[RedState] For some time now we have been getting fed the regular message that these violent riots we are witnessing in Minneapolis, and abroad, are not what they appear. The leaders and experts, eager to transfer blame, have been making the statements that the bad agents who are provoking violence are from outside their area. The attempt to avoid responsibility for the unraveling protests and how leadership allowed destruction, even the overthrow of a police precinct, is now facing an uncomfortable reality.
It is appearing that most of the perpetrators are actually locals.
As the looting and violence that had erupted this week on the streets of Minneapolis spread out to dozens of cities across the country the local politicians struggled to both make sense of things and sound competent. There is an effort to push the narrative of oppression while at the same time excusing responsibility from the very leadership trying to show support. They want to claim institutional racism while refusing to look into their very institutions provoking the strife.
The aftermath in Minnesota has the local politicians desperate to explain away how they lost control of their communities by claiming they were overrun by outside professional anarchy groups. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey made this claim:
We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors to destroy and destabilize our city and our region.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz gave a press conference yesterday where he explained his delayed call for National Guard support was that he recently suspected that the riots were being provoked by white supremacists and drug cartels from out of state. Partner Mayor Melvin Carter, from the city of Saint Paul declared that ’’Every single person we arrested last night, I’m told, was from out of state.’’ State Attorney General Keith Ellison has also echoed this storyline. These are your brownshirts. You can't hide it anymore. These are what the left has been pushing for since at least 1996.
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Had an opportunity to watch the riots in one major city over the weekend. I am by no means a trained observer, but I did notice a few things.
There were clearly 2 shifts. The first was mixed race, gender. Many couples. Some brought children. They had signs and water. Demonstrated during the day, then started leaving around 4PM. The second shift started showing up after that. Nearly 100% young male. Masks, helmets, some weapons. Noticed obvious signs of organization. Guys on motorcycles were moving around speaking with individuals stationed at different locations. Vans moving in and out. Same vehicles showing up repeatedly. Once the police started moving the crowd back with tear gas, the rioters went to individuals with bottles of a white powder. This was applied to the face and seemed to neutralize the tear gas. These guys were strategically positioned, and the rioters knew about them.
#5
^ that matches my observations - from riots four years ago.
These characters have accumulated a great deal of experience in the last four years. They assemble quickly and know how to create havoc. This is not spontaneous.
#6
Yep - they had 'protests' in Manchester, NH three+ years ago; first thing I said about it was 'they're all bussed up from Boston, and $20 sez the buses are all parked on Canal Street' (the sight of which was effectively blocked by five-story mill buildings on both sides of the road). Latter part was confirmed the next day, so the goons in Boston basically used Manchester as a tune-up / preseason game.
#8
Past experience shows both sides will bring folks in from all over. Only difference is, patriots pay expenses out of pocket. Nobody has ever slipped me some "walkin' around money". Where's my frikkin' sugar!
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they do that bullshit. real ppl do the real shit when it comes down to it.
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[FreeBeacon] Georgetown University professor and former NPR editor Kitty Eisele lamented on Sunday that protesters in Washington, D.C., had not attacked the Trump International Hotel.
"Shame they aren't noticing the Trump Hotel which costs more and has a more problematic clientele," she responded to a tweet noting the vandalism of the Hay-Adams, a luxury hotel near the White House.
The Trump Hotel, also located near the White House, is a popular hangout spot for Trump administration members and allies. Formerly the Old Post Office and Clock Tower, Donald Trump developed the property into a hotel and opened it in 2016.
#1
This pile of trash is teaching young minds at a prestigious university that is a primary source of career government executives. Words fail at her moral compass which seems linked to her skin color more than anything else.
#5
Better yet, I hope someone finds out where she lives and trashes her place if she is going to be so adamant in attacking others' private property. F'in POS.
[FOX] The son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tweeted on Sunday that he is declaring his support for Antifa after President Trump said that his administration would be declaring it a "Terrorist Organization."
Jeremiah Ellison, who is a member of the Minneapolis City Council, noted in the tweet that he believes "white power" terrorists are actually the ones engaging in the looting, arson and other riot activities as violent sects hijack some of the protests against racial inequality and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd last Monday.
"I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA," Ellison said. "Unless someone can prove to me ANTIFA is behind the burning of black and immigrant owned businesses in my ward, I’ll keep focusing on stopping the white power terrorist THE ARE ACTUALLY ATTACKING US!"
