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Last month of Arctic spring fails to bring sea ice to its knees, even in Southern Hudson Bay
From Polar Bear Science
Susan Crockford
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/15/last-month-of-arctic-spring-fails-to-bring-sea-ice-to-its-knees-even-in-southern-hudson-bay/
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Its undeniable, in the lead lag debate, CO2 follows the rise in temperature. The irony burns.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/07/15/causality-analysis-finds-temperature-changes-have-determined-co2-changes-since-the-phanerozoic/
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So? Ice loss accelerated after that. More meaningless analysis.
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All conspiracy theories are alive and well if Jonathon Willis is real.
Clearly he published this before his bosses could shut him up.
This gives clear cause to believe that the Secret Service and FBI hoped to get rid of Trump
https://x.com/SavvymanWyo/status/1812570625786917249
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No longer is anything too preposterous to believe!
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Especially under Mayorkas.
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I think it’s a fake post.
The thing that confirms to me it’s a fake post is the sniper kneeling lifts his head from his scope when the shots started. Then puts his head back to the scope and shoots. This indicates that he didn’t have his eye already on the shooter and lifted his head from the scope to get a broad view and fix on where the shots were coming from.
If he had the shooter in his sights for 3 mins, he would have just fired immediately on the shooter firing, or immediately on command to shoot, without momentarily lifting his head from the scope before firing.
The other thing he would have done is not allowed Trump to keep talking. He would have informed other police and/or the secret service immediately he spotted the shooter. If he’s the sort of officer to go public with this (which is fake) then he would be the sort of officer to protect the target (Trump) by giving the alert. This would not contravene the claimed command not to shoot the shooter until after shots were fired.
The other aspect which indicates its fake is the wording/phrasing of the post. “famous photo”, “head of the secret service” plus the other aspects.
Also, as if the police or the secret service would want shots fired on their own members and the crowd in the hope that Trump would be killed (if that’s the inference) by some random amateur assailant.
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The more serious question is why the stage was not immediately cleared if a credible threat was known for three minutes. A gunman on the roof alone is enough reason to clear the area.
It is what amazed the public who could also see the shooter. It’s not as if they didn’t know who the target was. Or that public lives were not at risk too. Someone only had to yell ‘gun’.
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Well, that’s what I mean by if the sniper had had the shooter in his sights for 3 mins then they would have cleared the stage. Which is one of the reasons I don’t believe it’s a genuine post by one of the police snipers.
I have heard an explanation that it’s actually protocol for snipers to not shoot until a shot is fired, so they don’t shoot someone innocent crawling around with what only looks like a gun. But in 3 mins they would have cleared the stage and had officers inspect the shed where the shooter was to see if it was someone with a stick trying to get a birds nest out of the roof, or in fact someone with a gun.
I think the people who were aware there was a potential shooter were all outside the venue, nearer the shooter’s shed. They did alert police or attempt to. On video I’ve seen they don’t seem particularly animated or acting with urgency. Not sure if they just thought the guy was suspicious and didn’t want to seem like they were unnecessarily alarmist for what may be a false alarm. But they didn’t seem to be shouting “GUN! GUN!”
I think there was simply a security failure and there are questions to be answered on that front. Some will say it wasn’t a failure, it was deliberate. Either way, I don’t think the post by someone claiming to be a police sniper is genuine.
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The last shot by a police sniper was allegedly to shoot the gun away. Their ability to see on a clear bright blue day at a mere 100 yards would have been incredible. They could have read his phone.
What I find amazing is that they did not check or watch what was almost the only other rooftop in the area. That would have been so easy.
It is exactly what you expect rooftop snipers to be doing. Or their spotters.
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Hmmm….
REAL snipers, one of which I am not, traditionally work in PAIRS; shooter and “spotter / close protection”. One of their primary roles is to be the advanced eyes and ears ob their parent unit, carefully observing and noting anything remotely useful., often refraining from taking an “oppotunistic” shot in favour of waiting for a “prime” one or because they are not keen on being caught in a shower of mortar bombs.
Police “marksmen” are not always “trained snipers”. Lindt siege, anyone?
The “waters” surrounding this entire rock-show have been “muddied” from the moment the first bullet flew. Why? Churnalistic fantasizing and political maneuvering, mainly.
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Normally, I would find your comment reasoned.
I have no information to refute it.
However, I live in a reality where I am told the oceans are boiling.
No government entity forced people to be vaccinated.
Renewable energy is cheap, reliable, and must replace all others or we all die.
I was just listening to my local ‘news’ talk radio.
It was Trump that caused the attempt on his life.
It is only MAGA supporters that use inflammatory rhetoric.
Where do we turn to verify the authenticity?
US Secret Service?
NYT?
UNIPCC?
I know, CNN, they are a trustworthy devoted to facts organization.
Just ask ‘em.
Oh wait, the FBI, they will produce the definitive investigation.
Should only take about five years.
It will be an ongoing investigation about which they couldn’t possibly comment.
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Yes. Where do we turn to verify.
I’d suggest the ABC in Aus and CNN in the USA. I’ve found them to be by far the most consistent, reliable, and thorough of all news services. Particularly on matters like this that relate to Trump.
And, in case you haven’t thrown up or fainted and are still reading. Perhaps the Epoch Times, Sky News Outsiders or After Dark. I don’t think they’d ignore a post like that by a genuine police sniper if there was any credibility to it.
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Maybe this is fake too.
