[TheSun] THE leader of a US communist party has come out in support of Joe Biden for the 2020 election.
Bob Akavian, 77, leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, implored voters to "deliver a decisive defeat to Trump and the whole fascist regime.”
[Atlantic]-..."This push to open schools is guaranteed to fail," says Peter Hotez, a pediatrician and molecular virologist, and the dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. I’ve been corresponding with Hotez, and with several epidemiologists, over the course of the pandemic, and have noticed a starkness in their views in recent weeks. "The social-distancing expectations and mask requirements for the lower grades are unrealistic," Hotez told me. "In communities with high transmission, it’s inevitable that COVID-19 will enter the schools. Within two weeks of opening schools in communities with high virus transmission, teachers will become ill. All it will take is for a single teacher to become hospitalized with COVID and everything will shut down."
Hotez has good reason to be pessimistic. There were 68,605 new cases in the United States yesterday, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The seven-day average has stayed above 60,000 new cases per day since July 13. Reaching 100,000 cases per day, once seen as an apocalyptic, worst-case-scenario warning from Anthony Fauci, is no longer difficult to imagine. Indeed, my conversations with epidemiologists in recent days were all strikingly dark. They agreed: Schools should not risk reopening, probably not even for the youngest children, in the coming weeks. "We can’t pretend like everything’s fine," said Gary Simon, the director of the infectious diseases division at George Washington University. "If I had a school-age kid, I wouldn’t want to send him to school."
The evidence is all around us. There is the summer camp in Georgia where hundreds of kids and counselors—nearly half the camp—got infected after only a few days together. Then there’s the school in Indiana where, just hours after reopening last week, a student tested positive for the coronavirus. ("We knew it was a when, not if," the superintendent told The New York Times, but officials were "very shocked it was on Day 1.")
There’s also the JAMA Pediatrics study [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2768952] that suggests that babies and young children can carry extremely high viral loads of SARS-CoV-2. The study’s authors found at least as much viral material in the throats and airways of young children as in infected adults, and sometimes 100 times as much as in adults. We’ve long known that kids older than age 10 can efficiently transmit the virus [https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-1315_article], but this new research suggests that younger kids pose a risk of transmission to the people around them, just as older children do. The more we learn, the more likely it seems that children are highly effective vectors for transmission. Springtime school closures took place before the virus seized the nation. A return to the classroom now—even with thoughtful precautions—would create excellent conditions to test just how quickly COVID-19 can saturate a community. School was deemed unsafe for children, teachers, and staffers back in March. The pandemic is worse in the United States now than it was then, with multiple epicenters burning across the country. So why would schools reopen now?
Skip some obligatory Trump bashing
There is another cause for concern, this one about what the virus might do to children themselves. Although the rate of morbidity in young children is relatively low, young children are also among the least-tested cohort in America. Fauci has stressed repeatedly in recent weeks that we know relatively little about children and the virus. For example, we still don’t know how frequently children get infected, or what percentage of children are symptomatic, or how underlying conditions may exacerbate or even alleviate the severity of the infection. The results of one six-month National Institutes of Health study, which enrolled thousands of families from 11 U.S. cities, are expected in December.
One of the strangest things about living through a pandemic is the lag in understanding of how bad things are, an awful mirror of the lag in deaths that come like clockwork after a surge in coronavirus cases. All along, this disaster has been simultaneously wholly shared and wholly individualized, a weird dissonance in a collective tragedy that each person, each family, has to navigate with intricate specificity to their circumstances. The despair that has seemed to crest in recent days represents another kind of lag—a lag of realization—and the inevitable end of hopefulness about what life might be like in September.
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Well Grom, some of your last comment can be explained by the fact that 1/3 of US deaths are in metropolitan NY and 40% of those were created by very bad policy decisions by a man the left currently has put on a pedestal.
Then look at the number of lies in counting to spike numbers here and ignore numbers there and counting hospitalizations per total population rather than per million when comparing USA with other countries to make it look worse and a heavy dose of skepticism is predictable.
Then we have the moving of the goal posts. Flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming the hospital became stay inside (despite proof early on that inside made transmission significantly easier) until the governor decides to let you out, even if that means that businesses fail and everyone becomes dependent upon the state to survive.
And the closing of churches as too dangerous but allowing mass protests and funerals because these things are too important (despite the fact that BLM movement is built on a series of lies, a series of lies everyone in power knows about).
Then there is the shutting down of debate on Hydrochloroquine and the usefulness of masks and it starts to look like intentional manipulation.
Distrust of authority is in American DNA and the reaction in the USA is entirely predicable.
