[FEE] The top medical experts in the world can’t decide if masks are helpful in reducing the spread of COVID-19 or just make things worse.
Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
That’s less than one-third of the number of Danes who die from pneumonia or influenza in a given year.
Despite this success, Danish leaders recently found themselves on the defensive. The reason is that Danes aren’t wearing face masks, and local authorities for the most part aren’t even recommending them.
This prompted Berlingske, the country’s oldest newspaper, to complain that Danes had positioned themselves "to the right of Trump."
"The whole world is wearing face masks, even Donald Trump," Berlingske pointed out.
This apparently did not sit well with Danish health officials. They responded by noting there is little conclusive evidence that face masks are an effective way to limit the spread of respiratory viruses.
"All these countries recommending face masks haven’t made their decisions based on new studies," said Henning Bundgaard, chief physician at Denmark’s Rigshospitale, according to Bloomberg News. (Denmark has since updated its guidelines to encourage, but not require, the use of masks on public transit where social distancing may not be possible.)
Denmark is not alone.
Despite a global stampede of mask-wearing, data show that 80-90 percent of people in Finland and Holland say they "never" wear masks when they go out, a sharp contrast to the 80-90 percent of people in Spain and Italy who say they "always" wear masks when they go out.
Dutch public health officials recently explained why they’re not recommending masks.
"From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation," said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.
Others, echoing statements similar to the US Surgeon General from early March, said masks could make individuals sicker and exacerbate the spread of the virus.
"Face masks in public places are not necessary, based on all the current evidence," said Coen Berends, spokesman for the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. "There is no benefit and there may even be negative impact."
In Sweden, where COVID-19 deaths have slowed to a crawl, public health officials say they see "no point" in requiring individuals to wear masks.
"With numbers diminishing very quickly in Sweden, we see no point in wearing a face mask in Sweden, not even on public transport," said Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s top infectious disease expert.
What’s Going on With Masks?
The top immunologists and epidemiologists in the world can’t decide if masks are helpful in reducing the spread of COVID-19. Indeed, we’ve seen organizations like the World Health Organization and the CDC go back and forth in their recommendations....
For the average person, it’s confusing and frustrating. It’s also a bit frightening, considering that we’ve seen people denounced in public for not wearing a mask while picking up a bag of groceries....
The truth is masks have become the new wedge issue, the latest phase of the culture war. Mask opponents tend to see mask wearers as "fraidy cats" or virtue-signalling "sheeple" who willfully ignore basic science. Mask supporters, on the other hand, often see people who refuse to wear masks as selfish Trumpkins … who willfully ignore basic science.
There's not a lot of middle ground to be found and there's no easy way to sit this one out. We all have to go outside, so at some we all are required to don the mask or not.
It's clear from the data that despite the impression of Americans as selfish rebel cowboys who won't wear a mask to protect others, Americans are wearing masks far more than many people in European countries......
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The truth is masks have become the new wedge issue, the latest phase of the culture war. Mask opponents tend to see mask wearers as "fraidy cats" or virtue-signalling "sheeple" who willfully ignore basic science. Mask supporters, on the other hand, often see people who refuse to wear masks as selfish Trumpkins … who willfully ignore basic science.
Ain't it the truth!
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Preparing the next generation for space travel.
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Pelosi is the perfect example of a lecture my grandmother gave me when I smugly suggested that clever and smart meant the same thing. Pelosi retains the remnants of a spry political skill at riposte but understands nothing of actual governance as a duty to serve the American people faithfully in defending the Constitution and our exceptional way of life. She has become a vile hag haunting the halls of our Capitol in her serene ignorance of how hackneyed her gibberish has become.
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I was hoping the teachers unions would continue the holdout, if only to see how many of them get fired come first week of September. A few union decertifications would've been nice, too.
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The original purpose of the Special Forces was to organize and lead the resistance behind enemy lines. That's still their purpose but the emphasis on spec ops has led to them being thought of as some kind of super troopers like Rangers only better.
They're good, but that's not their role. they're patterned after the OSS and Jedburgh teams of WW II.
So, given their training, experience, and possible successes, they may have thought they could manipulate events and groups and so forth.
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[JPost] strongem>Incendiary balloons found near Gaza border communities early Saturday.
A suspicious object attached to a set of balloons was found in an agricultural area within the Eshkol region, which was suspected to have come from the Gaza Strip.
"A police sapper and security personnel are at the scene to neutralize the item," according toa statement from the Eshkol Regional Council.
In addition, an explosion was heard in Netivot late Friday. An inspection by a sapper who arrived at the scene revealed that it was an explosive item which arrived via a balloon and exploded on the spot. The location of the explosion is currently under investigation.
In similar news, it was reported in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, widely considered a pro-Hezbollah and pro-March 8th alliance (pro-Syrian government) outlet, that Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip had informed the Egyptian mediator that the period of calm on the border with Israel would come to an end soon.
The report came amid rising tensions between Israel and Hamas following a string of incendiary balloon launching and Israeli reprisal attacks in recent days.
IDF fighter jets attacked a Hamas underground infrastructure in the northern Gaza Strip late Thursday, the IDF Spokesperson confirmed. The attack was in response to several incendiary balloon launches from Gaza into Israeli territory on that day.
Earlier on Thursday, after nearly six months without incendiary balloons, five fires broke out in the Gaza border communities. At least three of them were caused by incendiary balloons.
Furthermore, a balloon carrying an explosive device was found in the Arad industrial zone.
"The State of Israel will not accept any violation of sovereignty and harm to the residents of the south," said Alternate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Thursday.
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All the remaining inventory of Delta IV heavy are already booked for NRO launches, I believe, and I don't think there were ever any plans to send the unused RD-180s back to Russia for a refund, so clearing that stuff out of ULA's inventory was probably also baked in.
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You thought they were going to hire Boeing?
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[Don Surber] ITEM 2: Bloomberg reported, "Former national security adviser Susan Rice, a Netflix director, sold some of her shares of the video streaming company worth $305,323 this week as speculation swirls that she is among the candidates to be Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate.