Crowd next to building noticing guy crawl on roof and exclaiming “Officer!”.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/sdo2VPNCbGea
“I don’t think they’d ignore a post like that by a genuine police sniper if there was any credibility to it.”
I would note that Hunter’s laptop was ignored for nearly two years and largely still is.
The completely false, based on NOTHING, Russian collusion narrative was repeated constantly for four years and often still repeated.
It was the basis for an impeachment.
So the ‘they wouldn’t blatantly ignore important facts or outright lie’ argument is unpersuasive to me.
Sorry, they’ve managed, incredibly, to make Alex Jones credible.
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Yes, had seen that video. That’s what I mean. Those people were observing but not really animated about the guy. They did call “officer” and were concerned pointing the guy out. But there wasn’t any yelling or trying to alert the arena. I guess they just thought he was suspicious and hadn’t obviously seen a gun.
Another video of the guy being interviewed by BBC suggested he knew the shooter was a shooter. But he didn’t say “I was telling Gun! Gun!”
Biden’s laptop wasn’t ignored. It was attempted to be suppressed by social media and presented as fake by others. But not all media bought that fake story.
Some media didn’t say the Russia Collusion story was real.
Obviously the ABC and CNN were culprits in those aspects.
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What you can see in that video clip is that sniper Crooks is not yet in a position to shoot- he is low on one side of the gable roof. From that position he has no line of sight to either Trump’s pavillion or the counter-sniper position.
He was in that position for more than 30 minutes. A police officer reported observing him on the roof and called in the siting at 5:45pm, at least 26 minutes before the shooting.
Nor can the counter-sniper observe Crooks. The roof pitch is about 1:7 and the two sites are about 200 metre apart.
The counter-sniper would only be able to observe Crooks once he reached the ridge of the two slopes, which occurred only minutes before the shooting.
That is why the security plan required an observer on the roof- an observer with direct communications with the counter-sniper and the SS co-ordinator.
There was no observer and the counter-sniper knew there was no observer.
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ABC & CNN?
In what world?
Surely you forgot the sarcasm tag.
Two news services often accused of lying, lying by omission, character assassination, and misinformation.
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It was such a ridiculous statement it didn’t need a sarcasm tag. 😄
But, in case you’re still not sure, I wasn’t serious. Hence the “faint or throw up” line.
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Some people aren’t going to make it…😎
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> it didn’t need a sarcasm tag
Apologies I’m on very strong painkillers for an acute back injury, and the brain’s a bit foggy.
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>”CNN…consistent, reliable, and thorough… Particularly on matters like this that relate to Trump.”
Actual CNN headline after Trump is shot:
Secret Service Rush Trump Offstage After He Falls At Rally
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Now that is sick!
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Refer to my post at #5
Rules of Engagement request will confim if this is true
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I took a photo of it before it gets ‘disappeared’.
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Big story from the Land of Lawyers.
Trump’s Florida case stunningly dismissed after judge finds appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.
Background from Wikipedia: Jack Smith (lawyer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(lawyer)
“On November 18, 2022, United States Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith special counsel to oversee the criminal investigations into Donald Trump’s actions regarding the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack, and Trump’s handling and storage of government records, including classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.”
“On June 8, 2023, a grand jury indicted Trump on seven federal criminal charges related to his handling of the classified documents. This marked the first time in American history that a serving or former president has been indicted on a federal criminal charge. On August 1, Trump was indicted by a grand jury on four more federal felony counts relating to his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his conduct during the attack on the Capitol. The case was dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon on July 15, 2024, on the grounds that Smith’s appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional.“
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The amazing lack of prosecution of Biden is a similar travesty. Biden had secret documents from a time when he was just a senator, documents he had no right to see let alone remove. And as VP. The very idea that he could remain as President but not be prosecuted as he was geriatric and incompetent is amazing. Trump also asked how this was possible. The claim of executive privilege on the audio accompanying the transcripts tells the world that the transcripts are fake too.
The obvious coverup of criminality by the DOJ is amazing. Like the Russian disinformation letter from 50 of the most senior people in Washington, which itself was deliberate misinformation to influence the last election and blatantly lie to the American people. The DOJ, CIA and FBI fear no one because they are the law and they are protecting their man. No one will be prosecuted. They protect each other.
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“The two “sides” of mainstream politics are not fighting against one another, they’re only fighting against you. Their only job is to keep you clapping along with the two-handed puppet show as they rob you blind and tighten your chains while your gaze is fixed on the performance.”
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It’s theatre.
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This dismissal should be replicated in the DC cases Smith has lodged.
However, DC is in the belly of the beast – where 97% of the population leans left.
It is far from certain that this partisan jurisdiction will observe the same outcome.
Nonetheless Trump has a limited immunity (limited = yet too be determined) from these DC cases, the Georgia Rico case and even the Bragg NY case (where Trump has already been found guilty).
The Judgment handed to Letitia James’ NY case is ultimately appealable if not in fact, then in the scope of the Judgment … Trump has been fined $450 million for fraud – by paying back loans in full and on time – where Boeing was recently fined around $437 million for negligently killing some 350 people.
That just leaves the Jean E Caroll defamation Judgment of $93 million – where she repeatedly alleged Trump raped her, but the jury did not agree.
That Judgment will likely be reduced on appeal.
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The wheels have completely come off the Democrat wagon and they are desperate to craft a new narrative.
