Today, there clearly are many Americans protesting who see the government as legitimate and just want limited but important changes.
There are others, however, who clearly are staking turf such as the terrorist group BLM who is right now painting roads and so forth in DC, and doing a lot more than occupy. They have politicians on their side who, for instance, just evicted Utah National Guard and let the terrorists move in.
They are making a power play and this is very delicate.
Some military officers appear to be siding with BLM. They should be fired on the spot. Any US military officer who openly sides with a terrorist organization during such a critical time must be fired. On the spot. No matter the consequences. Consequences of not firing are far worse.
The risk of course includes race war within the ranks, or rebellion (which clearly has happened already) by officers.
Must. Fire. Benedict. Arnold.
With his public video, General Charles ’CQ’ Brown just publicly challenged the President. That was a power play. An, "I dare you to fire me I am a black General."
Fire Brown now. If not, cancer within the ranks can explode.
Insurgencies are far, far different than protests. Protests are like a headache. Two to aspirin, make an agreement, call me in the morning.
Insurgency...those typically include elements of civil war. IF we enter into a profound insurgency, chances of various civil wars unfolding immediately are very high. Like 99%. Chance of profound insurgency starting from here? Coin flip. But if we get there, it's game on.
Likely, at some point, if we enter into profound insurgency and then into civil wars, I would expect that some journalists and politicians would start being assassinated as per banana republic revolutionary style.
There is still ample opportunity to head this off. You know...like the pandemic.
For starters, fire everyone military officer who openly rebels. Immediately. We are right on the edge but not on fire yet.
Hey, do you remember all those warnings I gave in Iraq, then Afghanistan, and other countries, and then warned about this pandemic and economic difficulties back in January, and was saying clearly in January to stop incoming flights?
I am saying it here, loud and clear. Appears that we are moving into a sponsored insurgency. BLM and ANTIFA are two of the gloves and must be vigorously targeted.
Touchy, right? I get it. Trust me...spent years in many conflicts. I know exactly how touchy this is. This is like bomb squad working on a giant ticking bomb while under sniper fire.
Fire those officers right now. Anyone who sides with BLM or ANFITA out the door.
If this continues for one more week, invoke the Insurrection Act.
Remember, only a relatively small percentage of the population is fighting now. If you start getting millions of whites, hispanics, and asians fighting...this will be Iraq 10x and could result in a huge slaughter of blacks.
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Who is trying to revive this guy's blogging career. Oh, wait, let me guess?
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Hey, do you remember all those warnings I gave in Iraq, then Afghanistan, and other countries, and then warned about this pandemic and economic difficulties back in January, and was saying clearly in January to stop incoming flights?
Look at meeeeeee. Too bad Meggie Moo is already married...
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BLM who is right now painting roads and so forth in DC, and doing a lot more than occupy.
16th Street leading up to the WH was renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza NW; the area in front of the WH was renamed BLM Plaza. This was done with the approval of Mayor Muriel Bowser. These people are afflicted with TDS. This woman is bucking to replace De Blasio as the worst mayor in the U.S.
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Is he right about firing those in the military who rear up on their hind legs to side with Black Lives Matter against their commander in chief, M. Murcek?
[mises.org] In economics, branding serves an important purpose. Brands allow people to economize on knowledge, a scarce resource. We make decisions with imperfect information, and brand labeling and trademarks help us navigate these decisions. As Thomas Sowell writes:
When you drive into a town you have never seen before and want to get some gasoline for your car or to eat a hamburger, you have no direct way of knowing what is in the gasoline that some stranger at the filling station is putting into your tank or what is in the hamburger that another stranger is cooking for you to eat at a roadside stand that you have never seen before. But, if the filling station’s sign says Chevron and the restaurant’s sign says McDonald’s, then you don’t worry about it.
He goes on to add that "brand names are substitutes for specific knowledge."
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I am scared of anyone who might shoot me for no reason. As the post By the Numbers says, it's not particularly likely. But it only has to happen once...
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Only has to happen to me once, I should have said...
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if it says Heinz on the label, you have a good idea of what you’re going to get.
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The reasoning here is strained, but the conclusion is correct. Anyone with a healthy distrust of government should feel at least as cautious about the government's armed enforcers.
Always be prudent when dealing with them, but don't fall for the "all cops are heroes" crap to which so many on the Right are susceptible.
If the last few months prove anything, it's that they'll crack down on the law-abiding and allow the zoo animals to do what they want while arresting anyone who dares to defend themselves.
But hey, they're just following orders.
Continue paying your taxes, and please contribute to the fraternal order of the kneelers.
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Fear the Cloud. The Cloud, The Cloud. Every one of the rioters, Antifa, BLM members has a smart phone constantly streaming lots of your data to The Cloud.
Holding a secret Antifa meeting? The Cloud, The Cloud KNOWS. Sending out a descrete message to cöordinate the next march? The Cloud just got the message and the recipient list. Your face is covered by a mask as you march taunting the police. The Cĺoud knows exabtly who you are.
Trump made the request during a 'contentious' Oval Office meeting with Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, according to an anonymous official
In the days preceding the meeting, Washington, D.C. has seen instances of looting, arson and violence amid largely peaceful George Floyd protests
Esper eventually airlifted 1,600 soldiers to the D.C. region 'to respond if needed'
However, many of those troops have now already been deployed back to their usual bases; members of the National Guard remain in the capital
Trump had also reportedly been embroiled in a 'shouting match' with the nation's top military officer, General Mark Milley, over his desire to employ troops in D.C.
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I'm annoyed about the stories of NG troops being deployed without ammo. What exactly is the sense of carrying a paperweight (which is what a rifle with no ammo is) into a fight with people heaving bricks and molotovs. Esper and Milley need to be cashiered, but at this point Trump would be better advised to do that on Nov 4 win or lose.
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Really, I want Trump to bring Esper and Milley to a press conference and ask them "Is it your job to protect rioters from the law abiding populace, Yes or No?"
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Go into their office, toss a pistol with one round on their desk and tell them "Do the honorable thing, or get cashiered. Their choice."
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Attention whoring as she finds her life choices were not what she expected after scoring the big ticket and birthing the paycheck for life Archie. Your were a brief shiny thing after pissing on the Queens leg but now you are just another fading pretty thing whose grifter character has ruined a clueless royal who was trying to find relevance...
[ifo Institute] The coronavirus crisis is having drastic consequences for investment by companies in Germany. Fifty percent of companies that participated in the ifo Business Survey in May reported postponing investment; in April that figure was 46 percent. In May, 28 percent of participating companies had even cancelled investment projects completely, compared with 22 percent in April. "These are worrying figures for the long-term development of the economy," says Klaus Wohlrabe, Head of Surveys at ifo. No wonder Angi Merkel won't run again. Let the next sap Kanzler(in) deal with it.
BLUF:
[American Rennisance] I’m not a racist, I am a realist. The races are different and we should all acknowledge those differences. Exposure to blacks stripped me of the rosy glasses I had worn for so long, and discovering Jared Taylor on YouTube helped my refine and solidify my understanding of the science and genetics behind all my unpleasant experiences. My family and I no longer live in Maryland, and I hope we never live near any large group of blacks ever again — and I’m not ashamed to say so.
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^ Some people believe that. Society as a whole? I doubt it a lot.
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It’s underclass culture — the writer is a tad parochial. The same nonsense goes on with the British underclass, which still is primarily white, and much of the rest is from the Indian subcontinent. On the other hand, most Jamaican immigrants are hardworking and well behaved, as is the Black middle class — except for those in the Social Justice Warrior contingent, who are hardworking and obnoxious, exactly like their white SJWs comrades.
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when your culture celebrates failure, shockingly you get failure. in spades.
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Blacks are exploited by the Left as a hinge to get power.
So there from start a strong group of people interested into black failure. Korea was a disaster in middle of WW2 look at them now. They got lucky the Left never cared for them.
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In my 70 years of life I have never seen a good reason to abandon my belief in individualism.
I am not a racist but I admit to being culturalist. You get what you're raised to be unless something fires up your innate thinking ability and you learn from your experiences.
[American Thinker] Many Americans understand that the riots aren’t righteous protests but are, instead, leftist activism aimed at destabilizing America and (the activists hope) destroying Trump’s chance at reelection. Still, people found shocking a video showing police in Buffalo pushing an old man to the ground where he lay with blood pouring from his ear. Don’t believe everything you see, though. The old man was a leftist activist looking for trouble and may have staged the whole thing.
If one views the video in a vacuum, it’s awful. A frail-looking old man standing alone against the Buffalo police is brutally pushed to the ground and left to lie there, bleeding:
Almost immediately after the video appeared, the police officers who pushed the man were charged with assault and suspended from the force. This tweet illustrates how effective the man’s fall was in advancing the anti-police narrative:
[Medium.com] Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and it was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of actual substance as you’d expect from a president who spent eight years stagnating the progressive movement with empty hope narrative while advancing the same murderous oppressive agendas as his predecessors.
The former president talked about changes that need to be made as though he wasn’t the most powerful politician in America for two full terms, praised the nation’s police officers saying "the vast majority" of them protect and serve the people, and encouraged them to continue making empty gestures of solidarity with the protesters to calm them down.
"I want to acknowledge the folks in law enforcement that share the goals of re-imagining policing," Obama said. "Because there are folks out there who took their oath to serve your communities to your countries [who] have a tough job, and I know you’re just as outraged about the tragedies in the recent weeks as are many of the protesters. So we’re grateful for the vast majority of you who protect and serve. I’ve been heartened to see those in law enforcement who recognize, ’Let me march along with these protestors. Let me stand side by side and recognize that I want to be part of the solution,’ and have shown restraint and volunteered and engaged and listened because you’re a vital part of the conversation, and change is going to require everyone’s participation."
George W Bush also weighed in on the protests, with the "compassionate conservative" who murdered a million Iraqis sending liberals throughout the Twitterverse into fits of ecstasy with his emotional plea for "empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice."
