EP181: Drones Over NY/NJ, UnitedHealth CEO Killer UPDATE, Candace Owens on USS Liberty, NFL Week 15

EP181: Drones Over NY/NJ, UnitedHealth CEO Killer UPDATE, Candace Owens on USS Liberty, NFL Week 15

SPORTS
NFL Week 15 - https://www.nfl.com/news/2024-nfl-season-week-15-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-games

CLICKS
Diddy
- Three new male accusers file civil suit https://www.avclub.com/sean-diddy-combs-new-lawsuits-3-male-accusers
- George Stephanopoulos/ABC https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/abc-news-will-bankroll-trumps-presidential-library-to-settle-defamation-lawsuit-over-george-stephanopoulos-rape-comments-in-e-jean-carroll-case/

UNC CEO Killer Update - https://www.wbaltv.com/article/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-ceo-murder/63199561
- Luigi Mangione: missing for months, back surgery, missing persons report filed 11/18, mother IDed him to police
- Tried to get away with it: used mask and silencer, inscribed bullets, fled, did he have more grand plans?
- PsyOp?
- Identified by McDs employee, really? https://pointjupiter.com/work/mcdonalds/
- Facial recognition https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/are-stores-you-shop-secretly-using-face
- Why did he still have the gun, silencer, fake ID and manifesto?

Drones Over NY/NJ - https://www.nj.com/news/2024/12/mystery-drone-sightings-expand-across-nj-heres-what-we-know.html
- Above Naval Station Earle/Bedminster
- It’s Iran!
- No official explanation
- Pentagon: not Iran; no mothership https://www.zerohedge.com/military/satellite-footage-reveals-iranian-mothership-drone-carriers-exist-just-not-near-new-jersey
- USNORTHCOM conducted analysis, not requested to assist
- Crashed Drone https://x.com/derrickevans4wv/status/1867449038796468429?s=46&t=ye-2GyAK2iDh3yT1vKjfJg
- Govt doing Govt things? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nj-drone-invasion-just-time-congress-reauthorize-orwellian-law

POLITICS
National -
- Candace Owens on USS Liberty https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/12/12/candace-owens-interviews-uss-liberty-attack-survivor/

International: Did Russia and Iran set a trap in Syria?
- Syria resisted the US for four years before Russia supported in 2016, fell in 10 days
- Eight years to rebuild
- Jolani openly stated he had desire to take Aleppo
- El Nusra/HTS has been attacking Syrian posts nonstop since 2022
- Unlikely Syria was caught by surprise
- Russia/Iran closer allies
- Erdogan/Putin truce?
- Syrian army folded in coordination
- Urban warfare would have taken at least weeks, if not months
- Outmanned 200k to 15-20k
- Is it a planned quagmire for the US?
- Russia let in Napoleon, and let in Hitler? And relied on attrition

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