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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on March 20, 2018, 11:33:40 am
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Texas explosions: FBI investigating new blast at FedEx plant
BBC, Mar 20, 2018
US authorities suspect that a parcel bomb that exploded at a FedEx depot in Texas on Tuesday is connected to a serial bomber in the state.
The incident occurred in the early hours in Schertz, 65 miles (104km) south of Austin, where four bombs have killed two people in recent weeks. No injuries have been reported in the Schertz blast.
"We suspect it is related to our investigation," FBI spokeswoman Michelle Lee told CNN.
Three of the four previous devices planted in Austin were hidden in parcels left at residential addresses. Police said another was probably activated by a tripwire, triggered by two men walking along a street in south-west Austin.
More: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43470397 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43470397)
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The exploding package was from and going to an address in Austin, TX (FNC)
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I hope they catch this guy soon.
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I can't help but wonder if this is a group. If it is a group, they are communicating.
Oddly, my initial thought was Stormfront.
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You guys think this is an ROP culprit?
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I can't help but wonder if this is a group. If it is a group, they are communicating.
Oddly, my initial thought was Stormfront.
I think the bombers political beliefs may well be something like this. And I think it looks like it will be Neo-Nazi, Klan, something like this.
The FBI is investigating. I wonder where the bomber got their knowledge to make these?
Also, as said earlier, I think it took years to catch the unibomber. I hope they catch he/she soon.
Group? I guess, that's a possibility.
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Everything is online now. When the anti-Trump forces declared war on "Trump's White Nationalists"(WN), I was afraid they would react in a similar way to this. Shutting down their forums was an act of war for them. You should never make a martyr out of a nut. There is crazy and there is weaponized crazy. These WN people are smarter than you think.
The only thing that would make me think it wasn't a WN group is they usually target specific high-profile targets. One man gangs tend to go after seemingly random people. They plant bombs just to see them go off.
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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/19/04/4A55388600000578-5516859-image-a-24_1521435120704.jpg)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5521343/Trump-blasted-staying-silent-Austin-bombings.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5521343/Trump-blasted-staying-silent-Austin-bombings.html)
Police dogs out now, maybe they can scent something.
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Reports on local Austin radio just now that police are checking out a suspicious package at the FedEx facility at Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA)... don't know yet if it's related or not.
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I hope they catch this guy soon.
:thumbsup:
(I thought we had an amen emoji) anyway, I hope so too, and quickly.
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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/19/04/4A55388600000578-5516859-image-a-24_1521435120704.jpg)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5521343/Trump-blasted-staying-silent-Austin-bombings.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5521343/Trump-blasted-staying-silent-Austin-bombings.html)
Police dogs out now, maybe they can scent something.
Yay! Doggies are the best!
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I think the bombers political beliefs may well be something like this. And I think it looks like it will be Neo-Nazi, Klan, something like this.
The FBI is investigating. I wonder where the bomber got their knowledge to make these?
Also, as said earlier, I think it took years to catch the unibomber. I hope they catch he/she soon.
Group? I guess, that's a possibility.
@TomSea, I understand that you are really hoping it's a "right-wing" group because you think that's how things work in Texas, but unless you know something no one else knows, there is nothing to indicate that. In fact, the only thing I've heard is a reference to Antifa, which is much more likely given the area where it is occurring.
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Has Trump said anything about this? He needs to be out in front on this.
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Has Trump said anything about this? He needs to be out in front on this.
Good Lord No.
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Another source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/device-explodes-in-fedex-building-outside-san-antonio-police-say.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/device-explodes-in-fedex-building-outside-san-antonio-police-say.html)
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There is another suspicious package at a FedEX or UPS location. Okay, don't know if it is at FedEX or UPS location. This one is near San Antonio. I'm not sure if this one is different or is the one reported this morning but using San Antonio location instead of Austin.
Further info. will determine if this one is new after the FedEX one this morning.
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Package filled with “Nails and Shrapnel†en route to Austin Explodes at San Antonio FedEx Facility
Posted on March 20, 2018
The Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft
A package filled with nails and shrapnel blew up last night in Schertz, Texas, near San Antonio on its way to Austin. ...
The FBI says the explosions are related. ...Story (http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/package-filled-nails-shrapnel-en-route-austin-explodes-san-antonio-fedex-facility/) (draws heavily on the Daily Mail reporting).
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Package filled with “Nails and Shrapnel†en route to Austin Explodes at San Antonio FedEx Facility
Posted on March 20, 2018
The Gateway Pundit by Jim Hoft
A package filled with nails and shrapnel blew up last night in Schertz, Texas, near San Antonio on its way to Austin. ...
@mountaineer
Thanks for posting that. So, there has been only one this morning, not another one after that one. Good.
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There is another package at another FedEX location near the Austin airport. This is after the first one today.
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@TomSea, I understand that you are really hoping it's a "right-wing" group because you think that's how things work in Texas, but unless you know something no one else knows, there is nothing to indicate that. In fact, the only thing I've heard is a reference to Antifa, which is much more likely given the area where it is occurring.
Yeah, I saw your response about a nut job theory about AntiFa, be happy with it. @Sanguine
It's pretty stupid thinking to think, 24, 28 million people can live somewhere without some bad apples and crime but I expect nothing but smears from you, heck, you sing praises about posters who speak to others vulgar and cuss. So, if that's your style, be happy with it. I'm done with you and others similar. People don't come here for this abrasive behavior, let alone nothing to do with the conversation.
You don't want to accept truth, so you have to make it personal, well, there's a response to posters like you! Have a good day.
I'd watch LA news, they have crimes in California but only because they have about 48 million people but I won't expect you to listen to reason.
And anyone denying Aryan groups in Texas, Texas Hammerskins, etc. can deny it all they want then. There was a story in the past two years of some criminal ring led by these white supremacist groups in prison, Suit yourself. Don't expect me to read any "pings" from you. I'm not hear just to please you.
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There is no pattern to discern and maybe that is the point. The first three packages were hand-delivered, on the NE SE and east side. The tripwire SW, near where I used to live. I hope the authorities know more than we do, with these two new incidents. Is someone out to destroy FedEx? Very disturbing and I hope solved ASAP.
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Have the FBI put their "top people" on this series of crimes?
You know, the wizards that had the following suspects "on their radar?"
--9/11/2001
--Boston Marathon
--Orlando nightclub
--San Bernardino couple
--Nik Cruz,
Not to mention exonerating Hillary and framing Donald, simultaneously
Good luck, Texans; with this amazing multi-tasking group
Maybe Special agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, will text agents in the field their "Insurance Backup Special Plan."
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Yeah, I saw your response about a nut job theory about AntiFa, be happy with it. @Sanguine
OK, Tom, I'll bite. Where did I say anything about being happy about anything in this story?
It's pretty stupid thinking to think, 24, 28 million people can live somewhere without some bad apples and crime but I expect nothing but smears from you, heck, you sing praises about posters who speak to others vulgar and cuss. So, if that's your style, be happy with it. I'm done with you and others similar. People don't come here for this abrasive behavior, let alone nothing to do with the conversation.
Two points: of course there are bad apples everywhere. That doesn't explain why you immediately jumped to the conclusion that this must be racist, even bringing up the James Byrd crime to bolster your story. Secondly, if you think disagreeing with you is "abrasive behavior" perhaps the web is not the place for you.
You don't want to accept truth, so you have to make it personal, well, there's a response to posters like you! Have a good day.
I don't want to accept truth? I am basing my conclusions on what is currently known, AKA "truth". What are you basing your conclusions on?
And, thank you, I am having a nice day.
