“He alleges Walz was one of the few with access to the building where the top-secret manual was stored and was ‘often the only one there.'” //

A former National Guard colleague of Tim Walz’s told Alpha News that a nuclear manual went missing after the latter returned from China: //

sooner.

The 1-168th Field Artillery, Walz’s National Guard unit, started using the M109A5 self-propelled howitzer in 1995.

The weapon could fire nuclear artillery shells.

The former colleague also said Walz’s behavior changed when the manual went missing:

According to Walz’s former National Guard colleague, around the time the nuclear SOP manual went missing, Walz was pulled over by a Nebraska state trooper for driving 96 mph in a 55-mph zone. The officer noted a strong odor of alcohol, and Walz failed both field sobriety and breath tests. He was booked into the county jail and his lawyer later stated Walz believed someone was chasing him. //

Alpha News pointed out that people had to exchange information in person or through the mail in 1995.

“We still have many capabilities that we have not yet activated,” IDF Chief of Staff Halevi warns Hezbollah. //

While Lebanon reported only 32 deaths from two days of pager and walkie-talkie explosions, the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist group was hiding the actual death toll, media reports suggest.

Consecutive waves of exploding devices have incurred heavy losses on Hezbollah’s leadership and terrorist fighting forces. The command structure of Hezbollah’s elite terrorist Radwan force has been ‘decimated’ by the well-coordinate strike, Israeli sources confirm.

Officially, around 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists were wounded in Tuesday’s pager explosions. The walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday reportedly injured 450 terror operatives. The actual figures are much higher, reports suggest.

“According to Israeli reports, the pager attack alone would have caused “dozens of deaths, if not more” among Hezbollah members,” Israel’s i24NEWS TV reported. “Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force is reported to have suffered significant losses, losing “a large part of its command structure” that was either killed or maimed.”

The coordinated strike on Hezbollah is perhaps the most precise counter-terrorist operation in military history. The Israeli government and armed forces did not comment on the incident.

The Israeli news website YNET reported the actual damage caused by the apparent anti-terror strike:

According to the official updates from Lebanon, 12 people were killed when thousands of pagers exploded on Tuesday and 20 in the walkie-talkie blasts on Wednesday, but in Israel officials believe that the announced dead and injured from the pager explosions is significantly lower than reality. It is estimated that there are many dozens of dead, if not more.

Significant damage was inflicted on Hezbollah’s special operation forces unit Radwan force, which lost large parts of its command structure. At least 450 were injured in the explosion of the hand-held walkie-talkie radios throughout Lebanon, and these join the more than 3,000 Hezbollah operatives who were injured by the pager blasts. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah is expected to give a speech on Thursday, in his first public remarks since the series of explosions in Lebanon.

The Iran-backed terrorist group is in disarray following the strike. Twice bitten, the Hezbollah terrorists were now scared of touching electronic devices and electric switches, social media posts show.

The Lebanese terrorist group apparently paid an Israeli shell company to acquire explosive-laden communication devices.

Israel did not intercept the Hezbollah shipment or tamper with the devices but exclusively manufactured them after securing an order from the terrorist group. “The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse,” The New York Times reported Wednesday. //

By all appearances, B.A.C. Consulting was a Hungary-based company that was under contract to produce the devices on behalf of a Taiwanese company, Gold Apollo. In fact, it was part of an Israeli front, according to three intelligence officers briefed on the operation. They said at least two other shell companies were created as well to mask the real identities of the people creating the pagers: Israeli intelligence officers. //

B.A.C. did take on ordinary clients, for which it produced a range of ordinary pagers. But the only client that really mattered was Hezbollah, and its pagers were far from ordinary. Produced separately, they contained batteries laced with the explosive PETN, according to the three intelligence officers.//

“We still have many capabilities that we have not yet activated,” Lt. Gen. Halevi assured Wednesday. “Every time we work on a certain stage, the next two stages are already ready to advance. At each stage, the price for Hezbollah must be high,” he warned.

