[THEFEDERALIST] I can’t believe they even tried it. Oh, I can. They do it all the time.
On Saturday morning Minnesota officials came out with an audacious and absurd explanation for the looting and arson that struck Minneapolis this week. Apparently it was white supremacists from out of state who pretended to be actual protestors in an attempt to discredit the protest. The evidence? A vague claim and a lie. It turns out that most of those arrested were actually Minnesota residents. The claim that they were all from out of state seemed a bit over the top. So do similar claims. If your eyes are seeing one thing on the teevee, and a politician is saying something else, trust your eyes.
The hypocritical mental gymnastics from the liberal media in the past 72 hours were amazing enough to earn a perfect 10 from the stingiest East German judge. First, we watched tens of thousands of people hold mass gatherings across the country, which just last week we were told would kill everyone, and the media suddenly didn’t care. It’s like the Chinese virus just went away by magic. It'll be interesting to see how high the stack of fatalities gets. If it doesn't occur, are they gonna riot in front of Fauci's house? Will he resign and enter a monastery?
Next we were informed that the looting and arson we witnessed from the protesters was simply the language of the oppressed and how could we even comment about it when another black man was killed by the police. Celebrities posted bail for the heroes of Minneapolis. And yes, the brutal killing of George Floyd is an occasion for outrage. They started with the support of 99 percent of the population, to include policemen. We saw second degree murder committed on national teevee, an open and shut case, caught on camera. Holding a prisoner down with a knee on his neck isn't what they teach in police academies. Ask any cop. Once the cuffs are on the incident's over. If the perp continues being a jerk (and they do, and another vid shows Floyd being a jerk in the police car) you use as little force as possible to subdue him/her/it. Then Reverend Al showed up. "No justice, no peace."
Now, and this is subject to change by the time this paragraph is over, these horrible acts of looting and arson were mainly done by Right-wing white supremacist interlopers. That’s right. Some shadowy organization of neo-Nazis apparently sent false flag psyop operations all over the country to foment a race war. Or something. Perfidious, ain't they? Of course, you see those guys every day, don't you? They're common as shells on the seashore, warts on a toad. Klansmen wearing hoods appear daily, and they're documented in all sorts of news reports. We have daily cross burnings. Aryan Nation sympathizers lurk under every bed. The Atomwaffen Division has stormed Pittsburgh. They're not a motley collection of ineffectual nitwits with no influence whatsoever on anyone with an IQ over 55.
The good news for the racists is that famous Hollywood celebrities bailed them out of jail apparently. It is absolutely the most wrongheaded, astounding, ridiculous lie the media has latched onto during the Trump administration. And that’s a hell of a competitive category. It's very trendy to be a revolutionary. Fight the power and all that. Question Authority®, right or wrong, drunk or sober.
The tweets from pundits at CNN, MSNBC, and The Washington Post came flooding in. Why hadn’t Attorney General William Barr mentioned the white supremacists they insist are the real people to blame here? He didn’t do it because it’s a flaming garbage pile of lies. President Trump made clear exactly who the outside agitators are. It’s Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... . It’s obviously Antifa, it has been Antifa for over two decades. Root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't it's a shame...
So why would Democrats and their lackeys in the big time press not want to say it’s Antifa? Because for years they have insisted that Antifa is a basically harmless group that conservatives have turned into a boogeyman. Remember when Chris Cuomo compared them to Allied forces storming Normandy? They're hoping Minneapolis is Remagen, not that they've heard of it...
No. Some other narrative had to be established. Somehow, some way, this had to be the fault of racist Trump supporters, because everything is the fault of racist Trump supporters. But how? Easy. Just lie about most of the people arrested being from out of state and claim some had ties to white supremacist groups. Is it an obvious lie that a three-year-old could see through? Yeah. Who're you gonna believe? Them or your lying eyes?
But maybe, just maybe if enough chattering nincompoops parrot the absurd claim in their Trump obsessed outlets that once were the home of competent journalists, the lie might stick. No. There are limits. Laying the destruction and crime, justified or not, that have been associated these protests on the feet of some KKK conspiracy is so outlandishly absurd that it will not, cannot, stand. Isn't standing.
If white supremacists, not progressive rioters were responsible for the chaos on the last few days in America and around the country, let’s see the evidence now. All of it. It’s a huge claim, that doesn’t just strain credulity, it frappes it. It is very hard to believe that those in the news media who stood up this nonsense were not aware that at best they were wildly exaggerating the role these mysterious Nazis were playing.
[RedState] For some time now we have been getting fed the regular message that these violent riots we are witnessing in Minneapolis, and abroad, are not what they appear. The leaders and experts, eager to transfer blame, have been making the statements that the bad agents who are provoking violence are from outside their area. The attempt to avoid responsibility for the unraveling protests and how leadership allowed destruction, even the overthrow of a police precinct, is now facing an uncomfortable reality.
It is appearing that most of the perpetrators are actually locals.
As the looting and violence that had erupted this week on the streets of Minneapolis spread out to dozens of cities across the country the local politicians struggled to both make sense of things and sound competent. There is an effort to push the narrative of oppression while at the same time excusing responsibility from the very leadership trying to show support. They want to claim institutional racism while refusing to look into their very institutions provoking the strife.
The aftermath in Minnesota has the local politicians desperate to explain away how they lost control of their communities by claiming they were overrun by outside professional anarchy groups. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey made this claim:
We are now confronting white supremacists, members of organized crime, out of state instigators, and possibly even foreign actors to destroy and destabilize our city and our region.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz gave a press conference yesterday where he explained his delayed call for National Guard support was that he recently suspected that the riots were being provoked by white supremacists and drug cartels from out of state. Partner Mayor Melvin Carter, from the city of Saint Paul declared that ’’Every single person we arrested last night, I’m told, was from out of state.’’ State Attorney General Keith Ellison has also echoed this storyline. These are your brownshirts. You can't hide it anymore. These are what the left has been pushing for since at least 1996.
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Had an opportunity to watch the riots in one major city over the weekend. I am by no means a trained observer, but I did notice a few things.
There were clearly 2 shifts. The first was mixed race, gender. Many couples. Some brought children. They had signs and water. Demonstrated during the day, then started leaving around 4PM. The second shift started showing up after that. Nearly 100% young male. Masks, helmets, some weapons. Noticed obvious signs of organization. Guys on motorcycles were moving around speaking with individuals stationed at different locations. Vans moving in and out. Same vehicles showing up repeatedly. Once the police started moving the crowd back with tear gas, the rioters went to individuals with bottles of a white powder. This was applied to the face and seemed to neutralize the tear gas. These guys were strategically positioned, and the rioters knew about them.
#5
^ that matches my observations - from riots four years ago.
These characters have accumulated a great deal of experience in the last four years. They assemble quickly and know how to create havoc. This is not spontaneous.
#6
Yep - they had 'protests' in Manchester, NH three+ years ago; first thing I said about it was 'they're all bussed up from Boston, and $20 sez the buses are all parked on Canal Street' (the sight of which was effectively blocked by five-story mill buildings on both sides of the road). Latter part was confirmed the next day, so the goons in Boston basically used Manchester as a tune-up / preseason game.
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Past experience shows both sides will bring folks in from all over. Only difference is, patriots pay expenses out of pocket. Nobody has ever slipped me some "walkin' around money". Where's my frikkin' sugar!
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they do that bullshit. real ppl do the real shit when it comes down to it.
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[FreeBeacon] Georgetown University professor and former NPR editor Kitty Eisele lamented on Sunday that protesters in Washington, D.C., had not attacked the Trump International Hotel.
"Shame they aren't noticing the Trump Hotel which costs more and has a more problematic clientele," she responded to a tweet noting the vandalism of the Hay-Adams, a luxury hotel near the White House.
The Trump Hotel, also located near the White House, is a popular hangout spot for Trump administration members and allies. Formerly the Old Post Office and Clock Tower, Donald Trump developed the property into a hotel and opened it in 2016.
#1
This pile of trash is teaching young minds at a prestigious university that is a primary source of career government executives. Words fail at her moral compass which seems linked to her skin color more than anything else.
#5
Better yet, I hope someone finds out where she lives and trashes her place if she is going to be so adamant in attacking others' private property. F'in POS.
[American Thinker] The fog of war. It's real. It's been hiding the truth that civil war has been upon us for years now.
Here is a prescient definition, first made by Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz, who defined the fog of war concept in the mid 1800s:
War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for — a skilled intelligence to scent out the truth.
Example: Hitler not scenting out the truth is how we prevailed on D-Day. The allies used the fog well.
So here we are, and the left is engaging us with its fog. We have been fighting the left in a multi-front war, one front being the mysterious war against the Wuhan virus. Others are fighting a degenerate Democratic Party and an even further degenerate media.
As the fog lifts on the mystery of the virus, we are beginning to see more clearly. We know multiple things. First, we can beat it. Whether we mitigated correctly, or the models were entirely wrong, or it never was as bad as advertised, we don't know yet. But we do know that we know how to beat it. This, in spite of the nonsensical Democratic Party lockdown governors.
We also know that the hard-left apparatchiks know we have beaten it. We also know that these same apparatchiks know that the economy will rebound strong and have better numbers than ever before the election.
It's pretty clear: these leftist party leaders failed miserably trying to blame the virus on Trump. Polls show he is the one most trusted, not they. Their own failed policies in their states and cities are legion. They not only failed, but consigned tens of thousands of seniors to death with their horrifying nursing home edicts and failed policies. Manslaughter in plain sight.
Now the hard left has opened up another front for us to fight. The leftists are trying to scare us with violence dressed up as racial protest. They are using the horrible death of George Floyd to foment racial division. They want us to believe that these are organic protests, when they are fomented by Antifa and paid for by George Soros. Oh, for sure, there are common looters joining them, but this is the leftists' plan: foment violence so they can once again claim that Trump is causing violence in America — and deal the race card as hard as they can.
#3
I take this as an admission from the Left that its Trump for another four years. Sort of like Lincoln's election forced certain parties to declare their intentions. Except this time its urban vs everyone else. Note to the Red Guard - Mao controlled the countryside before he controlled the cities.
#6
OK. So when the George Lloyd riots abate, what's next?
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Feels like the all in do-or-die moment for the violent left. The longer it goes on the more useful idiots will abandon them. They get a chubby over Stalinism we should consider creating some Siberian style labor camps up in Alaska and let them enjoy their stalinism.
