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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Couple murdered in Florida, husband's face bitten off
Posted by: SAT2014 || 08/16/2016 10:41 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Zombies using weapons - this is an unwelcome development
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 08/16/2016 14:48 Comments || Top||


Stunning Videos? Milwaukee Rioters Loot Metro PCS Store
[Gateway Pundit] Surveillance camera videos taken during the first night of rioting in Milwaukee on Saturday show about a dozen young Black males climbing through a shattered plate glass window of a Metro PCS store and looting the front and back areas of the store.

The owner of the store made the videos available to the media.

The first video was published on Sunday by WDJT-TV and shows the looters climbing through the front window.

The Metro PCS on 36th and Burleigh was broken into during the violence.

Metro PCA is a cell phone store.

The owner of this store lives in Illinois, saw on her suveillance video at home that her business was being looted.
She reached out to us asking us to share the video which really just speaks for itself..."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 07:54 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There could be some question regarding the solution to these events, but there's certainly no question as to what the solution isn't. Graphic was found in the comments section of this article.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 8:02 Comments || Top||

#2  How come Hillary didn't offer to raise them in her village
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 08/16/2016 9:08 Comments || Top||


‘We want blood We cannot co-habitate with white people' (video)
[Right Scoop] A really ugly video surfaced of angry thugs threatening racial violence to police right before last night’s rioting in Milwaukee.

The video starts with the Black Lives Matter crowd angrily yelling at officers over the fatal shooting of Sylville Smith, a black man with a lengthy arrest record who, according to Milwaukee’s Democrat Mayor Tom Barrett, had stolen the gun, which held 23 rounds in it. Also, it turns out the cop that shot him was black.

Worth noting that in the video here, many of cops being threatened are non-whites and female. At the 35-second mark, a rioter can be heard yelling to the officers, "We do not want justice or peace anymore. We done with that shit. We want blood. We want blood. We want the same shit ya’ll want. Eye for an eye. No more peace. F‐k all that.

Ain’t no more peace. Ain’t no more peace. We done. We cannot co-habitate with white people, one of us have to go, black or white. All ya’ll have to go!" Another man oddly screams in the female cop’s face, "No women. No women. Do not touch any women out here!" After the cops put on their riot gear helmets, their commanding officer, a black man, instructs them to fall back, which immediately elicits taunts from the rioters who yell, "They can’t do shit, they ain’t doing shit. You better fall back. Fall back."

This is really disgusting. They’re only hurting the people they say they want to protect ‐ the innocent and reasonable people in the same community. Let’s not generalize about the entire black community here ‐ I’ve lived in a very poor, minority community among these kinds of thugs, and I hate it when the decent people are grouped in with them.

But the screaming idiots in the video ARE thugs. They’re simply assuming the cops are unjustified without caring or even knowing what the facts are. And they’re threatening violence for the stupidest reasons, and for very racist reasons:
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 00:25 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Evidence does appear to support the theory.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  "We do not want justice or peace anymore. We done with that shit

Damn right baby. It was always about power.

Let’s not generalize about the entire black community here

Why, you have no problem doing to Trump's supporters.

And they’re threatening violence for the stupidest reasons, and for very racist reasons:

It's call Freudian Projection, codified on the Left in all its institutions. Look at he DNC hacks and RNC hacks, guess who the homophobic, racists, and sexists really are? /rhet question.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2016 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Wish granted. Come out of your self inflicted hell hole and you will be shot.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/16/2016 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Seal off the area and provide no police protection. Problem solved in a few months.
Posted by: gorb || 08/16/2016 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  Best watch out - they want a race war, they may get one. And a lot of white people play for keeps.
Posted by: Black Charlie Ebbolung3698 || 08/16/2016 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Gorb, you can't seal off the area unless you are willing to shoot and kill those trying to escape it - or foray out of it. Plus, the 'optics' of a Warsaw Ghetto are very poor.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/16/2016 12:06 Comments || Top||

#7  If my "tribe" were outnumbered 4 to 1, I would be very hesitant to start a war.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/16/2016 12:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe you folks should be focusing on those who promised they'd help you out - starting with LBJ.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/16/2016 13:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Sorry, I was just being brief.