I led candidates through hours a day of soullessly dialing up rich people and begging them for money. Not only do candidates spend most of their time talking to the rich, but the only path to elected office is to be rich, or to know lots of rich people.

Here's the thing about donors: They have niche policy issues they care about that seldom reflect the needs of people back home. Democrats love to decry money in politics when it comes to the Koch brothers or Elon Musk, but the billionaires who support Democrats are given a total pass and have a huge influence over policy.

At first, I naively thought the system was broken. But now I realize, it isn't broken; it's doing what it was designed to do, which is to keep working class people from true representation. That is the point, a feature, not a bug. //

But even the progressives are part of the problem now. They were once focused on policies that improved people's lives, promising to be unbought and uncompromisable. But after the summer of 2020, that rhetoric all but faded away. They've become compromised by the social justice language and divisive identity politics that now dominates the entire Democratic ecosystem. //

Here's the sad truth: The Democratic Party has lost its way entirely. They mostly speak to the college educated, the urban and affluent, in their language. Their tone is condescending and paternalistic. They peddle giveaways to the college-educated like student loan forgiveness plans that disproportionately help their base, snubbing the majority of the country without a four-year degree, and then offer no tangible plans for true reform. //

the temptation to throw up one’s hands and say, “They’ll never listen, so why should I bother,” must be resisted. People can and do see the error of their ways. We on the right cannot take examples such as Barker’s independently discovered embrace of the truth as a declaration that all we need to do is stand aside and wait until others on the left feel the heat from the dumpster fire of their own making. We must keep putting our message, and with it ourselves, out there. //

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"That is the point, a feature, not a bug."

And she finally realized that in spite of...
"When someone gains clarity, we must meet moments such as these with grace and truth, a forgiving spirit coupled with applied knowledge explaining why there is no shame in being fooled when all you receive is half of the story all of the time."

That italicized part is a major reason the "democrat party" got so far distant from what they've always said they represented...even if very poorly with bad policies.

Another "feature" and not a "bug" to the DNC PTBs. I call it the Narrative™...the small parts of reality the Left can use to advance their own agenda as long as no one hears "the rest of the story" and their censorship ensured few did. Until Musk bought twitter and freed the bird.

It is very hard for a person to admit they've been duped, even in these times where claiming victimhood is rampant. But that is only alloweed by the left when the "victim" is a victim of Rs...not of the Left.

Mark Twain — 'It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.'

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A deep fake outlawing deep fakes.

The irony is almost as thick as the hair gel.

Butler County law enforcement officials stated that at separate times during the walkthrough, when they reiterated their concerns to the agents and counter sniper about securing the AGR complex buildings, the agents responded: “we will take care of it.”

The Iowa senator questioned Rowe whether the Butler County law enforcement officials' claim is true and, if so, what the Secret Service did to secure the area with the AGR complex buildings.

Grassley noted that in the weeks following the first assassination attempt, Rowe told senators during a hearing, "what was communicated is that the locals had a plan and that they had been there before," in regard to the roof of the AGR building where Crooks took his shots from.

On Wednesday, one of her prior statements went viral in a resurrected clip from a May 2007 press conference. It is more than a little concerning.

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She’s an anti-gun RADICAL.

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She was talking about legislation she helped write that imposed penalties for gun owners who fail to store their firearms properly at home. //

Harris said the new measure was about legislating "our values" in an attempt to "encourage certain kinds of behavior."

"When we create laws, it's not only about creating an opportunity, if you will, to prosecute someone for committing a crime, but more importantly, when we legislate our values, it's about trying to encourage certain types of behavior," she said at the time.

Despite a rigorous campaign schedule -- not to mention the stress of being on the receiving end of yet another assassination attempt -- President Trump took the time to meet with Liam and his family Wednesday evening, telling, "I'm supposed to be on that stage, but that doesn't matter."

That's not all -- Trump was bearing a large package of goodies for Liam.

