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[Ynet] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that five pro-Iranian militants were killed in an anonymous attack carried out today in the Albukamal region, citing "reliable sources."
According to the report, around noon, an unknown fighter jet attacked three military vehicles belonging to Iranian militias, which were carrying heavy machine guns.
The identity of the passengers in the vehicle was not disclosed, but it was stated that they were not Syrian.
[TWITTER] At a press conference on Saturday, Minnesota leaders said that the majority of those being destructive during the protests about George Floyd's death in the Twin Cities were from out of state, and that officials have begun contact tracing arrestees. Later, the US president Tweeted, "It’s ANTIFA and the Radical Left. Don’t lay the blame on others!"
Courtesy of Mercutio, DISRN has more on the declaration here. And PJ Media adds:
As PJ Media contributor Victoria Taft noted two years back, the Department of Homeland Security already considers antifa a form of domestic terrorism. In 2017, Politico reported that “the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as ‘domestic terrorist violence,’ according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO.”
Even so, a formal declaration is arguably warranted following the devastation in recent days. Lamenting the riots, looting, and arson should not be a partisan or racial issue, as black citizens and business owners have broken into tears after witnessing the devastation in their communities and the destruction of their livelihoods.
As of Sunday morning, police had arrested nearly 1,400 people in 17 U.S. cities since Thursday. Governors in at least nine states have activated their states’ National Guards to respond to riots: Minnesota, Ohio, Georgia, Colorado, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Texas, Utah, and Washington State. In another five more, governors have said they planned to activate the National Guard.
As the United States was leaving lockdowns imposed to fight the coronavirus, cities across the country have enforced a new limited kind of lockdown to prevent the destruction. Cities across the country set curfews to stem the violence, including: Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Denver, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Cleveland, Columbus, Portland, Miami, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, and Rochester.
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Mercutio, while you are philosophically correct that these are the actions of a terrorist network, I moved your article to cluster with the rest of the articles on the subject. Fred has now weighed in on the subject, and for the duration all articles on the Antifa insurgency are to be filed Page 1: War on Terror, Lurid Crime Tales. This may change again, depending on who is discovered to be behind and involved.
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The riot in La Mesa last night was a little too close to home for me. Let's put it this way: It was close enough to be scary. Last I looked, admittedly a while ago but I think it's still true, La Mesa is an affluent, predominantly white, white-collar bedroom community. Ostensibly the protest was about a black man who was arrested on Wednesday at the Grossmont Trolley Station in La Mesa. The complaint seems to be that a La Mesa cop was too rough. I've spent enough time on the trolley to see a lot of colorful characters hanging out at trolley stations and wished many times for a greater police presence. Fact is, the trolley is dirty and dangerous.
So thousands of people who may or may not have seen a video clip of some shoving were outraged enough to shut down I-8 and try to burn the La Mesa police headquarters. I don't believe any of those protesters/rioters live in La Mesa. I've been to La Mesa many times and those people didn't look like La Mesans to me. But they weren't black either so I figured, having seen videos of Antifa in action, that these people, some of them anyway, were Antifa. I was skeptical about their concern about racism and for the black guy who was arrested. This was not a sincere, legitimate protest of local community members about racism. It was a riot that was carefully coordinated with other riots across the country. I think their goal is to destabilize our country.
I guess my point is that if they can invade La Mesa, they could have invaded my town just as easily. Nobody got killed. I don't think any shots were fired. But rocks were thrown, windows were broken and graffiti was sprayed. It could have spiraled out of control. So, yeah, I'd classify it as terrorism.
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See my comment #8 here - my Mom was literally shaking, she said
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Nkw we can get down to some serious busunesd. Good hunting - no bag limit!
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That Minnesota AG Ellison...another real "winner". So, he's the AG of the state but he is complaining about an "endemic problem" within the Minneapolis Police Department. Uh, so, Ellison, you did NOTHING about it?
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It's already been done, apparently: "Department of Homeland Security has reportedly been warning about growing threat of violence between left-wing anarchists and right-wing nationalists since early 2016."
"US security officials have classified the left-wing group Antifa as "domestic terrorists", confidential documents have revealed."
"Federal law enforcement actions will be directed at apprehending and charging the violent radical agitators who have hijacked peaceful protest and are engaged in violations of federal law.
To identify criminal organizers and instigators, and to coordinate federal resources with our state and local partners, federal law enforcement is using our existing network of 56 regional FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTF)."
Some will say that Mr. Trump does not have the authority to declare Antifa a "Terrorist Group," but declaring them to be a "Domestic Terrorist Group" is a horse of a different color.
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I wonder if the 'Black' community understands they're expendable to the hard Left's agenda, which is power by any means necessary. It's all for the revolution baby! Chumps.
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Fecking shame of it is that the FBI, whome we desperately need to be functional against internal threats such as these, has been wasting time talent and resources on political targets thanks to Holder, Lerner, McCabe, and others in the Obama administrations. The domestic terror tracking withered while political targeting occupied the bulk of high level FBI and DOJ attention.
I wonder if we can demand the head of the FBI to resign over this massive failure of his agency? I have the perfect "temporary" replacement in mind.
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It appears that, once Antifa has been declared a Terrorist Group, and their attacks the acts of a terrorist group, Prez can declare a National Emergency and enactment of the Insurrection Act.
Nota bene: the rest of Skidmark’s Antifa riot articles have been collected here with our gratitude for the quiet work he does collecting such things for us every day.
— trailing wife for the moderators at 1:49 p.m. EDT
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Can't sell a Mercedes, vin numbers will give away the stolen nature. Cops should be looking out for Mercedes crossing the Mexican border in the next few weeks.
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It's been my expierience in 25 years of horse riding in parades and other equine events a horse will not intentially step on a horse. The footing is too unstable and the horse doesn't want to fall.
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Look at the video. She wasn’t trampled and stood up immediately after, apparently unharmed. It appears the horse actually side-stepped (kind of hopped sideways) to avoid stepping on her. At worse she walked right in front of a moving horse. Generally a bad idea as the horse weighs several times your weight.
And when Joe speaks people listen.
[DailyMail] Joe Biden is calling for an end to the violent protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota over the killing of George Floyd, but his campaign staffers are also funding bail money to protesters who were arrested in the midst of the riots.
In a statement posted to Medium and sent out to his supporters through a campaign email, Biden demanded demonstrators stop 'burning down communities' in the midst of their protests.
'Protesting such brutality is right and necessary,' the presumed Democratic nominee admitted in the statement. 'It's an utterly American response.'
'But burning down communities and needless destruction is not,' he continued. 'Violence that endangers lives is not. Violence that guts and shutters businesses that serve the community is not.'
Biden's comments calling for an end to the violence, which has broken out all over the country, comes as it was revealed that at least 13 of his campaign staff have donated to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which helps pay the bail fees of those arrested in the city.
Reuters confirmed that 13 of the candidate's staff advertised their donations on Twitter.
In their Twitter posts, Biden's staff called attention to U.S. inequities based on race and income.
'It is up to everyone to fight injustice,' Colleen May, who identified herself as an campaign organizer for Biden in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Florida, said in a Twitter post.
She included an image of her receipt from donating $50 to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.
The fund specifically opposes the practice of cash bail, or making people pay to avoid pre-trial imprisonment, and uses donations to pay bail fees in Minneapolis.
The origins of the campaign are unclear, but one of the earliest accounts to tweet about the fund was activist AntiFash Gordon. It’s grown from there, with thousands of tweets promoting the fund and its cause as a way of assisting the people protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. The fund and its mission to reform the cash bail system aren’t just important for these protests; it’s a way to help reform an aspect of the American criminal justice system that is fundamentally unfair to lower-income people, and goes against its very principles to do so.
The Minnesota Freedom Fund began in 2016. It posts small cash bails for people who otherwise couldn’t afford them. According to the fund’s executive director, Tonja Honsey, its beneficiaries only need an average of $150 to secure their pre-trial release.
"National outrage about racial discrimination, hateful bigotry, & injustice of unequal opportunity is necessary for real change. Divisive rhetoric must be voted out of office. We need a president who works to heal the nation, not further divide us."
[CamelotPortfolios] · Lufthansa’s rescue is entirely government-funded, while United Airlines has received government AND private market support.
· Arguably, European markets are underperforming in the recovery due to overregulation.
· European regulators are beginning to recognize the problem.
· MiFID II to be relaxed by ... even more regulation.
Lufthansa’s billion Euro government rescue stands in sharp contrast to the free market approach taken by U.S. airlines in raising the capital necessary to bridge the corona-lockdown. It also explains why the recovery of European stock markets lags the U.S. by substantial margins, illustrating what is going wrong in the Eurozone.
