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Over 60 Taliban, 30 Soldiers Killed in Past Day's Violent Surge
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-Great Cultural Revolution
The Left Is Eating Itself: Black Lives Matter Suddenly Turns on Biden
[Stillness] A tweet posted by the official BLM account on Tuesday slammed the Biden administration over federal rules allowing police agencies to receive surplus military equipment.

"Biden is currently sending more military equipment to our neighborhoods than Trump did. You read that right," Black Lives Matter said in their tweet.

"Our communities are being terrorized at a greater rate than they had been under Trump," the tweet added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 08:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We must give the police the resources they need to get the job done. Your request for Little Birds is approved.

Whatever it is the BLM does not like, make certain they get plenty of it.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  In the Democrat manual of 'statecraft', every asset like BLM/antifa is an expendable element. They pioneered the weaponization of criminal tribes, to fight their feuds by proxy. The coup complete, Harris in power, I expect the machine to crack down on Wakanda and crush the dream of a 'black nation within America'. If the Dems have the least bit of survival instinct left, that is what they should do. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, wasn't it Obama who started that program?
Posted by: Chris || 05/04/2021 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  I managed that program in California’s Office of Criminal Justice Planning starting ing in 99, the programs were called 1033 and 1122 which we sections of the
Defense legislation. We gave surplus helicopters and USAF Peacekeeper armory vehicles to police and sheriffs across rhe we wven gave LAPD over 600 M17s after the BofA shootout. Great programs.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/04/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||

#5  M16 damn fat fingers
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/04/2021 14:28 Comments || Top||

#6  They love his yams!
Posted by: Angunter Whusonter9583 || 05/04/2021 16:14 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
How Do You Like the Thought of Being Deprogrammed?
[American Thinker] Their normal human sympathies have atrophied. They live in the desert of their own inhuman politics. They are cold and apparently lack a spiritual life. Desperate to look down on other people, they take fatuity to a new level.

David Atkins, recently elected as a California member of the Democratic National Committee, mused on Twitter (Nov. 21, 2020): "How do you deprogram 75 million people who would literally die to stick it to the domestic enemies the teevee and youtube conspiracy vids told them to hate? No, seriously...how DO you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook? We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South."

Bret Stephens, certified by the New York Times as a journalist, summed up the American political landscape ten weeks after the election (Jan. 18, 2021):

The larger question in my mind is whether the G.O.P. is the village that must be destroyed in order to be saved, or, alternatively, is it like a group of previously reasonable people who got taken in by a cult and now must go through some kind of deprogramming so that they can lead normal lives again? My hope is that once Republicans realize that Trump was both a moral and political disaster for them, they might recover their senses.


Katie Couric, famous TV person, reacted viscerally to this "larger question" when chatting with Bill Maher on his Real Time show (Jan. 19, 2020). Katie confided her contempt for those who don't agree with her. She was particularly upset with GOP congressmen. "It's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how AWOL so many of these members of Congress have gotten? ... And the question is, how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump?"

Bill Maher read from the same sermon: "I mean, what do you do about these people? There's 147 Republicans in Congress who still don't concede that Trump lost the election. What do you do about people who are in the government who don't believe in our way of government?"

The Washington Post also has a clairvoyant, Brian Klaas:
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 03:25 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They are cold and apparently lack a spiritual life.

They could be satanists.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 6:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Bashing Trump gives these assholes impeccable Woke credentials, professional advancement, and audience, which means money and influence.

There is no sincere belief or integrity in any of this. It's aa genuine as Kamala Harris's passion for Willie Brown back in the day.

This is whoring pure and simple.



Posted by: Flans Phaish8021 || 05/04/2021 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Never underestimate crazy people.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/04/2021 13:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The Killing Fields of Cambodia brought to the USA by these 'people'.
Posted by: magpie || 05/04/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||

#5  You start by going after MSNBC and NY Times (and pretty much all lefty media that run with the scoop instead of fact checking these days because they know in their dark little hear the truthiness of it all).

Perhaps forcing them to put retractions on the scroll in large letters and the top of the hour would be a start. If lefties knew how many juicy stories were later retracted they'd be embarrassed to ever quote MSNBC or NY Times.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/04/2021 13:51 Comments || Top||

#6  how DO you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start?

global inoculations
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/04/2021 18:16 Comments || Top||


Do You Want a Caste System in America? Keep Pushing Critical Theories and We'll Have It in No Time.
lPJ] The debate about curriculum based on critical theories is getting a lot of hype for how it impacts the teaching of history and civics. Critical theories can absolutely infect those two subjects, but this ideology is far more pernicious than that. There are curricula for math, science, and English that use the underlying thesis of critical theories that are every bit as damaging as teaching a warped version of history that claims America is built on the original sin of slavery.

