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Thanks for featuring the amazing 19th/20th century Fred. "Dancers from Shemakha" which is now Azerbaijan were written about by 19 century explorers. The Shemakhinskaya Bayaderka Festival in Moscow features shows such as this.
...good to see they were being proactive, so soon after The Donald was sworn in...
The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) today launched specialized bonds aimed at providing financial support to the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF), a facility created by the World Bank to channel surge funding to developing countries facing the risk of a pandemic.
This marks the first time that World Bank bonds are being used to finance efforts against infectious diseases, and the first time that pandemic risk in low-income countries is being transferred to the financial markets.
The PEF will provide more than $500 million to cover developing countries against the risk of pandemic outbreaks over the next five years, through a combination of bonds and derivatives priced today, a cash window, and future commitments from donor countries for additional coverage.
The transaction, that enables PEF to potentially save millions of lives, was oversubscribed by 200% reflecting an overwhelmingly positive reception from investors and a high level of confidence in the new World Bank sponsored instrument. With such strong demand, the World Bank was able to price the transaction well below the original guidance from the market. The total amount of risk transferred to the market through the bonds and derivatives is $425 million.
"With this new facility, we have taken a momentous step that has the potential to save millions of lives and entire economies from one of the greatest systemic threats we face," World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said. "We are moving away from the cycle of panic and neglect that has characterized so much of our approach to pandemics. We are leveraging our capital market expertise, our deep understanding of the health sector, our experience overcoming development challenges, and our strong relationships with donors and the insurance industry to serve the world’s poorest people. This creates an entirely new market for pandemic risk insurance. Drawing on lessons from the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, the Facility will help improve health security for everyone. I especially want to thank the World Health Organization and the governments of Japan and Germany for their support in launching this new mechanism."
[Imprimis - Hillsdale College] American society today is divided by party and by ideology in a way it has perhaps not been since the Civil War. I have just published a book that, among other things, suggests why this is. It is called The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. It runs from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the election of Donald J. Trump. You can get a good idea of the drift of the narrative from its chapter titles: 1963, Race, Sex, War, Debt, Diversity, Winners, and Losers.
I can end part of the suspense right now‐Democrats are the winners. Their party won the 1960s‐they gained money, power, and prestige. The GOP is the party of the people who lost those things.
One of the strands of this story involves the Vietnam War. The antiquated way the Army was mustered in the 1960s wound up creating a class system. What I’m referring to here is the so-called student deferment. In the old days, university-level education was rare. At the start of the First World War, only one in 30 American men was in a college or university, so student deferments were not culturally significant. By the time of Vietnam, almost half of American men were in a college or university, and student deferment remained in effect until well into the war. So if you were rich enough to study art history, you went to Woodstock and made love. If you worked in a garage, you went to Da Nang and made war. This produced a class division that many of the college-educated mistook for a moral division, particularly once we lost the war. The rich saw themselves as having avoided service in Vietnam not because they were more privileged or‐heaven forbid‐less brave, but because they were more decent.
Another strand of the story involves women. Today, there are two cultures of American womanhood‐the culture of married women and the culture of single women. If you poll them on political issues, they tend to differ diametrically. It was feminism that produced this rupture. For women during the Kennedy administration, by contrast, there was one culture of femininity, and it united women from cradle to grave: Ninety percent of married women and 87 percent of unmarried women believed there was such a thing as "women’s intuition." Only 16 percent of married women and only 15 percent of unmarried women thought it was excusable in some circumstances to have an extramarital affair. Ninety-nine percent of women, when asked the ideal age for marriage, said it was sometime before age 27. None answered "never."
But it is a third strand of the story, running all the way down to our day, that is most important for explaining our partisan polarization. It concerns how the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964, divided the country. They did so by giving birth to what was, in effect, a second constitution, which would eventually cause Americans to peel off into two different and incompatible constitutional cultures. This became obvious only over time. It happened so slowly that many people did not notice.
Because conventional wisdom today holds that the Civil Rights Act brought the country together, my book’s suggestion that it pulled the country apart has been met with outrage. The outrage has been especially pronounced among those who have not read the book. So for their benefit I should make crystal clear that my book is not a defense of segregation or Jim Crow, and that when I criticize the long-term effects of the civil rights laws of the 1960s, I do not criticize the principle of equality in general, or the movement for black equality in particular.
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The birth of entitlement, identity politics, and anarchy:
But it is a third strand of the story, running all the way down to our day, that is most important for explaining our partisan polarization. It concerns how the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964, divided the country. They did so by giving birth to what was, in effect, a second constitution
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Outstanding essay. I shared everywhere I could. Including on Rantburg, as I had clicked through and not realized it came from here originally.
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I do not criticize the principle of equality in general, or the movement for black equality in particular.
I suppose that's prudent, but it means that you've accepted some core assumptions (both explicit and implicit) of the left.
For example, in practice,"the movement for black equality" is actually about revenge, reparations, and primacy if not supremacy.
Once you accept their premises, then you're just debating the details of the subjugation and punishment of the majority population and culture.
The Civil Rights Act (and just as importantly, the Voting Rights Act of 1965) are the policy expressions of those assumptions.
So while addressing the legislation is important, it won't achieve much if we don't have a real debate about what "social justice" and "equality" mean in light of actual history (how many whites are actually descended from slaveowners, for example?).
And can we take the sacrifices that have already been made into account (the dead and maimed of the Civil War, all the social spending of generations, the costs of black and other minority crime, the costs of affirmative action, the decline of social trust in the face of diversity)?
To say nothing of the explicit "Whitey's gotta die" rhetoric that has become increasingly acceptable.
Your duplicate now deleted from the hopper, Herb, but only after I enjoyed the fact that you gave us a straightforward excerpt without fancy HTML stuff needing to be deleted.
[REUTERS] The United States signed a deal with Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... snuffies on Saturday that could pave the way toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan and represent a step toward ending the 18-year-war in the nation.
But while the agreement creates a path for the United States to gradually pull out of its longest war, many expect the talks to come between the Afghan sides may be much more complicated.
The deal was signed in the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i capital Doha by U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on hand to witness the ceremony.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper called the accord a good step but just the beginning.
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The deep state will fight this every step of the way. They interpret this as a threat and a betrayal and will react accordingly. I wouldn't be surprised if they did everything in their power, up to and including serious felonies, to sabotage the deal. War profiteering and and keeping troops on Iran's border are just too important.
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Trillions wasted, so many lives lost. It boggles my mind that there are Americans that are all-in for going to war with Iran, a MUCH richer, populous and organized country.
Ask them to fight themselves, everyone will be all out of it within a minute.
Wars not worth winning aren't worth fighting. There's nothing for the US in Afghanistan to "win" - the only goal of the war has been to salvage American reputation and leave for the longest time.
This agreement allows the US some face saving and a way to leave, the Afghan government will be sacrificed but they aren't providing us with anything worth the trouble.
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So, Herb, what would our defense establishment (if any) look like if you had your way? Would you thwart the ambitions of Islam, China, etc. on the soccer fields of suburbia and project basketball courts? On social media? With debate teams? Voluntary associations of gangstas and demobbed cartel soldiers? Mutant superheros? Neighborhood shooting clubs?
Rights and wrongs aside, what's your sense of the domestic scene, absent masses of combat vets younger than last-just-war plus twenty?
Chris Matthews confused GOP Sen. Tim Scott, who was at President Trump’s rally in SC sitting next to Sen. Lindsey Graham with Dem Jaime Harrison, who is running against Graham in November. Even worse for Matthews? Harrison was his guest at the time he made the error.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Ukrainian Sherlocks have begun an inquiry into then-Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... over allegations that he pressured officials into firing a top prosecutor in 2016.
A case revolving around Biden, now a Democratic candidate for president, was opened by the State Bureau of Investigations on a court order following a January appeal for action by Viktor Shokin, the dismissed prosecutor general's lawyer, Oleksandr Teleshetsky, told the Washington Post.
"They need to investigate this. They have no other alternative. They are required to do this by the decision of the court. If they don't, then they violate a whole string of procedural norms," Teleshetsky said.
The State Bureau of Investigations confirmed an inquiry was opened. The case mentions only a U.S. citizen and does not refer to Biden by name.
Daria Kaleniuk, director of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, downplayed the significance of the matter, saying that Ukrainian law requires state Sherlocks to open a case on a court order even if they don't believe there is enough evidence. "If I was a SBI investigator, I would close that case immediately," she said.