Establishment narrative managers on both sides of America's imaginary partisan divide have been saturating the mass media with gushing praise for the two former presidents and their wonderful words of healing and unity, and indeed, the words are quite nice. They will change exactly nothing, but they sound nice....
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Maybe making the "Empire" less desirable is part of the plan?
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Medium.com is just a blogging platform like wordpress.com or forbes.com. People can write whatever.
"And that is exactly what a US president’s real job is. Not to end police brutality and systemic racism, not to make changes which benefit the American people, and certainly not to make the world a less violent and murderous place, but to say pretty words which lull the public into a pleasant propaganda-induced coma while the sociopathic oligarchs who really run things rob them blind."
We were just robbed of what, $2-3 trillion by these sociopathic oligarchs? Poof. Gone. We got crumbs.
the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
monitoring of Switzerland, since its first report about the country was published in 1998, is an illustrative example of the organization's persistent efforts -- and considerable success -- over the past two decades in limiting free speech in Europe.
Already in its first report on Switzerland, in 1998, ECRI -- despite admitting that "a decrease in manifestations of racism and intolerance has been noted over the last 2-3 years" and that "overt manifestations of [racial prejudices and xenophobia] are rather rare," told the Swiss media to promote specific narratives...
"ECRI is concerned that a climate of intolerance or xenophobia towards non-citizens and those who are different from the native Swiss population appears to persist". No substantial documentation was offered as basis for the allegation -- ECRI even criticized in the same report that "little information is systematically collected in Switzerland regarding the extent of racism and discrimination" -- but none seemed to be needed, as ECRI's motivation appeared to be political...
Throughout the years, ECRI has stressed the media's central role in promoting specific, politicized agendas.
ECRI noted that Swiss journalists already have a code in place that states that they "must avoid any allusion by text, image or sound to a person's ethnic or national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation as well as to any illness or physical or mental handicap that could be discriminatory in character."
As for the Internet, ECRI noted that Swiss authorities had informed the organization that they were "seeking cooperation with relevant Internet service providers to improve the identification of authors of hate speech and to have such content removed as quickly as possible..."
ECRI has done a good job helping Europeans kill free speech.
[American Renaissance] The United States is in an uproar over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. There have been demonstrations in over 400 US cities, and looting and arson in every major city. Why are so many people in the streets? Because they believe that American society is systematically racist and that the police brutalize and even casually murder black men.
The media constantly tell people the police are racist, and many people think the disturbing video of the death of George Floyd bears this out. But let’s look at the facts.
Every year, American police officers have about 370 million contacts with civilians. Most of the time nothing happens, but 12 to 13 million times a year, the police make an arrest. How often does this lead to the death of an unarmed black person? We know the number thanks to a detailed Washington Post database of every killing by the police. What is your guess as to the number of unarmed blacks killed by the police every year? One hundred? Three hundred? Last year, the figure was nine.
That number is going down, not up. In 2015, police killed 38 unarmed blacks. In 2017, 21. What about white people? Last year, police killed 19 unarmed whites, in addition to the 9 unarmed blacks. We know the number of black and white people arrested every year, so it is possible to make an interesting calculation. The chances of being unarmed, arrested, and then killed by the police are higher for whites than for blacks. For both races, it’s very rare: One out of 292,000 arrests for blacks, and out of 283,000 arrests for whites. This is hardly what we would expect from the way the media report these deaths.
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So, Clem. You don't like these stats? They aren't pretty but I think they are better documented than St. Fauci / CDC / WHO / NIH eyewash.
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I should have used the /sarc tag. I was trying to make the point about the hysteria of COVID-19 and the low numbers percentage wise in relation to the 370 million contacts by the police and only nine deaths of unarmed blacks. The numbers you provided are even more insanely low. Sorry for the confusion.
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/sarc be hard these days. That's why the Bee is so piquant.
About 1 police encounter per capita. And we kno few of those are taking place in hospital neonatal units, ICU or nursing homes. So some capitas have more encounters than others. Seems like something "social credit" could track. Oh, never mind...
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So, how many cops are killed in encounters with the oppressed?
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I'm uncomfortable with how Floyd's situation was handled, as seen on the video. Videos don't tell the whole story (not excusing what was on the video.) All that said, a I told a distraught friend of mine this morning "Rioting is not a job and working America will prevail." Even our boot Nike licking politicians understand that without tax revenues they ain't going to be kissing up to any miscreants for long.
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#10. Almost all of that is in the originally cited article. I guess since it didn't come from something St. Fauci pushed, you didn't even read it.
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#12 All I see at the link is breakdown by: gunfire, auto, other
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It's rayciss. Facist. White privilege. Old saying: why don't "some people" like aspirin? Three reasons: It's white, it works and you have to pick cotton to get at it.
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I've been pointing out to people that "white privilege" is nothing more than another racist take on the "White Man's Burden" which is the same justification for slavery by the south. White privilege cannot exist unless blacks are inferior, so by claiming to repudiate it, they are in fact, being MORE racist.
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It is my privilege to earn enough to pay taxes, as Rush Limbaugh has said. Where I don't feel particularly privileged is in reading about all the useless crap my tax dollars are spent on.
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CAUTION: Contains the dreaded hierarchical pyramid and other rediculous bullshi*.
[Women's Health Magazine] Today, my Instagram feed is filled with links to petitions for lives unfairly lost, ways to donate to in-need causes, and graphics that define "white privilege" and "Black Lives Matter." In the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of law enforcement in Minneapolis last week, people from all over the country—world, even—are demonstrating their support for the Black Lives Matter movement at in-person protests and through digital activism.
There's a particular image making its way around the internet that outlines examples of overt and covert racism. The original graphic—created more than a decade ago by Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence and adapted recently by The Conscious Kid, a platform that helps parents educate their children through a critical race lens—is going viral for its explanation of the difference between the two forms of racism, or in The Conscious Kid's adaption, white supremacy.
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Everybody's stuck reading whatever is in the dentist's office. I'd know nothing about Ophra or Ellen or the "Royals" if not for Dr.'s office visits.
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/\ Magazines? No, I simply snooze. They gently wake me when it's time.
[Life Site] Editors note - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has released this powerful letter today to President Trump warning him that the current crises over the coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd riots are a part of the eternal spiritual struggle between the forces of good and evil. He encourages the president to continue the fight on behalf of the "children of light." Read the letter in PDF form here.
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Great letter at the link.
ABV makes a point that the CV pandemic as a crisis, peaked too early and the GF riots and looting are unlikely to carry into the election season.
[NY Post] The man accused of shooting two cops and stabbing a third in Brooklyn this week screamed "Allahu akbar!" three times during the unprovoked attack, police said Saturday.
Authorities have so far been unable to tie the man, Dzenan Camovic, to any organized terror group, but there are indications that his alleged tactics and ambush were similar to anti-police attacks in Paris and elsewhere, according to John Miller, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of counter terrorism.
"All the hallmarks that would be out of the terrorist playbook," Miller said at a briefing from NYPD headquarters in lower Manhattan
Camovic, 20, opened a Twitter account this month, and liked 24 tweets from those writing about George Floyd protests, looting in Soho and anti-cop propaganda, police said.
Camovic, who lives with his family in Sheepshead Bay, allegedly ran up to an officer and stabbed him in the neck just before midnight Wednesday night on Flatbush Avenue near Church Avenue, police have said.
[Western Journal] Mike Lindell, the outspoken CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow, is back in the news after a donation of his wares to members of the Minnesota National Guard who were sleeping on the floor as they helped protect locations in the Twin Cities area.
In a tweet Wednesday, Lindell announced the donation and showed some of the guardsmen and women and MyPillow employees unpacking and testing out out the products.
"MyPillow donated @MyPillowUSA’s to the @NationalGuard here at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota where they’ve been sleeping on the floor," Lindell tweeted.
"Thank you all for protecting MN! We’re praying for Minnesota during this difficult time. #staysafemn," he added.
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Mike's story is one of hope, but it sure doesn't seem like he cares enough to improve his BBB rating and customer service. "F" is an "F". In any case, I wish him well.
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It's probably also human nature to complain more than offer up compliments. Be that as it may, what is Mike doing to fix this failing grade from the BBB?
[Washington Examiner] he Supreme Court is expected to rule on June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, a case that calls into question the constitutionality of an abortion clinic regulation in Louisiana, in the coming month. The imminent ruling has the potential to reshape the future of abortion industry litigation, advancing the pro-life movement in one of the most significant ways since Roe v. Wade.
The law in question is Louisiana’s Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which requires abortion providers to hold admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their practice. The law closed a loophole that allowed abortionists to get around this requirement, even though it applied to all other doctors. The regulation passed with bipartisan support in 2014.
As is the case with many regulations meant to protect the safety of women during an abortion, the abortion industry sued to enjoin the law the same year it was passed. They alleged that the act curtails a women’s right to an abortion under Roe v. Wade.
Most interesting about this case is the fact that the plaintiffs, who claim that they are acting to protect women’s rights, have a questionable background in this regard. Bossier City Medical Suite, a plaintiff in the action, surrendered its license and shut its doors in 2017 because it had performed abortions on at least five minor children and did not file the required statutory rape reports with the authorities.
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Bossier City Medical Suite, a plaintiff in the action, surrendered its license and shut its doors in 2017 because it had performed abortions on at least five minor children and did not file the required statutory rape reports with the authorities.
Comment below has been transcribed from the original email. "By the way, it was probably looted by the 4th Crusade from Constantinople in 1204. It was apparently found walled up several centuries before in the Levant. Up until that time Jesus was always portrayed as clean-shaven prompted by the clean-shaven fashion in the Roman world in the first centuries AD. After its discovery, suddenly all representations of Christ show him bearded as in the Shroud. Traditional Jews in his time were bearded."
This Dec 2018 article was linked in a comment today by g(r)om. Perhaps it deserves it's own posting and memory hole review.
[Jewish Press] In July 2013, after serving two years as the chief of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) under President Barack Obama, retired Marine Corps General James Mattis told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the situation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority was "unsustainable."
