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-Great Cultural Revolution
Project Veritas undercover video reveals dean of elite Chicago school bragging about handing out sex devises to students as young as 14 - and bringing a drag queen to 'hang out' during lessons about queer sex
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Joseph Bruno heads up the Francis W. Parker school in Chicago, which charges fees of $40,000 per student

  • Video by conservative news site shows him discussing a lesson held during Pride Week to teach students about queer sex

  • He said an LGBTQ+ Health Center was invited into the classroom and passed around dildos, butt plugs and lube to children aged between 14 and 18

  • School officials say Bruno was 'targeted' by Project Veritas, and that the site edited the video 'deceptively' and with 'malicious intent'

"You make it sound weird!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I was absolutely shocked by my lack of surprise at his appearance.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2022 16:32 Comments || Top||

#3  If I was an alumni of that school, I would send them a video of me burning my donation check. If I was a parent, there would be a lawsuit.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/09/2022 20:19 Comments || Top||


Fury as US Army Lieutenant Colonel calls cops on New Jersey mom who shared on Facebook a woke poster pushing polysexual and trans views at her seven-year-old daughter's school
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Telling her story on Tucker Carlson Tonight, New Jersey mother Angela Reading revealed how she was told she was being 'monitored' by local law enforcement

  • The supposed police probe came in response to her airing concerns about sexual preference posters at the unspecified school in North Hanover Township

  • In her post, published November 22, Reading alerted other parents of the posters' contents, which garnered the response from local law enforcement

  • The story has since generated pronounced public outcry, with parents now demanding decorated Lt. Col. Christopher Schilling hand in his resignation

  • Colonel Schilling is a senior staffer at the nearby McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst military base

  • He said that staffers were working with local police to 'monitor the situation' while ensuring 'the continued safety of the entire community.'
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [3 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Looks like the LTC needs to be read the law.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/09/2022 10:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like law enforcement needs to learn it also.
Posted by: Chris || 12/09/2022 10:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Fortunately in his role as LTC he was otherwise unburdened with petty military duties.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/09/2022 11:44 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ on that point. The size of a division staff circa 1945 was much smaller than those of today. For that matter the ratio of general officer to enlisted was much lower.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/09/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Was the good LTC dressed like a dog?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2022 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 13:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Searching the good colonel yields this announcement from NARA — whatever that is — as the first useful hit:

Summary
Lt. Col. Christopher Schilling, outgoing commander of 3rd Military Information Support Battalion, 4th Military Information Support Group, speaks to family, friends, leaders and the Soldiers of 3rd MISB during the battalion change of command ceremony on Fort Bragg, June 24. During the ceremony, Schilling relinquished command of the battalion to Lt. Col. Christopher Stangle.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 20:14 Comments || Top||

#8  He'll be buried from "Far-right" media attention in a nice sinecure at the Pentagon. Count on it
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2022 20:25 Comments || Top||

#9  He vehemently defends the rights of all Americans to molest his kids. Deploy him to Syria and his kids will be better off.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/09/2022 20:50 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
The TSA plans to take facial recognition technology nationwide
[FOX] The Transportation Security Administration has been testing facial recognition technology as an option for travelers at select U.S. airports for years, touting it as a way to speed up identity verification at security.

But now, the federal agency is poised to implement the system nationwide, causing alarm for privacy advocates and other critics who say the facial scanning systems bring a flurry of concerns.

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 00:04 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


Watch: Montana community heroically rescues horses trapped in deep, icy pond
[FoxWeather] Yep.
Tow strap and a tractor.
Often it's a recovery, not a rescue.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  If it had been an unvaccinated person, they would not have left the station.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/08/2022 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  This time of years they would need two tractors for me.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/08/2022 16:12 Comments || Top||

#4  good men!
Posted by: 746 || 12/09/2022 0:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Sometimes two tractors ARE used.
Small one in front to break the ice to the bank with a big one chained in the back to pull it out.

That's for the $30k competition horses.
Your mileage may vary.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 8:55 Comments || Top||

#6  The human impulse to be kind to animals is laudable. But this fits in with Darwinism how exactly?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 9:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Scientists Confirm: Darwinism Is Broken
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 9:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Domesticated animals do not need to be hunted when food is needed, M., while domesticated dogs, cats, ferrets, and snakes, etc. help rather than compete for resources.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ I was thinking more along the lines of animals that are dumb enough to fall through the ice are probably not good gene pool material, TW.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||

#10  The gene pool is shifting...

