[American Thinker] Many Americans understand that the riots aren’t righteous protests but are, instead, leftist activism aimed at destabilizing America and (the activists hope) destroying Trump’s chance at reelection. Still, people found shocking a video showing police in Buffalo pushing an old man to the ground where he lay with blood pouring from his ear. Don’t believe everything you see, though. The old man was a leftist activist looking for trouble and may have staged the whole thing.
If one views the video in a vacuum, it’s awful. A frail-looking old man standing alone against the Buffalo police is brutally pushed to the ground and left to lie there, bleeding:
Almost immediately after the video appeared, the police officers who pushed the man were charged with assault and suspended from the force. This tweet illustrates how effective the man’s fall was in advancing the anti-police narrative:
[American Renaissance] The United States is in an uproar over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. There have been demonstrations in over 400 US cities, and looting and arson in every major city. Why are so many people in the streets? Because they believe that American society is systematically racist and that the police brutalize and even casually murder black men.
The media constantly tell people the police are racist, and many people think the disturbing video of the death of George Floyd bears this out. But let’s look at the facts.
Every year, American police officers have about 370 million contacts with civilians. Most of the time nothing happens, but 12 to 13 million times a year, the police make an arrest. How often does this lead to the death of an unarmed black person? We know the number thanks to a detailed Washington Post database of every killing by the police. What is your guess as to the number of unarmed blacks killed by the police every year? One hundred? Three hundred? Last year, the figure was nine.
That number is going down, not up. In 2015, police killed 38 unarmed blacks. In 2017, 21. What about white people? Last year, police killed 19 unarmed whites, in addition to the 9 unarmed blacks. We know the number of black and white people arrested every year, so it is possible to make an interesting calculation. The chances of being unarmed, arrested, and then killed by the police are higher for whites than for blacks. For both races, it’s very rare: One out of 292,000 arrests for blacks, and out of 283,000 arrests for whites. This is hardly what we would expect from the way the media report these deaths.
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So, Clem. You don't like these stats? They aren't pretty but I think they are better documented than St. Fauci / CDC / WHO / NIH eyewash.
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I should have used the /sarc tag. I was trying to make the point about the hysteria of COVID-19 and the low numbers percentage wise in relation to the 370 million contacts by the police and only nine deaths of unarmed blacks. The numbers you provided are even more insanely low. Sorry for the confusion.
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/sarc be hard these days. That's why the Bee is so piquant.
About 1 police encounter per capita. And we kno few of those are taking place in hospital neonatal units, ICU or nursing homes. So some capitas have more encounters than others. Seems like something "social credit" could track. Oh, never mind...
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So, how many cops are killed in encounters with the oppressed?
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I'm uncomfortable with how Floyd's situation was handled, as seen on the video. Videos don't tell the whole story (not excusing what was on the video.) All that said, a I told a distraught friend of mine this morning "Rioting is not a job and working America will prevail." Even our boot Nike licking politicians understand that without tax revenues they ain't going to be kissing up to any miscreants for long.
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#10. Almost all of that is in the originally cited article. I guess since it didn't come from something St. Fauci pushed, you didn't even read it.
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#12 All I see at the link is breakdown by: gunfire, auto, other
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It's rayciss. Facist. White privilege. Old saying: why don't "some people" like aspirin? Three reasons: It's white, it works and you have to pick cotton to get at it.
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I've been pointing out to people that "white privilege" is nothing more than another racist take on the "White Man's Burden" which is the same justification for slavery by the south. White privilege cannot exist unless blacks are inferior, so by claiming to repudiate it, they are in fact, being MORE racist.
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It is my privilege to earn enough to pay taxes, as Rush Limbaugh has said. Where I don't feel particularly privileged is in reading about all the useless crap my tax dollars are spent on.
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Today, there clearly are many Americans protesting who see the government as legitimate and just want limited but important changes.
There are others, however, who clearly are staking turf such as the terrorist group BLM who is right now painting roads and so forth in DC, and doing a lot more than occupy. They have politicians on their side who, for instance, just evicted Utah National Guard and let the terrorists move in.
They are making a power play and this is very delicate.
