Keep an eye on the news this week about Myrtle Beach. The town is reportedly on edge because of recent events in Baltimore and the fact that a large number of attendees at Black Bike Week come from Baltimore. Police are apprehensive and the rumor with the LE community is that it might go nuclear.
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From Orrville, OH, 1997
Appellant Pakrats Motorcycle Club, Inc. appeals the decision of the Wayne County Court of Common Pleas finding the Pakrats' annual “Pakrat Swap Meet and Party” to be a nuisance, and perpetually enjoining the Pakrats from promoting and maintaining the “Pakrat Swap Meet and Party.” We affirm. - See more at: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/oh-court-of-appeals/1266368.html#sthash.ZYYb9kxj.dpuf
I'm 3 hours up the road from the Redneck Riviera (a regular visitor for more than a decade), and I know more than a few people who are saying the same thing. The difference here is this is a red state. Baltimore-level misbehavior will be greeted much differently here, and the Attendees know it. Ask yourself why Charleston didn't erupt when Walter Scott was killed...
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Nearly 200 people have been arrested in Texas on charges stemming from a wild biker gang shootout that left nine dead and 18 injured Sunday.
All of the 170 people face charges of engaging in organized crime in relation to capital murder and were in the process of being booked by Waco police Monday morning, the department said. More arrests, and charges, are likely.
Each is held on $1 million bond, McLennan County Justice of the Peace W.H. Peterson said.
On May 19, the Russian Duma approved a third and final draft of legislation that criminalizes “undesirable organizations.” If the Federation Council and President endorse the bill, any foreign or international NGO that the government declares “undesirable” will be banned from working in Russia. All an organization’s subsidiaries will be closed, its accounts frozen, and its supervisors and staff can even face civil and criminal penalties.
For all Russia’s recent laws in this vein, the “undesirable organizations” bill is still unprecedentedly draconian, and the power it grants authorities to ban NGOs is extrajudicial. Meduza breaks down the most important facets of legislation that is likely to change Russia's NGO landscape dramatically.
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Yep, here they don't pass laws, the apparatchiks of the bureaucracy just make up new regulations for the same effect. Why bother with the facade of the 'consent of the governed'?
John Kerry returns from his latest Russian visit bearing two baskets of potatoes and a t-shirt.
The t-shirt, given to him by Foreign Minister Lavrov, might as well say, "I wasted my time in Russia and all I got was this shirt."
It's a diplomatic success only in relation to Kerry's previous humiliations such as the time that Russia's adeptly slimy foreign minister kept him waiting for a week before returning his call while the State Department spokeswoman announced to the world that Kerry was "ready to talk whenever Foreign Minister Lavrov can find the time."
...It wasn't all that long ago that John Kerry was being touted as the last best hope for diplomacy. No one could quite admit that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had made a complete mess, but the sighs of relief when John Kerry got the job instead of Obama's dishonest crony Susan Rice spoke volumes.
...Kerry finally had the power to make the changes that he always wanted and proved once and for all that he is not a brilliant diplomat or a deep thinker, but a miserable failure. And American diplomacy has failed with him.
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SecState Kerry is to preventing major war in the South China Sea + SE Asia, as Nippon Ambassador Sweet Caroline Kennedy is to preventing major war in NE Asia.
The above being said, OF COURSE KERRY IS SEEMINGLY "FADING" OR HAVING DIFFICULTIES BECUZ HOW CAN HE [+ Caroline] RISE TO NEW HEIGHTS OF US, INTERNATIONAL PROMINENCE + CREDIBILITY, ETC. IFF NO SERIOUS US-CHINA CONFRONTATION OR EVEN MIL CONFLICT OCCURS.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Democrats can run, to paraphrase Muhammad Ali's rebuke of a timid opponent, but they can't hide. Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Richelieu ... is turning her campaign into a game of hide-and-seek, and the party is terrified. Some leading Democrats are beginning to say out loud what they have said privately for weeks.
