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Jeez, what do you have to do for a Democrat to get arrested in Portland? Besides, I thought arresting people for crimes was racist or transphobic or something.
[BREITBART] Forty-five people were shot, five fatally, during the weekend 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... ABC 7/Chicago Sun-Times reported the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred Saturday night shortly before 11 p.m. when 37-year-old Travis Willis was shot "during a fight." The shooting occurred in West Pullman. Willis was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.
The Sun-Times noted a 21-year-old man was killed while riding in a vehicle around 11:15 p.m. Saturday night. The 21-year-old was shot multiple times in the head and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! A 27-year-old was shot and fatally injured just before midnight Saturday. He was standing "in the 5600 block of South Morgan Street" when shots rang out. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.
A 34-year-old year-old man was shot and killed around 2 p.m. Sunday while standing "in the 800 block of North Ridgeway Avenue." He was talking to another man when a third individual approached on foot and opened fire.
The most recent fatal attack was the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy mid-afternoon Sunday. The boy was driving in West Garfield Park when someone fired shots, striking him in the face. The teenager succumbed to his wounds.
Breitbart News pointed out that 24 people were shot, three fatally, last weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago.
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Another 50 days until the Summer Shooting Season.
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Just wait until the BLM gains situational awareness of this carnage. All HELL will break lose.
Wiki - Endemic warfare is a state of continual or frequent warfare, such as is found in some tribal societies (but is not limited to tribal societies).
Ritual fighting (or ritual battle or ritual warfare) permits the display of courage, masculinity and the expression of emotion while resulting in relatively few wounds and even fewer deaths. Thus such a practice can be viewed as a form of conflict-resolution and/or as a psycho-social exercise. Native Americans often engaged in this activity, but the frequency of warfare in most hunter-gatherer cultures is a matter of dispute.[1]
Warfare is known to several tribal societies, but some societies develop a particular emphasis of warrior culture (such as the Nuer of South Sudan,[2] the Māori of New Zealand, the Dugum Dani of Papua,[2] the Yanomami (dubbed "the Fierce People") of the Amazon. [2] The culture of inter-tribal warfare has long been present in New Guinea.[3]
Communal societies are well capable of escalation to all-out wars of annihilation between tribes. Thus, in Amazonas, there was perpetual animosity between the neighboring tribes of the Jívaro. A fundamental difference between wars enacted within the same tribe and against neighboring tribes is such that "wars between different tribes are in principle wars of extermination".[4]
[KVUE] Austin voters have approved Proposition B, which aims to reinstate the public camping ban that was reversed in July 2019. The results were 57% to 43%, with the majority voting to approve the proposition.
The camping ban makes it illegal to camp in any public area not designated by the Parks and Recreation Department; to sit or lie on a public sidewalk or sleep outdoors in and near the downtown area and the area around the University of Texas campus; and to panhandle at specific hours and locations.
Both support for and opposition to the proposition was strong in the months leading up to the election, and controversy has swirled around public camping and homelessness in general in Austin since the camping ban was first reversed nearly two years ago.
As results rolled in on Saturday night, Austin Mayor Steve Adler issued a statement, saying the vote on both sides has to be seen as an expression of the popular will to end tenting:
"If it passes it will go into effect on May 11, once the election is certified.
"One thing seems pretty clear, people on both sides of this issue want to see public camping end. This election underscores that we need to accelerate and scale a solution to end camping.
"Our next step is to get people out of tents and into better, safer places with the critical services needed to keep them out of tents.
"We must pool our resources to get our unhoused residents into homes, and that will take the whole community rallying together to commit to this cause.
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I hear Ben and Jerry's offered to take them all in and let them eat all the ice cream until they explode. Bus tickets to Vermont should be in high demand.
(CNN) The Biden administration is considering using outside firms to track extremist chatter by Americans online, an effort that would expand the government's ability to gather intelligence but could draw criticism over surveillance of US citizens.
The Department of Homeland Security is limited in how it can monitor citizens online without justification and is banned from activities like assuming false identities to gain access to private messaging apps used by extremist groups such as the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers.
Instead, federal authorities can only browse through unprotected information on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook and other open online platforms.