I'd watch LA news, they have crimes in California but only because they have about 48 million people but I won't expect you to listen to reason.
No idea what that means.
And anyone denying Aryan groups in Texas, Texas Hammerskins, etc. can deny it all they want then. There was a story in the past two years of some criminal ring led by these white supremacist groups in prison, Suit yourself. Don't expect me to read any "pings" from you. I'm not hear just to please you.
No, I wouldn't deny that there are aryan gangs in prisons all over the nation, which includes Texas. There are also the Mexican Mafia, MS13, Bloods, Crips and all sorts of other gangs. What is your point specific to Texas?
Have a nice day, Tom.
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Have the FBI put their "top people" on this series of crimes?
You know, the wizards that had the following suspects "on their radar?"
--9/11/2001
--Boston Marathon
--Orlando nightclub
--San Bernardino couple
--Nik Cruz,
Not to mention exonerating Hillary and framing Donald, simultaneously
Good luck, Texans; with this amazing multi-tasking group
Maybe Special agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, will text agents in the field their "Insurance Backup Special Plan."
Don't forget the anthrax scare: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/21/when_comey_and_mueller_bungled_the_anthrax_case_133953.html (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/21/when_comey_and_mueller_bungled_the_anthrax_case_133953.html)
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Have the FBI put their "top people" on this series of crimes?
You know, the wizards that had the following suspects "on their radar?"
--9/11/2001
--Boston Marathon
--Orlando nightclub
--San Bernardino couple
--Nik Cruz,
Not to mention exonerating Hillary and framing Donald, simultaneously
Good luck, Texans; with this amazing multi-tasking group
Maybe Special agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, will text agents in the field their "Insurance Backup Special Plan."
If the FBI cracks this case it will be dumb luck.
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@TomSea Knock it off, please. We have a lot of TX Briefers, a number of whom live near Austin. We don't need to crank up the stress, M'kay?
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If the FBI cracks this case it will be dumb luck.
If I had to pick who could break the case, between the FBI or Zuckerberg, my money's on the college dropout Gazzilionaire
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@TomSea Knock it off, please. We have a lot of TX Briefers, a number of whom live near Austin. We don't need to crank up the stress, M'kay?
@Mod1
President Trump has been criticized for not responding to the killings of black people in these bombings, that is in that daily mail.
Again, I find the scolding unbelievably biased when it is in the news.
I was born in TX, may be going back if some things come through, so this is just hogwash, vilifying others. I didn't go as far as one member from Texas mentioning it looked like her mail box was bombed by the Klan. Let's see you and Sanguine go after that person.
If these people donate money and that's why they can run over others, I have offered to donate but can not by credit card.
Why is it any less objectionable when people float the "antifa theories" that are not even to be found anywhere in the news, just blame others naively? Yeah, that theory was at a forum, who knows what kind of forum that was. Yeah, that (theory) was about starting a race war, real well-founded :silly: and that is acceptable? 9999hair out0000 Yet, by going after others and allowing this other, somewhat endorsed by these other two, this is acceptable or at least mentioned in a favorable way as possible? Yeah, right. And that is in the thread in the Texas section. Yeah, hare-braned conspiracy to blame AntiFa on this, totally acceptable.
Just like the someone accusing others of being after a messiah per how we vote, you mention things like being pro-life and have the book thrown at you.
I'm from New Mexico, we've watched people use our ski runs, be arrogant from a neighboring state, hey, maybe I should be given a safe space here per boastful remarks.
I really object to being told to knock it off, when I didn't do any wrong.
Or maybe I should go with the crowd and crow how this is an Anti-Fa conspiracy red flag operation to start a race war; oh, yeah, I'll be a great credit to the forum with those views! ****sheep****
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If the FBI cracks this case it will be dumb luck.
It's three days late too late to get the Luck O' The Irish.
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Summary of the Austin TX Press conference this AM:
- Package at FedEx facility exploded on a conveyor. One employee had hearing problems and was released from the scene.
- Gratuitous multi-agency backslapping.
- FBI won't say were the package originated.
- ATF won't confirm package had nails and shrapnel.
- Won't confirm any details on last night's FedEx explosion but hastened to say there was no danger to the public from last night's incident.
- The FedEx building has been evacuated. No answer to what is happening to the packages. Considered a crime scene, will not discuss when the facility will be open again.
- One reporter breaks from the herd and grills ATF agent as to how he can say there is no current hazard to the public when over 500 LEO have been unable to stop the series of bombings.
- FBI agent won't answer any questions, walks away abruptly as the presser gets hostile.
- New ATF agent tries to salvage presser.
- Fox News breaks away
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A SECOND unexploded device is confirmed to have been found at the Fed-Ex facility in Schertz.
Sooooooo - upon perusing the news and discussions out there on this latest escalation and combining it with the reaction of the Alphabets I have these takeaways about the situation:
The number of agents on this case is either a PR Op.....to look like they're competent and trying OR - (insert sinister music here) .SOMETHING in this bomber(s)'s signature(s) has them SPOOKED. As in REALLY SPOOKED.
SOMEONE on the forensics team recognizes SOMETHING in how these devices were put together...something potentially REALLY familiar because it is how the Alphabets teaches the skill. As in it might be a former agent(s) or someone they trained overseas that ended up back here. The reaction at the Presser kindof helped me along with this supposition. They had the second unexploded device from earlier this morning before the Presser.
The other possibility is it's a uniquely national-ish skill set signature and our political correctness prohibits the government from spelling it out.
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Thanks, @INVAR. Interesting information.
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Another source: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/20/texas-package-explosion-fedex-austin-bombing/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Master&utm_campaign=e9f614a331-trib-newsletters-breaking-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d9a68d8efc-e9f614a331-101231773&mc_cid=e9f614a331&mc_eid=6276fc82d6 (https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/20/texas-package-explosion-fedex-austin-bombing/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Master&utm_campaign=e9f614a331-trib-newsletters-breaking-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d9a68d8efc-e9f614a331-101231773&mc_cid=e9f614a331&mc_eid=6276fc82d6)
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SOMEONE on the forensics team recognizes SOMETHING in how these devices were put together...something potentially REALLY familiar because it is how the Alphabets teaches the skill. As in it might be a former agent(s) or someone they trained overseas that ended up back here. The reaction at the Presser kindof helped me along with this supposition. They had the second unexploded device from earlier this morning before the Presser.
The other possibility is it's a uniquely national-ish skill set signature and our political correctness prohibits the government from spelling it out.
@INVAR
Or maybe they just don't want to spend the next twenty years in Levanworth for violating the Espionage Act.
The very same Espionage Act that is going to make it VERY difficult for any second special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the DOJ, FBI, CIA actions in the 2016 election cycle.
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Yay! Doggies are the best!
Bless you, @Freya...you always put a smile on my face! 888high58888
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It's three days late too late to get the Luck O' The Irish.
They do have their Blarney Stone working fast and furious..
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Here is my guess on the culprit...
White male
Ex-military
20-50 yrs old
single- divorced or never married
lives alone
These are sophisticated bombs, so it almost has to be ex-military. Any other yahoo would have likely blown themselves up by now.
Anyone heard what kind of explosive they are using...black powder?
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@Mod1
President Trump has been criticized for not responding to the killings of black people in these bombings, that is in that daily mail.
Again, I find the scolding unbelievably biased when it is in the news.
I was born in TX, may be going back if some things come through, so this is just hogwash, vilifying others. I didn't go as far as one member from Texas mentioning it looked like her mail box was bombed by the Klan. Let's see you and Sanguine go after that person.
If these people donate money and that's why they can run over others, I have offered to donate but can not by credit card.
