[Fox] Doug Schoen: George Floyd unrest — only this can save Dems from defeat in 2020.
As violent protests sweep the nation and fury fills city streets in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, the 2020 presidential election is shaping up to be eerily similar to the 1968 campaign.
In 1968, the country was grieving from the assassinations of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was on the path to claiming the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
The period preceding the 1968 election was a time of great civil unrest. There were riots across the country following Dr. King’s assassination, and the August 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago became a venue for protests against the Vietnam War — led by left-wing activist groups like Students for a Democratic Society — and culminated in a televised riot where police clashed with protesters.
As a result of that year’s civil unrest, which was also accompanied by inner Democratic Party division between the moderates and far left, Democrats embraced a more liberal foreign policy perspective while focusing mainly on social and racial justice issues, largely at the expense of economic issues.
Taken together, the party’s leftward movement and the accompanying civil unrest, which was associated with the far left, helped Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” prevail in the 1968 election and in 1972, when he won by a 49-state landslide. Nixon’s approach appealed to the silent majority with a promise to restore “law and order,” while the Democratic Party was viewed as too far left.
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I understand where everyone is going with the '68 comparisons.
At the risk of being an Eeyore, let's take a look at what happened in those times.
Nixon won a very close race thanks to George Wallace taking a lot of his votes.
Nixon took office and gave us the EPA and a bunch of other items from the liberal wishlist.
Nixon then won a landslide in '72 (with some help from the assassination attempt on George Wallace).
There was a lot of noise from the Nixon camp that his second term would see the reining in of Leviathan.
Nixon's second term was a Golden Age of conservative policy initiatives and he left office in 1977 as one of the most beloved figures in American public life.
Thanks to these conservative policy successes, the rest of the '70s was one of the high points of American and indeed, human history.
Whatever could have caused this? Personally, I'm relying on the police to protect me (/sarc)
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Well, I know from personal experience that some people own guns but don't get that they won't for much longer if they keep voting democrat. Hopefully they are a small minority of that two million.
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Yeah, do we really want libs closing the "All teh gunz!" gap with us?
And while a few may have been mugged by reality, the vast majority will fall back onside in short order.
DC Mayor Muriel Bowser commissioned a 'Black Lives Matter' mural down 16th Street, which leads to the White House, ahead of a planned weekend protest
A portion of the street, where President Donald Trump had his photo-op outside St John's Church at Lafayette Square, has also been renamed 'Black Lives Matter Plaza'
After the announcement that she would be evicting more than 1,200 National Guard troops on Saturday, from DC hotels, Trump blasted her as 'incompetent' on Twitter
A protest on Saturday in the nation's capital over the death of George Floyd and police brutality against African Americans could draw more than one million people
In preparation, tall black fences, between seven and nine feet, have sprung up around the perimeter of the White House as well as public Lafayette Square and 50-acre park, the Ellipse
Many compared the new fencing to the wall Trump pledged to build on the US-Mexico land border
Trump has referred to himself as a 'law-and-order' president and face criticism for calling on the military to defend DC against so-called rioters
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'It's a sad commentary that the [White] House and its inhabitants have to be walled off,' District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters at a press conference on Thursday.'We should want the White House to be opened up.'
Bitch, you'd bloody love for the White House to be opened up tonight, wouldn't you? So the insurrectionists can drag Trump out to the street and beat him? So they can burn the White House?
The fences and the federal law enforcement would not be necessary if you and your "police department" would do your jobs.
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'The president of the United States should not feel threatened by his or her own citizens.'
No. He shouldn't. But if he does he should take appropriate action.
This whole article is a pack of damn lies.
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Trump announced from the White House on Monday that if “a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them.”
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Funny, I remember Obama closing the White House to visitors. He didn't was the lower class around...
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Regarding the tall black fences.
The White house should have Ha Ha Walls already with the area at the bottom of the wall filled with Century Plant or other really hostile spikey plants. The top of the Ha Ha should thick metal walls that normally lay down to allow a beautiful view but which could be lifted up to form a 10 foot metal wall at a moments notice. The combo of Ha Ha and wall would be extremely difficult if not impossible to cross but be beautiful when the wall is not deployed.
This should all be supplemented with extremely powerful spotlights that can be blasted at protesters making it uncomfortable for them to look towards the white house. Such lights should have bullet proof glass so they can't be shot out, and should be accompanied by fans to blow away any smoke or gasses the idiot protestors might toss.
This should have been done in the 70s under the name of beautifying hte white house by removing the unsightly fence.
[StarTribune] With Cub, Target, two Aldi stores and many small markets damaged by rioting over the past week, Longfellow and about eight other neighborhoods have nearly become a food desert.
"I consider the loss of these businesses devastating," said Melanie Majors, executive director of the Longfellow Community Council. "Besides just the food, there’s a lack of retail for diapers, formula, household goods, even clothing."
Many residents of the area shop lower-priced stores such as Aldi or dollar stores. Two of those dollar stores — including Family Dollar on Lake Street — were destroyed in last week’s looting and violence that arose after George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody. You don't say. Who could have predicted this?!?
More whining at the link. "Bad Luck"?
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Assault trucks entering your city and they won't come. Burn stores in your city and they take time (years?) to come back. Ask Antifa to bring you food.
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We'll still be expected to bail them out and we'll have Karens everywhere setting up food collection baskets, and stores and restaurants sending free food for the poor dears.
Don't worry about the cost, it'll be passed on to you.
That's what leftism is:
Break your shit or steal it, and then require you to bail them out when the consequences manifest.
It's like when the Chingchong Coms make families pay for the bullet that killed their dissident relative.
It's all about rubbing your face in your inability to do anything about it.
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^ Going to bet "social justice / civil rights" trumps quarantine religion and St. Fauci and Scarf Woman know very well they would get a heaping dose of cancel culture if they said otherwise.
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Bringin' us all together, eh, Gretchen?
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Gretchen's got a decent rack....just trying to find something positive.
The US jobless rate dropped to 13.3% in May from 14.7% in April, according to a Labor Department report on Friday
Jons also rose by 2.5 million jobs after a record plunge of 20.6 million in April
Though the unemployment rate for white Americans was 12.4 percent in May, it was 17.6 percent for Hispanics and 16.8 percent for African-Americans
Industries to see the sharpest increases in employment in May were in leisure and hospitality, construction, education and heath services, and retail trade
President Donald Trump immediately took credit for the rise in jobs just moments after the report was released
Economists had been predicting the report would reveal the unemployment rate had increased to a record 20% and about eight million jobs had been lost
The May job gain suggests that businesses have quickly been recalling workers as states have reopened their economies following weeks long lockdowns
[American Thinker] The release of the official copy of the Hennepin County, Minnesota Medical Examiner’s autopsy of George Floyd on Wednesday inspired conservative black commentator Candace Owens to live stream an18-minute video commentary that has created a firestorm of blowback — with MSM coverage from as far away as New Zealand and Australia. Pro and con discussions of Owens on social media including Twitter reached a peak on Thursday, as the first of several memorial services for Floyd, with Al Sharpton delivering the eulogy, was broadcast live from Minneapolis on all four broadcast television networks, PBS, and the three major cable news channels.
Owens’s criticism of what she termed the "martyr" status accorded to Floyd is the first high profile commentary of its kind to hit the mainstream since the death of the 46-year-old African-American man on May 25 while he has being subdued by Minneapolis police after his arrest for an alleged non-violent crime. Her video is titled "Confession: #GeorgeFloyd is neither a martyr or a hero. But I hope his family gets justice." In the video itself (most easily accessible on YouTube), apparently shot on a cell phone, Owens made it clear that "What I am saying is not any defense for [Floyd’s accused murderer] Derek Chauvin. The family of George Floyd deserves justice for the way that he died." She added, however, that "I also am not going to accept the narrative that this is the best the black community has to offer."
