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From the Shawn Ryan Show
In the physical email that Matt Livelsberger sent to Sam Shoemate, part of it reads: “I’ve been followed for over a week now from likely homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won’t because they know I am armed and I have a massive VBIED. I’ve been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone, and they are definitely digitally tracking me.” “I have knowledge of this program and also war crimes that were covered up during airstrikes in Nimruz province Afghanistan in 2019 by the admin, DoD, DEA, and CIA. I conducted targeting for these strikes of over 125 buildings (65 were struck because of CIVCAS) that killed hundreds of civilians in a single day.” (watch and listen to it at the link.)
Camps Opening Soon
Mexico is bracing to receive a large number of illegal immigrants deported from the US starting the day that President Donald Trump takes office for a second term.
According to reports, the Mexican government is opening 25 camps or “shelters” to temporarily house deported Mexican citizens. Each facility can take up to 12,500 at a time. The Mexican state of Baja California’s governor, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, recently told reporters that Mexico is taking Trump’s deportation plans seriously.
Avila Olmeda says Mexico’s president will ask Trump to send non-Mexican illegal immigrants to their own countries and not through Mexico. Foreigners will not be welcome at the new shelters.
What we do know, throughout his campaign, he threatened to do this, and since he was already president of the United States, we believe this time he will be stricter and tougher when it comes to deportations. We are working to get ready and receive our migrants…These shelters that are being planned are for those being repatriated who are coming from north to south, but no foreigners, only Mexicans, this must be made clear — Mexicans will be welcomed back to their country and their human rights will be respected.
-Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, Governor, Baja California, Mexico
The deported illegal immigrants will ultimately be transported to their hometowns in the interior of Mexico, says Ávila Olmeda.
Read more on the Mexican shelters here.
IV Fluid Crisis
The US healthcare system continues to grapple with a critical IV fluid shortage caused by Hurricane Helene. The hurricane brought catastrophic flooding to North Carolina and heavily damaged Baxter’s North Cove manufacturing facility. Responsible for 60% of the nation’s IV fluid supply, the facility has been steadily working to restore operations, but full recovery is anticipated during the first quarter of 2025.
A December 19 update shows that Baxter has restarted 85% of its manufacturing capacity. Eight of the facility’s 10 manufacturing lines are back online, with some operating near pre-hurricane levels. The company anticipates reaching complete pre-hurricane production levels early this year, allowing distribution channels to normalize shortly after.
In a December 5 update, Baxter announced the resumption of its 3-liter irrigation and peritoneal dialysis solutions manufacturing lines. The company also detailed that its IV solutions manufacturing lines had restarted, producing much of the site’s pre-hurricane capacity of 1-liter IV solutions—the size most commonly used in hospitals and clinics.
For more details, read the full article here.
Bullet Points:
** “Just because they want to burn us at the stake doesn’t mean we should let them.”
** Q – Why are Chevron, Shell, and Texaco gasoline brands more expensive? A – Marketing and branding. Why are different pairs of blue denim trousers pegged at different prices? They can charge more in many cases because of brand loyalty – usually by older people. The product is the same. It’s also true today for motor oil. You can spend $30 on blue denim trousers or $250 on denim trousers.
** Strategy hints from EdB – It’s important to look busy at work.
** National comparisons by JohnD (a Norwegian) and again here.
** Dating with DRJIM.
How to Succeed in Deterring an Invasion of Taiwan Without Really Trying (Hard)
(Rand) (Scott Savitz) Unless policies change, U.S. forces are inherently disadvantaged. They cannot operate in the prospective battlespace until an attack has begun and the United States has committed to countering it.
For years, insightful observers have called for Taiwan to adopt a “porcupine” approach to its defense. This approach would enable Taiwan to inflict substantial damage on any invasion force by developing asymmetrical capabilities. Taiwan’s government has taken some critical steps in this direction, but it could accelerate them within the next few years. The DoD could work more extensively with Taiwan to expand multiple aspects of porcupine strategies, some of which are very low-cost.
One way of obstructing a Chinese conquest of Taiwan involves literal obstruction—emplacing obstacles that would delay a Chinese invasion force while rendering that force more vulnerable to other types of attack.
