Warning, the weirdos are back

17 Jul, 2023 20:12

US comments on Crimean Bridge attack

It is up to Ukraine to decide how to fight, Secretary of State Blinken has said

Washington is “monitoring” the situation with the Kerch Bridge to Crimea, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Monday. He did not directly answer whether the US supported Ukraine’s attack on the bridge that killed two civilians and orphaned a 14-year-old girl.

Asked about the strike on the bridge during the State Department press briefing, Blinken said he did not have “anything in particular to offer on that.”

“This is a situation that we’re monitoring,”Blinken told reporters. “I can say, as a general proposition, of course Ukraine has to decide how it conducts this war in defense of its territory, its people, its freedom.”

Russian authorities have said that the bridge was targeted early on Monday by two seaborne drones. The explosion did not damage any of the pillars, but took out one span of the road section as a family was passing by in a car.

Aleksey Kulik, 40, and his wife Natalya, 36 were killed on the spot. Their daughter Angelina, 14, was airlifted to Krasnodar with serious injuries.

“The incident is yet another terrorist attack by the Kiev regime,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday afternoon. “This crime is pointless from the military point of view – since the Crimean Bridge has long not been used for military transport – and brutal, since only innocent civilians were killed and injured.” He vowed a swift and severe retaliation against Ukraine.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the reaction from Kiev “cynical and monstrous,” as some Ukrainian lawmakers and social media users celebrated the deaths of the Kuliks and the suffering of their daughter. According to Ukrainian media, the attack was a joint operation of the Navy and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

It is the second fatal attack by Kiev on the bridge, built in 2018 to connect Crimea to the Russian mainland. Earlier this month, Ukrainian authorities admitted they were behind the October 2022 truck bombing that killed three civilians and damaged both the road and rail spans. Moscow responded by launching missile strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure. The bridge was fully repaired by March 5.

(So the US is giving it’s ok to Ukraine terrorists to kill innocent civilians in Crimea. So are they ok with Isis in how it terrorizes civilians? We have insane leaders. Since Ukraine is losing a land war with Russia its ok to attack civilian infrastructure. The US just gave approval of Russia doing the same thing, or any other country, how about Syria do they have a right to protect its territory, people and freedom, so then they can attack US troops there?)

https://www.rt.com/news/579864-blinken-crimea-bridge-attack/

17 Jul, 2023 18:28

Interest in Zuckerberg’s (DARPA’s) Twitter rival collapses

Threads benefited from the Instagram user base, which doesn’t seem to be sticking around

Threads reached 100 million sign-ups within just five days of launch, with Mark Zuckerberg celebrating every step of the way, but the actual usage of Meta’s Twitter clone appears to have fallen off the proverbial cliff, data analysis has shown.

Zuckerberg chose to launch Threads as an Instagram spinoff, prompting the photo platform’s user base to register for the text app when it launched on July 6. The cross-promotion helped the new platform reach ten million users in just seven hours, with Zuckerberg excitedly live-posting the growth.

Within a week, Threads made it to 150 million downloads globally, with India accounting for 33% of the new users and Brazil another 22%, according to Data.ai. Americans made up just 16% of downloads, with Mexico (8%) and Japan (5%) following suit.

In the same time frame, however, Threads saw its daily active users (DAU) collapse by 40% and the average daily time per user dropping fourfold, according to data from SensorTower.Only 16% of users came back on the seventh day after downloading, and time spent on Threads over the weekend was down 60% from its July 6 launch high.

Even at its peak, on July 6, Threads had 85% lower user engagement than Instagram, and underperformed Twitter by 60% in the same metric, SensorTower analysts Abraham Yousef and Seema Shah told The Atlantic last week.

Additional data showed Threads usage collapsing from neatly 20 minutes a day on launch to just five after a week. Meanwhile, Twitter and Instagram both held steady at 30 and 60 minutes, respectively.

“I think there should be a public conversation app with 1 billion+ people on it,” Zuckerberg boasted after the launch of Threads. He also said Meta would be “focusing on kindness and making this a friendly place.”

In practice, this has translated into the kind of censorship already practiced on Facebook and Instagram, with the added prospect of people losing their Instagram accounts if they get banned for Threads posts.

Online data analysts have speculated that an audience interested in photos may not cross over well to text posts, while the Instagram integration has discouraged the anonymous meme accounts that have traditionally been the lifeblood of Twitter.

