[FoxNews] A truck driver from Virginia was arrested for allegedly shooting at another truck driver along Interstate 75 near Ocala, Florida, last week, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.
Deputies were called to a Love's Travel Stop for a report of shots fired during a road rage incident on March 3. The victim said he was driving a semi-truck southbound on Interstate 75 when Dylan Belleastin, 43, threw a water bottle at his truck.
"The victim pulled over to confront Belleastin but decided against it and drove away," MCSO said on Facebook. "Belleastin then continued to follow the victim and eventually pulled alongside him again, at which time he fired several shots toward the victim."
[i.Pining.com] As was told to me; "A preacher's wife was traveling to the store but was delayed by a long stretch of road construction. Carefully winding her way around heavy equipment and workers she finally made it to the end of the construction zone. When she returned home, she told her husband about the sign at the end of the repairs. They both had a good laugh. The sign read."
"End of construction - Thank you for your patience."
[Epoch Times] "I love our country, deeply. I don’t hold office; I’m not here to campaign or ask for votes. I’m here to ask you to join me in this fight for our freedom," Ms. Gabbard told about 250 people who gathered at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and Resort for a nonprofit group’s fundraiser.
The former Hawaii congresswoman and a second prior presidential hopeful, former Republican candidate Larry Elder, made remarks on March 7 at the 917 Society’s "Celebrating The Constitution" gala in the Grand Ballroom.
Unconstitutional acts are driven by people who are "willing to sacrifice our Republic, and our freedom, and our Constitution" for the sake of their "insatiable hunger for power," she said.
"We need to sound the alarm to those who aren’t yet hearing it; it’s what I’m dedicating my life to between now and November 5th," she said, drawing applause and cheers from the 917 Society. "I cannot overstate what is at stake in this election."
The all-volunteer group, which promotes awareness of the Constitution, is named for Sept. 17, Constitution Day.
The Society granted The Epoch Times exclusive access to the event and to Ms. Gabbard’s speech.
In deference to the Society’s nonpartisan status, Ms. Gabbard, as keynote speaker, made no explicit mention of President Trump or any other politician.
"I’m not here to tell you how to vote or who to vote for," she said. "I’m here to ask you and challenge you to encourage others to stand up and defend freedom ... to study the Constitution." Get over the paywall with - https://12ft.io/URL
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[Regnum] The head of the German Ministry of Defense, Boris Pistorius, warned members of the German government about a shortfall of about 6 billion euros in the Bundeswehr budget for next year. The German publication Bild reported this on March 9.
According to the source, the German Ministry of Finance under the leadership of Christian Lindner has approved 52 billion euros in military spending for 2025. Defense export officials have warned that to achieve the NATO target of 2% of GDP, military spending needs to be increased by at least €4.5-6 billion.
Bullets and spare parts are more expensive than they used to be, donchaknow. So what will they cut on the civilian side of the budget to get the needed funds?
In this regard, as Bild notes, Boris Pistourius informed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz about the difficult financial situation. At the moment, the Ministry of Defense is negotiating with the Ministry of Finance about providing additional funding, but there are no decisions on this issue yet.
It is noted that this year Germany intends to spend more than 73 billion euros on military needs, which amounted to 2.01% of the expected GDP.
As Regnum reported, in February Olaf Scholz said that in 2024 Germany would for the first time increase defense spending to 2% of GDP, while promising to adhere to the corresponding figure in future years. In addition, he called on other European countries to increase their military spending to meet these criteria.
[Red State] John Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Barack Obama (from March 2013 to January 2017), hates Donald Trump. Riddled with stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome, Brennan willingly allows the former president to live rent-free in his head, 24/7. Let's assume the bedeviled dude can't help it — and it makes him one of the most bitter people in the history of mankind. Curious about the Brennan-Obama symbiosis? Stick around, it's been discussed here on a near daily basis for almost fifteen years.
OK, that last part might be a bit hyperbolic, but there it is.
Anyway, the senior national security and intelligence analyst for equally Trump-loathing MSNBC told equally TDS-riddled host Nicolle Wallace on Thursday that the U.S. intelligence community might withhold "sensitive" intelligence information from Donald Trump after he presumably wins the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — which would break a 72-year tradition of sitting administration intelligence officials briefing presidential candidates of major political parties on such information.