#4
Nothing short of destroying Western Civ in America is their goal. Red Guard by any other name. Thanks kids, your parents' party can not distance itself from your allegiance.
#12
On the other hand, here's a young black woman, uh, expressing her views about young whites hiding in a car and handing out bricks to young black men. She did not say please and thank you.
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I've always appreciated it when a terrorist self identifies. Noted.
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Did he declare before or after Antifa was declared a terrorist organization and is pledging devotion to a terrorist group enough to arrest someone?
#20
Per the article, he declared his support AFTER Trump announced his intent to declare Antifa a DTO. In my book that puts him as "all in". He's chosen.. poorly.
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If the Black Panthers get involved Antifa and any white leftist group will not be welcome. And I think they will, especially after a young black female EMT was shot 8 times in her own home when police burst through her front door in a wrong address drug raid last month.
[Washington Examiner] In the aftermath of the Minneapolis riots, the region now risks falling into a perpetual cycle of economic blight similar to comparable urban areas previously scarred by urban mayhem.
In the summer of 1967, violent riots erupted and lasted for five days in Detroit, between the city’s black residents and the local police department after law enforcement raided a bar on the city’s Near West Side. Detroit was still recovering from a previous race riot 24 years prior.
"It stands to reason that businesses will be far less likely to invest in areas where there's a fear of social unrest. That's presumably the biggest long-run negative effect, but there will be secondary negative effects such as higher insurance premiums for businesses that do remain, depressed home values for residential property, and things like that," economist Dan Mitchell told the Washington Examiner.
"None of that detracts from the concerns about police misbehavior, of course, but it underscores that the wrong reaction can mostly hurt the aggrieved community," Mitchell said.
The economic story to follow the riots in Minneapolis, prompted by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, has yet to be written. But according to the Star Tribune, dozens of major chain retailers, as well as small mom-and-pop stores, were either destroyed or looted.
And as the country continues to open up from the coronavirus pandemic, fewer local businesses are expected to return among urban blight.
#2
So f'ing obvious, it makes you think humanity is truly stupid and suicidal.
Detroit NEVER recovered from the '67 riots. Those idiots cut their own legs off.
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[Gateway Pundit] Former CIA Director and Spygate architect John Brennan lashed out at President Trump Sunday morning amid nationwide looting and rioting by far-left radical terrorists.
Brennan also approved of the nationwide looting and rioting by left-wing terrorists such as ANTIFA, asserting that it’s ’necessary for real change.’
Violent protests have spread across the nation since a Minneapolis police officer killed a black man named George Floyd on Monday.
Black Lives Matter thugs and Antifa terrorists are using the death of George Floyd as an excuse to destroy businesses and raze buildings to the ground.
And John Brennan approves.
National outrage about racial discrimination, hateful bigotry, & injustice of unequal opportunity is necessary for real change. Divisive rhetoric must be voted out of office. We need a president who works to heal the nation, not further divide us.
#6
Injustice in blue areas cause riots in blue areas. Hopefully this will create change in blue areas. Perhaps even to Red. What have they got to lose?
[ToloNews] The Afghan government will continue the release of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... prisoners to begin intra-Afghan negotiations and to help the announced reduction in violence go on, said the National Security Council on Sunday.
President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... on May 24 pledged to release 2,000 Taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture in response to the Eid ceasefire announced by the Taliban. So far, the government has released 1,700 detainees of this latest pledged tranche, bringing the total number of Taliban released to 2,700.
The Taliban has also released over 420 prisoners, 73 of them during the last few days from Balkh, Logar, Kunduz, Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces.
The release of prisoners is part of the US-Taliban agreement and is intended to pave the way for the start of the intra-Afghan negotiations, for which the Afghan government has shown a readiness to begin.
The Taliban has also released over 420 prisoners, 73 of them during the last few days from Balkh, Pashtun-infested Logar, Kunduz, Paktia, Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s.
"The process will continue so that based on President Ghani’s decree, 2,000 prisoners are released," said Javid Faisal, a front man for National Security Council.
"The intra-Afghan negotiations will begin when 5,000 Taliban prisoners are released. I don’t think they will begin before that," said Sami Yausafzai, a journalist familiar with the matter.
The Presidential Palace says the Afghan government is ready for intra-Afghan negotiations.
"We are fully ready for the process," said presidential front man Sediq Sediqqi "The negotiation team is ready, and the High Council for National Reconciliation has been established and we are fully ready for beginning the negotiations."
