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IDF troops raid Hamas command center, destroy weapons depots in Khan Younis
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Epstein 'sought baby farm' so elites could impregnate underage girls
[WND] Not unlike multiple previous — and failed — social ideologies about a "super race" of citizens on earth, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reportedly wanted to set up a baby farm at his New Mexico ranch.

The purpose would have been to allow underage girls to have the children of those elites in society, those with money and influence.

"According to a report published at SenseofTruth, Epstein's "twisted desire" included "impregnating numerous underage girls at his expansive property, aiming to 'seed humanity' with not only his own DNA but also that of his influential associates."
Those not selected to participate can have their DNA and longevity altered via other means.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 02:09 || Comments || Link || [37 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Epstein's Jungmannschaften by another name? Sounds preposterous, but I suspect this merits looking into a bit further.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 2:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Teenage pregnant girls have higher rates of high blood pressure and preeclampsia, low birthweight babies, STDs, and postpartum depression, according to WebMD.

A jailbait harem is a nice fantasy, for those who fantasize about such things, but if spreading their DNA is the plan, young adults are a much better bet for creating top quality offspring. Of course, the kind of girl who would sign up for the gig is less likely to be the kind to mother super-successful offspring —as the world measures such things — but I have the impression none of the men involved were really thinking this thing through.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2024 2:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Ghislaine's father certainly had an inventive, entrepreneurial mind. Perhaps some of it rubbed off ?

Guardian article link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 2:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Mr. Gates, you had a phone call.

Gates: Who was it?

Dunno. She didn't leave her name. Was it one of your daughters?

Gates: Ahhhhhhhh
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/16/2024 4:08 Comments || Top||

#5  A jailbait harem is a nice fantasy

What she said, but more...
Consider access to DEI indoctrination camps for 'pre-screened', precocious and promiscious members of all sexes for DNA mixing and inoculation. Then look at any local university.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 5:50 Comments || Top||


#7  Can we drop this anti-Semitic discourse, please? All it does is promote hate and false stereotypes.
Posted by: Blinky Unans5135 || 01/16/2024 10:25 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Miami police launch crackdown on supercar street takeover as they flood street and shut down huge 'wheels up, guns down' event that saw 61 arrested in their pimped-up rides
[Daily Mail, where America gets news]
  • Officers swooped on the takeover near Miami International Airport in Florida'

  • Video shared by cops shows a caravan that stretched for over a hundred yards

  • Police made 61 arrests, issued 363 citations and found several cars were stolen
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Like there isn't enough for the Miami police to do.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 5:58 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Hulk Hogan reportedly helped teenager out of a car wreck after witnessing highway crash in Florida
[Blaze] Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan witnessed a car accident and helped the teenage driver out of the wreck, according to a report from TMZ.
Lifted the car off the driver?
Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, was driving with his wife, Sky Daily, and a friend on a highway in Clearwater, Florida, when they saw the crash, according to the report.

The former wrestler and his friend helped the 17-year-old teen get out of her car by popping the airbag and unbuckling her seatbelt.

TMZ obtained photos from the crash, and they showed the teenager's car completely upside down. They also show Hogan and his wife looking on as paramedics arrived.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 08:56 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hulkamania - still running wild, brother!
Posted by: Raj || 01/16/2024 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I read somewhere he's come to grips with his mortality and is attending church regularly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  if you meet Buddha on the path kill him
"love one another as I have loved you"
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/16/2024 14:26 Comments || Top||


Navy fires nuclear submarine captain because of 'a loss of confidence in his ability to command' as investigation is launched
[Daily Mail, where America gets news]
  • Captain Geoffry Patterson suddenly relieved of command of the USS Georgia

  • Navy said he was under investigation but wouldn't give more information
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Used wrong pronouns?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/16/2024 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Use of wrong pronouns will get you a one-way ticket to Fort Leavenworth.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/16/2024 1:53 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm reminded of a TV series, The Last Resort.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 5:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Previously, this month: "The Navy relieved two commanding officers on Wednesday — both due to loss of confidence in their abilities to command.
Both Capt. Michael D. Nordeen, commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock Mesa Verde, and Cmdr. Alexa Jenkins, commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer Carney, assumed command of their respective ships in the summer of 2022."
It seems this is a once a month occurance.

Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 || 01/16/2024 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Political purge.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 01/16/2024 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Yep, sure has the smell of one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 8:02 Comments || Top||

#7  All three are Commanding Officer's of sea-going vessels, where the confines of shipboard life compress potential personnel frictions and petty behavior. I wonder if the back-channel Master Chief telegraph played a role, or over-played a role?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/16/2024 14:19 Comments || Top||

#8  If it is a purge, we know who to call back.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2024 15:46 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Frigid conditions across US limiting some MLK Day events
[TheHill]

I gotta get the bread and milk !
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 09:10 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Might be a good time to pick up a couple of used Teslas, for a really good price.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/16/2024 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Fair weather civil rightsists.
Others just don't care.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  My boss bought KFC for lunch yesterday - does that make him insensitive?
Posted by: Raj || 01/16/2024 10:10 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Only if he ordered.... white meat.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Don't think of him as a breast man.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 18:22 Comments || Top||


Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here'
[FoxBusinessNews]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should not surprise anyone.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Should make it 'law' that owners have to stay with their EVs at charging stations, for safety reasons. We know the vehicles can catch fire and endanger others.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2024 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Yeah, most of the newer rechargeable batteries (except the lead-acid types) typically need to be at a certain temperature or above before they'll take a charge due to their chemistry.

