Category: Crime

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NATO Least of Putin’s Worries

Despite the bluster and bravado from Russian state media, pro-war bloggers and various FOX-type propaganda outlets, Putin’s problems are really close to home. What NATO does or doesn’t do is becoming less pertinent to what happens on the ground in Ukraine with each passing day. The Kremlin Killer‘s got things happening on his own ground to worry about.

Western reporting on the unfolding crisis is being hampered by Putin’s crackdown on the Russian press, which began when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Many independent Russian journalists have been forced to flee the country; most Western journalists have also left Russia in the wake of the crackdown and the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on false spying charges. Russian state-run media has covered up the truth about the Ukraine war and now seems dazed about how to cover the Prigozhin coup.

Time, money and manpower. We’re gonna find out how deep Russia’s pockets really are.
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The Online Cyber Situation

Sorry for all the tech stuff, but that is my lane, having been the uber geek for several decades. With Twitter™ teetering on the brink, other offerings including Meta’s new Threads™ are coming into focus.

As far as I can tell, none of Mastodon’s 14.5 million users were affected by the bad lines of code, which seem to have been unexploited. But the situation does raise some uncomfortable concerns, including how long the critical issues would have sat dormant had Mozilla not been interested in paying to see if Mastodon was secure. And whether a bad actor could have gotten to it first.

One of the problems with all this cyber cr@p is the “data” as t’were, now includes alot of the money, as well.
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Pandemic Fraud

We can always count on Rolling Stone to turn up the really juicy bits. Repugs complain about improving IRS operations that could recoup $billions$ from white collar criminals while handing out same to people like Larry Kudlow in furtherance of monumental government-hosted waste and scams. I wonder if they looked into his wife’s business.

They are still working pandemic fraud cases, but the agents admit that they are down to a “trickle.” They, like every organization, have to prioritize, and they are facing an influx of romance scams, sextortion, and a nasty scheme called “pig butchering,” where the mark gets fattened up with phony investment returns only to be cleaned out. There’s the Black Ax gang in Nigeria on the rise, the Double Dragon crew out of China, and a new rash of electronic-bank-transfer thievery among all kinds of threats they have to try and enforce. Their work is never ending.

The Trump Administration proved one thing beyond a shadow of a doubt: How not to run a pandemic relief program.
Fortunate Son –Bob Seger cover
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Why People Gravitate to Religion

The obvious reason afflicting the vast majority is probably just that they were born and raised into it. I know I was, but it didn’t sink in, for some reason. Brainwashing humans isn’t all that far removed from animal training for dogs. Simple repetition is often all that is needed to elicit the desired behavior. The longer and more frequently it is reinforced, the better it is usually retained.

There are two other primary reasons as firmly embedded in the duality of the devout’s good-evil ideology as the repetitive training taken to reinforce it: Intelligence, and lack thereof. On the one hand, centuries of church hierarchy established an inviolable and impenetrable secret society in the largest cults. It takes some pretty smart mutherfuckers to pull that shyt off all this time. They get away with it because their bread and butter is just the opposite.

Being the symbol of inviolable truth gives alot of commoners something they can’t ever be wrong about. Sucks being a dumbass – or autistic and just perceived that way. Probably many other reasons for being vulnerable to religion, but those are a couple of the big ones I am familiar with.

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Game On

Anybody who thinks Musk’s power play at Twitter™ is anything less than a MAGA support op, needs to pull their head out, quick.

She started her account in September 2022, shortly before Musk’s takeover, with a rapid-fire series of left-leaning tweets and requests for people to retweet if they agreed. It worked: In November and December, she was gaining more than 1,000 followers a day, according to audience data from the social media analytics firm SocialBlade.

CHATSUM: Marsh’s account employed a controversial tactic known as “rage baiting,” posting polarizing and incendiary messages to provoke engagement and boost her follower base. This strategy is reminiscent of the tactics used by Russian trolls during the 2016 US presidential campaign.

I know it well… That goes double for you, Spaceboy. 😆

Twitter not suited for emergency communications, Dutch say after storm.

Cruel Little Number -Jeff Healy Band

1st take on Meta Threads™ – it’s just business. Former Twits got money to spend somewhere. And please view my Twit characterization in an if the shoe fits vein. Unfortunately as usual, it’s the very small minority of bad actors ruining it for everybody. But if you’re using Twitter™ to make yourself stupid, by all means, go for it!

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Big Coke Party at 1600 Pa Ave!