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Eeyores don't have the same effect after it's been like a dead horse for too long
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The one population cohort who has not worn a mask during the pandemic, rarely wash their hands, and put objects and toys in their mouths are the least infected by the virus. Go figure.
A staff member at a major hospital in central Israel who contracted coronavirus stepped out of quarantine unlawfully on Monday and boarded a flight to Ukraine through Turkey.
Reportedly, the man was displaying symptoms of COVID-19 and has yet to recover from the disease.
Every coronavirus patient is required to stay in isolation until they have recovered and been cleared by a physician. Any breach of isolation is against the law and could be considered a felony of spreading a contagious disease in extreme cases.
According to the Health Ministry's website, breaching quarantine may carry a sentence of up to seven years in prison if committed intentionally, and up to three years in prison in case of negligence.
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You don't have the background Warthog. Half the Ukrainians already believe that Jews deliberately spear the virus (because Ukrainians). So, this guy is in Ukrainian quarantine right now - and will be lucky to return to Israel alive: "He died of Covid, so sorry".
[Arutz 7] - Right before Tisha B’Av, Itai Reuveni, the director of communications at NGO Monitor, noted the participation of New Israel Fund grantees and individuals in the recent protest movement:
"We can see organizations from the NIF networking in these protests right now. They are a powerful civil society player. They always try to ride on justified protests. It is fastly becoming political because of the various NGOs involved. It is the modus operandi of many NGOs to gain influence through justified protests."
The New Israel Fund is a foundation that finances numerous anti-Israel NGOs.
This is the project financed and trained by President Obama’s State Department and paid Democratic Party operatives to help Israel’s Labour Socialist party in concert with a joint list of Arab parties win against Bibi Netanyahu. They failed then, and now that Labour is down to around 5% of votes and the Arab Joint List is falling apart, they’ve clearly found a new tool in their effort to take over Israel. Who is funding them now that the State Department belongs to Donald Trump?
Around the same period of time that the New Israel Fund backing of the recent Israel protests came into the open, Matt Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu, stated in an exclusive interview:
"I fear that people from the right will go and fight them, for radicalism will bring radicalism and the left wants that. The right does not. Because the left became so radical and violent, the right will attack back. It can be counter-violence now and this is not healthy for any society, especially a small one like Israel."
"We are monitoring anarchists that go and disturb soldiers at the border," he continued. "The same leaders of the anarchists that harass soldiers almost completely disappeared from the area and are now in Balfour and Tel Aviv. They have a different mission. Everyone is against the government. They are trying to do chaos inside. You can see the shift in the leaders of the demonstrations. In the beginning, they were demonstrating against the economic problem and the fact that the people are hungry. Then, it was against Bibi. And now, they do it because they hate Israel. They carry signs that Israel is an apartheid state and other anti-'occupation' signs. They have exposed themselves."
He noted that Im Tirtzu called for a cessation of protests on Tisha B’Av, but the left did not cooperate on this. Otherwise, daddy - with tears in his eyes - will spank
They won’t, so please spank hard. Then go after the money men.
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I’d been wondering why Israel suddenly had all those cleqrly organized Antifa style protests against Bibi, but had been thinking of it as a local issue rather than part of the non-jihadi war on society.
"I let him see select parts," Yair said when asked about whether the two watch the videos together. "I try and not show him the obscene things, because that would be unpleasant, but you know, he finds it entertaining, gives him a bit of strength even."
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I despise Kamala Harris. And her law enforcement background doesn't do her any favors. Pushing through faulty confessions and lying to judges is NOT behavior that anybody should want from an attorney general.
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She's a terrible choice. But so are all the others
Including her's and the others' potential running mate.
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Kamala Harris comes across as a Hillary Clinton--mean-spirited and amoral--anything for power. I doubt that she will be the VP candidate for Biden. I still think the Dems will put up Michelle--unless Joey sniffed her kids hair or felt them up.
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Being a white NBA fan is so Jack Nicholson yesterday now. For lib whites, mouthing BLM pieties is the coin of the realm now. It's easy, cheap and takes less time. For now...
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Tow their line? That's their right. And its mine to put them on the shelf. Goodby NBA, and sadly, MLB.
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Interesting that only Breitbart is reporting this so far. The rest of the media want to give them time hoping people come back? or just didn't realize those games were on?
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I sh*tcanned the NFL after foolishness with kneeling started. Never watched the joke that is the NBA and am now dumping MLB. Hope the NHL keeps its standards and can’t help noticing the absence of the fractious people in the other leagues. Might be a hint there. Playing the race card with me now just pisses many people like me off and eventually advertising rate decline with awaken the profit motive in businesses that employ troublesome workers that do that to us.