Even more absurd was Brennan's hypocritical excuse for doing so.
In response to a new Politico article about how U.S. intelligence officials are allegedly planning to brief Trump but have reservations due to "his handling of classified information," Brennan told Wallace:
Now, I’m pretty certain that my former intelligence colleagues will provide briefings that are not going to do any type of damage to sources and methods in terms of providing information to Donald Trump that he could misuse.
But they will provide analytic overviews and briefings about some of the world’s hot spots, letting Donald Trump know what the assessments are at this point.
I think it’s going to be analysis that will be devoid of the sources and methods, the sensitive things that we are most concerned about, the types of things that were in all those documents that he had in the bathroom, and all those areas in Mar-a-Lago.
Withholding sensitive information should be expected from the CIA; it is not like they are going to give Trump an update on the spying operation against him.
#9
The CIA was created in the late 1940s from elements that existed in the US State Department and was led by Langer, a former State Department employee. It was decided by that time that in contrast to beliefs held by previous Secretaries of State that an intelligence agency was an albatross. but necessary. The CIA has proved to be that albatross, and now it will be up to President Trump to create a committee of experts who can propose decentralization of the CIA, and breaking up its various component parts. It has to be done.
#10
Candidate Trump — and indeed once he is again president — need not rely entirely on the CIA, etc for his information. It would be interesting for all involved should he add Rantburg, etc. to his voracious news reading list.
"The albatross as a superstitious relic is referenced in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's well-known poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It is considered very unlucky to kill an albatross; in Coleridge's poem, the narrator killed the bird and his fellow sailors eventually force him to wear the dead bird around his neck."
[Twitchy] The FBI hasn't exactly covered itself in glory these past several years. From stealing from homes while executing search warrants, to bad choices in pics representing 'organized crime', to stepping on rakes when honoring MLK, they've tarnished their reputation beyond repair.
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"The files also raise questions about whether the FBI pursued a larger, secret effort to encourage political violence in the run-up to the 2020 election. At least one undercover FBI agent and two informants in the Michigan case were also involved in stings centering on plots to assassinate the governor of Virginia and the attorney general of Colorado."
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Not from Glenn Greenwald, who left rich Progressive Paul Omidyar’s The Intercept in 2020 because they were limiting him to Democrat-supporting stories. He definitely dislikes the very idea of Israel, though.
Driver of £80k Jaguar I-Pace reveals moment he realised electric vehicle had gone rogue as it raced down motorway before police rammed it (and this isn't the FIRST time it's happened)
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[Regnum] On the night of March 9, a strong high-class M solar flare was recorded, the Institute of Applied Geophysics reported.
“An M1.3 flare lasting 13 minutes was recorded,” the institute told TASS.
The outbreak was recorded on March 9 at 00:26 Moscow time. According to space weather monitoring data, the impact of solar X-ray bursts on the Earth's ionosphere in the last 24 hours was at its lowest R1 level.
Solar flares, depending on the power of X-ray radiation, are divided into five classes: A, B, C, M and X, where A is the minimum class. When moving to the next letter, the power increases 10 times. Flares are accompanied by emissions of solar plasma, reaching the Earth, they can provoke magnetic storms.
As reported by IA Regnum, the last strong ejection of prominences on the Sun occurred on February 17, 2023, then its intensity was X2.2 points. In addition, on January 9, 2023, a strong X1.9 class flare occurred on the Sun.
Senior researcher at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Oleg Ugolnikov, in a conversation with Regnum news agency on December 15, 2023, said that auroras will be visible on Earth, which will be the result of another powerful flare on the Sun. He noted that the outbreaks do not have a direct impact on human health.
In February 2024, between 01:00 and 02:00 Moscow time, experts recorded the largest explosion in this solar cycle. The X6.3 class flare was the largest since 2017. A day earlier, on February 22, the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the IKI RAS announced two powerful solar flares in less than 12 hours.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"We need to sound the alarm to those who aren’t yet hearing it; it’s what I’m dedicating my life to between now and November 5th," she said, drawing applause and cheers from the 917 Society. "I cannot overstate what is at stake in this election."
[Daily Mail] Where America... etc, etc.
