PJ via Instapundit
Protestors overwhelmingly fear that they’ll spread the sometimes-deadly Wuhan coronavirus, but continue to protest anyway. A new Axios-Ipsos survey reveals that by a massive 6.5-to-1 margin, Americans believe that there is a moderate to large risk of getting a nasty COVID-19 infection by "going to protests, demonstrations." Personally, I never participated in a demonstration - except on the other side.
[Fox News] Seattle protesters storm City Hall, demand mayor resign after driving police out of area, declaring autonomous zone
Hundreds of protesters, aided by a sympathetic City Council member, stormed Seattle's City Hall Tuesday night to demand the mayor's resignation, just days after seizing a six-block downtown zone that includes a shuttered police precinct.
Demonstrators remained peaceful, without reports of violence or injuries, but are pushing Mayor Jenny Durkan to step down if she refuses to defund the city's police department.
The protesters continued to camp out in a self-declared "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ)-- a region spanning six blocks and encompassing the precinct-- which has effectively been abandoned by law enforcement after the Seattle Police Department closed the East Precinct on Monday. Much more at link, with pictures.
Courtesy of lord garth, Red State reports on the above-unnamed City Council member and the events leading up to the storming. Lots of tweets with video at the link:
Late on Tuesday night, hundreds of protestors entered Seattle City Hall. It is believed that City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, who has a key to the building, opened it up for them.
Sawant called her colleagues "sellouts" and "corporate politicians.
Also:
Earlier on Tuesday, Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County filed a lawsuit against the Seattle Police Department over the “violent tactics it has used to break up largely peaceful protests in recent days.”
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This has gone beyond "demonstrations" to outright anarchy and secession. We are in the midst of a civil war, and too few people understand that -- including our president and the DC bureaucrats. It will only end in bloodshed and destruction. I fear for our nation.
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Apparently Bane, and Dr. Crane's Courts are being discussed.
They are calling for armed guards for their barricades. I think that a visit from a suitable detachment of military is in order. Maybe start with a Warthog or Apache visit.
Seattle's political culture is very liberal and progressive for the United States, with over 80% of the population voting for the Democratic Party. All precincts in Seattle voted for Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election.[263] In partisan elections for the Washington State Legislature and United States Congress, nearly all elections are won by Democrats. Although local elections are nonpartisan, most of the city's elected officials are known to be Democrats.
In 1926, Seattle became the first major American city to elect a female mayor, Bertha Knight Landes.[264] It has also elected an openly gay mayor, Ed Murray,[265] and a third-party socialist councillor, Kshama Sawant.[266] For the first time in United States history, an openly gay black woman was elected to public office when Sherry Harris was elected as a Seattle city councillor in 1991.[267][268] The majority of the city council is female.[269]
Seattle is widely considered one of the most socially liberal cities in the United States, even surpassing Portland.[271] In the 2012 U.S. general election, a majority of Seattleites voted to approve Referendum 74 and legalize gay marriage in Washington state.[272] In the same election, an overwhelming majority of Seattleites also voted to approve the legalization of the recreational use of cannabis in the state.[273] Like much of the Pacific Northwest (which has the lowest rate of church attendance in the United States and consistently reports the highest percentage of atheism[274][275]), church attendance, religious belief, and political influence of religious leaders are much lower than in other parts of America.[276]
In July 2012, Seattle banned plastic shopping bags.[277] In June 2014 the city passed a local ordinance to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour on a staged basis from 2015 to 2021. When fully implemented the $15 hourly rate will be the highest minimum wage in the nation.[278]
On October 6, 2014, Seattle officially replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day, honoring Seattle's Native American community and acknowledging the controversies surrounding the legacy of Christopher Columbus.[279][280]
On May 9, 2017, Mayor Murray announced he would not seek re-election[281] following a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse of several teenaged boys in the 1980s.[282] Murray resigned as mayor on September 12, 2017, effective at 5 p.m. on September 13, 2017,[283] hours after The Seattle Times reported a fifth allegation of child sexual abuse.[284]
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My dear, you know you need to add LOL or ;-) or /facetiousness if you want me to pick up on such subtleties. When you don’t, inevitably I’ll use up an excessive number of Fred’s bytes to share information about things you already inferred.
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Didn't it take months for the scenario in Lord of the Flies to develop?
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Given this defund local Police move, I am wondering if this is part of a greater plan?
Like to use the unrest as a means to gain acceptance for a DC Swamp controlled National Police Force (Gestapo) to restore order?
OR, to force Trump to use the NG to restore order. Which they will use to start another Impeachment process and play for Black voters that have given up on the Democrats.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA, BLM hasn't just jumped the shark, they're buggering it's dead carcass. The Democrats have maybe a week to get as far away from them as they can before every mom with kids under 10 maybe howls for BLM blood. They want to cancel Paw Patrol and euthanize the police dog!
From Sargon of Akkad (Benjamin Phillips). Best part is at 15.58 when he includes a Facebook post by an American black woman who RAILS against Black Lives Matter.
[YNews] - Germany's foreign minister met with his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi in Jerusalem on Wednesday to convey Europe's stiff opposition to Israel's plans to begin annexing parts of the West Bank.
"Many people in Israel - and also in the European Union - are preoccupied with the current developments in the Middle East peace process and the possible annexation plans," Maas said prior to his departure.
"Germany remains committed to the goal of a negotiated two-state solution. We will also talk about this and I will underline that we are ready to support all initiatives to revive talks between Israelis and Palestinians." Israel annexing, US military are leaving, Coronavirus is not abating --- it's a bad time for Herrenvolk.
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/\ I should have known. That translation is incorrect. It's the equivalent of "mind your own business" (literally, "Sweep in front of your own door!"
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I DID call him a "lightweight" the other say, didn't I?
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@ #8 - Not many idioms anywhere translate cleanly. Imagine translating "getting to first base" in German or French or any other lingo (especially baseball-type ones).
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English can be surprisingly hard to translate, exactly because of its idioms.
Getting to first base (with a girl) simply doesn't work in German (the translation, that is).
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Btw JFM, "Ficken Sie aus" doesn't exist in German :-)
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Oh, but the translation programs are even more fun than my previous habit of looking up translations in the dictionary, then following the translated word back to English, only to end up with something utterly nonsensical.
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but Sitzpinkler is an awesome and descriptive slur on a man in a way English could never be
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European Conservative..Heiko Maas? the same feller that said to a crowd in a small german town that was protesting (pretty sure it was about the new arrivals)and was being heckled "We will also take care of the interests of those people shouting "traitor" right now without them even knowing what's happening"
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also Kummerspeck. It says so much with one word
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LOL FrankG indeed. German is very creative because you can form as many words as you like.
And Bavarian is even better. Examples:
Breznsoiza (somebody who puts salt on pretzels, which are, of course, already salted)
Kniabisla (somebody who pisses on his knees)
Noagalzutzla (somebody who finishes off the remaining beer of others)
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;-)
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@Unosh Hupinelet8756
I think yes, although I don't remember exactly.
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How bout just letting the Palestinians use the air bases the Americans are evacuating.
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I thoroughly enjoyed learning German — both times. The drawback of relearning it a lifetime later is that one is never quite sure if one is remembering or making it up... So when we went back to visit fifteen years after that, it turned out that aufschlafen was not quite the separable verb I was aiming for. We were meeting German cousins for the first time, and the impression I did not intend to make was of my 65-year old cousin absolutely helpless with giggles, and her thoroughly adult son-cum-business partner red-faced because giggles are not at all manly. (For the record, ausschlafen is what I meant, not nearly as interesting.)
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Saw a menu once in German and in English while in Germany once. "Beilagen" (sides or side dishes) was translated as "Enclosures". It happens but can be worth a chuckle from time to time.
Next up in the stable of recent U.S. corporations to bend over for BLM is venerable bike company Trek. I give them ten hours from now until they're attacked by SJW's and tap out.
[Cycling News] - Trek has issued a statement on its "commitment to a better future" after its bicycles were used as weapons by US police officers against protesters during the Black Lives Matter marches across the US. Trek is one of a number of suppliers of bikes to police forces in the US.
Various images and videos of police officers using their bikes as weapons and shields — seemingly having been trained to use them as such — have appeared online and in the media over the past week and a half.
Trek has been under pressure to react to the use of their police bikes. Cyclingnews understands that members of their own Advocates programme have called for action and support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
In a statement published on Cyclingtips but not on their website with their list of initiatives, Trek said it had seen the photos and video of Trek bikes being "used by police in ways that are abhorrent and vastly different from their intended use".
Chainsaws can be used in ways that are abhorrent and vastly different from their intended use, too.
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I suspect Trek has an entire public/govt sales division that bundles up the bikes with training packages (hint - the real money is in the training).
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Pretty soon they’ll stop selling police cars to the police.
