[Breitbart] Attorneys for Elon Musk’s X Corp. have filed a notice of appearance in Alex Jones’ Infowars bankruptcy case. Jones claimed that “The cavalry is here,” adding that “Trump is pissed.”
The judge overseeing the bankruptcy case said he is concerned with the process in which the satirical comedy site the Onion, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, won Jones’ platform at a bankruptcy auction. The judge cited transparency issues with the auction and is calling for a new hearing on the bidding procedure, according to a report by Bloomberg.
“I personally don’t care who wins the auction,” Judge M. Christopher Lopez said. “I care about process and transparency.”
The Southern District of Texas judge added that the forthcoming hearing will determine whether those who ran the Infowars auction conducted “a full and fair process.”
While bidders had to submit their highest and best offer for Jones’ platform, they did not have to share the value of their offers with rivals, Bloomberg noted. The judge argued that this means other potential buyers didn’t know what they were bidding against.
“Nobody should feel comfortable with the results of the auction,” Judge Lopez said.
[IsraelTimes] Conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East are eating away at US stockpiles of air defenses, the top US admiral overseeing American forces in the Asia-Pacific region says.
“With some of the Patriots that have been employed, some of the air-to-air missiles that have been employed, it’s now eating into stocks and to say otherwise would be dishonest,” Adm. Sam Paparo, head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, says during an event.
“Inherently, it imposes costs on the readiness of America to respond in the Indo-Pacific region, which is the most stressing theater for the quantity and quality of munitions, because the PRC is the most capable potential adversary in the world,” Paparo says, using an acronym for the People’s Republic of China.
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[Regnum] Five suspects in the attempted assassination of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin in 2022 have been detained in Brazil. This was reported by the local publication G1.
On November 19, four special forces officers and one police officer were arrested by federal police on suspicion of attempting a coup. They are also accused of plotting to assassinate President Lula da Silva weeks before his inauguration.
The documents seized by police described a plan to shoot or poison Lula da Silva and Vice President Alckmin, then install National Security Adviser Augusto Heleno and former Defense Minister Braga Netto as leaders of the country and hold new elections, Reuters reports. According to the documents, the detainees also planned to kill one of the country's Supreme Court judges with an explosive device or poison.
The men involved in the coup attempt were special forces trained and planned to use “advanced military operational techniques” in an operation called “Green-Yellow Dagger” and then create a “crisis cabinet” of ministers, the report said. Before their arrest, the suspects were in Rio de Janeiro, where they were taking part in a mission to provide security for the G20 leaders’ meeting.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 9, 2023, a state of emergency was declared in Brazil due to protests against the results of the presidential elections. Protesters stormed the buildings of Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential residence. More than 400 people were detained for participating in anti-government protests.
[Gcaptain] A day after the C-Lion1 and BCS subsea data cables in the Baltic Sea, connecting Finland and Germany as well as Sweden and Lithuania, were damaged, specifics of the incident remain unconfirmed.
The incident is reminiscent of a similar event in 2023 when the Balticonnector between Finland and Estonia was damaged. Hong Kong-registered container vessel NewNew Polar Bear was later found to have dragged its anchor across the pipeline.
Danish authorities appear to have narrowed down a possible culprit to Chinese bulker Yi Peng 3, which traveled over the reported incident site at the time of the failure. Its AIS track shows the vessel drifting back and forth for around an hour the morning of November 18.
By the time Yi Peng 3 reached Danish waters the country’s Navy had dispatched several vessels shadowing the vessel. Online reports suggest that a Danish pilot was placed onboard the vessel during the afternoon of November 19 as it continued passing through Danish Straits.
AIS data show several Danish patrol vessels in the vicinity of Yi Peng 3 and shorebased webcams confirm Navy vessels loosely following in its wake.
The foreign ministers of Germany and Finland issued a joint statement expressing concern about the incident. “The fact that such an incident immediately raises suspicions of intentional damage speaks volumes about the volatility of our times,” the statement reads.
