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I was watching a Great Courses lecture on archeoastronomy the other day. The lecturer made the point that the Mayan Dec. 21, 2012 date was not the end of the world, but merely the end of one calendar epoch and the start of another. Pity, all that hysteria for nothing.
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The world will certainly end on Nov 3rd.
For whom is still undecided.
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It should be interesting that if the world really does end within the next week or two, I have to wonder how many Dem candidates will still receive votes.
[EpochTimes] President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... faced a seemingly insurmountable problem. Again.
After having gone through a fake impeachment, the CCP Virus pandemic—which was coupled with a never-before-attempted economic shutdown—the Trump administration was suddenly faced with an escalating series of simultaneous riots in cities across the nation.
Peaceful protests across the country about the death of a black man named George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis quickly turned into a series of violent nationwide riots.
It turned out much of this rioting seen across America was orchestrated by anarchist groups loosely referred to by the name "Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... President Trump and Attorney General William Barr on May 31 announced that Antifa had been designated as a terror group and that all federal law enforcement agencies were now coordinating their efforts through the 56 FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces to "identify criminal organizers and instigators."
While the Democrats and the media anticipated getting the optics they so desperately craved of Trump sending in soldiers with bayonets fixed charging at the "peaceful protesters," what they got instead was the sudden appearance of a bunch of federal tactical units from the FBI, the Secret Service, the DEA, ATF, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Bureau of Prisons, and other agencies, in full gear, many with no rifles, and certainly no bayonets.
As the entire nation is about to belatedly discover, federal agents do not need the permission of governors or mayors before they can enter a state or a city to enforce federal laws and arrest those who are breaking them.
In a variety of quiet corners gleeful chortling is being heard as rough men and women do the things they do so well to miscreants who thoroughly deserve what’s coming to them.
And it happens to be a federal crime to conduct terror attacks against American communities.
It seems the play among some Democrat governors and mayors was to refuse to call in the National Guard while also making their police departments stand down and give the rioters "space to destroy," which would cause the situation to become so bad that Trump would be forced to act.
And the act they anticipated the President to take was to seize control from the governors and send in the active-duty military to restore order. This would have then allowed them to play their "Trump the Dictator" narrative all the way to the election."
But Trump didn’t do what they expected.
If I could clearly see what the progressive Left was attempting to bait Trump into doing from down here in South Texas, then of course the president could see this for himself.
So Trump didn’t send the active-duty military in and the Left isn’t going to get their desired optics of regular military units chasing down rioters in the streets.
Just as he did with his CCP virus response, Trump avoided the trap set for him while cutting the Gordian Knot he was being presented with.
Recall Democrats and the media spent months trying to browbeat this chief executive into seizing control from the Democratic governors and handling the virus response on a federal level. When they weren’t trying to bait him into doing that, they were trying to bait him into nationalizing various key industries. And Trump refused to do that either.
Instead of doing what they eagerly hoped he would do, Trump’s enemies complained impotently as he forged an unprecedented alliance between federal agencies and private industry, the likes of which had not been seen since World War II.
While "experts" stroked their chins for TV cameras and opined it would take months, if not years, to solve the four biggest needs—ventilators, virus testing, production of personal protective equipment, and a vaccine—Trump and his handpicked team tackled these problems with innovative creativity. They cut massive amounts of red tape and got results in a matter of days and weeks—not the predicted months and years.
Because Trump had successfully navigated the huge black swan event of a CCP virus pandemic, and as the new jobs report for May demonstrated, he’s also successfully navigated the economic shutdown, Democrats immediately moved to trying to turn nationwide rioting to their own political advantage.
But Trump is simply too smart for these people. He sent in the feds, who spent the past week quietly taking down Antifa behind the scenes. And now it’s mostly over.
From the mad lads The Rubberbandits comes this old is new again video that is now going viral as a much deserved swipe at the clownish world that is Antifa activism.
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That's because it's not. They've stolen public property and it will fall on the public to take it back. They don't get to run their Potemkin Village on our dime. Seeing some rumblings like that July 4 could get sporty. Pressure will be on authorities to take preemptive action.
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I figure that every day this thing goes on is something north of 10,000 votes for Trump. So let's wait until after November.
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[Gateway Pundit] It was first reported yesterday that:
This evening Ukrainian investigators seized $6 million in cash and arrests were made in an alleged bribe to Ukrainian prosecutors to halt investigations into the Burisma group of companies and involvement with Hunter Biden, the son of Democrat Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, CDMedia has learned. The bribes were allegedly to the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (SAP). This information was posted on official NABU social media. We are told the operation had been under way for 2 weeks and is still ongoing.
Per an update at CD Media yesterday:
Andrei Kicha, who handled the bribe and is detained, works as Deputy Director for Legal Affairs of Burisma.
The first deputy head of the Kiev tax Nikolay Ilyashenko tried to bribe the leadership of NABU and SAP for closing criminal proceedings against the largest Ukrainian gas producing private company Burisma, which was owned by former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Nikolai Zlochevsky, writes Obozrevatel.
This was announced on Facebook by journalist Yuri Butusov. According to him, among the detainees Ilyashenko himself and Andrei Kicha, director of legal affairs at Burisma.
"(They gave money) for the fact that the special anti-corruption prosecutor Nazar Kholodnitsky will close the case of the infamous Burisma company, which was owned by oligarch Nikolai Zlochevsky, and whose supervisory board was the son of Joe Biden, a former US vice president and, in the near future, a probable candidate for US president from the Democratic Party, "the journalist wrote.
Of course, if there is corruption in the Ukraine, it involves Obama or the Bidens.
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Happy to die to stop seeing Fauxi and Scarf Woman lie on TV.
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/\ Those two chumps...Fauci more so. It's a shame it took a couple of weeks of riots to forget about this plandemic, but in that respect, the relief is welcome....welcome to Grandma Killer Cuomo, too...among other idiots, imbeciles, and morons.
There is an event tomorrow in Nashville, Tenn. inspired by the Seattle "autonomous zone." Organizers are calling for people to come "reclaim" the Legislative Plaza. pic.twitter.com/ZPq2Odfxrl
But Republican Gov. Bill Lee is not Washington Governor Jay Inslee, he was having none of that. He issued a warning today that Tennessee would not tolerate such a “zone.”
From Tennessean:
“We encourage Tennesseans to exercise their First Amendment rights and have seen many examples of peaceful protests across our state in recent weeks,” Lee said in a statement midday Friday. “As demonstrations continue, we will continue to protect Tennesseans’ right to peaceful assembly, while also reassuring citizens that lawlessness, autonomous zones, and violence will not be tolerated.
“Further, Tennessee law expressly prohibits camping on state property not expressly designated as a campground area, and that law will be enforced.”
The General Assembly in February 2012 passed the law after Occupy Nashville protesters set up a campsite at Legislative Plaza, making it a misdemeanor to do so.
It’s unclear who’s involved, but police said they were prepared.
Kris Mumford, a spokeswoman for the Metro Nashville Police Department, said police were aware of the plans, have reached out to THP and Central Precinct officers will be monitoring the situation “should it enter into the streets or require our involvement.”
The graphic told people to bring food, tents and other camping gear, as well as art and musical instruments. It also said they demanded defunding of the police and removing of all “racist statues.”
They already have a couple of tents up.
Nashville CHAZ so far is a very chill place. The people beside me are debating whether communism or anarchism is better
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I believe we may have seen this ("autonomous zone" spreading) predicted by someone at the Burg a day or two ago. Nashville wasn't mentioned as a possibly site outbreak, but here you have it.
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Tennessee leads the nation in electric chair executions. They're good at it. Like Austin and Albuquerque, Nashville is blue in a red state. That's going to be a recipe for disturbance going forward.
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That explains why my popcorn futures went up right at the close of trading!!!
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I think it was the Russians who first realized there's no such thing as a peaceful protest. It's either a beatdown, or a rout.
No sense in calling it a protest even. Just plain thuggery against the law. An attempt to create several mini-Culiacáns inside the US... supported fervently by every dirty bastitch in yore vicinity.
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Thanks for the tip, but earlier I was on a mobile device, and now I'm on my desktop, and I still can't read it as the site wants me to provide a e-mail address (which I do not want to do).
I'll look for this "reader view" just to be sure. Thanks again.
[Rudaw] The US and Iraq agreed to reduce the number of American troops in Iraq in the coming months in the first round of the bilateral strategic dialogue.
The first talks of their kind in a decade, the strategic dialogue kicked off in an online session on Thursday to discuss several issues, including the Iraqi economy and the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
In a joint statement by both countries, published by the US Department of State on early Friday, it was revealed that one outcome of the talks is a US-commitment to continue withdrawing troops from the country in the near future.
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The George Floyd riots — or rather, the anarchist riots that took Floyd’s death as a pretext — give Americans two good reasons to re-elect Donald Trump in November.
The first is that the Democratic Party has surrendered to the politics of resentment so abjectly that its governers and mayors are incapable of protecting life and property. President Trump is magnificently right to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act and keep the military in readiness to restore order where state and local government have abandoned their responsibilities.
...The second is that President Trump understands that the social fabric of the nation depends on rebuilding American manufacturing. We’ve drifted into a services-and-consumption economy rather than an investment-driven, productive economy over the past thirty years, thanks to both the Establishment Republicans and the Democrats. ... Trump is the only politician of national standing who knows that there is a problem in the first place.
...Economics doesn’t explain everything. Heartbreakingly high rates of incarceration, illegitimacy, disease and poverty among black Americans are tinder waiting for a spark like the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd in police custody. "What the great French sociologist Emil Durkheim called "anomic suicide" is the Great Plague of our times. Self-destructive behavior in the form of opioid addiction, alcoholism, and violent behavior is destroying the lives of large parts of the US population," I wrote in this space March 30.
Nonetheless, economics does tell us something, and the chart below gives context to the riots which have wracked American cities during the past several days.
