s "Morning Express with Robin Meade," as well as "Weekend Express," he announced in a memo to CNN’s remaining staff on Thursday.

Meade and HLN’s live news programming staffers will be among those fired.

Also getting their pink slips Thursday were prominent CNN correspondents Alison Kosik, Martin Savidge, Alex Field, Mary Ann Fox and Chris Cillizza, according to Variety.

CNN declined to comment on the overall number of job cuts when reached by The Post.

But Licht has also targeted staffers working on longform storytelling, as well as paid contributors.

"In some areas, we will rely more on our CNN journalists," Licht said in the memo. "Overall, we will engage contributors who are subject-matter experts that expand and diversify the viewpoints we bring our audience."

Licht, who announced he’ll hold a town hall Tuesday, explained the restructuring in his memo.

Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...I will confess that the only reason I ever watched HLN was because of a serious crush on Robin Meade and Jennifer Westhoven.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 12/02/2022 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  It's nice that some real on-screen a$$holes got the axe. Unfortunately, said a$$holes will wind up somewhere else, maybe with a humiliatingly smaller audience, but with their bank accounts and cocktail circuit memberships intact.

So it goes...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2022 11:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Why Robin, she pretty much just read the same shit over and over .
Posted by: Chris || 12/02/2022 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  From AOSHQ:
Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Qualified for absolutely no other job. Really, not even the one they just got CaNNed from.

Learn to Blow.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2022 15:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Back when HLN was 'new' I watched or rather had it running in the background while I was concentrating on my home computer. Background noise, basically, and well before their foray into talk shows. Then I dropped it when they mutated from 'straight-up journalism' (with nice tight 5 minute stories) to 'infomercials' where every story had to have a subtext selling the cause de jour. Foreign news? Global Warming. Weather? Global Warming ...and so forth and so on.
Posted by: magpie || 12/02/2022 19:37 Comments || Top||

#7  I think they are tanking to raise their chances of drafting KJP.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 20:32 Comments || Top||


'It's a hot mess': NYPD was 'blindsided' by NYC Mayor Eric Adams' decision to involuntarily commit mentally ill homeless people and claims City Hall 'jumped the gun'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 80:20 Rule for crime — or is it 90:10? At any rate, if they really do start taking people off the street, it’ll quickly make a difference. Assuming the city has somewhere to keep them, that is.. But it isn’t nice to surprise street cops like that...
  • The NYPD was 'blindsided' by Mayor Eric Adams' new mental health plan to involuntarily commit mentally ill homeless people, a source said

  • Adams, 62, announced his New Pathway plan on Tuesday at City Hall to the shock of the NYPD, who sources say didn't know about the announcement

  • 'Like everything else, it gets dumped in our lap and we’re expected to solve the problem without any guidance,' the source said

  • However, City Hall insisted the NYPD has known about this initiative for 'months'

  • The NYPD later said: 'Every city agency received this directive yesterday, however, we have been working with the mayor’s office for months...'

  • The plan will allow the NYPD and FDNY to forcibly hospitalize the mentally ill who refuse treatment, even if they are not presenting a threat to the public
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This was all caused by the ACLU back in the 70s and 80s when they sued over and over to allow mentally ill to sit in the sewer grate and throw their feces at passers-by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Patricia_Brown

"Joyce Patricia Brown (perhaps better known as Billie Boggs) was a homeless person who defeated New York City's efforts to force her into a psychiatric treatment program. Her case set legal precedents for forced psychiatric care which have hamstrung involuntary psychiatric commitments of the homeless in New York and elsewhere.

Robert Levy, a staff attorney from the New York Civil Liberties Union (a state ACLU branch), defended her in court. On January 15, 1988, State Supreme Court Justice Irving Kirshenbaum ruled that New York City could not forcibly medicate Brown. Shortly thereafter, Acting State Supreme Court Justice Robert Lippmann ordered her released, in part because although she was mentally ill, her behavior was not obviously and immediately dangerous to anyone. She was released in late January after about eleven weeks of involuntary commitment and returned to the streets."
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 12/02/2022 5:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Some try to blame this on Reagan, but remember the 96th US Congress, controlled by a Democratic Senate Majority & a Democratic House Majority, pass the deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill act.

