[Daily Caller] Officers of the Dallas Police Department arrested Dominque Alexander on Thursday, the black activist that organized the 2016 anti-police protest in Dallas that left 12 officers shot and five dead.
Alexander faces charges of felony theft, stemming from a previous employer who claims the activist received payments between $2,500 and $30,000 from clients without transferring them to the company, the Dallas Observer reported. Alexander was thrust into the national spotlight in July 2016 after chaos erupted in Dallas during a Black Lives Matter anti-police protest when an angry protestor opened fire on police, killing five and wounding seven. Alexander’s Next Generation Action Network sponsored and helped organize the protest.
"I’m so beyond outraged. This is a bogus-ass charge. It’s ridiculous," Alexander told the Observer. "This is a civil issue. If I owe this guy money, this is a civil issue."
Alexander pleaded guilty in 2009 to causing serious bodily injury to a 2-year-old and was subsequently sentenced to probation, FOX 4 Dallas reported. His repeated probation violations led to a final sentence of two years in prison in August 2016, but a judge counted his years of probation against his two-year sentence, and he spent less than a month in jail.
The day before his arrest, Alexander was participating in the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue near Dallas. He now faces up to two years in prison if he is convicted of the theft charges.
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Big city contractors in Texas would prey on country people like this guy did until a counstable started locking them up under this same law which put a stop to this activity in his jurisdiction. They too thought taking peoples money like this was only a civil matter until the justice of the peace put them behind bars at the hearings.
The highly respected African American Dallas police chief Brown retired months ago.
This is the first week of the new Dallas Police Chief an African American from Detroit, Renee Hall. This BLM leaders arrest is the first thing she did as Chief. Her father, also a police officer, was killed in the line of duty when she was 6 months old.
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Funny how the above was just an event but the car ramming into a crowd after being hit with baseball bats is indicative of white supremacist movements etc...
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but the car ramming into a crowd after being hit with baseball bats is indicative of white supremacist movements etc...
Given that a number of mainstream media sources, including CBS News, reported that one of car rammer Alex Field's high school teachers said that sometime before ninth grade Mr. Field was diagnosed and medicated for schizophrenia -- very early for that disease to blossom -- his interest in fringe racism merely happens to be the direction his delusions took, rather than a meaningful political choice. He could equally have been convinced he was an agent of the Archangel Michael or a member of the unicorn guild.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Professors from Harvard University and other Boston-area colleges were enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Thursday while protesting against President Trump’s plan to rescind an Obama-era program shielding young illegal immigrants colonists from deportation.
Thirty-one people, including professors from Harvard, Babson, and Boston College, were arrested after forming a human chain and blocking traffic along Massachusetts Avenue, The Harvard Crimson reported.
Cambridge Police Department front man Jeremy Warnick said the protesters refused police orders to move.
"They were given multiple opportunities to continue their free speech, but off the main road, and they refused to move," Mr. Warnick told the Boston Globe.
Police said the protesters face charges of disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct. They were scheduled to appear before a judge Friday morning, the Crimson reported.
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[MAIL] The son of Eric Bolling, a Fox News host who was fired from the cable giant after an investigation into claims of sexual harassment, has died, it was learned on Saturday.
Eric Chase, 19, Bolling's only child, died on Friday night, journalist Yashar Ali reported on Saturday.
'Very sad news, Eric Bolling’s son, who was only 19, died last night,' Ali, a contributor to New York magazine and Huffington Post, tweeted.
'By all accounts, Eric was incredibly devoted to his son. Heartbreaking.'
Ali was the reporter who initially broke the story in Huffington Post last month about the alleged lewd texts sent by Bolling.
In response, Bolling filed a $50million lawsuit against Ali, according to Politico.
Fox News released a statement on Saturday, saying: 'We are very saddened to hear of the passing of Eric Bolling's son. 'Eric Chase was a wonderful young man and our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Bolling family.'
A source close to the Bolling family told DailyMail.com: ’It is believed he died Friday night. No doubt everything his father has been through lately has weighed heavily on his child.’
Bolling's former colleague at Fox News, primetime host Sean Hannity, tweeted on Saturday: 'To my dear friend, please know we all love you, will be here for you and your family.'
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We had a great time at DragonCon
He did not suffer. Please feel free to post this news. Pournelle wasn't only one of SF greats, he's also one of the people who sold SDI to Reagan
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I thought at first this was fake news as none of the MSM reported on this. But I did a DDG and a google search and sure enough he did die (in his sleep.)
I would have thought this would be major news as to me he's a bigger person than any of those crappy so called movie stars (except maybe a couple) the MSM is always weeping and howling over. He did have a major impact on my thinking.