Some military officers appear to be siding with BLM. They should be fired on the spot. Any US military officer who openly sides with a terrorist organization during such a critical time must be fired. On the spot. No matter the consequences. Consequences of not firing are far worse.
The risk of course includes race war within the ranks, or rebellion (which clearly has happened already) by officers.
Must. Fire. Benedict. Arnold.
With his public video, General Charles ’CQ’ Brown just publicly challenged the President. That was a power play. An, "I dare you to fire me I am a black General."
Fire Brown now. If not, cancer within the ranks can explode.
Insurgencies are far, far different than protests. Protests are like a headache. Two to aspirin, make an agreement, call me in the morning.
Insurgency...those typically include elements of civil war. IF we enter into a profound insurgency, chances of various civil wars unfolding immediately are very high. Like 99%. Chance of profound insurgency starting from here? Coin flip. But if we get there, it's game on.
Likely, at some point, if we enter into profound insurgency and then into civil wars, I would expect that some journalists and politicians would start being assassinated as per banana republic revolutionary style.
There is still ample opportunity to head this off. You know...like the pandemic.
For starters, fire everyone military officer who openly rebels. Immediately. We are right on the edge but not on fire yet.
Hey, do you remember all those warnings I gave in Iraq, then Afghanistan, and other countries, and then warned about this pandemic and economic difficulties back in January, and was saying clearly in January to stop incoming flights?
I am saying it here, loud and clear. Appears that we are moving into a sponsored insurgency. BLM and ANTIFA are two of the gloves and must be vigorously targeted.
Touchy, right? I get it. Trust me...spent years in many conflicts. I know exactly how touchy this is. This is like bomb squad working on a giant ticking bomb while under sniper fire.
Fire those officers right now. Anyone who sides with BLM or ANFITA out the door.
If this continues for one more week, invoke the Insurrection Act.
Remember, only a relatively small percentage of the population is fighting now. If you start getting millions of whites, hispanics, and asians fighting...this will be Iraq 10x and could result in a huge slaughter of blacks.
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Who is trying to revive this guy's blogging career. Oh, wait, let me guess?
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Hey, do you remember all those warnings I gave in Iraq, then Afghanistan, and other countries, and then warned about this pandemic and economic difficulties back in January, and was saying clearly in January to stop incoming flights?
Look at meeeeeee. Too bad Meggie Moo is already married...
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BLM who is right now painting roads and so forth in DC, and doing a lot more than occupy.
16th Street leading up to the WH was renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza NW; the area in front of the WH was renamed BLM Plaza. This was done with the approval of Mayor Muriel Bowser. These people are afflicted with TDS. This woman is bucking to replace De Blasio as the worst mayor in the U.S.
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Is he right about firing those in the military who rear up on their hind legs to side with Black Lives Matter against their commander in chief, M. Murcek?
[Medium.com] Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and it was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of actual substance as you’d expect from a president who spent eight years stagnating the progressive movement with empty hope narrative while advancing the same murderous oppressive agendas as his predecessors.
The former president talked about changes that need to be made as though he wasn’t the most powerful politician in America for two full terms, praised the nation’s police officers saying "the vast majority" of them protect and serve the people, and encouraged them to continue making empty gestures of solidarity with the protesters to calm them down.
"I want to acknowledge the folks in law enforcement that share the goals of re-imagining policing," Obama said. "Because there are folks out there who took their oath to serve your communities to your countries [who] have a tough job, and I know you’re just as outraged about the tragedies in the recent weeks as are many of the protesters. So we’re grateful for the vast majority of you who protect and serve. I’ve been heartened to see those in law enforcement who recognize, ’Let me march along with these protestors. Let me stand side by side and recognize that I want to be part of the solution,’ and have shown restraint and volunteered and engaged and listened because you’re a vital part of the conversation, and change is going to require everyone’s participation."
George W Bush also weighed in on the protests, with the "compassionate conservative" who murdered a million Iraqis sending liberals throughout the Twitterverse into fits of ecstasy with his emotional plea for "empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice."
Establishment narrative managers on both sides of America's imaginary partisan divide have been saturating the mass media with gushing praise for the two former presidents and their wonderful words of healing and unity, and indeed, the words are quite nice. They will change exactly nothing, but they sound nice....
