[Jpost] A coronavirus vaccine developed by CanSino Biologics Inc appears to be safe and induced a rapid immune response in its first human trial, Chinese researchers reported on Friday in The Lancet medical journal.
First-in-human studies, known as Phase I trials, are primarily designed to test safety.
This vaccine did not cause any serious adverse effects, the researchers say, though they did report some side effects such as fever.
Furthermore, blood samples from the 108 vaccinated adults showed so-called neutralizing antibodies and T-cell responses against the novel coronavirus, a sign of possible efficacy.
"These results represent an important milestone," coauthor Professor Wei Chen from the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology said in a statement. "The ability to trigger these immune responses does not necessarily indicate that the vaccine will protect humans from COVID-19. We are still a long way from this vaccine being available to all," the researcher added.
Further studies will be needed to confirm whether the vaccine protects against infection. The first such trial is underway in Wuhan, China.
[Jpost] PALESTINIANS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO BOYCOTT IDF HUMANITARIAN, ECONOMIC AID
The campaign comes on the heels of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s May 19 decision to renounce all agreements and understandings with Israel and the US, including security cooperation.
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Extremely cool.
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Stage 1 made a perfect landing on the drone barge "Of Course I Still Love You Today".The
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[The NASA chief] repeatedly requested the public not descend on Kennedy Space Center to avoid throngs of spectators collecting on nearby beaches. But that appeal has largely gone unheeded this week, with reports of as many as 150,000 people gathering for the historic event.
h/t Instapundit
[Washington Examiner] - It was early in the virus fight when only a few in the United States had died of COVID-19 that White House coronavirus task force leader Vice President Mike Pence and Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx went into the Oval Office with bad news.
Armed with a chart titled "Goals of Community Mitigation," they showed President Trump that without the type of social distancing they wanted him to put in place, the virus death toll could reach 1.5 million to 2.2 million. With it, the range would drop to 100,000 to 240,000.
"The president said, ’Do it.’ No hesitation," recalled the vice president.
The public was urged to stay apart and stay home to "flatten the curve" of the pandemic, and they did. Today, as many states begin to ease rules near the Memorial Day holiday week turning point that Pence predicted, the death toll, tragic as it is, stands at the lowest level on that chart.
PETAL, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi mayor who sparked outrage when he said he "didn’t see anything unreasonable" about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody is resisting calls to resign, including from his own town’s board of aldermen.
"Why in the world would anyone choose to become a police officer in our society today?" Petal Mayor Hal Marx tweeted Tuesday, the day four Minneapolis police officers were fired. The 46-year-old Floyd, a black man, was handcuffed and pleading for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck Monday.
In a follow-up tweet, the Republican directly referenced the Floyd case, saying he "didn’t see anything unreasonable": "If you can say you can’t breathe, you’re breathing. Most likely that man died of overdose or heart attack. Video doesn’t show his resistance that got him in that position. Police being crucified."
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"If you can say you can’t breathe, you’re breathing. Most likely that man died of overdose or heart attack. Video doesn’t show his resistance that got him in that position. Police being crucified."
My guess is the medical reports will not be made public.
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"Potential intoxicants"? IIUC, it takes a while to get a complete toxicological report so this kind of speculation seems a bit premature.
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From Skidmark's link: Police had arrested Floyd and were trying to put him in a squad car when he stiffened up and fell to the ground, saying he was claustrophobic, according to the complaint.
I think the prospect of going to jail might make a lot of people claustrophobic. But resisting arrest can be hazardous to your health.
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He was not choked out, he was not murdered. He died of a heart condition and intoxicants. People in bad health should not fight the police.
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If he had an underlying condition then the cause of death was COVID-19.
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If he had an underlying condition then the cause of death was COVID-19.
Strangely enough, that might actually be the underlying cause. There have been patients who did walk-ins, were tested for the virus and immediately put on ventilators because their lungs had sustained damage equivalent to the kind mountain climbers get from being up too high for too many days.
They were ambulatory until their vital organs suddenly packed it in. The final straw and all that. Tack on alcohol and narcotic drugs, and I'd expect the symptoms to be worse.
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It does not sound like his being black was much of a factor.
Still cops need to be aware of optics. These cops actions caused a string of events that has cities burning. Time to reevaluate police rules and training in a few cities.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WATE) — A Tennessee police chief’s response to the death of George Floyd, who died while in Minneapolis police custody, is going viral on Twitter with more than 600,000 likes.
On Wednesday, Chattanooga Police Department Chief David Roddy called on law enforcement officers who don’t see a problem with what was captured in disturbing video of the arrest to turn in their badges.
"There is no need to see more video. There’s no need to wait to see how it plays out. There is no need to put a knee on someone’s neck for nine minutes. There is a need to do something. If you wear a badge and you don’t have an issue with this, turn it in."
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I assume that any Caucasian who becomes a cop in USA is crazy. Sooner or later, he'll have to confront a black perp and die or use "excessive" force.
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Sh*t runs down hill. City hall is uphill from Police HQ. Police HQ is uphill from the precincts. The top rank in the precinct is uphill of everybody else in that "house." So, guess how that works out.
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You don't see a problem with judging a case based on 10 seconds of amateur video that you've seen on TV?
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[Washington Times] It is a possibility that world leaders may not want to address quite yet — but the topic has now entered the global discourse.
"Council of Europe security experts have warned of the danger of terrorist attacks with biological weapons in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic," reports the Funke Media Group, a German news syndicate.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how vulnerable modern societies are to viral infections and their shock potential," the council’s Committee on Counter-Terrorism said in a statement Monday, according to the German news group.
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ReGenesis TV series 2004-2009 Geneticist David Sandstrom is the chief scientist at the prestigious virology/micro-biology NORBAC laboratory, a joint enterprise between the USA, Canada and Mexico for countering bio-terrorism.
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Like the anthrax attacks, the investigation of which traitor Mueller drove into a ditch in order to avoid finding any foreign involvement.
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Like the anthrax attacks,...
Back when that happened, I wrote Mueller's involvement as incompetence. Maybe it's time to rethink that in light of more recent events. Once you add in the attempted coup against the President and China's espionage and influence-buying in media and academia, things start to smell a bit.
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If it were easy, Al Qaeda would have done it back when they were sending cadres to Saddam Hussein’s Salman Pak terrorist training facility. We’ve been concerned about the possibility as long as I’ve been hanging out here. But as far as I’m aware, none of them have got farther than refining some ricin, though in Afghanistan they had great fun gassing dogs in enclosed containers.
Shooting up and blowing up proved far easier as terror tools.
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I recall the anthrax hysteria as well. I only mentioned ISIS & Al-Qaeda as whenever the US government needs to stir up some hysteria, the gum'ment will always have those guys in the top drawer, ready to pull out if need be.
[UNZ] America’s most enduring problem, the problem of the blacks, has been dominating the news this week.
The attitude I bring to these news stories is one of weary despair. They are reported and discussed publicly in language that bears very little relation to reality, so that most of what is said and written is worthless. To speak honestly about race is in fact taboo, and genuinely shocking, for most Americans.
Here’s an example. Back in 2016 a black man in Charlotte, North Carolina was shot dead by a cop, also black. There were protests, riots, vandalism, and looting. A Republican local congressman, Robert Pittenger, said the following thing:
The grievance in their minds—the animus, the anger—they hate white people, because white people are successful and they’re not.
Congressman: Charlotte protesters ’hate white people because white people are successful’, by Peter Holley, Washington Post, September 23, 2016
Nailed it, Congressman. But of course, Pittenger was denounced by all the Great and the Good, and to save his career, issued a groveling retraction.
I’ve been living in America since the second Nixon administration, with some intermissions. For many years I assumed that this clinging to unreality could not be stable; that truth and honesty would eventually prevail; that we’d learn to speak to each other openly and frankly, citizen to citizen.
To my dismay and despair, the opposite has happened. As the years pass, we drift further and further from reality and truth, deeper and deeper into fantasy and denial. It’s very depressing; like being in a plane that’s lost all power and is just going down, down, down.
I love this country; I have two kids who will live out their lives here. Yet it’s hard to see any hope for America when the landscape of social commentary is smothered in shallow lies and infantile delusions.
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I love this country; I have two kids who will live out their lives here. Yet it’s hard to see any hope for America when the landscape of social commentary is smothered in shallow lies and infantile delusions.
UNZ Review paranoid racist babble! "Hope & Change" as well as lasting peace are coming. You'll see.