Taiwan could make prospective invasion beaches less accessible by creating artificial reefs offshore, either by sinking defunct ships or placing large, hollow shapes made of concrete or other durable materials. Such features’ contributions to ecotourism by divers and their ability to dampen surges from storms or tsunamis could more than compensate for their minimal costs. Chinese ships or landing craft would run aground, sustaining damage or becoming immobilized and highly vulnerable at a critical moment.
Similarly, Taiwan could place rows of anti-vehicle obstacles on the beaches themselves. These need not annoy aesthetically inclined beachgoers; like many security barriers for buildings, they could be decoratively designed concrete and metal posts. The gaps between posts in any given row could be narrow enough to prevent vehicle passage but wide enough to enable beachgoers to reach the water.
While the People’s Liberation Army could bombard those maritime and land obstacles, doing so takes time and resources and prematurely reveals where it plans to land. Chunks of obstacles would inevitably remain strewn around the battlespace in ways that could continue to impede or channel movement, making forces more vulnerable to other types of attack. In the maritime environment, battle damage assessments would take time and have limited accuracy, so the reefs would still impale some vessels.
Taiwan could take these measures now for millions of U.S. dollars, a fraction of the $20 billion it spends annually on defense, let alone the $800 billion the United States spends. – more at the original article.
Only Taiwan can implement the porcupine approach. Such efforts depend on Taiwanese commands and agencies wanting to undertake them. The United States should collaborate with Taiwanese counterparts on this, but it must acknowledge that only Taiwan can perform these actions in its territory.
US Steel and Biden’s Exit
(Link) Japan, one of our closest allies, wanted the deal. So did Pittsburgh steelworkers and members of the president’s cabinet. So why did he block it? It’s an interesting article. There are two sides to the story — maybe three? Did the Big Guy get 10%?
Identify the Aircraft
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2
3
Identify the Armor
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5
6
Similar, not the same
Parting Shot
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1 is British F4F Martlet Mk IV aka Grumman designed for the French but didn’t get there before the German invasion so went to England.
2 is German operated Fiat G91-TF3 trainer.
Yes, Good, RCC!
5 is British Humber armoured car probably Mk2 in North Africa
Yes, it is a Mk-2 Humber armored car.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Royal Navy Martlet aka Grumman F4F Wildcat
2. Luftwaffe Fiat G.91 R/3 and Fiat G.91 T/3
3. Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot
Identify the Armor:
4. Brazilian Army M8 Greyhound with rocket launcher prototype turret
5. Humber armoured car
6. SU-100 on top, SU-85 on bottom
Well done
You are wrong about the major branded gasoline products. The chemical ‘gasoline’ (actually a range of molecules) is exactly the same but the difference is the additives that help combustion in varying seasons and localities + help mitigate engine corrosion etc. Each of the majors has their own research facilities that are constantly tweeking those additives. The gasoline you put in your tank from Exxon/Shell/Chevron/etc in January in New York is different from the gasoline you buy in summer in Miami.
They do add ethanol, etc. at different times of the year. That wasn’t my point. But the difference between Shell, Exxon and Loves on the Interstate is negligible. Loves (could be from anywhere) is sold for less because they make their money on impulse items in the store.
And Love’s can make their margin on impulse purchases in the store because they put a lot of effort into consistently having clean, working bathrooms. Women, especially when wrangling small children, have strong loyalty to predictably clean, working, restrooms that rarely have a line. (Except West Memphis. Avoid that one.)
Sometimes, brand differentiation has nothing to do with the main product you’re advertising.
X2 – And even though I’m male, I still prefer a clean toilet that flushes. It’s why Buckees (however they spell it) is successful. 40 gas pumps. I park, put the nozzle into the tank, click on, go inside, pump the bilge and buy something for the rest of the drive. Because there are 40 pumps, nobody is screaming for me to hurry up and move the rig. Loves is good, but not as good for that reason. And the fuel is reasonable. The $8 bag of Chex Mix and $3 bottle of diet whatever isn’t but I don’t care, do I?
Around here it’s against the law to be out of sight of the nozzle while fueling.
