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Did Alex Baldwin Put a Live Round In The Prop Gun?
[KRQE] Search warrant issued for Alec Baldwin’s cell phone in ’Rust’ investigation

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has issued a search warrant for Alec Baldwin’s cell phone Thursday as they continue to investigate the fatal shooting on the "Rust" movie set.

The sheriff’s department wants to search Baldwin’s phone for any evidence relating to the death of Halyna Hutchins. "Affiant is requesting a warrant for the seizure and search of Alec Baldwins’ cell phone to search for any evidence relating to the death investigation of Halyna Hutchins," the affidavit states. "Affiant believes there may be evidence on the phone, due to individuals using cellular phones during and/or after the commission of crime(s). Such information, if it exists, may be material and relevant to this investigation."

The affidavit also includes details of Baldwin’s initial interview with the sheriff’s office. In the interview, Baldwin stated he had exchanged emails with Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the gun handler for the production, about what type of gun to use. He said Guitierrez-Reed showed him various guns and he had selected the Colt .45 revolver.

Investigators are piecing together what led up to the October shooting of cinematographer Haylna Hutchins. According to the affidavit, after a brief search of Hutchins’ phone, investigators found conversations about the production dating back to July 14. It states investigators believe gathering information prior to the film start date is essential for a full investigation.

The affidavit also includes details of Baldwin’s initial interview with the sheriff’s office. In the interview, Baldwin stated he had exchanged emails with Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the gun handler for the production, about what type of gun to use. He said Guitierrez-Reed showed him various guns and he had selected the Colt .45 revolver. "He said he requested a bigger gun, and she also showed him different styles of knives for the production," the affidavit states. "Alec was shown a Colt with a brown handle, and a cherry handle, and he ultimately chose the one with the brown handle."

In an interview with ABC’s Geroge Stephanopoulos in early December, Baldwin said he did not pull the trigger on the prop gun he was holding.

OPINION: To know what live rounds to bring on to the set for a particular prop gun, the perp would need to know what caliber the gun will be. AND a cell phone will show what numbers he called to get the ammo for the gun.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 12/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

"Baldwin said he did not pull the trigger on the prop gun he was holding."

His defense: The GUN did it all by itself?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/20/2021 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Gun Violence™
Posted by: Frank G || 12/20/2021 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  ..just like the SUV in Wisconsin.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/20/2021 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Managed to make Act of Valor without getting anyone killed.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/20/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
‘The Military Must Prepare Now for a 2024 Insurrection' – 3 Retired Leftist Generals Warn of a Civil War and ‘Another Coup Attempt' After 2024 Election
More on this story from two days ago.
[GatewayPundit] Three retired woke Leftist US Generals warned there could be a civil war and ’another coup attempt’ after the 2024 presidential election because of a ’politically divided military.’

Former Army Major General Paul Eaton (Senior Adviser to the now-defunct National Security Network, a progressive Washington, D.C.-based think tank), former Brigadier General Steven Anderson (His New York Times Op-Ed piece, "Save Lives, Save Energy") and former Army Major General Antonio Taguba (forced to retire after acting as a jihadi rights activist) made the claim in a Washington Post op-ed on Friday.

"As we approach the first anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, we — all of us former senior military officials — are increasingly concerned about the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election and the potential for lethal chaos inside our military, which would put all Americans at severe risk," the generals wrote.

"We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding next time," they added.

For the record, nobody involved in the January 6 protest has been charged with the Insurrection Act.
If you listen to someone they will usually tell you their intentions. They intend purge the military and make it theirs.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Three unemployed men of destiny awaiting eternally in the wings for their return call to greatness... and will toot their own horns in the media if no one else will.

Posted by: Tennessee || 12/20/2021 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Ouch, Tennessee. You’ve been sharpening your scalpels for that one.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/20/2021 0:27 Comments || Top||

#3  How many wars did you win, Summer Soldiers?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/20/2021 0:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Again - when was the first coup attempt?
Posted by: Raj || 12/20/2021 0:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Former Army Major General Paul Eaton

(WIKIPEDIA) He was then assigned to Iraq as Commanding General of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), where he was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004.[4]

Following the first Iraqi army battalion's graduation, their first mission received heavy casualties and raised questions about the efficacy of Iraqi soldiers trained under U.S. supervision. During an initial mission in April 2004 to assist U.S. Marines in Fallujah and under the supervision of a Marine advisory team, the Iraqi soldiers ran from the scene when they first were attacked by insurgents. "The convoy got stalled when one of the IAF soldiers driving one of the trucks simply jumped out and ran, leaving the truck running. This truck struck a civilian vehicle, creating a jam that prevented part of the convoy from moving. About 30 Iraqi soldiers were lost in this ambush. Some simply ran away, some sold their AK-47s and donned civilian clothes, and some had civilian clothes under their uniforms, so they simply took off their uniforms and ran." The Marine advisors managed to salvage the convoy and get them to safety, but with significant casualties. What was a battalion of 695 Iraqi soldiers has been reduced significantly with 30 casualties in the ambush, alongside 8 wounded, 24 combat deserters, 104 mutineers, 78 AWOL (absent without leave) and 170 on leave. This stands in contrast to the support of Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, whose remarks during the Iraqi battalion's graduation spoke of "high expectations that in fact they would help us bring security and stability back to the country."
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/20/2021 1:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Army Major General Antonio Taguba