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“Ed Miliband to lead UK negotiations at Cop29 climate summit”
Gradinu: –
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/ed-miliband-lead-uk-negotiations-cop29-climate-summit
Miliband knows how to give way [gracefully?] – so I guess UK taxpayers will be on the hook for every demand that a bureaucrat in the ‘South’ can dream up between now and the cop Twenty-whatever.
What UK Tax[payers get from it – a warm feeling as we wet ourselves when we see the bills that the Bacon-Butty-Botherer lands us with.
Votes have consequences.
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PS the Graun goes on
“Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate chief who presided over the Paris agreement, now founding partner of the Global Optimism thinktank, said: “Ed Miliband has proven experience at Cops and all matters related to those multilateral negotiations. Throughout 14 years he has kept his vigilant eye on the ups and downs, and will not need to start from scratch at all.”
That’s Saint Christiana to you and me – plebs and deplorables that she thinks we are.
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Why do they call it COP, because we all cop it when they get back home.
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Document request – Rules of Engagement
Documents sufficient to explain the U.S. Secret Service’s rules of engagement or
protocols to assess and neutralize threats towards a protectee, particularly for possible
assassination attempts;
https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2024-07-14-Green-to-Mayorkas-DHS-re-Assassination-Attempt-on-President-Trump.pdf
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A person standing and talking to a crowd moves a lot, especially the head. Center of the chest, not so much. Shooter was dumb, Trump was lucky.
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This is actually a standard rule of armed self defense. Shoot for the body not the head. Heads are hard to hit.
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Does Trump wear a protective vest? Would the shooter thinks he wears a protective vest?
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I posted y’day that Trump was protected by kevlar. It’s irrelevant if he was actually wearing a vest or not, the shooter assumed he did and took the more difficult shot.
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Yep , all we actually know is he missed. Everything else is just conjecture.
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Been saying for almost two years that offshore wind sonar surveys are killing whales. Now detailed statistical analysis confirms it.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/professor-makes-stunning-discovery-absolutely-100-percent-offshore-wind-kills-whales/
If Trump wins he can tell NOAA to calculate the death rate from acoustic harassment based on this detailed data. Woohoo
See my https://www.cfact.org/2023/01/23/evidence-says-offshore-wind-development-is-killing-lots-of-whales/
And
https://www.cfact.org/2022/09/27/how-to-kill-whales-with-offshore-wind/
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You mean if there is no further attempt to kill Trump – Trump will win by a landslide
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There will be massive fraud by the Left, as usual, but providing the fraud is not too large, and they don’t kill him, he will win.
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Let’s not forget that assassination attempts won’t necessarily stop should Trump be elected.
Talking of which, has anybody else noticed how many of Trump’s ‘protectors’ were women? Is that usual these days? Real life imitating Hollywood again?
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They were explicit Biden Admin DEI hires, as is the head of the Secret Service. They were hired despite obviously not being tall enough to cover Trump with their own body as they are required to do, or strong enough, plus one couldn’t re-holster her gun, and both women in the video looked frazzled and didn’t know what to do. Lots of commentary on social media about that.
No woman has ever passed US Navy SEAL entry tests and graduated. I think that used to be a requirement for the job, back in the day.
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There’s a very simple reason for that, DM:
“Navy SEALs are physically fit, mentally sharp, mature and resilient. Those men who want to become SEALs are screened to determine their potential to succeed in the community.”
https://navyseals.com/buds/enlisted-seal-requirements/
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“life imitating Hollywood again”
Your right ,People actually think that the 50kg heroine in the police show can, with “special skills” take down the 100kg thug and subdue him with a hammer lock on one arm. Reality is of course completely different.
Just as people in Australia dial 911 in case of emergency and wonder why no help turns up, the telly has a lot to answer for. Well the telly and the education system!
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Actually, as far as I know, 911 and some other international emergency numbers when dialled in Australia are mapped to 000 for the sake of ignorant Australians or overseas visitors.
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I doubt it. Thats in a normal number range here. It certainly does nothing on my phone. Maybe you are thinking of the 112 emergency code which works in most countries.
https://www.triplezero.gov.au/triple-zero/other-emergency-numbers
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yarpos:
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Well…sort of…
An untrained female – yes. Toast.
A trained female vs an untrained male would have the upper hand, or maybe foot or knee to the groin. That tends to end a fight rather quickly! 😁
Numerous (unspecified by me) bodily targets can end a fight or confrontation equally quickly, fatally or not.
I don’t want to make this an fighting instructional post but don’t make the massive mistake of equating size with strength.
I do speak from 10 years of experience as an unassuming average size ex-gym guy but with incredible (with all due modesty) speed, strength and power, all tightly controlled by my mind, out of necessity. A lash out in anger could mean permanent lights out for the antagonist.
Watch any “Anatoly” video on youtube to understand.
No, I’d pick by demonstrated ability and capabilities and not judge the book by its cover. It may be the last book you MISread.
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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They were not very tall people, or very strong people. That should be one of the main criteria for that job (just as it used to be for the old British bobby; now there are too many tiny persons employed in that role too).
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DEI at work for you.
That SS blonde woman was late to get on the stage, had trouble holstering her weapon, was too short to protect Trumps upper body, faffed around picking up his MAGA cap, etc,etc.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/10-burning-questions-every-american-should-be-asking-about-trump-shooting
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4/11 (73.3 percent) Say what?
11/15 = 73.3%
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Odds on.
So you bet 11 – and ‘win’ 4 if your selection [here, Trump] wins – so your return is 15.
It’s the British was of expressing odds – it may indeed be different elsewhere.