"If I looked like that, I would be President"

It's important to note that while this was an operation intended to kill or injure some Hezbollah operatives, it also yielded fringe benefits. First, it's interesting that Iran's ambassador to Lebanon had one of these pagers. That (as if we didn't already know it) nails down the fact that Hezbollah is a proxy for Iran — there's no other reason for the Iranian ambassador to have one of these devices. Second, it was a very effective psychological operation; as noted above, Hezbollah goblins now no longer trust their technology.

All in all, a successful operation.

The stunning, simultaneous attack on thousands of Hezbollah terrorists by detonating their pagers had all the hallmarks of a highly complex covert operation — the kind that only Israel’s Mossad would have the means and motive to pull off, experts told The Post.

About 2,800 people were injured and nine others — including a child — were killed Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria — with the vast majority of victims appearing to be military-age men. //

An unnamed insider told Sky News Arabia that Mossad intercepted Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terrorist group, slipping in the highly powerful Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive commonly used for military and demolition purposes.

“Mossad placed PETN explosives on the batteries, which were detonated by increasing the temperature,” the source told the outlet.

A second wave of blasts rocked Hezbollah on Wednesday as thousands of radios and other devices used by the terror group were detonated across Lebanon, security sources and witnesses said. //

The AR-924 pagers that were detonated on Tuesday were all the latest models acquired by Hezbollah five months ago and allegedly manufactured in Budapest, according to a statement released by Gold Apollo — a Taiwanese firm that authorized the use of its brand on the pagers. //

Hungarian officials however, deny the allegations, saying it has no such manufacturing facility in the country.

“Authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said in a statement.

The Israeli spy agency Mossad allegedly intercepted Hezbollah’s shipment of new pagers months ago and rigged them with high explosives — resulting in the stunning attack on the Lebanese terror group Tuesday, according to a new report.

Mossad agents reportedly placed Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), a highly explosive material, inside the batteries of the pagers, sources told Sky News Arabia, according to a translation from the Times of Israel.

The devices were then detonated by an external signal that caused the batteries inside to overheat, the sources added.

Democracy Works is bankrolled by numerous ‘prominent left-of-center private foundations.’

On the sixth day, God made man and made man male and female. In one day, in 2024, Israel made a lot of men eunuchs.

It was amazing operation.

We now know more than we did as this was happening yesterday. Israel, months ago, made clear that it had access to Hezbollah’s cell phone system. The head of Hezbollah ordered the terrorists to ditch their cell phones. They switched to pagers.

Israel got access to a large supply of the pagers, injected them with a heat sensitive explosive, and at 3:30 p.m. Beirut time yesterday Israel triggered the batteries in the pagers to overheat, which activated the explosives.

Thousands of Hezbollah operatives were wounded. A dozen or so died.

In the mean time, Israel now can trace each terrorist, source their location, their families, their ties, etc. And many of them are now sterilized.

There are a few very notable things that must be pointed out.

First, this was an amazing and amazingly successful operation.

Second, it is very notable that no one in Israel told the Biden Administration. I must admit I am somewhat shocked no members of the Biden Administration lost their testicles in explosions yesterday, though given the caliber of men in the Biden Administration, it’d be hard to lose what they do not have.

This really highlights the lack of trust. It also highlights just how compromised the Biden Administration is. Remember, Iran has absolutely penetrated the Administration and there is a deep, deep strain of antisemitism in the Biden Administration. Any advanced information more likely than not would have been leaked to Iran and/or Hezbollah.

The American press corps may be unwilling to go there, but the Biden National Security team is 100% compromised.

Third, Israel has carried out the most precisely targeted mass military operation in world history. They managed to generate mass casualties of enemies with very minimal civilian casualties. Targeted bombings and air strikes would have killed and wounded far more civilians.

The space suits worn during SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission are a sci-fi reimagining of NASA’s classic marshmallow suits. There’s a good reason why they look so different.