"It’s got to be directly addressed," Mattis argued. "We have got to find a way to make the two-state solution that Democrat and Republican administrations have supported. We’ve got to get there, and the chances for it are starting to ebb because of the settlements, and where they’re at, they’re going to make it impossible to maintain the two-state option."
Which is to suggest that while the world is in shock over President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense’s decision to quit, it is possible that his resignation removed from the discussion table a staunch supporter of what UN Ambassador Nikki Haley (also on the way out) described as a coming proposed peace deal which Israelis are not going to like. At least not all of it.
Back in 2013, Mattis told CNN: "If I’m in Jerusalem and I put 500 Jewish settlers out here to the east and there’s 10,000 Arab settlers in here, if we draw the border to include them, either it ceases to be a Jewish state or you say the Arabs don’t get to vote — apartheid."
In other words, when it came to the peace process, there was no daylight between the views of General Mattis and say, Peace Now, or Meretz, or, come to think of it, President Vladimir Putin.
That is not to say that Mattis was not an admirable leader of US forces in both Syria and Afghanistan, and that he was not absolutely on the money when he wrote President Trump: "My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues," meaning he believed Trump was not doing any of that; and, "We must do everything possible to advance an international order that is most conducive to our security, prosperity and values, and we are strengthened in this effort by the solidarity of our alliances," meaning Mattis didn’t think Trump was doing that either, hence his world-shocking resignation.
Frankly, if I were a Kurd in Syria or a pro-Western Afghan, I’d be very worried today, because with the US presence in Syria cut off completely and slashed in half in Afghanistan, 2019 is bound to spell a Turkish massacre of the Kurds and a Taliban massacre of the enlightened forces in their part of the world.
But Israel will not have to endure similar atrocities, God willing, because it never relied on US direct military protection. Instead, Israel has developed a direct channel of communication with Russia, as well as indirect channels with all its enemies, including Hamas and Iran.
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I recommend reading, “My Promised Land” by Ari Shavit.
Even if it is on the NYT list it does give a liberal view on the Holy Land. I support Israel but do not believe the Arab’s will protect my Holy Sites.
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[JPost] - Scientists in Sweden are hoping an alpaca named Tyson can help deliver a knockout blow in the fight to develop a treatment or vaccine against the novel coronavirus that has killed nearly 400,000 people worldwide.
After immunizing Tyson, a 12-year-old alpaca in Germany, with virus proteins, the team at the Karolinska Institute have isolated tiny antibodies — known as nanobodies — from his blood that bind to the same part of the virus as human antibodies and could block the infection.
They hope this can form the basis of a treatment for COVID-19 or eventually a vaccine against it, though the work is at an early stage. Swedes. First it was herd immunity, now it's alpacas. What's next?
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The world scientific community is taking the responsibility to find treatments and cures for what was originally presented as the long-expected Spanish Flu event very seriously — I’m proud of them all, even if a few are temporarily sidetracked by Trump Derangement Syndrome. And the intensity of double checking that’s catching where teams have gone wrong is heartening as well.
Lots of learnings that will be broadly applicable after this is over, I believe, to the benefit of all. When the real thing hits, we will be much better prepared to deal with it the world over.
[LA Times] LAPD union decries Garcetti’s ‘killers’ comment. He says he wasn’t talking about police
Officials with the Los Angeles police union assailed Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday for comments he made about cutting the LAPD budget, saying police officers have lost confidence in the mayor’s ability to lead the city after days of demonstrations.
Speaking at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Los Angeles on Thursday, Garcetti said that his proposal to reduce LAPD spending and shift the savings to minority communities was getting attention from mayors across the country.
“That’s exactly the point,” he said. “It starts someplace, and we say we are going to be who we want to be, or we’re going to continue being the killers that we are.”
A Garcetti aide later told The Times that the “killers” remark referred to police agencies across the country.
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Mayor Yoga Pants never inspired much confidence.
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Between this putz, that chump in Minneapolis, and that f-tard in NYC (to name but three), it is absolutely no surprise that our major cities are really becoming sh!t holes (if not already).
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When the funding cuts come to transfer money to black communities you are gonna see massive changes anyway. Might as well retire early and move over to the CHP if possible.
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Apparently DeBlasio thinks Minneapolis has a great idea and he's going to defund all those NYPD racists. That'll teach 'em to turn their backs on me!
[JPost] - Smoking may offer some protection against the coronavirus, an Israeli study has found. The results support recent similar findings by researchers in France, China and Italy, although a British study has found the opposite.
Noting that conflicting reports exist regarding the impact of smoking on the likelihood of contracting the coronavirus, the Israeli team led by Dr. Ariel Israel undertook a population-based study pulling in data from over 3 million adult members of the Clalit Health Service, Israel's largest healthcare provider.
Their results, presented in a non-peer reviewed paper published in medRxiv on Friday, found that "the risk of infection by COVID-19 appears to be reduced by half among current smokers." A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke!
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Doing an autopsy in Italy they found extensive systemic Blood clotting on CON deceased patients. Not a viral infection but bacterial. Changing protocols to 100 mg of aspirin and apronax and discharged 14000 patients within a single day.
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The smoking/nicotine bit just seems so counter-intuitive. Belgians are big cigarette smokers, and they have the worst CV-19 per capita death rate. But, interesting studies in any case, and hopefully helpful.
[Jpost] Senior politicians from German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists... 's ruling conservative bloc on Saturday criticized President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... 's decision to order the US military to remove 9,500 troops from Germany.
The move would reduce US troops numbers in Germany to 25,000, from 34,500."The plans once again show that the Trump administration is neglecting an elementary leadership task: the involvement of alliance partners in decision-making processes," Johann Wadephul, foreign policy front man for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, told Rooters.
All NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... partners benefited from the cohesion of the alliance, and only Russia and China gain from discord, Wadephul said, adding: "This should be given more attention in Washington."
Wadephul also spoke of a "further wake-up call" to Europeans to position themselves better in terms of security policy.
Herr Wadephul sees deeper into the stone than most.
The German Foreign Ministry declined to comment.
Andreas Nick, like Wadephul a member of the parliamentary foreign relations committee, told Deutsche Welle the indications were that "that the decision was not a technical but a purely politically motivated decision."
’Cause everyone knows that Donald Trump is D.U.M. dumb.
A US official, who did not want to be identified, said on Friday the move was the result of months of work by the top US military officer, General Mark Milley, and had nothing to do with tensions between Trump and Merkel, who thwarted Trump's plan to host a G7 meeting this month.
The withdrawal, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is the latest twist in relations between Berlin and Washington, which have often been strained during Trump's presidency. Trump has pressed Germany to raise defense spending and accused Berlin of being a "captive" of Russia due to its energy reliance.
Could this be a play on consequences for certain countries who’ve made it plain they have no interest in meeting their long term treaty obligations?
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About 30 years too late. Once the Warsaw Pact crumbled, so, too, should have NATO and the US presence in Europe (and we won't mention Iranian missiles that could "reach Europe").
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Remember the BRAC base closing rounds in Deep Blue constituencies? The same Congress critter that called for "Deep, Deep I Say!" cuts in total defense spending turns around and shamelessly pounds the table demanding that their base remain open (with all of its local jobs and tax benefits).
[Ynet] Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the attack targeted Iran-backed militias near the city of Deir ez-Zur and the victims are militiamen from Iraq and Afghanistan, who 3 days ago received a fresh supply of arms and ammunition.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack, which allegedly targeted pro-Iranian militias, took place on a night between Saturday and Sunday and was carried out near the city of Deir ez-Zur.
The watchdog said the victims are Iran-backed militiamen from Iraq and Afghanistan and several arms depots were destroyed in the attack.
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Sorry. It was late last night and I left out a key point. The Turks shot this UAV down with a LASER! This is the first reported combat use of a LASER to shoot down an enemy drone.
[Jpost] A former leader of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... holy warrior group Ramadan Shallah has died after battling illness, al-Manar TV reported on Saturday.
Shallah, 62, served as secretary general of the Iran-backed group from 1995 to 2018. al-Manar did not specify the exact nature of the illness.
Labelled a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and others, the group has waged attacks on Israel and aims to establish an Islamic Paleostinian state.
"By losing Shallah we lost a great national man," said Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... in a statement published by the Paleostinian official news agency WAFA.
Shallah was born in 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... in 1958 and studied in Egypt before earning a Ph.D in economics in the United Kingdom. He was elected head of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad after the killing of the group's former chief, Fathi Shiqaqi, in 1995.
Shalah, who led PIJ from 1995 until 2018, had been in a coma for more than three years after heart surgery, the terror group said. It didn’t say where he died, but he is believed to have been in Lebanon.
Shalah was appointed head of the terror group after the assassination of his predecessor, Fathi Shikaki in Malta, which was widely attributed to Israel. He was succeeded by Ziad al-Nakhala in 2018.
In 2003, Shalah was among eight Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives indicted in the United States on 53 terrorism and racketeering counts for running a cell out of Tampa, Florida. Though four suspects were arrested, Shalah was overseas and charged in absentia.
The US Department of Justice, in a statement on the indictment at the time, underlined the terror group’s role in suicide bombings that killed scores of Israelis, and at least two Americans, 20-year-old Alisa Flatow and 16-year-old Shoshana Ben-Yishai.
In April 2018, Shalah was transferred from Damascus, where he lives, to a hospital in Beirut after suffering a series of heart attacks, a source close to the group told the Palestinian Quds Press news agency. Shalah has been unconscious since undergoing surgery at the Beirut hospital, the report said.
Although the source attributed the Islamic Jihad leader’s deteriorating health to “natural causes,” the Palestinian Authority embassy in Beirut believed there’s a possibility Shalah may have been poisoned.
After being told not to arrest looters who are trying to kill them. Told not to arrest leftist attacking Trump supporters. Commanded not to jail Somalians terrorizing resident Americans. Forced to work side by side with Islamic jihadists.