Pandering to mitigate his stop-and-frisk apologies
[Hot Air] Mike Bloomberg continues to collect endorsements and accolades from key figures in the DNC, despite disastrous debate performances and accusations that he's totally out of step with the liberal wing of his party's base. His latest move is yet another that isn't drawing much media attention but probably should. This week, Bloomberg named former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as a national co-chair for his presidential campaign. He also picked up her formal endorsement for his candidacy. In the announcement, they both felt the need to point out their long history of partnership and the many values they share in common. (WBAL Baltimore)
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Not Bee? Unbelievable.
What a creepy little slimeball. His pandering knows no bounds
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Was pondering what we could do to help with all this tension. How about immediately offering complete, meaningful EC and NATO membership to European Turkey?
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OR how about we tell the backstabbing lying POS Caliphate to F off and withdraw all but one strategically-remotely-triggered nuke at Incirlik. No Curly-Toed Slippers for you, Yippy
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[Aljazeera] Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam - Amid the rapid spread of the coronavirus outbreak around the world, Vietnam has announced that all 16 infected patients in the country were discharged from hospital and declared cured.
As of Wednesday, all 16 patients, including the oldest who is 73, had been cured and discharged from the hospital.
For the past 15 days, including on Friday, the government also detected no new cases of infections, the last one having been reported on February 13, even as a village north of Hanoi remains under a 20-day lockdown.
"If fighting COVID-19 has been a war, then we have won the first round but not the entire war because the situation can be very unpredictable," Vietnam's Ministry of Health quoted Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam as saying, referring to the illness caused by the coronavirus, during an online conference with city and provincial officials on Tuesday.
Worldwide, the outbreak has already killed almost 3,000 and infected more than 83,000 as of Saturday.
It is a different story, however, in Vietnam. World Health Organization (WHO) officials and health experts said the government's swift response to the emergency was crucial in containing the crisis at the early stage.
Ht Wretchard.
[Al-Rooters] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to step aside in Syria and leave Turkey to deal with Syrian government forces alone. "Nyet"
After the death of its soldiers in a Syrian government air strike on Thursday, Turkey said it would allow migrants it hosts to freely pass to Europe.
Erdogan said in Istanbul on Saturday that 18,000 migrants has crossed the border, without immediately providing evidence, adding that the number would rise.
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Bend over, I'll drive....
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[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐In a televised interview, Bernie Sanders has praised slave owners for their free housing program offered to all slaves working the plantations.
"Of course, the slavery was bad, but the slaves were housed, for free I might add, for their entire employment," Sanders said in an interview with 60 Minutes. "So it's unfair to criticize the whole thing. Also, the slaveowners were pretty impressive guys. The plantations were very clean, very nice buildings. I actually honeymooned at one in Virginia back in 1845, and it was an eye-opener for me as to how much propaganda has been used to malign slaveowners and their healthcare, housing, and literacy programs."
At publishing time, sources had also confirmed that Bernie Sanders had defended hell itself, saying the place of eternal torment has "gotten a bad rap" and "isn't such a bad place."
[Washington Post] - Mike Bloomberg was presiding over his inaugural Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore in 2018 when, to the surprise of some in the audience, he gushed about one of China’s top government officials.
...The billionaire, whose core business sells financial information to investors, has led efforts since 2015 to make it easier for U.S. companies to trade in Chinese currency, a move embraced by China’s largest banks. He expanded one of his company’s financial indexes, which could steer $150 billion into China while earning his firm an undisclosed amount in fees.
...the company’s presence in China is invaluable in ways that don’t show up in a balance sheet, enabling Bloomberg to provide economic data that is crucial for many subscribers around the world.
Parag Khanna, founder of the strategic advisory firm FutureMap and author of the book "The Future is Asian," has written that Bloomberg’s company is "effectively the world’s largest private intelligence service," which is particularly notable in the relatively opaque Chinese marketplace.
Subscribers around the world rely on Bloomberg-generated information to help them decide where and how to invest capital ‐ a trove that is vital to China’s efforts to entice investment in the government’s bonds.
To meet that need, Bloomberg’s company in March 2018 announced that it would add 333 Chinese government bonds to its Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index. That opened the way for tens of billions of dollars to flow from investment funds in the United States and elsewhere to four Chinese institutions that issue bonds, including the Chinese government and the China Development Bank.
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Not sure why Chinese need Bloomberg terminals. They trust Bloomberg, and America's SEC, much more than their own Chinese Communist government to not "vanish" their money?
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ The White House and the National Academy of Sciences have established a committee of experts on infectious diseases to build on Trump administration efforts to confront the new coronavirus threat. One goal is to discourage misinformation and panic.
Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said Friday the committee will examine emerging infectious diseases and provide insight to policy makers.
"We are creating a direct line to the nation’s top scientific minds on public health," Droegemeier said.
Dr. Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences, said the virus is the sort of international health threat that creates a climate ripe for misinformation and panic. She said the National Academies "stand ready to provide evidence-based advice to protect US citizens in a timely and expedited manner."
The Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats will be tasked with responding on short notice to questions related to emerging infectious diseases.
MILWAUKEE (AP) ‐ The man police say killed five co-workers at one of the nation’s largest breweries before killing himself was accused of pointing a gun at an SUV and punching a woman in the face in the early 1990s, court documents show. Potential warning signs? No! Don't tell me.
Anthony Ferrill, a 51-year-old electrician at Moslon Coors’ sprawling brewery complex on Milwaukee’s west side, walked into one of the brewery’s buildings Wednesday and gunned down five co-workers before shooting himself, police said.
Authorities have identified the victims as 60-year-old Dale Hudson; 61-year-old Gennady Levshetz; 57-year-old Dana Walk; 33-year-old Jesus Valle Jr.; and 33-year-old Trevor Wetselaar.
Ferrill’s motive remained unknown Friday.
Court documents indicate Ferrill was charged with disorderly conduct in 1991. He was accused of pointing a gun at a Ford Bronco that pulled up alongside him at a stoplight in downtown Milwaukee, causing the Bronco’s driver and passengers to duck down in fear and race away through a red light. Ferrill was 22 at the time.
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The charges were eventually dismissed. The documents didn’t explain why. Ferrill’s attorney in the case, Thomas Halloran, said he didn’t remember much about the case but he thinks prosecutors found Ferrill’s accusers weren’t credible and that they may have been trying to get him in trouble as payback for a previous dispute.
[MAIL] Retired Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher who was acquitted of murdering an ISIS prisoner has admitted that he believes posing for a photo with the dead body was wrong.
Gallagher was charged in 2018 with war crimes, including murder, in the stabbing death of an ISIS militant captive in his care during a deployment to Iraq.
The Special Operations Chief and his fellow SEAL members posed for a now-infamous photo with the corpse of the Iraqi prisoner. He was pictured smiling in the middle of his platoon members as he held a knife to the dead captive's throat.
Following a high-profile trial that attracted the attention of President Trump, Gallagher ended up being acquitted of all charges except for one: Posing in photos with the dead captive.
In an interview with 60 Minutes that will air on Sunday, Gallagher spoke out about that photo and how he was wrong to pose with the captive's body.
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Him and the female soldier who posed with Iraqi prisoners stacked in a pyramid.
What the fuck is wrong with these people? How do they not understand that doing this is wrong, and that documenting their crimes is going to come back to them? What happens to destroy their judgment?
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When the primary recruitment strategy and morale weapon of the enemy is beheading and immolation videos synced with Arabic rap, it's not only understandable, but probably wise.
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I'm in favor of muzz lions being photographed in unflattering states always.
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He didn't invent it and I think the comment, especially at this point, is more about his sense of self importance than any reflection. The photographic aspect is simply imbecilic.
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If you make humiliating skells a crime, killing skells will become the default outcome.
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Wise how?
To take photos that increase the enemy's will to fight? And that pour gasoline on the fire of domestic enemies?
I take issue that the primary recruitment strategy is rap videos. I assert it is the war without end being made on Islamic lands that is the primary recruitment tool for Islamic extremists. Who started it is immaterial by now (it started with the US occupation of Saudi Arabia in the 90s, but this is beside the point) but putting an end to the violence is the correct answer.
Withdrawal followed by a border wall and enthusiastic vetting to prevent tragedies like the Saudi flight student in Florida will do more to protect America than another trillion dollars spent on war.
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it started with the US occupation of Saudi Arabia in the 90s, but this is beside the point
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it started with the US occupation of Saudi Arabia in the 90s, but this is beside the point
Someone should tell him about the Crusades.
