What's going on in your city/country/region?

[Catoptric]

Biden kept classified documents to prove he was right and Obama was wrong about Afghanistan, special counsel says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... dd0bb&ei=4

Special counsel calls out Biden's memory; his attorneys slam that 'inflammatory'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 4fa10&ei=9

I'm not sure to what extent his memory lapses can be attributed to being nervous when communicating, but it sounds like a lot of his behavior is tied to personal vendettas, and being partially aware of the fact he does show age-related memory lapses. He does come across as though he was someone you would find greeting people at Walmart or having a casual conversation with at a retirement community.



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The whole Taylor Swift nonsense could legitimately be distracting people from the real political concern (if Trump and Biden are the only candidates and have similar issues from the perspective of the voter, who really can keep people from rebelling against a system that might well be doomed to fail?)

Are We Living in a Roman Circus? (Again)
https://nishu-jain.medium.com/are-we-li ... 8e5d51ce4e

This was legitimately the question proposed:

The far right’s new theory: Taylor Swift is a ‘psyop’, NFL is rigged (mostly in alternative news sources, presented by female presenters that give fap-heavy ad revenue.)
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/ent ... -swift-nfl



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The owner of several BBQ restaurants (the kind that probably cause lung cancer for those that eat there) were stupid enough to force tip sharing amongst Management and the employees (who most likely tried to skirt sharing tips by pocketing or underreporting, which I can imagine was a big issue and hence the retarded decision to make tip sharing something that Management had an incentive to encourage.)

How no one alerted them it was illegal to have the Management take some of the employee tip money (hence the corruption of garnishing wages. . . A bit like allowing the people that collect the tithing money at a congregation to then have an incentive to get payouts aren't of concern?)

Hundreds of Hard Eight BBQ employees owed nearly $261,000 in back wages
https://www.fox4news.com/news/hard-eigh ... owed-money

The very name of the place sounds like a dick reference but is apparently ("officially") some kind of Paul Newman movie reference that deals with gambling, but I'm really not sure how the fuck a bbq place has anything directly referencing gambling, other than the owner gambling with bad decisions.

Hard Eight may refer to: Hard eight, a dice roll in the game of craps wherein both dice land on four.

My guess is they were marketing the place in the same way that "Fuzzy's Tacos" is probably not referring to actual tacos (and people are dumb ass consumers for not realizing it.) It's just more Freudian, Edward Bernays manipulation of the subconscious and people's impulsive and animalistic, droopy-fatty tongue sounding inbred wanker nonsense.

In the end, Hard Eight BBQ owed $867,500 to 910 workers. (about $950 per employee amongst 5 stores)

I would expect the cost of paperwork involved and possibly also legal counsel would amount to more than that. A lot of Attorneys would have been eager to cling onto this case, much like I had Attorney's looming around me as a Flex delivery driver like a vulture when delivering to them, where they would offer me candy and a name card if I ever got into an accident, as if they actually had my best interest at heart (though I never mentioned to them, I believe they could have pushed the case that using dry ice in personal use vehicle was a major liability because the carbon dioxide could have cause people to pass out at the wheel, as well as the expectation that you end up driving wrecklessly for some retarded ape purchasing their useless crap and feeling incentevized by getting credit for delayed orders to buy more products they know aren't going to be delivered on time at an apartment complex because of how the GPS works and time to walk to their front door instead of the leasing office.) Some of the apps force you to drive 30 minutes for what would have taken the consumer 4 minutes or less of their own time to get (and somehow humanity would deny it's causing global warming or not causing problems with their lead filled insulated thermal cups sent all the way from slave labor China, for some retarded ass consumers that just like to own 40x what they need to own?) Fuck society.

Edit:
I guess I missed the part where the $950,000 is actually a total of $8 million, because they somehow didn't want to acknowledge the challenging task of not exploiting their server staff in order to justify the Managers wanting to work there for a livable wage (while their dumb ass was building more nasty, smokey-ass restaurants.)



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The title doesn't reveal the true insanity of a "man with a van" who seems to have abducted another guy, who relayed the location from his cell phone to Police and drew attention from people driving by the van on the highway.

Robbery suspect shot after exchanging gunfire with Dallas PD officers, police say
https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-of ... ry-suspect


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This preceded an incident that resulted in a woman being killed (basically predatory grabbing of money from people as they exit banks, usually with money used for operating cash handling at businesses.) This might be why some businesses refuse to allow cash handling.

Dallas police see an uptick in 'jugging' robberies (4 arrested in connection)
https://www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-jugging-increase

Woman killed in possible jugging case in Arlington
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/woma ... -homicide/


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Woman with child in tow opens fire inside Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-in ... s/3459258/

The part missing. . .