Fleeting user interest is not the only teething problem affecting Threads. Zuckerberg has already received a cease-and-desist letterfrom Twitter accusing him of plagiarizing their platform. On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee notified Zuckerberg that all of its subpoenas pertaining to Meta colluding with the government to censor people should be considered applicable to Threads as well.

The Atlantic also poured cold water on Threads’ 100-million milestone, noting that the first social network to reach it was Google+, which launched in 2011 but was shuttered in 2019 due to lack of interest.

(It was propagated with bots)

https://www.rt.com/news/579858-meta-threads-interest-fraying/

Dan Bongino: Secret Service Agents Are ‘Absolutely Furious’ Over Sham Cocaine Investigation… “They Know Exactly Who It Was” (VIDEO)

by Cristina Laila Jul. 17, 2023

Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino said he spoke to some of his former colleagues in the Secret Service and they are absolutely furious about the agency’s cocaine ‘investigation.’

The Secret Service closed its investigation into the Biden White House cocaine scandal without conducting any interviews.

The Secret Service last Thursday concluded its investigation into the cocaine scandal that rocked the White House earlier this month.

No suspect was identified.

According to CNN, the baggy of cocaine was “found in a blind spot for surveillance cameras.”

No fingerprints, DNA samples, or leads!

According toSecret Service spokesman Anthony Gugliemi, the agency didn’t interview the 500 potential culprits because it would be a strain on resources.

Dan Bongino said he has received numerous texts and emails from former colleagues in the agency and they are furious over the sham investigation.

Bongino explained how the West Wing is a “limited access” area.

“So there’s probably less than 200 people who could have left this cocaine, by the way, in a bag which is plastic, which is non-porous, meaning it’s probably not that hard to pull a latent print. They’ve got to know who did it. The question is who’s pressuring them to not find out who did it? And it’s gotta be coming from this White House. This is terrible. Don’t destroy this agency like they did the FBI. It’s really unbecoming,” Bongino said.

“A lot of my former colleagues in the Secret Service who retired, they are absolutely furious about this. Oh yeah, yeah, I can tell you — I got 50 emails, communications, texts from people.‘This is embarrassing, humiliating.’These are good guys, man, guys who worked for Obama and Bush, non-partisan guys, most of them aren’t even political. This is embarrassing, they know exactly who it was,” he said.

“Wow! Do these people want it to come out that it was probably Hunter Biden?” Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan asked Bongino.

“Well, you know, is it – the question is, is it Hunter or one of his friends? But like here’s the thing. So, I’m in the Secret Service for 12 years, a good amount of times. We never had this problem. So nobody, by Occam’s razor, right, the process of deduction, keep things simple, keep it simple stupid, Occam’s razor. You’ve got this guy, we never found coke in there before. You’ve got a dude who’s doing coke on tape, who’s got a reputation for being a coke addict. He’s living in the White House. He’s there on Friday. The coke’s found there on Sunday, and everybody is like, “Gosh, who could it be,” Bongino said.

Bongino reiterated his concern that the Biden White House was going to destroy faith in the Secret Service.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/dan-bongino-secret-service-agents-are-absolutely-furious/

>>19197270

They were running out of ammunition we had to give the something. So the US is a terrorist country now

Jack Smith Seeks Protective Order to Avoid Trial Delay in Trump Classified Docs Case

by Cristina Laila Jul. 17, 2023

(So the US is hiding evidence now?)

Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday sought a classified protective order ahead of a hearing this week in the classified documents case to ‘avoid further delay.’

Jack Smith’s prosecutors asked the court to limit Trump’s access to classified materials related to the case.

The DOJ’s request will be heard at Tuesday’s Classified Information Procedures Act hearing.

Federal prosecutors also said they haven’t received a response from Trump’s legal team since a July 14 request to have a call with Trump and Walt Nauta.

Government lawyers said they filed the motion to ‘avoid further delay.’

The Washington Examiner reported:

The special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case is seeking a protective order ahead of a key hearing this week, saying it’s necessary to “avoid further delay” by the former president’s defense.

In their Monday filing, attorneys for Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith included a proposed protective order for classified information ahead of a Classified Information Procedures Act hearing on Tuesday to decide how sensitive materials involved in the legal proceeding can be protected.