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Interesting that only Breitbart is reporting this so far.
Not sure where I saw it, but came across a story about the Florida Marlins cancelling their next 2 weeks of game or something, because players have the WuFlu or meflu.
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Sports are entertainment. People want to relax and enjoy themselves and be entertained in their off-hours especially if they are paying The high prices of cable. The last thing they want is a bunch self-rigtheous "woke" assholes pontificating and raising their consiousness. Good-bye ESPN, NFL, NBA, MLB, NASCAR and SJW jerks.
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Great, now let's hope the ratings go to ZERO. And the same for the National Felons League.
I enjoyed the hockey feast over the weekend...possibly the most pathetic out of the pro sports was English football/soccer. Even the refs took a knee and they had BLM patches (spelled out) on their jerseys.
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Decades ago, I was a rabid sports dog. Die hard support for the local teams. I finally went to aversion therapy, like for smoking, that make so sick of it you can't bear to hear about. Haven't watched any of it in about 25 of so years, and don't miss it. The aversion therapy group I went to was the Houston Oilers. If they couldn't break ya, you couldn't be broke.
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the Florida Marlins cancelling their next 2 weeks of game or something, because players have the WuFlu or meflu.
Mr. Wife says it is indeed Florida Marlins, and he thinks 13 players were diagnosed with the thing plus another half dozen or so team personnel. (He does come in handy, even lying prostrate on the couch after spending a few too many hours today continuing to cut up the mature black locust that fell unheard in our little woods. Hopefully tomorrow will see the thing complete.)
Now, what the actual poll results are
[Arutz 7] - Seventy-percent of Israelis said they are careful to wear masks in all required instances, while 21% said they wear masks in most required situations. Two percent of Israelis said they hardly ever wear masks, while another 2% said they wear masks only in enclosed spaces, and 5% said they did not know or gave other answers.
[Breitbart] A fourth law enforcement official has died following a July drunk driving crash allegedly caused by an illegal alien who was allowed to remain in the United States on former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Ivan Robles Navejas, a 28-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested and charged by the Kerr County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office on six counts of intoxication assault with a vehicle and three counts of intoxicated vehicular manslaughter.
In July, according to police, Navejas was drunk driving when he hit and immediately killed three members of the Thin Blue Line motorcycle club — a group of active duty service members, law enforcement officers, and retired officers.
At the time, nine others were critically injured, including 39-year-old Niles, Illinois Police Sgt. Joseph Lazo. On July 31, the Niles Police Department announced that Lazo had become the fourth victim of the crash.
[SAZ] Keeda Haynes believes she brings a singular perspective to the race for Tennessee’s fifth Congressional District. After spending over three years in jail for against the law she says she did not commit, she hopes a spot in Washington will enable her to talk for susceptible constituents — and make just a little historical past as properly.
Haynes, a former public defender, is in a three-way race that features 17-year Democratic incumbent Rep. Jim Cooper.
The first election, which is slated for Aug. 6, has no Republican within the race so the winner will virtually definitely be elected to Congress come November.
"I’ve a singular perspective that lots of people do not have. ... I have been a defendant and defender," Haynes instructed ABC Information. "I actually noticed simply how this warfare on medicine actually decimated Black and brown, low-income communities."
If elected, the progressive Democrat would make historical past as the primary Black lady in Tennessee ever elected to Congress. The state has solely had two Black representatives elected to Congress, with the final candidate elected over 20 years in the past, according to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Together with supporting felony justice reform and the Black Lives Matter motion, the 42-year-old Haynes can also be enthusiastic about points equivalent to offering entry to inexpensive housing, elevating the minimal wage and lowering scholar mortgage debt.
"We’re reimagining every system in order that Black lives can matter throughout each single spectrum," she mentioned.
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Tennessee District 5 is 64.8% White, 24.8% Black, 2.6% Asian, 9.1% Hispanic and has 9.2% unemployment. 9.2%. Jim Cooper(D) has been in this seat for 17 years. In 2018, Cooper won by 67.8%.
IMHO, supporting Marxist BLM will only become more of a liability as the rioting goes on.
h/t Instapundit
[BBC] - The government's own records appear to show almost 42,000 people died with Covid-19 symptoms up to 20 July, versus 14,405 reported by its health ministry.
The number of people known to be infected is also almost double official figures: 451,024 as opposed to 278,827.
The official numbers still make Iran the worst-hit in the Middle East.
In recent weeks, it has suffered a second steep rise in the number of cases.