[ABC] A helicopter carrying singer Troy Gentry, of the award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry, crashed on Friday, killing Gentry and the pilot.
The crash occurred in a wooded area as the helicopter approached the Flying W Airport in Medford hours before Montgomery Gentry was due to perform at a resort housed at the airport, authorities said.
The band's website called Gentry's death "tragic" and said details of the crash were unknown.
"Troy Gentry's family wishes to acknowledge all of the kind thoughts and prayers, and asks for privacy at this time," the website said.
[Vanity Fair] A Legacy of Spies has two settings. The first is a very recognizable present. Guillam, quietly in retirement, is abruptly called to London and drawn into what British intelligence‐the Circus, as le Carré characters call it‐has lately become: a world of coiffed apparatchiks and ruthless spinners in a gleaming fortress on the Thames. Behind the summons: lawsuits that threaten to expose the dark innards of an operation from long ago‐specifically, the operation recounted in The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963), the book that brought le Carré to prominence. That operation provides the second setting: Berlin and London in the early 1960s. The principals are mainly gone (dead, inaccessible), but le Carré brings them to the page by an epistolary device: he sets Guillam to sifting through old paperwork‐inter-office memos, eyes-only communiqués, interrogation transcripts‐allowing familiar voices to speak. Le Carré builds an intricate tale ("watchmaking," he calls it) as Guillam attempts to reconstruct the backstory of Spy‐a book that itself set the stage for the Circus books to come.
I absolutely love the Smiley Trilogy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, and Smiley's People) but LeCarre - pen name of one David Cornwell, an employee of Her Majesty's Intelligence Service - doesn't like Americans one tiny little bit. He kept it in check, more or less, through the Trilogy though it kind of peeks out in Schoolboy. However, in his following books (and in interviews following his retirement from Government service)he lets it rip.
I'm likely to get it from the library though, because getting to see the old characters again is just too tempting.
Mike
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What MK said, will buy in spite of authors Anti-American feelings.
[Free Beacon] A team of former U.S. military special operations members are serving their country, even after they have left the military.
Team members from the International Harbor Foundation saved people trapped by Hurricane Harvey's severe flooding in the Houston, Texas area, Fox 26 reported.
The Houston-based nonprofit organization, comprised mostly of those who previously took part in U.S. special forces missions, usually conducts undercover operations in order to combat human trafficking. As a result, the former special operators are unable to show their faces on camera.
WHO WE ARE
We are former US Special Operations soldiers and Intelligence operatives from various units and organizations. We founded International Harbor in 2015 as an answer to a problem we have long identified. When dealing with human trafficking, missing persons, and kidnapping cases, government agencies are often dramatically underfunded. Meanwhile, private investigative and recovery services are generally unattainable to victims’ families and communities. Our goal is to identify where the immediate needs lie and start working backwards to the source of the issues. We want to free victims from human trafficking and kidnapping in the United States and abroad.
WHAT WE DO
[Al Jazeera] At least 22 killed as Hurricane Irma smashes through string of Caribbean islands on its way to US state of Florida
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They can make snorkels out or their gas line pipes and use their house wiring for antennas that way when their noaa weather radios don't work they will be able to swim and listen to martinis radio! I hear there is going to be a housing boom in the British islands also they could use their cold crap and make ice cubes to float on an ice cube flotilla!
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] An Australian schoolboy who decided to transition into a female has changed his mind two years later.
At just 12-years-old, Patrick Mitchell, begged with his mother to begin taking oestrogen hormones after doctors diagnosed him with gender dysphoria ‐ a condition where a person experiences distress because there is a mismatch between their biological sex and gender identity.
"You wish you could just change everything about you, you just see any girl and you say I'd kill to be like that", Mitchell told 60 Minutes.
After heeding advice from professionals who suggested that it was right choice, his mother was fully supportive and Mitchell began to transition.
He grew out his hair and started to take the hormones, which caused his body to grow breasts. But two years on, Mitchell had a change of heart.
In the beginning of 2017, teachers at school began to refer to him as a girl which triggered Mitchell to question if he had made the right decision.
"I began to realise I was actually comfortable in my body. Every day I just felt better," he told Now To Love.
As a result, Mitchell confided in his mother and explained that he wanted to transition back into a boy.
"He looked me in the eye and said ’I'm just not sure that I am a girl’", his mother explained.
Now, in a bid to revert back to his original body, he has stopped taking his medication and is about to have an operation to remove excess breast tissue in what will be the final stage of his transition.
While gender dysphoria is rare, the number of people being diagnosed with the condition is increasing, due to growing public awareness.