(Wikipedia) Taguba is best known for authoring the Taguba Report, an internal United States Army report on abuse of detainees held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The report was leaked, then published, in 2004.[2] Taguba again made national headlines in June 2008 when he accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes in a preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture in American military prisons.[5]
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/20/2021 1:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Donkeys. Leading lions.
And now Jackasses leading screaming hyenas.

We Are Ruled By Asses
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/20/2021 1:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Former Brigadier General Steven Anderson

See Anderson's lawsuit against Flour for "wrongfull termination" filed in 2019...
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/20/2021 2:00 Comments || Top||

#9  How could they say more clearly they're planning on stealing the election again?
Posted by: Clulet Splat5443 || 12/20/2021 3:48 Comments || Top||

#10  ^In other words, who ever the Republican half of the country sends to Washington the Dems entend to prosecute and incarcerate?
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 12/20/2021 4:24 Comments || Top||

#11  John Scarne says the only course to take when you realize a game is crooked it to walk away.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2021 7:19 Comments || Top||

#12  In the Beltway's case, it will require a "flush the punchbowl" approach.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2021 7:20 Comments || Top||

#13  So some retired dude made famous by signing his name to a report decreeing the US Military as treating prisoners without dignity or process, is advocating taking prisoners and treating them without dignity or process.

Nice.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/20/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#14 

BTW:Read an article that said so far over 32,000 service personnel have been honorably discharged for refusing to be VAX'd.

Seems the Pro-America side will have a lot of well-trained personnel IF the need arises.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/20/2021 12:54 Comments || Top||

#15  I believe the pro Ameircan side has alot of trained personnel already. I've yet to meet many soy boy former soldiers I would worry about. Like you know say Vindman.
Posted by: Chris || 12/20/2021 14:04 Comments || Top||

#16 
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 12/20/2021 14:46 Comments || Top||

#17  There is nothing at all American about any of you Bidiots.
Posted by: newc || 12/20/2021 21:39 Comments || Top||

#18  If they steal another Election, let's just seal DC off from the rest of the nation and quarantine it and remove all comms.
Posted by: newc || 12/20/2021 21:40 Comments || Top||


Part 2: Damning New Details Emerge Exposing Massive Web Of Unindicted Operators At The Heart Of January 6
Part 1 can be seen here.
[RevolverNews] Six weeks ago, Revolver News published a blockbuster investigative report on Ray Epps
...apparent but unindicted FBI agent provocateur and bear hunter...
— a man who, more than any other individual, appears to be the key unlocking the question of active federal involvement in the so-called "Capitol Siege" of January 6th.

Out of all of the thousands of January 6’s protesters, and the thousands of hours of publicly available footage from that fateful day, Ray Epps has turned out to be perhaps the only person nailed dead to rights confessing on camera to plotting a pre-planned attack on the Capitol. On both January 5 and January 6, Epps announced multiple times, at multiple locations, his upcoming plot to breach the US Capitol. He then spent hours attempting to recruit hundreds of others to join him. On top of it all, Epps was seen leading key people and managing key aspects of the initial breach of the Capitol grounds himself.

As we explained in detail in our previous report, the FBI originally put Ray Epps’s face on its Capitol Violence “Most Wanted List” on January 8, 2021, just two days after 1/6. They offered a cash reward for information leading to his arrest. In fact, rank-and-file FBI agents initially deemed Epps’s role as an apparent riot organizer so important that they named him Suspect #16—one of the first 20 high-profile FBI targets in a database now packed with more than 500 suspects.

Then, six months later on June 30, 2021, both Revolver News and The New York Times published inconvenient stories that encouraged a more aggressive interrogation of the “Ray Epps third rail,” leading reasonable people to wonder why this publicly identified man on the Most Wanted List still had no charges filed against him.

The FBI responded to these important media stories the very next day. But their response was to quietly purge all online Ray Epps files from their website, then switch to a posture of “What? Who? Ray Epps? Never heard of him.”
A little long but worth a read.
Very thorough, with lots of photos and video clips.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Malian soldiers training
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
By Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] There was a photo where Russian PMCs who have recently come under European sanctions are training soldiers of the Mali government that has recently come under European sanctions. The training takes place against the backdrop of the reduction of the French military contingent in Mali and the transfer of the largest French military base in Mali into the hands of the Mali army.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 12/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
After Brest: Ukraine
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Airapetov

[Regnum] The real master of Ukraine was the commander of Army Group Kiev, Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn. He had about 250,000 people at his disposal. On March 28, 1918, he stated his opinion about the government very clearly: "People in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still do not understand that we should rule in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian government should dance to our tune."

