Mike Vanderboegh, husband, father of three, and founder of the III% movement passed peacefully in his beloved Alabama home today.
In life, he fought tirelessly to restore the liberties that we had taken for granted. Because of his leadership and the movement that he created, we take them for granted no more. He was able to awaken minds to the possibility that a determined minority of free people could accomplish anything; so long as they did it together. They did not need a leader. They needed a cause and a banner from which to advance the cause of freedom. The III percent is that cause.
Mike continued to give everything after so much had been taken away by the illness. Through his struggle he became a symbol of what can be accomplished if we only have the indomitable will to make it happen. Through his words he was able to breathe life into the sails of a resurging Patriot movement. His work may be done, but for those that remain, it is just beginning,
A Patriot died today. But his work will live on in the everyday push for freedom. His was a voice that was made silent, but his work will continue to echo so long as free men and women have the means to resist The future doesn’t belong to the craven; it belongs to the brave.
The upcoming video game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has seen no end to controversy lately. With release just a few weeks away, the perpetually offended raised issues over the game’s use of the term “mechanical apartheid,” and the horns of outrage have been sounded in light of the game’s supposed appropriation of Black Lives Matter within its themes.
More recently, self-described “pop culture critic” and Feminist Frequency producer Jonathan McIntosh took issue with the amount of freedom the upcoming game offers its players. It should be noted that player choice has long been a staple of the RPG genre, which allows players to decide the outcome of the story through their actions and deeds within the game. This, apparently, is a problematic thing for anyone who insists video games should be pedagogical and instruct players with a certain set of views.
“Devs say it’s up to players to decide if internment camps are good or bad?! No. The question itself is political!” wrote McIntosh. “Game developers like to pretend their narratives, scenarios and mechanics are politically neutral but that’s never really the case.”
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I honestly do not know why these companies even care, other than so much money invested. If anything, this Ghostbusters deal should be a lesson.
Your Happy Camp movie tonight is Ghostbuster. Laughter is encouraged.
Ah man, can't we just play pong or something.
Attendant #568429, shame, shame, shame. Pong is a game where white pieces get to play ball while black is in the background. Take xer to....the Comfy Chair!
You'll never break me you bad smelling no fun trigglypuff!
[PJ Media] The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that three Chicago street gangs are conspiring to assassinate city police officers.
Leaders from three prominent gangs met last week to discuss the plan, according to an alert issued by the CPD.
The meeting took place Thursday between higher-ups from the Vice Lords, Black Disciples and Four Corner Hustlers, according to an alert issued to department members the day after the meeting.
The Four Corner Hustlers "provided guns" and have "a sniper in place" though authorities do not know where, according to the alert. The Four Corner Hustlers also are supplying the other two gangs with automatic weapons, which all three factions also have agreed to use against police, the alert states.
The three gangs are located primarily in the Austin and Harrison districts, which cover much of the West Side.
In an email Monday afternoon, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said: "To safeguard the integrity of operations, the department does not comment on any security measures."
According to police sources, department members have also been advised to "limit interactions and visibility."
Dean Angelo, president of Lodge 7 of the Fraternal Order of Police, said "rhetoric" from the attorney representing Paul O’Neal’s family and statements from Independent Police Review Authority head Sharon Fairley were both to blame for threats against police.
"We had inflammatory and false rhetoric coming from [Michael Oppenheimer] and statements that weren’t true," Angelo said. "You also have a lead investigator in police-involved deaths talking about how shocking and disturbing this is."
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ROE make fighting back very difficult for police. Unless that changes soon police will stop patrolling gang lands or/and gangs will take over the police departments (see NYC, Mafia, 50-100 years ago)
[Seattle Times] A federal judge in Seattle has upheld a decision by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to ban ammunition originally designed for AK-47 assault rifles.
The decision Wednesday by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour came in a lawsuit brought by Redmond-based P.W. Arms Inc., which obtained permits to import more than 100 million rounds of the Russian- and Eastern European-made ammunition known as 7N6. When the first shipments arrived in early 2014, the ATF deemed them "armor-piercing" and barred their importation for civilian resale.
The company said the agency misinterpreted the definition of armor-piercing bullets under federal law. But the judge disagreed, saying they contain a steel core and can be fired from a handgun.
Coughenour noted that P.W. Arms never disputed the bullets can pierce body armor, and he called the company's arguments disingenuous.
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7N6 is the Russian government designation for the 5.45x39mm ammunition for the AK-74, not the AK-47. The ban was imposed for the 5.45x39mm some time ago because it was steel core.
The article is so full of mistakes, you have to wonder if the ruling could even stand a challenge.
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Rifle round in a pistol? No thanks. ATF is reaching on this one if it weren't for a libtard big government judge.
Under ATF rules, a short barrel rifle which does not have a butt stock is a pistol. Someone in the ATF discovered the existence of the Krinkov 5.45x39mm pistol, and since ATF rules state that rounds that can be fired in a pistol which are armor piercing (such as lead core ammunition that the 7N6 is), the ammunition can't be sold for civilian use. Ergo, 7N6 ammo was permanently banned for importation.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] South Sudan said on Wednesday it opposed a proposal to station extra foreign troops in the country under UN command, something the United States, Western nations and regional countries want in order to prevent a slide back into civil war.