"A spokeswoman for Rice said the sale was unrelated to politics and was made under a stock trading plan she filed more than three months ago under Securities and Exchange Commission rules."
[American Thinker] Ronald Reagan famously observed nearly sixty years ago: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same[.]" The man could say so much with so few words. (1) Freedom is an idea; (2) it belongs to anyone wise enough to recognize its value irrespective of race, color, or creed; and (3) it will be endlessly threatened at all times by those opposed to liberty.
Three generations later, and Reagan's warning is uncomfortably prescient. Before the Chinese coronavirus turned into a weapon for destroying freedom, we were already under attack. For years, hate speech laws have been used to censor points of view and silence critics. Public schools have replaced education with "politically correct" Marxist narratives, while Christianity is banned from public life and public squares. Socialists attack words as violence so they may use violence against our words. Wherever we look, the left has been nibbling away at liberty and pushing us toward gilded cages under their control.
Now the Democrats' push to "fundamentally change America" is in overdrive. A combination of their awareness that they have lost ground since President Trump's election and a growing sense of urgency to speed up their revolution before his looming re-election has led them to throw all caution to the wind.
What could have been seen as a moment for national unity just as WWII was for that generation of Americans, the present pandemic unleashed by China, has become nothing more than an opportunity for Democrats at every level of government to steal freedom in the name of security.
Joe Biden talks openly of a "physical revolution" ahead.
[de] Germany is known for its naked sunbathing spots. But one man got more than he bargained for when a wild boar stole his bag with his laptop inside.
There are plenty of spots at beaches and lakes where people are allowed to swim or sunbathe without any clothes on as part of Germany's Freikörperkultur (FKK), or free body culture.
And Berlin is notorious for having a problem with large numbers of wild boars in some parts of the city.
Earlier this week these two things came together spectacularly: a man, who was enjoying the sunshine in his birthday suit at Teufelssee, a lake in the west of Berlin, ended up chasing a boar that had stolen his bag containing his laptop inside.
[Free Beacon] Hunter Biden was hit with a $450,000 lien in July over delinquent state income taxes, which he paid off in six days despite having no discernible income. Last year, he told the court judge in his paternity case that he was broke and unemployed.
The younger Biden owed $238,562.76 in state income taxes from 2017 and $215,328.16 in state income taxes from 2018, according to records from the District of Columbia’s Office of Tax and Revenue. The District of Columbia filed a $453,890 lien against him on July 9.
The lien is the latest in a series of substantial tax problems members of the Biden family have faced over the years, from Joe's brother James’s six-figure tax debt in 2015 to multiple liens filed against Joe's sister Valerie and her husband. It also raises new questions about Hunter Biden’s finances, which have been scrutinized during the election cycle. The lien follows controversy over Hunter's high-paying consulting work for companies in Ukraine and China, and a high-profile child support case in which the younger Biden claimed he was in "significant debt" and refused to turn over court-ordered financial records.
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District of Columbia Single Income Tax Brackets Income Tax Bracket Tax Rate 2019
$0 to $10,000 4%
$10,001 to $40,000 6%
$40,001 to $60,000 6.5%
$60,001 to $350,000 8.5%
$350,001 to $1,000,000 8.75%
$1,000,001 to ∞ 8.95%
2017: $238,562.76 W.D.C. tax = $2,728,000 net income
2017: $215,328.16 W.D.C. tax = $2,468,000 net income
Welfare in DC pays pretty well for an ex-VP's unemployed, drug and sex addicted son.
A very long winded (Ilana Mercer-lite) view of 'group think' which points to World War as a potential solution. Even a bit too dark for me, but there it is.
[Red State] During the Civil War somewhere around 750,000 men fought for the Confederacy. It would be idiotic to claim that the Civil War was not about slavery, however the vast majority of the men who fought for the Confederacy were not fighting for the right to own slaves. How do I know this? During the 1860 census there were only about 385,000 slave owners. Many of these slave owners lived in states like West Virginia (well, not in 1860, but just follow for a minute), Deleware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. If every slave owner in the south fought for the Confederacy (any who owned more than 20 slaves were exempt) then it would still have made up less than half the Confederate army. So how was it possible that so many fought for states rights when the primary right in question was the right to own other people? Simple... tribalism. The other side was awful in every way. Everything was linked, and you don’t get to tell me how to live my life. The Yank was an oppressor on our soil trying to force us to [fill in something here] and he should go home.
Tribalism is the simplification for "me and my group against you and your group." You end up thinking the other side is always wrong about everything, and if they change their mind then you change yours too. Example? Heritage Foundation laid out a market based plan for getting everyone into a health insurance policy. Their plan was based on the Swiss plan that works generally pretty well. Mitt Romney adopted the plan in Massachusetts with the general backing of Republicans. Barack Obama uses the same plan as a basis for a national plan, and now the whole project is the Devil and only flaming liberals would ever approve. Maybe that struck a nerve. Let’s go with a different example... Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden vote to fund a physical barrier along the southern border to prevent illegal immigration. Barack Obama deports more illegal immigrants than any previous American president. Donald Trump begins to build the wall that Joe Biden voted for, and now any barrier is racist.
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Nice load of garbage: "Barack Obama uses the same plan as a basis for a national plan, and now the whole project is the Devil and only flaming liberals would ever approve."
In fact the Democrat Authoritarians want to ELIMINATE your plans you may currently enjoy and prefer and force you into the one they deem best (for you)
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"idiotic to claim that the Civil War was not about slavery..."
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^ Abraham Lincoln repeatedly stated his war was caused by taxes only, and not by slavery, at all.
"My policy sought only to collect the Revenue (a 40 percent federal sales tax on imports to Southern States under the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861)." reads paragraph 5 of Lincoln's First Message to the U.S. Congress, penned July 4, 1861.
"I have no purpose, directly or in-directly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so," Lincoln said it his first inaugural on March 4 of the same year.
