>Fanone
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>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monkeys-escape-alpha-genesis-research-facility-south-carolina-rcna179077
Police hunt 40 monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility
Anyone who finds a monkey should not interact with it but instead call 911, authorities said.
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America said fuck you, Mike Fanone.
>America said fuck you, Mike Fanone.
At some point during the fighting, I was dragged from the line of officers and into the crowd. I heard someone scream—"I got one!". As I was swarmed by a violent mob, they ripped off my badge. They grabbed and stripped me of my radio. They seized ammunition that was secured to my body. They began to beat me with their fists, and what felt like hard metal objects. At one point, I came face-to-face with an attacker, who repeatedly lunged for me and attempted to remove my firearm. I heard chanting from some in the crowd—"Get his gun!" and "Kill him with his own gun!"
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/senate-report-ties-rumsfeld-to-abu-ghraib-abuse-idUSTRE4BA7JV/
Senate report ties Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib abuse
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to portions of a report released on Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The report's executive summary, made public by the committee's Democratic chairman Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan and its top Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, said Rumsfeld contributed to the abuse by authorizing aggressive interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay on December 2, 2002.
He rescinded the authorization six weeks later. But the report said word of his approval continued to spread within U.S. military circles and encouraged the use of harsh techniques as far away as Iraq and Afghanistan.
The report concluded that Rumsfeld's actions were "a direct cause of detainee abuse" at Guantanamo and "influenced and contributed to the use of abusive techniques … in Afghanistan and Iraq."
"The abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 was not simply the result of a few soldiers acting on their own," the executive summary said.
"Interrogation techniques such as stripping detainees of their clothes, placing them in stress positions and using military working dogs to intimidate them appeared in Iraq only after they had been approved for use in Afghanistan and at (Guantanamo)."
The detainee scandal at Abu Ghraib and later revelations of aggressive U.S. interrogations such as "waterboarding" led to an international outcry and charges that the United States allowed prisoners to be tortured, a claim denied by the Bush administration.
The Bush administration has since recanted the policies under pressure from Congress, while President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
The report found that the military derived the techniques from a Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape program, or SERE, which trains U.S. soldiers to resist enemy interrogation that does not conform to the Geneva Conventions or international law.
"These policies are wrong and must never be repeated," McCain, who last month ended an unsuccessful bid for the White House, said in a statement released with the executive summary.
McCain said the report revealed an "inexcusable link between abusive interrogation techniques used by our enemies who ignored the Geneva Conventions and interrogation policy for detainees in U.S. custody."
The full report, billed as the most thorough examination of U.S. military detainee policy by Congress, remains classified.
Committee staff said the full report was approved on November 20 in a unanimous voice vote by 17 of the panel's 25 members. The panel consists of 13 Democrats and 12 Republicans.
The executive summary also traces the erosion of detainee treatment standards to a Feb,. 7, 2002, memorandum signed by President George W. Bush stating that the Geneva Convention did not apply to the U.S. war with al Qaeda and that Taliban detainees were not entitled to prisoner of war status or legal protections.
"The president's order closed off application of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which would have afforded minimum standards for humane treatment," the summary said.
Members of Bush's Cabinet and other senior officials participated in meetings inside the White House in 2002 and 2003 where specific interrogation techniques were discussed, according to the report.
The committee also blamed former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers for undermining the military's review of interrogation methods.
A juvenile stands in a solitary confinement cage in the Abu Ghraib Prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, on Oct. 27, 2005.
https://archive.is/90jyr
Michael Fanone knows how many of you feel today. He’s felt it for years.
The former D.C. police officer, beaten by Trump supporters as he defended the U.S. Capitol, will no longer defend America.
IN THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS — Michael Fanone leaped off the couch and lumbered toward his fridge, retrieving his fifth (or sixth?) beer. He glanced at the TV, took a sip of Sapporo and offered his first thought on a second Donald Trump presidency.
“Better f—ing arm yourselves.”
His tone was somehow both furious and serene. He saw this coming, and on Tuesday night some in America were starting to arrive at the place he’d already been living for the past 46 months. “I didn’t vote for that motherf-er,” he said, “and I fought tooth and nail to prevent this day from f-ing coming.”
He’d learned about more than 300 “deep state” enemies that Trump’s self-described “secretary of retribution” had compiled in a target list, as Raw Story first reported; Fanone says he saw his name on it. If Trump wants him imprisoned, he’d rather be killed in a shootout. “I’ll die right here on my f-ing house,” he said. “I’m not going to be in some ‘Apprentice’ f-ing military tribunal.” Fanone insists that he’s not some “prepper weirdo,” that he’s just someone who understands how law enforcement can be weaponized against people — “and I fully expect that to happen.”