Now 40 years later they are whining about what the results are.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/02/2022 7:29 Comments || Top||

#3  The deinstitutionalization of the violently mentally ill was a Teddy Kennedy project.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Doesn't matter anymore who caused problem. Stop pointing fingers and fix it. Whatever policies resulted in homeless freaks urinating, defecating and sleeping on city streets has long since proven to be a failure. Politicians have had quite enough time to recognize the failure and reverse course. Too bad if NYPD has to enforce this mandate but it's about damn time somebody did.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/02/2022 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Trudeau went further back in history for his plan. He is taking care of the mentally ill on the cheap.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 15:43 Comments || Top||

#6  'Like everything else, it gets dumped in our lap and we’re expected to solve the problem without any guidance,' the source said

Ha! You are expected to take the blame for the unsafe streets and subways. It isn't Adams' fault for letting loose Arkham, its the PD and FD's fault for not putting them back. See, New York has a Brand...and you've been branded.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2022 17:38 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
On this day in history, Dec. 2, 1823, President Monroe touts doctrine defending Western Hemisphere
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 03:01 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  LOL. Meanwhile, if other countries want to project power off their own coasts, that's a war crime and a violation of our human rights. Our human rights to send our military to the other side of the planet and bomb anyone the deep state doesn't like.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 12/02/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  “I am strong-minded, you are stubborn, he is pig-headed” — is that your point, Spike?
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||

#3  On this day in history, 1859, a real insurrectionist - John Brown - began 'moulderin' in his grave' for the attack on Harper's Ferry 13 months earlier.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/02/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Troops under the command of US Army Major Robert E. Lee put a stop to the abolitionist lawlessness at Harper's Ferry.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2022 11:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Harper's Ferry and Antietam are both worthwhile places to visit and you can do it in the same day.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2022 11:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Those troops were Marines B!

"On the night of October 16, 1859, Brown and his band overran the arsenal. Some of his men rounded up a handful of hostages, including a few enslaved people. Word of the raid spread, and by morning Brown and his men were surrounded. A company of U.S. marines arrived on October 17, led by Colonel Robert E. Lee and Lieutenant J. E. B. Stuart. "

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-browns-raid-on-harpers-ferry
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/02/2022 13:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Indeed they were nomo, and expertly led as well. Thx for the branch correction.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2022 13:32 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
South African President Ramaphosa Faces Impeachment Threat Over Alleged Theft Of $4Million Hidden In Sofa On His Farm
“But it’s so much more comfy than feathers or foam cushions!”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
China: Protests rejecting the zero-Covid policy and demanding the president to step down
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Totally not organized by the CIA!

Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 12/02/2022 5:44 Comments || Top||


#3  Totally not organized by the CIA!

Ha, certainly not. Here's another one they cannot be blamed for:

PBS News Hour - Bolsonaro supporters call on Brazil’s military to keep him in power
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2022 7:47 Comments || Top||

#4  China is asshoe!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember when lockdown protests were proof positive the people involved were alt-right conspiracy theorists?

https://i.redd.it/nrw8oe8og43a1.png
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 12/02/2022 9:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Totally not organized by the CIA!

Yeah, well, that's the problem, isn't it? I mean, if it was, Joe Biden would be all for it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/02/2022 13:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Let's make certain things clear. Biden wants regime change in Russia, not China.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/02/2022 13:09 Comments || Top||

#8  People are perfectly capable of blowing up without the CIA prodding them. China is a dysfunctional establishment that is slowly unraveling. People are frustrated, dissatisfied and mad. The latest move of bullying families with relatives who have escaped the bamboo curtain and coercing businessmen, denying people children etc is finally rewarding the CCP with what they have sown. Lockdowns and COVID protocols are just catalysts.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2022 14:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Since when is Biden or any US president in charge of the CIA? Unbelievably naive.

And yes, the CIA is capable of doing more than one thing at a time. They have an office for literally every country on the planet.
Posted by: Spike the Hairy6811 || 12/02/2022 16:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Poss not Liechtenstein
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 17:29 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Major password manager suffers another security breach
I keep mine on a stack of yellow sticky notes.
[FoxNews] LastPass maintains that passwords remain safely encrypted.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 06:55 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...the company recently detected unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service that is shared by LastPass and affiliate GoTo.

There's your problem.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/02/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Password managers that store data in the cloud are attractive to the same sorts of people who have a banking app on their smartphone.

D U M B
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2022 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  LastPass was purchased by private equity. You can make your own conclusions about their priorities these days.

