One of the goals of TFB’s Photo Of The Day is to share treasures from the world of firearms while giving credits to the photographer. Above you see U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Alex Story with Force Reconnaissance Platoon, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), as he patrols through the jungle on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan. This […]
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It’s now three weeks since Vladimir Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraine. We have seen the Ukrainian Armed Forces put up an impressive fight while Russia’s forces have stalled since their initial attempts at a lightning advance failed. While images of burnt-out or abandoned Russian armoured vehicles have dominated the news and social media there have been some […]
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Trisha Paddock back row on left
Los Angeles, CA – A 46-year-old marathon runner died on Sunday after collapsing at the finish line.
Trisha Paddock, a mother of 3, suffered a “major” heart attack at the finish line and died at the hospital after being put on life support, the Los Angeles Times reported.
“Trisha Paddock believed in the mission of AADAP and was so excited to be a part of our team,” said Dean Nakanishi, Chief Executive Officer of AADAP. “The Charity Challenge team members met together on Sunday morning before the start of the race, and everyone was enthusiastic to be participating in this event. We are all stunned that she is no longer with us. Our hearts go out to her husband and children, who loved her dearly.”
NBC Los Angeles reported:
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A 46-year-old woman who collapsed at the finish line of the Los Angeles Marathon has died, the race’s first death since 2007, organizers announced Tuesday.
Trisha Paddock of Rancho Palos Verdes was running in the 13.1-mile Charity Challenge where all participants were fundraising for one of the race’s official charities.
Los Angeles Fire Department personnel met with Paddock at 12:10 p.m. Sunday due to a medical complaint that escalated to a cardiac arrest, LAFD Capt. Erik Scott said Sunday.
“Medical aid was quickly provided by over a dozen personnel, including LAFD Cycle Teams, and the patient was rapidly treated and transported to a local hospital,” Scott said.
A GoFundMe was set up to assist the Paddock family with medical bills and other critical expenses.
Welcome to another Wheelgun Wednesday on TFB, where we cover almost any topic of wheelgunnery. Today, we’ll take a look at the Smith & Wesson 586 Classic, which is based on the iconic 586 revolver from the dawn of the 1980s. The original 586 saw use in hunting, plinking, and law enforcement. While law enforcement […]
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While the world has been obsessively focused on crude oil and gasoline in recent weeks, we instead alerted readers to a far more dire scenario playing out in diesel, a source of energy which is absolutely critical in keeping the “just in time” world running on time.
Fast-forward to today, when our warning was echoed by the heads of one of the largest commodity trading houses and the biggest independent oil trader who were speaking at the FT Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday.
The corporate leaders estimated that as much as 3 million barrels of oil and its products a day could be lost from Russia as a result of sanctions, in line with previous estimates, and warned that global markets face a squeeze on diesel with Europe most at risk of a “systemic” shortage that could lead to fuel rationing.
“The thing that everybody’s concerned about will be diesel supplies. Europe imports about half of its diesel from Russia and about half of its diesel from the Middle East” said Russell Hardy, chief of Switzerland-based oil trader Vitol. “That systemic shortfall of diesel is there.”
Those imports mean that Russian supplies account for about 15% of Europe’s diesel consumption, according to the FT which carried their comments.
Hardy said the shift to more diesel consumption over gasoline in Europe had helped to create shortages of the fuel. He added that refineries could boost their diesel output in response to higher prices at the expense of other oil-derived products to shore up supply, but warned that rationing was a possibility.
Torbjorn Tornqvist, co-founder and chair of Geneva-headquartered Gunvor Group, added: “Diesel is not just a European problem; this is a global problem. It really is.”
Tornqvist also warned that European gas markets were no longer functioning properly as traders faced huge demands from banks for cash to cover hedging positions. “I think it’s broken. It really is,” he said. “I never thought that somebody could say ‘ah, gas has fallen below 100 per megawatt-hours is really cheap’.”
Gas futures linked to TTF, Europe’s wholesale gas price have swung from about €70 a megawatt-hour before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to about €230 two weeks ago and then slid below €100 this week. Before May 2021, European gas prices were below €20 a megawatt-hour.
As noted last week, Europe’s largest energy traders called on governments and central banks to provide emergency liquidity support to keep gas and power markets functioning as sharp price moves triggered by the Ukraine crisis have strained commodity markets. Hardy said that to move a cargo equivalent to 1 megawatt-hour of liquefied natural gas priced at €97, traders must provide €80 in cash, straining their capital requirements.
Worse, confirming that Europe faces an even colder winter, Tornqvist said European utilities would struggle to fill gas storage for next winter given the “paralyzed” state of the spot market for gas unless policymakers stepped in to provide guarantees to protect buyers against price swings.
But going back to diesel, Bloomberg’s Javier Blas tweeted a handful of the scariest quotes from the energy CEOs at today’s FT commodities summit:
Earlier today ex-FBI agent William Tisaby, who led the bungled investigation into former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, pleaded guilty to evidence tampering in the Soros-funded false case against Governor Eric Greitens.
In 2018 the Soros-backed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner led a campaign to attack, smear and oust popular Missouri Republican Governor Eric Greitens. It was a politically motivated takedown of the very popular Republican governor.