Why is it any less objectionable when people float the "antifa theories" that are not even to be found anywhere in the news, just blame others naively? Yeah, that theory was at a forum, who knows what kind of forum that was. Yeah, that (theory) was about starting a race war, real well-founded :silly: and that is acceptable? 9999hair out0000 Yet, by going after others and allowing this other, somewhat endorsed by these other two, this is acceptable or at least mentioned in a favorable way as possible? Yeah, right. And that is in the thread in the Texas section. Yeah, hare-braned conspiracy to blame AntiFa on this, totally acceptable.
Just like the someone accusing others of being after a messiah per how we vote, you mention things like being pro-life and have the book thrown at you.
I'm from New Mexico, we've watched people use our ski runs, be arrogant from a neighboring state, hey, maybe I should be given a safe space here per boastful remarks.
I really object to being told to knock it off, when I didn't do any wrong.
Or maybe I should go with the crowd and crow how this is an Anti-Fa conspiracy red flag operation to start a race war; oh, yeah, I'll be a great credit to the forum with those views! ****sheep****
:facepalm2:
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Here is my guess on the culprit...
White male
Ex-military
20-50 yrs old
single- divorced or never married
lives alone
These are sophisticated bombs, so it almost has to be ex-military. Any other yahoo would have likely blown themselves up by now.
Anyone heard what kind of explosive they are using...black powder?
Why hasn't NCIS been called in?
@txradioguy
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@INVAR
Or maybe they just don't want to spend the next twenty years in Levanworth for violating the Espionage Act.
The very same Espionage Act that is going to make it VERY difficult for any second special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the DOJ, FBI, CIA actions in the 2016 election cycle.
Obviously the Alphabets in the Federal Beast are totally and completely useless in protecting the American people.
And they know that public confidence in them no longer exists unless you are a big government supporter - same as public confidence in the mainstream media no longer exists unless you are a Leftist.
The Alphabets have shown us that they are only good for harassing and targeting the American people and orchestrating coups in concert with the democrat party while imposing various forms of 'lawful' tyrannies and infringements on Rights on those they are directed.
But stopping terrorists, mad bombers, Jihadists, serial killers, mass murdering school shooters - nah.. they have demonstrated that their skill sets are good only for use upon lawful Americans.
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FWIW, Antifa did declare war on FedEx after the company declined to follow the lead of Enterprise, Delta, et el., in rejecting NRA member discounts.
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Here is my guess on the culprit...
White male
Ex-military
20-50 yrs old
single- divorced or never married
lives alone
These are sophisticated bombs, so it almost has to be ex-military. Any other yahoo would have likely blown themselves up by now.
Anyone heard what kind of explosive they are using...black powder?
We don't know if it is a single guy, or a group.
And the Alphabets aren't saying - so we are on our own to speculate.
I'm waiting for Pelosi and the MSM to blame this on Trump or someone in his administration.
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FWIW, Antifa did declare war on FedEx after the company declined to follow the lead of Enterprise, Delta, et el., in rejecting NRA member discounts.
That they did, along with getting flushed with millions in cash from Soros and who knows who else.
Iran, North Korea and the Jihadists have to be watching all this with great interest.
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@Mod1
President Trump has been criticized for not responding to the killings of black people in these bombings, that is in that daily mail.
Again, I find the scolding unbelievably biased when it is in the news.
I was born in TX, may be going back if some things come through, so this is just hogwash, vilifying others. I didn't go as far as one member from Texas mentioning it looked like her mail box was bombed by the Klan. Let's see you and Sanguine go after that person.
If these people donate money and that's why they can run over others, I have offered to donate but can not by credit card.
Why is it any less objectionable when people float the "antifa theories" that are not even to be found anywhere in the news, just blame others naively? Yeah, that theory was at a forum, who knows what kind of forum that was. Yeah, that (theory) was about starting a race war, real well-founded :silly: and that is acceptable? 9999hair out0000 Yet, by going after others and allowing this other, somewhat endorsed by these other two, this is acceptable or at least mentioned in a favorable way as possible? Yeah, right. And that is in the thread in the Texas section. Yeah, hare-braned conspiracy to blame AntiFa on this, totally acceptable.
Just like the someone accusing others of being after a messiah per how we vote, you mention things like being pro-life and have the book thrown at you.
I'm from New Mexico, we've watched people use our ski runs, be arrogant from a neighboring state, hey, maybe I should be given a safe space here per boastful remarks.
I really object to being told to knock it off, when I didn't do any wrong.
Or maybe I should go with the crowd and crow how this is an Anti-Fa conspiracy red flag operation to start a race war; oh, yeah, I'll be a great credit to the forum with those views! ****sheep****
Easy on the Texans. WE ARE THE ONES WHO KEEP YOUR SKI AREAS IN BUSINESS.
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FWIW, Antifa did declare war on FedEx after the company declined to follow the lead of Enterprise, Delta, et el., in rejecting NRA member discounts.
I have here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers, that NRA also is boycotting Fedex: http://time.com/money/5176783/nra-boycott-fedex-amazon-apple-gun-control-youtube/ (http://time.com/money/5176783/nra-boycott-fedex-amazon-apple-gun-control-youtube/)
Well, obviously, this per Antifa is the theory we are suppose to accept, AntiFa kills blacks to try to start a race war has been cited by 2 members here and that is acceptable because I haven't seen these people scolded, really brings up the credibility of this forum to cite consipracies like this.
Should one have a counter-thought, then plan on being scolded for holding out other as a possibliity! 9999hair out0000
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Easy on the Texans. WE ARE THE ONES WHO KEEP YOUR SKI AREAS IN BUSINESS.
Doesn't have anything to do with talking about "safe spaces" though, if it is irrationally given to others, then, touche.
I don't care about that anyway, it's mainly in the North, not the South with Ski Apache, Sierra Blanca, I"m just saying those feelings do exist. It's really even just Albuquerque I'd say, not a real problem, just fun joshing I'd say.
And this from someone who has said horrible things about Trump; but say one counter statement, poosh... nothing wrong with pointing out, Texas is minority-majority now, nothing wrong with pointing out some shortfailings of Cruz, if Trump is regularly trashed by the Cruz-ers.
Some angles basically have stood up for slavery per the civil war, haven't minded trashing others, other states, Lincoln, bogus history about slaves. This is why this happens and I won't back down.
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Obviously the Alphabets in the Federal Beast are totally and completely useless in protecting the American people.
And they know that public confidence in them no longer exists unless you are a big government supporter - same as public confidence in the mainstream media no longer exists unless you are a Leftist.
The Alphabets have shown us that they are only good for harassing and targeting the American people and orchestrating coups in concert with the democrat party while imposing various forms of 'lawful' tyrannies and infringements on Rights on those they are directed.
But stopping terrorists, mad bombers, Jihadists, serial killers, mass murdering school shooters - nah.. they have demonstrated that their skill sets are good only for use upon lawful Americans.
It's pretty easy to see why that is: Terrorists, mad bombers, Jihadists, serial killers, mass murdering school shooters can and often do shoot back. It should not surprise the Alphabets, as you call them, have all the bravery of a Scot Peterson.
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The fabulous FBI solved the Unibomber in just xx years, oh wait the bomber's brother solved it.
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Well, obviously, this per Antifa is the theory we are suppose to accept, AntiFa kills blacks to try to start a race war has been cited by 2 members here and that is acceptable because I haven't seen these people scolded, really brings up the credibility of this forum to cite consipracies like this.
Take your war against the moderating on this site to PM please, since you have already been asked by @Mod1 to knock it off.
