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Over 100 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza in under 24 hours
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
It IS easy to get away with murder in Chicago: Two-thirds of all homicides go unsolved in Windy City, after it was revealed HALF of all US murderers are never brought to justice
[Daily Mail where America gets its news]
  • In Chicago, just 33 percent of murders with any type of weapon were solved between 2016 and 2020

  • The US' rate of solved murders hovers at just below 50 percent - the lowest rate of any developed nation

  • Various police departments across the country blame low clearance rates on different problems, but persistent among them is low staffing
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 06:59 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apparent CPD Dilemma: Black Gang Members killed by probable Black Gang Members, witnesses Black Gang Members and wanna be family, motives - turf and/or drugs/or initiation/or meth high/or disrespectful looking.

Facts Bearing on the Problem: Homicide caseload-massive, local DA utterly unsupported and outright hostile to white officers, jury pool anti-cop, CPD Command Staff and Mayor-gutless cowards when it's your back!

Apparent CPD Solution: Make sure you go home at end of watch, take copious notes and CSI photos, and never, ever forget Derek Chauvin trial as you do your 20, or early retirement if its possible and move back to the actual United States.
Sadly, it stopped being "One Adam-12 see the man..." a long time ago.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/03/2023 14:12 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
NPR Says That Elon Musk Has
[NPR] Elon Musk has threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account to "another company."

In a series of emails sent to this reporter, Musk said he would transfer the network's main account on Twitter, under the @NPR handle, to another organization or person. The idea shocked even longtime observers of Musk's spur-of-the-moment and erratic leadership style.

Handing over established accounts to third parties poses a serious risk of impersonation and could imperil a company's reputation, said social media experts.

I found the original article on InfoWars, but I know haw some feel about the site.
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 05/03/2023 09:31 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  NPR was being whinny bitties. So I say, good. But that said, the only reason I stay on twitter is its relevance, and if you replace all the NPRs with National Pumpkin Radio - how relevant would twitter be.


If you say you're gonna quit, walk the talk.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/03/2023 14:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Musk is trolling for fun.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 14:56 Comments || Top||

#3  More likely - he told them what would happen if they left the platform, and they decided to play victim.
Posted by: Angstrom || 05/03/2023 15:22 Comments || Top||

#4  "Where's my two eight bucks?"

/ obscure like my other movie quote today?
Posted by: Raj || 05/03/2023 16:20 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Ireland is on the verge of enacting the most draconian anti-speech law in the West
[American Thinker] Ireland, a country that long chafed under England’s repressive governance, is about to become very repressive itself. It’s about to put into effect a speech bill so repressive that anyone who even receives a text that runs afoul of the law could be arrested if he does not immediately delete and disavow the text. This is where the Western world, once the bastion of intellectual liberty, has ended.

The law, entitled "Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022," passed through the legislature in February, with only 4 representatives out of 160 voting against it. Most in the public weren’t even aware of the bill and, if they’d thought about it, they probably would have congratulated themselves on being a nice country in which "hate" speech is barred.

It was only when an Irish conservative commentator, Keith Woods, who was reinstated on Twitter thanks to Elon Musk’s commitment to free speech, that word got out:

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 06:45 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rebound legislation from Biden's visit, I suppose.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/03/2023 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Glad my great great grandfather left in the 1840s.
Posted by: Tom || 05/03/2023 11:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Ditto #2. Ireland seems to be going full Commie. The Irish hate themselves.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 05/03/2023 20:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Ireland has been a leftwing paradise for some years.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/03/2023 21:39 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Clash of Generals: Future of Sudan's political landscape, regional stability at stake

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The conflict in Sudan is multi-dimensional and its resolution — rather, who ends up victorious and what concessions are made by all parties — will define the country’s political landscape likely for years to come, analysts say. The bloody feud between the two rival military factions also has repercussions beyond the borders of Sudan, as it threatens to destabilize the region.

The hostilities erupted on April 15 between Sudan’s Armed Forces (SAF) under the leadership of chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the leadership of General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.