The first death in Iran from Covid-19 was recorded on 22 January, according to lists and medical records that have been passed to the BBC. This was almost a month before the first official case of coronavirus was reported there.
Since the outbreak of the virus in Iran, many observers have doubted the official numbers.
There have been irregularities in data between national and regional levels, which some local authorities have spoken out about, and statisticians have tried to give alternative estimates..
A level of undercounting, largely due to testing capacity, is seen across the world, but the information leaked to the BBC reveals Iranian authorities have reported significantly lower daily numbers despite having a record of all deaths - suggesting they were deliberately suppressed.
...The data was sent to the BBC by an anonymous source.
It includes details of daily admissions to hospitals across Iran, including names, age, gender, symptoms, date and length of periods spent in hospital, and underlying conditions patients might have.
The details on lists correspond to those of some living and deceased patients already known to the BBC.
...The discrepancy between the official figures and the number of deaths on these records also matches the difference between the official figure and calculations of excess mortality until mid-June.
Excess mortality refers to the number of deaths above and beyond what would be expected under "normal" conditions.
...Dr Pirmoazzen points to the fact that Iran stopped international health organisation Médecins Sans Frontières from treating coronavirus cases in the central province of Isfahan as evidence of how security-conscious its approach towards the pandemic is.
...The health ministry has said that the country's reports to the World Health Organization regarding the number of coronavirus cases and deaths are "transparent" and "far from any deviations".
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Some deep states wnat to cover up the numbers; other want to exaggerate them.
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42000/451024~.093
A little bit more than WHO's .6%
[Mercer at American Greatness] The fact that socialists and Communists are still voted into power with swagger; the fact that this creed’s savage foot soldiers—Black Lives Matter and Antifa—are cast as pacifists, seekers of equity and justice demonstrates that Communists, despite their murderous past, "belong to the camp of democratic progress" in the eyes of the world whereas the Right is forever open to suspicions of unforgiven fascist and Nazi sympathies.
If anything, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression—that "800-page compendium of the crimes of communist regimes worldwide"—treads too lightly when it comes to qualitative comparisons between the Nazi and the "Marxist-Leninist phenomenon."
On the quantitative front, "Nazism, at an estimated 25 million dead," turned out to be distinctly less murderous than Communism, whose "grand total of victims, variously estimated at between 85 million and 100 million murdered, is the most colossal case of political carnage in history."
Qualitatively, the "’class genocide’ of Communism" is certainly comparable to the "’race genocide’ of Nazism." In its reach and methods, moreover, nothing compares to communism’s continual, ongoing invention of new classes of "enemies of the people" to liquidate. "Mass violence against the population was a deliberate policy of the new revolutionary order; and its scope and inhumanity far exceeded anything in the national past."
The Jewish people have carried out "the solemn obligation to keep the memory of its martyrs alive in the conscience of the world." The civilized world has internalized the methods and meaning of the "Final Solution." As The Black Book observes approvingly, "Hitler and Nazism are now a constant presence in Western print and on Western television."
Alas, although "their practices were comparable," the "moral auras" of Nazism and Communism are still "antithetical." "The Communist project" is permitted to claim "a commitment to universalistic and egalitarian goals, whereas the Nazi project" is said to offer only "unabashed national egoism."
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In the Commons, observe Oswald Mosley
And mark his allegiances closely:
Conservative first,
Later Labour... and worse.
An accursed right-winger... supposedly.
[Garden & Gun] On a sunny spring day, Chris Leigh-Jones takes his 1933 Alfa Romeo Monza for a spin. Stretches of new asphalt thread through the community of Palmetto Bluff, a twenty-thousand-acre expanse of estuaries and woodlands in coastal Bluffton, South Carolina. Leigh-Jones fits snugly in the low-slung body of the bullet-like classic, his short hair to the wind, no cap, no goggles, working the center throttle left-handed and scanning the road ahead as he hugs turns, always prepared to brake if need be for a crossing deer...or alligator. In the distance, a group of cyclists comes to a stop, turning to appreciate the whizzing of the supercharged engine. As Leigh-Jones accelerates, the throaty, rumbling crescendo vibrates through the pines. The cyclists grin and wave. One pumps a fist high in approval.
[Guns America Digest] CZ’s P-10 lineup was first announced in 2017. Some people were lucky enough to get their hands on them around 2018, but I’ve waited all this time to test a P-10 F Suppressor-Ready in 9mm Luger, and boy... was it worth it. For those of you who are not familiar with the P-10 series, they are polymer-framed, striker-fired handguns that are offered in subcompact, compact, semicompact, full, optics ready and suppressor-ready versions. Being what they are, many people are tempted to compare them to other popular handguns on the market, but I won’t be doing that because they are a different creature altogether.
