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Israeli intelligence used previous alleged IRGC-QF threat reporting as the genesis to put this wacky MANPADS threat into US channels to scotch peace talks with Tehran.

The Israeli chicanery worked.

And it also humiliated Dummkopf Trumpf who had to secrete his massive girth inside a smelly catering container to escape a non-existent threat.

I hope Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls Dummkopf Trumpf to tell him that Bibi made a monkey out of him.

Links:

Oligarchess Ivanka doomed?

Smaller IRGC-QF targets

*** Iran Knew of Details of Trumpf's Visit to Ankara ***

"The Iranian threat that prompted Dummkopf Trumpf's secret Air Force One swap last month emerged as he was heading into his last day at the NATO summit in Turkey on 8 July.

According to two US officials with knowledge of the threat, US intelligence picked up multiple streams of information. They knew that there was a specific threat of a surface-to-air missile against Air Force One, meaning whichever plane was carrying the president, and that someone in the vicinity of the NATO summit had been spotted with a shoulder-fired missile. And the Iranians knew specifically where Mr. Trumpf was staying in Ankara, including which floor of the building.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence related to the threat.

The information was deemed sufficiently credible to lead Mr. Trumpf and senior members of his junta to engage in an extraordinary decoy effort to get him out of Turkey. He boarded the older Air Force One in front of the cameras, which he had announced he would be taking "for old time's sake," before sneaking off in an airport catering container and taking a military jet out of the country.

Dummkopf Trumpf has been the target of Iranian plots in the past. He was grazed by a would-be assassin's bullet while campaigning in Butler, PA in 2024 and targeted by another armed man at his Florida golf course later that year. Those two assassination attempts were unrelated to the Iranian threats.

But a man was convicted in connection with a murder-for-hire plot against Mr. Trumpf that was uncovered by the Biden administration. That plot was said to be led by Iranians, using a proxy force."

Source:
NYT

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Lots of people in NYC knew where Benjamin Netanyahu was staying for UNGA last year, causing the Israeli Shin Bet to make different arrangements for his sulfuric visit next month.

If someone was spotted near the NATO summit with a MANPADS weapon, the Turkish security services would have found him/her by now.

Let's see if the TNP makes an arrest soon or they request the extradition of someone from Iran or elsewhere.

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Kansas has some of the most permissive gun ownership laws in the US, not regulating semi-automatic firearms, so-called "assault weapons," "large capacity magazines," "ghost guns," bump stocks, or similar items.

There are no requirements for licenses to purchase handguns and no firearms registration.

In an average year, 482 people die by guns in the Jayhawk State; 68% of gun deaths in Kansas are by gun suicide. Kansas ranks 22nd nationally for mental health services in 2024, improving from 51st in 2022.

Nationally, 46,686 people die by firearms in an average year, a rate of 13.8 deaths per 100,000 people or one every eleven minutes.

Hi Corky

This is a preamble to martial law, as Americans are becoming accustomed to seeing armed soldiers in our capital and other locations.


Where the ARNG doesn't deploy, ICE Sturmabteilung will.

This is a technique used by JFK during civil unrest in some southern states where Dixiecrat governors couldn't contain the violence. To avoid the appearance of another "Reconstruction," but wanting order restored, USAG RFK deployed DUSMs.

See, not uniformed soldiers:


ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
apnews.com

... Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.

ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of "conductive distraction and de-escalation devices" for officers and agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.

The devices are known as the G.L.O.V.E., which stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, and are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky. They have been used in recent years by some jails and police departments.

DHS said Tuesday that it was working on a response to an Associated Press inquiry and offered no immediate comment. Jeff Niklaus, the founder and CEO of Compliant Technologies, wrote in an email, "Unfortunately, we are unable to speak on this subject."

The notice said the solicitation for a no-bid contract could be published as early as Friday. ...


House Democrats probe DOJ's botched Reflecting Pool case against former Olympian
courthousenews.com

... A top House lawmaker on Tuesday opened an investigation into the Justice Department's ill-fated prosecution of a former Olympic canoeist it accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, days after the agency dropped the case and admitted it lacked evidence.

A federal judge last week dismissed the suit against David Hearn after the Justice Department acknowledged that the new liner in the Reflecting Pool had failed because of a "botched installation" rather than intentional destruction.

Now, Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, has demanded the Trump administration explain whether it knew shoddy workmanship was to blame before it accused Hearn of tearing up the pool liner.

"Did the United States Attorney's Office for D.C. in fact maliciously prosecute an American citizen it knew to be innocent with a felony charge carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison?" the lawmaker wrote in a letter sent Tuesday to D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. "Did the U.S. Department of the Interior ... deliberately mislead prosecutors to cover up a botched' renovation by a company awarded a dubious $15 million insider no-bid contract?" ...


#7

Link: This is a torture tool. "Talk!" "No?" *Zap*

How's retirement and political exile been for you two?


Enjoying your historic, mouth-watering $417,000 annual pension, Joe? I'm sure you're medically well covered for your chemo treatments.

Anyway, since you asked, the rest of us in Amerikkka have been having a real ball, you know?

Besides the BBB, people are unable to buy toilet paper, we are stuck in another "Forever War," and now armed and masked ICE thugs will have electro-shock torture gloves for the "tonks" or Samaritans standing in their way.

Well Joe, at least you got 140 Israeli hostages released in Gaza because that was the 24/7 non-stop drumbeat we all heard during the 2024 election campaign.

The timing of this DoJ opinion is curious.

There's a case that has become active in recent days ...

The ABA Wants The White House's Receipts On The Biglaw Executive Orders (July 9, 2026)
abovethelaw.com

... In a Tuesday filing in American Bar Association v. Executive Office of the President, the ABA asked U.S. District Judge Amir Ali to force the White House to hand over internal communications, including those involving Bannon and Boris Epshteyn, Trump's personal senior counsel. According to reporting, Epshteyn connected two firms that struck deals with the administration, Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, with the Commerce Department on matters related to U.S. trade negotiations. ...

... and ...

Trump demands 'executive privilege' for private 'psychiatrist' and fixer (August 10, 2026)
www.alternet.org

... President Donald Trump is trying to extend the concept of executive privilege, which solely protects the president and official appointees, to his so-called "kitchen cabinet" " that is, outside advisers who simply provide him with guidance.

"As court fight brews over demands for testimony and records from outside Trump advisers like Boris Epshteyn, DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel issues opinion arguing executive privilege extends to Kitchen Cabinet," Politico's Josh Gerstein argued on Monday. ...

In June Trump joked that Epshteyn, a lawyer and political strategist who has long been part of his inner circle, as his "psychiatrist." He is also regarded as a central figure in formulating the president's legal strategies, for instance by playing a crucial role as a go-between interacting with law firms that Trump pressured into providing free pro bono work in return for not facing retaliation from the White House. At the same time, Epshteyn has also been accused of personally profiting from his close relationship with the president, even being investigated by some of Trump's other attorneys for that exact reason.

Because Epshteyn is close to Trump, the president is apparently concerned that efforts to compel the lawyer to testify about potential criminal conduct could hurt him.

This sweeping expansion of executive privilege marks a significant departure from historic legal norms, as courts have traditionally restricted this confidentiality shield to formal government employees to maintain public accountability. Critics argue that extending these protections to private citizens creates a dangerous loophole, allowing outside influencers to shape national policy in total secrecy. ...



More from the article ...

... After enough trips, software may treat some of those devices as a recurring electronic signature associated with the vehicle. Weeks later, one of the same device signals appears alongside a different car connected to an investigation. The signal itself may not contain its owner's name, but its previous association with a known vehicle gives investigators another clue they can use to work out who was carrying the device.

SignalTrace, a system marketed by the security company Leonardo, is designed to work alongside automatic license plate readers. The company says it can recognize groups of consumer devices that regularly move together, then associate them with license plate records and time-stamped locations. The pattern can then be searched even when a police investigator does not know the plate number. ...

Leonardo's new explanatory sheet states that SignalTrace "does not identify people." It says the system "only collects electronic signatures" from signals already being broadcast, such as Bluetooth or radio frequency identification tags. Those signatures, by themselves, do not disclose a person's identity. The company says the output must be corroborated through ordinary investigative methods. ...

Leonardo's SignalTrace product page says the system stores electronic fingerprints for later queries and can recognize a vehicle without seeing its license plate. A separate product sheet says the technology helps identify suspects through the mix of devices they carry. The patent behind the system describes targets that may be people or vehicles. It also describes searchable signatures that can be correlated with visual identifiers and used to track a target across locations. ...


Key U.S. Munitions Are Dangerously Low'

politicalwire.com

The serial------------ who hides in catering carts did that.

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