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I invite all BLM protesters to protest outside of King Neptune's castle.... under the sea.
(I better put a /SARC tab here... some of them are stupid enough to take it seriously...)
[Western Journal] I was once told if we’re not careful, 2 percent of the passionate will control 98 percent of the indifferent 100 percent of the time.
The more I’ve thought about this phrase, the more I believe it. There is now a small group of passionate people working hard to destroy our American way of life. Treason and treachery are rampant and our rule of law and those law enforcement professionals who uphold our laws are under the gun more than at any time in our nation’s history. These passionate 2 percent appear to be winning.
Despite there being countless good people trying to come to grips with everything else on their plates, our silent majority (the indifferent) can no longer be silent.
If the United States wants to survive the onslaught of socialism, if we are to continue to enjoy self-government and the liberty of our hard-fought freedoms, we have to understand there are two opposing forces: One is the "children of light" and the other is the "children of darkness."
As I recently wrote, the art and exercise of self-governance require active participation by every American. I wasn’t kidding! And voting is only part of that active participation. Time and again, the silent majority have been overwhelmed by the "audacity and resolve" of small, well-organized, passionate groups. It’s now time for us, the silent majority (the indifferent), to demonstrate both.
The trials of our current times, like warfare, are immense and consequences severe and these seem inconquerable.
As a policewoman from Virginia told me, "People don’t feel safe in their homes and our police force is so demoralized we cannot function as we should. In my 23 years with my department, I have never seen morale so low."
Another woman from Mississippi told me that we need our leaders to "drop a forceful hammer. People are losing patience. It simply must be stopped! Laws MUST be enforced ... no one is above the law."
Don’t fret. Through smart, positive actions of resolute citizen-patriots, we can prevail. Always keep in mind that our enemy (these dark forces) invariably have difficulties of which we are ignorant.
[France24] The French government resigned Friday ahead of a cabinet reshuffle that President Emmanuel Macron says will set out a "new course" as the country grapples with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
A government source confirmed to AFP that Prime Minister Edouard Philippe would be leaving his job after serving Macron since the president came to power in 2017 elections.
However, there was still no firm clue over who a successor might be, with the replacement also facing the task of rescuing the fortunes of the ruling party following a stinging defeat in local elections at the weekend.
Macron, who has pursued ambitious economic reforms since coming to office in 2017, has already admitted that the recession caused by the health crisis would require the government to shift tack.
In an interview with regional newspapers published late Thursday, Macron said France must prepare for a "very difficult" economic crisis, "so we have to chart a new course."
"I see this based on an economic, social, environmental and cultural reconstruction," he said. "Behind this, there will be a new team."
An Elysee Palace official told AFP that a new prime minister would be named "in the coming hours," and possibly the new cabinet cast as well.
Sources later confirmed that Philippe would not be re-nominated for the post he has held for the past three years, pushing through a series of controversial overhauls that sparked massive strikes as well as the fierce "yellow vest" anti-government revolt.
Speculation that Philippe was on the way out mounted this week after Macron's centrist party was routed in municipal elections last Sunday and Greens took control of several major cities.
Philippe, a right-wing politician who never joined Macron's Republic on the Move party, easily won his bid to become mayor of Le Havre.
But while Philippe's approval ratings have surged over his handling of the coronavirus crisis, Macron was widely expected to try to burnish his social justice credentials with a more centrist or leftwing premier.
"A new phase is opening, with new talents and new methods for governing," the Elysee official said Friday.
- HEAVY TURNOVER -
At a meeting Thursday, Macron and Philippe "agreed on the need for a new government to embody a new phase for this term," the source said.
Press reports have suggested that possible replacements could include defence minister Florence Parly or foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, both Socialists before joining Macron's team.
Other names being floated are those of Valerie Pecresse, president of the Ile-de-France region encompassing Paris, or Jean Castex, who is piloting the government's cautious lifting of its coronavirus restrictions.
But analysts say Macron has a thin bench of potential replacements, not least because his young party has failed to produce any standouts from its parliamentary ranks -- meaning he could tap someone relatively unknown to the public.
Among other officials who could be replaced is interior minister Christophe Castaner, who has been assailed by critics over the failure to contain the rioting and looting that marred the "yellow vest" protests of 2018-2019.
Already since the start of Macron's presidency, a total of 17 ministers have quit the government, most recently Agnes Buzyn, who stepped down as health minister in a doomed bid to wrest the Paris mayor job from Socialist Anne Hidalgo.
In 2013, that Policy Requirement, as it is known, was held to be an unconstitutional restraint on free speech when applied to American organizations...
Because plaintiffs’ foreign affiliates possess no First Amendment rights, applying the Policy Requirement to them is not unconstitutional. Two bedrock legal principles lead to this conclusion. As a matter of American constitutional law, foreign citizens outside U. S. territory do not possess rights under the U. S. Constitution.
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I would have thought the Open Society could have been denied on the basis that they are trying to subversely undermine the U.S. How about anti-terrorism laws or RICO statutes. Can't Soros be deported back to hell.
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Russia has always been a nuisance, and probably always will be.
It is the biggest country in the world geographically. Many of the world’s greatest novels (War & Peace, Crime & Punishment), greatest composers (Tchaikovsky), high arts (ballet), and scientific achievements (Sputnik) come from Russia. It's a nation with much to be proud of, but it has never accepted into the Oxford and Harvard clubs (much like Donald Trump), and it never will be.
Russia has always been at pains to win respect on the world stage, even in its post-Soviet era. When it can't, the huge nation acts out, like the guy at the frat party who, because the cool kids can’t be bothered with him, turns to mischief by pouring some vile fluid into the punch bowl or instigates a cowardly cyberattack.
Valid or not, everyone knows Russia is no superpower. It is no economic force. Although Russia does have nuclear weapons, what Russia seeks is influence and prestige, not a kamikaze mission.
Russia’s population is a mere 140 million compared to, say, China’s, which is 1.4 billion.
What is the liberal media's and Democratic Party’s obsession with Russia, and not China, all about then? Very likely to take the heat off China, and its far-too accommodating relationship with China.
...Every American with common sense understands some basic things about this year. March seems long ago now, given all the news, but we have not forgotten about the devastation the coronavirus has brought upon our nation: That's the work of China. China’s malfeasance in diminishing the threat of the Wuhan coronavirus has caused the deaths of more than 100,000 Americans.
While Donald Trump was restricting flights from China to save American lives, the Democrats and Joe Biden were urging Americans to have lunch in Chinatown and screaming "hysterical xenophobia." Anyone with a brain knows that the best way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in our country is to prevent those who are infected from entering our borders.
...Let’s assume that Russia did offer bounties for killing American troops in Afghanistan. That is horrible and will be dealt with accordingly. Certainly our covert operatives repay any injury against Americans to Russia in kind.
However, the front page coverage and urgency of these reports shouldn’t fool any common-sense American. Blowing Russia up to being the main threat to America, instead of China serves to distract Americans from the first truth that the Democrats not only covered up for China, but parroted their propaganda. Chinese propaganda began with denouncing any bid to focus on China’s cover-up of the pandemic as racist speech.
Russia also is a convenient bogeyman to cover up for the fact that woke American business leaders (NBA, Goldman Sachs, Lebron James, Nike) continue to do business with China, a major human rights violator. Joe Biden's son Hunter, also made millions at least from his involvement with China's government-linked operations.
...If the average American fully understood the threat China poses (Antifa, for starters, would be disappeared by the Xi Jinping regime), there should be no mistake where our energies as a people need to be directed: toward raising awareness that the privileges and values we live and breathe every day are under threat by China.
But instead what America gets is news organizations who give front page treatment of Russia skullduggery on the very day democracy in Hong Kong formally died.
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I should think Nixon & Kissinger can be praised for their "ping-pong diplomacy", I should also think the economic and other hanky-panky begins with Clinton only to be exacerbated by the likes of Feinstein, Pelosi, Biden, et al., ad nauseam.
But, for sure, the hypocrisy by the Left/MSM/celebrities is absolutely disgusting.
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Go back to the founding of the Russian Navy under Czar Peter the Great and you will see the inferiority complex of Russia vis a vis Europe that has never really ended.
[Jpost] The US Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear a bid by a large group of Iraqis convicted of crimes in the United States to prevent imminent deportation to their home country where they say they could face persecution and torture.
The justices let stand a lower court's 2018 ruling that the federal judiciary lacked the authority to stop the planned deportations. The Iraqis had argued that the US Constitution's so-called suspension clause — relating to a person's ability to challenge confinement by the government — empowered courts to review their claims.
The case involves approximately 1,400 Iraqis in the United States who were ordered deported years or even decades ago because of criminal convictions. They were able to remain in the United States because Iraq had refused to repatriate them. The diplomatic situation changed in 2017, however, when Iraq struck a deal with the United States to repatriate its citizens.
The US government then conducted raids and detained hundreds of the Iraqis as part of a larger push by President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... to increase immigration enforcement.
The Iraqis, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, sued the US government in federal court in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... to try to halt the deportations.
The Iraqis, many of whom are Christian, have said face likely torture and death in Iraq. They wanted US courts to halt the deportations so they could reopen their cases before immigration judges and present new evidence that they should be allowed to stay because they faced possible torture.
You should have thought of that before you broke our laws, guys. If you are Christian, you know what the rules are — Muslims are working from a deficit by comparison. Not that they cannot overcome the programming, but it’s easier to relapse.
A judge in Detroit ruled for the Iraqis in 2018, but the Cincinnati, Ohio-based 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision.
In another case raising similar issues, the Supreme Court on June 25 enhanced the ability of the US government to quickly deport illegal immigrants colonists including asylum seekers with limited judicial review.
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a large group of Iraqis convicted of crimes in the United States to prevent imminent deportation to their home country where they say they could face persecution and torture
If people shelter you from deadly danger in their house, don't piss on the carpet.