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Various images and videos of police officers using their bikes as weapons and shields — seemingly having been trained to use them as such
I've used my bike as a shield between me and an attacking animal, despite my utter lack of police training. It's not rocket science, although I would expect they talk about it in cop school.
[Breitbart] Perhaps not since the era of Oliver Cromwell, when Puritans smashed and burned any work of art or architecture they deemed impure, has Britain engaged in such a frenzy of iconoclasm.
Across the country, mobs of petty tyrants, puffed up with self-righteousness and moral fervour, are plotting which little piece of British history they can vandalise or destroy next. Ironic, perhaps, given Oliver Cromwell himself is now on the list of condemned statues.
In Bristol they have already succeeded with the statue of 17th-century merchant, slaver and city benefactor Edward Colston (whose statue — with the apparent acquiescence of Bristol police), they pulled from its plinth and dragged into the sea.
In London, they spray-painted (’Racist’) a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square. The statue remains upright, so far. But today they had better luck in East London with a statue of Robert Milligan, another slave trader, which was torn down from its plinth on the orders of the Canal and River Trust — supposedly in response to public demand. (There was a petition with a fairly modest 3,000 signatures)
In Oxford, they’ve revived the long-simmering campaign (copied from mob tactics used in Cape Town, South Africa) to remove a statue of Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College. Hundreds of undergraduates chanted ’take it down’, blocked the High Street with a sit-down protest during which all but one of them took a knee for eight minutes, 46 seconds in solidarity with George Floyd...
The exception was local resident Peter Hitchens...
Remember, everybody - they're mostly peaceful!
[Boston 25 News] - BOSTON — Boston police are investigating after the city’s Christopher Columbus statue was vandalized overnight.
The head of the statue was knocked off and left at its base in the North End’s Christopher Columbus Park.
Boston 25 News has reached out to the commissioner of Boston Parks and Recreation and Boston police for more information.
This is not the first time the statue has been targeted. In 2015, it was doused in red paint with "Black Lives Matter" spray painted on its base.
At the time, Boston’s Parks and Recreation commissioner said while they encourage discourse, destroying public property is not the way to do it.
In 2006, someone took the statue’s head. It was found six days later and repaired. Past time to discourage discourse with BLM / Antifa goons. If the Angulo family was still around these BLM guys would be six feet under somewhere in a New Hampshire forest.
On May 31, 19 Chicago residents were killed. This was the single deadliest day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.
From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 25 people were killed in the city An additional 85 were wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
...That same Sunday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot held a conference call with city’s alderman. Not surprisingly, the alderman complained about the lawlessness and violence in their wards. You can listen to a recording of the meeting here.
...Her most interesting exchange was a profanity-laced confrontation with Alderman Raymond Lopez. He told Lightfoot that the city was unprepared for the demonstrations:
When downtown is in lockdown, our neighborhoods are next, and our failure to fully get ready for what’s going on in the neighborhoods, we’re seeing this destruction, and we’re thinking that it’s going to somehow end tonight. We have seen where, in other cities, this has gone on for days; and we need to come up with a better plan for days, at least for the next five days, to try and stabilize our communities.
Lopez continued:
Once they’re done looting and rioting and whatever’s going to happen tonight, God help us, what happens when they start going after residents? Going into the neighborhoods? Once they start trying to break down people’s doors, if they think they’ve got something. I’ve got gangbangers with AK-47s walking around right now, just waiting to settle some scores. What are we going to do, and what do we tell residents, other than good faith people stand up? It’s not going to be enough.
Lightfoot tried to duck Lopez’s inquiry. When that didn’t work, she resorted to profanity. "I think you’re 100% full of sh*t, is what I think," Lightfoot said.
"F*** you, then," Lopez responded. "Who are you to tell me I’m full of shi*? ... Maybe you should come out and see what’s going on."
Lopez claims that Lightfoot worked with gang members to protect selected areas against looting. She denies the allegation.
The feud between Lightfoot and Lopez is emblematic of tension between Chicago’s Black and Latino communities. Lightfoot acknowledged that the demonstrations and rioting have exacerbated tensions between the two groups.
According to one source, the "Latin Kings" sent a message to the police that they would "take care" of the rioters, and that the police were not needed. Thus, Chicago may have faced the prospect of war in the street between Latinos and Blacks.
[American Thinker] -
There are more than two sexes, biology notwithstanding.
Indeed, there are "57 Varieties" of gender. Also, in
contradiction, gender is a "social construct."
Islam is a "religion of peace."
The university campus is aswarm with female victims of rape
and sexual assault.
The planet is entering a carboniferous period as
temperatures rise to unsustainable levels.
There is an organized and historical campaign in the Judeo-
Christian West of men against women known as the
"Patriarchy."
There is a vast movement of White Supremacists ruthlessly
oppressing those of other races and creeds.
America is bedeviled by institutional racism.
There is no such thing as truth.
Looting, vandalism and physical violence are legitimate forms of civil protest.
The value of people derives from their membership in a group rather than from their status as unique individuals.
We have entered the looking-glass world. None of these beliefs correspond to reality, as every sensible person knows. They are to a significant extent forms of what Angelo Codevilla calls "subrational submission," or conformity to the political diktats of a leftist ruling class, but they transcend politics insofar as they are signs of a spreading cultural malady -- the inability to think. Years of bad education, political indoctrination, and welfare dependency have much to do with a demonstrable decline in intelligence and basic knowledge -- a veritable contagion of cultural illiteracy, to quote E.D. Hirsch. IMO, it all started with believing that environment trumps heredity.
[TownHall] - Everyone who wants to prevent nuclear war and expand economic opportunity should demand China's dictatorship answer this question: Why is nuclear-armed mainland China militarily and diplomatically escalating its Himalayan border dispute with nuclear-armed India?
On June 8, the South China Morning Post -- once an independent voice but increasingly a Beijing agitprop outlet-- published an article touting the People's Liberation Army's Himalayan reinforcement operation.
I enjoyed the photo of PLA infantrymen seated on a jet transport while wearing surgical masks. Obviously, the troops regard the COVID-19/Wuhan virus as a threat.
...As for war between the Asian giants China and India? We have a five-decade cycle of tit-for-tat Chinese and Indian Himalayan border chest-pounding episodes followed by tentative reconciliation.
Yet the 1962 Sino-Indian War isn't ancient history. Optimists note the 1962 Sino-Indian ceasefire has produced a kind of stability, but it is not a ratified peace treaty. Indeed, since 1962, frozen war has persisted at a literal level, with soldiers in snowfields. Frozen conflicts have the veneer of stability, but in fact, they are slow wars waged by diplomatic, economic and cultural means, and military buildups.
...Armed conflict becomes more likely when Chinese and Indian leaders see their Himalayan disputes as either a convenient squabble serving domestic political ends or, much worse for planet Earth, a window of opportunity to gain a significant advantage over a major strategic adversary. Prospect No. 1 produces war by miscalculation. Prospect No. 2 produces war when one side decides to deny the aggressor a bloodless strategic advantage.
China's dramatic economic contraction matters. I doubt China knows the exact percentage points, but thanks to its COVID-19/Wuhan virus cover-up, Beijing's tendency to put lipstick on ugly numbers has become a global reputation for bald-faced lying.
Add this reasonable assumption: China's economy will not see its 1990-to-2017 growth rates. The U.S. decision to decouple supply chains, Western Europe's slow but similar response, and an understandable though little analyzed anti-Beijing reaction in Africa and southwest Asia support this assumption. Some economists argue that in 2019, the U.S. surpassed China as India's largest trading partner.
The Chinese Communist Party feels threatened by economic decline, Hong Kong's resistance and pandemic pushback.
Feeling threatened is reasonable in this situation...
In the 20th century, the CCP attracted domestic political support by demanding the return of treaty ports like Hong Kong. Beijing's current South China Sea expansion and pursuit of "traditionalist" claims on Himalayan territory repeat this motif. Hence the most likely scenario: Beijing is chest pounding to gain domestic support.
However, if someone on a glacier starts shooting, a brief Sino-Indian War 2020 (the War for Southern Tibet) where China launches a limited invasion with the goal of pushing the border 20 miles south in either the eastern or western sectors cannot be totally dismissed. After the territorial "bite," China would call for a ceasefire to avoid escalation to nuclear war and offer to negotiate a permanent border. This fact argues against a significant Chinese advance. In 1962, Beijing acclimated its infantry to high altitudes. New Delhi did not. In 2020, both sides' front-line forces are acclimated. The boys from Hubei? Not yet.
[RedState] The Portland Tribune reports that a wall is being built around Portland City Hall. The reason this is so delightfully ironic is because the city’s mayor, Ted Wheeler, gave an inspiring speech last year which he titled, “Building Bridges, Not Walls.”