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I get so tired hearing about "400 years of oppression" and all that. The ultimate in victim mentality.
I bet if you asked ANY of those rioters to provide individual examples of "oppression" or "discrimination", you would probably get the blank-stare look.
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You can be as honest as you want to be about minority involvement in crime. If you like your job, etc., it's probably a good idea to keep your thoughts to yourself.
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^ learned that lesson over 40 years ago.
Denial + virtue-signaling + politically-correct BS is what this country forces as a kind of restitution payment from current generations of Americans for the sins of a small % of the antebellum US population
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Cornel West traces US unrest to Obama failures: 'Black faces in high places' couldn't deliver
Skidmark I would say "wouldn't Deliver". They were too busy stuffing their pockets with taxpayer money and selling influence. Look at Maxine Waters. Many others.
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#3 Cornel West traces US unrest to Obama's failures: black faces in high places couldn't deliver
Funny, that was the same major conclusion that Stephan Tgernstrim and other historians came to about the 1960s urban riots: the Johnson administration and the mainstream Civil Rights movement raised young urban blacks' expectations beyond reasonable levels. When they didn't see a major change in their personal living situations, they turned to violence and looting.
Thernstrim in 1998:
[The Kerner Commission] report does not satisfactorily answer the elementary question of why the riots occurred when and where they did.
Because the commission took for granted that the riots were the fault of white racism, it would have been awkward to have had to confront the question of why liberal Detroit blew up while Birmingham and other southern cities -- where conditions for blacks were infinitely worse -- did not. Likewise, if the problem was white racism, why didn't the riots occur in the 1930s, when prevailing white racial attitudes were far more barbaric than they were in the 1960s?
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Read somewhere recently that one of the problems in the black community is they spend rather than save so there is nothing to pass along to the next generation which ensures every generations starts at zero. This doesn't happen in more successful cultures that save to help their kids have a better life.
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IMO, RJ, if you have a country where one group (90% of population) has an average IQ of 100*, and another group (10% of population) has an average IQ of 80 - that country is better be damn clear about the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcomes.
[France24] French carmaker Renault said on Friday it was launching talks with unions to restructure some plants and potentially close others as it confirmed plans to cut around 15,000 jobs worldwide to ride out a slump in sales.
Faced with a downturn in demand compounded by the coronavirus crisis, Renault is aiming to find 2 billion euros ($2.22 billion) in savings over the next three years as it shrinks production and hones in on more profitable models.
It said the restructuring measures — including the job cuts, transfers and retirement plans that would affect just under 10% of its global workforce — would cost 1.2 billion euros.
Some 4,600 jobs would go in France, though largely through a voluntary departure plan and a retirement scheme, Franck Daout of the CFDT trade union told REUTERS.
The overall cuts would affect just under 10% of Renault's 180,000 global workforce. The firm has around 48,500 staff in France. Similar model to the one in the graphic.
[New York Post] Droves of police officers blocked more than 100 protesters from the Minnesota home of the now-former Minneapolis cop who pressed his knee into the neck of George Floyd before he died, new video shows.
A profanity-laced 2-minute clip shows a line of officers late Wednesday protecting the Oakdale home of Derek Chauvin, a 19-year department vet who was fired Tuesday along with three cops involved in the incident that has sparked national outrage.
"Look how many f—king people are defending this killer’s house," a woman identified in reports as Chloe Jo Sherrill repeatedly says in the footage. "Look how f—king many! Look at this s—t! They are defending a murderer’s house."
One protester near the band of officers in the St. Paul suburb was hit with Mace, according to the video.
"And they’re ready to do it to all the rest of us, too," Sherrill says. "Why does it look like they’re gearing up for war? Because they’re scared. We are angry and they are scared."
One of the officers then appeared to run toward Sherrill, prompting her to drop her phone and run off, video shows.
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So, if plane cabins are going to be "deep cleaned" after every flight, does that mean an end to passengers who just can't seem to manage basic hygiene?
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[Jpost] The US Justice Department accused North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... 's state-owned bank of evading US sanctions laws and charged 28 North Korean and five Chinese citizens in its largest crackdown on North Korea sanctions violations.
In a grand jury indictment made public on Thursday, US prosecutors accused North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank (FTB) of conspiring with the employees charged to cause other banks "to process at least $2.5 billion in illegal payments via over 250 front companies."
The United States blacklisted the FTB in 2013; the U.N. Security Council did so in 2017.
The indictment adds to mounting friction between Washington and Pyongyang after denuclearization talks launched by U.S. President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... and North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... stalled.
The indictment is the largest of any North Korea sanctions violations case, a US law enforcement official said. The alleged crimes include money laundering and bank fraud.
Washington "has signified its commitment to hampering North Korea's ability to illegally access the U.S. financial system and limit its ability to use proceeds from illicit actions to enhance its illegal WMD and ballistic missile programs," Acting United States Attorney Michael Sherwin said in a statement.
Some of the $2.5 billion was directed to North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, a US official said.
The transactions took place in China, Russia, Libya and Thailand, and many The transactions took place in China, Russia, Libya and Thailand, and many of those charged were bank employees, including two former presidents of the FTB and two former co-vice presidents.
North Korea has been subject to UN sanctions since 2006 that have been strengthened by the Security Council over the years in a bid to cut off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
North Korea continued to enhance those programs last year in breach of UN sanctions, according to a report this year to the U.N. Security Council. FTB and two former co-vice presidents.
[Jpost] A suspect attempted to use his vehicle to run over IDF soldiers near Meir Spring in the West Bank where the Ephraim Regional Brigade operates. The soldiers fired at the attacker and killed him. The IDF said that no injuries to its troops were reported.
Some Paleostinian reports claim that that the driver was Fadi Adnan Samarah. Following the attempted ramming attack, violent demonstrations erupted at the entrance to Nabi Salih in the southern West bank.
Soldiers in the area are used riot dispersal means against demonstrators throwing rocks at military vehicles.
One Paleostinian was reportedly injured during these demonstrations.
[Ynet] Family says dead man had special needs, police say they noticed a 'suspicious object,' that they claim looked like a gun, and told him to stop in his tracks, after which the suspect began to flee
Jerusalem police shot dead an unarmed Palestinian they suspected was carrying a weapon near Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday.
Police said he was carrying "a suspicious object that looked like a pistol" and ran away when ordered to stop. The police say they chased him on foot and opened fire.
A police spokesman did not immediately respond when asked whether the man was in fact carrying a gun.
The family of the young man says he has a mental disability.
The man was later identified as Iyad Halak, 32, a resident of East Jerusalem.
An initial investigation has been opened into the matter and a report has been filed in the Prosecutor's Office following the shooting.
[DIRSN.com] Four young boys are being hailed as heroes after saving a 5-year-old girl from drowning in a creek near Jackson, Missouri.
Kinsley Stuart, 5, was playing in Hubble Creek on May 17, in an area of the creek popular with young children. She was near a bridge that has a drainage culvert beneath it. An abundance of recent rainfall had filled the creek past its normal level, creating a suction that dragged Stuart into the culvert.
A nearby group of boys had noticed the girl seemed to be missing when Aiden Kyle, 11, saw her hand grabbing the top of the bridge and dove down to grab hold of her. His friend Isaiah Randol saw that Kyle was being dragged down as well, so he and two other boys joined in the rescue effort.
The boys all pulled until Stuart was free. She remained unharmed.
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Not necessarily.
1968 was pretty rough, as were the '70s, and we rebounded.
Still cautiously optimistic here. This will be yet another blip, one of our periodic race riots followed by left-lib and NeverTrumper virtue-signaling bemoaning America's-Original-Sin, blah blah, maybe another Bipartisan Commission's Report.
And then back to the serious work of eliminating our dependence on China, finishing the border wall and curtailing the Deep State.
Looking forward to the movie where the boys are played by women, and the girl they rescued is played by Chris Hemsworth.
1968 was pretty rough, as were the '70s, and we rebounded.
For a while, yes.
But in the longer run, the whole Clinton/Obama/BLM/AntiFa phase that we've been living through is the legacy of that time; and we're not done with it yet.
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I hope you are right, Lex. But despite Vietnam, the 1960's, etc., I don't think the US was so politically divided as it is now. Even in the Clinton era, for example, his two Supreme Court nominees were almost unanimously confirmed by the Senate. No way in Hades you would see that today. I won't even mention how Justice Kavanaugh got treated when you compare. So much is polarized.