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Floyd is being apotheosized to the level of a saint by the left. Couldn't they have picked someone who was a better poster child? Jeebus, I saw where the guy had a long rap sheet; not a nice guy.
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That cop deserves 15-20. Even if he was knowingly passing a fake bill, it doesn't deserve an asshat sitting on your neck for 8-10 minutes till you're dead. But the victim trailer is overflowing with self interest on this one.
[An oddly unslanted article from the (Red)StarTribune] Attorneys for two former rookie Minneapolis police officers on Thursday rejected accusations that their clients aided and abetted the killing of George Floyd, casting blame instead on a senior officer who allegedly ignored his younger counterparts.
Early signs of a legal defense strategy began to emerge when former officers J Alexander Kueng, Thomas K. Lane and Tou Thao made their first court appearances in the Memorial Day killing of Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in police custody.
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...It gets better: apparently Kueng and Lane had less than thirty days on the job.
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I don't recall the details and it's been a few years, and it doesn't pop up easily in search, but I recall a rookie (?) policewoman who tried to stop her partner from abusing an arrestee and ended up being prosecuted herself and losing her job.
[NOQReport via WhatFinger - yes, I go dumpster diving so you don't have to] Former Marine Corps Judge Advocate and State Department attorney John Dowd wasn’t happy with recent remarks by General Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis regarding President Trump’s handling of the riots. The former Secretary of Defense went public with his displeasure towards the President, echoing Democratic talking points while embracing the leftist mentality of supporting protesters and defying law enforcement.
Dowd sent a letter to Mattis. He apparently copied President Trump, who subsequently posted the blistering letter on Twitter (transcript below):
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Ouch. Wow. John Dowd bores in. I was a big supporter of Mattis in earlier times. Thought he would be good as Secretary of Defense. Disappointed that he has decided to attack POTUS and support the street thugs, rioters, looters and criminal element along with the rest of the corrupt Dem Party. Apparently, he supports the coup and planned insurrection to take down the President that has been relentless and ongoing.
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OK, Mattis was a bad choice by Trump right out the gate. He is a well respected warrior general. He never married, spent his whole life dedicated to the art of war. Meaning he was single focused in war, no life balance. He steps into the political world and know as much about running a nation as my pet dog does. He is way out of his swim lane and out of line. A great General, a terrible statesman.
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Note to Mattis - Eisenhower won his war, McClellan did not.
[21st Century Wire] As the threat of COVID-19 quickly fades from foreground and the damage from governments’ experimental panic-driven ’lockdown’ measures, some experts are now asking an important question: why do different countries achieved such vastly different results in terms of fatalities due to Coronavirus?
The answers to this question will undoubtedly destroy official claims that the COVID lockdown was somehow science-based, let alone justified.
As it turns out, a large percentage of the population were never susceptible to this virus.
In other words, something unknown that was discovered as a result of the research done because nobody outside China knew anything about the new virus that was suddenly killing large numbers of people in China...and China was lying about what they did know.
In other words: the threat was completely overblown, and lockdown and social distancing policies have never been based in reality.
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"Genetics suspected." Could anyone possibly identify the targeted population group(s).
I recommend equal burden sharing and sacrifice, it's the only 'fair' thing to do. Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and privileged, wellness plagued hamlets everywhere, please 'take a knee' and get on board.
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It isn’t fair to use the latest learnings to castigate decisions made before anything was known. The news coming out of China and then Italy at the beginning made it look like we had another Black Plague or Spanish Flu on our hands. Only a concentrated research and testing effort around the world revealed that the situation was actually as good as our best hopes, not as bad as our worst fears. But until the research started coming in we could not know.
Just as with the Ebola epidemic, we are learning all sorts of things about this specific disease and disease processes in general that contradict common medical wisdom accepted for a century or more. Not to mention that we were able to move quickly to try treatments like hydroxychloroquine because of research done during the SARS and MERS scares, and current research results will be applicable to many more diseases that cause similar inflammatory responses. How many lives will be saved in the future just by turning deep-lung pneumonia patients onto their stomachs, for instance, instead of leaving them on their backs?
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Not so, tw: in early March we already had the Diamond Princess data which both the WHO and CDC reviewed (and tested) and which told us the Case Fatality Rate was never going to be higher than 0.3%.
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Isn't the virus said to effect blacks at 4 times the rate of whites? Somebody thinking of real-estate in the Congo...
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Lex, even at .3% you could still be looking at 990K dead if the whole country was infected. In a normal 90 day period the US should see 716K deaths. This is based on the estimated population of 330 as per the US Census Bureau and the mortality rate of 8.8 per 1000 per year.
330M/365 x (8.8/1000) x 90. We should see 7,916 deaths nation wide from all causes any an average day. What I want to know have the C-19 attributed deaths been in addition to this amount, supplemental or part of the noral amount. And that I have not found a good answer for. Also given the way C-19 kills its host via blood clots it's still not something to take lightly. As to masks. A mask is not going to do a complete job of protecting you. But if you are infected even if you are asymptomatic it should reduce your chance of infecting others. Not 100% but if it helps reduce the chance of infecting others. Personally I think ig an individual knows they are infected and goes out in public unasked knowing they will infect others that at a minimum is reckless endangerment. If you do it knowing it will cause deaths from I faction then its Manslaughter or worse. Our rights, my rights, everybody's rights extend as far as our noses. Our rights to life, liberty, speech, religious freedom, self protection etc also come with unstated but implied responsibilities
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First of all, we don't know if the finding is true, or another a$$hole jumping the gun. Given the worldwide statistics of infection & mortality, I bet on an a$$hole.
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Cheaderhead - only 16% of the Diamond Princess passengers & crew were infected. Absent gross incompetence - such as we saw in NYC - and with sensible precautions but not a complete lockdown, there was no way that this was ever going to infect and kill more than a typical nasty flu strain would.
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*Shrug* The Antifa people are indoors as well -- when you are catered to the Revolution™ in a SUV fully stocked with designer water a downpour takes all the fun out of the Class Struggle™.
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The lockdown does work at reducing the number of infections NOW, but it really only defers them until it is lifted or the germ gets through the cracks - unless safe and effective vaccines or treatments are developed and deployed before the lockdown is lifted. Or at least that’s how it looks to me - what do I have wrong?
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Whether or not we should have locked down in the first place is not an interesting question. Whether or not there is any justification to continue a lock down is very interesting indeed.
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Tijuana and Mexicali were overwhelmed. They already had sub-par med services and the numbers arriving last month were huge. There hasn't been much news in San Diego media lately, so it may have abated - but to what extent, I don't know
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[BearingArms] A day after a county prosecutor in Omaha, Nebraska announced that a bar owner who shot and killed a protester who was attacking him wouldn’t face charges, the same official reversed course and says he’ll now be referring the case to a grand jury.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said Wednesday he will petition a grand jury to look at evidence in the James Scurlock case.
Scurlock, an unarmed 22-year-old black man and protester, was shot and killed by Omaha bar owner Jake Gardner, early Saturday morning.
Kleine said he believed Gardner, who is white, feared for his life when he shot Scurlock, who jumped on top of Gardner after the bar owner had already fired two shots.
Gardner had an expired concealed carry license, which makes his carrying a misdemeanor offense. That would be charged by the city attorney, as opposed to the county prosecutor. The grand jury will be looking at whether or not Gardner committed a crime when he shot James Scurlock, but Kleine laid out the evidence, or lack thereof, when he briefed reporters on Monday.