3. The process proliferator: :(){ :|:& };:
   I know it looks like a typo, but this command is the infamous Bash fork bomb. It is a Denial of Service (DoS) attack that will fill Linux's process table. The exact results depend on the system limit setting and who's running it, but all too often, it pegs out your processor, and the only way back is to reboot your system.

Overall, we rate the Daily Signal, Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that always favor the right. We also rate them Mostly Factual, rather than High, due to not aligning with the consensus of science regarding human-influenced climate change. //

Editorially, The Daily Signal consistently casts doubt on the role of humans in climate change with articles such as this: Climate Change Alarmism Is the World’s Leading Cause of Hot Gas. Further, all opinion pieces favor the right and denigrate the left. In general, story selection and editorials almost always favor the right, though, at times, The Daily Signal is critical of former President Donald Trump’s policies and actions.

These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes). The reporting is factual and usually sourced. These are the most credible media sources. See all Least Biased Sources.

Overall, we rate AtlasIntel as Least Biased based on polling that minimally favors the right. We also rate them as a high factual pollster based on a 2.7-star rating in predictive polling.

Harris also once again placed January 6th above 9/11 and the OKC bombing as the “worst attack on our democracy.” //

henrybowman | September 17, 2024 at 8:30 pm
“(Please do not forget the OKC bombing. I get why 9/11 receives the most attention but do not forget the 1995 OKC bombing.)”

When I started out collecting data as a 2A activist in the late ’80s, the largest mass murder on US soil was the Happyland Social Club fire, an arsonist with a jar of gasoline.

Then came Waco.
Then came OKC.
Then came 9/11.
Then came COVID (much less qualifiable, but clearly the record-holder).

In a country with 250 years of history, all this escalation in just 30 years. My God.

You’ll notice that NONE of these mass murders were committed with guns… but at least two of them — the ones that involved housewives and children — were committed by our own government.
Government democide — entirely exclusive of wartime deaths — has killed more humans than all wars combined. //

TargaGTS in reply to henrybowman. | September 17, 2024 at 8:59 pm
I forgot about the Happyland fire…probably because no one in the media brings it up anymore. I would add that the worst school spree murder happened way back in the 1920 or early 1930, the Bath School Massacre, which was also perpetrated entirely by firebombing. Close to 40-dead (mostly children) and another 60(ish) injured. I’m always fearful firebombing might come back into vogue again.

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2019. I covered a book entitled “The Polar Bear Catastrophe that Never Happened” by Dr. Susan Crockford. The University of Victoria professor analyzes the latest data and reviews the questionable values in official estimates, concluding that polar bears are thriving.

Subsequently, she was fired from her position at the university.

However, it didn’t stop what she wrote from being true.

The polar bear, the iconic image of the climate crisis, has entirely lost its eco-activist mascot status. Climate expert Bjorn Lomborg (President of the Copenhagen Consensus and Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution) recently examined the numbers in a New York Post piece and came to the same conclusion. //

henrybowman | September 17, 2024 at 8:19 pm
Polar bears, ozone holes, rampant famines, rising sea levels, killer bees, COVID, insurrectionists, space aliens, Godzilla.

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JD Vance nukes NYT reporter🔥

JD: "This is the New York Times, don't hold it against them."

NYT: "The paper of record, New York Times. What's something you're willing not to say to make a point?"

JD: "One thing I wouldn't be willing to say is that NYT is a respectable paper."

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the media are hyper-focused on this story not out of any actual concern for the Haitian migrants and residents but because it reflects very poorly on the Biden-Harris administration and its dangerous amnesty policies. And because of that, the MSM's mission is to discredit Trump and Vance by trying to make them look like racists, all in order to deflect from the very real issues plaguing Springfield -- whether that includes cat-eating or not. //

The fact of the matter is that the more reporters demand Vance stop talking about the issues his consituents are bringing to his attention, the more he's going to expose the media for wanting to suppress those stories, which in turn will lead to questions from voters as to why they'd want to keep them under wraps.

The only thing that will be left to conclude will be that it's the media who looks worse here by trying to squelch the story, not Trump and Vance for bringing it up.