#8
Charge people money to shoot at them with rubber bullets or paintballs (from guard towers) or something while they break rocks and you could pay for the thing easily.
#9
Not the left IMO. I've seen these characters up close, cracking heads and chasing police. These people do not have an ideology. They don't have a platform, or a coherent worldview, or a program. They live to create havoc. They're disturbed individuals who get a frisson out of cracking skulls, spilling blood, smashing burning looting.
Ask yourself: what person of sane mind would rush onto a 12-lane interstate freeway in order to cause chaos and traffic fatalities? Hundreds are doing that now in Minneapolis, San Jose, and southern California.
No possible explanation for such a retarded tactic except the simple one that fits the above profile: these characters are mentally and emotionally disturbed.
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No possible explanation for such a retarded tactic except the simple one that fits the above profile: these characters are mentally and emotionally disturbed.
No. For decades they've learned there is no pain in their actions. When the leash breaks, they will. Even a flat worm can learn from pain.
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#9 Not the left IMO. I've seen these characters up close, cracking heads and chasing police. These people do not have an ideology. They don't have a platform, or a coherent worldview, or a program. They live to create havoc. They're disturbed individuals who get a frisson out of cracking skulls, spilling blood, smashing burning looting.
I disagree. These $hitbags have been nurtured and groomed by the Left.
The Left has now lost control of their creation (or, maybe, not) and the rest of the nation must now deal with them. With extreme prejudice, hopefully.
#4
cycle 24 began in Jan 2008 so it has already lasted longer than the average cycle
probably just waiting for the murder hornets
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Based on sunspot polarity, Cycle 25 has already started but is still very weak. Currently zero sunspots for the last 30 days. 2020 has been spotless 79% of the time so far.
(Thanks to spaceweather.com for the deets)
#6
Yeah, that article is so hopeful that we're going to come out of the minimum...but the truth is I suspect this cycle to be very weak. They kept saying a Grand Minimum was ruled out but I'm not so sure.
[(Red)StarTribune] Signing Colin Kaepernick would signal the Vikings care about social justice, and that the NFL acknowledges its wrongful blackballing of a talented quarterback. It would also make football sense. Yet another reason to never read the Strib
#3
Article is behind a wall. I guess the poster must be a subscriber. This happens a lot with WSJ articles when the poster doesn't realize everyone doesn't pay for a subscription.
#4
Once one has a WSJ subscription, there is no indication that a given article is or is not paywalled. Still, if a non-subscriber is curious enough, the title pasted into the Google search app will allow it to be read. This does not work for a plain google search done in the browser.
[America's Survival] As patriotic Americans salute our astronauts, in space through a public-private partnership of NASA and SpaceX, we are dismayed by the seeming inability of the government at all levels to keep our citizens safe on the ground. It’s time for Congress to reestablish committees designed to expose internal security problems and examine whether some of these agitators are communist terrorists who find their inspiration in history’s greatest mass murderer, Chairman Mao.
Attorney General William P. Barr warned on Saturday that groups of "outside radicals and agitators" are exploiting the George Floyd situation "to pursue their own separate and violent agenda." Barr added, "In many places, it appears the violence is planned, organized, and driven by anarchistic and far left extremists, using Antifa-like tactics, many of whom travel from out of state to promote the violence." What he didn’t say is that the FBI, under his jurisdiction, is clueless about who is planning and organizing the chaos.
President Trump said on Sunday that Antifa, a term referring to the latest incarnation of communists active on American soil, will be designated as a terrorist organization. But there are literally dozens of Marxist or radical organizations that are not covered by the "Antifa" designation.
While Barr noted it is a federal crime to cross state lines to incite or participate in violent rioting and said "We will enforce these laws," the question remains: who or what is he talking about?
Sadly, the FBI doesn’t investigate communist groups on American soil anymore because some of them are integrated into the Democratic Party, whose congressional members do not go through background checks and yet conduct House oversight of America’s intelligence agencies. The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), once aligned with and funded by Moscow, openly supported Barack Hussein Obama for president in 2008 and 2012. Obama’s CIA director John Brennan voted for the CPUSA in college.
The CPUSA says, "We call on our members and friends to join the protests for justice in every way possible and to make justice for George Floyd part of every demonstration going forward." The Movement for Black Lives calls the riots "rebellions" and is active on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. "We are rising up by every means," they say.
Some communist groups are still loyal to the memory of Chairman Mao, who said in his Little Red Book, "Every Communist must grasp the truth: ’Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.’"
Mao’s 1968 statement in "Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression" in the United States is significant in this regard. Mao used the occasion of the Martin Luther King assassination riots in more than 100 American cities to declare that "The struggle of the Black people in the United States for emancipation is a component part of the general struggle of all the people of the world against U.S. imperialism, a component part of the contemporary world revolution."
For those unfamiliar with Marxist jargon, this means that communists have been exploiting blacks to make America into a communist state. This is still the communist mission.
During a time when conservatives find themselves increasingly censored by social media, the communists are able to organize without any hindrance whatsoever. Dan Scavino Jr., who handle social media for President Trump, wrote, "Twitter is targeting the President of the United States 24/7, while turning their heads to protest organizers who are planning, plotting, and communicating their next moves daily on this very platform..." Those protests, of course, quickly turned violent, to the point where the Minnesota governor finally called out the National Guard to restore order after the Democratic Party mayor of Minneapolis refused to act.
The existence of a major communist threat, China, makes some of these organizations devoted to agitation worthy of close scrutiny.
One Maoist group, the Progressive Labor Party, is "a communist organization that fights to smash capitalism and class society in order to establish a communist world!" and operates a newspaper called Challenge, with headlines about "police terror" and the "kkkiller cops." It has a web site and is also present on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Its "Capitalism is the Virus. Communism is the Cure" video is available on YouTube.
These American Maoists use American freedoms to organize against our institutions and our system of government.
#3
Barr didn't say the FBI doesn't know who is behind it because they do know. The terrorists make their plans online, and you can bet they've been infiltrated.
BTW -- any arrests yet? Any bank accounts seized? Anything at all done to take down Antifa? Or was Trump just blowing smoke?
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Oh, and it doesn't take Chinese funding for American lunatics to emulate Mao.
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Ref #3:. Go ahead, take that one to the bank. Anyone need a pallet of lansdscape bricks ?
[FOX] The son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tweeted on Sunday that he is declaring his support for Antifa after President Trump said that his administration would be declaring it a "Terrorist Organization."
Jeremiah Ellison, who is a member of the Minneapolis City Council, noted in the tweet that he believes "white power" terrorists are actually the ones engaging in the looting, arson and other riot activities as violent sects hijack some of the protests against racial inequality and police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd last Monday.
"I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA," Ellison said. "Unless someone can prove to me ANTIFA is behind the burning of black and immigrant owned businesses in my ward, I’ll keep focusing on stopping the white power terrorist THE ARE ACTUALLY ATTACKING US!"
#4
Nothing short of destroying Western Civ in America is their goal. Red Guard by any other name. Thanks kids, your parents' party can not distance itself from your allegiance.
#12
On the other hand, here's a young black woman, uh, expressing her views about young whites hiding in a car and handing out bricks to young black men. She did not say please and thank you.
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I've always appreciated it when a terrorist self identifies. Noted.
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Did he declare before or after Antifa was declared a terrorist organization and is pledging devotion to a terrorist group enough to arrest someone?
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Per the article, he declared his support AFTER Trump announced his intent to declare Antifa a DTO. In my book that puts him as "all in". He's chosen.. poorly.
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If the Black Panthers get involved Antifa and any white leftist group will not be welcome. And I think they will, especially after a young black female EMT was shot 8 times in her own home when police burst through her front door in a wrong address drug raid last month.
The cop who is accused of killing George Lloyd has been arrested. Supposedly he will get a fair trial during which his guilt or innocence can be determined. Good luck finding an impartial jury after the main stream media has done its work. But that's how justice works in this country. If you can't accept that, you can go to hell.
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And while we're talking about justice, can we get a little justice for General Flynn? Huh? And what about all the white people who've been killed by illegal aliens who should have been either in jail or deported? Huh? All lives matter. White people need justice too.
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Nothing to do with justice. We're way beyond the "peaceful protest" phase.
The Revolution has started: it's obviously being driven by black bloc + BLMers who live for havoc and have no goal other than to crack heads, spill blood and burn everything in sight.
Either we crush it now, or it gains momentum and fans out across the suburbs - at which point they will hold the whip hand.
#3
I think this kind of thing depends on the location. Here in Cincinnati I have a girlfriend who has fought cancer for three years, and had no problem continuing her chemotherapy treatments until her doctors concluded last week that it was no longer helping. She was immediately moved to hospice, and has been getting visitors daily ever since.
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Thank you, guys — I’ll pass that on. She and her husband have had three extra years to prepare themselves and us for this beyond what the doctors originally expected, and their faith has been their shield and comfort throughout. But the key point in this thread is the WuHu Flu did not cause any interruption of her treatment, though elsewhere in the U.S. plenty have and will die because their treatment was set aside for more important patients.
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/\ Precisely what this whole rioting travesty (and politician comments) is all about, jumping to conclusions.
Yes, that a-hole cop had his knee on the poor guy's neck. But, was that the cause of death or merely associated with his death? Methinks the authorities are terrified to produce the autopsy report as, you know, many people out there can't handle the truth.
Never really realized just what a mess Minnesota is when you lump it all together with AG Ellison, that limp-Richard mayor of Minneapolis, former senator Al Franken, and that POS whacko Somalian congresswoman. I'm sure the governor is a real winner, too.
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Clem, the police are responsible for the safety of people in their custody. Those assholes didn't bother doing ANYTHING right. They had him restrained, but kept him pinned and kept pressure on his neck. They should have had him at least sitting up on the ground, or gotten him into a cruiser.
YouTuber Donut Operator had a great video on this; it was mostly an active duty cop explaining how disgusted he was at the way the Minneapolis cops behaved. Both spend a lot of time looking at the entire story and as much evidence as they can; Donut has debunked previous "police abuse" videos. This was the fault of the police.
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How's about we get all the autopsy reports before making such canonical statements.
Because it might not fit the MSM narrative.
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Call me a cynic, but I’m betting the “peaceful protester” human chain was just a psyop. The looters don’t care about armed police or armed business owners for that matter. But I’m supposed to believe the power of love stopped them?
[knewz] The royal axe may have officially fallen on Prince Andrew, with the British Royal Family reportedly deciding he will never again perform official duties on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen and thus forcing the scandal-plagued 60-year-old to retire early, The Sunday Times reports.