Scurlock and others could be seen speaking with the business owner in front of The Hive Saturday night after one of the members of the group had shoved the man’s father to the ground.
The man, who Kleine initially did not name but later confirmed was Jake Gardner, is seen backing away from the group and Scurlock, asking them to leave him alone and not to damage his business. Gardner lifted his shirt to display a handgun in his waistband.
The group attacked Gardner and they fell into a puddle on the street in front of the bar. Gardner grabbed his gun and fired two shots, which caused one member to run away from Gardner.
Scurlock was seen tackling Gardner from behind while Gardner was trying to stand. Gardner later told police Scurlock had him in a chokehold and witnesses said they heard Gardner say “Get off me” several times.
Gardner fired one shot which struck Scurlock in the collarbone. He died after being taken to Nebraska Medical Center.
“The bar owner was interviewed with lawyers present. He said the first shot was a warning shot. He said Scurlock jumped on him and he was scared Scurlock was going to take his gun. He fired in self-defense. He was scared he would lose his life or severe bodily injury,” Kleine said.
Gardner was in police custody from Saturday night to Sunday night at Omaha Police Headquarters.
“He has shown he has a gun. He made it clear he was armed. He said when someone was on top of him that they said they were going to kill him,” Kleine said.
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This kind of thing helps define my feelings about crossing the line of departure with the commies. In the end, nobody likes the Red guards not even their masters once their purpose has been served. But I don't relish the idea of cleaning out the snake pit only to be called to account once I've done somebody else's dirty work.
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The modern Woke Inquisition does not tolerate heresy, and is ruthlessly destroying any appearance of sympathy for those who are not true believers. Be aware my Rantburg friends, we are being rapidly defined as heretics in the modern social context and the Inquisitors at Antifa and BLM are sharpening their tools. The time for reasoned discourse is ending and we suffer from the inertia of generations of civility and belief in a complex system that has eroded deeply while we slept or looked outward in a globalist agenda. We must return to a hemispheric, regionalist awakening and housekeeping is needed if we are to mend the broken things that are at every level of our nation. The globalist post WWI superpower role has broken far too much of our core strengths that we took for granted and are now seeing erupting like the lesions of deep national illness. I always had faith in the credo that we can achieve anything, we are Americans, but that in hindsight was silly, our enormous successes as the acme of western civilization and the genius of our founding fathers has been spent!
[Rudaw] The Ottoman Turkish government will allow non-commercial traffic through the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing with the Kurdistan Region this week after more than three months of closure due to the spread of COVID-19, said Ottoman Turkish trade minister on Wednesday.
The minister did not mention who would be allowed through the border, or on what day it would be reopened. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is yet to announce whether it will be allowing traffic through on its side.
Ankara confirmed the first case of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... on March 11 but closed its border for passengers and vehicles traffic with the Kurdistan Region on March 1, when the virus was initially identified in the Region.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... "contactless" trade between Ankara and Erbil has continued, where containers, trailers and drivers have been exchanged at the buffer zone between the Ottoman Turkish side of the border, Habur, and the Kurdish side of the border, Ibrahim Khalil.
"I bring you good tidings today," said Ottoman Turkish trade minister Ruhsar Pekcan in an interview with state-owned media agency TRT Haber on Wednesday. "Only our Habur and Gurbulak border crossings remain closed. Inshallah, we are going to reopen both this week."
Gurbulak is the most important border crossing between Turkey and Iran.
Ibrahim Khalil is the only border crossing between Turkey and the Kurdistan Region used for trade. Another crossing near Barzan, used for non-commercial traffic, has been closed due to the pandemic.
Baghdad also relies on Ibrahim Khalil for trade with Turkey. The trade between both countries amounts to around $10 billion, and both Turkey and Iraq have expressed readiness to double it.
The decision to reopen comes amid a dramatic decrease of coronavirus cases in Turkey as it steps towards a "new normal" as termed by Ottoman Turkish officials.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled...... Iraq recorded its highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths recorded in a single day since the onset of the pandemic, confirming 8,168 cases and 256 deaths so far. Of this, 851 cases and 14 deaths have been recorded in the Kurdistan Region.
Ankara has recorded 166,422 cases of COVID-19 and 4,609 deaths so far, according to data shared by the Ottoman Turkish health ministry.
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[Rudaw] The discovery of an illegal prison at the Afrin headquarters of a Ottoman Turkish-backed armed force has added to a mounting list of accusations of unchecked lawlessness in opposition-controlled areas of Syria.
A video published by Aleppo Today TV, an opposition-leaning Syrian broadcaster, appeared to show a group of at least eight women in the custody of the security forces at what was described by local sources to Rudaw English as a former cop shoppe in Afrin, currently being used as a headquarters by the Hamza Division of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).
"The women were in a pitiful state, which no laws, norms or human values would find acceptable," read a statement signed by a number of human rights
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Illegal? Didn't they get the permits first?
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[Rudaw] A father is at death's door after surviving an attack that killed his three sons in Diyala province's Jalawla town on Thursday, a Kurdish official told Rudaw. The attack is suspected to have been carried out by remnant holdouts of 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 (ISIS).
As Hussein Ismael was on his way to tend to his orchard in the village of Sheikh Baba, he found himself surrounded by button men, Shamal Abdulrahman, head security official for the district of Kolajo told Rudaw.
Neighboring towns in Diyala province, Kolajo is under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government, while Jalawla is disputed between Erbil and Baghdad’s rule.
"The ISISgunnies ambushed him, engaging in a fight with them. He was maimed," Abdulrahman told Rudaw news hound Halo Mohammed.
Surrounded and maimed, he reached out to his three sons. "They tried to help their father — but they all ended up being killed," Abdulrahman said.
Sheikh Baba is a predominantly inhabited by Sunni Arabs. The villagers are heavily reliant on livestock, groves and orchards. Formerly controlled by ISIS gunnies as part of their self-declared caliphate, Jalawla saw some of the heaviest battles between Kurdish Peshmerga forces in 2014 until its recapture by the end of that year.
[ToloNews] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... initiated on average 30 attacks on the Afghan cops each day after the Eid-ul-Fitr ceasefire, sources within the Afghan government said on Thursday amid persistent calls by the international community for the Taliban to extend the ceasefire. Initially, there was hope that the Eid ceasefire would be extended to help facilitate the intra-Afghan talks.
According to the sources, the Afghan forces also suffered casualties as a result of these attacks.
Violence has sky-rocketed following the US-Taliban agreement signed in late February in Doha, but in an unexpected move, the Taliban on Saturday (May 22) announced a three-day ceasefire with the Afghan government on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
In response, 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 the following day pledged to release 2,000 more Taliban prisoners and to focus on furthering peace efforts.
The Afghan government has been pressing the Taliban to abandon further violence to help pave the way for intra-Afghan talks.
The Afghan government so far has not provided any details about the exact numbers of casualties among Afghan forces after the ceasefire.
"A significant reduction of violence or a ceasefire will help us to proceed with the next steps, which include the start of direct negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban," said Sediq Sediqqi, a front man to President Ashraf Ghani.
In the latest incident, the Taliban launched an attack on government forces’ checkpoints in the Hesarak district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
"The armed opponents initiated a group attack on the checkpoints that resulted in the martyrdom of three local police personnel and the injury of another," said Attaullah Khogyani, a front man for Nangarhar governor.
"There is war in Pashtun-infested Logar every moment," said Nafisa Hejran, a member of Pashtun-infested Logar's provincial council.
Experts believe that the continuation of violence and war could put the process of the prisoners' swap and grinding of the peace processor into jeopardy.