No sitting in the car with the door closed.
I was driving through Cheyenne NC once and had to
A) Fill the tank
B Pump the bilge
When I came out of the bilge pumping room there was a huge puddle of gasoline all around the car.
The nozzle shutoff did not work.
#3 is interesting i had no idea Peru flies Russian jets. I learn something every time i visit here.
If I was a Peruvian, I might go with the Russian option too. They’re much less expensive to buy and fly, are designed to operate on unimproved runways and your peer or near peer adversaries won’t have an air superiority presence. Likely you’ll be dropping iron bombs and strafing the homes of peasants engaged in some sort of movement against the government. (Sendero Luminoso descendants – families Andinas) They are resistant to ground fire.
The Vegas Trump tower cyber truck that blew has so many red flags. A 19 year SF Team Lead Operator would not use a Desert Eagle 50 cal as they are heavy and subject to jam. He would have a 1911, Barretta 92AF, Glock, or a Sig. Swallowing a bullet prior to being blown apart is very fishy. He would have wanted to make sure the bomb blew. The fireworks, white gasoline, and LP tanks as a bomb is almost juvenile, especially for a SF Operator. He could have built a better bomb from items from Home Depot. He burnt up but his ID survived? Then there is the upbeat text messages with his Ex who is the mother of his kid. Add to that the family members making statements that this is out of character for him. He was offed by a 3 letter organization who did it badly.
The CyberTruck is self-driving. He could have been killed hours before and doused with gasoline. The fire would make determining the exact time of death difficult. I’m not saying that’s what happened because I’m not a conspiracy theorist like you, Tsquared… Everyone I know at the SEAL Teams or in SF has access to an almost inexhaustible supply of C-4. If he’d wanted to take down Trump Tower, he could have.
I watched the Shawn Ryan podcast, and while I cannot come to a solid conclusion that the government was involved in the event, I also won’t rule it out, either. Because there are many red flags, which have often if not always tended to show that the government was involved in the action, there is little doubt that we won’t ever know the truth.
While Donald Trump has promised to reveal somethings of this type, releasing JFK documents and UFO documents, I don’t believe that the president of the nation is powerful enough to bypass the “deep state” that always has control of intelligence and dark activities that they undertake to maintain control of the citizens and the country. It is sad but it is what it is.
I only hope that other innocent people are not killed trying to keep a lid on this BS. Because that often happens with the public never knowing about it. If I were in certain positions like actual journalists who are trying to expose the truth or friends of people who have been sacrificed, I would be afraid. Not that it would help them, of course. If the government wants someone dead, they will die.
Find an hour…Shawn Ryan interview, 2M views in 17 hours…he had sent this tweet: “My family and I are disappearing for a few days.” “What we are about to release is mind boggling and will raise a lot of questions.” “I’m exposing a lot for the sake of the public, it comes with a price. I’ll take all the prayers I can get.” Thank you.”
– Not hyperbole for ratings sake…the threat is real and TPTB will not give up, even after ‘New Years’ on Jan 20th. The deep-staters are in full court ‘panic-mode’ press to maintain their massive ill-gotten theft of power and control over We The People…and the drone sheep MSM have followed suit.
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Saw this comment over at Bigcountryexpat (who has his own plausible take on Vegas and NO): I love reading that the body was burned beyond recognition had a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Do tell!! WTF?”
– Yeah, that.
Just saw both your comments after commenting above…regardless, this stinks to high heaven and those still ‘in charge’ running this corrupt s—-show unconstitutional dumpster fire anarchists cookbook bravo sierra (had a few more words but figured that got the point across good enough) will not go quietly into that dark night where they belong. Case in point: Merchan ordered APDJT to show up to his corrupt courtroom Jan 10th for “sentencing”. Uh huh…yeah, like that’s gonna happen. These deranged reprobates are pushing for civil unrest, and won’t stop until stopped.
