Al-Qaeda calls for vehicular jihad attacks in U.S., calls truck ‘the ultimate mowing machine’
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CHICAGO (WLS) — More than 10 years ago the I-Team uncovered Al Qaeda’s plans for “Open Source” Jihad against the Chicago skyline. Now they’re back with a new high-gloss publication for radical followers and a new video, encouraging violent attacks on America by one-person jihadists and lone wolf terrorist.
Hundreds of people were killed and injured by truck-ramming attacks from terrorist groups in the past decade. The one-man rampages were encouraged by Al Qaeda and ISIS leaders targeting cities worldwide.
The playbook for those attacks date to a more than 10-year-old edition of al Qaeda’s “Inspire Magazine,” set with Chicago as a backdrop and a pick-up truck as “the ultimate mowing machine.”
But there have not been any public marching orders for lone-wolf jihadists since 2017. Until now. The new edition of Inspire is once again calling for attacks on Americans in the U.S., and praising recent mass murderers who claimed to have been fighting for the jihadist cause. That includes Ahmad Al-Issa, an American from Syria who is accused of killing 10 people last March in a Colorado grocery store….
Federal law enforcement has shifted some resources, manpower and money away from foreign counter-terror investigations in recent years. As domestic terrorism groups became more of a threat, the federal focus also turned more inward, even as homeland security officials warned it wasn’t wise to ignore the voices from overseas just because they weren’t as loud.
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Big Fed is too busy chasing down those right wing terrorists./s
MTV’s 40th Anniversary: How Video (Sort Of) Killed the Radio Star
https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/mtvs-40th-anniversary-how-video-killed-the-radio-star/
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...Not many would deny that there would likely be no YouTube had there been no MTV. The connection is obvious. Apart from the music videos, the many nonmusic programs that MTV developed beginning in the ’90s and to the present had a clear influence on the wide variety of reality-based content on YouTube. And, in many ways, YouTube has become the MTV of today’s generation.
But YouTube is not just a theater for nostalgia. Current artists like Olivia Rodrigo can debut a video on YouTube for their latest hit and get literally millions of views in a matter of a week. Rodrigo’s megahit “drivers license” premiered in January of 2021 and already has 260 million views. That’s about as many views as there are people in the United States alone.
Whether you are old enough to have “been there” and to remember Aug 1 (this author was 15 then) or whether you have heard plenty from your parents about the golden age of MTV to feel like you lived through it, there is no denying that life for all of us changed that day. What will the next 40 years bring in terms of music and video? Who knows? Many of you reading this will see that future. For some of us, the image of Buzz Aldrin on the moon with the MTV “flag” and the opening guitar riff of that first airing will forever be etched in our hearts and minds as our generation’s moment when music and TV really took off. It’s all up from here.
I called the islamic Help Line and told’em I was thinking of committing suicide. They said do you know how to drive a truck?