[ThoughtCo] Police brutality is hardly just a black issue, as Hispanics all over the country increasingly face police abuse, racial profiling, and hate crimes. Often this misconduct stems from xenophobia and rising concerns about undocumented immigrants.
Across the nation, police departments have made headlines for their mistreatment of Latinos. These cases have not only involved undocumented immigrants but also Hispanic Americans and permanent legal residents.
In states as varied as Connecticut, California, and Arizona, Latinos have suffered at the hands of police in egregious manners.
Latinos Targeted in Maricopa County
Racial profiling. Unlawful detainment. Stalking. These are some of the inappropriate and illegal behaviors that officers in Arizona have allegedly engaged in, according to a 2012 complaint the U.S. Justice Department filed against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. MCSO deputies stopped Latino drivers anywhere from four to nine times more than other drivers, in some cases only to detain them for long periods. In one instance, deputies pulled over a car with four Latino men inside. The driver hadn’t violated any traffic laws, but the officers proceeded to force him and his passengers out of the car and make them wait on the curb, zip-tied, for an hour.
The Justice Department also detailed incidents where the authorities followed Hispanic women to their homes and roughed them up.
The federal government alleges that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio routinely failed to investigate cases of sexual assault against Hispanic women.
The aforementioned cases refer to police interaction with Latinos on the streets of Maricopa County, but inmates in the county jail have also suffered at the hands of law enforcement.
Female prisoners have been denied feminine hygiene products and called derogatory names. Hispanic male inmates have been on the receiving end of racial slurs and put-downs such as "wetbacks" and "stupid Mexicans." Cruz, Cruz, Cruz.... where have I heard that Latino sounding name before ?
#4
Look at the stats (remember stats facts be racists!). Remove both black and Hispanics from the crime stats and amazingly the number drops and start to match Euro countries.
#7
Across the nation, police departments have made headlines for their mistreatment of Latinos.
I don't see these 'headlines' very often, and I know that's not because of the media's unwillingness to print them. If this is happening on the scale they'd want us to believe is happening, we'd see these 'headlines' every other day. Even articles like this are few & far between.
#8
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your honor. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse
-Mark Twain
#10
Article written by Nadra Kareem Nittle. i.e.
translated from Eubonics into English.
ORIGINAL TEXT
Yo, mah Niggas!
De Greys be getting tie-yad hearin 'bout hows we be oppressed an need mo' "bling for our sting" (Ya knows wat Iz sayin?). So weze need to change it up a lil' an talk 'bout Lateenos.
Like they be brown so dat's ALMOST like Niggas, so we say da same thing as befo but thro in some Espanol (Ya know wat I mean?).
Den, we give the "wetbacks" a quarta wat we take from de Grays an tell 'em ta SHUT DA **** UP. If da 'Teenos complain we go medieval on 'em an send back where deys came from.
Am I right? Am I Right!
(Iz such a genius!)
Later y'all
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#11
My load of crap meter just pegged out on my mental dashboard. Boo F'ing Hoo, get over it!
Minorities are disproportionately represented in crime statistics because they COMMIT a disproportionate number of crimes. And yes, after decades of that a certain number of the justice system members have a somewhat jaundiced view of some of these folks, but not to the level of bias that is alleged. Fix fatherless families and welfare dependency to end this cycle by reintroducing the ideas of shame and self-reliance to our society!
#12
This is an ongoing attack on America. Every effort is made to destabilize our society. Media being willing accomplices and any other willing. Funding is from primarily out of this country(people who are intended beneficiaries only receive legislation they are not a donation source). This has been done for many years. If we fight among-st each other we are weakened.
#16
You know which governments REALLY treat Hispanics poorly? Those in Latin America.
The treatment down there is so bad, many prefer the mistreatment here in the US. Pray we don't decide to make home a more attractive place.
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#17
Medea to Hay Wain and Whittier,
Our brave new cave craves hypnopaedia.
Sure, candy and brandy
And Gandhi are handy,
But modern mass media's speedier.
#18
Medea to Hay Wain and Whittier,
Our brave new cave craves hypnopaedia.
Sure, candy and brandy
And Gandhi are handy,
But modern mass media's speedier.
[American Thinker] "We're not compromising school safety. We're really saving the lives of kids," boasted Michaelle Valbrun-Pope, executive director of Student Support Initiatives for Broward County Public Schools, in August 2017.
Valbrun-Pope was referring to what an article by Jeffrey Benzing in Public Source calls the "Broward County Solution." As Benzing relates, Broward County used to lead the state of Florida in sending students to the state's juvenile justice system. County leaders responded with a perfectly progressive solution: "lower arrests by not making arrests."