"If the ceasefire is broken by either side, this will be a serious blow to the grinding of the peace processor," said Mir Haidar Afzali, the head of the Afghan parliament’s defense commission.
On Wednesday, May 27, the day after Eid, the Afghan forces launched an air strike in the central province of Zabul, which, according to sources, targeted the bad boys. In retaliation, the Taliban also launched a series of attacks on parts of Farah, Parwan and Paktia province targeting Afghan forces.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan government established the new Command of the Joint Forces in a bid to root out the terror cells and criminal gangs in Kabul.
Tariq Arian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, said the new Command of the Joint Forces will root out the scattered cells of the terrorist groups as well as criminal networks in the capital.
This comes as criminal incidents are on the rise parallel to terrorist attacks in Kabul city.
The holy warriors carried out numerous attacks in Kabul city lately including an attack in Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan mosque located in the diplomatic part of the city.
The explosion killed a prominent religious figure Mawlavi Ayaz Niazi who was also serving as the prayer leader of the mosque, sparking an outcry on domestic and international level.
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The strikes on Thursday, attributed to Israel by Syrian media, are the first since Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz began serving as Defense Minister. Earlier this week Gantz visited Northern Israel along with IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, the Head of the Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Amir Baram, the Commander of the 210th Division Brig.-Gen. Amit Fisher and other senior officers.
Chicago-area patients struggle to get medications as pharmacies close
[MSN] Many reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... ans are scrambling to get essential medications because of pharmacy closures amid unrest over the death of George Floyd, and the problem is particularly acute on the city’s South Side.
At least 60 Chicago-area pharmacies have been damaged or closed in recent days, according to one estimate from the Illinois Pharmacists Association. CVS Health said at least 42 of its Chicago-area stores were closed in recent days, though that number was down to 30 by Wednesday. Many of them are in the Loop and South Side.
Walgreens front man Phil Caruso did not disclose how many stores have been damaged or closed. But community members and leaders report widespread closures of Walgreens on the South Side.
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So if Antifa is an international organization, with its headquarters outside the US, maybe we could send in the Christians to work it internationally and turn a blind eye as MI6 works it here. Problem solved...
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#Libya- interesting weapons #GNA captured from #LNA: - Brand new still in box (with a couple more there) FN-6 MANPADS - about 10 (possibly more) 9M133 Kornet/AT-14 Spriggan missiles - Dozens of SPG rounds - countless more crates of weapons&ammo pic.twitter.com/paiNYeglXt
[BIZPACREVIEW] A shocking undercover video by Project Veritas exposes Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... ’s chilling plot to destroy America from the inside-out and to harass and provoke Trump supporters in the process. Project Veritas is an independent media outlet founded by James O’Keefe.
In the four-minute exposé, an Antifa operative reveals that he was with the Rose City Park, Oregon branch of the domestic terrorist organization for some time. He has since left the group.
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MSM will be right on this one, they're just waiting for an update on the ice-storms in hell.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Police in Tehran confirmed on Wednesday the arrest of the Iranian parkour athlete and photographer Alireza Japalaghy for kissing his girlfriend on a roof and posting the footage on his popular Instagram page.
The Tehran police chief said that "we will soon arrest his girlfriend too."
Japalaghy was arrested on Monday, according to his brother.
In the footage, Japalaghy is seen wearing shorts while shirtless while kissing a woman who wears shorts and a sports bra. Japalaghy posted the photo, entitled "The Dawn Of Tehran," on his Instagram page, which has over 100,000 followers.
The Iranian regime-controlled Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported that Tehran Police Chief Sardar Hossein Rahimi said "we are not against sports."
He added, "parkour is also a good, fun and fun sport, but we oppose the norm-breaking, vulgar and inappropriate behavior of him and his entourage, and the police and the judiciary will certainly deal decisively with this person and his entourage."
Parkour is sport that aims to get from one point to another using running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping and other body movements.
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#Libya- #GNA captured the airfield west of Fam Molga with at least 3 helicopters (AW190?) and possibly a 4th, Mi-35 (still not confirmed it's the same location) along with a lot of ammo.
#Egypt- #ISIS claim engaging army forces (and later naval vessels that arrived to assist) near Rafah, North #Sinai with "heavy weapons", resulting in 1 officer&2 soldiers killed, others wounded pic.twitter.com/nuqhKBXcLD
Syracuse, NY Imam Khadar Bin Muhammad: Protests Do Not Help And We Cannot Win an Armed Resistance So We Should Move Back to Africa and Hurt the U.S. Economically pic.twitter.com/DduR1aP9gg
[NBCNews] "It's not that the analysis itself was done wrong," Culver said. "It's just they don't have the data in that database to account for what they need to account for."
"A first-year statistics major could tell you about major flaws in the design of the analysis."
India's Study of HCQ:works very well as a prophylaxsis for health care workers from the abstract:
[Indian Journal of Medical Research] Consumption of four or more maintenance doses of HCQ was associated with a significant decline in the odds of getting infected. IMO - a few minor flaws in the study but the significance of the findings outweigh them by far
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a dose-response relationship existed between frequency of exposure to HCQ and such reductions.
The thing to look for when establishment fakes clinical trials.
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the Oxford study on HCQ was for people already hospitalized
other studies have also found hcq isn't the right treatment for those people
hcq is, per the Yale study, the right treatment for outpatients, that is people who are positive and have mild symptoms - the point is to keep people from being hospitalized
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New England J of Medicine has retracted its hcq study. The study used as a data source the same sketchy company that the lancet study used but no formal statement from the NE J of M is available yet.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... on Thursday said he condemns the White House for suppression of protesters and considers President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... 's posing with the bible in front of a church "before ordering the killing of U.S. citizens a shameful act". Also known as "Projection"
Rouhani's accusation about Trump "ordering the killing" of protesters seems to be a deliberate misrepresentation of reality. Trump did threaten to deploy the U.S. military to stop looting and violence but even that was later opposed by Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
"We express sympathy toward the American people who are on the streets and condemn the White House for ordering the crime [against people of color]," Rouhani said at a national project inauguration ceremony at the Ministry of energy.
Referring to President Trump's appearance in front of a church with the Bible in his hand the Iranian President said, "The Bible is the holy book of an Abrahamic religion and such a view to it angers [the followers of] all Abrahamic religions [including Islam] because they all respect the Bible and Jesus," he added.
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Just assuming the Orange Man continues the policy of Obean?
[FOXNEWS] The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday voted to authorize subpoenas to the FBI and other agencies for records and testimony from Obama-era officials related to the bureau’s original Russia investigation and the Justice Department inspector general’s review of that probe.
The committee voted 8-6 to give Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the authority to send subpoenas as part of the panel’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe and the process of "unmasking."
The committee authorized subpoenas to the FBI for the production of all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane Investigation—the bureau’s internal code name for the Russia probe, which began in July 2016.
The subpoenas would cover all records made available to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz for his review of the Russia probe and alleged misconduct surrounding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant approvals to surveil members of the Trump campaign.
The committee also authorized subpoenas to the State Department for the production of records related to meetings or communications between State Department officials or employees with ex-British Intelligence officer Remington Christopher Steele, who compiled the now-infamous anti-Trump dossier which served as much of the basis for the FISA warrant applications to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The subpoenas would cover documents from June 2016 through January 2017.
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Should we go after a Shadow President and Veep as well? Is that on the table?
[JSONLINE] The Madison-based nonprofit has advocated for the release of all African Americans from jail and the defunding of police departments. As for the current protests, the group's leaders say "all actions against racist state violence are justified."
"Stop murdering black people, and your glass will be safe," Monica Adams, co-executive director for Freedom Inc., said while leading the third day of police protests in the state's capital on Monday.