I'm not gonna tell him about the Crusades. *You* tell him about the Crusades.
Hey, what about the Barbary pirates?
Enough! Let's just get a beer.
The Tripoli?
No, let's go to Montezuma. They have the best margaritas.
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Someone should ask what Vlad the Impaler saw during the years he and his younger brother were hostages at the court of the Ottoman sultan that led him to fight so desperately against the Turkish army when he inherited the throne.
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Snapping a pic with this murdering animal is no different than a hunting picture with a trophy. A muzz fighter being killed is doing the same as they make vids & do to us.
DOHA (Reuters) - A 31-member Taliban delegation has arrived in Qatar to sign a U.S. troop withdrawal deal that could end the war in Afghanistan, officials of the hardline Islamist group said on Saturday.
The United States and Taliban in Afghanistan are poised to sign a peace deal in the presence of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that is part of a wider push for Afghan reconciliation and an end to the longest U.S. war.
The signing ceremony between the warring sides is set to take place in Qatar’s capital of Doha.
[Bearing Arms] Culpeper County, Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins says he will not be intimidated by anti-gun legislators who’ve turned back a pay raise for sheriffs and deputies, and who are threatening to go after pensions as well, all because a number of sheriffs have spoken out in opposition to Gov. Ralph Northam’s gun control agenda.
I had the chance to sit down and talk with Sheriff Jenkins at the Townhall Media booth at CPAC 2020, and one of the first things I asked him about was the retribution we’ve seen by Democrats in the legislature who are angry about the pushback from local law enforcement.
"I’m not surprised anymore," the sheriff told me. "The level that that bunch will stoop to at this juncture, seeing everything I’ve seen in the last two months, nothing surprises me from them. They are bought and paid for. Their far left, liberal agenda is beyond anything we could have comprehended, and that’s why we’ve never seen an uprising like you have through over 100 localities in the state. When have you seen that for any topic?"
Jenkins went on to say that those Virginia gun owners and voters who’ve helped turn the vast majority of the state into a Second Amendment Sanctuary (at least on paper) haven’t settled down, even after Northam’s gun ban bill was defeated in a Senate committee.
[Hot Air] This is one of those stories I noticed in the background. Last weekend a 68-year-old Asian man who was collecting cans was robbed by another man who took his cart full of aluminum. On top of the robbery, the man was mocked and harassed by several other people, including one moron who filmed the incident and posted it online. Another person saw the clip and circulated it online calling it "ignorant, inhumane, & sickening."
[PJ] Republican Leader in the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy is almost giddy over Republican prospects to retake the House of Representatives in November. With Bernie Sanders leading the ticket, McCarthy predicts a Republican sweep.
He says the Democrats have "surrendered to socialists."
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In an interview with Fox News on the sidelines of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, McCarthy weighed in on the warnings from within the Democratic Party that a Sanders nomination could endanger their hold on the House under Nancy Pelosi. McCarthy would be in line for the speakership should the chamber flip ‐ and he eagerly played up those internal party tensions.
"The Democrats have surrendered to the socialists," McCarthy told Fox News. "There is a reason why Bernie Sanders is going to become their nominee and that’s because this is no longer the Democratic Party ‐ this is a socialist Democratic Party."
"With AOC, [Rep. Rashida] Tlaib, [Ilan] Omar ‐ they don’t call themselves Democrats," he continued. "They call themselves socialist Democrats."
True enough. But many lo- information voters might not have a clue what voting for Sanders and the Democrats really means. If the CPAC conference is a preview of November, you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the danger to the republic if Sanders were to win the presidency.
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Assuming Trump is re-elected and the Pubs retake the house and hold the senate, we will be in for 4 years of "America is no longer governable" and "democracy is broken" stories.
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Maybe some elites will have to get a real job - for the first time in their lives.
Don't get cocky, people. It's going to take a ton of hard work to re-elect Trump. The Dems are going to play dirty every step of the way. Voter fraud, illegal alien voting, all of it. They consider the stakes too high for ordinary democratic norms to apply.
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That is why the well is so poisoned now that neither side will accept the outcome in November. The commies didn't 4 years ago and won't again even if it is a landslide. The right understands all the cheating and undermining to get power at any price by the commies and won't accept the 'irregularities'.
And even assuming this happens, what will the GOP even do with a majority anyway?
Obviously, I don't want Pelosi and Schumer to have majorities, but I'm bored with the "the leftward ratchet has temporarily been stopped. Yippee! Welp, there it goes again." game.
And speaking of McCarthy, does anyone else find it grotesque that the leader of the House GOP is from a state where the GOP is pretty much shut out everywhere?
Yeah, I know, Muh Seniority and Muh Fundraising.
I really want the GOP beholden to Big Tech and Hollywood. What could possibly go wrong?
Too bad no one in the GOP can take a hint from Jesse Unruh's attitude toward lobbyists:
"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and then vote against them you've got no business being up here."
[LI] Article of Impeachment II against Donald Trump was "obstruction of Congress." One of the bases for the Article was the Trump administration’s position that it did not have to comply with House Committee subpoenas to senior administration officials.
Donald McGahn, Trump’s former White House Counsel was not named in Article II, but he was among the people who refused to comply. The House Judiciary Committee went to court to enforce the subpoena to McGahn, and a district court judge, in a much ballyhoed opinion, ordered McGahn to appear.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit just ruled that subpoena was unenforceable in court, and reversed. The full opinion (pdf.) is embedded at the bottom of the post.
The Court noted the background of impeachment for non-compliance with House subpoenas:
The House of Representatives has since passed two articles of impeachment against the President. H.R. Res. 755, 116th Cong. (2019). The first article charges the President with "abuse of power"; the second with "obstruction of Congress." Although the second article does not mention McGahn expressly, it alleges that the President unlawfully directed officials "not to comply with" congressional subpoenas and asserts that these directives "were consistent with President Trump’s previous efforts to undermine United States Government investigations into foreign interference in United States elections." Id. at 6-8. The Senate voted to acquit the President on February 5. See 166 CONG. REC. S936-39 (daily ed. February 5, 2020).
The Committee also issued a report detailing the President’s alleged wrongdoing, see H.R. REP. NO. 116-346 (2019), that explains the Committee’s continued interest in McGahn’s testimony. Specifically, the Committee explained that it intended to use McGahn’s testimony "in a Senate trial on these articles of impeachment" and to continue investigating "President Trump’s obstruction of the Special Counsel." Id. at 159 n.928; see also Committee Suppl. Br. 5-8. If the Committee obtains McGahn’s testimony, it may "consider[] whether to recommend new articles of impeachment." Id. at 7. The Committee also claims that it needs McGahn’s testimony "for pressing legislative and oversight purposes," including the consideration of certain legislation. Id. at 8-9.
The Court held, 2-1, that the subpoena was not enforceable in court:
[Business Insider] Amazon told all 798,000 of its employees on Friday to avoid "non-essential travel" domestically and internationally because of concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Business Insider.
Earlier on Friday, The New York Times reported that employees on Amazon's worldwide operations team, which oversees much of the company's technology and logistics globally, received a separate email from the senior vice president in charge of the team, Dave Clark, telling them not to plan any meetings requiring travel until at least April, when the company hoped to have a better sense of the outbreak's impact.
The spokesperson confirmed that the guidance on avoiding nonessential travel was sent to all employees, including those on the worldwide operations team.
Amazon had already announced restrictions on travel to and from China in January, telling workers who had been to the region to work from home for two weeks upon returning and seek medical attention if they showed symptoms, in-line with guidance from companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
However, as the outbreak has worsened ‐ killing nearly 2,900 people and infecting at least 83,000, with most cases and deaths in China ‐ companies have been forced to take additional measures to protect workers. Facebook's annual developer conference and the largest smartphone conference were both recently canceled because of the coronavirus. On Friday, a Google employee in the company's Zurich office tested positive for the coronavirus.
[Townhall] Amid the partisanship, fear-mongering, and political jousting, what do Americans really need to know about Coronavirus -- which appears to be spreading significantly beyond its initial containment inside the United States? There are relatively few active steps people can take in preparation, though basic steps like frequent hand-washing are sensible. Here's your first piece of good news on this front, via the Wall Street Journal:
Public health experts advise staying calm and following the same precautions recommended for preventing flu or any other respiratory virus. Stick with the basics: Wash your hands, cover your coughs and sneezes, and stay at home from work or school when you’re sick...Public health experts say the threat of a coronavirus outbreak shouldn’t feel like a death sentence. Though it poses a serious risk for some‐namely older individuals and those with underlying health conditions‐for the majority it will likely be a relatively mild illness.