The plan being discussed inside DHS, according to multiple sources, would, in effect, allow the department to circumvent those limits. A source familiar with the effort said it is not about decrypting data but rather using outside entities who can legally access these private groups to gather large amounts of information that could help DHS identify key narratives as they emerge.
By partnering with research firms who have more visibility in this space, the DHS could produce information that would likely be beneficial to both it and the FBI, which can't monitor US citizens in this way without first getting a warrant or having the pretext of an ongoing investigation. The CIA and NSA are also limited on collecting intelligence domestically.
It would, however, involve empowering a unit at DHS that is already under fierce scrutiny for its bungled handling of the Portland riots last summer, an episode that included collecting intelligence reports on journalists and unmasking private citizens, according to a source familiar with a recent internal report on the matter.
That leaves the Biden administration with a key question: how to address mistakes made during the Trump administration while also finding ways to respond to what critics say were blatant failures by US intelligence agencies to act on warnings ahead of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol?
"There's a tension between wanting to empower [DHS's intelligence office] to do this kind of work around domestic terrorism on the one hand and then on the other hand the misuse of its capabilities during the summer of 2020, gives a lot of people on the Hill pause {when it comes to} potentially giving them new authorities, capabilities or resources," a Senate aide told CNN.
DHS officials are exploring ways to enhance the department's information gathering within the bounds of its current authorities, multiple sources told CNN.
The department is coordinating with the National Security Council and FBI as part of the effort, sources added.
"There was only limited awareness before January 6 of what violent extremists were planning through social media," said Tom Warrick, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who served as DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism Policy from 2008 until 2019 and has decades of experience as a career government official at agencies including the State Department.
Warrick added he would expect DHS to "explore whether contractors could help them understand plots and trends" emerging online.
"Whatever gets approved and implemented has to comply with established laws," he said, noting that DHS can only use overt methods to gather information from social media or collect information that is publicly available.
Researchers who already monitor such activity online could act as middlemen to obtain the information. DHS officials maintain the materials provided would only consist of broad summaries or analysis of narratives that are emerging on these sites and would not be used to target specific individuals.
But some of the research firms and non-profit groups under consideration by the DHS periodically use covert identities to access private social media groups like Telegram, and others used by domestic extremist groups. That thrusts DHS into a potential legal gray area even as it plugs an intelligence gap that critics say contributed to the failure to predict the assault on the Capitol.
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Unbelievable. They're openly talking about using paid agents to spy on US persons in violation of the Constitution and the laws against domestic spying without a warrant.
Why is this tolerated?
How much longer will we watch as our Constitution is gutted and trashed?
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I suspect a 'deep dive' into contracting for such services might reveal....nothing new is actually taking place. The prohibitions of Executive Order 12333 mean little or possibly nothing to these people.
The media has long been shaped to reflect popular political narratives. I doubt the prickly thorn of the the blogosphere has escaped scrutiny.
Your data is up for sale any day of the week.
No warrant is needed just $$$.
Guess who has had a budget for years for purchasing private citizen data?
Guess which Political Party watered down the USA's version the initial Online Privacy Act.
H.R.4978 - Online Privacy Act of 2019.
Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-19]*
Rep. DeSaulnier, Mark [D-CA-11]
Rep. Visclosky, Peter J. [D-IN-1]
Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
BTW: A pretty good read "U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review – 2020"
https://www.gibsondunn.com/us-cybersecurity-and-data-privacy-outlook-and-review-2020/#_Toc31013935
" Other Federal Legislation
There were several other privacy-related bills introduced in 2019 and 2020 prior to the publication of this Review, including: Online Privacy Act of 2019,[49] Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight and Regulations on Data Act,[50] Do Not Track Act,[51] Social Media Privacy Protection and Consumer Rights Act of 2019,[52] Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019,[53] Balancing the Rights of Web Surfers Equally and Responsibly Act of 2019,[54] Privacy Bill of Rights Act,[55] Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act,[56] the DATA Privacy Act,[57] and the Preventing Real Online Threats Endangering Children Today (“PROTECT”) Kids Act.[58] None, as of this writing, has gained significant traction."
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/\ Shunned by much of DoD for years, it remains an amazing social network and
collaborative forensic discovery tool. Analyst Notebook (AnB) to the 10th power might not be an exaggeration. I am hardly surprised at their continued marketing and fielding successes.