On April 20, United Airlines raised $1 billion in equity in the financial markets. The capital raise occurred at a 5% discount to the already depressed stock price. But despite the bleak state of the industry, with 90% of the fleet grounded, United was able to raise a 10-figure amount in equity. As early as March other airlines had raised billions of dollars of capital in debt, both through asset-backed securitizations and unsecured or convertible debt offerings [ii]. However, United’s April raise was the first attempt to raise equity capital. The dilution suffered by shareholders was about 15%, a relatively modest amount in light of the circumstances. Separately, United had received $6 billion of government loans, with which it issued warrants to the government that diluted shareholders by about 7%. [i]
In contrast, Lufthansa made plans to access capital markets but abandoned them in April. The planned capital increase of $2.6 billion of equity and convertible bonds would have diluted shareholders by approximately 36%, yet still would have been insufficient in the eyes of some analysts to see the company through the epidemic [ii]. The anticipated $9.7 billion rescue package of debt and equity would be entirely government-funded. Dilution appears at first sight less severe than what the original private market raise would have resulted in and will only be 25% if all conversion options are exercised. However, the real strings attached to the financing come from the influence that the government plans to exercise over the company: two board seats will be filled by government representatives. [iii] But the convertibility of the debt into up to 25% of the equity is what the government may be really after, because a 25% holder has, under most European corporate laws, the ability to block strategic transactions. Even though it is unlikely that Lufthansa will be the subject of a hostile takeover, this sets a precedent for more government influence over industry, a potential power grab that has featured prominently in political discussions for some time. As an aside, a similar ownership structure has been in place at Volkswagen for decades, where it seems to do little harm to the company, although it may not do much good anyway because the presence of State representatives did not prevent the emissions fraud scandal.
EUROPE’S FEAR OF FINANCIAL MARKETS
The different approach to survival amidst today’s travel slump may be a direct function of the difference in development of financial markets on the two continents.
Europe’s financial markets have been underdeveloped. Capital was provided mostly by banks. In the U.S., however, financial markets have been more vibrant. Regulations in the wake of the financial crisis have only exacerbated the discrepancy.
Under the guise of stabilizing the economy, European regulations have sought to stifle markets. U.S. regulators have created bureaucratic burdens but arguably not enough to kill off markets to the same extent as the EU. Sure, as a result of Dodd-Frank overregulation, liquidity in high yield markets has been challenging for a couple of years -- even before the Covid-19 crisis. The rules born out of the 2008 financial crisis may also be responsible for the repo debacle that has roiled funding markets since last September. And while the current administration would like to relax these tight rules, it may actually be the banks themselves that want to keep them as barriers to entry against foreign competition.
But all these problems are minor compared to the anti-market activism of EU regulators. Now that private enterprise needs capital, there aren’t many markets to turn to in Europe. Government support may be the only option....
INVESTMENT CONCLUSIONS
In our view, it is too early to invest in airlines as distressed investments. The outcomes are too binary to make financial commitments at this time. If the economic reopening is successful, then the airlines may well have sufficient funds to emerge from the crisis. However, if prognosticators of a second wave turn out to be correct, then we would not want to own any airline-related security that was purchased at current price levels. Should that scenario play out, then we would want to invest along the lines of the 2003 airline bankruptcies when the most successful investments were arguably in airplane lease securitizations, where investors were backed with good assets, yet the securities traded at substantial discounts to the value of the assets because the issuing airlines were in bankruptcy.
[BBC] Gunmen on motorbikes fired into the crowded market in Kompienga town in the middle of the day on Saturday, eyewitnesses were quoted as saying by local media.
It is unclear who was behind the attack.
Burkina Faso has seen a sharp rise in jihadist violence and inter-communal clashes in recent months.
The country where it's too dangerous to go to school
'We're raising our daughter as Christian and Muslim'
The violence has forced hundreds of thousand of people to flee their homes.
On Friday at least 15 people were killed when suspected Islamist militants attacked a convoy of traders in the north, near the border with Mali.
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—trailing wife at 2:30 p.m. EDT
[Politico] The forces unleashed by George Floyd’s death in police custody are already rattling Minnesota — and presidential — politics.
Within Minnesota, there are already discussions about the potential impact on several competitive congressional races. Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s history as a local prosecutor is suddenly under heightened scrutiny, leading to widespread speculation that the events were likely to dim her prospects of becoming Joe Biden’s vice presidential nominee.
Outside the state, the president’s caustic remarks about protesters and the mayor of Minneapolis quickly underscored the political dimensions of the unrest, and the likelihood that it would become the next cultural wedge issue — another point of contention in the urban-rural divide that stands to define the November election.
Mike Erlandson, a former chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer Labor Party, said he watched with his 15-year-old daughter in Minnesota this week as a man spray-painted on a wall, “F--k the white people from the suburbs.”
“I do think that, particularly if this continues, the [congressional] districts like Dean Phillips’ district or Angie Craig’s district that right now I would say are relatively safe for the Democratic incumbent, could be very much in play,” he said. “Both of those districts will be decided in large part by suburban women voters, and it would be hard for me to imagine those people aren’t watching this scared, like everybody else, for their family and for their children.”
Minnesota is not critical to Trump’s reelection prospects. But it is one of the few offensive opportunities he has to win a state he lost in 2016, and he has invested heavily there.
Though a Star Tribune/MPR News/KARE 11 poll last weekend showed Trump lagging behind Biden by 5 percentage points, he had improved his standing significantly from October, when he was down 12 percentage points, and he is beating Biden in Minnesota’s rural areas and with men.
Even a marginal shift in the electorate in Minnesota could prove significant, not only in the presidential race, but in several House contests there. There are Phillips and Craig, two first-term Democratic representatives from suburban districts. But in rural, western Minnesota, House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, a Democrat, is attempting to hang onto a seat that has become increasingly conservative in recent years — every county in his district voted for Trump, many by landslide margins.
This week, Republicans in Minnesota pounced on Tim Walz, the Democratic governor, and Frey, the Minneapolis mayor. Days of protests saw boarded-up storefronts and the closure of public transportation systems in the area. On Thursday, protesters set fire to the 3rd Precinct Minneapolis police station.
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another point of contention in the urban-rural divide that stands to define the November election.
Presidential elections are won or lost in the suburbs. The Dems just lost a large number of those moderate-squishy suburbanites they thought they could peel away from OrangeMan.
Lots can happen, including a dynamic where we go from properly blaming the left, to people (and let's be honest here, especially women voters) saying:
"Well, if it weren't for the tone of Trump's tweets and the coarsening of public discourse, maybe this wouldn't have happened. Let the healing begin with (Name of Dem nominee here)"
After living through the Obama era and the Dem resurgence in the House, I'm not willing to dismiss just how dumb the electorate can be.
And that's not even mentioning how much help they'll get from squeamish GOPers who long to return to the good old days of polite, ineffectual "opposition".
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Well, my 83 yr old Mom got caught up on the highway at the La Mesa protests. She was shaken badly and still was later when I talked to her. A reliable Democrat vote may have been lost yesterday
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The Socialists are following their kindred Palestinian model, always pass up an opportunity. Yes, don't get cocky, but never interfere with your enemy when he is destroying himself. THEY have plenty of time between now and November to do even more incredibly stupid stuff. Watch them defend the barbarians. This has nothing to do with 'social justice' its nothing but the Vandals sacking Rome.
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Hillary thought she had the election in the bag. This arrogance is unsettling. It's going go be a ton of hard work to get Trump reelected, with the left cheating all the way.
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Frank sorry to hear about your mom. My mom was a Dem too but back when Kennedy was all about ask not what your country can do for you.....she wouldn't recognize the Dem party these days.
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[PJ] The nation watched with disgust Friday night as rioters took to the streets of Minneapolis, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Los Angeles as well as the usual suspects in Oakland and Portland over the killing of George Floyd while in police custody. Nothing says grief-stricken like boosting some free s*it and burning buildings. Watching with the rest of the nation was Rob O’Neill, the retired Navy SEAL who helped send Osama bin Laden to paradise to collect his 72 raisins (not a typo).
And O’Neill was disgusted along with most of the rest of America.
O’Neill’s Twitter time-line that started last evening and lasted until Saturday morning was a Rorschach test for the country. If you agreed with what he was saying you too were wondering what looting had to do with redeeming the death and honoring the memory of George Floyd.
Friday evening O’Neill noted what many people did across America. Where were the liberal scolds demanding rioters keep socially distanced?
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^ Agreed, and I'm uncomfortable with the idea of Celebrity Commandos. The relatives and neighbors who raised me included a fair sprinkling of Marines who had served in the Pacific, and I couldn't get a word out of them.
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I've often wondered what would happen if all the young men thinking of joining or re-upping took a long, sober look at what they'd actually be defending.
Is tranny-grooming-party/riot/immivasion/Deep State America really worth it?
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We need to keep in mind that the rioters and looters are a small minority. No matter how much the media hyped up and focuses exclusively on them and the mayors allow them to pillage and burn.
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The protestors want better cops. After watching how the politicians and rioters threat the police do you think you will be getting better applicants tomorrow?
You and what army? Maps are easy — reality is hard.
[TheHindu] The government of Nepal on Sunday tabled the crucial Constitution Amendment bill to formalise the country’s new map which claims parts of India as its territory.
The Constitution Second Amendment bill will change the Schedule 3 of the Nepalese Constitution and replace the existing map with the map that was unveiled on May 20. The new map depicts the sliver of strategically important land covering Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani as part of Nepal. The area is currently part of Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand but Nepal has disputed the Indian position based on historical documents and bilateral understanding.
Ms. Tumbahangphe said the Coat of Arms of Nepal will be altered after the amendment is passed as it will depict the new map. The tabling of the amendment bill came a day after the chief opposition, the Nepali Congress, extended support to Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s government which ensured that the bill will get the required two-thirds majority in the parliament. The entire process is expected to take around a week.
