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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent​

It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who were assigned to bring charges against those arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to Washington.

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday were unable to persuade a grand jury to approve a felony indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The grand jury’s rejection of the felony charge was a remarkable failure by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington and the second time in recent days that a majority of grand jurors refused to vote to indict a person accused of felony assault on a federal agent. It also amounted to a sharp rebuke by a panel of ordinary citizens against the prosecutors assigned to bring charges against people arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to fight crime and patrol the city’s streets.

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Fascinating interview. Drop the needle at 1:39m mark for economics, else check what turns your fancy.

Dave Collum: Financial Crisis, Diddy, Energy Weapons, QAnon, and the Deep State’s Digital Evolution​

Dave Collum is a professor of organic chemistry at Cornell University, where he earned his BS in biology and later returned after completing his PhD in chemistry at Columbia. A former department chair and 20-year associate editor of The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Dave has also consulted for major pharmaceutical companies including Merck, Pfizer, and Amgen. Outside of academia, he’s known for his sharp, contrarian takes on politics, economics, and culture—often shared via his unfiltered X account (@DavidBCollum), frequent podcast appearances, and his widely read annual “Year in Review” at Peak Prosperity. He’s also coached collegiate gymnastics and taekwondo and has been featured in outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and The Federalist but usually on topics far removed from chemistry.

Chapters:
0:00 How Collum Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis
11:44 Collum’s Mission to Uncover the Truth About Covid
17:23 Did Covid Actually Come From a Lab in North Carolina?
19:36 Government Experiments Being Conducted on Foster Care Children
22:17 What’s the Truth About Diddy?
24:09 What’s the Truth About Hunter Biden’s Laptop?
25:09 What’s the Truth About January 6th?
28:07 What’s the Truth About the Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump?
31:26 Collum’s Prophetic Annual Reviews
41:01 The Vegas Shooting
54:16 The Global Political Kayfabe
58:17 What Exactly Is QAnon?
1:00:45 Are We Being Purposefully Distracted From Things That Actually Matter?
1:07:04 The Real Dangers of AI
1:09:44 Wildfires and Directed Energy Weapons
1:13:43 The Censorship Regime’s Evolution
1:19:45 The Real Way to Fix American Universities
1:31:27 The Problem With Affirmative Action and SAT
1:39:16 We’re in a Catastrophic Economic Crisis
1:54:15 The Housing Crisis
2:00:40 What Kind of Assets Should You Invest In?
2:11:17 How Can the Average Person Protect Against a Financial Crisis?
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That's in my stack of must-hear audio files.

But I heard Collum with one of his regular interviewers, Mike Ferris - Collum had a few things to say about Carlson that were not overly flattering. His impression was, Carlson didn't know who he was, and didn't care - probably someone on Tucker's staff heard an interview or heard of him. And there was a lot of ham-fisted shifting away from some subjects; and a lot of what they talked about, got edited out.

Some of that is necessary self-censorship. Particularly with Collum, who sounds rational but completely insane, once you dig into subjects. He's the explorer who has seen the edge of the world.

Other reasons seem self-serving. Collum didn't give specifics, but it seemed Tucker prodded him on a few points with the apparent intent of getting a provocative answer.

Could be just that Collum is getting to be a grumpy old man, or is burning out - he never intended to be in the center of all this; he's not a podcaster. He's a chemistry instructor who got in a habit of writing a Year-In-Review column for the university newspaper, and all this fame got dumped on him.
 
I prefer to read Dave Callum rather than listen as he has an annoying squeaky voice plus he covers so much ground it’s probably better to do his year in review in bites.
I thought the interview with Tucker was a bit constrained and that Dave was not really allowed to run as he generally would.
And it was curious how they both made efforts to ridicule Qanon, which afaik is a collective of people attempting to decipher the Q drops and probably deserves to be ridiculed, whereas the actual Q drops were and still remain, enigmatic .
 
searcher said:
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
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Apparently, it was not a ham sandwich. Everyone knows a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich.

Tossing a sandwich is not a felony. It is littering. Fine the man $50 and make him pick up the garbage.
Then he'll have a story to tell while he is sitting on the group W bench.
 
rblong2us said:
And it was curious how they both made efforts to ridicule Qanon, which afaik is a collective of people attempting to decipher the Q drops and probably deserves to be ridiculed, whereas the actual Q drops were and still remain, enigmatic .
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Yeah, but Tucker also mentioned that 'Q predictions' have come true... He's right and they glossed right over it. Perhaps they didn't want the blowback from the deniers??

I think they could be correct in that Q was disenchanted spooks who wanted to change the government. Iffn you followed Q as much as I have you come to the realization that Trump is/was Q+. There are too many 'coincidences' for it to be happenstance and that was the point of those 'coincidences' - to give a believability to the Q. Q was/is a military psyop designed to waken the sleeping population. If you look back at 2015 and today and see how things have changed since then and the efforts made by the deep state to "keep a lid on it" using every trick in the book you notice a shift in national mentality. All the law-fare crap they attempted on Trump to the point of assassination... and they still failed??