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Why not, they have the post office doing it already..
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Contractor in government files doing what civil servants cant? Sounds familiar...
EXPLAINER
From Kate Bolduan
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama campaign, a source said Saturday.
Analysis Corp. President John Brennan, shown here in 2004, advises Barack Obama, a source tells CNN.
John O. Brennan, president and CEO of the Analysis Corp., advises the Illinois Democrat on foreign policy and intelligence issues, the source said.
Brennan briefed the media on behalf of the campaign this month.
The executive is a former senior CIA official and former interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
He contributed $2,300 to the Obama campaign in January.
When asked about the contribution, a State Department official told CNN's Zain Verjee, "We ethically awarded contracts. Political affiliation is not one of the factors that we check."
On Friday, the department revealed that Obama's passport file was improperly accessed three times this year, and the security of passport files of the two other major presidential candidates -- Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain -- had also been breached. Watch the secretary of state apologize for the breach »
Three contract employees are accused in the wrongdoing, including the one who works for Analysis Corp. and who was disciplined. That contract employee accessed McCain's file in addition to Obama's. None of the contract employees was identified. Learn more about the companies involved »
The other two contract employees worked for Stanley Inc. They were fired.
The Washington Times, which broke the story Thursday night that Obama's records had been improperly accessed, reported Saturday that the State Department inquiry is focusing on the Analysis Corp. employee. Also, the investigation by the department's inspector general will include polygraph tests for supervisors in the passport section to find out whether there was any political motive.
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They have been doing this for years. Banks are heavily regulated and the feds pressure the banks to squeeze payday lenders, gun stores...... I suspect transaction reports are included in the requirement to keep regulators at bay
#14
Citizens of democracies wouldn't like to accept it, but most governments besieged by antinationals and subversives already do this in some way. And it was the US that taught us how to.
Very effectively maintains deniability, is cheaper than the bloated government machinery, brings corporate efficiency to a job that could really use some efficiency. Oh... and the assets and employees of the contractor know they are expendable [literally] if they compromise secrecy.
I maintain that the domestic police state the Democrat is pushing on America should have been achieved under a Republican. The conservatives just missed that chance because GOP leaders are too 'righteous' to play dirty.
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So they plan to do in the open what Nixon and the plumbers got caught doing after hours. So they don't object to Watergate, only that they weren't the ones doing to others back then (but probably were).
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In February, the Congressional Budget Office projected that even without additional fiscal stimulus, the federal budget deficit would be $2.3 trillion in fiscal 2021, noting that the deficit has widened "significantly" as a result of stimulus legislation. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2021/03/10/us-budget-deficit-hits-1-trillion-with-more-massive-stimulus-set-to-hike-up-spending/?sh=24d401c05525
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When 'inflation' hits its pace, we'll all be making $400K easily. We'll need it because toilet paper will be very expensive and it will provide an alternative close at hand.
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A 50/50 Senate is going to be an "All You Can Eat" pork buffet to buy votes naturally and the Cloward-Pliven Left are going to be screaming "Give Us Benjamin$". It would be a joke if it was funny. The Tax Man Cometh!
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They're up to $6tn now.
SIX TRILLION DOLLARS.
In one year.
Not for bridges and ports and roads and tunnels but for... bailing out soyboy Studies majors, checks for people at the 90th income percentile, Trains to Nowhere, payoffs to Democratic governors who've bitched their states' finances beyond recognition.
F---ers. They are TRYING to destroy this nation's economy and global hegemony. And they don't give a flying fook -- so long as they take their cut.
[MSN] Democratic Missouri Representative Cori Bush, a member of the progressive "Squad," on Sunday called America "racist AF," after she backed defunding the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
"Our communities wouldn't have needed to spark a national movement to save Black lives if America weren't racist AF," Bush tweeted Sunday afternoon.
The congresswoman's remarks come two days after she praised a "historic" vote to defund the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
Born in St. Louis, Bush represents Missouri's 1st congressional district that includes all of the city of St. Louis and a large part of northern St. Louis County.
St. Louis is ranked by Neighborhood Scout as one of the country's most dangerous cities.