Joel Osteen church shooter was transgender; ‘Free Palestine’ written on gun
https://www.worldtribune.com/joel-ostee ... en-on-gun/

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America’s border crisis in ten charts
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detai ... ten-charts


PDF:
BIDEN’S BORDER CRISIS IS THE WORST IN AMERICAN HISTORY HIS POLICIES CONTINUE TO MAKE IT WORSE
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000017f ... bd59400000

[Catoptric]

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01 ... at-age-85/


A lot more than just the NTP protocol (time synchronization across all internet devices on networks worldwide,) and many of the terminologies we use likely are correlated to his work with Arpanet (proto-internet) such as "ping," and the first implementation of FTP data transfer.



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Texas has the most interesting con artists.




(I like to think the entirety of the video hasn't been dubbed over with fart noises.)




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Baltimore bridge collapse sends vehicles tumbling into water
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/16-mil ... 024-03-26/



Direct link if it doesn't load the video
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1 ... 6338619487

Before the impact, it does show power failure:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4-PglsOAup/

Baltimore bridge collapse reminds Minnesotans of 2007′s deadly I-35W disaster
https://www.startribune.com/baltimore-b ... 600354133/


I'm most familiar with I-35W since I live near the southern part of the Interstate, when I had to do a double-check that it was the same highway 2000 miles away, when a woman abandoned her vehicle in the middle of the highway after hitting a deer which runs off, which a gas tanker then hits, causing a massive explosion. I doubt her car had been completely immobilized, but it makes me think of this incident, where I have doubts the cargo ship simply lost power, and instead just really fucked up too late to try and change the direction of the cargo ship (which clearly hit straight on with the support column of the bridge.) Those ships are so massively oversized for the channel as it is.

[HighlyIrregular]

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/baltim ... index.html

Six people are unaccounted for following the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, according to officials. Rescue teams continue to search for missing people in the water.

Eight people were on the bridge when a cargo ship crashed into it early Tuesday. Two of them were saved from the water earlier today.

The crew on the ship issued a "mayday" call before it collided with the bridge, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said. Video shows the collapse of the 1.6-mile-long, four-lane bridge after it was hit by the vessel...

"The whole bridge just fell down. Start, start whoever … everybody. The whole bridge just collapsed," a person is heard on the radio.

Bumpers were recommended after 911 but were deemed "too expensive."

[Catoptric]

The banking system could be on the verge of collapse again (over 180 banks could face a similar problem to what happened to the Silicon Valley banks) and it's been about a year since the 2023 bank crisis and bailout.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/opini ... 56031.html

Another headline
NYCB tailspin, JPMorgan lawsuit: Top banking news for March 2024


All the while people are putting their faith in shitcoin.


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Also, this. . . (is what I get sent.)



So in summary: 12P/Pons-Brooks (Devil comet) will be making its appearance DURING the solar eclipse (either the day or not, which won't make it very visible since it's only making one circle of the earth every 71.3 years and the total eclipse will be brief)

'A 'horned' comet may be visible during the 2024 total solar eclipse'
https://www.space.com/horned-comet-visi ... ar-eclipse

This is a better article (though Malwarebytes thinks it has malware?)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics ... 147667007/


Both of the CERN and NASA experiments could be motivated due to the obstruction of the sun with the moon, and are a rare opportunity to study the effects of EMF (and how it affects radio frequency) as it's obstructed.

When periodic events can be documented and chronologized it might take on a more significant meaning within the human psyche, because we naturally apply patterns to them (considered an apophenia phenomenon.) The idea of using rockets named after Egyptian mythology has to do with the symbolic meaning of Apep, and how the duality of the sun and the nighttime (Apep) were in constant battle to fend off the night or daytime.


If that isn't exciting enough:

Over 100 Trillion Cicadas to Emerge After Solar Eclipse
https://www.newsweek.com/over-100-trill ... geddon.%22



It seems pretty evident that these corresponding sightings go back to ancient times and people associated phenomena to the events. The fact that we SHOULD know more today and recognize it for what it is, suggest we as a whole of society, haven't really advanced as much as we think we have.





Both of the CERN and NASA experiments are due to the obstruction of the sun with the moon, and are a rare opportunity to study the effects of EMF (and how it affects radio frequency) from the sun.


CERN to test world's most powerful particle accelerator during April's solar eclipse to search for 'invisible' matter that secretly powers our universe
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... lipse.html


NASA:
NAMED FOR A SERPENT DEITY, NASA'S APEP MISSION IS SET TO FIRE ROCKETS AT THE ECLIPSE
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/nasas-ap ... he-eclipse

Better article
NASA will launch rockets to study how the eclipse affects radio communications, and you can watch live
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news ... ep-eclipse



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And I just now heard of Jacob Rothschild dying in February (and I despise the clickbait bullshit that misdirects you into thinking some pedo connection existed, but instead drags on for 40 minutes just to get ad revenue.)