Every now and then I kind of think about how that would actually be done. Maybe let the residents in an area vote and then do what they vote for as long as they're honorable about it and don't cause problems with law enforcement or riot before the facts are known. I don't know how you would decide the geography of the area that gets to vote for or against emergency responders. Or what to do if they had issues. Or whether or not folks who voted to keep their law enforcement in place would get to move out or what.

But it seems to me these idiots need a dose of reality somehow. Consequences shown on television may be the way to rid the world of this new fad.
Posted by: gorb || 08/16/2016 13:30 Comments || Top||

#10  But it seems to me these idiots need a dose of reality somehow.

When they riot, shoot them. If they riot over that, shoot more of them. If the threaten police or innocent people shoot them. Keep shooting them until they get the message or there are none left.

That may seem harsh, but it would be reality.
Posted by: Skunky Piewacket4058 || 08/16/2016 16:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Instapundit pointed out that the last Republican mayor of Milwaukee was in 1908.

Trump did good having his economic speech in Detroit. He should be on the air every day pointing out that Democrat solutions cause ruin.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/16/2016 17:10 Comments || Top||

#12  Hell, Milwaukee used to elect Socialist Mayors and the town was actually fairly well run. Meyer and Norquist both seemed to do a decent job with then hands they got dealt. The Milwaukee PD on the other hand was saddled with Chief for Life Harold Breier. A man so dense he has blind to a police force at least partially out of control. What Milwaukee is like now in terms of their Police Department I cant say. But they realized they had problems two years ago and sought outside DOJ advice. Not on a complete makeover but to come up with ways of preventing abuse of police powers. But police forces do not operate in an isolated environment. I witnessed a BLM protest last month in Wauwatosa. From what I could see that incident was handled very professionaly. In my judgement the police in Milwaukee have been handling these incidents pretty well. Trying not to pour more fuel on the fire if possible. While at the same time trying to do their jobs.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 08/16/2016 21:53 Comments || Top||

#13  One more thing. Mayoral elctions in Wisconsin are non-partisian.
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 08/16/2016 21:55 Comments || Top||


Suspect charged in daylight slaying of New York imam and friend
[IsraelTimes] A man suspected in the fatal shooting of a holy man and his friend as they left a mosque in New York City was tossed in the slammer
You have the right to remain silent...
on charges of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon late Monday.

Charges against 35-year-old Oscar Morel, of Brooklyn, were upgraded after police say they recovered a revolver at his home and clothes similar to that being worn in surveillance video that shows the gunman.

Morel was arrested Sunday after police said he hit a bicyclist 10 minutes after Saturday’s shooting in Queens, amid wide-ranging suspicions he had also shot Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee and Thara Uddin in broad daylight.

"We strongly believe this is the individual," the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, Robert Boyce, said of Morel after the initial arrest was announced.

Authorities have not said what prompted the daytime shooting of Akonjee and Uddin.

According to police, Morel can be seen on video surveillance fleeing the area of the shooting in a black GMC Trailblazer just after Akonjee and Uddin were shot. About 10 minutes later, a car matching that description struck a bicyclist about three miles away in Brooklyn, Boyce said.

Morel was arrested late Sunday night outside a Brooklyn apartment after intentionally ramming his car into an unmarked police cruiser trying to block him in, Boyce said.
Fox News local has more.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Morel was arrested Sunday after police said he hit a bicyclist 10 minutes after Saturday’s shooting in Queens, amid wide-ranging suspicions he had also shot Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee and Thara Uddin in broad daylight.

Now there's a blurry distinction here as to whether a crime was actually committed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2016 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  and criminal possession of a weapon

Nuff said.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2016 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Not that it matters but Morel is a French surname and France has had issues with the Islamic folks lately.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/16/2016 17:13 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought morel was a fungus?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/16/2016 17:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes Glen, rare even in the vicinity of Lake Woebegone.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/16/2016 20:09 Comments || Top||


Sister of Milwaukee man fatally shot by police urges crowd to torch suburbs: ‘Burn that s-- down!’
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The sister of a Milwaukee man fatally shot by police over the weekend told a group Sunday that they should burn the suburbs down.
Right. Rampage through the cul-de-sacs.
Sylville K. Smith was shot in the chest and arm by a black police officer on Saturday, which prompted violent protests, looting, and arson. One of Mr. Smith’s sisters, Sherelle, was caught on video at the charred remains of a BP gas station telling a crowd to set the suburbs ablaze.

