He’s the second Chinese citizen to do this. One more will be a pattern.
[FoxNews] Palm Beach County court records show that Zijie Li, 38, is still in jail and is being held on a $10,000 bond
A Chinese citizen was arrested after police said he repeatedly tried to get into former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach.
According to the Palm Beach Post, Zijie Li, 38, of El Monte, California, claimed that he had documents that tie his home country's government to the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump during his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was killed by Secret Service agents after the bullets he fired struck Trump's ear, narrowly missing his skull, and hit three of his supporters, killing former Buffalo Township Fire Chief Corey Comperatore.
Following the assassination attempt, the Secret Service increased security around Trump's estate and his other properties. The Palm Beach Post reported this also prompted the agency's decision to close South Ocean Boulevard next to Mar-a-Lago, effective on July 20.
Li's first of several attempts to reach Mar-a-Lago was the night before, on July 19, when Li reportedly drove up to the estate's main entrance on South Ocean Boulevard in a gray Toyota Prius and told Secret Service agents that he had documents showing China was involved in the attempted assassination, according to an arrest report obtained by the Palm Beach Post.
However, Trump was not home at the time and was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the Republican National Convention.
Agents then reportedly told Li that he was trespassing and was not allowed on the property and the Palm Beach Police Department issued him a written warning, the report said. Police also told Li that he was not permitted to return to Mar-a-Lago, and if he did, he would be arrested.
Li's next visit to Palm Beach was July 22, where footage from town security cameras showed that he drove east and then west again over the Royal Park Bridge twice, first in the morning and then in the afternoon, the arrest report said.
The Palm Beach Post reported that Li is also not the first Chinese citizen to face charges for trying to gain access to Mar-a-Lago. A 32-year-old Chinese woman was arrested in 2019 after the Secret Service said she lied to get into the club and then claimed she wanted to talk to Trump about economic relations between China and the United States.
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was killed by Secret Service agents
That's an assumption. Crooks's autopsy report is considered a state secret (by the state of Pennsylvania). The manner of his death is uncertain, except that a dead body was found a short time after the attempt on Trump, on that fateful roof, with blood oozing from the head. The DNA testing to prove that the body was of Thomas Crooks, how many wounds, what was their path, what was the estimated size & velocity of the projectile, none of this has been made public.
I found a recent YouTube video with someone who apparently had obtained a duplicate of the rifles the 2 countersniper teams seemed to have had. A imitation human head with transparent skin, plastic bones, gelatinous brain on a cervical column, was used as a target. Based on reports Crooks was shot through an eye, the testers shot a bullet through the eye of the "head" using what they thought was the same type of rifle the countersnipers used.
The "head" completely disintegrated. Only intact part of the model was the cervical spinal column. This was nothing like the images of the dead "Crooks" we had seen.
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/\ Setting the conditions for failure and criminal enabling of nutcase proxies comes to mind.
"If you know the identities of the persons of interest in this photograph, please notifity the Special Agent in Charge of the Boston FBI office at the number at the bottom of your television screen."
Kids! Don't try this at home! [NYPOST] Vietnamese doctors removed a live 2-foot-long eel from a man’s abdomen — that had chewed through his intestines after he shoved it up his anus.
The nauseating discovery was made when a 31-year-old Indian national was admitted to Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi on July 27 with excruciating abdominal pain, according to Vietnam News.
Doctors learned that the adventurous patient had slipped the phallic fish up his backside earlier in the day — and it tried to escape.
“The eel had bitten through the patient’s rectum and colon to escape into the abdominal cavity,” said Le Nhat Huy, vice director of the Department of Colorectal and Perineal Surgery.
The patient was immediately examined and underwent several imaging tests, including an X-ray that showed the eel’s skeleton lying inside his abdominal cavity.
Doctors attempted to remove the foreign object through the man’s anus — but they discovered a large lime that he had also inserted blocking the way. OK, I get the eel, but the lime just makes it kinda weird
Would you want to have to worry about an angry eel exiting that close to your precious male bits?
Instead, doctors opted for an emergency surgery.
They sliced open the the patient’s torso and found the live eel, stretching more than 25 inches long and roughly 4 inches in diameter.
The creature and the lime were both removed.
After checking for any additional foreign objects hiding inside the man, they stitched him up. Surgeons also performed a colostomy to prevent fecal matter from passing through the cut made by the eel’s bite.
Doctors at the hospital told Vietnam News that they’ve dealt with patients, typically young men, who have put objects up their bums for sexual pleasure.