The Duke of York, as Andrew is also known, was forced out of senior-royal duties over the winter, following what was widely seen as a catastrophic interview he gave to the BBC in November regarding his notorious affiliation with the late serial sexual predator and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
A new revelation coming from the just-released Netflix documentary about Epstein’s scandalous and shockingly criminal life of sexual predation indicates that the now-forcibly-retired Prince Andrew was seen cavorting with young women on the financier’s so-called “Pedo Island.”
Virginia Roberts Giuffre has also accused Epstein of sexually trafficking her to Prince Andrew on three occasions when she was just 17 years old, The Sunday Times notes.
[FoxNews] A Ivy League-educated lawyer and member of a Brooklyn community board was among those arrested for hurling a Molotov cocktail at a marked NYPD vehicle amid George Floyd protests, it was revealed Sunday.
Colinford Mattis, 32, was allegedly behind the wheel of a tan minivan as his passenger, fellow attorney Urooj Rahman, allegedly hurled the incendiary at an empty NYPD vehicle outside the 88th Precinct station house in Fort Greene early on Saturday.
Mattis, a graduate of Princeton University and New York University law school, is an associate at corporate Manhattan firm Pryor Cashman.
He was furloughed in April amid the coronavirus crisis, his employer confirmed.
“As we confront critical issues around historic and ongoing racism and inequity in our society, I am saddened to see this young man allegedly involved in the worst kind of reaction to our shared outrage over what had occurred,” managing partner Ron Shechtman said in a statement to The Post.
It’s never good to be the ambitious young lawyer who disappointed his managing partners.
Brooklyn Community Board 5 in East New York lists Mattis as one of its members, though the board’s president and reps didn’t immediately return calls on Sunday.
Rahman, 31, meanwhile, is also registered as an attorney in New York state, who was admitted to the bar in June 2019 after graduating from Fordham University School of Law. It was not immediately clear on Sunday whether she was affiliated with any law firm.
No doubt their other affiliations are also being looked into. Now would be a bad time for them to be discovered to be interesting.
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My apologies. On checking the article in question, I find the sisters were the subject of another article in which our two idiot lawyers appear in the last paragraph.
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Wanna bet, if disbarred, they ask for their student loans to be forgiven?
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Jonathan Turley looked into it. Apparently the kids are looking at no less than five years for deliberately killing an empty police car, and the partners are reviewing getaway driver Mattis’s employment. Thrower Ms Rahman is what they call a human rights lawyer.
#8
Now a days, many newer street level stores have several levels of apartments above them full of people. This is referred to as Mix Use development. Any kind of arson that could result in deaths of people in there apartments from fire or smoke inhalation should be met with capital murder charges.
#9
No capital punishment in New York, so short of a federal murder charge nothing like that would happen.
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However, there are many things our intrepid playing-at-revolution youth could get themselves caught up in even in a state like New York:
These are the offenses which may result in the death penalty under the United States Code:[22]
Causing death by using a chemical weapon or a weapon of mass destruction
Murder, kidnapping resulting in death, or conspiracy to kill resulting in death, of a member of the Congress, the Cabinet, or Supreme Court of the United States
Causing death by using an explosive
Causing death by using an illegal firearm
Causing death during a drug-related drive-by shooting
Genocide resulting in death
Carjacking resulting in death
Mailing explosive substances resulting in death
Willful destruction of aircraft or motor vehicles resulting in death
Causing death by aircraft hijacking or any attempt to commit aircraft hijacking
Causing death by kidnapping or hostage taking
First-degree murder within the special territorial and maritime jurisdiction of the United States:
Murder perpetrated by poison or lying in wait
Murder that is willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated
Murder in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, any arson, torture, escape, kidnapping, treason, espionage, sabotage, aggravated sexual abuse or sexual abuse, child abuse, burglary, or robbery
Murder perpetrated as part of a pattern or practice of assault or torture against a child or children
Murder committed by a federal prisoner or an escaped federal prisoner sentenced to 15 years to life or a more severe penalty
Murder of a court officer or juror
Murder with the intent of preventing testimony by, or retaliate against, a witness, victim, or informant
Murder, kidnapping resulting in death, or conspiracy to kill resulting in death, of the President of the United States, the Vice President, or a member of the presidential staff
Killing persons aiding federal investigations or State correctional officers
Willful wrecking of a train resulting in death
Sexual abuse resulting in death
Sexual exploitation of children resulting in death
Torture resulting in death
Death resulting from violence at an international civil airport
Murder of a U.S. national in an act of terrorism committed in another country
Death resulting from an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries
Death resulting from use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission or preparation of murder-for-hire
Crime against civil rights or conspiracy to do so, resulting in death, involving kidnapping, or involving rape
Attempting, authorizing or advising the killing of any officer, juror, or witness in cases involving a Continuing Criminal Enterprise, whether such killing occurs or not
Large-scale drug trafficking
Espionage
Treason
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#6
The obvious solution is stricter gun control laws.
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#7
Going up to 90 degrees starting tomorrow. Weekdays beginning to look like weekend nights.
Here is the best place to follow the carnage:
https://heyjackass.com/
#17
Wonder if any of the older Antifa and BLM goons recalled 1968, compared Chicago PD under Daley to the current Chitown and Mpls. marshmallow contingents under the likes of Lightfoot and Trudeau's-little-brother and saw a big opportunity: mayhem with no response.
Were they fired up & ready to go before the Floyd incident?
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I hope the US Army Uniform Board doesn't learn of this. A completely new Army winter uniform ensemble could be in the offing it the deployment goes into the Fall.
[IsraelTimes] Several internal memos sent to employees at Facebook reveal a considerable level of discomfort with the social media giant’s decision not to block a number of posts published by US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... as Twitter had done, The Verge news site reports.
"I have to say I am finding the contortions we have to go through incredibly hard to stomach," one employee wrote regarding Trump’s posts on the protests against George Floyd’s killing. "All this points to a very high risk of a violent escalation and civil unrest in November and if we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly."
Last week, Twitter labeled two of Trump’s tweets against mail-in voting as "potentially misleading" for suggesting the it would lead to a rigged election. Twitter later blocked another Trump tweet that included the sentence "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" under the argument that it "glorified violence."
"We reviewed the claim and determined that it doesn’t break our rules against voter interference because it doesn’t mislead people about how they can register to vote or the different ways they can vote," wrote Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of global policy management. "If it had, we should have removed the post from our platform altogether because our voter interference policy applies to everyone, including politicians."
[YNet] - To all those who absolved themselves of any shared public responsibility, don’t expect anyone to take responsibility for you once the second wave of the coronavirus hits the country.
Now please forgive me for the sin of generalization in the name of justice.
To the young people who constantly complain about the collapse of your dreams and the health-economic reality that forced you to back to your parents’ home, yet still go out to parties despite regulations: it was you who decided to not give a damn about the public health, do not turn to that same public seeking solace.
To the politicians who contributed to the chaos as the lockdown was lifted: it was you who crumbled under pressure and pseudo-considerations while restlessly waiting to end the counter-virus measures. It was you who infected the public with an acute lack of patience.
To the heads of teaching organizations and leaders of the education system: it was you who pushed to reopen the majority of classes and then worked to cancel half the regulations because they were stuffy and uncomfortable, for why would you wish to inconvenience teachers and students?
To the state officials: it was you who were too cheap to finance a worthwhile public service campaign to educate the public how to protect themselves against the coronavirus - all we had were a few short video clips.
To the owners of the restaurants, bars, coffee houses and club: your financial losses shook public opinion to its core, yet two days after the lockdown was lifted , you crammed in customers with no regard for the social distancing regulations. Your demands and fears will not be heard once the second wave hits.
To the masses of Israelis whose desire for nature, picnics and barbecues pushed decision-makers to allow parks, reserves and beaches to be opened: not two days have gone by and the hordes have already descended on every available green spot, ignoring crowd limits set by the state. You have proven yourselves selfish and should not expect anyone to care when the second wave closes all the beaches and nature reserves again and you’re back to settling for your balcony.
To the chain stores brought to the brink of bankruptcy by the outbreak, yet once the stores reopened abandoned all pretense of following regulations: those who came into your stores wearing a mask were made to feel like suckers. During the second wave, don’t expect those suckers to identify with your plight.
To Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was so eager to put on the "end of coronavirus" show despite the warnings of a second wave spilling out of your own mouth: do not come again with demands "to the beloved people of Israel." Why on earth were you celebrating? And why are you warning of a second wave when your actions do not match your words?
No vital budgets were transferred to the country’s health system; no new inspectors were recruited; no nationwide system for speedy coronavirus testing has been implemented.
For the sake of their own credibility, Israel's leaders need to act and not just preach.
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So long as this nonsense keeps coming up, I'm going to keep repeating the response over and over.
The lock down was never supposed to stop the virus. It can't stop the virus, which we be with us for the foreseeable future. The lock down was only ever supposed to flatten the curve - slow it down enough so that healthcare facilities were not overwhelmed. That hasn't happened, and it isn't going to happen.
So, instead of trying to retroactively come up with new justifications for the lock down, how about we just all accept that the ground truth has changed? End the lock down. Deal with sick people. Get back to work. Lock up ANTIFA. Re-elect Trump. You know, areas where we can do something useful.
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^But that shouldn't prevent people for showing some consideration for others. Such as wearing a mask in public places - especially when using public transportation.
[WCCO] The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says a tanker truck driver is in custody after speeding through marchers protesting the death of George Floyd on the Interstate 35W Bridge in Minneapolis Sunday.
WATCH: Video Shows How Truck Progressed Through Crowd On I-35W
At 10 p.m., WCCO confirmed with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office that the suspect was Bogdan Vechirko, of Otsego. He is currently being held custody on probable cause assault, although it is still yet unclear whether the event was intentional or accidental.
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And as everyone who has seen movies in the 90s/Oughties or was a big fan of Madeleine Albright knows, the Serbs are the evillist people evvvaaarrr!!!
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At 10 p.m., WCCO confirmed with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office that the suspect was Bogdan Vechirko, of Otsego.
...I have to say this. I work with a dozen truck drivers every day, and a growing number are Eastern European or Slavic immigrants. Good, hardworking people, but their command of English is often sketchy at best. It's entirely possible that this guy had no idea what the hell was happening when he came around that curve.
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When a truck speeds through a group of protesters, I expect dozens of casualties.
