Frank James pleaded guilty on Tuesday to terrorism charges
Authorities said James, 63, opened fire on a subway traveling through Brooklyn on April 12, shooting 10 people and injuring another 23
Defense attorneys wrote last month he plans to plead guilty to all 11 counts against him without a plea deal
He faces a potential life sentence
Prosecutors have asked federal Judge William Kuntz II to sentence James to more than 40 years in prison for the attack.
They wrote in a letter last week that he should be imprisoned beyond the roughly 32-year to 29-year sentence that federal guidelines recommend, arguing that James planned the attack for years and endangered the lives of dozens of people, FOX 5 reports.
The Bronx-born, Milwaukee-based suspect was ultimately arrested while strolling down the street on April 13.
In court documents, prosecutors detailed how more ammunition had been found in James' rented Philadelphia apartment, including an extended round magazine that was fit for a semi-automatic rifle.
His 9mm handgun was later found at the 36th Street subway station after the attack, along with spent shell casings, fireworks, and a key to his U-Haul.
Police also searched a storage unit in Philadelphia, where he was keeping more ammunition, a torch and a gun silencer.
There was also a propane gas tank in the U-Haul when police swooped in on it hours after the attack.
James allegedly dumped the truck five miles from the 36th Street subway and was filmed walking away. His motive remains unknown.
James has a criminal history which extends back to 1992, when he pleaded guilty to attempted petit larceny.
He was known to the FBI's Guardian Program, which tracks terror threats and suspects, over an incident in New Mexico in 2019.
At the time, he was cleared of all wrongdoing.
But in a YouTube video posted just one day before the attack, James said he wanted to harm people, calling himself the Prophet of Doom.
'I can say I wanted to kill people. I wanted to watch people die,' he said.
Other videos featured James ranting about discrimination and complaining about white people.
Mayor Eric Adams suggested that it was the responsibility of YouTube to monitor the videos and report them.
'There's a corporate responsibility hen we are watching hate brew online,' Adams said at the time.
'We can identify [hate] using artificial intelligence and other methods to identify those who are talking about violence.'
Critics accused Adams of passing the buck, noting that the surveillance cameras in the station were not working - allowing James to flee - and that NYPD failed to find him, despite his wandering around Manhattan for almost 24 hours after the attack and eventually calling the police himself.
a "fast-moving investigation by the FBI."
Smells like Oswald.
[FoxNews] Matthew Greenwood and Jeremy Crahan accused of electric grid sabotage that caused over $3M in damages
Two men were charged Tuesday in connection to all four substation attacks that occurred in western Washington state over Christmas, as the federal government pursues prosecution for increased instances of electric grid sabotage across the country this winter.
Matthew Greenwood, 32, and Jeremy Crahan, 40, both of Puyallup, Washington, have been charged with conspiracy to damage energy facilities and possession of an unregistered firearm.
The first offense is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, while the latter is punishable by up to 10 years, according to federal prosecutors. Ok, Matt and Jeremy, we might be able to get 20 years down to ten. Tell us please, who were you actually working for ?
The two men are believed to be behind attacks at all four substations that were targeted over the Christmas holiday that cut power and left thousands in the dark and cold.
The damage to the Graham and Elk Plain substations – both operated by Tacoma Power – alone is estimated to be at least $3 million. The Kapowsin and Hemlock substations operated by Puget Sound Energy were also sabotaged. The criminal complaint was filed Saturday and unsealed on Tuesday. Nice rifles by the way. Which one of you is the gunsmith ?
Both men are expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Tacoma later Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Nick Brown said, announcing that the two men had been arrested on New Year’s Eve following what the Justice Department categorized as a "fast-moving investigation by the FBI."
According to the criminal complaint, the two men were identified as possible suspects through the analysis of cellphone records. At one of the substations, Tacoma Power captured images of one suspect and the image of a pickup truck that appeared to be connected with the attack.
A similar pickup was connected to the defendants, prosecutors allege. When law enforcement served a search warrant on the home of the suspects, they recovered distinctive clothing pictured in the surveillance photos. Agents also seized two short-barreled firearms that had not been registered as required by law. One of the firearms was equipped with a make-shift silencer, the complaint says.
The FBI is investigating the case with assistance from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), Tacoma Police Department, the Washington State Department of Corrections and the Federal Protective Service.
The press release commended assistant U.S. Attorneys Will Dreher, Stephen Hobbs and Todd Greenberg, who "all worked around the clock over the last week to obtain search warrants and arrest warrants to assist the FBI investigation."