...Minority workers in the United States benefited from an employment boom during the Trump Administration, and the black unemployment fell to just 5.8%, the lowest level in American history, thanks in large measure to the availability of low-skilled service industry jobs. These jobs disappeared the fastest and are least likely to come back in the foreseeable future, as Americans save more of their income and avoid crowded public places like restaurants.
Black Americans suffered disproportionately in the epidemic, with death rates much higher than whites, Asians or Hispanics. That may be due to the prevalence of co-morbid medical conditions among blacks, for example, hypertension. Forty percent of adult blacks suffer from high blood pressure, vs. 28% of whites and non-black Hispanics and 25% of Asians. According to one study, American blacks died from COVID-19 at triple the rate of other races. Whether this is due to poor diet, inadequate preventive care or other factors is outside my area of competence. But it is clear that blacks suffered more.
With the COVID-19 epidemic, the economic prospects of black Americans suddenly turned bleak. As the American economy shifted out of industry and into services, personal consumption took up a larger share of Gross Domestic Product. 70% of US GDP goes to personal consumption vs. an industrial-nation average of 60%.
...Dependence on personal consumption and low levels of savings and investment hollowed out the American economy and made it more vulnerable to shocks like the COVID-19 epidemic. And minority workers, the last hired in the 2009-2019 recovery, were the first fired, and the least likely to be rehired.
Add to this the predicament of a generation of students who paid an average of $35,000 a year for tuition at private colleges (or $26,000 at state colleges for non-residents). They borrowed an aggregate $1.6 trillion to pay for tuition. Many of them graduated unprepared for remunerative work, and subsist on marginal employment, which disappeared during the epidemic.
This is no excuse for violent behavior, to be sure; it is one thing to air grievances in peaceful assembly and quite another to burn police cars, businesses, and even churches, as rioters did in Washington, D.C. and Louisville, KY. But the fragility of a hollowed-out US economy addicted to high consumption and low savings helps explain the violent coda to the COVID-19 epidemic.
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Well, capitalism is all about capitalizing on any given situation.
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Also, the things that are manufactured in the US now tend to be made on high tech equipment which even the lowest person on the totem pole must understand to be a worker in a highly automated factory. And the people who run the CNC machines and 3D printers? Not dumb proles.
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Disagree. It is Marxist journalism and university that made the riots. Nothing else.
How do Spengler explain that there are no riots for thousands of black men killed by other black men?
Hiya, guys. So... a terrible time, this George Floyd thing. I am with the cops. Good... bad... I am with the cops.
I never quite understood why Americans expect communities that add their chosen tribal identities before the 'American', to be ever loyal to the American nation. Maybe Americans have stopped seeing it as a nation altogether, the borders so porous and the polity so divided on the subject. Maybe it's really like the liberals say, 'an amalgam of diverse settler societies, still developing.'
Obviously, the hereditary agenda of Africanized Americans has always remained to fashion whatever States they can get their hands on, into utopias they can relate to - the stuff of Mugabes and Idi Amins.
People who cannot pick a side between future Wakanda and their own national dignity because of a little vicarious guilt will find themselves unable to survive the coming onslaught of anti-American activism. A very bad time, it forces us to side with idiots like Chauvin. But I'm still with the cops.
Maybe entire PDs should resign and people should should just arm themselves, set up community operated surveillance in neighbourhoods to capture the reality of Wakandans and Antifa, the things they hide behind their mask of victimhood. If it's anarchy they want, better a white, American anarchy than something from the minds of modern day Malcom Xs or Khalil Muhammeds.
Sorry, but when I see unemployable mobs of bastards turn a town into shit, I feel enraged for the hard working nine-to-fiver who abides by rules, keeps everyone pleased and yet suffers. Our duty is to him, not some mob of historic guilt peddling criminals.
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M. Murcek -Sidney Poitier is from and grew up in the then British Colony of Bahamas. He later became American but his education and such was in the UK tradition of what it supplied to natives in colonies. Nuff Said..
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Dron66046: One rumor going about but quickly censored by FaceBook, Google and Twitter was that the cop who did that was hire by the scum where the victim last worked to expressly remove him from this plain... Who knows but not beyond possible?
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Well, he's no hit man if he took 8+ minutes of an iffy technique in broad daylight to do the job.
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And I stick by my analysis that Poitier made his bones in cinema as a black man having angry issues about integrating in white society. Where he went to school really has nothing to do with it.
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What M said. He should have stuck to policing Demtown, and activity that does not require any real finesse.
[Jpost] Dr. Ruth: Those who serve in IDF will have good sex for their entire lives.
She claimed to have been quite talented and "an expert at throwing hand grenades" during her service in the Haganah.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Each time Yvonne Gumbo, who has albinism, and her friends get together for a picture, she insists on being in the center.
"I tell them I make the picture beautiful because I am special," she told The Associated Press at her home in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, recently.
"I have two different colors while they have one. I am black. I am white," she said, smiling. "Who else can make the picture more beautiful?"
It’s the 22-year old’s way of fighting back against the deeply rooted myths and prejudices faced by people with albinism in Zimbabwe, where they are often ostracized, laughed at and pejoratively referred to as "white people" among other names.
While much of the world is engrossed in the race-related outrage over the death of George Floyd in the United States, Zimbabwe’s young people with albinism are fighting prejudices against the color of their skin.
In nearby Malawi and Tanzania, many people with albinism are killed because their body parts are thought to bring good luck. No such killings have been reported in Zimbabwe, which has about 70,000 people with albinism out of a population of about 15 million.
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Good ole AP, refusing to discuss (or even mention) the inconvenient truth of tribal Muti and 'real' discrimination. Of course everyone knows it's white policemen who are doing all the killing of blacks:
Dated IOL Muti story and link:One in five people in South Africa's rural areas has had first-hand experience of a human body part being trafficked after a muti killing.
And, of the body parts mentioned in their accounts, male genitals, breasts, hearts, fingers and tongues are the most commonly listed, according to research undertaken by the Human Rights League in Mozambique and supported by Childline in South Africa.
The study's findings are all the more shocking after the recent discovery of 10-year-old Masego Kgomo's mutilated body in dense bush in Soshanguve, Tshwane.
One of the five men arrested for her murder is a sangoma who allegedly uses body parts for muti. A 14-year-old boy was also arrested.
But Masego's case is one of many. Of the more than 413 individuals who attended workshops for the research report, 22 percent of those who were willing to be interviewed had seen a mutilated body with parts missing or a body part separated from a body.
There were 72 accounts relating to the trafficking of body parts mentioned in the report. Of these, 27 were from South Africa.
(Reuters) - Requiring the wearing of masks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in areas at the epicenter of the global pandemic may have prevented tens of thousands of infections, a new study suggests.
Mask-wearing is even more important for preventing the virus’ spread and the sometimes deadly COVID-19 illness it causes than social distancing and stay-at-home orders, researchers said, in the study published in PNAS: The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
Infection trends shifted dramatically when mask-wearing rules were implemented on April 6 in northern Italy and April 17 in New York City - at the time among the hardest hit areas of the world by the health crisis - the study found.
"This protective measure alone significantly reduced the number of infections, that is, by over 78,000 in Italy from April 6 to May 9 and over 66,000 in New York City from April 17 to May 9," researchers calculated.
When mask-wearing went into effect in New York, the daily new infection rate fell by about 3% per day, researchers said. In the rest of the country, daily new infections continued to increase.
Direct contact precautions - social distancing, quarantine and isolation, and hand sanitizing - were all in place before mask-wearing rules went into effect in Italy and New York City. But they only help minimize virus transmission by direct contact, while face covering helps prevent airborne transmission, the researchers say.
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Our PM allowed the use of a simple cloth, wrapped around twice the nose and mouth area, considering parts of India even basic necessities cannot reach.
I never use a mask, simply because I saw a chemist letting a gaggle of girls try on every design he had, and put them back into their packaging after trial. No thank you.
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"Attention! This is a test of the population's compliance. This is only a test. Had this been an actual emergency, we would have strictly applied these rules to the 'peaceful protests'. Thanks, suckers!"
[Ynet]-The Trump administration Friday finalized a regulation that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.
The policy shift, long-sought by the president's religious and socially conservative supporters, defines gender as a person's biological sex. The Obama regulation defined gender as a person's internal sense of being male, female, neither or a combination.
LGBTQ groups say explicit protections are needed for people seeking sex-reassignment treatment, and even for transgender people who need medical care for common conditions such as diabetes or heart problems. A strike against the heart of madness
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Not madness at all from their point of view. Just a new chapter in degrading the proles and forcing them to acquiesce to and champion what even the dumbest farm animal knows is manifestly untrue.
[Rudaw] In its capacity with the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... mission in the country, Denmark will deploy 285 military personnel to Iraq to train and advise Iraqi security forces fighting against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) remnants, according to a Danish foreign ministry statement released Thursday.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) training mission in Iraq began in October 2018 and is currently led by Canada. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... Denmark offered to take charge of NATO’s training mission in Iraq for a period of 18 months starting in 2021 last November.
"Danish leadership of NATO's Mission in Iraq will strengthen the ability of Iraqi security forces to provide the country's own security for the benefit of Iraq's people," Danish foreign minister Jeppe Kofod said in a statement on Thursday. "By strengthening our contribution to stabilizing Iraq, we both reduce the risk of new refugee crises while increasing our protection against the threat posed by terrorist groups such as ISIS."
The Danish parliament agreed on Thursday to send up to 195 staff and military equipment, including a ship and helicopter to the Strait of Hormuz for a four months period starting from August 2020, according to the statement.
NATO decided to launch a training mission in Iraq in 2018, involving around 500 troops with the aim of building the capacity of the country’s armed forces to better fight ISIS.
The organization announced it was preparing to shift troops from the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS to the alliance earlier this year.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... following the US dronezap on January 3 which killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad airport, the Iraqi parliament passed a non-binding resolution demanding the expulsion of all foreign forces, and the NATO operation was placed on hold.
Iraq decided in January to review its security relationship with the US-led coalition by attempting to reach a new security agreement with NATO.
