Police for me, but not for thee. How Black Lives Matter is training to keep Black neighbourhoods “safe“ in the mold of the Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam after community police forces are shut down, as described in this article from yesterday
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Hawk Newsome, Chairman of BLM's Greater New York chapter, says the black rights group is 'mobilizing' its base, he told DailyMailTV in exclusive interview
The activist said BLM aims to develop a highly-trained 'military' arm to challenge police brutality head on in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis
'It's our obligation, it's our duty to provide people with a way forward. We want the immediate end of government sanctioned murder by the police'
'We prepare to stop these murders by any means necessary. We are preparing and training our people to defend our communities,' Newsome added
Newsome, 43, an imposing 6ft 6in, who wore shades and smoked a thick cigar for our photo shoot, believes his group can lead the 'war on police'
BLM will have 'Peace Officers' patrol black communities to challenge law enforcement and stop police brutality, reminiscent of the Black Panther Party
Newsome held a think tank in Los Angeles attended by members of the BLM Greater New York leadership and 'military advisors'
The meeting was held at the offices of NCredible Entertainment, owned by actor and musician Nick Cannon
'We have black Special Forces officers advising us, and we will teach and train people in our communities, the Black Ops department of Black Opportunities,' he said.
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Useful idiots who are goaded into armed conflict with police are a tactic to further heighten the media meme of systemic racism, add turnout to the planned assault on honest elections in November. The radical socialist progressives are so far out on a limb now that they appear to be going all in with their chips. Count on the propaganda arms of social media and the MSM to plumb ever greater depths of fake news and actual lies. This is an existential next few months for the American Experiment.
[Sudan Tribune] The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) on Monday dismissed reports about the renaming of the Popular Defense Forces (PDF) to the Reserve Department, stressing that its dissolution is an irreversible decision
An internal note by the Sudanese army on 4 June said that the PDF has been renamed the Reserve Department. Also, after its spread, in social media, the army issued a statement saying that the Reserve Department has no relation with the notorious paramilitary force because it was established after its dissolution.
Reacting to the criticism raised by the dissemination of the document, the General Adviser of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Brigadier-General al-Tahir Mohammed Abu Haja issued a second statement on Monday asserting that the PDF has been disbanded adding its "dissolution was irreversible".
"The armed forces confirm that this news is not true, and there is no existing body that represents what was contained in the false circulated information which intended to offend the military institution in a way that serves the agenda of the enemies of the country."
He further said that SAF is reorganizing and restructuring its armies according to the requirements of the current political change, which provides to eliminate "manifestations of unprofessionalism and loyalty" to unpatriotic entities or to establish any bodies that violate its pledge to the Sudanese people.
On April 17, 2019, the Transitional Military Council - before its dissolution - issued a decision placing the PDF and the Popular Police under the authority of the Sudanese army.
The Popular Defense Forces were established by ousted President Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... months after the Islamist 1989 coup and were placed under the authority of the president.
The militia which recruited Islamists elements to fight the rebel SPLA in South Sudan during the first years of the regime, gradually turned into a paramilitary force to defend the former regime.
[Sudan Tribune] The International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed on Tuesday that one of the first Darfur war crimes suspects was in their custody after days of intense rumors.
The ICC revealed that Ali Kushayb who is described as one of the leaders of the notorious Janjaweed militias, which operated in Darfur, surrendered voluntarily in the Central African Republic (CAR).
"ICC Registrar Mr Peter Lewis thanked the Minister of Justice Flavien M’Bata and the authorities of the Central African Republic, the French Republic, the Republic of Chad, as well as the leaders of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and the authorities of the host State, the Netherlands, for their support to the Court and cooperation in the arrest, surrender and transfer of Mr. Kushayb to the Court".
Kushayb is charged with 22 counts of crimes against humanity and 28 counts of war crimes during the government’s Darfur counterinsurgency campaign in 2003-2004.
The arrest warrant against him was issued in 2007.
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Nice couch. The Sixties wants it back
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If it's a vintage piece, it's a shame it will be burned up in an airstrike eventually. If someone is still actually making them like that, well, that's scary.
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It looks like a built-in, upholstered platform that can function for seating or sleeping, backed by a fabric-covered board to lean against.
[YNews] - Germany's foreign minister met with his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi in Jerusalem on Wednesday to convey Europe's stiff opposition to Israel's plans to begin annexing parts of the West Bank.
"Many people in Israel - and also in the European Union - are preoccupied with the current developments in the Middle East peace process and the possible annexation plans," Maas said prior to his departure.
"Germany remains committed to the goal of a negotiated two-state solution. We will also talk about this and I will underline that we are ready to support all initiatives to revive talks between Israelis and Palestinians." Israel annexing, US military are leaving, Coronavirus is not abating --- it's a bad time for Herrenvolk.