Nobody should downplay a pandemic with a death rate in the two percent range. It is very serious, and would cause a lot of deaths if the disease continues its rapid spread. However, beyond the epicenter of Wuhan -- and especially in advanced countries -- its fatality rate is much lower, and for most people who are infected, they'll experience a fairly mild illness. In more good news, Israel scientists believe they are well on their way to developing a cure:
[Bloomberg] General Motors Co. said it will hire 1,200 new workers for its two plants in Lansing, Michigan, in part because of rising demand for the company’s mid-sized sport utility vehicles.
The automaker plans to add a third shift and 800 workers at its Lansing Delta Township plant, where it builds the Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave SUVs. GM also will institute a second shift, including 400 new hires, at its Lansing Grand River factory. That facility makes the Chevy Camaro sports car and the all-new Cadillac CT4 and CT5 sedans.
While GM had planned on hiring workers for the Cadillac facility, the additions in the Delta Township plant were not part of a comprehensive four-year labor deal signed with the United Auto Workers in October. Those new jobs come in response to growing sales of SUVs as U.S. consumers abandon sedans for those models and crossovers.
Last year, sales of the Chevy Traverse rose 0.3% to almost 150,000 units. That increase came despite a 40-day strike that cut production and resulted in fourth quarter sales of the SUV falling 15%. Enclave sales rose 3% last year.
[American Thinker] For people who are neither leftists nor caught in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Vice President Mike Pence is an intelligent, principled, competent man. When President Trump announced on Wednesday that he was putting Pence in charge of coordinating the federal government's response to the coronavirus, it seemed like an eminently sensible decision. For Democrats, though, Pence is the man who caused an HIV outbreak in Indiana. This is a lie.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a woman so desperate to drive Trump from the White House that she seemed unconcerned that Mike Pence would become president, summed up the Democrats' concerns by tweeting that Pence does not "believe" in science.
Pence probably doesn't believe in fairies, either, but his history proves that he is receptive to the scientific process and to scientific data. So why does Ocasio-Cortez make this silly statement? The giveaway is her claim that Pence's "past decisions" have already "cost people their lives." She's referring to events in Indiana in 2015.
Here's the story the New York Times told more than a year and a half after the events occurred: beginning in November 2014, five HIV drug‐users in Scott County, Indiana, tested positive for HIV. By the middle of January, eight more tested positive. The problem was shared needle use, so there was a movement to override Indiana's law forbidding distributing clean needles to junkies.
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Rod Rosenstein's sister's comments last week from the CDC are likely one the reasons the Orange Man placed his VP in a Corona Virus 'over-watch and public affairs' position. More people have died from archery accidents in the US over the last 30 days than from the virus, yet the stock market has virtually plummeted.
Anything that can be done to wreck the economy will help Biden or Sanders and the other communists. The democrats will never 'let a crisis go to waste.'
[Breitbart] Network political commentator Angela Rye said Wednesday on CNN’s "Tonight," that African-American supporters of President Donald Trump should be ashamed.
When asked about the Trump campaign’s outreach to Black voters, Tara Setmayer said, "Well, I think it’s smart of them to do this. They think ‐ it’s true, he only needs a couple of percentage points. He over-performed last time with black voters that people didn’t see coming. He had better numbers than McCain did or Romney. It’s a smart play for them politically. They have the money to do it. How much impact it actually has remains to be seen. You know, how you do this, the way you message things makes a huge difference. The president does have criminal justice reform, at least as something tangible that he can go into these communities with. But that’s about it. Although the black unemployment, which we hear constantly over and over again, but I don’t know that Black America’s looking at this saying, ’yeah, we want four more years of this guy’ when all the other transgressions, racial transgressions that come out of his mouth and this White House are just too much."
Rye said, "I think Donald Trump does not have a strong record to stand on as it relates to black unemployment. He has Barack Obama’s record to stand on with that, and I think that at some point, black folks have got to look themselves in the mirror and say, hey, do I want to follow Mark Burns? Do I want to follow Katrina Pierson? Do I want to follow Diamond and Silk? Who the hell are these people, right?"
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She's an Atty/"Activist"/served as the executive director and general counsel to the Congressional Black Caucus...in other words a "House Negro" for the Dems
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Why Jewish parents want their kids to be doctors, not lawyers.
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[AnNahar] A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 83,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it.
The latest figures reported by each government's health authority as of Friday in Beijing:
‐ Mainland China: 2,788 deaths among 78,824 cases, mostly in the central province of Hubei
‐ Hong Kong: 92 cases, 2 deaths
‐ Macao: 10 cases
‐ South Korea: 2,337 cases, 13 deaths
‐ Japan: 927 cases, including 705 from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, 10 deaths
‐ Italia: 650 cases, 15 deaths
‐ Iran: 388 cases, 34 deaths
‐ Singapore: 96
‐ United States: 60
‐ Germany: 53
‐ Kuwait: 45
‐ Thailand: 41
‐ La Belle France: 38 cases, 2 deaths
‐ Bahrain: 36
‐ Taiwan: 34 cases, 1 death
‐ Spain: 27
‐ Malaysia: 25
‐ Australia: 23
‐ United Arab Emirates: 19
‐ Vietnam: 16
‐ United Kingdom: 15
‐ Canada: 14
‐ Sweden: 7
‐ Iraq: 6
‐ Oman: 6
‐ Russia: 5
‐ Croatia: 5
‐ Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... : 5
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But larger numbers of opioid deaths and car wreck deaths don't crash the stock market.
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The stock market over-reacts in the short term.
This is less about the death numbers than the supply chain disruptions, although the media will always find something to be hysterical about.
Companies are anticipating not getting products to sell or components to build with, for however long this epidemic takes to play out. I bet they are also taking a look at those cost-saving totally genius just in time inventory schemes they've been running.
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This is the time when the C-suite executives need to earn their enormous comp packages. Show us what they taught you about supply chain disruptions at Wharton and Hahvahd. The guy who runs Joe's Shoes understands that if you don't got shoes you can't sell shoes.
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SAA can now roll up the right side of the Jabal al Wastani mountain range through relatively unprotected Rouj (Ruj) Plain all the way to Killi and al Atarib. That cuts ALL remaining Turkish resupply lines to Idlib City and the surrounding area, creating a giant Idlib cauldron. pic.twitter.com/YOYA0VZP4h
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The Hama massacre (Arabic: مجزرة حماة) occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under the orders of the country's president Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Assad's government.[The massacre, carried out by commanding General Rifaat al-Assad, ended the campaign begun in 1976 by Sunni Muslim, including the Muslim Brotherhood, against the government.
[MSN] Lawsuits against Walt Disney Co. are moving ahead in California and Florida, challenging how the company allows disabled people to access theme park attractions. It's been awhile since I went to Disney World, but when I did, they moved us to the head of the lines. I think that was why they brought me. Maybe things have changed.
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I believe 'move to the head of the line' was abused. SO now, two weeks ago, nearly all the rides in Florida had sort of a reservation system in place, if you claim disability at the front office.
It's a reasonable system.
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We used to joke about renting a wheelchair to always move to the front of the line. We joked about it, others did it.
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I once saw a person at a bus stop who appeared to only be pretending to be blind. She had the cane, she had all sorts of reflective tape and really overdid it. Also kept 'looking' at things. But when she dropped a dime and the bent down and directly picked it up... but she did move to the head of the line.
Now there may be a condition like that but...
OTOH there was a guy who really was blind. every day he would take not one, but three busses to get to work, and three to get home. Amazing guy.
[NEWS.YAHOO] A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum-seekers to Mexico to await court hearings, a practice immigrant advocates have denounced as inhumane and deadly.
The decision on Friday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... deals a blow to the Trump administration. The process ‐ called the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP, also known as "Remain in Mexico" ‐ had been seen as another tool in President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... ’s asylum crackdown.
Since the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rolled out the program in January 2019, the U.S. government has sent back more than 60,000 people to seven Mexican border cities from Tijuana to Matamoros. Those included some of those most dangerous areas of the border, exposing migrants colonists to assaults, kidnappings, murders and extortion.
U.S. authorities have argued that the policy keeps migrants colonists from slipping into the U.S. and deters other migrants colonists considering crossing from the U.S. southern border.
Later on Friday, the Trump administration said in an emergency motion that at least 25,000 migrants sent back through the program were still in Mexico and that halting the program “could prompt a rush on the southern border”.