Y chromosome may be disappearing in humans, new study finds


Instead of XY it's becoming X, Y not.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 10:17 Comments || Top||

#11  I was thinking more along the lines of animals that are dumb enough to fall through the ice are probably not good gene pool material, TW.

If you’re going to pull that higher level thinking stuff on me, M, there’s really nothing more to say. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2022 20:18 Comments || Top||

#12  I think you will be quite surprised by reality.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2022 23:15 Comments || Top||

#13  Textbook.

Mercek. Don't be a dumb fuck.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/09/2022 23:31 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Peru Arrests Communist President for Coup Attempt, Inaugurates Sixth President in as Many Years
[Breitbart] Dina Boluarte became Peru’s sixth president since 2016 late on Wednesday following the impeachment and arrest of now-former President Pedro Castillo, a widely unpopular communist who had attempted to dissolve the nation’s Congress and invalidate the Constitution on the same day.

Castillo became president in July 2021 after a month-long vote counting and contesting process, allegedly defeating conservative rival Keiko Fujimori by about 0.5 percent of the vote. Fujimori – daughter of currently imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori – accused Castillo’s communist Free Peru party of extensive fraud, but her claims did not result in any changes to the election results.

Free Peru is a far-left political party whose political platform included praise for Russian communist Vladimir Lenin and longtime Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Castillo had attempted to distance himself from his own party’s platform during the campaign, a move that eventually proved unnecessary as three-time failed presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori’s unpopularity ultimately decided the election.

Keiko Fujimori’s Popular Force party retained control of Congress, however, and was on its third attempt to impeach Castillo on Wednesday when he attempted to dissolve the institution and impose a national curfew. Popular Force had, throughout the past year, received growing support from members of other parties, including Free Peru, in its bid to remove Castillo. Free Peru had, failing two impeachment bids, began supporting a measure to shorten presidential terms, as none of the past four presidents had completed a full term in office anyway.

This time, Castillo moved to dissolve Congress – effectively attempting to annul the results of the latest round of legislative elections – shortly before lawmakers had planned to vote on ousting him from office. The Peruvian Constitution allows Congress to very easily impeach and remove a president for almost no reason. Lawmakers can choose to remove a president if Congress agrees that he or she is suffering from “permanent moral incapacity,” a term the Constitution does not define. The Constitution also specifically identifies “dissolving Congress” as a valid reason for impeachment.

On Wednesday afternoon, prior to his third impeachment vote, Castillo issued a national address in which he announced that he had ordered Congress to no longer exist.

“[I issued an order] to dissolve temporarily the Congress of the Republic and install an emergency government,” Castillo announced, “to convene as soon as possible elections for a new Congress with constitutional faculties to draft a new constitution in a time spanning no more than nine months.”

Castillo also announced that he would dissolve the entire judiciary, effectively firing the nation’s judges, the attorney general, and all judiciary officials.

“From now on and until a new Congress of the Republic is installed,” Castillo announced, “governing will happen through executive orders”:
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 08:42 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [3 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  For the chaos that is Peru one only needs to read the works of Mario Vargas LLosa, perhaps Latin America's finest modern novelist.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 12/09/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Love his stuff. Must reads.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  There is nothing as embarrassing as calling for a coup and discovering that you are much less popular than you understood yourself to be.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/09/2022 20:27 Comments || Top||

#4  "We stand united to fight this!!!"
"Oops!"
*looks back at vacant ground*

"Hey, um guys?"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/09/2022 20:38 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Fatal inferno sweeps through Moscow shopping mall: One person dead as building EXPLODES and collapses
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The massive blaze ripped through the Mega Khimki shopping centre near Moscow

  • It led to the collapse of part of the mall, which complicated firefighters' efforts

  • One person, identified by local media as Sergey Smurov, was killed in the blaze
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 09:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [5 views] Top|| File under:


Paul Whelan was handed over to Kremlin by FSB agent he thought was a friend - but who planted classified info on him: Former Marine travelled to Russia regularly for years and struck up friendships with soldiers over social media
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A sweet man, but perhaps a tad naive, despite being a Marine.
  • Paul Whelan, the US citizen imprisoned in Russia on spying charges, had been friends for 10 years with the FSB agent who handed him over to the Kremlin