There is no proof of Lincoln ever declaring the war was fought to abolish slavery, and without such an official statement, the war-over-slavery teaching remains a complete lie and offensive hate speech that divides Americans, as is being done now by the media and politicians regarding the Confederate flag in South Carolina.
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#3 Klement, do you claim that a capitalist society and slave society can coexist in the same country?
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/\ Thank you, DB. And that Morrill Tariff was a biggie that ticked off the South.
@ #7 - g(r)om, theoretically, YES. In a totally free society, what if I wanted to voluntarily & without coercion be a slave to a landowner (for example) to support my family? What if supporting my family was more important to me than my freedom?
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#8 (a) Slavery wasn't voluntary.
(b) It's not a question of ethics. Agrarian slave owners & industrialized capitalists have very different financial interests. As North developed, the dominance of the government by the Southerners became intolerable.
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/\ You used present tense in your question, not past tense. Of course slavery wasn't voluntary then. That is one of the few things they teach correctly in school.
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/\ What about Hereditary Slavery, in essence a perpetual Class System? How can you have a Capitalist System where a large fraction are barred from it?
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Like all politicians Lincoln talked around the subject. You can not escape the 13th Amendment. As for why the North fought you can find in their culture - Battle Hymn of the Republic and Battle Cry of Freedom. Those were sung in the rank. No hiding about ending slavery there.
I'm sure you'll give it up about the same time the race hustlers give up playing the slavery card.
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'Burg divided 'gainst isself ... cain't stand (it no mo)
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure - Lincoln
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@ #11 - Like we have "true" capitalism now? It's not even close to "free market" or "laissez-faire" capitalism. There are barriers to entry all over the place and nothing to do with slavery. They are called patents and fees and licenses and rules/regulations.
[Breitbart] President Trump said Friday he would defer the payroll tax until the end of the year, using an executive order.
The tax would continue to be deferred until the end of 2020, the president said, and would likely be retroactive from July 1.
He said that by the end of 2020 the payroll tax break could be extended.
"Hopefully I’ll be here to do the job," Trump said, hinting at the results of Election Day.
The president also said he would extend unemployment benefits, defer student loan payments and interest, and extend the eviction moratorium as well as an order requiring health insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions.
"If Democrats continue to hold this critical relief hostage, I will act under my authority as president to get Americans the relief they need," he said.
The president said that the lawyers were drawing up the executive orders and that they could be signed by the end of the week.
Asked whether he was concerned about the legality of his executive order, Trump replied, "No, not at all. You always get sued, everything you do you get sued ... we’ll see."
The president also declined to specify whether or not he would extend federal unemployment benefit checks at the full $600 a week.
But Trump said he was determined to help Americans still struggling with the virus and the cost of the economic shutdowns despite unprecedented obstruction from Congressional Democrats.
"Tragically Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer continue to insist on radical leftwing policies that have nothing to do with the China virus," Trump said.
Pelosi and Schumer are demanding a $2.5 trillion package that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows described as a "blank check."
Meadows and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin continued negotiations with Democrats throughout the week but ended Friday recommending that Trump act unilaterally.
"The Chief and I will recommend to the President, based upon our lack of activity today, that he move forward with some executive orders," Mnuchin said to reporters on Capitol Hill before leaving for the evening.
The enhanced federal unemployment checks of $600 a week ran out on Friday.
If I am correct Raj is a CPA, could you tell us in detail what this means regarding payroll deductions when the info comes out?
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During World War II, Congress introduced payroll withholding and quarterly tax payments with the vote of the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 :
In their History of the U.S. Tax System, the U.S. Department of Treasury describes tax withholding.
This greatly eased the collection of the tax for both the taxpayer and the Bureau of Internal Revenue. However, it also greatly reduced the taxpayer's awareness of the amount of tax being collected, i.e. it reduced the transparency of the tax, which made it easier to raise taxes in the future.[2] - wiki
Another 'temporary' wartime action which, like so many, gain a life of its own. The freaking war ended in 1945. See - "temporary lockdown" for centralized government management and operation of the economy.
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During World War II, Congress introduced payroll withholding and quarterly tax payments with the vote of the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 :
All under FDR's (president forever) term. Prior to that, only the very wealthy paid payroll taxes. Do we need the completed in 1930 - now condemned New Harmony, IN toll bridge graphic? The toll or the taxes seldom disappear.
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My concern would be: As an employee, am I going to have to make the deferred (or dismissed?) all good when the moratorium ends? Taxes next year?
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As currently legislated, yes, you will still have to pay taxes next year. No need to wait for any refund though. Don't worry Socialists Donks, the check, like those votes, will be in the mail.
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I don't have details quite yet but the way I'm reading it is like this - no FICA withholdings (Social Security and Medicare taxes) from your paychecks from here until December 31st, 2020. Presumably this would extend to the employers as well, as they match these taxes and fork 'em over to Uncle Sam.
I'm not sure how the retroactive nature of the tax will work; some kind of tax rebate through the payroll check would be my guess.
I'll go hunt for anything else I can find and comment on it later. Once real details emerge I'll weigh in, of course.
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Clarification - As stated this is a suspension of tax, not a deferral, Frank G. Of course we'll wait until this thing comes out but if this in fact is a deferral, I'm not cool with it at all as more problems $-wise will crop up as it ends.
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^ that's what I figured. Taxes are gonna be a surprise next year when the "refund" becomes a due bill
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The thing the Left hates/fears about this so much is that the public will get a real handle on what they are being, uh taxed, and not just in APR either.
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Thats the one fault I can find with our Founding Fathers system of government.
We need a Third arm of the Legislature whose only job is to review, then remove or renew laws and regulations after 5 years has passed. 3 year terms, 3 members from each state, 1 elected at large, 1 appointed by the state legislature, and 1 member by the state governor. Terms staggered, 1 expiring every year, max of 2 consecutive terms served in any position. If it is not renewed at the 5 year mark, it continues. At the 10 year mark it is rendered invalid by default unless renewed previously, or renewed currently.