BLUF:
[American Conservative] Biologist Lawrence Roberge has a theory that holds more water than a simple online review scam—and it’s something he’s been warning about for years. Government notifications have focused on the potential damage of invasive species (remember, the foreign-originating seeds have still not been identified) and caution recipients not to plant any unsolicited seeds or even to open the packages they come in. What if this potential damage is exactly the point?
Dr. Roberge has been writing and speaking for the better part of a decade on the potential for non-indigenous species to be employed as a form of biological weapon by hostile actors. There is substantial evidence to suggest that we may be watching just such an attack play out in real time.
One key factor is broad dispersal: hundreds or thousands of propagules shipped to numerous locations nationwide. Roberge warns that such a broad dispersal can be effective even if no recipients plant the non-indigenous seeds, as there is substantial risk that unsolicited shipments will be "dumped in the trash, only to proliferate in dumps or trash heaps," he told TAC. Beside that, there is potential for significant harm from unplanted seeds as "some attacks can come from the fungal spores on the seeds or bacterial or fungal cells on the surface or inside the seeds." Government warnings not to plant the seeds have made their way through the population, and most recipients will surely follow the publicized instructions. But this may not be enough.
The admittedly unthreatening appearance of a packet of seeds in the mail may cause many to dismiss the possibility of real danger. But Roberge expressed concern that, while the U.S. is well equipped to defend human targets against biological threats, we are "poorly prepared for agricultural or environmental bioweapons." "We are very vulnerable to such an attack," he said.
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Bejoker, whatever you call yourself, you insolent ass, Cain had Stage 4 cancer with metastases to the liver and was immuno-compromised, and also he chose not to take all available precautions, as is his right. He chose, and he accepted the consequences. More than can be said for internet keyboard commandos and other gutless hooligans. Show some respect.
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Have a cup of chamomile tea, Marilyn Tojo7566. You appear a bit on edge this morning, or possibly your eye for disrespect is considerably keener than mine. At any rate, Besoeker’s commando experience has often been far from a keyboard, based on some of the places he posted from over the years.
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IIUC, Besoeker infers that the coronavirus that helped to kill Herman Cain is, like the seeds under discussion, a bioweapon. I would tend to believe that his disrespect is for the source of these weapons and the elites in this country who think doing business with that source is OK.
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unsolicited shipments will be "dumped in the trash, only to proliferate in dumps or trash heaps
That crossed my mind.
What else has crossed my mind, in this day and age, is why these seeds have not been identified...or is it the identity won't be released to the public?
[France24] The United States is in a new phase of the novel coronavirus outbreak with infections "extraordinarily widespread" in rural areas as well as cities, White House coronavirus experts said on Sunday.
Coronavirus cases continue to surge in some parts of the country and public health officials are trying to work with governors to tailor responses for each state.
"We are in a new phase," said Dr. Deborah Birx. "What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread" in rural as well as urban areas.
"To everybody who lives in a rural area: You are not immune or protected from this virus," Birx said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Birx, the White House task force coordinator, said people living in multigenerational households in an area that is experiencing an outbreak should wear masks inside the home to protect the elderly or those with underlying conditions.
Admiral Brett Giroir, an assistant Health and Human Services secretary, continued to stress the importance of wearing masks.
"If we don't do that, and if we don't limit the indoor crowded spaces, the virus will continue to run," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"We are very concerned and this is a very serious point."
The coronavirus, which first appeared in China, has infected 4.6 million people in the United States and killed more than 155,000 Americans, according to a Reuters tally.
Birx said federal officials have been working on individual reports for each state examining community trends and hospital records. "Each of these responses have to be dramatically tailored," she said.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga reiterated Friday that another state of emergency isn’t required. The death rate in Japan remains low by almost any standards, and the medical system isn’t over-burdened -- a key factor public health officials use to judge success of virus containment. The country has fewer than 100 people in critical care due to Covid-19
But it'll get worse. Unless it gets better. We'll know, in 2022.
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San Diego County is trending down (5.3% tested were positive) with Zero, NADA, deaths over the weekend
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I refuse to wear a mask in my own home. If Mrs. Uluque gets too uptight from watching the damn TV I'll pitch a tent in the back yard.
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The tent will be for Mrs. Uluque. Maybe if she stays away from the TV long enough she'll calm down. This is getting ridiculous.
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We are living Platos Allegory of the Cave
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[New York Post] Jeffrey Epstein "sex slave" Virginia Giuffre allegedly spent two days alone with Prince Andrew at the financier’s ranch, "endlessly’’ catering to every need of the royal — who especially enjoyed licking between her toes.
