Who is pushing this Maxwell pardon angle? Sounds like some shit that was made up because the news cycle was empty.

>>1508662
>Some members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee are open to the possibility of a presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell if it would enable her to share information with the panel for its probe into Jeffrey Epstein, committee chairman James Comer told Politico on Wednesday.
Literally the first line of the article dipshit

>>1508663
Russians always have trouble spelling and reading English, because of their Cyrillic alphabet.
tRump has already promised her a pardon in his last year of office.

One of the few promises he will go through with, as he can be tried in a civil court after he leaves

>>1508661
Isn't that literally what Joe Biden did during his presidency with Ghislaine Maxwell?
Merrick Garland didn't release any of the Epstein files because he was actively trying to make a deal with Ghislaine Maxwell. But he never ended up making a deal so sealing the Epstein files was pointless.

>>1508629
>>1508633
They did not. They released some, which were heavily redacted. This is illegal.

Olsen’s investigation has used staff and resources from Gabbard’s ODNI, the Justice Department and the FBI, four of the sources said. At Trump’s request, the CIA gave Olsen access to “intelligence related to the 2020 election,” a CIA official told Reuters. The official declined to detail the intelligence.
The probe comes as the Trump administration seeks to access state voter lists and to mandate rules for voter registration and voting systems – authorities the U.S. Constitution broadly grants to states to limit the concentration of federal power.
With Trump’s popularity dropping over rising prices and the Iran war, Republicans are expected to sustain losses in the November congressional midterms. That raises concerns among Democrats and election-integrity experts that the administration is laying groundwork to challenge the vote’s legitimacy.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle called the Reuters reporting “misinformation” from a “few disgruntled leakers,” adding it did not fully reflect the government’s effort to ensure “critical infrastructure across all risk sectors remains secure.” He did not answer questions about what else the administration was doing to secure upcoming U.S. elections. Olsen did not respond to requests for an interview.
Trump took Olsen’s deep-state allegations about Mojave seriously, two of the sources said.
In response, the company opened its books to show it took no money from Soros, according to a September 8 company statement to Gabbard that was seen by Reuters.
The statement called Olsen's Soros theory "patently absurd and ridiculous.”
Olsen advocated that the company’s work be terminated, which happened in October. Around that time, Trump appointed Olsen as Director of Election Security and Integrity. He works from the White House and reports to the president, the two sources said.

DNI officials said Mojave’s contract ended only because it had completed its voting machine analysis and that Gabbard would continue working on election security.
“We believe, strongly, that this work has been shelved for reasons that have nothing to do with the mission of ensuring every American can trust our election outcomes,” Mojave said in response to questions, without elaborating.
Soros' Open Society Foundations said in a statement to Reuters that neither he nor the organization had ever worked with or contracted Mojave Research and had never heard of the firm.

MILLER PUSHED FOR FBI INVOLVEMENT
Trump’s Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller shared Olsen’s frustration at Mojave’s failure to prove vote manipulation in Puerto Rico, according to two of the sources, describing previously unreported details.
They described an October 3 White House meeting where the Mojave team and Gabbard briefed Miller, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt on their forensic analysis of the machines in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory.
Miller, the sources said, pushed to expand the probe and involve the FBI.
In January, agents seized ballots in Georgia’s Fulton County in a raid attended by Gabbard that the FBI’s search warrant shows originated from an Olsen referral. In March, the FBI obtained via subpoena Arizona election records connected to a 2021, Republican‑ordered audit of Maricopa County that confirmed Trump’s loss.
Mojave started working with Olsen last spring. Mojave CEO Jason Wareham said Olsen fixated on allegations such as vote rigging in Arizona but never detailed any evidence. "I lost count the number of times Olsen said 'Maricopa is a crime scene,'" Wareham said in the statement the company wrote to ODNI in response to the allegations it was a Soros front.
Eventually, what Wareham described as Olsen’s “cacophony” of rumor and opinion led Mojave to stop working with him, he said in the statement.

Olsen initiated his probe focusing on a firmly debunked conspiracy theory – that code from Smartmatic USA Corp, a Florida-based company founded by Venezuelans, has allowed foreign manipulation of machines from Dominion Voting Systems, a separate company founded in Canada. Dominion machines were used in 27 states in 2024.
The theory draws on Dominion's 2010 acquisition of assets that previously belonged to Smartmatic. Despite the asset deal, Dominion and Smartmatic operated as two independent companies. Dominion was bought last year by a company called Liberty Vote.
Neither Liberty Vote nor Smartmatic responded to comment requests.
For all his efforts, Olsen has provided no clear evidence Dominion machines were ever manipulated, the three sources said. Reuters could not establish whether Olsen has since broadened the focus of his investigation.