In this new deal, foreign troops would remain in Iraq under the control of NATO. Their role would be limited to training and advising, and would no longer be permitted to carry out ground operations.
Last month, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhimi invited NATO’s Secretary-General to visit Baghdad "as soon as possible" to discuss ways of increasing collaboration with the NATO mission in Iraq.
There are fears a premature withdrawal of foreign troops could allow ISIS to resurge.
ISIS has increased its attacks and insurgencies in different areas of western and northern Iraq against Iraqi security forces recently, which comes after US-led coalition troops withdrew from six military bases in western and northern Iraq in the space of a month during March and April.
Iraq’s new Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has placed tackling ISIS high on his list of priorities.
The leader placed providing more military equipment and weaponry to security forces "in order to face the increased ISIS activities in liberated provinces [once under the group's territorial control]," on his agenda published on May 6.
Formed in 2014 after ISIS swept across large areas of Syria and Iraq, the 82-country coalition has supported Iraqi and Peshmerga forces with training, equipment, and air cover.
ISIS was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in December 2017. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... remnants of the group continue to wage a low level insurgency, launching ambushes, kidnappings, and assassinations.
[AlAhram] A Ottoman Turkish court nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a prominent opposition journalist from an online news outlet pending trial on accusations that she revealed state secrets in two articles about Ankara's military involvement in Libya, her lawyer said on Friday.
Muyesser Yildiz, the Ankara news editor for the OdaTV online news portal, was detained on Monday and formally arrested on Thursday following her questioning.
One article published in December questioned which Ottoman Turkish commanders met Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... , the commander of the Libyan National Army, which is fighting the internationally recognised Government of National Accord of Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj, backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... The second article, from January, gave details about a military officer who was sent to Libya to oversee Turkey's involvement there.
Yildiz was initially detained on espionage charges but this was later changed to revealing state secrets, lawyer Erhan Tokatli told Rooters.
"If the articles threaten the security of this country so much, they should have blocked access to them," he said.
Ismail Dukel, Ankara representative of broadcaster TELE1, who was also detained along with Yildiz and questioned, was released, state-owned Anadolu news agency said. An army sergeant detained with them was also nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! , it said without elaborating.
OdaTV, an online news outlet, has been critical of President Tayyip Erdogan's government. Turkey ranks among the top jailers of journalists across the world.
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[Rudaw] Twitter announced late Thursday that it had removed over 7,000 accounts linked to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... 's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) from the platform, for "employing coordinated inauthentic activity."
The removal of accounts from a pro-AKP network associated with the party's "young wing" formed part of Twitter's international crackdown on "state-linked information operations", for which the social media platform said it is creating a publicly accessible archive.
"Based on our analysis of the network’s technical indicators and account behaviors, the collection of fake and compromised accounts was being used to amplify political narratives favorable to the AK Parti [AKP], and demonstrated strong support for President Erdogan. We’re disclosing 7,340 accounts to the archive today," read Twitter's statement.
Twitter said that they were able to detect a network of accounts in early 2020 "employing coordinated inauthentic activity, which was primarily targeted at domestic audiences within Turkey."
The removed accounts included those that were originally associated with "organizations critical of President Erdogan and the Ottoman Turkish Government" that have been "repeated targets of account hacking and takeover efforts by the state actors identified above".
Accounts linked to the Communist Party of China (CCP) and the United Russia party were also subject to removal. In total, 32,242 accounts were sent to the archive — "the only one of its kind in the industry," Twitter said.
"Every account and piece of content associated with these operations has been permanently removed from the service," the statement added.
As per Twitter’s rules, accounts are permanently removed if they are engaged in "bulk, aggressive, or deceptive activity that misleads others and/or disrupts their experience."
In curtailment of freedom of expression, Ankara monitors social media — especially Twitter — to detect posts critical of government policies. Scores of people have been detained for their posts on social media regarding Turkey’s recent cross-border operations against Kurdish forces in Syria.
An official from Erdogan's office slammed Twitter's action, calling it an attempt to "smear" Ankara.
"The company's allegations that those accounts were 'fake' profiles designed to support the President and that they were single-handedly managed by a central authority are untrue," said Fahrettin Altun, communications director for the Ottoman Turkish Presidency.
"Its attempt to smear the Government of Turkey and a popular political movement [AKP] is unacceptable."
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... 's military conducted an air and naval exercise in the eastern Mediterranean, its defence ministry said Friday, in an apparent show of force linked to the Libyan conflict.
The drill, which lasted for eight hours Thursday, was dubbed an "Open Sea Training" exercise by the ministry in a statement that did not mention Libya directly.
Eight frigates and corvettes participated, along with 17 planes that flew from Eskisehir, central Turkey on a 2,000-km (1,250-mile) round trip, it said.
The private NTV broadcaster said the exercise was held in Libyan waters but did not offer any explanation.
The defence ministry reported that the exercise was "conducted successfully", sharing photographs and videos of the F-16 fighter jets and warships in action.
Ottoman Turkish state news agency Anadolu dubbed the drill a "show of force".
The exercise came as tensions grow in the eastern Mediterranean owing to the conflict in Libya, and a dispute with Cyprus and Greece over offshore hydrocarbon resources.
Turkey has already sent ships to search for oil and gas off the divided island of Cyprus.
Turkey backs the UN-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , which has been under attack by rivals Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... since April 2019.
Haftar is supported by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, with whom Turkey's relations are strained, as well as by Russia.
Momentum in the conflict changed after Ankara sent Syrian fighters, drones and military advisors to Libya after signing maritime and security agreements with Tripoli.
GNA forces have in recent weeks recaptured outposts in western Libya that had been seized by pro-Haftar loyalists, who then tried to march on the capital.
On Wednesday, a Ottoman Turkish warship prevented a new EU naval mission enforcing the Libya arms embargo from checking a suspect freighter off the war-torn country's coast.
Ottoman Turkish pro-government daily Yeni Safak reported Friday that Ankara could set up two bases in Libya, one southwest of Tripoli at al-Watiya that would host drones and the other in the port city of Misrata.
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Next, the US should show Turkey what a real "show of force" looks like.
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Show of force for the local news which Yippy controls. Nothing to see here these aren't the droids you're looking for.
[Summit] After a campaign by a left-wing mob, contractors refused to remove a statue of the founder of the Scouting movement in the UK after locals rallied to protect it.
After the statue of Lord Baden-Powell, which is situated in Poole Quay in Dorset, was put on a list of "racist" statues to be toppled by leftist extremists, the local council announced it would be temporarily removed and put into storage in order to "protect" it.
"We know that local people feel proud of Lord Baden-Powell’s and the Scout movement’s links with Poole, and that some people feel that we would be giving in to the protesters by temporarily removing the statue. However, we feel it is responsible to protect it for future generations to enjoy and respect," a town councillor said.
However, when a group of local residents showed up to defend the statue and contractors refused to remove it while people were present, local authorities were forced to back down.
One elderly man even vowed, "I will fight you" when asked by a Sky News reporter how he felt about attempts to remove the statue.
[American Thinker] The two destabilizing events recently occurring back-to-back, the response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and the George Floyd rioting, illustrate well how America is now institutionally incapable of making decisions in her own best interests. That is, the overreaction to the disease and under-reaction to the rioting reflect a country long demoralized.
Moreover, if that’s not troubling enough, know that this is a state of being that usually leads to tyranny.
We’d had pandemics before — ones causing more death, especially when adjusted for population — but we’d never before embraced lockdowns, a cure worse than the disease.
But at least the disease was a relative unknown; riots are not. People the world over know how to deal with riots, and this isn’t by letting them metastasize so thugs can run wild, hurt the innocent and destroy the nation. Yet our "leaders" fiddled while the country burned, motivated by moral confusion and weakness, and some, most certainly, by ulterior motives.
You may recognize "demoralization" and "destabilization" as the first two steps in the process of communist subversion, explained well by late Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov, a KGB agent who fled to Canada in 1970. Bezmenov stated in the mid-1980s already that the process of demoralization — an undermining of a target nation’s morals that makes it ripe for revolutionary takeover — was "basically completed already" in the United States. But a money line is what he said about demoralized people:
"[D]espite...the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country. It’s a great brainwashing process...."
Sound familiar, maybe a bit like people who can’t figure out how to handle rioters and why it’s necessary? How about people who think eliminating ICE, borders and the police are positive measures (I refer to the actually sincere individuals)?
Bezmenov also said that demoralized people "are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern; you cannot change their mind." Sound familiar, perhaps like people who react to truthful statements by reflexively shouting "racist!" or "white supremacy!"?
One more familiar sentiment: Bezmenov also stated, "A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information — the facts tell nothing to him." Just think here about how many today will react to air-tight, fact-based, logical arguments, not with assent or even open-minded pondering, but with angry rejection.
Note here that numbness to Truth is nothing new. British satirist Jonathan Swift observed hundreds of years ago already (I’m paraphrasing) that you "cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into." The difference is that the process of demoralization in question yields large numbers of people egregiously detached from reality in a way that serves a specific agenda, and who are virtually impossible to change.
Our thoroughly demoralized state can best be understood by grasping how our society actually demonizes the elements of morality — virtues — while elevating vices. Chastity is called prudishness while sexual depravity is normalized and lust is branded "lifestyle choices." Emphasizing diligence and its fruits (e.g., punctuality, hard work) is called "white supremacy" while sloth is rewarded with handouts. Prudence (wisdom) is branded bigotry while foolishness is called "wokeness." Faith is deemed fantasy while secular cynicism is thought sophistication. Actions reflecting courage are called cruelty and cowardice is called compassion. Humility is considered weakness while pride is labeled "high self-esteem." Patience is devalued while acting on wrath is called activism. Kindness is lacking while envy is euphemized as a desire for "social justice" and "equality." This is a time of moral inversion.