Or else a Sunset amendment to the Constitution that all laws expire 5 years from passage unless renewed by a simple majority for 5 more years (no presidential signature needed). At the 10 year point, renewal requires a majority with presidential signature (meaning it can be pocket veto'd after 10) or no signature with a 60% majority. After 15 years, all laws require a 2/3 superiormajority AND a presidential signature - anything more than that requires "permanent" process, which mirrors the constitutional Amendment process, sending the laws to the states or a Constitutional Convention type of assembly.
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Thank you, Raj. Because our field and office staff are also puzzled, we've asked our resident Accounting folks the same question.
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I really can't say anything in depth until Trump signs the EO, then we'll know.
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July 1 is the first day of the 3rd quarter 2020. Taxes withheld and matched must be paid to the gov by Aug 21. Trump may be saying to the employers don't pay us, return July's withholding on Aug 21 to the emps. And no more wholdings till 2021.
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I’ve always thought that payroll withholding was a bad idea and that 1) the payment should be from the taxpayer - be it an automatic withdrawal from their bank account or written check, etc... as long as the see it being taken from their account and 2) everyone should pay something so they have skin in the game - yes even the welfare recipients. Social security is taxed, why isn’t welfare? If that welfare mom had to pay $20 out of their check they view taxes a little differently.
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Rode subs for 10 years. They new ones have to be robotically controlled and unmanned.
Sit Quietly in/on the bottom for long periods of time. Contain nuclear torpedos as well as missiles. Torpedoes are for blowing up islands and port city’s. Just my thoughts. My FBM could stay out for as long as we had food and did not kill each other. Fire Control played different variations of music for entertainment. One patrol, people who hated classical, destroyed all the disks. By the end of patrol, there was only country music CDs left, and they were very closely guarded.
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If you want to know what really happens, I recommend “Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage”. No running in place, no weight lifting and music on sound power noise will kill you! If you do not like books then “Hunt for Red October” OK.
[Mises] In recent days governments in Australia, Europe, and the US have moved toward imposing a new wave of forced lockdowns in the name of fighting the spread of COVID-19. Australia has imposed harsh new lockdown measures, including a curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. CNN reports:
Those restrictions include a curfew in Melbourne for the next six weeks, a ban on wedding gatherings, and schools must go back to online classes....Only one person per household is allowed to leave their homes once a day -- outside of curfew hours -- to pick up essential goods, and they must stay within a 5 kilometer (3.1 miles) radius of their home.
Meanwhile in Europe, Belgium is threatening a "total lockdown" even as it tightens other measures, which now means that "a family or those living together can meet only the same five people from outside their household over the next four weeks." (Belgium has been in a state of lockdown in all but name for months, since even until the most recent restrictions, an individual was allowed to meet in person with only 15 different people per week.)
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] According to the reports, the girl was ganged rape by the group before being stripped on a Rawalpindi road. A first information report (FIR) was registered against the accused near Saidpuri Gate in the Rawat cop shoppe’s jurisdiction. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... they had been released on pre-arrest bail.The victim revealed to police that the gangsters stripped and then filmed her. She claimed the men had also gang-raped her at knifepoint.
She further said she has no support and the accused threatened her to remain silent. She said the Banni cop shoppe has refused to file a report, adding that police only contacted me after they saw the video on social media.
Earlier, another teenage girl was allegedly stripped in a crowded street in Kachi Mohallah locality to punish her family for filing a complaint against the accused at the local cop shoppe.
Shakila, 50, mother of the victim girl, told the police that a local Zafar clashed with her nephew Waseem on June 1 after which she and her family members lodged a complaint with the Gulfat Hussain Shaheed Police Station. She added that while on the way back home, she took her 15-year old daughter from the house of her brother.
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Malia Treammell (or Trammell), 28, is charged w/felony riot, escape & much more. She was arrested at the #antifa riot in Portland, where she punctured police vehicle tire using caltrops. She fled on foot before being caught. She was released without bail. https://t.co/oyOap063VJpic.twitter.com/M5NxuQqEz6
Ragina Joy-Marie Gray, 30, is charged w/interfering w/an officer, resisting arrest & more. She was arrested at the violent antifa protest in Portland & quickly bailed out. Gray is frequently photographed w/kids at protests & rants about white terrorism. https://t.co/KNXaeww2fgpic.twitter.com/bjNJ1tlJ3P
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Sounds like the people know it, but it's going g against the interests of the ruling caste to go along with it. Typical third world $hit. Oh, wait ....
Lebanon president says he knew of highly explosive material at Beirut's port in July
[Al Ahram] Lebanese President Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... knew about the huge stockpile of kaboom stored at Beirut's port nearly three weeks before it blew up, he said Friday, adding he had ordered action be taken about it at the time, although the top leader also said he had no authority over the facility."Do you know how many problems have been accumulating?" Aoun replied when a news hound pressed whether he should have followed up on his order.
Aoun's comments were the most senior confirmation that 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... 's top leaders and security officials were aware of the 2,750 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate that had been stored at the port for years.
The chemicals went kaboom! Tuesday after apparently being set off by a fire, in a massive blast that killed nearly 150 people, maimed thousands and caused billions of dollars of damage across the city. Bodies were still being recovered from the rubble on Friday.
Investigators are probing the blast and have focused on personnel at the Port of Beirut - Lebanon's main port that is so well known for corruption its common nickname is Ali Baba's Cave. But many Lebanese say it points to much greater rot that permeates the political system and extends to the country's top leadership.
Aoun, who has been in his post since 2016, said previous governments had known about the danger of the stockpile since it was confiscated from a ship impounded in 2013.
"The material had been there for seven years, since 2013. It has been there, and they said it is dangerous and I am not responsible. I don't know where it was placed. I don't even know the level of danger," Aoun told a news conference.
He said that when he was told of the stockpile June 20, he immediately ordered military and security officials "to do what is needed."
"There are ranks that should know their duties, and they were all informed. ... When you refer a document and say, `Do what is needed,' isn't that an order?" he added.