Looks like Clem's "pigs" (his words punk description) don't want to get murdered protecting a city that wants them dead.
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I'm the token white guy in my neighborhood. In talking to people a couple of points
1. People don't trust the police, (the 3rd precinct has had a bad reputation for a very long time)
2. They really REALLY don't like the looters/rioters
3. The white "protesters" are considered a joke. And are given pretty much NO Respect
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400 of these assholes marched by my house on Wednesday night - every single one of them were college kids / people under 30; about twenty or so black folk among them, mostly loud fat broads.
Nothing says 'improving race relations' like a smash & grab and a free 70" flat screen, AKA the Free Shopping Spree.
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Raj, what's the tax treatment of loot? If, for example, you somehow come into possession of a 70" flat screen at no cost, do you owe state and local sales tax, or is it a "gift"? State income tax? No Democratic politician will want to prosecute these folks for theft, but considering how hard-up states and municipalities are or at least claim to be, the taxman might see it differently. :-)
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Why in hell would ANYONE want to be a police officer these days, especially in a city like New York, Chicago, etc. ? The mayor hates you, the city council hates you (except when you protect them). If you do your job and arrest criminals, but in the process you hurt them, you get ripped to shreds by the press.
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Matt, I don't know the answer to your question, but remember that Al Capone went to jail not for murder and the other crimes he committed, but for tax evasion.
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^ Precisely.
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Matt - it's income to the thief, all right; somehow I doubt they're filing any tax returns.
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When twelve cops were shot in Dallas a few years ago by a BLM member the unofficial response time to most calls after that was 8 hours. Some theft caĺls they did not respond at all. Frustrated 911 operators would finally tell callers to fill out a report on line.
Maybe this is why there’s recently been so much talk of white supremacists on this side of the pond.
[Jpost] European white supremacists have been attending the Partizan military camp just outside St Petersburg for training in combat techniques.
German neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously and purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... s have been travelling to Russia for weapons and martial arts training from a white supremacist organization, German news magazine Focus has reported.
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California sheriff’s deputy was killed and two law enforcement officers wounded Saturday when they were ambushed with gunfire and explosives while pursuing a suspect, authorities said.
Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was shot and killed in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated area near Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said. A second deputy was injured, and a third officer from the California Highway Patrol was shot in his hand, Hart said.
Gutzwiller "was a beloved figure here at the sheriff’s office," the sheriff said.
"Damon showed up today to do his job, to keep this community safe, and his life was taken needlessly," a visibly shaken Hart said.
The suspect, Steven Carrillo, was shot during his arrest and was being treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Hart said. The Sheriff’s Department and the FBI are investigating.
The deputies responded to a 911 call around 1:30 p.m. about a suspicious van. The caller said there were guns and bomb-making devices inside, Hart said.
When deputies arrived, the van pulled away and the deputies followed. The van went down a driveway at Carrillo’s home and the deputies were ambushed by gunfire and explosives after getting out of their vehicle.
Gutzwiller was wounded and later died at a hospital. Another deputy was wounded by gunfire or shrapnel and struck by a vehicle as the suspect fled.
Carrillo attempted to carjack a vehicle and was wounded while being arrested.
Hart said Carrillo was taken to the hospital for treatment and would be charged with first-degree murder.
The shooting shocked Ben Lomond, a town of about 6,000 people tucked up in the Santa Cruz mountains.
Resident Kathy Crocker brought a bouquet to the sheriff’s office as Hart gave a news conference about the shootings.
"It just breaks my heart that this keeps happening," she said, as teary-eyed deputies entered the building.
A Travis Air Force Base spokesman confirmed Sunday that Steven Carrillo, 32, had arrived at Travis Air Force Base in June 2018 and was a member of the 60th Security Forces Squadron. Carrillo’s wife Monika Leigh Scott Carrillo, died in May, 2018 while stationed with the Air Force in South Carolina at the age of 30. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which was reportedly investigating Carrillo’s death, did not respond to AP’s requests for comment.
At a time when governments have higher than usual expenses and considerably lower tax revenues, certain very deserving governments continue the trend of substantially lower oil income.
[AlAhram] OPEC members led by 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... and other key oil producers agreed Saturday to extend historic output cuts through July, according to the United Arab Emirates Oil Minister Anwar Gargash.
The 13-member cartel and its allies decided to extend by a month deep cuts, first agreed in April for May and June, to boost prices hit hard by the new 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... pandemic, Gargash said on Twitter.
[Yorkshire Coast Radio] Coronavirus restrictions have meant the D-Day commemorations in Normandy have been the smallest ever, with veterans and their families unable to attend for the first time.
But despite events being muted this year by the COVID-19 pandemic, people have still found ways of marking the 76th anniversary of the allied invasion, which played a decisive role in the liberation of Europe in the Second World War.
In France, flags have been raised in solitary ceremonies and tributes left at the graves of the fallen on behalf of those unable to travel because of the coronavirus.
Back in the UK, alongside low-key socially distanced services of remembrance, two D-Day veterans completed a 104-mile charity cycling challenge to mark the historic landings, which paved the way for the downfall of Nazi Germany.
Len Gibbon set out on his test of endurance using a static bike machine on VE Day and has been notching up the miles each day.
The 96-year-old crossed the "finish line" with fellow Normandy veteran Peter Hawkins, 95, at 11.24pm on 6 June - the 76th anniversary of D-Day.
The 104 miles is the same distance as Mr Gibbon's historic journey from Portsmouth to Gold Beach, Normandy, in 1944.
Mr Gibbon lives at Care for Veterans, a charity in Worthing, West Sussex, which provides care and rehabilitation to physically disabled ex-service personnel and their families.
He has so far raised more than £6,000 for the charity.
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As told to me by Ron Drez, it actually happened a few years back:
The the tour guide was wrapping up his lecture at the bridge and one-by-one the group started heading to the bus. Suddenly an old man with a cane appeared and walked up to the tour guide. "Say young man, would you like a bit more on this Pegasus Bridge engagement." "Well yes" replied the guide, not wishing to be unkind. "But we're on a tight schedule and have yet another stop to make before lunch."
"Who are you sir" the guide asked? Well the old man replied, "my name is Major John Howard."
The guide quickly summoned the entire group back for an introduction and sit down.
[ToloNews] At least 15 members of the Afghan cops were killed and dozens more were maimed due to widespread incidents of violence in the past 24 hours despite the unofficial ceasefire between the Afghan government and the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... In one recent incident of violence, a local commander of the Afghan Local Police was killed alongside ten ALP members as a result of a roadside kaboom explosion in Khash district of northern province of Badakhshan.
"Commander Mazari was leading a group of local police forces in Khash and was martyred alongside his forces after hitting a roadside mine," said Sanaaullah Rouhani, a front man for Badakhshan police.
Also, Afghan security officials in the province said that the Taliban’s shadow governor was killed alongside his two men in Khash district.
In Kabul, the Taliban launched an attack on midnight Friday night on Dasht-e-Naseri village of Guldara district of Kabul, killing at least four coppers and wounding another four.
"On Friday afternoon, the Taliban launched an operation in Sarsang and Nawabad villages and a battle broke out and one civilian was maimed," said Mohammad Qasim Khoshiwal, the deputy head of Pashtun-infested Logar's provincial council.
Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the pilot and the copilot had both hit the silk.
Jack! Cynthia exclaimed. Do you know how to drive one of these things?
Jack wiped some of the blood from his knuckles.
No, he said. Do you?... former Afghan president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... in a statement raised concerns over the surge in the acts of violence and a rise in the number of casualties. He called on the warring factions to exercise restraint.
In the southern part of the country, at least 10 Afghan cops members were killed on Friday morning in an ambush by the Taliban on the Zabul-Kandahar highway near the city of Qalat, in Zabul province, said Ata Jan Haq Bayan, head of Zabul's provincial council.
"Police personnel are deployed around the city. The area is totally under security coverage," said Hekmatullah Kochai, the commander of Zabul police.
"We reiterate the call to our opponents to avoid further killings of the Afghans," said Mohammad Omar Omari, a member of Zabul's provincial council.
This attack also comes as an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Farah province in the west of the country on Thursday night killed 16 Taliban fighters, according to Farah police front man Mohibullah Mohib.
The Taliban attacked an outpost in Deh Yak village on the outskirts of Farah city prior to the airstrike, he said.
[ToloNews] At least 11 members of the Afghan local police, including their commander, were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Badakhshan province on Friday night, the provincial police spokesman Sanaullah Rohani said.
He said the incident happened in Khash district at midnight when a vehicle carrying the personnel hit a roadside mine.
Also on Friday, two Taliban fighters, including Hamidullah, the designated deputy district governor of Taliban for Khash, were killed in a clash with government forces in Khash district on Friday.
This comes after 10 security force members were killed in a Taliban attack in Zabul on Friday morning.
No group has claimed responsibility for the Badakhshan blast.
Sources within the Afghan government told TOLOnews this week that the Taliban initiated an average of 30 attacks per day since the Eid-ul-Fitr ceasefire.
According to the sources, the Afghan forces also suffered casualties as a result of these attacks.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have announced the arrest of 30 suspected members 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.... (ISIS) in the first two days of their fresh military operation on the Syria-Iraq border. It also "cleared" around 100 villages in the region from the group, according to an SDF statement.
The multi-ethnic SDF announced the launch of operation ’Deterrence of Terrorism’ on Thursday, following what they describe as thorough information gathering, to "pursue and track the cells of ISIS terrorist organization on the Syrian-Iraqi border," according to a Friday statement.
SDF commanders said on Friday that 20 ISIS suspects were arrested, but that initial number has since been revised.
"Around 30 Syrian and Iraqi mercenaries [of ISIS] were arrested in the operation," read another statement from the SDF Friday midnight.
The latest statement also pinpointed the operation as taking place in and around the Syria-Iraq border areas of Hasaka, Baghouz and Deir ez-Zor.