[Jpost] The chant "Israel, we know you murder children, too" could be heard amid "Black Lives Matter" and "Paleostinian Lives Matter" chants. Excellent, excellent, excellent...fully opened Kemono !
Protesters at a demonstration in Washington, DC, linking Black Lives Matter and the Paleostinian cause chanted "Israel, we know you, you murder children, too."
The demonstration Wednesday was billed as an event in support of the Day of Rage called by the Paleostinian Authority and other groups to protest Israel’s announced plan to annex up to 30% of the West Bank on or after July 1.
A staff writer for The Washington Examiner, Nicolas Rowan, posted a video of some of the march on Twitter.
Chants also alternated between "Black lives matter!" and "Paleostinian lives matter!"
The march, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol building, was led by a Harvard student, Christian Tabash,
...who identifies as an outraged Palestinian man living in America, but just looks white...
who read a poem about Israel’s crimes against Paleostinian Moslems, according to the Examiner. The poem referred to Israel as "puppet master of continents," an age-old conspiracy theory that Jews run the world.
Tabash, a rising senior, also noted several times that the Paleostinian movement is "intrinsically tied to Black Lives Matter" and called to defund police departments.
The Republican Jewish Coalition in response said in a statement: "We are horrified by this vicious hatemongering by Black Lives Matter protesters. The Black Lives Matter charter is filled with anti-Israel and antisemitic lies. It is deeply disturbing, but not surprising, to hear those sentiments chanted in the streets of Washington, DC."
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) called on elected officials and African-American leaders to condemn the link between the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement after protesters cried anti-Israel chants.
The Washington, DC march was one of many across the United States held in accordance with the Palestinian Authority's call for a "Day of Rage" to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's annexation plan, which would extend Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank. Shouts against Netanyahu could also be heard during the protests.
In light of the occurrence, the NCYI called on officials to condemn the matter, which is not the first of its kind. Many reports have been made documenting antisemitic and/or anti-Israel acts of violence that have occurred in connection with the recent BLM and police brutality protests that have taken hold both in the United States and globally.
“While we absolutely agree that the issue of race in America is something that must be duly addressed on a national level, it is sickening to see that the Black Lives Matter movement has been co-opted by people who wear their antisemitic beliefs on their sleeves,” said NCYI President Farley Weiss.
“Whether it is yelling antisemitic comments during a march in our nation’s capital or vandalizing and defacing synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses in Los Angeles with antisemitic messages during a protest, these blatant expressions of bigotry are intolerable and must end," he continued. "By poisoning protests with anti-Israel declarations and antisemitic remarks, some of the individuals who so desperately seek justice and an end to racism are themselves engaging in abhorrent and hypocritical behavior that fans the flames of bigotry and hate.
“Ever since it issued a platform in 2016 which described Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ that commits ‘genocide,’ the Black Lives Matter movement has regrettably become intertwined with anti-Semitic tendencies, which detracts from their underlying mission,” Weiss added.
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Excellent! Hezbollah endorsement of BLM should be coming shortly. A 'deep dive' into BLM/Antifa funding and foreign social networking should be initiated immediately. As suspected, terrorist fellow-travelers finally confirmed.
With the surfacing of the PLO and terrorist connection, perhaps the Congress can drop the 'red herring' Russian funding of US soldier assassinations in AFG issue. The media diversion cover story is obviously not working as planned.
It's not just the Anglo, white man who is to blame, it's the evil Jew as well !
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...well, that certainly is a black/white issue, till the killer whales are around, then its a red/black/white* issue. BTW the colors of Antifa. An allegory is in there someplace.
AllahPundit via HotAir
This feels only slightly less shocking and transgressive than watching the state turn blue on election night would.
Which, at the rate we’re going, is a possibility. That’s part of why Greg Abbott went all-in on masks, I assume. If the outbreak continues to spiral in Texas, with the ruling party eventually blamed for not doing everything it could to stem the tide, there’ll be political consequences, not just human consequences. As one Twitter pal put it, "Abbott’s fascinating because he’s as red-meat conservative as anyone but has to govern a large, complex state that’s rapidly becoming less Republican." It couldn't be Abbott having enough intellectual integrity to not reject means of saving lives of his constituents (and their economy) on ideological grounds? Especially as the pertinent ideology is, in kindest terms, is an infantile temper tantrum.
...The order requires Texans living in counties with 20 or more positive COVID-19 cases to wear a face covering over the nose and mouth while inside a business or other building open to the public, as well as outdoor public spaces, whenever social distancing is not possible. But it provides several exceptions, including children who are younger than 10 years old, people who have a medical condition that prevents them from wearing a mask, people who are eating or drinking and people who are exercising outdoors.
Abbott’s order specifies at least one group of people is not excepted from the order: "any person attending a protest or demonstration" with over 10 people who cannot socially distance... Texas being Texas, I'm eager to see what happens to the first gun-totting shithead hero defying the orders.
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...And that's kids, why I expressed no worries for Texas in an earlier comment. So far, they've the lowest (for their population density) death rate among USA states.
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Abbott frames his decision in the clip below in a smart way. It’s not that we’re mandating masks just to hold down the spread, he says. Rather, we’re mandating masks so that the economy can stay open.
That’s how Trump should have formulated this issue months ago: Practice good pandemic hygiene, which means masks and diligent social distancing, and we don’t need to lock down.
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^But it does harm some people's first ammendment right to send a message to the World - ugly people need love too!
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"That’s how Trump should have formulated this issue months ago: Practice good pandemic hygiene, which means masks and diligent social distancing, and we don’t need to lock down."
Precisely. To fight the virus there are no silver bullets.
HotAir
If you think that dismantling an urban police department and replacing it with social workers is nuts, you’re in good company. The very people that the Minneapolis city council claimed to be serving in its attempt to eliminate its own police department have begun blasting the idea as "absurd" and "ridiculous." African-American leaders within the city are accusing the council of rushing to a conclusion without engaging them — and offering a proposal that will leave them unprotected from violence in the future:
Guangxi Guilin Quanzhou County was attacked by locusts!
With China's eastern crops flooded, locusts ravaging the west and the country's borders closed will China be able to feed its people? pic.twitter.com/NI20cJQnC4
— The Underground Silk-Railroad Communique (@UndergroundSilk) July 1, 2020
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I take it as a given that no member of the CCP is going to miss a meal.
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#2 Going to bet the don't taste "just like chicken..."
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Mostly you taste the oil they were cooked in. If fish was cooked in the oil previous the bug will taste a little fishy. First you pull the paper-like wings off and the little feet and then eat it.
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With a little garlic and Tabasco they shouldn't be too bad. I've had worse MREs.
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#5 correct.People are just blades of grass. This is of no importance to them. Communism at its best. Soylent Green and harvesting body parts most likely. A form of cannibalism perhaps but unknown to the public. They will go the way of North Korea. Starve.
[AlAhram] Iran’s financial and military support for Shia proxy paramilitary groups in Iraq, a linchpin of its regional foreign policy, has been dramatically disrupted by the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
Since the coronavirus hit earlier this year, Iran has reduced its monthly payments to each of the four top militia groups in Iraq to between $2 million and $3 million from $4.5 million to $5 million, said one of the commanders, who belongs to a powerful paramilitary group.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic and US sanctions, according to people familiar with the matter.
Interruptions caused by the virus, including border closings to prevent the spread of the disease, have drastically cut Tehran’s cash supplies to the militia groups in recent months, said three Iraqi paramilitary group commanders and a regional official familiar with Iran’s activities in Iraq.
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[Rudaw] Iraqi border forces in Zakho have mobilized to set up bases in "strategic" positions in order to de-escalate festivities between Ottoman Turkish forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), as well as prevent civilian losses, said a commander of the forces on Thursday.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... began air and ground military operations in the Kurdistan Region, in mid-June, with the stated aim of removing suspected PKK targets from the area. The offensive continues despite calls from Kurdish and Iraqi government to stop it. So far, five civilians have been killed by Ottoman TurkishArclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
Led by the head of the Iraqi border guard brigade Lt. Gen. Hamid Abdullah, a high-level Iraqi military delegation arrived in Duhok province on June 22 to investigate the aftermath of the Sheladize attack which killed four civilians.
Dler Farzanda commander of the Iraqi border guards Force 1 said at a presser on Thursday that Abdullah had ordered him to mobilize some troops to "dominant and significant" positions in Zakho "to limit Turkey-PKK festivities in the area and prevent them from causing more civilian losses."
"Therefore, we mobilized our forces to five positions on Wednesday. These places are in the Kere mountains and Kala Shabaniye region, which are strategic areas and important for the security of the area."
The force was established in 2003 and has been based in Zakho since, according to its commander, who says Wednesday’s troop movement is an act of mobilizing local forces, rather than deploying new ones to the area.
Dilsher Abdulsattar, the head of the Batifa sub-dustrict, told Rudaw on Wednesday that the presence of the force is "to prevent further Ottoman Turkish advances into the Kurdistan Region and secure the people of the area," adding that the selected spots are strategic.
Farzanda also mentioned that Turkey has advanced by 14-15 kilometers into the Kurdistan Region since June 15, invading 12 positions in the town of Zakho.
The border guard force has coordinated with the Peshmerga ministry, and Peshmerga forces will help "if any developments come up," says Farzanda.
Baghdad has informed Ankara about the mobilization of Force 1 to the five positions, stated Farzanda, who claimed that "if ordered to advance, we will go to the very line of the border."
The Iraqi foreign ministry has summoned the Ottoman Turkish ambassador to Baghdad twice, but this has failed to de-escalated the tensions or halt Turkey’s offensive.
According to intelligence information obtained by Rudaw, from the eighties to mid-June 2020, Turkey established military bases in 24 strategic locations in the areas of Kani Masi, Deralok and Shiladze.
The US State Department has called for the coordination of Turkey, Iraq, and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to defeat PKK.