Authorities agreed to treat twelve different misdemeanor offenses as school-related issues, not criminal ones. The results impressed the people who initiated the program. Arrests dropped from more than a thousand in 2011-2012 to less than four hundred just four years later.
One particular motivation behind programs like Broward County's was the pressure from multiple sources to reduce the statistical disparity between black and Hispanic student arrests on one hand and white and Asian student arrests on the other. Benzing writes, for instance, how a Denver organization called "Padres & Jóvenes Unidos" successfully advocated for a program like Broward's to help achieve "racial and education equity" in Denver schools.
By virtue of his name alone, Nikolas de Jesús Cruz, the adopted son of Lynda and Roger Cruz, became a statistical Hispanic. As such, authorities at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland had every reason not to report his troubling and likely criminal behavior to the police. And when reported to police, the police had every reason to......
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In order to dismantle the tyranny and violence issuing from the Islamist system of the Arab world today, there should be focus on researching the essence of Islamic culture, not religion.
One day as a child, the great poet Muhammad Iqbal was reciting verses from the Holy Koran, when his father entered the room. His father told him, "My son! Read the book of God, as if it was written today." This is a profound call for restoring the Qur’anic text as a direct means of guidance between the creator and the creature.
[The Jamestown Foundation] The central theme of the traditional Munich Security Conference last weekend was the current assessment of the Russian threat. The briefs prepared for the high-level participants, including US Secretary of Defense James Mattis and US National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, had, however, to undergo urgent revisions as at least three new developments in the week preceding the event revealed the growing complexity of this threat. First, the intelligence alliance known as “Five Eyes” (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) put the blame squarely on the Russian military for launching the destructive cyber-attack dubbed “NotPetya” in June 2017 (Newsru.com, February 16). Second, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian citizens for interfering in the 2016 US elections as a part of his on-going investigation (Kommersant, February 16). And third, it gradually becomes clear that a major direct clash between Russian and American forces happened in Syria on February 7, when a massive US air and artillery strike destroyed a battalion tactical group comprised of Russian mercenaries (New Times, February 15).
The first two of these revelations fall into the fast-expanding cyber security domain. While operations of Russian “troll factories” like the Internet Research Agency, included in Mueller’s indictment, are well documented, the attribution of the destructive and indiscriminate cyber-attack last June to the Russian military is a significant move (RBC.ru, October 17, 2017). A White House statement promised succinctly that the attack “will be met with international consequences,” but it is also known that Igor Korobov, the chief of the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), who is the responsible party, recently visited Washington for discussions on counter-terrorism matters (Kommersant.ru, February 1). The decision of NATO defense ministers taken at the meeting before the Munich conference to establish a new Cyber Operations Center reflects the need to counter Russian experiments in this domain, where Russia has no technological advantage but feels free to play fast and loose (Gazeta.ru, February 15). Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s Secretary General, mentioned in Munich that countering Russian propaganda by exposing its lies and dirty tricks is a key element in the Alliance’s cyber-defense (RBC.ru, February 18).
The third development, while shaped by a conventional clash, still falls into the “hybrid” category, because Moscow can hide behind official denials. It was triggered by an attack by the Syrian government forces on a stronghold of the opposition Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), where US personnel were present—and Russian field commanders were well aware of that (Ezhednevny Zhurnal, February 13). The urge to capture control of a minor oil plant prevailed over strategic caution, and the results were devastating for the band of Russian mercenaries known as the “Wagner Group” (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, February 16). Rumors in Moscow measured the casualties in the hundreds, and while only a dozen or so are reliably confirmed dead, the most shocking twist in the battle was that the US commanders maintained constant communication with their Russian counterparts over the “de-conflicting channel,” but Moscow opted against giving any warning to its mercenaries (Novaya Gazeta, February 17). Russia’s Defense Ministry had perhaps expected that the episode would remain obscured by the fog of war, but ironically, the social networks that Moscow is so keen to exploit for its propaganda have exposed its duplicity (Republic.ru, February 12).
The stunning defeat in the Euphrates valley signifies a further mutation of the multi-party Syrian war, where Russia sought to augment its reduced intervention with expanded “hybrid” engagement. The rout of “deniable” mercenaries coincided with the Turkish offensive into the Afrin enclave controlled by Kurdish forces, and Moscow expressed full support for this operation expecting that it would further strain the damaged alliance between Turkey and the United States (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, February 12).
#2
The plan is Putin takes Europe by starving them of oil and gas and the US gets Central and South America. Nobody cares about Canada so they continue being useless dickheads.
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#4
C'mon, Jpal, Canada and Canadians are great, if you leave out a few idiots in Ottawa, some lost Californians in Vancouver, and some rude Frenchmen in Montreal.