In response, the appeals court put its ruling on hold to allow the administration to petition the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue.
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WTF?
Didn't SCOTUS just strike down this egregious habit of federal judges staying decisions outside their purview?
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Decision by 2 Clinton appointees. Concurring opinion by a Senior judge appointed by GHW Bush.
In other news, there is currently only 1 vacancy on a federal appeals court (5th - which is already heavily Republican), and there have been no new openings for months now. No doubt everyone is holding out to see what happens in November. After that, well, there are lots of 70+ and even 80+ year old Clinton judges out there.
[BuzzFeed] COLUMBIA, South Carolina ‐ On Friday night, Tom Steyer danced onstage to a live performance of "Back That Azz Up." "I want to emphasize how 'down' I am with you Urban Youths!"
Under blue and purple stage lights, the rapper Juvenile performed the song at Steyer’s last rally before Saturday’s South Carolina primary in a half-empty gym at Allen University, a historically black college here in Columbia.
The final event for Steyer was a hodgepodge of HBCU and southern Baptist culture: The campaign brought Juvenile and gospel singer Yolanda Adams to perform for a largely black audience. It was a small and energetic event that celebrated the culture, joy, and struggle of black southerners ‐ a vignette of the campaign black South Carolinians say has wooed them away from campaigns like Joe Biden’s.
[FOXNEWS] Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif., appeared to threaten Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... Jr., the president's son, on Friday, warning that they better not be in close quarters or they could have a "serious altercation."
He made those comments on MSNBC while discussing the coronavirus. MSNBC anchor Hallie Jackson had asked the congressman about Trump Jr.'s argument that Democrats were hoping for deaths from the coronavirus so it could end his father's winning streak.
"He should not be near me when he says that," Garamendi responded. "There would be a serious altercation. That is just totally outrageous. That is totally outrageous."
[ToloNews] At least 21 security force members and nine non-combatants were killed in twelve provinces--and 49 others were maimed--since the start of the reduction in violence plan that began on February 22, according to Afghan government numbers.
According to the Ministry of Interior, on Friday, the seventh and last day of the reduction in violence period, Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Death Eaters launched attacks on three Afghan forces checkpoints in Kapisa, Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... and Badakhshan provinces, which resulted in the killing of at least one member of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) and the wounding of three others.
Also, in the northern province of Badakhshan, a local commander of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) was maimed as a result of a roadside mine explosion in Baharak district. But there are no reports about what group planted the bomb.
Saydabad district of Maidan Wardak province, one of the least secure areas, has been peaceful since the reduction in violence plan began. People in the district say that the past week has brought new hopes for them.
According to the residents, except for the center of Saydabad district, the district is controlled by the Taliban.
"People are doing well in terms of business in the past two or three days, there is no problem now between the Taliban and the government forces," said Naqibullah, a resident of Saydabad district.
"We are very happy now-- the telecom services are working, roads are opened--I wish that peace was restored forever," said Sayed Ahmad, a resident of Saydabad.
This comes after Kabul witnessed a couple of security incidents over the past few days.
"We want a peace in which there are no more casualties among our people," said Jawed, a resident in Kabul.
[AnNahar] Ukraine's ex-prosecutor general has filed a complaint against former U.S. vice president Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... , accusing the contender for the Democratic nomination of repeated pressure seeking to force his dismissal.
Viktor Shokin, prosecutor in 2015-2106, filed the complaint with a Kiev court which in turn has filed a request with Ukraine's investigative office the DBR to open a probe, his lawyer Oleksandr Teleshetsky told AFP.
Contacted by AFP, the DBR could not confirm if an investigation had been opened.
Allegations that President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... had sought to pressure Ukraine to launch a probe into Biden's family prompted his impeachment, although he was later acquitted by the Senate.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who took office in May last year, has sought to keep his distance from the affair without harming relations with Washington or taking sides.
According to Teleshetsky, Biden had "called repeatedly" for Shokhin to be fired while he was working as prosecutor general.
He was at the time leading a probe into Ukrainian gas group Burisma, where Biden's son Hunter had a seat on the supervisory board.
The lawyer insisted that Shokin had no intention of interfering in American affairs or the electoral process in the United States. The complaint has "no political character", he said.
[AlAhram] Somali troops clashed with a regional militia on Friday in one of the most serious outbreaks of fighting yet over political rivalries that Washington says are slowing the war against al Qaeda-linked holy warriors.
Eleven people were killed in the violence, witnesses said.
Tension spilled over on Thursday evening between the Somali National Army and the Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama'a (ASWJ) militia,
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[NYPOST] Presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg ...Billionaire former Republican mayor and nanny of New York, Dem candidate for president in 2020. Wants to rid the country of assault weapons, other kinds of guns, and 32-ounce soft drinks... takes credit for leading New York "through" the 9/11 attacks in a campaign ad.
But there’s one problem: He didn’t become mayor until four months later.
Touting his leadership chops, the billionaire released a 30-second video including the claim.
"I led a complex, diverse city through 9/11 and I have common-sense plans to move America away from the chaos to progress," Bloomberg, 78, is seen saying at a campaign rally.
But Rudy Giuliani was mayor during the attacks, and he didn’t hand Bloomberg the keys to Gracie Mansion until Jan. 1, 2002. Remember "America's Mayor"? Check our archives if you're not a believer.
[NYPOST] Mike Bloomberg tried to downplay his center-stage role in pushing the City Council to override the Big Apple’s strict term limits and allow him a third run for mayor — insisting it was the lawmakers’ doing.
The eye-popping remark came amid an answer to a question during an MSNBC interview Friday morning about whether he would seek to change the US Constitution to allow for a similar maneuver.
“I will not try to change the Constitution. That’s correct,” the billionaire media mogul said, before adding: “Yes, but keep in mind it was my City Council that did it.”
That account glossed over Bloomberg’s acrimonious 2008 effort to pressure city lawmakers into changing the law.
Bloomberg’s 2009 Democratic rival, city Comptroller Bill Thompson, objected, calling it “a suspension of democracy in New York City.”
Quinnipiac University pollsters found 89 percent of voters wanted a referendum rather than a city council vote.
Bloomberg argued at the time that the Great Recession required steady leadership.
“There are times when you know a job is done, and there are times when you feel you’re in the thick of major changes that still require hard work and careful management and tough accountability,” he said at a City Hall press conference.
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Case of Bidenheimers or Bath House economy envy?
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We have somehow gotten along without the muumuu that stood up to snipers in Tuzla.
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He's a little creep. A brilliant businessman, but and a dreadful leader of a democratic nation. They don't in fact go together.
Nb So many of our best, wisest, greatest leaders were not brilliant successes as businessmen: Grant and Sherman were failures; FDR was born wealthy; Lincoln had a good living but married money; Ike and Reagan were successful but nowhere near wealthy. Of our great leaders only Washington made a serious fortune, and no one cares about his business acumen.
Maybe we should as a nation start getting over our stupid and very recent billionaire-worship?
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Government is a business now. Making it not a business may be impossible short of a complete reset.
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Dingdingdingdingding, #3 BP. :-D
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"Elect me and I'll take away your guns...and your soda." That's a hell of a platform--it says so much about our electorate that he'll get some votes.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... says he isn’t concerned that Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... could refuse to leave office if he loses the November election. He never said he would that I've noticed.
Given how he’s treated the military, the intelligence agencies and the FBI, "I have no worry about him being escorted out of the White House," the Democratic presidential hopeful said Wednesday at a CNN town hall in Charleston, South Carolina.
Biden was also asked if he had a message for Trump if he was watching the interview.
"Mr. President, we have a democratic process," Biden said, staring directly into the camera. "When the voters speak, they are heard and they have to be responded to. Now, if you’re worried about somehow someone interfering in our election, why don’t you do something about Russia now?
Trump Opening Offices in Black Neighborhoods (4:52 p.m.)
President Donald Trump’s campaign said Wednesday it will open offices in African-American neighborhoods in key swing-state cities like Milwaukee and bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... The campaign plans to open 15 Black Voices for Trump Community Centers in cities with significant numbers of black voters, including Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Philadelphia and Charlotte.
A mock-up of one such community center from the campaign shows a storefront with a photo of Trump and Alice Johnson, a black woman he granted clemency.
A sign trumpets the "promises made, promises kept" slogan as well as the phrases "school choice," "criminal justice reform" and "HBCUs," the acronym for historically black colleges and universities.
