[BREITBART] At least 17 people were shot, four fatally, Friday into Sunday in Mayor Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... ’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... .According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the first fatality occurred at 8:45 p.m. Friday, following an argument in an apartment. A 16-year-old boy was allegedly beaten as a result of the dispute, and when he expeditiously departed at a goodly pace he was pursued, shot, and fatally maimed.
A 32-year-old male sitting in a vehicle "at a gas station in the first block of West 111th Street" was shot just before 10 p.m. Friday when someone in another vehicle pulled up beside him and opened fire. A passenger got behind the wheel and drove the 32-year-old to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim!
[Churchhill] Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri
Listen to the full speech from the BBC Archives
This speech may be regarded as the most important Churchill delivered as Leader of the Opposition (1945-1951). It contains certain phrases- "the special relationship," "the sinews of peace " — which at once entered into general use, and which have survived. But it is the passage on "the iron curtain" which attracted immediate international attention, and had incalculable impact upon public opinion in the United States and in Western Europe. Russian historians date the beginning of the Cold War from this speech. In its phraseology, in its intricate drawing together of several themes to an electrifying climax- this speech may be regarded as a technical classic. —Robert Rhodes James
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Great, indeed, Jack. But also quite odd. And flawed. Currently finishing up volume 7 of 8 in the biography by his son Randolph, and Martin Gilbert. And what a great example for smoking cigars, drinking, and eating. And shooting cannons.
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When the Wall came down, there should have been a reckoning for all those on the Left who aided and abetted. Maybe we wouldn't be so f'ing up today if we had.
[Highlands, NC] Silly Ridge RoundUp is a Highlands-based troupe that offers an eclectic blend of americana, bluegrass, folk music, and brings fun, energy, and toe-tapping music to any event throughout the Highlands - Cashiers plateau. Although the band is built around the three core members of David Goodrow, ( lead vocals, guitar, percussion), Knight Martorell, ( banjo, fiddle, harmonica, harmony vocals), and Carter Geigerich, (mandolin, dobro, vocals ), they often expand, drawing upon a broad circle of professional-level, good friends. Silly Ridge RoundUp is a strong dose of musical fun, without the hangover.
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[Variety] However, the membership criteria and qualifications make the mission of seeking diverse membership difficult. On the Golden Globes website, the instructions for new member applications reads in part:
Applicants should be working Southern California-based journalists covering the entertainment industry for a legitimate foreign publication and must be sponsored by two current HFPA members. Applicants are required to submit 24 sample clippings of their work from the last 3 years. They also have to have been listed in the MPAA directory of journalists for the past two years.
For a foreign journalist based in Los Angeles, building relationships with this small group, which are largely unknown to the public, is difficult due to its tight and exclusive membership policies. More transparency would help alleviate the public perception that the group doesn’t seek to be inclusive.
On Friday afternoon, the activist organization Time’s Up tweeted a photo with the hashtag #TimesUpGlobes. Presenter Sterling K. Brown also posted the Time’s Up photo, saying "For any governing body of a current Hollywood award show to have such a lack of voting representation illustrates a level of irresponsibility that should not be ignored."
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Actually Nomadland (which just one I think) is a very good, very mature movie about things I personally know about. I don't agree with every word spoken in it, but it's quite good.
In fact, the organization hadn’t had a Black member since at least 2002, when former HFPA president and board chair Meher Tatna joined.
Ms Tatna is from Mumbai, India. Looking at her photos, she has the the paler skin tone they prize over there, not the darker tones of south India or Bangladesh, nor anything we in America would think of as Black.
As for why, when she was president of the organization, she did not go out and find sub-Saharan journalists to invite to join the organization — beyond insularity and possible bigotry on her part — one must ask how many Third World news organizations can afford to finance a reporter living in Los Angeles to cover the entertainment beat instead of picking up the occasional story from the various newswires that supply most of the rest of their foreign reporting (and part of their domestic reporting as well, in some cases): AP, Reuters, AFP, and RT.
[IsraelTimes] 19-year-old from New Jersey admitting on Friday to coordinating members of the neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... group The Base
...how queer — there’s an Antifa group by the same name. Could it be that stupidly vicious minds think alike, or is someone trying to be clever?
to vandalize at least two Midwestern synagogues.
Neo-Nazis vandalizing Jewish property — check.
Richard Tobin, of Brooklawn, pleaded guilty to conspiracy against rights, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported. He faces up to 10 years in prison.
