[FOX] A law enforcement officer in Georgia is going viral after he said he "has much respect" for Black Lives Matter protesters after the death of George Floyd — but he only kneels "for one person."
Georgia State Trooper O'Neal Saddler was allegedly asked to kneel during a demonstration in Hartwell while a bystander was recording.
"If I didn't have any respect, I wouldn't [be here]," Saddler explained. "I was supposed to be out of town this weekend with my wife. I took off today, this weekend, but I'm out here to make sure y'all are safe."
He added, "Don't go there with respect, OK? I have much respect, but I only kneel for one person."
Someone in the crowd replied: "And that's God," which the trooper confirmed: "God."
This is Georgia State Trooper O’Neal Saddler.
He was asked to kneel today, and this was his response.
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What Trooper Saddler said for this article as well as for the article entitled: "White Cops, Leftists Engage in "Ceremony" of Washing the Feet of Black "Faith Leaders."
However, if you don't believe in God, no problemo.
Things will get much better after they've defunded the police.
[NYPOST] Eighteen people were killed in 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... in a 24-hour span last month — the deadliest day in the Windy City in roughly six decades, according to a report.
The slayings — including a high school student and a college freshman who aspired to become a correctional officer — occurred on May 31 as the city grappled with ongoing civil unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
The grim tally made May 31 the single most violent day Chicago has endured in roughly 60 years, according to data provided to the newspaper by the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
"We’ve never seen anything like it, at all," the crime lab’s senior research director, Max Kapustin, told the newspaper. "I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before."
Data from the lab does not pre-date 1961, but the next-highest single-day murder total in Chicago was on Aug. 4, 1991, when 13 Chicagoans died in homicides, according to the report.
When the entire weekend is taken into context, 25 people were killed citywide from late May 29 through May 31, while another 85 people were hurt by gunfire, the Sun-Times reports, making it the most violent weekend in modern Chicago history.
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Tens of thousands of years of uninterrupted tribal slaughter, human subjugation and mayhem are of no relevance. Colonization, western education, religion, cultural/tribal oppression, and later the dreaded social apartheid have led to our current troubles.
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Got to remember that the White Europeans didn't practice slave raiding that the Muslims had done for hundreds of years in sub-Sahara Africa. It was other black tribes raiding their neighbors that brought the slave to coastal markets to trade for European goods. It's a long history of blacks literally selling out other blacks to get what they want.
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Procopius2k, you're complicating the left-wing narrative. Betcha, ya didn't know the troubling fact that conservative Republicans are responsible for slavery. History is so complicated. ;-)
In recent weeks, however, the country of more than 210 million has reported a sharp rise in new infections, and on Monday the government said more than 100,000 cases and 2,000 deaths had now been recorded.
Last week a leaked government report suggested there were nearly 700,000 infections in Lahore alone.
But, but, but, we were just following the science....
[statista] The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected countries varies vastly, connected in part to the respective government's handling of the situation. These national responses can be worlds apart - both in terms of efficacy and as survey data from YouGov shows, the subsequent level of public approval, too.
In the UK, where the government's response has been heavily criticised, the net approval rating (calculated by subtracting 'handling badly' from 'handling well' responses) is the joint-lowest of all countries surveyed. Also with a rating of -15 is Mexico, where President López Obrador originally downplayed the severity of the pandemic and is now struggling to find the right balance between prioritizing public health and protecting the economy.
At the other end of the scale, Vietnam has so far recorded just over 300 cases and zero deaths. In contrast to Mexico, Vietnam's 'overreaction' to the crisis is thought to be the reason for the astonishing results achieved so far. To compare to the countries at the bottom of the ranking, Our World in Data figures have the number of deaths per million people for the UK and Mexico at 596.07 and 104.79, respectively.
Countries included in the survey were: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, USA, Vietnam.
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This is based on a YouGov survey, in which I participated. [buffs fingernails]
Meaning it is a popular opinion poll, which some might think would be influenced by the local media narrative. My contribution, however, was not influenced by media memes.
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Well, I didn't have one and wanted top add to my Mikoyan collection.
Doesn't fit on the shelf with the others, though. Wife wasn't too happy at first with the backyard placement until I mentioned that we could plant Hostas underneath it and trim the wings with Morning Glories and Hydrangea.
Too far north for Bougainvillea.
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"Unknown group?" A MIG-29 is not like riding a bicycle. Maybe it came with the "easy" instruction manual.
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Distracting people from the problems at home. Typical play for thuggish governments.