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@TomSea, I understand that you are really hoping it's a "right-wing" group because you think that's how things work in Texas, but unless you know something no one else knows, there is nothing to indicate that. In fact, the only thing I've heard is a reference to Antifa, which is much more likely given the area where it is occurring.
Considering it was Austin, I figured it to be a left-wing group, also.
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So does this latest discovery, make the trip wire bomb seem more like a different actor?
My thoughts and prayers are with all of you in Texas. The last time I can remember a regional threat like this was the DC shooters?
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So does this latest discovery, make the trip wire bomb seem more like a different actor?
We don't know.
The chatter out there is that this group, or guy - is showing off all their capabilities and telegraphing that they can deliver the bombs to their targets wherever, however and whenever they want to. We have had packages left on doorsteps, to packages hooked up to tripwires to kill passers by - and now using delivery services like Fed-X.
In an open society, there is no way to deal with this - unless you want to wait six weeks for mail and a package delivered because every single item has to go through screens, x-rays and the like, and even then - you can shut down transportation hubs just by having a package with explosives show up at a facility.
This is what we call terrorism folks.
And it works obviously.
We can only hope the perp(s) make a mistake and get caught - but I wouldn't put too much confidence in the Alphabets to keep you safe.
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There's only one thing I can say with 100% certainty: It's not Muslims, because it's a Religion of Peace. If you don't agree they'll slay you.
(Brennan told me this, so it has to be true, right?)
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@TomSea
"I didn't go as far as one member from Texas mentioning it looked like her mail box was bombed by the Klan. Let's see you and Sanguine go after that person."
I am that person. The KKK headquarters was in Pasadena, Texas. Son made a film of their Grand Dragon and them; traveled with them, even to other states. The bomb was in our mailbox the day after son's KKK film was shown on PBS Houston channel. Part of that film was that this KKK group showed up in Seabrook, TX (area of Clear Lake and NASA), and burned their boat in support of Texas fishermen who were ticked off at Vietnamese fishermen moving there and taking too many of their shrimp; they said these foreign fishermen weren't leaving enough shrimp for them to catch. Morris Dees of Poverty Law Center sued that KKK group. Anyone not believing this can find it in internet search; it was a big deal.
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There's only one thing I can say with 100% certainty: It's not Muslims, because it's a Religion of Peace. If you don't agree they'll slay you.
(Brennan told me this, so it has to be true, right?)
I think you or someone else said that the media so wants the main actors to be right wing zealots. So watch them push that narrative in the LS Media..
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I think you or someone else said that the media so want's the actors to be right wing zealots. So watch them push that narrative in the LS Media..
Well, I didn't say that, but I believe it's true: the Lamers do want to be a righty so bad they can taste it.
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Well, I didn't say that, but I believe it's true: the Lamers do want to be a righty so bad they can taste it.
If it turns out a such those guys will sporting more pup tents than a boy scout jamboree.
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FWIW, Antifa did declare war on FedEx after the company declined to follow the lead of Enterprise, Delta, et el., in rejecting NRA member discounts.
Yes, but assuming today's bombing is indeed related to the others -- did the other packages go through Fed Ex? I thought they didn't.
I heard the FBI and other law enforcement are looking or some kind of pattern -- something in common to tie the victims (targets) together. So far, I don't believe they have come up with anything.
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I think you or someone else said that the media so wants the main actors to be right wing zealots. So watch them push that narrative in the LS Media..
That's S.O.P.
Every mass shooting starts with the template being thrust out there by the media that it is a right-wing nut that was the perp. Then they like to highlight 'instigators' such as 'talk radio' and the 'blogosphere'/'Right-wing media' for the shootings.
Then, when it is learned the shooter was a crazed loony Leftist/Democrat voter - the narrative is broken so the media goes silent about it.
It's all old hat now.
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Yes, but assuming today's bombing is indeed related to the others -- did the other packages go through Fed Ex? I thought they didn't.
The first ones - the ones that injured or killed African Americans - were just left by front doors, not shipped. The one that injured the two white guys was left somewhere and set off by a trip wire. As I understand it, today's/last night's is the first involvement of FedEx.
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That's S.O.P.
Every mass shooting starts with the template being thrust out there by the media that it is a right-wing nut that was the perp. Then they like to highlight 'instigators' such as 'talk radio' and the 'blogosphere'/'Right-wing media' for the shootings.
Then, when it is learned the shooter was a crazed loony Leftist/Democrat voter - the narrative is broken so the media goes silent about it.
It's all old hat now.
You would think the media would have learned its lesson after the San Bernadino killings. I remember the bodies hadn't hit the ground yet and already the alphabet networks (and probably cable networks too) were calling th killings the actions of some right-wing Christian gun nut. When it was established the massacre was the work of a Muslim couple, not one of the networks bothered to admit they were wrong or apologize.
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The first ones - the ones that injured or killed African Americans - were just left by front doors, not shipped. The one that injured the two white guys was left somewhere and set off by a trip wire. As I understand it, today's/last night's is the first involvement of FedEx.
I'm reading that the package that exploded at the Fedex facility last night was shipped from the Brodie Lane Fedex ship center which is 1.8 miles walking distance from where the two guys in their 20s were injured hitting a tripwire while pushing their bikes at night.
Operational area of the perp(s)? or perhaps had multiple devices they set up and dumped off (which might indicate a group effort) on Sunday.
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You would think the media would have learned its lesson after the San Bernadino killings. I remember the bodies hadn't hit the ground yet and already the alphabet networks (and probably cable networks too) were calling th killings the actions of some right-wing Christian gun nut. When it was established the massacre was the work of a Muslim couple, not one of the networks bothered to admit they were wrong or apologize.
Why? What is there to learn? Yes, the media screw it up from the start, trying to pin the actions on some disfavored group, and they get it wrong most of the time too, but they never suffer any kind of consequences for it. People still tuned in to CNN after they were uncovered in the San Bernadino killings, so for the press it's "no harm, no foul."
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Why? What is there to learn? Yes, the media screw it up from the start, trying to pin the actions on some disfavored group, and they get it wrong most of the time too, but they never suffer any kind of consequences for it. People still tuned in to CNN after they were uncovered in the San Bernadino killings, so for the press it's "no harm, no foul."
What? Did you think things like FCC license requirements were available to anyone who could present the news?
Why do you think both parties have been so insistent on trying to regulate internet information from blogs and social media? To suggest the 1st Amendment only applies to "Legitimate journOlists" that are vetted and approved by government.
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It is of no surprise that the bomber might try a mail bomb.. but I guess, we should discard all truth to get along... I doubt if FedEx was in particular the target, sounds like a far reaching theory, if one can speak up for the truth. Especially, since, they have one of the packages, that is if one can actually rely on news stories.
Saw an infowars story referring to some tv show on Ted Kaczynski, the Unibomber and whether, it might have been an influence... sorry hollywood to mention you.
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It is of no surprise that the bomber might try a mail bomb.. but I guess, we should discard all truth to get along... I doubt if FedEx was in particular the target, sounds like a far reaching theory, if one can speak up for the truth.
And what "truth" would that be there Nostradomas? The Alphabets 'aint saying' and we got nothing but news media and scanner and tweet coverage to go by.
So all anyone has right now is speculation in the light of the TRUTH that bombs are being set and sent and going off in the Austin area.
That's it.
You don't know any further 'truth' than we do on this matter. You just have a knee jerk offensive reaction that suppositions you do not like are being postulated.
Too damn bad.
Deal with it. Or not.
Unless and until this person(s) are caught and the bombings stop - we will have nothing but speculation to go on outside of instances and events from which to speculate.
If that is too tinfoil for you - too bad.
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What? Did you think things like FCC license requirements were available to anyone who could present the news?