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[Breitbart] Greece has completely shut down its borders Friday, sending dozens of naval vessels to patrol the Greek islands after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... announced it would allow all Syrian migrants colonists to head to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... A government representative, who wished to remain anonymous, told German media that Greece has closed its entire land and sea border with Turkey and will allow no one to cross the border at all, German tabloid Bild reports. Citing sources, the newspaper claimed 50 naval ships ‐ likely predominantly patrol vessels ‐ of the Hellenic Navy supported by helicopters were being sent to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... ’s external border.
The newspaper also cited accounts of Greek authorities setting off tear gas at land border crossing points as migrants colonists attempted to move into Europe.
The Ottoman Turkish government has not made an official government announcement that the border is open but a source informed news agency Rooters that all border guards, police and Ottoman Turkish coastguard officers were ordered to stand down.
Ottoman Turkish journalist Ragip Solyu added that the border would be open for all Syrians wanting to head to Europe for the next 72 hours.
Ömer Celik, the front man for the Islamist AKP party, the party of Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... , alluded to the fact that the borders could be opened stating, "Our refugee policy remains the same, but here we have a situation. We can no longer keep the refugees."
Can Dundar, a Ottoman Turkish journalist who fled from the Erdogan regime to Germany, made a post on social media platform Twitter claiming to show a video of released Syrian prisoners heading for the Greek border.
Other news agencies have shown similar videos and photographs and claimed that hundreds of migrants colonists have begun attempting to cross into Greece.
Greek government sources have said Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has greatly increased overall security on the border and Lieutenant General Konstantinos Floros, head of the Hellenic Armed Forces also travelled to the region of Evros to prepare for an expected surge in migrants colonists.
The new wave of migrants colonists comes as tensions on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios remain high following riots involving locals who injured dozens of coppers while protesting against the building of new migrant centres.
A total of 52 officers and 10 local residents were maimed during the riots and Greek police have announced they will be launching a probe into the incidents.
[CNN] Drug overdoses can be life-threatening, but for two women who accidentally took massive hits of LSD, the experience was life changing -- and in a good way.
A 46-year-old woman snorted a staggering 550 times the normal recreational dose of LSD and not only survived, but found that the foot pain she had suffered from since her 20s was dramatically reduced.
Separately, a 15-year-old girl with bipolar disorder overdosed on 10 times the normal dose of the drug, which she said resulted in a massive improvement in her mental health.
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According to her roommate, she sat mostly still in a chair, either with her eyes open or rolled back, occasionally speaking random words. Ten hours later, she was able to hold a conversation and "seemed coherent."
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LSD is a serotonin inhibitor. Once all your serotonin is inhibited it can't inhibit anymore. So yes it will get washed out of your system before it's all used up.
[MilitaryTimes] 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.... ’s Afghanistan branch has lost more than half its fighters due to Afghan and U.S. Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s, and ground operations conducted by Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters, according to a recent inspector general report.
Officials with U.S. Forces Afghanistan said it was hard to estimate the number of remaining ISIS fighters in Afghanistan, but U.S. officials claimed in September the terrorist group was capable of fielding between 2,000 and 5,000 fighters, the IG report detailed.
Afghanistan’s ISIS offshoot lost its home turf in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. Province in November, forcing 300 of the jihadi fighters to surrender to Afghan forces.
But the terrorist group continues to limp on despite intense military pressure against the group over the last five months.
Despite a reduction in violence agreement hashed out between the Taliban and the U.S., American warplanes have continued to conduct offensive operations and strikes against the Islamic hard boy group.
ISIS is not party to the seven day reduction in violence deal between the U.S. and Taliban, which went into effect Feb. 22. The U.S. and the Taliban are expected to sign a long-term peace deal on Feb. 29 that could lead to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
Col. Sonny Leggett, a front man for U.S. Forces Afghanistan, tweeted early Thursday morning that airstrikes on Wednesday killed three ISIS fighters in Kunar Province ...one of the four N2KL provinces (Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman). N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces for the rugged and very violent region opposite Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Northwest Frontier Province. Kunar is the center of the N2KL region. Its population is 95% Pashtun. It is adjacent to Bajaur Agency.. and forced 34 ISIS snuffies to surrender to Afghan forces in Tswokey district.
On Tuesday, Leggett announced the U.S. had conducted two airstrikes in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, targeting and killing four ISIS fighters.
"We continue to eliminate ISIS murderous Moslems wherever they hide to protect Afghanistan while honoring US-Afghan-Taliban agreement to reduce the violence," Leggett tweeted Tuesday.
U.S. officials admit ISIS’ collapse in Nangarhar was also a result of sustained ground operations carried out by America’s long-time foe in Afghanistan, the Taliban.
"Following months of sustained pressure from both the United States and the Taliban, ISIS-K snuffies in Nangarhar surrendered en masse," the IG report details.
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Many of McSssssschtain'sh friendsssssch join him in Hell.
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"...due to Afghan and U.S. airstrikes and ground operations conducted by Taliban..."
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another reason we shouldn't be there any longer
the natural state of moslems is to kill each other. why should we interfere?
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Afghan has been responsible for 19 years of tremendous profit for our weapons manufacturers. You think they're going to give up on their gravy train just like that?
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Not so much allies I'd say, perhaps more a hammer/anvil deal. At any rate, a sign that the Afghan/Taliban agreement has some traction if both those two sides feel they have troops freed up for an offensive against ISIS.
If there is going to be peace, or at least a truce, then the loose cannon ISIS, who nobody likes, needs to be knocked out.
[NEWS.YAHOO] The Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union blacklisted two Ottoman Turkish nationals as retaliation over Ankara’s energy drilling off Cyprus in a move that has more political symbolism than economic punch.
The EU asset freezes and travel bans on two employees of Ottoman Turkish Petroleum Corp. make good on the bloc’s months-long vow to counter The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... ’s oil and natural-gas exploration in waters that are part of the exclusive economic zone of member country Cyprus. The sanctions also are the first of their kind in response to the actions of a nation seeking to join the EU.
At the same time, the decision by EU governments in Brussels stops short of targeting any Ottoman Turkish companies. This reflects a desire to avoid antagonizing a key ally in the fight to prevent Middle East migration, particularly from war-torn Syria.
"Hanging in the balance is a possible influx of Syrian refugees into Europe," said Michael Emerson of the CEPS think tank in the Belgian capital. "It’s a highly sensitive political issue in the EU."
Relations between the EU and Turkey have been deteriorating since Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... responded to a failed coup attempt in mid-2016 by unleashing a widespread crackdown on political opponents.
Ties soured further in 2018 when the Ottoman Turkish navy prevented drilling by Italia-based Eni SpA in Cypriot waters and again late last year, when Turkey carried out a military operation in northern Syria to carve out a buffer zone and struck a controversial accord with Libya on their maritime boundary.
The acrimony has halted negotiations on a bid for EU membership by Turkey, which has been seeking to join the bloc since the 1980s and began accession talks in 2005. The energy-exploration tensions are a reminder of the most basic European disagreement with Turkey: its occupation of the northern part of Cyprus since a 1974 invasion.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) logged three immigration detainer requests for an illegal alien accused of repeatedly stabbing Adams County Magistrate David Blackett in Denver last year, according to reports. Jose Armenta-Vazquez, 39, is accused of stabbing the judge in the magistrate's east Denver home back in August.
One month before the nearly-fatal stabbing, Armenta-Vazquez was released by the Denver Sheriff's Department for the third time despite active immigration detainers logged against him in each case. According to Breitbart News, the illegal alien has been arrested 36 times on a wide range of charges, including child abuse, car theft, assault and traffic violations. ICE announced the Mexican citizen was first ordered to be removed from the United States back in Mar. 1999.
It's not clear when Vazquez became a suspect in the stabbing of the judge, but the criminal alien was again arrested in October, after the judge's stabbing, and released the same month in defiance of a fourth immigration detainer logged by the agency. Vazquez was again apprehended in December on suspicion of menacing with a deadly weapon related to a separate incident. He was finally charged for the Blackett attack on Jan. 15, 2020, according to CBS4 News in Denver.
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What Frank said. Let these hacks deal with the fruits of their / corrupt politicians' / sweatshop greedheads' 34 years of madness:
- rapists and murderers
- drunk drivers
- hordes of illiterates stinking up the public schools
- freeloading patients overwhelming emergency rooms
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Just in case you think Trump is a shoo-in, here's CNN:
Looking ahead to November, each of the six potential Democratic nominees tested in California easily tops Trump in a hypothetical matchup among registered voters. And all six run about even with Trump in Texas, a state Democrats have long hoped would flip to their column in the electoral college.