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[Al Ahram] Unidentified gunmen killed about 20 people in an attack on a cattle market in eastern Burkina Faso on Friday, the government said in a statement. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in the village of Fada N'Gourma.
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Getting reports of two Lebanese nationals shot dead (believed to be an assassination) in Tehran tonight. We understand the incident took place on the same street as the house of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was assassinated along with Qassem Soleimani by the US in January.
Islamic Republic's Fars News Agency has confirmed the reports about the #assassination-style killing of two #Lebanese citizens in Tehran's Pasdaran Street. The eyewitnesses say the father and daughter were shot to death in their car by an assailant on a motorcycle.
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) August 7, 2020
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I doubt the material was ever produced for peaceful agricultural purposes (sitting a bit too long). It has likely achieved it's intended purposes. The targeting was a bit off however, inshallah maintenance and storge.... no help.
In 1947, an explosion in Texas City, Texas, killed at least 581 people and wounded 3,500 after two cargo ships carrying ammonium nitrate caught fire. In 2013, a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, caught fire and exploded, killing 15 people. In 2015, disaster struck in Tianjin, China, when a fertilizer explosion killed 165 people at a busy seaport.
The cargo was intended for an ammunition factory but the skipping company diverted it to Beirut to pick up a cargo. It was stuck there due to a conflict about port fees. The cargo was on loaded into a warehouse where it sat for several years. During some elding at the warehouse it ignited...
[THOMASNET] A team of engineers from the U.K. and Germany says a newly developed material could be a breakthrough for a wide range of industries requiring safety or protective equipment.
Proteus — named for the shape-shifting aquatic deity of Greek mythology — is the first manufactured material that cannot be cut, researchers from Durham University and the Fraunhofer Institute write in the journal Scientific Reports.
The lightweight substance consists of ceramic spheres surrounded by a cellular aluminum structure, which combine to render cutting tools — including angle grinders, drills, and high-pressure water jets — ineffective. Although video footage released by the team shows a blade narrowly penetrating the material, researchers say the ceramic components resist it indefinitely, gradually wear down the edge, and fill in the material as its particles fragment.
Engineers say they attempted to mimic dynamic materials in nature that resist attacks despite being made of relatively weak components — particularly mollusk shells and grapefruit peels.
The team has a patent pending on the material and hopes to work with industry partners on a wide variety of potential applications, including everything from bicycle locks and lightweight body armor to protective gear for those operating cutting tools.
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The Germans have a talent for such things. Those bunkers and pill boxes along the North Sea coast in France might last longer than that planned 1000-year Reich.
[UPI] The Trump administration announced federal law enforcement officers will be sent to Memphis and St. Louis to stamp out violent mostly peaceful crime in the cities.
The Justice Department announced Thursday the expansion of Operation Legend that began in early July with the deployment of federal troops to Kansas City, Mo., following the death of LeGend Taliferro, 4, who was fatally shot while sleeping in the early morning of June 29.
In July, Federal troops were also sent to reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... , Albuquerque, Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... and Milwaukee under the operation.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said the troops were being sent to Memphis and St. Louis as the cities have been seeing an uptick in violent mostly peaceful crime.
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"troops" Prolly not. Heck of a way for the fed guys to get their overtime.
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Haven’t noticed a thing in Memphis. That may be saying something about the normal crime rate in Memphis though. As far as the mostly peaceful commies, I haven seen a thing. Not in the city itself or on local news/AM radio. Granted my blue collar dealings in the city may shield me from the real goings on as any miscreants are probably sleeping off hangovers when I’m there, but I haven’t personally witnessed anything. Some white bitches of both genders with burn loot murder stickers on their Prius toys. One skinny white nerd holding a blm sign on the corner of Navy Rd. in Millington. That’s it. Just normal black crimes matter business as usual. Maybe Trump is getting ahead of the power curve in Mogadishu on the Mississippi.
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Finally something legal for the FBI to do rather than trying to depose of a president. I believe they should be run by people other than ones who live in DC. Move the command of FBI to another city.
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Some white bitches of both genders with burn loot murder stickers on their Prius toys. One skinny white nerd holding a blm sign on the corner of Navy Rd. in Millington
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry said Thursday evening that the agreement to demarcate the Egyptian-Greek maritime borders is considered "invalid".The Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry stated, as reported by the Anadolu Agency, that the agreement on the so-called "demarcation of the maritime borders" signed between Egypt and Greece is invalid for Ankara.
The Ottoman Turkish Foreign Ministry said: "The specific area within the Egyptian-Greek agreement lies within the Ottoman Turkish continental shelf."
The ministry said that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... considers the agreement null and void, adding that it also violates Libyan maritime rights.
Egypt and Greece signed, on Thursday evening, an agreement to define the maritime borders between the two countries.
The Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced that his country is ready to take refuge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on the issue of demarcating the borders of maritime areas.
"I have met President Erdogan twice since assuming the post of prime minister, and told him of our desire to renew Greek-Ottoman Turkish relations because we will remain neighbors forever. I really do not believe that there is enmity between the two Greek people," Mitsotakis said during a virtual participation in the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday.
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I beleive the Egyptians want to poke the would-be Sultan from Turkey with a bit of a reminder of who has the military interest in Libya. And is also Arab, not turk.
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With no federal officers to fight in downtown Portland, antifa are now trying to turn southeast Portland, a residential area, into their new war zone. Video by @PDXzane shows smoke being deployed as antifa run around the streets. #PortlandRiotspic.twitter.com/bxmj9tRAuh
Portland Police disable an antifa van that is used almost nightly to block streets so police can’t move. The van is operated by Jeremy Vajko, of Washington state. He’s been arrested & charged multiple times at the violent protests but is quickly released. pic.twitter.com/kXCzY5FGtB
[NYPOST] NYPD officers engaged in an hours-long stalemate with a cop-assault suspect Friday in Hell’s Kitchen — before Police Commissioner Dermot Shea ordered them to retreat as a stream of protesters arrived on the scene, law-enforcement sources told The Post.The top cop’s directive to give up — without the suspect in jug — left some NYPD insiders fuming, given the city’s recent concessions to unruly protesters.