  • The former Marine had been making regular trips to Russia, beginning in 2007, making contacts in the country's military through the social network VK

  • On one visit in December 2018, Whelan was found in a Moscow hotel room with a USB drive containing 'state secrets'

  • Whelan maintained that his friend, FSB officer Ilya Yatsenko, had set him up and that he was innocent

  • Following his arrest, Whelan was sentenced to 16 years hard time in a penal colony
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [4 views] Top|| File under:


Cyber
Blacklists, Secret Censorship Cabal Exposed at Twitter
[PJ] Independent journalist Bari Weiss took to Twitter on Thursday night to unload a second trove of internal memos and documents exposing how Twitter officials silenced the voices of prominent conservatives on the platform. Radio host Dan Bongino, Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya, and activist Charlie Kirk were among those Twitter censored or blacklisted, along with the popular "Libs of TikTok" account.

"A new #TwitterFiles investigation reveals that teams of Twitter employees build blacklists, prevent disfavored tweets from trending, and actively limit the visibility of entire accounts or even trending topics—all in secret, without informing users," Weiss, a former New York Times reporter, wrote. "The authors [of the Twitter Files] have broad and expanding access to Twitter’s files. The only condition we agreed to was that the material would first be published on Twitter."

She noted that Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who tried to shed light on how the Covid lockdowns were harming children, was on a "Trends Blacklist," meaning Twitter took action to ensure he would not appear in the Trending topics section of the platform.

Skipping down.

Kirk told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson that his Twitter account was averaging 150,000 retweets a day, but all of a sudden, “we fell off a cliff.” Engagement was down 95%, he said.

“I was called a conspiracy theorist,” he explained. “They convince you to stop talking about it.”

He noted that Twitter was treating his account “with more scrutiny and censorship” than Iran and other state sponsors of terror.

Weiss pointed out that “Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: ‘We do not shadow ban.’ They added: ‘And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.'”

“What many people call ‘shadow banning,’ Twitter executives and employees call ‘Visibility Filtering’ or ‘VF.’ Multiple high-level sources confirmed its meaning,” Weiss explained. One Twitter employee said, “Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool.”

The platform used VF to “block searches of individual users; to limit the scope of a particular tweet’s discoverability; to block select users’ posts from ever appearing on the ‘trending’ page; and from inclusion in hashtag searches.”

“We control visibility quite a bit. And we control the amplification of your content quite a bit. And normal people do not know how much we do,” one Twitter engineer told the team investigating the company’s internals. This was confirmed by two other employees.

“The group that decided whether to limit the reach of certain users was the Strategic Response Team – Global Escalation Team, or SRT-GET. It often handled up to 200 ‘cases” a day,'” wrote Weiss. “But there existed a level beyond official ticketing, beyond the rank-and-file moderators following the company’s policy on paper. That is the ‘Site Integrity Policy, Policy Escalation Support,’ known as ‘SIP-PES.'”

“This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others. This is where the biggest, most politically sensitive decisions got made,” she added.

Another Twitter employee revealed that this group handled “high follower, controversial” accounts for which there was “no ticketing or anything.”

“Think high follower account, controversial,” another Twitter employee told Weiss.

It was all “done without users’ knowledge,” Weiss said.

Townhall - How Twitter Blacklisted Conservative Accounts

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2022 01:12 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “This secret group included Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust (Vijaya Gadde), the Global Head of Trust & Safety (Yoel Roth), subsequent CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal, and others.

It's the "and others" we should be concerned about. This is a censorship committee. Where did the committee get their instructions and guidance.

What potentially controversial content or political messaging actually GAINED approval, and from whom ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2022 1:31 Comments || Top||


#3  These schizophrenic MAGA nutcases must be CONTROLLED!
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2022 2:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Conspiracy Theorists 27
LSM 0
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/09/2022 7:06 Comments || Top||

#5  A lot has changed, since 1962 -

“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962 goodreads
Posted by: Bobby || 12/09/2022 14:18 Comments || Top||


Think twice before downloading Lensa: AI selfie app's terms and conditions allow it to 'distribute' and 'use' your photos without 'any additional compensation'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Lensa AI uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create avatars with uploaded selfies

  • By accepting their terms, users give it permission to 'distribute' their photos

  • Cybersecurity experts warn some personal data could be given to third parties

  • It has also been accused of using 'stolen' art, as signatures appeared in avatars
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Facebook has the same conditions - when you upload an image you grant FB an unlimited royalty free non-exclusive license to use the image however they want.
I have no doubt Instagram has the same provision.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/09/2022 3:52 Comments || Top||

#2  If you're putting your entire life on shit sites like this, maybe you deserve what you get.
Posted by: Chris || 12/09/2022 10:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I would have to think once before I thought twice.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/09/2022 20:55 Comments || Top||


Economy
Companies ditch four-year degree requirement
[CampusReform] Campus Reform Higher Education Fellow Nicholas Giordano appeared on Wilkow! to discuss how major U.S. companies are dropping their requirement to have four-year degrees.