Last month, the FBI joined the investigation into blackouts in Moore County, North Carolina, where some 40,000 customers were left without electricity and schools were closed for days after authorities reported intentional, criminal gunfire caused extensive damage at two substations. No suspects have been publicly identified in that case. Around the same time, Homeland Security had been monitoring similar attacks at power stations in Oregon and Washington in response to online calls to damage critical infrastructure.
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^^ Possibly easy task if you already knew who it was.
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If these guys had been "white supremacists" the feebs would have ripped it away from the local LE. As it is they were burglars with big but not well carried out plans.
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To me this looks like a straight up investigation. All the J6 stuff especially the DNC pipe bomber smacks of Fed involvement. If the greenies or ANTIFA were organizing, the investigation and prosecution may look like the Maxwell stuff with a lot of redactions and blatant cover up stuff.
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The CCP FJB FBI. Put the entire 7th floor in Gitmo.
The land, originally purchased around 1912 by Charles and Willa Bruce, was recently returned to descendants of the couple in 2022
The land was seized by the majority white city in 1924 following a racist pressure campaign
On Tuesday, the chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors announced the family had opted to sell the property back to Los Angeles County
Some have said they wish the family had hung on to the valuable land a while longer while others have said they think the county offered a low ball figure
Alaskan gold miner turned mammoth expert John Reeves revealed the location of 500,000 tusk bones allegedly dumped in New York City's East River
Reeves said the tusks, which were bound for the American Museum of Natural History, were dumped along East River Drive near 65th Street
Citing a draft report about the bone's journey from Alaska to the museum, Reeves, said they were dumped because the facility ran out of storage space
The revelation has kicked off a bone rush, with fortune seekers already out on the river in search of the tusks, which could fetch around $20,000 a piece
Altogether, the tusks, which were reportedly dumped in 1940 and most likely sank to the bottom of the river, are valued at around $1 billion
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Overheard through a hole in the fence:
"These wood scr@ps are tiresomely dense...
Like you truckdrivers, see,
Or professors like me
Who are famously short of good sense."
[FoxNews] More than half of U.S. abortions are now done with pills rather than surgery.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday finalized a rule change that broadens availability of abortion pills to retail pharmacies across the U.S.
The change comes as abortion pills, already used in more than half of pregnancy terminations in the US, are becoming even more sought after in the aftermath of last year’s Supreme Court decision overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Last year, the Biden administration partially implemented the change with the president announcing that pharmacies would no longer enforcement the requirement that women must pick up the medicine in person. The FDA's action formally updates the drug's labeling to allow the vast majority of retail pharmacies to distribute the pills.
Until now, mifepristone, the first pill used in the two-part medicated abortion process, could be dispensed only by some mail-order pharmacies or by specially certified doctors or clinics.
Under the new FDA rule, pharmacies – like Walgreens and CVS – can apply for a certification to distribute mifepristone with the drugmakers and if granted the certification, the pharmacy will be able to dispense the pill directly to patients upon receiving a prescription from a certified prescriber.
While the FDA did not issue an announcement about the decision, the two makers of the pill, Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro, released statements saying the agency had informed them of the action.
"Pharmacies who become certified in the Mifepristone REMS Program may dispense Mifeprex directly to patients upon receipt of a prescription from a certified Mifeprex prescriber, provided a Prescriber agreement is provided or on file with the certified pharmacy," Danco Laboratories said in an online statement.
In 2000, the FDA approved mifepristone to terminate pregnancies of up to 10 weeks, when used with a second drug, misoprostol. Mifepristone is taken first to dilate the cervix and block the hormone progesterone, which is needed to sustain a pregnancy. Misoprostol is taken 24 to 48 hours later, causing the uterus to contract and expel the fetus.
Former Waffle House employee, identified as Halie in a YouTube video, gave her side of what happened during a massive fight at the eatery in Texas last year
The professional wrestling-style brawl ended only when Halie flawlessly caught a chair that was thrown at her with just one hand
But she claims she was blacklisted from working at Waffle House because the resurfaced video shows her chucking a sugar shaker in self-defense
It is this level where the student gains a better appreciation of what it means to earn a Black Belt, and for Arnold one-liners such as, "Take it!...I'm sweet enough!"
Remember the times well, as soon these warrior-servers' era will pass into automation and replaced by T-100s.
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Unfortunately, Haley is not going to do well in celebrity. I wish she had just applied to Dennys. Haley has PTSD from what I can tell and some other root cause issues that I am not qualified to diagnose. I pray she survives.
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My S&W 5 shot...
I think that.