The claims were made in a manuscript that the Epstein accuser wrote about her alleged abuse at the hands of the late multimillionaire, his accused madam Ghislaine Maxwell and rich and powerful men including the prince — part of a trove of court documents released last week amid Maxwell’s battle against sex-trafficking-related charges in Manhattan.
Giuffre wrote in her book proposal — titled "The Billionaire Playboy’s Club’’ — that it was hard for her to stomach some of the men’s bizarre sexual preferences.
"It wasn’t easy meeting the sexual desires of these strange men, the Prince being one of them," she claimed, according to the Daily Mail.
[IsraelTimes] The Hezbollah terror group has trained thousands of students in "electronic warfare," including the propagation of fake news, since 2012, according to The Telegraph.
It reports: "A Telegraph investigation can today reveal that Hizbollah has trained thousands of Iran-backed social media activists, helping create so-called ’electronic armies’ across the region. This newspaper can disclose that since at least 2012, Hizbollah has been flying individuals into 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... for courses teaching participants how to digitally manipulate photographs, manage large numbers of fake social media accounts, make videos, avoid Facebook’s censorship, and effectively spread disinformation online.
"Students have come from Iraq, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Bahrain, and Syria, according to interviewees that spoke to The Telegraph on the condition of anonymity."
[Breitbart] A new poll released this weekend shows President Donald Trump, the incumbent GOP president, has taken a national and battleground states lead over his Democrat challenger presumptive nominee former Vice President Joe Biden.
The survey, from the Democracy Institute commissioned by the Sunday Express newspaper, shows Trump leading Biden 48 percent to 46 percent. What's more, Trump has opened up a bigger lead according to this poll in the crucial battleground states, meaning the president by this pollster's estimates currently is projected to win 309 electoral votes‐more than he did in 2016.
Overall, this poll has Trump nationally at 48 percent to Biden's 46 percent with six percent undecided. Among white voters, Trump leads 53 percent to 46 percent. Trump is surprisingly strong with black voters at 20 percent in this poll‐he got about eight percent of the black vote in 2016‐while this survey has Biden at 77 percent. Hispanic voters in this poll break for Biden 51 percent to 38 percent, which would also represent an increase for the president over his 2016 performance with Hispanics.
"Crucially, President Trump has a lead of 48 percent to 43 percent in the swing states Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which would put him back in the White House with an electoral college tally of 309 to Biden's 229," David Maddox, the political editor for the Sunday Express, wrote about his newspaper's survey.
The poll has Trump leading in Florida 47 to 45 percent, leading in Minnesota 46 percent to 45 percent, and in New Hampshire 46 percent to 43 percent. "The polling suggests Mr Trump is emerging as the race leader because of a belief he is best in handling the economy," Maddox wrote. "With a third of voters putting the economy as the top election issue and 66 percent thinking that the economy is bouncing back after coronavirus, voters believe that Trump is better for the economy by 57 percent to 43 percent."
When it comes to the electoral college, this pollster argues that Trump will pick up Minnesota and New Hampshire but that Biden would pick up Wisconsin.
Democracy Institute Director Patrick Basham is quoted as saying the survey data seems to demonstrate that Biden's campaign may have "reached its high water mark."
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Dems invented the Torricelli maneuver. They can be expected to repeat it. Of course, "Borking" only worked against Bork, so we can always hope for a massive FAIL again.
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Not picking Bernie could cause ... problems. Picking anyone will cause problems.
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I expect Michelle Obama with a "Make America Hope Again" slogan or some shallow marketing thing like that to appeal to blacks and liberals. I also think she would have to dodge debates as she has no real experience in anything beyond watching her husband (how'd that work out for Hillary?)
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According to the internet... Biden had two brain surgeries back in 1988. Decide for yourself if he should be a viable candidate for President of the USA.
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I don't believe we've seen enough of old Joe to accurately judge his real state. But the longer he stays in his basement the more people will wonder and rightfully so. He'll either have to come out swinging at some point or let somebody else have a go. Problem is, if they replace him with anybody but Bernie, they're gonna lose the Bernie vote. But then, if they nominate Bernie, the lose anyway. Maybe they have become increasingly loud and shrill because they know they have no good options. Maybe they'll try another impeachment.
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Well, it appears sometimes that he has difficulty expressing himself sometimes..