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Individual professions have specific information which applies to the work. I'd be surprised if Reginald Denny isn't known in every language whose speaker knows from steering wheels.
How did this truck get there? The highways were shut down earlier. Was he drinking coffee in a truc stop for an hour and nobody told him.
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Where are the Koreans when we need them?
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So if he stops we get another Reginald Denny event and many truck drivers will refuse to transit the area - leading to starvation of the locals, and 'justification' of escalation of riotous protests, among other things. Or if he doesn't stop we get carnage and 'justification' of escalation of riotous protests.
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This is the breakdown of LE. They should not have been on that roadway. This is not legitimate protest. The fact they knew they could and were allowed to speaks volumes. ...and then look who gets punished.
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#12 And yet, you still have a bunch of people on the Right genuflecting to the donut-eaters.
Never mind what happened to Trump supporters in Berzerkely and San Jose and Charlottesville.
Never mind the Proud Boys getting more jail time than Professor Bikelock.
Never mind people being arrested for playing with their kids and surfing while hardened criminals are released from prison.
Never mind "no duty to protect" and trigger-happy Somali cops shooting yoga instructors.
Here's hoping the taxpayers wake up to what they're paying for.
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How did this truck get there? The highways were shut down earlier.
I heard one news report on the radio that said he was already on the highway when it was closed. That being an interesting fact, I'd expect it to get dropped real quick.
[Jpost] The Beersheba District Court on Sunday sentenced a Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... imam to one year in jail in a plea bargain on a conviction for smuggling funds from Malaysian charities to Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw,.
The Southern District Attorney’s Office said it had encountered various evidentiary difficulties in the case, leading to the plea deal with reduced charges and a light sentence relative to the original charges.
In February, Imam Walid Div, 43, was indicted for a range of offenses related to helping finance Hamas, including traveling from Gaza to Egypt numerous times since 2013 en route to deliver religious sermons in Malaysia.
According to the indictment, while in Malaysia, Div was asked by Malaysian charities Aman Palestine and Mapim to smuggle funds into Gaza for Hamas.
In 2013, he smuggled $3,000 on behalf of the Malaysian chapter of Aman Paleostine to Hamas.
Div also worked with many of the same charities to smuggle funds to Hamas from Malaysia on other occasions, including contact with the Aman Paleostine chapter in Gaza.
Neither Div nor the Malaysian charities are officially associated with Hamas. But the charities include members of Hamas who use them as a front to raise terrorism funds for Gaza’s rulers.
Likewise, while Div quit working directly with Hamas shortly after briefly joining it in 2004, he maintained ties to some of its officials and had expressed a willingness to assist in smuggling funds.
In February, the Justice Ministry said he also had helped smuggle a package of unknown identity (presumed to be electronic) from Malaysia to Egypt, finding upon landing that it had disappeared.
The statement appeared to imply that other Hamas associates may have taken the package in Egypt once Div succeeded in getting it out of Malaysia.
Div was originally charged with performing illegal activities for foreign agents and providing services for an illegal organization. The charge of acting to acquire assets in support of terrorism was dropped.
As Israel and the US have cracked down on terrorist financing for groups such as Hamas, Gaza’s rulers have attempted to use more creative approaches to raising funds abroad. Suitcases and clothing with concealed cash transported by holy mans, the elderly and others who might draw less scrutiny are among the tactics Hamas uses.
[Washington Examiner] In the aftermath of the Minneapolis riots, the region now risks falling into a perpetual cycle of economic blight similar to comparable urban areas previously scarred by urban mayhem.
In the summer of 1967, violent riots erupted and lasted for five days in Detroit, between the city’s black residents and the local police department after law enforcement raided a bar on the city’s Near West Side. Detroit was still recovering from a previous race riot 24 years prior.
"It stands to reason that businesses will be far less likely to invest in areas where there's a fear of social unrest. That's presumably the biggest long-run negative effect, but there will be secondary negative effects such as higher insurance premiums for businesses that do remain, depressed home values for residential property, and things like that," economist Dan Mitchell told the Washington Examiner.
"None of that detracts from the concerns about police misbehavior, of course, but it underscores that the wrong reaction can mostly hurt the aggrieved community," Mitchell said.
The economic story to follow the riots in Minneapolis, prompted by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police, has yet to be written. But according to the Star Tribune, dozens of major chain retailers, as well as small mom-and-pop stores, were either destroyed or looted.
And as the country continues to open up from the coronavirus pandemic, fewer local businesses are expected to return among urban blight.
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So f'ing obvious, it makes you think humanity is truly stupid and suicidal.
Detroit NEVER recovered from the '67 riots. Those idiots cut their own legs off.
[Breitbart] Appearing Sunday on CNN, Obama-era National Security Adviser Susan Rice claimed, without providing proof, that the Russian government could be pouring money into the ongoing riots over the death of George Floyd across the United States.
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Georgia black jogger is shot by white men and after three months of nothing being done about it locally, state officials finaĺly file charges 5 days ago. Then when law enforcement way up north of Georgia murders a black man while he is in custody the camel's bäck ïs broken and all hell breaks loose.
This is what the rioter is aware of but is not articulating properly, just raging and torching cop cars. And the lame stream media definitely are not putting the above in perspective either, lilly white liberal talking heads are too busy pushing leftist political dogma.
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Contrarian view here.
Antifa is getting support; other than the Dems who is sitting back smiling while watching America burn?
China has said it's "beautiful".
Iran - they would if they could.
Turkey - Yip-yip and Omar are besties and Yip-yip has said he's watching very closely; maybe to see how his investment is panning out.
Russia - Putin would love to stick it to the US and Trump in particular.
No end of foreign actors with a motive and the means.
[AlAhram] At least 25 people were killed in eastern Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... on Saturday after faceless myrmidons attacked a cattle market, regional authorities said.
The attack in the village of Kompiembiga in Est region was the latest incidence of violence that highlights deep instability in parts of Burkina Faso, which has been battling gangs with links to al Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... since 2017. "The provisional corpse count from this killing is 25 and several maimed," said Saidou Sanou, the governor of Est region, where suspected jihadists have carried out a number of attacks in the past year.
No one has grabbed credit for Saturday's attack.
The bloodshed follows the death of at least 15 people on Friday in an attack on a convoy transporting traders in northern Burkina Faso.
Hundreds have been killed in the past year in the Sahel nation, and over half a million people have fled their homes due to the violence, which has also fuelled ethnic and religious tensions.
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1. CV is NOT aerosol, it needs mucus/water droplets to move thru the air.
2. Droplets are much, much larger than the virus
3. A good (N95) mask will stop up to 75% of droplets
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^And even a cloth one is better than nothing.
p.s. A week ago overheard a conversation on a bus. An old lady to a young rowdy (3 high-schoolers being a nuisance) "I don't understand why somebody as ugly as you objects to wearing a mask.".
[RADIOSHABELLE] At least 10 people died and 12 were maimed when an bombdestroyed a minibus outside the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, the government said.
The deadly explosion occurred near Lafole village along the Afgoye-Mogadishu where the passenger bus was traveling early in the day.
’At least 10 non-combatants were killed in a kaboom at Lafole area this morning, those who died were all civilians,’ the information ministry said in a statement, adding that the victims were on their way to a funeral.
Witnesses said the minibus was completely destroyed, and described a horrific scene with everyone on board either dead or maimed and many bodies ripped apart or burned beyond recognition.
’This was a horrible incident this morning, the bomb went off as the bus was passing by the area and destroyed it completely,’ said Daud Doyow, a witness.
’Bodies of civilians were strewn in pieces and most of the people died,’ he added.
’There were more than 20 people on board and 10 of them were confirmed dead while the rest are seriously maimed and taken to hospital, this is a horrible scene here,’ said another witness, Abdirisak Adan.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the bombing, but Somalia’s al Qaeda-aligned Shabaab group carries out regular attacks in and around the capital, often killing civilians.
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[Sudan Tribune] A spokesperson for the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) which spearheaded protests that led to the ouster of former President Omer al-Bashir on April 11, said that their support for separating religion from the state aims to promote the grinding of the peace processor.
On Saturday, the SPA announced its support for separating religion from the state. This announcement came in the wake of a declaration by the Sudanese Congress Party (SCoP) expressing its support for the negotiating position of the SPLM-N al-Hilu calling to reaching an agreement on the secular state during the peace talks.
"The SPA’s support for separating religion from the state comes to push the grinding of the peace processor forward," said Samaher al-Mubarak SPA’s spokesperson.
Al-Mubarak added that the step could cause a breakthrough in the peace negotiations with the SPLM-N al-Hilu’s.
"If the trade-off is between peace and separating religion from the state, we will choose peace," she stressed.
The negotiations between the government and the SPLM-N al-Hilu are stalled as the two delegations failed to agree on a declaration of principles.
The SPLM-N al-Hilu demands to include in the agenda of the talks the secular state and the right to self-determination. The government rejected this demand saying the peace talks aim to end the war but these demands can only be discussed at the constitutional conference.
Musab Muhamed Ali, a professor of political science at Neelain University in Khartoum, expected that the move would push the grinding of the peace processor forward because backs the demand of the SPLM-N al-Hilu.
Nonetheless "I think there are other files that could not (be easy to settle) such as the security arrangements, armies merger, power-sharing and wealth distribution," Mohammed Ali told Sudan Tribune.
He further warned that this support could widen the gap between the Forces for Freedom and Change, adding that some forces of the large coalition are keen to discuss this matter in the constitutional conference.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has resumed their assault on the key town of Kabani in the northeastern countryside of the Latakia Governorate.
According to a field report from Latakia, the Syrian Army and Republic Guard unleashed a barrage of artillery shells and missiles towards Kabani, targeting the trenches and dens of the jihadist rebels.
The report said the Syrian Army heavily concentrated their attack on the jihadist fortifications, as they consider a new operation to capture Kabani from the hardline groups in control of it.
The town of Kabani is currently under the control of the foreigner-led Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS).
These two groups have repeatedly foiled the Syrian Army offensives to capture Kabani in the past, often inflicting heavy casualties in the ranks of the troops attacking this mountaintop town.
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Several Starships are waiting for their turn at testing on the Boca Chica launch mount(s) as the clearing of SN4's remains continues - notably under a Sunday Rainbow.