I wish I could share your optimism, Lex, but I do not.
But in the longer run, the wholeClinton/Obama/BLM/AntiFa phase that we've been living through is the legacy of that time; and we're not done with it yet.
Pres. Bill Clinton was successful in pushing back against Sister Souljah and the BLM predecessor moment. It was Clinton who finally kicked the old Democratic pandering habit and supported the hiring of 100,000 (?) policemen with federal funds + the harsh sentencing laws which helped to finally broke the back of the crack cocaine & violent crime epidemic in this country.
For which (of course) Clinton was excoriated by the BLMers as a racist oppressor.
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US will not be "finished" (just as the UK was not "finished" after its empire dwindled away), but I just don't see things getting better any time soon. But, not only to all good things come to an end, so, too, do all bad things. Life is about cycles, and right now, we are in a bad one which will get worse in either five months or four years and five months. Counting those mail-in ballots should be fun.
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The Dems are in a tough spot. It's extremely hard to win elections in this country with a doom and gloom message.
If they don't go hard left, many Sandersistas will stay home -- or even support a third-party far left challenger.
If they do go hard left, in the post-riot environment they will scare away swing-voter centrists and all those suburban moms they thought they'd lock up in the age of Genghis Mussolini.
Back to blathering their vague and all-purpose "chaos" narrative. Never mind who's causing and stoking the chaos -- it's all OrangeMan's fault.
[AnNahar] Cyprus' supreme court on Friday upheld an order to extradite a suspected Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... member to the U.S. on money laundering charges, official media said.
A five-judge bench unanimously dismissed an appeal against a decision by a lower court in September 2019 to extradite the man, identified only by his surname Diab, the Cyprus News Agency said.
The suspect is wanted by authorities in Florida for alleged money laundering crimes.
According to the extradition papers, the charges related to money laundering in excess of $100,000 (90,000 euros), conspiracy to money launder, the transfer of unlicensed money and illegal use of wireless communication.
The court said the suspect conspired with individuals in 2014 to launder drug money.
Diab was arrested at Larnaca airport in Cyprus when he arrived from Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... in March 2019.
Police apprehended him when they found there was a U.S.-issued warrant for his arrest.
The supreme court ruled he will remain in detention until his extradition can be arranged by the justice ministry.
Of course, the limited energy density of batteries also comes with significant drawbacks in aircraft performance. The e-Caravan — built with “2019 batteries,” according to Ganzarski — could carry four to five passengers a range of just one hundred miles. By the time MagniX receives FAA certification for its electric propulsion system, which the company expects by the end of 2021, he believes the aircraft will be able to carry “a full load” that distance.
I guess if you are only going 100 miles with four passengers there is no reason to get above 2000' except to scrape over buildings.
[PJ] "The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans," President John F. Kennedy said at his inaugural in 1961. Today, this generation is passing that torch to invite a new generation of barbarians to burn and loot and pillage, not serve and protect.
The modern urban mayor is epitomized by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who has chosen not to crack down on the barbarians torching his city, but encourages them to keep the flames hot because "The symbolism of a building cannot outweigh the importance of life." That laughable, sophomoric statement isn’t going to save anyone or any structure.
That building is not a "symbol." It has value to the person who owns it. And that’s the problem with Frey and the generation of snowflakes who are moving into positions of power and responsibility. Quite simply, they don’t believe in private property. In fact, they see private property as a genuine evil. So, of course, it doesn’t matter if you burn it. It’s not worth protecting.
We saw this same attitude in Baltimore in 2015 when Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed the notion that protesters should be given space to destroy.
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/\ CNN may have indeed "asked for it." Any publicity is 'good publicity.' CNN attacked by anarchists makes them 'CNN' look centrist and helps migrate the bullshi* to the South.
I would certainly NOT discount the possibility of well funded, leftest sleeper cells existing in major metro areas, awaiting opportunities and instructions. CV-19 crisis is passing. A new kak disturbance is urgently needed by the media, police haters, and Never Trump left.
Everyone knows the Old South is ultimately to blame [sarc].
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I would certainly NOT discount the possibility of well funded, leftest sleeper cells existing in major metro areas, awaiting opportunities and instructions.
I was informed yesterday that the Midwest Antifa Facebook page had boasting and videos on it, but when I looked there was nothing of interest.
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That building is not a "symbol." It has value to the person who owns it.
Yes, it does. And if they insured it, the insurance company sees it as "risk" while it is insured and "loss" when they pay a claim against that insurance. Then they have this little thing they do called "subrogation," which could be interesting for the city and the rioters both.
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#8 I was informed yesterday that the Midwest Antifa Facebook page had boasting and videos on it, but when I looked there was nothing of interest.
tw, I'd defer to Besoeker regarding these folks' m.o. but it seems likely that a sleeper cell could hide easily inside one of the hugely popular vehicles devoted solely to politically correct mayhem.
Jack Dorsey has no problem with the left-wing Twitter channel (?) called "Unicorn Riot" which had 150,000 followers before the riots. Wouldn't be surprised if they have several times that number of followers soon.
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"That building is not a 'symbol.' It has value to the person who owns it."
Once upon a time, in America, young people aspiring to careers in practical affairs in fields such as law, government or business were taught the supreme importance to our western civilization of that bedrock idea, inherited from the Romans and enshrined at the center of English common law, of property. John Locke held that the right to property was on a par with those of "life" and "liberty."
As opposed to post-modern bullshit about property as nothing more than a "symbol."
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Snowflakes don't go to the "vibrant" parts of town and they are going to be quietly pissed that the "vibrant" part of town came and wrecked stuff in their neighborhoods. But they will vote for more of the same anyway.
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This IS the Snowflake Generation. They riot because thdy werr invited to and they know there will not only be no consequences - they will in fact be rewarded with massive social credit. They're freedom fighters now - and we are the actual targets.
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...and just like that a distraction from Blue governors COVID-19 failures and Trumps standing in the polls. Quick another pail of crap to throw against the wall to see if it sticks.
[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkishdronezap on a village in northern Sulaimani province near the Kurdistan Region’s border with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Tuesday night allegedly killed five members of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) — not members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as earlier claimed.
PJAK, an Iranian Kurdish armed opposition group, issued a statement on Friday claiming an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... hit one of its vehicles carrying two fighters and three supporters.
"At 11:45 pm on May 26, two of our fighters were inside a vehicle alongside three of our supporters who were driving in the Assos area of Sifra village," PJAK said in its statement, published by Sterk TV — a media outlet affiliated with the group.
"A Ottoman Turkish drone targeted the vehicle carrying our fighters and supporters and killed all of them inside the vehicle," the statement said.
PJAK named the two fighters as Zinar Brusik and Rebaz Sina, but did not provide names for the three supporters killed in the strike.
The group accused traitors and collaborators of giving up the vehicle’s location to the Ottoman Turkish military. "Such an attack proves that without the hands of the traitors, the enemies will never be able to reach such areas," the statement added.
Initial reports on Tuesday indicated the occupants of the vehicle were members of the PKK, another armed opposition group which has fought a decades-long struggle against the Ottoman Turkish state for greater cultural and political rights for Kurds in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... A statement from Turkey’s Defense Ministry published on Twitter grabbed credit for the strike, and confirmed the killing of five PKK fighters, as part of reconnaissance and surveillance operations over northern Iraq.
Both the PKK and PJAK use the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a safe haven from which to launch attacks on Ottoman Turkish and Iranian security forces. PJAK is considered the Iranian wing of the PKK, but PJAK claims it is merely linked by shared ideology.
[Rudaw] The issues change — the cultures don’t. At the rate they’re going, they won’t stop until another Saddam Hussein brutally kills his way to power.
[PJ] Townhall’s Julio Rosas is on the ground in Minneapolis this week, reporting on the protests and riots. Tonight he’s reporting that the riot police and the National Guard have abandoned a perimeter they had set up earlier in the day, chased away by the rioters.
For the fourth night in a row, protesters and rioters have descended on Minneapolis to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer, who was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter on Friday afternoon.
The city is under a curfew order, but rioters are refusing to disperse.
The situation on the ground is extremely volatile right now. Rosas says riot police shot him with a "non-lethal weapon" as he was kneeling some distance away, observing the scene.
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Forget the bean bag ammo. Issue 5.56 ball and tracers and tell the cops to use it (in writing) if they are assaulted or feel their lives are endangered.