On the occasion of Martin Luther King Day, the far-left mayor told the crowd, “The reality is that we’re living at a time where at the federal level, we have an administration that’s seeking to build a wall to divide us…We have a president who emboldens racist behavior.”
According to The Tribune:
Wooden walls are being erected around City Hall and the Portland Building to protect them from vandalism.
According to Mayor Ted Wheeler’s office, despite other fencing that was put up last week, both buildings continue to be marked with graffiti each night of the ongoing protests.
“Cleaning the buildings each day is taking public resources, particularly due to the limestone surface at City Hall. We are looking into the possibility of partnering with the arts community to create murals on the plywood in support of the racial justice movement,” Wheeler’s office told the Portland Tribune.
Protests have taken place downtown for more than 11 nights in a row following the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Although the most intense activity has taken place at the Justice Center, other buildings have been repeatedly vandalized, too, including the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse and Pioneer Place.
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My-oh-my, the hypocrisy of it all. So Mr. Mayor, walls are necessary then? Are you going to scrap the sanctuary city nonsense too? That's very much a "no walls concept." These lefties are so inconsistent.
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And the wall is already coming down. In a statement, the city said that while the wall was intended to protect the building and minimize expenses, the city needed to “hear our community’s demands for racial justice, even when those demands take the form of spray paint.”
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My dad use to opine that eventually it will be required by law that you let anyone into your house who knocks on the door and you will then have to leave if they tell you to.
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Gentlemen, gentlemen. Remain calm. Let the stories of sanctuary and representation for the homeless go about.
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By Sarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR and Christopher Hope, CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT of Telegraph.
I'm perfectly happy to test the theory on Sarah's & Chris' children.
Alternatively, I'd like to give Sarah & Chris a simple, undergraduate exam in virology and/or immunology. For each incorrect answer Sarah or Chris get one slap on the face.
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Here's an idea. How about we try to go an entire year without any major security flaws, data breaches or government leaks before we start talking about putting back doors in tech?
Breitbart via Instapundit Even though we know the coronavirus ravages black people at a much higher rate than other groups, Democrats are still actively encouraging black people to go outside and gather in large groups. And the main reason coronavirus ravages black people at a much higher rate than other groups, is (IMO) not vitamin D and the rest of these "just so stories" but because quarantine wasn't enforced in inner cities.
Each compounds all the others, I suspect.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
At the local and federal level, Democrats are actively seeking to either weaken or abolish police departments that protect predominantly black neighborhoods and cities.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
Look at how Democrats protested George Floyd’s tragic death on Monday. Here’s a photo. Look at how they practiced safe social distancing... And yet these same Democrats are actively encouraging black people to go out and gather in large groups.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
Democrats lobby relentlessly for illegal and unskilled immigrants to enter our country, which disproportionately steals jobs and lowers the wages of black Americans.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
Democrats openly and aggressively campaign to destroy the education reforms that predominantly black urban areas most desperately need — school choice and charter schools.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
The number of black people murdered every week in cities like Chicago and Baltimore, cities that have been run exclusively by Democrats for decades, should be a national scandal, but nothing is ever done. While countless black people fall, it’s all swept under the rug to protect the Democrat Political Machine.
Black lives literally don’t matter to Democrats.
To Democrats, black people are cannon fodder, expendable soldiers in their social justice war for power. As Democrats safely social distance, they urge their cannon fodder to take it to the streets; as Democrats send their own children to private schools, they push their cannon fodder into failing schools; as Democrats enjoy private security, they call for defunding the police that protects black Americans.
It is in Democrat-run cities where black people are gunned down daily.
It is in Democrat-run cities where the water turns to poison. On the other hand, you do have a small black upper class - mostly in politics where they (mostly) rob their constituents blind.
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No mention of how well Planned Parenthood has treated the black community.
As for me I think NO lives matter: Europe’s Jews in the 1930s, Armenians living in Turkey, Irish in 1851, non-communists in Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Laos.....
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Soviet historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko attributes the following version to Stalin: "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics."
If we just say that five googol more times, the GOP can get its share of the black vote up to six percent!
Success!
The average black knows they're despised by Dems, but they've made the rational calculation that they can accept this as long as the Free Sheeit keeps coming.
They aren't innocent naifs being led astray by more cunning whites; they're rational actors who have found a means of resource extraction that's been working for them for a long time.
You or I might point out that in the grand scheme of things, they're more harmed than helped by this attitude; but how many people make their day to day decisions on the basis of the big picture?
Time to stop pretending that everything that's happening is because they're being led astray by crafty badwhites.
That's actually racist, you know.
Instead, hold them accountable like you would any autonomous adult.
And if we truly decide that they can't be held accountable, then it's time to start taking away some of their rights.
We don't allow children to vote or hold office, after all.
None of the above should be taken to mean that we won't have to deal with white left as well, of course.
[Breitbart] Homicides rose by 250% in Los Angeles, and the number of shooting victims rose by 56%, during the week ending June 6, according to the Los Angeles Police Department — the same week as the Black Lives Matter protests and riots.
The surge in deadly crimes in L.A. mirrored similar reports elsewhere in the country for the week of May 31 to June 6, when riots and looting exploded alongside "peaceful protests" against the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In Chicago, for example, May 31 marked the single deadliest 24-hour period in 60 years, with 18 people killed.
Crime escalated, in part, because police who normally would have been patrolling neighborhoods were pulled off the beat to secure downtown areas and commercial districts targeted by looters.
Ironically, L.A.’s grim week coincided with Mayor Eric Garcetti’s announcement that the LAPD budget would be cut by up to $150 million, which is more than two percent of the current total. His announcement encouraged protesters who support calls to "defund" or "abolish" the police.
The money, he said, was to be "reinvested" in "communities of color" — the same communities enduring a crime wave during the Black Lives Matter protests.
[Jpost] The country will be doing more to enforce the Health Ministry’s primary coronavirus regulations as the number of people infected with COVID-19 surges throughout Israel.
...A decision was made to activate the police, local authority inspectors and even population and immigration inspectors — each according to his strengths — to enforce regulations in four areas: wearing masks, congregating in groups that are too large or too close together, complying with the "Purple Ribbon" standard for businesses, and enforcing isolation of patients and people who have come in contact with them.
...The meeting piggybacked on remarks made earlier in the day by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, who said that the government did not yet have intention to "go backwards" and begin reinstating closures. Rather, he said, that strict enforcement of the regulations would be instated.
Edelstein compared violating regulations to breaking traffic laws.
"Anyone who walks around without a mask is like someone who drove at 160 kilometers per hour," he said. "In 2019, 349 people were killed in traffic accidents."
In the last three months, 299 Israelis have died of coronavirus.
"Only when people make this connection will we be able to dramatically reduce the spread of coronavirus," Edelstein said.
Some 148 more people were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s total number of infected people since the start of the crisis to 18,180. There are currently 2,722 active cases — up 115 from the day before.
Among the sick are 31 people with serious symptoms — up two from Monday. Among them are 23 people who are intubated.
[Daily Wire] New York City Police Department officers are retiring early after losing support from their higher-ups and from political leaders amid mass protests and riots over the death of George Floyd, according to current and former officers.
NYPD officers have worked consistent 12-hour shifts to curb the violence that has ripped through the city and destroyed dozens of businesses. Rioters have looted stores and injured hundreds of law enforcement officers, according to the police
Now, rank-and-file officers are electing to take their pensions and exit the force rather than stay in and cooperate with NYPD and political leadership that appears to be more interested in appeasing mobs than backing their police officers.
“You have some in the hospital, but there were over 300 injuries. And the thing that scares me, judge, I’m hearing close to 600 cops have either put in their papers, or they’re talking to the department about resigning or retiring like this is insane,” Kerik told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro.
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I don't know why anyone would want to be a police officer in NYC, or any other Democrat run city.
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100-150 cops in Boston are turning in their papers as soon as that building's opened up in a few weeks; most of them early retirement. Incoming recruits are about 1/3 of that.
WTTW News obtained a recording of an online conference call held by the mayor’s office to brief all 50 aldermen on the city’s response to the unrest. Listen here:https://t.co/DhONZdd0jQ
At some point America will wake up. This is what happens when Democrats run your cities. Highest violent crime and murder rates. pic.twitter.com/BxueZ5IFhS
of restoring law and order” Explains decision to call in DC and out of state @NationalGuard citing “violent rioting and looting” with widespread damage, injured officers, breached Treasury Annex, threatened federal operations around White House complex. @CBSNews@ClareHymes22pic.twitter.com/NU7fiqzGHF
Antifa Seizes Seattle PD, Sets Up 'Autonomous Zone' Just Like ISIS and the Paris Commune And we all know what happened to the Paris Commune and the ISIS caliphate.
