90 Miles From Tyranny

Saturday, September 16, 2023

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #2205

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

Visage à trois #1696

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A disturbing incident in Dundalk, Ireland, where a mother confronted a predator stalking her daughter, culminated in a violent attack by a sub-Saharan migrant, raising concerns and sparking debates about illegal migration, open borders, and the government’s response.

In a distressing incident that has sent shockwaves through the community of Dundalk, Ireland, a woman recorded herself confronting a sub-Saharan migrant who had allegedly followed her daughter after school in the Saltown area. The unsettling encounter took a violent turn when, after ensuring there were no witnesses, the migrant attacked the mother.

The incident came to public attention when the victim’s brother, Robert Minibus Nesbitt, took to social media to share more details about the altercation and the subsequent assault. The incident has raised concerns and ignited a broader debate about illegal migration, open border policies, and the response of law enforcement and government authorities to illegals.

Adding to the details, the mother who was assaulted and whose daughter was harassed also took to social media to provide more context to the story. She explained why she confronted the migrant, revealing a chilling detail: “Girls, my fourteen-year-old daughter was cycling down by Mullens on Castletown Road, and this guy had a stick in his hand and asked my child to go to his house with him.” Alongside this disturbing account, she posted a picture of the man, further deepening the sense of unease in the community.

According to Nesbitt’s Facebook post, the unidentified migrant had reportedly been stalking his 13-year-old niece from town and engaging in highly inappropriate conversations with her. The distressing ordeal continued as the migrant followed the young girl from town all the way to Mullens in Castletown. Fearing for her safety, the mother confronted the illegal and recorded the encounter.

In the video shared by Nesbitt on Facebook, the situation escalated when the migrant physically assaulted the mother. She was forced to take refuge in her car with her children while the assailant pounded on the vehicle, shaking his fists and making threats. The traumatic experience left both the children and their mother deeply traumatized.

Nesbitt’s post also expressed concerns about the migrant’s actions beyond this incident, with reports that he was casing neighborhoods, particularly areas where children were playing in gardens. These developments have intensified the fears of local residents and have given rise to serious questions about the effectiveness of...

Visage à trois #1695

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1336

Visage à trois #1694

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Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #1336

Pentagon Taps Disinformation Researcher Who Applauded Censorship of Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Lisa Kaplan has worked with former Biden disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz

The Biden administration has tapped a researcher who applauded Twitter for censoring stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop to "proactively respond" to international disinformation campaigns.

The Defense Department in May inked a contract with a tech firm run by Lisa Kaplan, a disinformation researcher who said Twitter’s decision to block links to the New York Post’s October 2020 story about the troubled first son was a "good move." On Twitter and in the press at the time, Kaplan applauded what she called the social media giant’s "efforts … to address disinformation, making it so that people can't share a link known to be false."

Kaplan’s support for the censorship of a legitimate news story could raise concerns about the reliability of her work for the Pentagon. According to government spending records, the Pentagon awarded a $72,321 contract this year to Kaplan’s firm, LCK Strategies, for a software tool that tracks global disinformation campaigns. That follows a $49,328 contract to LCK Strategies in 2021 to build a "machine learning tool" to detect and "mitigate" disinformation. LCK Strategies, which Kaplan launched in 2019, also operates under the name Alethea Group.

The company claims it provides "unrivaled intelligence on disinformation networks" through its software tool, called Artemis. The tool "conducts multi-channel analysis across a broad array of online content, including forums, social media and other resources to proactively identify and investigate disinformation online."

The contract is the latest example of the Biden administration relying on disinformation researchers who have called for censorship of legitimate news stories or themselves promoted disinformation. Last year, the Department of Homeland Security hired researcher Nina Jankowicz to lead its Disinformation Governance Board, ostensibly launched to combat disinformation related to Russia’s war on Ukraine and the U.S.-Mexico border crisis. Republicans questioned the board’s mandate after it emerged that Jankowicz claimed the release of Hunter Biden’s emails was part of a "Russian influence op."

No evidence has emerged to support that claim. Instead, Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019. The FBI authenticated the laptop in late 2019, according to government documents released earlier this year.

Kaplan’s assertion that the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden was "known to be false" has likewise been debunked. The Post had reported that Biden’s laptop included an email from a Ukrainian business partner in May 2015 thanking him for a dinner event with then-Vice President Joe Biden in Washington, D.C. While the Biden campaign initially disputed that Joe Biden attended the event, a longtime Hunter Biden business associate told Congress last month that the dinner occurred.

It is perhaps no surprise that Jankowicz and Kaplan have worked together in the past. Alethea Group hired Jankowicz in 2021 as its director of external engagement, to "educate the public about the impact of disinformation on public safety, public health, and the functioning of...