Then I think my SP101 .357 isn't any bigger,
then I think my 6 round Kahr 9 is the same size,
then I know my Kahr 45 is almost the same size,
but my 13 round Glock 23 is also the same size.
[Breitbart] Being short is “better” for the planet and future, according to a recent New York Times piece that describes short people as “inherent conservationists” who save resources by consuming less and are “best suited for long-term survival.” The essay’s author, who boasts of her “tiny” children who “eat like gerbils” and thus help “save money and food,” also calls for mating with a short partner as “an effective way to help the planet” because it can decrease the “needs of subsequent generations.”
The Sunday essay, titled “There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Short” and penned by author Mara Altman, begins by describing increased height as a “widely held fantasy of superiority that long ago should have been retired.”
“It made sense to fawn over height when it facilitated survival,” she writes. “Ages ago, when the necessity of defending oneself cropped up daily, if not hourly, tall people could more easily protect their families and bring home some woolly rhino flank.”
“Today, those who have the stamina to sit in an office chair all day bring home the plastic-wrapped meats,” she adds.
What nonsense is uttered by the Manhattanite who actually believes the poster that sets Manhattan at the center of the world!
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Why not attack the source of what seems to be all problems. - Liberals and their Media outlets
How many times have the Liberals and their Media demanded items be replaced because of their "claimed" impact?
Then the replacing process actually expended more resources than the product in being villainized?
Then, only to fail 10–15 years later, at the cost of 100's of Billion of $$$$$$ to live up to the Liberals and their Medias dooms day warnings and promises?
Then, scraped of all the new materials. The resulting wasted resources causing even bigger environmental issues. eg. Wind turbine blades, Nuclear power and etc.
My Suggestion.....
Let us start, asking the NYT how many TREE's were cut down to print their garbage?
How much Fossil Fuel was used in the total cycle.
From the Tree Cutting, to paper making, Raw paper delivery to the printers, and delivery to the customers?
Then what about the tons of paper wasted in the whole process, trashed and in landfills each weekly
#3
Imagine if all this "don't reproduce, or do it in an inferior fashion" sentiment had just been applied when what Mike Savage calls "the red diaper doper babies" were being conceived.
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Height is not always an advantage evolutionarily or otherwise
Nothing wrong with a short guy
Nothing wrong with a tall one either
... the storm moving ashore Wednesday is likely to be as powerful or more so than the New Year's Eve Storm, the National Weather Service said, adding that it expects similar impacts on the area. Soils already saturated by last weekend's downpours will only intensify the new storm's impacts, forecasters said.
---------------- Free Sandbag distribution points at the link. This long series of storms is happening despite the fact we are in La Nina conditions in the tropical Pacific. Fresno and Stockton had record precip. in Dec 2022; other stations were in top 5 years for precip. Reservoirs are rapidly rising. Lake Oroville is up more than 40 feet since Dec 25.
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L.A. River Regatta is on! Expect scenes of people, cars, things moving down the river as another generation of clueless news reports notice just how amazing it was that they knew to build the riverbed that big before our Climate Change wisdom.
[FoxNews] A Florida bartender took down an armed assailant who put a woman in a headlock and pointed a gun at her. (Flagler County Sheriff's Office)
A Florida bartender hopped the bar to tackle a man for putting a woman in a headlock. Little did he know that the man was pointing a gun at her.
"In the video, everything looks so slow, but in the moment everything’s moving so fast," said David Ghiloni. "I was protecting her. I didn’t even know there was a gun involved until I did tackle the guy."
For his heroism, Ghiloni was given a lifesaving award from the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
"This courageous act of protecting the female and fighting off this shooter without a doubt saved lives that night," said Sheriff Rick Staly. "I’m honored to be able to recognize David who so selflessly helped those in need and put his own life in harm’s way to protect others."
The suspect, Connor Anderson, is facing several charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into a building and using a firearm under the influence. Anderson, reportedly upset that he could not find his keys, allegedly brought a gun into the bar, attacked the woman and fired six shots while being taken down. Remarkably, no one was seriously injured.
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I lose my keys from time to time. Usually, I figure it out. Sometimes I pray to St Anthony. This gentleman has a very unorthodox problem solving method.
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Beijing's axing of its stringent virus curbs last month has caused cases to soar
Experts have warned millions could die from Covid in the coming months
Despite this, China still claims around 5,000 people have died from the virus
Funeral homes and hospitals say they have been overwhelmed as international health experts predict 2.1 million Covid deaths in the coming months.
Footage from China purportedly shows the makeshift cremations.