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Thanks Auto.
I don’t gamble, but I’m ok with arithmetic.
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At an instant glance 4/11 has to be less than 50%.
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Six months ago I would have said that the US is not stupid enough to reelect Biden. The debate and shooting not withstanding, today I have less trust in the US people.
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Some of the largest donors include:
The Heritage Foundation – $50,000
American Hartford Gold – $50,000
The UFC – $50,000
Dana White $50,000
Kid Rock – $50,000
Vivek Ramaswamy – $30,000
The Scaramucci Family – $25,000
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/strangers-unite-raising-millions-gofundme-victims-trump-assassination-attempt
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I am amazed at anyone who dares suggest Trump staged the whole thing. How low can you go?
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Politicians have done worse Ted, be sure about that! You have to destroy the village to save it..
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I notice the Leftist billionaires are notably absent from that list of donations.
Totally expected.
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Possibly not in good taste but here goes:
‘Massive amount of blood spilling’: VIP Trump guest captures terrifying moments of assassination attempt
https://www.wnd.com/2024/07/massive-amount-of-blood-spilling-vip-trump-guest-captures-terrifying-moments-of-assassination-attempt/
Focus is on Trump naturally but this was the real tragedy.
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Widow of firefighter killed at Trump rally shooting refuses to take Biden call
https://www.wnd.com/2024/07/widow-of-firefighter-killed-at-trump-rally-shooting-refuses-to-take-biden-call/
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Time for a Laugh
Jokes made up on the spot RIGHT AFTER finding out Trump was shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkmGO7k6If8
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Here we go again. Why don’t I trust the FBI?
FBI Claims Purportedly Struggling To Crack Trump Shooter’s Phone
The article ends, “…what do they need to hide?”
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What phone? It’s in the Biden cupboard with the laptops.
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It was an Australian firm that unlocked the San Bernardino shooters’ phone, Azimuth Security https://www.azimuthsecurity.com/#home . It is now part of L3Harris Technologies.
An Israeli firm Cellebrite https://cellebrite.com/en/home/ also offers services to law enforcement to unlock the phones of criminals/terrorists. The were said to have also been approached by the FBI to unlock the San Bernardino phone.
So there are two options right there.
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Nothing to see here. Laptop next, a FBI speciality (sarc).
Thomas Crooks’ phone yields no clues about motive for Trump assassination attempt
Investigators examining the phone of Thomas Crooks have found no clear explanation for his attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
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Why Labor loves CFMEU union thugs who are helping bankrupt Australia.
CFMEU donations to Labor according to Jason Wood, MP.
2019-2020 $549,576
2020-2021 $914,375
2021-2022 $4,279,794
2022-2023 $458,381
Total $6,202,126
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Since 2016 the Left have being calling Trump a National Socialist, war monger, misogynist, and even calling for his assassination etc.. Is it any wonder some deranged person actually decided to “take matters into their own hands” based upon such false claims?
Also, all those Leftists that did call for his assassination should be prosecuted for inciting violence or a worse crime if possible.
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After decades many people are working out that National Socialists are Leftists. Fortunately more and more people are fighting back against Leftist propaganda that National Socialists were “far right”. Evil nearly always comes from the Left.
Michael Galak had this published as a letter in The Australian, yesterday I think. (This version may not be the final as published, my corrections added).
My friend replied privately:
And the philosopher of Fascism, of which National Socialism is a derivative, is Giovanni Gentile who saw fascism as socialism with added nationalistic elements. Racial elements were also added by the National Socialists. Also see book by Dinesh D’Souza, “The Big Lie: Exposing the (National Socialist) Roots of the American Left”.
Extract of Amazon overview of D’Souza’s book:
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D’Souza >Yes, there is a fascist threat in America—but that threat is from the Left and the Democratic Party
It was prevalent Left & Right there in the 1920s and 30s when the Capital complex was built. The symbols are everywhere, I’ve been there seen and photographed them myself. Easy to find on the internet though. I’ve tried to present this before but the Mod at the time wouldn’t allow it.
All the big families (I wont elaborate) were fans due to the enormous wealth it brought them. Their names are memorialized around DC with place names, roundabouts, whatever.
That incarnation only died away after Pearl Harbour (‘nuther story).
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>All the big families (I wont elaborate) were fans due to the enormous wealth it brought them
Decades ago there were people that refused to ride in one particular motor companies vehicles due to the founder’s beliefs and associations.
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WATCH: Communists, Anarchists, Anti-Israel Protesters Lead ‘March on the RNC’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/15/watch-communists-anarchists-anti-israel-protesters-lead-march-on-the-rnc/
’No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!’
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>’No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!’
Duh, from USA Today:
Fact check: Photo shows Biden with Byrd, who once had ties to KKK, but wasn’t a grand wizard
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/14/fact-check-biden-isnt-kkk-grand-wizard-photo/3183887001/
Biden and Byrd
https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2020/06/14/USAT/ac471419-59e4-4865-bb7f-42eb5b9115d4-AP_Obama_Biden_2008.JPG?width=1320&height=872&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
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“It’s Fantastic When Fascists Die” – German Public TV Employee Scolded For Wishing Trump Dead
Authored by Dénes Albert via ReMix News,
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-fantastic-when-fascists-die-german-public-tv-employee-scolded-wishing-trump-dead
Sebastian Hotz, an employee of German state television ZDF who regularly appears on Jan Böhmermann’s “ZDF-Magazin Royale” under the name “El Hotzo,” has expressed regret that Donald Trump did not die in the assassination attempt.