Many #Syrian mercenaries were killed today after a Syrian faction left the other Syrian faction behind without support, and the Libyan National Army forces #LNA cleared that area of the mercenaries. pic.twitter.com/LTE8idDwGs
— Yekîneyên Servanên Efrînê (@Servanenefrine) May 31, 2020
Heavy losses as countless bodies of the expired #GNA’s dead Syrians mercenaries are scattered around #Tripoli international airport . Viva the Libyan National Army #LNA Viva the democratically elected parliament #HoR.#Libyapic.twitter.com/UAmarg6cP1
[TMZ Sports] NBA star J.R. Smith beat the living daylights out of a man who allegedly smashed his car window during the wild protests in L.A. ... and TMZ Sports has the video.
You can see ... the 6'6", 225-pounder unleashed a barrage of violent kicks on the man -- landing several times in the head.
When the guy finally stands up on his feet, Smith delivered a final punishing overhand right to the guy's dome.
Finally, some of J.R.'s friends step in and the other guy scurries off in a hurry.
Smith explained the attack in an emotionally charged video -- saying, "One of these motherfu**king white boys didn't know where he was going and broke my f**king window in my truck."
"Broke my sh*t."
Smith says his truck was parked in a residential area -- away from the stores that were being looted.
We're told the incident took place around the Fairfax area -- near the famous Flight Club sneaker shop, which had just been looted.
"I chased him down and whooped his ass," Smith said.
Smith says the incident was NOT fueled by race or hatred -- it was simply revenge for messing with his truck.
AKA, Street Justice.
"He didn't know whose window he broke and he got his ass whooped."
Zero Hedge note:
We have one awkward question - as much right as Mr. Smith had to punish this mindlessly-violent idiot for damaging his property... we wonder what the reaction among the media and intelligentsia on Twitter would have been if a 6'6", 225lb white guy was kicking the crap out of skinny young black dude who damaged his car (or store?).
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What get's me,is why does the black community not realize that they have let the white fringe antifa thugs hijack their cause again, just to make it about themselves. They are letting antifa tear apart the community in which,after the dust settles,will still have to live in.
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We have one awkward question - as much right as Mr. Smith had to punish this mindlessly-violent idiot for damaging his property... we wonder what the reaction among the media and intelligentsia on Twitter would have been if a 6'6", 225lb white guy was kicking the crap out of skinny young black dude who damaged his car (or store?).
An Iranian father who recently beheaded his teenage daughter in a so-called “honor killing” consulted a lawyer before killing his daughter to ensure he would not receive the death penalty, an Iranian daily reports.#Iran#RominaAshrafihttps://t.co/oDD4OXHB1Q
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 31, 2020
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[ToloNews] The Afghan government will continue the release of Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... prisoners to begin intra-Afghan negotiations and to help the announced reduction in violence go on, said the National Security Council on Sunday.
President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... on May 24 pledged to release 2,000 Taliban prisoners as a goodwill gesture in response to the Eid ceasefire announced by the Taliban. So far, the government has released 1,700 detainees of this latest pledged tranche, bringing the total number of Taliban released to 2,700.
The Taliban has also released over 420 prisoners, 73 of them during the last few days from Balkh, Logar, Kunduz, Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces.
The release of prisoners is part of the US-Taliban agreement and is intended to pave the way for the start of the intra-Afghan negotiations, for which the Afghan government has shown a readiness to begin.
The Taliban has also released over 420 prisoners, 73 of them during the last few days from Balkh, Pashtun-infested Logar, Kunduz, Paktia, Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s.
"The process will continue so that based on President Ghani’s decree, 2,000 prisoners are released," said Javid Faisal, a front man for National Security Council.
"The intra-Afghan negotiations will begin when 5,000 Taliban prisoners are released. I don’t think they will begin before that," said Sami Yausafzai, a journalist familiar with the matter.
The Presidential Palace says the Afghan government is ready for intra-Afghan negotiations.
"We are fully ready for the process," said presidential front man Sediq Sediqqi "The negotiation team is ready, and the High Council for National Reconciliation has been established and we are fully ready for beginning the negotiations."
Rights activists said the prisoners' release should be carried out responsibly.
"No doubt, prisoners will be released to begin the intra-Afghan negotiations, but the issue is that those who are released-- are they accused of war crime and crimes against humanity or not?" said Zabihullah Farhang, head of the media office of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
On Saturday, Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said he hopes the intra-Afghan negotiations will begin in the next week, and he reiterated that the negotiation team and the Afghan government are ready for the process.
[ToloNews] The Hizb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... is not "happy and satisfied" with the release of its prisoners by the Afghan government, a process that is part of a peace deal signed between Hekmatyar and President Ashraf Ghani in 2016.
Based on the agreement, the government pledged to release almost 3,000 prisoners of Hizb-e-Islami, and, according to members of the party, at least 600 prisoners have been released, including 164 of them freed on Friday.
"Our prisoners were in Guantanamo as well as in Pul-e-Charkhi and Bagram prison (in Afghanistan). We can say that our top prisoners are still in prison," said Atiqullah Safi, head of Hizb-e-Islami’s commission for the release of prisoners.
Among the 164 prisoners released on Friday, some of them claimed they were arrested on charges of being a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... member, not a member of Hizb-e-Islami.
But Safi rejected this claim by saying that there are no Taliban members in their list given to the government.
"All those on the list...are related to Hizb-e-Islami. We have taken guarantees from each of our prisoners and they have been introduced to us by their families and provincial members of Hizb-e-Islami," Safi said.
Heavy fighting between #GNA militias from AlZawia for 2 main reasons. 1) over 55 million they received from misrata. 2) their heavy losses in the past 8 days as they lost more than 237 men ( Libyan & nonlibyan ). May their barrels never cool down
[Hot Air] Van Jones appeared on CNN this morning to offer his thoughts on the event in Minneapolis last night. He was pretty direct about his feelings and tried to direct some of his comments toward his "white friends" and white people in general.
"We’re seeing a curtain pulled back," Jones said. He continued, "I think that’s the hardest thing for my white friends to understand, well intentioned, well intentioned, is that this is every day. Black people being choked off from dignity, from opportunity, from humanity, from understanding from empathy."
Van Jones appeared on CNN this morning to offer his thoughts on the event in Minneapolis last night. He was pretty direct about his feelings and tried to direct some of his comments toward his "white friends" and white people in general.
"We’re seeing a curtain pulled back," Jones said. He continued, "I think that’s the hardest thing for my white friends to understand, well intentioned, well intentioned, is that this is every day. Black people being choked off from dignity, from opportunity, from humanity, from understanding from empathy."
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"Hey Bro, what dat coming down the street . " Dat be a National Guard armored vehicle , A Stryker with a 25 mm cannon....I'm going to the house you can play with the bricks. "
•The armed forces #LNA succeeded in fending off the attacks of the #GNA, in "Ain Zara, Ramla, and the airport bridge." • Many Dead and wounded in the ranks of #GNA with the destruction of +13 armed vehicles, and 2 BMB 1 #BMC and the capturing of 3 armed vehicles pic.twitter.com/rAUjUaxJ3A
[JONATHANTURLEY.ORG] Two sisters have been arrested after a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a NYPD van with four officers inside. Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, NY, is charged with throwing the incendiary device, which did not explode. Her sister, Darian, 21, (left) then allegedly tried to stop the arrest of Samantha Shader. The police have hit Samantha Shader with a slew of major charges including attempted murder of a police officer, attempted arson, assault on a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. Her sister faces charges of resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration. Media is reporting that Shader admitted to her attack on the police. The police have released a picture of Shader throwing the Molotov cocktail.
Police say that Samantha Shader threw the device through a rear window of the van. She then allegedly bit an officer on the leg as they struggled to arrest her. When her sister attempted to intervene, she was also arrested.
This would appear an attempted murder in the first degree.
It is hard to imagine any prosecutor bargaining down this charge since, if true, there would have been four officers burned to death if the device actually went off. Unless the device did not contain a flammable or explosive liquid, Shader is looking at serious time if convicted. For a Class A felony, the maximum term is life imprisonment. Even a Class B felony includes up to 25 years in prison.
Others have been arrested for alleged Molotov cocktailing attacks. In the second case, Urooj Raman tossed a Molotov cocktail into the NYPD vehicle and then jumped into a minivan. He and the driver Colinford Mattis, 32, were arrested and both are Brooklyn residents.
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It is hard to imagine any prosecutor bargaining down this charge since, if true, there would have been four officers burned to death if the device actually went off. Unless the device did not contain a flammable or explosive liquid, Shader is looking at serious time if convicted. For a Class A felony, the maximum term is life imprisonment. Even a Class B felony includes up to 25 years in prison.
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It is hard to imagine any prosecutor bargaining down this charge since, if true, there would have been four officers burned to death if the device actually went off.
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Turley is obvously infected with Lawyer's Disease.
He is more concerned with careful legal parsing of everything said or done rather than the immediacy of the on-going incidents
He seems to want this to turn into Jarndyce v. Jarndyce and go on forever as a legalistic exercise rather than come to a conclusion that is right (just) for society.
[Zero Hedge] Hydroxychloroqine - a cheap, widely-prescribed anti-malaria drug which was deemed safe for decades until it showed efficacy treating coronavirus - needs to be made "widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe," according to Yale epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch.
In a Wedensday manuscript detailing how high-risk COVID-19 patients should be treated, Risch notes that the combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and the antibiotic azithromycin (AZ) "has been widely misrepresented in both clinical reportsand public media," and that "Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy."
Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been used as standard-of-care in more than 300,000 older adults with multi comorbidities, with estimated proportion diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmias attributable to the medications 47/100,000 users, of which estimated mortality is <20%,9/100,000users, compared to the 10,000 Americans now dying each week. These medications need to be widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe. - Dr. Harvey Risch
Risch recommends the combination of HCQ+AZ "preferably with zinc" as a "standard outpatient treatment, at least until we find or add something better, whether that could be remdesivir or something else."
The manuscript flies in the face of mainstream health authorities, which has staged a full court press against HCQ, while promoting Gilead's (very expensive) remdesivir as the only viable option to treat the COVID-19. Medical experts - including Dr. Anthony Fauci of the White House coronavirus task force have cautioned against taking the drug despite its successful use by doctors around the world, who have claimed dramatic improvement in patients with coronavirus.
"Every patient I've prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8 to 12 hours, they were basically symptom-free," said Los Angeles doctor Dr. Anthony Cardillo, adding "So clinically I am seeing a resolution."
In mid-May, President Trump admitted to taking HCQ + Zinc right around the time VP Mike Pence's Press Secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for the virus.