[PJM] "The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Folks in Seattle have secured six block of city [at the moment], barricaded it, and gotten local businesses and residents to agree to, well, disaffiliate from Seattle basically. It's a flux state in the making," Alex Humva tweeted.
"Speaker at the autonomous zones advocating folks with firearms take shifts defend the barricades. Sh*t is getting organized," another inside the barricades tweeted.
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Minnesota man hit with arson charge after police precinct burned down in George Floyd riots
[FoxNews] Branden Michael Wolfe, 23, of St. Paul, was charged in federal court with aiding and abetting arson at the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct, the Justice Department said. The station was set on fire during May 28 rioting that began after Floyd's death while in Minneapolis police custody days earlier. Rioters broke into the precinct around 10 p.m. and sparked a fire after police officers on the roof were rescued by helicopter.
Federal prosecutors said St. Paul police officers were called on June 3 to a Menards home improvement store after Wolfe was seen wearing body armor with his name written on duct tape, a law enforcement belt and a baton in the store. The belt had handcuffs and a knife attached. Officers responded and arrested Wolfe.
He was fired from his security guard position at the store hours earlier after he referred to social media posts about him stealing items from the police precinct. Additional items -- including a 9mm pistol, police radio, riot helmet and a police-issued overdose kit -- were recovered from his apartment, according to federal prosecutors.
People Found Admitting Out Loud To Looting, Selling Stolen Goods On Facebook
[CBS] Selling looted goods on Facebook – CBS 2 found it’s happening right now, with several videos and photos sent our way. We sent the evidence to Chicago Police, and on Monday night, CBS 2’s Tara Molina looked into what will happen next – with the CPD and the FBI investigating.
There was a call for photos and videos of looting last week. The FBI asking anyone with information on unlawful activity to submit it – information the CPD is taking in too.
A Pentagon official told Fox News on Tuesday that the National Guard saw its high-water mark several days ago, and that there will be a “very steady decline” in the coming days as states "out-process" those National Guard forces on duty.
As of Tuesday, according to the official, 38,498 National Guard soldiers were still active — a decline from the 43,300 active on Saturday.
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We should guarantee their "state" is autonomous. Cut off their food, power, water, and all travel in and out.
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The provocations will continue until Trump breaks and brings in the military. When that happens, a blood bath incident will be engineered and in November, "African-Americans" will vote Biden.
Or, so - I assume, the planning goes.
Of course, the planning doesn't incorporate the fact that a new massive outbreak of CV19 is on it's way.
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/\ As Jan Bantjes wrote: "Dingane suddenly accused the visiting party of witchcraft and ordered his men: "Bulalani abathakathi" (Kill the sorcerers...)
Peacemaker Peit Retief and over 100 men were all impaled through the anus. He was forced to watch his own young son die. Today's tribalist see us as modern day sorcerers.
It is not peace they want, it is power and dominance. Yes, the evil and "Sword of Damocles" the Jew has historically faced is an accurate parallel.
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Perhaps blacks should be offered farmland somewhere so they can get away from the cycle of violence, grow their own food, and become independent from the man. Certainly a better option than rebuilding the warzones to watch it happen again and again.
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Speaking of Liberia, Ghana is actively courting American Blacks trying to get them to emigrate (or at least go there as tourists).
I would not be opposed to a system of selling you citizenship rights in order to move out of the US. It wouldn't have to be race based, anyone who wants to leave can sell their birthright and if they come back they are treated as any other foreign born immigrant.
Anyone that hates the country, well we'd be better off without you.
[Daily Wire] IT BEGINS: Rioters Burned Down Minneapolis Manufacturer. Now They’re Relocating, Taking Jobs With Them.
The owner of a manufacturing company in Minneapolis that was burned to the ground during last week’s violent riots has announced that he is relocating his company, taking dozens of jobs out of the city, due to the failure of the city’s Democrat leaders to protect businesses.
“They don’t care about my business,” Kris Wyrobek, president and owner of 7-Sigma Inc., told the Star Tribune. “They didn’t protect our people. We were all on our own.”
As he watched a nearby business burn to the ground, Wyrobek noted, “The fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do anything.”
“The city’s first survey of property damage shows that nearly 1,000 commercial properties in Minneapolis were damaged during the riots, including 52 businesses that were completely destroyed and 30 other locations that sustained severe damage,” The Star Tribune reported. “Owners and insurance experts estimate the costs of the damage could exceed $500 million. That would make the Twin Cities riots the second-costliest civil disturbance in U.S. history, trailing only those in Los Angeles in 1992, which were also sparked by racial tensions with police and had $1.4 billion in damages in today’s dollars.”
Wyrobek told The Star Tribune that it was too late to change his mind about keeping his company in the city, adding that before the riots, he never in his “wildest nightmare” would have thought about relocating his business.
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Coming soon: If you want to sell business insurance in this state your policies must say you only pay if the insured agrees to remain in the state under such circumstances.
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As he watched a nearby business burn to the ground, Wyrobek noted, “The fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do anything.”
Sort of leaves a lasting image and memory now doesn't it ?
Mr. Wyrobek, I wish you well. And it is disgusting (but not at all surprising) that the fire engine stood idly by. I hope you find a good, new location. Heaven forbid it won't happen again somewhere else.
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Bill comes due in November. Who will bring jobs and economic growth that decades of the Dems set up to be destroyed in a week? Biden economy vs Trump.
Things look anti-Trump now, but reality has a way of opening eyes.
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I wouldn't be too harsh on the fire department, they were probably waiting for the police to show up and protect the firefighters from the "peaceful protestors".
[NPASYRIA] A landmine went kaboom! near a Russian armored vehicle near the border gate in the village of Marj Ismail eight km east of Kobani city, injuring a number of Russian soldiers and burning about 50 hectares of agricultural land in the surrounding area on Tuesday.
The Russian armored vehicle came to the border gate to coordinate with Ottoman Turkish forces to conduct a joint patrol in the region and the number of injured is still unknown, local sources reported to North Press.
"The mine explosion caused the burning of about 50 hectares of wheat crop in the villages of Marj Ismail, Kazkan, and Kikan, east of Kobani," Izzat Assaf, a member of the fire station in Kobani, told North Press.
After Ankara's long-threatened military incursion into northeast Syria to confront the Kurdish elements of the SDF in October, a ceasefire deal was first reached between the US and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... on Oct. 17 and then another one between Russia and Turkey on Oct. 22.
The Russian-Ottoman Turkish deal involves the SDF withdrawing its forces up to 30 kilometers from the Ottoman Turkish-Syrian border.
This deal also outlines joint Ottoman Turkish-Russian patrols in a 10-kilometer-wide strip of land along the border that began on Nov. 1. Since then, the two sides have carried out dozens of such operations. The first of these took place on Nov. 1 on the Syrian-Ottoman Turkish border between the towns of Derbasiya and Amude.
The Russian forces conduct joint patrols with Ottoman Turkish forces from time to time in the Kobani countryside. The last joint patrol took place on the 28th of last month.
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[UPI] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... may have as many as 35 nuclear warheads in its arsenal, up from a previous estimate, according to a Japanese think tank.
The Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, RECNA, at Nagasaki University says North Korea's weapons are included in a global total of 13,410 nuclear weapons, Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported Tuesday.
North Korea's warheads lag far behind other countries. Russia is No. 1 on RECNA's list, with 6,370 nuclear warheads, followed by the United States at 5,800 and China at 320, according to the report.
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[UPI] A federal judge on Tuesday granted a stay to a Texas death row inmate who was scheduled to be executed next week.
U.S. District Court Judge Hilda Tagel granted a stay of execution to Ruben Gutierrez, 42, after his attorneys have requested additional DNA testing in the case and challenged a Texas Department of Criminal Justice statute prohibiting all religious or spiritual advisors from entering the execution chamber.
"The Court concludes that Gutierrez has made a showing of likelihood of success on the merits of at least one of his DNA or execution-chamber claims," said Tagle.
Gutierrez was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of trailer park owner Escolastica Harrison, who was 82. He was 20 years old at the time of the murder.
He has requested a post-conviction DNA test of nail scrapings and loose hairs taken from the victim, a shirt belonging to a family member of Harrison and other clothing items, saying testing would prove his innocence.
Last week, attorneys for Guttierrez filed a motion stating it would be "irresponsible and against the public's interest" to conduct the necessary investigation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attorneys have also argued that the state's refusal to allow a Christian chaplain to accompany him into the execution chamber is a violation of his First Amendment rights.
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Lots of people got executed in the last couple weeks. Just not by the government. Those deaths don't warrant the attention of those wrapped up in ritual over reality.
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"The Court concludes that Gutierrez has made a showing of likelihood of success on the merits of at least one of his DNA or execution-chamber claims," said Tagle.
I'm in favor. Let's not make a mistake. If it clears him great. If not, gas.
