>>14812451, >>14812474, >>14812480, >>14812524 I noticed he also had a weird smell to him, took the covid shot

This is something I’ve noticed. I had a renter tgst had a kitten, he wouldn’t give it a bath. The smell was disgusting and when he left I had to disinfect everything to get rid of the smell. I don’t know if related but if I’m around people in the office building I smell a veru similar smell. I thought they mudt be cat people, but its getting more prevalent so maybe they took the vaxx. The strength of the smell is weird, its not just a light smell, but like a cloud around them.

Maybe they are just cat people, but anyone else notice this smell around the vaxxed?. Maybe the vax has hormones injected into it so monitors can identify them.

>>14813856

Another DS plant

>>14813947

Saw that, so they can deny it when they are sued, but also read, osha cannot prevent employees from reporting injuries from vax

>>14813955

Amen

North Korea Tests Possible Submarine Missile, Amid Tensions

19 Oct 2021

Associated Press | By Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-jin Kim

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Tuesday fired at least one ballistic missile into the sea in what South Korea’s military described as a weapon likely designed for submarine-based launches, marking possibly the most significant demonstration of the North’s military might since President Joe Biden took office.

• The launch came hours after the U.S. reaffirmed its offer to resume diplomacy on North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. It underscored how the North continues to expand its military capabilities amid a pause in diplomacy.

• The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected the North firing one short-range missile it believed was a submarine-launched ballistic missile from waters near the eastern port of Sinpo, and that the South Korean and U.S. militaries were closely analyzing the launch.

• The South Korean military said the launch was made at sea, but it didn’t elaborate whether it was fired from a vessel submerged underwater or another launch platform above the sea’s surface.

• Japan’s military said its initial analysis suggested the North fired two ballistic missiles and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said officials were examining whether they were SLBMs.

• After the launch, Kishida interrupted a campaign trip ahead of Japanese legislative elections later this month, returning to Tokyo. The leader ordered his government to start revising the country’s national security strategy to adapt to North Korea’s growing threats.

• “We cannot overlook North Korea’s recent development in missile technology and its impact on the security of Japan and in the region,” he said.

• South Korean officials held a national security council meeting and expressed “deep regret” over the launch that came despite efforts to revive diplomacy. A strong South Korean response could anger North Korea, which has accused Seoul of hypocrisy for criticizing the North’s weapons tests while expanding its own conventional military capabilities.

• The apparent site of the missile firing — a shipyard in Sinpo — is a major defense industry hub where North Korea focuses its submarine production. In recent years, the North has also used Sinpo to develop ballistic weapons systems designed to be fired from submarines.

• North Korea had last tested an SLBM in October 2019.

But while North Korea is apparently trying to use South Korea’s desire for inter-Korean engagement to extract concessions from Washington, analysts say Seoul has little wiggle room as the Biden administration is intent on keeping sanctions in place until the North makes concrete steps toward denuclearization.

“The U.S. continues to reach out to Pyongyang to restart dialogue. Our intent remains the same. We harbor no hostile intent toward the DPRK and we are open to meeting without preconditions,” Sung Kim told reporters on Monday.

Last week, Kim Jong Un reviewed powerful missiles designed to launch nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland during a military exhibition and vowed to build an “invincible” military to cope with what he called persistent U.S. hostility. Earlier, Kim dismissed U.S. offers for resuming talks without preconditions as a “cunning” attempt to conceal its hostile policy on the North.

The country has tested various weapons over the past month, including a new cruise missile that could potentially carry nuclear warheads, and a developmental hypersonic missile.

The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said North Korea’s latest launch did not pose an immediate threat to U.S. personnel, territory, or that of its allies.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/19/north-korea-tests-possible-submarine-missile-amid-tensions.html

Coast Guard: 1,200-Foot Ship Dragged California Oil Pipeline

18 Oct 2021 Associated Press By Matthew Brown

Investigators believe a 1,200-foot cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude.

A team of federal investigators trying to chase down the cause of the spill boarded the Panama-registered MSC DANIT just hours after the massive ship arrived this weekend off the Port of Long Beach, the same area where the leak was discovered in early October.