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Bezmenov said all this in 1984 but a few years later it was the Soviet Union that collapsed. I take some comfort for that and thank God for Ronald Reagan. But communism is still alive and well and now we have China vs Donald Trump. The mainstream media and academia are every bit as shrill and loony now as they were then if not more so. The threat is real.
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I'm an optimist. And slightly psychopathic, maybe.
There was never a better opportunity than today, to be shameless. Utterly devoid of any nuance; unambiguously, overtly deliberate in your endeavours. Learn from China, Russia, Pakistain, Iran and several others.
And weed out the fuckers destabbing you. Who's going to stop you, except yourself ?
[NYPost] An upstate woman and two Brooklyn lawyers were indicted Friday on federal explosives and arson charges for allegedly tossing Molotov cocktails at NYPD vehicles during George Floyd protests in New York City.
Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, is accused of hurling the makeshift explosive at an NYPD vehicle occupied by four coppers on early Saturday morning, May 30.
Prosecutors allege Shader bit one of the officer’s legs when she was being taken into custody.
Around the same time, Brooklyn lawyers Urooj Rahman, 31, and Colinford Mattis, 32, were accused of tossing their own Molotov cocktail at an unoccupied police vehicle in Brooklyn during a separate attack.
All three face life in prison on the seven-count indictments, charging them with the use of explosives, arson, use of explosives to commit a felony, arson conspiracy, use of a destructive device, civil disorder, and making or possessing a destructive device.
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Rahman in 2014 did a summer fellowship internship program at the Israel based Mada Al-Carmel's Arab Center for Applied Social Research in a partnership program with Palestine Works. The Mada Al-Carmel center is heavily financed by George Soros through his Open Society Foundations.
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Arson is a serious felony, right below murder and kidnapping. The big problem is that, once a fire gets out of control, people might be burned or even killed. Then it's murder. That's why life in prison is an appropriate sentence.
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And note that these are FEDERAL charges. This means that NY's get out of jail bail free rules do not apply.
Also,the local DA has nothing to say about this.
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I guess Cuomo's Attorney General is out to lunch?
[CDLLife] As cities across the country are discussing defunding or disbanding their police departments, truck drivers are voicing concerns of safety. Seventy-seven percent of truck drivers say they will refuse to deliver freight to cities with defunded police departments.
Truck driving is historically ranked as one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. In 2018, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic reported truck driving as the most deadly job in the country.
Truck drivers have spent the last year on the front line of a global pandemic and protests. Now many are fearful of what might happen if police departs disband or are defunded.
Truck drives have been voicing their concerns on the CDLLife App. After reading about their concerns, CDLLife posted a poll on the app.
We asked drivers on the app, "Would you pick up/deliver to cities with defunded or disbanded police departments? Why or why not?"
To date, 77% of drivers say they will refuse loads to cities with disbanded or defunded police departments.
Other cities are planning similar but less dramatic options. For example, New York and Los Angeles said they will reduce budget and deploy other resources such as social and youth programs.
It would become a very interesting situation with significantly reduced and significantly more expensive shipping from outside.
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Auto pilot perhaps. With increased regulation and harassment plus many retiring to just get out will only cause more severe distribution problems. The new drivers with CDL's hired show no signs to do anything physical. Heavy lifting is out. Beer, Soda, water, grocery items, you name it. In New York city you can't stop at traffic lights because teams will open back doors and throw product out as you drive along. Even new hires with a truck load of product disappear and when the truck is found it is empty. Many negatives in truck driving. Go independent most likely go broke.
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This is truly the end of these hellholes. Basically fire rescue, ambulance service is gone now. No food or fuel deliveries. Then cut utilities. Then watch the cockroaches scatter.
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No problem. They can always get Amazon to deliver with drones.
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6 This is truly the end of these hellholes. Basically fire rescue, ambulance service is gone now. No food or fuel deliveries. Then cut utilities. Then watch the cockroaches scatter.
The city of Seattle has actually been providing these services to them. RevLARPEers aren't the threat (although they are a problem).
The threat is the "respectable" "professional" suited/pantsuited establishment figures that arerunning cover for them.
Just like when the Weathermen went "underground" with the aid of that era's establishment.
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"No deliveries in Sector H after midnight."
-- old Firesign Theater joke
In the olden days, a stagecoach had a driver and somebody riding shotgun. In the modern version, the truck drives itself and the driver operates the remote weapons stations.
[JPost]-Ohio State Senator Stephen A. Huffman sparked outrage, blaming the African-American community's high COVID-19 rates on the "colored population" not washing hands, The New York Times reported Thursday.
According to The Times, Huffman was fired from his job as an emergency room physician following his highly controversial remarks. The Republican state senator represents the state's fifth senatorial district. What's next: somebody claiming that in society with average IQ of 100, group with average IQ of 80 cannot be anything but "hewers of wood & carries of water"?
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"Could it just be that African-Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups or wear a mask or do not socially distance themselves?" he said at a Tuesday Senate Health Committee hearing. "Could that be the explanation of ... the higher incidence?" he added,
"fired from his job as an emergency room physician".....where he treated gunshot wounds and drug overdose cases.
[PJMedia] Federal authorities arrested Margaret Aislinn Channon, a Tacoma, Wash., woman, who was seen on video torching five police cars during the protests in Seattle.
ATF and other agents tracked her through her social media accounts to her home in Tacoma where she was arrested.
Turkey's President #Erdogan is trying to "create a system like those in #Syria or in #Iran, which will let his family and his party rule forever,” exiled Turkish journalist Abdülhamit Bilici tells Al Arabiya English.https://t.co/Sr98D2DfWj
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces announced on Thursday that they had tightened control over a major supply line for the Libyan National Army (LNA).
According to the GNA’s official Facebook page, "Operation Volcano Anger", their forces on Wednesday evening extended control over a major supply line that stretches to the outskirts of the Libyan capital.
The Government of National Accord forces published a map that shows that this road leads from the city of al-Shweref, north of the city of Sebha to the north, where it branches in three directions towards the cities of Nessma, al-Qurayyat, and Morsit, south of the capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... This comes against the backdrop of accelerated field developments in Libya recently, where the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces were able to achieve tangible field successes and extend their control over the entire Greater Tripoli region and the strategic city of Tarhouna.
The Government of National Accord forces are now attempting to capture the strategic city of Sirte, which is where the Libyan National Army is heavily resisting the Ottoman Turkish-backed assault.
Despite assistance from their Ottoman Turkish allies, however, the Government of National Accord forces have been unable to retake Sirte as of yet, as their casualties continue to mount at the hands of the LNA.
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“Our calls for service have more than tripled. These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.”
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Paging Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Owsley to the white courtesy phone please.
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Apart from the truly heroic vapidity of the statement is the odd uniformity of message all around the country from mayor to governor, all dems of course. Seems they got their orders from yegg central.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] One person died while 10 others were maimed in a kaboom in Rawalpindi’s Saddar area on Friday. Police said that three children and an elderly man were among the injured.
As soon as the blast was reported, security forces moved in and immediately cordoned off the area while rescue teams arrived to aid the injured.
According to sources, the kaboom was installed in a cycle of violence.
The police cordoned off the area and initiated a probe into the incident.
Rescuers rushed the injured to nearby hospital by ambulances. One dead body was also shifted to a hospital. According to rescue sources, the blast was caused by explosives planted in a parked cycle of violence.
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...on the FBI’s Most Wanted list as Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah
was "a colleague at [convicted jihad terror leader] Sami al-Arian’s Paleostinian think tank in Tampa who later emerged as the head of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... in the Middle East."
How did a man like that get into the United States in the first place? By taking advantage of the fact that no one would have dreamed of asking him about his religious views; to have done so would have been "Islamophobic."
"Paleostinian Leader Eulogizes Monster on FBI’s ’Most Wanted Terrorist’ List," United With Israel, June 7, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Paleostinian Authority (PA) President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... eulogized the leader of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror group, who died on Saturday night two years after he was struck by a powerful stroke.
Abbas referred to Ramadan Abdullah Shallah as "a great national figure," TPS reported, in comments delivered to the arch-terrorist’s family.
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Despite its downsides, Tampa is a great place to visit. Because you can leave! Oldest restaurant in Florida and hand rolled cigars in Ybor City. Worth the trip.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iranian Foreign Ministry’s front man Abbas Mousavi said that the United States will soon bow to the will of the Iranian people.
Mousavi posted a new tweet to him on his official Twitter account on Friday morning, stating that Washington is pleased by economic terrorism because its policies are based on choking the people.
Abbas Mousavi continued: "You did not succeed in breaking the necks of the Iranian people, but we broke your knee ... You will soon bow before the Iranian people."
Mousavi tweeted in response to what U.S. envoy to Iran, Brian Hook, said on Thursday about his country’s optimism towards extending the arms embargo to Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and the pressures and embargo imposed on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
Iran has repeatedly warned the U.S. about attempting to extend the arms embargo, which would prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from acquiring foreign arms for a period of time.
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Given how USA treats Antifa/BLM, the author's conclusions are understandable.
[WSJ] Democrats cite a spike in cases in Florida, Arizona and Texas as evidence of a virus resurgence. But more testing, especially in vulnerable communities, is naturally turning up more cases. Cases in Texas have increased by about a third in the last two weeks, but so have tests. About a quarter of the new cases are in counties with large prisons and meatpacking plants that were never forced to shut down.
Tests have increased by about 37% in Florida in two weeks, but confirmed cases have risen 28%. Cases were rising at a faster clip during the last two weeks of April (47%) when much of the state remained locked down. Now restaurants, malls, barbershops and gyms are open if they follow social-distancing guidelines.
In Arizona, cases have increased by 73% in the last two weeks though tests have increased by just 53%. But a quarter of all cases in the state are on Indian reservations, which have especially high-risk populations. The rate of diabetes is twice as high among Native Americans as whites and the rate of obesity is 50% higher.
Liberals and the media demanded more testing before states could reopen, yet now are criticizing states because more testing has turned up more cases. Keep in mind that New York has reported about the same number of new cases in the last two weeks as Florida, though it ramped up testing earlier so the relative increase appears less significant.