Personally, I like BitWarden.
Posted by: Angstrom || 12/02/2022 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  I keep mine on a stack of yellow sticky notes.

Right. Then you put those sticky notes in a locked drawer. That's what I used to tell the birdbrains at work who could never remember their passwords. It was amazing how many of them couldn't figure it out. Could be that some people are just not cut out for work on a computer.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/02/2022 13:14 Comments || Top||


Economy
United Furniture owner 'disappeared' after firing 2,700 workers: sources
[NYPOST] The owner of United Furniture Industries — which last week fired 2,700 workers through texts and emails while they slept — has disappeared after squabbling with the company’s board and bankers over whether to file for bankruptcy, The Post has learned.

David Belford, a wealthy Ohio businessman, has kept mum since the layoffs of his entire workforce in Mississippi, North Carolina and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, in the days before Thanksgiving — despite efforts by lenders and lawyers representing axed workers to reach UFI, according to multiple sources.

"No one has heard from the owner. He’s not returning anyone’s phone calls. It’s such a horrible situation," one source with knowledge of the situation told The Post.

The Post has made several attempts to contact Belford. One attorney representing hundreds of laid off employees in Mississippi, Philip Hearn, said rumors are swirling among former employees that Belford had jetted off to Gay Paree after the firings.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Well, there are 2,700 reasons why he might be unavailable.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/02/2022 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder which party the bulk of his political donations went to?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/02/2022 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  ...said rumors are swirling among former employees that Belford had jetted off to Gay Paree after the firings

...or Tony sent the boys to collect on the big debt.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2022 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  The way they handled benefits and severance seems to indicate that there's not going to be a bankruptcy and reorganization. Gone.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/02/2022 8:55 Comments || Top||

#5  The paroles will start rebelling soon!
Posted by: Ulenter Glenter6061 || 12/02/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||

#6  UG6061, paroles or proles?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/02/2022 13:56 Comments || Top||

#7  If not answering calls = disappearing, then I have no idea where I am..
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/02/2022 15:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Ha, choice!
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 20:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Somebody is getting an extra firm love seat.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 21:10 Comments || Top||


Europe
The Dutch farmers are out in force today protesting the governments plan to nationalize and close down 3,000 farms to aid "climate change"…
[Twitter]
Excellent sound track.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2022 07:27 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2022 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  #1 Truer words, truer words.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/02/2022 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  If only they had a second amendment.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/02/2022 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Grow less food? How stupid are they?

Rhetorical question, I suppose.
Posted by: Tom || 12/02/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Grow less food? How stupid are they?

Not stupid. Evil.



Posted by: DarthVader || 12/02/2022 12:05 Comments || Top||

#6  After destroying their livelihood and stealing their land, will the Dutch government then lock the farmers and their families in camps to keep the world safe? Seems familiar...
Posted by: JHH || 12/02/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Re-designate them to Bug Farmz. "I'm not growing potatoes, we are raising ze potato bugz. Very tasty when mixed with beer."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2022 14:47 Comments || Top||

#8  No tulips for you!
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 17:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Elitist / Leftist Logic: "We'll import it from somewhere."
Posted by: magpie || 12/02/2022 19:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Who voted for Klause Schwab to be in charge of anything?
Posted by: Airandee || 12/02/2022 19:41 Comments || Top||

#11  The Netherlands is an incredibly productive and efficient food producer. I think they are more important with regards to food exports than Ukraine. It is definitely planned. Something to consider, it won’t be the Dutch that will be short of food. The confiscation will reduce exports and drive up prices.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/02/2022 21:46 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Unvaccinated blood banks? Learn about the growing movement for clean transfusions
(Natural News) Swiss naturopath George Della Pietra has started a new "SafeBlood Donation" service to provide clean, unvaccinated blood for patients needing transfusions.

Since the general blood supply is now tainted with "fully vaccinated," spike protein-laden chemical blood, demand for pure blood is soaring. Pietra apparently saw this as a great opportunity to provide clean blood, which is now more in-demand than ever.

Calling the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) mass injection campaign "the crime of the century," Pietra believes that messenger RNA (mRNA) covid shots "contaminate" the blood and destroy the immune system.

If an unvaccinated person receives a transfusion of blood containing mRNA, spike proteins, and whatever else is contained inside those vials, then he or she could also become contaminated, hence why he came up with the SafeBlood Donation service.