The president's approval rating stands at 33% in California, according to the poll, and 43% in Texas.
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^ That poll is meaningless. The campaign has not even begun.
Trump will bring down an avalanche of negative advertising on the Dem nominee - AFTER the convention. That will boost his numbers and depress the Dem nominee's numbers by at least 5 points, in both cases, i.e. provide a ca. 10-point swing.
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and I'm sure they only polled the urban centers
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Trump will bring down an avalanche of negative advertising on the Dem nominee - AFTER the convention.
And they'll do the same to him, along with the multiplier effect of media bias.
#4 Bobby, it's California. 'Nuff said.
Things are tight in Texas, too.
OK, it's a CNN poll. Even so, complacency is a killer.
The Texas poll is doubtless rigged, but what does it tell us that CNN feels OK with running such a rigged poll?
That things are closer than they should be?
Or that they've worked out the kinks from 2016 in properly stealing the next election; and now they're laying the groundwork for making it look "natural" by showing that the Dems are "surprisingly close" in Texas?
True dat. This is a GOTV effort for Donks for Tuesday - CNN's only viewership
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I haven't watched any of the Democratic debates. But I might watch some of the convention. After all the best part of watching a train wreck is not watching the train travel down the track but watching the actual wreck...
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Lots of registered voters never vote. Polls of likely voters are more realistic. And yes, at this point the published polls don’t tell us much that’s useful.
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Bernie is not a good debater. None of the Democrats are to be honest, this batch is really sad. That is what I expect though in an re-election year when the better people stay home and the whacko's and the old 'it's my turn' candidates show up.
Elon at Air Warfare Symposium, 1hr video. Some great interview questions asked, though slightly standard answers from Elon with a couple of twists.
https://youtu.be/dPwxfzvhlLA
One tidbit at 29mins, Starlinks are now cheaper to make than launch (even with reused fairings), and Elon keen to launch them on Starship to bring cost down further.
Also, Elon trying to push Starship Earth Transit to Air Force - “Land anywhere really fast!” - “like an ICBM, just remove the nuke and replace with landing gear”. Elon believes jet fighters are obsolete compared with drone warfare. Put 2 & 2 together, and you get a 100 tonne, ‘drone army’ being controlled over Starlink and possibly launched to anywhere in the world in 30 minutes on a Starship.
It was a little interesting to see how ‘remote’ he seems to be from staff motivation, just ‘carrot and stick’ not recognising the individual passion people bring for his ‘big causes’.
Elon will launch Starlink satellites ASAP using Starship. Cheaper to make 60 than launch them ..... incredible progress
The fighter jet era has passed. AI based UAVs will rule mid and local airspace.
Alway's have a maximized batting average under development.
Don't worry about IP - worry about rate of innovation and always accelerate it.
Incentive structure must be aligned with accelerating innovation rate.
China's economy will be 2 to 3 times as big as the US.
The foundation of war is economics. If you have half the economic resources you will lose so you must innovate to survive.
For the US to be military greater then 2nd it must innovate.
Failure to try to innovate should result in firing.
Innovation attempts demanded and no penalty for failure..
Star Fleet must happen. The good SciFi features must come true and while we are still alive.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren ...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless... proposed diverting billions of dollars of funding for President Trump's border wall to government efforts to respond to the coronavirus. She's flailing
Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced the Prioritizing Pandemic Prevention Act on Thursday to require that approximately $10 billion be redirected from fence projects along the U.S.-Mexico border to the Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Agency for International Development to make up for the money Congress will spend preparing for and responding to the virus.
"The coronavirus outbreak poses serious health, diplomatic, and economic threats to the United States, and we must be prepared to confront it head-on," Warren said in a statement. "Rather than use taxpayer dollars to pay for a monument to hate and division, my bill will help ensure that the federal government has the resources it needs to adequately respond to this emergency."
The loss of $10 billion would wipe out more than half of the White House's wall coffers, which sit at $18 billion ‐ pending Trump getting the $2 billion requested from Congress in fiscal 2021 and taking $3.8 billion from defense counternarcotic funding, as planned.
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The money would arrive 2 years after the media panic dies. Given it probably took Chinese biowar lab 7-15 years to create coronavirus, we have late money chasing later problem.
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Would be fun to see anti-US response to a B-2 strike on Wuhan.
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We have spent over a half-century funding the monster. What could have possibly gone wrong.
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I can't help it, but these days my disgust with the Left has reached rage levels as I have decided that these scum sucking weasles are not naive or stupid or dumb or ignorant they are just pure evil.
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Turn coronavirus loose in a Third World shit hole like Mexico and then open the border. Right. As if tuberculosis, fentanyl and methamphetamine aren't bad enough. Hopefully after Tuesday it will be crystal clear to Fauxcahontas and her misguided contributors that she cannot win and we shall have heard the last of her.
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They're trying to lose. Really. No ither explabation.
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While I think we should treat plagues as national defense issues, I don't believe this is her motivation. She has earned the right to be disbelieved by default.
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U.S. Agency for International Development
Now if that doesn't sound like a congressional slush fund I don't know what does.
Trump should transfer it to DSHS which, in turn, use it to build a wall as a defense against the virus coming over from Mexico...
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Hunter Biden's request to delay his deposition in his child support case with baby mama Lunden Roberts was denied on Wednesday by an Arkansas judge The 50-year-old requested on Tuesday that his deposition to be pushed back, with his legal team claiming he wouldn't be available until after April 1
The judge ripped into Biden during a call with his lawyers, saying 'Unless his hair is on fire, he needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a deposition'
She also scoffed at Biden's limited availability, saying: 'All the information I have is that he's unemployed'
On Friday, a New York Times piece revealed Biden took up painting as a hobby
He said that painting was 'literally keeping me sane', adding: 'For years I wouldn’t call myself an artist. Now I feel comfortable saying it'
Biden will be expected to appear in Arkansas on either March 11 or March 12
[WBALTV] SHADY SIDE, Md. — Anne Arundel County police have released surveillance video after a woman said she was assaulted by a man and poked with what is believed to be a syringe. According to officials, police were notified Tuesday about the assault that happened in the parking lot of 5500 block of Shady Side Road in Churchton.
Police: Substance in syringe used in Churchton assault was semen
Anne Arundel County Police has learned the substance in the syringe used by a suspect during an assault last week in Churchton was semen. Oh, yuck yuck yuck [barf]!
Thomas Bryon Stemen, 51,is in custody, additional charges may be applied. Ummm... "Stemen's semen?"
Detectives believe there may be additional victims who have yet to report similar incidents. This investigation is extremely active additional charges may be applicable.
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[IsraelTimes] A new Swiss payment mechanism allowing food, medicine and other humanitarian aid to be sent to 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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... without stumbling over US sanctions has officially taken effect, Bern says.
The system was created to allow Swiss companies in the food, pharmaceutical and medical sectors to make aid shipments to Iran without drawing the wrath of Washington for breaching a vast range of sanctions against the Islamic country.
"The Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), a payment mechanism to enable humanitarian goods to be delivered to Iran, came into effect on 27 February," the Swiss economic affairs ministry (SECO) says in a statement.
Iran has been facing severe medical shortages since the US pulled out of a landmark nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions on the country in 2018.
Washington had exempted humanitarian goods, especially medicines and medical equipment from its punitive measures.
But international purchases of such supplies are forestalled by banks being wary of conducting any business with Iran, for fear of falling foul of sanctions themselves.
[FOX5NY] Worries over coronavirus have people in Hawaii stocking up on supplies.
At a Costco store in Honolulu on Thursday, there was a long line of people just trying to buy toilet paper.
It took between 10 to 15 minutes just to get into the store's parking lot. Then there was a huge wait just to get into the store, with a line extending out of the door.
People across the island are continuing to rush to stores since the health department urged people to prepare an emergency supply kit for coronavirus.
Costco was limited toilet paper purchases to five packs per person.
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Hazie Morono will blame it on Trump.
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Resupply time is a little longer in Hawaii even though they do have an interstate.
Christopher F. Rufo
National Review
[NEWS.YAHOO] Democratic socialists are in the middle of a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. Led by the Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... presidential campaign and the "squad" of newly elected congresswomen, the hard-left coalition has laid out an ambitious agenda to transform the United States into a democratic socialist nation. While many commentators have dismissed the rhetoric around the Green New Deal, Housing for All, and End Cash Bail as pie-in-the-sky abstraction, in Seattle, the socialist coalition is quickly translating this agenda into a political reality.