A more important metric is hospitalizations. In Arizona the weekly rolling average for new Covid-19 hospitalizations has been flat for a month. Emergency-room visits for Covid-19 have spiked this week, but the number of ER beds in use hasn’t changed since late April. Hospitals in Arizona (and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,) have reported an increase in cases from U.S. citizens and green-card holders returning from Mexico where hospitals are overwhelmed. But with 22% of ICU beds and 62% of ventilators available, Arizona hospitals should have capacity to manage an increase in patients as it reopens.
Texas has also recently reported an uptick in Covid-19 hospitalizations, mostly in the Houston and Austin areas. Current Covid-19 hospitalizations are up about 20% since the state began to reopen, but Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... says hospitals aren’t overwhelmed and much of the increase is tied to nursing homes. The number of currently hospitalized patients per capita is still about 80% higher in New York City than in Texas. Mr. Abbott started reopening six weeks ago while Mr. Cuomo began letting manufacturing and construction resume in the Big Apple this week.
Fatalities are a lagging epidemic indicator since most people who die have been in the hospital for two to three weeks. But deaths also aren’t surging. Texas has recorded 151 deaths this past week versus 221 in the last week of April. Florida has reported 239 deaths, 72 fewer than in the last week of April.
Deaths are probably declining in part from better and earlier treatment, but this means there’s less to fear from reopening.
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March 22, 2020 - sometime during the day, the number of cases crossed 31,250.
March 25 there were some 62,500 cases in the US.
March 28 the caseload doubled - 125,000. Panic ensues. Doubling every three days!!
April 3 - 250,000 cases. Doubled again, in six days!
April 11 - 500,000 cases. Eight days to double.
April 30 - 1 million cases. Nineteen days to double.
June 11 - two million. 44 days to double.
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I watched 8 minutes of BBC News America last night out of curiosity. I knew what to expect - CNN or CNN on steroids. Sure enough, the first part of it was on the 'second wave' and some chump from the Harvard School of Health (might not be the exact right name) was, you guessed it, all but calling for continuing the lockdown. I'm sure he's getting paid either way (and I have a fix for that, doubt it ever gets passed into law).
The remaining time - there was 'some violence' in the Autonomous Zone; George Martin was 'murdered' and John Bolton's book (its theme - trashing Trump) was displayed in best possible light.
Plus ca change, or some French bullshit like that...
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I stopped paying attention to the numbers. I still wear a mask and try to keep my social distance but I still don't know anybody who has had Covid-19. Nobody. It kinda makes me wonder...
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Had a doctor's appointment yesterday. I was not asked if I thought I might have COVID nor offered a test.
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I know one person (remotely) who got CV...and she works at a nursing home in the Midwest. That is it. No neighbors, no friends of neighbors, no nothing. How many empty testing places and Javits Centers have we seen? Come on....
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One of my daughters got it (lives in another state). Two of the staff at my mother's nursing home got it.
In my local circle, though, none. For which I am grateful.
I will be very interested in seeing what next week brings, and who does or does not get sick after shouting together in crowds.
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My barber is still not allowed to be open. I am starting to look like Bozo the Clown. May have to revert to my college days techniques.
Participants say “justice will not be achieved until Black people not only have the right to survive but also thrive”.
This movement applies to “those of us who are white," for they “play a key role in perpetuating systemic racism."
Founders of the movement write that STEM is problematic because research papers often “reinforce anti-Black narratives."
Professors, researchers, and students in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics field from around the country are taking part Wednesday in the #ShutDownSTEM movement to combat what they say is systemic racism in academia. They argue that the STEM field itself creates technology that is “weaponized against black people.”
One scholar and self-proclaimed “leading expert on wokeness,” James Lindsay, who is best known for his participation in a project that exposed the faulty review process of academic journals by submitting hoax papers that were ultimately published by such publications, tweeted, that "one point of #ShutDownSTEM is to find out who doesn't do it (maybe they're working on a Covid-19 vaccine?) and to use that against them later, just like happened at Evergreen State College with its Day of Absence."
Members of the science academic community are “call[ing]on people who are not Black to spend a day undertaking discussion and action that furthers this work, while providing Black scientists with a day of rest."
It will be a day where they “#ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives."
Scientists and researchers subscribing to the movement will not do any work for the entire day, and any class or research group meetings “should be cancelled [sic] or replaced with discussions with colleagues about anti-Black bias in the world and in academia.” Researchers, professors, and other academics participating are encouraged to use the hashtags #STRIKE4BLACKLIVES, #STRIKEFORBLACKLIVES, and #SHUTDOWNSTEM.
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Suggest universities open up departments to inject mouse neural cells into black brains to find out if the mice cells raise their intelligence and lower their need for instant gratification, mindless violence and blame shifting. Could be a Nobel in it for someone.
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Then there is the somewhat related topics of reparations and Confederate statuary. A former colleague, author, and friend sent me this interesting observation (seemed like it might fit here):
Ref reparations, I wonder if they will take into account that the 1860 Census showed that a higher proportion of free blacks in the South than whites owned slaves!
The Confederacy has been as dead as Julius Caesar for 155 years. So why this hysteria now? It is just the camel’s nose under the tent. The destruction of the remnants of the Confederacy are merely preparatory measures to get people used to what is the next step – the assault on the history and goodness of this country. Already the Founding Fathers are being attacked. For example, Thomas Jefferson because he owned slaves is being cast into the outer darkness. And by extension, everything he did – Declaration of Independence and all his writings on freedom, will be discredited. Think of the 1619 Project championed by that Jacobin-invested NYT that slanders the United States that everything we have accomplished is invalid because of slavery and segregation. It defecates on hour history and ancestors. This is a Marxist plan to destroy this country, and it comes out of a corrupt and malicious academia which has turned our universities into totalitarian nurseries as it has purged itself of any opinions but those of the left. Being a former analyst of the Soviet Union and completely familiar with the way these people behave, I have no doubt what is afoot. So ironically, striking at the ghost of the Confederacy is essentially a strike against the United States itself.
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I thought America was all about the right to thrive. I've seen absolute retards and village idiots from India and Sri Lanka go there and become millionaires.
They all had to learn to do stuff though. Over time, many of them are ashamed and embarrassed of the shitholes they came from, and will have their children proudly tell you they're genuine Americans and nothing else.
You have to give up tribalism, climb down from your high tree and humble yourself before teachers to learn anything.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Secretary-General of the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... , António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , told the Security Council in a report on Thursday that the cruise missiles that struck two oil facilities and an international airport in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... last year were of Iranian origin.Guterres said in the report that several of the weapons and related materials that the United States seized in November 2019 and February 2020 were "of Iranian origin" as well, according to Rooters.
Guterres continued that the design features of some of them were similar to those produced by a commercial entity in Iran, or bearing Persian marks, and that some were transferred from the Islamic Theocratic Republic between February 2016 and April 2018.
He stated that "these pieces may have been transferred in a manner inconsistent with" the 2015 Security Council resolution stipulating the agreement between Tehran and world powers to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
The Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York did not respond to a request for comment on the UN report.
The attacks of Saudi Aramco facilities took place last year on the Abqaiq and Khurais facilities in the eastern region of the Kingdom.
The facilities were targeted by the Ansarallah forces, which used drones and cruise missiles in their wide-scale attack.
It is noteworthy to mention that the U.S. Navy announced last February that it had "confiscated 150 illegal missiles on a ship in the Arabian Sea."
The U.S. Navy added that "the components of the confiscated missiles in the Arabian Sea are Iranian designed," noting that "the weapons confiscated in the Arabian Sea include 3 Iranian (surface-to-air) missiles."
[UPI] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... on Thursday announced the Government of National Accord is investigating the discovery of at least eight mass graves in Libya.
The U.N. Support Mission in Libya said it welcomed a decision by the justice minister to establish a committee to investigate, secure the mass graves, identify the victims, establish causes of death and return the bodies to next of kin.
"UNSMIL notes with horror the discovery of at least eight mass graves in past days, the majority of them in Tarhuna. International law requires that the authorities conduct prompt, effective and transparent investigations into all alleged cases of unlawful deaths," the organization said.
Lutfi Tevfik Misrati, head of an office of the Libyan government investigating disappearances, said there were 10 to 12 bodies in one of the graves.
"The region is full of corpses," Misrati said.
The Libyan army recently liberated Tarhuna from forces loyal to rebel Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... and the government announced Friday it found 106 bodies in a hospital in the town shortly after the rebel forces were removed.
Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashaga said Haftar's militias burned some prisoners in containers and buried others alive in mass graves.
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What's 30 or so UN supported sunni fundamentalists burnt alive ? Jack and shit. And Jack left Libya long ago.
[The College Fix] Salisbury University experienced massive racial unrest after a series of racist graffiti was discovered on campus over the course of the 2019-20 school year.
The public, Maryland-based university canceled classes for a “day of healing” and hired a new associate vice president for diversity and inclusion at a cost of $140,000 annually.
Authorities have had a suspect since February but refused comment to The College Fix on details. Turns out, the vandal is black.
Jerome Kevin Jackson, 54, is set to plead guilty June 12 to maliciously defacing school property “while exhibiting racial animosity,” according to a news release from the Office of the State’s Attorney for Wicomico County published Monday.
Jackson has no known connection to campus, according to a Monday statement from Salisbury University.
If the case were to go to trial, the document shows prosecutors would "demonstrate beyond all reasonable doubt" Jackson defaced campus property Oct. 8, 10, and 22, and Nov. 4 in 2019, as well as Feb. 19, 2020.
Jackson will be charged with one count of "maliciously defacing property while exhibiting racial animosity," though the agreement stipulates that he accepts responsibility for the offenses committed on all of the above dates "so that the University can begin to heal."
The agreement requires he pay $494 — the amount it cost to clean the graffiti — in restitution to the university, and prosecutors plan to recommend he serve 18 months of active incarceration.