"Thank all the youth freedom fighters who were in the streets fighting (Sunday) night and Saturday night," said Mahnker Dahnweih, community power-building coordinator for Freedom Inc. "Every action is a contribution to liberation."
So where does a group like this get the money it needs to promote its agenda?
A lot of it comes from you.
Records show that the state has awarded contracts and grants worth $3.6 million to Freedom Inc., which advocates for minority and LGBTQ communities, over the past five years.
That includes $876,674 in federal grants awarded by the state Department of Justice since January 2019, when Attorney General Josh Kaul took office. The state Department of Children and Families has paid out $732,403 to Freedom Inc. under Gov. Tony Evers over the past 1½ years.
That's a lot of money for an organization that reported a total budget of $3.3 million in 2018, according to federal tax records. Freedom Inc.'s income has increased tenfold since 2014, when it reported revenue of just $311,670.
Adams' salary has doubled in the past few years. She reported earning an annual paycheck of $104,230 in 2018 — up from $52,154 two years prior.
The group has a net fund balance exceeding $2 million.
It lists its purpose on tax forms as trying to "achieve social justice through coupling direct services with leadership development and community organizing."
State Sen. Steve Nass, a Whitewater Republican, said he was concerned that state tax dollars may be going to help Freedom Inc.'s "radical" political agenda. He called on the governor and attorney general, both Democrats, to investigate.
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Defunding police departments. Many blue cities are talking about this as a possibility. Also known as capitulation to the thug element. Not a good idea. Hmmmn, What could possibly go wrong?
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Ingomar200 has some pretty good vids on tsunami with analysis of wave heights. Look at Goggle Earth at the seabed surrounding volcanic islands. Often they are surrounded by collapses littered with chunks of these islands. And it will happen again. These flank collapses are probably the greatest potential tsunami threat in terms of height and damage outside of an impact event.
[APNEWS] An Alaska man accused of laundering $1 billion held in South Korea for 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... funneled nearly all the money through the United Arab Emirates, U.S. federal court documents released early Thursday show.
The court documents, filed as part of a U.S. asset seizure effort, shed further light on how Kenneth Zong allegedly created fake invoices to help Iran draw cash held by South Korea in lieu of payment for oil shipments.
It also renewed questions about financial transparency in the UAE, as the order sought to seize $20 million held by one of the country’s seven emirates.
Zong helped Iran by creating fake invoices for construction material, using them to convince South Korean banks and regulators to release the money, federal prosecutors said. In April, the Industrial Bank of Korea agreed to pay $86 million in fines over failing to stop the laundering, federal prosecutors in New York said.
Zong, earlier convicted of criminal charges in South Korea over the scheme, was due to be released from prison in March, though U.S. federal prosecutors said it was likely he’d be held there until he paid a fine of millions of dollars.
No lawyer was listed for Zong in the U.S. court filings. Federal prosecutors want to extradite him to stand trial in the U.S. as well.
Of the money laundered, nearly all of it flowed into the United Arab Emirates, a U.S.-allied federation of seven sheikhdoms home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. War profiteers, terror financiers and narcos sanctioned by the U.S. in recent years have used Dubai’s real-estate market as a haven for their assets, one report found.
While saying efforts have been made to improve the UAE’s financial controls, the Gay Paree-based Financial Action Task Force in April warned that the country’s "limited number of money laundering prosecutions and convictions, particularly in Dubai, are a concern given the country’s risk profile."
In announcing the forfeiture effort, U.S. federal prosecutors thanked authorities in Dubai and in Ras al-Khaimah, another emirate whose sovereign wealth fund holds the sought-after $20 million.
That money ended up there as part of a plan by three Iranians later sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury to buy a hotel owned by the fund in the nation of Georgia. That deal was engineered by an Iranian-American gunrunner with ties to the CIA who was not named in the U.S. court documents.
Officials in Ras al-Khaimah did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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#Egypt’s prosecutor-general brings criminal charges against a father for the genital mutilation of his three daughters, while likewise charging a physician who allegedly performed the illegal procedure.#FGMhttps://t.co/0XwzP63JCo
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 4, 2020
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[BIZPACREVIEW] White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany fact-checked CNN chief White House correspondent Ace Newshound Jim Acosta ...CNN's showboating White House correspondent... this Wednesday after he spewed a blatant lie at her.
The lie was the fallacious and already debunked claim that the Trump administration had "gassed and pummeled protesters" prior to President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s "powerful" walk to St. John’s Church earlier this week.
To make matters worse, he spewed the lie while referencing deceased civil rights hero and legend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Kayleigh, you mentioned Dr. King. He likely would not have approved of what took place on Monday evening across from the White House as you probably know," Acosta said.
"If the White House president and his team had to do it all over again, would you have gassed and pummeled protesters to clear the park so the president could have a photo op?"
What actually happened was that, in response to "protesters" hurling projectiles at the authorities while demonstrating at Lafayette Square, the U.S. Park Police issued three warnings. After the "protesters" failed to heed them, the Park Police used smoke canisters and pepper balls to stop the attacks and move the "protesters" elsewhere.
All this happened before the president even began his reportedly spontaneous walk to St. John’s Church, which is located in Lafayette Square.
Moreover, according to McEnany, the USPP had been planning to relocate the "protesters" elsewhere since early that morning.
"First, I would note that these protests that were going on, in the morning, [Attorney General] Barr had determined that we needed to expand the perimeter by one block on each side," she tried to explain to Acosta, who’s known for his stubbornness.
"He was surprised, AG Barr, when he arrived at the White House, to see that that perimeter had not been moved. So, we said that we needed to get going with moving that perimeter. He told the officers that were out there. That was the late afternoon, so that decision was made in the morning, first of all."
The decision to relocate the perimeter was based on what had happened the night earlier, when so-called "protesters" tried to burn down St. John’s Church.
Now does seem like a good time to get this swept under the rug.
[SUN] VICTIMS of paedophile Jeffrey Epstein can apply for a payout from his estate — if they give up their right to sue his alleged co-conspirators.
A compensation fund, supported by the late tycoon’s £500million fortune, has been approved by a Virgin Islands Superior Court judge
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Perhaps a good starting point might be an examination of the Lolita Express flight manifests, tracking social networks and countries of origin. Just thinking out loud.
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Still trying to cover up the mess around Epstein? Must be a lot of well-connected big wigs involved in Pedo*** Island, ranch and other environs. I'm thinking Ghislaine is laying low as she does not want to end up like Epstein.
Federal authorities should have a ton of evidence that they obtained from Little St. John's Island and other places. Where are the pilot(s) who ferried passengers to this island? Blackmail videos?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley on Thursday said he would seek to block two of Donald Trump’s nominees in response to the president’s firing of two inspectors general, citing the need for "checks and balances."
Grassley has been pressing the White House to provide a rationale for Trump’s decision to dismiss the intelligence community’s inspector general and his counterpart at the State Department, and has said responses from the White House have fallen short.
In statements submitted to the congressional record, Grassley said he would block any request for unanimous consent in the Senate to approve Christopher Miller to head the National Counterterrorism Center without an explanation for Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson’s dismissal.
Similarly, he said he would seek to block approval of the nomination of Marshall Billingslea to be an undersecretary at the State Department absent an explanation for the termination of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
Agency inspectors general are charged with guarding against illegal conduct and mismanagement.
Their job is meant to be nonpartisan, but a president has a right to remove them for any reason. U.S. law requires a president to notify Congress within 30 days of such action.
Linick became the fourth government watchdog dismissed by the Republican president in recent months when he was fired on May 15, leading to charges from Democrats that Trump was moving against internal critics.