When these lawless SOB's are forced to drag away their dead and wounded, this kak will soon stop.
Stepping back, this is another crisis too good for the left to waste. Covid is fizzling out and has run its news cycle course. People are seeing they have been had and the economy was devastated along with their incomes, so this will do fine to divert attention and keep things stirred up till the election.
It looked like the economy could have bounced back, so this is a win win for the Trump haters. I am sure that agents provocateurs were dispatched immediately. Sadly some of them are talking heads of the MSM. We have just been stampeded by that crew over the covid virus. You know the results. However, I do not seeing this backfiring and fizzling like the covid panic. As the mobs prove there is a lot a pent up racial hatred to exploit among a population already stressed to the max. On the lighter side, Rioters with covid masks is quite a sight. Bit lax on the distancing part though.
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I have seen it reported (unverified but quite plausible) that Antifa has hired and deployed rioters.
I have also seen a photo of a large liquor store in flames. Must have already fully looted it...
It seems the policy here, as it was in other cities during the last round of riots, is to try to contain it and let it burn (literally) itself out. That may be the most expedient course in the short run, but eventually it is analogous to paying ransom to hostage takers or paying blackmailers - it will come back for more.
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Given that the left embraces the concept of "Never let a crisis go to waste," the question arises as to who is coordinating and funding these “Spontaneous” riots that have erupted across America at the same time?
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It's hard for me to survey the rubble and imagine someone thinking, "This shows we need to elect more Democrats." But I'm probably an outlier.
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From: All American Patriot May 30, 2020
Interesting perspective: Staged Event
These officers were involved with something, I’m not sure exactly what, but something is just not adding up.
I think there is at the very least the “possibility”, that this was a filmed public execution of a black man by a white cop, with the purpose of creating racial tensions and driving a wedge in the growing group of anti deep state sentiment from comon people, that have already been psychologically traumatized by Covid 19 fears.
Historically, in election years and in politically contested areas or in groups, racial or gun violence incidents are becoming common place. Considering the rising approval rating of President Trump in the black community, an event like this was unfortunately “Predictable”
Consider these points and contrast them to every other police brutality incident you've ever seen.
The filmed portion of the incident was about 10 minutes long. In that amount of time, three officers are holding one handcuffed man down. You only know that because of the pictures taken from across the street. You can't see the other two officers in the video because they are behind the vehicle. During 8 minutes of the entire video, the officer has his knee on George Floyd's neck, which is not taught or approved by any law enforcement agency.
Additionally, other than the Asian officer speaking occasionally to the crowd of bystanders, there is no communication from any of the officers to Mr. Floyd. No talking, no shouting. When have you ever seen a police brutality video without police shouting?
Additionally, the police had no goal. They weren't trying to subdue him for arrest, he was already handcuffed and all they needed to do, was place him in the back of the car. There is no plausible explanation for taking him to the ground and having three men on top of a handcuffed man, a knee placed on his neck. Mr. Floyd presented no threat and was not resisting. The only goal that there appeared to be was exactly what happened: “To be filmed brutally killing a black man”.
Think about this, these officers did not care about being filmed, in fact the officer stared into the camera with soulless eyes and an emotionless face, reminiscent of an assassin, as he knowingly killed an American Citizen.
None of the officers spoke among themselves or did they speak to Mr. Floyd. They did not respond to his pleas for life. They just sat and kneeled on him until he was passed out and then waited an additional 4 minutes after Mr. Floyd lost consciousness to ensure that Mr. Floyd was dead and could not be revived.
The bystanders are verbally communicating to the officers, that he isn't breathing. Unlike any other similar incident, you never see the officers getting on police radios. You never see or hear them calling dispatch for backup. No other police units arrive on the scene and strangely enough, the crowd does not seem to grow either.
The scene does not end until an ambulance arrives and they unceremoniously flop him on a gurney. At no point does anyone in a uniform ever check his vitals. “As if they aren't remotely curious about the situation they are in” BTW. who called the ambulance and for what reason? Because if the reason was that Mr. Floyd was having a medical issue, they wouldn't have still been crushing his neck.
Shortly after the video went viral, a fake Facebook page supposedly belonging to the officer, at the center of the murder appears and pictures are uploaded that say "Stand your Ground" and "Trump 2020". A picture of the cop with a red ballcap that says "Make America White Again". A friends list populated with obvious sock accounts and people clearly not his friends. This is the same kind of fake Facebook stunt that happened with a group made to look like support for the men involved with the Ahmed Aubrey case.
Is it mere coincidence that this happens the week after “race” becomes a major political issue after the Biden "You ain't Black" gaffe, started to threaten the black vote the Democrats so desperately count on?
Additionally, there is substantial video evidence to arrest at least one officer now. Why would the local authorities not charge him immediately, unless there was a political advantage not to!
Is it mere coincidence that this happens right about the exact moment the COVID-19 fear campaign falls apart, and after it has psychologically traumatized the entire country and got everyone at each other's throats and suicide attempts are spiking? Is it mere coincidence that this happens after the Auhmed Aubrey case... Which somehow eluded the mainstream media completely until two whole months after he was killed? When has that ever happened? Timing issue? Is it mere coincidence that Supreme Race Baiter Obama was making videos a couple weeks ago connecting COVID with "Systemic Racism"?
FINALLY....Description: Description: ‼️Description: Description: ‼️ this entire scene plays out with the cop car and license plate that says "POLICE". The plate was perfectly framed for maximum subliminal impact. This also means he was literally just 1 foot away from the back seat of the police car and these cops thought it was smarter to kill a black man on camera, than to pick him up and move him one foot into the back of the police car.
These officers were involved with something, I’m not sure exactly what, but something is just not adding up.
I think there is at the very least the “possibility”, that this was a filmed public execution of a black man by a white cop, with the purpose of creating racial tensions and driving a wedge in the growing group of anti deep state sentiment from comon people, that have already been psychologically traumatized by Covid 19 fears.
Historically, in election years and in politically contested areas or in groups, racial or gun violence incidents are becoming common place. Considering the rising approval rating of President Trump in the black community, an event like this was unfortunately “Predictable”
Consider these points and contrast them to every other police brutality incident you've ever seen.
The filmed portion of the incident was about 10 minutes long. In that amount of time, three officers are holding one handcuffed man down. You only know that because of the pictures taken from across the street. You can't see the other two officers in the video because they are behind the vehicle. During 8 minutes of the entire video, the officer has his knee on George Floyd's neck, which is not taught or approved by any law enforcement agency.
Additionally, other than the Asian officer speaking occasionally to the crowd of bystanders, there is no communication from any of the officers to Mr. Floyd. No talking, no shouting. When have you ever seen a police brutality video without police shouting?
Additionally, the police had no goal. They weren't trying to subdue him for arrest, he was already handcuffed and all they needed to do, was place him in the back of the car. There is no plausible explanation for taking him to the ground and having three men on top of a handcuffed man, a knee placed on his neck. Mr. Floyd presented no threat and was not resisting. The only goal that there appeared to be was exactly what happened: “To be filmed brutally killing a black man”.
Think about this, these officers did not care about being filmed, in fact the officer stared into the camera with soulless eyes and an emotionless face, reminiscent of an assassin, as he knowingly killed an American Citizen.
None of the officers spoke among themselves or did they speak to Mr. Floyd. They did not respond to his pleas for life. They just sat and kneeled on him until he was passed out and then waited an additional 4 minutes after Mr. Floyd lost consciousness to ensure that Mr. Floyd was dead and could not be revived.
The bystanders are verbally communicating to the officers, that he isn't breathing. Unlike any other similar incident, you never see the officers getting on police radios. You never see or hear them calling dispatch for backup. No other police units arrive on the scene and strangely enough, the crowd does not seem to grow either.
The scene does not end until an ambulance arrives and they unceremoniously flop him on a gurney. At no point does anyone in a uniform ever check his vitals. “As if they aren't remotely curious about the situation they are in” BTW. who called the ambulance and for what reason? Because if the reason was that Mr. Floyd was having a medical issue, they wouldn't have still been crushing his neck.
Shortly after the video went viral, a fake Facebook page supposedly belonging to the officer, at the center of the murder appears and pictures are uploaded that say "Stand your Ground" and "Trump 2020". A picture of the cop with a red ballcap that says "Make America White Again". A friends list populated with obvious sock accounts and people clearly not his friends. This is the same kind of fake Facebook stunt that happened with a group made to look like support for the men involved with the Ahmed Aubrey case.
