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I agree with assessment of "sh**ting" as ambiguous spelling.
Confusing and silly. I think the point is to fool social media filters that don't want people to know about bad things happening in the wrong places.
I propose "kineticize" as an alternative. Example: Deshawn was kineticized by the clerk when he attempted to hold up the Stop & Rob at 9 am.. Or in noun form: Two people were mortified in a drive-by kineticization in Las Vegas today.
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Austin again.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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The Austin city council is big with 'defund the police'.
This has been obscured by the large number of state and federal facilities, which mean the DPS (state police) and Travis County have had to make up the difference.
Strange how, with lowering police budgets, there's not been any new services or tax lowering. Almost like somebody's just put the savings in their pockets...
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[Regnum] A significant surge in solar activity has been recorded on the Sun in less than a day, with 15 flares in total. This was reported on October 13 by the Solar Astronomy Laboratory at IKI and the Institute of Solar and Electrophysical Physics.
"Since midnight Moscow time, 15 solar flares have occurred, three of which were strong, at level M," the scientists commented.
The primary source of this activity is region 4246, which continues to exhibit instability. M-class solar flares are considered moderate-intensity events, but during periods of high activity, such as the current one, they can affect the Earth's magnetic field, triggering geomagnetic storms and interfering with satellites and communications systems. The current level of activity indicates the continued progression of a new solar cycle.
On October 12, a prominence of unusual size appeared on the Sun. Scientists speculate that the Sun is attempting to eject the prominence into space piece by piece, but so far all such attempts have been unsuccessful.
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[Regnum] The United States could face a major earthquake triggered by a tectonic fault running along the coast of three states: California, Oregon, and Washington. This was reported on October 13 by The New York Times (NYT), citing scientific experts.
Experts noted that, despite the well-known, frightening threat of a mega-earthquake along the San Andreas Fault in California, the Cascadia subduction zone is causing even greater concern among geologists.
The key source of stress is the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. Experts explained that this plate is trapped between two other tectonic plates and is currently experiencing tremendous pressure. This stress could lead to the creation of new faults, which, in turn, significantly increases the likelihood of a catastrophic seismic event in the western United States.
On October 11, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of the Philippines. At least seven people were killed and 11 others were injured. Approximately 8,500 people were affected by the earthquake, many of whom were quickly evacuated to safer areas by rescue services.
This man was dead set against President Trump sending the National Guard and allowing the police and military to flood Memphis, but seeing that crime is down and it’s been peaceful after one week by getting convicted murderers and armed felons off the streets. He now admits that… pic.twitter.com/xSVJANlzVu
[MSN-LinkedIn] A significant explosion occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems (AES) in Hickman County, Tennessee, around 7:45 a.m. on Friday, October 10, 2025. The incident resulted in the tragic deaths of 16 workers and destroyed a building on the premises.
AES is engaged in operations at a large multi-building facility located near McEwen, Tennessee, where it employs a significant workforce dedicated to explosive processing, storage, and related activities.
Public procurement databases and reports indicate that AES has a history of managing substantial federal contracts involving the handling and assembly of energetic materials.
Regulatory records and previous reports indicate that the site has been subject to scrutiny by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and has a history of incidents involving explosives.
State emergency officials have clarified that AES is involved in the processing of ammunition and explosives, rather than their manufacturing. This processing may involve tasks such as loading, assembling, and packaging energetic components that are obtained from external suppliers.
It is essential to note that, although AES does not manufacture these items, the processing activities can still result in production delays and bottlenecks, particularly if a facility experiences downtime.
The United States hasn't produced TNT since the 1980s and relies on imports for it.
Cheaper and safer — for us — to make in China, no doubt.
The invasion of Ukraine has increased global demand and strained supplies, resulting in broader constraints on NATO-aligned production lines.
The U.S. Army has contracted Repkon USA to build a TNT production facility in Kentucky, marking the return of domestic TNT manufacturing for the first time in decades.
Good to know.
Public updates indicate that construction and commissioning will take 3 years before production starts.
Contracts related to TNT typically involve activities such as procurement, handling, or integration of charges and components, rather than the actual manufacturing of TNT.
According to public contracting records and industry reports, AES plays a significant role in the processing and integration of these components, which is distinct from the synthesis of TNT itself.
Since 2022, global shortages of TNT and energetic precursors have significantly impacted ammunition production in allied countries. This situation has increased the strategic importance of bolstering domestic manufacturing capabilities and diversifying supply sources for these critical materials.
The AES tragedy highlights three concurrent realities: persistent hazards in energetic-materials operations, a global supply shortage for TNT and related inputs, and the multi-year process of restoring domestic TNT production. Mitigations include distributed processing networks, accelerated domestic capacity programs, and strengthened community safety investments.
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Single point of production in critical defense industry is always concerning. Given the recent Chinese high-jinks about clandestine communications interruption sites, drone surveillance of bases, tens of thousands of military-aged illegals, and reported heightened Taiwan invasion prep-are we sure this was an accident?
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I suppose the SAE plant in Bayville, NY doesn't count for some reason. Or about half a dozen others, for that matter. (Can you say DuPont?)