Degrees used to be a ’golden ticket’ into corporate America, "but then the businesses and the companies realized that the students are not coming in prepared for our workforce," Giordano said.

Colleges have not given students the tools they need to succeed, he argued. "What’s the point of a college degree when you can give students technical skills to do certain jobs?"

Companies used to have apprenticeships, where people started at low-level positions and worked their way up, Andrew Wilkow, host of the program, mentioned. "Something is happening in colleges that are making the graduates no longer desirable."

Giordano responded, "It’s because education has lowered standards for the last 30 years. Students have simply been cycled through the system where they haven’t learned how to write effectively, they don’t learn how to communicate with other people."

He further explained that companies are taking it upon themselves to train workers, because the universities are unreliable, as they incentivize laziness.

"Companies are saying, ’We need workers that are actually going to work.’" Gordano concluded. "How are these students going to be able to manage in the real life if they can’t sit there and take a class that’s hard?"
The wages of stressing wokeness and proper groupthink rather than critical thinking skills and technical skills. I think most colleges will be cutting staff by 50% or going full bankrupt in 10-15 years.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/09/2022 10:11 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "but then the businesses and the companies realized that the students are not coming in prepared for our workforce,"

That was never the intent. It was to pad the wallets of the academics and build bureaucratic empires within. They were aided by Human Resource offices within companies who were too lazy to make sure the applicants were qualified for the job because of SCOTUS and simply defaulted to 'credentialing' handed out by an ever expanding industry of paper mills, formerly know as 'higher education'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/09/2022 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  No longer a useful filter.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||

#3  provide assistance for trade school completion. None for college. Business can be learned in a trade school so can auto repair, a/c repair, barbering. Colleges should be for aesthetic learning and not gov't supported drivel. Persons should learn how to provide for themselves and be exposed to humanities,arts,poetry, etc as they want to pay for it.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 12/09/2022 15:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Most state schools began as Agricultural and Mechanical institutions, in other words, practical application. They should return to the practical. Leave the 'soft' stuff to private colleges.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/09/2022 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I knew someone that couldnt get a job because he didnt have a degree. After the degree he couldnt get a job that paid what he thot he was worth. So he got a masters. Still couldnt get that wage. Figured he needed a PHD...never caught on that practical experience is what they were looking for.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/09/2022 17:01 Comments || Top||

#6  The classic CLEP ad
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 17:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry. Wrong link
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 17:06 Comments || Top||

#8  CLEP ad
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 17:07 Comments || Top||

#9  I know someone that has a Master's in finace, working toward's his PhD. He's a cop.
(He does this because they'll pay for school, and he's knows he won't be a cop forever.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/09/2022 17:34 Comments || Top||

#10  At 44 years old I finished my CompSI degree. My pay immediately doubled. I could have taught every course I took. In my small country HS I took small engine repair, drafting and woodworking one semester a year.
Posted by: Papa Cooky || 12/09/2022 18:24 Comments || Top||


Europe
US to deploy additional troops to Estonia to strengthen defenses on NATO's eastern flank
[FoxNews] US Embassy in Tallinn said American troops are part of NATO's rotational troop deployment

The United States will deploy additional infantry troops to the Baltic country of Estonia "in the coming weeks" to strengthen defenses on NATO’s eastern flank, Estonian defense officials said Thursday.

The deployment consists of a U.S. infantry company — a unit typically consisting of 80 to 250 soldiers, Estonia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. That will be accompanied by the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, known as HIMARS, as well as associated command and control equipment and systems.

"This decision marks a significant enhancement of the U.S. rotational military presence in Estonia and the Baltic States, demonstrating the U.S.' long-standing commitment to the security of our region and greatly enhancing NATO’s posture," Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said.