"Another example of mob rules," an NYPD insider said.
Police massed on West 45th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenue around 7 a.m. Friday to try to bring in the young protest organizer, who is accused of screaming through a bullhorn into the ear of a cop at a recent demonstration, leaving her with hearing damage, sources said.
Dozens of cops, some dressed in tactical gear, flooded the scene but couldn’t actually enter the protester’s apartment because they didn’t have a warrant, sources said.
While refusing to come out, the suspect began live-streaming the battle of wills online, sending fellow protesters racing to the scene.
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U.S. Attorney John Durham will soon interview former CIA Director John Brennan, another sign that the investigation of the Trump-Russia investigators is ready to wrap up by the end of the summer.
Durham, the federal prosecutor from Connecticut appointed by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane inquiry and to scrutinize the conduct of the law enforcement leaders and intelligence officials involved in it, has asked to interview Brennan, according to "people familiar with the request" cited by NBC News, and the former top spy and vociferous Trump critic has reportedly agreed to the sit-down. The same report cites sources who suggest Durham's inquiry may be nearing the finish line.
Brennan has acknowledged that he is in the "crosshairs" of the criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation led by Durham. He recently claimed, and the White House acknowledged, that he asked the CIA for his official records, including his personal notes and any classified CIA documents that he had signed to help him write his upcoming memoir, but the agency denied his request.
Last year, the New York Times reported that Durham asked for Brennan's electronic communications, phone records, and other documents from the CIA, something NBC News confirmed on Wednesday.
The NBC News report also cited sources who claimed Durham has not interviewed Comey or McCabe, and another source claimed that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has been told by Durham that he will not be interviewed. (?)
So let me guess....They will release the report on Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend and the media will totally embargo the story. But all roads lead directly and indirectly to Obama - I haven't seen his invitation to talk to Durham - nor, Rice, Biden, Clinton.
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....to help him write his upcoming memoir, but the agency denied his request.
No ticki (no clearance), no official records for your defense team. Director Gina Haspel has no doubt conducted her own internal agency investigation. Her old pal Brennan may be headed under the bus.
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Im betting nothing of consequence happens. The swamp protects its own, even at the expense of the nation. Its becoming more and more likely that a complete tear0down and rebuild might be necessary.
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[IRNA] In a twitter post on Friday, he said when the US policies regarding Iran remains the same, there will be no difference for John Bolton, Brian Hook or Elliott Abrams.
The issue is that American officials are trying things too big for their mouths, he said.
In the message, he wrote "No difference between John Bolton, Brian Hook or Elliott Abrams; when it comes to the US #Iran policy, American officials have been bitten off more than they could chew. Same applies to Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump AND their successors."
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday announced that Hook will be replaced with Elliott Abrams who is currently serving as the US envoy for Venezuela affairs.
He said once Hook's tenure terminates, Abrams will take charge of Iran's affairs as well.
Hook who was appointed to the post two years ago has failed to the reach the US goals of imposing ultimate pressure on Iran.
Observers wonder what Abrams as a neo-conservative diplomat who has bitterly failed in leading the US-engineered cou deta [sic] in Venezuela to victory and played a role in other US scandalous failures as well could accomplish, given the fact that there is only one week ahead before the US takes its proposal of extending Iran's arms embargo to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a plan which is already doomed to fail. [Abrams: Another deep-stater.]
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Bolton, Abrams, Swamp Creatures. We need Haley back in some capacity.
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Big scoop by @martinchulov & colleagues: fireworks were placed *in same hangar* as the ammonium nitrate at #Beirut port. Former employee says the army insisted on keeping it in place. The same army Nasrallah just said should conduct the investigation https://t.co/g6cU4lv1eQ
[Townhall] It would seem that someone at the FBI put Mr. O’Keefe on the felon list regarding the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), making him a prohibited person. He can no longer buy firearms, despite never committing a felony. Gun owners interviewed certainly see this as a legitimate legal matter, and O’ Keefe has filed a lawsuit. Is this retaliation?
I’ll bet the mortgage that something along those lines is happening here (via Project Veritas):
Project Veritas Action and Project Veritas today released a video of James O'Keefe III, who has never been convicted of a felony, being denied the right to keep and bear arms. The rejection has led O’Keefe to file a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
When asked why the FBI has denied his ability to purchase a firearm, the FBI disclosed O'Keefe is falsely identified as a convicted felon on the NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check) list. He has never been convicted of a felony.
"The lawsuit is being filed in the Southern District Court of New York seeking an order requiring the FBI to remove him from this list as required by law under 18 U.S.C. § 925A," said Jered Ede Esq., who is representing O’Keefe.
"Notably, the FBI has not disclosed what information it is relying on to place him on its watch list," Ede stated in the complaint filed with the court.
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Considering all the mass shooters who should have been on the FBI's felony list and somehow got guns anyway, this makes the FBI look like the Keystone Cops.
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this makes the FBI look like the Keystone Cops.
Except that implies incompetence, rather than intent.
[Al Ahram] At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured when an Air India Express passenger plane overshot the runway and broke into two after landing in the southern city of Calicut in heavy rain on Friday, officials said.
The Boeing-737 flight from Dubai was flying home Indians stranded overseas due to 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. There were 190 passengers and crew on board, the civil aviation ministry said in a statement. Among them were 10 infants.
Television footage showed rescue workers moving around the wreckage in pouring rain. The aircraft lay split into at least two chunks after he plane's fuselage sheared apart as it fell into a valley 30 feet below, authorities said.
Media reports suggested that the plane skidded off a runway, crashing nose-first into the ground.
The Kerala state police chief said at least 15 people had been killed, with at least four passengers stuck the wreckage.
The civil aviation ministry said in a statement there was no fire on board.