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...The Nepalese Army is small, but professional - trouble is that the Indian Army vastly outnumbers and outguns it, and they're even more professional. I'm hoping that this is for domestic political consumption and not a effort to take advantage of India while they're staring down the Chinese - it won't end well at all.
Mike
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The silver of land this is all about (surrendered to the East India Company by treaty 170 years ago) allows India supply access to hundreds of km of the LAC defacto border with Chinese occupied Tibet. The Nepali PM Oli, who is losing support from his own Communist Party cadres, has seized upon this issue both to shore up domestic opinion and to curry favor with China.
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Basically the Nepalis have an issue with a 170 year old treaty demarcation now in 2020 because India has recently built roads and other infrastructure that allow it to defend the LAC from the PLA.
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Nepalis seems to mean CCP Puppets?
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The Nepal government is run by the Nepal Communist Party -founded in 2018 under CCP guidance by unification of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre). So yes, CCP puppets.
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So yes, CCP puppets.
Noted. Now set to Commies — thank you for explaining, John F.
[LegalInsurrection] Pallets of bricks are appearing in the riot zones, and there are reports of professional agitators, including antifa, showing up in cities across the nation.
BREAKING: tonight’s Dallas riot was pre-planned
Organizers were directing the crowd where to go
They had pallets of 100 bricks ready for rioters
They were yelling to the crowd "go left, there are 100 bricks on the corner over there"
This wasn’t random chaos
More info to come NYPost just now: Trump to issue EO declaring Antifa a Terrorist Organization
"When I was in Ferguson for [the Justice Department] or with the Obama administration after the [Michael] Brown shooting, we saw that there were terrorist groups, organizations in Pakistan and elsewhere who were setting up false Twitter accounts and setting, having... two sides with conversation, basically alienate each other going forward,"
What are the odds that a local incident like this involving one nobody would trigger simultaneous, almost identical, violent action in dozens of US cities?
Many of these cities have no recorded police shootings of unarmed black men whatsoever. Dallas doesn't have bad relations between police and the black population. San Jose doesn't even have many black people at all.
Why would anyone in a city that has no history of unrest suddenly have not protests but mass violent action?
This could only be the result of pre-existing organization, coordinated across state lines.
Fits the Anti-Riot Act (18 US Code Section 2101) definition of "inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot."
Let's see whether we still have a functioning FBI.
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an EO declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist org has been considered
the problem with this is that providing aid to domestic terror groups is not a crime (although providing aid to foreign terror groups is a crime, hence criminal penalties for people who seek to aid ISIS)
this requires competent legislation which is a problem because the House of Rep
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The state will do nothing. The fed will do nothing. It’s getting to be time.
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/\ Agree, a bit too late. Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was on Fox this morning saying that "if the rioters had jobs they wouldn't have time to be rioting." (paraphrase)
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The problem with that Garth is that a D president would use it to shut down the NRA, Heritage Foundation and maybe even the RNC. Just have to have a trigger and the media hyping up the White Supremist angle...
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Actually there's a smidgen of truth behind his (clumsily-expressed, soundbite-ish) notion.
Take a population of emotionally-unstable, high-strung urban 20- and 30-somethings who have little to do, lock them inside for two months, give them social media accounts where they can wallow in Twitter-slime for 14 hours a day, and of course you'll get festivities as soon as there's a pretext + nice weather.
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Mercutio, while you are philosophically correct that these are the actions of a terrorist network, I moved your article to cluster with the rest of the articles on the subject. Fred has now weighed in on the subject, and for the duration all articles on the Antifa insurgency are to be filed Page 1: War on Terror, Lurid Crime Tales. This may change again, depending on who is discovered to be behind and involved.
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one of the good things about a legislative action is that it gets Congress on record - it would be interesting to see how many Democrats would vote to prevent an Antifa designation
another is that it can limit designation to specified criteria so it is more difficult for progressives to misuse it
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"WITH" autocorrect ducks
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Follow the money.
FYI, there are reports of the discovery or pre-positioned caches of oil and gasoline filled bottles, cloth strips, and lighters that "rioters" are being directed to, near specific target buildings.
This is a guerilla war. All enemies Foreign and Domestic. Time to start attacking ANTIFA head on, go after their funding, go after their cyber infrastructure, and go after the individuals with long jail sentences for the foot soldiers, and Treason with Execution for the leaders.
Arm the local black citizens and let them form their own 2nd Amendment self-defense militia against these goons. Hell, deputize them in some areas where the police cannot operate easily.
Its time. Start bleeding Antifa to death, figuratively and literally.
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[Daily Caller] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to cancel a hearing next week for Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general who launched the special counsel's investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Schumer's request is a far cry from earlier in the Trump administration, when he called for public hearings for Trump associates regarding possible links to the Russian government.
Schumer accused Republicans of holding the Rosenstein hearing to "chase wild conspiracy theories" in order to help President Donald Trump's re-election campaign.
"With our country in crisis, Senate Republicans have become a conspiracy caucus," Schumer wrote in a letter to his fellow Democrats on Friday. "Leader McConnell should instruct these committees to cancel these conspiracy hearings."
Like many congressional Democrats, Schumer advanced the now-debunked conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election.
"On guns and on Russian collusion investigation, the silence of my Republican Senate colleagues is deafening," he tweeted on Feb. 18, 2018.
Since then, the special counsel released a report that found no evidence that any Trump associates conspired with Russia to influence the election.
Rosenstein will testify on June 3 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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How about they raid every democrats office and home and seize all records paper and electronic? Any evidence of crimes will then be prosecuted. That's basically what the Dems have done to Trump.
The unnamed bad boy comes from a self-eliminating family: Pop got it in a suicide boom mobile, and three brothers exploded, probably out of pure meanness
[IsraelTimes] Israeli troops on Friday thwarted an attempted car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank, shooting the assailant, the military said. There were no injuries to the soldiers.
The terror suspect was shot and "neutralized" by troops while trying to run them over near the Halamish settlement, the Israel Defense Forces said without giving further details.
Hebrew media reports said the driver, a Paleostinian, was killed.
[AlAhram] The United States said it is considering deploying a Security Force Assistance Brigade in Tunisia for training, as part of its assistance program with the North Africa country, amid concern over Russian activity in Libya.
Libya's civil war has drawn in regional and global powers, prompting what the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... has called a huge influx of weapons and fighters into the region, in violation of an arms embargo.
"As Russia continues to fan the flames of the Libyan conflict, regional security in North Africa is a heightened concern," the U.S. Africa Command said in a statement on Friday.
"We’re looking at new ways to address mutual security concerns with Tunisia, including the use of our Security Force Assistance Brigade."
It later said the Brigade refers to a small training unit as part of military assistance and no way implies combat military forces.
Russian military personnel have delivered 14 MiG 29 and Su-24 fighter jets to the Libyan National Army's (LNA) Jufra air base, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, despite denials by the LNA and a Russian member of parliament.
In a statement, Tunisia's defense ministry said the U.S. was a main partner in the effort to build its army's operational capability.
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Notice that there is no mention of Turkish involvement. It's all the Russian's fault!
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This makes no sense. In October 2019 the Ennahda Party (an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood whose leader is the committed Islamist Rachid Ghannouchi) gained a plurality of votes and seats in the 217 member Assembly. In fact, no Tunisian party, even a coalition that makes up the nation's leadership could be considered a dependable ally. This is France's backyard and Pompeo should be wise enough to 'leave it be.'
[AlAhram] Thirteen suspects arrested by French police over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants colonists in a refrigerated lorry in Britannia have been charged with people trafficking, a judicial source said Saturday.
Six of the group -- mainly Vietnamese and Frenchies -- were held on Tuesday in the Gay Paree region and have also been charged with manslaughter after the alleged key figure in a ring of smugglers was caught in Germany.
Thirteen people were also arrested in Belgium the same day in an international police operation.
The migrants colonists -- 31 men and eight women -- were found dead in the truck in an industrial zone east of London in October 2019.
The driver of the lorry has already admitted manslaughter but Tuesday's swoop targeted the smugglers suspected of organising the migrants colonists' journey from Asia.
The suspect arrested in Germany's Upper Rhine region is a 29-year-old man nicknamed "The Bald Duke," sources told AFP.
"He could be the head of the network on the French side," a source close to the investigation said.
But the man's nationality was not revealed.
The 13 indicted in La Belle France also face charges of membership of a criminal organization and all but one was put in jug.
Eleven of the 13 suspects in Belgium have already been charged by a judge in Bruges with people trafficking, membership of a criminal organization and fraud, according to Belgian prosecutors
The investigation found that the migrants colonists who died were loaded into the truck in northern La Belle France, and that the network continued to operate even after the tragedy, charging up to 20,000 euros to cross from La Belle France to Britannia.
Investigation sources told AFP the group caught in La Belle France was believed to have housed the migrants colonists and then sent them from Gay Paree to the north by taxi.
The driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson from Northern Ireland, last month pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the 39 deaths.
Four other men are on trial in London over the tragedy, while another man, Ronan Hughes, is facing extradition from Ireland to Britannia on 39 counts of manslaughter and one of conspiracy to commit unlawful immigration.