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: badanov || 12/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Ghislaine Maxwell Trial: Evidence from Jeffrey Epstein's Safe Went Missing Following FBI Raid
[Gateway Pundit] In July 2019 the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein’s home in New York City. The FBI agents found damning information and evidence throughout his 7-story residence. The evidence included "numerous black binders" with white labels that had "clear pages containing thumbnail photos with CDs attached."

FBI agents also found several items in a safe including "binders with CDs, various items of jewelry, external hard drives, lose diamonds, large amounts of U.S. currency and passports."

The FBI later said the evidence in the safe went missing. Chris Wray’s FBI said they went back a few days later and the evidence had disappeared.

** The same FBI that ran a coup against the sitting US president based on completely made-up opposition party nonsense wants the American public to believe the Epstein evidence went missing and they had nothing to do with it.

** The same FBI that raided hundreds of homes of US patriots with dozens of armed agents this year for walking inside or near the US Capitol on January 6th, wants you to believe they had nothing to do with this missing evidence — after they were the last ones to see it.

** The same group that believes antifa is an idea but Trump supporters and conservative working Americans are domestic terrorists want you to believe they did not disappear the Epstein evidence.

** So the FBI went inside his home and took photos but did not confiscate the evidence?

Does anybody buy this?
Posted by: Threanter Angack6216 || 12/20/2021 07:11 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ghislaine Maxwell could start 'naming names' to prosecutors if she is found guilty of child sex trafficking charges at US court this week in a deal to cut her sentence or get better conditions in jail

On Friday she declined to give evidence in her defence, telling the judge: ‘The government has not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt so there is no reason for me to testify.’
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/20/2021 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Clever b!tch. Exactly the right legal strategy.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/20/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Generally, you have to make the deal first. Her lawyer is either really dumb or holding a royal flush.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2021 12:01 Comments || Top||

#4  "Has a Deal" for $600, Alex
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/20/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5 

No one seems to want to mention the fact that the Island Estate basements were FILLED to the brim with concrete.

Not an easy task hauling in several 1000 square yards of it by boat either?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/20/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes. Getting all the DNA out of there would be difficult. And gross.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/20/2021 13:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Obviously, Epstein removed the stuff shortly after he didn't kill himself.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/20/2021 17:30 Comments || Top||

#8  So the FBI went inside his home and took photos but did not confiscate the evidence?

"Confiscate" or.....secure potential evidence. Yes of course, of course !
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/20/2021 20:20 Comments || Top||


Gen. Flynn Persecutor Judge Emmett Sullivan Pivots to January 6 Defendants
[FrontPage] One week after his arrest, January 6, defendant Robert Geiswein was indicted by a federal grand jury. As Julie Kelly writes at American Greatness, Geiswein "has been behind bars ever since, denied bail while Judge Emmet Sullivan delayed his trial on numerous occasions." Embattled Americans might recall Sullivan from the trial of Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s pick for national security advisor.

"We should always remember that our country, was built upon Judeo-Christian values and principles," Flynn told the Republican convention in 2016. Hillary Clinton, Flynn said, "put our nation’s security at extremely high risk with her careless use of a private e-mail server." On the other hand, "Donald Trump recognizes the threats we face and is not afraid to call them what they are." That would be radical Islamic terrorists.

The "composite character" David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama did not want Gen. Flynn to become national security advisor. Obama then targeted Flynn to facilitate action against Trump.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/20/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This scumbag need to direct an Alex Baldwin movie.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/20/2021 8:37 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2021-12-20
  Death Toll In Fresh Bandits’ Attack On Kaduna Communities Rises To 38
Sun 2021-12-19
  2018 Bodh Gaya blast: 3 JMB terrorists get life imprisonment
Sat 2021-12-18
  ISIS-linked extremists decapitate Christian pastor in Mozambique
Fri 2021-12-17
  US Navy rescues Iranian drug smugglers from burning ship off coast of Oman
Thu 2021-12-16
  Libya PM's office surrounded by militia
Wed 2021-12-15
  Police foil Al-Shabaab's attempt to abduct Imam in Kenya Mosque
Tue 2021-12-14
  Taliban Seek Ties with U.S., Other ex-Foes
Mon 2021-12-13
  Four dead at funeral of Hamas member killed in Lebanon explosion
Sun 2021-12-12
  Warring Libyan Armed Forces Agree to Unite Army
Sat 2021-12-11
  Pakistani Taliban have called off a ceasefire mediated with the help of the Afghan Taliban
Fri 2021-12-10
  Bandits Raid Another Mosque In Niger State, Shoot 15 Worshippers Dead
Thu 2021-12-09
  French cops foil 'ISIS' Christmas knife rampage as they arrest two
Wed 2021-12-08
  Syria Says Israeli Warplanes Hit Latakia Port Containers
Tue 2021-12-07
  Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga retake northern village from ISIS fighters
Mon 2021-12-06
  Turkey Agrees to Withdraw Foreign Forces from Libya


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