"You’re burning down s‐ we need in our community. Take that s‐ to the suburbs! Burn that s‐ down!" she screamed in video shared by a Twitter user identified as DeeconX. The story was then picked up by news aggregator website Weasel Zippers.

Mr. Smith’s other sister, Kimberly Neal, told the same crowd that violence was not the answer.

"At the end of the day, acting out ain’t gonna solve it," she said, a local Fox News affiliate reported. "We tired of it. We tired."

Four officers were maimed Saturday night and 17 people were jugged
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
Mayor Tom Barrett announced a 10 p.m. weeknight curfew Monday for teenagers to stem another outbreak of violence in the city’s Sherman Park neighborhood.

Authorities arrested 14 people Sunday during a night that experienced 30 instances of gunfire. Police Chief Edward Flynn said 48 instances of gunfire occurred Saturday night.

"The individuals who are doing this are making it more difficult -- not less difficult -- to attract investments and jobs in the very neighborhoods where we need them the most," Mr. Barrett said, Fox News reported Monday.

Police said Mr. Smith, 23, was shot while turning toward an officer with a gun in his hand. Chief Flynn said that video from an unidentified officer’s body camera showed the officer who fired the shots had acted "within lawful bounds."

An investigation into the shooting is ongoing
Posted by: Fred || 08/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah yes, after talking about NOT burning their own stuff and peace and all CNN et al MSM cut off the reporting.

Then she started saying that the thugs should burn down the whites stuff and particularly the suburbs. CNN et al didn't show that but it was recorded.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/16/2016 9:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Milwaukee Message: “Give Me Money Or I’ll Kill You”
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 08/16/2016 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  thugs should burn down the whites stuff and particularly the suburbs

Another reason for the Second Amendment!
Posted by: Bobby || 08/16/2016 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  They need to be content with burning their own communities because if they try to take their riot to the suburbs then they will be shot.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/16/2016 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  You endanger my wife and kids, you threaten us with burning us out of house and home? You will be shot. Simple as that. You try to bring this to the place I live, you will die.
Posted by: Sneaque Shump3989 || 08/16/2016 12:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, please. Come to my street and try and burn my sh1t down. That is why I am heavily armed, with stacks of magazines ready to go. These people are working themselves up for a major beat down.
Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 || 08/16/2016 12:36 Comments || Top||


Woman, 34, Repeatedly Kicked Boyfriend In Face After He Refused To Have Sex With Her
[THESMOKINGGUN] When her boyfriend refused to have sex with her, a Florida woman repeatedly kicked him in the face, an attack that has landed her in jail for battery, cops say.
Not much of a story, I know. Probably happened to all of us, one time or another...
According to an arrest affidavit, Jennifer Furguson, 34, sought a 6:30 AM tryst Wednesday with her beau inside the couple’s Port St. Lucie residence.

The victim, who has been in aictured above, relationship with Furguson for two years, told police that "Jennifer became upset at him when he refused to have sex with her this morning."

After being rejected, Furguson began kicking her boyfriend in the face "while he was laying on the bed," Sherlocks charge. Responding officers noted that the man had "significant swelling to his right cheek bone and redness to his left cheek bone."

Furguson was incarcerated
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
on a misdemeanor battery charge and booked into the county jail, where she remains locked up in lieu of $500 bond.

Furguson is scheduled to be arraigned on August 25, according to court records.

Posted by: Fred || 08/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jennifer Furguson, 34, sought a 6:30 AM tryst
Well yeah, she probably woke him up.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2016 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm going to go way out on a limb here.

I'm going to say that alcohol may have been a factor.
Posted by: no mo uro || 08/16/2016 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  The double standard kicks in (no pun intended) as evidenced by the misdemeanor charges and the low bond of $500. She didn't believe that "No meant NO."
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/16/2016 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4 
Furguson is scheduled to be arraigned on August 25, according to court records.