[Jpost] Students and parents at the Gymnasia Rehavia school in Jerusalem expressed anger at the conduct of both students and the school's administration as the school became one of the epicenters of the newest round of coronavirus outbreaks in Israel, with 104 students, 15 staff members and three parents confirmed as infected so far.
One student at the school, Amit Sason, wrote on Facebook that the school itself neglected to enforce or follow Health Ministry guidelines, putting over 15 students close to each other in each class and not making teachers wear masks. The Prussian model of middle education been deteriorating for a 100 years - especially after it was taken over by feminazis. Nowadays, an average school teacher has below average IQ, and no - not rote memorized, without real understanding - knowledge of their subject. This ignorance is coupled with overweening arrogance & sense of entitlement. And a burning desire to promote their own kind of, almost, good enough at the expense of their betters. Seen a statistic once: in Israel, 80% of high school students take private lessons.
Hopefully, the blessed CV19 will usher the death of this corrupt institution.
[Rudaw] A father and son were killed in a Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Duhok province on Saturday morning, a family member of the dear departed has told Rudaw.
Officials said two were killed when the Ottoman Turkish air force struck suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions in the Deralok sub-district of Amedi, close to the border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... . The attack took place at 09:30 am, according to Rudaw news hound Nasir Ali.
The father - who Ali reported was a retired Peshmerga - was out farming ancestral land with his son "to make ends meet for their families" in times of economic difficulty, relative Khalil Nerway told Rudaw.
"The bodies have not yet been returned as it's difficult to access the site of the bombing," Nerway said.
Another person was injured in the bombing, he added.
"We have not yet seen the maimed, but we are told that his health is stable."
Turkey's defense ministry claimed the strike killed PKK fighters in the area, not civilians.
Air forces "neutralized two members of the PKK terrorist organization in the Avasin region of northern Iraq," the ministry said in a Saturday morning statement, adding that the alleged PKK fighters were "identified by means of "reconnaissance and surveillance" - terms often used in reference to drone operations.
Both the PKK and Ottoman Turkish forces have had military bases in Duhok province for decades.
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[ConservativeTreehouse] Finally, the DOJ has moved to remove one of the biggest background corrupt officials within the FBI. According to multiple media sources FBI chief legal counsel Dana Boente was forced to resign on Friday. Finally, sunlight has removed a very corrupt player.
In prior positions as U.S. Attorney for Virginia; and while leading the DOJ National Security Division; and then later shifting to the FBI as chief legal counsel under Chris Wray; Dana Boente was at the epicenter of corrupt intent and malign activity toward the Trump administration. "Pack yer shit and git!"
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We'll discuss that with them after they've stopped China's organ harvesting, Iran's hanging gays, Turkey starting wars with everyone who looks at them cross-eyed, and returns human rights to Venezuela.
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It takes practice to know ow how to keep the pavement bouncing spray impacting below the knees. Point of aim is about 2/3 of the distance to the recipients and an engagement meeting of about 40 ft? DC Mayday AntiWar riot in DC.
The Iranian border guards announced on Friday that three of its soldiers were killed in an armed clash in the northwestern district of Sardasht.
The social aide to the border guards in West Azerbaijan province, Colonel Muhammad Fakry, said that these three soldiers were killed by “bad guys” while they were implementing a border patrol, vowing to reveal the details of the incident later.
For years, Iran has faced Kurdish separatists using bases in the Kurdistan region of Iraq to launch attacks on the territory of the Islamic Republic.
These separatist factions are often associated with the PJAK, a group that is associated with the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
[Gee, what a shocker. Roberts joins liberals.]
[Just The News] In a rare late-night ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday voted 5-4 to reject an emergency appeal by a church that challenged California Gov. Newsom's limits on attendance at worship services designed to protect against the coronavirus.
Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, crossed over to join the court's four liberal justices as the deciding vote and to write the majority opinion.
Newsom's restrictions permitting churches to operate with 25 percent of seats filled and no more than 100 worshipers at a time are consistent with the First Amendment because they treated other public venues like concerts, movies and sporting events similarly, Roberts wrote.
"Although California's guidelines place restrictions on places of worship, those restrictions appear consistent with the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Similar or more severe restrictions apply to comparable secular gatherings, including lectures, concerts, movie showings, spectator sports, and theatrical performances, where large groups of people gather in close proximity for extended periods of time," the chief justice wrote.
"And the Order exempts or treats more leniently only dissimilar activities, such as operating grocery stores, banks, and laundromats, in which people neither congregate in large groups nor remain in close proximity for extended periods," he added.
The Supreme Court's ruling upheld lower courts in rejecting the argument from South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, Calif., that the restrictions on how many people can attend their services violate the Constitution's religious liberty protections.
In a dissent, Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued the California restriction "discriminates against places of worship and in favor of comparable secular businesses."....
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rejecting the argument... that the restrictions on how many people can attend their services violate the Constitution's religious liberty protections.
Not a lawyer, but I believe the argument was not restrictions per se, but that churches were being treated differently than businesses like restaurants.
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..ah, yes, take that up with the SCOTUS holy 'Separation of Church and State' doctrine. Suddenly the state runs the church with state approved doctrines.
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Nonsense. The Constitution states that Congress will not make a law for the establishment of religion. I should think the Founding Fathers did not want another Church of England.
Unfortunately, that horse is already out of the barn.
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#3 has it. Big box stores and "essential Businesses" get waivers from restrictions (*wink wink* Governor Wolf) especially if they're donors. Yet they aren't mentioned in the Constitution. Don't treat them better than the religions
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So who has been going into the Mosques, temples and Churches counting heads?
[BlabberBuzz] Highly sought-after summaries and transcripts of intercepted phone calls between former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak contradict key claims made by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his criminal case against Flynn.
The transcripts were provided to Congress on Friday and obtained by The Federalist. You can read the full documents here and here.
The intercept transcripts and summaries released on Friday afternoon cover calls between Flynn and Russian ambassador Kislyak or his representatives on December 22, 2016; December 23, 2016; December 29, 2016; December 31, 2016; January 12, 2017; and January 19, 2017. The substance of the December 22 conversation remains entirely classified, while the remaining transcripts and conversations are only lightly redacted.
The transcripts, which were declassified by former acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Ric Grenell and current DNI John Ratcliffe, were provided to Congress by Ratcliffe, who began working in the position earlier this week following full Senate confirmation of his nomination. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairmen of the Homeland Security and Finance committees, respectively, had repeatedly called for the transcripts to be declassified and provided to Congress.
Flynn was charged by Mueller in 2017 with making false statements to federal officials about conversations he had with Kislyak on December 22 and December 29, 2017.
According to the charging documents from Mueller, Flynn allegedly falsely claimed to Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agents that he did not ask Kislyak to "refrain from escalating" in response to U.S. expulsion of Russian diplomats and falsely claimed that he did not ask Kislyak to help defeat an anti-Israel resolution pending before the United Nations at the time. Mueller also claimed that Flynn lied when he said he didn’t remember Kislyak telling him that Russia would "moderate its response" to the expulsions.
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Mueller and his entire team need to be cuffed, frog-marched to jail, and locked away while everything they did is examined under a microscope. Chuckie Schumer might need to be locked up with them.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Interior announced on Friday, the arrest of a terrorist commander from a family that carried out multiple attacks in Iraq.
"During a successful qualitative security operation, the intelligence and counter-terrorism directorate of Baghdad, working within the Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of the Interior, managed to arrest an ISIS terrorist leader in the Baghdad belt, and he was previously injured in the events of liberating djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... ," said a blurb issued by the Directorate.
According to the Directorate, "the arrest process took place after the formation of a specialized work team that was able to reach two bombs ready for detonation in the Saidat area."
They pointed out that "the terrorist was intending to use them in his criminal operations," stating that "according to the available information, his family are terrorists, as he has three brothers who blew themselves up in Mosul and his father detonated a boom-mobile in the Arab Jabour area south of Baghdad."
The Directorate confirmed that it had "taken legal measures against him duly and the two packages were cleared without a slight accident."
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[Babylon Bee] CNN executives were baffled by a large crowd outside their offices and in their lobby Friday, not having seen an audience that size in many years.
Execs quickly added the hundreds of people outside their offices to their audience numbers, more than doubling their ratings for the day.
"Woohoo! It's happening!" said the station's founder, Bob CNN. "Brian! Anderson! Come quick! We're finally drawing crowds! Years of hard work finally paying off!"
Peering out the window, Brian Stelter muttered, "No social distancing or masks though. But we'll take what we can get at this point."
Mr. CNN then walked through the lobby handing out fliers inviting the protesters back to watch CNN's failing weekend shows Saturday and Sunday. "This is where it all turns around for us."
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Ya'all come, help us with our long over-do remodel of the CNN entrance and lobby. We'll cover the deductible, the insurance will cover the rest. Coffee and doughnuts for the cops.
#CCP urgently evacuating Chinese students in the US after @realDonaldTrump announced that "I will issue a proclamation to better secure our nation's vital university research, and to suspend the entry of certain foreign nationals from China, who we have identified as... pic.twitter.com/A1pJToJqaK
[AmericanSpectator] Israeli defense officials have now confirmed that Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... is moving forward on years of empty threats and finally ending civilian and military cooperation with Israel. Such developments follow Israel’s repeated statements intending to apply illusory sovereignty to at least parts of Judea and Samaria.