LONG-KNOWN FLAWS, NOT HACKS
Mojave, the cybersecurity contractor, detected software flaws in the Puerto Rico Dominion machines, but no evidence they had been exploited.
Believing the vulnerabilities could affect machines elsewhere in the U.S., Mojave recommended a plan to address them. The company advised analysis of more machines, a task force to advise states on software patches, financial aid for that effort and penalties for states that refused. One source said it believed states would have to begin implementing the recommendations in May if they were to be completed by the November midterms.
Another of the sources said Mojave found issues similar to those highlighted in a 2021 analysis by Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan computer-science professor, and a 2022 advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. Those flaws affected a certain type of Dominion touchscreen voting system known as ImageCast X that was deployed in Georgia and three other states in 2020.
Like Mojave, neither Halderman nor CISA found evidence that the Dominion system had ever been hacked.

Dominion developed patches to address the vulnerabilities CISA identified in 2022. It is up to states to implement changes to their voting systems. Reuters could not establish which states had implemented the patches.
The three sources said they were not aware of any effort by the administration to address potential issues Mojave identified in Puerto Rico. “The administration has ignored real evidence of severe vulnerabilities," one of them said. The White House did not respond to a question about whether it planned to address anything flagged in the report. Puerto Rico’s election board did not respond to comment requests.
In 2023, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion $787.5 million to settle a defamation case about the false vote-rigging claims involving Smartmatic. In 2024, conservative media outlet Newsmax agreed to pay $40 million to settle a defamation suit brought by Smartmatic, acknowledging that its claims the company had manipulated the 2020 election were “untrue.”
Halderman, the professor, told Reuters the idea of Smartmatic code in Dominion machines is “technically incoherent,” because products of the two companies are built on different platforms with different computer languages.

MEETING AT A TAMPA HOTEL
Olsen, however, stuck with the theory. On June 19, he met at least three former Smartmatic personnel at a Tampa hotel to discuss it, according to the three sources with knowledge of the session.
Also present at the meeting, which has not been previously reported, two of the sources said, was an FBI agent detailed to ODNI, a computer engineer from Olsen’s team and Andrew “Mac” Warner, an attorney and political appointee to the DOJ, who has claimed the CIA rigged the 2020 election. The DOJ did not respond to a question about Warner’s attendance.

The former Smartmatic employees offered no evidence that Dominion machines were hacked in any election, the sources said. Instead, they presented a computerized demonstration that claimed to show how a foreign actor could exploit Dominion equipment using a once highly classified hacking tool called “Eternal Blue” that was developed by the code-breaking U.S. National Security Agency, according to two of the sources.
The meeting followed shortly after ODNI’s May seizure of Dominion machines in Puerto Rico, which was first reported by Reuters.
In a series of briefings between June and October, Olsen pushed Mojave to look harder for suspicious code in the Puerto Rico machines, one of the sources said. When Mojave failed to find any trace of the code, the person said, Olsen repeatedly told the team it was “clearly doing it wrong.”

SPIRIT EXIT COULD BOOST FARES
Analysts and industry officials also say Spirit's potential collapse could reshape competition in key markets. Its exit would materially reduce capacity in places such as Fort Lauderdale, boosting fares and strengthening pricing power for surviving airlines, including rivals like JetBlue and Frontier.
Duffy warned that rescuing one struggling airline could open the door to broader intervention. "If you do Spirit, who comes next?" he said. "If Spirit goes away, it's better for JetBlue. If we bail out Spirit, I can't imagine that JetBlue would love that."
Spirit declined to comment on the talks but said it continues to operate normally.

Corporate welfare for the rich
Tin can begging for the poor

Trump in 2018: No more bailouts like Obama.

>>1508673
It wouldn't be trump if he wasn't a massive hypocrite.

>>1508360
The corporate bailouts of Obama
The sexual impropriety of Clinton
The Middle East wars of Dubya
The inflation prices of Biden
When their powers combine, they make... an orange pedophile with a homosexual cult of personality

>>1508685
he's easily the worst.