Last week, Russia’s neighbor Estonia said it would acquire the advanced HIMARS to boost its defense capabilities in the Baltic country’s largest arms procurement project ever, worth more than $200 million.

In a separate statement, the U.S. Embassy in Tallinn said that the American troops are part of NATO’s enhanced rotational troop deployments agreed at the military alliance’s Madrid summit earlier this year.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 08:11 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [6 views] Top|| File under:


Officials predict more arrests over German far-right plot
[An Nahar] German officials say they expect more people to be detained in connection with an alleged far-right plan to topple the government that saw 25 people rounded up Wednesday, including a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a judge.

The plot was allegedly hatched by people linked to the so-called Reich Citizens movement, which rejects Germany's postwar constitution and the legitimacy of the government.

Georg Meier, the top security official in Thuringia state, told public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk on Thursday that he expects a second wave of people being detained as authorities review evidence.

Meier accused the far-right Alternative for Germany party of fueling conspiracy theories like those that allegedly motivated the plotters detained across the country this week.

Those held include a former Alternative for Germany politician, Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, who is also a Berlin judge. The party condemned the alleged coup plans.

Also detained was Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss, whom prosecutors consider one of the two ringleaders of the plot. The 71-year-old member of the House of Reuss continues to use the title of 'prince' despite Germany abolishing any formal role for royalty more than a century ago.
What does abolishing the monarchy have to do with hereditary titles? When we lived in the little town of Bad Soden am Taunus in the hills above Frankfurt, there was a Gräfin (countess) who lived around the corner from us in a comfortable house no bigger than our own 150 square meters, and with a similarly small garden. But every morning her personal flag went up the rooftop flagpoles to show she was in residence, and I seem to recall that despite being retired Gräfin was still legally part of her name, just as in Germany getting a doctorate makes that legally part of your name ever after, whether of philosophy, medicine, law, or whatever else doctorates are given for. Why would a prince be any different? Our Gräfin was lovely, and insisted we address her by first name, quite enjoying our traditional American informality.
Some in Germany have questioned whether the suspected gunnies would actually have been able to pull off any serious attack.

But Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, said it would be wrong to underestimate such groups, especially if their members include people who are trained to use firearms, such as soldiers or coppers.
Back in the old days in Germany, even Jewish lawyers like my grandfather had guns and were trained in their use. In fact, my grandfather had earnt an Iron Cross in WWI as a gunnery sergeant, and he and his faithful hunting dog took to the woods every autumn, hunting game and poachers with equal enthusiasm.
The head of Germany's Federal Criminal Police, Holger Muench, said officers searched about 150 locations across the country. At about 50 locations they found weapons, he told public broadcaster ZDF late Wednesday, without elaborating.

Muench said he expected the raids and detentions to continue in the coming days.

Thomas Haldenwang, who heads Germany's domestic intelligence agency BfV, said authorities had been monitoring the group since the spring of this year.

The threat posed by the group had gradually become more concrete as members had obtained weapons, he said.

Germany is highly sensitive to far-right extremism because of its Nazi past and repeated acts of violence carried out by neo-Nazi
...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both....
s in recent years, including the killing of a regional politician and the deadly attack on a synagogue in 2019.

Two years ago, far-right gunnies taking part in a protest against the country's pandemic restrictions tried and failed to storm the Bundestag building in Berlin.
Dawn adds:
The group is thought to be made up of supporters of the "Citizens of the Reich" (Reichsbuerger), an ideological movement in Germany that encompasses far-right Death Eaters, conspiracy theorists, and gun enthusiasts.

The Reichsbuerger generally believe in the continued existence of the pre-World War I German Reich, or empire, under a monarchy and several groups declared their own states.

The group planning the plot had been under surveillance since the spring, Thomas Haldenwang, Germany's domestic security chief, told the RTL broadcaster.

"This is the first time a nationwide network has been set up with very concrete plans," he added, stressing that there were "plans to overthrow the government, plans to actually implement an overthrow".

There are around 21,000 Reichsbuerger in Germany, he said, around 10 percent of whom are considered likely to use violence.
Posted by: Fred || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The author or his editor deserves accolades - this is the one of the few current articles about Reichsbürger out of hundreds that didnt include qanon.

I still havent ELI5 why these people were arrested. So far it's been cited: guns + they reject Germany's postwar constitution / legitimacy of the government.