Is it mere coincidence that this happens the week after “race” becomes a major political issue after the Biden "You ain't Black" gaffe, started to threaten the black vote the Democrats so desperately count on?
Additionally, there is substantial video evidence to arrest at least one officer now. Why would the local authorities not charge him immediately, unless there was a political advantage not to!
Is it mere coincidence that this happens right about the exact moment the COVID-19 fear campaign falls apart, and after it has psychologically traumatized the entire country and got everyone at each other's throats and suicide attempts are spiking? Is it mere coincidence that this happens after the Auhmed Aubrey case... Which somehow eluded the mainstream media completely until two whole months after he was killed? When has that ever happened? Timing issue? Is it mere coincidence that Supreme Race Baiter Obama was making videos a couple weeks ago connecting COVID with "Systemic Racism"?
FINALLY....Description: Description: ‼️Description: Description: ‼️ this entire scene plays out with the cop car and license plate that says "POLICE". The plate was perfectly framed for maximum subliminal impact. This also means he was literally just 1 foot away from the back seat of the police car and these cops thought it was smarter to kill a black man on camera, than to pick him up and move him one foot into the back of the police car.
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Not that I'm a big factcheck.org fan, but here's their take on the license plate.
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No need to invoke a conspiracy -- the thug had multiple complaints about him in the past, but Minneapolis PD is as corrupt as the day is long. The officers didn't care.
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Riot police n National Guard retreated because that was the only plan they had. They had no other orders. This is pretty much the Portland Model of law enforcement.
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If I were leading Antifa I'd get everyone together to confront the cops/national guard. If you can get them afraid of a massive confrontation that would lead to injuries and terrible press you can get them to withdraw and run wild the rest of the night.
[FoxNews] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted President Trump and invoked an expletive Friday in response to his tweet after three days of protests in Minneapolis, Minn., when he called the protesters "THUGS" and tweeted that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
“Donald Trump’s comment last night was profoundly dangerous,” Lightfoot said Friday during a news conference to discuss plans to reopen the city. “And we must stand firm in solidarity and say this is totally unacceptable no matter who is the speaker."
“He wants to show failures on the part of Democratic local leaders, to throw red meat to his base," she added, according to WGN9. "His goal is to polarize, to destabilize local government and inflame racist urges. We can absolutely not let him prevail. And I will code what I really want to say to Donald Trump. It’s two words. It begins with F and it ends with U.”
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Lightgroot's while career has been about inflaming racism. When was elected because she was loyal to the Machine, is black, and obviously insane.
She's been ordering the police to shut down parties and church services, and when a confrontation that looks bad on video gets publicity, well, "the police misinterpreted their orders" and other shit.
Even before the Wuhan Flu, she'd redeveloping police from middle class neighborhoods to send them to high crime areas -- where they weren't allowed to do anything. So the crime started moving to the middle class neighborhoods.
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Rob - incl Hyde Park?
(asking for a friend, seriously)
#14
Lightloafers has her own problems. She has record setting numbers of murders in her city and does nothing about these. So FU light Lightloafers, you are a disgrace.
And we are all so shocked they didn’t keep their word
[ToloNews] The Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Friday accused the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... of having violated the ceasefire that was put in place on Saturday despite the group's assurances to fully implement the ceasefire with the Afghan forces.
According to Afghan defense officials, at least 14 members of the Afghan Border Force were killed in an attack by the Taliban in Dand-e-Patan district in the eastern province of Paktia on Thursday evening, despite a ceasefire that continues between the two sides following the initial Eid agreement.
Three other soldiers were maimed in the attack, said the Ministry of Defense.
The Afghan government has again called on the group to respect the ceasefire so that the way is paved for the start of intra-Afghan talks.
Previously, the Taliban accused the Afghan forces of targeting civilians in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in southern Zabul province.
"The Afghan government released a large number of Taliban prisoners to help the ceasefire move on and to help start direct talks with the government," said Sediq Sediqqi, a front man for President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... Afghan officials believe that an extension of the ceasefire will help the country reach long-term peace.
"The Afghans may reach to peace if the intra-Afghan talks are started simultaneously with the ceasefire," said Mohammad Yasin, the governor of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Ordinary Afghans have also been pushing for the two sides to agree on a long-term ceasefire.
"We want the ceasefire that was announced during the Eid to continue," said Ahmad Ali, a resident in Kabul.
"The war has gone on enough now. How long should we face poverty and destruction, we are at war for 40 years--its enough now," said Abdul Wase, a resident in Kabul.
The Eid ceasefire--from May 24 to May 26-- was announced by the Taliban and reciprocated by the Afghan government, and, according to figures provided by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, civilian casualties dropped by 80 percent.
There were reports of two security incidents in each of the three days of Eid, but they were significantly less than recent averages.
According to the AIHRC, before the ceasefire, up to 30 Afghans were killed and maimed as a result of war and violence in the country on a daily basis.
Zabul in the south, Farah in the west and Parwan in the center of Afghanistan have witnessed festivities between government forces and the Taliban in the last 24 hours, according to officials and local sources.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Defense in a statement on Friday said that at least 14 members of the Afghan Border Force were killed in an attack by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in Dand-e-Patan district in the eastern province of Paktia on Thursday evening, despite a ceasefire that continues between the two sides.
The statement reads that the Taliban violated the ceasefire and attacked the Border Forces outpost in the district, adding that the attack was fended off by Afghan forces and the Taliban suffered heavy casualties.
Three other members of the Border Force were maimed in the attack.
[ToloNews] The Afghan government on Friday released 164 members of Hizb-e-Islami from Bagram and Pul-e-Charkhi jails, members of the commission implementing the peace deal between Hizb-e-Islami and the government said on Friday.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... some of those released from the jails claimed to be members of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Mohammad Afzal is one of the those released today. He served in the Afghan National Army (ANA) for eight years and later was arrested at Kabul airport for ties with the Taliban.
"I was given 20 years in prison. I spent 11 years, but I was granted freedom for the remaining 9 years under the (Hekmatyar--government agreement) process, and I came out," said Mohammad Afzal, a resident of 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.. He claimed to have served in the Afghan National Army for eight years.
"I was serving in the army for eight years, then the incident happened and I was arrested," added Mohammad Afzal.
Gul Rahman is another inmate who was also placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for having ties with the Taliban.
He spent four years in jail.
"Not only for Moslems--peace is vital for the entire world. We always support peace," said Gul Rahman.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , leader of the Hizb-e-Islami party, signed the peace agreement with the Afghan government in September 2016.
The process of releasing the prisoners was delayed for months after human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... organizations criticized the government for agreeing to the move, stating that the political prisoners had been involved in insurgency incidents that killed civilians.
Hizb-e-Islami claims that there are 3,000 of its members being held in Afghan prisons.
The prisoners were released based on a peace agreement signed between President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... and Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in September 2016. Hekmatyar returned to the country after 20 years.
According to Article 11 of the peace agreement, after an assessment of their documents, all prisoners of Hizb-e-Islami who are accused of political and security crimes and are granted ’the right of people’ — a legal term which is used for those who don’t carry any complaint from members of the public in a court.
[KhaamaPress] At least seven soldiers of the Afghan Local Army forces bit the dust in an attack by Talibs in northern Parwan province.
Wahida Shahkar, a spokesperson for the provincial government, confirmed that the incident took place late on Wednesday night in Siagerd district.
Shahkar further added that the Talibs attacked a security post of the Afghan Local Army forces in Aantan area of the district, killing at least seven soldiers.
According to Shahkar, another soldier of the Afghan Local Army also sustained injuries during the attack.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... Shahkar said the Talibs also sustained casualties during the clash but did not elaborate further regarding the exact number of Talibs killed or maimed.
The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
[TechStartUps] According to a new study published in American Journal of Epidemiology, early outpatient treatment is the most effective for treatment of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... patients. The study, which was led by Dr. Harvey A Risch of Yale University, suggests that late stage studies missed the point about effective usage of hydroxychloroquine. Dr. Risch says immediate and early ramping-up of treatment for high-risk COVID-19 patients is key to controlling the coronavirus pandemic crisis.
To date, more than 1.6 million Americans have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and >10 times that number carry antibodies to it. High-risk patients presenting with progressing symptomatic disease have only hospitalization treatment with its high mortality.