Why do you think both parties have been so insistent on trying to regulate internet information from blogs and social media? To suggest the 1st Amendment only applies to "Legitimate journOlists" that are vetted and approved by government.
Actually, CNN is not regulated by the FCC that I know of, it's cable. That said, your point is otherwise well taken.
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... Police believe the explosions are the work of a serial bomber whose tactics are evolving.
“It would be silly for us not to admit that we suspect it’s related,†Michelle Lee, an FBI agent, said of the FedEx detonation. The package was reportedly shipped from a FedEx store in Austin.
San Antonio police chief William McManus told reporters a second package bomb was found at the warehouse but did not detonate. A police spokesman later said the chief “misspoke†and there was “no secondary deviceâ€. ...
Posted less than two hours by The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/20/austin-bombing-texas-latest-news-police-contact).
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Actually, CNN is not regulated by the FCC that I know of, it's cable. That said, your point is otherwise well taken.
Cable is less regulated, not unregulated, by the FCC as compared to the airwaves.
https://www.fcc.gov/media/program-content-regulations (https://www.fcc.gov/media/program-content-regulations)
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A police spokesman later said the chief “misspoke†and there was “no secondary deviceâ€
WTF?
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WTF?
Yeah, odd.
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2 p.m. update: FedEx confirmed that the person responsible for shipping a package that exploded in the company’s sorting facility in Schertz also “shipped a second package that has now been secured and turned over to law enforcement.â€
The delivery company’s statement did not specify where the second package was found, but authorities have swarmed a FedEx ground facility in the 4100 block of McKinney Falls Parkway in Southeast Austin after reports of a suspicious package.
FedEx said it had provided investigators “extensive evidence†surrounding the packages and the person who shipped them that has been “collected from our advanced technology security system...
https://www.statesman.com/news/local/suspicious-package-reported-austin-fedex-facility-authorities-say/CVO2PqvqF9qN8tAQgdw4GK/ (https://www.statesman.com/news/local/suspicious-package-reported-austin-fedex-facility-authorities-say/CVO2PqvqF9qN8tAQgdw4GK/)
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12:35 p.m. UPDATE from SAPD: Chief McManus misspoke earlier at this morning's press conference. There is no secondary device at the Schertz facility.
12:43 p.m. UPDATE from FedEx: FedEx confirms package detonated at San Antonio FedEx facility, says individual responsible also shipped second package that has now been secured and turned over to law enforcement."
1:38 p.m.: NPR tweets FBI confirmed second unexploded package sent through FedEx was located at McKinney Falls Parkway facility.
http://kcby.com/news/nation-world/san-antonio-police-chief-confirms-second-explosive-device-found-at-fedex-facility (http://kcby.com/news/nation-world/san-antonio-police-chief-confirms-second-explosive-device-found-at-fedex-facility)
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It is rare for people to do this without taking credit. That tells me it is more of a serial killer type of deal.
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It is rare for people to do this without taking credit. That tells me it is more of a serial killer type of deal.
Yes. I’m a firm believer in the Manifesto of Crazy ;(.
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It is rare for people to do this without taking credit. That tells me it is more of a serial killer type of deal.
@Restored
Hadn't thought of that - but maybe he/they want to do more of it before taking credit. But, taking credit would give officers a group to investigate. I just don't know what the reason for this is.
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Cable is less regulated, not unregulated, by the FCC as compared to the airwaves.
https://www.fcc.gov/media/program-content-regulations (https://www.fcc.gov/media/program-content-regulations)
Interesting. Glad I don't have to implement that pile of dung.
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It is rare for people to do this without taking credit. That tells me it is more of a serial killer type of deal.
Unabomber took no credit. And he was only caught, by his own brother; not the FBI.
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Unabomber took no credit. And he was only caught, by his own brother; not the FBI.
True.
I never understood the media giving him that name. :shrug:
But they always do find a label to hang on stupid people doing shit like that.
Son of sam. Zodiac killer. Jack the ripper.
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True.
I never understood the media giving him that name. :shrug:
But they always do find a label to hang on stupid people doing shit like that.
Son of sam. Zodiac killer. Jack the ripper.
Because it makes it interesting and "sexy" and makes people want to watch/read the media.
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@Sanguine
@Victoria33
Fox is reporting another package in Austin just went off and another person hurt.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/at-least-1-hurt-in-new-reported-package-explosion-in-southwestern-austin.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/at-least-1-hurt-in-new-reported-package-explosion-in-southwestern-austin.html)
Prayers
Addendum
Just made international news.
Here's from Sky
https://news.sky.com/story/sixth-explosion-in-texas-serial-bombings-11298552 (https://news.sky.com/story/sixth-explosion-in-texas-serial-bombings-11298552)
Mods, should this be a separate /new-thread?
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@Sanguine
@Victoria33
Fox is reporting another package in Austin just went off and another person hurt.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/at-least-1-hurt-in-new-reported-package-explosion-in-southwestern-austin.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/at-least-1-hurt-in-new-reported-package-explosion-in-southwestern-austin.html)
Prayers
Addendum
Just made international news.
Here's from Sky
https://news.sky.com/story/sixth-explosion-in-texas-serial-bombings-11298552 (https://news.sky.com/story/sixth-explosion-in-texas-serial-bombings-11298552)
Mods, should this be a separate /new-thread?
Freya, let's keep them together.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/20/police-responding-reports-explosion-south-austin/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Master&utm_campaign=7c417b93bd-trib-newsletters-breaking-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d9a68d8efc-7c417b93bd-101231773&mc_cid=7c417b93bd&mc_eid=6276fc82d6 (https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/20/police-responding-reports-explosion-south-austin/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Master&utm_campaign=7c417b93bd-trib-newsletters-breaking-alert&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d9a68d8efc-7c417b93bd-101231773&mc_cid=7c417b93bd&mc_eid=6276fc82d6)
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CNN - another explosion right now - on Broady Rd, not far from the explosion where two men were hurt. It is 7:44 pm central time, Austin time.
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CNN - another explosion right now - on Broady Rd, not far from the explosion where two men were hurt. It is 7:44 pm central time.
There's a FEDEX office on Brody.
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@Mod1 thank you. 💖The new avatars.
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Reported package explosion at Goodwill on Brodie Lane 7:00 PM 3-20-18 (http://www.kxan.com/news/local/austi...ane/1063391509)
By: Calily Bien
Updated: Mar 20, 2018 07:37 PM CDT
Reported package explosion at Goodwill on Brodie Lane
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Emergency crews are responding to a reported package explosion on Brodie Lane at Slaughter Lane Tuesday evening.
The Austin Fire Department says the call came in at 7 p.m. The agency says the package exploded at a Goodwill located at 9801 Brodie Ln.
Austin-Travis County EMS says a man in his 30s was taken to the hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries.
Crews are currently working to set up a perimeter. Traffic on Brodie Lane will be impacted. People are being asked to avoid the area. A business in the shopping center where the Randalls grocery store is located says people can still get into the parking lot but traffic is bad since Brodie Lane is closed.
The location of the possible explosion is approximately 3.5 miles due south on Brodie Lane from the FedEx shipping store that authorities say the serial bomber used to ship two recent packages from. If this is connected to the serial bomber, this will be the sixth bombing since March 2.
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Just saw helicopter over site.
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This is getting interesting.
:2popcorn:
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What the hell is going on???
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Fox says that the Goodwill employee injured in this latest blast was looking in a donation box when the explosion happened.
Looks like this bomber is dropping off packages all over the place. I had read that the trigger mechanism in the bombs that killed two black men earlier in the month were tripped by mousetraps.
So, smokeless black powder and mousetrap bannings to come in our immediate future?