"The United States calls on Turkey and Iraq, including the KRG, to work together to defeat the PKK," a spokesperson told Rudaw late Wednesday.
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[Fox10Phoenix] Eight additional people have been arrested in connection to riots in Scottsdale on May 30th, the police department announced Friday.
Three of them are juveniles and are not identified.
Over 40 people have been arrested in connection to the riots, some people are facing felonies and others, misdemeanors.
Those recently arrested were identified along with their suspected crimes.
Juvenile male, suspected of burglary and being in possession of stolen property. Stolen merchandise was recovered during the arrest.
Brittany Mantz, 27, suspected of trafficking stolen property.
Juvenile female, suspected of trafficking stolen property and theft. Stolen merchandise was recovered during the investigation.
Alex Benjamin Grangroth, 20, suspected of rioting, burglary and unlawful assembly.
Devion Gardner-Jones, 19, suspected of trafficking stolen property, being in possession of stolen property and misconduct involving weapons. Police say Gardner-Jones was armed with a handgun at the time of his arrest and he is a prohibited possessor on felony release from jail.
Joshua Michael Bosch, 21, and Shavanta Dominique Winfree, 23, are alleged accomplices of Gardner-Jones and stolen property was recovered during the investigation.
Juvenile male, suspected of trafficking stolen property and theft. Stolen merchandise was recovered during the arrest.
These arrests bring the total to 44 for the alleged crimes that took place during the looting. The looting was an offshoot of a protest in response to the death of George Floyd.
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The city police are taking care of that rabble. The Encanto businessman's "Golf Day" is coming up the first of August. Can't we please discuss that instead.
[Rudaw] Syrian army defector Salam had signed a surrender deal with the regime supposed to protect him, but after reporting for military service, he disappeared and months later was declared dead.
"He went off and never came back," his elder brother told AFP.
Salam is one of a growing number of former rebel fighters who disappeared, died or suffered abuse at the hands of regime forces, despite signing so-called reconciliation deals in areas the government has recaptured.
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h/t Instapundit
[Detroit News] - A Henry Ford Health System study shows the controversial anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine helps lower the death rate of COVID-19 patients, the Detroit-based health system said Thursday.
Officials with the Michigan health system said the study found the drug "significantly" decreased the death rate of patients involved in the analysis. Neil Cavuto can eat a bag of dicks
The study analyzed 2,541 patients hospitalized among the system’s six hospitals between March 10 and May 2 and found 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine died while 26% of those who did not receive the drug died. Now, for hyper expensive Remdesivir, we have "clinical improvement was observed in 36 of 53 patients": https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007016
Is it just me?
If, despite everything, I should get a bad case of this thing, I know how I want it treated.
Among all patients in the study, there was an overall in-hospital mortality rate of 18%, and many who died had underlying conditions that put them at greater risk, according to Henry Ford Health System. Globally, the mortality rate for hospitalized patients is between 10% and 30%, and it's 58% among those in the intensive care unit or on a ventilator.
[ToloNews] A number of members of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Leadership Council on Wednesday, in a move led by Atta Mohammad Noor, voted in a majority to replace the current leader Salahuddin Rabbani with Enayatullah Shadab, who will now lead the council.
Based on the council's decision, the Jamaat party will play a significant role in the grinding of the peace processor as well as in the government, but other members of the council's leadership, led by Salahuddin Rabbani, see the decision as an Intra-party conspiracy and added that Rabbani will continue to his job as the chairman of the party leadership council.
Tensions have risen among members of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, led by Atta Mohammad Noor, after Enayatullah Shadab' replaced Salahuddin Rabbani.
"Cohesion is the focus of reform and reconstruction in the Jamaat itself, this decision will stand until a congress of the Jamaat-e-Islami party of Afghanistan. (In the meantime) one of the most respected and founders of party, Professor Enayatullah Shadab, will lead chairmanship of the Jamaat leadership council," said Abdul Hafiz Mansour, a member of the leadership council of Jamaat-e-Islami party of Afghanistan.
A number of other members of the Jamaat-e-Islami party council, led by Salahuddin Rabbani, have called the decision an Intra-party conspiracy and in a statement suspended council membership of Atta Mohammad Noor, Younos Qanoni, Kalimullah Naqibi, Hafiz Mansour, Abdul Shokor Waqif Hakimi, Enayatullah Shadab and Abdul Satar Murad.
"The Jamaat-e- Islamic party of Afghanistan, emphasizing its previous positions on the country's major political issues, considers yesterday's meeting a conspiracy and against the party's principles and the party constitution," said Waliullah Adib, a member of the leadership council of Jamaat-e-Islami party of Afghanistan.
Salahuddin Rabbani headed the Jamaat-e-Islami party after the liquidation of late Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... , the former head of the High Peace Council.
"The day before, we witnessed the convening of the congress of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party of Afghanistan, in which the interim chairman was elected, which should have taken place three years ago," said Tawofiq Wahdat, MP.
Tensions between Salahuddin Rabbani and a number of members of the party escalated after an agreement was signed between President Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation.
[ToloNews] al-Qaeda's regional affiliate in Afghanistan maintains "close ties" to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and has an "enduring interest" in attacking US troops, the Pentagon said in a new report released on Wednesday.
Al-Qaeda poses a "limited threat to US personnel and our partners in Afghanistan," the report said, adding that the al-Qaeda affiliate in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS)—"poses the greatest threat to those elements."
"Al-Qaeda routinely supports and works with low-level Taliban members in its efforts to undermine the Afghan government and maintains an enduring interest in attacking US forces and Western targets in the region," it said.
The report also said that al-Qaeda "assists local Taliban in some attacks," according to al-Qaeda statements, the report said.
Al-Qaeda will focus on ensuring "its safe haven remains viable. The few remaining al-Qaeda Core members focus largely on survival, while delegating leadership of AQ’s regional presence to AQIS leaders," according to the report.
Additionality, the report said that al-Qaeda's interest in attacking US forces and other Western targets in Afghanistan and the region persists, but continuing "Coalition CT (counter -terrorism) pressure has reduced AQIS’s ability to conduct operations in Afghanistan without the support of the Taliban.
The report also said that the Taliban and Haqqani Network "very likely maintain the capability to conduct explosive and other offensive operations against Afghan and Coalition forces. At the beginning of the reporting period, Taliban offensive operations briefly decreased during the weeklong RIV in February 2020."
Since the US-Taliban Agreement was signed, the Taliban has reduced violence against US and other foreign forces, but has continued its offensive operations against the ANDSF and Afghan government officials.
"The Taliban is calibrating its use of violence to harass and undermine the ANDSF and GIRoA, but remain at a level it perceives is within the bounds of the agreement, probably to encourage a US troop withdrawal and set favorable conditions for a post-withdrawal Afghanistan," according to the report.
The US government expects the Taliban to fulfill its commitments under the agreement, which specifically states that withdrawal of troops below 8,600 will happen "with the commitment and action on the obligations" by the Taliban of their part of the agreement, the report said.
[ToloNews] Following reports in the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that US intelligence monitored electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency to a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Continued on Page 49
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Nadler had a briefing in Feb., why didn't he tell her then? It's not like they are worried about confidentiality unless it's about them.
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The fact that the Russians are engaged in Afghanistan in a way that's adverse to the United States is nothing new.
Now if only the United States had nothing to do with Afghanistan, and left it to Asian countries to fuck around with. In a very short time, Afghans would display their level of gratitude toward the US and what they think about Americans.
[Ynet] A fire and an explosion struck a centrifuge production plant above Iran's underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, analysts said, one of the most tightly guarded sites in all of the Islamic Republic after earlier acts of sabotage there.
A Middle East intelligence source told the New York Times that the blast was caused by a bomb that was planted inside the facility. The source added that the blast caused a lot of damage at the scene.
#Iran’s financial and military support for #Shia proxy paramilitary groups in #Iraq, a linchpin of its regional foreign policy, has been dramatically disrupted by the #coronavirus pandemic and #USsanctions, according to people familiar with the matter.https://t.co/FL88T4N7cr
— The Baghdad Post (@BaghdadPostPlus) July 2, 2020
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#IDF Navy have reportedly arrested 4 people after they breached the nautical border. The arrest reportedly happened 6 miles west of Rafah Port, right on the edge of the Sinai. The #IDF recently released footage of previous weapon smuggling in this area. Think this is another.
— Aurora Intel - #StayHome (@AuroraIntel) July 2, 2020
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[WashingtonExaminer] Federal law enforcement officials have arrested a man they say organized an attempt to take down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson outside the White House last month, according to a new report.
Jason Charter was arrested at his residence Thursday morning, Fox News reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. Charter has been charged with destruction of federal property, the sources said.
"They were very organized," a law enforcement official said. "Charter was on top of the statue and directing people ... they had acid, chisels, straps and a human chain preventing police from getting to the statue."
Last week, four other men were arrested and charged in connection with the June 22 incident, according to the Justice Department.
President Trump has vowed to keep monuments of America's former leaders erect and threatened anyone who attempts to take them down with jail time.
"We are looking at long-term jail sentences for these vandals, hoodlums, anarchists, and agitators. Some people don't like that language, but that's what they are: Bad people. They don't love our country, and they're not taking down our monuments," Trump told reporters last week. "I just want that to be clear."
In other words, the latest version of the Broken Window Theory: those who attack public statuary, if not stopped at this stage, will proceed to more desperate attacks on civic life.
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Releasing those rioters from the inauguration certainly taught the barbarians to behave in the future, not. Big show. Now prosecute or shut the f* up.