According to the abstract of the study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, Dr. Risch said an outpatient treatment that prevents hospitalization is desperately needed. To date, two candidate medications have been widely discussed: remdesivir, and hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin. "Remdesivir has shown mild effectiveness in hospitalized inpatients, but no trials have been registered in outpatients. Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been widely misrepresented in both clinical reports and public media, and outpatient trials results are not expected until September," Dr. Harvey A Risch of Yale University, said.
In a 29-page report, the study suggests that early outpatient illness is very different than later hospitalized florid disease and the treatments differ. Evidence about use of hydroxychloroquine alone, or of hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin in inpatients, is irrelevant concerning efficacy of the pair in early high-risk outpatient disease.
Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy.
Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been used as standard-of-care in more than 300,000 older adults with multicomorbidities, with estimated proportion diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmias attributable to the medications 47/100,000 users, of which estimated mortality is [less than] 20%, 9/100,000 users, compared to the 10,000.
#4
HCQ has been vilified right from the get-go. I suspect Big Pharma, as no money can be made off of a generic drug. Big Pharma buys advertising on main stream media. So, the MSM either ignores HCQ or bashes it. To see that slob Joy Rehar (sp?) throw a fit because President Trump is taking HCQ is bizarre, insincere, or both. Again, if anybody can debunk the bashing of HCQ, ask the Congresswoman from Michigan...and others.
#8
1. There are no patents, so no real money to be made.
2. Trump mentioned it.
3. If it makes the virus less scary, then it's harder to justify shutting down the economy and ignoring civil rights.
#10
I bet that Michigan Congresswoman is kicking herself for taking HCQ.
She was actually gracious enough to thank Donald Trump, which is why the Michigan Democratic Party is kicking her. It's an interesting mindset that would prefer losing one of your own to OrangeManBad getting any credit.
[Babylon Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Colin Kaepernick arrived at the Minneapolis riots last night, saying he was excited to be a part of the looting and violence.
Kaepernick tried out for the riots by throwing bricks into windows but missed every time. He was able to rush a Molotov cocktail into a target window and then spike it on the ground, but then he caught fire. Finally, in a last-ditch effort to get selected for one of the riot squads, he filmed a workout video and sent it to various protester organizations but hadn't heard back as of publishing time.
"While we appreciate Kaepernick's enthusiasm, we need someone who can lob a Molotov cocktail accurately," said a representative for the rioters. "We wish him the best of luck in his future rioting career. We believe Kaepernick will land on his feet with another rioting organization. Maybe Chicago or Louisville will want him."
The former quarterback quickly blamed his failed rioting career on racism.
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Hair stripes? Give me my hair back and I'll have them tomorrow. My old barber would be useless to the task, but somebody in Atlanta surely knows how to do that.
[CityJournal] Once again‐as in Baltimore, following the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, and long before then, in Watts, Newark, and Detroit‐the actions of rioters in an American city are being described as protests, or, by PBS, no less, as an "uprising." Even Minneapolis's hapless mayor, Jacob Frey‐under siege as his city burns‐graces the violence with understanding. "There is a lot of pain and anger in our city," said Frey, adding that "this is what happens" when long-standing issues of race and poverty go unaddressed. It's "not just because of five minutes of horror," Frey noted in a press conference, referring to the images of George Floyd gasping for air beneath a police officer's knee, "but 400 years."
Frey rightly called for the arrest of the officer, Derek Chauvin, and Chauvin has now been arrested. But Frey was wrong to ascribe anything close to justifiable motives to those who have torched a police precinct building and a youth center and looted stores serving their own community. It's as if we have learned nothing over two generations about what happens when public officials give license to the lawless, letting marauders proceed under cover of high-mindedness. We expect as much from inflammatory activists like Al Sharpton but deserve better from elected officials charged with protecting property, lives, and livelihoods.
It's time, again, to cite the work of political scientist Edward Banfield, whose seminal book about urban life, The Unheavenly City, includes a chapter, both relevant and prescient, entitled, "Rioting Mainly for Fun and Profit." In the wake of the 1960s' riots‐43 people died in the deadliest, in Detroit in 1967‐Banfield asserted that it is "naïve to think that efforts to end racial injustice and to eliminate poverty, slums, and unemployment will have an appreciable effect upon the amount of rioting that will be done in the next decade or so." This before the full rollout of the Great Society‐and, long afterward, the riots in Los Angeles, Baltimore, and now Minneapolis, where a $30 million affordable-housing project was just destroyed. Banfield's lesson was plain: Young men, not stopped swiftly and sternly by police, will be emboldened to loot and set buildings afire, simple for the anarchic thrill of doing so. The failure to distinguish between protest with purpose and lawlessness would fan the flames.
Banfield would likely judge Mayor Frey harshly, not least for withdrawing police from the city's Third Precinct and permitting rioting to go on in order to avoid confrontation. Yes, investigate the incident; yes, take stock of the Minneapolis police department. But don't dignify violence by calling it a protest, and don't abdicate your responsibility as a public official to uphold the rule of law and civil order.
Of course, Floyd's life matters‐but so do the hopes, dreams, bank accounts, and insurance costs of the small-business owners, including African-Americans, who provide goods and services to that precinct. Long before the death of Floyd, Frey's administration had made the idea that Minneapolis suffered under a legacy of racism part of its governing message. It's a bridge too far to connect such rhetoric with the current explosion of violence, but it does prove Banfield's point. No one truly concerned with the aspirations‐and grievances‐of American blacks should confuse riots with protests.
Historic images out of #Minneapolis of a police precinct on fire. A police station has not been destroyed or even overrun in decades if ever, not even during the Watts unrest of 1965, the Rodney King unrest of 1992 or the Ferguson unrest of 2014. pic.twitter.com/LuF5khymy1
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Banfield would likely judge Mayor Frey harshly, not least for withdrawing police from the city's Third Precinct and permitting rioting to go on in order to avoid confrontation.
I wonder if the mayor's choices were constrained by the tools at his disposal. The Minneapolis police force doesn't seem to be professional or competent. Justine Diamond's death at the hands of a poorly vetted and trained Somali cop comes to mind. I seem to have a vague recollection of some sort of affirmative action kerfuffle, but I could be wrong.
Maybe the MPD lacked the manpower to deal with the rioters. Maybe the mayor feared the MPD lacked the competence to suppress a riot without turning it into a bloodbath for one or both sides. Or maybe he just punked out.
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Doh! Forgot to mention another option: the National Guard. If the cops can't handle the situation, calling in the Guard seems obvious. But in this case, since Trump already suggested it, that course of action is off the table.
The City of Minneapolis has been run by the Democratic Farmer Labor Party since 1978.
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Justine Diamond's death at the hands of a poorly vetted and trained Somali cop comes to mind.
Somali-American policeman Mohamed Noor was thoroughly vetted at every step, and then the horrible results at each step were completely ignored. The political masters were determined to have their very own Somali policeman to show off as soon as it could be arranged.
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/\ The lack of "rioting" in Chicago following the Memorial Day carnage (12 KIA, 30 or so WIA). Yet another missed event. I must have been mowing the lawn.
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Walz said neither the City or the State had the numbers to stop the riots, in effect asking the Feds to step in so he can claim clean hands and blame Trump when the first looters get toasted.
1. Frey is a gutless POS. It's not beyond the realm of possibility, that he let this happen, to help the Dems chances in Nov. Orange Man Bad - caused riots due to Nasty Tweets, or some such.
2. Head of the MN Nat'l Guard - says never got a mission statement from the Gov - couldn't make up his own and send extra troops in.
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Re 1968 analogy I don't see how these riots could benefit a hapless doddering white goof candidate like Biden.
The only scenario in which the Dems gain would be a repeat of 1992, when the LA riots fed into an existing "narrative" about how GHW Bush was inattentive to suffering on the home front caused by the recession of 1991.
Watch the Dems shift their narrative to memes like Trump's "inattention," "negligence," "tweet-fiddling while Rome burns" etc
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Our Intelligence community and FBI should be deeply involved right now in Determining internal and external sourcesfor the BLM and Antifa organizers behind this. the Governor of MN has it right this is terrorism and has foreign aspects to the coordinations ongoing. I am certain there are Chinese and/or Russian forces involved.
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#23 ^ because 1968 worked out so well for them.
It did, though.
They lost the next two Prez elections, but the generation of '68 marched through the institutions and now have (or have bequeathed to their heirs) the commanding heights of the culture, politics, law and even key sectors of the economy.
At some point a critical mass of the populace will either figure out that elections only have consequences when the left wants them to -- or the left will win everything.