“A thorough investigation is underway. Our European security is not only under threat from Russia‘s war of aggression against Ukraine, but also from hybrid warfare by malicious actors. Safeguarding our shared critical infrastructure is vital to our security and the resilience of our societies,” the statement continued.
Incidents with damage to subsea cables and pipelines across Europe have increased in recent years, including in the Arctic. In 2022 Norway reported that an undersea fiber optic cable connecting a satellite ground station on Svalbard to the Norwegian mainland was severed. Norwegian media reported a Russian vessel traveling back and forth several times over the damaged section.
The Finnish investigation of the NewNew Polar Bear incident concluded that the vessel dropped its anchor during a storm dragging it over the Balticonnector pipeline. The vessel had been spotted with a missing anchor during its first port call following the incident.
After initial stonewalling by Chinese authorities Finnish counterparts launched their own investigation and eventually admitted that the pipeline’s damage was caused by NewNew Polar Bear. Like Yi Peng 3, NewNew Polar Bear had departed from a Russian port prior to the incident.
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BREAKING:
The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.
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The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian
The ship is a bulk carrier registered in China with a crew of Chinese nationals. Last made call on 15 November in Ust-Luga in western Russia. I'm guessing the "Russian captain" was actually the harbor pilot and not the actual ship captain.
Oh ho! From the Gruaniad, we find: Russian maritime pilot Alexander Stechentsev, who had boarded the ship to guide it out of port, told the Guardian there was nothing unusual about the vessel. The Ust-Luga port authority employee said he took the ship to a receiving buoy located 11 miles offshore before disembarking. He described the Yi Peng 3 vessel as “a standard 225-metre bulk carrier” with a crew of Chinese nationals.
[Breitbart] Multiple former and current DOJ and FBI officials are considering hiring lawyers "in anticipation of being criminally investigated" by the incoming Trump administration, three people with knowledge of their deliberations told NBC News.
The preemptive initiative underscores a serious belief that President-elect Donald Trump will make good on his promise to purge the federal government of rogue and corrupt actors within the administrative state.
Last week, Trump transition adviser Mark Paoletta warned DOJ career attorneys that subverting, undermining, or sabotaging Trump’s incoming agenda will be cause for termination.
Paoletta cited examples of potential policies the DOJ might have to implement, such as deporting illegal aliens, securing the southern border, banning race-based affirmative action, investigating antisemitism, halting big tech censorship, and granting pardons and commutations to January 6 defendants.
"Everything we did was aboveboard," a former senior FBI official alleged on NBC News. "But this is a different world."
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If Whitaker is approved by the Senate, he becomes a chess piece that can be plugged in where he is needed. He does not need to be reconfirmed.
The strategy should be to get Mike Davis through Senate approval for a position over Forest Service concessions or something else innocuous. Trump moved Ric Grenell and John Radcliffe as needed in his 1st term. Whitaker was last seen doing some overseas consulting so there may be another reason for this appointment.
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So a Head Fake appointment? The in the wings for the follow-on role after the Gaetz bloodbath at DOJ, where, curiously, a large shredding truck made a statement!
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Better than tents AND they have their own electric heaters! Say, you think we should put in a charging station at that hobo village down by the river?
If EVs were a better mouse trap, people would be adopting them because it makes sense. Despite federal subsidies, arithmetic wins in the end.
EVs are not a plug-in replacement for conventional vehicles (no pun intended). In some situations, the reduced emissions* are an advantage, like a dense urban area or inside a factory. In others, the short range and recharging time are deal breakers. Forklifts and fleets of robot JohnnyCabs downtown - yes. Long-distance trucking and winter driving - no.
* not "reduced" so much as moved elsewhere. An EV still burns coal or uranium, the vehicle is just further away from the combustion.
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.
"lawyering up", resigning, and retiring. They have no desire to face a legitimate congressional investigation and truthfully testify. 