[BREITBART] The Boston, Massachusetts, chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM) is asking that $15 million in American taxpayer money be spent on providing summer jobs to illegal aliens.
In a list of demands posted by the BLM Boston, the organization demands the city spend millions on creating thousands of summer jobs — some of which would be given to 14 to 22-year-old illegal aliens:
We demand that Mayor Marty Walsh cut the police budget by 10% from $414 million to $372 million or less, including cutting at least $40 million from the Police Department’s $60 million overtime budget. Those funds should be reinvested in the needs of Black and Brown communities, including providing housing and jobs to people released from prison.
In addition, we demand that funds are reinvested in youth jobs during a global pandemic and economic crisis. The City should fund $15 million for 5000 summer jobs and 1000 year-round jobs lasting from September to June, including hiring 14-22 year olds, hiring undocumented young people, and providing grants to organizations. Mayor Walsh, CFO Emme Handy, and Director Justin Sterritt: meet with young people immediately to discuss protecting young people this summer!
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I'll see how busy the Financial District is tomorrow & Friday, but one indicator of mostly back to normal - the Southeast Expressway (I-93) was bumper to bumper at 3:00 yesterday afternoon. One month ago I hit triple digits (barely) going home on that stretch.
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I hear the bottom of the harbor needs a lot of muck shoveled out. Put 'em in cement overshoes and let them start digging.....Keep 'em to 8 hour shifts.
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I wondered if BLM was a spin-off of Acorn. Doesn't seem to be but there are ideological linkages. The following discusses some of these orgs and linkages Accuracy in Media.
ACORN was the political wing. After they were shut down, the same people continued to do many of the same things under new names. Black Lives Matter is the African-American fighting wing, as Antifa is the anti-capitalist fighting wing, ALF is the pro-animal, anti-human fighting wing, etc. All part of the tightly organized, apparently amorphous Communist war against the West that was started by the Soviets, picked up by the Maoists, and now does nicely with financial support from a variety of very rich financial and theatrical types.
Things like this won't happen after they've abolished the police. Social workers will stop it in a non-confrontational manner, stressing that there's truth on both sides. [KSTP] A Robbinsdale man is charged with murder after allegedly hitting and dragging a woman with a vehicle after they got into an argument.
Jordan Latrell Jefferson, 29, is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Ochea Brown. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office says Brown died of multiple blunt force injuries on May 29 and ruled the manner of death as homicide.
According to a criminal complaint, Minneapolis coppers found a vehicle crashed near the intersection of 17th and Bryant Avenues at about 3:15 a.m. on May 29. After noticing significant damage to the front of the vehicle, officers saw Brown in the back seat, bleeding from severe head trauma. She was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! A witness told Sherlocks she was riding with Brown and Jefferson in the vehicle when Brown and Jefferson got into a verbal argument. The witness said Jefferson, who was driving, began punching Brown in the face. The complaint states the witness said she tried to intervene but Jefferson continued punching Brown. Jefferson then demanded Brown get out of the vehicle and, when she did and started walking away, the witness said Jefferson accelerated at a high rate of speed and aimed the vehicle directly at Brown, hitting her and trapping her under the vehicle.
The complaint states Jefferson continued dragging Brown until he crashed the vehicle into the front porch of a home. At that point, he allegedly got out of the vehicle and then slapped her and said her name to get her to respond. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... she was unresponsive. "It's just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson!"
According to the complaint, Jefferson then put Brown's body in the back seat of the vehicle and drove away from the scene, but he crashed the vehicle soon after, leaving it inoperable. The witness said Jefferson then called a friend to come pick him and the witness up. The friend first went to the scene and couldn't find Brown's pulse, saying her neck was broken. They then left the scene and went to the friend's residence, where Jefferson showered, disposed of his clothes and told the witness to take the truth about Brown's death to the grave.
Jefferson was later taken into custody. His first court appearance was Friday, and his bail was set at $1 million. His next hearing is set for July 1.
If convicted, each second-degree murder charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in jail.
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[Jpost] Ottoman Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 275 people, mainly military personnel, over suspected links to the network that Ankara says orchestrated a failed coup in 2016, police, security sources and state media said on Tuesday.
Authorities have carried out a sustained crackdown on alleged followers of U.S.-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gülen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost... since the coup attempt in July 2016, when 250 people were killed.
Gulen denies any involvement. The former ally of President Tayyip Erdogan has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999.
The police operation was coordinated from the western city of Izmir and targeted people in 22 provinces, state-owned Anadolu news agency said. The police have already detained 145 of the suspects, it said.
The suspects, mostly on active duty, were believed to have communicated to other Gulen followers through pay phones and to have received advantages in admission to military schools, Anadolu said.
In a separate operation, police detained 16 military personnel the southeastern city Diyarbakir over the weekend, security sources said. On Tuesday, a local court nabbed Please don't kill me! six of them pending trial and freed 10 others, the sources added.
Istanbul police said prosecutors had ordered the detention of 44 military personnel, including a major and three lieutenants, as well as doctors and teachers. It said 33 people had already been detained in the operation spread over eight provinces.
Anadolu said police had also detained 25 out of 32 suspects from the air forces as part of another operation. It said detention warrants were issued for eight people in the gendarmerie forces, including a colonel.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... 's Western allies have criticised the scale of the crackdown, while Ankara has defended the measures as a necessary response to the security threat.
Erdogan has for years accused Gulen's supporters of establishing a "parallel state" by infiltrating the police, judiciary, military and other state institutions.
Since the coup attempt, about 80,000 people have been held pending trial and some 150,000 civil servants, military personnel and others sacked or suspended.
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Nice couch. The Sixties wants it back
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If it's a vintage piece, it's a shame it will be burned up in an airstrike eventually. If someone is still actually making them like that, well, that's scary.
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It looks like a built-in, upholstered platform that can function for seating or sleeping, backed by a fabric-covered board to lean against.
[NYPOST] The city will paint its roadways and rename streets in each borough to honor the Black Lives Matter movement, Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... announced Tuesday."It’s time to do something officially representing this city to represent the fundamental power of Black Lives Matter," de Blasio said during his daily City Hall press briefing as he was surrounded by a group of social justice activists.
The mayor said the Big Apple will "name streets in each borough and to paint the words on the streets of this city in each borough at a crucial location — one of which will be here near City Hall — that black lives matter."
The announcement comes after thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the city for more than a week to protest the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop, as well as police brutality.
"We don’t want to have to name a street, but I’m glad that we are," Iesha Sekou, the founder and CEO of Street Corner Resources, an anti-violence organization, said during the press briefing.
Sekou added, "We also want to make sure that police are not allowed to act the way we’ve been seeing."
"We’re looking very much forward to holding the police accountable for their behavior," she said.
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All these years (since 9/11) I wondered why USA bends over & spread them for Muslims - no more, it's an ingrained habit.
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#1 we are reaping the consequences of not holding the Left responsible for when the Wall fell. Those institutions should have been purged of the losers or dismantled. It is just like the Western Europeans who did nothing while Germany rearmed in the 30s.
Just what we need, more empty symbolic grandstanding to distrtact the poor schlubs from the fact that the Dems havent done a damned thing for them, while trump had their unemployment at historical lows, etc. Anything to keep them from thinking, and keep them depending on the government.
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like 'Martin Luther King Jr Blvd' soon to be an indicator of bad neighborhoods
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Is there any part of NYC left that remembers being ashamed of this travesty that is your city government and Mayor? Is there nothing you will not tolerate? I'm all the way out in rural Nevada now and I'm ashamed for you...
...one of the many jihadi groups who attached themselves to the Turkish effort in Syria...
who were handed over to the military police were returned to al-Hamzat Division to be imprisoned there, a human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... source familiar with the situation in northern Syria’s Afrin said.
Ibrahim Sheikho, front man for the Human Rights Organization in Afrin Syria, told North Press that the military police of the gangs have returned the detainees in Afrin to al-Hamzat Division, and they are now inside its prison in the village of Basouta.
Sheikho indicated that when the women’s relatives visited them in prison, members of the Division demanded a ransom ranging between 200,000 and 500,000 Syrian pounds in exchange for the release of each of them.
The women appeared for the first time after being kidnapped by al-Hamzat in a leaked video on social media, after the opposition’s armed families attacked the al-Hamzat Division headquarters during confrontations between the gangs, which killed a number of civilians and sparked anger among the population.
In late May, the Afrin region witnessed a "massive demonstration" of gangs’ families from the Ghouta area of Damascus countryside, calling for the military headquarters of the Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs to be removed from residential neighborhoods, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
In a statement following the incident, the Autonomous Administration held the Ottoman Turkish government responsible for what happened to these women, and it appealed to all human rights organizations and international decision makers to conduct an international investigation and hold those responsible for these violations accountable.