One in particular was someone on the 8chan Q thread asked if Q+ would say 'tippy top shape' in one of his speeches and he did EXACTLY that! It was when Trump was on the balcony and that huge Easter rabbit was there with him and Melanie.

That pretty much sealed the deal for me. I didn't need any more 'proof' to prove Trump and Q knew each other and were working in tandem and therefore REAL!

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Goldhedge said:
yeah, but Tucker also mentioned that 'Q predictions' have come true... He's right and they glossed right over it. Perhaps they didn't want the blowback from the deniers??

I think they could be correct in that Q was disenchanted spooks who wanted to change the government. Iffn you followed Q as much as I have you come to the realization that Trump is/was Q+. There are too many 'coincidences' for it to be happenstance and that was the point of those 'coincidences' - to give a believability to the Q. Q was/is a military psyop designed to waken the sleeping population. If you look back at 2015 and today and see how things have changed since then and the efforts made by the deep state to "keep a lid on it" using every trick in the book you notice a shift in national mentality. All the law-fare crap they attempted on Trump to the point of assassination... and they still failed??
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Collum has a way of saying it, that makes a lot of sense.

He likes to use a dichotomy - there's a zero-percent chance of some things, or there's a non-zero-percent chance of other things. What got him into the JFK conspiracy realms was, he looked and read, and decided that the chance it was a Deep State hit were greater than zero-percent. The more he looked, dispassionately, the more sense it made.

Some or all of what Q released, may be true. But I think Qanon was just someone engaging in fantasy, or enjoying people being misled, or both.

Of course, there's a non-zero chance that some of it could be true. Not all of it, because most of what Qanon said would happen/was happening after the election steal, has not and was not happening.
 
I was a Chicago cop for 33 years. Believe me when I say we need military help.

Few people realize how bad things are out there and the cops have been hounded by these Liberal whack jobs to the point where the good ones just want to find soft inside spots. These are the veterans that are needed on the street. The veterans the citizens need.

And the fake news media ? They have poisoned the public against us and made an impossible job even more so. I couldn't tell you how many times Ive had to call for a CFD engine to come with a high pressure hose and clean the blood off the street and sidewalks so the little kids wouldn't have to see it in the morning OTW to school. Or all the times we couldn't even go near a Housing project because the gangs would shoot at us. We needed military intervention 50 years ago.

Yet this Governor and Mayor keep blubbering this nonsense because Trump is saying it, and after all, they have big security details for their families.

I happen to agree with some of these Liberal ideals like programs for kids and giving them a helping hand. But first we have to knock the shit out of these gangsters and lock them up, hound them, harass them, stop them, search them, toss their cars, and shut down the drug trade when they start shooting. I couldn't give a shit if they sell drugs. We'll play the same game of "catch you if we can". But once they start shooting we'd be on them like stink on shit until someone gave up the shooter.

Thats how we got murder down to the 400's in Chicago. Not by Midnight Basketball but by Midnight foot in the ass.

And these gangster illegals Biden let in ? They're on the 1st plane out to Uganda.
 
SilverStacker said:
Few people realize how bad things are out there and the cops have been hounded by these Liberal whack jobs to the point where the good ones just want to find soft inside spots. These are the veterans that are needed on the street. The veterans the citizens need.
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Thank all gods for body cameras; and the police agencies/unions who make them available. I guess I should feel some gratitude for the Toob of Ewe - although I'm sure they thought the bodycam vids would catch those evil po-po dead to rights.

It's the opposite. I've seen many - frankly, since it's eye-opening, I'd just about overdone it, with several sites. It's a lot less glamorous than the tevee show Cops.

What I'm seeing is, a force of people trying to enforce laws, compelled to act like Sheriff Taylor in Mayberry, but dealing with morons, sociopaths, drunks, potheads who are just not gonna get with the program. Many are literally DARING cops to shoot or strike them. Really...you gonna refuse to provide your driver's license in a traffic stop? You gonna run from the cops for a tail-light violation, and expect them to just wave bye-bye?

The shit needs to stop; and we start the stopping by making RUNNING from the police, FIGHTING police when placed under arrest, a de-facto capital offiense. Blow the MFers' heads off. He leads cops down side streets at 100 mph and then hits a tree? Let him bleed out.

You run or resist, you're an outlaw. YOU GET SHOT. That's how it was for most of our country's history - most of Western Civ's history. Given that, when you're placed under arrest, you have the right to a speedy trial in open court...that is when you object. You are not going to make everything go away by fighting.

The time to think about not wanting to be arrested is BEFORE doing what it was you did that got the cops running after you.

To change our thinking would require a complete reworking of our Leftist kourts and probably a generational mind-set shift; but if we do not do it, public order is going to continue its collapse. And compliance with law and with law enforcement, will, even moreso, be seen as optional.
 
Casey Jones said:
Some or all of what Q released, may be true. But I think Qanon was just someone engaging in fantasy, or enjoying people being misled, or both.
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You aught to check out the Q thread... you're missing the forest for the trees.

Q has said the military is the only way. "Military" = National Guard.
 