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The public, Maryland-based university canceled classes for a “day of healing” and hired a new associate vice president for diversity and inclusion at a cost of $140,000 annually.
[ToloNews] An explosion occurred at the Sher Shah Suri Mosque in the Kart-e-Char area in the west of Kabul as people were partaking in the Friday prayer, killing at least four worshippers including mosque Imam Maulavi Azizullah Mufleh.
Mofleh was also serving as a member of the Afghanistan Ulema Council.
Mofleh had obtained a masters degree in Koranic teachings and the Hadith.
The Afghan Ministry of Hajj and Pilgrimage said that Mofleh was an ideologically-moderate scholar and was in support of the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF).
Mofleh was also against discrimination on the basis of race, language and color.
Mofleh initially pursued his education in Pakistain but later obtained a master's degree in Kabul.
"By targeting the moderate and enlightened faces, they want to pave the way for krazed killer ideology and the expansion of ignorant and fundamentalist perceptions," said Salim Hussaini, a holy man in Kabul.
[Gatestone Institute] U.S. Attorney General William Barr has blamed Antifa — a militant "anti-fascist" movement — for the violence that has erupted at George Floyd protests across the United States. "The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly," he said.
Barr also said that the federal government has evidence that Antifa "hijacked" legitimate protests around the country to "engage in lawlessness, violent rioting, arson, looting of businesses, and public property assaults on law enforcement officers and innocent people, and even the murder of a federal agent." Earlier, U.S. President Donald J. Trump had instructed the U.S. Justice Department to designate Antifa as a terrorist organization.
Academics and media outlets sympathetic to Antifa have argued that the group cannot be classified as a terrorist organization because, they claim, it is a vaguely-defined protest movement that lacks a centralized structure. Mark Bray, a vocal apologist for Antifa in America and author of the book "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," asserts that Antifa "is not an overarching organization with a chain of command."
Empirical and anecdotal evidence shows that Antifa is, in fact, highly networked, well-funded and has a global presence. It has a flat organizational structure with dozens and possibly hundreds of local groups. Not surprisingly, the U.S. Department of Justice is currently investigating individuals linked to Antifa as a step to unmasking the broader organization.
In the United States, Antifa's ideology, tactics and goals, far from being novel, are borrowed almost entirely from Antifa groups in Europe, where so-called anti-fascist groups, in one form or another, have been active, almost without interruption, for a century.
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE]Put this in the ’things that make other things make sense’ file....
Some smart sleuthing by Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters at The National Pulse shows the donations made to Black Lives Matter actually go to ActBlue. From there ActBlue takes those contributions and sends them forward to the Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... Campaign.
While the Biden campaign insists it doesn’t support efforts to defund the police, it may happily profit from Black Lives Matter (BLM) efforts, and is complicit in taking money from an organization partnered with those spearheading the dangerous policy that has already taken root in Minneapolis, New York, and Los Angeles.
After reaching the BLM homepage, which features a "Defund The Police" petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue and prompted with the message: "We appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end 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... forever."
Joe Biden is the top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A group of photos revealed Egypt’s readiness to open a new military base called the "Jerjoub" naval base near the Libyan border.
The Egyptian military expert, Mohammed al-Kinani, told RT Arabic that this base will be a focal point for logistical support to the Egyptian forces in the Red and Mediterranean seas so that they can confront the challenges and threats currently present in the region, including protecting Egyptian economic interests, protecting and securing global shipping lines, and the role of Egypt in protecting the security of navigation in the eastern and southeastern Mediterranean.
The Egyptian expert continued that this base will serve to aid in "counter-terrorism operations and attempts by holy warriors to infiltrate into Egyptian coastal areas, and to combat arms smuggling and illegal immigration."
He said that Egypt focused on building a new base in the Red Sea called the "Ras Banas" base within the scope of the "Bernice" naval air base, and it will be the focal point of the Egyptian forces in the Red Sea from the beginning of the Suez Canal to the Bab al-Mandab strait.
He noted that this rule is very important and strategic because it is located in the southeast of Egypt, the highest triangle of Halayeb and Shalateen, pointing out that it "confirms the full Egyptian illusory sovereignty over Halayeb and Shalateen."
Al-Kinani said that this base will fully secure the Egyptian south from any threat, in addition to that it differs from the Muhammed Naguib land base, indicating that Egypt is building another naval base called the "Jerjoub" base west of Matrouh, and will be responsible for securing the western part of the Egyptian northern coast on the Mediterranean.
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[BIZPACREVIEW] New York City 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... brushed off criticism from current and former city officials in proclaiming that his is the "strongest mayoralty" in the United States."This is the strongest mayoralty in the country, in every sense, and the strongest city in the country, in every sense, and we can persevere through all sorts of challenges and we will. So I’m quite confident in what we can do in the next year and a half," de Blasio said Friday during his daily press briefing.
The bold statement comes after some of his own staff blasted publicly in letters as well as with an unprecedented march across the Brooklyn Bridge over his government’s responses to citywide protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis last month.
De Blasio noted, in response to a question about the criticism from a news hound, that he "respects" differences of opinion.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Beirut witnessed, yesterday, huge demonstrations and protests after the spread of news about the Lebanese pound trading for 7000 per dollar, which led citizens to go out and condemn the policies of the government and the Central Bank of Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... According to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA), the center of Beirut witnessed violent confrontations between the Lebanese Army and the demonstrators, who in turn tried to remove iron barriers from the roads leading to the government house.
This prompted the security forces to use force to remove the demonstrators from the security zone in the Riad El Solh area in the center of the Lebanese capital.
A number of protesters also smashed the facade of a number of banks in the Hamra neighborhood of Beirut, and young men blocked the road in Mahalla, near the Central Bank of Lebanon.
In the north, the protesters tried to burn Lebanon ’s central bank branch in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... by throwing Molotov cocktails, which summoned the Lebanese Army to intervene strongly to break up the demonstrations.
Lastly, many roads were closed in southern Lebanon and the international highway leading to Syria in the Beqa’a.
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[NYPOST] Seattle’s police chief told her department Thursday it was "not my decision" to abandon a precinct in an area of the city taken over by protesters — and blasted city officials for giving in to the demonstrators.In a video address published on the department’s YouTube page, Chief Carmen Best said the city "relented to severe public pressure."
"You fought for days to protect [the precinct]. I asked you to stand on that line. Day in and day out, to be pelted with projectiles, to be screamed at, threatened and in some cases hurt," Best told the force.
"Then to have a change of course nearly two weeks in, it seems like an insult to you and our community."
"Ultimately the city had other plans for the building and relented to severe public pressure," she added. "I’m angry about how this all came about."
Her comments came a day after the department said it would try to reopen the East Precinct.
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If she really opposed it, then resign and tell the full story. What she wants is to have her cake and eat it too. All she comes off as is a liar or hypocrite.
A top North Korean official warned that the country would soon take “painful” retaliation against South Korea, saying that its trust in Seoul to uphold inter-Korean agreements has been “shattered” by the government’s failure to stop activists from sending anti-regime leaflets
[NYPOST] A 56-year-old North Dakota drowned in a giant vat of sunflower seeds when she lost her footing and was sucked inside the grain bin, according to a report.
The unidentified Montpelier woman met her fate in the ghastly accident at the Glinz Farm in Pingree, where she had been helping two trucks unload seeds on Wednesday, the Jamestown Sun reported.
The woman was wearing a harness, but it was not attached at the time of the accident and she plunged inside the massive container, according to the news outlet.
Other workers cut holes in the side of the bin in a desperate attempt to free the woman. Firefighters and other first responders drilled more holes to try to reach her.
She was finally removed and received CPR, but was pronounced dead at the scene. I seen dat movie.
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Yep. King Solomon's Mines. The part where the explorers are drowned in a room full of gold dust.
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Working inside grain bins is dangerous. Our local Fire Department just had a fire call last week to extricate two folks from one. The first got caught up in the grain and the second tried to rescue him and also got stuck. Luckily there was a third (one of the guy's wife) who called it in.
Never been in a full one. Folks tell me it's like quicksand.
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Its no joke. Even before 'going under' there is tremendous pressure placed on the lung diaphragm.
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There are M. If you are not properly roped off, will suck you rather quickly. This is tragic.
The only thing worse are the manure slurry pits. Toxic gases. In one case a father, son and uncle died. First one went in and the other two followed trying to save him. Sad.
[BIZPACREVIEW] The owner of the vacant Sheraton Minneapolis Midtown Hotel opened its doors last week as a sanctuary for people trying to avoid the Black Lives Matter riots, to include left-wing activists and the homeless.
The hotel, which was heavily damaged during the riots, quickly became a homeless commune and community organizers launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise well over $100,000, with carloads of other donations pouring in, the Star Tribune reported.
But those who took refuge, reportedly over 200 people, are now being kicked to the curb as they’ve turned the hotel into a shantytown marked by squalor and rampant drug use.
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But those who took refuge, reportedly over 200 people, are now being kicked to the curb as they’ve turned the hotel into a shantytown marked by squalor and rampant drug use.
Unless closely monitored and controlled 'refugees' sometimes act in such a manner.
[VictoryGirlsBlog] Just logging on to your Facebook page or walking into your workplace can pose to provide a hotbed into a debate. As the discourse moves from discussing the kids and the weather, it all can quickly careen in to a political minefield.
In fact, some individuals are quick to label a debate in civil discourse as "hate speech". You don’t believe all of the tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement? Hate speech. You support law enforcement? Hate speech. You don’t believe you’re privileged? Hate speech. See what I am getting at here?
The "discourse police" who feel you are engaging of said "hate speech" will stop at nothing to ruin your very existence on this earth. Take LSU professor, Alyssa Johnson.
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[NYPOST] A woman was fatally shot and her boyfriend maimed by a gunman who reportedly took issue with how the couple told their dog to poop during a walk in Denver on Wednesday.The victims — identified in reports as Isabella Thallas, 21, and Darian Simon — were walking their pooch near Coors Field when 36-year-old suspect Michael Close quarreled with them from inside his apartment, the Denver Post reported.
