[IsraelTimes] Matthew Belanger, from New York, procured weapons and other gear, discussed attacking synagogue and other targets with other white supremacists.
A former US Marine who belonged to a 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.... group that counts willingness to murder Jewish children as a membership requirement has been arrested on charges stemming from a federal investigation into his plot to commit mass murder, including against Jews.
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[Breitbart] Colleges across America have held "white accountability groups" that urge white students to check their privilege and become "anti-racist" allies.
One such university is the University of North Texas, which held a white accountability group through its Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access.
The description explained that members of their white accountability group will police the behavior of other white people. It said "Members ... will hold fellow white employees accountable for oppressive behaviors and the systems in which those behaviors are tolerated."
The University of California San Diego’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion runs a "White Allyship, Action & Accountability" initiative. The initiative encourages students to "Understand and examine the role of white allies at UC San Diego in addressing systemic racism and anti-Blackness." The webpage for the initiative includes a number of different anti-racism resources, including a 44-part checklist for white allies.
Loyola University Maryland also hosted white accountability groups. The university’s Office of Equity and Inclusion tacitly argued that its white students were vessels for white supremacy when it stated that the purpose of such groups was to "keep ourselves and our campus accountable as we continue to work towards dismantling white supremacy in all the spaces that it lives, even (and especially) when that space is inside of us."
The University of St. Thomas is yet another university that hosts a "White Accountability Workshop." The program is intended to serve as a "space for students to explore how whiteness and racism show up in our daily lives and systems to affect our thoughts, feelings, relationships, health & wellbeing, community and much more." Students at the University of St. Thomas are encouraged to have an "anti-racist awakening."
Dominican University hosted white accountability groups earlier this year, which it referred to as "an opportunity for individuals who identify as white to participate in dialogue on recognizing their whiteness and white privilege." The group met for eight different sessions.
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Do we get to hold black employees to the same standards for rude, intimidating anti-white behaviors? This is just the new brown shirts working the race game for dominance and power.
[The Conversation] These are the words of double agent "M", who operated for the Dutch security service and the CIA against the East German Stasi for 22 years. In early 1985, it appeared that the Stasi may have uncovered his deception — and his true loyalty to the west. He was in East Berlin at the time and the men had rudely awoken M around 4am. Still in pyjamas, he was taken from the safe house where he was staying for debriefing sessions with his Stasi handlers to a van with darkened windows that transported him, under armed guard, to a prison.
They told him he was in the Untersuchungshaftanstalt (pre-trial detention center) Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, a notorious site during the cold war under the control of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi). M was forced to undergo a degrading and extremely painful cavity inspection, before being taken — still naked — to an interrogation room.
His captors intimidated him by pouring cold water over him from a bucket until the afternoon. They taunted him constantly, saying things like "You betrayed Marxism-Leninism" and "You are a CIA agent". Yet M said he felt strangely reassured because these accusations were not specific — they were meant to provoke him. In other words, his interrogators seemed to lack proof.
[Dallas Morning News] After nearly passing through the busiest stretch of the summer travel season, airlines are pulling back schedules and international airports are adding passenger limits in hopes of avoiding a total meltdown heading into the rest of the busy summer travel season the fall.
In the last few weeks, Fort Worth-based American Airlines cut thousands of flights over the next three months after Chicago-based United Airlines said it is putting growth on hold into 2023. This week United cut another 3,900 flights from its October plans.
The airlines need to capitalize on high ticket prices to make up for more than $37 billion in losses over the last two and a half years, even with $50 billion in government aid. Even so, airline executives are deciding that restraint is now the only option, even with strong customer demand.
Several factors are contributing to those decisions. Carriers and airports face labor shortages, heightened by logjams in training. Outbreaks and new variants of COVID-19 are emerging. Supply chain issues and airplane delivery delays loom, which particularly affect the rebounding international travel market. Most of those factors have covid in common.
Some of Europe’s biggest airports in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam are adding capacity caps that are straining the international travel system at some of its most critical connecting points.