To me, it looks like Security Services monitored the Chans/chat room, found some people who talk about the pedos in govt, how govt is overall bullshit & sucks (which is par for the Chans course, raided their houses, found guns - then blamed the unicorn known as qanon for radicalization, and not Open Borders/Open Society, not Woke Cancel Culture, etc.

Will be interesting to see when all the facts find sunlight.
Posted by: mossomo || 12/09/2022 13:07 Comments || Top||


Hundreds of special forces occupied positions in the north of Kosovo and Metohija
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] The Serbian edition of "Novosti" said that hundreds of special forces in armored vehicles are located in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. Thus, the prime minister of the unrecognized state, Albin Kurti, "moved to the final stage of the occupation of the north of Kosovo and Metohija."

It is noted that from 200 to 300 special forces took up positions and blocked Kosovska Mitrovica. According to the Brussels agreements, the Kosovo police have no right to enter the Serb-populated north of the province without the permission of the leaders of the four regions.

As REGNUM reported , the special forces of the Kosovo police left the northern part of the province on December 6 after clashes with the Serbs.

Serbian Cabinet says Kosovska Mitrovica occupied after police invasion

[REGNUM] The police invaded the north of Kosovo and Metohija. There are about 350 of them, the Serbian government said.

Law enforcement officers occupied Kosovska-Mitrovica. In Belgrade, they are going to send about a thousand employees of law enforcement agencies to the city to ensure security.

As REGNUM reported , tensions are rising in Kosovska Mitrovica, where Serbs live. People gather on the streets, shops and cafes are closed. The northern part of Kosovo was blocked by special forces.

Posted by: badanov || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are these 'elite' special forces?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Meh special forces. Bath House Barry's "JV."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 9:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
University stonewalling release of public records on federal censorship collusion: lawsuits
[JustTheNews] University of Washington gives no explanation for 5-month minimum to provide its "misinformation" center's communications with feds, Election Integrity Partnership members, watchdog says.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 10:51 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [9 views] Top|| File under:


Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democratic Party, registers as independent
[FoxNews] Kyrsten Sinema, in a Friday op-ed in the Arizona Republic, cited increasingly partisan interests and radicalization of both political parties as the reason for her departure.

The senator has been the target of extensive intra-party mudslinging for not falling in line with the rest of her party on key issues — most notably, refusing to abolish the filibuster.

"When politicians are more focused on denying the opposition party a victory than they are on improving Americans’ lives, the people who lose are everyday Americans," Sinema wrote in the op-ed.

The true ramifications of Sinema's departure are yet to be known — more consequential than senators' party affiliation is their caucusing and legislative objectives.

Sinema has not stated whether she will continue caucusing with the Democrats, but sources have told Fox News that she will maintain her committee assignments via the Democratic Party.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/09/2022 08:04 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good, I bet Schumer is on fire!!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/09/2022 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  His hair, such as it is, anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Mostly theater for the 2024 stage. Stoke those conservative hopes she will be reasonable to deter the efforts of Lake et al to mount an early challenger.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/09/2022 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  if Kari Lake is still taken seriously by any Republicans in Arizona, they get what they deserve.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ I look forward to the same hate I got (not here) about calling out Larry Elder as a bad candidate.

The truth hurts. Suck it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Sinema knows that Kerry Lake is going to explose the corruption in AZ that got her elected and wants to get as far away from it as possible.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/09/2022 13:28 Comments || Top||

#7  In the theatre of m. Murchek's mind, we're still a nation of laws, and everyone is on the level.
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/09/2022 18:23 Comments || Top||

#8  She was more autonomous as a Democrat than Bernie has been in his career as an independent. When Hillary told him to sit in the corner, he say in the corner.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/09/2022 20:36 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
'Investigative Genetic Genealogy' - What is it and how does it help solve crimes?
[FOX] As the investigation into the murders of four University of Idaho students enters its fourth week, law enforcement is likely now trying to identify the killer through investigative genetic genealogy, a novel field that combines cutting-edge DNA analysis with traditional genealogical research.

Authorities collected 113 pieces of physical evidence at the scene for testing by Idaho State Police Forensic Services, which have been "working 24/7 in the lab" to try to get results as quickly as possible.

Investigators typically will first compare unknown DNA samples from the crime scene to the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a database that contains genetic samples of known offenders, using traditional STR DNA analysis.