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What the hell is going on???
Relax. These are just the kinds of things that happen when the civil society falls apart from childrearing to a wholesale lack of biblical morality being expected of this people. Add generous importations of third world squatters, roaming-free Weather Underground terrorists who are now professors to brainwash two generations of kids - and WALA!
Here we find ourselves.
So, we can either close society all together and get even more comfortable with an overt police state to give us the illusion we are safe - or we can turn to the One whom used to have a Hedge around us and change our stupid ways.
My guess is that as a society - we will opt for the former rather than the latter.
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Fox headline:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/package-explosion-at-austin-goodwill-injures-1-man-sends-feds-racing.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/package-explosion-at-austin-goodwill-injures-1-man-sends-feds-racing.html)
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True.
I never understood the media giving him that name. :shrug:
But they always do find a label to hang on stupid people doing shit like that.
Son of sam. Zodiac killer. Jack the ripper.
I recall watching a documentary and somewhere along the story, their was an eyewitness sighting, and the picture came out of him wearing a hoodie sweatshirt, and dark glasses. Remember?
And there was also a connection to a university--perhaps UC Berkeley, had worked.
The nickname stuck.
I believe he was not deemed to be insane.
And I believe he offers no remorse.
Just one truly evil MF, with a very high IQ.
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What the hell is going on???
Someone is highly motivated.
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I have a package coming from Amazon on Friday - any of you want to pick it up on my front porch? I don't live in Austin, but in Texas, so where will the bomber be tomorrow?
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I'd guess there's been a major drop in Amazon business in the Austin area...
I sure wouldn't order anything for the time being if I lived there.
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If the FBI cracks this case it will be dumb luck.
One riot, one ranger. I'd bank on that going way further than the FBI can do.
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On a related note... thefts of parcels left at front doors or porches are down 99.9 percent in the Travis County area..
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Bob had dynamite certification in blowing things up looking for oil, so I'm sitting here getting educated on dynamite. 8888crybaby
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Fox says that the Goodwill employee injured in this latest blast was looking in a donation box when the explosion happened.
Looks like this bomber is dropping off packages all over the place. I had read that the trigger mechanism in the bombs that killed two black men earlier in the month were tripped by mousetraps.
So, smokeless black powder and mousetrap bannings to come in our immediate future?
@INVAR, did they implicate black powder in the blasts?
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Fox is reporting latest bomb not related to other bombs.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/incendiary-device-found-in-package-at-austin-goodwill-1-man-hurt.html (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/20/incendiary-device-found-in-package-at-austin-goodwill-1-man-hurt.html)
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@Freya
This one was incendiary (burning, fire) rather than bomb with shrapnel inside.
Incendiary could be burning chemical sent/splashed over your body when you touch/or start opening package. It was bad enough for guy to be sent to hospital. Hope his face was not involved but that is likely rather than not.
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Somebody donated a case of Roman Candles to Goodwill?
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On a related note... thefts of parcels left at front doors or porches are down 99.9 percent in the Travis County area..
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL....good one @Wingnut
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Folks might want to go and read up on the Weathermen and see what might be gleaned from that bit of history considering they are heroes to a bunch of morons who think they are the 'resistance'.
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@INVAR, did they implicate black powder in the blasts?
People who know some things about explosives on some gun forums I frequent are talking about the low yield with shrapnel intended to injure the closest person to the device - and they are pretty sure it's smokeless black powder and not something like C4 or plastique which is far more powerful.
One fella was urging reloaders to stock up now, because he thinks restricting purchases of smokeless black powder are going to happen in short order.
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People who know some things about explosives on some gun forums I frequent are talking about the low yield with shrapnel intended to injure the closest person to the device - and they are pretty sure it's smokeless black powder and not something like C4 or plastique which is far more powerful.
One fella was urging reloaders to stock up now, because he thinks restricting purchases of smokeless black powder are going to happen in short order.
I heard someone else mention the possibility and wondered if it had been confirmed.
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This one was incendiary (burning, fire) rather than bomb with shrapnel inside.
Incendiary could be burning chemical sent/splashed over your body when you touch/or start opening package. It was bad enough for guy to be sent to hospital. Hope his face was not involved but that is likely rather than not.
FBI is saying this pipe bomb is not related to the other devices in other areas of Austin.
Which leaves me wondering if this is indeed a group effort or a #MeToo movement?
Again, the point of terrorism is to terrorize a population into changing their lives to accept things that would otherwise be unacceptable.
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@Freya
This one was incendiary (burning, fire) rather than bomb with shrapnel inside.
Incendiary could be burning chemical sent/splashed over your body when you touch/or start opening package. It was bad enough for guy to be sent to hospital. Hope his face was not involved but that is likely rather than not.
Thanks @Victoria33 sounds awful. Who ever is doing this must have a lot of hate in their heart,
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I heard someone else mention the possibility and wondered if it had been confirmed.
I doubt we are going to get a confirmation on anything, period.
The press conference this morning where most of it was gratuitous backslapping of how great everyone responded to the event - refused to confirm what was already known by the news media from those inside the building.
You have the classic make-up of a keystone cop comedy happening out there with 500 Alphabets walking around while bombs are going off all around them.
To me it just proves that the federal beast is irrelevant and useless altogether.
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Austin Police Dept
â€Verified account @Austin_Police
43m43 minutes ago
#UPDATE: There was no package explosion in the 9800 block of Brodie Ln. Items inside package was not a bomb, rather an incendiary device. At this time, we have no reason to believe this incident is related to previous package bombs. #Breaking #packagebombmurders
https://twitter.com/Austin_Police
Boy they are awful quick out of the gate to assert that.
Some chatter out there indicates that the device at Goodwill was a modified road flare.
Soooo.... either this thing is a group effort or a lot of people chomping at the bit to copycat is what is being postulated. I am slightly doubtful of copycats this soon because unlike a gun - messing with explosives is beyond risky dangerous just putting them together, incendiary or not. You have to know what you are doing or you end up a red mist or a piece of crispy bacon, and not a whole lot of the population has chemistry familiarity and skills required to create such 'devices' such as the ones with tripwires.
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Okay so my supposition that this is not a copycat crime at the Fed-X hub has some merit:
gaberz86
†@akaRalphHornsby
2m2 minutes ago
Ken Paxton the AG in TX just told FOX news that this is same bomber, not copycat. #AustinBombings #Brodie #BrodieLn
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Okay so my supposition that this is not a copycat crime at the Fed-X hub has some merit:
I'm supposing that too.
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Okay so my supposition that this is not a copycat crime at the Fed-X hub has some merit:
@INVAR
So, is it true a man was taken to hospital due to this incendiary device, as was reported?
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@INVAR
Whoever is doing this gets the death penalty in Texas. Every package is attempted murder charge, along with the murder of two people. This murderer gets fast tracked to Huntsville, Texas, Death Row Unit , where criminals are executed until dead or double dead.
I used to know man who was an official at the Huntsville prison. He told me how the person is picked to execute a killer. Officials are in rotation order to do the final act that starts the chemical going into the killer. He had done that and said it was an honor to put to death a killer.
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Explosion at Good will may be unrelated.
KVUE News
@KVUE
Employee saw something unusual that looked like a pipe, CEO of Goodwill of Central Texas tells KVUE. The employee started to take it out, it dropped and blew up. kvue.tv/2puu1viVUE News
@KVUE
3m
A Goodwill employee reports the victim was in the middle of a conversation discussing safety when they came across the suspicious device.
I'm hearing it might have been a flare in a box, he dropped it and it blew up.