Worse than Chicago, Detroit, New York City, San Francisco...? Wow.
Between 2009 and 2019, at least 179 people were killed by local police or died in jug, according to a report by ArchCity Defenders. The figure represented the highest number of police killings per capita among the largest 100 departments across America.
A proposal by Democratic Mayor Tishaura Jones ...Cop-hating Dem heronner da mare of St. Louis. Chicago and Baltimore needed some competition for murder capital... to reallocate $4 million from the police budget to affordable housing initiatives and defund The Workhouse, a medium security penitentiary, has passed the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in a 2-1 vote.
Next, the plan will go through St. Louis' legislative body, the Board of Aldermen, for debate and amendments, according to Fox News.
In a statement on Friday, Bush said: "Today's decision to defund the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is historic. It marks a new future for our city."
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She is right too. In a society where "people not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." she'd be a cleaning lady.
[NYPOST] American conservatism was for too long under the spell of what might be called "market fundamentalism": It mindlessly treated all private-sector action as good and all government action as bad. At worst, this fundamentalism gave rise to corporate boosterism and outright cronyism that repelled voters from the GOP.
But today’s political realignment seems to be breaking the spell — and not a moment too soon.
These days, a rising cohort of writers and intellectuals associated with the New Right seeks to recover the "Two-Cheers-for-Capitalism" ethos of Irving Kristol: that is, to allow for a greater government role in channeling market efficiency toward the traditional conservative political ends of justice, human flourishing and the common good.
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It is more that pure Capitalism is being destroyed by liberal top management. When Big Business support corrupt politicians who frame their opponents, corrupt politicians can be bought by big corporations to savage their own competition.
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In the 90s the experts said that the Japanese model of Government interconnected with business was why they were so successful. Then Japan flatlined for over a decade. Then US businesses, unable to learn the lessons of history started ramping up their own interconnectivity with government.
[PALMBEACHPOST] Charlie Crist ...the politically androgynous former governor of Florida... , the state’s former Republican governor turned Democratic congressman, is expected to announce next week that he’s making a second run for governor as a Democrat. "Jr. OrangeMan Bad"
Crist said in a recent television interview that he is considering running for governor and tweeted Saturday that he will make a "major announcement" on May 4 in his home town of St. Petersburg.
Crist won the governor’s mansion as a Republican in 2006 after many years in GOP politics. He decided not to seek a second term, instead running in 2010 for a U.S. Senate seat, which he lost to Sen. Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida....
In 2014 Crist tried to mount a comeback as a Democrat, losing the governor’s race to former Gov. Rick Scott, who is now a U.S. senator.
Crist won a U.S. House seat in 2016 and has twice been reelected, but his Tampa Bay area district could be significantly redrawn during the upcoming redistricting effort.
While Crist may be the first to announce, there is expected to be a crowded Democratic primary field in the governor’s race this year. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is a likely candidate, and U.S. Rep. Val Demings also is contemplating running.
Crist, 64, was considered a moderate Republican during his time as governor, promoting green energy ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of dollars that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... and making it easier for felons to get their voting rights restored. That image hurt him in the GOP primary against Rubio.
Crist has continued to promote a centrist image as a Democrat, joining the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of centrist Democrats in Congress. He was an early supporter of President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
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.
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...
[KVUE] Austin voters have approved Proposition B, which aims to reinstate the public camping ban that was reversed in July 2019. The results were 57% to 43%, with the majority voting to approve the proposition.
I suspect a 'deep dive' into contracting for such services might reveal....nothing new is actually taking place. The prohibitions of Executive Order 12333 mean little or possibly nothing to these people. 
[MSN] Democratic Missouri Representative Cori Bush, a member of the progressive "Squad," on Sunday called America "racist AF," after she backed defunding the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.
...Cop-hating Dem heronner da mare of St. Louis. Chicago and Baltimore needed some competition for murder capital...
[NYPOST] American conservatism was for too long under the spell of what might be called "market fundamentalism": It mindlessly treated all private-sector action as good and all government action as bad. At worst, this fundamentalism gave rise to corporate boosterism and outright cronyism that repelled voters from the GOP.
[PALMBEACHPOST] 
Crist, 64, was considered a moderate Republican during his time as governor, promoting 