SilverStacker said:
And the fake news media ?
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Media is compromised by the deep state/CIA et al.

They use the public airwaves - according to GROK:

Media using public airwaves has a responsibility to report facts accurately, as these airwaves are a public resource regulated by governments to serve the public interest. In the U.S., for example, the FCC grants licenses with the expectation that broadcasters prioritize truth and public welfare over propaganda or misinformation. However, this responsibility is often undermined by commercial interests, partisan bias, or sensationalism, as seen in cases like Fox News’ 2023 Dominion settlement, where false election claims led to a $787.5 million payout. Legally, outlets can face consequences for defamation or deliberate falsehoods, but no strict mandate enforces "truth" in all reporting, leaving room for bias. On the flip side, some argue media should have freedom to interpret events, as long as they don’t knowingly spread lies, to foster open debate. The balance is tricky—public airwaves demand accountability, but defining "facts" can be contentious.​

"Defining facts can be contentious" can be fixed by citing actual sources and not "according to sources" or "an anonymous source". Anything else is less than professional. Anything more would be libel.
 
Goldhedge said:
Media is compromised by the deep state/CIA et al.

They use the public airwaves - according to GROK:

Media using public airwaves has a responsibility to report facts accurately, as these airwaves are a public resource regulated by governments to serve the public interest. In the U.S., for example, the FCC grants licenses with the expectation that broadcasters prioritize truth and public welfare over propaganda or misinformation. However, this responsibility is often undermined by commercial interests, partisan bias, or sensationalism, as seen in cases like Fox News’ 2023 Dominion settlement, where false election claims led to a $787.5 million payout. Legally, outlets can face consequences for defamation or deliberate falsehoods, but no strict mandate enforces "truth" in all reporting, leaving room for bias. On the flip side, some argue media should have freedom to interpret events, as long as they don’t knowingly spread lies, to foster open debate. The balance is tricky—public airwaves demand accountability, but defining "facts" can be contentious.​

"Defining facts can be contentious" can be fixed by citing actual sources and not "according to sources" or "an anonymous source". Anything else is less than professional. Anything more would be libel.
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Sounds kinda like You Tube to me.
 
Goldhedge said:
"Defining facts can be contentious" can be fixed by citing actual sources and not "according to sources" or "an anonymous source". Anything else is less than professional. Anything more would be libel.
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They absolutely DO NOT want to "Define Facts" or clarify things.

The Deep State is in control of government; and the Deep State's favorite tool is propaganda.

The citing of FNC-versus-Dominion is one more aspect of the propaganda. ANY reasonable reading of facts, would conclude that what FNC asserted was obvious; Dominion was an onion company, Canadian, Venezuelan, and at the core, CPC.

The Deep State wanted that discredited. Installed kangaroo just-us-es wanted that hidden. So they used lawfare and government power to punish the truthtellers.
 

DC Grand Jury Rejects Another Indictment—How Residents Are Pushing Back Against Trump’s Military Takeover In Court​

A federal grand jury declined to indict a Washington, D.C., resident charged with assaulting a federal officer, according to a court filing Thursday, the latest instance of residents blunting the effects of President Donald Trump’s military takeover by declining to endorse the government’s increased efforts to arrest people for minor infractions.

A grand jury declined to indict Alvin Summers, who was charged with assault after federal officials confronted him for allegedly driving onto the National Mall, sparking an altercation, according to a court filing first reported by Reuters.

The filing came a day after a grand jury in Washington declined to indict Sean Dunn, a former Justice Department employee who was charged with assaulting a federal officer after he threw a “sub-style” sandwich at a federal immigration agent, The New York Times first reported.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...akeover-in-court/ar-AA1Ll5Jn?ocid=socialshare
 
Future crimes will be prosecuted before they happen... sounds like a movie I once saw....



WHAT?!? The Gideon artificial Intelligence that’s about to be deployed on Americans NEXT WEEK to flag them for crimes they might commit is backed by Palantir and created with engineers from Palantir

THIS IS THE START OF THE SURVEILLANCE STATE. Gideon, the AI-powered threat detection platform for law enforcement was developed by Aaron Cohen, an American-Canadian former Israeli Defense Forces operative

The platform is marketed as using “Israeli-grade ontology” and is modeled on Israel’s counterterrorism approach, with backing from U.S.-based Palantir and engineers from companies like Palantir, Axon, and OpenAI.

“It scrapes the internet 24/7 using an Israeli grade ontology to pull specific threat language and then routes it to local law enforcement. It's a 24/7 detective that never sleeps and it's going to get us in front of these attacks.”

“Dozens of agencies” always signed on
 
Israeli-grade ontology

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Nothing can stop what is coming.

Certainly not Trump. What is coming won't be kind, to him, to us, to Europe, to humanity.

What is coming, is along the lines of what has been taught as Judgment Day, or the End Times.

The time when Man got too smart for his own good. Economic collapse, leaving each of us up to our own individual talents and abilities - including access to good land, and ability to defend that land.

You've heard of the Dark Ages. These will be the Darker Ages.
 
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