Who’s In Charge?

United States Secret Service- Director Kimberly A. Cheatle

Kimberly Cheatle is the 27th Director of the U.S. Secret Service, sworn in to office September 17, 2022. She is responsible for successfully executing the agency’s integrated mission of protection and investigations by leading a diverse workforce composed of more than 7,800 Special Agents, Uniformed Division Officers, Technical Law Enforcement Officers, and Administrative, Professional, and Technical personnel.

BREAKING: Trump Assassination Attempt

Updates as they come in (remember this is still early, information is likely to change):

21:24 update:

A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells @FDRLST that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.

Maybe they’ve been doing this all along.

It defies every security protocol ever written that this rooftop was not secured, and law enforcement personnel were not standing up there.

Biden has suspended “Trump=Hitler” TV ads…

Comports with the shooter on the rooftop:

In the case of the assassination attempt on #Trump, audio analysis reveals 0.22 seconds between the impact and the rifle report (I just checked this myself). Doing the math (algebra), this comes out to about 450 feet of distance for the shooter, at which distance: 1) The bullets would take 0.18 seconds to arrive, and 2) The sound would take 0.4 seconds to arrive. The difference is 0.22 seconds, which is what we find in the audio file. CONCLUSION: Shooter was roughly 450 feet away, give or take, which is about 1.5 football fields away.

WaPo reports an audience member and the shooter dead, another in serious condition.

Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung – “President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act. He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility. More details will follow,” Cheung said in a statement.

@TPostMillennial – Video footage of an individual being dragged out from Trump’s rally in PA. Eyewitness says an audience member.

Another video showing an apparent body on a nearby roof. Which aligns with a BBC eyewitness report.

The multiple shots were probably (include) response gunfire from the SS.

I’ve been following with Scott Adams livestream: No Democrat will run against him now. Biden stays.

@JonathanTurley
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There sounds like shots at the Trump speech. The president is down.

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…It is not clear if the President was hit or whether these were shots. Trump noticed somethng and touched his neck…

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…He just singled that he is okay but he is bleeding from his ear. He is pumping his fist in the air.

…He went down as people screamed but it may have been the secret service that took him down. It happened quickly. There seemed to be multiple shots as people were diving down…

8:15pm (Saskatchewan time) update from Robert: MJTruth on Rumble has lots of videos about what happened.

History Lessons

Next to FDR, Woodrow Wilson stands out as my least favorite President. Wilson ushered in the era of a meddlesome federal government and countless violations of individual rights. It’s not surprising to find that he was motivated by the collectivist philosophies that long dominated the field of education and consequently took root in our political systems.

“Wilson attended lectures about how history could be theorized in systematic terms that describe a progressive improvement of the human condition. He became absorbed by the philosophy of Georg Hegel. … In Hegel’s works, personal freedom was framed as a national ideal — only achieved when each individual fit a hierarchy that served the larger whole. Hegel’s ideas from the early 1800s aligned with an idea emergent in intellectual life in the early 1900s: applying biological principles to social and political conditions. Wilson … began to view individuals as cells or cogs within a living organism, which he analogized to the nation. As Wilson’s worldview solidified, he came to believe that the individual rights described in the Constitution, championed by Jefferson and Madison, were not immutable triumphs, but were instead subservient to transcendent ideals of national order and societal hierarchy.”

Steven Guilbeault says so, so it must be true

He even has an economist agreeing with him!

Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault takes to X to explain how pricing on carbon dioxide emissions fixes everything from global warming to health to your pocketbook.

He seems to think there’s a lot of “misinformation about carbon pricing.”

And on that carbon front:

It looks like something’s up. Hearing cancelled for Saskatchewan’s bid to stop federal collection of carbon money

Also:

Frontier Centre for Public Policy: Is hydrogen really the solution?

Safe and Effective®

Globe and Mail- Staff shortages, larger case loads causing Alberta medical examiner’s office to fall far behind

The annual report, which covers April 1, 2023, to March 31, concluded that a steady increase in cases since 2020, driven in part by COVID-19 and record-high drug poisonings, has created the backlog. Death investigations are now taking, on average, nine months to complete. Any case that has not been completed within nine months is considered part of the backlog.

Oh, Joy

Driving- ‘Speed assist’ now mandatory on new vehicles in Europe

The system was a requirement on all newly-designed models starting in July 2022, but now it’s mandatory on all new vehicles registered in the E.U. as of July 7, 2024. The regulation allowed automakers to employ in their cars any of four options, all of which meet the requirements. Two of them are only warning systems, known as “informative” or “advisory” ISA — they make a warning sound, or a vibration through the steering wheel.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Intelligent Design: Michael Levin on Consciousness, Cognition, Biology, Emergence

…what she had discovered was that if you look at the nascent ectoderm that later will regionalize to become face and mouth, you know, eyes and mouth and all of that, that, um, uh, that, uh, early, early on before all the genes turn on that, um, uh, determine where all those things will go.

The bioelectric pattern within that ectoderm looks like the face. It, it shows you where all this stuff is going to go.

Fascinating stuff.

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