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Information is coming at your six ways from Sunday. It will always be this way. Forever into the future. It is not something one can control or organize into a nice sequential process. "Mom, can you please help me?" Those days are gone. "Did I say gone ? Yes I did ! " Nature being what it is..... I recommend we all decide for yourselves. The USA is devolving into a disorderly construct. The past 5 decades were comforting ( half century for this ewho cann't pay attention. 50 years is a sufficiently long enough time to decern a "trend". Take it for what it was. The time to grow a backbone and decide what is real and what is not is here. Tradecraft has long taught me that one has to stand on one's own two feet. Not parental advice, but one's self. Take what comes along and make your own decision. You cannot, repeat.... cannot ask that other people take responsibility for your own choices. The time for choosing is now...... I have made mine. You make yours. See you on the battle field. Either your are in front of me or..... beside each other. Your choice. Time to be self actualized. Google it if you don't comprehend. I've stopped long ago trying to accommodate idiots. May they remain on the battle field... Antiedam or Gettiysburg . Literally hundreds of mu ancestors were there. I can list them by name. Can you? The 2nd 1865 is coming. How it will unfold is not relevant... but is will shortly unfold in your life time..... That is all that is important and frightening. I never wanted it to be, but its beyond my control. That I can tell. Decide for yourself what you will choose to do. Choice is everything.
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We're all human. We all make mistakes, both spelling and otherwise. But I like to think that we don't all stumble over our words like Joe does. I'm not sure if it's dementia, brain farts or what. But he does appear to have a problem.
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@ "trailing wife" I made a comment while in Dhahran about 15 years ago to you on this website. You noticeable became scared and thought I was a "jihadi" at the time. I wish to apologize for that.....but....the internet being what it is, and the fact that we can't see who is infront of us talking..... it does change the human conversation dynamic. We are all learning to adjust when someone comments and isn't physically in-front of us at the time we talk. I don't know who you are "trailing wife' but I have good idea. You probably now have a good idea too of who I am from my recent comments......long winded.... so be it. Just wanted you to know that I'm sorry about scaring you. Didn't mean to do that. Took years to make my apology.... but I had to safely retire before posting this. Chow.....
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You noticeable became scared and thought I was a "jihadi" at the time. I wish to apologize for that.
Ospas Dhahran 49, forgiveness gladly given. I’m sorry I misunderstood you then, and I’m very glad you came back. Congratulations on your retirement! May it be all you hoped for and more, though if you are like Mr. Wife and several others around here, you'll find yourself working about as hard on projects of your own choosing as you did when you were in the payroll, despite plans to sleep until noon and grow a beer belly (or to finally take the time to recover the body of your youth). ;-)
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I saw two Biden for Prez ads this afternoon on HGTV. Other than climate change, his platform is very much like Trump's - less China, more American jobs, more American productss, more small business.
I didn't catch anything about law and order, however.
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Trump has probably been leading in the polls all along. The pollsters are not trustworthy.
[Jpost] Anthony Tata, a retired Army brigadier general who has called former President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... a "terrorist leader," will officially perform the duties of the deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, the Pentagon spokeswoman said.
After failing to secure a Senate confirmation hearing,
...the Muslim Brotherhood made their objections known...
US President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... 's most divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... nominee for a Pentagon position so far has taken a different, less-senior policy role at the Defense Department, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.
Anthony Tata, a retired Army brigadier general who has called former President Barack Obama a "terrorist leader," will officially perform the duties of the deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, the Pentagon spokeswoman said.
In theory, the position would still offer Tata some degree of influence on hot-button Pentagon policy matters, potentially including Iran.
In addition to falsely calling Obama a Moslem and a terrorist, Tata has also called Congresswoman The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters ...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.67368 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.67163 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist... , an African American, a "race-baiting racist," according to now-deleted Twitter posts seen by Rooters.
Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, blasted the move to give Tata a senior job just days after the Republican-led Senate abruptly canceled Tata's confirmation hearing.
"If an appointee cannot gain the support of the Senate, as is clearly the case with Tata, then the President should not put that person into an identical temporary role," Smith said in a statement.
"This evasion of scrutiny makes our government less accountable and prioritizes loyalty over competence."
Tata's new job is more junior than the one Trump initially nominated him for - undersecretary of defense for policy. But the White House made clear on Friday that Trump still supported him, even after the Senate declined to take up his nomination.
Tata had to overcome two bureaucratic hurdles to secure his new role. First, he withdrew himself from consideration by the Senate for the undersecretary position. He then accepted the more provisional status of simply "performing the duties of" the deputy, as opposed to having the position outright.
Smith said the Defense Department was struggling under a record number of vacancies, with top positions filled in provisional capacities, like Tata's deputy role.
"If confirmations cannot be completed, the president must find new, qualified people who can win the support of the Senate," Smith said.