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Posted by: Fred || 05/03/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan

#1  It's been a while since I've seen Sudan and stability in the same sentence, probably in a previous life. Who're these guys trying to bullshit?
Posted by: Raj || 05/03/2023 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Centuries old tribal conflicts. Stay out of it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 2:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Where's Chinese Gordon when you need him?
Posted by: AlanC || 05/03/2023 11:36 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Joe Biden hopes you forget about all of the vaccine mandates and workers who were fired
[Hot Air] Well, even if you have no plans to simply forget about the vaccine mandates, Joe Biden probably will. (If he hasn’t already... *rimshot*) A big date is coming up quickly. On May 11th, the federal vaccine mandates for federal workers, contractors, and international travelers will come to an end. As Jim Geraghty pointed out in the Morning Jolt today, this "marks the end of an era." But will we have learned anything from this entire debacle? Don’t bet your last nickel on it. Jim also reminds us that Joe Biden changed his tune on mandatory vaccinations a couple of times.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 03:08 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The scoundrels are all trying to lie their way out of it claiming they never forced the gene therapy upon people. Justin Castro is a good example, and how 'bout that bull dyke teachers union head who tried to say she was all for opening the schools back up. These people are disgusting filth.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/03/2023 4:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The lemmings have already forgotten.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 05/03/2023 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  If I can remember a strong password, I can remember a vax mandate.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 14:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is a Socialist in Disguise
[AE] Robert F. Kennedy Jr.spoke out against the COVID pandemic and demanded a serious investigation into those who promoted the worldwide panic. "Just to be clear, I will prosecute any official who engaged in criminal wrongdoing during the pandemic. Corrupt individuals are a small part of the problem. Our agencies have been captured by corporate power, but the vast majority of their staff are decent people. We need to get corporate influence out of *all* regulatory agencies so that they can serve the people honestly," Bobby wrote on his Twitter. While he may be more moderate than Biden, do not be fooled—he is not presidential material.

Jailing one’s opponents is one of the oldest political strategies in the book. Many may cheer that Robert F Kennedy Jr. wants to jail those responsible for COVID, but looking back on his prior remarks, he wants to jail everyone who disagrees with him. In the video above, Kennedy calls for "three hots and a cot" for anyone who dares to question climate change. This directly violates the First Amendment and is a dangerous road to go down. These climate change idiots are all seething with anger.

His website mentions his political promises and top priorities but barely touches on the economy. "Government assistance to the nation’s most vulnerable is a high priority," he writes under his "revitalization" promise that makes absolutely no mention of inflation. Instead, he discusses wealth redistribution and highlights the "wealth gap" while adding in that minorities are more prone to poverty to divide the people further.

"We will rebuild the industrial infrastructure, ruined by forty years of off-shoring and misguided "free trade" schemes...We will break up "too-big-to-fail" banks and monopolies, and when crisis strikes, bail out the homeowners, debtors, and small business owners instead." Clearly, he does not understand the basics of banking or free trade and wants the people to rely on government assistance rather than the free market. He also loosely mentions wanting to change the healthcare system but does not offer a clear solution.

Bobby is simply another socialist in disguise pushing for the same agenda as all the other Democrats, minus his stance on COVID. His eagerness to jail his political opponents is very alarming. Luckily, the Democrats won’t let anyone challenge Biden, who has no views or original thoughts to question the establishment.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/03/2023 04:52 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Disguise? What disguise? All dems are socialists.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Aren't all demoncrats?
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 6:53 Comments || Top||

#3  He is every bit as authoritarian as his father was, if not more.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/03/2023 7:08 Comments || Top||

#4  He says vaccines cause autism in children.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/03/2023 8:15 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^^ There's evidence that, yes, vaccines do cause autism in children. The MMR vaccine is oft cited as the main culprit. British doctor Andrew Wakefield is arguably the biggest proponent of this.