The SDF also confiscated light weapons and IEDs prepared for liquidation attacks, and found tunnels of the group.
The operation resulted in a "70 kilometre length and 60 kilometre wide" stretch of land being cleared, "including nearly 100 villages," the statement said.
No SDF casualties have been reported so far, the statement added.
US-led anti-ISIS coalition spokeperson Colonel Myles B.Caggins III confirmed on Twitter that around 30 ISIS suspects were arrested in the first and second day of the operation, adding that 78 hideouts of ISIS were destroyed.
Around 6,000 SDF fighters are taking part in the military campaign and it is expected to last for about five days, military sources told the SDF-affiliated Ronahi TV — though in their statement, the forces say the operation will continue "until completion of the full mission."
SDF commander Adnan Afrini told Rudaw TV from the frontlines that "a large number" of ISIS fighters are on the Syria-Iraq border, though he could not provide an estimate.
SDF arrests 7 suspected ISIS members in joint operation with coalition in northern Syriahttps://t.co/GmphpbFi6E
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 6, 2020
On Friday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested 7 individuals suspected of collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS) in the towns of al-Sur, north of Deir ez-Zor, and Murkada, south of Hasakah on the Iraqi-Syrian border.
SDF Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi tweeted that “We achieved successive victories in our campaign against ISIS cells in [Deir ez-Zor] & Hasakah” on Saturday. His tweet explained that both the Turkish invasion of North and East Syria in October 2019 and the emergence of the coronavirus had emboldened the terror group, and stressed that the Global Coalition has a duty to support the SDF in fighting ISIS.
[Daily Mail VIA Right Scoop] Vice President Joe Biden said in a discussion of the George Floyd killing that a large substantial share of Americans are not ’very good people’ — as he tried to condemn President Trump but potentially opened himself up to attack.
’The words a president says matter. So when a president stands up and divides people all the time, you’re going to get the worst of us to come out. The worst insult to com out.’ Biden said.
But he also extended his critique far beyond a small slice of the country. ’Do we really think this is as good as we can be as a nation? I don’t think the vast majority of people think that,’ he continued.
’There are probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there that are just not very good people. But that’s not who we are. The vast majority of the people are decent, and we have to appeal to that and we have to unite people — bring them together’...
His remarks recalled a gaffe by Hillary Clinton during the 2016 elections, where she said half of Trump’s supporters could be put in a ’basket of deplorables.’ It was a comment that the Trump campaign was able to weaponize as the candidates were battling it out in critical swing states, and that Clinton had to walk back.
[Breitbart] During an interview to air during Fox News Channel’s Saturday broadcast of "Watters’ World," Vice President Mike Pence pushes back against former Defense Secretary James Mattis’ claim President Donald Trump "divisive" and a "bad guy."
Pence called Mattis "wrong."
"I haven’t spoken to General Mattis, but I can tell you he’s wrong," he said. "But what this president has done in recent days is what every American expects a president to do in times of crisis, and that is put the lives and the property and the liberty of every American first."
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Maybe fewer wars would mean fewer "war heroes" in our government.
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Funny how people engaged in state-sponsored murder are exalted as "heroes" and have statues built in their honor. Jonas Salk, for example, deserves infinitely more praise and exultation. And just who is this hyped-up Mutt Mattis anyway?
[NPASYRIA] Clashes took place between armed opposition groups and Syrian government forces along two fronts in Idlib, amid reports of maimed from both sides.
Violent festivities took place between Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition groups and government forces as a result of government forces’ attempted advance on the village of Salihiya in the eastern countryside of Idlib the village of Fleifel in the Zawiya Mountain area after midnight Friday — Saturday.
As a result of these festivities, a number of gunnies were maimed among the two parties, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Ottoman Turkish forces stationed in five locations in Marian, Marat, and Taftanaz regions, northeast of Idlib, and al-Qiyasat, Banskoul, and Yusuf in southwest Idlib countryside on Friday.
The National Front for Liberation’s (a Ottoman Turkish-backed opposition military bloc) military office declared the eastern areas of Zawiya Mountain a military zone, preventing civilians from moving around it after repeated bombing by Syrian government forces.
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As someone who spent 20 years in SanFran, I have a bit of knowledge of smoke rats and their behavior. I call bull on this "study". I cannot recall one instance where a loaded individual got any more violent than arguing about what Beatles lyrics really meant.... now the ones that laced their grass with coke or PCP... they were a totally different story.
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Marijuana is a safe recreational form of dope and has some medicinal benefits. Far safer than alcohol or tobacco. While tobacco only hurts the user (don’t gimme no second hand smoke studies, Greta Thunberg, this comment is not dealing in hypotheticals) alcohol is not a safe form of dope. Alcohol is a destructive animal and can only be safely imbibed by the very few who use it limitedly and with personal self discipline. That being said, I have known and continue to know dope smokers who partake every day and some all day. I have yet to meet a dope smoker who gets high and says, “Let’s go out and do some bad deeds.” It’s all more creative in nature even if they are boringly repetitive. I have been involved in situations when alcohol took over where the exact comment was,”Let’s go do bad deeds.” I’m paraphrasing of course.
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I’m calling bullshit on this “study.”
There is a difference between heavy users and occasional or social users, and also between those who take it up in junior high and high school versus those who take it up in adulthood. And finally, there is a difference between those who have a genetic tendency toward psychosis, which is triggered by cannabis use.
The fact that you who are not psychotic and not heavy users since age 14 are fine proves nothing. The question is what is different about people who are very violent.
From the article:
The team from Montreal University in Canada discovered 26 of the 30 studies showed a tendency towards higher levels of violence among cannabis users.
When they pooled the results – meaning they were looking at a combined group of 296,815 teens and adults under 30 – they found users were more than twice as likely (2.15 times) to have committed a violent offence as non-users.
Among ‘persistent heavy users’, the risk of violence was 2.81 times higher.
Reading this, I mourn again my dear friend’s son, whose violent paranoid schizophrenia was triggered by pot, and who may well spend the rest of his life in prison because he murdered his grandmother as a result. On medication he is a gentle soul with a brilliant mind, a mind that was broken because he firmly believed the same arguments presented here that pot is perfectly safe.
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That is an absolutely sad story TW. I would argue that the young man’s violent paranoid schizophrenia was to blame. Recreational doping is a personal choice and the individual bears the full weight of responsibility for the actions that follow. One mustn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. A free society lives not by the actions of the least/lowest common denominator. Of course that begs the question of, “How free do we want to be?”
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Wow, going psycho and murdering Grandma because of a joint? That's right out of the plot of Reefer Madness!
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I would argue that the young man’s violent paranoid schizophrenia was to blame.
The second first: Very probably he would have become schizophrenic anyway, Lowspark — he was at the right age for it to bloom. But because he was of that portion of the population that had that genetic variation, like having one blood type instead of another, when he took up smoking pot with his college friends the disease took the very worst form it could, rather than a milder form where he was capable of recognizing that he had a problem and could accept treatment that would allow him to continue on his path toward a career in microbiology and a normal life. Most schizophrenics do function quite well with treatment, and are high enough functioning without it to seek help. And his grandmother would not have bled to death in his grandfather’s arms, killed by her own kitchen knife, their daughter standing between them and her son while they all waited for the police to arrive.
She is one of my dearest friends, so I was privy to her struggles as she tried to deal with his deterioration, and then afterward. The effect of pot on a small portion of the population has long been known
As for the first: Spike Grineng8188 dear, please reread my first comment with an eye to what I actually wrote. I look forward to you thoughts afterward.
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There are 5 major food groups. Consuming anything outside of those food groups is contrary to what consuming from within the food groups do for the well being of the mind, body and soul. I am a rare bird that thinks that, but I have been told I look much younger, stronger and healthier after a life tine of this philosophy. At 65 I have no grey hair, I do 12 mile jogs, I require no glasses, I feel 21, I bench press 240. I only inhale fresh, fresh air. I am always studying about healthier foods.
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Sorry but after a decade in the oilfield, I don't trust anyone who takes drugs for fun, even the heavy drinkers. I refuse to get killed or maimed cause they had screw with their brain chemistry.
[FREEBEACON] A state ethics committee ruled on Friday that former Colorado governor and current Senate candidate John Hickenlooper ... former governor of Colorado, yet another of 2020's innumerable Dem candidates. His selling points include being less grabby than Biden, less Cherokee than Warren, assuming that's possible, and taller than Gillebrand... (D.) violated a ban on accepting gifts while in office.
The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission decided that Hickenlooper's flight on a campaign donor's private jet, as well as his attendance at a conference in Italia, violated the ban, according to the Colorado Sun. Hickenlooper initially refused to appear at the hearing, prompting the condemnation of a federal judge and members of the commission.
"If we allow this kind of special privately financed treatment for elected officials it just accentuates the cynicism in the public that led to Amendment 41," one commission member said. The amendment, adopted in 2006, placed a ban on elected officials accepting gifts while in office.
The commission unanimously voted to hold Hickenlooper in contempt of court after he refused to appear at a remote hearing. He became the first person in the state to be held in contempt by the commission, and he eventually appeared on Friday.
Hickenlooper defied both a judge's order and a subpoena from the commission to appear at the hearing. He claimed the remote format, adopted because of 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... pandemic, would not lead to a fair trial.
His Senate campaign spokeswoman also called the complaints "politically motivated."
[Jpost] "Overall the majority (51.9%; 539/1,038) of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Hong Kong have been associated with at least one of 135 known clusters," the researchers wrote.
Most 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... infections are caused by "superspreaders," which are people who spread the infection to a large number of people, according to a new study carried out by a group of epidemiologists in Hong Kong.
"Approximately 20% of SARS-CoV-2 infections are responsible for 80% of all transmission events in Hong Kong," the researchers noted. The researchers also found that all incidents of spreading occurred indoors. Additionally, the researchers discovered that 70% of those infected did not spread the virus to others.