A report published by the Violations Documentation Center in northern Syria said that the fate of 3,500 civilians arrested in Afrin is still unknown, including 181 women, 98 of whom were killed under torture, and 80 cases were documented.
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Police for me, but not for thee. How Black Lives Matter is training to keep Black neighbourhoods “safe“ in the mold of the Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam after community police forces are shut down, as described in this article from yesterday
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Hawk Newsome, Chairman of BLM's Greater New York chapter, says the black rights group is 'mobilizing' its base, he told DailyMailTV in exclusive interview
The activist said BLM aims to develop a highly-trained 'military' arm to challenge police brutality head on in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis
'It's our obligation, it's our duty to provide people with a way forward. We want the immediate end of government sanctioned murder by the police'
'We prepare to stop these murders by any means necessary. We are preparing and training our people to defend our communities,' Newsome added
Newsome, 43, an imposing 6ft 6in, who wore shades and smoked a thick cigar for our photo shoot, believes his group can lead the 'war on police'
BLM will have 'Peace Officers' patrol black communities to challenge law enforcement and stop police brutality, reminiscent of the Black Panther Party
Newsome held a think tank in Los Angeles attended by members of the BLM Greater New York leadership and 'military advisors'
The meeting was held at the offices of NCredible Entertainment, owned by actor and musician Nick Cannon
'We have black Special Forces officers advising us, and we will teach and train people in our communities, the Black Ops department of Black Opportunities,' he said.
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Useful idiots who are goaded into armed conflict with police are a tactic to further heighten the media meme of systemic racism, add turnout to the planned assault on honest elections in November. The radical socialist progressives are so far out on a limb now that they appear to be going all in with their chips. Count on the propaganda arms of social media and the MSM to plumb ever greater depths of fake news and actual lies. This is an existential next few months for the American Experiment.
[Sudan Tribune] The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) on Monday dismissed reports about the renaming of the Popular Defense Forces (PDF) to the Reserve Department, stressing that its dissolution is an irreversible decision
An internal note by the Sudanese army on 4 June said that the PDF has been renamed the Reserve Department. Also, after its spread, in social media, the army issued a statement saying that the Reserve Department has no relation with the notorious paramilitary force because it was established after its dissolution.
Reacting to the criticism raised by the dissemination of the document, the General Adviser of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Brigadier-General al-Tahir Mohammed Abu Haja issued a second statement on Monday asserting that the PDF has been disbanded adding its "dissolution was irreversible".
"The armed forces confirm that this news is not true, and there is no existing body that represents what was contained in the false circulated information which intended to offend the military institution in a way that serves the agenda of the enemies of the country."
He further said that SAF is reorganizing and restructuring its armies according to the requirements of the current political change, which provides to eliminate "manifestations of unprofessionalism and loyalty" to unpatriotic entities or to establish any bodies that violate its pledge to the Sudanese people.
On April 17, 2019, the Transitional Military Council - before its dissolution - issued a decision placing the PDF and the Popular Police under the authority of the Sudanese army.
The Popular Defense Forces were established by ousted President Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... months after the Islamist 1989 coup and were placed under the authority of the president.
The militia which recruited Islamists elements to fight the rebel SPLA in South Sudan during the first years of the regime, gradually turned into a paramilitary force to defend the former regime.
[UPI] The Rev. Al Sharpton asked for support for the family of George Floyd and called for police reform at a funeral service Tuesday at The Fountain of Praise church in Floyd's hometown of Houston.
"We must commit to all of this family. When the last TV truck is gone, we'll still be here," Sharpton said.
The minister thanked former U.S. President Barack Obama and athletes and celebrities who had reached out to Floyd's family, including actor Jamie Foxx and singer Al B. Sure!, who were in the congregation.
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Don't worry. Officer Chauvin will very likely spend the rest of his life in prison. His life won't be worth a plugged nickel there.
That will not be enough to satisfy Sharpton and the BLM crowd, though.
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They want blood, not justice. But you knew that already.
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Display of their nouveau riche status as beneficiaries of white guilt, and pointing the way to other blacks of how to work race as a cash cow and protection racket.
[Jpost] Despite the Paleostinian Authority's announcement that it will halt all security ties with Israel amid Israel's efforts to annex the Jordan Valley and parts of the West Bank, Paleostinian forces nevertheless thwarted an attack against IDF soldiers on the outskirts of Jenin, Israel's Ynet reported on Sunday.
According to the report, a Paleostinian terror cell hid dozens of pipe bombs near a road oftentimes used by IDF soldiers when they come to arrest people in Jenin. Paleostinian forces discovered this and were able to thwart the attack.The Ynet report does not mention how they were able to do so.
France was, in addition, paralyzed from any kind of growth by a proliferation of regulations and an omnipresent bureaucracy.
During France's lockdown, a law was passed to fine heavily (250.000 euros, $275,000) any social network that published what a judge might consider "hateful"; people are also now asked to report to the justice department any suspicious statement they read or hear about. Since schools and high schools have reopened, teachers were invited by the government to listen to the conversations of their students and immediately to report any comment criticizing the government.
"At the source of French misfortune, there are French traitors who bear French first names. They have been abusing the voters' trust for more than 40 years. They lied about the real state of society and ransacked the country". — Ivan Rioufol, columnist, Le Figaro, February 19, 2020.
The coronavirus pandemic in the northern hemisphere seems starting to subside -- perhaps just temporarily.
Many journalists wonder if Italy, one of the eight countries most affected in Western Europe, will leave the EU. Another country of concern is France -- not in great shape.
Although France spends a significant amount on its healthcare (8.6% of France's GDP), the pandemic there has been frighteningly mismanaged. There was a tragic shortage of intensive-care beds: 5,000 for the whole country, compared to Germany's 28,000. There was also, until the end of April, a near-total lack of masks and protective equipment for hospital doctors and caregivers. Further, there was the great lack of an ability to test for the coronavirus. The situation led the government to decide on one of the strictest general lockdowns in Europe. For eight weeks, the French economy, like others, effectively stopped. The results were devastating.
France, before the pandemic, was already in an alarming economic state. For several years, the country's economic growth rate had been barely above zero; the country's central bank had lowered its growth forecast for 2020 to 1.1%. France's unemployment rate was high (8.1%); it had not fallen below 8% for two decades. France was, in addition, paralyzed from any kind of growth by a proliferation of regulations and an omnipresent bureaucracy. The Index of Economic Freedom, published each year by the Heritage Foundation, ranks France number 64 , behind the United Kingdom (7), the Netherlands (14), Germany (27), and far behind formerly communist countries such as Poland (46), Romania (42), Bulgaria (37) or the Czech Republic (23)....
[Sudan Tribune] The International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed on Tuesday that one of the first Darfur war crimes suspects was in their custody after days of intense rumors.
The ICC revealed that Ali Kushayb who is described as one of the leaders of the notorious Janjaweed militias, which operated in Darfur, surrendered voluntarily in the Central African Republic (CAR).
"ICC Registrar Mr Peter Lewis thanked the Minister of Justice Flavien M’Bata and the authorities of the Central African Republic, the French Republic, the Republic of Chad, as well as the leaders of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and the authorities of the host State, the Netherlands, for their support to the Court and cooperation in the arrest, surrender and transfer of Mr. Kushayb to the Court".
Kushayb is charged with 22 counts of crimes against humanity and 28 counts of war crimes during the government’s Darfur counterinsurgency campaign in 2003-2004.
The arrest warrant against him was issued in 2007.
[MLIVE] The language in a petition to recall Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender... for the signing of nine of her executive orders during the COVID-19 pandemic has been approved by the Michigan Board of State Canvassers.
Albion resident Chad Baase, 39, was successful in his third attempt at coming up with "clear and factual" language to move forward with the recall petition process. He and his group -- the Committee to Recall Governor Gretchen Whitmer -- must come up with more than 1 million signatures from registered voters in 60 days or less to trigger a recall election.
"She didn’t put through effective measures with COVID to ensure businesses didn’t have to close their doors," Baase said. "Some places couldn’t social distance under the federal guidelines, but many businesses could have stayed open with safety guidelines in place and were forced out of work.
"You can’t take away someone’s income and say you’re eligible for pandemic unemployment but then you can’t speak with anyone. I’m still waiting on my unemployment. They owe me 10 weeks."
The Board of State Canvassers unanimously approved the recall language Monday, June 8, during a virtual meeting. The four-member bipartisan group unanimously approved the language, but rejected two other attempts to begin recall petitions, including a second petition to recall Gov. Whitmer and one to recall Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Petition language submitted by Baase, and approved by the board, lists out nine executive orders. They include the governor’s March 10 state of emergency declaration to the order and multiple orders that call for the temporary suspension of business and activities not deemed essential to maintain or protect life.