Rights activists said the prisoners' release should be carried out responsibly.
"No doubt, prisoners will be released to begin the intra-Afghan negotiations, but the issue is that those who are released-- are they accused of war crime and crimes against humanity or not?" said Zabihullah Farhang, head of the media office of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
On Saturday, Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said he hopes the intra-Afghan negotiations will begin in the next week, and he reiterated that the negotiation team and the Afghan government are ready for the process.
[ToloNews] The Hizb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... is not "happy and satisfied" with the release of its prisoners by the Afghan government, a process that is part of a peace deal signed between Hekmatyar and President Ashraf Ghani in 2016.
Based on the agreement, the government pledged to release almost 3,000 prisoners of Hizb-e-Islami, and, according to members of the party, at least 600 prisoners have been released, including 164 of them freed on Friday.
"Our prisoners were in Guantanamo as well as in Pul-e-Charkhi and Bagram prison (in Afghanistan). We can say that our top prisoners are still in prison," said Atiqullah Safi, head of Hizb-e-Islami’s commission for the release of prisoners.
Among the 164 prisoners released on Friday, some of them claimed they were arrested on charges of being a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... member, not a member of Hizb-e-Islami.
But Safi rejected this claim by saying that there are no Taliban members in their list given to the government.
"All those on the list...are related to Hizb-e-Islami. We have taken guarantees from each of our prisoners and they have been introduced to us by their families and provincial members of Hizb-e-Islami," Safi said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group reacted to Kabul bombing which left two employees of a private TV station dead, including one of the news hounds of the TV.
"Today’s kaboom against workers of Khurshid TV in #Kabul city has no relation with the Mujahidin of Islamic Emirate," Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the group said in a Twitter post late on Saturday.
An official in the Ministry of Interior confirmed that the vehicle of Khurshid TV, one of the private TV channels, hit an improvised bomb at around 4 pm on Saturday.
The official further added that the earth-shattering kaboom killed two people, including a news hound and one of the technical workers of the television.
According to the official, the earth-shattering kaboommaimed at least six others including one of the employees of the TV channel.
NO individual or group has so far grabbed credit for the incident.
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[Sudan Tribune] A spokesperson for the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) which spearheaded protests that led to the ouster of former President Omer al-Bashir on April 11, said that their support for separating religion from the state aims to promote the grinding of the peace processor.
On Saturday, the SPA announced its support for separating religion from the state. This announcement came in the wake of a declaration by the Sudanese Congress Party (SCoP) expressing its support for the negotiating position of the SPLM-N al-Hilu calling to reaching an agreement on the secular state during the peace talks.
"The SPA’s support for separating religion from the state comes to push the grinding of the peace processor forward," said Samaher al-Mubarak SPA’s spokesperson.
Al-Mubarak added that the step could cause a breakthrough in the peace negotiations with the SPLM-N al-Hilu’s.
"If the trade-off is between peace and separating religion from the state, we will choose peace," she stressed.
The negotiations between the government and the SPLM-N al-Hilu are stalled as the two delegations failed to agree on a declaration of principles.
The SPLM-N al-Hilu demands to include in the agenda of the talks the secular state and the right to self-determination. The government rejected this demand saying the peace talks aim to end the war but these demands can only be discussed at the constitutional conference.
Musab Muhamed Ali, a professor of political science at Neelain University in Khartoum, expected that the move would push the grinding of the peace processor forward because backs the demand of the SPLM-N al-Hilu.
Nonetheless "I think there are other files that could not (be easy to settle) such as the security arrangements, armies merger, power-sharing and wealth distribution," Mohammed Ali told Sudan Tribune.
He further warned that this support could widen the gap between the Forces for Freedom and Change, adding that some forces of the large coalition are keen to discuss this matter in the constitutional conference.
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[Sudan Tribune] Ethiopia on Sunday called to address an attack on Sudanese forces by its troops and armed men through a joint military committee established recently to tackle such incident.
A road leading to Ethiopia-Sudan border On Thursday Ethiopian militiamen backed regular troops crossed the border and attacked Sudanese troops several times and for long hours. They killed an army officer, a child and wounded several military and civilians.
The unjustified attack triggered official and popular indignation. On Saturday, the Sudanese army announced the deployment of further troops on the border while the foreign ministry summoned the Ethiopian envoy asking for official explanations.