"Superspreading events are happening more than we expected, more than what could be explained by chance. The frequency of superspreading is beyond what we could have imagined," Ben Cowling, one of the study's co-authors, told Business Insider. ""Now we know which measures might give you the most bang for your buck — if we could stop the superspreading from happening, we'd benefit the most people."
Ok, but what makes a superspreader, and what can we do to find them? Incidentally, does this apply to other diseases, too?
The researchers examined several clusters of infections in Hong Kong, and while there were several causes for the spread of the coronavirus, the manner in which most people were infected with the virus were in certain social events with one person who spread the infection.
"Overall the majority (51.9%; 539/1,038) of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Hong Kong have been associated with at least one of 135 known clusters," the researchers noted. "The remaining 38.9% (210/539) of cluster cases solely involved imported cases where no onward local transmission could be identified."
Some 1,037 cases which occurred between the time the first confirmed case in Hong Kong on January 23 and April 28 were examined.
The research was published on the website Research Square, a pre-print publication, which means it has yet to be peer reviewed and the results can not be considered conclusive.
[Fox] BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WJW) — Two Ohio men were captured after police say they were looking to incite violence during a protest in New York City.
According to WABC, protesters marching in the streets of Brooklyn contacted police after seeing a man, who was driving a car with Ohio license plates, holding a machete just blocks away from the demonstration.
84th Precinct Executive Officer Capt. Melody Robinson told the news outlet that citizens were concerned and reached out.
"They said, ’this is not right, something’s wrong with this picture,'" he reportedly said.
Officers tracked down the vehicle quickly. The driver and his passenger surrendered without incident, WABC reports. However, when police searched the car they discovered a cache of weapons and tools to carry out an attack. Officials found knives, swords, gasoline, bricks, two-way radios and other weapons.
When protestors spotted something "not right" just blocks from a demonstration, they called police.
The result: 2 men arrested, gasoline, knives, a machete, 2-way radios recovered ... and lives saved — all thanks to the community & cops working together.https://t.co/aZecxJtAJX
— Commissioner Shea (@NYPDShea) June 6, 2020
"Different types of knives and weapons," Robinson explained. "Point-to-point radios, gas masks. All types of different things that you won’t bring to a peaceful protest."
Authorities are working to determine in the two men participated in any of last week’s police violence demonstrations. They are also investigating whether or not the men orchestrated any o the violence that occurred during these demonstrations.
Officials praise the demonstrators who came forward and took steps to protect the city and its citizens.
"I commend the peaceful protesters that actually saw something and they said something," Robinson told WABC. "You know we need more of that in this city, so we can come together as one. They definitely saved lives."
Several protests have taken place across the nation this past week in the name of George Floyd. While most remained peaceful, dozens in New York City have turned violent and left NYPD officers injured.
Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day after an officer put his knee on Floyd's neck for more than 8 minutes. The officer, Derrick Chauvin, was arrested and charged with third-degree murder.
The three other officers at the scene ‐ Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao ‐ were charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. All four were fired following the incident.
McGraw also confirmed that the department has agents embedded in Antifa, from which they received the intel.
He said, “[The looting] was done and organized by an Antifa webpage, and of course, the surveillance that was provided over the internet to identify where law enforcement resources were staged was done over Antifa accounts.”
Antifa is a militant left-wing movement dedicated to fighting what it qualifies as fascism, and white supremacy, in America by any means — physically violent, verbally vitriolic, or otherwise — it deems necessary. Tracing its heritage to the German antifaschistischs in the 20th century, it engages in similar street-fight tactics that frequented the Weimar Republic.
This 21st-century version sprung up after the 2016 election and is known for sucker-punching and assaulting those whom they oppose, setting fire to buildings, and inciting riots. They have a reach that extends far beyond the United States, across continents.
Not every act of violence during the protests has been committed or instigated by Antifa, but DPS has confirmed their presence. They also confirmed that Antifa is using internet communication to track law enforcement movement and plan their measures accordingly.
The LAPD is calling for @MayorOfLA to be removed from officer due to mental illness after Garcetti called all cops in the country "killers."https://t.co/cgvOnAXNF3
Mexican Antifa try to murder a police officer during their ongoing mass riots in the state of #Guadalajara.
Remember folks, these communists are prepared to kill for their revolutions and there is thousands and thousands of them spread out in almost all countries of the world pic.twitter.com/5CY5NqCUs6
The Left’s Eating Itself. Let them Fight
[Breitbart] Blue on blue violence is not my problem. The left eating itself is not my problem. In fact, the only feeling all this mayhem emits from me — and I’m not terribly proud of this — is a twinge of smug satisfaction in the form of Toldjaso.
The moment Barack Obama embraced and legitimized the left-wing terrorists in Occupy Wall Street (that have now morphed into Antifa and Black Lives Matter), I toldjaso. The moment Obama and the corporate media embraced the Trayvon Martin, Hands Up, Don’t Shoot, and Baltimore hoaxes, I toldjaso. I saw the writing on the wall and got the hell out of Los Angeles in 2011.
The left is eating itself.
Watching conservatives stress over this baffles me.
Another connection between the Antifa network and the forces of jihad.
[Jpost] The petition was circulated online and signed by hundreds of campus organizations and individuals, which included among other demands for abolishing US police forces, blames Israel for teaching methods to American police forces that were used and resulted in the death of George Floyd, according to the Algemeiner.
Revolution Devours Its Own: Mob turns on Minne-haha Soyboy-Mayor Frey, forces walk of shame
[ConservativeTreehouse] Today the social justice warriors demanded Mayor Jacob Frey prove his virtue by promising to eliminate all police officers and allow the woke community to take over the organization of their politically correct civic society. The Mayor could not make the promise…. So the mob turned on him and forced him to do the walk of shame through the crowd.
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[DAILYWIRE] The Minneapolis mayor is asking for federal help cleaning up and rebuilding his city after rioters caused at least $55 million worth of damage through looting, burning, and defacing public and private property.
That cost estimate is likely to increase in the coming days as government officials continue to tally the damage done in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Mayor Jacob Frey said according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the state’s congressional delegation are also pushing the Trump administration and Congress for funding.
On Tuesday, city officials released an initial estimate of $55 million in damage done to at least 220 buildings. The mayor said that the number was likely a lowball estimate and that the total cost of the riots across Minneapolis and the state capital of St. Paul is likely to be "tens, if not hundreds of millions" of dollars.
"We will do everything we can as we shift to recovery mode," Frey said, according to the Star Tribune. "We’re recovering from crises sandwiched on top of each other, from COVID-19 to the police killing and then the looting which took place afterward."
City and state officials are attempting to get financial support from Congress or through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Neither option looks promising, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) said.
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City employees are paid as much as $191,000. And there are thousands of city employees. The Mayor is paid about $156,000.
So what you have is a bunch of crooks running and working for the city whose only goal is to reduce services, increase pay checks and run up a huge deficit ($1.6 billion in debt) with no rainy day savings for emergencies.
Emergencies like riots. Riots that Velma Korbel, Director Civil Rights, is paid $158,531 to prevent.
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Ten $100,000 salaries of bureaucratic functionaries is $1,000,000. With benefits and pension promises maybe $2m? So dump 250 admins and section heads.
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All that matters is, people in 49 other states had no say in your comfy union deals. Taxation without representation? We do have it now, but it's not a forever thing.
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Use the cash you're de-funding the police with.
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Hopefully the Feds won't cave. Out here in the rural counties of MN, though we're still screwed. State gov't almost top to bottom Democrats - guess who'll end up paying for Mppls rebuild? Reminds me of a line I read in Churchill's History of the English-speaking People: "They were almost entirely democratic and much given to robbery."
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That's smacks of a shakedown. Riots---> money. Reinforcing bad behavior. We are and have been paying the bills for these poorly managed leftwing money pits for a long time. The looting, violence and burning should have been stopped; such things tend to be costly. Perhaps when the citizens of Minneapolis have to pay this bill, it won't occur again. Maybe they won't elect the dingbat politicians who are simpatico with the mobs, street thugs and criminals.
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Minneapolis city council just disbanded the police department. Considering they technically did this when they ran out of the police station they are making it official. Lots of homes for sale in 5,4,3....
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Been trying to imagine this "community public safety" the moonbats are talking about. Near as I can figure it'll end up being gangs of officially recognized vigilantes.. or more like the Mafia families.. This is our turf - stay out. Can't see that there's be much actual city oversight or co-ordination between "territories".
[NEWS.YAHOO] The leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was killed this week by French forces in Mali.
Although Abdelmalik Droukdel ... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.... had a low public profile, he was one of the most powerful Islamist warlords in the region and his death is likely to have an impact on jihadist groups there.
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[PRESSTV] Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Saturday, in the latest violence to hit the West African nation.
Friday's attack targeted a Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... village named Binedama in the volatile Mopti region, said Aly Barry, an official from Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani association in Mali.
Two other local officials confirmed the attack and the corpse count to AFP.
Mali has been struggling to quell a Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... revolt that first broke out in north in 2012, before spreading to the center, as well as neighboring 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... and Niger.
Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed in the conflict, while many more have been forced to flee their homes.
Central Mali -- an ethnic mosaic -- has become one of the flashpoints of conflict in the country, with regular Takfiri attacks on military targets and occasional inter-communal fighting.
The pastoralist Fulani people are often accused of being close to Takfiri hard boys, a perception which has led to tit-for-tit massacres between them and other ethnic groups.
A local government official in Koro, a subdivision of the Mopti region, told AFP that the attack on Binedama occurred on Friday afternoon.
Two women, and a nine-year-old girl, were killed in the attack, he said.
Friday's attack also comes at a time of increasing insecurity in Mali.
Prominent opposition figure Soumaila Cisse was kidnapped in central Mali on March 25 while campaigning for a parliamentary election.
The region has also seen several massacres recently, including a hard boy attack on rural villages which left 12 people dead in April.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Afghanistan is running out of hospital beds as suspected cases 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... surge, officials said on Saturday, warning "there is a disaster coming" in the impoverished country.
Afghan health authorities reported 761 new positive cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed infections to 19,551.