"The suspect got into a verbal altercation with the victims related to the victims telling the dog to poop," according to a probable cause statement obtained by the newspaper.
Close reportedly asked the couple if they were going to train their pooch or just yell at it, the police records state.
Simon told police he tried to ignore Close before shots rang out, striking him twice and killing his girlfriend.
Police caught Close later Wednesday as he was driving on a nearby highway, the report said. A rifle and a handgun were found in his car, cops said.
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[FreeBeacon] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... secretly provided funding for several terror attacks that killed Americans and Israelis, according to allegations leveled in an unprecedented new lawsuit filed in New York City on Wednesday that seeks compensation for the families of those killed.
Multiple Qatari financial institutions, largely controlled by the country’s ruling monarch, provided millions of dollars to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
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The FBI and CIA won;t touch Qatar given its historic relationship with, inter alia, the Clinton Foundation (Clinton family) and Brookings (Democrat Party).
#Lebanon's President Aoun says huge losses to the financial system should not be borne by depositors but instead by the government, central bank and commercial banks.https://t.co/6sQALJ9ZxC
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Yeni Safak newspaper, which is close to the Ottoman Turkish government, revealed that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... intends to establish two permanent military bases in Libya.
On Friday, the newspaper quoted "regional sources" as saying that "military cooperation between Libya and Turkey will rise to higher levels," following the visit of the leader of the Presidential Council of the Libyan Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, to Ankara on June 4th.
They explained that "consideration is being given to rebuilding the al-Watiyah Airbase, in which the infrastructure is being repaired, as well as efforts to clear mines."
Yeni Safak stated that these efforts aim to be available to build Turkey an airbase, as it is expected to deploy drones and Ottoman Turkish air defense systems that contributed to the success of the military operations earlier this year.
"Moreover, similar steps will be taken in the port city of Misrata, which overlooks the Mediterranean," in which a "naval base will be built, while fortifying the base with drones and air defense systems," the newspaper said.
The newspaper continued: "In conjunction with the Greek provocations in the eastern Mediterranean and the increasing tension there, it requires the presence of Ottoman Turkish naval forces in the Libyan territorial waters, and accordingly it is believed to convert the Misrata port into a permanent Ottoman Turkish naval base."
They added, however, that Turkey will have the "largest share in the extraction of oil there", noting in this context that "the presence of Ottoman Turkish warships is necessary to maintain the safety of exploration activities from any potential threats."
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#Egypt- latest al-Naba (#238) includes more information of the incident in Rafah, claims it caused 10 casualties in an ambush that led to 2-hours engagement+fending off reinforcement, eventually forcing a withdrawal of naval SOF team via sea (with quite hyperbolic stock photo) pic.twitter.com/nxhNjacC2v
[NYPOST] The son of NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was arrested in Orange County, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, this week after he allegedly stabbed his neighbor multiple times, according to a new report.
Adam Abdul-Jabbar, 28, who appeared on "Celebrity Family Feud" with his Hall of Fame father — who played 20 seasons in the NBA and is the league’s leading scorer — was busted Tuesday and booked on one count of assault with a deadly weapon, according to records obtained by TMZ Sports.
Authorities told the outlet that officers responded to a call of a stabbing around 10 p.m. June 9 in San Clemente.
"The suspect, who is the neighbor of the victim, was arrested without incident," a police spokesperson told TMZ.
The victim went to the hospital on his own "with multiple non-life-threatening injuries," according to the spokesperson.
A booking sheet obtained by the outlet indicates that Adam Abdul-Jabbar is 6 feet 7 and weighs 180 pounds.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] On Thursday, the Ottoman Turkish Air Force conducted exercises over the Mediterranean Sea in which the E-7T airborne early warning and control aircraft participated.
In addition participating in the exercises, two aircraft refueling the Boeing KC-135R and a squadron of F-16 fighters also carried out flights.
On Thursday, an air bridge consisting of 4 Ottoman Turkish C-130 cargo planes was implemented between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor... and Misrata Airport, which carries logistical support.
The Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) forces’ "Volcano Anger" Operations Room said in a statement on Facebook that the total number of aircraft that entered Libyan airspace was estimated at 13 different types of aircraft, as follows: 2 Boeing KC-135Rs, and 4 C-130s, a Boeing E-7T plane and a squadron of F-16 fighters are estimated to have around 6 aircraft.
The Volcano Anger Operations room indicated that the Ottoman Turkish government officially announced on Thursday morning the opening of an air bridge between Libya and Turkey, stressing that the air bridge is within the agreement concluded between the government of al-Wefaq and Ankara.
This is a major move by the Ottoman Turkish authorities, as it confirms Ankara’s desire to increase their efforts to help the Government of National Accord in their war against the Libyan National Army.
Turkey has no doubt turn the tide of the war between the LNA and GNA, as their intervention has helped the latter retake several areas and avoid complete defeat.
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[Babylon Bee] Enraged protesters were marching through D.C. toppling racist statues when they came upon one standing on a street corner. The archaic, racist statue looked very, very old. It even had some kind of obsolete soundbite-playing device in it, probably an early phonograph from how old the statue looked. It kept saying things about black people being clean and articulate and how poor kids are just as bright as white kids.
The rioters threw a lasso around the top of the statue after googling "How to tie a lasso" and arguing for a while about how lassos are racist. They then brought it tumbling down after graffitiing all over it.
Unfortunately, the old, racist statue turned out to be former vice president and current presidential candidate Joe Biden.
"Classic pranksters," Biden said, chuckling, as he dusted himself off. "You know, this happens from time to time. Back in my day, we were out at the community pool, hanging out and throwing rocks at each other, as was the fashion at the time. CornPop and I were dishing it out and running our fingers through our leg hairs when..." As he continued to drone on, though, another racist group came up and toppled him the other way.
Eventually the rioters had had their fun and moved on, knocking over Nancy Pelosi and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, mistaking both of them for ancient statues.
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[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously voted a resolution to replace the police with a ’community-led public safety system.’
Is that legal according to the Minnesota constitution?
Get out while you can!
The radical left is pushing to "defund the police" following the death of George Floyd.
By "defund the police," the left means replacing the police with Sharia patrol, Black Panthers, La Raza and other anti-Christian, anti-white social justice enforcers.
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The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution to pursue a community-led public safety system to replace the police department following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the city’s police.
According to the resolution, the city council will begin a year-long process of engaging "with every willing community member in Minneapolis" to come up with a new public safety model.
The council commissioned a new work group to deliver recommendations by July 24 on how to engage with community stakeholders to transform the public safety system.
"Today’s unanimous City Council resolution advances our shared commitment to transformative change in how Minneapolis approaches public safety so that every member of our community can be truly safe," said City Council President Lisa Bender. "As we respond to demands for immediate action to reduce police violence and support community safety, we will invite our community to help shape long-term transformative change, centering the voices of those most impacted by community violence and police violence."
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The power of the committee peaked between August 1793 and July 1794, during which it gained dictatorial powers and organised the Reign of Terror. In December 1793, the convention formally conferred executive power upon the committee. Among the members, the radical Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a leader. After the killing of the rival factions of Hébertists and Dantonists, sentiments in the convention eventually turned on Robespierre, who was killed in July 1794. In the following Thermidorian Reaction – named after the month of Thermidor in the French Republican calendar – the committee's influence diminished and it was abolished in 1795
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I suggest they be permitted to do whatever they will. Additional proofs of Natural Selection are superfluous. We've clearly moved on to the urban community implementation phase. Please do not interfere.
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#3 But many minds were and have been infected forever.
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Flocking to the countryside?. No, most will stay but those with gumption will move away as they are doing now. Countryside is not a welcomed place for these people. When locals are aware of them acceptance is a hard pill to swallow. Biggest problem is all the liberal safety nets are not in place. You are on your own and that is a difficult or impossible problem.
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I'm sure that any insurance companies with a lot of homeowners policies in Minneapolis will be very interested in this story. Gotta wonder what kind of premium adjustments they will require when it comes time to renew those policies.
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So I'm reading that over 70% of the over the road CDL truck drivers will not deliver to areas with defunded police department. How long will it take them to start eating long pig ?
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The council commissioned a new work group to deliver recommendations by July 24 on how to engage with community stakeholders to transform the public safety system.
I think they mean Community Organizers. You know the people who would never actually permit a problem to be solved because feeding off the problem, and it's victims, is their bread and butter. See Barak Obama, Career Politician, Vampires, etc...
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Very good. No police. Let's do away with the courts too. In fact, how about American nationalists setting up their own community funded, armed patrols etc ? Combat veterans and newly resigned cops all forming a new force ? Funded by civs. No bureaucracy over it, it might work better than the boys in blue.
If divisiveness is going to be the game, and the Right starts to play it with the same gall, it would turn out to be very bad for the insurrectionists.
[The Drive] The French Triomphant class nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Le Téméraire test-fired an M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile in the Atlantic off of Finistère, France in the early hours of June 12th, 2020. Some sort of a test appeared to be in the works just three days ago when Le Téméraire was spotted sailing out of port with huge test instrumentation masts attached that are commonly fitted to submarines prior to developmental ballistic missile launches. Then, last evening, our good friend @aircraftspots began tracking a U.S. Air Force RC-135S Cobra Ball ballistic missile and rocket tracking aircraft flying out over the Caribbean. Not long after, a French Falcon 50 maritime patrol aircraft showed up in the area, indicating a launch was likely imminent.
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[Twitter]By abandoning neutrality, GoFundMe is now affirming that it does regulate content.. and is then liable for lawsuits..