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would like to see a calculation of how many lives would have been saved if we had implemented protocol suggested by Dr. Risch back in April when Trump mentioned it
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[TheBlaze] Video shows a woman attacking a Tampa police officer with a knife, days after her brother was arrested for planning a terror attack on Florida beach.
Following the nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, there is a laser focus on civilians who bit the dust in encounters with law enforcement. There was a police shooting this week where a woman died after she attacked a cop with a knife. In a strange twist, the Florida woman was the sister of a man who was arrested this week after allegedly planning terror attacks in the Tampa area.
On Friday, a woman was sitting at a bench outside the City Hall of Temple Terrace, a town next to Tampa. Surveillance video shows a Temple Terrace Police officer approach the woman, and she springs up and swipes at him with a knife. She lunges at him a second time, and the officer retreats, but she pursues him.
The woman and the man left the field of view of the surveillance camera. A second Temple Terrace Police officer appears in the frame of the camera, and he seems to be wielding a handgun.
The woman, identified as 22-year-old Heba Momtaz al-Azhari, was shot by police and later died at the hospital. The officer sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the attack.
Temple Terrace Police Chief Kenneth Albano said that he was in his third-floor office and heard the officer command the woman to drop the knife numerous times.
The deadly encounter is under investigation.
Spectrum Bay News 9 reported that al-Azhari is the sister of a man who was accused of plotting acts of terrorism this week. The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that they had charged Muhammed Momtaz al-Azhari, 23, with "attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely, the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)."
Muhammed Momtaz al-Azhari was allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in the Tampa Bay area, including one on Honeymoon Island, a popular beach park.
The terror attacks were foiled by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, as well as local police departments and sheriff's offices. The suspect, who allegedly has a criminal history that includes prior terrorism charges in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , attempted to purchase multiple firearms during the investigation before "acquiring a Glock pistol and a silencer."
FBI agents arrested the suspect on May 24. If convicted, Muhammed Momtaz al-Azhari faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
A family spokesperson said Heba Momtaz al-Azhari was upset over her brother's arrest earlier this week.
Update from the Daily Mail at 8:50 p.m., courtesy of Skidmark, with more, particularly about arrested brother Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari:
Al-Azhari had previously been convicted in Saudi Arabia in 2015 of terror-related crimes, including attempting to travel to Syria to participate in jihad and join a terrorist group along with two others, including his own father.
Prior to his arrest of the state charge, FBI agents interviewed some of his co-workers at the home improvement store, who expressed concern about statements that the suspect had made concerning Islam, guns and violence.
A supervisor told agents that when speaking about the September 11 attacks, Al-Azhari had said that he believed that Americans got what they deserved that day, according to the affidavit.
The same supervisors also allegedly overheard Al-Azhari speaking to other co-workers about jihad, saying that it involved 'defending Islam.'
Another colleague at the Home Depot had reported Al-Azhari to corporate security, claiming that he tried to convince his co-workers to convert to Islam, and that he 'spoke negatively and passionately about the United States and homosexuality.'
Hundreds of protesters rally in London, Berlin over US death Protest as fashion — what posturing idiots.
[Jpost] Hundreds of people protested in London and Berlin on Sunday in solidarity with demonstrations in the United States over the death of a black man shown on video gasping for breath as a white policeman knelt on his neck in Minneapolis.
The protesters knelt in central London's Trafalgar Square, chanting "No justice, no peace," and then marched past the Houses of Parliament and finished up outside the US Embassy.Several hundred protesters also staged a rally outside the US Embassy in Berlin, holding up posters saying "Justice for George Floyd," "Stop killing us" and "Who's neckst."
First riots gave voice to the voiceless. Then riots were actually started by white supremacists and Russians. Now riots were started by police (I think this one will be the most popular) -> https://t.co/RChb7TmlX0
Fayetteville, NC Rioter Accidentally Lights Self on Fire (video)
[Breitbart] A rioter appears to have accidentally lit himself on fire while trying to set ablaze the Market House in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Saturday, according to video shared to social media.
The video, which appears to have been live streamed, shows a rioter lighting a fire inside the Market House — but catching fire in the process. Protesters can be heard audibly gasping as the rioter catches fire, prompting the man to flee from the building. "Get him out, get him out!" one man can be heard yelling.
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Looters mugging other looters. Sounds like that recent story of the rats cannibalizing each other. But I have more respect for rats...in this Year of the Rat.
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The looting has started, why hasn't the shooting started?
Major urban gun free zones (other than the hoods)
Pols would rather sacrifice others lives, families and property than do what history says works. It's all virtue signaling on their part. You are expendable like unborn children.
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I think all this was originally planned for the DNC convention this summer, when the cause de jour would have been the DNC screwing Bernie out of his rightful place as the nominee. Bernie's withdrawal messed that up, but the George killing provided an even better cause. So they moved the timing up a few weeks.
I think some people have the tendency to assume that Antifa is a particularly vigorous group of Biden supporters, or at least Democrats of some ilk. They're not. Trump's a rallying point, but all this would be happening with Biden or Hillary in office.
What Antifa wants is anarchy. "No border, no wall, no USA at all!" Or one that I have personally heard: "What do we want? Dead cops! Rows and rows of dead cops!"
The key to this is to split the black protesters from their Antifa overseers.
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"Large Boom" Smoke near Apple Store
I thought it was the Samsung batteries that had explosion problems...
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1918 repeat, with Donald and Melania cast as Nicholas and Alexandra, with no available response to dispersed mob opposition without apparent leadership?
Antifa aren't even political. They have no coherent program and don't give a damn about elections or governance. Most of them are simply deranged individuals with a hankering to crack skulls and cause havoc.
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I don't think you even need to shoot them. Some of them are hard-core, but a lot are just upper middle-class kids living out a hero fantasy. Pick a few of the timid-looking ones and do the judicial equivalent of calling their mommies. Multiple felony charges (attempted murder sounds about right), lots of videos of them crying, perp walk, arrest report in their hometown newspapers. See how many show up the next time. Save the pre-dawn SWAT raids for the leaders, who, with any luck, will resist arrest.
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Posted as a comment yesterday by our own Anomalous Sources.
[Gateway Pundit] Former CIA Director and Spygate architect John Brennan lashed out at President Trump Sunday morning amid nationwide looting and rioting by far-left radical terrorists.
Brennan also approved of the nationwide looting and rioting by left-wing terrorists such as ANTIFA, asserting that it’s ’necessary for real change.’
Violent protests have spread across the nation since a Minneapolis police officer killed a black man named George Floyd on Monday.
Black Lives Matter thugs and Antifa terrorists are using the death of George Floyd as an excuse to destroy businesses and raze buildings to the ground.
And John Brennan approves.
National outrage about racial discrimination, hateful bigotry, & injustice of unequal opportunity is necessary for real change. Divisive rhetoric must be voted out of office. We need a president who works to heal the nation, not further divide us.
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Injustice in blue areas cause riots in blue areas. Hopefully this will create change in blue areas. Perhaps even to Red. What have they got to lose?
[NYPOST] Michael Gianaris, the second most powerful leader in the New York Senate, said he will no longer accept campaign contributions from police unions and law enforcement groups following the death of George Floyd and tense interactions between protesters and police.
"I am donating all contributions received from police PACs for my re-election to bail funds and mutual aid organizations, and I will not accept them going forward," Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris tweeted Sunday.
In tweets Saturday, he had said: "We need to call out injustice, but most of all we must act. This is the scene at the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights, Queens, where people are fed up. No more violence. We deserve a police force that acts with empathy.
"And we deserve a police force that is held accountable for racist behavior."
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Nice idea senator, why not simply abolish the preposterous notion of judicial immunity? It's a wholly manufactured status more akin to titles of nobility than any legal concept. Let's not forget all those crusading prosecutors and judges while you're about it.
[Zero Hedge] Mysterious pallets of bricks have been filmed throughout major riot hotspots across the country, in what appears to be more evidence that organized groups are using the George Floyd protests to incite chaos and terrorism throughout the US.
— Ali † FORT WORTH PATRIOTS DM ME (@ali) May 30, 2020
"Yo, we got bricks. We got bricks!"—#Rioters in Manhattan chanced upon a cache in the street equipped with bricks and a shovel at 10:01 p.m. on Second Ave between St. Marks Pl. and Seventh St. pic.twitter.com/dYB7vHdYqL
Still think these riots are fluid? Still think they weren't coordinated ? Who the heck left pallets of bricks throughout different cities Across the Nation on sidewalks? #Riot2020pic.twitter.com/afJa0oDHlD
Where did the bricks come from? Who delivered them? And are any official investigations underway?
So who's donating the pallets of bricks to these riot ravaged areas? Surely there's surveillance footage, and surely they arent being brought in by hand. Start checking camera footage, run license plates. pic.twitter.com/QFHgwHVz0f
I still have not heard from one mayor or governor stating they will open an investigation into what organization is placing pallets of bricks in cities used for the sole purpose of destruction.
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I guess the bulb hasn't lit for the Black community that they're expendable for the goals of the Left which is power by any means necessary. It's all for the revolution, chumps.
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Mysterious pallets of bricks have been filmed throughout major riot hotspots across the country, in what appears to be more evidence that organized groups are using the George Floyd protests to incite chaos and terrorism throughout the US.
Like I said before, I've been to La Mesa a few times and I can tell you it is a tidy little town, paved over for the most part and well landscaped. While I was watching the TV coverage of bad boys throwing rocks, I did kinda wonder where the rocks came from.
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Bro grabs a brick and finds out it is connected to an explosive charge . That's a Bro all over .
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Paymasters?
=> Look for Soros and Powell Jobs, Biden staffers, assorted faculty members in the Critical Legal Studies departments at various law schools...
[NYPOST] New footage appears to show George Floyd in a violent struggle with cops while inside a squad car before he died after being pinned with a knee to the neck for almost nine minutes.
The clip — posted Saturday by controversial activist Shaun King — shows one Minneapolis officer leaning inside the rear left passenger door, seemingly struggling with Floyd after his arrest for trying to use a fake $20 bill.
Derek Chauvin — the officer charged with murder after pinning him by the neck as Floyd sobbed, "I can’t breathe" — is seen running around to the right side of the car as the Memorial Day clip ends.
That was the spot where Floyd, 46, was eventually pinned to the ground in the now-viral clip that sparked protests across America.
"It’s all coming together. Police were in the car beating the s—t out of George Floyd," King insisted of the clip.
"One stands watch, while the others attacked him."
