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-War on Police-
Dallas police job applications surge after fatal ambush attacks
The Dallas Police Department, which was struggling to recruit officers, has seen a surge in job applications after the ambush shooting this month that killed five officers and brought global attention to the Texas city, officials said on Friday.

During the 12 days following the July 7 shooting, the department said it got 467 job applications, a 344 percent increase compared with the 136 in a similar period in June.

That is an average of 38.9 requests per day to become a police recruit compared with an average of 11.3 submissions a day for 12 days in June.

In recent months, the police department has had to cancel academy classes because there were not enough applicants.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2016 02:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Otber than some of the lousy liberal columnists at the Dallas Morning News, the city is very supportive of the Dallas Police. The department has a very polished and professional image locally.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 07/23/2016 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  And the black chief is a fantastic role model for young people. This response is a testimonial to his positivw influence on young people through his public call for them to change thier community through public service, not just through protesting.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 || 07/23/2016 4:42 Comments || Top||

#3  God bless Texas.
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/23/2016 5:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Texans at their best. Willing to put their lives on the line to defend their country.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/23/2016 18:56 Comments || Top||


CPD reviewing officer's race-fueled Facebook post
[FOX19] A Cincinnati Police officer is under review after a Facebook comment appearing to reference white coppers "looking for a reason to kill a black man."

Lt. Steve Saunders declined to name the officer, but confirmed administrators are reviewing the post, which was sent to FOX19 NOW by anonymous sources. It shows the commenter's name as Freddie Vincent, an officer with District 5, sources say.

The post begins with a message to "all my Afro America friends and family" about interacting with white coppers.

"Make sure that you are in a public place ,and comply to all of their commands,because they are looking for a reason to kill a black man. And always keep your hands in the air,and never resist," it reads.

It comes after high-profile police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier this month.

"I'm so tired of cops using these famous words "I was in fear of my life". I'm praying for Louisiana," the post says.

In a statement released Thursday afternoon, Chief Eliot Isaac said the comments are under review as they related to the department's social media policies. His entire statement read:

"The Cincinnati Police Department strives to maintain a culture of professionalism, as well as transparency and accountability for our actions. I am proud of the work of the men and women of the Cincinnati Police Department and our efforts to work collaboratively with the community.

We are aware of a recent post to a commonly used social media site by one of our officers that refers to an interpretation of a law enforcement officer’s actions. The comments that were posted are under review as they relate to our Social Media procedure and our Rules and Regulations."
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Half-Eaten Burger Comes Back To Bite Chicago Man In Robbery Spree
[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] A half-eaten hamburger led authorities to a reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
man who acted as the getaway driver in a series of bank robberies in western Michigan over the last two years, federal prosecutors said.

Dominick T. Johnson, 34, was sentenced Wednesday to 72 years and eight months in prison for the heists he carried out with his 24-year-old half-brother Nathan Benson, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Prosecutors say Johnson was the brain and the wheels behind the three successful bank robberies that happened between May 2014 and January 2015 in Kalamazoo County, about 150 miles northeast of Chicago.

In two of the robberies, Johnson listened in on a cellphone from a car while Benson forced employees into bank vaults at gunpoint, prosecutors said. Cellphone tower data placed him near the banks at the time of the crime.

While speeding away from one robbery in Oshtemo Township, Johnson apparently tossed "a partially eaten hamburger" from the vehicle, and Sherlocks were able to pull his DNA from it, prosecutors said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico President Voices 'Respect' for Trump
[AnNahar] Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto extended an olive branch to Donald Trump on Friday, voicing respect for the U.S. presidential candidate, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric has angered Mexicans.
So he's calculated that 1) Trump is serious about the wall 2) Trump is serious about having the Mexicans pay for it and 3) Trump might win...
One day after Trump accepted the Republican party's presidential nomination, Pena Nieto vowed to have a "frank and open dialogue" with whoever wins the November election, whether it is the real estate tycoon or Democratic rival Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu B. Washburne ...
"To Mrs. Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald Trump, I want to express my highest respect," Pena Nieto said at a White House presser with President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
It was a change of tone from March, when Pena Nieto condemned Trump's "strident tone" and compared his rhetoric to the rise of Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
and Benito Mussolini
...former dictator of Italia. He perfected the idea of the corporate state and was all the vogue in intellectual circles until he lined up with Adolf in the Second World War. He wanted Italians to be figli de la lupa, and like the sons of wolves they turned on him when they finally got the chance. He ended his days dangling by his heels in a public square next to his mistress...
But Pena Nieto said Friday that he had "never done any finger-pointing" about a U.S. candidate and that his March remarks were "taken out of context."