During a prior visit by the ship during a heavy storm in January, investigators believe its anchor dragged for an unknown distance before striking the 16-inch steel pipe, Coast Guard Lt. j.g. SondraKay Kneen said Sunday.

The impact would have knocked an inch-thick concrete casing off the pipe and pulled it more than 100 feet, bending but not breaking the line, Kneen said.

Still undetermined is whether the impact caused the October leak, or if the line was hit by something else at a later date or failed due to a preexisting problem, Kneen said.

“We're still looking at multiple vessels and scenarios,” she said.

The Coast Guard on Saturday designated the owner and operator as parties of interest in its investigation into the spill, estimated to have released about 25,000 gallons of crude into the water, killing birds, fish and mammals.

The accident just a few miles off Huntington Beach in Orange County fouled beaches and wetlands and led to temporary closures for cleanup work . While not as bad as initially feared, it has reignited the debate over offshore drilling in federal waters in the Pacific, where hundreds of miles of pipelines were installed decades ago.

The DANIT's operator, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, is headquartered in Switzerland and has a fleet of 600 vessels and more than 100,000 workers, according to the company.

MSC representatives did not immediately respond to email messages seeking comment. A security guard reached by telephone at the company's headquarters in Geneva said it was closed until Monday.

The vessel's owner, identified by the Coast Guard as Dordellas Finance Corporation, could not be reached for comment.

The DANIT arrived in Long Beach this weekend after voyaging from China, according to marine traffic monitoring websites.

The investigation into what caused the spill could lead to criminal charges or civil penalties, but none have been announced yet, and Kneen said the probe could continue for months.

Attorneys for MSC and Dordellas will have the chance to examine and cross-examine the government’s witnesses in the case and also to call their own witnesses, according to the Coast Guard. The investigation also includes the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies.

Kneen declined to say if any damage was found to an anchor on the DANIT after a team of at least five investigators spent much of Saturday aboard the ship.

At least two other vessels were previously boarded by investigators, who are examining logs kept by the ships' captains, officers and engineers and voyage data recorders — equivalent to the so-called black box on airplanes.

In response to the new focus on the DANIT, the Houston-based owner of the damaged pipeline, Amplify Energy, thanked the Coast Guard for its continued work on the case.

Amplify representatives have not directly responded to questions about an hourslong delay between an alarm indicating a potential problem with the pipeline and the company reporting the leak to federal authorities.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/18/coast-guard-1200-foot-ship-dragged-california-oil-pipeline.html

German Tax Collectors in Bavaria Get in on the Act of Going After American Base Personnel

18 Oct 2021

Stars and Stripes | By John Vandiver

STUTTGART, Germany — A U.S. military family in Bavaria is being targeted by German tax investigators, possibly signaling an expansion of a controversial tax collection operation to a state where tens of thousands of Americans are based.

Earlier this month, Sandra Johnson, a German with a U.S. green card, opened her mail to find a letter from the Ansbach finance office demanding information about her husband, a Defense Department civilian.

The questionnaire, which resembled those that have been sent to active-duty military and other DOD personnel based some 160 miles away near Ramstein Air Base, was the first known to have been issued to a military family in Bavaria.

Tax officials wanted to know how long the Johnsons had been in Germany, and they sought proof that the family intended to leave in the future.

The tax office also told Johnson she needed to hand over her husband’s U.S. tax records for inspection. She said the stress is unbelievable.

“And you are basically left to deal with it by yourself,” she added.

Such questionnaires have been used to collect information and eventually open formal tax cases against American military members.

The stakes for families locked in such disputes have been high: threats of imprisonment and property confiscation, yearslong court fights and six-figure tax bills.

The U.S. government says the situation amounts to aviolation of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement, which is designed to put military income off limits to local tax collectors.

But so far, the U.S. government has been powerless to stop it even though the matter has gotten the attention of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

“While we do not comment on diplomatic exchanges, the embassy and the military commands continue to work closely in concert to address what we believe is a misinterpretation of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement,” the U.S Embassy in Berlin said Thursday in a statement. “The Department of Defense and Department of State remain engaged and are trying to reach a resolution of this long-standing issue.”