>>1508685
>The guy who implements massive spying but continues every single retarded social media rule and even amps it up on steroids while cutting social programs isn't the worst
Found the labour voter, getting ready to ally with your worst enemies to not get raped next election?

>reported
>alleged
>my uncle who works at nintendo told me
>it came to me in a dream

>>1508680
>Farage is PM
Nice fanfic
>>1508684
>>1508692
>>1508694
>Starmergeddon: 400+ seats
>pisses you off: and you impotently seethe
>Keir tells Trump to fuck off: doesn't get involved in that orange retard's own Vietnam
Starmer is based.

>>1507928
paranoid and racist with blind party loyalty over country
found the magat

>>1508334
The only one spying on Americans is trump.
Also Biden is a center right moderate who had to be shamed for 2 years before going after the higher ups responsible for trump's failed coup, including trump himself.
If this were a decently run country, trump would have been arrested and standing trial on Jan 21st 2021.

>>1508349
Actually most patriotic Americans love ICE. seethe about it

>>1508334
but you said it yourselves, you're all domestic terrorists

>>1508334
>start the next Civil War.
Say hello to my lil cruise missile, Cletus

>>1508350
>lol we removed your primary source of income due to political reasons but it was probably a scam anyways so it was worth it
Just end it you annoying shit.

>>1508593
>thousands they refuse to release.
MIGA really are dumb enough to think that Trump covering up the bulk of the Epstein documents means that he's innocent
Someone should make a fake email pretending to be from Hunters laptop linking Trump and Epstein

>>1508626
Joe Biden covered up all of the Epstein documents. His Attorney General prosecuted 0 pedos in the files. What do you think that means?

>>1508634
I think it means you've been completely taken over by Israeli propaganda
It would be concerning if you were an American

I dont give a fuck what Buden did. Since a new admin took over, then theres nothing stopping them from starting a new investigation the way they want.
>they have
Awsome! I'm glad. Wheres the string of arrests under the new admin? People always talk about executing the pedos. Well nows the time. Get to work.

>>1508637
So why don't you correct the record
How many Epstein documents were released to the public during Joe Biden's presidency?
How many pedos in the files were prosecuted by his attorney general Merrick Garland?

Sky Fortress, the Ukrainian company that owns Sky Map, declined to comment. Zelenskiy’s office did not respond to a comment request.
Last month, the Pentagon’s counter-drone unit announced it had committed $350 million to bolster defenses against drones in support of Operation Epic Fury. Adam Scher, a spokesperson for the unit, known as Joint Interagency Task Force 401, said the unit was providing an array of new technologies, including sensors, cameras and interceptors.
“There is no ‘silver bullet’ tool that will stop every drone threat,” Scher said.

Sky Map has emerged as a primary command-and-control platform used by the Ukrainian military, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. This type of platform, typically a dashboard featuring maps and video feeds, synthesizes data from radars and sensors to detect incoming threats.
Sky Fortress, which makes Sky Map, was launched in 2022 by Ukrainian engineers linked to the military who deployed more than 10,000 acoustic sensors across Ukraine to detect Russian drone attacks, according to a person familiar with the company.
The company, which received funding from the Ukrainian military’s innovation unit, Brave1, developed Sky Map as a software platform to coordinate counter-drone attacks, the person said.
Sky Map is one of a suite of new counter-drone technologies that have been deployed at Prince Sultan base during the war. Merops interceptors – a drone developed by Project Eagle, a U.S.-based company backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt – have been used at the base, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Officials have faced some early testing challenges involving the new counter-drone systems, the people said. Earlier this month, during a test at Prince Sultan, a Merops counter-drone interceptor lost control and crashed into a toilet block on the base, two of the people said.
A spokesperson for Schmidt declined to comment.

In the weeks after the war started, Prince Sultan faced waves of Shahed drone and missile strikes. One of the Air Force’s E-3 AWACS radar planes was destroyed during an attack on March 27 and multiple KC-135 refueling tankers were damaged in another strike. In one case, a tent believed to be housing a radar system used to support the base’s counter-missile battery THAAD system was destroyed, according to CNN, opens new tab.
The technologies the base has used to defend against missile and drone strikes include a Northrop Grumman command-and-control platform called Forward Area Air Defense, or FAAD, according to three sources. The platform, which was first deployed by the U.S. Army in the 1990s, provides tracking data to help warfighters combat incoming threats, spanning mortar and rocket strikes to drones.
To combat short-range drone attacks, the base largely used RTX-made Coyote interceptors, two of the sources said. The winged drones, for which the company signed a $5 billion agreement, opens new tab with the U.S. Army in September, can be used as one-way attack drones with warheads or with a microwave capability to fry the electronics in adversary drones.
A spokesperson for Northrop Grumman said the FAAD system “is consistently dependable in theater today and we are confident in the competitive advantage FAAD provides to the warfighter.”
Chris Johnson, a spokesperson for RTX, said the Coyote interceptor has “proven highly effective, defeating hundreds of aerial threats during combat operations."