The above is probably not noted in the sales brochure though, unless it's in really fine print.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/16/2024 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, imagine the fun when EV owners start trading "how to warm your battery in winter" tips.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/16/2024 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Wonder when the car jackers will run down the lines breaking windows.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 8:46 Comments || Top||

#6  3 Open Research Challenges

1. How many 100's of $Billion$ in just US Taxpayer $$$$ were used to promote and support this EV driven Climate/Earth Solution Scam?

2. Guesstimates for Worldwide environmental and ecosystem damages done due to exploration, mining, production and use vs. typical Fueled vehicles?

3.Name who got rich in the DC Swamp off the EV scam?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/16/2024 8:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Noticed liberal medical couple next door didn't drive their EV to work today (10 degrees at 8:30am).
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 01/16/2024 9:28 Comments || Top||

#8  The Dallas Morning News has a small, front-page article about the Feds dropping another $15 million for charging stations. Ironic.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/16/2024 10:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Electric Vehicles being abandoned on the street of Chicago is like when that store got looted of everything except the Bud Light display.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2024 17:22 Comments || Top||



-Land of the Free
Utah firefighter plunges into partially ice-covered pond to save dog, video shows
Got his Cold Water Rescue cert.
[FoxNews] A Utah fire district has released video of a firefighter plunging into an icy pond to rescue a dog that was stuck in the frigid water and unable to climb out over the weekend.

Firefighters with the North Davis Fire District responded to Steed Pond in Clearfield after a dog named Bob found itself trapped in the partially ice-covered lake, fire officials said.

"Bob the dog loves the water but the ice shelf prevented him from being able to get out after his polar plunge," the fire district wrote on Facebook.

A firefighter named Logan put on a dry suit and was hooked up to a rope rig before crawling across the snow-covered ice on the lake toward Bob, who was able to keep his head above the freezing waters.

Logan’s crewmates readied themselves on the banks and once he grabbed a hold of Bob, they pulled the pair over the ice shelf to safety onto the more solid ice. Bob was seen shaking off the cold water and running toward his owners.

Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 09:56 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How its done. Scritches all around.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2024 14:03 Comments || Top||


Navy will name a new destroyer after Second World War hero dubbed the 'human tugboat' after he dragged raft full of 15 injured sailors through shark-infested Pacific waters using rope tied around his waist
[Daily Mail, where America gets news]
  • Charles Jackson French was a member of the US Navy during Second World War

  • He saved 15 shipmates by swimming in shark-infested waters in Solomon Islands

  • He was 22 and a mess attendant on the USS Gregory when it was sunk by Japan
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 07:17 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We are going to miss truly heroic and masculine men after they are all gone.
Posted by: Tom || 01/16/2024 14:41 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Xi Jinping is in a battle with China's own military, and the outcome could drag the US into WWIII
[MSN]
  • Xi Jinping is in a struggle with China's military, purging senior commanders to reshape it.He wants generals ready and willing to go to war, analysts told Business Insider.

  • A Chinese invasion somewhere like Taiwan could drag the US into a Third World War, one analyst said.


Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 06:23 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Well yeah, now that Milley's gone.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 8:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Literally conspiracy theories.
Posted by: Blinky Unans5135 || 01/16/2024 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  there is a lot of corruption in the Chinese military with ghost soldiers, stolen equipment, etc.

Posted by: lord garth || 01/16/2024 11:01 Comments || Top||


Kim Jong Un successfully tests his first hypersonic IRBM missile days after vowing to annihilate South Korea
[Daily Mail, where America gets news] Kim Jong Un successfully test-fired his first hypersonic IRBM missile over the weekend, Pyongyang said, days after vowing to annihilate South Korea.

The launch of the new ballistic missile - tipped with a hypersonic manoeuvrable warhead - is North Korea's latest breakthrough in its pursuit of advanced weaponry to threaten South Korean and US targets.

The launch, Pyongyang's first known weapons test this year and its first ever test of a solid-fuel hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), was detected by Seoul's military Sunday afternoon.

A short report in the official Korean Central News Agency said that the solid-fuel IRMB was 'loaded with a hypersonic manoeuvrable controlled warhead'.

The test was meant to verify 'the gliding and manoeuvring characteristics' of the warhead and the 'reliability of newly developed multi-stage high-thrust solid-fuel engines', KCNA said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [22 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  North Korea abolishes agencies tasked with South Korean relations
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 5:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Conservative Favorite Kari Lake Campaigns for Trump in Sub-Zero Pella, Iowa on Caucus Night – The Parking Lot is Packed! (VIDEO)
[Gateway] Conservative favorite Kari Lake is campaigning tonight for President Donald Trump at the Iowa Caucus location in Pella, Iowa.