The corporate-controlled media is mocking Pietra while accusing him of pseudoscience, but the fact remains that pure blood is in increasingly high demand because nobody wants the tainted stuff. (Related: Remember when the American Red Cross was caught mixing vaccinated blood with unvaccinated blood?)

"I get hundreds of emails asking me, ’Do you have blood [available], because I have surgery coming up in three weeks,'" Pietra is quoted as saying.

"We want to be a platform for people who want to have the free choice of blood donors. Whether they think there is a real conspiracy theory going on, that the New World Order [is happening], or if they simply say ’I just don’t want it’ for whatever reason."

Right now, SafeBlood Donation has members in at least 16 countries where the goal is to establish blood banks that provide unvaccinated plasma for their members. The plan is also to pressure more hospitals and health authorities into allowing “directed donations” of specifically unvaccinated blood at traditional blood donation centers.

“Medical authorities only allow directed donations in specific situations where it is medically necessary, such as to source a rare blood type, but refuse growing requests for ‘unvaccinated’ blood on ethical and medical grounds,” one media outlet reported.

The reason why SafeBlood Donation is running into some difficulties with this is because the “official” sources, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), all insist that there is no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated blood.

The expectation is that the current system will not comply with what SafeBlood Donation and its members are trying to do, so the inevitable outcome of this will be the creation of an entirely new blood donation infrastructure where only clean blood is allowed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2022 05:11 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In our family circle, a number of "BLOOD" related family that did not vax-ccident, have agreed to offer blood, as need, to other family members.

Many of us still remember the number of Blood Bank mistakes since the 70's & 80's (AIDS, HEP, and etc.)
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/02/2022 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine getting a f'ed up transfusion. That's what did in tennis player Arthur Ashe, if I recall.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/02/2022 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I see the results every day. They; we, have created an army of germophobic people or OCD peoples. Even in illness, "I must get my flu shot". I see increased sickness of many varieties among those vaccinated and especially those booster-ed. So, to have escaped this madness the poor nations have benefited. I suppose blood banks will now pop up there to secure untainted blood reserves. So now here the ostracized become the valued ones. Day by day the numbers are exploding. Insurance payouts had been 40 million now are in the many billions. Then a massive increase in coffin orders from children to adults. Sad to see. In every industry someone always does well.
Posted by: Dale || 12/02/2022 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4  2021- 100 billion and so far 200 billion 2022 payouts for insurance companies.
Posted by: Dale || 12/02/2022 8:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Guess the only logical thing to do next would be for the Swiss government to send an anti-terror squad and a platoon of police officers to George's house and make him take the medicine.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  I've had 6 7 transfusions, 10 bags. One was my own. Only issue is a scrambled DNA signature.
When it's not elective, one really doesn't have time to prep.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||

#7  even if elective, how long to collect that many pints? When I was donating it was like every 6-8 weeks (IIRC)?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/02/2022 21:05 Comments || Top||


Scientists develop a smartwatch for COWS that can monitor their health, reproductivity and location
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 04:46 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But can it track farts?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 12/02/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||



NATO Shows EW Capability During Dynamic Guard 22-2
[NavalNews] Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) participated the semi-annual NATO exercise Dynamic Guard 22-2 in the Gulf of Taranto off the coast of Southern Italy Nov. 20-25.

NATO press release:
Dynamic Guard 22-2 is an electronic warfare exercise that provides tactical training for the NATO Response Force and Allied national units. Its aim is to enable units assigned to the SNMGs to maintain required levels of proficiency in electronic warfare and anti-ship missile defense.

Dynamic Guard is led by NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) and supported by the NATO Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff (JEWCS). It is held twice annually, with one serial in the North Atlantic area and one in the Mediterranean Sea.

Several ships from SNMG2 took part in the exercise to include SNMG2’s flagship U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98), Spanish Navy guided-missile frigate ESPS Cristobal Colon (F 105) and Italian Navy frigate ITS Alpino (F 594). Italian Navy replenishment oiler ITS Stromboli (A 5327) and Royal Navy (UK) amphibious transport dock HMS Albion (L14) participated in the exercise as well.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


China uses an obscure tactical shooter game for training purposes
Posted by: badanov || 12/02/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "back in my day..."

We did a 'run and gun' summertime biathlon scored for time and targets in the mountain wilds of Colorado.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 6:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Ha ha! badanov could go through 'em like this [snaps fingers].