And it worked. Gardner and her associate and former FBI agent, William Tisaby, along with Missouri RINOs were successful in forcing Governor Eric Greitens to resign from office.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Tisaby previously when he was charged with six counts of perjury. Tisaby worked with Soros-backed St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner when he was involved in setting up the former governor.
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Gardner and her chief investigator withheld information in their case against Greitens. Kim Gardner chose not to have the St. Louis Police Department investigate the allegations against the Governor and instead hired William Tisaby, CEO of Enterra, LLC and a former FBI agent. According to local reports Tisaby met with Gardner for two days in Louisiana before charges against the Republican governor were ever announced.
US Senate candidate Eric Greitens responded to the news today on Twitter.
Eric Greitens: “Today was a victory for all of us… This is what they do. Soros funds it. The mainstream media promotes their lies. And RINO cowardice enables their attacks from the left. But you know what? We stand strong. This took four years to get done and you can see they run the same playbook again and again and again. False accusations to attack patriots. But at the end of the day, the truth prevails.
The demons used this attack blueprint of lies and smears against Eric Greitens. They used it against Trump. They are at war against America. Don’t ever forget that.
Let them eat cake.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she “eats at 5:30 like a peasant.”
“And to this day, my husband, Paul, who was born and raised in San Francisco – I was born and raised in Baltimore – to this day, he likes to dine at 8 and I like to eat at 5:30, like a peasant,” Pelosi said in the undated audio released by RNC Research on Wednesday.
AUDIO:
Pelosi is out of touch with the average American after serving in Congress for decades.
Recall, Pelosi showed off her $25,000 refrigerators and massive gourmet ice cream collection during an appearance on a late night show as Americans stand in line at food banks during Covid lockdowns in April 2020.
We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer. #LateLateShow pic.twitter.com/dqA32d5lU1
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 14, 2020
The guy can hardly walk. Every time he walks across the White House lawn you think he’s going to fall. He lifts his feet like a weak 78-year-old. You really think the grass is going to catch his foot and he will come tumbling over. However, you’ll never know it from the picture above.
The White House released a picture of Joe Biden today showing him saluting as he gets ready to board a chopper for transport. It’s a sunny day and Joe looks alert.
The tweet shares:
I’m on my way to Europe to rally the international community in support of Ukraine and ensure Putin pays a severe economic cost for his war of choice.
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It sounds and looks good…. but it is a lie. One individual on Twitter pointed out that today in Washington it was cloudy. The above picture could not have been taken today. It’s a lie. It was cloudy all day and rainy. This tweet was fake, funny, and false.
Will Twitter take this down?
The line of questioning came on day three of Jackson’s confirmation hearings.
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“Senator, I’m not aware of any such cases in my law firm. I was in a group of lawyers that was often approached to ask ‘would you file a brief for some group’ and I’m not aware that any victims of terrorism asked our firm to participate,” Jackson replied.
Jackson represented the detainees while working as a federal public defender at a private law firm.
Her clients were an alleged al-Qaida bomb expert, a Taliban intelligence officer, a man who trained to fight American forces in Afghanistan, and a farmer with ties to the Taliban. None of them have been convicted.
Sen. Josh Hawley previously raised this issue, saying that he found it “a little concerning” that she kept representing the men after she went into private practice.
Minnesota’s possession limit for walleyes is six fish, but a poacher there was caught last fall with nearly 10 times that many. Following up on a tip about illegal fishing activity, Minnesota Conservation Officer Shane Zavodnik confronted Gilbert resident James Dan Mattson, 60, in September of 2021 and found 59 walleyes in his freezer, the Duluth News Tribune reports.
“It was pure gluttony, really,” Zavodnik, who has worked as a warden in the Iron Range since 2018, told the Tribune. “I think he’s addicted to catching and keeping fish. He was keeping them for when people came over to watch Vikings games on TV.”
And this wasn’t Mattson’s first run-in with a conservation officer. The Tribune looked at past court records and confirmed that Mattson has now been convicted of six natural resource-related crimes in the past eight years.
In 2014, he was convicted on two separate occasions: once for illegal netting of whitefish and ciscoes, and once for possessing illegal containers in the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness. He was convicted in 2015 for fishing with an extra line; in 2017, for removing part of a big-game animal before it had been legally tagged; and in 2018, for being over the possession limit of fish.
Mattson pled guilty to last year’s over-limit charges on Nov. 19, 2021 and was sentenced in state district court under Minnesota’s “gross over-limits” law, which applies to cases where “the restitution value of the wild animals is over $1,000.” (The state values illegally caught walleyes at $30 apiece, so 53 of them would be valued at $1,590.) Mattson paid those fines in full on Dec. 23, according to the local newspaper.
“He even spent a couple nights in jail,” said Zavodnik. “This is by far the biggest case I’ve ever had. And with this guy having another over-limit charge in 2018, I’m glad they took it seriously.”
Zavodnik noted that most of Mattson’s walleyes were caught on Whiteface Reservoir and Birch Lake. The conservation officer also found some northern pike and salmon filets when he searched Mattson’s freezer last fall, and those were confiscated along with the walleyes.
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