Local TV news channels showed passengers, some of them lying motionless on stretchers, brought into a hospital surrounded by health workers wearing masks because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Air India Express AXB1344, was a repatriation flight operated by the government to bring Indians home during international travel restrictions due to the spread of the novel coronavirus. Millions of Indians work in the Gulf.
"Pained by the plane accident in Kozhikode" Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted referring to Calicut's new name. "My thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones. May the injured recover at the earliest," he said..
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[NYPOST] New York Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... may be denied a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention this month, according to a report.Although the 30-year-old Democratic socialist is one of the most recognizable new leaders in the party, centrists are opposed to giving her time to speak.
"I think [Vermont Sen.] Bernie [Sanders] and [Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth] Warren will speak, and they’ll represent the progressive wing of the party very ably," former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell told Politico.
Rendell, a longtime friend of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... , said it would be unfair to highlight Ocasio-Cortez, who took office last year after a shocking primary win.
"If you picked AOC, why wouldn’t you pick Katie Bat Girl Porter ...Dem law professor, attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s 45th congressional district (Orange County) since 2019. Katie takes her job and her personal dignity so seriously she once showed up for a committee hearing dressed as Batman.... or why wouldn’t you pick Madeleine Dean or Mary Gay Scanlon?" Rendell said, referring to other recently elected congresswomen.
A source close to Democratic convention planning told The Post that more information about the speakers list will be released next week.
"What is currently confirmed are the Obamas will be involved, the VP nominee Wednesday, Biden on Thursday and a tribute to John Lewis," the person said.
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"Let a hundred morons bloom. Let a hundred idiocies contend."
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish-backed murderous Moslems launched a surprise attack against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops deployed inside the town of Tadef in the eastern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate last night.
Led by Jaish al-Nasr, the Ottoman Turkish-backed murderous Moslems launched an attack on the Syrian Army’s post at the northern axis of Tadef from their positions at nearby al-Bab.
This attack by the Ottoman Turkish-backed murderous Moslems would result in a series of intense festivities that involved both heavy gunfire and shelling.
According to a field report from eastern Aleppo, the Syrian Arab Army was able to foil the attack by the Ottoman Turkish-backed holy warriors, forcing them to ultimately retreat back towards al-Bab.
The Ottoman Turkish-backed murderous Moslems have become increasingly aggressive in eastern Aleppo, northern al-Raqqa, and western al-Hasakah, prompting the Syrian Armed Forces to deploy reinforcements to these fronts.
Prior to this attack, the Ottoman Turkish-backed murderous Moslems repeatedly struck the Syrian Army’s positions in al-Hasakah, which is a violation of the ongoing ceasefire agreement east of the Euphrates.
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The revolutionaries in Wasit governorate organize a march to commemorate the revolution`s victims, demand punishing the protesters' killers, reject parliamentarians and dismiss the governor and his two deputies#BaghdadPost#Iraqpic.twitter.com/sHhHedT78Z
Tell someone that it is okay to "punch a fascist" then you discover that they will come to believe that anybody they don't like can should be punched. The people of Pakistan woke up one day and discovered that the Taliban had mutated from expendable puppets to rabid animals in the same manner.
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Wheeler should be asking the criminal to turn themselves in. Wheeler should be arresting the criminals and prosecuting them. They will stay home because you ask you Dumba$$ unless of course, you are their leader.
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Wheeler's opponent in the November 3 runoff is for all practical purposes a card-carrying Antifette, like so. So in bizarro world this is Wheeler positioning himself as a law and order candidate.
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So destroying a city and ruining people's lives is OK. But helping Trump be reelected is beyond the pale.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who for weeks had blamed President Trump for fueling riots in his Oregon city, on Thursday acknowledged that the violence has continued even after the federal presence was curtailed, and told peaceful protesters to stay home.
Mr. Wheeler, who is also the city’s police commissioner, said he’s authorized officers to "do whatever is necessary" to gain control after another night of rioting against officers.
And he used a base political appeal to try to get the riots to stop, saying they’re inadvertently helping Mr. Trump.
"Don’t think for a moment that if you are participating in this activity that you are not being a prop for the reelection campaign for Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... , because you absolutely are," he said in a presser conducted online. "You are creating the b-roll film that will be used in ads nationally to help Donald Trump during his campaign. You don’t want to be part of that, then don’t show up."
Police say a crowd barricaded and tried to set fire to a precinct with officers still inside it Wednesday night. Protesters also aimed green lasers at officers, threw shot put-sized rocks at them and fired commercial grade fireworks at them. At one point a demonstrator attempted to run over officers using a truck, police said.
A riot was declared and police used tear gas to clear the scene.
"The attack was immediate, it was intentional, and it was planned. It was intended to cause serious injury or death, and it very well could have," Mr. Wheeler said in a Zoom presser.
He and other local officials had insisted things would calm down once Homeland Security curtailed its presence at the federal courthouse downtown, giving the lead over to state police.
That transition happened a week ago, and the downtown area, while still the scene of large marches, has been much quieter. But the violence has now shifted to target local police.
Mr. Wheeler said trying to burn the precinct with officers inside it was attempted murder.
The Oregonian newspaper reported that the fire was contained in a metal garbage can, though it did char a board near the precinct entrance.
Mr. Wheeler said the use of tear gas to disperse the crowd was the right call.
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The lasers some rioters are using are true lasers, powerful enough that gu ou cannot hold your hand in front of them for more than about a second. This is according to Ted Cruz, I believe.
[NYPOST] A Massachusetts registered sex offender freed on bail for rape is facing new charges after kidnapping and raping a woman when she tried to leave his home, police said.
Shawn McClinton, 39, was arrested on charges of aggravated rape, armed kidnapping with sexual assault and related counts after a woman told police she was forced at knifepoint to perform oral sex on him after meeting the Level 3 sex offender Tuesday on a Quincy street, the Boston Globe reports.
After meeting in Quincy, McClinton and the woman went to his home in the city’s Dorchester section, where he accused the woman of being an undercover police officer when she tried to leave early Wednesday, she told police.