Viet Duc Hospital has previously removed bottles, cups
Cups?!?!! The things I absolutely do not want to understand…
and adult toys from patients’ anuses— but this is the first case involving a live animal.
“Eels can survive in anaerobic conditions for a long time and have the ability to bite through the gastrointestinal tract,” Huy warned.
“Therefore, people should never insert live animals through the anus to seek intense sensations due to the unforeseeable consequences.”
This, however, was not the first time an eel was removed from someone’s backside in Vietnam this year.
In March, a 12-inch eel slid up a 43-year-old man’s anus. He was rushed to the Hai Ha District Medical Center in Quang Ninh Province, where the sea creature was removed.
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^^ Yeah and I have the 'Old Man Procedure' coming up soon.
At least the kid didn't have to go through the 'prep' for his. That's the worst part.
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I unfortunately saw it yesterday. It's not any better today.
"Is that an eel in your pants or are you just glad to see me?"
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All I could think of was the team of ER Dr.s. You know, going all Chef from Apocalypse Now after the tiger event with the crew holding him down in the rain. Never get off the boat, man.
[NYPOST] The gangbanger who shot and wounded two NYPD sergeants after robbing several women at a Lower East Side business was out on probation in a crack cocaine case at the time, according to law-enforcement sources and court records.
Joshua Dorsett, 22, is facing charges including attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and robbery after he allegedly firing off a shot during a struggle with the two officers on Eldridge Street, near Delancey Street, Thursday afternoon, according to cops and sources.
Sgt. Carl Johnson, 43, of the 5th precinct, was shot in the groin, and the same bullet passed through and grazed Sgt. Christopher Leap, 34, of the 7th precinct, in the left leg, police said.
Dorsett, a member of the notorious Up the Hill gang, struggled and fired off one shot that hit both cops, officials said.
The gang-linked Dorsett has a long history of run-ins with the law. He has at least three prior arrests, including for criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to police.
Police said he sold crack cocaine to an undercover cop six different times on the Lower East Side between March 8 and June 6 of 2022, according to a criminal complaint.
Dorsett pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree in the crack case and received three years of probation during his sentencing in May.
He was out on probation — and had even visited his probation officer Thursday morning — when police said he pulled a stickup in the mahjong parlor, according to cops and court records.
The Up the Hill crew is behind generations of tit-for-tat violence with its Down the Hill rivals for territory along opposite sides of Houston Street,
…that’s in the Lower East Side…
but police said the motive here was robbery, not related to Dorsett’s alleged involvement with the gang.
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[Alpha News] The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Minnesotans faced with a potentially violent aggressor must first retreat, if possible, and only brandish a "dangerous weapon" to deter the aggressor when retreat is not an option.
The 4-2 ruling significantly restricts the ability of Minnesotans to defend themselves against violent aggressors who cross their path. Well they already got rid of Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness; it was just a matter of time before they got around to Life
[ET - American Thought Leaders] In China, a grassroots, underground movement of Chinese has been cutting through the communist regime’s censorship and propaganda machines—one pamphlet at a time.
Since the Chinese communist regime launched a nationwide persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual discipline 25 years ago, Falun Gong’s millions of adherents in China started creating secret underground print shops to expose the regime’s human rights atrocities.
All across China, they secretly distribute flyers, DVDs, and brochures en masse, hang posters in public areas in the dead of night, and circulate software to their fellow Chinese so they can circumvent China’s internet blockade. Those arrested face years in prison—as long as 15 years.
So who are these people? And why is their story critical to understanding China today?
In this episode, I sit down with Larry Liu, deputy director of the Falun Dafa Information Center.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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Another example is the issue of organ harvesting. David Matas is one of the leading investigators on forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. Basically, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been harvesting organs from prisoners or those sentenced to death. This has been happening since the 1980s and it’s actually legal in China. However, after the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, there was a massive increase in organ transplants.
Chinese hospitals started doing way more transplants, and this aligns perfectly with the timeline of the persecution of Falun Gong. When hundreds of thousands, or maybe even millions, of people were sent to detention and concentration camps, the world mostly turned a blind eye. In 2006, news about organ harvesting started to emerge with the Huffington Post’s reporting. Many people were skeptical at first, but over the years, more and more evidence has emerged, and gradually people started to believe it.
In 2019, an independent investigation called the China Tribunal was held in London, led by Sir Geoffrey Nice, the lead prosecutor in the Milosevic trial in the 1990s. The China Tribunal spent a year studying all the evidence on forced organ harvesting. In 2019, they concluded that forced organ harvesting has been occurring on a significant scale in China for a long time, with Falun Gong being the primary source of organs.