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^ there's an older conservative professor of German at UC Santa Cruz who has an interesting theory about the 1968 generation's long march through the institutions. He says it was a freak (pun intended) event that happened only because the anti-war / hippy / New Left movement corresponded with the unprecedented and enormous increase in college enrollment during the 1960s. His claim is that, absent such a huge increase in numbers overall, the relatively small far-left minority would never have attained anywhere near so much influence over our culture and society as they did.
If he's correct, and if as seems likely we are about to see a historic decline in the US college population over this decade, then it could well be the case that we've passed the high water mark of leftist influence and we will see our culture and political center of gravity move back toward something more normal.
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Been warning on The 'burg for more n a year this was coming our way in 2020. Well here we are n the bodies and ruined lives are stacking up. It's way past time that Antifa is crushed and their sponsors sent to prison. No more fokkin around
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The Anti-Riot Act (18 US Code Section 2101) makes it a federal crime to travel across interstate lines for the purpose of urging or instigating violence in furtherance of a riot.
The left is trying to throw shade at Barr for invoking this, but they're not likely to succeed: it's been upheld recently by a liberal Clinton-appointed judge in Virginia -- because it was used, ironically, by prosecutors against two white rioters in the Charlottesville riots.
That judge trashed their arguments to dismiss with a very strong defense of the Anti-Riot Act here -- this opinion seems like a fine precedent for future reference.
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M. Murcek, agreed but an opportunity is an opportunity and the chance that the Feds say or do something they can use are increasingly possible in a time of crisis.
#45
"We're not sure it's connected to the protests" is the Party Line, just like "We'll probably never know if it was connected to Islamic Terrorism™" when someone yells Allah Akhbar while killing civilians
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Local rag looked up the bookings - most are from Minnesota not carpet baggers; however, the "pro's" are much less likely to let themselves be arrested, so still an open question.
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 29, 2020
The Mayor of the US city of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, signed on Friday an emergency regulation imposing a curfew between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, as violent protests sweep the city after the police killing of George Floyd.
George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck while the Floyd pleaded that he can’t breathe, sparked three days of violent protests in the city.
The incident was caught on video, after a bystander filmed it. The cellphone footage showed Floyed repeatedly moaning and gasping while he pleaded to Chauvin, “Please, I can’t breathe.” After several minutes, Floyd gradually grows quiet and ceases to move.
The officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
“Chauvin had his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, and an autopsy found the combined impact of his being restrained by the police, underlying health conditions and any potential intoxicants in his system likely contributed to his death,” Reuters reported citing the charging document.
If Chauvin is convicted of the murder charge, he will face up to 25 years in prison.
Chauvin, along with three other officers, were fired from the police department over Floyd's death.
TRUMP CALLS FLOYD’S FAMILY
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he had spoken with Floyd’s family, and described Floyd’s killing as a “terrible event.”
“It’s a terrible thing. We all saw what we saw… It should never be allowed to happen. We’re determined that justice be served,” Trump said during a press conference in the White House.
Trump had tweeted earlier in the day, about the protests in Minneapolis, saying: “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Twitter hid the President’s tweet saying it “violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.”
Hours after his “shooting starts” tweet, he posted another saying: “Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night - or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot. I don’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means.”
He added: “It was spoken as a fact, not as a statement. It’s very simple, nobody should have any problem with this other than the haters, and those looking to cause trouble on social media. Honor the memory of George Floyd!”
#6
Read the autopsy findings. Stress from the arrest exacerbated preexisting heart condition along with various intoxicants. He did not die from strangulation or asphyxiation. While the officer seems likely to have been guilty of excessive force and assault (battery) he did not commit murder or manslaughter. They are overcharging him as an expedient way to calm public disorder. Charges against the others would be highly suspect
#12
Wait. Couldn't he just enforce the "social distancing" requirements? Won't all the rioters get COVID-19?
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Of course rioters won't obey a curfew. But having a curfew gives the police cause to not arrest people, instead of not arresting them for looting, arson, and shooting each other.
#14
All I know is if I go down the street and bash a few store front windows and perhaps take a few things out of the establishment, I'm in a heap of trouble. If I gather a couple of mates to do the same, still in a heap of trouble. But the Minnesota authorities have given these microbe rioters carte blanche. Soon we will get to the point (if not there already) that that horse is already out of the barn, and any actions by the authorities will appear "excessive"....and, of course, racist.
#15
I was reminded today of a bumper sticker I saw in the Western part of Maryland many years ago. It said” if if we had known how much trouble it was gonna make, we’d have picked the cotton ourselves “. Prophetic!
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Update From Frank G’s link an hour ago:
A searchable jail roster is available online.
Speaking Saturday, Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder, however, said that sometimes people arrested will provide false information. He says background checks are showing some people arrested have records from other areas.
Meanwhile, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter is backtracking after saying that 100 percent of the people arrested for causing disorder in his city were from out of state.
Three-quarters of the people arrested in St. Paul had Minnesota addresses, according to data provided to FOX 9 by police.
Of the 18 total arrests, 12 had Minnesota addresses, four were from out of state, and two were unknown.
Saturday evening, Carter acknowledged his earlier statement was inaccurate
One hypothesis superseded by reality. But how many of them were white, and therefore still probably Antifa?
#19
No matter. Just shift the narrative again. It's still whitey's fault, cuz we wuz infiltrated!
Minnesota's "community" leaders are now claiming that the violence was caused by - get this - out-of-state white supremacists!
...They were reverends and rabbis and people of the Islamic faith. They spoke in Somali, Spanish and English. And they pleaded, at times through tears, for their hurting communities to stay home Saturday night to prevent more pain.
Called together by Gov. Tim Walz, a group of Minnesota community leaders spent nearly two televised hours Saturday morning acknowledging the outrage over the death of George Floyd. ..."White people from other communities are coming into my community...as if it wasn't bad enough already,"
[??? 'Bad enough already'? Because of your own people?]
...said Justin Terrell, executive director of the Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage. "Go home now. The fascists on the plane right now, turn around."
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, ... was a community organizer for more than two decades, marching in the streets after any fatal police encounter.
"That space on 38th and Chicago is sacred ground, and people should be able to come together on that sacred ground and mourn and grieve and demand change and justice," Flanagan said.
"In this moment, we cannot, because there are detractors. There are white supremacists. There are anarchists. There are people who are burning down the institutions that are core to our identity and who we are."
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@ #19 - I give these imbeciles credit for one thing: saying what they are saying with a straight face. Mean Gene Okerlund had an easier time keeping a straight face in all his years with WWF.
#25
This however is tragic: Dallas man nearly killed trying to defend his shop just now. Horrific 24 seconds of close in video from someone in a mob of around 20, pelting him with rocks and curb-stomping him until he is lying face down in a pool of his own blood. Fortunately he seems to have survived and is being treated now
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Harvest this man's potential immediately. Promote and assign him to positions of greater responsibility and leadership. He obviously enjoys an effortless lead over the pack.
#2
Everyone on the left lied up and down the line about everything. No surprise there. The question is: Will it change votes? Will it flip present left-wing office holders from blue to red? Will this flip the House, keep the Senate and the Presidency?
#6
Did they change their minds after Mueller finally testified there was nothing there?
Did they change their minds about Blasey Ford after her friend called BS and Avenatti & company were exposed?
Did they change their minds after seeing the full on batshit-crazy video involving the drum-beating injun harassing Nick Sandmann and the other Covington Catholic schoolboys?
#BREAKING China threatens UK with 'countermeasures' for saying it could offers Hong Kongers a pathway to British citizenship pic.twitter.com/rooWXa2R8E
The U.S. State Department has announced a $3 million reward for information that leads to the whereabouts or arrest of the new leader of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh), Muhammad Ramadan.
The State Department indicated that Muhammad Ramadan, who was born in Jordan, is considered one of the most prominent officials in the terrorist organization.
They said, “He played an essential role in the propaganda operations of (ISIS) in order to recruit and incite elements and make them extremists, and supervised the planning, coordination and production of many videos, propaganda leaflets and online platforms that published violent scenes of torture and mass executions of civilians.”
The reward will be provided for information that leads to the location or seizure of Ramadan under the State Department’s “Rewards for Justice” program.
Since the death of the former leader and founder, Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the terrorist group has remained relatively silent, except for one brief recording by the new ISIS commander.