"It's pretty quick to compare against CODIS. Had they gotten a match, I think they probably would have arrested by now, so I think we can assume that they are at least looking at using investigative genetic genealogy," CeCe Moore, the chief genetic genealogist at Parabon NanoLabs, told Fox News Digital.

"It just depends how quickly they learned they didn't have a match in CODIS as to when that would have been done."

If the traditional STR DNA analysis doesn't come up with a match in CODIS, then investigators can analyze more than half a million DNA single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, to identify possible distant relatives of the unknown suspect.

Genetic genealogists can then reverse engineer the unknown person's family tree using traditional genealogy and narrow it down to a potential suspect.

Once law enforcement has identified a suspect using genetic genealogy, it will generally try to secretly obtain a fresh DNA sample to confirm a lead.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2022 04:52 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You are wondering now, if a popular Ancestry DNA database company is selling or providing match up data to the FED's? Like a popular Global Internet Cookie Tracking site or Social Media does now to the FED's.


Remember, NO Warrant is needed to purchase Publicly collected information.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/09/2022 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  It's only "your data" until someone else gets their hand on it and sells it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3 
"You're under arrest, Jack Joules!
Dee-enn-aayy, you idjit!
You left it in half-eaten venison!
[cuffs clink, people clap, photo moment]
"Oh, by the way, you douchebag!
You're related to R. Waldo Emerson."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/09/2022 8:39 Comments || Top||

#4  DNA-Away. Anything from ammonia to WD-40 will do it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2022 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  "Mr. Fudd. We must tell you that your GeneAssay™ had 'risk factors'. Sorry, we can't insure you so no jobs are available."
Posted by: magpie || 12/09/2022 20:35 Comments || Top||


FDA Statements on Ivermectin Not Supported by Cited Studies
[Epoch Times] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says a drug called ivermectin does not work against COVID-19 but links to studies that show it does, an Epoch Times review has found.

The FDA’s website states, "Currently available data do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19."

But half of the studies to which the FDA points support using ivermectin against COVID-19, according to the review.

The papers cut against the drug agency’s repeated exhortations for people not to take ivermectin for COVID-19. In Twitter posts, public statements, and emails, FDA officials have repeatedly warned against ivermectin. Some of those statements triggered a lawsuit from doctors who say the agency’s role is to approve drugs, not to issue recommendations. The suit was dismissed this week.
The article includes a list of studies. I noted several that did not support Ivermectin were limited, such as mild cases, or time to resolution. Many did not have combination therapies, further limiting results.
Bangladeshi researchers reported the results from the trial of 363 participants on May 13, 2021, in the Journal of International Medical Research.

"Patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19 infection treated with ivermectin plus doxycycline recovered earlier, were less likely to progress to more serious disease, and were more likely to be COVID-19 negative by RT-PCR on day 14," they said. PCR has been used to test for COVID-19.

Another paper, published on July 7, 2022, in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, found that that ivermectin decreased the level of COVID-19 and its viability. Israeli researchers in the randomized, controlled, open label trial compared 47 patients who received ivermectin against 42 who received placebos and said that "ivermectin significantly reduced the time of viral shedding and affected viral viability when initiated in the first week after evidence of infection."

"There were lower viral loads and less viable cultures in the ivermectin group, which shows its anti-SARS-CoV-2 activity," the researchers said.

The FDA does not cite studies on its website to support its statement that data "do not show ivermectin is effective against COVID-19."

"Clinical trials assessing ivermectin tablets for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19 in people are ongoing," the agency adds, providing a link to the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s database.

Of the 88 studies listed there, 56 fall under one of three categories: have not been completed, were completed but results have not been reported, or were completed and have since been retracted or otherwise withdrawn.
So that's 56 more studies 'that do not support the use of Ivermectin! You are NOT a horse!!
Of the remaining 32, 16 found or indicate ivermectin is effective as a COVID-19 treatment or prophylactic, according to the Epoch Times review.
You can review the completed studies (summaries) at the link.Maybe you can understand the FDA's reluctance.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/09/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  JUDGE FOR YOURSELF:

POPULATION.
USA 334,805,26
INDIA 1,406,631,776

COVID-19 Infections/Deaths
USA 101,213,638 / 1,109,394
INDIA 44,675,509 / 530,653

USA used mRNA vaccines.
INDIA mainly used Ivermectin.







Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/09/2022 7:54 Comments || Top||

#2  They didn’t think anyone would check.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/09/2022 20:52 Comments || Top||



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