"The Mexican government will work in a constructive manner and in good faith with whoever is elected," he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2016 02:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But Pena Nieto said Friday that he had "never done any finger-pointing" about a U.S. candidate and that his March remarks were "taken out of context."

"I added 'with all due respect', so you can't hold it against me"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/23/2016 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Pena Nieto has finally come to understand that if the US charges everyone (without exception) $15 to enter the US from Mexico, and $15 to those who want to enter Mexico from the US, Trump will have his millions to build the wall. It would also slow daily tourism, and very likely reduce the number of Mexican workers who daily cross the US border to work in the USA. The next move would be to tax the railroad cars that enter the US from Mexico. Indeed, there are so many ways Mexico could be hit that Pena Nieto must be praying for a Hillary victory.
Posted by: Whavise Wheque2596 || 07/23/2016 10:13 Comments || Top||

#3  The savings realized from the reduction of Federal and State social services payments, anchor baby birthing, meds, etc, to illegals will more than cover fencing costs. I doubt any additional taxes will be required.

I would be in favor of a special tax levy on Wells Fargo money transfers across our southern border.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2016 10:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Hillary is a badly wounded candidate. Nieto is being pragmatic.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/23/2016 10:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Machismo.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2016 14:33 Comments || Top||

#6  @#3: Wal-mart / MoneyGram also.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 07/23/2016 21:12 Comments || Top||

#7  If Trump really wants to scare mexico, tell them to get all their illegals back to Mexico or we'll consider it an invalidation of the treaty of guadalupe hildago and we go back to owning everything up to and including Mexico City. I suspect Mexico's attitude would change a bit
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/23/2016 23:18 Comments || Top||

#8  If the amount of remittances going from USA to Mexico drops they are in deep crap. They'll either have to reform (hopefully) or plummet into civil war (or worse civil war than now).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/23/2016 23:50 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
New Details of North Korean Spy Radio Messages Emerge
[Defense News] TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A North Korean broadcast of numbers on June 24 ended a 16-year sojourn that is surprising many who thought Pyongyang had given up on the old spy trick.

The practice was halted in 2000 after the first inter-Korea summit between North Korean President Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae Jun.

The 14-minute broadcast of two sets of numbers by a female voice appears to have been the work of the Voice of Korea (formerly Radio Pyongyang), a North Korean radio propaganda station that broadcasts accolades of the Kim family.

A retired US National Security Agency source said the fact it was a 10-11 meter frequency band in the middle of the night, considering that North Korea does not have relay stations like many other shortwave stations, would make the target local to South Korea, Japan or northern China.

"Sun Spot cycle is low to zero right now so would not expect it to be a DX [long distance] transmission," according to the NSA source.

More interesting stuff for you Signals types at the link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2016 08:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Humm.. Who choose the illustration? Fred?
Posted by: Shipman || 07/23/2016 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Wudn't me.
Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2016 10:47 Comments || Top||

#3  A retired US National Security Agency source said the fact it was a 10-11 meter frequency band in the middle of the night, considering that North Korea does not have relay stations like many other shortwave stations, would make the target local to South Korea, Japan or northern China.

As I remember, the time of the broadcast would be used as the decode key for the body of 'content to follow'. As in someone on a public forum (state TV weather report?) mentions "The moon will be at it's maximum brightness tonight at 12:27".