McClinton, who was freed from jail three weeks earlier in a 2018 rape case in Suffolk Superior Court, then allegedly strangled and forced the woman to perform oral sex.
"Do you know what I could do to you?" McClinton told the woman, according to a police report obtained by the newspaper.
Boston Police Commissioner William Gross said he was "absolutely appalled" that McClinton, who was convicted of rape in 1994 and 2007, would be granted bail, particularly given his violent mostly peaceful history.
"We’re getting to a point in society where we’re giving more credence to criminals than victims," Gross told the newspaper. "We’re talking about violent mostly peaceful offenders. Why would you bail someone who committed rapes?"
The Massachusetts Bail Fund posted $15,000 to spring McClinton from custody, prompting criticism of the group by Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins, the newspaper reports.
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Most of these critters won't stray far from their designated urban operational areas (lines of communication and support). Any death or carnage they cause will likely be limited to those specific areas... if that is any help.
File under "Things not to do in a bail reduction hearing."
[CURRENTLY.ATT.YAHOO] A court hearing held via Zoom for a US teenager accused of criminal masterminding a stunning hack of Twitter was interrupted Wednesday with rap music and porn, a newspaper reported.The purpose of the hearing was to discuss reducing bail terms set for the 17 year old Tampa resident arrested last Friday over the hack last month of the accounts of major US celebrities.
But the interruptions with music, shrieking and pornography became so frequent that Judge Christopher Nash ended up suspending it for a while, the Tampa Bay Times said.
Investigators view the youth -- AFP has chosen not to release his name because he is a minor -- as the brains behind the mid-July cyberattack that rocked Twitter.
Hackers accessed dozens of Twitter accounts of people such as Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... , Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.... and Elon Musk, after gaining access to the system with an attack that tricked a handful of employees into giving up their credentials.
The hack affected at least 130 accounts, with tweets posted by the usurpers duping people into sending $100,000 in Bitcoin, supposedly in exchange for double the amount sent.
Bail for the 17 year old was set for $725,000 and in the hearing his lawyers were seeking to reduce it.
After the judge suspended the hearing, and eventually resumed it, hackers went at it again -- with interruptions that disguised their user names as organizations such as CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... and BBC.
In the end, judge Nash ruled against reducing the youth's bail.
He was arrested along with two others, aged 19 and 22, one of whom lives in Britannia, and was charged with cyber fraud.
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[NYPOST] A Virginia rape suspect was released from jail over 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... concerns — and then rubbed out his accuser, authorities say.
Ibrahim E. Bouaichi, 33, of Greenbelt, Md., had been indicted on charges of rape, strangulation and abduction after Karla Dominguez, a native of 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... , told cops in Alexandria, Va., that he sexually assaulted her in October, the Washington Post said.
Bouaichi turned himself in 11 days later, and a judge ordered him held without bond. Then, despite objections by an Alexandria prosecutor, lawyers for the man, who was charged with six felonies, successfully argued on April 9 that he be released on $25,000 bond — with a condition that he only leave his Maryland residence to meet with lawyers or pretrial services officials, the newspaper said.
In their motion requesting bond, Bouaichi’s lawyers had argued that it was "impossible" to provide their client with adequate social distancing and other safety measures amid COVID-19 while behind bars, according to the report.
Less than a month after Bouaichi’s release from the Alexandria jail, he was arrested May 8 for allegedly ramming a K-9 officer’s vehicle in Greenbelt, the Washington Post said.
He was charged with first-degree assault, harming a law enforcement dog and other counts and released May 11, Maryland court records show.
Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter told the Washington Post that at the time, local authorities there were not notified of the charges Bouiachi faced in Prince George’s County. They would have tried to revoke bond for him if they had been, Porter said.
But Bouaichi remained free — and on July 29, he returned to Dominguez’s apartment building and fatally shot her, police said.
Bouaichi had then been on the lam until Wednesday, when he was spotted in his car by federal marshals and Alexandria police in Prince George’s County. Cops found him with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was listed at death's door at a local Virginia hospital Friday afternoon, Alexandria police Lt. Courtney Valentine told The Post.
In a statement, Bouaichi’s lawyers said they were "certainly saddened by the tragedy both families have suffered." The lawyers said they had been eagerly anticipating trial on the rape charges against the suspect.
"Unfortunately, the pandemic continued the trial date by several months, and we didn’t get the chance to put forth our case," they said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... an online fundraiser set up to help with Dominguez’s funeral costs had eclipsed $5,000 as of Friday.
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Also, do not close the window, do not run to see what just happened as it may still be happening, do get down, open your mouth but cover it and close your eyes.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[American Thinker] Ronald Reagan famously observed nearly sixty years ago: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same[.]" The man could say so much with so few words. (1) Freedom is an idea; (2) it belongs to anyone wise enough to recognize its value irrespective of race, color, or creed; and (3) it will be endlessly threatened at all times by those opposed to liberty.
[Free Beacon] Hunter Biden was hit with a $450,000 lien in July over delinquent state income taxes, which he paid off in six days despite having no discernible income. Last year, he told the court judge in his paternity case that he was broke and unemployed.
[Mises] In recent days governments in Australia, Europe, and the US have moved toward imposing a new wave of forced lockdowns in the name of fighting the spread of COVID-19. Australia has imposed harsh new lockdown measures, including a curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. CNN reports:
...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...
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
[NYPOST] NYPD officers engaged in an hours-long stalemate with a cop-assault suspect Friday in Hell’s Kitchen — before Police Commissioner Dermot Shea ordered them to retreat as a stream of protesters arrived on the scene, law-enforcement sources told The Post.The top cop’s directive to give up — without the suspect 
...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...
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who for weeks had blamed President Trump for fueling riots in his Oregon city, on Thursday acknowledged that the violence has continued even after the federal presence was curtailed, and told peaceful protesters to stay home.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
[NYPOST] A Massachusetts registered sex offender freed on bail for rape is facing new charges after kidnapping and raping a woman when she tried to leave his home, police said.
...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...