Austin Police
#UPDATE: There was no package explosion in the 9800 block of Brodie Ln. Items inside package was not a bomb, rather an incendiary device. At this time, we have no reason to believe this incident is related to previous package bombs. #Breaking #packagebombmurders
Tweets at: https://twitter.com/Austin_Police/status/976263590482235394
https://twitter.com/KVUE
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This is awful. We really need to have bomb control laws ASAP.
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@TomSea
Still have question - was the man taken to hospital or not? News at the time was he was sent to hospital. If he was, this device was meant to kill, not just to stick something in package "for fun" since bomb packages were being delivered.
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But, INVAR posted:
"Ken Paxton the AG in TX just told FOX news that this is same bomber, not copycat. #AustinBombings #Brodie #BrodieLn"
Attorney General Paxton would surely have the right information.
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Other sites reporting a redditt user claiming to be the one.
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Still have question - was the man taken to hospital or not?
He was. Injuries are said not to be life threatening.
Assistant Chief Eli Reyes with @Austin_Police says Goodwill employee found box that donor dropped off that had two incendiary devices, military style ordinance, that went off in employee’s hands. Employee injured. #AustinBombings
Not related to the other bombings you know, because it is standard practice that people get rid of their surplus ordnance by putting it in a box for Goodwill in Austin. This particular one with two military incendiary devices inside.
APD briefing: device tonight was a military momento called an artillery simulator. Not a flare per se. Still believed to be unconnected. #AustinBombings
And, as with ANY flare of any kind - they do not go off by themselves.
But, hey. Let's all sigh relief because the latest goodwill event is not related to the one at Fed-X earlier in the day.
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@INVAR
I have TWO packages coming from Amazon to my Texas house on Friday. YOU come here and pick them up and open them for me - okay? One is two books on emergency preps and one is a set of PINK ceramic kitchen knives. I'll have the coffee ready if you survive opening the packages. Thanks.
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@INVAR
I have TWO packages coming from Amazon to my Texas house on Friday. YOU come here and pick them up and open them for me - okay? One is two books on emergency preps and one is a set of PINK ceramic kitchen knives. I'll have the coffee ready if you survive opening the packages. Thanks.
I'd open. Them for. You.im not. Afraid,
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@Freya
So, why am I getting PINK ceramic kitchen knives? Well, Bob has this thing about his knives. He couldn't find a three inch stainless knife he uses in the kitchen and he said the last time he saw it was when I used it. That did it for me. I searched for this little knife and finally found his little knife under a box of cherry tomatoes he had put on the kitchen island. I got him from his office at the back of the house and told him I found his knife, told him to come see where I found it. Told him to lift up the cherry tomato package, and there it was.
I'm not using his knifes anymore. There are four PINK knives coming and he had better kept his hands off my PINK knives. (He does not know I ordered these.)
Now, back to the subject of the thread.
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@Freya
So, why am I getting PINK ceramic kitchen knives? Well, Bob has this thing about his knives. He couldn't find a three inch stainless knife he uses in the kitchen and he said the last time he saw it was when I used it. That did it for me. I searched for this little knife and finally found his little knife under a box of cherry tomatoes he had put on the kitchen island. I got him from his office at the back of the house and told him I found his knife, told him to come see where I found it. Told him to lift up the cherry tomato package, and there it was.
I'm not using his knifes anymore. There are four PINK knives coming and he had better kept his hands off my PINK knives. (He does not know I ordered these.)
Now, back to the subject of the thread.
Pink is one of my favorite colors,
Now back to the thread
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I'd open. Them for. You.im not. Afraid,
@Freya
You don't sound like you would really want to do that.
Just come on down and both of us will watch INVAR open them. Then you and I and maybe INVAR if he is alive, will have coffee and donuts with sprinkles.
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@Freya
You don't sound like you would really want to do that.
Just come on down and both of us will watch INVAR open them. Then you and I and maybe INVAR if he is alive, will have coffee and donuts with sprinkles.
Invnar has kids, right? Becides, I'm not afraid. If there was a snake inside then it would be different
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@INVAR
I have TWO packages coming from Amazon to my Texas house on Friday. YOU come here and pick them up and open them for me - okay? One is two books on emergency preps and one is a set of PINK ceramic kitchen knives. I'll have the coffee ready if you survive opening the packages. Thanks.
And here I thought we were friends.
However, if I lived nearby I suppose I could ease your fright and get some free fresh coffee in the process.
I always get my packages direct from the hands of FedX and UPS or the postal worker since they always come to my office, and I am usually always aware I have a delivery coming. Look at it this way - I only answer the phone if it is a number I recognize and know - I let voicemail pick it up if I do not recognize it. If I lived in Austin or if this problem goes national, I'll treat packages and junk mail the same way.
Invnar has kids, right?
INVAR has grown daughters and 2 grandkids younger than 2. I think my fam might have issues if I traveled all the way to Austin just to help open a package. Then again, the wife is an RN so having her on standbye with a crash kit might be helpful.
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@INVAR
The Goodwill place is on the same road as one of the FedEx locations. Don't think a different person would put something together that fast and know it was on same road at FedEx place. Think different person would have to take more time than that to put that plan together and execute it.
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Hearing Austin reporter right now. He says they are getting info. off the package that didn't go off and tracing it to the person who sent it. This reporter is also saying the military device was not connected, incidental to the bombings. So AG says it is, others saying it isn't.
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@TomSea
Still have question - was the man taken to hospital or not? News at the time was he was sent to hospital. If he was, this device was meant to kill, not just to stick something in package "for fun" since bomb packages were being delivered.
If we are talking about the Goodwill explosion:
The employee was treated and released. Artillery simulators are devices sometimes used in military training.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-blames-texas-bombings-sick-individual-53879319 (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-blames-texas-bombings-sick-individual-53879319)
If we are talking about the explosion at the Goodwill, the report said he dropped it on the ground and then it exploded at the Goodwill. Condition is an injury. It was an artillery simulator.
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Coverage is here, maybe this will clear up matters.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-blames-texas-bombings-sick-individual-53879319 (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-blames-texas-bombings-sick-individual-53879319)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/a-package-bomb-has-exploded-at-a-fedex-facility?utm_term=.miDYaRWQzW#.imrd5Y7q07 (https://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/a-package-bomb-has-exploded-at-a-fedex-facility?utm_term=.miDYaRWQzW#.imrd5Y7q07)
From how people are talking, it's easy to confuse which one of tonight's incidences they are speaking of.
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@TomSea
From one of the links you posted:
"5:30 p.m.
The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security committee says federal authorities informed him investigators have obtained surveillance videos in Austin that "could possibly" show a suspect in the package bombing at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio."
This is the first time I have heard about surveillance videos. I hope there is something there.
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@TomSea
From one of the links you posted:
"5:30 p.m.
The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security committee says federal authorities informed him investigators have obtained surveillance videos in Austin that "could possibly" show a suspect in the package bombing at a FedEx distribution center near San Antonio."
This is the first time I have heard about surveillance videos. I hope there is something there.
Yes, I saw this headline elsewhere with a question mark, "Video of Suspect???"....So, we can hope.
I figured mail centers, like our US post office probably has camera as one can walk in at any time though, I never looked, I assume they do. I know little about how Fed Ex works, it seems they have their boxes in most office buildings, what would keep one from finding one somewhere and mailing from there? Paid postage maybe? I know little about their offices. I know one is near us that use to be a Kinko's copy place and maybe it still is but I know Fed Ex is there.
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Austin Bombings Suspect Reported Dead During Arrest Attempt By Police, FBI
The Austin bombing suspect was shot dead by the police, following shots fired by the police as soon as he tried to detonate a bomb on Wednesday. It is not yet known how many officers were involved in the shooting or if any of the law enforcement agents were injured.