[Wash Times] Former CIA Director John Brennan slammed President Trump Tuesday for asserting that he was tougher than former President Barack Obama on Russia.
"It never ceases to amaze me how successful you have been making yourself so small, petty, and banal with your tweets," Mr. Brennan told the president on Twitter. "Your insecurity is well deserved, as is your concern over Russia investigation."
The ex-CIA chief concluded, "Thomas Paine was right when he said, "These are the times that try men’s souls."
He was responding to Mr. Trump’s tweet earlier Tuesday in which the president said, "I have been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts. Total Fake News!"
Mr. Brennan led the CIA from 2013 to January 2017, when Mr. Trump became president. Mr. Trump has stepped up his comments online about Russia since special counsel Robert Mueller won indictments on Friday against 13 Russian individuals and three Russian groups for meddling in the 2016 election.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly questioned why the Obama administration didn’t do more to stop the election interference.
[ISW Institute for the Study of War] America's Global Competitions: The Gray Zone in Context by Lieutenant General James M. Dubik (U.S. Army, Ret.) and Nic Vincent – Institute for the Study of War
36 Pages so give yourself time to read it.
Short introduction's source
Short Introduction:
The international community is grappling for its future, but the wrestling is more complicated than Carl von Clausewitz’s “pair of wrestlers.” The U.S. is part of three ongoing regional and global competitions. At stake: the future of the international order. The first competition involves revisionist powers — Russia, China, and Iran. This competition is below the threshold of war so far, but recent events in Syria show just how easily that threshold might be crossed. Revisionist powers seek to revise the current global order to their advantage, increasing their regional and global influence while decreasing that of the United States and its allies and partners. The second has already crossed the threshold of war. This competition involves revolutionary powers — Al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS), and their ilk. These groups are not mere terrorists. They are waging (and have been from the start) a global revolutionary (and therefore ideological) war, a form of insurgency which is initially local and regional but already has global implications. The United States has waged, with few exceptions, a counterterrorist war. Ultimately, these revolutionary powers seek to overthrow the current international order set in place after World War II. The third competition involves the rogue power, North Korea. This competition is also below the threshold of war, but as recent events have shown it is pressing right against that threshold. Brinkmanship describes this competitive space. Kim Jong-un seeks to maintain enough tension so that he can use it to maintain the legitimacy of his regime and remain in power. America, her allies, and partners should think of themselves as “leading powers”2 seeking to adapt the post-World War II international order to the myriad of changes brought about by the emerging information age, globalization, the revolution in digital technologies, and the end of the Cold War. The United States, with its allies and partners, are wrestling all three sets of competitors simultaneously, and wrestle they must. For these powers have more at stake in adapting the post-World War II rule-based international order than they seem to think.
Taking on one at a time, as desirable as that approach might be, is simply not possible. Like it or not, the U.S., with its allies and partners, faces three, interlocked challenges. How the eroding post-World War II international order adapts or crumbles will be a function of the degree of success the U.S. and its allies have in each of these interrelated challenges...
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Recent news said the navy is shifting over from rail guns to lasers. Well lasers have an advantage in that they don't need ammo, but they are very finicky and can't fire over the horizon as a rail gun can. Also if you build a proper rail gun you could use a metal cup (with parachute) to launch nearly anything. Chunks of concrete could do a lot of damage if fired from a rail gun and would leave no evidence if they hit a concrete building.
And imagine the sick fun of freeing Jihadi from Gauntanimo and returning them to Afghanistan using a rail gun delivery system. It would certainly do wonders for their friends morale.
I do recall a design pairing a laser with a microwave emitter. The microwave beam would 'tunnel' thru the air creating an ionized channel along which the light beam would travel unimpeded.
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.
[The Jamestown Foundation] The central theme of the traditional Munich Security Conference last weekend was the current assessment of the Russian threat. The briefs prepared for the high-level participants, including US Secretary of Defense James Mattis and US National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, had, however, to undergo urgent revisions as at least three new developments in the week preceding the event revealed the growing complexity of this threat. First, the intelligence alliance known as “Five Eyes” (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) put the blame squarely on the Russian military for launching the destructive cyber-attack dubbed “NotPetya” in June 2017 (Newsru.com, February 16). Second, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian citizens for interfering in the 2016 US elections as a part of his on-going investigation (Kommersant, February 16). And third, it gradually becomes clear that a major direct clash between Russian and American forces happened in Syria on February 7, when a massive US air and artillery strike destroyed a battalion tactical group comprised of Russian mercenaries (New Times, February 15).
America's Global Competitions: The Gray Zone in Context by Lieutenant General James M. Dubik (U.S. Army, Ret.) and Nic Vincent – Institute for the Study of War