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I'm part Cherokee and I'm not particularly proud of it . They kept slaves and when they were in Oklahoma, they supported the South in the Civil War. They did have sex with their slaves and apparently were not fussy about which sex they banged. Andrew Jackson was captured by them and had a lifetime sore ass about it.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Harvard graduate Claira Janover made a video earlier this week threatening to stab anyone who had 'the nerve' to say All Lives Matter
She said she would stab someone and while they bled out, show them a paper cut and say 'my cut matters too'
The video went viral and caught the attention of her bosses at Deloitte
Janover returned to Tik Tok on Wednesday to tearfully reveal she'd been fired
She blamed Trump supporters for it and accused Deloitte of 'cowardice'
Now, Claira's supporters are giving her donations on Venmo and on GoFundMe
They say she is at 'great financial and physical risk'
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She'll have plenty of other career options. "Do you want fries with that, you racist scum?"
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Ah, now I can see "French" being dropped from 'French fries'. Surely the French are racist, too. So, allow me to offer a recommendation: the British term "chips". I hope that isn't too racist. It certainly isn't niggardly.
The world reported more than 160,000 new #coronavirus cases every day over the past week, says WHO chief. According to the WHO tally there are now more than 10.3 million cases of #COVID19 worldwide, and over 506,000 deaths. Find out more here:https://t.co/aCI16RkjYr
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 2, 2020
#Iran’s death toll from the novel #coronavirus passed 11,000, the health ministry says, as the country struggles to contain the Middle East’s deadliest outbreak of #COVID19.https://t.co/A5GxiXvE6a
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 2, 2020
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 2, 2020
A strain of #COVID19 that has infected more than 300 people in #Beijing since early June could have originated in South or Southeast Asia, according to a study by Harvard University researchers.#coronavirushttps://t.co/5rAKngsPXL
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 2, 2020
The number of confirmed #coronavirus infections in #India tops 600,000, with health authorities reporting 19,148 new cases in the past 24 hours.https://t.co/CZwGnP66Gu
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) July 2, 2020
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Testing is up; false positives are up too.
Deaths by anything else are down.
American homeless camps still haven't seen mass die offs.
Sub-Sahara Black Africa still has been mostly spared outside of Nigeria and S.Africa.
We have hit peak algorithm. Google any three digit number + Corona Virus and it will list that number with coronavirus deaths or new infections. Try it.
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FOAD
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France claimed last month that its navy had a confrontation with three Turkish warships escorting a freighter suspected of violating the UN arms embargo on Libya. The French vessel was part of a NATO mission to enforce the measures. According to French defense officials, its naval ship was "lit up" three times by Turkish targeting radar when it tried to approach the freighter. France has denounced the incident as an aggressive and hostile act.
#Libya- video purportedly of Turkish forces with #GNA (probably, the Humvee) moving MIM-23 Hawk system (including radar) to al-Watiyah Airbase pic.twitter.com/0sfL04IwI0
Mysterious airstrike hits Libyan airbase controlled by Turkish-backed forces
[ALMASDARNEWS] A mysterious attack was carried out over the al-Watiyah Airbase in western Libya last night, causing a number of explosions southwest of the capital city, 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... Citing an unnamed source, the Sputnik News Agency quoted the local as saying: "The residents of the city of al-Rajban and its environs have heard the sound of explosions and flights flying near the al-Watiyah military base."
The source pointed out that "unknown aircraft bombed sites near the al-Watiyah military base in the western part of the country with a continued flight over the western mountains."
No entity has grabbed credit for this attack.
The al-Watiyah Airbase is currently under the control of the Ottoman Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces.
They took control of the al-Watiyah Airbase during their large-scale counter-offensive against the Libyan National Army (LNA) in April and May.
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[WashingtonExaminer] The top prosecutor in the nation’s capital said the Justice Department has charged 150 people in cases related to acts of violence during protests that followed the death of George Floyd.
Not just arrested, but also charged.
The 150 figure is a jump from the number given by Barr on month ago. The attorney general announced on June 4 that the federal government had made 51 arrests "for federal crimes in connection with violent mostly peaceful rioting."
Acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. Michael Sherwin, picked by Attorney General William Barr in mid-May after a stint as deputy attorney general for national security, revealed the number on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Thursday evening while providing an update on the Justice Department’s law enforcement efforts tied to the demonstrations over the past five weeks.
It appears that AG Barr’s Justice Department has an awful lot of balls in the air as they prepare to prosecute an unprecedented number of very bad people previously ignored by the system.
"Under the leadership of President Trump, and the direction of the Attorney General, the United States attorney’s offices across the United States have charged to date 150 federal cases related not only to the destruction of federal property but also a litany of other crimes that really have been lost in the shuffle," Sherwin said. "In addition to the arson cases, there are several other federal charges that a been levied across the United States ... related to murder in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, to arson throughout the United States, and destruction of properties."
BLM has empowered her, and now she can act out like a child throwing a temper tantrum. Now she's a victim, and is going to receive a big welcome when she gets home.
This sort of thing destroys civilizations. Which is the whole point of BLM.
[PragueMorning] Czech President Milos Zeman while visiting the US Ambassador’s residence in Prague on the 244th anniversary of the independence of the United States, said the slogan “Black Lives Matter” is racist.
He stated that “he does not need new big brothers who will tell him what values to confess.”
“The slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’ is a racist slogan because all lives matter,” Zeman said in a speech provided by his spokesman.
Zeman targeted the “Black Lives Matter” campaign that has spread around the globe since George Floyd, an unarmed African American man, was killed in US police custody a month ago.
“We can’t ignore this danger, we have to face it,” Zeman said, criticizing street riots in the US, destroyed monuments, and burning cars.
The BLM movement has been regarded as largely peaceful. Protesters have targeted statues in the United States and Europe that depict historical figures who owned slaves or were colonizers.
Zeman blamed “stupid fellows who declare themselves value leaders, or even opinion leaders”.
“We need free-thinking, we need common sense,” he said.“I do not need any new Big Brother,” he said, using a term from George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel “1984” to claim the BLM was foisting its opinions on others.
Adopted by 493 to 104 votes, the European Parliament on June 19 declared that “Black Lives Matter” and denounced racism and white supremacism in all its forms.
It also urged EU countries to denounce “the disproportionate use of force and racist tendencies in law enforcement”.
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Is the Czech Republic reopened for American tourists? Cuz I like what I'm hearing from their president, and that's the best way I can figure to support them.
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"Black lives matter" - even the name is racist.
The use of face masks in public settings has been widely recommended by public health officials during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The masks help mitigate the risk of cross-infection via respiratory droplets; however, there are no specific guidelines on mask materials and designs that are most effective in minimizing droplet dispersal. While there have been prior studies on the performance of medical-grade masks, there are insufficient data on cloth-based coverings, which are being used by a vast majority of the general public. We use qualitative visualizations of emulated coughs and sneezes to examine how material- and design-choices impact the extent to which droplet-laden respiratory jets are blocked. Loosely folded face masks and bandana-style coverings provide minimal stopping-capability for the smallest aerosolized respiratory droplets. Well-fitted homemade masks with multiple layers of quilting fabric, and off-the-shelf cone style masks, proved to be the most effective in reducing droplet dispersal. These masks were able to curtail the speed and range of the respiratory jets significantly, albeit with some leakage through the mask material and from small gaps along the edges. Importantly, uncovered emulated coughs were able to travel notably farther than the currently recommended 6-ft distancing guideline. We outline the procedure for setting up simple visualization experiments using easily available materials, which may help healthcare professionals, medical researchers, and manufacturers in assessing the effectiveness of face masks and other personal protective equipment qualitatively.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] According to MSNBC’s Katy Tur, President Trump’s July 3rd visit to Mount Rushmore is an example of racism and 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... . In a disgusting Wednesday afternoon interview with Oglala Lakota tribe member Nick Tilsen, MSNBC gave a platform to someone who legitimately believes the United States of America should give up this national monument in the name of racism.Tur openly associated Mount Rushmore with the tearing down of statues across the country:
But his visit it coincides with the national reckoning over racism and the toppling of monuments linked to America’s prejudiced past. And according to many Native Americans and Native American activists, Mount Rushmore should be one of them.
How pathetic and offensive for Tur to insist that Mount Rushmore is a dedication to white supremacy. This is considering the fact that Abraham Lincoln, the president is responsible for freeing the slaves, is one of the four faces carved into the mountain.
Tilsen brought this radical viewpoint on American history to life in this interview:
Well, Mount Rushmore is stolen land from Oglala Lakota indigenous people and it's a symbolizes of white supremacy and structural racism. They systematically stole this land from us as indigenous people and then carved the faces of white colonizers, four white men who were colonizers who contributed to the genocide of indigenous people. And so it’s one of the fundamental symbols of white supremacy in America. And the fact that the president is coming here to this place, with such deep history of racism shows one of the narratives he's perpetuate.
The narrative that Tilsen is poised was not only incorrect, but incredibly dangerous and vile. Of course MSNBC considers this platform well and good seeing how it is tainted in an anti-American sentiment.
Tilsen also demanded that Mount Rushmore must be given back to his tribe:
We think that, we believe that Mount Rushmore should be closed as a national monument. And it should be reverted back into the control of indigenous people and Lakota people of the territory for us to decide what we should do with it.
One of the biggest flaws in Tilsen’s ill-informed take on history was that the Oglala Lakota stole that land from a different Native American tribe, therefore rendering his "stolen land" argument problematic.
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stolen land from Oglala Lakota indigenous people who had stolen it from previous indigenous peoples just a few generations earlier, as I understand it.
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The white eyes of the BLM do not understand how much the various tribes hated each other more than they did the "White Men" . As a side not I've got a lot of Cherokee in me and I despise a lot of them. You hear them whining about the "Trail Of Tears " , a lot. They were called one of the 5 "civilized " tribes . They kept slaves and the ones in Oklahoma sided with the Confederacy during the US Civil War, and yes they did screw them. Andrew Jackson was captured by them and he got and kept a sore ass from the experience.