Meanwhile, a pilot shortage that has loomed over airlines for more than a decade likely won’t resolve itself for two or three years. Labor unions say workers are fed up with long hours, forced overtime and rebooked flights even as they fight for higher pay to make up for historic inflation. Related to pilot reductions due to covid vaccine mandates. Sensing a theme? The biggest logjam in the airline industry right now is in training. American and Southwest have each hired more than 10,000 employees during the last year. But it takes weeks or months of training before those new hires are ready to work. And it takes months or years before they’re running at full speed, said Kenneth Quinn, a former counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration.
For airlines and airports, the staffing shortage has spread from restaurant workers and janitors to baggage handlers and ticket agents.
Isom said it could be two or three years before one labor shortage is worked out — the need for regional airline pilots. The training pipeline for pilots is long and expensive, leading airlines to fight for the limited number of pilots already certified.
For airline travelers, the mix of labor shortages, high fuel prices and strong demand mean ticket prices will remain stubbornly high and flights will continue to be scarce, Grant said. "That means maybe less production coming online." "It also means the consumer is going to have to be willing to pay more." Pay more for less - another measure of Joeflation.
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Fewer flights means more overbooking, more passengers bumped. If you get bumped from your flight, the entire point of flying to save time is mooted, unless you are traveling overseas, in which case you have no choice anyway.
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In my lifetime flying coach has gone from pleasant and comfortable, to an ordeal of physical discomfort coupled with massive inconvenience and expense both before and after. Now we have devolved to unreliable and downright insulting. Look at the massive unclaimed baggage displays at major airports, and remember, every single bag has the name, address and contact information of the owner. The airline simply ignored bothering to even send a simple notification, since most of the bags were sent as checked baggage to the wrong location, and notification would require additional handling and workload. Customer service is an alien concept to United, American and even Delta.
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Meanwhile, a pilot shortage that has loomed over airlines for more than a decade likely won’t resolve itself for two or three years. Labor unions say workers are fed up with long hours, forced overtime and rebooked flights even as they fight for higher pay to make up for historic inflation.
Yeah, that's a line of Bull-Shit. Admitting the obvious to cover the truth.
[Epoch Times] About a dozen workers at the NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois [north suburbs of Chicago] lodged the suit in October 2021, arguing that the facility was illegally not granting religious exemptions to the mandate. Workers who sued are slated to receive $10 million, according to a settlement agreement filed on July 29.
After eight months of negotiations, the workers and NorthShore "have agreed to settle this case," according to a memorandum filed in federal court. Wonder what the legal fee were, and who pays? Answers at the link - 20% of the settlement, for the plaintiffs.
Under the settlement’s terms, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 into a settlement fund for workers affected by its mandate—specifically, workers who between July 1, 2021, and Jan. 1, 2022, asked for a religious accommodation and were denied and either received a vaccine to avoid termination or were fired or resigned. About 473 workers fit under that category.
NorthShore will also adjust its vaccine mandate "to enhance its accommodation procedures for individuals with approved exemptions for sincerely held religious belief." But they are keeping the mandate for the rest - a vaccine for a disease that's been obsolete for two years.
U.S. District Judge John Kness, the Trump appointee overseeing the case, was asked to approve the proposed settlement.
Liberty Counsel, the legal group representing the platiniffs, described the settlement as a first-of-its-kind for an action against a private employer who denied hundreds of requests for religious exemptions to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
"The drastic policy change and substantial monetary relief required by the settlement will bring a strong measure of justice to NorthShore’s employees who were callously forced to choose between their conscience and their jobs," Horatio Mihet, vice president of legal affairs at the group, said in a statement.
"This settlement should also serve as a strong warning to employers across the nation that they cannot refuse to accommodate those with sincere religious objections to forced vaccination mandates," he added.
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"And who pays?" It is Illinois after all. And surely there are some remaining federal COVID funds....
[Breitbart] On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s "America Reports," House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) argued that as long as President Joe Biden is in office and China sees "the weakness projected" by Biden, "that is their timetable" for an invasion of Taiwan, "just like Putin invading Ukraine." McCaul also stated that while China would like to take Taiwan without military conflict, "plan B is a military invasion and it’s going to happen under President Biden’s watch." And that China has studied Russia’s invasion of Ukraine "very closely."