"Our (hospital) beds are almost full, we won't have any more capacity very soon," Health Minister Ahmad Jawad Osmani told news hounds.
Officials said the number of cases were more than expected, including in the capital Kabul, the epicentre of the disease.
"There is a disaster coming," said Kabul governor Mohammad Yakub Haidary at a joint presser with the health minister.
He said in Kabul alone there could be a million people infected with the deadly virus.
So far there have been 327 confirmed deaths in the country.
"We have reports of increasing suspected deaths, people burying dead bodies at night," Haidary said.
"We fill 10-15 ambulances of dead people every day."
The virus's spread has surged amid a nationwide lockdown that residents have largely ignored, with many daily wage earners taking their chances with the disease rather than lose a day's work.
But the minister said that from Sunday the authorities will strictly impose measures like wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing for the next three months in order to curb the spread of the virus.
Experts say that Afghanistan is able to test only about 20 percent of its daily suspected coronavirus cases.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said in a statement Tuesday that "between 80 to 90 percent of potential cases are not being tested", citing figures provided to them by the health ministry which said between 10,000 and 20,000 samples were being received per day.
The charity warned that Afghanistan was on the brink of a health crisis after confirmed cases spiked by 684 percent in May.
Afghanistan has one of the highest rates of tests coming back positive -- about 40 percent -- the IRC said, indicating high levels of undetected infections.
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[NEWS.YAHOO] Indian police have arrested a plantation worker and are hunting two others after a pregnant elephant died after eating fruit laced with explosives, officials said Saturday, in a case that shocked the country.
The elephant died in agony last week in the southern state of Kerala, the latest casualty of a growing conflict in South Asia between nature and humans as ever more forest is lost to urban expansion.
Footage of the animal standing in a river for hours with its badly injured mouth and trunk in the water as it slowly weakened went viral, triggering horror online.
P. Wilson was arrested on Friday after he allegedly placed fruits filled with explosives to keep creatures -- mainly wild boar -- away from his rubber plantation.
"The man has admitted that they used the explosive-filled coconuts to target the wild animals," Surendra Kumar, Kerala's chief wildlife warden, told AFP.
Two of his associates were still on the lam, the officer said.
Kumar said the men made several "coconut bombs" in the second week of May, and left them near the plantation boundary.
Officials said it was unclear when exactly the 15-year-old elephant consumed the rigged fruit but it was found injured on May 25, two days before it died.
Forest officials said the earth-shattering kaboom caused severe damage to its mouth, leaving the creature unable to eat or drink for days.
Villagers across India often use explosive or firecracker-filled fruits -— which act like pressure-activated landmines —- as bait to target wild animals that threaten crops and homes.
A similar incident was reported last month in a nearby Kerala district, when a female pachyderm was found with serious mouth injuries.
If convicted, the men could face up to seven years in jail for killing an elephant, a protected animal under Indian wildlife laws.
In 1966, a fire at Urta-Bulak gas field in Uzbekistan had been raging for 3 years. It pumped out 12 million m^3 every day, so the Soviets decided to... nuke it. A 30 kiloton yield explosive was inserted to 1500m depth and detonated to close off the well.https://t.co/UJzDv0fGp0pic.twitter.com/G1mG09yMSt
[THEHILL] Republican operatives are attempting to link vulnerable Democrats to progressive members’ calls to disband police departments and reduce their budgets as they look to flip key swing districts in November.
Top progressive politicians and outside groups have called for substantial changes to the structure of U.S. law enforcement after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis who died during an arrest after a police officer knelt on his neck.
Rep. Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... (D-Minn.) tweeted Friday: "The Minneapolis Police Department has proven themselves beyond reform. It’s time to disband them and reimagine public safety in Minneapolis."
Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... (D-N.Y.) also took to social media to blast New York’s police budget, tweeting: "If police budgets bought peace, the $6 billion NYPD budget would’ve bought the most sophisticated de-escalatory operation in the world. Clearly, it didn’t."
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Hey, Boom Boom - why doncha comment on "The ar on Poverty"?
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Search for "pounce" returns no hits?
Ocrazio-Cuntez: "If police budgets bought peace, the $6 billion NYPD budget would’ve bought the most sophisticated de-escalatory operation in the world. Clearly, it didn’t."
Cool, so you won't need any money from the rest of us.
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Send us money message coming from Paul Ryan and Justin Amash right quick now..
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Abolish police?? Every major city doing this would be given over to the criminal element. I'd give it no more than a week without police before these progressive politicians would be begging for the police to return.
This’ll goose the recovery — all those businesses relieved of spending so much money and time on nonsense.
[PJMedia] Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... signed an executive order that would waive requirements under several environmental laws for construction projects and energy projects overseen by several federal agencies.
The Hill reports that Trump wrote, "From the beginning of my Administration, I have focused on reforming and streamlining an outdated regulatory system that has held back our economy with needless paperwork and costly delays. The need for continued progress in this streamlining effort is all the more acute now, due to the ongoing economic crisis."
The order affects the enforcement of laws like the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The paperwork associated with NEPA alone is staggering. That law makes it incredibly easy for anyone opposed to a project to register objections, causing delays of months or years on vital infrastructure projects.
Naturally, there is pushback — and as it turns out, the greens question the timing.
Basically, the order would fast-track some projects that require considerable agency review. Trump signed another executive order last month that directed agencies to identify regulations that would impede the economic recovery. But this order is far more sweeping.
The latest order goes further, directing agencies to use their own emergency authorities and the emergency provisions of environmental laws to skip over standard requirements.
Agencies will now have 30 days to report which projects will be expedited under the order, but there is no requirement for that list to be publicized.
At least 10 Afghan cops members were killed on Friday morning in an ambush by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... on the Zabul-Kandahar highway near the city of Qalat, in Zabul province, said Ata Jan Haq Bayan, head of Zabul's provincial council.
He said the Taliban has also suffered casualties in the clash.
Bayan added that the government forces went to the outskirts of the city of Qalat to assess security and they encountered a Taliban ambush at around 9 am this morning.
He added that two Humvee tanks of the Afghan forces "were destroyed" in the attack.
He called on the government to pay more attention to the security of the southern province.
A security source in Zabul said the attack left 15 coppers dead.
Zabul security officials have not commented on the incident so far.
The Taliban has not grabbed credit for the attack.
This attack also comes as an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... by Afghan forces in Farah province in the west of the country on Thursday night killed 16 Taliban fighters, according to Farah police front man Mohibullah Mohib.
The Taliban attacked an outpost in Deh Yak village on the outskirts of Farah city prior to the airstrike, he said.
[PJMedia] Employees of the cosmetic giant Estee Lauder have written a letter to Chairman William Lauder demanding that he fire board member Ronald Lauder because of his contributions to Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... and conservative causes. They are also demanding the $3 billion company show more support to black groups, including Black Lives Matter.
The company told employees they were doing all they can and that Ronald Lauder does not speak for Estee Lauder.
Seeking to destroy Ronald Lauder — a distinguished public servant who served as ambassador in the Reagan administration and is president of the World Jewish Congress — is an exercise in activist politics. Who will be targeted next?
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They should read that article about all the interns at the major financial firm who turned in a petition complaining about the dress code and they wanted to wear sneakers like this one woman there. 25 of 26 interns signed it. Well, turns out the woman in sneakers was a vet injured by IED's and it was a medical accommodation and every intern that signed it got shown the door. #26 was smart.
#UPDATE Forces loyal to Libya's UN-recognised government said they launched an offensive to seize the strategic city of Sirte, as rival strongman Khalifa Haftar backed an Egypt-proposed ceasefire following a string of military setbacks https://t.co/oIH2jx5SHM
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Just some guessing here: The story came from a "tik tok" (a Chinese company) video, so do the Chinese have a financial interest in a competitive product? How about good ole soap and water folks.
Brazil takes down COVID-19 data, hiding soaring death toll
[Jpost] Brazil removed from public view months of data on its COVID-19 epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes to official record-keeping of the world's second-largest coronavirus outbreak.
Brazil's Health Ministry removed the data from a website that had documented the epidemic over time and by state and municipality. The ministry also stopped giving a total count of confirmed cases, which have shot past 672,000 – more than anywhere outside the United States – or a total death toll, which passed Italy this week, nearing 36,000 by Saturday.
"The cumulative data ... does not reflect the moment the country is in," Bolsonaro said on Twitter, citing a note from the ministry. "Other actions are underway to improve the reporting of cases and confirmation of diagnoses."
Bolsonaro has played down the dangers of the pandemic, replaced medical experts in the Health Ministry with military officials and argued against state lockdowns to fight the virus, hobbling the country's public health response.
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Bolsonaro has played down the dangers of the pandemic, replaced medical experts in the Health Ministry with military officials and argued against state lockdowns to fight the virus, hobbling the country's public health response
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India has had around 7000 deaths in total nationwide so they are hardly struggling to catch up. The death rate actually fell during lockdown due to a fall in road traffic accidents. For comparison, 4000 people die each month from snakebite in India.
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And 7,000 out of over 1,000,000,000 people...too small to even be a rounding error.
Is there one brave member of Trump’s cabinet who would move to initiate the 25th amendment to remove him from office? Now is the time to save our country before this would-be dictator takes us all down!
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If Trump were the dictator that Mad Maxine and others claim he is, most of them would have disappeared long ago. Or be found hanging from lampposts.
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Idiots such as Maxine, Nancy, et al., can't formulate any logical (winning) arguments, so it is just the usual use of emotional words (dictator, racist, xenophobe). When you hear that rubbish, you know they've lost the argument. But sadly, people out there believe that nonsense, the ones who [re-]elect these a-holes.
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FBI malfeasance / malpractice: Didn't work
Media malfeasance / malpractice: Didn't work
25th Amendment: Didn't / won't work
Large asteroids spotted by NASA: Won't work
COVID: didn't work
Forever quarantine: Didn't work
Race Riots: Not working, petering out.
...Next?