Kari will deliver a speech in support of President Trump during the caucus tonight.

For the record, Kari Lake was raised in Iowa!
A very likely Trump VP pick.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 07:56 || Comments || Link || [27 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Buy American Made! Buy the very best. Buy Pella.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  They misspelled Uniparty.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2024 8:26 Comments || Top||


78% of Iowa Caucus Goers See Charges Against Trump as Political Attacks – Up to 88% of Iowa Caucus Goers Believe Joe Biden Is Illegitimate President
[Gateway] FOX News host Sandra Smith went over the voter analysis tonight following the Iowa Republican Caucus.

President Trump handily won the Iowa caucus tonight by over 30 points over the next tow closest Republicans.

78 percent of the Monday caucus goers believe the Democrat lawfare charges against President Trump are politically motivated.

62% of the Iowa caucus goers see Joe Biden illegitimate in the FOX News polling.

But this number climbs to 88 percent in the CBS polling.
That’s a huge number that believes Joe is an illegitimate president!
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 07:51 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Iowa numbers would likely be dwarfed had the same poll been taken in Georgia (Fulton County excluded).
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 7:55 Comments || Top||


Tennessee files 'right to die' bill that could make it the first Republican state to approve legal euthanasia
[Daily Mail, where America gets news]
  • Lawmakers say the bill would allow terminally ill people in the state to end lives

  • They have tabled it after witnessing the suffering of some aging relatives
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [39 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. No argument here.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/16/2024 5:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd consider it, but I'm too busy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 5:51 Comments || Top||

#3  It's a great idea, especially if all Steve Cohen's voters go first.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/16/2024 7:01 Comments || Top||

#4  We'll rely upon the "integrity" of our professional medical people to administer this. Like Covid.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2024 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  The 'Army of the Tennessee.' They couldn't decide then, they can't decide now.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 8:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Most hospitals in the US are already allowing patients to die if the patient and family requests.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 01/16/2024 9:25 Comments || Top||

#7  i'm 87 and i approve,unfortunately i am in ohio.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/16/2024 9:58 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Request denied IRB. You still have another 5-10 years of Burg comments to pen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 10:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Second
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2024 11:53 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ i dont know whether or not i appreciate those words
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/16/2024 14:19 Comments || Top||

#11  "The right to die" is oxymoronic.
Posted by: Hupaimp Phaper1371 || 01/16/2024 14:50 Comments || Top||

#12  Live long and prosper IRB :)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2024 15:45 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
'Son of Concorde' is finally unveiled: NASA pulls back the curtain on its 100-foot, $247million supersonic jet that replaces the loud sonic boom with a softer 'thump' and can travel from London to New York in under 4 hours
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 07:26 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:

#1  X-59 has been developed by American aerospace firm Lockheed Martin after being awarded the $247.5 million design contract by NASA in 2016.

It looks like a dart dart a needle nose.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/16/2024 9:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Can't remember ever getting in that big a hurry to get to London.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/16/2024 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Maybe away from London.
To Pope, not NYC.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 9:53 Comments || Top||

#4  go 2nd class and go more often
leroy graham boat builder
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/16/2024 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  If I had the resources, I would have for the sheer novelty, at least once.

My question would be, how many modern physiques could fit on one?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2024 13:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Four hours by jet vs 30 minutes by Musk's Rocket Shuttle.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/16/2024 21:37 Comments || Top||


Doomed $108million NASA-backed Peregrine One lander is now hurtling towards Earth after failing to land on the moon
[Daily Mail, where America gets news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [26 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Your tax dollars at work again. And surely with this failure, they'll throw even more money at it.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/16/2024 5:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder where it's gonna hit.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/16/2024 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Channels movie 1941 - "Hollywood"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/16/2024 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  NASA - Not A Space Agency...
Posted by: Old Salty || 01/16/2024 12:43 Comments || Top||

#5  #1. Or, they'll use this failure as a reason for further efforts to regulate/restrict private space exploration.
Posted by: Crusader || 01/16/2024 15:26 Comments || Top||



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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
Sat 2024-01-13
  Hezbollah condemns US strikes that killed five in Yemen
Fri 2024-01-12
   US and UK strike against Houthi targets across Yemen as turbans flee
Thu 2024-01-11
  Iranian missile fired during IRGC exercise hit petrochemical facility
Wed 2024-01-10
  Berri says Israel violating all rules of engagement, Mikati says Lebanon ready to negotiate
Tue 2024-01-09
  IDF says it located the largest weapons production site since the beginning of the war
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  Israel preparing for war against Lebanon
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  Hezbollah claims 40 rockets fired from Leb at northern Israel
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  Iran detains 11 suspects in connection with the terrorist attack in Kerman, US sez it’s ISIS-Khorason
Fri 2024-01-05
  Islamic State claims responsibility for attacks in Iran, death toll revised down to 84
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  Death toll of the terrorist attack near a cemetery in Iran more than 200 people
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  At least 103 killed in Iran 'terrorist attack' at event honoring Soleimani
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