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The spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, Ghulam Hussein Ismaili, announced the death sentence of Mahmoud Ismaili Majd, after he was convicted of espionage for the Mossad and the CIA, RT Arabic reported.
The spokesman said that Mahmoud Ismaili Majd, who was sentenced to death, provided information regarding the whereabouts of the late Quds Force commander, Major General Qassem Soleimani, to Israel and the United States.
He explained that Majd was working in the Quds Force and was transferring information about the locations of Qassem Soleimani.
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Shhhh Khameini's boy-toy is too valuable to lose. Oh, DAMN
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They'll never find out that the commander of the Basjis(sp?) is a Mossad agent. Nor everyone above the rank of colonel in the armed forces works for the CIA. Or that all the people whose first name is Mohammed are on the Saudi payroll. Of course, the rumor that Khamenei is on the CHINESE payroll is just a rumor. SUUUUREEE it is. . . 8^)
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[FOXNEWS] Attorney General Bill Barr told Fox News' Bret Baier in an exclusive interview aired Tuesday that Americans will be able to recognize "some" of the names under investigation as part of U.S. Attorney John Durham's ongoing probe into federal surveillance abuses -- and that he is "very troubled" by "what has been called to" his attention so far.
Barr asserted that despite 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, the Durham team "has been working very aggressively to move forward," and that there "will be public disclosure" of his findings. Part one of Baier's interview with Barr aired on Monday.
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Just fuckin' get it done, guys. I'm tired of this shit.
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Oh, I don't know. Lockdown and insurrection have sort of been opening acts. This may or may not be the main event to play late summer/early fall, to bring the 'house down' so to speak. The one to break the leash and let the hounds loose.
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Barr said he didn't anticipate that Obama and Biden would be among the "familiar names." Seems wrong to me but maybe I'm missing the bigger picture..
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Barr said he didn't anticipate that Obama and Biden would be among the "familiar names." Seems wrong to me but maybe I'm missing the bigger picture..
No point in talking about them until the evidence is irrefutable.
[BREITBART] Student protesters at the University of Missouri have circulated a petition that calls on Mizzou officials to remove a "racist" Thomas Jefferson statue from campus grounds. Are you really sure Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings didn't just like each other a lot?
According to a report by Campus Reform, student protesters at the University of Missouri are calling for the removal of a Thomas Jefferson statue from campus on the grounds that it is "racist."
A petition that has been signed by over 3,000 members of the community argues that the Jefferson statue has "no place" on the Mizzou campus. In the petition, the students cite Jefferson’s ownership of more than 600 slaves as a justification for removal of the statue.
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, owned more than 600 African-American slaves throughout his adult life. Mizzou has no room for a racist slave owner on our campus, in the Quad, where thousands of black students pass by everyday, forced to deal with imagery of the past in the future where we should be promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. A memorial of a racist has no place on out campus. The vast majority of these Confederate monuments were built during the era of Jim Crow laws (1877—1964). Detractors like us know that they were not built as memorials but as a means of intimidating African Americans and reaffirming white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... Nearly 500 students have signed a counter-petition that calls on the university to save the Jefferson statue. The petition argues that Jefferson’s role in writing the Declaration of Independence makes him worthy of admiration, despite his slave ownership.
Though Jefferson recognized the grave evils of slavery, he remained a slaveholder. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... is it truly fair to judge a man based on our 21st century understanding of morality, when the man we are judging lived in a time where slavery was the norm? Is it truly fair to defame a former president who wrote the Declaration of Independence, where he expressed that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? Jefferson did not live up to all of his values, nor should we expect him to have lived up to all of them. Who among us has lived up to all of the values we uphold? Who among us is perfect?
The Jefferson statue at the University of Missouri is not the only historical monument to be targeted by leftists in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. A bust of George Washington’s head was knocked over last week at George Washington University. Some students took to Twitter to praise the vandalism.
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Throw them out for a semester. Then again, I don't know if Mizzou could take that financial hit. Sounds like a win-win!
That’s ok — the states were starting to open up before those thousand health professionals, epidemiologists, and activists signed off on the health benefits of protesting in close proximity. So no need for the overstretched city of Minneapolis to shelter the homeless any longer.
[STARTRIBUNE] A report of a drug overdose led to the eviction Tuesday of more than 200 homeless people from a hotel in south Minneapolis that had become a refuge during protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in police custody.
Residents of the former Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel, tucked just north of Lake Street on reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Avenue, awoke to reports that the hotel’s fire alarm was pulled after 6 a.m. following an overdose. The hotel owner, Jay Patel, has ordered the eviction of all the guests, according to volunteers at the site.
The sudden eviction marks the second time in two weeks thon the lam numbers of homeless people have been forced to vacate a temporary site, and could hamper efforts by a team of volunteers to find them more permanent housing.
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 has brought a heightened level of urgency around these efforts. Homeless outreach workers fear that people who are cleared repeatedly from shelters and other sites will scatter and become more difficult to reach with aid.
"It’s not that people don’t want to help, it’s just that right now there are no physical beds," said Sheila Delaney, who acted as a liaison between volunteers, the building owner and other partners. "There is no ’Plan B,’ except for back out."
Since May 29, the hastily arranged shelter had been a source of stability, even hope, amid the chaos and destruction that followed Floyd’s death on May 25.
Unlike traditional homeless shelters, people who stayed at the hotel were allowed to bring drugs and alcohol on-site. Volunteer medics were focused on preventing overdoses and helping people access health services, rather than enforcing rules that would result in people being forced back onto the streets.
But some residents at the hotel said conditions had begun to spin out of control in recent days, with people injecting heroin and methamphetamine in the hallways, and fights breaking out at night. Volunteers became overwhelmed.
"It started out well, then descended into chaos," said Jennie Taylor, who had a room on the second floor. "People got the message that this was a place where you could use drugs freely and that attracted the wrong crowd."
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Sounds like the Democrat way all right. See NYC, Washington, Seattle......
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But some residents at the hotel said conditions had begun to spin out of control in recent days, with people injecting heroin and methamphetamine in the hallways, and fights breaking out at night. Volunteers became overwhelmed.
On Tuesday, Project Veritas released the third of its Antifa video exposés. This undercover video exposes the armed branch of antifa who want to abolish the police and identify as the leftist movement’s “militia.”
“Redneck Revolt,” also known as the “John Brown Gun Club,” identifies itself as the “militia wing of antifa.” A Project Veritas journalist infiltrated the North Carolina chapter in 2018.
While Redneck Revolt supports gun ownership, local leaders condemned the National Rifle Association.
In the video, a Redneck Revolt leader insists, “I hate the NRA. The NRA is a white supremacist terrorist organization.”
“This particular group sees themselves as armed revolutionaries. They’re all about the working class,” the Project Veritas journalist explains. “So they share these communist, anarchist ideals that the working class should run the country with no government and they believe in total abolition of everything, including the police.”
She reported that Redneck Revolt was also part of the riots in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017. “Charlottesville was comprised of your typical Antifa black bloc measures. There were also Black Lives Matter. There were multiple chapters of Redneck Revolt that went to Charlottesville and acted as the militia wing of the anti-fascist movement,” she said.
Following the example of John Brown, the abolitionist who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry in order to arm the slaves for an uprising, Redneck Revolt aims to arm black Americans.
“One of their missions is to arm minorities. They feel that black Americans and minorities are disenfranchised by gun laws and permit fees,” the Project Veritas journalist reported.
It's been awhile since we've had a bleg. I always hate to do it. It makes me feel like a bum. I guess that's appropriate, since I'm bumming. That's why I try to keep it to a minimum. But I'm running low on bourbon and I could use a new laptop.
This is also supposed to be a hardware year, although our server seems to be indestructible. It's the best one we've had so far. It's been sitting up in Baltimore for three+ years now, untouched by human hands. Saying that, naturally, means it's going to catch fire or explode or something as soon as the words are out of my mouth (keyboard, as it were). We back up the database, but only twice a day now. I've been extremely remiss about synching the rest of the box, so if we have a crash we'll lose a bunch of images and I'll have to reconstitute. The machine I'm working on at this moment should be able to slip in as a replacement, after a two hour drive to get to Baltimore, but it's not up to it right now. Since it's as old as the server, I should buy a new box.
We're coming up on nineteen years of the Burg. The archives are there, they're available for anyone who wants to use them except for bots. The bots are why you have to email me to get on the archives list. The bloid's now automated, kinda sorta creakily. I have to tell it what I want in it, but I don't have to handle Inkscape and Gimp with my fading, twitching hands to put it together.
Pardon my (usual) long-windedness. The subject is, if you've got it, please kick in. I'd be happy to keep at it for the next nineteen years, and then I'll be happy to hand it off to somebody else who'll love it and take care of it (and obsess over it) like I do.