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They'll circle back to Covid-19; us Star Trek fans call that 'rotating the shield frequencies'.
"Only time will tell!"
[ORLANDOSENTINEL] Val Demings’ meteoric rise from the Orlando Police Department to the halls of Congress and a starring role in the impeachment of President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... has reportedly landed her on the shortlist of contenders to join former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... atop the Democratic ticket this fall.
But Demings’ background as a former police chief at a department that has been accused of using force excessively, including during her tenure, could prove a challenge on the national stage, particularly when people across the country are protesting in the streets against police brutality.
To national Democrats, Demings is a rising star who has already once taken on Trump. In Central Florida, she’s half of a political and law enforcement power couple, along with husband and Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, himself a former Orlando police chief and county sheriff.
"One could argue she is uniquely qualified to help find solutions [and] help craft policies for departments across the country struggling to overcome the image that many of them use force recklessly, particularly against African Americans and other minorities," said Aubrey Jewett, a professor of political science at the University of Central Florida.
But, Jewett cautioned, many progressives "are already not that comfortable with Joe Biden. And if he picks someone who was a police chief — even though she’s an African American woman — that might be a deal-breaker for some of those voters."
As the nation has been roiled by protests since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police, Demings, 63, has touted her law enforcement credentials but also framed herself as a reformer with a strong connection to marginalized and minority communities.
"What happened to George Floyd should not have happened under any circumstances," Demings told the Orlando Sentinel on Friday. "It certainly was not a deadly force situation, yet deadly force was used."
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"What happened to George Floyd should not have happened under any circumstances," Demings told the Orlando Sentinel on Friday. "It certainly was not a deadly force situation, yet deadly force was used."
Unfortunate, yes. Was the restraint part of the Minneapolis Police training?
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Demings hubby and wife pretty much run Orange County, which will vote blue anyway, so I don't see the vote pickup here.
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Of course, "some people" want another Valrangoutan influencing what goes on in the Oval Office...
I will surely get busted for this...
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Wannabe mass killer foiled because bomb making be hard.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Cole Carini arrived at a hospital on Tuesday with a missing hand, missing fingers on his other hand, and shrapnel wounds on his neck
Carini was subsequently interviewed by police who obtained a warrant to search his home after learning he previously had been convicted on explosives charges
Investigators discovered Triacetone Triperoxide - a substance used in the creation of improvised explosive devices
They also found PVC pipes, pieces of loose wires, empty chemical containers and a hot plate cooking surface in a shed belonging to Carini's grandmother
The FBI believes Carini may have been making an explosive to blow up 'hot cheerleaders' - based on a letter they also discovered at his home
Iraq's parliament Saturday gave its vote of confidence to seven cabinet ministers, including the key oil and foreign affairs posts, completing the 22-member government of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemihttps://t.co/qVnxUOuPV0pic.twitter.com/ZTuU9uS1b3
The Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that one of its soldiers was killed and two others were wounded in an attack on an armored ambulance in #Idlib on Friday.https://t.co/lJTMZo8l5g
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) June 6, 2020
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Protesters poured into the streets of the Lebanese capital to decry the collapse of the economy, as clashes erupted between supporters and opponents of the Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah https://t.co/qglmaTgWJ3pic.twitter.com/9jsoPm1Hb3
[Bloomberg] Rod Rosenstein says he was kept in the dark about important parts of the probe.
He must now know who pulled down the shades. As a demonstration of his pure-hearted anger, a full and detailed list would be welcome.
The FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign has taken a beating in the last six months. Late last year, the Justice Department’s inspector general found the bureau’s application to eavesdrop on a former aide to then-candidate Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... ’s campaign was riddled with factual errors and omissions. The surveillance court that approved that warrant has barred the agents who submitted it from appearing before it. And last month the Justice Department dropped its case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
"Worse" than what? Worse than Waco, Ruby Ridge, 9/11, Nadal Hasan, the Tsarnaev Bros, Roger Stone, the FBI investigative team sent to Benghazi, the DNC IT repairman - Shahid Imran Awan & family, the Clinton 'home brew' IT servers......?
Compared to the rest of the world, Americans are rich.
[AlAhram] A quarter of the Lebanese population is in danger of dropping beneath the food poverty line in a country that relies on imported food and has little domestic agriculture.
They also can’t seem to put together a workable government...
Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... was once famous for its large middle class, which after the end of the country’s civil war was well known for its habit of eating in fancy restaurants, embarking on skiing trips and buying clothes from major brands.
I wonder if this is another one of those 4chan trolls?
'Cuz I don't think that this will have the effect that they are hoping for.
Get ready to hear the phrase "Yelp-lining".
[Mashable] Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced that the app will launch a searchable attribute so businesses can identify themselves as black-owned, making it easier for customers to find them. The attribute will be opt-in so only businesses who want to proclaim they're black-owned can do so.
Stoppelman explained that in the past week, Yelp saw 25x increase in the amount of searches for black-owned business across a variety of industries compared to this time last year. Yelp's Curation team will create Collections of black-owned businesses across the country in the meantime before the tool is ready to launch in two weeks.
If businesses want to let customers know they're black-owned in-person, Yelp created black-owned business decals in February 2020 for Black History Month.
In addition to this new feature, the Yelp Foundation will donate $500,000 to the Equal Justice Initiative and NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The foundation also moved up their matching cap to $10,000 and will double match employee donations to a variety of black organizations such as Black Futures Lab.
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I wonder if this is another one of those 4chan trolls?
One could make the case that the multiple lunatic constituencies of the Democratic party are all the result of successful 4chan trolling campaigns. The #GoBaldForBLM trend looks to be the latest 4chan op.
[NPASYRIA] At least three non-combatants were killed on Saturday in a boom-mobileing in Syria's northeastern town of Sere Kaniye, which was seized by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... last October, local sources said.
Local sources told North Press that a boom-mobilewent kaboom! at the town center in front of a military headquarters belonging to an gang from the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian opposition.
The military headquarters, belonging to the Ahrar al-Sharqiya group, was a house the group confiscated from a resident of the town, the local source added.
Three civilians, including a child, bit the dust and several others were maimed. The explosion, which hit a main street in the town, caused damage to a series of buildings.
The maimed were immediately transferred to the main hospital of the town. So far, no group has grabbed credit for the blast.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A three-judge appeals court panel heard arguments this week from Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... ’s lawyer and Judicial Watch as the former secretary of state seeks to avoid a deposition about her private email server and the Benghazi attack talking points.
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, argued Tuesday that the depositions of Clinton and Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, ordered by a D.C. district court judge was necessary to understand whether Clinton attempted to avoid the Freedom of Information Act when she improperly used a private server to conduct her State Department business and whether the agency adequately searched for all her emails. "We have no recollection of any of it"
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[AmericanThinker] Cheers from Iran and China dissidents over booting of Obama holdovers at Voice of America.
Technically he’ll be CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which also includes Radio Free Europe, etc. He succeeds John Lansing, a former president of Scripps Network.
President Trump was happy as heck at the news that Michael Pack,
...Senior Fellow and former CEO of the Claremont Institute and a prolific producer of documentaries for PBS, some in partnership with Steve Bannon — his most recent is “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words“...
his choice for new director at the Voice of America, finally got confirmed by the Senate.
He was nominated two years ago.
It came as a sort of miracle, given the dirty, protracted battle from the Deep State's Obama holdovers to keep him out. It was so underhanded that it involved a last-ditch Kavanaugh-style bid to smear Pack as corrupt if for nothing else than to delay his Senate confirmation to eternity. It was the Deep State at its worst, and it failed. Now, what's probably the last solid Obama bastion of Deep State government has toppled.
This is great news. All of #Iran's apologists/lobbyists should be shunned from pushing the mullahs' talking points in America. pic.twitter.com/c1DgEzrp36
As a Chinese immigrant, I hope @VOANews@VOAChinese not to continue to be pro-Beijing, the CCP dictatorship is the biggest threat and enemy for any free nation. I see most many medias and social platforms are penetrated in deeply and distributing the CCP propagandas. That's bad. pic.twitter.com/6fwGfoYB9Z
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.
[Medium.com] Barack Obama has given his perfunctory speech about the Black Lives Matter protests taking place in America today, and it was every bit as full of pretty words and empty of actual substance as you’d expect from a president who spent eight years stagnating the progressive movement with empty hope narrative while advancing the same murderous oppressive agendas as his predecessors.
[American Renaissance] The United States is in an uproar over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. There have been demonstrations in over 400 US cities, and looting and arson in every major city. Why are so many people in the streets? Because they believe that American society is systematically racist and that the police brutalize and even casually murder black men.
[NY Post] The man accused of shooting two cops and stabbing a third in Brooklyn this week screamed "Allahu akbar!" three times during the unprovoked attack, police said Saturday.
[Washington Examiner] he Supreme Court is expected to rule on June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo, a case that calls into question the constitutionality of an abortion clinic regulation in Louisiana, in the coming month. The imminent ruling has the potential to reshape the future of abortion industry litigation, advancing the pro-life movement in one of the most significant ways since Roe v. Wade.
Just when I began to think a generational expansion of Roe vs Wade organ harvesting might actually be an answer for the current unrest. 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
[Jpost] A former leader of the Paleostinian 
...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...
...
...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 
Two "not very good people" spotted near Prescott, AZ. 
...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...
[Fox] BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WJW) — Two Ohio men were captured after police say they were looking to incite violence during a protest in New York City.
[DAILYWIRE] The Minneapolis mayor is asking for federal help cleaning up and rebuilding his city after rioters caused at least $55 million worth of damage through looting, burning, and defacing public and private property.
... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
...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...
[NEWS.YAHOO] Indian police have arrested a plantation worker and are hunting two others after a pregnant elephant died after eating fruit laced with explosives, officials said Saturday, in a case that shocked the country.
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the 
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
...
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
[Bloomberg] Rod Rosenstein says he was kept in the dark about important parts of the probe.
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A three-judge appeals court panel heard arguments this week from 