Fanone, 44, has spent the past few years trying to tell people about what it was like to defend the Capitol as a member of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department on Jan. 6, 2021. How he’d joined officers in an underground tunnel, using his body as a shield between the rioters and the House and Senate chambers. How he’d been stripped of his badge, his radio, his ammunition and, nearly, his gun, which the rioters threatened to kill him with as he pleaded “I’ve got kids.” How he’d been repeatedly Tasered and eventually pummeled unconscious, waking up in a hospital to learn he’d suffered a heart attack, a concussion and a traumatic brain injury.
He’d testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, describing how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had inspired him to join law enforcement. He’d written a book called “Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul.” He’d toured the country telling crowds about what he’d seen, to issue a warning about political violence. He’d received a Congressional Gold Medal from Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Joe Biden. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Mississippi), the chair of the Jan. 6 committee, had promised Fanone and his comrades that “history will remember your names and your actions.”
Whatever. As Pennsylvania’s vote count tilted toward Trump, it all now seemed like a waste of time. “Those are hours, days and weeks of my life that I’ll never get back. I would have better spent them f—ing watching Pornhub,” he said.
Fanone had concluded, long before a single vote had been cast in the general election, that what unfolded at the Capitol that day hadn’t been some grand MAGA finale, but “just the f—ing beginning.”
Fanone did not want to watch election returns with me. “I don’t have anything good to say about anybody,” he explained over the phone last week. “I’m bitter. I’m angry. I feel like my country betrayed me.” (This is last week, mind you.) Then he reluctantly agreed, but nearly backed out when The Washington Post declined to endorse a presidential candidate; he spent a good chunk of Tuesday evening railing against Jeff Bezos, The Post’s owner.
Fanone’s house is on the peak of a Blue Ridge mountain, at the top of a zigzag of steep grades. He’d moved in a year ago after trading his one-bedroom apartment in Alexandria, Virginia, for nearly 50 miles of space between himself and the Capitol. Buddy, Fanone’s coonhound, barreled down the steps to greet me, jumping up on hind legs. This is the home of a man who lives alone: leather sectional, animal-hide carpet, beer fridge. A blow-up poster of his Time magazine cover hangs on a wall — headline: “THE AFTERMATH” — across the room from a bookshelf displaying his Jan. 6-related medals and awards.
“The aftermath.” It sounded so quaint now.
He tuned his television to NBC and sank into the couch, Sapporo in hand. Fanone said he’s had seven traumatic brain injuries — all sustained during his 20 years on the force — and acknowledged that it probably isn’t wise to drink.
“A friend of mine told me you’re supposed to pick something you love,” he said, “and let it kill you.”
Fanone looks the same as he did when he testified on Capitol Hill more than three years ago: silver-haired, bearded and brawny. On Tuesday, he wore a dark green T-shirt, jeans and camo Crocs. He’d left the police force not long after he’d testified to Congress in July 2021. Then he worked on the book and traveled with Courage for America, an organization founded in the aftermath of the insurrection that aims to prevent another one. When he came back, he’d tried to get a job — at Walmart, at Costco, at Cabela’s — and nothing came through.
“No one gives you a reason, but it’s pretty obvious,” he said, alluding to his belief that half the country thinks he’s a traitor. Now he runs his own private security business.
He’d had a contract with CNN that expired late last year, but it wasn’t renewed. Fine by Fanone. He’d hoped the platform would help him lead a conversation about policing in America. Instead, he was livid at the news organization for allowing contributors and guests to “espouse conspiracy theories and bulls— in the name of access.” He was so outraged over CNN’s decision to hold a town hall with Trump that he’d published an op-ed about it in Rolling Stone. The headline: “CNN is hosting a town hall for a guy who tried to get me killed.” He was never again asked to appear on the network, he says. Fanone got a pair of tattoos across the top of his hands to commemorate his departure: “I’ll take the money, but these fools don’t own me.”
The media stopped calling, as did the politicians who’d once raced to take his photo, called him a hero and offered to find him “the best health care” after Jan. 6, 2021. (And when Fanone followed up on that? “Crickets.”) He can’t forgive Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) for attending the Al Smith Dinner alongside Trump in New York last month: “How the f- do you go there and sit and lend credibility to f-ing Donald Trump, then say this man is an existential threat to our f—ing democracy?”
Of politicians left and right, Fanone said: “F— all of them.” Only two escape his condemnation: Pelosi, who tried to get him a job after he left the police force, and former congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), who lost her seat after helping to lead the Jan. 6 committee.