[Twitter] Peaceful Antifa/BLM/full-time protestors/bored and angry kids set Elk statue on fire in Portland. Elk's are a famous symbol of racism, and only a fascist would regret seeing this statue burn. No justice, no Elk. Well, they probably poop more than the average 'occupier'
The elk statue has been removed due to severe damage following a night of burning by antifa militants. https://t.co/yeftqrtIqZ
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my thoughts exactly grom, bunch of dope heads is what it looks like to me.
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Should be hunted down
Not the rest of that statement. The rule of law for those Americans protects it for the rest of us, whether the proper court is deemed to be civil or court martial.
—trailing wife for the moderators at 5:00 p.m. EDT
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Rhodes Scholar potential. Baylor School of Medicine, MIT, tomorrows oncologists and nuclear engineers. Little holding them back now. A brighter tomorrow indeed.
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Releasing them all is a bad look, until you consider: How much trust will the rest of that crowd have in them now that they may have to play "let's make a deal?"
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Every single one of them look like dope heads to me.
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Surely the Feds can step in and charge them instead of the unlawful DA.
That seems reasonable, Bright Pebbles, even if it’s the case that the Portland police were under orders not to share. All those photos would most certainly be helpful if the FBI is working independently to identify them.
[FoxNews] European police delivered a major blow to organized crime after cracking an encrypted communications network that allowed them to covertly watch "over the shoulder" of criminals in real time as they planned drug trafficking, arms sales, liquidations and torture, officers announced Thursday.
The massive cross-border probe started in 2017 when French police began investigating phones using the EncroChat secure communication tool and ultimately were able to work around the encryption to gain direct access to users' communications.
"It was as though we were sitting at the table where criminals were chatting among themselves really," said Jannine van den Berg, chief of the Dutch National Police Force.
European police and judicial authorities said they expect the investigation to send shock waves through organized crime gangs across the continent.
The encrypted platform was used by 60,000 people worldwide, including around 10,000 in Britannia, British police said. The service pushed a message to all its users on June 13 alerting them that their systems had been breached and urging users to throw away their phones, European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... police agency Europol added.
The agency said EncroChat sold its "cryptotelephones" for around 1,000 euros each and offered subscriptions with worldwide coverage for 1,500 euros for six months.
Britannia's National Crime Agency said it used EncroChat data to launch investigations that led to the arrest of 746 suspects and the seizure of more than 54 million pounds ($68 million) in criminal cash, 77 firearms and more than 2 tons of drugs.
"Together we’ve protected the public by arresting middle-tier criminals and the kingpins, the so-called iconic untouchables who have evaded law enforcement for years, and now we have the evidence to prosecute them," said NCA Director of Investigations Nikki Holland.
"The infiltration of this command and control communication platform for the UK’s criminal marketplace is like having an inside person in every top organised crime group in the country," Holland added.
London’s Metropolitan Police used EncroChat data to launch what it called its most significant operation against organized crime, saying in a statement that it had arrested "some of London’s longest-standing and most dangerous criminals" and seized more than 13 million pounds in cash.
US seeks to seize Iranian oil destined for Venezuela
[ALMASDARNEWS] U.S. prosecutors will seek to put an end to Iran’s oil deliveries to Venezuela ...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south... , as they have filed a new suit to seize the contents on these tankers.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. prosecutors are targeting the oil from four Iranian tankers, along with the payments between Tehran and Caracas.
The U.S. prosecutors allege that these payments made between Caracas and Tehran will help fund the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who Washington has designated as a terrorist organization.
"[These payments] support the IRGC’s full range of nefarious activities, including the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, support for terrorism, and a variety of human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... abuses, at home and abroad", U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Zia Faruqui claims in the filing.
The prosecutors claims that Iranian businessman, Mahmoud Madanipour, who is allegedly behind these shipments, is affiliated with the IRGC and has been using his firms based in the United Arab Emirates to organize the sale of Iranian crude while evading the unilateral American sanctions, according to the newspaper.
Madanipour purportedly falsified the oil’s origin in papers and used mid-sea, ship-to-ship transfers to fool authorities and has allegedly been working on expanding his operations beyond Venezuela, finding buyers in China and Malaysia too.
The prosecutors claim to have obtained the businessman’s communications in which he discussed ways of transferring the money without triggering the US sanctions, with potential buyers suggesting an array of countries where it could allegedly be done — Oman, UAE, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... , Italia, and Germany, the WSJ says.
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Gasoil is a term often used for what an American would call "diesel". So, are Venezuela's refineries so screwed up that they have to import vehicle fuel from Iran? (/rhetorical question, of course they are...)
[Reason.com] This is a bad idea—and even the director of the FBI says so. [Figures]
For a few years now, "Antifa" activists have served as a good foil for their Trumpian counterparts and handy villains for Fox News segments. Now, Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) wants to up the stakes. On Tuesday, he urged the FBI to open an investigation into whether Antifa as a group is breaking federal law.
Nevermind that Antifa activists are no more a formal organization than your average group text or a gaggle of happy hour regulars‐Cruz wants to treat them like an official criminal enterprise, chargeable under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
This should be worrying no matter how one feels about Antifa activists. Sometimes Libertarians are so open-minded their brains fall out
The label Antifa‐short for anti-fascist‐has been around a while, and was adopted by disparate groups and individuals on the left in the wake of Trump's election. Some Antifa activists have engaged in unprovoked violence as a protest tactic; many more do not.
There is no official Antifa leadership, no formal party structures, no central planning board, no members. While Antifa "chapters" have sprung up in some U.S. cities, these groups have different origin stories, tactics, and goals, and are not sanctioned by any central Antifa leadership. There is no central Antifa leadership, and anyone can start a protest group in their city and call it, and themselves, Antifa.
Antifa is probably best described as a movement, in the same way that folks talk about "small-L libertarians" and the "liberty movement" to describe a branch of related activism and ideology independent from the Libertarian Party.
Cruz did not suggest that the FBI look into particular criminal acts committed by particular criminal actors who identify as Antifa. Instead, he wants the FBI to define the whole movement as a criminal enterprise, making anyone who adopts the label potentially liable for anything anyone else using the label does.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Cruz mentioned a recent Portland protest where journalist Andy Ngo was beaten up by black-clad activists, and an attempted attack on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Washington state. "I am concerned that these are not isolated instances but rather this is a pattern, an organization that is engaged in masked, anonymous, violent terrorism," Cruz said.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Cruz the agency is "absolutely concerned about violence committed on behalf of any ideology." But "the key there," said Wray, is that "the FBI doesn't investigate ideology, we investigate violent criminal activity."
ICYMI at today's @senjudiciary hearing: I urged FBI Director Wray to open a RICO investigation into Antifa. pic.twitter.com/zlkTcKW0kb
‐ Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) July 23, 2019
Wray continued, essentially telling Cruz that you can't just criminally investigate anyone associated with an ideological movement because a few proponents of that ideology have done bad things. The FBI definitely "considers Antifa more of an ideology than an organization," Wray said.
The FBI has a history of investigating people based only on their ideology; readers can decide for themselves whether they want to accept its assurances that those days are in the past. It's heartening, at any rate, to hear the bureau's director at least pay lip service to the idea that law enforcement should focus on actual crimes rather than Wrongthink.
Cruz, however, isn't satisfied with that. Comparing Antifa to the Ku Klux Klan and the Mafia, he told Wray he would be sending him and the Department of Justice a letter asking for a RICO Act investigation.
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FBI Director Christopher Wray told Cruz the agency is "absolutely concerned about violence committed on behalf of any ideology." But "the key there," said Wray, is that "the FBI doesn't investigate ideology, we investigate violent criminal activity."
Yes, nothing on ideology. We're fully aware Director Wray. No reminders of your agencies continued failures are required.
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I would hardly call Ted Cruz a Libertarian. That legislation is merely a US attempt to selfishly bully other countries. "Don't buy Russian gas, buy OURS!"
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Forget the FBI. They have been to fully compromised by CAIR, jihadists, ad nauseam. The feral govt is incapable or unwilling to protect its citizens, against enemies, foreign and domestic, except for Hawaiian shirt wearers.
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I read recently that the FBI have for quite some time been under direct orders not to look at leftwing radicals — I suspect ever since the Berlin Wall fell, possibly since Senator McCarthy imploded. Some of our retirees know, I’m sure, though possibly they ought not say anything on the subject.
Clearly that has now changed, at least for those connected to this.
[BREITBART] Recently made public Secret Service records indicate that Hunter Biden, the youngest son of former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... , did not travel to Ukraine prior to his appointment to the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, one of the country’s top energy conglomerates.
The documents, which were received through a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative-leaning group Judicial Watch, show the younger Biden took 411 domestic and international flights between 2009 and 2014. The secret service provided protection for Biden on each of those flights and potentially more, as the records only cover the period from June 2009 to May 2014.
Listed among the destinations were 29 foreign countries, including five visits to China alone, as well as trips to Russia and 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... . The records, however, indicate Biden did not travel to Ukraine, at least not with secret service protection, before his appointment to Burisma’s board in April 2014.
It is unclear if Biden went to Ukraine without secret service protection prior to his appointment. It is unlikely, though, as he frequently utilized the federal agency for security when traveling to potentially dangerous locales for business.
This was exhibited when Biden had an entourage of secret service agents accompany him to the Philippines in December 2013, while serving as chairman of the World Food Program, USA. As the Washington Free Beacon reported in March, Biden’s travel and the Secret Service protection required cost United States taxpayers nearly $200,000 throughout his father’s tenure in the vice presidency.
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Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway doing Reporter's Work for Them
[Federalist] Top committee staff for Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, were briefed in February on intelligence about Russia offering the Taliban bounties in Afghanistan, but he took no action in response to the briefing, multiple intelligence sources familiar with the briefing told The Federalist. The intelligence was briefed to Schiff's staff during a congressional delegation, or CODEL, trip to Afghanistan in February.