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Forbes did a story on this guy (and is literally turning into Vice news, with an expensive paywall.)

More Cult Fun and Psychedelia with David Hodges and the Church of Ambrosia!
https://medium.com/@williamwheaton66/mo ... 5c6c4a222
There is probably some truth to mushroom symbology, and most religions will ignore the connection to what in ancient times would have been interpreted as "divine."

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This nearly seems like it should be an Onion article

Building concerns force closure of Dallas city building permit office
https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/b ... L8A21g2nLk

[HighlyIrregular]

A 4.8 earthquake hit NJ and was felt in PA and NY. I was at work, in the bathroom. I think I heard it and thought someone was downstairs by the bathroom, maybe checking up on why I was there for a half hour (because of a chipped wisdom tooth, I string and water floss after my morning bagel, and it's a whole little procedure to deal with my oral irrigation syringe, plus my biological doody clock goes off then and I needed two back-to-back doodies that day because the first was incomplete - my bad - and I went up for my forgotten syringe betwixt 'em.). Others who were upstairs felt it. (the earthquake)

[Madrigal]

I got vaccinated for dengue yesterday (QDenga, the Japanese vaccine). There's a historic dengue outbreak in Argentina right now, 180,000 confirmed cases since the start of the year and 129 deaths. But since we have a libertarian govt, they're not doing anything, just letting the free market take care of it, which is going splendidly - we already ran out of every type of repellant.

There's so much misinformation, a lot of people are still gathering in parks and going out jogging in green areas, when they have a reasonable chance of getting this disease, which is no joke.

[Senseye]

Is there a vaccine shortage or is some other factor leading to the lack of others doing the same as you? Possibly just ignorance of the scope of the problem or maybe some anti-vax nonsense post covid?

Anyhow, I'm curious to see how Milei works out for Argentina. Drastic reform is clearly required, so maybe he can pull it off despite his outlandish approach.

[Catoptric]

Elsewhere:

Fisherman commits suicide after losing phone
https://www.tnx.africa/newsbeat%20&%20t ... sing-phone

"A fisherman at Litare Beach in Homa Bay County committed suicide in protest after his stolen phone."

"In a strange turn of events, witnesses said, Dan Ojwang wore seven female underpants, a biker, and a brassier before jumping into Lake Victoria, and drowned as other fishermen watched helplessly."


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Biden Border Policies Are Working Fine — For the Cartels
https://cis.org/Vaughan/Biden-Border-Po ... ne-Cartels


Who is sneaking fentanyl across the southern border? Hint: it's not the migrants



The ‘walking route’: How an underground industry is helping migrants flee China for the US
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/08/americas ... index.html

Though this might seem counter-intuitive, I assume that some are forced to become drug mules as part of their "deal."

If they are basically being brought over, only to end up waiting for border agents to pick them up and process them as refugees or asylum seekers, we might as well process them as human beings.

Not only does China also produce a significant amount of the fentanyl that is being brought over, but apparently these people must be engaged in further exploitation as a drug mule for the Columbian, et al cartels.

Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers
https://www.cato.org/blog/fentanyl-smug ... um-seekers


House panel says China subsidizes fentanyl production to fuel crisis in the U.S.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/h ... in-the-u-s





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Her Uncle died 2 hours prior and she wheels him into a bank to "co-sign" a loan. She looks like a missing link and could probably make some money working in a carnival. The video goes onto show some similar events in the US, such as in Ohio where they had the bank teller withdraw money while the dead guy was in the car, as well as a woman living with the owner's dead body of a property where she would eventually discard his remains which pointed out her deception as a squatter.

Brazilian woman brazenly wheels elderly man’s corpse into bank to co-sign a loan for her: ‘Uncle, are you listening?’
https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/lifestyle ... listening/




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And people still think OJ was "innocent. . ."



'Reasonable Doubt' was how it was labeled (it does not mean the official verdict was "not guilty," but rather, "we know he's guilty but can't 100% prove that he is," so he was given a fine as a form of apology to the victim's families.)

For those that assume otherwise, their was plenty of DNA evidence to trace him directly to what happened the day of their deaths. . . This is beyond a doubt (so how it wasn't "beyond a reasonable doubt," is probably due to it being a hard pill to swallow.)

Some of the Jurors admitted they thought he was guilty but put "not guilty" for other reasons (such as, not trusting the Police weren't complicit in ensuring that the evidence pointed towards OJ being found guilty, or that the evidence wasn't contaminated by incompetence from the Police forensics.)

Many argue that his "If I Did It" book was a confession since it framed it as hypothetical since it would be aberrant for someone to frame an argument as such unless they were some kind of psychopath or sociopath devoid of any attachment to what occurred.