What is interesting is that, by abandoning neutrality, GoFundMe is now affirming that it does regulate content. That could undermine the position of these companies against the loss of immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. https://t.co/jOeLSt2f4U
After raising $205,000 in a few hours @gofundme decided to halt my campaign for the Parkside Cafe in Alabama. At their discretion, they deemed that funds raised for a conservative business constitutes “intolerance” They WILL however give the funds raised thus far to the cafe... pic.twitter.com/Mfw88iDKRi
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As a hard core capitalist. I believe people should be allowed to do whatever they want with their money, including burning it to stay warm or tossing it out windows. All the same, GoFundMe is just electronic panhandling and I'm glad to see them give themselves a black eye.
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[NYPOST] A group of Minneapolis coppers have issued a public letter condemning the former cop charged in George Floyd’s death — and saying they are prepared to back their chief’s vow to overhaul the beleaguered department, according to a report.
The 14 officers addressed their letter, which they released Thursday, to "Dear Everyone — but especially Minneapolis citizens," saying it represents how the "vast majority" of their fellow cops feel, the Star Tribune reported.
"We wholeheartedly condemn Derek Chauvin. We Are With You in the denouncement of Derek Chauvin’s actions on Memorial Day, 2020," the letter reads.
"Like us, Derek Chauvin took an oath to hold the sanctity of life most precious. Derek Chauvin failed as a human and stripped George Floyd of his dignity and life. This is not who we are," it continues.
"We Are With You and want to communicate a sentiment that is broad within our ranks. We ask that our voices be heard. We are leaders, formal and informal, and from all ranks within the Minneapolis Police Department," the group goes on.
"We’re not the union or the administration. We are officers who represent the voices of hundreds of other Minneapolis Police Officers. Hundreds," they write.
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The trial could be very interesting. I will bet dollars to doughnuts that the tactics he used are prescribed in the MPD training manual and are taught at the MPD training academy. I know "following orders" is not a defense after Nuremburg. But I do wonder just how the prosecution and/or the jury would respond to a pretty thorough expose of the MPD policies and procedures...or what political fallout there might be (one can hope.)
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I know "following orders" is not a defense after Nuremburg.
That's not the same thing. That is, the defense will bring up stats: the hold was used 10,000 with zero fatalities. In fact, I'm sure the hold was used on George Floyd before.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The United States confirmed on Friday that it will discuss with the Iraqi government the status of its remaining military forces, stressing that it does not seek military bases or a permanent military presence in Iraq.
According to a joint statement of the first session of the strategic dialogue, Washington and Baghdad announced the continuation of the talks on the status of the remaining American forces in Iraq, where the two countries’ focus is towards developing a normal security relationship based on common interests.
The governments of the two countries said in the statement that "in light of the significant progress made towards eliminating the threat from ISIS, the United States will continue in the coming months to reduce its forces in Iraq."
The United States also confirmed that it is not seeking to establish permanent bases or a permanent military presence in Iraq, as agreed previously in the 2008 Strategic Framework Agreement, which states that security cooperation is based on mutual agreements.
The U.S. pointed out that they had already withdrawn half of their forces from Iraq since the start of the new year.
For its part, the government of Iraq is committed to protecting the military forces of the International Alliance, and the Iraqi facilities that host them in line with international law and relevant arrangements regarding the presence of those forces and in the form that will be agreed upon between the two countries.
It is noteworthy to mention that the Iraqi Council of Representatives had voted in January in an extraordinary session in the presence of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, on a decision obliging the government to work to end the request for assistance submitted to the international coalition led by Washington and end any presence of foreign forces on Iraqi soil.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than 10,000 Syrian fighters have been sent to Libya by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... , and 300 have been killed, the head of a war monitor told Al Arabiya English.
The latest batch of fighters landed onboard a flight from Turkey on Friday, carrying more than 126 fighters, Al Arabiya reported, according to an anonymous source.
The head of Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, said Turkey transferred 13,000 Syrian mercenaries to Libya since it began intervening.
"There is no cooperation from the international community on the transfer of mercenaries and the crimes that are taking place in Libya, which resembles [what took place] during the Syrian revolution at the end of 2011. The same scenario is [taking place] in Libya today," Abdel Rahman told Al Arabiya English.
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[NYPOST] Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams ...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too... , who has been blatantly pushing to become Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.... ’s pick for vice president, said she has "not received any calls" from his campaign about joining the ticket, according to a report.
"I have said many times that if called I will answer, but I have not received any calls," Abrams told Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show" on Wednesday.
"Though I look forward to hearing from whomever April Ryan is speaking to," she added, referring to the CNN political analyst whom the late-night host cited as having said the former Georgia State House leader was being vetted for veep.
When Colbert asked her why she has not been "demure" in pining for the post, she responded that she was typically asked about her qualifications based on her race.
"I know that when I’m asked the question are you qualified, can you do this, that I’m not just answering for myself," she said. "I’m being asked the question because I don’t look like what people usually look like when they’re considered for these jobs."
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Why does he need to reach out? At her size, wherever you go, there she is.
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Something tells me Kamala Harris will be the pick (kind of how Democrats treat people anyways); the Dems would be throwing a bone to the 'black community'.
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Now, now, people - have a little patience. Betcha anything that if/when Kamala is proclaimed, Stacey will said out loud in public that Kamala is: (a) a whore, (b) not a real African American.
[Breitbart] Starbucks Coffee Company will now allow its partners to wear Black Lives Matter (BLM) shirts and other accessories, the company announced Friday.
"In response to this historic time, our store partners can also show support for the Black Lives Matter movement with their own t-shirts, pins and name tags," Starbucks tweeted:
In a letter to employees, the company said it was responding to their requests to be allowed to express themselves at work.
"We see you. We hear you. Black Lives Matter. That is a fact and will never change. This movement is a catalyst for change, and right now, it’s telling us a lot of things need to be addressed so we can make space to heal," the document read.
[BREITBART] Seattle, Washington’s, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is demanding that all 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States be granted American citizenship using Seattle Police Department funding.CHAZ, formed by anarchists, Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... members, and Black Lives Matter activists, has released a list of demands that would shift Seattle Police Department funding away from policing resources and towards providing naturalization ceremonies to all illegal aliens.
Officials for CHAZ also said illegal aliens must be called "undocumented" because "no person is illegal." The demands include:
We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into:
A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle.
B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege.
C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary.
D) Naturalization services for immigrants colonists to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called "undocumented" because no person is illegal.)
E) General community development. Parks, etc.
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Can CHAZtopia hold them all? How long will the vegan meat substitutes last with 22 million extra mouths to feed?
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Naturalization services for immigrants colonists to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called "undocumented" because no person is illegal.)
Unless RAZ, the CHAZ warlord, says you are illegal.
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"We're off to Mexico! Once we illegally cross the border, we will demand voting rights, refuse to learn Spanish, fly our American flags, burn Mexican flags in public, work illegally without paying any taxes to the Mexican government, send all our money back to the USA and then call Mexican citizens racists and bigots for wanting to send us back. Go USA!"
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So we've gone from Peoples' Democratic Republic of Chaz Blocks, to food shortages, to warlords, to walled borders, to give us aid or our people die, and now are to imposing their government onto its neighbors.
What's the name of the next episode, Killing Fields? or How I Came to Despise Trotsky?
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Especially with the number of residential quarters inside the area. I saw something like 800+ which seems a bit much but with apartments could be. If so, one would assume a number that size would have all family sizes, age variations, and health conditions.
What I find interesting is the absolute lack of any testimonials from residents from behind occupied Beattle.
It would take only 1 person not satisfied with the speed of the results to cause a lot of damage even cost lives. Obviously the PR wing wouldn't like to see an apartment complex full of people go up in flames but every demand not met erodes the governing councils' Mandate.
There seems to be a command and control system in place, but even with their immediate complete cooperation response time will be reduced just getting there, nevermind a high rise structure fire. Worse, with the complete cooperation comes all the ill trained and equipped volunteers causing a mess.
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.
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Each time Yvonne Gumbo, who has albinism, and her friends get together for a picture, she insists on being in the center.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
"Could it just be that African-Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups or wear a mask or do not socially distance themselves?" he said at a Tuesday Senate Health Committee hearing. "Could that be the explanation of ... the higher incidence?" he added,
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too...
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
[The College Fix] Salisbury University experienced massive racial unrest after a series of racist graffiti was discovered on campus over the course of the 2019-20 school year.
[Gatestone Institute] U.S. Attorney General William Barr has blamed Antifa — a militant "anti-fascist" movement — for the violence that has erupted at George Floyd protests across the United States. "The violence instigated and carried out by Antifa and other similar groups in connection with the rioting is domestic terrorism and will be treated accordingly," he said.
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
...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...
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[NYPOST] Seattle’s police chief told her department Thursday it was "not my decision" to abandon a precinct in an area of the city taken over by protesters — and blasted city officials for giving in to the demonstrators.In a video address published on the department’s YouTube page, Chief Carmen Best said the city "relented to severe public pressure."
[NYPOST] A woman was fatally shot and her boyfriend 
The son of NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was arrested in Orange County, 
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
[Babylon Bee] Enraged protesters were marching through D.C. toppling racist statues when they came upon one standing on a street corner. The archaic, racist statue looked very, very old. It even had some kind of obsolete soundbite-playing device in it, probably an early phonograph from how old the statue looked. It kept saying things about black people being clean and articulate and how poor kids are just as bright as white kids.
The French Triomphant class nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Le Téméraire test-fired an M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile in the Atlantic off of Finistère, France in the early hours of June 12th, 2020. Some sort of a test appeared to be in the works just three days ago when Le Téméraire was spotted sailing out of port with huge test instrumentation masts attached that are commonly fitted to submarines prior to developmental ballistic missile launches. Then, last evening, our good friend @aircraftspots began tracking a U.S. Air Force RC-135S Cobra Ball ballistic missile and rocket tracking aircraft flying out over the Caribbean. Not long after, a French Falcon 50 maritime patrol aircraft showed up in the area, indicating a launch was likely imminent.
[NYPOST] A group of Minneapolis 
[ALMASDARNEWS] The United States confirmed on Friday that it will discuss with the Iraqi government the status of its remaining military forces, stressing that it does not seek military bases or a permanent military presence in Iraq.
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
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