Tobin said he called his efforts "Operation Kristallnacht," a reference to the pogrom throughout Nazi Germany in 1938 that many refer to as the start of the Holocaust.
He added that he was "triggered by the state of the country" and described feeling angry after seeing large crowds of Black people at a New Jersey mall.
Wait... what?! He’s mad about African-Americans in New Jersey acting like they’re as human as anyone, so he goes after Joooooos halfway across the continent? How does that make sense?
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Triggered by blacks so he goes after Synagogues? You have to wonder if he's just telling the cops what they want to hear, and in this case changed stories mid-sentence.
If he's really a neo-Nazi, odds are he hates everybody including himself.
[JustTheNews] Larry Sanger blasts increasingly woke Wikipedia's whitewashing of socialist and communist human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... atrocities as "propaganda."
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Ironically, Wikipedia's leftist taint reinforces both critical thinking (not everything you read is true) and good scholarship (you need more than one source) even though it's intended mission is the exact opposite. Of course, that's only true for people with their eyes open, but still...
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Good. Keep going. Create alternatives to ALL the Woke cultural and economic giants.
Let them cater to their idiots with their lies and dreck, and we'll provide ourselves with our own honest culture of the good / true / beautiful
More Trump second term stuff instead of Obama’s third.
[AlAhram] This suggests that for now Biden is prepared to stick with the specific sanctions imposed by former President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... on the OPEC nation, despite the failure to force Maduro from power.
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This week, anyway. Look for reversals and more reversals as the tide of bureaucratic warfare results in different sides gaining control over policy for a few days at a time.
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As soon as Xi, Putin, and Iran ask, it's a done deal.
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Legal Insurrection via Instapundit
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s hand-picked parliament is about to roll out a road map to overtake the U.S. economy when it meets on March 5 in Beijing, Asian newspapers report. 5 Year Plans?
The National People’s Congress, the rubber-stamp Communist legislative body, is set to announce a fifteen-year plan to surpass the U.S. as the world’s biggest economy, the leading Japanese business newspaper Nikkei reported Saturday.
According to the Japanese newspaper, "[b]y the end of that road map, in 2035, China sees itself replacing the U.S. as the world’s largest economy."
The road map is part of Beijing’s strategy of geopolitical and economic dominance. Last month, a senior Chinese Communist party official, Chen Yixin, described Beijing’s struggle with the U.S. as "both a skirmish and a protracted war."
With President Donald Trump out of the White House and the world battling the Wuhan coronavirus, the "changes of the international landscape are in our favor," declared Yixin, who is regarded by many as Xi Jinping’s likely successor.
The Japanese daily Nikkei reported the details of the Communist regime’s economic plan:
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And yet the world continues slowly disengaging with China as distrust continues to rise, while poor President Biden refuses to end his predecessor’s sanctions. Perhaps he will quietly do so later, but for the moment there is no joy for China beyond the petty pleasure of humiliating our diplomatic staff with anal Covid testing.
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"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
- A. Lincoln, 27 January 1838
China didn't destroy our industrial base, steal our IP, tank our economy over a flu bug, undermine our scientists and take jobs and university spots from our brightest students and graduates. We did all these things to ourselves.
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Warning! I started getting cost SMS messages from facebook today on my cellphone every time a friend posted on Facebook. Go to settings and privacy, Go to Mobile and turn it off or your cellphone bill will balloon!
PARIS (Reuters) - Judges found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of trying to bribe a judge and of influence-peddling on Monday and sentenced him to three years in jail, with two years suspended.
Sarkozy, who led France from 2007 to 2012, had denied any wrongdoing, saying he was the victim of a witch-hunt by financial prosecutors who used excessive means to snoop on his affairs.
Retired from politics but still influential among conservatives, Sarkozy has 10 days to appeal the ruling.
He is the second former president in modern France, after the late Jacques Chirac, to be convicted of corruption.
Prosecutors persuaded the judges that Sarkozy had offered to secure a plum job in Monaco for judge Gilbert Azibert in return for confidential information about an inquiry into allegations that he had accepted illegal payments from L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 presidential campaign.
This came to light, they said, while they were wiretapping conversations between Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog after Sarkozy left office, in relation to another investigation into alleged Libyan financing of the same campaign.
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Can't think of a better place for that bastard than the Bastille.