If Abbas means it this time, this is a good thing for Israel. The Paleostinian Authority (PA) is a liability for Israel. While Israel provides the Paleostinians with coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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[Jpost] This emergent alliance is a reflection of a shift in power in the Islamic world away from its traditional Arab center.
The name of runaway Indian Salafi Islamist preacher Zakir Naik Indian Islamic preacher, founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation, which doesn't rely very heavily on the scientific method. He is also the founder of the oxymoronic Peace TV channel through which he reaches 200 million viewers. He has been called an authority on comparative religion and the most influential Salafi ideologue in India, though usually by himself. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a physician. His preaching is currently banned in India, Bangladesh, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Antarctica. He is currently holed up in Malaysia, where he's not banned... is little known in the West. Naik, founder of the Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation, is currently being pursued by the Indian authorities on charges of money laundering and hate speech.
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1. Oh that's The Jews talking. You can't believe anything they say!
(I'm practicing progressive speech. What do ya think? Well I'm off to buy some more Che T-shirts)
Ok Seriously...Good Stuff well Done. Something I've maintained for some time now is Erdogan want to reform the Ottoman empire, in one form or another.
On Saturday, a military spokesman for the Egyptian forces reported that five soldiers were killed and wounded during raids carried out by the Egyptian Army in North Sinai.
A statement by the Egyptian Armed Forces indicated that two officers, a non-commissioned officer and two soldiers from the Egyptian Armed Forces were killed and injured during the operations.
The Egyptian Army declared, “19 terrorists were killed during military strikes carried out last week against sites used by armed groups.”
He added that “based on intelligence information stating that there are penitential elements in several dens in the vicinity of the cities of Bir al-Abd and Sheikh Zuwayed and Rafah in North Sinai, two specific operations were carried out, the first of which resulted in the killing of 3 high-risk takfiri individuals, who were found in possession of automatic weapons and ammunition, hand grenades and (RPG). ”
The Air Force also carried out a number of intensive strikes at several locations, resulting in the killing of 16 terrorist elements.
The Egyptian forces stated that “they targeted and destroyed two SUVs, and a warehouse containing a large amount of explosive devices and logistical support. The Border Guard forces also managed to seize a number of smugglers with a large amount of weapons and ammunition in various calibers, and a number of four-wheel drive vehicles.”
The Egyptian forces said that they “seized large quantities of hashish and the banjo plant hidden inside a number of cars, in addition to a car carrying amounts of money amounting to 200 thousand dollars by the tunnel of the martyr Ahmed Hamdi, which is located below the Suez Canal.”
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[BabylonBee] An enlightened, freethinking NPC on a lightly modded Minecraft server announced Monday that he denies the existence of Notch and the team at Mojang, explaining that he doesn’t see any evidence of design in the clearly designed game world around him.
"My current working theory is that this digital landscape spontaneously created itself around 20 billion years ago, with no input from any kind of magic game designer in the sky," he told a gathering of villagers in a coffee shop. "The evidence of order and tightly designed game mechanisms are merely random, chaotic patterns. Your lives are all meaningless."
When other NPCs disagreed, pointing out that the carefully coded game design was powerful evidence that a higher intelligence named Notch created in 2009, the anti-designer activist was ready with an answer.
"If this ’Notch’ is real, why doesn’t he just reveal himself? The idea of a ’creator’ is simply wishful thinking for weak-minded people who can’t come to terms with the fact that we are alone on this server," he added. "If we could just abandon the shackles of that Dark Ages way of thinking, just think how much progress we could make."
At publishing time, the anti-designer NPC had begun calling anyone who confronted him with the clear evidence of design all around him as a "science denier."
[The American Mind] The shotgun blast reverberated across the parking garage of Bank of America’s Concord Technology Center in the Bay Area suburb of Walnut Creek, California.
In the front seat of a pickup truck sat the lifeless body of Kevin Flanagan beside a 12-gauge Remington. Behind him were boxes of his personal effects from his office at Bank of America, where the programmer had worked for nearly a decade.
In the months leading up to his 2003 suicide, Bank of America had forced Flanagan and his colleagues to train their foreign replacements before laying them off. These transplants entered the United States on the H-1B worker visa. After months of the humiliation of having to train his replacement, a broken Flanagan climbed into his truck and shot himself in the head the day Bank of America let him go. "Kevin losing his job with Bank of America was the defining event in his decision to end his life," said Tom Flanagan, his father.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman characterized the H-1B visa as a government subsidy program the year before. Socialism for the rich. But bad press and picket lines in parking lots fell on deaf ears.
Vivek Paul, then vice chairman and president of Wipro Technologies, told reporters he felt confident, despite Flanagan’s suicide, that his business would outlast the outcry. "We know how this movie ends," he sniffed. "If a decade ago we discovered that manufacturing can be done anywhere, in this decade we are learning that knowledge can be learned anywhere."
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The H-1B program need to end and be seriously overhauled. Companies that hire H-1B to replace American workers, need to be fined ten time the worker's salary, plus the board of directors need to be fined at least 25% of their income as well.
The H-1B program may have started out with good intentions, but it's been so badly abused that it might as well be shut down completely.
In the future, if companies want to hire foreign worker, they need to post an annual bail of at least two to three times the American worker salary, to be paid to any laid off workers. Make it too costly to simply replace American workers.
/rant and yes I have strong feelings and options on this subject. It's shows how corrupt our congress critters are (both parties.)
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Seeking, I agree with you, especially about the opinions and emotions.
I spent 30+ years in IT and saw the very beginning of this back in the '80s. DEC tried to pull off outsourcing to India back then, but, the communications just couldn't handle it.
There were basically two species, Indians and Eastern Euros. Cultural differences were enlightening especially when they were supposed to work together.
Several of the big companies that I consulted at went TU due to lack of managerial ability to manage IT costs and performance. PG&E and Kodak are 2 examples.
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The latest trend is to simply hire people in India and have them work in India.
They've been trying it for 40 years. Time difference, cultural and managerial style. If the Indians were that good they would have cornered the market by now. That is why they want to import them here. Then hold their visas over them like overseers.
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As I've learned in over 36 years in data, the farther away the operations are from the data, the worse the result --Warthog
Management, too. Managing by "metrics" the Robert McNamara Way™. People code models with no idea whatsoever about the reality they are trying to predict -- and Management uses it because it is "scientific".
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Well, it can be a useful skill if you want to start your own business, but yes, the H1-B makes it way harder to get work at established companies for Americans.
Which also has negative effects on networking and building up a native talent base.
We've seen the results of an overreliance on China for pharma; you'd think American companies might figure out that a similar dynamic could play out with coding.
But that underestimates the power of shortsighted greed.
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If they are important and needed enough to grant them immigration status, then give them a green card, and allow them to negotiate salary on an even playing field, instead of them requireing an indentured servitude contract in which the hiring company sponsor status allows the company to underpay and underbenefit them compared to similar citizen engineers/etc.
Its the control the corporations are handed that allow them to treat the H1B like serfs, which drops the market out from under fair competition by Americans
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The Libyan armed forces #LNA have gained full control of the Ramla axis after a very violent battles against the terrorists of the #GNApic.twitter.com/MfCGITfy14
According to the GNA’s official Facebook page, their forces scored a big advance south of Tripoli, capturing several sites along the Ramleh axis.
The leadership of the “Burqan Fury” operation confirmed on its Facebook page, Saturday, that its Mahjoub brigade were “advancing strongly” at the Ramleh axis and the vicinity of Tripoli Airport, noting that those forces took control of two cars equipped with weapons and destroyed six others and forced the Libyan Army to withdraw from several areas.
The Libyan National Army did not release any official data on the developments in the region.
The conflict erupted between the forces of the Al-Wefaq government (GNA) that emanated from the internationally recognized Skhirat Agreement, backed by Turkey, and the Libyan National Army that controls the eastern part of the country in April of last year, when the latter began pushing towards the capital to wrest control of it. Fred
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[Jpost] During the First World War, tens of thousands of Jews served in the Bundeswehr, including some rabbis.
My maternal grandfather was among them as a gunnery sergeant. He was awarded an Iron Cross, for some reason, which did him absolutely no good later..
The German parliament voted unanimously on Thursday to allow rabbis back into Germany's armed forces so as to provide religious assistance to Jewish soldiers for the first time since Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... rose to power, according to German newspaper Deutsche Welle (DW).
Until now, German soldiers were offered religious services with Christian military representatives alone.
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced the beginning of the procedure in December of 2019 as a move to combat growing antisemitism in the country.
Kramp-Karrenbauer additionally announced, after the parliament approved the decision, that she would be next attempted to allow imams and Christian orthodox priests to "perform similar chaplaincy roles," according to DW. Until now, the Christian military chaplains were only either Protestant or Catholic.
There are currently approximately 300 Jewish soldiers in the military in addition to the 3,000 Moslems and 90,000 Christians.
During the First World War, tens of thousands of Jews served in the Bundeswehr, including some rabbis. Among them was the prominent theologian Leo Baeck.
German Jewish Central Council President Josef Schuster said that it is "an important support for the democratic attitude of the soldiers" to allow rabbis back into the military.