The unidentified suspect is believed to have dropped off two suspicious packages in the FedEx store on Sunday, CBS Austin reported. One of them exploded on a conveyor belt at a FedEx sorting facility outside of San Antonio, Texas. The second one was intercepted by the police in a facility near the Austin airport. The packages were dropped off at 7:30 p.m. local time (8:30 p.m. EDT).
Surveillance footage from inside the store helped the U.S. Marshal's Lone Star Fugitive Task Force to track down the suspect. In addition to a white wig, the suspect is also believed to be wearing gloves.
The person who dropped off the two packages is also believed to be responsible for four other explosions that started on March 2, and killed two people, injuring six others.
Congressman Michael McCaul, who was briefed by the FBI, ATF and Austin police about the situation, said at a press conference that he believed that the suspect’s “biggest mistake was going through FedEx."
More at:
http://www.ibtimes.com/austin-bombings-suspect-reported-dead-during-arrest-attempt-police-fbi-2664568 (http://www.ibtimes.com/austin-bombings-suspect-reported-dead-during-arrest-attempt-police-fbi-2664568)
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Live coverage here:
https://www.cbsnews.com/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/)
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@Victoria33
Your packages will be safe. I hope you and everyone else can rest easy now.
Enjoy those pink knives. They sound pretty
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There's a separate thread going about the bomber's bloody end. GO HERE (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,308834.0.html)
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@Freya
@INVAR
@TomSea
Thank God. They killed him, Texas justice. Going to other thread.
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@Victoria33
2 room mates are in custody, so maybe not under arrest at this point. Drudge has up a headline about some speculation there are other suspects.
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@Freya
@INVAR
@TomSea
Thank God. They killed him, Texas justice. Going to other thread.
I heard he blew himself up.
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I heard he blew himself up.
@Weird Tolkienish Figure
First word was they killed him. Seems now, swat team was following him, he went into a ditch, two swat guys approached the car, bomb guy set off bomb inside car, one swat guy fired into the car, the other swat guy was blown away from the car by the blast. Neither swat guy hurt. Don't know yet if the bullet killed him before the blast did. Probably will never know. He is permanently dead.
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@Weird Tolkienish Figure
First word was they killed him. Seems now, swat team was following him, he went into a ditch, two swat guys approached the car, bomb guy set off bomb inside car, one swat guy fired into the car, the other swat guy was blown away from the car by the blast. Neither swat guy hurt. Don't know yet if the bullet killed him before the blast did. Probably will never know. He is permanently dead.
@Victoria33 and everyone else:
Even at this moment, this is not clear, so read it up but it sounds like they are checking on a bomb at an Austin Fed Ex today,
Tony Plohetski
â€Verified account @tplohetski
10m10 minutes ago
BREAKING: Authorities responding to FedEx facility in Austin for suspicious package. Call came in at 9:32.
1 reply 55 retweets 18 likes
https://twitter.com/statesman
I ping you over this, because you said it's over. Well, we will see when it is over. ... Of course, I assume, that package was probably there overnight, before the suspect was killed but I wouldn't take anything lightly at this point.
Also, in other news, the room mates are currently, not suspects, so we will see where this goes.
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@Victoria33 and everyone else:
I ping you over this, because you said it's over. Well, we will see when it is over. ... Of course, I assume, that package was probably there overnight, before the suspect was killed but I wouldn't take anything lightly at this point.
@TomSea
Thanks for your post. At the time I wrote that, I didn't know the cops didn't know what he had done in the past 24 yrs. and they are now warning there could be other packages. Once that threat goes away, MAYBE this is over.
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I woudn't say it's over until all packages have cleared the shipping pipeline.
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I heard he blew himself up.
Ahhh... Hoisted on his own petard. Literally.
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I'm not going to post new material here, I do note, in the past several days, they've seemed to have some more bombing problems, nobody hurt. So, this is Beaumont:
By Omar Villafranca CBS News May 11, 2018, 6:36 PM
Package bomb explosion outside Beaumont, Texas, church sparks fears
BEAUMONT, Texas -- In southeast Texas, federal agents are investigating the bombing of an Episcopal church in the city of Beaumont. No one was hurt, but there are concerns it could possibly be the work of a serial bomber.
The Thursday morning blast at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church caused minimal damage, but prompted a big response, with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisting the Beaumont Police.
Read more at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/package-bomb-explosion-outside-beaumont-texas-church-sparks-fears/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/package-bomb-explosion-outside-beaumont-texas-church-sparks-fears/)
And as the story alludes to, they found a bomb device at a Starbucks less than 2 miles away recently as well. Bombing a church, pretty bad.
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Another bomber?
Oh poor Texas! 888cryingkitty
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Who bombs an Episcopal church? Crazy.
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I'm not going to post new material here, I do note, in the past several days, they've seemed to have some more bombing problems, nobody hurt. So, this is Beaumont:
And as the story alludes to, they found a bomb device at a Starbucks less than 2 miles away recently as well. Bombing a church, pretty bad.
yes, they haven't come out and said it was related yet, but what are the odds that it is not?
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I don't normally read CBS and was shocked. If a person wasn't depressed and angry before reading they would be afterwards:
"CBSN: On Assignment"
Hate Rising; Cyber Soldiers; Deadliest Assignment; Climate Refugees
The Nightmare Scenario; Inside Instagram; Disappearing Down's; Risky Business
Guns of Chicago; Enemy of the State; Muslims Love Me
Children of ISIS, iRobot, Made in America*
Hate Rising
Cyber Soldiers
Climate Refugees
01 Boy shot at Calif. high school; fellow student detained
02 Hawaii Kilauea volcano could soon explode in once-in-a-century eruption
03 7 dead in what may be Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years
04 Trump announces plan to lower drug prices: "This is a total rip off, and we are ending it"
05 Trump aide mocks "dying" John McCain – and his daughter responds
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I don't normally read CBS and was shocked. If a person wasn't depressed and angry before reading they would be afterwards:
"CBSN: On Assignment"
Hate Rising; Cyber Soldiers; Deadliest Assignment; Climate Refugees
The Nightmare Scenario; Inside Instagram; Disappearing Down's; Risky Business
Guns of Chicago; Enemy of the State; Muslims Love Me
Children of ISIS, iRobot, Made in America*
Hate Rising
Cyber Soldiers
Climate Refugees
01 Boy shot at Calif. high school; fellow student detained
02 Hawaii Kilauea volcano could soon explode in once-in-a-century eruption
03 7 dead in what may be Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years
04 Trump announces plan to lower drug prices: "This is a total rip off, and we are ending it"
05 Trump aide mocks "dying" John McCain – and his daughter responds
Their 'Assignment' (credit: James Comey) is apparently to keep a certain segment of the population stoked/angry.
And unfortunately, there are voters today who weren't even born on 9-11-01. As the meme says, "Think about THAT for a moment!"
Fully expect a strong, coordinated 'Get-Out-The-Vote' campaign on all social media as well as places like CBS, MSNBC, etc..
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Their 'Assignment' (credit: James Comey) is apparently to keep a certain segment of the population stoked/angry.
And unfortunately, there are voters today who weren't even born on 9-11-01. As the meme says, "Think about THAT for a moment!"
Fully expect a strong, coordinated 'Get-Out-The-Vote' campaign on all social media as well as places like CBS, MSNBC, etc..
They're doing a bang-up job!
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They're doing a bang-up job!
Tell me you didn't say "bang up" because this thread is about explosions, did you?
:cool:
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Tell me you didn't say "bang up" because this thread is about explosions, did you?
:cool:
:nometalk: