Weeks after the Trump administration lowered minimum wages for some temporary farmworkers, the Trump Organization sought approval to hire 36 foreign workers for its Charlottesville VA winery at a pay rate nearly two dollars an hour below what it previously offered ... read more
Remote US Army base Fort Greely Alaska, which has a key role in intercepting incoming ICBMs in the event of a nuclear war, is struggling to keep its dining facilities operating following an exodus of staff under Elon Musk's DOGE budget-slashing campaign.
Fort Greely Alaska
The UK's independent online safety watchdog, Ofcom, has opened a formal investigation into 'X' under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether Elon Musk's company has complied with its duties to protect people from content that is illegal in the UK.
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The Reverend Franklin Graham: "Pray at noon this Wednesday for Jesus to protect Donald Trump and officials from the lying paid agitators."
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The largest nurses strike in NYC history is underway after negotiators for five major hospitals and the state nurses union failed to agree to a new contract by Monday's deadline, forcing 15,000 nurses to walk off the job. read more
@8 Serious jitters is right. FDR was rattled by the late German counteroffensive and German espionage. He asked about the progress of the Manhattan Project in case we had to nuke Germany: time.com
The man that rattled FDR was, according to General Eisenhower, the "most dangerous man in Europe," Otto Skorzeny.
After reportedly serving as Eva Peron's bodyguard and some say lover in post WWII Argentina, SS-Standartenfuhrer Otto Skorzeny enjoyed country life in Ireland before moving to Spain. "Scarface" Skorzeny would pass a few months before Il Caudillo: media.gettyimages.com
During World War Two this German soldier, most likely from Otto Skorzeny's commando unit, was caught out of uniform and dressed as an American GI: images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com
And this is what D/FBI Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel wants for the FBI: Brutal UFC tactics, like these submission holds.
These strangulation moves were not taught at FLETC when I went decades ago (2x).
There are other less dangerous, yet effective, techniques to secure a non-compliant suspect without asphyxiating, choking, or strangling them.
Here's an example of an arm-lock: i.ytimg.com
"Fort Greely, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska, is facing "a critical disruption in food service operations resulting from the government's loss of essential civilian positions due to the Deferred Resignation Program (DRP), retirements and the federal hiring freeze," the Army wrote in its justification review document filed to allow for a waiver to requirements for a competitive bid contract.
The solicitation and documents were posted on government websites. The lack of staff as a result of the quasi-official DOGE campaign had led to reduced dining facility hours, "jeopardizing the readiness" of soldiers, the document said."
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After Felon Musk's notorious DOGE gutted the federal workforce and imperilled Americans' air travel, food safety, weather forecasting, health surveillance, and personal SSN data, as well as access to SSA offices, we see the damaging aftermath festering in the DoD.
Warmonger Dummkopf Trumpf proposed an astonishing $1.5 trillion dollar defense budget while the profligate lickspittles in his incompetent junta are wasting millions of dollars of hardworking American taxpayer money, like this expensive propaganda joy ride for good-for-nothing Muslim hater Laura Loomer: Collosal Waste of Money
Our men and women up north can eat MREs while Dummkopf Trumpf, junta members, and Felon Musk enjoy lobster thermidor, Kobe beef steak, and rich chocolate mousse cake, right?
Weeks before these demonstrations erupted all over Iran, this time over economic problems, the IDF High Command issued a warning to the citizens of Israel to be prepared for a three-front war against the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran. That was on 31 Dec 2025. ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu met Dummkopf Trumpf on 29 and 31 Dec 2025 in the US.
Both of these malefactors knew then about these mass demonstrations in Iran because the Mossad fomented them. The first small protests in Iran began on 28 Dec which then metastasized nationwide.
Every few years the Mossad (and probably CIA) attempt to create unrest in Iran because the neo-cons and AIPAC want to see regime change in Tehran. Not because Iran is a theocracy that is harsh on its citizens, but because it is the the only Middle Eastern country that stands up for the Palestinians. We saw the Yemeni Houthis and Lebanese Hezbollah support Iran by counterattacking Israel and its shipping during its brutal Nakba against the Palestinians.
Afghanistan is also a Muslim theocracy that is harsh to their citizens. Who is instigating regime change there?
Iranian counterintelligence and cyber-hackers identified at least six hundred agent provocateurs working for Israel inside Iran.
Please see all sources below.
Links:
600 Agent Provocateurs Identified in Iran
Israel Lies When It Says It Wants 'Freedom' for Iranians
"Bombs away! And thanks hardworking American taxpayer!"
@10 Hi Galaxie Pete:
Good story.
Like you, I learned martial arts (Japanese ju-jitsu) decades ago, long before MMA was introduced to the US by the Gracie clan. Everybody else in my neighborhood boxed, but I played the piano and trumpet and didn't want to take a chance injuring my fingers or my lips.
In jujitsu training we were taught the several dangerous strangulation and choking technique, and how to escape them, but sensei let us practice no more than twice per session because he didn't want to take a chance that a student could get hurt in their tracheal or carotid artery area. If I was choked or strangled twice in a session: "OK! That's it! Next student!"
The US Army taught some of those lethal techniques in hand-to-hand combat training, but the Rangers and SF guys got much more of that training in their programs.
When I went to FLETC years later, we were taught how to restrain someone from the rear without having to apply pressure to the neck/throat region. FBI SAs are taught the same technique (my agency sent me to the FBI DT program years later).
When we see these submission moves by American cops from any jurisdiction on suspects, you and I both know this is official application of an unofficial technique.
I'm off to bridge now, so we'll have to continue this later.