‘Oh Lord!’: 82-Year-Old Alabama Woman Locked Up for Not Paying $77 Trash Bill

This is a fucking shame. They need to come up with a better enforcement procedure then to send a cop to do this kind of shit. Dude should be ashamed of himself. Should have refused to do this shit. See the vid here and be amazed once again at what we do in America.

This is some fucked up shit.  Whoever is his chief should be run out of office.

Is China running pre-invasion drills?

71 PLA aircraft and 7 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected in our surrounding region by 6 a.m.(UTC+8) today. R.O.C. Armed Forces have monitored the situation and tasked CAP aircraft, Navy vessels, and land-based missile systems to respond these activities. pic.twitter.com/DagRhnN69F

— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) December 26, 2022

T-14 spotted inside the Special Military Operations Zone? Headed soon to Donbass?

If true then I would like to see how they perform against Javelin and other Western anti-tank missiles. More importantly I wonder if we'll finally see a true combined arms assault on an objective instead of these penny packets of infantry and armor blundering across the battlefield.

1)Vladimir Solovyov went to the Donbass, looked at the T-14 Armata tank. Yes, the tanks are already there at the training ground. Crews of tanks are combat coordination. Soon into battle, the crews can not wait to hit the enemy. Well, what else to say? pic.twitter.com/IGlm5yAe6p

— Яннис В.Зброек (@yanvonzeebroeck) December 25, 2022

via Eurasian Times 

Videos and images of Russia’s most advanced Main Battle Tank (MBT), the T-14 Armata, have surfaced online, with several Russian media sources reporting that the tank has been spotted inside the ‘Special Military Operation’ zone.

Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov shared several photos and videos of the T-14 Armata on Telegram, saying, “I am returning from another trip to the front line with the first shots of the combat coordination of the crews of the T-14 Armata tanks.”

It is not known precisely where the T-14 was filmed or photographed, but Russian reports suggest the crews of the T-14 were filmed while conducting combat coordination training, probably in the rear area of a ‘special military operation,’ which is Moscow’s official term for its invasion of Ukraine.

According to certain Russian media sources, the tanks are preparing to be deployed in Donbas.

Here 

After months in Ukraine training soldiers, Ret Col Andrew Milburn of @TheMozartGroup mercenary firm gets sauced on camera & spills the beans

After months in Ukraine training soldiers, Ret Col Andrew Milburn of @TheMozartGroup mercenary firm gets sauced on camera & spills the beans:

Ukraine is a "corrupt, fucked-up society" run by "fucked-up people"

Ukrainian soldiers "kill dudes who surrendered," commit "atrocities" pic.twitter.com/MhKljQwQpq

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) December 26, 2022

Special Ops are vulnerable to Conventional Forces....Ukrainian SpecOp team engaged on way to objective

#Russia: In a very rarely seen incident, a Ukrainian SSO/Sabotage team was found & killed by Russian security forces in #Bryansk Oblast.

Note Sig MPX (In an interesting config) & M112 block demolition charges. Gives a glimpse of what teams carrying out this very risky work use. pic.twitter.com/jF0aJZhIM7

— Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ (@CalibreObscura) December 26, 2022

More waste of men. I hope their memory becomes a blessing.

I won't call them orcs or some of the other names used by the West to label Russian soldiers.  I know that they were cold, probably a bit wet, definitely miserable, doing their best to do their damn job, fought hard for just another minute of life and died doing what few would do.

I have no issue with them.  They were patriots doing what their nation's leadership called upon them to do.

I do have an issue with leaders that have let a conflict become such a dick measuring contest that the suffering of the little guy becomes no concern.

I do have an issue with spectators that have turned a deadly battle into a sport and cheer instead of mourn the lives lost.

Someone somewhere needs to turn this thing off.

The Forsaken Defenders of Wake Island (Force Design 2030 is a repeat of a failed concept)

 via Naval History and Heritage Command

By December 1941, the garrison on Wake was comprised of a severely reduced detachment of 422 Marines Corps enlisted men and 27 officers of the 1st Defense Battalion under Major James Devereux, as well as Marine aviators of Marine Fighting Squadron (VMF) 211; 10 naval officers and 58 enlisted men (including hospital corpsmen); a small Army communications unit of 1 officer and 4 men; 70 Pan American Airways civilians and 1,146 contractor employees. Most of the Marines on Wake were artillerymen, but all of them were overworked as the detachment was vastly undermanned. The exhausted Marines were just finishing breakfast at 0650 on Monday, 8 December when a message came through that Pearl Harbor, on the other side of the International Date Line, was under attack by the Empire of Japan.