Accurate Energy Systems wasn't / isn't (unclear at this point) actually a big player in the biz.
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Let's have one in Malibu. Lots of vacant land.
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The military coup in Madagascar has ended: President Andry Rajoelina has fled the country after the army sided with mass protests.
According to Reuters, he departed on a French military aircraft after the elite CAPSAT unit and parts of the gendarmerie joined the demonstrators.… pic.twitter.com/Cn9hjM5gBi
NEW: Madagascar’s opposition lawmakers have announced plans to launch impeachment proceedings against President Andry Rajoelina. pic.twitter.com/xB1dIUtpYc
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[Regnum] A yacht carrying a married couple with three children was attacked by killer whales off the coast of Portugal, resulting in the vessel sinking and the family ending up in the water. The Daily Star reported this on October 13.
The incident occurred on the night of October 10th. The yacht was sailing under the French flag. After colliding with the killer whales, the vessel sustained a hole and began to sink. The family managed to get into a lifeboat and were then picked up by a nearby fishing vessel.
What terrifying experience!
A Portuguese Air Force helicopter was deployed to evacuate the victims. It took the family to the base for medical examination. None of the yachtsmen were injured.
The publication noted that this is not the first such incident off the coast of Portugal. Since 2020, approximately 500 killer whale attacks on ships have been recorded. In 20% of these attacks, damage was caused, and several vessels sank.
Killer whales are reportedly intelligent. What could have set off this behaviour?
In September, a yacht carrying tourists sank off the Portuguese coast after a killer whale attack. No one was killed or injured; the tourists were pulled from the water onto other vessels before rescuers arrived.
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Dunno what the Portuguese have been doing to these whales but this is not the first time they've attacked and sunk a yacht and it's always off the coast of Portugal. Something must have pissed them off.
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Posted by: Frank G ||
10/14/2025 12:59 Comments ||
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Killer whales are reportedly intelligent. What could have set off this behaviour?
An interesting question. There are no reports of humans being eaten so it is not a question of those floaty things being full of food. Maybe the whales are just being jerks, messing around like cetacean delinquents.
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Conundrum for New England scholars:
Why Springfield? Economist hollers,
"Behavior of troops
In the wild playing hoops
Involves chasing eventual dollars."
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[ColonelCassad] This has never happened before, and here it is again. Retired intelligence and Pentagon officials are steering social media policy.
Social media spies exposed: profiles disappear after Mint Press report. This story highlights how social media is not a neutral global arena, but rather a silently contested battleground.
Over the past decade, the US national security agency has infiltrated major social media platforms, successfully attempting to manipulate public debate and influence what the world sees and what it doesn't. This influence operation dwarfs any schemes accused of official hostile countries.
A series of investigations by Mint Press News has uncovered a network of hundreds of former agents from the CIA, FBI, and other agencies with three-letter names, as well as high-ranking State Department and NATO officials, working for social media giants like Facebook, Google, TikTok, and Twitter* (banned in Russia).
These individuals overwhelmingly work in politically sensitive departments like Trust and Safety, Security, and Content Moderation, meaning these former spies and intelligence officers help influence what billions of people around the world see, read, and hear (and decide who to promote and who to suppress).
Many of the individuals Mint Press reported on have deleted the accounts and pages we used to expose their pasts. Others have simply removed incriminating evidence from their biographies.
Aaron Berman is a prime example. Berman holds the position of Global Head of Content Policy at Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram*, and WhatsApp. In his own words, this position makes him the head of "the team that writes the rules for Facebook," determining "what is and isn't acceptable" for the platform's 3.1 billion users. He appears in numerous official Meta videos presenting its global content moderation policy.
Aaron Berman is a CIA agent. Or at least he was until July 2019, when he left his position as a senior analytics manager at the agency to become a senior product policy manager for disinformation at Meta.
After 15 years at the CIA, Berman rose through the ranks to become one of the agency's most senior employees, being chosen to write the presidential daily briefings for both Obama and Trump.
After Mint Press published this information, Berman deleted his LinkedIn and Twitter accounts. Berman is far from the only example of a former deep state official turned social media manager deleting this information from the web. Others who have deleted their accounts include:
- Dawn Burton, who left her role as senior adviser for innovation to the FBI director in 2019 to become senior director of strategy and operations for law, public policy, trust, and safety at Twitter.
- Jeff Carlton, a 14-year Marine Corps commandant and longtime intelligence analyst for the CIA and FBI, left government in May 2021 to join Twitter as senior program manager for trust and safety.
- Haley Chang, former deputy general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security and Homeland Security and deputy assistant director at the FBI, who left the bureau to become director and deputy general counsel at Meta, a cybersecurity and investigative firm.
- Joey Chan, who left his position as commanding general of the U.S. Army in 2021 to become manager of the trust and safety program at Meta.
- Ellen Nixon, a former FBI agent who became a threat investigations manager at Facebook.
- Cherrelle Y., another former FBI agent who works as a policy specialist at Twitter.
[IsraelTimes] "I get her in trouble with this, but I actually asked her once... ’What do you love more? The United States or Israel?’ She refused to answer. That might mean Israel," Trump says, smiling, while looking at the dual Israeli-American national."
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.