McCaul said, [relevant remarks begin around 3:55] "[I]f you look at the map, they are circling the island right now. They’re being very military provocative. I think as long as Biden is in office and they see the weakness projected, that that is their timetable to invade, just like Putin invading Ukraine. And they’re looking at Ukraine very closely. Would they prefer to do it like Hong Kong without a shot fired or the Solomon Islands? Of course, right. Or maybe...they want to do it by overthrowing an election or by disinformation. But plan B is a military invasion and it’s going to happen under President Biden’s watch."
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Biggest weakness is their transport capability. They can only drop 30,000 men with no armor or supplies at a time. With both of the above, maybe 2,500 with 500 tanks. Against a country with 2 million armed and called up reserves.
This will need to be a D-Day type of invasion. There is 100 miles of water to cover and unlike the Europe invasion there are only two good months to invade. May and October. Otherwise they typhoons, rough seas, monsoons, fog, etc. make a military crossing under fire difficult to say the least.
The Chinese need to drop a quarter of a million men with thousands of tanks, IFVs and supplies in 30 days to make it work with any major chance of success. Not a chance in hell with what they have now.
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And the Chinese have Sleepy Joe by the short hairs. Surely they have lots of juicy--if not salacious--information. Surely Joe, Hunter, et al., would not want any more info "leaked" (not that we need any more, but still).
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There will be no invasion. Biden, no... the US presidency and policy right now is such an unstable quantity, China's not doing anything except sitting and waiting.
Sorties and ships cruising around, posturing in the media, all that yes but no invasion. At least I don't think so.
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And any defence of Taiwan may not be up to just Biden. The entire world secretly wants to chomp on China's ass after it destroyed their economies, dramatics at the UN be damned. They know it too.
After the helplessness felt by the west at seeing Vlad rain fire in Ukraine unchecked, everyone will watch these dwarves make a fool of themselves trying to intimidate Taiwan. The moment their bluff is called and you know their worth, everyone will join in. Like a prison shanking.
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The Chicoms have a tremendous investment in the dems being permanently in power. How will they show their displeasure if the dems can't deliver on that?
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Agree with DV and Dron. The Chinese would be at great risk of being humiliated, losing face if you will, if they attempted an invasion because of the logistics and the determination of the Taiwanese to resist.
My theory, and I could be wrong, is the Chinese are rattling their saber to give The Big Guy a chance to look like a tough guy by making them back down. I feel like I'm getting a whiff of kabuki designed to make the weakest US president ever look presidential. But, if my theory is correct, Joe has already committed to giving the Chinese something big in return.
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^ If the PLAN (see what I did there?) is to make Joe look good, just wait til he screws it up.
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We fight them man to man almost every week. We know what the chinks are capable of and what plays they don't have the balls for. What's more, we know their dependence on simulations to predict outcomes. And while the results of a Taiwan simulation were mostly successful, those were carried out before Ukraine. That in itself is a difference they are overlooking. The Chinese believe the whole Ukraine thing exhibits a general flaccidity in the west's force projection. And that may encourage them to a folly their future generations will regret.
A shanking, I repeat. While the globalists can't do jack about Vlad, the Chinese are one target they won't blink before going to town on. Propaganda, sanctions, a Tajik Taliban presence in Xinjiang, liberating islamics, multiple navies harassing Chink vessels... who will they nuke? And when? No, they'd just get raped.
Pelosi can go to Taiwan, she can squat and pee in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial. Let China huff and puff. As long as the bitch doesn't say something which acknowledges the sovereignty of the PRC...!
Oh... why'd we not think of that? Shit. Because that'd be true Democrat bull in China shop stuff, no pun.
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I think the bluff about shooting down Pelosi's plane was a Bridge Too Far. It provoked a more unified and aggressive posture than perhaps intended. Still, all the resources and military assets that will be pushed forward with a view to look aggressive have the inherent potential to spark something unintended. The upwards escalation cascade is always a risk in military kabuki play acting.
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As much as I admire the might of the Ronald Reagan, it will need backup. 3 Carrier battle Groups for starters, will be impressive enough to cause the Chicoms to 2nd guess themselves! Shore up Guam, loiter a few B2s and be prepared to meet the 100 fighters Beijing will try to swarm The Speaker's plane with. My gut tells me she will back down if a bipartisan representation of the Congress do not accompany her.