Hmmmm...I thought the 72 hour rule applied. Unless, they plan to intentionally dismiss it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2016 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Mine always waited until the bank account was empty.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/16/2016 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Port St. Lucie. Sighs,shakes head, crosses another future retirement community off his list...
Posted by: regular joe || 08/16/2016 19:30 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Another Mysterious Death: Anti-Clinton Author Found Dead at 54
[Gateway Pundit] American Free Press contributor Victor Thorn, 54, a long-time researcher and critic of Hillary and Bill Clinton, has been found dead. Police reports indicate he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The author of more than 20 books, he was best known for the Clinton trilogy, "three definitive works that delved into the history of the power couple including their sordid scandals, Bill Clinton’s sexual assaults of multiple women, and the drug running out of Mena, Arkansas while Clinton was governor of the state."

AMERICAN FREE PRESS contacted the State College [Pa.] Police Department this morning for any news on the suicide of Victor Thorn, whose birth name was Scott Robert Makufka.

AFP asked the policeman who answered the phone if the department could provide any updates.

"There was something that occurred on Monday morning, but I don’t know if we’ve released any identities or any details about it at this time."

AFP asked if he knew when the release might happen.

"I don’t. I don’t know what the status of the investigation is. I have not seen the detective that’s in charge of that today yet. They’ll release it as soon as they can. I don’t know what the holdup is or the details are at this point."

Thorn’s most recent book is "CROWNING CLINTON: Why Hillary Shouldn’t Be in the White House" and is described as a serious prosecution of Hillary Clinton’s criminal activity.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 00:41 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  http://takimag.com/article/a_hot_month_for_clintons_body_count_gavin_mcinnes#axzz4HQW56KDH

And..

Their body count

"90 SUSPICIOUS DEATHS OF INDIVIDUALS CLOSE TO BILL CLINTON, 81 WHILE PRESIDENT"
Posted by: newc || 08/16/2016 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Let me guess.

Shot himself in the back of the head... twice. Obviously a suicide, couldn't be anything else.

Funny how Clinton Associates tend to do that.

Its enough to make the worst mafia boss blush...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/16/2016 1:05 Comments || Top||

#3  A final, remarkable sequence
Of glances beseeching your credence,
All doomed by a grievance
Or sordid allegiance:
The march of the Clintons' decedents.
Posted by: Ebbinert Speasing6306 || 08/16/2016 4:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't they ever learn? Never go up against a Clinton, when life is on the line.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/16/2016 7:17 Comments || Top||

#5  apparently from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Oh, like Vince Foster?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/16/2016 8:06 Comments || Top||

#6  I figure this guy was mentally unstable. It could well be depression escalated to suicide as it became clear that Hillary would be elected. Still, the coincidences are piling up...
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/16/2016 12:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Born: August 1, 1962
Died: August 1, 2016
Posted by: Percy McCoy7690 || 08/16/2016 20:36 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Squirrel Takes Go Pro, Great Video in Canopy
Posted by: KBK || 08/16/2016 10:30 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  squirrel - noun - tree rat, emergency rations; see long tailed nuisance.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/16/2016 10:54 Comments || Top||

#2  "I can see Hillary from my branch."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/16/2016 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  An Israeli spy?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/16/2016 14:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Wait a minute, there are no bird feeders being raided, can't be squirrels from around here.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/16/2016 15:11 Comments || Top||

#5  That's nuts!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2016 16:21 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
There IS life after DEATH: Scientists reveal shock findings from groundbreaking study
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] In a large scale study of more than 2,000 people, British boffins confirmed that thoughts DO carry on after the heart stops.

The shock research has also uncovered the most convincing evidence of an out of body experience for a patient declared dead.

It had been believed the brain stopped all activity 30 seconds after the heart had stopped pumping blood around the body, and that with that, awareness ceases too.

However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the study from the University of Southampton shows people still experience awareness for up to three minutes after they had been pronounced dead.
So the afterlife is three minutes long? Disappointing.
I thought it took four minutes for the brain to die after blood flow stopped. Another scientific fact overthrown by new data, I suppose.
Related article in PJ a while back.
Posted by: Fred || 08/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Qualifying Standards is it? The older I get, the more I'm convinced.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  So the afterlife is three minutes long? Disappointing. It just seems like an eternity.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/16/2016 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought it took four minutes for the brain to die after blood flow stopped.