I've seen him hunt, engage, and give wedgies to deadly Wagners in just under 20 minutes.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/02/2022 14:23 Comments || Top||

#3  "back in my day..."

When my father was a schoolboy in Latvia in the early 1930s, all boys took military prep classes as part of the curriculum, with an annual biathlon as part of the final exam.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2022 21:17 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Indonesia’s top Islamic clerics object to US LGBTQ rights envoy’s visit
[BenarNews] Indonesia’s top Moslem holy manal body on Thursday spoke out against a planned visit by the American LGBTQ rights envoy, saying it would not welcome a guest "whose intention is to undermine our nation’s cultural and religious values."

Same-gender sex is not a criminal offense in Indonesia except in its Aceh province, but the world’s most populous Moslem-majority nation has seen growing anti-LGBTQ sentiment.

Jessica Stern, the U.S. special envoy to advance the rights of LGBTQI+ persons, is scheduled to visit Indonesia on Dec. 7, after trips to Vietnam and the Philippines, the State Department said. LGBTQI+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex persons.

During her Southeast Asia trip, Stern will reportedly meet with government officials and civil society representatives to discuss "advancing the human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
of LGBTQI+ persons," the department said on its website.

The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) Deputy Chairman Anwar Abbas said the organization "categorically rejects the visit by the special envoy."

The MUI "cannot welcome a guest whose purpose in coming here is to damage and undermine the noble religious and cultural values ​​of our nation," Anwar said, calling homosexual behavior "dangerous."

"If this behavior is tolerated, it will lead to humanity’s extinction, because if men marry men and women marry women, they will not reproduce," he said.

MUI Chairman Cholil Nafis, a board member at Nahdlatul Ulama, the country’s largest Islamic organization, tweeted that Indonesian officials should "not to take the time to meet the LGBT envoy."

Indonesian Foreign Ministry front man Teuku Faizasyah said he had no details on Stern’s visit and declined to comment about the opposition to her trip.

Although same-gender sex is not illegal, discrimination against the LGBTQ community appears to be on the rise in the Southeast Asian country.

In May, the government summoned the United Kingdom’s envoy after the British embassy came under fire from conservative Moslem groups and politicians here for flying a rainbow flag in support of sexual minorities.

In Aceh, the only province that applies Islamic law in Indonesia, same-gender couples have been caned after sharia courts found them guilty of being intimate.

The Indonesian military, which bans same-gender sex as "inappropriate behavior," recently imposed seven-month prison sentences on two soldiers for having physical relations, according to Agence La Belle France-Presse news agency. In addition, the soldiers were kicked out of the army.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
rights activist muppets are concerned about the new draft criminal code bill set to pass this month that could criminalize so-called deviant sexual behavior and sex out of wedlock.

MUI’S STATEMENT ’DISRESPECTFUL’
Indonesia is not just the MUI, said Dede Oetomo, a university lecturer and LGBTQ rights advocate, who added that he had been invited to an online audience with the U.S. envoy next week.

"Indonesia is diverse. There are also people who are gay," Dede told BenarNews.

He called the MUI’s statement on Stern’s visit "disrespectful" and "not in accordance with the etiquette of international relations."

Andreas Harsono, an Indonesia researcher for the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said the MUI had no power to stop Stern from visiting Indonesia.

"In any good country, someone like Jessica Stern ... is welcomed to visit especially as she is going to talk about an important issue," he told BenarNews.

"LGBT rights — whether you like it or not — is a very important issue."
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/02/2022 00:10 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Devout Moslems

#1  Send Biden's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition


Posted by: Skidmark || 12/02/2022 3:53 Comments || Top||

#2  I can't that I blame them. They have the right to say to other governments, "No, sorry, not today, I'm busy, gotta wash my hair, bye".
If you're concerned about projecting cultural values on people, this is it.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/02/2022 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Agreed, I would have told them fuck right off also.
Posted by: Chris || 12/02/2022 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  People Assholes seem to think they have a "First Amendment Right" to demand that you drop whatever you were doing and pay rapt attention to their pet idiocy. Same sort of thing...
Posted by: magpie || 12/02/2022 16:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Deviants who, at another time, would have been tossed into a raging torrent and never heard from again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/02/2022 16:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Daniel Patrick Moynihan had this nailed 50+ years ago...defining deviancy down.

What happened to all that BS about all cultures being wonderful and equal, hmmmmmm?
Posted by: AlanC || 12/02/2022 17:00 Comments || Top||



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