What's that about taking flak and being over the target?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/03/2023 8:30 Comments || Top||

#6  He is the only Dem socialist. Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton are actually small government fiscal conservatives, but this one guy out of all the Dems is just too dangerous leftist and can’t be considered.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 9:21 Comments || Top||

#7  If he was a republican they would be singing his praises. The Dems are scared to death of him, almost as much as they are scared of Trump. The slander, side logic and the rest is in the attack mode. You can always tell how dangerous a politician, by the levels of attack from all sides.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/03/2023 9:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton are actually small government fiscal conservatives

Considering that Obama's economic policies led to the firsts major expansion of the money supply that later led to inflation, government expansions and control over your lives and health care and Biden and Hilary spend like drunken sailors while also trying to expand the government control over your life....

They are hardly small government fiscal conservatives.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/03/2023 10:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton are actually small government fiscal conservatives

Crazy talk. Absolute crazy talk.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/03/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Junior sez - if you're a 'climate denier', you should be in jail.
Posted by: Raj || 05/03/2023 10:43 Comments || Top||

#11  Oh, so Junior can be a vaccine denier (work with me here), but it's not o.k. to be a climate denier. Got it.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/03/2023 10:45 Comments || Top||

#12  If I'm reduced to choosing among the communists, I'll pick the one who is against releasing a virus to kill me.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/03/2023 11:57 Comments || Top||

#13  Well, duh. This is why we call the 2024 Democrat primary red on red. We are most gleefully stocking up on popcorn.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/03/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#14  Revealing that a Democrat is a socialist is like outing Liberace as gay. Nobody at Rantburg is voting for him, but there are Dems who would. He has several views that are as abhorrent to sensible people. Some of his policies would match Obama, Biden and Clinton, but why is the media not attacking Hochul or Whitmer or any other politician that jammed Covid positive seniors into assisted living facilities? Kennedy is outside the power structure and would seek to hold some people accountable for something. That type of dangerous idea is anathema to the powerful and their television talking toadies.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/03/2023 13:16 Comments || Top||

#15  Anything that splits the dem vote is helpful to the health of the Republic.

So you just know the deep state won't stand still for it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/03/2023 13:23 Comments || Top||

#16  If MSM must divide their time between vilifying Trump and vilifying Kennedy it might stress them out a bit, might give them less time for other propaganda. This should be fun.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/03/2023 13:41 Comments || Top||

#17  I resent #8; being compared to those people….
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 05/03/2023 17:32 Comments || Top||

#18  He is the only Dem socialist. Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton are actually small government fiscal conservatives, but this one guy out of all the Dems is just too dangerous leftist and can’t be considered.

Think its a good read on the attack lines. Need to discourage the very possibility of a primary, especially if Brandon bags out.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/03/2023 17:58 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2023-05-03
  Over 100 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza in under 24 hours
Tue 2023-05-02
  Gaza hunger striker pegs out. rockets fired, threats, vitriol follow
Mon 2023-05-01
  Nigerian Anti-Narcotics Agency Says It Cannot Arrest, Prosecute President-elect For Drugs Offences
Sun 2023-04-30
  Heavy fighting continues in Sudan despite US-brokered truce
Sat 2023-04-29
  Islamic Police, Hisbah Arrests 12 Boys And Girls In Kebbi Brothel, Northwest Nigeria
Fri 2023-04-28
  Scores injured in a blast near a Nineveh market
Thu 2023-04-27
  Senior member of Iran's Assembly of Experts assassinated
Wed 2023-04-26
  Warring parties agree to a new 72-hour truce in Sudan, gov’t accuses RSF of violating ceasefire after 1/2 hour
Tue 2023-04-25
  Palestinian factions leaders warn Israel against killing them
Mon 2023-04-24
  Wagner Group boss tells mercenaries take no prisoners
Sun 2023-04-23
  U.S. embassy in Khartoum evacuated
Sat 2023-04-22
  No Food, Water, Electricity In Sudan
Fri 2023-04-21
  Putin FIRES Pacific fleet admiral in sign that Vladimir was furious military drills intended to send message to the West were a flop
Thu 2023-04-20
  Senior Al-Qaeda commander found killed in area under STC control
Wed 2023-04-19
  Interpol says 14k arrested, 200 tonnes drugs found in Latin America gun raids


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