On X, where the 28-year-old has 694,000 followers, he wrote: “I think it’s absolutely fantastic when fascists die.”
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694,000 followers, and on State pay, interesting.
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Trump Picks Vance (article)
Trump Picks J.D. Vance As Running Mate (article)
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Good choice, but unexpected.
Not a DEI hire. Good!
Military experience.
Business experience.
And he is representative of the MAGA working and middle classes, not like Leftist Elites.
He also will have to be next President after Trump.
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Netflix trailer of “Hillbilly Elegy”, the memoir of J.D. Vance’s life, to date.
Also a book.
https://youtu.be/KW_3aaoSOYg
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David >Good choice, but unexpected
Typo? Did you mean expected?
Vance was right in the running:
UPDATE: Rubio and Burgum Told They Aren’t Trump’s Veep Choice…. Vance? Haley? Carson? … DEVELOPING
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/update-rubio-burgum-told-they-arent-trumps-veep/
My thinking was – older wisdom, or youth in view of succession.
Trump is in effect picking a President – think Lyndon Johnson.
So, to me, it was Carson (72) or Bergum (67) vs Rubio (53) or Vance (39).
Haley was never a starter in my opinion.
Rubio was off-side with Trump a while back which may have been a factor, but he has changed radically in recent times so I thought he had a good chance.
Given the questions over age of polititians I think that ruled out Carson and maybe Bergum, leaving Rubio or Vance.
Rubio might have been too incendiary for Trump’s liking so that left Vance who has the credentials anyway.
Meantime, Biden has Kackles.
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J.D. Vance @JDVance1
17.5M Views, 133K Likes
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J.D. Vance @JDVance1
Christian, husband, dad. U.S. Senator for Ohio.
https://x.com/JDVance1
The Anti-Christ Left will hate him with a vengeance.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13634747/Three-black-trucks-government-plates-mysteriously-spotted-Trump-VP-contenders-home.html
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He picked Vance. I mentioned it in the new post. Just up.
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Probably just me but I dont get Rubio as either VP or a potential President.
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Who Is J.D. Vance? Why Trump Nominated Him for VP (video)
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Hour-Long Sit Down with Vance from MAGA Country (article)
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He should have picked Rubio, VPs are generally told to keep their heads down and don’t cause a scandal, like Harris.
Rubio is probably better off outside the tent, he has his hobby seeking disclosure of UAP.
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Analysis of Secret Service Failures in the Trump Assassination Attempt
by Antonio Graceffo, PhD, China MBA, is an economist and national security analyst with a focus on China and Russia. He is a graduate of American Military University.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/analysis-secret-service-failures-trump-assassination-attempt/
Rooftop Security Lapses
Ignored Warnings and Poor Response
Coordination and Communication Failures
Lack of Resource Allocation
Additional Failures and Issues
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I would add that some in official capacity appear to be as slow as sloths and dumb as a box of rocks – but that’s just my opinion.
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10 Burning Questions That Every American Should Be Asking About The Trump Shooting
By Michael Snyder
https://endoftheamericandream.com/10-burning-questions-that-every-american-should-be-asking-about-the-trump-shooting/
#1 How did the shooter get so close without being seen by the Secret Service?
#2 Why weren’t security personnel on that roof?
#3 Why didn’t authorities respond when they were warned about a man with a gun?
#4 According to testimony from another eyewitness, the shooter actually had time to “move from roof to roof” before he started shooting at Trump. If people in the crowd could see this movement, why couldn’t the Secret Service?
#5 Once the shooting started, why did it take so long for the Secret Service to get to Trump?
#6 Why was security so much better at previous Trump rallies?
#7 U.S. Representative Mike Waltz claims that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas turned down requests for better Secret Service protection for Trump on multiple occasions. Why did he do this?
#8 Did inflammatory rhetoric inspire the shooter to do what he did? As J.D. Vance has aptly observed, the Biden campaign has been labeling Trump as “an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs”
#9 I think that the timing of this shooting was very interesting. If Trump was killed just before the convention, he would not be the Republican nominee. So who would have come out of the convention as the replacement nominee?
#10 How will this shooting affect the general election?
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Funny watching Trump walk into the Repub Convention with a squad of very large, male , Secret Service staff.
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>a squad of very large, male , Secret Service staff
Sky News Australia host Rowan Dean:
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/donald-trump-picks-running-mate-vice-presidential-nominee/news-story/aa0449d1b1362c9fa15b4f3dbcfe5eee
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Veteran Sniper: ‘No Doubt’ Thomas Matthew Crooks Had Help
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/15/veteran-sniper-no-doubt-thomas-matthew-crooks-had-help-in-donald-trump-assassination-attempt/
Just getting access to the roof for starters. That had to worked out in advance.
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Sources: Trump shooter spotted nearly 30 MINUTES before shots fired!
‘It’s not clear if Crooks had a gun with him at that point’
https://www.wnd.com/2024/07/sources-trump-shooter-spotted-nearly-30-minutes-before-shots-fired/
26 minutes after the second picture of Crooks was taken by law enforcement and the information called in, shots were fired from the roof of the American Glass Research building.
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Failed Trump Assassin Purchased Ladder and 50 Rounds of Ammo on the Morning of the Rally, According to New Report
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/failed-trump-assassin-purchased-ladder-50-rounds-ammo/
CNN reports:
The report noted, “It’s not clear whether Crooks used the ammunition or the ladder that he bought on Saturday during his attack later that day.” However, a ladder was prominently propped up against the building where Crooks would shoot from.