In an interview with members of Congress on Wednesday, Linick confirmed he was fired while investigating the declaration of a "national emergency" to justify arms sales to Saudi Arabia, lawmakers said.
"All I want is a reason 4 (for) firing these ppl (people)," Grassley said in a tweet.
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Grassley has been pressing the White House to provide a rationale for Trump’s decision to dismiss the intelligence community’s inspector general and his counterpart at the State Department, and has said responses from the White House have fallen short.
A better question would be: "What role did these IGs have in the coup to take down POTUS?"
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Linick, appointed to his post in September 2013, oversaw the cover-up of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
His May 2016 report was critical of Clinton,noting the Secretary failed to inform key department staff regarding her use of a private server. No punishment resulted.
#Syria: 1st photo showing the military base destroyed tonight by #Israel|i airstrikes in outskirts of #Masyaf, few km from the S-400 & S-300 air defense systems. pic.twitter.com/vmNNjGM9TV
Syrian forces fire anti-aircraft systems in response to an Israeli attack in the western province of #Hama, state media reports.#Syria#Israelhttps://t.co/gJ0diPPnii
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 4, 2020
Nine Syria regime loyalists killed in Israeli air strikes: Monitor
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least nine fighters loyal to the Syrian regime, including four Syrians, were killed during Israeli air raids late Thursday in the Hama province a central region controlled by the Syrian army and Iranians, a monitor group said.
Those killed were either "part of the regime forces or (allied) Iranian forces," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The toll of nine dead could rise as some people were seriously injured in the raids, it added.
Syrian forces fired anti-aircraft systems in response to the deadly Israeli attack in Hama, the Observatory reported.
There were explosions and an unspecified number of casualties in the Masyaf area, after an Israeli air raid against regime positions, the group reported.
"The area is under the Syrian army’s control and Iranians are present there," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
He said the target was a factory and research center producing short-range surface-to-surface rockets.
"Our air defense systems responded to an Israeli attack over Masyaf in rural Hama," state news agency SANA reported.
#BREAKING: J&K DGP Dilbag Singh tells me: ‘One terrorist killed in the ongoing encounter at Mehari Kalakote Rajouri. Arms Ammunition recovered. Identify of the slain terrorist not known. Could be a Pakistani. Further details being verified’. https://t.co/YViLbNS0xV
[ALMASDARNEWS] A senior North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n official expressed their country’s dissatisfaction with the dispatch of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border in South Korea, waving the possibility of canceling the inter-Korean military agreement.
The younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Yo jung, first vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party, issued a statement on Thursday, saying that North Korea warns of a full withdrawal from the Gaeseong Joint Industrial Complex after stopping the tours to Mount Kumgang, according to the newspaper "Rodong Shinmun" of the ruling Labor Party.
She stated that South Korea cannot say that it does not know what is included in the terms of the Panmunjom Declaration and the inter-Korean military agreement regarding the pledge to suspend all provocative actions on the military border, warning that South Korea should expect to face the worst crisis soon, if it permits.
These actions were carried out on the pretext of individual freedom and freedom of expression, while this year celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the June 15 inter-Korean declaration.
It called on the South to enact a law prohibiting the sending of anti-North Korean publications or campaigning to seize these publications.
In the statement, Kim referred to a civilian group of North Korean defectors, who on May 31 sent anti-North Korean leaflets across the border.
On May 31, the Fighters for a Free North Korea, a civilian organization made up of North Korean refugees stationed in South Korea, sent 500,000 publications, 50 brochures, 2,000 US dollars and 1,000 cross-border memory cards to North Korea.
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Korean women tend to be dominating. Some Chinese women also. Japanese women are traditionally passive. Have done business with 2 South Korean women and one Chinese Mandarin woman. All were very interesting experiences.
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Some Korean women are domineering, but I think that is mostly those in a privileged position. The Samsung executive wives I knew in Germany told of being told to stand still and cry when the boys teased, instead of trying to fight back, because almost all the boys in South Korea get martial arts training. And they lost their own identity upon marriage, becoming known to all as X’s wife thereafter, attaining a new identity as First child’s mom once a child arrived. Only immediate family and childhood friends knew their names, my ladies being thrilled by the intimacy that I ignorantly demanded the first time I met the group.
Perhaps it was only because they were the wives of senior executives, but my ladies also dropped everything to cater to the needs of their husbands’ careers, relying on one another to babysit children when suddenly called upon to attend business dinners, for example.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian warplanes carried out a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the positions of the foreigner-led Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) in the northwestern countryside of Hama and neighboring Latakia.
According to a field source in the Latakia Governorate, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) unleashed a big attack along the northwestern axis of Hama, hitting a jihadist base inside the town of al-Sirmaniyeh.
The source said the Syrian Air Force would then expand their assault to the Latakia Governorate, where they repeatedly bombed the Turkestan Islamic Party’s positions inside the key mountaintop town of Kabani.
He would add that the Syrian Air Force has made the decision to heavily concentrate on this region of Syria after a string of attacks against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Russian military.
A new report from northwestern Syria also claimed that approximately 1,500 gunnies from TIP, Hurras al-Deen group, 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) went towards the seam lines in Jabal al-Zawiya and Sahel al-Ghab, after they moved their families to the areas near the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border.
With these latest airstrikes on the Idlib-Hama-Latakia border triangle, it appears that the Syrian military is preparing to launch a new attack on this imperative region of northwestern Syria.
It is noteworthy to mention that the Syrian Armed Forces have repeatedly attempted to capture the town of Kabani in northeastern Latakia; however, all of their offensives have been repelled by the jihadist rebels there.
[NYPOST] Two weeks ago, the men and women of the NYPD were being hailed as heroes. As first responders in the war on the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , they and their FDNY brothers, the EMTs, doctors, nurses, bus drivers, subway workers and essential personnel who kept the city open were applauded for their courage in helping to keep New York running during the lockdown.
This was done at no small risk to themselves and their families. Six NYPD members contracted the virus and died; thousands more became sick.
New York City is the epicenter of the disease, leading the nation by far in COVID-19 infections and deaths. Each encounter with a civilian or even another co-worker could expose a cop to the disease.
Yet the cops reported to work each day, climbed into their radio cars and patrolled the streets of this city, as they do every day. They did their job.
And it’s a job that cannot be done from home, as so many others were able to do. There is no way to telecommute to a person in need, a lost child or a robbery in progress.
Police work has always, and will always, be hands-on, up close and personal. Cops cannot social-distance from a person they are helping or a perp they’re arresting.
It was nice to see this dedication by first responders acknowledged by the public. Alas, I knew it would not last.
After 9/11, there was an outpouring of support and appreciation for the NYPD and FDNY. The sacrifice made by those who rushed into the burning towers, never to return, would not be forgotten. Or so it seemed.
Even as hundreds of first responders die each year from ailments acquired from working on "The Pile," the memories of their service, for many, have faded.
The events taking place in the city over the last few nights signal that the sacrifices made by the NYPD in the COVID-19 war have also been suddenly forgotten.
Last June, I wrote in these pages of my apprehension as the new criminal-justice reforms were to take effect. The closing of Rikers Island, no bail even for serious felonies and the non-prosecution of "quality of life" crimes, I warned, could return New York to the crime-ridden days of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.
Yet I had no idea that flip would come so soon — practically overnight, with the emergence of the troubling George Floyd video.
The looting, arson and attacks on cops displayed over the past nights remind me of reading about the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863, riots so bad President Abraham Lincoln had to order Union troops, fresh from the Gettysburg battlefield, to New York, to put them down.
Our NYPD is now waging a two-pronged war: one against the coronavirus and a second against those looking to destroy the city and creating nights of terror for many New Yorkers.