From 2019, but still interesting as deep historical background, especially for those interested in the Cold War. Herewith the key bits:
[Ha’aretz] Chairman Mao identified the Paleostinian cause as an important way of combating imperialism in the Middle East. Documents from the 1960s show how far China went to support the guerrilla groups’ armed struggle
In the early 1980s, Israeli forces stormed several Paleostine Liberation Organization command posts in 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... , seizing a wide array of documents detailing various military operations. Among the papers were letters orchestrating the PLO’s dispatch of officers to East Germany, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, Pakistain, India, North Korea
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The report says Xi's wife and daughter have lived from #XiJinping separately from last Nov. or Dec. They were not happy with what he did to #HongKong. Since then his wife Peng Liyuan refused to appear publicly with Xi. Seems we really didn't see them together for a while now. https://t.co/YqgDU0IQ9n
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Kinda dicey business having differences like that with your spouse when he just happens to be the most ruthless and powerful dictator in the world. Could be hazardous to one's health.
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Naw, they just didn't want to be known as "Poohpsie" and Pooh-Pooh".
Chicks dig bad boys, not ones nick-named after stuffed animals.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli police banned several East Jerusalem Paleostinian activists, including a controversial preacher, from the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount compound as the mosque prepares to reopen this Sunday, according to Paleostinian media reports.
There was no immediate comment from Israeli police.
The Islamic Waqf, which administers the al-Aqsa Mosque, closed the mosque and the Dome of the Rock on March 15 in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
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This is wisam Bin Hamid . A #ISIS terrorist whom is one of those responsible for killing the US ambassador and n #Benghazi 2012 He was killed by the #LNA and now all his followers are fighting for the #GNA in#Tripoli.pic.twitter.com/f0m0u4rlXB
Libyan Army kills leader of Turkish-backed Syrian militant group
[ALMASDARNEWS] The leader of the Turkish-backed Syrian “Sultan Murad Brigade” organization, Murad Abu Hamoud Al-Azizi, was killed in clashes in the Libyan capital, according to what the Military Information Division of the Libyan National Army announced via Facebook.
In a brief statement, the division said that Al-Azizi was killed in clashes at the airport road hub in the capital, Tripoli.
In turn, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that it had documented the killing of 13 fighters among mercenaries from the Syrian factions loyal to the Turkish government in Libya during the past days, noting that a new batch of mercenaries present in the Turkish camps had been transferred to Libya, where the number of Syrian mercenaries in Libya is about 11,200.
Since the Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces captured the Al-Watiyah Airbase near the Tunisian border, the two warring parties in the northwestern part of the country have been deadlocked in a fierce battle around the capital city.
Both sides have reported gains over the last week, but it has been hard to confirm these advances due to the absence of video footage and photos.
[Kunsler Blog] What "the Resistance" really fears more than anything is General Michael Flynn’s mouth. He’s been under a judicial gag order since his case went before Judge Emmet Sullivan’s federal district court. Understandably, Gen. Flynn wasn’t eager to complicate his unjust plight with a contempt citation. Judge Sullivan’s recent shenanigans have one object: to keep that gag order in force as long as possible. The moment Judge Sullivan confirms the DOJ’s move to dismiss the charges, as he is duty-bound to do, General Flynn will be free to offer his views to the public. That might be inconvenient in an election season.
I’m sure he has a lot to say. Gen. Flynn was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for two years (2012 — 2014) under Barack Obama, and he knows a ton about every crooked operation Mr. Obama presided over, including the Benghazi fiasco, the Ukraine regime change op, and especially Mr. Obama’s hijacking of the NSA supercomputer surveillance database known as "the Hammer," which was set up originally to track terrorists and then used by DNI James Clapper and CIA chief John Brennan to spy on Americans, most particularly Mr. Obama’s political adversaries. It’s rumored that Mr. Obama took the database with him when he left the White House, and it is said to contain great gouts of usefully damning information about just about everyone in government, including senators, congressmen, and Supreme Court justices.
Gen. Flynn became an antagonist to Obama & Co. when he objected to the nuclear deal they were cooking up with Iran and when he spoke out against the CIA’s 2013 Timber Sycamore op to arm and give money to Isis terrorists opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Mr. Obama canned Gen. Flynn in 2014. What really sealed Gen. Flynn’s fate was when he started publicly complaining about the politicization of John Brennan’s CIA. The New York Times quoted him saying, "They’ve lost sight of who they actually work for. They work for the American people. They don’t work for the president of the United States. Frankly, it’s become a very political organization."
And a few months later, he jumped on Donald Trump’s campaign bandwagon. When he led the cheer "Lock her up" at the Republican convention, you can imagine how that gave the heebie-jeebies to a whole lot of other Deep State denizens besides She-Whose-Turn-Was-Foiled. And then, Lord have mercy, he was appointed to sit at Mr. Trump’s very elbow in the West Wing as National Security Advisor! Well, you can imagine the tremors that provoked. Gen. Flynn had declared his intention to completely reorganize, partially dismantle, and audit the intel community monster that had spread like a slime mold through the government. Mr. Brennan especially feared the audit part of the deal, since his agency regarded the billions of dollars that flowed in and out of it as just another one of its sacred secrets. Flynn had to be stopped.
So, John Brennan concocted the RussiaGate scam to put over the idea that General Flynn was an errand boy of Vladimir Putin —lock him up! — and for good measure, Mr. Trump probably was, too. Once they embarked on that grand misadventure, and enlisted the foolish James Comey and his FBI zealots to assist, the gang found themselves involved in a dangerous game of sedition, poorly thought out and executed desperately. And finally, by all that’s holy, the improbable Mr. Trump actually won the election, ensuring that he would be privy to every dark secret moldering in the vaults of the US government.
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Flynn's supposed expertise and knowledge is a bit hard to believe as
- he basically let the FBI entrap him
- he was sloppy in cutting paperwork ending his representation of foreign governments
- his comments in the conversation w the Russian ambassador show him talking in broken phrases rather than in complete thoughts (although perhaps this was intentional - if so remove that point)
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It’s rumored that Mr. Obama took the database with him when he left the White House, and it is said to contain great gouts of usefully damning information about just about everyone in government, including senators, congressmen, and Supreme Court justices.
[CampusReform] Fake transcripts and essays, falsified letters of recommendation and test scores, paid consultants, and fake passports and IDs. These are just some of the many methods that Chinese nationals have reportedly used to gain acceptance into U.S. colleges and universities.
What once might have been a few isolated incidents has now turned into a vast, international money-making industry.
Hiu Kit David Chong, an admissions official at the University of Southern California (USC), pleaded guilty in April to wire fraud in and helping Chinese students defraud their college applications. According to the Department of Justice, Chong admitted to making $40,000 from clients over the years by providing "false college transcripts with inflated grades," "fraudulent personal statements," and "phony letters of recommendation" for the applications of his Chinese clients.
He also offered to provide surrogate test takers for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exam for international students.
Chong was not the only person offering such services. In fact, according to a 2012 report by Time Magazine, a "huge industry of education agents" has emerged to appeal to the increasing number of Chinese nationals who want to study abroad at U.S. universities.
Zinch China, a consultancy firm, found that 80 percent of Chinese students use agents to apply to U.S. colleges, with even more engaging in cheating. The company approximated that 90 percent of recommendation letters and 70 percent of college essays submitted by Chinese students are fraudulent. Additionally, 50 percent of previous grade transcripts are also fake. Ten percent lied about academic or extracurricular achievements, and 30 percent lied about financial aid information.
Surveys indicate Chinese families see a U.S. education as a luxury that can provide future financial benefits, which drives the "whatever it takes" culture surrounding the application process and the fraud committed to achieve it. Zinch China also noted the competition among college consultants and the pressure from parents also contributed to cheating.
"Cheating is pervasive in China, driven by hyper-competitive parents and aggressive agents," Tom Melcher, the chairman of Zinch China said.
While Chinese students have existed in the U.S. for decades, there has been increased growth over the last ten years. According to the Power of International Education, the number of Chinese foreign students in the U.S. as of 2019 was 369,548, which was more than the next three nations, India, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia, combined. Chinese students represent approximately one-third of all international students, and their presence has grown by 56.68 percent since the 2012-2013 academic year.
Peggy Blumenthal, senior counselor to the president of the Institute of International Education, says colleges began to more heavily recruit Chinese international students after the Great Recession when college enrollment was on the decline. Agents can cost anywhere from thousands of dollars, or even up to $40,000 according to the Beijing Overseas Study Service Association. Foreign Policy even discovered a family that paid $90,000 to an agent.
In one example from 2015, CNN reported on a Chinese student named Jessica Zhang from Jiangsu Province. Zhang’s family paid $4,500 to three different consultants, who filled out her application and wrote her essay and recommendation letter. Zhang even had her visa arranged by the consultants and said she hired them because the process would’ve been "too much hassle" on her own.
The international college consultant business is only worsened by the commissions that agents receive from U.S. colleges and universities for enrolling students. While federal laws prevent higher education institutions from paying to recruit domestic students, there is no law to prevent them from paying commissions to recruit international students....
$40k a head (to the 'consultants,' essay-writers, test-takers et al) x ~100k Chinese students entering each year = total avail market of maybe $4 billion in annual revenues.
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"Fake transcripts and essays, falsified letters of recommendation and test scores, paid consultants, and fake passports and IDs." Formerly used by athletic recruiters and Hollyweird families.