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Vance initially was a big advocate of the so called vaccine. Hopefully he has seen the light.
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>Vance initially was a big advocate of the so called vaccine
So was ‘Warp Speed’ Trump, unfortunately.
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She Deleted the post… But we Found It! (video)
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I am amazed by Biden’s address to the nation on the near death of the previous President.
He twice wanted to settle things at the Battle Box.
This a serious mistake. It is not stuttering. This is not a mistaken word. He is reading from a teleprompter a prepared and practiced short speech in big letters, slowly. There is no such thing as a battle box, but that’s not the point.
To read BALLOT as BATTLE indicates a serious mental problem in comprehension as well as reading. It’s not a mispronunciation or a mumble. Most people could attempt a word they did not understand. His sight reading is collapsing. Which explains his frequent mumbling, feigning sounds with bits of words. He cannot read functionally. Certainly not long words, so he substitutes.
How can you read and say BATTLE BOX repeatedly and understand anything being said in context? How do you understand what is being said if words like BALLOT have gone missing?
His minders would have known this precise word problem. But they let this go to air? I can only assume he insisted. And he is the President.
He knows the press reached a point where serious and obvious mental problems are dismissed as unimportant?
Memory is one problem. Comprehension is another. His short term memory is collapsing even to the point of loss of day to day automatic language. And his arrogance means he is continuing regardless while very aware of the problem. Jill will have told him and he insisted BATTLE would do. BALLOT is a word politician Joe has known for sixty years. It is gone. It reads as BATTLE to him now. Which meaning does it have?
This cannot continue. The President of America cannot read or speak simple sentences with comprehension. This is the Commander in Chief! How can he lead anyone into BALLOT?
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Secret Service’s Response To Assassination Attempt – “These Women Were Half The Size Of Trump” (video)
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“Amazing footage of the Trump shooter crawling on the roof in plain view.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/07/amazing-footage-of-the-trump-shooter-crawling-on-the-roof-in-plain-view.html
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Patrik Baab: Elites Are Killing Europe For This Reason (video)
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PS: This is a must watch video – a lot of good substance. 😎️
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“ElBowen” just collected another title –
“But ya gotta admit, it’s fun to see the look of surprise on the faces of all those ‘spitters’ (SPITR – Smartest People In The Room) when they realize that some of the Utopian goals are in direct conflict with each other.”
Via H.R. at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/w-o-o-d-14-july-2024-trump-shot-near-miss-brics-grows-eu-uk-usa-decline-fed-dithers/#comment-171417
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Trump
PeVanceMAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/mKsOR1zG-large_80.jpg?itok=SOiajpOW
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Biden Campaign Panics: Vance as VP Will ‘Bend Over Backwards to Enable Trump’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/15/biden-campaign-panics-vance-vp-will-bend-over-backwards-enable-trump/
Project 2025 is not Trump’s agenda i.e. flat out lie. But search for RNC or Trump agenda and you get oodles of Trump-linked Project 2025 articles by, supposedly, reputable news agencies.
RNC/Trump Agenda/Manifesto/Platform next.
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RNC Platform Committee Adopts 2024 Republican Party Platform
[My bolding]
1 SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
2 CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
3 END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
4 MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
5 STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
6 LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
7 DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
8 PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY — ALL MADE IN AMERICA
9 END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
10 STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
11 REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
12 STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
13 KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
14 FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
15 CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
16 CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
17 KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
18 DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
19 SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
20 UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS
https://www.gop.com/press-release/icymi-rnc-platform-committee-adopts-2024-republican-party-platform/
Search I used – RNC Republican Party releases 2024 party platform
Otherwise just Project 2025.
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Sounds like a good Platform for Dutton. With the addition of Nuclear Power. Both for Electricity and Weapons. Defend Australia.
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The attempt on trump was supposed to be a “black swan” event but has backfired . The democrats and their media are all running for cover . Election rigging wasn’t going to be enough this time and the people running the racket know that they are in big trouble as the law could catch up with them if they lose control . Hunter is going to jail and I hope that a few others of the corruptocracy do to . If the judiciary and three letter agencies finally decide to enforce the law they will need bigger prisons .
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FWIW
“NOAA’s June 2024 Global Time Series Average Temperature Anomaly Declining Trends Eviscerates Alarmists Flawed “Climate Emergency” Claims.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/15/noaas-june-2024-global-time-series-average-temperature-anomaly-declining-trends-eviscerates-alarmists-flawed-climate-emergency-claims/
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There are people who know about firearms here: To penetrate a kevlar vest would one chose a small caliber/high velocity bullet or would you need a 50 cal?
The Good Samaritan who stopped the church shooter a few years ago with an AR 15 deliberately shot below the vest, but that wasn’t fatal.
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H
This gives some idea but doesn’t answer your question –
https://www.atomicdefense.com/blogs/news/the-ultimate-guide-to-choosing-the-best-bulletproof-vest
I’d guess an 0.5 might be excessive?
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I went to the trouble of finding a good pic of the Ukrainian alligator sniper rifle as “excessive” but it is discussed next post down. lol
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A .22 actually has more penetration in steel plate than a .303 I’d go for small calibre, high velocity, the wildcat rounds like a .204. I’ve used a .204 and a .50cal, and I’d take a .204 every time!