German tax offices have argued that language in the SOFA treaty justifies their actions. If military members aren’t in Germany “solely” for their jobs, they could be subjected to German tax for the same income on which they’re already paying U.S. taxes, German authorities say.

German tax collectors have built cases against Americans based on circumstances such as marriage to a German, tour extension, property purchases or enrollment of a child in a German school.

To avoid German income tax, Americans with a SOFA visa must prove they plan to leave the country. Yet tax offices have continued to pursue military personnel even after they have left Germany…

Even though she filed singly rather than jointly, as allowed by German law, she was met with the demand to hand over her husband’s U.S. tax records.

Johnson said she’s been forced to retain a lawyer to try to keep the German version of the IRS at bay.

Simple solution pull the troops out of Germany

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/18/german-tax-collectors-bavaria-get-act-of-going-after-american-base-personnel.html

Anger over Afghanistan and the Imperfect Example of Stu Scheller

Oct. 16, 2021

Lt. Col. Stu Scheller, who has become a symbol in some military and political circles of a need for military accountability and reform, spent much of his time during his court-martial this week repeatedly admitting that the statements he made through social media posts were intentionally disrespectful and unwarranted.

• Scheller catapulted into the burgeoning swamp of public discontent and blame after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan came to an abrupt conclusion in August with a final 13 service members dead and as images of desperate Afghans clinging to the sides of a plane stoked anger over a 20-year war that hadn't ended in triumphant victory.

• In a string of videos, he berated senior military leaders for the results of the war and called out a culture that,

• Scheller's words painted dueling pictures of a man who was willing to be held accountable but remained unrepentant.

• "I am standing here today pleading guilty; this is me accepting accountability," Scheller said in his own defense Thursday. "But it deeply pains me that my senior leaders are incapable of being as courageous.

• Scheller's videos went largely unchallenged by the Marine Corps, which said little beyond issuing a handful of statements and confirming basic facts as they accumulated views.

• But the court-martial provided long-awaited insight into what drove the Marine officer to make a series of career-altering posts, as well as what the branch's leaders found most objectionable about Scheller's public remarks, leading to a gag order, a mental health check, and finally pretrial confinement ahead of this week's hearings. It also showed how Marine Corps officers repeatedly tried to divert him away from his escalating rhetoric, only to see Scheller post again and again as his business and marriage faltered and his life "was spiraling."

• In the space created by the public silence from the service, some painted Scheller as a hero, demanding a reckoning over the collapse of Afghanistan. Others saw a troubled Marine wounded by the unsuccessful end of a war in which he'd personally fought. Still others saw a man carving out a path for a political run.

• All contained a level of truth, something that began to take shape when the facts behind Scheller's sudden rise to public consciousness were laid out in court. On Friday, he was sentenced to forfeit $5,000 from one month's pay and to receive a letter of reprimand. He also is set to be discharged from the Marine Corps, although the specifics of his separation have yet to be decided by Navy Secretary Carlos del Toro.

The Charges

Scheller faced six different charges tied to four videos and other posts he'd uploaded to social media sites that ranged from disrespecting public officials to conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

"The court will only accept your guilty plea if you are guilty and believe you are guilty," Col. Glen Hines, the judge in the case, explained Thursday.

• "I believed the secretary of defense made decisions that led to the failed withdrawal of Afghanistan," Scheller explained in court, admitting that he highlighted "his [Austin's alleged] incompetence publicly" in his first video.

• Scheller, who spoke unsworn before the judge, took particular exception to a statement that the Corps released shortly after his second video in August. It was one of the few times the service commented publicly on Scheller's posts, saying it was "taking appropriate action to ensure the safety and well-being of LtCol Scheller and his family."

• "This seemed like an obvious attempt from the Marine Corps to paint me as suicidal," Scheller said in his statement Thursday.

• He went on to argue that he took the development to mean that "the system didn't really care about me, but only wanted to protect itself."

• At several points in the testimony, Scheller alluded to the stress and hardship that he was undergoing in his life amid these posts. "My life was spiraling," the Marine said in court.

• Scheller said that, by the time he had posted two videos, his wife had left him, his small business was in trouble, and the specter of legal proceedings with the Marine Corps began to loom.