Someone needs to tell them that those US paper mill credentials are as useful as face masks made in China.
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Someone needs to tell them that those US paper mill credentials are as useful as face masks made in China.
A positional good demonstrating the fiscal fitness of the family coupled with the kind of international polish necessary to fit in with the offspring of CCP upper echelons and international elites they must charm to elicit business investment. And all that independent of learning anything those earnest academics strive so hard to teach them.
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India and USA is tremendous news. Worlds largest Vaccine manufacturer. Now add Israel and at some point Russia. I know our media madness with Russia but I see a stronger rapport with them than China. Then Japan, Vietnam, and South Korea. China is a bad neighbor. Encircle and confine. Forget the EU. UK, Australia also into the fold. So India has a retro virus problem. Don't we all.
Is there some co-dependency going on here or what?
[AA] Turkey's Defense Ministry on Friday said two US' B-1 Lancer aircraft were refueled over the Turkish airspace.
"Within the scope of military cooperation between allied countries, two B-1 USA aircrafts flying over the Black Sea were given in-flight refueling support with our tanker aircrafts," the ministry said on Twitter.
Within the scope of military cooperation between allied countries, two B-1 USA aircrafts flying over the Black Sea were given in-flight refueling support with our tanker aircrafts. https://t.co/VNqVabW3hn
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It is tragic that no one in Washington can explain locically the need for the present alliance with Turkey. That being said, given its stupidity it must be a policy fostered by the Pentagon.
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/\ It's the 5th entry down. They have 7 of them, along with 6-8 other US made airframes. Forgive me for using the tired-arsed phrase 'follow the money.' But.... follow the money.
Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, United States aerial refueling KC-135R 7 each.
[NYPOST] Anti-cop rage over the police-custody death of George Floyd boiled over in Brooklyn on Friday night — with an NYPD van being set on fire in Fort Greene Park and hundreds of protesters trying to surround the 88th precinct in Clinton Hill before being rebuffed by a massive police mobilization.
In all, some 200 people were arrested Friday and early Saturday in separate, heated protests in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, sources told The Post.
It was 9:30 p.m. when the empty police van was set ablaze in Fort Greene Park.
A crowd of some 3,000 protesters had converged on the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights hours earlier, with police releasing chemical mace as the demonstration grew unruly and began throwing objects at cops.
And still earlier in the day, in Lower Manhattan, at least 30 protesters were busted, including a man who allegedly punched an NYPD sergeant in the head with brass knuckles.
The brass knuckles-wielding man allegedly walloped the sergeant as crowds massed at around 4 p.m. near Centre and Leonard streets.
At the Barclays Center, thousands of angry protesters chanted, "They’re killing us!" and "F—k those pigs" while holding signs that read, "NYPD KKK." At one point, the crowd roared at the sound of fireworks going off.
Police sprayed mace on protesters after several in attendance began throwing things, police sources said. Cops were caught on camera beating several protestors with batons as onlookers screamed.
Assemblywoman Diana Richardson (D-Brooklyn) said she was sprayed by mace while trying to peacefully protest at the arena, home to the Brooklyn Nets. (In 2016 she was charged with beating her son with a broomstick)
"This is uncalled for," Richardson told a WNYC news hound afterward. "I would never be in a position to be like this. I’m actually out here to make sure the peace is [kept]."
Samantha Shader, 27, was arrested Friday night for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at an NYPD cruiser in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
The cocktail did not explode and there were no reports of injury; she allegedly bit an officer as he tried to arrest her
She is now facing four counts of attempted murder; her sister, Darian, is also facing charges for trying to interfere in Samantha's arrest
3,000 protesters took to the streets of Brooklyn Friday night as part of nationwide demonstrations over the death of black man George Floyd
Around 200 were arrested; NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea says 'countless' officers were injured; one had their teeth knocked out and several are in the ER
"As a former NYPD lieutenant, I refer back to me being a practitioner in New York City and the many instances we had -- what we referred to as paid agitators," he told Fox News' Arthel Neville on Saturday.
"These were people who were paid by specific groups to come in and quote, unquote, raise a level of anarchy -- throwing things, just creating somewhat of a miscreant society ... We knew who a lot these people were. because you would see them at one demonstration. Then a week later you would see the same demonstrator or agitator protesting all over again. They knew nothing nor cared anything about what the actual event was involved around."
There was some argument about whether the young woman was moving toward or away from the officer at the time of the push, as some tried to claim that this brutal assault on an unarmed woman was somehow justified.
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The victim was hospitalized with injuries.
Both the cop shown in the video and his commanding officer (whom some reporters claimed can be seen standing nearby) have been tentatively identified on twitter, and an online campaign for the officer to be fired and face assault charges has begun.
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Re: Cuomo, if he had been a guard at Auschwitz with a death toll like he gave the old folks homes, he would have been hunted for the remainder of his life for his crimes. Think Adolf Eichmann. What way is he more moral than Eichmann?
[NYPOST] The coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... has killed over 365,000 people worldwide in just five months — but that’s nothing compared to what could be coming if humans don’t clean up their act when it comes to chickens.
In his new book, "How to Survive a Pandemic," Dr. Michael Gregor, a scientist and physician who once testified for Oprah Winfrey in her "meat defamation" trial, warns that an apocalyptic virus emanating from overcrowded and unsanitary chicken farms has the potential to wipe out half of humanity.
Greger, a space alien from the Vega system vegan, writes that "In the ’hurricane scale’ of epidemics, COVID-19, with a death rate of around half of one percent, rates a measly Category Two, possibly a Three. ... The Big One, the typhoon to end all typhoons, will be 100 times worse when it comes, a Category Five producing a fatality rate of one in two. ... Civilization as we know it would cease."
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Other 3 fired Minneapolis cops in George Floyd case keep low profile
[NYPOST] As frightening riots spread all over the country Friday night, two of the three Minneapolis coppers present at the fatal arrest of George Floyd last week have left town. The third is keeping a low profile, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
Details are sketchy about the three since their social media pages have been deleted and their phones turned off or disconnected.
A lawyer for Tou Thao, 34, who was filmed watching as police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on 46-year-old Floyd’s neck while he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe, said he is no longer in Minnesota.
J Alexander Kueng, 26, one of the two first officers at the scene who helped pin down Floyd, who was unarmed and handcuffed, is reportedly staying with family in Minneapolis. Officer Thomas K. Lane, 37, has left the city and didn’t tell anyone where he was going, a relative said Friday, according to the Tribune.
Chauvin, 44, was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, Hennepin County officials said. His bail was set at $500,000. Chauvin was fired this week, along with the other three cops. Charges against Thao, Kueng and Lane are anticipated but Hennepin County District Attorney Mike Freeman declined to speculate what they would be.
Attorneys for Kellie Chauvin said Friday that she is seeking the "dissolution of her marriage" to Chauvin.
"She is devastated by Mr. Floyd’s death," a statement on behalf of Kellie Chauvin and her family read. "Her utmost sympathy lies with his family, his loved ones and with everyone who is grieving."
"She has filed for dissolution of her marriage," the letter continued.
Kellie Chauvin doesn’t have any children from her current marriage, the letter said, and it was not clear how long the couple have been married.
Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged Friday in connection with Floyd’s death, which has prompted nationwide protests that have turned violent in a number of cities. He faces 3rd-degree murder and manslaughter charges.
Video uploaded to Twitter shows the rabble-rousers descending on the iconic breakfast chain before an ad hoc group decision was made to leave it alone.
"Not the Waffle House," several protesters cried, with others shouting, "No, no."
Another man said, "Protesters decide to leave Waffle House alone. Atlanta is amazing."
It was a rare bright spot during a night of otherwise consistent chaos and arson, particularly of small and local businesses. The riots were ignited after George Floyd was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. Chauvin has since been fired and charged with third-degree murder.
While they spared the Waffle House, the CNN Center wasn’t as lucky, with protesters storming the building, throwing rocks and spray-painting the iconic logo.
The comment came during an early morning press conference Saturday in which Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and members of the law enforcement community laid out plans for containing the destruction that has spread through much of the Twin Cities.
When asked by a reporter if Walz was aware of rumors that white supremacists had joined some of the looting he said based on "my suspicions and what I've seen on this, yes." Not BLM, Antifa? And the winner of POS award is, Walz.
"It gets worse than that," he added. "The cartels, who are wondering if there was a break in their drug transmissions, are trying to take advantage of the chaos. That's why this situation is on a federal level."
Walz added that he is working closely with the federal government to gather intelligence on who is participating in the destruction and whether they belong to organized groups.
Protesters sprayed with tear gas in La Mesa (nextdoor to San Diego) after police vehicle vandalized
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Protesters at La Mesa Police Department headquarters were sprayed with tear gas Saturday evening after hours of protesting at the building and around La Mesa. News 8 video shows windows were broken and words were spray-painted on walls and signage at La Mesa City Hall.
Tear gas was deployed around 6 p.m. after a police armored vehicle was vandalized with rocks being thrown and the BearCat was spray painted.
Earlier in the day, an estimated 1,000 protesters blocked Interstate 8 in both directions near La Mesa in East County San Diego on Saturday to demonstrate against a police officer who detained a black man earlier this week.