[Star] Michelle Jenneke likes to shake it all about before taking on the world's best in the 100m hurdles - and the Australian has overcome injury to head to the 2022 Commonwealth Games
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Wow - Nice looking lady - I think Rantburg should post more human-interest stories like this one; Thank you, Mr. Besoeker. I hope she wins a place in the 2022 Commonwealth Games; I know she won a place in my heart. She resembles my daughter.
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Bot, being a "model" is the gold standard of "influencers" on "social media."
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This started 10 years ago
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Michelle Jenneke
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I find it unfortunate that under 30s are social tards.
That said, I also have an ongoing debate among the campfire: how much different is it from when we were?
I remember bus rides to meets - we had our walkman on, nose deep in the latest comics or whatnots, passing them around to laugh or talk about the good ones. Road trips, the adults giving us games and time wasters to, I know now, save their sanity. The winning question, "Given Road Bingo, or the entire Super Mario collection, which would you, as a kid, have wanted?"
Social Media is anti-social, that is a proven, especially after The Covid. We are trying to get at something deeper which creates such titles, and I am all open. I'll serve:
There is a fundamental disconnect between cause and effect. Communication technology amplifies that disconnect.
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"You ever felt a slide rule baby? It's in my pocket"
"A slide rule. So you can do the maths without a calculator...no, not your phone, either. Nevermind"
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#10 ;-) a little young for that era. That was my Dad's
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] At the mouth of the Danube, a Ukrainian small geographic vessel "Shlyakhovich" was blown up on a sea mine, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, said at a briefing on July 29.
He clarified that the small geographical vessel "Shlyakhovich" of the State Hydrographic Service of Ukraine was blown up by a drifting mine torn from anchor.
"So, on July 28, 2022, when measuring the depths of the fairway at the mouth of the Danube River, a small geographic vessel Shlyakhovich was blown up on a Ukrainian drifting mine," Mizintsev said.
He also recalled that the sea minefields created by Ukrainian militants still do not allow dozens of foreign ships to leave Ukrainian ports.
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...If I understand this right, the Russians are announcing that a Ukranian ship struck a mine.
Hmm. Curious.
Mike
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This doesn't seem like something the Ukrainians would brag about AND there have been reports of drifting mines, from Turkey if memory serves.
De-mining Odessa is a sticking point in getting grain shipping restarted. Shippers want the mines cleared to reduce their risk. Ukraine wants to keep the mines to deter a Russian assault on Odessa.
FWIW, this happened several times while I was in - at two of my bases, I worked Inspection, which meant that when the word came down part of my job was to check every single cart. Depending on the situation, we looked for physical damage/defects, or certain lot/manufacturing/date of manufacture numbers.
This sort of thing is not unknown, and grounding an entire fleet is a prudent, if awkward and complicated response. The trouble is that you usually find out about a problem when something goes horribly wrong. For instance, in the early 80s Thunderbird Lead took off from Cleveland after an airshow, and ingested a seagull. He ejected, but the separation cart failed to fire and he ended up riding the seat back down.
Mike
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Must have been one helluva ride.
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Yikes. Hope the chute size was considered for such a thing.
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Likely not in the calculation. Egress training sort of simulates landing at 20mph with out an additional? 400# weight added on. If canopy doesn't rip apart, still landing on unpadded chunk of steel on your seat and whatever that apparatus does on landing. I recall there is a manual release of you have time. Mike might know more about that. I'll surely ask next training
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.
[IsraelTimes] Matthew Belanger, from New York, procured weapons and other gear, discussed attacking synagogue and other targets with other white supremacists.
The airlines need to capitalize on high ticket prices to make up for more than $37 billion in losses over the last two and a half years, even with $50 billion in government aid. Even so, airline executives are deciding that restraint is now the only option, even with strong customer demand.
The biggest logjam in the airline industry right now is in training. American and Southwest have each hired more than 10,000 employees during the last year. But it takes weeks or months of training before those new hires are ready to work. And it takes months or years before they’re running at full speed, said Kenneth Quinn, a former counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration.
[Epoch Times] About a dozen workers at the NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois [north suburbs of Chicago] lodged the suit in October 2021, arguing that the facility was illegally not granting religious exemptions to the mandate. Workers who sued are slated to receive $10 million, according to a settlement agreement filed on July 29.