All four Minneapolis officers were fired. Chauvin — who had been involved in three police shootings during his 19 years on the job — was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
Floyd’s family said in a statement with their attorney, Ben Crump, that they "expected a first-degree murder charge."
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Additional videos? Interesting timing.
Probably sounds like 'crazy talk' but let's imagine just for a moment George Floyd attempt to pass a fake $20. was a trigger intentionally designed to prompt immediate police response and arrest. Let us further imagine that Floyd's erratic behavior and possible resistance while in custody was purposefully caught on video and released to the media.
A further leap of lunacy might even suggest the CNN crew arrested in Minneapolis was also orchestrated, as was the bizarre attack on the CNN complex in Atlanta.
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My problem with the "passing a counterfeit $20.00" narrative (and I'm not trying to excuse anyone involved in this nasty little ballet) is this: Someone passes a fake $20 in my store, I note the time, make sure the guy's picture is on my surveillance footage, call the Federal Building and ask to speak to someone in the FBI, Treasury or US Marshal's office. I tell them I have a fake $20 and a picture of the guy who passed it to me. Going to bet I get some action.
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It is the height of folly for anyone to rush to judgment in a case like this based on video clips that they see on television. You never know what kind of editing was done on these videos and, even if there was no editing, it is rare for a short video to convey the whole story.
But MSM does it every damn time because telling the whole story is not what they do. They don't care about the accused getting a fair trial in front of an impartial jury that has not been prejudiced by some sketchy video. They don't care about the riots that may result from their reckless and irresponsible coverage of the incident.
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I know, crazy talk right ?
Actually, there is an unpleasant odor coming from Minneapolis these days.
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Imagine Antifa and company have a plan and are waiting for some incident. They'd prefer to wait until closer to the elections but you gotta take the opportunity when it presents.
In this case they got lucky is that the cops actions are very difficult to defend, lucky in that everyone is already freaked out about the future and the nation is a powder-keg. But unlucky as the election is still half a year away. Still, gotta launch... so they did.
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Floyd’s family said in a statement with their attorney, Ben Crump, that they "expected a first-degree murder charge."
I do not believe he would be convicted for First Degree murder. So if the attorney general is dumb enough to charge him that way we'll get riots part 2.
[Rudaw] Iran's interior minister has suggested that up to 225 people were killed in November protests sparked by a petrol price hike, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday.
Officials in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... have yet to issue an overall corpse count for the unrest, while London-based human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group Amnesia Amnesty International has put the number at more than 300.
The protests erupted on November 15 in Tehran and rapidly spread to at least 100 cities and towns, with petrol pumps torched, cop shoppes attacked and shops looted, before being put down by security forces amid a near-total internet blackout.
Officials had repeatedly denied corpse counts given by foreign media and human rights groups as "lies", and passed responsibility of reporting on it between different state bodies.
"Sad things happened. About 40 or 45 people, meaning around 20 percent of those killed, were shot with non-standard issue weapons and martyred," said Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli.
"No armed confrontation with the people happened... but when they attack a cop shoppe, they have to be confronted," ISNA quoted him as saying.
His breakdown indicated that, according to the government, between 200 and 225 people were killed in the violence.
According to Amnesty, at least 304 people were killed during the unrest.
A group of independent UN rights experts said in December that based on unconfirmed reports more than 400 people could have been killed in the crackdown.
The experts said at the time that at least 12 of those killed were children.
They pointed to reports and footage apparently showing that security forces "not only fired live ammunition at unarmed protesters, but also aimed at their heads and vital organs".
The United States has claimed that more than 1,000 were killed in the violence, while news agency Rooters reported in December that around 1,500 people were killed over the course of the protests.
Iran has blamed the violence that broke out during the protests on "thugs" backed by its foes the United States, Israel and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... It has singled out exiled royalists and the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK), an exiled former rebel group which it considers a "terrorist cult".
The minister said the petrol price hike had been "just an excuse" for creating chaos as foes had wanted a "civil war" in Iran.
He also defended the internet blackout, saying that the MEK, monarchists, and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group were "giving military training through the internet".
Projection
[Fox News] Senate Democrats released a 50-plus page report Wednesday sounding alarm bells over the rate at which Senate Republicans and President Trump have confirmed federal judges during the president's first term as Republicans are working on shepherding along even more lifetime-appointed federal judges.
The account calls GOP-appointed judges "politicians in robes," rails against the Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court, slams the conservative and libertarian lawyers' group the Federalist Society and says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is "betraying the vision of our founders."
The report was widely promoted by high-profile Senate Democrats on Wednesday, including Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and several others, as Democrats grapple with the breakneck clip of Trump's and McConnell's judicial confirmation efforts.
"Instead of passing legislation to help the American people, Mitch McConnell has chosen to bury those bills in his legislative graveyard," the report's executive summary reads. "This report looks behind the curtain of the GOP's long campaign of judicial capture, into the fundamental threat it poses to the rule of law and American democracy."
Beyond Republicans' apparent "judicial capture," the report also foreshadows future Democratic efforts to "shed light on the corruption and conflicts of interest now spreading around the Trump judiciary" and pans what it says was more than $250 million in dark money raised and spent by "a complex network of think tanks, law school centers, policy front groups, political campaign arms, and public relations shops, all focused on shaping the composition of the courts and the rulings they make."
The report was also amplified by Demand Justice, a liberal group tied to former Obama staffers that fights against Trump's judicial nominees and advocates for progressive priorities in federal courts.
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Can only capture something someone else is holding.
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"a complex network of think tanks, law school centers, policy front groups, political campaign arms, and public relations shops, all focused on shaping the composition of the courts and the rulings they make."
Ahhh, the old 'vast right-wing conspiracy'. Hilly was more economical with her words.
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So, who's that punk-a$$ judge in the Michael Flynn case? And that slob in Dallas who threw that mom in jail for opening up her salon? Yeah, real role models for all.
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Punk-a$$ judge in the Flynn case is doing the bidding of his leftist masters. Once the case is dismissed, the gag order on Flynn is lifted. Imagine their terror in making public what he knows.
[ToloNews] At least three members of a family were killed Saturday afternoon when a mortar shell landed on a their house in Parwan province, local officials said Sunday.
Wahida Shahkar, the Parwan governor's spokeswoman, said the mortar was fired "by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... " to target security forces at a checkpoint in the Joye Dukhtar village of Siyagird district.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the relatives of the victims claim that the mortar was fired "by the government," and they closed the Kabul-Bamiyan ...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes... highway for several hours and said the perpetrators should be punished.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier... Hussain Shah Maqsodi, the district police chief, said that police are investigating the incident and will share the findings once the investigation is ended.
The Taliban denies their involvement in the incident.
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Oh STFU already.
This is Antifa + opportunistic thieves, period.
Clue: White supramicists don't coordinate hits on shopping malls on Twitter.
F'ing moron.
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They can burn my property but I can't hurt their feelings. Got it...
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I haven't seen any right-wing groups supporting this clusterf%ck in the streets. It is left wing extremists BLM, Antifa and domestic terrorists and opportunists looking for new big screen TVs and other boodle.
Rubio is head of intel committee? Time for a replacement?
(Of course, the SPLC labels any conservative to the right of center is a terrorist.)
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Even it the Israelis were flying their version of the old F4, the Russians and the Turks would have problems The Israelis do the ODAA loop very well. Also I wonder how the Mig-29 would do against the Israeli upgraded F-35 ?
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[ConservativeTreehouse] El Nuevo Rodeo (hereafter ENR) is a front business. Nothing is as it seems.
The background ownership of ENR takes you to a shady network of LLC’s and the name Omar Investments Inc. (est. 1996). Dig a little deeper and something else becomes evident… The ownership might connect to one or more U.S. three letter agencies.
The ownership network has previous interactions with FBI operations in/around Minneapolis. This is not surprising because Minneapolis Minnesota has more national security operations ongoing than any other community in the country. Various Somali groups are being watched, and anyone can do a google search to see when those security operations surface in the media.
Omar Investments Inc. owns El Nuevo Rodeo Cantina and night club since 1996. The principle of Omar Investments Inc. is Muna Sabri. In 2001 a close relative, Basim Sabri, was captured by the FBI in a sting operation.
In 2001, FBI agents recorded Sabri giving Herron $5,000, cash intended to curry the lawmaker's support for his development. Sabri was later convicted on three bribery counts and fined $75,000.
FBI intercept in 2001, there’s the capture. That’s the asset creation point for U.S. security to find a way to embed within Minneapolis, and assist the Sabri'ss along the way.
The presented “former club owner”, Maya Santamaria, seen on television, appears to be a purposeful ‘front’ (a face useful in deflecting attention from the primary owner and operations). With that in mind, the scale of false information in/around the visible event, horrible as it was/is, creates layers and layers of purposeful misinformation and a need to control what the public sees in the media.
As I said before, I prefer to sit this one out; however, it is interesting. If you consider that El Nuevo Rodeo might likely be a front for a three letter national security agency; or at the very least a valuable inside source for domestic intelligence and surveillance, things start reconciling rather quickly.
ENR also looks like a money laundering operation. Part of that laundry operation appears to involve counterfeit currency. This enterprise, writ large, looks like the answer to ‘how’ a U.S. agency infiltrated the background criminal network in Minnesota to watch and monitor for domestic threats. So there are layers to what is visible and a myriad of interests involved.
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Grassy Knoll in a strip club is a dancer who didn't shave
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Frank G now I have to clean my monitor and get a new cup pf coffee
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"I know what! We'll run our anti-terrorism / anti-counterfeiting / etc. operation out of a strip club. And run criminal enterprises from there to make ourselves look convincing."
"That's why they pay you the big bucks, Lew..."
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Ilhan Omar could probably get away with robbing a bank. Seems like everything she touches is dirty. Seems like everything she DOES is dirty. Surely she'll be re-elected.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish military has allegedly deployed its long-range air defense system in the northwestern governorate of Idlib, the pro-opposition Aleppo Media Center claimed on Sunday.
According to the Aleppo Media Center, the Ottoman Turkish military deployed its air defense system to Talat al-Nabi Ayoub, which is the highest point in the Idlib Governorate.
No photos were released to corroborate the claim and no further information was reported about the alleged deployment of this air defense system.
The Ottoman Turkish military has already deployed one of its air defense systems to Idlib; however, it is near administrative capital and it primarily a short-range system.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... has repeatedly warned the Syrian military about launching any attacks in northwestern Syria and the presence of these air defense systems will likely deter any future Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over the governorate.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... at the same time, the Russian Air Force has recently intensified their flights over the Idlib and Aleppo governorates, as their warplanes were reported to have flown at both low and medium altitudes near the Ottoman Turkish border.