• However, both Scheller and his lawyers were careful to note that, while the Marine was under extreme pressure, he was not mentally ill.

• "There is no question that there is an emotional and a mental health aspect to this case," Timothy Parlatore, one of Scheller's four lawyers, said in his closing remarks.

• Scheller, in his unsworn statement, said, "Just because you're mad, doesn't mean you're bipolar or have a mental illness." …

• "The Marine Corps only cared about my mental health once I publicly challenged the leadership," Scheller charged in his testimony.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/15/anger-over-afghanistan-and-imperfect-example-of-stu-scheller.html

>>14814138

The message was that Scheller's mental state was a context, not an excuse.

The Marine noted that his mandatory mental health evaluation determined that he "wasn't mentally unstable, just very angry at what I perceived to be consistent betrayal."

After four videos and even more posts to social media, Scheller was ordered to stop posting on the sites by his boss, Col. David Emmel, on Sept. 17. It was an order that Scheller admitted he disobeyed – though through court discussion and body language, it was clear that he didn't fully agree the order was legal.

"I believe that's what Col. Emmel believed," Scheller told Hines. Violating the order led to the third charge for Scheller and, after three posts, brig time.

"Time after time, his command said, 'Come here, let's talk about this,'" Campbell said.

Scheller himself admitted that his boss was "very patient" after the first video went up and noted that he "didn't jump straight to [a gag] order."

When the trial resumed Friday, Hines described Scheller as someone whose service record painted the picture of "a career that appeared to be on the upward slope" while his posts showed "someone to be in pain, perhaps confused, and significantly frustrated."

The judge also had sharp criticism for the manner in which the Corps handled aspects of the case.

Hines noted that the nine days of pretrial confinement, as well as a leak of documents related to Scheller to a media outlet, raised the "specter of unlawful command influence."

The defense noted both events as something they found troubling and would have litigated further if not for the plea deal that was reached.

The trial also, at times, highlighted another aspect of Scheller's saga: the unacknowledged partisanship of some of his closest backers and supporters.

Since the first video, many of the replies related to the Marine's posts have argued that his calls for accountability were a critique of Democratic policies and leadership.

"I have stated many times that this is about Americans and not about divisions, to include Republican and Democrat," Scheller said in court. "This is about accountability of my senior leaders, not about politics."

A long post from Scheller on Sept. 25 had sharp words for both former Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

Despite that, congressional support for Scheller came only from Republicans, and many were members of the far-right Freedom Caucus.

Supporting testimony during the trial came from Reps. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. The latter's testimony drew repeated objections from the prosecutor for being irrelevant as it meandered from a retelling of her personal experience of Sept. 11, 2001, to calls for President Joe Biden's resignation.

Parlatore defended the choice to call her as a witness by telling reporters that he "would have loved to have both parties."

"I'm not going to tell any elected official who wants to come in and speak on behalf of their constituency about the impact of this [that] we don't want to hear from him."

Congressman Ralph Norman, R-S.C., compared the case to that of Eddie Gallagher, the now-retired Navy SEAL who was found not guilty after his former colleagues accused him of war crimes during a tumultuous deployment to Iraq in 2017.

Gallagher's story and judicial saga is closely tied with Trump, who broke tradition to overrule Navy leaders' attempts to hold the chief accountable after a court-martial found him guilty of only one minor charge. Since that trial, Gallagher has remained unrepentant and very publicly lashed out at his critics.

Now, Gallagher and his Pipe Hitter Foundation are championing Scheller's case. The former SEAL has made more than 20 social media posts on the topic and helped raise over $2.5 million for him.

Scheller, who smiled as he walked past reporters into court Friday morning, said that he felt "good" heading into his sentencing, the only time he talked to a small group of reporters gathered to cover the trial.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/10/15/anger-over-afghanistan-and-imperfect-example-of-stu-scheller.html

>>14814117

That makes sense 17

>>14814128

I hope some list anon is keeping a list of all dirty federal judges, there’s a lot of them. When judgement time comes, all of them should be tried for treason

>>14814151

Wow today eh, didn’t Steele mention him a lot in interview with Georgi

He was trying to get him in US back during the coup

>>14814183

notable