This is not a distraction. This is the main event. Everything else is a distraction. National leaders don't generally see themselves as glorified security guards for financiers and their accountants. Don't let the moronic shibboleths of the past century distract you from this essential truth. National leaders want to be famous, not just in the here and now, but for as long as anyone reads history books, and over and above every one of the individuals who's ever occupied their seats. It's no accident that Caesar and Alexander are basically the most famous personalities in Rome and Greece respectively - their ability to bring to fruition the epigram veni, vidi, vici is the basis of their long-lasting fame.
#NorthKorea says it will sever inter-Korean hotlines with South Korea as the first step toward completely shutting down all means of contact with #Seoul, reports state news agency KCNA.https://t.co/jkl0vQQA8F
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 9, 2020
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[The Hill] The S&P 500 on Monday erased its losses for the year, surpassing its closing level for 2019 as investors bet on a robust economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
The S&P 500 closed up 38.5 points, or 1.2 percent, at 3,232. That was 17 points higher than its close on New Year's Eve.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 461 points, or 1.7 percent, closing at 27,572. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq advanced as well, adding 110.7 points, or 1.1 percent, to approach 10,000 for the first time. Last week, the technology-heavy index notched a record high, erasing all its pandemic losses.
[USNews] "This is completely unacceptable, especially since nobody in Washington thought about informing its NATO ally Germany in advance," Peter Beyer, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, told the Rheinische Post newspaper.
Following Trump's decision, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a newspaper interview that he regretted the planned withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Germany, describing Berlin's relationship with the United States as "complicated". Americans. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
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Make them explain why the troops are needed, beyond the addiction to military paychecks in the local economies.
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I was a US Military Brat in Hubbelrath, Hilden, Prüm, Heidelberg from 1964 to 1968.
The West Germany that I grew up in, appreciated its freedom and the US Military being there.
Now 50+ years later with fall of the Wall and the USSR. The former SOCIALISTS/Communists East Germany have become part of what is now Germany. They also brought with them Socialist-Communist values and culture. I would not want to live there again. Because see Germany moving further and further LEFT towards Socialism.
If I were Trump I would tell every NATO country its been 50+ years, is it time for the US to move on. Have the population take a vote. IF it ain't 70+% for US to stay....we should leave.
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The Russians are NOT coming.
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The original rationale for long term occupation troops in Bavaria was that was where the hard core nazis came from. My younger son was barracked in Graf, and the building's prior occupant was the Waffen SS. The 'eagle and wreath' had been sandblasted off of all the door lintels, and the laundry room still had the outlines on the walls where crew served weapons had been hung.
I think we've pretty much got past all that by now.
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If they can't stand and defend themselves, they don't deserve to stand at all.
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Most Euorpean histories in dealing with the 19th Century have passages about German Unification. In reality, it was mostly the annexation of the German states by Prussia. When real historians in the future write about the 20th Century Europe there will be some who will write about German reunification, when others will point out the de facto political absorption by East Germany Marxism.
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The United States Needs German Bases More Than Germany Does
Yet another view from a pinko that the US should adhere to arms treaties systematically flouted by Russia and denies Russian territorial ambitions. The reality is that to the extent the defense of Europe is in the American interest, the US needs bases in Poland, not Germany, because that's where the front line is. After Munich, Hitler said, "This is my last territorial demand in Europe", not because he was uniquely evil, but because pretty much all conquerors try to get their quarry's guard down until they are ready to move. After the invasion of Poland, no one trusted anything he said, but he had what he needed - an alliance with Russia that ensured a quiet Eastern Front while he invaded France and the Low Countries. Bottom line is that you don't know what someone's true aims are until he stops, which is why you don't believe his stated aims, since he might be underplaying those aims, but attempt to match or exceed his capabilities. That is where Germany has been falling down on the job.
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We can't afford to be there anymore. It's time to go. When Trump gets us out of the ME quagmire we won't need those bases and their absence will reduce future temptations to stage unnecessary adventures in that part of the world. It will disappoint some at the Pentagon, but that's a feature, not a bug.
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We can't afford to be there anymore.
We can't afford not to be there. Our forces there are a placeholder. If we don't have them there, we'll cut our military spending to pre-WWII levels as a % of national output, while increasing gibsmedat funding levels. Then we'll get hit by a nuclear Pearl Harbor that kills hundreds of millions of Americans. In an age when bombs are powerful and the vehicles to deliver them can literally circumnavigate the globe, cutting defense is literally penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Eisenhower stressed the need for a military-industrial complex, because in future wars, we won't be able to build what we need from a standing start as we did in WW2, thanks to the miracle of nuclear warheads, ballistic missile subs, ICBMs and bombers that can cross oceans to seek out targets. Oddly enough, the only part of his speech the left focused on was his caution that we should not let it get too big. Defense spending was 10% of national output at the end of his administration, so he presumably thought that was a reasonable number. It is now just under 4%.