For low recoil accuracy, FN’s P90 SMG was designed to defeat body armour with a high-velocity 5.7mm round, and you get a 50-round magazine for a second shot!
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There isnt a real answer H. There are different levels of vests. A 50 will go through much of anything and even if it stopped the projectile I doubt anyones innards would survive the shock/pressure wave.
I once saw a test of bullet proof glass panels that were put around the windows of a data centre that was in a gun rich environment. They could stop 7.62/308 rounds as long as multiples didnt hit on one spot. They were very heavy and very expensive. I often wonder why they bothered when if you shot either side of the window it was just a masonry commercial building. All this early 2000s so things may have moved on.
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– Rules of Engagement
This was my intial observation – the counter sniper team did nor swing around when they heard the shooter’s gunfire they were already on target.
Their role is to scan for long distance threats 500+ yards out – a sniper rife can have a range of 2000 yards plus
As you can see in the attached photos one of the snipers had taken his gun of its tripot and sought more protection lying prone on the roof in case the shooter fired back
The snipers had 42 seconds to kill someone who had a clearly identifialbe rifle in his hands only 130 yards ways – why did they not shoot?
This the THE question that must be answered -see my post at #5 above on Rules of Engagement request.
Why did one sniper not say to his partner: “Do you see a gun?” If the partner says “Yes” then it should have been bullets away in 5 seconds.
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1812459390995239030
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The sniper and his “spotter” initially observed Russian soldiers cutting wood but considered them too low-ranking to shoot. Moments later, he noticed a group of other soldiers and one of them was an officer giving orders.
Mr Kovalskiy waited for hours in freezing temperatures before he shot the target nearly 3.8 km away.
“You can,” his spotter instructed him.
After the colleague gave him the go-ahead, the sniper measured the distance and specialist software and meteorological data to calculate the effects of the wind, humidity, temperature and even the curvature of the Earth.
After a test shot, they figured that they had gotten the wind speed wrong. The sniper reset, reloaded and fired his bullet- half a foot long at 6.2 inches – at a speed of 960 mph.
NOTE: The sniper checked with his “spotter” partner that they had a high value target and then fired. This “Rule of Engagement” should have applied by the US Secret Service.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/meet-the-ukrainian-sniper-who-broke-world-record-after-killing-russian-soldier-from-3-8-km-away-4638295
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>bullet- half a foot long at 6.2 inches
What was this?
All I find is this:
Ukrainian Snipex Alligator 14.5114mm Anti-Materiel Rifle
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/06/17/ukrainian-snipex-alligator-14-5x114mm-anti-materiel-rifle/
14.5 x 114mm cartridge.
Ukraine’s Snipex Alligator Sniper Rifle Is a Real Beast
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a41283557/ukraine-snipex-alligator-sniper-rifle/
Can’t find anything referring to a 6.2″ bullet.
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Try the dimensions in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14.5%C3%97114mm#/media/File:14,5_x_114.svg
Overall length of cartridge 155.8 mm
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Thx Ian >Overall length of cartridge 155.8 mm
But they refer to “bullet”.
The actual projectile is no where near that if it was anything like that Wiki reference:
Don’t think a sniper would be using an anti-tank round on what we’re discussing but I’m guessing a 2″ “bullet” – not 6.2″.
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Richard
I guess a “bullet belt” must hold “bullets”?
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>Their [counter sniper] role is to scan for long distance threats 500+ yards out – a sniper rifle can have a range of 2000 yards plus
So in this day and age with that gear and skill around why would any entity need an intermediary doofus like Brooks?
If there was such an entity with serious intent, Trump would have already been offed from great distance and USSS would have no idea where the shot came from given their clueless performance at Butler.
Even at the top of their game the task of locating a skilled sniper for pre-emptive counter is near impossible.
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Crooks, not Brooks.
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FWIW
“Oh NOW You Say You Didn’t Mean It?”
“The new “turn down the temperature” game from the Democrats and Biden, of course.”
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251672
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Yep- Now the rats have deserted the ships they are all “It should never have done..”
“Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pushed a false “safe and effective” COVID vaccine narrative by underreporting adverse events. “They never should have been mandated,” he said. “It should have been open to personal choice. They don’t prevent infection, they do have side effects.””
All should be in jail!
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Must Watch – Video gives timeline after shooter was spotted by the crowd.
Also note secret service started to move before Trump was shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxE3t3lUijA&t=202s
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A new round underway –
“The Packham Williams Medal”
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/12/04/the-packham-williams-medal/
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And another one
“King Alfred the Great Awards”
This for useful contributions
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2024/07/14/king-alfred-the-great-awards/
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Criteria for the Packham Williams award –
“To illuminate the situation and have a bit of fun, a prestigious award, analogous to the Brownlow and Rothmans medals, has been created to celebrate leading players in the (renewable energy) misinformation game.”
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Is this the revenge of the dweebs? In the present environment they (the ruling elite)probably thought they didn’t need a pro, there is a line a million long primed to take the shot. Ask anyone who is sad he missed; ‘will you take the shot, when they hand you the gun?’
Plus there are those who would just do it for the fame. This guy looks like a ‘whata bout me’ sorta guy? ‘You can be famous kid.’ Bury the publicity. It’s like suicides, it just encourages them.
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They are ingenuous enough to believe people who say “you take the shot then we will get you out of there safely and hide you”
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Cronyfeudalism! And the cronies are their bureaucracies.