Arrgh…wrong spot (throws iPad across the room…well, almost)…for Ed and LL below. Guess I shoulda put the SR podcast link: https://youtu.be/xglaXVtQcis?si=fjPRO4XXi10CA_Ss
Disappearing for a few days — Shawn should know better than that. Maybe spending a decade in Uruguay under an assumed name, but days — no. And frankly with the automatic tracking on most cars and license plate readers in all major cities (including Las Vegas) and along US Interstates – staying with friends and family or in a cave won’t help you. National surveillance – the overhead satellite is a clone of the Hubble Space telescope that can see 13 billion years away. So don’t bother. Don’t be a frigging drama queen, Shawn, you of all people know the score, like I do and many of you do.
A note on disappearing: They would hire somebody like me to look for you—or a few people like me with a competitive bonus for your scalp or beating heart. One man on the run – Edward Snowden – made it to frigging Russia. The Russians will keep him as a trophy with all the borscht he can eat. Do you want to go to Russia? And if they really want you the Russians will trade you for one of their own. The US doesn’t want Snowden back in open court – but somebody like YOU? Yeah. One man alone with the skills and a lot of money to vanish can do it but with a wife and kids in tow, it’s impossible. The tracking available today to people who can call it up is significant. Even if you have a lot of friends laying false trails (they’ll die of course) to save your wide ass – won’t be enough. Not if they really want you.
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The creators of Breaking Bad did a good job of showing how it might happen.
The theories abound: https://www.facebook.com/reel/560957473579995
Good theory, the self-drive mode as others here have suggested would account for a lot. As for SR…your perspective offers clarity to refute my “not ratings” claim…an assumption based on who he is…that you point put “he should know better”. If I ever go missing you’ll be hired to find me…a paid gig (in cash).
> the overhead satellite
The ephemeris of those things must be pretty well known, and they can carry only so much reaction mass for positional adjustments. So what would it take to loft a few hundred pounds of ball bearings into its path? Is that within the realm of any non-state (and non-MIC) actors? (Same question applies to degrading the GPS and GLONASS constellations.)
And so far as that goes, there’s a lot of stuff up there. How many Russian or Chinese satellites are up there ostensibly doing something else but also designed to damage/destroy other satellites when the signal goes off? Or is that bad science fiction?
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Found on some random website: The USA government is also on the move to implement a law in which private vehicles, containers, trailers will be tracked by the government for tax purposes. The government GPS tracking will just keep record of the mileage and the use time.
I have no idea if this is true, but have zero problems believing it. For that matter, we are all happy with the electronic toll transponders (or license plate cameras) on the Massachusetts Turnpike (or ETR 407 in Toronto, etc) because now we don’t have to stop at toll booths. I’ve been pointing out since that stuff was rolled out that it’d be trivially easy to ticket you for speeding. The speed limit is 60 mph. You went from point A to point B ten miles away in 9 minutes. Therefore at some point you MUST have been speeding. (Says the guy who’s so concerned about privacy that he has his cell phone with him always….)
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So far as Drama Queening goes, yeah. But I guess part of Ryan’s job is being an entertainer also, so the DQ stuff is a way of getting across to the casual listener the gravity of the situation. (I don’t claim to be a body language expert, but SR and his guest did seem genuinely … concerned talking about the
2019 Nimruz stuff.) Speaking of gravity, no one is talking about the antigravity (“gravitic”) Chinese drones ruling the night skies of New Jersey? (That’d solve the problem of taking out eyes in the sky and GPS/GLONASS tout suite, yeah?) Was that apparent crazy-talk a sign that Livelsberger was off his rocker? Or is it decoy and chaff to pass along concerning truth amid a pile of bullshit?
You don’t really need a satellite any more.
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All those parking cameras on cars nowadays (good innovation, actually)… they’re
always on. The cars are continuously uplinked by cell and internet, and they all
have GPS. Even my 1967 Polara is infinitely traceable with nothing onboard,
because all the other cars are watching it. Sure, nobody’s looking usually. But
they can, if they want to.
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– Kle.
Satellites with sufficient resolution can remain in geosynchronous orbit. They don’t need reaction mass to reposition to any great degree. You get a really big picture with really granular resolution. But who cares about that really because while the capacity has existed well beyond the KH-11 – forty years ago – finding “you” is simple. Unless you have an older car, it transponds. And licenseplate readers are everywhere. They just are. It’s not sci-fi. Law enforcement needs a search warrant to lawfully track your car through its transponder. NATSEC does not. Ask Elon what Tessla can do to your fancy electric car from Texas…capabilities. Tessla cars report rough roads or icy conditions to all other Tesla cars. I wonder what else they can do?