Critical theories divide society into groups based on their immutable characteristics. Then, it assigns personality characteristics, motives, and societal roles to children based simply on how they were born. This strategy divides children by race, sex, immigration status, disability, and other characteristics they have no control over. It then assigns roles, such as oppressed and oppressor, based on those characteristics. Marxists learned long ago that dividing people by class was challenging. A content middle class was always a barrier to their progress. Dividing people based on immutable characteristics was more straightforward, and creating a coalition of the oppressed groups became the means to gain power, beginning in earnest in the 1980s.

Critical theories are pernicious because they remove agency and free will from one segregated group and blame the other for any disparity in outcomes between groups. It encourages blame and victimhood based on how children were born. The philosophy calls for outright discrimination against groups seen to be "privileged" historically. Generally, these children are white, male, and sometimes Asian. It follows in lockstep with the philosophy articulated by one of the high priests of critical theories, Ibram X. Kendi. "The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 02:33 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Our two-tiered or multi-tiered "justice system" may indicate a Caste System has already arrived.

Ordinary people must face the music while high political leaders who commit serious felonies receive full-scale immunity.

Unfortunately, such a system is not limited to the justice system or criminal conduct.


Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 2:47 Comments || Top||

#2  we already have a caste system. Poor, middle class, rich
Posted by: Chris || 05/04/2021 10:48 Comments || Top||

#3  In our experience caste systems are usually reversed when social justice and forced equity are legislated.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 13:43 Comments || Top||

#4  we already have a caste system. Poor, middle class, rich

Except you can move from one to another freely. What they want is one where your caste is determined by your perceived skin color - and you aren't allowed to change it.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/04/2021 14:10 Comments || Top||


Conservatives Need To Get It On
[Townhall] Let me put this as William F. Buckley might have said it — as a patriotic conservative, it is your duty to call upon that booty.

Last week the census report came out and it is a lights n’ sirens red alert emergency —America’s population grew at the smallest rate since the Great Depression. Down this road to extinction just a few years ahead of us are the morally and culturally exhausted nations of Europe which have not seen their people hitting replacement rate in a generation. The problem is that Americans are not making babies, and we need to solve it. That’s where us conservatives getting it on comes in.
While I fully endorse the author's point of view, I fear my biological clock has run out.
As conservatives, we need to make the having of children the center of our policies. This will make the country stronger, and it will make conservatism stronger as well. We’re still doing okay baby-wise, but our ghastly elite is kid-free. That’s fine — the fewer Kadens and Ashleighs the frigid woke wine women of suburbia punch out the better.

Of course, their answer is to import people from the Third World to act as their serfs, incidentally increasing their own political power at our expense. I like immigrants – I married one – but we're not going to be America if we don't make more Americans. And since our ruling caste thinks America is a terrible racist hellhole of racism, and recoils at the classic notion of a melting pot, an uncontrolled flood of immigrants who aren't required to become Americans means America becomes something other than America. And we like America being American.

We do need some immigrants – ones with useful skills and a desire to be Americans – but what we conservatives must do is take up the slack. That means a dual-axis attack on the political and cultural trends leading us toward barrenness. Plus, more getting it on.

We need a change in mindset as a country that holds that family is key, and that the making of babies is the highest and most important purpose of families. We need to reject the neo-pagan nonsense of the weather cultists that reproduction is a crime against Gaia. We need to be firmly in favor of large and young families. And this will draw resistance from those who would prefer to kick up their heels instead of knocking boots and getting their breed on.
It's Kurt. Go read it all.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/04/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
Inside the secret briefing from a top Australian military general as he warned troops of an all-out WAR with China - saying conflict is 'highly likely'
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/04/2021 09:54 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Secret?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/04/2021 13:04 Comments || Top||

#2  How would the number of troops and tanks matter? Are the Chinese gonna drive to Australia?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/04/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||

#3  They must have an independent correspondent by name of Bond selling stuff to the Daily Mail. Scottish guy, desperate and hollowed out.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 14:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Why would they want or need 'war?' They already own the government of the US, can Australia be that far behind?
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/04/2021 14:40 Comments || Top||

#5 
They must have an independent correspondent by name of Bond Steele selling stuff to the Daily Mail.