Night time for a surfacing comm-sub/drone within range of the handset that could render the message then retrans via more(secure) sophisticated means to an accompanying launch transport.

Contrary to some opinion a brilliant moon creates great reflections on the surface to hide a passive antenna trailing parallel to the wave troughs.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/23/2016 10:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Probably Besoeker. He likes finding pointed visual commentary for his articles.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2016 20:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Cool. I've always figured Fred was a Crow at some point or the other and there's that weird picture of the Army P-2 Neptune...
Posted by: Shipman || 07/23/2016 20:57 Comments || Top||

#6  in case you are still wondering....
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 07/23/2016 22:11 Comments || Top||

#7  I did, actually. Thank you, Bov.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/23/2016 22:47 Comments || Top||


Europe
An American Cultural Enricher in Berlin
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 07/23/2016 00:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Yankee go home!!!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2016 8:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Wikileaks Confirms The Obvious - Dems and MSM Are One & The Same
Just in case anybody's wondering:
There are three key findings to emerge from yesterday's dump of leaked DNC emails released by Wikileaks:

◦There had been a plot designed to smear Bernie Sanders and to hand the Democratic nomination to Hillary on a silver platter
◦There has been repeated collusion between the DNC and the media
◦There has been questionable fundraising for both Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
Posted by: Raj || 07/23/2016 16:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not surprising to those of us at the 'burg.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/23/2016 16:57 Comments || Top||

#2  "I don't know anybody who voted Republican".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2016 17:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Thank you, Pauline Kael!
Posted by: Raj || 07/23/2016 17:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Russian government posing as hacker "Guccifer 2.0". Trying to tilt the election out of concerns that under 4 more years of Democrat leadership the US will run out of things worth stealing.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/23/2016 18:26 Comments || Top||


Wikileaks: DNC Chair DWS Tried to Score 7 'Hamilton' Tickets
[Hollywood Reporter] Though Lin-Manuel Miranda has said his on-stage farewell, Hamilton is still the hot ticket on Broadway and everyone wants to score tickets -- including Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

In an email thread released Friday by WikiLeaks, Wasserman Schultz requested seven tickets on May 24 to the production for a 50th birthday trip with her college roommates to New York in December.

"Hey Zach, I think I mentioned to you briefly that I am planning a trip with my college roommates in December to NYC. It is for our 50th birthdays. Can you help me get 7 tickets to Hamilton from our friend who did the FR? We will be there from December 9-12. Let me know if there is anyone I need to speak with directly. Thank you so much," Wasserman Schultz requested from DNC's finance director Zach Allen.

"Of course, happy to ask! They usually don't take requests until a month out, and I'd need the form attached filled out (dos require a CC - it's $167/seat)," Allen replied.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2016 09:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


More Dem election year fraud, this time felons in Philadelphia, PA
[Wash Free Beacon] The city of Philadelphia is not removing incarcerated felons from its voter rolls despite being hit with a lawsuit, according to a watchdog group.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation, an Indiana-based election integrity group, sued the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April over its questionable voter rolls. After meeting with city officials, the watchdog group announced that the city had not removed felons from those who are eligible to vote.

"After meeting with City officials, it has come to light that the City doesn't remove or even flag incarcerated felons who are ineligible to vote in Pennsylvania," the group said. "The number of incarcerated felons on the rolls and ineligible to vote likely numbers in the thousands. The Foundation is requesting urgent action from the Court to rectify the situation."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2016 04:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is true voter suppression by diluting the value of votes cast by legitimate qualified voters.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2016 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  hmmm... suit brought in April, Elections in November, yeah, this will get done in time /sarc
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 07/23/2016 22:17 Comments || Top||


Pro-Police Rally Aims to Defy Obama, Light White House Blue Friday Night
A Friday night gathering of supporters of law enforcement officers at the White House led by conservative author Michelle Malkin, retired New York City police officer John Cardillo and Cameron Gray (NRA News) aims to light the White House in blue to honor fallen officers in defiance of the pointed refusal of President Barack Obama to show the same level of support he has shown same sex marriage and breast cancer awareness activists.