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/\ I should have known. That translation is incorrect. It's the equivalent of "mind your own business" (literally, "Sweep in front of your own door!"
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I DID call him a "lightweight" the other say, didn't I?
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@ #8 - Not many idioms anywhere translate cleanly. Imagine translating "getting to first base" in German or French or any other lingo (especially baseball-type ones).
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English can be surprisingly hard to translate, exactly because of its idioms.
Getting to first base (with a girl) simply doesn't work in German (the translation, that is).
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Btw JFM, "Ficken Sie aus" doesn't exist in German :-)
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Oh, but the translation programs are even more fun than my previous habit of looking up translations in the dictionary, then following the translated word back to English, only to end up with something utterly nonsensical.
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but Sitzpinkler is an awesome and descriptive slur on a man in a way English could never be
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European Conservative..Heiko Maas? the same feller that said to a crowd in a small german town that was protesting (pretty sure it was about the new arrivals)and was being heckled "We will also take care of the interests of those people shouting "traitor" right now without them even knowing what's happening"
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also Kummerspeck. It says so much with one word
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LOL FrankG indeed. German is very creative because you can form as many words as you like.
And Bavarian is even better. Examples:
Breznsoiza (somebody who puts salt on pretzels, which are, of course, already salted)
Kniabisla (somebody who pisses on his knees)
Noagalzutzla (somebody who finishes off the remaining beer of others)
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;-)
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@Unosh Hupinelet8756
I think yes, although I don't remember exactly.
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How bout just letting the Palestinians use the air bases the Americans are evacuating.
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I thoroughly enjoyed learning German — both times. The drawback of relearning it a lifetime later is that one is never quite sure if one is remembering or making it up... So when we went back to visit fifteen years after that, it turned out that aufschlafen was not quite the separable verb I was aiming for. We were meeting German cousins for the first time, and the impression I did not intend to make was of my 65-year old cousin absolutely helpless with giggles, and her thoroughly adult son-cum-business partner red-faced because giggles are not at all manly. (For the record, ausschlafen is what I meant, not nearly as interesting.)
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Saw a menu once in German and in English while in Germany once. "Beilagen" (sides or side dishes) was translated as "Enclosures". It happens but can be worth a chuckle from time to time.
[BREITBART] Student protesters at the University of Missouri have circulated a petition that calls on Mizzou officials to remove a "racist" Thomas Jefferson statue from campus grounds. Are you really sure Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings didn't just like each other a lot?
According to a report by Campus Reform, student protesters at the University of Missouri are calling for the removal of a Thomas Jefferson statue from campus on the grounds that it is "racist."
A petition that has been signed by over 3,000 members of the community argues that the Jefferson statue has "no place" on the Mizzou campus. In the petition, the students cite Jefferson’s ownership of more than 600 slaves as a justification for removal of the statue.
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, owned more than 600 African-American slaves throughout his adult life. Mizzou has no room for a racist slave owner on our campus, in the Quad, where thousands of black students pass by everyday, forced to deal with imagery of the past in the future where we should be promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. A memorial of a racist has no place on out campus. The vast majority of these Confederate monuments were built during the era of Jim Crow laws (1877—1964). Detractors like us know that they were not built as memorials but as a means of intimidating African Americans and reaffirming white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... Nearly 500 students have signed a counter-petition that calls on the university to save the Jefferson statue. The petition argues that Jefferson’s role in writing the Declaration of Independence makes him worthy of admiration, despite his slave ownership.
Though Jefferson recognized the grave evils of slavery, he remained a slaveholder. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... is it truly fair to judge a man based on our 21st century understanding of morality, when the man we are judging lived in a time where slavery was the norm? Is it truly fair to defame a former president who wrote the Declaration of Independence, where he expressed that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? Jefferson did not live up to all of his values, nor should we expect him to have lived up to all of them. Who among us has lived up to all of the values we uphold? Who among us is perfect?
The Jefferson statue at the University of Missouri is not the only historical monument to be targeted by leftists in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. A bust of George Washington’s head was knocked over last week at George Washington University. Some students took to Twitter to praise the vandalism.
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Throw them out for a semester. Then again, I don't know if Mizzou could take that financial hit. Sounds like a win-win!
[BREITBART] The Boston, Massachusetts, chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM) is asking that $15 million in American taxpayer money be spent on providing summer jobs to illegal aliens.
In a list of demands posted by the BLM Boston, the organization demands the city spend millions on creating thousands of summer jobs — some of which would be given to 14 to 22-year-old illegal aliens:
We demand that Mayor Marty Walsh cut the police budget by 10% from $414 million to $372 million or less, including cutting at least $40 million from the Police Department’s $60 million overtime budget. Those funds should be reinvested in the needs of Black and Brown communities, including providing housing and jobs to people released from prison.