Schiff, who has acknowledged President Donald Trump was never briefed on the so-called intelligence, has thus far refused to disclose that his staff was personally briefed. The revelation raises serious questions that Schiff is once again politicizing, and perhaps even deliberately misrepresenting, key data for partisan gain.
Asked by a reporter Tuesday if he had any knowledge of the Russia story prior to the New York Times report, Schiff said "I can't comment on specifics."
Schiff's recent complaints that Trump took no action against Russia in response to rumors of Russian bounties are curious given that Schiff himself took no action after his top staff were briefed by intelligence officials. As chairman of the intelligence committee, Schiff had the authority to immediately brief the full committee and convene hearings on the matter. Schiff, however, did nothing. He did not brief his committee on the matter, nor did he brief the gang of 8, which consists of top congressional leadership in both chambers.
Schiff is demanding that the Trump administration brief all of Congress about the unverified allegations, yet he himself did not ask for a briefing of the Intelligence Committee following the February briefing of his own staff.
Patrick Boland, a spokesman for Schiff on the intelligence committee, did not respond to a request for comment on Schiff's inaction and declined to say why Schiff withheld the information from Congress for months. Boland also did not explain why travel records regarding the Congressional staff delegation trip to Afghanistan had not yet been disclosed in the Congressional Record as required by law.
Schiff, who was the key driver behind failed Democrat attempts to impeach and remove President Donald Trump from office earlier this year about the president's interactions with foreign leaders, also lied about his staff's interaction with the so-called whistleblower, identified by Real Clear Investigations as Eric Ciaramella, prior to the so-called whistleblower filing his complaint against Trump.
The California Democrat was also a main proponent of the Russia collusion hoax, falsely stating for years that he held "ample evidence of collusion" between President Trump and Russia. A lengthy investigation of the theory by Special Counsel Robert Mueller ostensibly set up to find that evidence was unable to find any evidence of any collusion between any American and Russia.
Just as Schiff falsely claimed that he and his staff had no interaction with the anti-Trump leaker behind the impeachment push and falsely claimed he was privy to secret evidence of collusion with Russia, Schiff attacked Trump for not taking action in response to the Russian bounty rumors while refusing to disclose that his own office was briefed in February and did nothing in response.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] A human skull, a pair of worn trousers and a shoe were among the remains unearthed from a mass grave discovered this week in northern Iraq, a remnant of the brutal rule of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, Iraqi officials said Thursday.
The new mass grave was discovered on Monday in the village of Humeydat near the Badoush area west of the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , six years after the IS group — at the height of its power — declared a caliphate that stretched across eastern Syria and much of northern and western Iraq.
Dozens of bodies were found buried in a trench stretching hundreds of meters (yards) long. Forensics experts have carried out an initial investigation but the spread of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... has impeded excavations, medical officials in Mosul told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
While an investigation is needed to identify the bodies, many believe they were Shiite convicts taken from the local Badoush prison by IS and killed by the holy warriors, shortly after they seized Mosul in June 2014.
Iraqi forces recaptured the prison in March 2017. IS allegedly killed up to 600 inmates in the prison, most of them Shiite detainees. According to an investigation by Human Rights Watch at the time, based on eyewitness accounts, at least 1,500 inmates were rounded up and transported to a stretch of desert. There, Sunni and Shiite inmates were separated and the latter killed.
Iraqi security forces with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition defeated IS and reclaimed northern Iraq in a 2016 military campaign. Though IS no longer holds territory in Iraq, remnants of the group are still active and routinely carry out attacks against Iraqi security forces.
But memories of the group's brutal reign persist, years after the military campaign to root them out.
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[Free Beacon] WHO backtracks on original claim that China self-reported, admits this never happened
Contrary to claims from both Chinese officials and the World Health Organization, China did not report the existence of the coronavirus in late 2019, according to a WHO timeline tracking the spread of the virus. Rather, international health officials discovered the virus through information posted to a U.S. website.
The quiet admission from the international health organization, which posted an "updated" timeline to its website this week, flies in the face of claims from some of its top officials, including WHO director general Tedros Adhanom, who maintained for months that China had informed his organization about the emerging sickness.
China and its allies at the WHO insisted in multiple interviews and press conferences that China came to the health organization with information about the virus. This is now known to be false. The WHO's backtracking lends credibility to a recent congressional investigation that determined China concealed information about the virus and did not initially inform the WHO, as it was required to do.
The WHO's updated timeline, posted online this week, now states that officials first learned about the virus on Dec. 31, 2019, through information posted on a U.S. website by doctors working in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged. This contradicts the agency's initial timeline, which said that China first presented this information at that date.
That initial timeline stated that the "Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province" on Dec. 31.
These claims were carried in numerous American media outlets that relied on the WHO's inaccurate timeline, including CNN and Axios.
Chinese officials and state-controlled media also claimed for months that the communist regime informed the WHO on or around Dec. 31. In recent days, however, Chinese officials have dropped that talking point.
Rep. Michael McCaul (Texas), lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of Congress's China Task Force, was one of the first lawmakers to expose China's lies about reporting the virus. An interim congressional report on the virus's origins published last month first disclosed the fact that the WHO found out about the virus from online postings, not China.
"I'm glad to see the WHO and the Chinese Communist Party have both read my interim report on the origins of the pandemic and are finally admitting to the world the truth‐the CCP never reported the virus outbreak to the WHO in violation of WHO regulation," McCaul told the Washington Free Beacon in a statement. "The question now is whether the CCP will continue their false propaganda campaign that continues to claim they warned the world, or whether they will come clean and begin to work with the world health community to get to the bottom of this deadly pandemic."
McCaul's report makes clear that WHO director general Adhanom parroted China's claim about self-reporting the virus.
"Director General Tedros actively engaged in an effort to defend the CCP's leadership from criticism, negatively impacting the world's understanding of the virus and hampering the global response effort," the report concluded.
The WHO's initial timeline "leaves out the fact that the WHO China Country Office was ‘informed' by the WHO headquarters in Geneva‐not PRC health authorities," according to McCaul's findings, which are now verified by the WHO's revised timeline.
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Haha Haha! China won't agree unless it gets something in return.
[PAGESIX] A caravan of protesters — some wielding plastic pitchforks — descended on the Hamptons Wednesday to blast the rich and decry the nation’s rising income inequality. More than 100 drivers and about 200 marchers paid a visit to the homes of some of the world’s wealthiest people, including ex-New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg ...Billionaire former Republican mayor and nanny of New York, Dem candidate for president in 2020. Wants to rid the country of assault weapons, other kinds of guns, and 32-ounce soft drinks... "Tax the rich, not the poor!" the protesters chanted outside Bloomberg’s $20 million Southhampton mansion, with some calling the failed presidential candidate a "looter."
Protesters, several of whom came in from the Big Apple, demanded that New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo raise taxes on the state’s 118 billionaires to make up for a steep revenue shortfall amid the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
The group is taking issue with Cuomo’s pitch to cut 20 percent in state funding from schools, hospitals and housing agencies. They noted that while the virus outbreak has deeply impacted low-income people and communities of color, the wealth of US billionaires has surged.
"Enough is enough — it’s time for New York state to raise taxes on the rich instead of cutting services for working people," said Alicé Nascimento, director of policy and research for New York Communities for Change, which helped organize the action.
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[ABCNEWS.GO] A veteran Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer died Tuesday after a traffic stop went wrong.
Six weeks after Officer Aurash Zarkeshan completed training with the Tulsa Police Department, he made a regular traffic stop on East 21st Street early Monday morning, police said.
After Zarkeshan ran David Anthony Ware's information into the system, he called for backup.
Ware refused to comply with officers' commands to step out of his car, said Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin at a press conference on Monday.
Johnson displayed a stun gun and asked Ware to get out of the car 12 times before firing. Franklin said the stun gun was not effective and Zarkeshan also pepper-sprayed Ware.
A struggle ensued and Ware pulled out a gun and fired "several shots at close range," striking both officers in the head, said Franklin.
"The driver slowly walked away from the vehicle and went to another car that was waiting for him," Franklin said.
Both officers were taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Johnson, a 15-year veteran, died on Tuesday afternoon. He leaves behind a wife and two young sons.
Ware, 33, and his accomplice 29-year-old Matthew Hall were arrested.
Prosecutors added first-degree murder to Ware's case on Tuesday in addition to two counts of shooting with intent to kill and criminal possession of a weapon charges. Hall faces accomplice to murder and accomplice to felony charges.
Ware is expected to appear before a judge on Thursday and Hall is expected in court on September 2, according to online records.
They are both being held without bond in Tulsa County jail, according to online records.
Ware was arguing that the officers were “violating his rights” as they informed him that the vehicle would be towed due to the expired temporary tags, according to court documents.
Twitter has a photo of the miscreant:
🚨🚨 Officers Shot - Suspect on the loose 🚨🚨
Suspect - David Ware ***ARMED AND DANGEROUS***
Officers stopped the suspect at 8900 E. 21st street at about 3:30 AM, a scuffle ensued with the suspect, Ware pulled a gun on the officers and fired multiple times.... pic.twitter.com/4mzeDx3uEG
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Fast? I doubt it. While I never had the privledge personally I have bailed out no small number of rig hands from time to time to keep the daily festivities going. Thus I opine they may not altogether enjoy their stay in the Tulsa co lockup. Let 'em rot.
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Nothing like turning a traffic ticket into a capital murder beef.
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This so stupid, or malicious (as in provoking incidents), or both...
As a kid we were travelling the Interstate through the Carolinas, me and my mother and older sister, when a gas station attendant gave us a warning. The Highway Patrol had been losing about an Officer a month because smugglers were moving semi-trailer loads of cigarettes trying to avoid the tobacco taxes. We were advised to be very, Very careful if we were pulled over because the patrolmen were "on edge"...