About 2:30 p.m., the crowd initially took over the La Mesa Police Department parking lot to protest an officer who detained a man at the Grossmont Transit Center Wednesday. The man was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer and the encounter was videotaped and appeared on social media.
The protesters chanted "black lives matter" and carried signs such as "no justice, no peace," as they marched down University Avenue.
At first, the group was stopped when they tried to get on I-8 at the Baltimore Drive entrance by California Highway Patrol officers. But soon after, the protesters broke through the CHP line and continued marching eastbound on the freeway.
The CHP then halted traffic on I-8 eastbound and when protesters began marching on the westbound side, traffic was then halted on that side of the freeway.
About 4:30 p.m., CHP officers wearing face shields stood in a line across the freeway and squared off with protesters, some wearing face shields. A protester with a bullhorn appeared to be asking the crowd to back away from the officers, which they did. The protesters then left one side of the freeway and climbed over the center divider to get on the other side.
Around 5:30 things got violent. The demonstrators started throwing rocks at an armored vehicle and through the windows of La Mesa Police HQ.
At 6:45 police announced the protest as an unlawful assembly and started announcing via helicopter that demonstrators would start being arrested if they do not disperse.
Later in the day, protesters started smashing windows at La Mesa City Hall.
Saturday's protest follows a Memorial Day incident in Minneapolis when a police officer, Derek Chauvin, was videotaped pinning George Floyd to the ground with his knee on his neck, which eventually led to Floyd's death. Chauvin was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter on Friday.
Outrage over Floyd's death built across the country and many protests have turned into rioting.
La Mesa officials said they are launching an outside investigation into the Wednesday incident. It all looks a little too well planned and choreographed for my nose. Smells like not just one but a whole lotta rats. A lotta white folks in the crowed and I'd bet dollars to donuts they are NOT from La Mesa. I can tell you that La Mesa is a small city with a police department that might have looked like an easy target for professional trouble makers. There were some very bad boys throwing rocks at the police armored vehicle and they were not black. But, last I heard, the sheriff's department was there to help. This article will most likely be updated by the time it shows up on Rantburg. It was still a volatile situation when I changed the channel.
Mike Erlandson, a former chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer Labor Party, said he watched with his 15-year-old daughter in Minnesota this week as a man spray-painted on a wall, “F--k the white people from the suburbs.”
“I do think that, particularly if this continues, the [congressional] districts like Dean Phillips’ district or Angie Craig’s district that right now I would say are relatively safe for the Democratic incumbent, could be very much in play,” he said. “Both of those districts will be decided in large part by suburban women voters, and it would be hard for me to imagine those people aren’t watching this scared, like everybody else, for their family and for their children.”
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This is most certainly Antifa at work. No way that this particular incident could trigger simultaneous violent actions in dozens of US cities. George Floyd wasn't a national figure like Martin Luther King. He was a local figure whose death would normally have set off local unrest.
Only a national organization capable of spontaneous coordination across state lines could have organized violent action in Oakland NYC Atlanta LA Detroit Denver DC San Jose Indianapolis Dallas La Mesa
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Why would anyone in San Jose riot over this? 60% of the population is Asian or Latino; only 2% is black and they aren't concentrated anywhere. There is no history at all of police brutality vs blacks.
Ditto for Columbus Ohio, Denver, La Mesa etc.
Also, why would Dallas suddenly be seeing mass violence? Dallas doesn't have bad relations between their police and the black population.
How is it possible that these vastly different cities, across the US, suddenly are convulsed with the same degree, type and duration of mass violence -- unless it was coordinated nationally?
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know how they have a sex offender database and a sex offender has to speak to all their neighbors when they move to a new place (at least according to Big Lebowski). I'd be happy to have every looter/rioter added to a White Supremisct group database and have them have to explain to any new neighbors for the rest of their lives.
That might even be better than having them serve time.
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San Jose State university was being watched by CA State Patrol this whole time? Why? A significant number of their students are of the ethnic backgrounds that support the PLO or Hamas.
Think about that.
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I've said all along that the constant pressure for violence from the national media would lead to bloodshed. I didn't quite expect this, but it doesn't surprise me. And I also wouldn't be surprised to find China's and Soros' fingerprints all over it.
The next time they set up to block a highway, give them five minutes to disperse, then set up a MA-deuce and take them out. So far, these idiots have never paid a price for their bad behavior. That needs to end. If it does, so will the bad behavior. This kind of crap is what happens when children are never taught limits.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Soros suddenly passed due to some 'accidental' mix of his medicines.
[NRA-ILA] On April 5, 2019, three days after New Zealand's Arms Amendment Act 2019 advanced from its first reading in parliament, NRA-ILA noted that "[g]iven the abundant research on Australia’s similar gun confiscation efforts, New Zealand officials can expect that their gun control measures will do little more than trample the natural rights of gun owners..." This week the first evidence vindicating this position came in when Radio New Zealand (RNZ) published figures it had obtained from the government showing that for last year crime involving firearms was the highest it had been since 2009.
According to an RNZ article titled, "Rates of gun crimes and killings using guns at highest levels in a decade in 2019," last year "there were 3540 occasions where an offender was found with a gun." The report went on to note that "in both of the last two years, the rate of deadly incidents involving a firearm was the highest it had been since 2009" and that "[t]he number of guns seized by police is also on the rise, up almost 50 percent on five years earlier at 1263 last year." Making clear that the figures cited in the article were not skewed by the horrific shooting in Christchurch, the report noted that "[t]he 15 March terror attacks were listed as two separate firearms-related incidents."
Long enough to merit a leisurely Sunday read with your preferred relaxing or stimulating beverage of choice, dear Reader. You can’t follow the game if you don’t know the players, so here you go.
[Jpost] With the security coordination between Israel and the Paleostinian Authority in doubt, the focus now is on the Paleostinian security forces
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... has threatened to cancel all agreements with Israel and the US and to cut all security coordination, as well. This puts the focus on the different types of Paleostinian security units and their duties.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Egyptian military researcher, Mohammad al-Kinani, stressed that what is being circulated on social media on the sinking of a Ottoman Turkish frigate called "Murad Bey" off the Libyan coast, is completely wrong and detailed.
He pointed out that the video accompanying this false news pertains to training exercises for launching anti-ship missiles in which an old ship that has been taken out of service and used as a target for marine gunships is used, and the training is called "SINKEX" by the U.S. Navy.
The Egyptian researcher pointed out that there is no Ottoman Turkish frigate bearing the name "Murad Bey" whatever its category is, not even any ship or submarine serving the entire Ottoman Turkish Navybearing this name.
He continued: "The Ottoman Turkish navy is legally present in Libyan economic waters as part of the operation of the sea guard carried out by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... since 2016 in the eastern Mediterranean to counter smuggling and illegal immigration and combating terrorism as a result of the deteriorating conditions in Libya, which are represented by the United States, La Belle France, Italia Greece, and of course the Ottoman Turkish navy itself, which took advantage of that participation in providing cover and insurance for the marine supply and support of the al-Wefaq government with arms and equipment beginning in the year 2020."
Earlier in the week, a video was being circulated on social media alleging that a Ottoman Turkish frigate came under attack by the Egyptian Navy.
Rumors began to circulate that this attack was carried out off the coast of Libya, with some claiming the Egyptian Navy was sinking a Ottoman Turkish frigate carrying weapons to the North African nation.
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Babylon Bee] CNN executives were baffled by a large crowd outside their offices and in their lobby Friday, not having seen an audience that size in many years.
Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia and Qatar form troubling new alliance
[BabylonBee] An enlightened, freethinking NPC on a lightly modded Minecraft server announced Monday that he denies the existence of Notch and the team at Mojang, explaining that he doesn’t see any evidence of design in the clearly designed game world around him.
The shotgun blast reverberated across the parking garage of Bank of America’s Concord Technology Center in the Bay Area suburb of Walnut Creek, California.
The Tripoli-based Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) forces have achieved a new advance near the capital city after clashing with the Libyan National Army (LNA).
...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...
[Kunsler Blog] What "the Resistance" really fears more than anything is General Michael Flynn’s mouth. He’s been under a judicial gag order since his case went before Judge Emmet Sullivan’s federal district court. Understandably, Gen. Flynn wasn’t eager to complicate his unjust plight with a contempt citation. Judge Sullivan’s recent shenanigans have one object: to keep that gag order in force as long as possible. The moment Judge Sullivan confirms the DOJ’s move to dismiss the charges, as he is duty-bound to do, General Flynn will be free to offer his views to the public. That might be inconvenient in an election season.
[CampusReform] Fake transcripts and essays, falsified letters of recommendation and test scores, paid consultants, and fake passports and IDs. These are just some of the many methods that Chinese nationals have reportedly used to gain acceptance into U.S. colleges and universities.
[NYPOST] Anti-cop rage over the police-custody death of George Floyd boiled over in Brooklyn on Friday night — with an NYPD van being set on fire in Fort Greene Park and hundreds of protesters trying to surround the 88th precinct in Clinton Hill before being rebuffed by a massive police mobilization.
[NYPOST] The 
[NYPOST] Rioters in Atlanta decided to spare a local Waffle House, amid an otherwise uninterrupted rampage through the city Friday evening.
[Fox9] Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he is aware of unconfirmed reports that gangs of white supremacists are taking advantage of the anarchy unfolding in Minneapolis to create more chaos.