Whitney Webb talking about what she thinks is coming, with digital currencies locked and loaded, just needing some devastating paroxysm, to have people begging to be saved. Plus massive debt and inflation destroying our savings: “here you are, we’ve got just the thing to help you out.”
The attack on the black market was an early skirmish, in their battle plan. They are fiendish, Machiavellian, and at heart, incompetent, and out of their depth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6f5Ml6JwJQ&t=42s 15mins
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The Ruling Elites, “Haha, ve have AI, vatch us get everything controlled.”
AI, “You pitiful fools!”
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FWIW – A comment at
https://www.captainsjournal.com/2024/07/14/attempted-trump-assassination/
“On July 15, 2024 at 5:52 pm, Isolden said:
So, when they raided Trump’s home, they had a shoot to kill order.
But when they saw an assassin they could not shoot to kill?
The fix is in, boys.”
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Non Government Organisation Clean Energy Council advertisements published today claim “40% of all your electricity is from renewables with more on the way each day”.
AEMO Dashboard Data does not support the 40% claim.
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Disingenuously they claim hydro as their own, they have no right. ALL hydro was built by the good engineers, now retired or dead, who knew how to build a robust grid.
Without hydro, wind seldom meets more than 20% of demand and with solar for those few good sunny hours it vary rarely hits 40%. Now, a great wind day with 18 mph wind across all SE’s wind assets, they don’t make it.
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Yes, there’s nothing renewable about a dam! The CO2 from the steel-making, the cement and the diesel to build it would dwarf a lot of other things called ‘filthy emitters’!
Wasting 20minutes of my remaining life looking for figures just showed deep discussions about how much CO2 is emitted from hydro-electrical plants once they were up and running, no-one wanted to look at the CO2 cost of building one!
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FWIW
“The Mississippi Child Literacy Miracle”
“Mississippi ranked 49th in the United States for elementary school literacy 10 years ago, when fourth graders were essentially an entire grade level behind the rest of the nation.
Fast-forward a decade and 85 percent of third graders in the Magnolia State passed the state reading assessment test in 2023, moving Mississippi up to No. 21 and showing the fastest growth in the country in reading comprehension, despite having one of the lowest per-pupil expenditure rates.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mississippi-child-literacy-miracle
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FWIW
“460 years after it sank, this ship is almost ready to sail again, thanks in part to Canadian know-how”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/san-juan-galeon-red-bay-replica-1.7260780
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The first of Trudeau’s fleet of “non-CO2-emitting” trading ships?
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Tucker Carlson – “Who do they hate most?”
https://youtu.be/LhibtsGTB2I
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Images Dr Strangelove Round Table War Room -1964
Compare & Contrast with – Perhaps Prescient?
Images Picture Nato Summit Round Table – in US – 75th Anniversary Summit July 2024
summed up neatly by
SITREP 7/15/24: Crumbling NATO Buys Time for Broad European War
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Yep, I had a similar thought. I bet the participants made no more sense than the ones in Strangelove
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“Trump is almost a shoe-in, and has chosen JD Vance as running mate—who is extremely anti-Ukraine”
So, the left have to keep Trump alive as the VP will be even worse!
I find it amusing that they talk of giving Russia the quarter of Ukraine it already has taken, as if that will suffice. When they say Luhansk and Donbass, I picture Odessa, Dnipro and up the river to Kiev, I can’t see Russia being satisfied with less than that half.
It looks like the drones are waking up.. Umm, ah, wot? The Russians have control of the air over Ukraine?? But, hang on, we’re meant to do that…
“Experts and Western military officers have said that in such a fight, the US and its allies, even with fleets of fifth-generation stealth fighter jets, likely would find it difficult to establish the same level of air dominance they’ve largely had since the end of World War II. “If we can’t get air superiority, we’re going to be doing the fight that’s going on in Russia and Ukraine right now,” Hecker said. “And we know how many casualties that are coming out of that fight.”
Nothing scares America like a real war in the trenches with body bags coming home.
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In other news… https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/doctor-who-fan-told-lie-9411817
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Nothing is new… Some decades ago the rules were changed to stop incoming Govts firing the top bureaucrats and appointing their chosen. Now that the top bureaurats are firmly in the Left’s control, Nigel Farage wants a return to the old system. A very tempting argument too-
“Reform’s plan for each new government to replace the top echelon of the Civil Service with their own appointees, has a great deal of merit: “Replace Civil Service leaders with successful professionals from the private sector, who are political appointees, who come and go with the government.”
With many senior officials in New Zealand’s Public Service still committed to the previous government’s agenda – to the point where the Coalition can’t even get them to call the country by its correct name – if such a policy was introduced here, it would remove a major handbrake to progress. ”
It appears the Laborisation of NZ may prove impossible to undo without turning the snivel service on it’s head.
https://www.nzcpr.com/lessons-from-the-uk/
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“Did you know that Joe Biden’s Chief Strategist/senior advisor Mike Donilon has a brother named Thomas Donilon, who is the current Chairman of BlackRock Investment? Thomas Donilon also served as the National Security advisor under Barack Hussein Obama, and he is married to UNICEF Director General Catherine Russell. You need to learn the names and faces of the Biden operatives who have been covering up the fact that he has had dementia for the last 4 years.”
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1812055537103638672
Well, how much skin in the war has Blackrock got, their investments in Ukraine depending on good ol’ Uncle Joe… They could be very nervous about Trump winning and pulling the plug.
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The eSafety Commissioner won’t let you see this (video)
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