On Wednesday, Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted, "This is what our cops are up against: Organized looters, strategically placing caches of bricks & rocks at locations throughout NYC." It’s the urban version of war.
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What is the current status of the plandemic? Is it petering out? There are mixed reports on this.
[Mises.org] There were many reasons to oppose the COVID-19 lockdowns.
They cost human lives in terms of deferred medical treatment. They cost human lives in terms of greater suicide and drug overdoses. Domestic abuse and child abuse have increased. Not according to San Diego County Law enforcement, which is based on , you know, FACTS and data.
There is also good reason to believe that lockdowns don't actually work. The lockdown activists capitalized on media-stoked fear to push their authoritarian agenda based not on science, but on the whims of a handful of experts who insisted that they need not present any actual evidence that their bizarre, draconian, and extreme scheme was worth the danger posed to human rights, health, and the economic well-being of billions of human beings.
Skipping down to the new stuff, though it is really an argument about execution, not locking down per se:
THE LOCKDOWNS EMPOWERED THE POLICE STATE
The lockdowns have created a situation in which millions of law-abiding citizens have been deemed criminals merely for seeking to make a living, leave their homes, or engage in peaceful trade.
In many areas, violations of the lockdown orders have been‐or even still are, in many places‐treated as criminal acts by police. This has greatly increased negative interactions between police and citizens who by no moral definition are criminals of any sort.
Many have already seen the stories: police arresting mothers for using playground equipment, police arresting business owners for using their own property, police beating people for the "crime" of standing on a sidewalk.
Complicating the issue is the apparent fact that police have not enforced social distancing edicts "uniformly." Some have alleged, for example, that the NYPD has lopsidedly targeted nonwhites in enforcement:
of the 40 people arrested [for social distancing violations in Brooklyn between March 17 and May 4], 35 were African American, 4 were Hispanic and 1 was white. The arrests were made in neighborhoods‐Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Cypress Hills and East New York‐which have large concentrations of blacks and Latinos.
This may or may not reflect the reality of the general situation, but the fact is that the lockdowns created the perception among many that this is just yet another case of law enforcement targeting certain populations over small-time violations.
Moreover, it is quite plausible that lower-income populations have more often been on the receiving end of state harassment in the name of social distancing. After all, compliance with lockdowns is something of a luxury reserved for higher-income, white-collar residents who can work from home and remain comfortable for long periods in their roomy houses. Working-class people and those with fewer resources are far more likely to need to find income and venture outside during lockdowns. This attracts the attention of police.
Lockdown advocates, apparently in their usual state of extreme naïvete, perhaps believed that further empowering police to violently enforce government decrees against petty infractions would not lead to any unfortunate side effects down the road. Yet criminalizing millions of Americans and subjecting them to heightened police harassment is not a recipe for social tranquility.
Worsening a Volatile Situation
Of course, my comments here should not be interpreted as making excuses for rioters. Smashing up the property of innocent small business owners‐or worse, physically harming innocent people‐is reprehensible in all circumstances. But this isn't about making excuses. We're talking about avoiding extreme and immoral government policies (i.e., police-enforced lockdowns) that remove those institutions and conditions which are important in helping minimize conflict.
Some may insist that the riots would have occurred no matter what, but it's easy to see how the lockdowns made a bad situation worse. Yes, some of the rioters are lifelong thugs who are always on the lookout for new opportunities to steal and maim. But experience suggests that the pool of people willing to engage in riots is often larger during periods of mass unemployment than during other periods. In addition, those people who exist on the margins of criminality‐the sorts of people for whom third places serve an important role in moderating their more antisocial tendencies‐are more likely to be swept up in these events when third places are abolished. And, as we have seen, lockdowns also create more opportunities for police abuse that ignite riots of the sort we've seen in recent days.
It's true the responsibility for the riots lies primarily with the rioters. But we cannot deny that policymakers fuel the flames of conflict when they outlaw jobs and destroy people's social support systems by cutting them off from their communities. It's also wise to not provoke people by pushing for widespread human rights violations and additional police harassment. But this is what lockdown advocates have done, and their imprudence should not be forgotten.
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Almost seems planned. What's next. Foreign money and its influence. No invasion of a nation. No blood loss. Give money to influence and subvert. This has always been done since the continental congress days.
#2
I don't think the police on the whole want to be pursuing citizens for "lockdown violations" but they are being forced by state politicians with an agenda to keep people controlled and uncomfortable hoping it will negatively affect Trump's reelection.
#8
Raj wins 'deader of the day'! 26 hours? That sucks.
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I full well anticipated a certain amount of unrest this Summer. The unfortunate event in Minneapolis just provided the spark. I actually expected the spark to happen in Milwaukee during the convention. Certain groups on the extreme left would have been on the lookout for something to react to.
[Dhaka Tribune] The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Gopalganj has arrested two people in connection with their suspected involvement in the trafficking of some of the 26 Bangladeshis who were killed in Libya on May 28.
The arrestees identified as Sentu Shikder, 45, and Nargis Begum, 40, are residents of Lohair village in Muksudpur upazila.
RAB conducted two separate drives in the upazila and arrested the suspects at 10pm on Wednesday night, said a blurb issued by Madaripur RAB camp on Thursday.
The arrests are the latest in the ongoing investigations following the murder of 26 Bangladeshis in Libya by human traffickers.
The arrestees were handed over to Muksudpur cop shoppe on Thursday. A case is being prepared for filing, under The Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act, 2012, added the release.
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During preliminary interrogation, the duo confessed to extorting ransom from families here in Bangladesh after the victims were held hostage by their ring leaders in Libya.
RAB 8 Additional Superintendent of Police Md Tazul Islam said: "The arrestees said they sent Sujon Mridha and Omar Shiekh of Muksudpur, and Kamrul Sheikh of Faridpur to Libya and were also involved in their abduction."
On May 28, a total of 26 Bangladeshi migrants colonists were shot and killed by human trafficking gangs in Libya.
Among them, Sujon Mridha was one of the murdered victims. Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... Omar Sheikh was critically injured and is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... .
Following the incident, Sujon Mridha’s father Kabul Mridha filed a case against the human traffickers with Muksudpur cop shoppe on Monday. Later on Wednesday, RAB conducted drives and arrested the suspects.
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Better...
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Bangladeshi killing in Libya: 2 more human traffickers held hung in Gopalganj
The cabinet of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) on Thursday approved a bill proposing a death penalty for those found guilty of sexually abusing children.https://t.co/OfKCLh1JFB
I am to happy announce that Navy Veteran, Michael White, who has been detained by Iran for 683 days, is on a Swiss plane that just left Iranian Airspace. We expect him to be home with his family in America very soon....
... also in our archives as Michael R. White. His mother claimed he had visited his girlfriend in Iran five or six times before being caught. She can supposedly be seen here...
[AlAhram] Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif confirmed the release of an Iranian-American imprisoned in the United States and a US Navy veteran imprisoned in Iran in a tweet on Thursday.
"Pleased that Dr. Majid Taheri and Mr. White will soon be joining their families," Zarif tweeted.
Michael White had been accused of a security-related charge in Iran and Taheri was imprisoned in the United States for violating US sanctions on Iran.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] After weeks of relative quiet, violent festivities erupted between protesters and security forces in the Iraqi city of Hilla on Tuesday, as authorities attempted to forcibly remove protesters from the city’s main square.
Muhammed al-Inzi, an Iraqi activist who has been protesting in different cities since October 2019 said that the "chaos" began as security forces attempted to storm the city’s main square, where protesters have been camped out since early May.
Protesters in responded by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
"The protests are ongoing in many parts of Iraq, but the number of protesters has decreased due to fear of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... and being kidnapped and assassinated," Inzi said from the city, situated 100 kilometers south of Baghdad.