[NYPOST] Oil giant Chevron is moving its headquarters to Texas from California, the latest company to exit the Golden State.
The company on Friday announced its planned corporate relocation to Houston from San Ramon, where it has long been based.
“The company expects all corporate functions to migrate to Houston over the next five years,” Chevron said. “Positions in support of the company’s California operations will remain in San Ramon.”
Chevron said about 2,000 of its employees work in San Ramon at the moment and 7,000 are located in Houston.
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Most office functions, corporate and international, have been moved to Houston already.
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“Positions in support of the company’s California operations will remain in San Ramon.” Can't run the refinery by Zoom?
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Glenmore is correct. Most functions have already moved. Did a little consulting to Chevron in the early 2000s. Lived about 2 miles from the HQ also. Huge place and the biggest employer around. Moving the HQ officially to another state will have huge tax implications for CA. They finally gave the middle finger to Gov. Nuisance.
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The local rag put up an FB post for this story - well over half the comments were vigorously in favor of this move. This is why CA is doomed: the people themselves have been corrupted to the point of absolute uselessness.
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I doubt few Californians know that Chevron was
originally Stadard Oil of CALIFORNIA.
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/\ The all knowing gummit sure taught ole John D. Rockefeller a lesson, breaking Standard Oil and permitting him to retain a piece of each one,
[ZeroHedge] Scientists and politicians in the United States, United Kingdom and European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... are ramping up efforts to advance quantum computing in the West after scientists in China observed what appears to be the world’s first room-temperature time crystals.
A team of physicists hailing primarily from Tsinghua University in China, with contributions from scientists in Denmark and Austria, published peer-reviewed research on July 2 detailing the creation and observation of room-temperature time crystals.
In the month since the paper was published, quantum research labs in the West have announced numerous initiatives to extend existing efforts in the field of quantum computing and to create new research partnerships.
ROOM-TEMPERATURE TIME CRYSTALS Time crystals are a unique state of matter originally proposed by physicist Frank Wilczek in 2012. They work similarly to other crystals, such as snowflakes or diamonds, which are created when specific molecules form lattice-like bonds that repeat through space.
In time crystals, however, the molecules bond in time. Instead of locking into a crystalline structure that repeats, a time crystal’s molecules flicker back and forth between different configurations like a GIF on a loop.
Back in 2021, an international team of scientists working with Google’s quantum computing lab simulated time crystals using a quantum computer. This breakthrough demonstrated the potential for quantum computers to explore exotic states of matter and set the stage for the convergence of quantum tech and time crystals.
Now, in July 2024, the Tsinghua team appears to have created time crystals at room temperature. This, theoretically, allows time crystal technology to be employed in non-laboratory equipment and could serve as a massive accelerator for the development of useful quantum computers.
QUANTUM COMPUTING The realization of room temperature time crystals could solve one of the biggest problems in the field: figuring out how to create stable qubits (sort of the quantum version of classical computer bits) that don’t require massive amounts of power and infrastructure to form and maintain.
While perhaps not directly related to the China team’s work, labs and governments around the world — especially in the US, UK and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... — have signaled renewed interest in quantum computing since the room-temperature time crystals paper was published.
In the US, new initiatives have taken place at the national and state levels, with federal defense department think tank DARPA and the state of Illinois both recently agreeing to commit $140 million each to the development of a new quantum computing center in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... .
Across the pond, on July 31, the UK government announced plans to invest approximately $127 million dollars in the development of five quantum computing research hubs to be led by Oxford University.
On the same day, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a multimillion-dollar partnership with the University of Copenhagen to share research and co-develop quantum computing solutions.
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.
[NYPOST] Vietnamese doctors removed a live 2-foot-long eel from a man’s abdomen — that had chewed through his intestines after he shoved it up his anus.
[NYPOST] The gangbanger who shot and wounded two NYPD sergeants after robbing several women at a Lower East Side business was out on probation in a crack cocaine case at the time, according to law-enforcement sources and court records.
[Alpha News] The 
Another example is the issue of organ harvesting. David Matas is one of the leading investigators on forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. Basically, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been harvesting organs from prisoners or those sentenced to death. This has been happening since the 1980s and it’s actually legal in China. However, after the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, there was a massive increase in organ transplants.
[NYPOST] Oil giant Chevron is moving its headquarters to Texas from California, the latest company to exit the Golden State.
Scientists and 
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