I wonder if they demanded the couch fucker to come crawling to them like that one episode when Homer to come get his job back at the nuclear plant.

>>1508386
So Ukraine gonna demand mineral rights to the US now?

Honestly it's fucking astonishing any of you retards lived long enough to post here. Vaccination is a centuries-old field that has single-handedly been the single greatest weapon against one of the Four Horsemen, and here you are crying because a simple biological process understood by literal children is too scary for you.

>>1508609
Vaccines don't live up to the hype. We were lied to repeatedly about the efficacy of the vaccines.
https://youtu.be/ciwyYnwYFaQ?

>>1508620
>we
you're literally not american. and you're the one paid scraps to lie repeatedly

>>1508609
People do not have a legal or a moral duty to care about or minimize the death of random strangers, or to put anything in their bodies for the cause of same. We have a legal and moral duty not to murder others, that does not in any way mean that people can, should or are mandated to take vaccines.

Frankly, if I'm healthy and you're going to die, that's a you problem. Simple as.

>>1508915
>Frankly, if I'm healthy and you're going to die, that's a you problem. Simple as.
You don't have a duty to, but it's nonetheless the kind thing to do.
Or you can be a selfish faggot rambling on about how your freedumz are being attacked because you got told to take a tiny prick once.

>>1508502
Yeehaw!

kill yourself faggot

He used the same line twice.

>>1508521
>Its the other sides fault that Trump lied to me
Can’t get more cattle than this

>>1508372
But I thought OPEC controls gas prices, not the president?

>>1508522
So he'd only sell to the Nazis, ergo, side with them.
Got it.

The Teamsters did not immediately respond when reached about Chavez-DeRemer's departure. The AFL-CIO said a labor secretary who "understands working people and will work to make our lives better" is needed.

Chavez-DeRemer's tenure was fraught with allegations of misconduct at the department that resulted in the resignations of her chief of staff and deputy chief of staff.
The department's inspector general has also investigated Chavez-DeRemer and her aides over claims that they sent personal text messages and inappropriate requests to young staff members, according to the New York Times.

Anyone else notice all the attractive bimbos donny dipshit hired are all leaving or fired?

>>1508579
Of course. They're throwing the women under the bus.

>>1508579
They had to swallow Don's Load just to get there

Japanese soldiers kill themselves all the time in training accidents.


https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/05/14ebbd968446-update1-sdf-member-unconscious-after-hand-grenade-explodes-during-training.html

https://english.news.cn/asiapacific/20240530/4901bef1e52044e89e82bc4c5acbeba4/c.html#:~:text=The%20accident%20took%20place%20around,thrown%20by%20another%20SDF%20member.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/05/31/japan/gsdf-drill-accident/

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240530/p2g/00m/0na/030000c

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240530_22/

More Japanese soldiers killing themselves


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>>1507937
Hardly unique to Japan.

>>1507960
weebs claim it never happens in japan

>>1508080
weeb

>>1507689
Dai Nippon Koku?

More like Die nipon cucks!

>>1508353
Name one general who could unfuck this clusterfuck of alliance spaghetti
in all of history
even napoleonic times


I would like to remind you the Egyptians had generals who mentioned in ancient times "Don't attack the Persians"

>>1508364
Any competent general would be able to explain that Trump is a spastic retard who started a war because Israel is blackmailing them and chose to use it to pump and dump the stock market multiple times.
Ending the US blockade and returning to Obama's anti-nuclear plan would be all thats really needed.
Republicans would just go apeshit at the whole 'taking responsibility for your actions' angle

>>1508370
are you insane? generals do not dictate foreign policy. they do as they are told. Your post is cringe even for a leftist troon.