Non-applicable for 'active' registered Democratic voters (before or after internment).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2016 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Now I have to wait even longer?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2016 12:11 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Japan plans to use Pokemon Go to lure tourists back to quake hit regions, including Fukushima
[SOTT.NET] Officials for four prefectures in Japan have announced they are partnering with the Japanese subsidiary of Niantic, the US company behind the Pokemon Go game.

They hope that creating virtual attractions in the popular location-based game will help draw people back to the natural disaster affected areas.

Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures are located in the north of the country and were heavily impacted by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Kumamoto, located in southern Japan, suffered a series of earthquakes in April this year.

The game is already live in Japan, but players would find extra goodies in the four prefectures under the plan. Game-makers will add more PokeStops - places where treasured items can be found, and more Pokemon Gyms - locations where people can meet and send their captured monsters into battle.

Officials say they will also place more rare Pokemon in the areas for players to hunt. Tourism promotions say that less than 10 per cent of Fukushima is affected by radiation exclusion zones, insisting that other areas are safe to visit.

Officials in Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima have also been planning 'recovery tours' in which guides take visitors to sites affected by the disasters. But there are limits.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, TEPCO, reportedly had to request game developers to prevent Pokemon from spawning in radiation affected areas of Fukushima, to avoid drawing players into hazardous areas.

Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered meltdowns as a result of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and TEPCO says they recently found Pokemon at the site.
Posted by: Fred || 08/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seeing glowing man-monsters in Fukushima bay?
Yeah, that's about right.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2016 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  One thing I still want to know. Just WTF is a Pokemon?
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 08/16/2016 5:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Pokemon are 'pocket monsters'. Basically you go out and use pokeballs to capture and enslave them after you have weakened them enough. The balks seem to do something to them which turn them into willing slaves (no matter how antigonastic the were when captured) which you can 'befriend'. Once captured you force them to 'fight' each other in matches. Kind of like cockfighting. You can build a center for these fights called a 'gym'. You know they are slaves because they can be given or sold as property.
Pokemon seems to have replaced animals in that world. They can evolve into stronger types
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/16/2016 7:54 Comments || Top||

#4  So, they're sort of like Donk special interests groups?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2016 8:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Freedom Now slogan of the PLF (Pokemon Liberation Front
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 08/16/2016 9:04 Comments || Top||

#6  How do you "set up" a pokemon?

We have several spots in town that qualify but I have no idea what or who determines that such and such a spot is where you will find a pokemon.

Never have and never will play but I'm curious as to how these spots ate set up.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/16/2016 9:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Its...its....Godzilla!




I imagine it as a virtual billboard, or search engine priority purchase. Probably liaisons you can hire to do the grunt work, and frauds as well. I have read of at least two different instances of entities acquiring a pokemon hot spot - one a business (where the extra traffic actually turned off the regular customers and the hunters not buying anything) and a police department (trying to lure wanted persons).

Came across my first hunters the other night. Dang zombies.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/16/2016 10:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Go to almost any mall or Walmart parking lot and you will find a car, usually owned by doting grandparents, that has a "Pokémon Put Me In The Poorhouse" bumper sticker. And that's from back when they were just trading cards...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/16/2016 16:45 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder if this would work on jihadis?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/16/2016 19:30 Comments || Top||

#10  12th Imam Go!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/16/2016 19:51 Comments || Top||

#11  In the Zam Zam well no doubt.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/16/2016 20:12 Comments || Top||

#12  To Alan

When this game first came out the news interviewed a pizza place owner who said he paid ten bucks to aquire a device to turn the store into a hot spot.

Posted by: Clem Lumplump1981 || 08/16/2016 22:00 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Australian anti-immigration demonstrators disrupt church service
[IBT] Anti-immigration demonstrators wearing Muslim attire disrupted a Sunday service at an Anglican church in Australia and performed mock prayer rituals in what would be the latest public protest by the Party for Freedom.

A video of the intrusion was posted on Facebook. In the clip, priest Rod Bower was delivering his sermon when some ten men clad in Muslim garb entered the church, laid down their mats and performed mock prayers. Party for Freedom chairman Nick Folkes said, "We held the protest to challenge (Father Bower's) promotion of Islam and Muslim immigration."