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My point isn’t that Ryan isn’t tree’d by the information. He clearly is. My point is that running only means that you’ll die tired if that’s what people want. And by people, I mean capable people. Ryan has been around. He should be concerned. I don’t know what to make of the CyberTruck incident. At the risk of sounding cliche, the truth is out there. It’s a matter of sifting things and working it out. I worked murder-for-hire (genuine mafia style stuff) cases for half a decade. There wasn’t one that I didn’t solve. Some were adjudicated in court and in other cases I knew not only how it was done but who did it. I’m not saying that I’m that cool. I’m just saying that they’re solvable with sufficient resources and effort. Sometimes it’s surprising. Maybe I’d be stumped by this one but likely not. You need real access to the data. This sounds like a Chinese (pun intended) fire drill with 100 people running around muddying the water.
PS The Chinese drone stuff is stupid.
My first thought upon hearing about the explosion in front of the Trump Tower was that I’d seen this movie before. The Sean Ryan interview echoes that. I think Paul mentioned yesterday that there was a body missing from the morgue in Las Vegas. And if you’re going to set up a massive IED or vehicular IED, you don’t do it inside of a Tesla with a bunch of fireworks. But it’s enough to burn the evidence.
The message has been sent. The question is who sent the message.
You may not want to go down the rabbit hole after those answers. The light at the end of the tunnel could be the weapons discharge. There’s clearly a much larger story than the one presented to the mainstream-media viewing public who are fed a white supremacy story.
> fed a white supremacy story.
Is that really going on? I was being sarcastic (mostly) about the “scary SF racist” spin.
But of course if I was one of Them I’d really want to discredit and marginalize a bunch of high-IQ, highly trained, motivated guys whose primary mission is not being doorkickers but in training and advising partisan groups to destroy crucial infrastructure and harass and overthrow governments. Not that there is such a thing (things) as “Them”. That’s just an anti-Democracy conspiracy theory.
The light at the end of the tunnel. I.e.
Next one’s coming faster:
https://youtu.be/Na65EcbBSYk?si=so3nw-jOSkp2nuF5&t=62
“Foreigners will not be welcome at the new shelters.”
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Well then you shouldn’t have welcomed them to pass thru your narco state in the first place. The irony, it burns.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-scraps-social-service-programs-illegal-immigrants-citing-immense-cost –if Fox News is correct, the illegal aliens may be going off Medicare and Social Security. What happens when their ObamaPhones stop working?
Aaron Cohen on his YouTube show details how Mossad’s mastery of psychological warfare and precise physical actions keep Israel’s enemies of balance. Is the same tactics being used against us, the USA public? If so, the effort is an amateurish clusterf**k, IMO.
>Is the same tactics being used against us, the USA
Of course not. They’d never! They are our friends.
Or do you mean our own government? Of course not also. They work for us!
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Love to chat more, but I’m off to get vaxxed again. Then I have to drop off another donation as partial reparations for the sins of antebellum slavery that neither I nor anyone in my family back to Adam ever had anything to do with. But I accept my guilt nonetheless.
Don’t ask questions. Just consume more product.
Your acceptance of guilt and your love of Big Brother means that your betters understand you are a mindless (therefore loyal) and willing drone. Witness if you will how a mindless Joe Biden is still signing shit and spending billions in a final fling.
You’re a star player example among the general public Mike, we who lurk here are in awe of your sacrificial service to humanity.
Kicking out the aliens is a good idea, but they won’t just leave. Friends, family, employers and some religious organizations will help them hide. It will take a long time, unless those helping spend a few years in prison. Cutting off rent, home ownership and motel occupancy will send a lot packing. That can easily be accomplished by prosecuting those that allow them to stay without legal documentation. The criminals need to be treated a enemy combatants and treated as such. I wouldn’t be bothered if they shoot them like ducks if they tried to escape. Enough is enough.