#3
Maybe making the "Empire" less desirable is part of the plan?
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Medium.com is just a blogging platform like wordpress.com or forbes.com. People can write whatever.
"And that is exactly what a US president’s real job is. Not to end police brutality and systemic racism, not to make changes which benefit the American people, and certainly not to make the world a less violent and murderous place, but to say pretty words which lull the public into a pleasant propaganda-induced coma while the sociopathic oligarchs who really run things rob them blind."
We were just robbed of what, $2-3 trillion by these sociopathic oligarchs? Poof. Gone. We got crumbs.
[Daily Mail VIA Right Scoop] Vice President Joe Biden said in a discussion of the George Floyd killing that a large substantial share of Americans are not ’very good people’ — as he tried to condemn President Trump but potentially opened himself up to attack.
’The words a president says matter. So when a president stands up and divides people all the time, you’re going to get the worst of us to come out. The worst insult to com out.’ Biden said.
But he also extended his critique far beyond a small slice of the country. ’Do we really think this is as good as we can be as a nation? I don’t think the vast majority of people think that,’ he continued.
’There are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there that are just not very good people. But that’s not who we are. The vast majority of the people are decent, and we have to appeal to that and we have to unite people — bring them together’...
His remarks recalled a gaffe by Hillary Clinton during the 2016 elections, where she said half of Trump’s supporters could be put in a ’basket of deplorables.’ It was a comment that the Trump campaign was able to weaponize as the candidates were battling it out in critical swing states, and that Clinton had to walk back.
[Breitbart] During an interview to air during Fox News Channel’s Saturday broadcast of "Watters’ World," Vice President Mike Pence pushes back against former Defense Secretary James Mattis’ claim President Donald Trump "divisive" and a "bad guy."
Pence called Mattis "wrong."
"I haven’t spoken to General Mattis, but I can tell you he’s wrong," he said. "But what this president has done in recent days is what every American expects a president to do in times of crisis, and that is put the lives and the property and the liberty of every American first."
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Maybe fewer wars would mean fewer "war heroes" in our government.
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Funny how people engaged in state-sponsored murder are exalted as "heroes" and have statues built in their honor. Jonas Salk, for example, deserves infinitely more praise and exultation. And just who is this hyped-up Mutt Mattis anyway?
This Dec 2018 article was linked in a comment today by g(r)om. Perhaps it deserves it's own posting and memory hole review.
[Jewish Press] In July 2013, after serving two years as the chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) under President Barack Obama, retired Marine Corps General James Mattis told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the situation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority was "unsustainable."
"It’s got to be directly addressed," Mattis argued. "We have got to find a way to make the two-state solution that Democrat and Republican administrations have supported. We’ve got to get there, and the chances for it are starting to ebb because of the settlements, and where they’re at, they’re going to make it impossible to maintain the two-state option."
Which is to suggest that while the world is in shock over President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense’s decision to quit, it is possible that his resignation removed from the discussion table a staunch supporter of what UN Ambassador Nikki Haley (also on the way out) described as a coming proposed peace deal which Israelis are not going to like. At least not all of it.
Back in 2013, Mattis told CNN: "If I’m in Jerusalem and I put 500 Jewish settlers out here to the east and there’s 10,000 Arab settlers in here, if we draw the border to include them, either it ceases to be a Jewish state or you say the Arabs don’t get to vote — apartheid."
In other words, when it came to the peace process, there was no daylight between the views of General Mattis and say, Peace Now, or Meretz, or, come to think of it, President Vladimir Putin.
That is not to say that Mattis was not an admirable leader of US forces in both Syria and Afghanistan, and that he was not absolutely on the money when he wrote President Trump: "My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues," meaning he believed Trump was not doing any of that; and, "We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances," meaning Mattis didn’t think Trump was doing that either, hence his world-shocking resignation.
Frankly, if I were a Kurd in Syria or a pro-Western Afghan, I’d be very worried today, because with the US presence in Syria cut off completely and slashed in half in Afghanistan, 2019 is bound to spell a Turkish massacre of the Kurds and a Taliban massacre of the enlightened forces in their part of the world.