What she thought would be a cake walk to Philadelphia and the 2016 nomination is beginning to look like a cornbread walk, and cornbread has no icing.
SEE ALSO: Hillary's agribusiness ties give rise to nickname in Iowa: 'Bride of Frankenfood'
She took a spanking on the Sunday talk shows, with her party critics focusing on her reluctance to speak up on several key issues, including one or two that have been close to the beating heart of her party.
The rebukes are still softly stated, but there's power in understatement. Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, says it would be "very helpful" if she took a stand on the trans-Pacific trade agreement, which President B.O. is trying hard to push through Congress. If he makes it the credit will go to free-trade Republicans. Democrats beholden to the labor unions -- which is most of them -- threaten to deprive the president of a majority of his own Democrats.
Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... of Vermont, who seems to be everybody's favorite Socialist, says Hillary should "absolutely" take a position (against) in the debate. And not just in Congress. Some of Hillary's friends in the punditry are telling her the same thing.
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But isn't it time for a Hildebeest president of the United States ?
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Hillary Clinton is the litmus test of how corrupt the entire party is. I'm not seeing enough Democrats telling her not to run. They are all loyal little party soldiers who don't care about the crimes unless they effect the polls and electability.
[DAWN] IF both sides are committed to meaningful implementation, the landmark agreement between the ISI and the Afghan intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... , could fundamentally alter the dynamics of a mutually damaging relationship stretching back decades.
Consider the history here: from the decades that span Khad to WAD and, in its present form, NDS, the Afghan intelligence set-up has been aligned with powers hostile to Pakistain. Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... the ISI has for decades considered exerting influence inside Afghanistan to be one of its two principal aims, the other being shaping the relationship with India.
For the NDS, with its open partiality for India, to seek to formalise and widen its ties with the ISI is nothing short of historic. While details of the MoU have not been revealed, there is a sense that events since December last year have helped make the historic agreement possible.
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[DAWN] THERE was a sense of déjà vu about the Delta Force mission that led to the death of Abu Sayyaf in Syria last week, given the obvious similarities with the Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... operation four years ago: helicopters, a fire-fight, a "treasure trove" of documents, and so on, down to the allegation that the target tried using women and kiddies as shields.
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In the light of all this, it is somewhat surprising that the official account about the boots on the ground that terminated Abu Sayyaf has not attracted greater skepticism.
Let's assume for a moment that the Abu Sayyaf raid is entirely factual [which I do by the way]. Not to mention the timing, what better antidote or back-seating of the UBL doubters than a release of current day facts, truth, and success.
Would it not be reasonable to assume that the success of future Abu Sayyaf type operations might rest with the secrecy of the last? Why the need to publicize, if not for PR purposes?
Whilst hundreds of similar target folders and operations were reportedly ignored for years, this particular operation was approved. Today the media will be discussing the plight of the honey bee. The regime's PR and damage control apparatus is second to none.
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I don't know about that. I'd consider the Left's ability to tag the National Socialist Workers Party as 'right wing' among the great damage control PRs of modern time.
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Besoeker, Not a thing from this administration is trustworthy, not a thing. They lie and distract. Abu Sayyaf was a minor player with no cover, OBL was a double. He was protected by two hacks and women. That's why O. thinks Americans are stupid. People believe the crap he spews.
At some point Rantburg need to qualify contributers.
[DAWN] YET another massacre, yet another day of mourning. An endless macabre dance of death unfolds. The 45 Ismailis killed execution-style last week seem another statistic in the spiralling list of victims of terrorism just like the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. schoolchildren slaughtered in their classrooms.
No amount of bloodbath shakes us out of our inaction. There are a few statements of condemnation and then it is business as usual. It is always easy to dump the blame on a 'foreign hand' while the murderers act with impunity. Are we in a state of denial or is this simple expediency? It seems to be a combination.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton