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As I understood it, the point of being in Germany was to keep the Russians out and the Germans down. We appear to have accomplished both objectives. Good job, guys! Come on home. To our German brethren, I say "So long and thanks for all the schnitzel! And bier."
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White House Staffer: No way, Mr. President. There is no way you can get Germany to beg you to keep troops in Europe.
POTUS: Hold my beer!
... 1 week later...
WHS: How does he do it? It's like a super-power or something.
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When I was studying German in high school (mid 60s), my teacher claimed the German people longed for the two Germanies to be united, as they had long been. I didn't know much German history, but Germany had only been one country for less than 100 years.
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In addition - three of the five 'trending' stories off to the right are SJW articles, so that made me scratch my head a bit.
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We can't afford not to be there. Our forces there are a placeholder. If we don't have them there, we'll cut our military spending to pre-WWII levels as a % of national output,
"Yer honor, I request mercy from the court on the grounds that I'm an orphan!"
"Yer Mom's still alive!"
"Damn, that's right! She got away!"
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A man allegedly killed his father, Mahabir Sai, in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district to get his government job on compassionate grounds, police said on Tuesday. The dear departed worked at a government health centre. "Our probe found Sai was about to retire this week. We zeroed in on his younger son Jeevan who confessed he had killed his father," an officer said.The murder plot was exposed after police officials arrested the victim’s 2 sons for investigation which disclosed the unemployed Polytechnique diploma holder throttled his father, a pump operator of SCCL at their house in Kothur village of Dharmaram mandal in Peddapalli district on May 26.
Indian media reported that Tirupati’s younger brother, 19-year-old Rakesh who is an ITI student, and her mother Tara were also aware of the plan, however, they were not directly involved in the killing.
In order to execute the plan for getting the job on compassionate basis, the man brutally killed Narsaiah by covering the mouth and nose of his father with a towel and throttled him to death in the bed.
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[AlAhram] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... chief Jens Stoltenberg defended America's military commitment to Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... on Monday, following reports President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... plans to slash troop numbers in Germany.
Berlin has voiced concern at the proposal reported by US media to cut the 34,500 American military personnel posted in Germany by nearly a third.
The move would significantly reduce the US commitment to European defence under the NATO umbrella, and appeared to catch Berlin off guard.
Asked about the plans, Stoltenberg refused to comment directly on "leaks or media speculation" but said he was "constantly consulting" with Washington on its military presence in Europe.
And -- as he often does when pressed about the Trump administration's ambivalence towards NATO -- Stoltenberg launched into a detailed defence of Washington's commitment to European security.
"In the last few years we have actually seen an increase in the US presence in Europe again," he said.
"And this is not only about Germany. We have seen for instance a new US brigade deployed to Europe, we have seen more rotational presence, we have seen the US taking a lead function in the NATO battle group in Poland."
Despite transatlantic political tensions, Stoltenberg insisted that NATO allies were "doing more together now in Europe than we have done for many, many years".
Stoltenberg was speaking in an online question-and-answer session to launch an exchange of expert ideas aimed at strengthening the alliance in the wake of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Later Stoltenberg tweeted that he had spoken by phone to Trump on "important security issues".
A NATO official said they "discussed US military posture in Europe, as they always do" but said the call was "long-planned" -- as opposed to being in response to recent events.
There has been no official confirmation about the reported plan to cut US troop numbers in Germany and cap them at 25,000.
But Trump's lukewarm support for longstanding cooperation agreements with European allies has long caused alarm on the continent.
He has been particularly scathing about Germany, Europe's economic powerhouse, accusing it of not spending enough on its own defence.
Germany hosts more US troops than any other country in Europe, a legacy of the Allied occupation after World War II, and while the presence has declined since the Cold War, it remains a crucial hub.
As well as serving as a deterrent to a resurgent Russia, US troops use German bases to coordinate military operations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
[LI] As seems to be the case throughout history, those in the midst of historic events rarely see them clearly or understand their significance in the moment. It takes decades to make sense of things, how they fell apart, what eventually took place to turn the tide, and even then, it’s easy to get it all wrong.
There are, though, those insightful thinkers who do catch on early and attempt to sound the alarm. In many ways, I think Professor Jacobson and Legal Insurrection have been serving this purpose for over a decade; it was, after all, Jacobson who saw the writing on the wall in the different and dangerous tenor of this generation’s college students, who knew we had to cover and expose their campus antics because he knew with his characteristic prescience that they would spill into the real world.
Well, here we are.
