Tuesday, September 3, 2024

STEPHANIE WEIDLE: I don't trust, support, or respect the senior leaders of the military anymore...I think as time progressed over and over and over again, I witnessed some of the most unethical, hypocritical, and really disappointing decision-making on the part of senior leaders

🚨U.S. Army Captain Says U.S. Military Leadership Is Lying About Military's Readiness; Leadership Claims It's 90% Ready But Is Only 65% Ready🚨 Rebecca Tummers (), a Captain in the U.S. Army, describes for Stephanie Weidle () on a Feds for Freedom () podcast how U.S. military leadership is lying to Congress about its readiness. Tummers, who was injured by the COVID injection, notes that she no longer "trusts, supports, or respects the senior leaders of the military." "I've seen them lie about personnel readiness. I've seen them lie about equipment readiness," Tummers says. "They say we're 90% ready, and we're sitting at about 65% readiness at any given point. And that goes the same for our equipment." Partial transcription of clip: "I don't trust, support, or respect the senior leaders of the military anymore...I think as time progressed over and over and over again, I witnessed some of the most unethical, hypocritical, and really disappointing decision-making on the part of senior leaders. And, I mean, the COVID shot was part of that, the mandate was part of that, nobody standing up for anybody or at least making sure people didn't get kicked out. That was part of it, but there were tons of other instances of, you know, watching fraud, waste, and abuse, watching people do some pretty self-serving things, watching people lie. and they were in positions, you know, where their decisions meant life or death for people and they lied. "I've seen them lie about personnel readiness. I've seen them lie about equipment readiness. Anytime there's a CTC rotation, these, you know, brigade commanders and division commanders are touting to Congress that we're 90% ready, that 90% of our personnel are deployable right now, and it's a lie. It's maybe hovering around 65, 70%, but they will say and they'll drag all these people down there that are non-deployable. They'll drag them down to GRTC, and get them the attendance. As soon as the attendance is taken by FORSCOM, [1973-Present], they send all of those kids who never should have been down there back home.

"They say we're 90% ready, and we're sitting at about 65% readiness at any given point. And that goes the same for our equipment. We regularly oversell how ready we are on an equipment perspective, and you just get tired of the lies. And people are lying to kind of get a good eval pin on their next rank, and nobody's willing to stand up and say this is not true. All of these brigade commanders, all of these division commanders, are aligned. We're not 90% ready. We're 65% ready, but no commander is willing to say that because that means that they will not get promoted." 

The complete interview:

ZEV BAUMGARTEN, OWNER OF AURORA APARTMENTS got his August 27 court date to resolve 81 charges against his property postponed to February 14, 2025

Zev Baumgarten, who claimed Venezuelan gangs took over his property, can now resolve outstanding code charges on February 14.  
On August 13th, the same day as the mass eviction from the Nome Street complex, an Aurora Municipal Court Judge granted an unopposed motion to vacate Baumgarten's jury trial, which pushed both court dates to a pre-trial conference on February 14th, according to court documents.  That pre-trial conference will give Baumgarten and his lawyers a chance to resolve the [81] charges with Aurora's prosecutors instead of in front of a jury; however, the case could still go to trial if neither party can agree on a resolution.
An Aurora judge has delayed the trial of Zev Baumgarten, the owner of a controversial apartment complex supposedly taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and will give him until February 14 to resolve dozens of charges stemming from outstanding code violations, according to court documents.

According to records from the Aurora Police Department, Baumgarten is the owner of an apartment complex at 1568 Nome Street, Fitzsimons Place, that was shut down by the city on August 13 for outstanding code violations dating back to 2020, including rat infestations, backed-up sewage and pile-ups of trash. Hundreds of residents were evicted in the process.

Baumgarten was scheduled for a jury trial in Aurora Municipal Court on August 27 to resolve 81 charges and then had a second date on September 5 to deal with two dozen charges he faced related to unlawful vehicles. 

According to an August 5 statement from Red Banyan, a Florida-based PR firm hired by CBZ Management, which ran Fitzsimons Place, the complex had fallen into severe disrepair because the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had scared away its property managers. (Fitzsimons Place is also listed online as Aspen Groves, but according to Red Banyan, CBZ Management prefers to identify the property as Fitzsimons Place.)

Mayor Mike Coffman referred to the owners of Fitzsimons Place as “out-of-state slumlords” in an August 8 interview with Kyle Clark on 9News. Before their eviction, residents told Westword that the location had mostly been home to Venezuelan migrants for the past year; the migrants had moved there after learning about open units from other migrants. According to Red Banyan, upwards of 200 people lived at the property when it was shut down on August 13.

The claims that Tren de Aragua had taken over the apartment complex have put Aurora in the national spotlightwith online videos supposedly proving the charge. However, both Denver and Aurora officials — including the mayors of both cities — and Governor Jared Polis flatly dispute the claims.

CBZ Management, a company registered to Baumgarten, is the property manager for Fitzsimons Place along with ten other properties across New York and Colorado, according to its website. Four CBZ Management properties in Aurora have outstanding code violations, Aurora says, and residents from its properties in other parts of the metro area have complained about neglect as well.

On August 13, the same day as the mass eviction from the Nome Street complex, an Aurora Municipal Court judge granted an unopposed motion to vacate Baumgarten's jury trial, which pushed both court dates to a pre-trial conference on February 14, according to court documents. That pre-trial conference will give Baumgarten and his lawyers a chance to resolve the charges with Aurora's prosecutors instead of in front of a jury; however, the case could still go to trial if neither party can agree on a resolution.

Baumgarten also waived his right to a speedy trial, according to court documents. 

Shmaryahu was identified in a class-action lawsuit by the evicted tenants of Fitzsimons Place as the business partner of Zev Baumgarten. On August 4, an Adams County judge ruled that the Baumgartens have to provide housing to the hundreds of evicted residents of Fitzsimons Place.

Neither Zev nor Shmaryahu Baumgarten could be reached for comment. Residents of both Aurora and Edgewater properties managed by CBZ say they have never seen Zev on the property and have been told he's out of the country when trying to reach him. 

Monday, September 2, 2024

Pasteurized milk is heated at high temperatures.  The reason for this was that most milk is produced in sub-sanitary conditions and was never meant to be consumed raw.  --Paul Saladino

TOM SULLIVAN, FORMER CDI EXPLOSIVES LOADER: Building 7 . . . a perfect controlled demolition

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF SAINT-OMER: Mysteriously burns down in France. The Church was built in 1854 and survived two World Wars. A Church is destroyed, damaged or vandalized every two weeks in France.