>>1508370
>Listen, Mr Ayatollah? Hey, it's the American General. Yeah, the one appointed by the Republican party, yeah the Israeli cocksleeves, that Republican party.
>Listen, I know we did that whole 'very obviously targeted strike on a school' that killed 200 little girls. Yeah, that school that was on Google Maps, so we can't pretend we didn't know it was a school. Yes, we did strike it three times, twice in the atrium where students would have gathered for emergencies.

>But you know, no use crying over spilled milk! Haha. You see, our leader is a corrupt pedophile who is being blackmailed by Israel to attack your country wantonly. So he just decided to 'go along with it' because he was promised by The Great Satan of your religion that your country would fall apart. Yeah.. yknow, oops! Not all things work out like we want, huh? Anyway, since he would rather fuck little girls on an island, we had to kill your little girls in a school. But you know, our girls get fucked yours.. get fucked by shrapnel. It's all the same, right?

>So uh, can we open the strait now?

Somehow I don't think that the Iranians would accept that even if we DID agree to let them keep tolling ships crossing the strait. Frankly, when you put it in perspective, the Iranians have been exceedingly reasonable already.

>>1508371
History lesson for you, shill: trump isn't the first president whose personality was unstable to the point that nuclear codes had to be guarded by military personnel

>>1508316
I don’t know or care where you are but I’m in the EU and we have regulations on what’s allowed in e-liquids. It’s propylene glycol and/or vegetable glycerin as a base, nicotine, and flavouring which must be food grade (there’s a couple of exceptions to this last one because some things are ok to eat but not good to breathe in as steam).
All of the stuff I’ve seen about lung damage and other things caused by vaping is always from either illegal weed vapes (with unregulated ingredients), and retards blowing shit up because they aren’t safe with batteries (the same kind of retards who burn their house down with a cigarette or end up in hospital with alcohol poisoning from pounding straight spirits)

>>1508326
wow, I didn't know India was part of the EU

wow, I didn't know that 1508327 the shill projected so much from India

The issue is that smoking or not should be my choice. I don't smoke cigs but i might occasionally have one, and that's up to me. Alcohol kills plenty people but that isn't banned.

The point really is that the government is ALWAYS taking something away but never giving. A lot of people like a cigarette to relax now and then. it's a little pleasure. Now the government have taken that away too. Who are they to say so?

I don't see them passing one single law that helps you, such as a guarantee of home ownership, food, heating, protection of expression of opinions etc. It's always just "nope, that's another thing on the ban list".

They should all be shot, they're fucking dictators.

It's whatever if smoking is bad for specifically you because it's your body. But you become a nuisance by making other people breathe in your smoke because you're a selfish prick who doesn't care about the people around you
I hope they ban alcohol next because alcohol tears families apart and turns you into a blithering retard who does stupid shit that pisses other people off.
People in this thread going on about "MUH CAR FUMES" don't realise that it's better to only have car fumes because at least cars are fucking useful. What is smoking useful for? I can recall several times where smoking flares up my asthma and I end up in a coughing fit because smokers feel the need to smoke in the middle of the street
Vapes should be banned as well.
>muh slippery slope
...Fallacy.

>>1508304
Unrepentant criminials are often railroaded by the court, yes

>>1508304
>He seemed to have been railroaded by the entire affair
He literally railroaded himself by refusing to show up to proceedings. It's actually incredibly easy to show up to a court date; especially if you've got an entire media empire to fund your transport there.

>>1508304
>He seemed to have been railroaded by the entire affair
He and his legal team were given from May 2018 to Jun 2021 to sit for discovery. When they missed the deadline, the plantiffs and council for the defendant in the the De La Rosa case allowed for 14 additional days where the Jones and his legal team could sit for discovery. They did not even sit for that so the summary judgement for damages was upheld.

Jones didn't get railroaded. He knowingly missed discovery deadlines in 4 of the cases against him, several times. He and his council pinned their hopes on a hail mary TCPA motion to prevent discovery that was never going to go through and after it was dismissed, he sat on this hands for another 2 years.

>>1507698
>Infowars acquired by The Onion
So The Onion now believes that Sandy Hook was faked?

>So The Onion now believes that Sandy Hook was faked?
No
But Jones believed - to his ultimate $1 billion cost - thus you cannot spell 'Believe' without the word Lie.
The Onion just makes those who have no concept of Parody & Sarcasm cry. Doug Piranha approves of the new owners of Infowars - with the addition to the logo - because it's not only Jones that'll be pulling their own heads off at what the new owners will be doing with what once belonged to Jonesy.