Father Bower said the incident at his church highlights the need for Section 18 of the Racial Discrimination Act. The law considers it illegal to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people" on the basis of race.

"If you lose 18C then this kind of vilification and abusive behaviour will go even more unchecked," he said, following reports that several senators want to eliminate Section 18C, claiming that it restricts freedom of speech.

Before the incident at Gosford, about 50 miles north of Sydney, members of the Party for Freedom have repeatedly worn Islamic clothing in various demonstrations to mock the religion.
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Home Front: Politix
Trump adviser Michael T. Flynn on his dinner with Putin and why Russia Today is just like CNN
[WAPO] The Washington Post’s Dana Priest recently interviewed retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn twice -- once in person, once by phone -- and conducted follow-up email exchanges. The following is a condensed transcript of the in-person interview.

DANA PRIEST: You weren’t such a public person in the military. Was it your idea to become more public?

MICHAEL FLYNN: I consciously made a decision once I felt the country was at such risk and I was advising five of the candidates running for president. They all reached out to me ... Carly Fiorina, Scott Walker, Ben Carson Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump. ... They would ask me about national security, what’s happening in the world, my thoughts on particular issues.

I met with all of them. Some of them I met with more often. Two of them, I was advising right up to the time when the decision was made, when Trump won the primary.

PRIEST: So you were advising both of them?

FLYNN: Yes, and everyone knew, I wasn’t secretly advising ... I was pretty open about it. Someone would ask me for advice on something, or if I saw something I thought was important I would share it with them.

PRIEST: How did you meet Trump in particular?

FLYNN: I got a phone call from his team. They asked if he would be willing meet with Mr. Trump and I did. ... In late summer 2015.

Lengthy, but don't miss the avalanche of negative comments. They appear to be penned by the Post as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 07:20 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1 



Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 08/16/2016 19:49 Comments || Top||


CNN Goes Full Pravda On The Milwaukee Riots





Youtube clip from Colin Flaherty.

Remember, the MSM are not opponents -- they are the enemy.
Posted by: charger || 08/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not only the truth, but the official truth
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 08/16/2016 6:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Dear CNN et al, the Court has already established that 'free speech' does not cover screaming fire in a crowed theater. Please take note of 'international law' that America has already participated in with the Nuremberg Trials, in the case of Julius Streicher. Keep pushing it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2016 8:15 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Gang involved in kidnap of women busted
[DAWN] KARACHI: The Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, on Sunday claimed to have busted a gang allegedly involved in kidnapping of women in Punjab.

Acting on a tip-off,
[RING!]
Cop shoppe! Sergeant Shafiq speaking!
Lissen! Dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! I got a tip for youse...

the paramilitary force and Rangers Special Task Force carried out a joint action in an area in Jacobabad and locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
two suspects involved in kidnapping of women belonging to Punjab, according to a Rangers spokesperson.

The held suspects identified as Punhal and Rajab had kidnapped two women in Multan and brought them to Jacobabad and demanded a ransom from their families.

The relatives of the kidnapped women approached the Rangers, who conducted a targeted raid and recovered both women. The held kidnappers were later on handed over to police for further legal action, said the Rangers press statement.

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Former Senate chairman's nephew killed in armed clash in Islamabad
[DAWN] A nephew of former Senate chairman Mohammad Mian Soomro, Malik Fahad, was killed in an armed clash early Monday, police said.

A verbal dispute broke out in Islamabad's F-10 area between two men identified as Raja Arshad and Malik Tariq. The issue was initially resolved after police got involved and both parties came to an agreement at a local cop shoppe.

Later on, however, both parties clashed again in the same area. Malik Fahad, who was attempting to mediate between the two parties, received fatal bullet wounds while Malik Tariq was injured.

An initial postmortem report suggested that the dear departed received four bullets ─ two bullets in his face and one each in his neck and back.

No First-Information Report has been filed as yet, police said, adding that they learnt Malik Fahad was due to travel to Germany today.

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Science & Technology
Israel scores success against skin cancer
[JP] A three pronged approach fighting skin cancer in Israel appears to be showing success. Over the past five years, an aggressive campaign predicated upon awareness, identification and research has apparently been responsible for significantly lower skin cancer rates in the Jewish state.