Fanone never heard from the Harris campaign about being a surrogate, even though the three other officers he testified with had traveled to swing states on her behalf. He’d done one event for Biden: a news conference outside of Trump’s hush money trial in New York this past spring. He’d called Trump an “authoritarian” and attracted the ire of Trump supporters who’d also congregated outside the courthouse. He had only appeared at the request of Robert De Niro. Fanone was grateful for De Niro’s presence, if a little miffed by the spectacle: “It’s incredibly disheartening that we need a celebrity to raise awareness about the threat to our democracy posed by f—ing Donald Trump.”
Fanone had met De Niro through Sean Penn, who had reached out to thank Fanone for his congressional testimony; Penn has since come to Fanone’s house a few times to drink beer, Fanone said, and kick around a screenplay idea based on his Jan. 6, 2021, experience. Not that Fanone thinks it would ever get made: “Hollywood executives aren’t known for their courage.”
And, really, who would even want to see his experience dramatized on-screen? The brutal reality had been captured from multiple angles, live and in color, and rebroadcast in prime time — and it seemed like not enough people cared.
Around 9 p.m., Fanone reached for a third Sapporo. Buddy sauntered off to sleep in one of Fanone’s empty bedrooms. NBC cut to a graphic showing the latest results from a Florida ballot measure, which sought to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution. (It would ultimately fail.) Fanone has four daughters, and he worries about their rights. “If democracy is not at the forefront of your mind in this election process,” he said, “then you don’t deserve the f-ing freedoms that are afforded to you in our Constitution and f-ing Bill of Rights.”
Buddy reemerged from his sleeping spot around 11 p.m., his tail wagging low, cautiously. Did he sense something was shifting? The “blue wall” states — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — were still too close to call, but the counts had begun to tip in Trump’s favor. I turned to Fanone, refilling his beer in the kitchen, to ask whether I could stay a little longer to catch what might be unfolding.
“I don’t care — it’s the end of the f—ing world!” he replied, smiling with a kind of crazed glee.
The conversation turned to failures — of guardrails, of checks and balances, of bravery. He reserves special vitriol for Attorney General Merrick Garland, whom Fanone charges with malpractice for bringing in special counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Trump instead of doing it himself.
“The Senate was banking on the fact that they wouldn’t have to be the ones to f-ing convict him, and they could avoid the political fallout because, ‘Oh, the Department of Justice will f-ing pursue this.’ And the Department of Justice was like, ‘Oh well, if we fail, it’s the American people who are going to vote them out of office.’”
He shook his head. “Well, look where the f— we’re at now.” All this talk of “the soul of America” — in Biden’s rhetoric, on Fanone’s book jacket — and more than 71 million Americas had essentially pardoned Trump for Jan. 6.
Pick something you love, and let it kill you …
“We can’t say, in honesty, ‘This is not who we are,’” Fanone said, gesturing his beer toward the television. “We are violent. We are hate-filled. We are self-centered.”
As I left for the night, Fanone said he plans to return to the Capitol — to hurl his medals back at it.
https://archive.is/Oz0wb
CNN Is Hosting a Town Hall for a Guy Who Tried to Get Me Killed
Donald Trump tried to end American democracy. Why is CNN throwing him a rehabilitation party?
May 10, 2023
by Michael Fanone
did she drink it yet?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14049587/bette-midler-donald-trump-election-victory.html
Bette Midler DELETES her X account after saying she would drink drain cleaner if Trump won 2024 Election
Following the support of Carrefour stores to the Israeli army, the people of Oman boycotted Carrefour and forced it to close all its branches throughout the country.
Amman: Carrefour is closing all its supermarket outlets in Jordan, after mounting calls from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting the retailer over the ongoing Gaza conflict and alleged support for Israel.
“As of November 4, 2024, Carrefour will cease all its operations in Jordan and will not continue to operate within the Kingdom,” said Carrefour Jordan in a Facebook statement. “We thank our customers for their support and apologize for any inconvenience this decision may cause.”
the plan to use Ukraine as a tool to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia has failed
Democrats are left without a leader or a clear ideological identity, after Vice President Harris ran a campaign light on ideas and heavy on emotion. The roughly half of America opposed to Trump is left with little solace, and even less federal power.
Don't underestimate the damage Democrats did to their brand by promoting political correctness.
Democrats spent all of their political capital making the case that Trump was unfit for office.
faggot Merchan doesn’t have the stomach to imprison a former president or president-elect
>way too soon and completely unnecessary
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53563601
Coronavirus: Camera firm Kodak turns to drugs to fight virus
28 July 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_(wrestler)
https://wohw.com/kamala-speaks/
Mormon Tim Ballard
>he’s just someone who understands how law enforcement can be weaponized against people