Fred Keep on keeping on, Fred. I'm in
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* PNY Optima 240 GB SSD
* Seagate Barracuda 2TB hard drive
* MSI GTX1650 HDMI 4 GB video card (gotta see if the motherboard's built-in HDMI port works and I don't lose performance), and a special added bonus
* Windows Server 2019 (bought it, opened it up, never installed it and I can't return it).
As a result of search operation, CNPA arrested a drug smuggler along with 6kg heroin in Samar Khil area, Jalalabad City of Nangarhar. pic.twitter.com/3CQ3PCkPkL
— Ministry of Interior (@moiafghanistan) June 9, 2020
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Exclusive: Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide:
New Delhi-based BellTroX InfoTech Services offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years. https://t.co/itvQpGbhQr
[UPI] Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of cardiac arrest at the age of 55, the government in Gitega said Tuesday.
In a message posted on Twitter, the Burundi government announced that Nkurunziza died at the Cinquantenaire Hospital in the quiet provincial capital of Karusi after the cardiac event on Monday.
Nkurunziza had been admitted to the hospital last weekend after feeling ill. He became president of Burundi, a landlocked country in central Africa, in 2005.
Nkurunziza was due to retire in August and be succeeded by Gen. Evariste Ndayishimiye, a member of the ruling party who won Burundi's presidential election last month.
The Burundian Constitutional Court said last week Ndayishimiye won 68 percent of the vote, though some accused the ruling party and its military wing, the Imbonerakure, of intimidating voters during the campaign.
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Does that mean Eddie Murphy is leader and Arsenio Is SOS?
ANP discovered & neutralized three landmines after several hours of efforts and point to point search operations in Shahr Safa District of Zabul & Karukh District of Herat. The terrorists had planted the bombs to target the innocent civilians. pic.twitter.com/MA2GOfYUb8
— Ministry of Interior (@moiafghanistan) June 9, 2020
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It sure helps the finding process that they’re made of such bright yellow plastic. Imagine if they’d chosen taupe.
#Libya- #GNA video purportedly showing a Pantsir S1/SA-22 Greyhound, with operators from the #UAE that are accompanied by #LNA personnel, in action shooting down a #GNA/#Turkey UAV over #Tripoli during "Operation Flood of Dignity" pic.twitter.com/LWQOCCQUYd
From February, posted in order to make it searchable. Hattip JohnQC. Note that this is the gentleman whose relative Muna Sabri owns Omar Investments, which owns the El Nuevo Rodeo Cantina where both police officer Derek Chauvin and victim George Floyd had worked for seventeen years.
[GatewayPundit] Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar’s second largest donor, Basim Omar Sabri,
...in our archives as simple Basim Sabri...
is a convicted felon who owns millions in property that is dilapidated and unsafe, receiving over 180 regulatory violations.
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] “If I go get my nails done — which I don’t do, you can probably tell — but, if I did, the person who is handling my nails is licensed by the state,” the mayor said. “If I go get a haircut, the barber is licensed by the state.” When my son went through the police academy, he got a uniform, and when he finished the course he got a badge and an assignment. The badge and the uniform are valid only within Maryland, except for special occasions when out of state. I'd call that a bit like a beautician's license, only on a lot more serious plane. Maybe Chicago should start with its police academy?
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Of course, having "licenses" for professions like beauticians is usually just a way for rent seekers to keep out the competition.
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Won't matter if she keeps them sidelined like she's been doing so far.
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Maybe Chicago should start with its police academy?
They'll do it like any other Human Resource office, farm it out to colleges to credential it. You got the magic piece of paper, you're in (not that you learned anything useful or has practical application).
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Chicago needs to start by clearing the upper ranks of their PD. It's filled with people qualified only by their connections, and they look after people who will help them keep power. They give their cronies the material for promotional exams, use the merit promotions for those willing to put out, and carefully manage internal affairs to keep their people out of trouble.
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Sounds to me that this is a way to prevent independent citizens from setting up as police.
I read it as one more way to *bleep* with the cops. After getting acquitted in court, the state or city could still revoke their license. Rather like the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs did with that barber in Owosso who refused to close.
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We should license politicians. Part of the requirements is that they agree if they tell a lie, they lose their license and get burned to death in the public square.
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An annual, renewal fee and state agency license guarantees that any police officer can be denied renewal, by the centralized state agency, on an annual basism and therefore, every officer has a career only a long as he is renewed each year. Once it is created, control of the police is centralized in a single place, and careers as based on not having complaints or disputes that give basis for non-renewal, or probationary renewal. So your career and pension are based on pleasing the licensing agency of state government, and making sure you don't create adverse complaints. See the pattern....neutered and pliant police who will meet the unwritten standards of the mob they serve!
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but couldn't the city just fire anyone they had a complaint with?
It is a way from someone else to fire the cop in question if the city/police department won't do it. Illinois Governor Pritzker's thoughts:
We’ve been looking hard at (licensing),” Pritzker said Monday. “I think that you have to think about what are the methods by which people can be disciplined if they’re not going to get disciplined by their own police departments
Redundant, but it wraps up the scattered pieces.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Libyan National Army’s air force launched a massive attack overnight on a military convoy belonging to the Ottoman Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces.
According to the Libyan National Army, their air force bombed a big GNA convoy near the city of Abu Ghryan, resulting in heavy losses for the latter.
The Libyan National Army said several GNA fighters were killed and maimed during their attack near Abu Ghryan, including a number of Syrian mercenaries.
In addition to the heavy losses to military personnel, the Libyan National Army’s attack also resulted in the destruction of several vehicles and mechanisms.
Some reports even claimed that the Libyan National Army’s attack resulted in the destruction of a Ottoman Turkish air defense system that was being transported to the area.
This latest attack by the Libyan National Army comes at a time when the fighting in northern Libya has intensified at several fronts, including the Sirte axis.
#GNA / #turkey air defense system ( MIM-23 Hawk ) was completely destroyed by Libyan Airforce #LNA strike north of AbuGrian as it was transported from misrata #Libyapic.twitter.com/Ehci1HXXF2
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But, but, UN-backed GNA were winning, according to yesterday's agitprop?
The LNA and the GNA are based in the east and west respectively. Less than a month ago, the LNA was on the outskirts of Tripoli, and GNA was making a last stand. Now the LNA is defending Sirte, which is east of Misrata, which is itself to the east of Tripoli. Basically, the LNA is on the run, and it's not looking good for Haftar, who's heading it up. If Haftar loses Sirte, the next stop is Benghazi, after which Haftar wraps it up and crosses the border into Egypt and exile once again.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Israeli army has opened an extensive investigation into the loss of an encrypted radio device for an officer in a special unit in the occupied Syrian Golan.
The Hebrew-language Channel 12 news reported on Tuesday evening that an Israeli civilian had found an encrypted radio device for a high-ranking Israeli officer in the special forces, while he was in or touring the occupied Syrian Golan .
The report confirmed that the Israeli army intends to make an investigation against the officer involved in the loss of the encrypted wireless device, which was found, yesterday, coincidentally, by an Israeli civilian, who realized that it belonged to the Israeli army, and then immediately returned it to an Israeli military unit.
The channel quoted the Israeli army front man as saying that the radio device was located before it was found by the civilian, and that it was lost during a routine military operation in the occupied Golan, and revealed that there was no fear of information leakage from the wireless device .
The channel indicated on its website that the Israeli army will investigate the seriousness of the incident, and disciplinary measures will be taken against the officer, or any person involved in the loss of the device.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Fox News] Seattle protesters storm City Hall, demand mayor resign after driving police out of area, declaring autonomous zone
Even though we know the coronavirus ravages black people at a much higher rate than other groups, Democrats are still actively encouraging black people to go outside and gather in large groups.
[Breitbart] Homicides rose by 250% in Los Angeles, and the number of shooting victims rose by 56%, during the week ending June 6, according to the Los Angeles Police Department — the same week as the Black Lives Matter protests and riots.
New York City Police Department officers are retiring early after losing support from their higher-ups and from political leaders amid mass protests and riots over the death of George Floyd, according to current and former officers.
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
[KSTP] A Robbinsdale man is charged with murder after allegedly hitting and dragging a woman with a vehicle after they got into an argument.
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
[Gatestone Inst.] 
[Sudan Tribune] The International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed on Tuesday that one of the first Darfur war crimes suspects was in their custody after days of intense rumors.
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
...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...
Student protesters at the University of Missouri have circulated a petition that calls on Mizzou officials to remove a "racist" Thomas Jefferson statue from campus grounds.
...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...
It's been awhile since we've had a bleg. I always hate to do it. It makes me feel like a bum. I guess that's appropriate, since I'm bumming. That's why I try to keep it to a minimum. But I'm running low on bourbon and I could use a new laptop.