Under the direction of the Israel Cancer Association, newly created skin care apps such as "DermaCompare" and the development of immunotherapy drugs like Keytruda, the campaign appears to have made noticeable headway in fighting the disease.

"We were third in the world in the incidents and mortality after Australia and New Zealand and it was, of course, because we have a lot of people who come from Europe with light skin," Miri Ziv, the Director General of the Israel Cancer Association told The Media Line. "In the last five years, Israel dropped to the 20th country with the highest incidents (of skin cancer) and in terms of mortality, we dropped to number 13 for men and number 20 for women."

According to Ziv, the ICA has worked tirelessly for the past half-decade trying to promote a more sun-smart attitude. "We disseminated our sun-smart stuff in TV programs and in the media. Every summer we launch the early detection project and we encourage people to avoid sun bathing from 10-4." Ziv cited the achievement that while melanoma is still rising significantly for most of the world, it has stabilized in Israel.
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#1  Don't forget the burkini!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2016 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't bother looking for this in the MSM, it won't be found.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Burkas have a long history of success against skin cancer.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/16/2016 12:17 Comments || Top||

#4  and failure against death by beating
Posted by: Frank G || 08/16/2016 20:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Female Marine drops out of infantry course
[CNN] -- The only female officer enrolled in the Marine Corps' Infantry Officer's Course has dropped out after failing to complete two conditioning hikes last month, according to the Marine Corps' Training and Education Command.

"At this time, there are no female officers enrolled or slated to attend (the Infantry Officer's Course)," Marine spokesman Capt. Joshua Pena told CNN.

He added that 33 additional officers have been dropped from the course out of a starting class comprising 97 officers. The course started on July 6 and is scheduled to finish on September 20.

This was the female officer's second attempt at passing the course. She will now be given another specialization for her career as an officer in the Marines.

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced the opening of all combat roles to women back in December, but as of yet no female Marine has passed the Infantry Officer's Course.

In January, then-head of Southern Command, Marine Gen. John Kelly, cast doubt on whether many women would be able to enter the infantry if current standards were upheld.

"If we don't change standards, it will be very, very difficult to have any numbers -- any real numbers come into the infantry," Kelly told reporters at the Pentagon.

But the deputy commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. John "Jay" Paxton Jr., espoused a more optimistic view.

"I think the Marines who happen to be women, who are going into those units, are committed to live up to that standard and contribute to unit efficiency and unit success," Paxton said in an interview with the Marine Corps Times published Monday.

The US Army fielded its first female infantry officer in April.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "If we don't change standards, it will be very, very difficult to have any numbers -- any real numbers come into the infantry," Kelly told reporters at the Pentagon.

ARGHHHH!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/16/2016 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope they are prepared for the political retribution.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/16/2016 1:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Be ready to surpass standards before you enter or you are not trying hard enought.

And NO,
You will not change Task, Conditions, or Standards of a Combat Warfighter.

Enough of this bullshit.
If you are not ready to be Joan of Arc, then find another line of work.
Posted by: newc || 08/16/2016 1:44 Comments || Top||

#4  The only standards are those established in the Darwinistic battlefield environment. No pols, no judges, no suck up generals. The tab to be paid in pain and blood by those around any unqualified leader.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/16/2016 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm pretty sure orders will come down that if women cannot meet the standards, the standards for women - or more likely everyone - will have the be lowered until they can be met. Military is about social justice now, not war fighting.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/16/2016 12:16 Comments || Top||

#6  My fear exactly, Glenmore.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/16/2016 12:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Standards will NOT be lowered. They well be "revised and updated in line with mission requirements".

Much like how carrying heavy things up and down ladders was deemed no longer relevant to the job of firefighting, and was removed from the tests after it was deemed problematic for applicants of a certain persuasion.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/16/2016 17:18 Comments || Top||

#8  SteveS, since the "mission" has been defined as "Get women into combat arms, no matter what the cost to our warfighting capabilities, of course the standards will be lowered.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/16/2016 18:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Giving the woman points for trying twice, bet she could handle Big 'Shirl.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/16/2016 20:14 Comments || Top||



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