The pro-police rally will be held at Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House at 7:45 p.m. Attendees are being encouraged to bring blue lights and tributes to fallen officers. Blue glow sticks will be handed out for those without their blue lights.

A Friday night gathering of supporters of law enforcement officers at the White House led by conservative author Michelle Malkin, retired New York City police officer John Cardillo and Cameron Gray (NRA News) aims to light the White House in blue to honor fallen officers in defiance of the pointed refusal of President Barack Obama to show the same level of support he has shown same sex marriage and breast cancer awareness activists.

The pro-police rally will be held at Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House at 7:45 p.m. Attendees are being encouraged to bring blue lights and tributes to fallen officers. Blue glow sticks will be handed out for those without their blue lights.

Text of statement posted to Facebook by Michelle Malkin:

"An attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans." -Donald Trump just now. Can I get an AMEN? Trump’s forceful defense of our men & women in blue tonight at the GOP Convention is one of the top reasons I will unapologetically support him over lawless Hillary in November. How about you? If you are in the D.C. area tomorrow night, please meet me for ‪#‎bluelightfriday‬ at the White House at sundown! I’ll be holding vigil for the fallen with my friend, former NYPD officer John Cardillo, and many other retired/active-duty LEOs and friends/families/supporters of LEOs. We’re lighting the White House blue since Obama won’t do it. We’ll have blue glow sticks for everyone ‐ or bring your own best blue lights and tributes for our fallen."
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 07/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, did this work? Tried googling it to see, with no results. Just thinking you'd have to have several highpower spots to make this effective, and you just know that equpiment is not getting into LaFayette Park. Glow Sticks? guess you could fire a bunch of em in with a trebuchet.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 07/23/2016 22:42 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Shocking video of police torture fails to stir department
[DAWN] RAHIM YAR KHAN: A sickening video clip of police officials humiliating and torturing a young man and his veiled sister in the Sadiqabad city has gone viral, creating outrage on social media.

Dawn learned Shahzad Lateef was riding a cycle of violence with his sister on Tuesday (July 19) when police constables Shabbir Ahmed and Qasim Raza with police volunteer Yaseen stopped them in Madina Town.

Police officials asked them about their relation with each other. When the motorcyclists told them, that they were siblings, coppers asked them to go to the Sadiqabad City cop shoppe for further interrogation.

Shehzad insisted on knowing about the reason which enraged the constables who started beating him, slapped his sister and abused them. The beating attracted a crowd there, and one of the onlookers recorded the scene and later uploaded it on a social media site. Seeing a crowd there, the coppers let them go.

When Shehzad approached them for a case against their colleagues, Sadiqabad City police refused his application.

Shehzad went to the deputy superintendent of police office only to learn that he busy in an operation against dacoits. Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
different TV channels aired the footage which pressurised the bigwigs.

On Wednesday, Superintendent of Police Irfan Samoon suspended Shabbir and Qasim from service.

Spokesperson for police Arshad Nawaz told Dawn Mr Samoon would initiate an inquiry against the police employees seen in the footage soon as currently he was busy in the recruitment process.

The City station house office told Dawn that he was out of the town when the incident occurred but senior coppers were looking into the matter.

Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Pro-women laws pass first hurdle
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary body consisting of politicians from both houses of parliament on Thursday unanimously cleared two pro-women bills, aimed at plugging loopholes in the law regarding ’honour’ killing and rape.

The anti-honour killing bill aims to prevent the killing of women in the name of honour by making the crime a non-compoundable offence.

The proposed legislation withdraws the provision of ’out-of-court’ settlement that leads to the release of convicts, recommending a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison even if the accused is pardoned by the family of an honour killing victim. Ear­lier, the term was 14 years.