ISPR, dismissed as “false” Indian electronic and social media reports claiming additional deployment of troops along the restive Line of Control (LoC).https://t.co/OsOcWuoV4W
The principal controllers of the Al Badr group inside Kashmir, which consists of sworn secessionists and entrenched jihadis, was recently contacted by ISI and is being mobilized to try to obstruct the army from reacting to an assault.
So if there is an attack, it will be synced to a domestic civil war in Kashmir, Ladakh and Jammu. Not militarizing the border areas and not killing off half the secessionist population is our error.
The Prime Minister is currently inspecting a forward operating post in Ladakh. He has given us leave to take back the territory encroached upon by China, by any means necessary.
War is what they threatened, not wanting it for at the same time. War is something we want real bad, but aren't allowed to wage. It's growing more and more unavoidable to deny the Indian military.
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I always appreciate your info on these matters in your part of the world Dron. Hard to follow when no other news really says anything about it. THanks.
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It's growing more and more unavoidable to deny the Indian military.
We’ll continue keeping you and your lads in our thoughts and prayers until this latest excitement is over, Dron. Thank you for the update.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The al-Benaa newspaper reported that "Iranian ships are preparing to head to 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... with foodstuffs, fuel and other essentials, within the framework of Iranian support to break the siege imposed by the Americans.
"They pointed out that there are "contacts to transfer this aid at the official level" and that it will reach Lebanon within two weeks.
Al-Benaa spoke about the expected Iranian aid, while quoting its sources, that "negotiations with the IMF have reached a dead end, especially after the resignation of the Director General of Finance, Alan Bivani, and the sharp differences between the government on the one hand and the Bank of Lebanon and the banking sector on the other, excluded. The fund decides to assist Lebanon in light of this disagreement and division over numbers and official confusion and the failure to complete the necessary reforms so far. "
The Lebanese newspaper confirmed on Thursday, that "there are official Iranian preparations to assist Lebanon at the highest levels by breaking the siege imposed on it by many Western and Arab countries."
Lebanon is currently suffering from economic hardship, due to corruption and neighboring Syria’s ongoing war.
The various Lebanese regions are also suffering from rationing of electricity, due to the lack of diesel and fuel, while the Electricity Company of Lebanon warned against stopping its production.
The Lebanese pound lost more than 80% of its value, while the exchange rate of the dollar on the black market touched the threshold of 9,000 Lebanese pounds after its price remained stable at 1,500 pounds for decades.
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[SatelliteToday] PredaSAR is working to build a constellation of 48 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, and the company’s Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Marc Bell said the Earth Observation (EO) startup will start commercial operations with satellites on-orbit as early as next year.
In a recent conversation with Via Satellite, Bell said PredaSAR’s satellites were in production with Tyvak before the company was founded. PredaSAR was founded in 2019, and announced its $25 million seed financing round, led by Rokk3r Fuel, in early March. Both PredaSAR and Tyvak are Terran Orbital corporations, and Bell is also a Terran Orbital co-founder.
“We’ve all been working on this for a long time.” Bell said. “Tyvak has put over 220 satellites in orbit already. So, we’re not really a startup, we’ve been doing this a long time. And so we have a lot of experience and we manufacture most of our components in house. It was very cost-effective for us to go and build this.”
Bell, an investor who produces Broadway shows, was previously a majority stakeholder in Penthouse magazine. His portfolio at Marc Bell Capital includes space startups Nanoracks and Made in Space. But PredaSAR’s team is stacked with retired U.S. Air Force personnel. The CEO is retired U.S. Air Force Major General Roger Teague, and it’s Board of Directors includes three retired Air Force generals — General William Shelton, General Richard Newton, and General Douglas Raaberg.
Bell said PredaSAR’s first priority is to serve the national security interests of the U.S. military, and the company’s in-house military expertise is key to understanding the needs of the warfighter.
“Instead of building satellites, and looking for customers, we went to the customer first and said — ‘What do you need, and what do you want?’ Then we built the satellite, so they are purpose built,” Bell said. “A lot of people build these large optical satellites and hope people will come. We found our customers first.”
Bell said that mindset has paid off, and PredaSAR has already signed its first contracts. The constellation will have both government and commercial customers the day it is operational. In addition, the satellites which are built for military needs will have added benefits for commercial customers.
“The beauty of building it with the U.S. military and government in mind is we’re building things to a much higher specification, much higher quality, much more redundancy than you would for a commercial customer. And so commercial people benefit from everything that we’ve done,” Bell said.
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Who will launch them? If its open to bid, I'd bet on SpaceX - they could probably have a minimal constellation boosted within 6 months of the delivery of the satellites. If they want to throw money at cronies and really dont care about how long it takes to get launch hardware and schedules, it will go to the usual suspect Boeing, Lockeed, Northrup and so on, and they will not get to orbit within the next decade.
So, watch and see how serious they are about this by seeing who gets the launch contracts. That will be your hint that this is a boon or a boondoggle.
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SpaceX's book is already pretty full. Of course they can ramp up and they will, but we have no more business relying on a single domestic supplier of launches than we do relying on Russian launches and engines. ULA has to do better and when the Vulcan starts testing next year, maybe they will. They certainly have to be feeling the pressure.
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I am the Managing Partner and General Counsel of a Texas based company that owns and operates 13 free-standing emergency clinics in the State of Texas. I follow your reporting and wanted to share with you some information on Texas. I want people to hear this story as opposed to the mainstream reporting. However, I am sensitive about putting a target on myself or my company for conveying this information. I am not sure how you've handled this type of situation but I suspect you've had other people send you information who are concerned about becoming a target.
In June, we tested over 2,231 patients (data through last Thursday). Positive rate is now close to 20% (was 4-6% in May). Vast majority of the cases are mild to very mild symptoms. Average age of the people getting tested in mid-30s. Protest age?
Very different patient (in terms of age) than we've seen before June. Most of these patients would not have met criteria that we previously had (and all the health facilities had) for Covid testing. Now with more testing kits we are able to test a broader group of patients.
Clinically, we've had very few hospital transfers because of Covid. Vast majority of the patients are better within 2-3 days of the visit and most would be described as having a cold (a mild one at that) or the symptoms related to allergies. We've often provided a steroid shot and some antibiotics. By the time we have follow-up calls, most of the patients are no longer experiencing any symptoms. They often say the shot really made a difference.
In terms of what is driving them to the ER ‐ Roughly 1/2 have been told by their employers to get a test. They have a sneeze or a cough and their employer tells them to go get tested. The other 1/2 just want to know. They have mild symptoms (and some don't have any symptoms but game the system and check a box that they have a symptom so they can get a test ‐ they cannot get a test unless they present with symptoms. If they have no symptoms we send them away ‐ which does happen.)
The average length of stay of Covid patients is 3-5 days. Much lower than the patients being seen in April and early May. Their symptoms are also milder. Most of the patients are not ending up in the ICU. The hospital ICUs are filled with really sick people with non-Covid issues. They [didn't] come in earlier because they were scared and now they are super sick. From multiple sources at different hospitals ‐ they have plenty of capacity and no shortage of acute care beds.
No real data on breakdown of patients who have Covid but are not in the hospital because of Covid. Recognition that because all patients are tested for Covid you have some percentage of patients listed as Covid patients who are non Covid symptomatic and that the hospitalization rate is somewhat driven by hospitals taking their normal patients with other medical issues.
Finally, heard several stories of how discharge planners are being pressured to put Covid as primary diagnosis ‐ as that pays significantly better. Hospitals want to avoid the discussion but if they don't they risk another shutdown. This may be an explanation for why there is a gap in hospital executives saying they have plenty of capacity and the increasing number of Covid hospitalizations. You open up your hospitals for normal medical care and you test everyone (sic) of those patients ‐ the result is higher percentage of patients who have Covid ‐ now. Also, insurance reimbursements rates are much higher for COVID cases, so there is a strong financial incentive to report any cold/flu-like symptoms as such.
Overall, based on what we are seeing at our facilities, the above information is really a positive story. You have more people testing positive with really minimal symptoms. This means that the fatality rate is less than commonly reported.
Put a camera in the cell, hook it up to the internet, livestream it to the world.
Double the guard. Double their pay. Make sure they can’t be bribed, don’t sleep on the job, aren’t watching television.
Better yet, put her in the middle of Times Square where the Elmos can keep an eye on her.
Whatever you do, don’t leave Ghislaine Maxwell alone — or hidden. Don’t you dare let her commit "suicide" like the depraved boss she served, Jeffrey Want Some Candy, Little Girl? Epstein ...A high class pimp financier who was alleged to maintain a stable of underage whoressex slaves who were paid big bucks to entertain the rich and/or famous. He is a registered sex offender and made att least 17 out-of-court settlements with former members of his stable, with some cases still ongoing. 2011 court docs reveal that 21 email addresses and phone numbers for Bill Clinton and an aide were found in Epstein's electronic black book, and that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein on his private plane between 2002 to 2005. But really, they were probably just discussing finance or politix or something. While getting massaged. Then things got serious, Jeff was tossed in the slammer in New York and then he killed himself. Really. That's what happened... For the sake of justice, do it right this time.
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There are too many high and mighty threatened by things she might reveal, including the Clintons, and the British Royal family. For the sake of her family, I hope her insurance & will are current.
Anyone have the Vegas over/under date for an "accident" or "suicide"? The WiseGuys surely know.
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"Slippery?" No, actually a classic survivalist. Arrested during routine sojourn to rural NY? Yes, but "arrested" sounds so harsh.
She's tucked away in a very safe, albeit unnamed location (think Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's sister-in-law if you must). We will now control who she talks to, or discusses these very delicate issues. We will approve all visitor. No tell-all, books or revealing articles. Obviously the legal issues could drag on for years, possibly decades. She and her legal team are said to be "cooperating" (as no doubt) agreed upon in pre-detention discussions.
Having now come in from the cold, alles ist in ordnung.
