KARMA, COURTESY OF MOSSAD:
Per the NYT: "Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amini, lost one eye and severely injured his other eye when a pager he was carrying exploded…"
It was Iranian regime policy to shoot Woman, Life, Freedom protesters in the eye.
Rarely is karma so perfectly exact. pic.twitter.com/fY7JA8KltC
— Kaveh Shahrooz کاوه شهروز (@kshahrooz) September 18, 2024
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS LAST SEEN LOUNGING ON THE LIDO DECK: A Disturbing Number of Democrats Think America Would Be Better Off If Trump Were Assassinated.
HEZBOLLAH ARE STILL WEARING PAGERS? REALLY?
#BREAKING Reports on new wave of pagers explosions in Lebanon
— Guy Elster (@guyelster) September 18, 2024
Not sure I’m buying this one until there are more reports…
Update: New indication is that today it’s exploding handheld radios.
Another update: ‘Second Wave’ Attack on Hezbollah Targets Walkie-Talkies and Other Electronic Equipment.
Related (From Ed): Why does Hezbollah still use pagers for communication?
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had previously warned its members not to carry cell phones as Israel could use them to track the group’s movements.
As a result of this, the Iran-backed militant group, has been using pagers for communication.
Nicholas Reese, adjunct instructor at the Center for Global Affairs in New York University’s School of Professional Studies, told the Associated Press that smartphones carry a higher risk for intercepted communications in contrast to the simpler technology of pagers.
Reese said that Tuesday’s attack will force Hezbollah to change its communication strategies.
He added that survivors of Tuesday’s explosions are likely to throw away “not just their pagers, but their phones, and leaving their tablets or any other electronic devices.”
Carrier pigeons? Smoke signals? I’d say land-lines, but that’s a particularly risky strategy.
IF AT FIRST (OR SECOND) YOU DON’T SUCCEED…: Cops Find Explosives Near Trump Rally on Long Island.
THIS WAS THE STUFF OF APOCALYPTIC SCI-FI NOVELS JUST A FEW YEARS AGO: Pacific Dragon: Is the Shipping Industry Ready for Containerized Missile Warfare? “In a groundbreaking naval exercise, the U.S. Navy and its allies tested the launch of one of its most powerful defensive missiles from a shipping container, marking a significant leap in ship defense technology. During Pacific Dragon 2024, the system successfully launched Raytheon’s SM-3 Interceptor anti-ballistic missile, showcasing a new level of flexibility in defending against airborne threats. What’s even more intriguing—and unsettling for some—is the potential to deploy these containerized missile systems on commercial vessels, blurring the lines between civilian and military assets.”
THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Unsold Electric Cars Stacking Up Like All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes.
FOLLOW THE MONEY:
The mayor of Springfield, Ohio is making millions by replacing a third of the population of his town with Haitian immigrants
Let's take a look at such an impressive abuse of power and bag chasing: https://t.co/hGSOpYC9YJ pic.twitter.com/1VVEnLEHBd
— 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚎𝚜 (@718Tv) September 16, 2024
Read the whole thread.
I’d just add that I’ve been waiting — and writing — for years for Americans to wake up to just how badly we’re being ripped off. Maybe that’s starting to happen. And it’s no coincidence that these reports are going public first on Elon Musk’s X.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Harris Keeps Embarrassing Herself and… IMPROVING IN THE DAMN POLLS?
ORWELL KNEW: The rise of the Keffiyeh Karen.
In her ready and confident fury, her rudeness, her iron-fisted appetite for confrontation over infractions of what she deems political and moral gospel, the Keffiyeh Karen is related to a broader epidemic of the Gen Z Mean Girl. These Mean Girls have graduated from running the schoolyard to terrorizing the workplace. If there is one type to be afraid of in modern offices, it isn’t the lech or the shouty, hungover male middle manager. It’s the twenty-three-year-old gluten-free vegan graduate, wet behind the ears. We know what these misanthropic misses are capable of — we’ve seen the Phoebes and Annas of Just Stop Oil chuck soup on Van Gogh.
Several good friends of mine who work in corporate settings have told me tales to chill the blood — women in their early twenties conducting bullying campaigns, being proudly insubordinate to their bosses. They never face consequences.
I’ve noticed their boldly aggressive style myself in the astonishingly disrespectful tones in which they harangue those they disagree with on social media.
Read the whole thing but first, Orwell: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: We Live in the Golden Age of Exploding Pagers. “In the era of smart phones that are more powerful than any of the first several computers that I owned, it’s odd to see the lowly pager making such a splash in the news.”
PLANS WITHIN PLANS:
Israel will be mapping out injuries, hospital admissions, social media posts, electronic communications, news footage, and medical records, linking them all to people who had these pagers today. Forget the injuries and deaths; Israel just created a massive and growing trove of…
— Ben B@dejo (@BenTelAviv) September 17, 2024
Daylight is the best disinfectant and also for the treatment of other vermin.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS: What Happens After Biden’s Economic Manipulations Disappear?
Some examples of this rigging include:
Biden’s steady sale of US strategic oil reserves in order to drive down energy and gas prices, thereby artificially reducing CPI (official monthly inflation numbers). By June of this year Biden had sold off at least 50% of the nation’s emergency oil supply just to keep CPI down a few points. Keep in mind, bringing down the CPI does nothing to cut the real inflation that has already accumulated in necessities (30%-50% higher prices depending on the product or service).
Then there’s the manipulation of BLS unemployment data to show millions of new jobs that don’t actually exist. After it was announced that Biden was no longer the Democratic candidate, suddenly the US Payroll has been revised down by over 818,000, likely with more revisions to come. Meaning, Bidenomics was being fluffed with fake job creation.
An even greater concern is the fact that all new jobs created for the past several years have been going to illegal aliens, not legal citizens. In fact, since October of 2019 native-born US workers have lost over 1.4 million jobs. Over the same period, migrants illegally residing in the US have gained 3 million jobs. The new narrative among leftists is that this is a good thing; they claim that the US needs illegal immigration and open borders in order to support the jobs market and “bring down inflation.”
I’m doubtful that the jobs boost to illegals is real, either. More likely the migrant jobs data is rigged because it’s much harder to track and confirm. But these people don’t seem to understand how inflation works – Greater population means higher resource demand, and that helps drive up prices (as we’ve seen in housing). It doesn’t bring prices down, nor does it reduce the existing money supply.
It should also be noted that full time jobs numbers have plunged while part time low-wage jobs have increased. These are the kinds of issues no one in the Biden Admin is talking about.
Finally, rising GDP is often cited as a key indicator of a vibrant economy, but what the “experts” rarely mention is that GDP is rigged by the inclusion of government spending. The more federal and state governments tax, borrow and spend, the higher GDP goes. Currently, government spending accounts for at least 36% of GDP (officially) in the US.
It makes it look like America is more successful than ever but this is based on the government taking more cash from the public, printing more money and going into greater debt, then throwing that cash away with wild abandon in order to prop up the numbers.
And don’t forget: “Trump’s arrival in the Oval Office will result in a hailstorm of bad economic data, and most of this will be due to the sudden end of statistical manipulations that have been in place for the last four years.”
UPDATE (From Ed): If Trump wins expect the reverse of what the DNC-MSM did in 1992, when it worked with Bill Clinton to transform a minor recession into “the worst economy in 50 years,” only to turn around and reveal that, as the Charlotte Business Journal wrote in 2010, “The U.S. economy actually grew 4.2% in the fourth-quarter that year and went on to enjoy a terrific decade-long run of prosperity. And we learned in hindsight that recession had actually already ended when the [September 1992 Time magazine] article was printed.” Time described it in December of that year as “Bush’s Economic Present for Clinton.”
Get ready for Biden-Harris’ exploding cigar for Trump, if he wins in November, or whenever elections are ultimately decided in these enlightened times.
IT’S ONLY INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE WHEN REPUBLICANS USE FAR MILDER LANGUAGE: Rubicon Crossed: White House Doubles Down on Trump Being a ‘Threat’ After Latest Brush With Death.
TRUTH:
Woman. Y’all wouldn’t even let us keep the BOY SCOUTS https://t.co/Tar4ggli6U
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) September 17, 2024
IT’S A TERRIBLE NETWORK STAFFED BY TERRIBLE PEOPLE: MSNBC Columnist Says Routh Was Justified in Wanting to Take a Shot at Trump.
WHAT A CREEP: Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison.
Previously: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Dismisses the Importance of Privacy. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”
ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE HAD ASSURED ME THIS WAS DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION: Vetted Video Shows Ohio Immigrants Grilling Neighborhood Cats.
NOT WORRIED ENOUGH TO RECOMMEND AN INEXPENSIVE FIX THAT’S PROVEN TO WORK: Mosquito-borne diseases are surging in Europe — how worried are scientists? “Figures published last week by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) show that there have been 715 locally acquired cases of West Nile virus (WNV) across 15 countries in Europe so far this year, surpassing the number reported in the same period last year and Europe’s 10-year average. As of 4 September, 51 people had died as a result of the infection.”
SCIENCE! Nobel prize-winner tallies two more retractions, bringing total to 13.
Gregg Semenza, a professor of genetic medicine and director of the vascular program at Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Cell Engineering in Baltimore, shared the 2019 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for “discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
Since pseudonymous sleuth Claire Francis and others began using PubPeer to point out potential duplicated or manipulated images in Semenza’s work in 2019, the researcher has retracted 12 papers. A previous retraction from 2011 for a paper co-authored with Naoki Mori – who with 31 retractions sits at No. 25 on our leaderboard – brings the total to 13.
The authors requested the latest pair of retractions, published September 4 in Cancer Research, according to the notices, which also mention “an institutional review by Johns Hopkins University.”
I’d “trust the science” like I once did if the scientists were still as trustworthy.
THEY HAVE THE RECEIPTS: Trump Camp Links Dems’ Dangerous Rhetoric to Assassination Attempt.
CHANGE (IT BACK):
Back to Petroleum: BP abandons the wind business to focus on oil and gas.https://t.co/6yvw1qATQZ pic.twitter.com/Lf00WlJcEt
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) September 16, 2024
ESG and DEI have taken serious body blows this year — keep it up.
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