The scenes are reminiscent of India in 2021, when the Delta variant ran rampant through the country and killed tens of thousands of people.
As crematoriums were overwhelmed, citizens were forced to burn their dead on makeshift funeral pyres. At the time, Beijing's media mocked countries forced to incinerate their corpses in public spaces such as town squares.
London-based health researcher Airfinity believes more than 9,000 people are dying from the disease each day in China. This number could rise to 25,000 as people start to travel around the country for Lunar New Year celebrations.
Airfinity expects China's cases to reach their first peak on January 13 with 3.7 million daily infections, and warned deaths in the coming months could hit 2.1 million.
On Monday, China's president Xi Jinping finally admitted the mistakes of his draconian zero-Covid policy which failed to contain the virus and sparked the country's first widespread mass protests in decades.
With Covid disruptions slowing China's $17trillion economy to its lowest growth in nearly half a century, investors are now hoping policymakers will intervene to counter the slide.
The numbers were laid bare in a recently released analysis from Layoffs.fyi, which tracks firings in real time through media and company releases
Through these means, the firm found that the technology sector are now among those with the largest numbers of job cuts, with rates rapidly increasing recently
The worst offenders , the website discerned, were once-untouchable tech stalwarts Facebook parent Meta and Amazon, which both suffered heavy loses
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Salesforce...LOL. I remember walkin' around eatin' steamed cheeseburgers but holding enough in my hand that I could chuck it at the building. Yeah, I'm that shallow.
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At $3,000/month, that’s one full time employee at $18.75/hr. That’s not counting taxes, insurance, workman’s comp., etc. that employers pay out on top of wages. That’s a bargain. No bitching and moaning, showing up late, no show, piss poor attitudes. Welcome to your “living wages” you unemployable scum.
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"Loss of gasoline tax revenue due to EVs is infrastructure."
Besides, since electricity is a public utility and therefore a public monopoly, they can just hump electricity prices according to how many EVs a household has registered. Could do the same with 'Electronic Employees'.
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There is no labor shortage, just millions of former workers living better on welfare without having to work at all. Shut off the "bread and circuses" and see how quickly there is a job shortage.
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The issue around here is manpower. The number are just not there to support all these places.
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Just wait until they start collecting a 'automation tax' on each unit.
That is inevitable as more jobs are automated. Wealth concentration and lots of idle pissed off men is a dangerous combo. It's already at dangerous levels due to short sighted offshoring and low import taxes.
Circulating the profits is also a way to create more demand for the automated services rather than stashing the wealth in oligarchs' bank accounts.
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OK, so - back in 2013, I was actually in training for Regional Kitchen Manager at Chipotle. This was where I was coming off being blackballed from SQA following the 2008 bust. That said, what I went through and witnessed in my time at Chipotle would be in stark contrast to this. ...for the reason being that robots are not as open to manipulation as distressed humans are. Very interesting.
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It’s been several years since White Castle hung ten off the wave of innovation.
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Elon Musk
According to 5 sources
SpaceX was founded by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk who still has part ownership of the company with 54 per cent equity and 78 per cent voting control. At 30, Musk made his initial fortune by selling his two very successful companies, Zip2 and PayPal.
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I suspect the authorities were operating more on their 'Tips Hotline' than technology. DNA matching might have provided the confirmation. I could be wrong however. I appear to have been wrong about the multiple killer theory.
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Consider this: Dad flew out to Idaho to drive back w/ son for Christmas. As a parent, would it not be logical to pick up on child’s (regardless of age) changes in behavior? Unless he was as out of touch as those Michigan nutcases that bought the gun for their school-shooting son, he had to sense something. And i suspect those two traffic stops in Indiana were little more than FBI confirmation and info-gathering events.
No matter how guilty this pos is, that cant bring back those 4 that were killed and lives changed forever.
Wonder if his parents have increased security against some other nutcase wanting revenge against them for their son’s acts????
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Those DNA services were the key to finding the Bay Area Rapist guy who had three other labels based on where he was living over the decades. There were no other viable tips in the case.
I can understand why family members often overlook killers. I don’t think it is willful blindness. Parenting and profiling are different skill sets. The lawyer father in Aruba who facilitated the coverup of the girl’s death seems like the exception.
I don’t like the government having access to a comprehensive DNA database. I also really don’t like rapists and serial killers.
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-slides scoring puck over from Heritage Finders are Entertainment to Heritage Finders are Data Collection-
This was going to happen given a long enough time line, but still Conspiracy Theorists batting average continues to climb.
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.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