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Hmm, tragic weight lifting accident, nah. used that. Uh, hanging in jail cell, no way too obvious. Plane crash with numerous dignitaries, little late for that. Maybe an unfortunate duck hunting, er, incident?
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Only "will be naming names" after she got apprehended. Well, we'll see, it all may be a moot point. Meanwhile, the guards are double-checking CCTV operations and going over their break-time schedules.
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Who now remembers that only a year ago, when Mr. Epstein was going to be the key to OrangeManBad’s destruction, New York Magazine did a story on his little black book.
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#s 11 and 12. Seems like the prosecutor was a roadblock to allowing sensitive cases to see daylight in anybody's lifetime. He was also appointed by a group of judges as I understand. Wouldn't this prosecutor ordinarily be appointed by POTUS?
[NYPOST] Seattle saw a staggering 525 percent spike in crime as a result of the violence that swept through the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone, according to Mayor Jenny Summer of Love Durkan ...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone... Durkan’s emergency order booting protesters from the six-block cop-free zone makes mention of the "narcotics use and violent crime, including rape, robbery, assault, and increased gang activity" within the CHOP since it first emerged in early June.
June 2 to June 30 saw the 525 percent jump in crime compared to the same period last year.
It includes "22 additional incidents, in person-related crime in the area, to include two additional homicides, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults (to include 2 additional non-fatal shootings)," Durkan’s order on Tuesday says.
The CHOP crime spree includes the deaths of two black teens, ages 19 and 16, who were fatally shot in separate incidents.
Durkan authorized police to take back the streets, saying conditions in the CHOP "have deteriorated to the point where public health, life, and safety are threatened by activities in and around this area."
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Seattle sees 525 percent spike in crime thanks to CHOP: Mayor Durkan
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“An alarming recent rise in COVID-19 numbers across the region, coupled with a lack of social distancing in this area, and the daily attraction to this area of outside individuals place the neighborhood at opening businesses at increased risk for outbreaks,” Durkan’s order states.
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"have deteriorated to the point where public health, life, and safety are threatened by activities in and around this area."
Now only if people had a record of human behavior that could have forewarned them of this outcome, they might have avoided this. Nah, unicorns and rainbows for everyone. (so do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
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M'Lady and I needed to go from SEA-TAC airport toward Bellingham a couple of weeks ago. So, looking at Chop and a map of Seattle, we planned to leave SEA TAC airport and drive I405 around Seattle and avoid all the insanity. Worked out well, as some nutbags tried to stop traffic at an I5 section going through Seattle.
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[BREITBART] Former Oakland Raiders Super Bowl champion safety Burgess Owens won the Utah Fourth Congressional GOP primary on Tuesday night and will now face off against Rep. Ben McAdams (D-UT).Owens decisively won the Fourth Congressional District’s primary by roughly 20 points. Owens’ victory means he will now face off against freshman swing district Democrat McAdams in the general election.
McAdams unseated former Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) during the 2018 midterm elections. The Cook Political Report rates the race as a "lean Democrat," but Owens’ potential victory over McAdams could help the GOP retake the House majority.
Republicans need to gain a net 17 seats during the 2020 elections to regain the House majority. Utah’s Fourth Congressional District was one of the 30 congressional districts that President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... won during the 2016 presidential election but that House Democrats managed to flip during the 2018 midterm elections.
Breitbart News’s Matthew Boyle profiled Owens, noting that he has pushed a cultural renaissance in the country to better advocate for God, country, and families in Congress.
A Middle Eastern intelligence official tells the @nytimes that the blast was caused by an explosive device planted inside the #nuclear facility in #Iran. The explosion, he said, destroyed much of the aboveground parts. https://t.co/cYvKZqX3bA
Hrs bfore any news ab incident at Iran facilities, a group of "dissidents in the security apparatus" called "Homeland Cheetahs", in an email to BBC Persian claimed attack on "Kashan nuc site & Natanz assembly structure”, saying they targeted overground so it “couldn't be denied”. https://t.co/3pgxG0E4gK
Viral video shows the moment white woman Susan Schulz calls the cops on her black neighbors after harassing them about needing a permit to install a patio
Fareed Nassor Hayat,
...a proud scion of the criminal classes, he reinvented himself as an educated man and educator, ending up a thoroughly leftwing legal academic amply prepared to shepherd this little contretemps to the desired conclusion...
an attorney and law professor, said Schulz walked onto their propety three times within 30 minutes
She demanded to know if they had permits to install a stone patio in their yard
The dispute escalated with Schulz calling police claiming Fareed pushed her
In the clips neighbors defend the Hayats, saying Fareed never pushed Schulz
Montclair police said that neither party has filed a formal complaint in incident
On Tuesday a small protest took place outside Schulz's home where demonstrators chanted 'Black Lives Matter'
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A crash is something that happens; a shutdown is something one does. Because a shutdown is intentional, it is much easier to turn back on afterward. This cannot be compared to a normal recession or depression.
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Looks like the place is ripe for invasion and conquering by the Cajun Navy. Most of em could get the rigs back up and running get bigger bass boats.
As you read this, dear Reader, ponder the question of whether Herr Schroeder's opinion matters at all anymore.
[Saker] A German equivalent to UK's Financial Times and America's Wall Street Journal is the Dusseldorf Handelsblatt or "Commerce Sheet," which headlined on June 30th, "Former Chancellor Schröder: USA Ending Transatlantic Partnership".
Oh, you mean like the tariffs the protectionist EU levies on American goods? The way that they deliberately craft their laws to exclude our products?
Fuck 'em. Cut them loose. They've been acting like an adversary for a long time, time to treat them like one. Nordstream 2 is such an obvious "fuck you" to America that it's hard to justify otherwise.
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This idiotic report claims that fracking was "One of the few proud achievements of U.S. President Obama." For those who follow the petroleum sector that remark is laughable. Obama did all in his power to hinder the growth of the industry.
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Yeah, that makes zero a priori sense to make such a claim. Besides, there are plenty of failed "green" businesses that got gov't money under Obama.
[Foreign Policy] The Turkish president wants to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. Destroying its dual Orthodox-Islamic heritage would be a blow to religious pluralism and tolerance.
Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was, for nearly 1,000 years, the largest and most important house of Christian worship in the world until it was converted into mosque in the 15th century. The building, now a museum, is still filled with priceless Christian mosaics and frescoes. It is also one of the most contested religious buildings in the world.
On July 2, the Turkish high court will rule on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s request to annul the 1934 decree that turned Hagia Sophia from a mosque into a museum. If the court says yes, the decision will reverberate across the world.
Erdogan has consistently expressed his desire to return Hagia Sophia to its previous status as a mosque. This stance plays well with his pious political base. Turkish Pres Erdogan wants to turn the Hagia Sophia Cathedral back into a mosque from the museum which it had been turned into by Ataturk. That would result in the destruction of all the magnificent mosaics uncovered after they had been whitewashed when the cathedral had been converted into a mosque in 1453. Foking barbarians.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Emory & Henry College in Virginia has announced to students the school will re-examine its wasp mascot. Why? The bug may appear "exclusive" to students who are not White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, or "WASPs."
While a public outcry over racism continues around the nation, the college is already concerned that its two historical namesakes — Methodist Episcopal Church bishop John Emory and founding father Patrick Henry — were slave holders. The school mascot has also come under scrutiny.
"Conversations must examine how Emory & Henry’s past has contributed to current and ongoing systemic oppression," said Dr. John Wells, president of Emory & Henry College, according to the email obtained by Young America’s Foundation.
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Pardon my French, but out of the numerous stupid things we hear and read about on a daily basis, this has to be the stupidest fucking thing I've seen in a while.
And from an institution of "higher learning". Give me a friggen break.
That's a good question! It may be that excessive numbers of excessively stupid people is a modern problem and our judicial system has simply not yet evolved to deal with it.
In olden days, if you were stupid, your days were numbered. You wandered off a cliff, were eaten by bears, scalped by wild Indians or simply starved to death in the winter. Thanks to the blessings of civilization, most of these things are no longer a problem and the stupid accumulate.
Personally, I'm starting to feel like an extra in the remake of "Idiocracy".
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.
[France24] The French government resigned Friday ahead of a cabinet reshuffle that President Emmanuel Macron says will set out a "new course" as the country grapples with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
[Conservative Brief via Whatfinger Dumpster]
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
[Jpost] The chant "Israel, we know you murder children, too" could be heard amid "Black Lives Matter" and "Paleostinian Lives Matter" chants.
Excellent! Hezbollah endorsement of BLM should be coming shortly. A 'deep dive' into BLM/Antifa funding and foreign social networking should be initiated immediately. As suspected, terrorist fellow-travelers finally confirmed.
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The city police are taking care of that rabble. The Encanto businessman's "Golf Day" is coming up the first of August. Can't we please discuss that instead. 
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
...Arabic for 
[PragueMorning] Czech President Milos Zeman while visiting the US Ambassador’s residence in Prague on the 244th anniversary of the independence of the United States, said the slogan “Black Lives Matter” is racist.
...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 
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Cruz the agency is "absolutely concerned about violence committed on behalf of any ideology." But "the key there," said Wray, is that "the FBI doesn't investigate ideology, we investigate violent criminal activity."
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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Free Beacon] WHO backtracks on original claim that China self-reported, admits this never happened
[ABCNEWS.GO] A veteran Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer died Tuesday after a traffic stop went wrong.
...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] Lock her in a glass cage.
...A 
"Slippery?" No, actually a classic survivalist. Arrested during routine sojourn to rural NY? Yes, but "arrested" sounds so harsh.
...Democrat Maress of Seattle, who allowed a chunk of the downtown of her city to be turned into an autonomous combat zone...
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
[Saker] A German equivalent to UK's Financial Times and America's Wall Street Journal is the Dusseldorf Handelsblatt or "Commerce Sheet," which headlined on June 30th, "Former Chancellor Schröder: USA Ending Transatlantic Partnership".