This proves one thing for certain: Repug operatives have real drug connections. I heard that one Trump boy’s drug dealer’s on speedial, with private charter flights traveling routes regularly scheduled in and out of Bogota and Lima. Probably a more reliable revenue stream than selling the secrets. Too unpredictable just what the Iranians might want in that regard.

CHATSUM: The District of Columbia fire department determined that the powder was not hazardous, and an investigation is underway to determine how it entered the White House.

Yeah, some staffer just forgot about the dime bag they brought to that meeting – just as believable as the election denial shyt. And I’m pretty sure the DEA thinks it’s hazardous.
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Inundated With the Stupidity of Billionaires

The Golden Rule got firmly established literally everywhere at some point back in the day. With no checks and balances, you get one or another forms of authoritarianism. With democracy, you get authoritarianism we’re allowed to bitch about.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to generate interest in mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-sucking, oftentimes dangerous bullshyt – unless you have the marketing muscle to push it.

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Strip Mining

We’re gonna do it on the ocean floor now. Destroying the environment in terrestrial venues for the purpose of carbonizing the atmosphere with coal was a huge, destructive failure by every measure. Continues to be in many places today. Now the mineral resources desired for battery production among other things, can be found lying on the seafloor.

I’ll never forget how my father began introducing me to selfish, conservative attitudes, watching him dump trash in the strip mine pits along the road where I grew up. Vast swaths of the landscape throughout the public lands around where we lived were literally destroyed for a few tons of coal. Outcry eventually garnered legislative support directing reclamation activities, but the damage was done. It’s not the same now and never will be.

Safety and security stuff is all about risk management. The problem with today’s looming mining risk is far bigger than some realize. At least no miners will lose their lives trapped underground digging to fill the pockets of the likes of Joe Manchin.

Time just keeps everything from happening all at once. Put an ice-cube on a sunny sidewalk and watch for about an hour. Depending on how warm it is, it’ll be dry before you’re done. Water covers most of this planet. For now.

CHATSUM: Environmental concerns surround deep sea mining, as it could lead to biodiversity loss, pollution, and irreversible damage to delicate deep sea ecosystems. Some countries and companies have called for a ban or moratorium on deep sea mining until proper environmental safeguards are in place.

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Cops Need To Stop Shooting People

Everywhere. Just stop. Who do you think you are? They take these people out of the military, from where they’re basically trained to kill people in various ways, even automated and so forth. Give them weapons of all kinds and assign patrol duties in the populace. What the fuck does anybody think is gonna happen?

In 2005, two young men — Zyad Benna and Bouna Traoré — died as they tried to flee a police checkpoint in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. In the weeks of riots that followed, youths in the suburbs fought running battles with police and on some nights, dozens were arrested and hundreds of cars torched. Like Nahel M., Benna and Traoré were from immigrant backgrounds, and their deaths fomented a sense of injustice among many.

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Personnel Changes

It’s an ongoing issue in organizations suffering all sorts of failures. The Russian military is about to undergo some of the high-level type rarely seen in modern times. All the bluster about Pootin wanting to take out Pigrozhyn and Lukashithead brokering some deal is all just so much bullshyt. Surovikin was set up to be the next fall guy when it really started going south months ago.

Wagner exit strategy executed brilliantly in all the Russian theater’s glory! It’s taking a long time to get to Swan Lake. Nice to see China’s leaning the right direction for a change. They need to cut the cyber crap.

Russia’s top generals, Valery Gerasimov and Sergei Surovikin, have disappeared from public view following a failed mercenary mutiny aimed at toppling them. Gerasimov is the commander of Russia’s war in Ukraine, while Surovikin is the deputy commander of Russian forces in Ukraine.

Think he could accomplish this without fucking it all the way up? Putin will. But it might be too late.
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Demagogue Wanna-Be

Strong, toneful speaking voice and all, Mike Dense must be the smarmiest, self-loathing, bible-thumping, cock-sucking piece of shyt the GOP world has ever known. He stood idly by while the worst threat to democracy ever instigated wreaks havoc in the country for four years. Then only when his own personal safety comes into play does he continue doing what? NOTHING! Rather than follow his sycophantic urges, he certified the election, as expected.

Total POS coward, any way you slice it.

Fuck Mike Dense and every goddamned politician who ever breathed a word of support for Spraytan Stalin.

We’re gonna holy-roll your ass into the dustbin of political history, mutherfucker.