The government said last week it would allow a deployment of African troops to Juba, after fighting between President Salva Kiir’s forces and fighters loyal to his rival, former vice president Riek Machar, killed dozens of people and drove tens of thousands from the capital last month.
But on Wednesday, Information Minister Michael Makuei said the force should be independent rather than under UN command.
He said US moves to impel the government to accept such a force smacked of imperialism.
"We do not want the protection force to be under UNMISS," Makuei said, accusing the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Mission in the Republic of South Sudan, which currently has 12,000 troops, of failing to protect civilians.
A US proposal to the UN Security Council for an additional 4,000-strong force to ensure peace in Juba, under UNMISS command, was aimed at "turning South Sudan into a protectorate," he said.
The proposal would impose an arms embargo if Juba failed to accept.
The regional African grouping IGAD also said the additional troops should be put under UN command, in a statement on Sunday.
Machar withdrew his troops to outside of Juba after a ceasefire ended street battles in the capital in July and called for the foreign troop deployment to act as a buffer between the rival forces.
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[DAWN] MANSEHRA: The provincial government has closed down four basic health units and two mobile outreach health service units in Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... district.
People fear the closure of health facilities created in remote areas of Shergar, Jarad, Gandian and Kotli Balla to curtail maternal and infant mortality rates will have negative bearing on local healthcare system.
They told Dawn the BHUs used to remain functional round the clock to offer not only pre- and postnatal care to women but also laboratory tests free of charge.
Currently, around 50 BHUs operate in the district from 8am to 2pm forcing patients, including pregnant women and infants, to visit rural health centres and tehsil and district headquarters hospitals at other times of the day.
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[DAWN] Golra police on Tuesday tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! an individual suspected of killing his teenage wife last month in a rural part of the city, police said.
They added that the victim was murdered for ’honour’, and the man murdered her over suspicions.
On July 12, deceased 17 year old Nazia Parveen was brought to a hospital, where a post-mortem examination suggested she had been strangled. Her father told the police he had left for his native town, Sargodha, and left his two daughters behind at a house in Mohalla Prianwala, Golra. He said he later received a call telling him his daughter had been killing, and returned to Islamabad. The police added that a murder case had been registered against unidentified individuals.
They said the police investigation rounded up two dozen suspects, and the phone records of the victim and others, including her husband, were also obtained. They said her husband was picked up and interrogated, during which he confessed to the killing. The suspect told the police he had married the victim four months ago but they had not started living together.
The police said he added that during this period he grew suspicious of her and, when she ignored his warnings, he killed her.
[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: A newly-wed couple was rubbed out by the bride’s uncle in Rawalakot district of Azad Kashmire on Wednesday, it has been learnt.
The incident happened in Mohra Kotera area of Rawalakot district where 19-year-old Aliza and her husband Owais were allegedly killed by suspect Niaz Khan, said City cop shoppe SHO Aijaz.
The couple, who reportedly got married four days ago, was living in a rented house where Niaz attacked and opened fire on the couple, police said.
The owner of the house was the first to arrive at the scene who subsequently informed police about the incident, but by then Niaz had fled the scene of the crime.
Police, however, has tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! four suspected accomplices of Niaz while raids are being carried out to arrest the prime suspect.
The couple had reportedly married against the will of their family on which the bride’s uncle was very upset, the police official said.
The families of victims staged protest on Rawalakot Muzaffarabad Road and blocked the main highway by placing the bodies on the road. They vowed to continue the protest till the arrest of culprits, however, the district officials persuaded them to call off their protest by giving them assurances that the suspects will soon be arrested -- to which they agreed.
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"But I'm innocent! It was for honour!"
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq’s health minister resigned Wednesday evening after a fire tore through the maternity ward of one of Baghdad’s largest hospitals in the same day, killing at least 11 premature babies.
Before resignation of minister Adeela Hamoud, she let go of the head of Al-Yarmouk hospital, and ordered her ministry to open an immediate probe over the unfortunate incident.
Earlier, health ministry front man Ahmed al-Rudeini told AFP the blaze at the Yarmuk hospital in west Baghdad was started by an electrical fault just after midnight (2100 GMT Tuesday).
"Twenty-nine women patients who were in the same ward were evacuated to other hospitals in the capital," he said.
Rudeini added in a statement that seven children were saved from the fire and taken to other maternity wards in Baghdad.
Security services sealed off the area as forensic teams searched the gutted ward and angry relatives massed outside, waiting for information from the authorities.
An official at Iraq’s interior ministry confirmed the corpse count from the fire, adding that three other babies were being treated for smoke inhalation.
Many of Baghdad’s public hospitals are poorly maintained and offer sub-standard healthcare, forcing a number of Iraqis to seek private treatment or travel abroad.
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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.
[DAWN] MANSEHRA: The provincial government has closed down four basic health units and two mobile outreach health service units in 
a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
[DAWN] Golra police on Tuesday 
[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: A newly-wed couple was 