Those snowflake college students shutting down all dissent, demanding "safe spaces," and insisting that the world conform to their vision so they don’t have to ever hear ideas that make them feel "unsafe"—whatever that means—have graduated college, entered the workforce, and are demanding that all "wrong thoughts" be censored, removed from the public square, abolished.
Further, they demand that the people holding these wrong, "unsafe" thoughts be canceled: have their lives and livelihoods destroyed beyond repair. In the name of . . . some kind of bizarre cult they’ve created in which God, country, family are sacrificed on the altar of their SJW religious zeal.
We saw signs of this when white regressive cultists bowed down to Black Lives Matters representatives for their great sin, their crime against humanity, of being born white.
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Wow. Imagine how much ice that's going to cut with the "hate whitey, smash whitey" crowd.
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Literally had a gag reflex moment and then laughed at these pathetic clowns. Uniforms are not just clothes and you cannot make them lose meaning without destroying the authority they convey. Like flags, they should be respected for the greater thing they represent. These people have lost their way...
(CNN)US Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper are said to be open to holding a "bipartisan conversation" about renaming nearly a dozen major bases and installations that bear the names of Confederate military commanders, according to an Army official.
The official said that though McCarthy believes he has the potential authority to unilaterally rename the installations, there would need to be consultation with the White House, Congress and state and local governments.
In a statement Monday, the Army confirmed that McCarthy and Esper are "open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic" but added that "each Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a significant place in our military history."
"Accordingly, the historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies," the statement said.
Army installations named after Confederate leaders include Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Hood in Texas and Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia.
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While we're at it, let's fix *all* the names. Fort Wayne in Detroit was named after Mad Anthony Wayne, famous general and Indian killer. Might as well rename Wayne County, MI, while we're at it. Same deal.
During World War I, the policy to name new Southern army camps after Confederate commanders was intended to effect a reconciliation between the North and the South, where bruised feelings about the Lost Cause were potent and widespread. The names were chosen, at least in part, to encourage Southern buy-in to the nation’s new war. These names were chosen precisely because the men honored had been Confederate leaders.
[WION] Norwegian and British vaccine scientists have published unequivocal evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, is man-made.
The authors state two conclusions: (1) the mutations that would normally be seen in the course of animal to human transmission have not occurred in SARS-CoV-2, indicating that it was fully "pre-adapted" for human infection and (2) SARS-CoV-2 has insertions in its protein sequence that have never been detected in nature and contribute to its infectivity and pathogenicity.
That is, SARS-CoV-2 has a receptor binding domain specifically designed for the human angiotensin converting enzyme-2 receptor (ACE2) found in lungs, kidneys, intestines and blood vessels.
In addition, SARS-CoV-2 has a furin polybasic cleavage site not found in any closely-related bat coronaviruses as well as other artificially inserted charged amino acids that enhance the virus’ ability to bind to and enter human cells by forming "salt bridges" between the virus and the cell surface.
Those modifications are key to understanding the unique transmissibility and potency of SARS-CoV-2.
The authors explain that the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing neurological, haematological and immunological pathogenicity, which cannot be explained by infectivity via the ACE2 receptor alone.
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I saw an article this a.m. that suggested COVID-19 may have had an August 2019 start. I also recall, when I got a flu shot at Walgreens last November, the person who gave me the shot said: "This shot does not cover the new flu." I gave it little thought at the time as that is usually said about every flu shot.
So, was this a "plannedemic originating in a(n) Chinese Amish lab?"
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The investigation into the Clinton home brew servers, Seth Rich murder, Soetoro passport, and events in Benghazi mysterious origins of CV-19 continues.
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4 months ago when we were able to semi prove this and the LEFT & its media called us Nut Cases.
They called Trump a racist for blaming the Chi-Comms lab that it came from and more.
But don't hold your breath, the LEFT won't admit anything. They will have more coming to deflect our attention from their arrests and crimes.
So far we have had Spy-gate, Trump-Russia, Ukraine-Hoax, then the staged Impeachment to cover their illegal FISA abuses. Blackmailing WH members using their families. Then the Fake Computer Models that predicted 2.4M to 4.3 MILLION Deaths for C-19 to shutdown the USA. Then their Dictatorship rule in Left Wing states, killer hornets, riots the usual Racism Playbook agenda before mid-terms.
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Or the original summary of the scientific paper, here.
The original paper is ... boring...
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Which, I notice now, it the article posted immediately above. Sorry.
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It happens
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Which, I notice now, it the article posted immediately above.
The two articles on the subject were posted in completely different sections of Rantburg, so I only caught up and put together the first time I woke up this morning. And as both already had comments, I was not willing to delete either one.
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.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