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It's not that I'm all that sympathetic for Q'Daffy. I just think it takes a special kind of sociopath to stand there holding hands and smiling with a guy one day and next day sending warplanes to bomb his country, not to mention the damage it did and is still doing to Libyans and their neighbors including France. And yes, I put Baraq Obama and David Cameron in the same category with Monsieur Sarkozy. Still don't know why they colluded to commit that particular crime.
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Scratch a politician and you'll find a criminal. They're attracted to politics for some reason.
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Operation Arab Spring.
Install a bloc of MoBro organized leaders across African Mediterranean and Levant who would be sympathetic to Erdagon policies. In addition, they make money selling weapons and logistics to McCain's Heroes, nevermind the back-scratching and You Owe Me Ones of a large chunk of natural resources and a major sea trade route.
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Still don't know why they colluded to commit that particular crime.
Moammar Qadaffy openly threatened to open the gates to migrants heading to Europe from Africa and beyond if they didn’t give him whatever silly thing he wanted at that moment. The fact that without him the gates opened anyway is secondary to the threat. Could they have handled it better? Absolutely, both then and afterward. But the little colonel seriously misjudged the men and the moment — President George W. Bush would not have made the same call.
As for the handholding, it’s clearly a dominance behaviour by the man who held the keys to a large portion of Europe’s petroleum imports. Which may have played into their eagerness to get back at him.
Sarkozy may not spend any time in prison, however. Two years of his sentence were suspended, and Mee said she was open to him staying out of prison tagged with an electronic bracelet for the remaining year, although that decision rests with another judge.
It does seem a bit odd that the investigation of his 2007 misbehaviour, which may or may not be any different from how his leftwing predecessors did things, was not begun until the year after his successor was sworn in.
[Just The News] Significant legislative attempts are underway in multiple U.S. states, including key battleground states, to roll back major changes in voting rules and regulations to various pre-2020 status quo antes. The efforts come after an historically chaotic election process that has left millions of Americans doubtful of election fairness, security, transparency and accountability.
Changes to election rules — some of them enacted prior to 2020 and others put in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic last year — have included expansive mail-in voting, expanded early voting, relaxation of verification rules, and extensions to ballot receipt deadlines.
Those rules likely contributed to a record 158,000,000-plus votes cast in the 2020 election. But the relaxation of various voting requirements has also led to significant distrust in the election system: Nearly 40% of voters believe that U.S. elections are beset by fraud, while a similar number claim that such concerns haven't been properly vetted by public authorities.
Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona all considering bills to roll back rule changes
Legislators in numerous states are angling to address some of those concerns by pushing for legislation to shore up what critics claim are the vulnerabilities created by relaxed voting rules.
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Good. The important thing is to make the system trustworthy — in certain Democratic strongholds for the first time in generations or the first time ever. The fact that this will significantly reduce the number of Democratic wins is a pleasant side effect.
[IsraelTimes] Request to vaccinate multinational force came from US and has been approved by Israel, despite freeze imposed on transfers of shots to other countries.
Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday in the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the U.N. human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... office said.
Police were out in force early and opened fire in different parts of the biggest city of Yangon after stun grenades, tear gas and shots in the air failed to break up crowds. Soldiers also reinforced police.
Several maimed people were hauled away by fellow protesters, leaving bloody smears on pavements, media images showed. One man died after being brought to a hospital with a bullet in the chest, said a doctor who asked not to be identified.
"Police and military forces have confronted peaceful demonstrations, using lethal force and less-than-lethal force that — according to credible information received by the UN Human Rights Office — has left at least 18 people dead and over 30 maimed," the U.N. human rights office said.
Police also hurled stun grenades outside a Yangon medical school, sending doctors and students in white lab coats scattering. A group called the Whitecoat Alliance of medics said more than 50 medical staff had been arrested.
Three people were killed at Dawei in the south, politician Kyaw Min Htike told Rooters from the town. Two died in the second city of Mandalay, Myanmar Now media and a resident said. Resident Sai Tun told Rooters one woman was shot in the head.
Police and the front man for the ruling military council did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.
Police broke up protests in other towns, including Lashio in the northeast, Myeik in the deep south and Hpa-An in the east, residents and media said.
State-run MRTV television said more than 470 people had been arrested on Saturday. It was not clear how many were detained on Sunday.
A day after the junta announced that Myanmar's U.N. envoy had been fired for opposing its rule by calling for action from the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... , the foreign ministry announced that diplomats at several other embassies were being recalled.
It gave no reason, but some diplomats have been among civil servants to join a Civil Disobedience Movement that has paralysed a swathe of official business.
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.