Replace Defense Battalion with Littoral Regiment and its damn near the same thing that failed.

Most of the Marines were artillerymen?  Replace Missilemen with artillery and its damn near the same thing.

A bit more.

 Described as one of the loneliest atolls in the Pacific, Wake Island is a submerged volcano top, which consists of Wake and two other islets, Wilkes and Peale. Wake Island is 450 miles from the nearest land, and approximately 2,300 miles from Honolulu. Claimed and annexed by the United States in 1899, the military had decided in the 1930s, with the clouds of war suddenly beginning to darken, to use it as an advanced naval and air base that was within striking distance of various Japanese-held territories in the Pacific.

They're describing EABO.

 The Japanese naval invasion force, commanded by Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka, arrived three days later. With only 450 special naval landing troops at his disposal, Kajioka just barely outnumbered the defending Marines, who used their six 5-inch coast-defense guns that protected Wake Island with amazing skill and accuracy. The 5-inch/51-caliber seacoast guns hurled a 50-pound shell at 3,150 feet per second up to a range of 17,100 yards.2  Kajioka’s flagship Yubari was hit 11 times, while the lead ship of three destroyers, Hayate, was struck by three two-gun salvos at a distance of only 4,000 yards “so accurately that she blew up, broke in two, and sank immediately.”

The Marines sunk ships.

It did not affect the battle.

I do not mean to belittle their fighting spirit or their sacrifice. They were beyond heroic.  What I do mean to do is to say that rehashing a concept that didn't work in WW2 and thinking that somehow today its gold is simply foolish.

They way that this thing was put together should disturb every Marine, Retiree and Vet.

Berger got a bunch of his sycophants together behind closed doors, ran wargames and came up with this plan.

Meanwhile everyone is ignoring the fact that the Marine Corps makes up a significant part of America's ground combat power...more than what we contribute to America's air power!

Long story short.  I have to wonder if this hasn't turned into a vanity play by MANY of Berger's staff and the current crop of Marine Corps Officers instead of being as advertised...a way to win a potential war with the Chinese.\

THERE ARE BETTER WAYS TO CONDUCT RECON AGAINST A HIGH TECH FORCE THAN TO PUT YOUR PEOPLE IN HARMS WAY OF ENEMY FIRES THAT CAN BE LAUNCHED AT DISTANCE. 

This history is here.

Flashpoint S. Korea!

#BREAKING: South Korea has scrambled fighter jets and attack helicopters and has fired warning shots after North Korean drones violated its airspace

- North Korean drone flies over capital of Seoul

- A South Korean Ka-1 fighter jet crashed while fighting a North Korean drone pic.twitter.com/mJf2n1Dn1X

— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) December 26, 2022

American support of continued funding of Ukraine is not overwhelming...

Who knew? Massive support for funding Ukraine is not overwhelming. They've flooded the zone with their psyops campaign and still can't push the needle as far as I'm sure they'd like. This is a glimmer of hope for common sense coming back in fashion.

AZOV in Bakhmut

AZOV in Bakhmut !!! https://t.co/N9P18Jd9nN

— Albir 24 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇺🇦 (@albir2024) December 25, 2022

If this is true then the USA is no longer a democracy. It's a police state...

In case you weren't paying attention to today's Twitter Files drop, the feds were sending excel spreadsheets of thousands of names for Twitter to blanket ban for speaking out against Zelensky and Biden over the conflict in Ukraine.

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 25, 2022

Off the top of my head I know a few people who were banned by being on these lists -- Gonzalo Lira is still banned. His crime? Being critical of the Zelensky regime. He lives in Ukraine, too.

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 25, 2022

Freedom of speech is an enumerated right.

Yes.  Twitter was a private organization but they were operating on behalf of the federal govt.  That means they became an AGENT of the federal govt.

Long story short.  Being private matters not if you are doing illegal shit on behalf of the govt!

This is some Gestapo, Stasi, KGB shit right here...

THE FBI SHOULD BE DISBANDED.  HOMELAND SECURITY TOO!

Jan 6 ain't shit compared to what we've seen in the Twitter files. That was a garden variety riot.  God knows we've seen enough of those in the US that they really don't raise a pulse.

But this shit we've seen.  THAT IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!

PS.  This also explains all the jacked up "Google" searches I've attempted on the Ukraine/Russia war.  It seemed all tilted.  Information age?  Naw bro, we live in the psyops age.  Our govt is out of control.