But Israel will not have to endure similar atrocities, God willing, because it never relied on US direct military protection. Instead, Israel has developed a direct channel of communication with Russia, as well as indirect channels with all its enemies, including Hamas and Iran.
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I recommend reading, “My Promised Land” by Ari Shavit.
Even if it is on the NYT list it does give a liberal view on the Holy Land. I support Israel but do not believe the Arab’s will protect my Holy Sites.
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Comment below has been transcribed from the original email. "By the way, it was probably looted by the 4th Crusade from Constantinople in 1204. It was apparently found walled up several centuries before in the Levant. Up until that time Jesus was always portrayed as clean-shaven prompted by the clean-shaven fashion in the Roman world in the first centuries AD. After its discovery, suddenly all representations of Christ show him bearded as in the Shroud. Traditional Jews in his time were bearded."
BLUF:
[American Rennisance] I’m not a racist, I am a realist. The races are different and we should all acknowledge those differences. Exposure to blacks stripped me of the rosy glasses I had worn for so long, and discovering Jared Taylor on YouTube helped my refine and solidify my understanding of the science and genetics behind all my unpleasant experiences. My family and I no longer live in Maryland, and I hope we never live near any large group of blacks ever again — and I’m not ashamed to say so.
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^ Some people believe that. Society as a whole? I doubt it a lot.
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It’s underclass culture — the writer is a tad parochial. The same nonsense goes on with the British underclass, which still is primarily white, and much of the rest is from the Indian subcontinent. On the other hand, most Jamaican immigrants are hardworking and well behaved, as is the Black middle class — except for those in the Social Justice Warrior contingent, who are hardworking and obnoxious, exactly like their white SJWs comrades.
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when your culture celebrates failure, shockingly you get failure. in spades.
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Blacks are exploited by the Left as a hinge to get power.
So there from start a strong group of people interested into black failure. Korea was a disaster in middle of WW2 look at them now. They got lucky the Left never cared for them.
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In my 70 years of life I have never seen a good reason to abandon my belief in individualism.
I am not a racist but I admit to being culturalist. You get what you're raised to be unless something fires up your innate thinking ability and you learn from your experiences.
CAUTION: Contains the dreaded hierarchical pyramid and other rediculous bullshi*.
[Women's Health Magazine] Today, my Instagram feed is filled with links to petitions for lives unfairly lost, ways to donate to in-need causes, and graphics that define "white privilege" and "Black Lives Matter." In the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of law enforcement in Minneapolis last week, people from all over the country—world, even—are demonstrating their support for the Black Lives Matter movement at in-person protests and through digital activism.
There's a particular image making its way around the internet that outlines examples of overt and covert racism. The original graphic—created more than a decade ago by Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence and adapted recently by The Conscious Kid, a platform that helps parents educate their children through a critical race lens—is going viral for its explanation of the difference between the two forms of racism, or in The Conscious Kid's adaption, white supremacy.
#2
Everybody's stuck reading whatever is in the dentist's office. I'd know nothing about Ophra or Ellen or the "Royals" if not for Dr.'s office visits.
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/\ Magazines? No, I simply snooze. They gently wake me when it's time.
[Life Site] Editors note - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has released this powerful letter today to President Trump warning him that the current crises over the coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd riots are a part of the eternal spiritual struggle between the forces of good and evil. He encourages the president to continue the fight on behalf of the "children of light." Read the letter in PDF form here.
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Great letter at the link.
ABV makes a point that the CV pandemic as a crisis, peaked too early and the GF riots and looting are unlikely to carry into the election season.
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.
[American Renaissance] The United States is in an uproar over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. There have been demonstrations in over 400 US cities, and looting and arson in every major city. Why are so many people in the streets? Because they believe that American society is systematically racist and that the police brutalize and even casually murder black men.
[Medium.com] Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and it was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of actual substance as you’d expect from a president who spent eight years stagnating the progressive movement with empty hope narrative while advancing the same murderous oppressive agendas as his predecessors.
Two "not very good people" spotted near Prescott, AZ. 