MI6 spy Christopher Steele produced a SECOND dossier on Trump that has further evidence of Russian election interference and more sex tapes, report claims
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/04/2021 18:13 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ oh fuck off already, you lying sack o' shite
Posted by: Hupaving Darling of the Leprechauns9055 || 05/04/2021 20:45 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
D'Souza: Abolish The FBI
[ZERO] For a long time, the FBI has stood as the admirable symbol of a police agency of government, implacably going after the bad guys and neutrally enforcing the laws. This is the FBI of the movie "The Untouchables," in which special agent Eliot Ness leads his devoted crew of armed agents in a heroic battle against the forces of organized crime.

Well, forget about the Untouchables. Today’s FBI has quite obviously been corrupted from the top. This is a process that seems to have begun under President Barack Obama, endured during the Donald Trump years, and has now reached its unfortunate nadir under President Joe Biden. It’s time for conservatives and Republicans to start thinking about getting rid of the FBI.

I want to highlight two sets of contrasting episodes that give us a window into how biased and partisan this once-respected agency has now become.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 03:09 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The political weaponization of the bureau has long been apparent. Their recent Giuliana raid simply highlights the obvious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/04/2021 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2  not only the fbi but homeland security as well. The replacement should be charged with crime suppression and border protection. While were at it how about periodic re-acceptance of the supremes and moving the non-historic part of dc, ie congress to somewhere near topeka. And setting up secure land-line so that congress didn't have to reside in the new capitol.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 05/04/2021 8:07 Comments || Top||

#3  For a long time, the FBI has stood as the admirable symbol of a police agency of government...

You mean since the transvestite blackmailer, Hoover, was in charge? Given it's genesis, are you surprised at where its at today?
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/04/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4  The FBI vs Giuliani raid was instigated by the Southern District of New York Attorney General's office (Hillary and Cuomo's turf) which I called and surprisingly a person answered who then got an earful. Of course they hung up on me when I questioned which species of insects they belong to.

A couple of years ago I called the local FBI office in my area and gave the agent an earful also. After that every time I got a call I got clicks as if someone was listening. Jerks.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 05/04/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  The recent Alaska FBI incident, no knock, no warrant, breaking and entering, threatening an innocent couple, is just another straw that is driving the American camel to its knees. The FBI is a fascist organization and anyone with a dime of sense knows it.
Posted by: Spike and Tenille5583 || 05/04/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Of course they hung up on me when I questioned which species of insects they belong to.

They were insulted because they're not insects...they're reptiles.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/04/2021 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  They were insulted because they're not insects...they're reptiles.

Misidentifying someone's gender is awful enough, but getting their phylum wrong is simply beyond the pale.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/04/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#8  I can remember more than once when a mass shooter, passed a background check despite being on some watch list. How did that ever happen twice?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/04/2021 13:53 Comments || Top||

#9  I don't think they have any functional watch lists. They probably fill in discovery on backdated forms and create records after the fact. Just to show that they have an incredible omniscient agency that 'knows everything'. They're just mediocre bungling schmucks who have defrauded and ass kissed their way into government service.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/04/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||

#10  getting their phylum wrong

And when, a while later, ya dial 'em --
"Have I got a file?" -- and revile 'em...
"Why, yes! And for reference,
My phylum, by preference,
Is "reptile that runs the asylum."
Posted by: Zorba Ulimble3833 || 05/04/2021 22:11 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2021-05-04
  Over 60 Taliban, 30 Soldiers Killed in Past Day's Violent Surge
Mon 2021-05-03
  Abbas Wants to Form Palestinian National Unity Government
Sun 2021-05-02
  Over 800 migrants rescued at sea head to Italy
Sat 2021-05-01
  Russia arrests the founder of the largest Islamic
publishing house in Russia for financing ISIS
Fri 2021-04-30
  Iran Revolutionary Guards
Raid President and Foreign Minister's Offices
Thu 2021-04-29
  Boko Haram Releases Photos Of Tanks, Vehicles Captured From Nigerian Army
Wed 2021-04-28
  Afghanistan: US Will not Provide Air Support after Withdrawal
Tue 2021-04-27
  Explosive-laden balloons launched from Gaza towards Israel
Mon 2021-04-26
  Pak: National Counter Terrorism Authority sez more than 19,000 social media accounts taken down for inciting hate and spreading terrorism
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  Sri Lanka arrests top Muslim leader over 2019 Easter attacks
Sat 2021-04-24
  German court convicts ISIS woman of crimes against humanity for Yazidi enslavement
Fri 2021-04-23
  Nigeria: At Least 83 Killed As Bandits Strike Again in Zamfara
Thu 2021-04-22
  Israel retaliates after Syrian missile lands near nuclear reactor
Wed 2021-04-21
  'Unbearable' conditions push Biden administration to close Houston migrant center
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  Chad's president Deby dies after fighting rebels on battlefield- Army


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