[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, man accused of plotting a coordinated attack with Wisconsin school shooter Natalie Rupnow has been pictured for the first time.
Alexander Paffendorf, 20, of Carlsbad, was detained by FBI agents on suspicion of 'plotting' to coordinate a mass shooting at an undisclosed government building.
Paffendorf admitted to agents that he had been messaging 15-year-old Rupnow about attacking a government building with a gun and explosives, according to court documents made public Wednesday.
A San Diego judge judge issued a restraining order Tuesday under California's gun red flag law against Paffendorf, requiring him to surrender any firearms and ammunition to police within 48 hours, and prohibited him from acquiring any more.
Shortly afterwards, neighbors told CBS 8 they saw more than a dozen police cars enter the apartment complex where Paffendorf lives on Tuesday night and saw officers coming out of the building carrying what was described as a 'black gun box.'
The order doesn't say what building he had targeted or when he planned to launch his attack. It also doesn't detail his interactions with Rupnow except to state that the man was plotting a mass shooting with her.
Paffendorf appears to live at the property raided by police with his father, address records revealed. A court hearing for Paffendorf is scheduled for January 3.
The 20-year-old seemingly has maintained a low-profile online, with DailyMail.com finding no social media accounts associated with his name. He is also 'touchy about getting his photo taken', according to a Facebook post from an account apparently linked to his father.
[Cincinnati Enquirer] On a cold December afternoon, standing next to the empty wood frame where his mailbox used to be, Chuck Klein tried to explain why he’s spent so much time the past few years sending emails to government officials, writing letters to a president and a congressman, working with a private investigator and a lawyer, and, finally, suing the U.S. Postal Service.
"This is where it was," Klein said, motioning to a mailbox-sized hole in the frame. "This is where we want the box to be."
It's as simple as that, Klein said. He wants his mailbox back.
But after years of arguing with the Postal Service, the seemingly minor bureaucratic dispute over the fate of Klein’s beige stainless steel mailbox has become something more. It is now, quite literally, a federal case that challenges the mission and obligations of an institution as old as the nation itself.
What is the Postal Service supposed to be? What are its obligations to its tens of millions of customers?
Klein didn’t set out to ask those questions, but his years-long campaign to win back his mailbox is raising them all the same.
In Klein’s view, none of this was necessary. For several years, the Postal Service delivered mail to his old mailbox on the edge of his 130-acre property in Brown County, about an hour east of Cincinnati. If he received a package too big for the mailbox, the carrier brought it to his door.
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Postal Service operates pretty much as a monopoly. Only their serviced mail gets into those mailboxes. Because the way the law is worded, those are not your mail boxes but belong to USPS. When some yahoo blows one up, its a federal offense, not local. Fundamentally, what the court is going to be asked is whether the USPS can operate as such. The court can punt on the issue in accordance with the powers of Congress per Article I, Section 8 to establish post roads and post offices.
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^ trying to hid the fact. Remember the 'old' days that the PO was pure political patronage. You knew exactly who to go to complain. Then they created the Frankenstein monster of a government/non-government entity to cover their behinds.
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Well, rural is different.
We get'em driven over, used for batting practice, shot full of holes or stuffed with sail skunks.
Packages left at the gate are also crushed or just disappear.
I use a box at the PO, a federal institution, and get to it once or twice a week.
Trailing Wife, to answer your question from yesterday, a pigeon just happen to fly by at the exact moment and got hit by the ball, a 100 plus MPH ball. Needless to say the pigeon did not fare well.
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Sometimes YouTube videos need a moderator to open the post and close it again without changing anything before it will admit to existing. So I tried it, and this time it worked — you did nothing wrong, my dear.
Thank you for explaining — exploding a stray bird is not an explanation that would ever have occurred to me.
[NY Post] GOPe: I remember him shrieking like a little bitch at Trump recommending hydroxychloroquine - "It will kill you!" He hated Trump because Cavuto was Deep State Big Biz. Good riddance
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He was good when all he did was economic news. Then he had to do politics. He's a Trump hater, propagated the lies, and now he's a nobody. Good riddance.
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Anecdote:
Customer who had, in 2016, complained about Trump being elected and Our Dooooom! was in the store, now talking optimistic about the future.
[IsraelTimes] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... uses antisemitic rhetoric during his lengthy end-of-year presser, accusing people including "ethnic Jews" of tearing apart the Russian Orthodox Church.
"These people that are attacking the church, they are not atheists," Putin says, addressing a question posed at the presser. "They are absolutely faithless people, Godless people. Well, ethnically, many of them are Jews, but you haven’t seen them visit any synagogue."
Putin’s characterization of Jews in this way can have dangerous consequences, says Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
"This is just one example of his regime’s explicit and virulent antisemitism, which has intensified following his 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the 2023 events of October 7th," Goldschmidt says. "This is all reminiscent of Stalin’s "Fight against Cosmopolitanism" and the "Doctors’ Plot" of 1948—53, the brutal antisemitic campaign in the Soviet Union, resulting in the arrest and killing of much of the Soviet Jewish leadership in the Soviet Union."
"We cannot emphasize enough the dangerous effect of such statements in a semi-totalitarian society," Goldschmidt continues. "As a representative of Jewish communities across Europe, and someone who was forced to flee my home and community in Moscow, I call on Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and the free world to unequivocally condemn President Putin’s dangerous propaganda before it spreads further."
The Russian Orthodox Church is widely criticized by international watchdogs for its close relationship with the Russian government. The Council of Europe recently labeled the church a propaganda tool of the Kremlin, and several European countries have expelled church officials due to security concerns.
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From what I know, this is propaganda in itself. Russia and India, two vast countries having multiple races and cultures, have been mostly free of racial hatred, such as in the West(slavery). History is extended in these countries, but talking to those who have lived there and currently seem primarily agreeable. This is one of the reasons India has such good relations with Russia. Yes, counterarguments will attack this idea, Roma, untouchables, and so on. These systemic issues are being addressed at this time—primarily in India.
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(1) Russians ARE anti-semitic (and racist in general). If fact, Vlad was responding to anti-Semitic propaganda - "Jews are destroying the faith" - in Russia (because he needs Jews to run Russia).
(2) Indians maintained multiculturalism through caste system. Don't know about you, but I wouldn't enjoy traditional Indian society.
Yeah Russians have a huge inferiority complex so they have to set themselves up as the master race for their fragile egos. Jews are a normal target for them.
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#2 -Russia and India, two vast countries having multiple races and cultures, have been mostly free of racial hatred, such as in the West(slavery)
Now you've passed active agitprop to denial of history. Well done, Comrade
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Ae you familiar with the phrase beyond the pale, Dale? The Russians are so philosemitic that in 1791 a law was passed decreeing that the Jews of the Russian empire were expelled from all except what was called the Pale of Settlement — roughly 20% of the western portion of the country — but also forbidden the cities within the Pale limits. Within the Pale Jews were crowded into shtetl villages — restricted in choice of occupation, restricted in ability to get education, restricted in movement, at risk of pogroms… unless one converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity. Fiddler on the Roof was a reasonably accurate depiction.
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I was unfamiliar with that history. My information was about current people in those countries or recently here. Both have long histories. I suppose anything can be news. With Trump, I noticed they went back to his high school days. They still want slavery reparations. I see this as more of a psyops war in Western media.
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If you want to start with the history of the various civil wars in Modern India, I suggest starting here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India
Then go on to read about such things as the origin of Bangladesh. Then you can read about Sam the Brave and the Rapid Action Battalion, if you need inspiration.
[IsraelTimes] Winning bid is far higher than predicted; anonymous buyer will donate Samaritan-linked slab to Israeli institution, while some question its authenticity
Sotheby’s said the 115-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab was acquired by an anonymous buyer who plans to donate it to an Israeli institution.
The New York-based auction house said the final price exceeded the presale estimate of $1 million to $2 million and followed more than 10 minutes of “intense bidding” during the global competition.
The tablet dates from 300 to 800 CE and is inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script — the only complete example of its kind from antiquity, according to Sotheby’s.
It was unearthed during railroad excavations along the southern coast of Israel in 1913 and was not recognized as historically significant at first.
Sotheby’s said the tablet was used as a paving stone at a local home until 1943, when it was sold to a scholar who grasped its significance.
“A tangible link to ancient beliefs that have profoundly shaped global religious and cultural traditions, it serves as a rare testament to history,” the auction house said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Scientists have found California ground squirrels are evolving in a 'shocking' way - the animals have developed a taste for flesh.
A video captured dozens of them hunting, attacking and feasting on rodents for the first time ever.
The bizarre behavior was seen for two weeks at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County as cameras recorded squirrels pouncing on their prey, ripping them apart and consuming the lifeless animal.
On one occasion, scientists watched in horror as a squirrel 'vigorously' shook its prey while holding it in its mouth.
The observations have suggested that these nut foraging creatures are evolving into carnivorous predators.
'This was shocking,' said Dr Jennifer E. Smith, an associate professor of biology at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, who led the study.
'We had never seen this behavior before. Squirrels are one of the most familiar animals to people.'
'We see them right outside our windows; we interact with them regularly.
'Yet here's this never-before-encountered-in-science behavior that sheds light on the fact that there's so much more to learn about the natural history of the world around us.'
Scientists observed 74 interactions between squirrels and voles, which are similar to hamsters, from June 10 to July 30.
And more than 32 of those exchanges ended with the squirrel feasting on the small animal.
The predator typically restrained the rodent with its forepaws and teeth, then deliver one or several bites killing bites to the neck area.
In three of the recorded hunting attempts, squirrels stayed low to the ground and stalked their prey.
Nineteen squirrels chased voles across the landscape, which was usually followed by a pounce to restrain the prey.
Then, the squirrels would go for the kill.
Though they primarily targeted bites to the neck, they sometimes went for other body parts, the researchers noted.
The squirrels successfully captured and killed a vole 55 percent of the time.
These carnivorous eating habits coincided with an explosion of vole numbers in the park.
According to the researchers, this suggests their hunting behavior emerged alongside a temporary increase in the availability of vole prey.
This dietary flexibility may give the squirrels a survival advantage.
Sonja Wild, a behavioral ecologist at UC Davis and author of the study, said in a statement: 'The fact that California ground squirrels are behaviorally flexible and can respond to changes in food availability might help them persist in environments rapidly changing due to the presence of humans.'
While the researchers have been studying squirrels for years, even they were amazed at the findings.
'I could barely believe my eyes,' Wild added.
'We saw that behavior almost every day.
'Once we started looking, we saw it everywhere.'
'This research radically changes our perception of squirrels, one of the most familiar mammals in the world,' lead author Dr Smith told CNN via email.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Scientists have found California ground squirrels are evolving in a 'shocking' way - the animals have developed a taste for flesh.