A survey of 10,000 people undertaken in 2012 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission found that 1% of the population surveyed was gender variant, to some extent.
If you think you or your child may have gender dysphoria, the NHS suggests seeing your GP who, if necessary, can then refer you to a specialist Gender Identity Clinic (GIC).
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Hell, kids that age can't figure out what they want to wear without talking to their friends first...
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A Gender Identity Clinic - who will be more than happy to turn away good money by properly treating the mental condition... Gender Dysphoria is their Bread and Butter.
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#2 Hell, kids that age can't figure out what they want to wear without talking to their friends first...
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...This is what I've always said. If you can't drive before 16, can't enlist/vote before 18, and can't DRINK until you're 21, then you sure as hell shouldn't be able to surgically change your gender appearance until at least 21.
Mike
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He discovered real girls.
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After heeding advice from "professionals" who suggested that it was right choice
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Frank, he should have talked to the people who did some of the early gender re-assignment surgeries. They now realize it was ultimately not worth it and no longer do it.
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This is God's punishment for sneaking into the US and voting for Trump, he said channeling famous Hollywood lunatic person Jennifer Lawrence.
One thing I've noticed about natural disasters in the US is that private companies like TELCOs in neighboring states send trucks & people to afflicted regions. I don't know if Mexico has the resources or design margin for that.
[Al Jazeera] Tanzanian opposition politician Tundu Lissu is recovering in a Kenyan hospital after being maimed in a gun attack at his residence in Tanzania's administrative capital, Dodoma, according to his party.
Abdallah Safari, the vice president of main opposition party CHADEMA, said at a news conference on Friday that Lissu was taken to the Aga Khan hospital in neighbouring Kenya's capital, Nairobi, "after a decision by his family and his party".
"His health is improving," he said.
Vincent Mashinji, CHADEMA secretary-general, said: "Those who wanted to kill him have failed."
The motive for the shooting by unknown gunnies was unclear.
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[DAWN] Dozens of people were maimed in festivities between South Korean protesters and police on Thursday as the US military added more launchers to the high-tech missile-defence system it installed in a southern town to better cope with North Korean threats.
Seoul has hardened its stance against Pyongyang after its torrent of weapons tests, the latest a detonation on Sunday of what North Korea said was a thermonuclear weapon built for missiles capable of reaching the US mainland.
The festivities came as South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe met in Russia’s Far East and repeated their calls for stronger punishment of North Korea over its nuclear ambitions, including denying the country oil supplies.
The demand contradicted the stance of their host, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... , who has dismissed sanctions as a solution.
Putin says he believes President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s administration is willing to defuse tensions over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. Its sixth nuclear test on Sunday prompted the United States to speak about a "military response" and South Korea to conduct major military exercises.
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What are the protesters demands - unconditional surrender?
[DAWN] China’s fifth-largest state-owned bank has had its credit rating downgraded to junk status by Moody’s, the latest sign of fragility in the country’s financial system.
The decision to downgrade Bank of Communications was based on the lender’s lack of customer deposits and over-reliance on expensive and volatile alternative sources of funding, Moody’s said Thursday.
It follows a Chinese government crackdown on banks using excessive leveraging, including unregulated "shadow banking".
"Moody’s review on BoCom was triggered by the bank’s increasing reliance on wholesale funds in recent years and declining profitability," said the credit ratings agency in a statement on Thursday.
The downgrade was driven by BoCom’s "weaker funding profile when compared to other state-owned Chinese banks," particularly weaker deposit holdings, it said.
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[Breitbart] FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly told the White House that he intends to interview six current and former top staffers in relation to his investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Former Press Secretary Sean Spicer, former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, and Communications Director Hope Hicks are all on Mueller’s list, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Mueller also reportedly intends to question White House counsel Don McGahn and one of his deputies, as well as Josh Raffel ‐ a spokesman whom the Post describes as working closely with Senior Adviser Jared Kushner.
Mueller is believed to be interested in particular in discussions relating to the decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey and the alleged inaction over warnings about former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s dealings with Russia. Flynn eventually resigned after it was revealed he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
[Business Insider] The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed or used from Earth's orbit. What they didn't count on was the US Air Force's most simple weapon ever: a tungsten rod that could hit a city with the explosive power of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
During the Vietnam War, the US used what it called "Lazy Dog" bombs. These were simply solid steel pieces, less than 2 inches long, fitted with fins. There was no explosive — they were simply dropped by the hundreds from planes flying above Vietnam.
Lazy Dog projectiles (aka "kinetic bombardment") could reach speeds of up to 500 mph as they fell to the ground and could penetrate 9 inches of concrete after being dropped from as little as 3,000 feet.