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the corporate-technological elite, led by companies such as Amazon
..hope they'll be eaten last by continuously funding and supporting these commies. File under - YJCMTSU
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I moved to Seattle in 1988. Back then, it was said it was so law-abiding that it was the only city in the US where people would wait for the green light to cross the street even at 3 in the morning... O tempora. O mores!
[NEWS.YAHOO] The corpse count from four days of sectarian violence in India's capital has risen to 38, making it the worst religious rioting Delhi has seen in more than three decades. Over 200 people have been injured, dozens of them shot, as mostly-Hindu supporters of a controversial new citizenship law seen as discriminatory against the country's minority Moslem population clash with opponents.
Despite assurances from government and police officials Wednesday that the situation was under control, new festivities were reported early Thursday morning, and the corpse count continued to rise sharply. Residents in the hardest-hit neighborhoods have told CBS News they're afraid to leave their homes.
The violence prompted the U.S. Embassy in India to issue an advisory for American citizens in the capital city, urging them to "exercise caution," "keep a low profile" and "avoid all areas with demonstrations."
In Washington, the U.S. government's Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemned the "brutal and unchecked violence" in Delhi and urged the Indian government to "take serious efforts to protect Moslems and others targeted by mob violence."
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(USCIRF) condemned the "brutal and unchecked violence" in Delhi and urged the Indian government to "take serious efforts to protect Moslems
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Don't be. We're being routed by punks, because the gummint is wussing out. Can't say much. Just that an equal number of hindus have been brutally slaughtered and the Government ain't doing jack, because the only ones dying are poor and they fail to see the rationale in calling in the army for muzz rioters.
In all this, there have been some silver linings. The recently victorious muslim-leftist State government of New Delhi has been scandalized as a number of their upstanding muzz leaders have been seen throwing bodies in canals ! Hurrah for us you'd say ? Nope. The judiciary is apparently finding a new love for muslims as victims and the police as callous oppressors. The escalation of this corruption of course coincides with George Soros announcing a 'Destroy Nationalism' fund for India. A very bad time for me in fact. My nerves are shot to shit, khaver yakar.
#5
Two steps forward, one step back. And Mr. Soros’ money buys acquiescence the world over. Hopefully the winner of our elections in November will start rolling back some of that.
I hope Trump can get down and dirty with your liberals this time, because genuine, unabashed unfairness is what they need. And the announced US pullback should ramp up the military activity in the subcontinent too, forcing Indian politicians to grow a pair.
[YAHOO] An Oklahoma man convicted of kidnapping his stepdaughter as a child and holding her in captivity for nearly 20 years has been sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors said Tuesday.
A federal jury found Henri Michelle Piette guilty in June of kidnapping and traveling with intent to engage in a sexual act with a juvenile following a seven-day trial that detailed the horrific conditions Rosalynn McGinnis endured.
Piette repeatedly raped and abused her and fathered her nine children during the nearly two-decade ordeal, which began when Piette kidnapped her in 1997, when she was 12 years old.
McGinnis, now in her 30s, fled with eight of her nine children in early 2016 after befriending a couple she met at a grocery store in Mexico.
A judge on Feb. 20 sentenced Piette to life for the kidnapping conviction and 30 years for the conviction for traveling with intent to engage in sexual acts with a juvenile, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma said in Tuesday's statement. It is a federal case, and the sentence is not eligible for parole.
Piette's sentence also included a fine of $50,000, as well as payment of $50,067 in restitution to his victim.
Piette kidnapped the victim in 1997 from the Poteau, Oklahoma, home where she lived with her mother, prosecutors said. Her mother had been in a relationship with Piette.
Piette moved his victim and the children dozens of times within the United States and Mexico before she escaped, prosecutors said. Piette also used numerous aliases and forced his victim to do the same and to change her appearance.
U.S. Attorney Brian J. Kuester said in Tuesday's statement that life in prison is reserved for the most serious offenders ‐ and that Piette certainly qualifies.
"For 20 years he inflicted extreme physical and emotional abuse on the victim and her children. For 20 years she feared for her and her children's lives," Kuester said. "The victim's courage ended the defendant's reign of terror. Unfortunately, the horrific memories may very well last a life time. It is fitting that the defendant's sentence will also."
McGinnis has spoken publicly about the case, and she testified at the trial. She told NBC affiliate KSHB of Kansas City, Missouri, in an interview at the time he was convicted that "I'm just so happy that he is put away where he can't hurt anyone anymore."
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[AlAhram] Bulgaria joined Greece on Friday in boosting border controls after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... said it would no longer prevent refugees from going to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... .
"We sent police forces to our borders (with Turkey) early in the morning. It is worrying that the Ottoman Turkish border guards have withdrawn," Prime Minister Boyko Borisov told journalists.
"There is a real danger at the moment of the events that happen there: people are fleeing bombardments."
A Ottoman Turkishbigwig told AFP on Friday that Turkey -- home to almost four million Syrian refugees -- would no longer close its border gates to those who want to go to Europe.
Greece also said Friday it was tightening the guarding of its borders to "the maximum level possible".
Greece is already struggling to accommodate thousands of asylum-seekers stranded in the country for the past five years.
EU countries fear another influx of refugees from Syria after more than one million made their way there in 2015 before an EU-Turkey accord was reached on controlling the numbers.
A barbed wire fence stretches along most of Bulgaria's 259-kilometre (160-mile) border with Turkey so that migrants colonists and asylum seekers travelling on foot have largely passed around the country on their way north in recent years.
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NOthing new: Bulgaria prevents Syrians from entering Published: 4.29.14, Israel News
Human Rights Watch says Bulgaria has been summarily pushing back Syrians, Afghans and others as they cross the border from Turkey. The New York-based group says Tuesday that people have been improperly forced back with no opportunity to lodge asylum claims. (AP)
NEW — Erdogan told Putin that Syrian govt’s every unit is a legitimate target for Turkey and they would be fired upon since they directly attack Turkey
Erdogan said this type of attacks aren’t changing Turkey’s view on Idlib, on the contrary, they are making Ankara more decisive
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.
[World Bank] Washington, DC, June 28, 2017 ‐ 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
[BBC] Milda Romanova, 88, lives in an old railway station in the town of Auce, in Southern Latvia.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐In a televised interview, Bernie Sanders has praised slave owners for their free housing program offered to all slaves working the plantations.
MILWAUKEE (AP) ‐ The man police say killed five co-workers at one of the nation’s largest breweries before killing himself was accused of pointing a gun at an SUV and punching a woman in the face in the early 1990s, court documents show.
[Bearing Arms] Culpeper County, Virginia Sheriff Scott Jenkins says he will not be intimidated by anti-gun legislators who’ve turned back a pay raise for sheriffs and deputies, and who are threatening to go after pensions as well, all because a number of sheriffs have spoken out in opposition to Gov. Ralph Northam’s gun control agenda.
[LI] Article of Impeachment II against Donald Trump was "obstruction of Congress." One of the bases for the Article was the Trump administration’s position that it did not have to comply with House Committee subpoenas to senior administration officials.
[Business Insider] Amazon told all 798,000 of its employees on Friday to avoid "non-essential travel" domestically and internationally because of concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Business Insider.
[Bloomberg] General Motors Co. said it will hire 1,200 new workers for its two plants in Lansing, Michigan, in part because of rising demand for the company’s mid-sized sport utility vehicles.
[Breitbart] Network political commentator 
[AnNahar] A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 83,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it.
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
[NEWS.YAHOO] A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum-seekers to Mexico to await court hearings, a practice immigrant advocates have denounced as inhumane and deadly.
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
[BuzzFeed] COLUMBIA, South Carolina ‐ On Friday night, Tom Steyer danced onstage to a live performance of "Back That Azz Up."
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Billionaire former 
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
[CNN] Drug overdoses can be life-threatening, but for two women who accidentally took massive hits of LSD, the experience was life changing -- and in a good way.
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...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
[WBALTV] SHADY SIDE, Md. — Anne Arundel County police have released surveillance video after a woman said she was assaulted by a man and poked with what is believed to be a syringe. According to officials, police were notified Tuesday about the assault that happened in the parking lot of 5500 block of Shady Side Road in Churchton.
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[FOX5NY] Worries over coronavirus have people in Hawaii stocking up on supplies.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] The 
[YAHOO] An Oklahoma man convicted of kidnapping his stepdaughter as a child and holding her in captivity for nearly 20 years has been sentenced to life in prison, prosecutors said Tuesday.
