The National Weather Service (NWS) has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists, and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by DOGE-related cuts and early retirement incentives. read more
Just outside the Palm Beach International Airport, Michael Rodrigues (41) was found with a loaded AR-15, ammo magazines, and other weapons Tuesday morning. Airport workers alerted Palm Beach Sheriff's Office deputies that a "suspicious" man was standing near a car in a restricted parking lot. Deputies saw the man getting dressed outside the car. After talking with him, they learned the car was a rental and found an AR-15 magazine filled with bullets inside the glove compartment. A further search discovered a fully loaded AR-15 and multiple knives hidden under a blanket. He was arrested "without incident" and charges are pending. In an average year, 3,038 people die and 6,358 are wounded by guns in Florida which has the 23rd-highest rate of gun violence in the US. Every eleven minutes someone is killed with a firearm in the US. How this lunatic was able to get hold of an assault rifle is most likely because of Florida's incredibly lax gun control laws. read more
Dummkopf Trumpf does not oppose Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to launch a new military operation to occupy the entire Gaza Strip, US and Israeli officials report. The Israeli Security Cabinet is expected to approve a highly controversial plan to occupy the Gaza Strip and secure the Palestinians into isolated areas or camps. Trumpf has decided not to intervene in the Nakba, letting the murderous Likud regime make its own decisions. The new ethnic cleansing operation is expected to take several months and involve displacing approximately one million Palestinians. UNICEF reports that the IDF kills an average 28 Palestinian children per day (the equivalent of a classroom full of pupils). Link: UNICEF on X' read more
CIA officials were concerned that the release of a House report on 2016 Russian election meddling could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources, but DNI Tulsi Gabbard authorized a lightly redacted version with President Trumpf's blessing. Gabbard, D/CIA John Ratcliffe, USAG Pam Bondi have released a slew of intelligence and law enforcement reports that they claim prove that USIC findings that Moscow intervened in the 2016 presidential contest to help Trumpf was a "hoax" concocted by the Obama administration. Archived link: WaPo
A US Army NCO is in custody after he allegedly used his personal handgun to shoot five fellow soldiers this morning at the Fort Stewart military base in Georgia. The five wounded soldiers are in stable condition and are expected to recover. The suspect, Quornelius Radford (28), is alive and in custody after being subdued by other solders. Radford is an automated logistics sergeant and was assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team. Radford does not have any combat history and will face court-martial charges. The suspect is believed to have been involved in a personal dispute with one of the victims and had an argument with him the previous day. The next day Radford arrived at Fort Stewart with a 9mm gun and opened fire on the soldiers. read more
Quornelius Radford has a speech impediment and stutters. Fellow soldiers said he was hard-working. But he was mocked and bullied by some soldiers until he finally "went postal" on them. I wonder what the 1SG did about any of the bullying and the command climate? Link: www.nbcnews.com
#33: Hi Corky: FYI: The Japanese are an extraordinarily clean people that enjoy long baths known as "onsen." After poo, the Japanese people wash themselves in a bidet. Each hotel I've stayed at in Japan have them built into the toilets. This wife was accurate, but impolite in her discourse. The normally polite Japanese people use the term "gaijin" for foreigners, derived from their word for 'crazy.' When someone is a little off, the Japanese quietly refer to them as "kichigai." i.ytimg.com
Here is what the blistering, blathering buffoon is taking away from New Yorkers (and an international audience vis the magic of the internet): www.wqxr.org
Lauren Rico left SiriusXM to join this ad-free radio station. Enjoy the free classical music while WQXR-FM still has funding.
#22: Good story, AU, thanks, many of your Chinese Civil War points rings bells in my memory cells. There were internal disputes within the US military that didn't help matters too. For example, US Army G2 didn't like or trust the OSS.
BTW: My late uncle who lived in China during the war told me that in the book Formosa Betrayed, a Japanese general on Taiwan readied his large unit for an honorable, formal surrender to a US military general or admiral. A USN NCO, possible a SeaBee, arrived on a landing craft with a small party of lightly armed sailors and asked who the general was: www.history.navy.mil
In May Radford went to Florida to purchase his 9mm handgun. So, one wonders how many months of racist nonsense Quornelius Radford put up with from MAGAts and neo-Confederates in his unit which drove him to this point of madness. Radford will spend decades, if not life, in military penal confinement after court-martial. He will endure a snowless gulag for a long time. www.staradvertiser.com
#19: Hi AU: My best friend's father was a post-war senior executive with Flying Tigers. He was an expert on air cargo movement and decades ago he explained to me how a Soviet nuclear reactor could be dismantled and flown to another location within the USSR. He knew the tarmac strength of the airports, the planes required, radiation testing equipment needed, man hours, fuel expenses, etc etc. He was a truly smart fellow.
BTW: My wife and I stopped watching movies years ago, but here is an excellent film on the immediate US occupation of Japan: youtu.be
And I'm sure you must have read this book (or watched the movie): static.oprah.com
#45: How many 13 year olds did Maxwell procure for the orange pedo?
Respectfully emended to read:
"How many 13 year olds that looked like Ivanka did Maxwell procure for the orange pedophile?": images-cdn.9gag.com
And Dummkopf Trumpf intends to place a 100% tariff on microchips. Demand for computer chips has been climbing worldwide, with sales increasing 19.6% in the year-ended in June: apnews.com
According to AIPAC Tracker, US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) receives not one shekel from AIPAC: pbs.twimg.com
This Democrat gets my support.
Everything Trumpf touches, dies, you name it: Casinos, personal relationships, America's reputation, sports franchises, rule of law, NASA satellites, and US aviation: static01.nyt.com
JD Vance on vacation again! And he wants the USACE to do what? How many people did the junta lay off while JD and Usha vacation everywhere, all paid for by the hardworking American taxpayer? What a handsome salary this miscreant earns and how much pelf did he stash away for himself? images.seattletimes.com
European Dockworkers Block Arms Shipments to Israel
This victory in Greece and Italy was possible because they do not have AIPAC to promote Islamophobia or bribe politicians with massive donations like in the US.Source: Link