In a statement released on Sunday, the Ethiopian foreign ministry referred "with great dismay" to the border attack and expressed "its deep sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims of both countries".
"The Ministry urges that the two countries should work together through existing military mechanisms to address and jointly investigate circumstances surrounding the incident," further said the statement.
The statement called to maintain close collaboration between the local and regional authorities in the border areas.
"We believe that the incident does not represent the strong ties between the peoples of the two countries," stressed the Ethiopian foreign ministry.
Sudanese news agency released a report on Sunday blaming the former regime for turning a blind eye to the repeated use by the Ethiopian framer of the Sudanese territory.
It added that the former regime had sealed a secret deal in 1996 with the government of the late Meles Zenawi accordingly Ethiopia will prevent Sudanese opposition from carrying out cross border attacks and in return, they would allow Ethiopian farmers to cultivate inside the Sudanese territory.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The commander-in-chief of Somali army Gen Odowaa Yusuf Rage has refuted claims that the country’s military has involved in the recent killing of 8 health workers in Golgoley.
The SNA commander added that they have launched an investigation into the incident that sparked public outrage and internal condemnations.
The health workers have been kidnapped and killed in Gololey between May 27-28 by unknown button men who dumped the bodies on a street near the area.
Somali government and international partners have similarly condemned the gruesome murder which comes amid worsening insecurity in the road between Mogadishu and Bal’ad.
The SNA forces have been carrying out operations against al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in the small towns located on the outskirts of Bal’ad in the past few months to regain control from the group.
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[Rudaw] Iran's interior minister has suggested that up to 225 people were killed in November protests sparked by a petrol price hike, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Officials in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have yet to issue an overall corpse count for the unrest, while London-based human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group Amnesia Amnesty International has put the number at more than 300.
The protests erupted on November 15 in Tehran and rapidly spread to at least 100 cities and towns, with petrol pumps torched, cop shoppes attacked and shops looted, before being put down by security forces amid a near-total internet blackout.
Officials had repeatedly denied corpse counts given by foreign media and human rights groups as "lies", and passed responsibility of reporting on it between different state bodies.
"Sad things happened. About 40 or 45 people, meaning around 20 percent of those killed, were shot with non-standard issue weapons and martyred," said Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli.
"No armed confrontation with the people happened... but when they attack a cop shoppe, they have to be confronted," ISNA quoted him as saying.
His breakdown indicated that, according to the government, between 200 and 225 people were killed in the violence.
According to Amnesty, at least 304 people were killed during the unrest.
A group of independent UN rights experts said in December that based on unconfirmed reports more than 400 people could have been killed in the crackdown.
The experts said at the time that at least 12 of those killed were children.
They pointed to reports and footage apparently showing that security forces "not only fired live ammunition at unarmed protesters, but also aimed at their heads and vital organs".
The United States has claimed that more than 1,000 were killed in the violence, while news agency Rooters reported in December that around 1,500 people were killed over the course of the protests.
Iran has blamed the violence that broke out during the protests on "thugs" backed by its foes the United States, Israel and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... It has singled out exiled royalists and the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK), an exiled former rebel group which it considers a "terrorist cult".
The minister said the petrol price hike had been "just an excuse" for creating chaos as foes had wanted a "civil war" in Iran.
He also defended the internet blackout, saying that the MEK, monarchists, and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group were "giving military training through the internet".
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#7
Even it the Israelis were flying their version of the old F4, the Russians and the Turks would have problems The Israelis do the ODAA loop very well. Also I wonder how the Mig-29 would do against the Israeli upgraded F-35 ?
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[RedState] For some time now we have been getting fed the regular message that these violent riots we are witnessing in Minneapolis, and abroad, are not what they appear. The leaders and experts, eager to transfer blame, have been making the statements that the bad agents who are provoking violence are from outside their area. The attempt to avoid responsibility for the unraveling protests and how leadership allowed destruction, even the overthrow of a police precinct, is now facing an uncomfortable reality.
[FreeBeacon] Georgetown University professor and former NPR editor Kitty Eisele lamented on Sunday that protesters in Washington, D.C., had not attacked the Trump International Hotel.
The son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tweeted on Sunday that he is declaring his support for Antifa after President Trump said that his administration would be declaring it a "Terrorist Organization."
[Washington Examiner] In the aftermath of the Minneapolis riots, the region now risks falling into a perpetual cycle of economic blight similar to comparable urban areas previously scarred by urban mayhem.
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Arabic for 
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