Mexico will be of little help. They need a carrot. One truck of products will be allowed into the U.S. when one hundred illegals cross back the way they came.
Agreed. I think that putting a bounty on their live capture would tend to thin the herd considerably.
“…live capture…”
Heck! that’s no fun
Letters of Marque.
Anyone can be a knight with the right “letters”…according to A Knights Tale…all in how you sell it, apparently.
We need you to generate letters of patent for us complete with wax seals, ribbons and paper impressions
jes’ noodlin’
somebody’s gonna make a ton o’ money devisin’ and sellin’ inexpensive, slim, coin pocket devices to obfuscate the gubbmint electronic-location monitors
The optical scanners will still work unless you have something seriously emitting to disrupt them. And if you’re in a car, something that significant will shut down the computers that make your car run.
I used cell phone jammers to shut down the spectrum before and during search warrant execution. Neighborhoods went “dark” electronically. Jammers made in Israel. They perfected the tech. Some isolate a car or a house, some a neighborhood. Jamming aircraft can darken a US State.
I believe I can devise and produce material that will disrupt information acquisition (such as license plates) by optical scanners while still allowing the plate to be read by eye
(not an aluminum foil hat)
Seen it done.
Simplest approach is a set of louvers.
I’ve seem then as well, but were I a LEO who happened to see a set of louvers, I’d make certain the auto was impounded +++; most states (I believe) have laws stating that the numbers on license plates must be visible at all times (to the naked eye), not to optical devises (yet).
We (Duh Boiz) used to use a fine/thin layer of mud or bead-blast the plate (Geez, Occifer, I didn’t know!) many other techniques, but all (more or less) illegal. mine might be questionable, but (I think) it would only make the plate numbers illegible to the optical eye
The shear amount of resources required – financial and otherwise – to “escape” make such efforts useless for the vast majority of people. The preppers preparing for natural emergencies make sense; those prepping to “escape the government” don’t. As one of the (former) designers of said satellites and other such toys … if “they” really want you, they >will< get you; they don't really want Snowden, he's been neutered. Unless you're in the profession, you likely have no idea of what the technology is capable of – let your imagination run wild. If you've heard about it, it's obsolete. Your best hope is they don't care about you. LL was apparently operational – I just designed the toys – and would understand this far better than me.
Thought it was cute Christmas song, didn't you?
You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town
He’s making a list,
Checking it twice,
Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town
He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows if you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
I like this post for many things, vehicle id, the Vegas detail, Mexican camp info and and the neat Vegan infographic at the end. Natural selection? I’m no orthodox Darwinian, but still, maybe he had a point?
Actually, my current gig leaves me unoccupied a lot between projects.
It is stressful trying to appear busy while your boss knows you have nothing to do.
Friend worked in an Erie, PA union boiler shop as a young man. Janitor went on vacation, boss told him to do the job…came back 2 hours later, finished. Boss tells him to make it last 8 hours. First foray into union shop work requirement versus his work eithic.
HAH! He should have just asked her is she want or see his Rocket Lift-Off….
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I read somewhere that Tesla sent a team to investigate the Cybertruck remains. Wonder if they’ll even be allowed near it?
Yes, they were allowed to crawl over it under the supervision of LV Metro Police (Clark County Sheriff) and the FBI/ATF teams.
My story is the same as Paul M’s friend. Summer of ‘73. South side of Chicago. Worked for a company that built motors and gears via heat treat. Low man on todem pole, janitor took two week vacation and I had to take his night shift. Took him a ten hour shift to get his work completed. I figured I better haul a$$ if I wanted to get done in ten hours what he’d been doing for years. First night, at 1 hour and 45 minutes, I had 15 more minutes until I was completely done. Luckily, I had to clean the Engineering Office which was empty at night. Second night, I brought along a copy of “I, Robot “, and hid it in the paper towel dispenser which only the “janitor” had a key to. My boss was cool. Any time he’d enter the Engineering Office area, he’d come in whistling some tune so I had time to look busy. Went back to college in the Fall. That unionized company was out of business by the early 90’s.
DrJim,
fwiw,
I been told ( voices in my head)
that the musk Rat
has connections nd frenz in many places…
fwiw
Juan