In addition, we demand that funds are reinvested in youth jobs during a global pandemic and economic crisis. The City should fund $15 million for 5000 summer jobs and 1000 year-round jobs lasting from September to June, including hiring 14-22 year olds, hiring undocumented young people, and providing grants to organizations. Mayor Walsh, CFO Emme Handy, and Director Justin Sterritt: meet with young people immediately to discuss protecting young people this summer!
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I'll see how busy the Financial District is tomorrow & Friday, but one indicator of mostly back to normal - the Southeast Expressway (I-93) was bumper to bumper at 3:00 yesterday afternoon. One month ago I hit triple digits (barely) going home on that stretch.
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I hear the bottom of the harbor needs a lot of muck shoveled out. Put 'em in cement overshoes and let them start digging.....Keep 'em to 8 hour shifts.
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I wondered if BLM was a spin-off of Acorn. Doesn't seem to be but there are ideological linkages. The following discusses some of these orgs and linkages Accuracy in Media.
ACORN was the political wing. After they were shut down, the same people continued to do many of the same things under new names. Black Lives Matter is the African-American fighting wing, as Antifa is the anti-capitalist fighting wing, ALF is the pro-animal, anti-human fighting wing, etc. All part of the tightly organized, apparently amorphous Communist war against the West that was started by the Soviets, picked up by the Maoists, and now does nicely with financial support from a variety of very rich financial and theatrical types.
On May 31, 19 Chicago residents were killed. This was the single deadliest day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.
From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 25 people were killed in the city An additional 85 were wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
...That same Sunday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot held a conference call with city’s alderman. Not surprisingly, the alderman complained about the lawlessness and violence in their wards. You can listen to a recording of the meeting here.
...Her most interesting exchange was a profanity-laced confrontation with Alderman Raymond Lopez. He told Lightfoot that the city was unprepared for the demonstrations:
When downtown is in lockdown, our neighborhoods are next, and our failure to fully get ready for what’s going on in the neighborhoods, we’re seeing this destruction, and we’re thinking that it’s going to somehow end tonight. We have seen where, in other cities, this has gone on for days; and we need to come up with a better plan for days, at least for the next five days, to try and stabilize our communities.
Lopez continued:
Once they’re done looting and rioting and whatever’s going to happen tonight, God help us, what happens when they start going after residents? Going into the neighborhoods? Once they start trying to break down people’s doors, if they think they’ve got something. I’ve got gangbangers with AK-47s walking around right now, just waiting to settle some scores. What are we going to do, and what do we tell residents, other than good faith people stand up? It’s not going to be enough.
Lightfoot tried to duck Lopez’s inquiry. When that didn’t work, she resorted to profanity. "I think you’re 100% full of sh*t, is what I think," Lightfoot said.
"F*** you, then," Lopez responded. "Who are you to tell me I’m full of shi*? ... Maybe you should come out and see what’s going on."
Lopez claims that Lightfoot worked with gang members to protect selected areas against looting. She denies the allegation.
The feud between Lightfoot and Lopez is emblematic of tension between Chicago’s Black and Latino communities. Lightfoot acknowledged that the demonstrations and rioting have exacerbated tensions between the two groups.
According to one source, the "Latin Kings" sent a message to the police that they would "take care" of the rioters, and that the police were not needed. Thus, Chicago may have faced the prospect of war in the street between Latinos and Blacks.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli army has opened an extensive investigation into the loss of an encrypted radio device for an officer in a special unit in the occupied Syrian Golan.
The Hebrew-language Channel 12 news reported on Tuesday evening that an Israeli civilian had found an encrypted radio device for a high-ranking Israeli officer in the special forces, while he was in or touring the occupied Syrian Golan .
The report confirmed that the Israeli army intends to make an investigation against the officer involved in the loss of the encrypted wireless device, which was found, yesterday, coincidentally, by an Israeli civilian, who realized that it belonged to the Israeli army, and then immediately returned it to an Israeli military unit.
The channel quoted the Israeli army front man as saying that the radio device was located before it was found by the civilian, and that it was lost during a routine military operation in the occupied Golan, and revealed that there was no fear of information leakage from the wireless device .
The channel indicated on its website that the Israeli army will investigate the seriousness of the incident, and disciplinary measures will be taken against the officer, or any person involved in the loss of the device.
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Would be unfortunate if it's a "special" encrypted radio that was supposed to get "lost." The word of an investigation makes that scenario seem less likely.
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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.
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
[Sudan Tribune] The International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed on Tuesday that one of the first Darfur war crimes suspects was in their custody after days of intense rumors.
Student protesters at the University of Missouri have circulated a petition that calls on Mizzou officials to remove a "racist" Thomas Jefferson statue from campus grounds.