Posted by: Fred || 07/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
75 years after it was first deployed, will US Army bring back the 'jeep'?
[FOX] Were it not for efforts by the U.S. military to develop a lightweight, unarmored, all-terrain vehicle for the battlefield there might not be a market for SUVs today. It all began 75 years ago last December when the United States military adopted the 'jeep', and while the iconic military vehicle was phased out and replaced by the Humvee ‐ the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) in the early 1980s ‐ the Army could go full circle and bring back the jeep.

Last year the Army began gearing up its Ground Mobility Vehicle Program for fiscal 2017. It was part of the Army's Combat Vehicle Modernization Strategy that sought to procure lightweight combat vehicles for infantry brigade combat teams. The vehicles considered sound very much like what first entered service back in 1940.

The Origins of the Jeep

The U.S. Army saw the need for such a go-anywhere four-wheel vehicle when it went "Over There" to France during the First World War. The Four Wheel Drive Auto (FWD) and Thomas B. Jeffery Company supplied the military with the first four-wheel drive trucks, but with another war looming military planners saw a need for a new light, cross-country reconnaissance vehicle. In July 1940 the Army formalized its requirements, which were submitted to 135 U.S. automobile manufacturers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2016 09:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In situations without IEDs risk it makes sense.
Posted by: Tarzan Slailet2796 || 07/23/2016 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope so - we need a fleet of M-ATVs and jeeps. The Chevy Blazer was a poor substitute except in the winter (had a decent heater), the HMMWV was terrible in the woods, cramped for its size, loud, thirsty, terrible to back up, underpowered, okay on the desert until IEDs appeared. The MRAP ATV has a lot of power for its size, decent protection and a is a fair battle taxi in an IED environ. The jeep was great in the woods, unstable on the highway, but did I mention great in the woods.
Posted by: Tennessee || 07/23/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, as a Battalion Motor Officer at Baumholder. Germany in 1982, I always knew these beasts as M151A2 vehicles, with primary pedigree to Willys Overland something or other.

Thanks to Jimmy Carter FORMERLY the worst POTUS, my crew spent countless hours welding angle iron onto Jeep frames, to keep them from disintegrating - and we also had a makeshift battery rebuild program going, to replenish vehicle batteries that were effectively non-existent, coming out of "the Carter years".

The one criticism I had of the M151A2 design was that it was designed so that if it was about to tip over - because it was on a sideways slope that was too severe to transit - it was designed so that the wheels on the low-end side would simply "fold" - and cause the Jeep to do a sideways 360 degree roll. This "saved" the frame and wheelbase - at the expense of killing or maiming everyone who was a passenger in the vehicle.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 07/23/2016 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  The 1/4 with trailer was an awesome tool, and at 1/5 the cost of the Hummer. I do recall riding with my 1SG and both of us in our sleeping bags and feeling the snow on my uncovered face and hating no heater when it was single digit weather.
Great logistic vehicle at the company level.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/23/2016 15:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Think of it as a dingy for you MRAP.
Posted by: KBK || 07/23/2016 16:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Isn't Jeep owned by Mercedes or something?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/23/2016 23:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
CPT Katie Wilder redux: Army accepts first wymn to attend Special Forces A&S
[Wash Times] JACKSONVILLE, Fla. | Two female Army officers will make history when they report to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in their first step toward earning the Special Forces tab and becoming Green Berets.

The female officers, whom Army officials declined to identify, could attend their first Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) class as early as October, though neither has yet received orders for training at Fort Bragg, The Washington Times has learned.

Col. Nestor A. Sadler, commandant of the Special Forces Regiment at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center School at Fort Bragg, confirmed that the two female candidates had accepted invitations for the SFAS class.

"Two females met the requirements for SFAS and were nominated by the ARSOF [Army Special Operations Forces selection] panel to attend SFAS. One candidate declined her invitation and withdrew from the process. Special Forces Branch asked why. On the last day to accept or decline the invitation, she changed her mind and accepted the invitation to attend SFAS," Col. Sadler said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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