Government attorneys also said they had not heard from Trump’s counsel since a July 14 request to have a call with the defendants “in order to see if it was possible to address the Defendants’ concerns,” according to court records.

“Defense counsel informed the Government that they were not available that day but could find a time for a call the following week,” the government attorneys wrote, adding they were “filing this motion now to avoid further delay.”

In the proposed request, the language of the government’s filing indicated the DOJ wants some materials given to Trump’s lawyers to be off limits to the former president, a request that could prompt Trump to challenge and thereby cause further delay.

Special Counsel Jack Smith recently indicted Trump on 37 federal counts in Miami.

Trump was charged with 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information and 6 other process crimes stemming from his conversations with his lawyer.

Walt Nauta, a Mar-a-Lago aide, was indicted along with President Trump as a co-conspirator.

Judge Cannon set the trial date for August 14 but Trump’s lawyers asked to indefinitely postpone the trial.

Justice Department lawyers on Thursday filed a motion pushing back on Trump’s legal team and asked the Judge to proceed with jury selection on December 11, 2023.

Joe Biden can’t win the 2024 election against Trump so he sent his Justice Department lawyers after Trump to shut him down and jail him.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/jack-smith-seeks-protective-order-avoid-trial-delay/

>>19197373

He really has an ugly look!

>>19197357

You gotta be new. I know they never said it out loud to other countries! Ijiot

17 Jul, 2023 21:53

White House praises cocaine probe after case goes unsolved

Amid claims of a coverup, President Joe Biden’s press secretary has insisted the Secret Service did a “thorough” investigation

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has given the Secret Service a vote of confidence for its “thorough” probe of the cocaine found in the West Wing earlier this month, even as Republican lawmakers and other critics suggest that investigators avoided identifying a suspect before dropping the case last week.

Asked by a reporter on Monday how President Joe Biden reacted to the news that investigators failed to solve the case, Jean-Pierre said, “I’m just not going to opine on this, not going to get into specifics on this. We believe the Secret Service did a thorough investigation. We’ve been briefed on the outcome. They shared the details in a public statement, which I think is important for the American people to hear directly from the Secret Service, who did the investigation.”

The Secret Service announced on Thursday that it was ending the investigation because there was no physical evidence in the case and no surveillance footage that would provide any leads. A plastic bag of cocaine was found in the West Wing on July 2, while Biden and his family were visiting the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

"Can you just talk about [Biden's] reaction when he learned that the [cocaine] investigation did not end with a suspect?"KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: "No"

US Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) said members of Congress have gotten “no answers” on the case from the Secret Service. He and other Republicans have questioned how the agency couldn’t determine who brought a dangerous substance into one of the most secure buildings in the world.

Cotton said the investigation was concluded without even interviewing Biden’s cocaine-addicted son, Hunter Biden. The younger Biden and other family members were reportedly seen at the White House – contrary to a previous claim by Jean-Pierre – two days before the drug was found. “This is like if Hamburglar lived in the White House, all the hamburgers disappeared, and they said they didn’t have any suspects or no one they could question,” Cotton said on Sunday in a Fox News interview.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) reacted to the Secret Service’s statement on Thursday by calling the probe a “farce.” He told Fox News: “You can’t tell me in the White House, with 24/7 surveillance in a cubby hole by a Situation Room that they don’t know who delivered it there. We should get an answer to the question.”

It just seems to me that in America today anything involving Biden Inc. gets treated differently than anything else, and that shouldn’t be the case.

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine pointed out on Sunday that the Biden administration had no hesitance in rounding up hundreds of people “for just being in the vicinity of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.” In contrast, the Secret Service declined to interview any of the potential suspects who were in the West Wing, citing concerns over civil liberties.

“They didn’t find anyone because they didn’t want to find anyone,” former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernie Kerik told Devine.

.@dbongino weighs in on the White House cocaine mystery: "A lot of my former colleagues in the Secret Service…they are absolutely furious about this….These are good guys, guys who worked for Obama and Bush…they know exactly who it was."

Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, now a conservative podcast host, said the case was easily solvable, and he believes the White House pressured the agency “to not find out who did it.” He said other former Secret Service agents are “furious” about the failed probe. “You’re going to destroy faith in this elite agency.”

(Hunter looks high and Jill is trying to calm him down! Who dresses her?)

https://www.rt.com/news/579869-white-house-cocaine-probe/