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#GNA Ghaniwa Al-Kikli militia have just killed the humanitarian activist Afaf Mohamed Gereira in her apartment in Al-Zohour neighborhood #Tripoli this morning for covering the ever growing number of kidnapped women by the hands of the #GNA militias and Syrian mercenaries #Libyapic.twitter.com/ImEZAbCmfI
14 Bashir AbdelAzim 15 Mohammed Al-Safari 16 Adnan Boshhaywa 17 Ahmed AlMabrouk 18 Tariq AlAreifi 19 Taha Belaid 20 Mahmoud AlShatti 21 Mohamed AlHajjaji 22 Waseem Al Misrati 23 Ahmed Artema 24 Mohammed AbdulKarim 25 Ali Abdullah Ali 26 AbuBakr AlAmmari 27 Mustafa bin Ramadan
[Libya Observer] The Libyan Interior Ministry is investigating, through Mizda town's security department, the murder of a Libyan national and 30 illegal immigrants colonists in the town.
In a statement on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said a Libyan national in Mizda, accused of human trafficking, was killed by illegal immigrants colonists while he was smuggling them to coastal cities.
The Ministry added that the relatives of the Libyan national took the law to their own hands and committed vendetta crimes by murdering 26 people from Bangladesh and four from African countries, in addition to injuring 11 others.
The Interior Ministry instructed Mizda security department to take the necessary legal action to arrest the perpetrators and bring them to justice, saying whatever the motive behind the mass murder crime was, the law doesn't permit people to take matters into their own hands.
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate in Lahore on Friday issued arrest warrants for three women who angrily stormed a house in the city's DHA neighbourhood where actor Uzma Khan was staying and allegedly tortured Uzma and her sister.
Video clips showing torture carried out on the actor and her sister, allegedly by the daughters of property tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain, had sparked outrage and calls for justice on social media earlier this week.
A first information report (FIR) of the incident was registered on Wednesday on Uzma's complaint. The persons nominated in the FIR include Riaz's daughters Pashmina Malik and Ambar Malik, Amina Usman Malik (wife of Usman Malik), and 15 unidentified gunnies — the private guards with whom the three women had entered the house seen in video clips.
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Ooooooohhhh, lookit the little sultan wannabe playing at being someone important! Who’s a widdle sultanumsies then? You — you’re a sultie-ultie-numsies, widdle Erdypoo!
"While serving as a Minnesota state legislator in September 2017, Omar met Erdoğan in a closed-door meeting. She gleefully tweeted about her experience in her native Somali, and it was covered in official Turkish media. The only U.S.-based coverage of the exchange came from a Somali-language newspaper article that explained how Erdoğan concluded the meeting by asking Omar to pledge support for Turkey, before inexplicably being deleted."
Trump kept repeating #China has turned "One Country Two Systems" into "One Country One System," and the national security law is destroying all the promises that #China has made in the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
#2
The Chinese Communist Party is fighting for its life as China's economy collapses. The party can no longer raise living standards, which kept it in power. It's leaders know the end is near and will do anything, including start regional conflicts, to excuse their failures and stay in power. The situation is going to get ugly.
Kazarma fully under #LNA control as well as Tens of #GNA terrorists , backed by mercenaries and Turkish officers were killed, 17 terrorists were arrested, and 6 vehicles captured and one armored cars, in a ambush of the armed forces #LNA in the Kazarma axis, south of #Tripoli. pic.twitter.com/ZOkv2IOmth
Libyan army forces take control of Alkazerma area in south #Tripoli and prepare for the liberation battle of Qaser Bin Ghashir district, the last stronghold of warlord Haftar’s armed groups in Tripoli pic.twitter.com/bW1e8CZsHK
#GNA militia media outlets asked whom is responsible for the heavy losses in Ain Zara and Kazirma Aixs in the past 2 days . Viva #LNA#Libyapic.twitter.com/O30rnQPGqM
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In an interview with Hezbollah’s Noor Radio on Tuesday, on the anniversary of the liberation of southern Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... from Israeli occupation, Hezbollah’s leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... spoke about the liberation and thoroughly listed all the "resistance’s achievements" since that moment in history. However,
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[AmericanMilitaryNews] A Tampa man faces federal charges after FBI agents said he gave "material support" to 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.... and may have scouted Honeymoon Island State Park for a possible attack.
Muhammed Momtaz al-Azhari, 23, is charged with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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[Sudan Tribune] U.S. watchdog group, The Sentry, has alerted against major corruption and money laundering by high ranking military leaders in South Sudan.
In a report released on Wednesday “Making a Killing: South Sudanese Military Leaders’ Wealth, Explained,” the sentry said that the fact the engagement in business activities of the last four army chiefs of staff and three opposition militia leaders in South Sudan is "demonstrating red flags for money laundering and corruption".
The report examines the commercial and financial activities of former Army Chiefs of Staff Gabriel Jok Riak, James Hoth Mai, Paul Malong Awan, and Oyay Deng Ajak, along with top-ranking military chiefs Salva Mathok Gengdit, Bol Akot Bol, Garang Mabil, and Marial Chanuong.
Militia leaders linked to major instances of violence both before and during the civil war — Gathoth Gatkuoth Hothnyang, Johnson Olony, and David Yau Yau — are also profiled in the report.
One of the Sentry investigators Shannon Mizzi said the lack of transparency and anti-corruption measures in the country allow its military leaders to easily divert funds and conclude corrupt arms deals.
"Many of South Sudan’s senior military leaders have amassed enormous wealth. Their posts provided easy access to government funds that appear to have financed luxurious lifestyles for relatives overseas in some instances," Mizzi said.
The report comes out weeks after the announcement by the World Bank last April of a $7.6 grant in support of South Sudan efforts to fight COVID-19 pandemic.
South Sudan medical infrastructure and response capacities have been already stressed by civil war and weakened by the corruption that has benefitted military officials and top political leaders, says the report.
“With three times as many generals as physicians, South Sudan’s medical system is completely unprepared for COVID-19," said John Prendergast, Co-Founder of The Sentry.
For his part, J.R. Mailey suggested to take a proactive response to ensure that the international support in response for COVID-19 pandemic would not be diverted by the country military officials to their private accounts.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), General Hussein Salami, announced that the IRGC’s naval forces have received 112 new warships.
Salami said during the handover ceremony of 112 new warships in Bandar Abbas that this step is part of the birth of a new naval force in the Gulf called ’Iran’.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guards said in a speech: "These boats will increase the offensive power of the Iranian navy in the Gulf waters."
He explained that the strengthening of military force is part of the road map, which is being pursued by the Revolutionary Guards, adding that "Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is seeking to break the will of the enemy by continuing to produce militarily and aggressively."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Jpost] PALESTINIANS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO BOYCOTT IDF HUMANITARIAN, ECONOMIC AID
PETAL, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi mayor who sparked outrage when he said he "didn’t see anything unreasonable" about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody is resisting calls to resign, including from his own town’s board of aldermen.
I love this country; I have two kids who will live out their lives here. Yet it’s hard to see any hope for America when the landscape of social commentary is smothered in shallow lies and infantile delusions.
[New York Post] Droves of police officers blocked more than 100 protesters from the Minnesota home of the now-former Minneapolis cop who pressed his knee into the neck of George Floyd before he died, new video shows.
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
[DIRSN.com] Four young boys are being hailed as heroes after saving a 5-year-old girl from drowning in a creek near Jackson, Missouri.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[BBC] Aviation history was made this week when the world's largest all-electric plane took its maiden flight.
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Babylon Bee] MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Colin Kaepernick arrived at the Minneapolis riots last night, saying he was excited to be a part of the looting and violence.
[CityJournal] Once again‐as in Baltimore, following the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, and long before then, in Watts, Newark, and Detroit‐the actions of rioters in an American city are being described as protests, or, by PBS, no less, as an "uprising." Even Minneapolis's hapless mayor, Jacob Frey‐under siege as his city burns‐graces the violence with understanding. "There is a lot of pain and anger in our city," said Frey, adding that "this is what happens" when long-standing issues of race and poverty go unaddressed. It's "not just because of five minutes of horror," Frey noted in a press conference, referring to the images of George Floyd gasping for air beneath a police officer's knee, "but 400 years."
[DAWN] A judicial magistrate in Lahore on Friday issued arrest warrants for three women who angrily stormed a house in the city's DHA neighbourhood where actor Uzma Khan was staying and allegedly tortured Uzma and her sister.
...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 
...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 