The Russian Air Force reportedly conducted these flights after unknown assailants attacked a Ottoman Turkish military convoy along the M-4 Highway (Aleppo-Latakia Highway) near the town of al-Ghassaniyeh.
As a result of this attack, one Ottoman Turkish soldier was killed and another was slightly maimed.
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An airstrike in eastern #Syria kills five non-Syrian militants backed by #Iran near the border town of Albu Kamal, according to a Britain-based war monitor.https://t.co/4nfH5mpLMJ
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) May 31, 2020
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The Egyptian army announced on Saturday evening that their forces carried out two specific operations that resulted in the death of three dangerous terrorists, who were found in their possession of automatic weapons, hand grenades and RPGs.
The official page of the spokesperson for the Egyptian Army published a video, saying that “this is a continuation of its intensive efforts in combating terrorism and during the past week, and based on intelligence information that there are infidels in several terrorist dens in the vicinity of the cities of Bir al-Abd, Sheikh Zuwayed and Rafah in North Sinai.”
They explained that the military engineers discovered and destroyed five explosive devices that were planted to target their forces in North Sinai.
They pointed out that the Air Force carried out a number of concentrated airstrikes on terrorist positions, killing at least 16 of these elements.
In another context, the Egyptian border guards managed to seize a number of smugglers in possession of large quantities of weapons and ammunition and a number of four-wheel drive vehicles, as well as large quantities of hashish hidden inside a number of cars, in addition to a vehicle loaded with amounts $200,000 (USD) in cash.
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At least one fighter of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed in eastern province of Deir ez-Zor of Syria, while another one was injured, a war monitor revealed.#BaghdadPost#MiddleEasthttps://t.co/pJefJEvJlB
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[SPECTATOR.ORG] The city urges everyone to exercise caution and stay safe while participating in demonstrations, including wearing masks and physical distancing as much as possible to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The city has made hundreds of masks available to protesters this week.
Protesters? Earth to Minneapolis Mayor Moron: Rioters torching whole sections of your city are not protesters. Many are professional agitators from out of town. Locals who loot stores are opportunists, many of them career criminals. The city’s message took zero notice of these elementary realities.
Mayor Moron’s contribution to the city’s full message was this: “We need to offer radical compassion and love that we all have in us. I believe in this city and I know that you do, too.”
There is a validated playbook for dealing with riots. It is a tale of two riots in the awful summer of widespread racial unrest, 1967. Eugene Methvin’s 1991 NRO “riot primer” laid out the playbook:
In a nutshell: Riots begin when some set of social forces temporarily overwhelms or paralyzes the police, who stand by, their highly visible inaction signaling to the small percentage of teenaged embryonic psychopaths and hardened young adults that a moral holiday is under way. This criminal minority spearheads the car-burning, window-smashing, and blood-letting, mobbing such hate targets as blacks, or white merchants, or lone cops. Then the drawing effect brings out the large crowds of older men, and women and children, to share the Roman carnival of looting. Then the major killing begins: slow runners caught in burning buildings and-as civic forces mobilize-in police and National Guard gunfire.…The time to halt a riot is right at the start, by pinching off the criminal spearhead with precise and overwhelming force. The cops will usually be caught flat-footed (no pun intended) by the initial outbreak. But they need to spring into a pre-arranged mobilization that should always be as ready in every major city as the fire-department or hospital disaster-response program.
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The time to halt a riot is right at the start, by pinching off the criminal spearhead with precise and overwhelming force
Gone. No more opportunity for "precision."
Only complete mayhem now. "Escape from New York" time.
#3
These mayors are often those who yell the loudest that there is racism among the ranks of the police when riots break out such as in Minneapolis. If that were true, wouldn't that make these mayors racists?
[RADIOSHABELLE] Nine health care workers were killed and their bodies dumped along a highway, officials said Thursday.
"[Nine] health workers in Gololeey vicinity health clinic were kidnapped last night by unknown forces. Their bodies have been dumped on the highway near Gololeey. They have been slaughtered all. They were working for the Zamzam Humanitarian agency! So tragic indeed," a Bal’ad district security official told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity.
A police officer in the middle Shabelle region confirmed the incident to Anadolu Agency.
"We received this horrific news and we don’t know who is behind this barbaric attack, but our police officials were deployed in the area and an investigation is underway," Bashir Mohamud Hassan told the Ottoman Turkish news agency.
The workers were from Bal’ad, an agricultural town 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the capital, Mogadishu.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] The commander-in-chief of Somali army Gen Odowaa Yusuf Rage has refuted claims that the country’s military has involved in the recent killing of 8 health workers in Golgoley.
The SNA commander added that they have launched an investigation into the incident that sparked public outrage and internal condemnations.
The health workers have been kidnapped and killed in Gololey between May 27-28 by unknown button men who dumped the bodies on a street near the area.
Somali government and international partners have similarly condemned the gruesome murder which comes amid worsening insecurity in the road between Mogadishu and Bal’ad.
The SNA forces have been carrying out operations against al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... in the small towns located on the outskirts of Bal’ad in the past few months to regain control from the group.
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[Sudan Tribune] Ethiopia on Sunday called to address an attack on Sudanese forces by its troops and armed men through a joint military committee established recently to tackle such incident.
A road leading to Ethiopia-Sudan border On Thursday Ethiopian militiamen backed regular troops crossed the border and attacked Sudanese troops several times and for long hours. They killed an army officer, a child and wounded several military and civilians.
The unjustified attack triggered official and popular indignation. On Saturday, the Sudanese army announced the deployment of further troops on the border while the foreign ministry summoned the Ethiopian envoy asking for official explanations.
In a statement released on Sunday, the Ethiopian foreign ministry referred "with great dismay" to the border attack and expressed "its deep sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims of both countries".
"The Ministry urges that the two countries should work together through existing military mechanisms to address and jointly investigate circumstances surrounding the incident," further said the statement.
The statement called to maintain close collaboration between the local and regional authorities in the border areas.
"We believe that the incident does not represent the strong ties between the peoples of the two countries," stressed the Ethiopian foreign ministry.
Sudanese news agency released a report on Sunday blaming the former regime for turning a blind eye to the repeated use by the Ethiopian framer of the Sudanese territory.
It added that the former regime had sealed a secret deal in 1996 with the government of the late Meles Zenawi accordingly Ethiopia will prevent Sudanese opposition from carrying out cross border attacks and in return, they would allow Ethiopian farmers to cultivate inside the Sudanese territory.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group reacted to Kabul bombing which left two employees of a private TV station dead, including one of the news hounds of the TV.
"Today’s kaboom against workers of Khurshid TV in #Kabul city has no relation with the Mujahidin of Islamic Emirate," Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the group said in a Twitter post late on Saturday.
An official in the Ministry of Interior confirmed that the vehicle of Khurshid TV, one of the private TV channels, hit an improvised bomb at around 4 pm on Saturday.
The official further added that the earth-shattering kaboom killed two people, including a news hound and one of the technical workers of the television.
According to the official, the earth-shattering kaboommaimed at least six others including one of the employees of the TV channel.
NO individual or group has so far grabbed credit for the incident.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[THEFEDERALIST] I can’t believe they even tried it. 
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
[RedState] For some time now we have been getting fed the regular message that these violent riots we are witnessing in Minneapolis, and abroad, are not what they appear. The leaders and experts, eager to transfer blame, have been making the statements that the bad agents who are provoking violence are from outside their area. The attempt to avoid responsibility for the unraveling protests and how leadership allowed destruction, even the overthrow of a police precinct, is now facing an uncomfortable reality.
[FreeBeacon] Georgetown University professor and former NPR editor Kitty Eisele lamented on Sunday that protesters in Washington, D.C., had not attacked the Trump International Hotel.
[(Red)StarTribune] Signing Colin Kaepernick would signal the Vikings care about social justice, and that the NFL acknowledges its wrongful blackballing of a talented quarterback. It would also make football sense.
[America's Survival] As patriotic Americans salute our astronauts, in space through a public-private partnership of NASA and SpaceX, we are dismayed by the seeming inability of the government at all levels to keep our citizens safe on the ground. It’s time for Congress to reestablish committees designed to expose internal security problems and examine whether some of these agitators are communist terrorists who find their inspiration in history’s greatest mass murderer, Chairman Mao.
The son of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison tweeted on Sunday that he is declaring his support for Antifa after President Trump said that his administration would be declaring it a "Terrorist Organization."
[knewz] The royal axe may have officially fallen on Prince Andrew, with the British Royal Family reportedly deciding he will never again perform official duties on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen and thus forcing the scandal-plagued 60-year-old to retire early, The Sunday Times reports.
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[WCCO] The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says a tanker truck driver is in custody after speeding through marchers protesting the death of George Floyd on the Interstate 35W Bridge in Minneapolis Sunday.
[Washington Examiner] In the aftermath of the Minneapolis riots, the region now risks falling into a perpetual cycle of economic blight similar to comparable urban areas previously scarred by urban mayhem.
[Breitbart] Appearing Sunday on CNN, Obama-era National Security Adviser Susan Rice claimed, without providing proof, that the Russian government could be pouring money into the ongoing riots over the death of George Floyd across the United States.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[JONATHANTURLEY.ORG] Two sisters have been arrested after a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a NYPD van with four officers inside. Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, NY, is charged with throwing the incendiary device, which did not explode. Her sister, Darian, 21, (left) then allegedly tried to stop the arrest of Samantha Shader. The police have hit Samantha Shader with a slew of major charges including attempted murder of a police officer, attempted arson, assault on a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. Her sister faces charges of resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration. Media is reporting that Shader admitted to her attack on the police. The police have released a picture of Shader throwing the Molotov cocktail.
[TheBlaze] Video shows a woman attacking a Tampa police officer with a knife, days after her brother was arrested for planning a terror attack on Florida beach.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
Michael Gianaris, the second most powerful leader in the New York Senate, said he will no longer accept campaign contributions from police unions and law enforcement groups following the death of George Floyd and tense interactions between protesters and police.
[Zero Hedge] Mysterious pallets of bricks have been filmed throughout major riot hotspots across the country, in what appears to be more evidence that organized groups are using the George Floyd protests to incite chaos and terrorism throughout the US.
Additional videos? Interesting timing. 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
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...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...Arabic for 