Inzi revealed that several protesters were maimed in the festivities, but couldn’t specify how many were hurt.
Videos shared on the messaging app Telegram showed protesters throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at Humvees patrolling near the square.
According to Inzi, protesters have a simple demand: justice for death of the hundreds of protesters killed since October.
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[Sudan Tribune] Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok pledged to hold accountable the responsible for the bloody attack on the pro-democracy sit-in last year where over one hundred people were killed and hundreds injured or abused.
On Wednesday Sudanese marked the first commemoration of the brutal attack on the main site of protests outside the headquarters of the Sudanese army on 3 June.
Independent investigation reports by Sudanese and international groups point an accusing finger to the security forces particularly the Rapid Support Forces (SRF), the former National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and the Popular Defence Forces Lions of Islam of the former regime. But the official investigation committee still did not produce its findings.
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Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat: Our Only Option Is to Reject the Deal of the Century; Jared Kushner Is Ignorant and Arrogant pic.twitter.com/gMkAWPpv2g
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... was shouted down with boos and shouts of "F— you, de Blasio" when he tried to take the podium at a George Floyd protest in Brooklyn on Thursday.
"F— the mayor’s curfew!" some shouted. "Turn your back! Turn your back!" others shouted. Many in the crowd did turn their backs.
"Shut the f— up!" protesters shouted.
The heckling was so intense, the mayor kept his remarks under five minutes, and then was no longer seen on the stage.
"Black lives matter in New York," the mayor attempted to say at the protest at Cadman Plaza at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge.
"Not to you!" one heckler shouted.
The Rev. Kevin McCall, one of the organizers of the memorial, tried calm the crowd, to no avail.
Hizzoner stepped down from the podium after telling the angry crowd, "George Floyd could not have died in vain" and "We will not be about words in this city; we will be about change."
He added, "We will make peaceful change in this city."
The crowd turning their backs on de Blasio comes after police have repeatedly turned their backs on the mayor at funerals for slain officers.
#4
Forever quarantine scam is over. You will still encounter Karens whining at the grocery store about your lack of a mask, but you will not see them wading into street theater riots to preach the Gospel of St. Fauci.
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"Big Bird" has got to be worst mayor in the U.S. One has to wonder how he got elected?
I don't recall but who was he running against? Hate to think that they could be worse? IMO, any Jamoke picked at random off the street could do a better job.
A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s North Maluku province on Thursday, the country’s meteorological agency said.https://t.co/q7qscajw2a
An explosion killed a civilian and wounded three others in Kabul earlier today, the security officials said.
Officials in Kabul Police Headquarters confirmed that a roadside bomb went off in Qarabagh district earlier today, killing one civilian and wounding three others.
The officials further added that the Taliban militants had planted the roadside bomb but the group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
Four Turkish UAV drone airstrikes on a building in Gasr Bin Ghsheir late last tonight led to the death of 12 civilians. Eyewitness Mohammed Al-Lafi explains what happened. #Libya#LibyaReviewpic.twitter.com/QyOxDkxp6v
This will probably be used to recast p*****ilia as reparations.
I put nothing past these beasts.
White activist Tim Wise said on CNN that white kids "don't deserve" to claim that all white kids must have their innocence taken away from them if black kids have to be fearful of cops. https://t.co/l5NdZsQ1mt
#2
People who want to hate themselves for being white should go right ahead and do that. If they expect me to join them in that, they are going to be disappointed...
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White is code for Western Civ. I want all these people to experience a personal world without all that Western Civ tech, science, and economics.
#4
Don't know if this qualifies as "losing innocence" but the kids deserve to know these facts:
From the 2018 National Crime Victimization Survey, Census data, FBI Uniform Crime Reports, and other sources (most of the data is from 2018.)
In 2016, 466 whites were killed by police; 233 blacks were killed by police.
One out of 8,511 blacks is arrested for murder; one in 58,582 whites is arrested for murder. Blacks are approximately 6.8 times more likely than whites to be arrested for murder.
One out of 2,800,438 blacks is arrested for killing a cop; one of 7,674,278 whites is arrested for killing a cop. Blacks are 2.74 times more likely than whites to be arrested for killing a cop.
In 2016, 66 cops were killed in the line of duty; 32 whites and 15 blacks were identified as the killers. More than twice as many blacks (533) murdered whites in 2016 than whites (243) murdered blacks.
Black males are 6 percent of the U.S. population. Black males are responsible for 42 percent of cop killings in the last decade. In 2015, a cop was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was likely to be killed by a cop.
In 2016, 222 black males were killed by police. 16 were unarmed. 445 white males were killed by police. 20 were unarmed.
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Re #4:
Black crime stats are much worse in reality because the FBI (purposely) combines Hispanic and White crime stats to hide just how awful is Black criminality.
A better source of info is city crime stats where each race is broken out. The Color of Crime
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Last night in Ain Zara, 25 Hamza men were told they'd be returning to Syria (after 3+ months in Libya.) Instead of being taken to a flight as promised, they were taken the Tripoli airport battle. 21 of the 25 were killed. To GNA/Turkey, the Syrian mercenaries are disposable.
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This is standard procedure for mercenaries. If they go home they have to be paid. If they die, they do not have to be paid, in fact it is impossible to pay them.
Most economical solution?
They die.
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I love what this is doing to the Syrian gene pool.
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Hopefully the Orange Man can continue to keep us out of these mooslim tribal slaughters. Of course the globalist and Endless Wars General Offier rank & file might disagree.
960 blacklisted foreign nationals banned for 10 years from travelling to India for their involvement in Tablighi Jamaat activities: Government sources pic.twitter.com/W5X6e6TU4y
[ALMASDARNEWS] The U.S. Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are preparing for a major military operation against 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.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday.
According to the monitor, the SDF and U.S. Coalition have been mobilizing their troops in the Deir Ezzor countryside, with a large concentration of their forces in the al-Busayirah area near the Iraqi border.
This SDF-led security operation comes at a time when the Islamic State has attempted to resurface in several areas east of the Euphrates River, including the governorates of Homs, al-Hasakah, and Deir Ezzor.
The Islamic State has launched several attacks against the Syrian Army and SDF over the last few weeks, prompting both parties to increase their security measures and intensify their strikes against the terrorist group.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[American Thinker] The release of the official copy of the Hennepin County, Minnesota Medical Examiner’s autopsy of George Floyd on Wednesday inspired conservative black commentator Candace Owens to live stream an18-minute video commentary that has created a firestorm of blowback — with MSM coverage from as far away as New Zealand and Australia. Pro and con discussions of Owens on social media including Twitter reached a peak on Thursday, as the first of several memorial services for Floyd, with Al Sharpton delivering the eulogy, was broadcast live from Minneapolis on all four broadcast television networks, PBS, and the three major cable news channels.
[An oddly unslanted article from the (Red)StarTribune] Attorneys for two former rookie Minneapolis police officers on Thursday rejected accusations that their clients aided and abetted the killing of George Floyd, casting blame instead on a senior officer who allegedly ignored his younger counterparts.
[21st Century Wire] As the threat of COVID-19 quickly fades from foreground and the damage from governments’ experimental panic-driven ’lockdown’ measures, some experts are now asking an important question: why do different countries achieved such vastly different results in terms of fatalities due to Coronavirus?
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Rudaw] The discovery of an illegal prison at the Afrin headquarters of a 
...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 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
[BIZPACREVIEW] A shocking undercover video by Project Veritas exposes 
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
...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 
...CNN's showboating White House correspondent...
Here ya go, Besoeker: 
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
...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 