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Looks like the launch industry could be gearing up for this.
From Wikipedia,
As early as August 2014, media sources noted that the US launch market may have two competitive super-heavy launch vehicles available in the 2020s to launch payloads of 100 metric tons (220,000 lb) or more to low-Earth orbit. The US government is currently developing the Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy-lift launch vehicle for lifting very large payloads of 70 to 130 tonnes (150,000 to 290,000 lb) from Earth. On the commercial side, SpaceX is privately developing the Interplanetary Transport System, which is being designed to lift a 300 tonnes (660,000 lb) payload to Earth orbit in reusable mode, or 550 tonnes (1,210,000 lb) in expendable mode. SpaceX has played down the competitive aspect with SLS.
'Lazy Dog' is another name for a flechette (in this case a slightly larger one), and they will NOT, repeat NOT go through 9 inches of concrete. They will thoroughly fu@k up any human/animal they hit, but that's it.
The 'rod from god' is a great theoretical idea, but we're actually talking about a piece of tungsten the size of a telephone pole in order to do any significant damage - and we're talking about a LOT of them to take out a city. In terms of a precision weapon to take out a single fortified/buried site, they have some promise, but the cost and complexity of getting them in orbit has so far been the main (and possibly permanent) stumbling block.
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Did we have an article recently about use of cast iron spikes dropped by both sides in WWI?
[Breitbart] "Fox News Channel is canceling The Specialists, and Eric Bolling and Fox have agreed to part ways amicably," Fox News said in a September 8 statement. "We thank Eric for his ten years of service to our loyal viewers and wish him the best of luck."
Eboni Williams and Kat Timpf, who have co-hosted the four-month-old show, will be reassigned. Williams and Timpf should have been 'reassigned' to the unemployment line.
[McClatchyDC] Under a crushing backlog in the issuing or renewing of security clearances, federal authorities have given interim clearances to people they later discovered were murderers and pedophiles, a senior government official said Wednesday.
“This is very, very dangerous,” said Daniel E. Payne, head of the Defense Security Service, a federal office that oversees the granting of temporary clearances.
Payne said roughly 100,000 people hold interim clearances while working for companies with Defense Department contracts or at 13,000 cleared facilities and plants around the country and as they await a full comprehensive background investigation.
Payne spoke on a panel about the backlog in security clearances at the Intelligence & National Security Summit in Washington.
The backlog “grew precipitously” in 2015 and 2016, and stands at near record levels today, said Charles S. Phalen, director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, a federal service provider under the Office of Personnel Management.
The backlog encompasses roughly 700,000 cases, but only 300,000 or so people are seeking a first-time clearance to enter government service, Phalen said. The remainder may be federal employees or contractors seeking a periodic renewal of a security clearance or a change in their clearance level, he added. They stay in federal jobs.
Payne, a career counterintelligence officer with the CIA, said the concerns about interim clearances only affect the Defense Department and its associated industrial base, not the nation’s intelligence agencies, where temporary clearances are never granted.
Applicants obtain interim clearances after filling out a lengthy government form, known as an SF-86, and undergoing a credit check and an initial FBI background check.
“You’re looking on average at close to a year for a top-secret clearance,” Payne said, adding that a lower level secret clearance takes an average of nine months.
He said the backlog is so great the Pentagon has little choice but to offer interim clearances to keep weapons development programs at full steam.
“If we did not give these individuals interim clearances, the production of these programs would shut down,” Payne said. “It would have a horrific impact.”
The backlog in security clearances soared in 2014 after one of three major contractors involved in conducting background checks, US Investigations Services LLC, lost its government business amid allegations that it had bungled and falsified results.
Yet checking social media accounts of applicants has not been fully embraced, Beth McGrath, a former Pentagon management officer who now is managing director of federal strategy of Deloitte Consulting said.
“Some people think, ‘Oh, you’re infringing on my privacy,’” said McGrath. “This is where the process of government sometimes feels like it takes more steps than it should because you have to actually change the policy to say we’re going to allow social media information to be part of the background investigation.”
Several officials said they expected the backlog to diminish as federal agencies and departments embrace a process of continuous evaluation of employees rather than periodic reappraisals every five to 10 years. The Defense Department now has 500,000 employees enrolled in the constant vetting program, a number that should grow to one million by year’s end, Payne said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[DAWN] China’s fifth-largest state-owned bank has had its credit rating downgraded to junk status by Moody’s, the latest sign of fragility in the country’s financial system.
[McClatchyDC] Under a crushing backlog in the issuing or renewing of security clearances, federal authorities have given interim clearances to people they later discovered were murderers and pedophiles, a senior government official said Wednesday.