The Pentagon had said Tata previously served as a senior adviser in Defense Secretary Mark Esper's office, although his exact responsibilities were unclear.
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"Divisive" has a bad rap, much like "Discrimination". As long as you discriminate on ethical grounds, like criminality or motive, no problem. If you're divisive, that's fine as long as you're dividing out the people who wish to do you harm.
[AnNahar] At least six people, mostly children, died when an improvised bomb went off in northern Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , security sources and local officials said Sunday.
The IED, which went kaboom! as the group's cart was passing late Saturday, also injured four others, they said.
Northern Burkina Faso is notorious for jihadist attacks which have killed more than 1,000 people there and displaced about a million more since 2015.
The victims were "nearly all children who were returning from grazing their livestock", a local in Ouahigouya said. "The cart which carried some of them rolled over a mine."
IED attacks have multiplied since 2018, killing nearly 200 military personnel and civilians, according to an AFP tally. Such attacks are often combined with an ambush.
Jihadist violence, which is often accompanied by inter-community strife, has killed more than 4,000 people in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, according to United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... figures.
BLM has got to set the record for advancing through the three stages of Hoffer's Law.
[Breitbart] Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters issued "social justice" and "black liberation" demands regarding "diversity" to a restaurant owner in Louisville, KY, including a directive for "donations" to organizations run by non-whites.
Listed demands from a BLM affiliate in Louisville include racial quotas for staff and ownership of business suppliers, donations to organizations run by non-whites, and adjustment to dress codes. The posters used the acronym "BIPOC" ("black or indigenous persons of color") as a euphemism for non-white persons:
23% of Staff is BIPOC in Front of House
23% of inventory is from BIPOC retailer(s)
Regular donations to BIPOC organization
Dress code policy does not discriminate against BIPOC patrons of employees.
Additional demands issued via the letter included the option to give 1.5 percent of revenues to a local "black nonprofit or organization" in lieu of purchasing a minimum of 23 percent of the business’s inventory from "black retailers," mandated "diversity and inclusion training" for all employees, and displaying of left-wing messaging to support "reparations."
The posters include a stated commitment to be publicly visible as a public service announcement pending future "inspections" of restaurants and other businesses.
Local supporters and some from Louisville’s Cuban community held a rally to support Martinez’s restaurant on Sunday, which was vandalized in recent days. They said the restaurant "has been subject to vandalism and extortion in recent days."
The Courier-Journal reported:
La Bodeguita de Mima was forced to close July 24 during a [Black Lives Matter] demonstration that shut down East Market Street, at which several protesters presented Martinez with the list of demands and said he "better put the letter on the door so your business is not f*cked with."
The restaurant remained closed the next two days because "management and staff were concerned about safety," according to the release. "30+ staff members (mostly immigrants) were unable to earn a paycheck."
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Isn't this double taxes, since they already 'extort' the pols at city hall and the capital into handing out such graft from the public treasury? /rhet question
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Wow. The Grease Man. Takes me way back in the day.
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I've recently completed a lecture course on Utopia and Terror in the 20th Century in which the presenter noted that all these movements, socialism, communism, nazism all were structured similar to how the mafia is structured.
I imagine it's kind of a chicken and the egg question though.
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Try that around here and a group of very well trained men will shoot your asses. Us vets don't take too kindly to shakedowns.
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As always, the real instigators will stay behind the scenes and send out cannon fodder to meet those who aren't ready to kneel to the new BLMoloch.
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BLM has got to set the record for advancing through the three stages of Hoffer's Law.
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
-- Eric Hoffer
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Where's the RICO act when you need it? This is the very definition of racketeering.
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If they're going to do stuff like this, then as a matter of truth in advertising BLM ought to rename itself "The Committee To Re-Elect Donald Trump."
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The Louisville chapter of the Urban League has come out in support of the extortion, calling the Cuban immigrants who object "racist".
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Here in Nevada I've noticed that the Hispanic community (mostly Mexican, but not exclusively) is assimilating quickly into the white community (mostly northern European, but not exclusively) reasonably quickly; much like Jews, Italians, and the Irish did back in the day. Might I submit that the more the left does this sort of thing to people like the owners of this restaurant, the faster that assimilation is going to go? And the more they won't like the results?
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@ secret master. I don't know if I am posting this correctly, but I agree with your deduction. I see many posts here when simply trying to reply to your comment.
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@ Ospas Dhahran 49 ^ You're fine. The Rantburg forums don't allow specific sub-threads, which is why you see "^" used a lot here. But, yes; you're rapidly seeing a lot of the Mexican immigrant population saying to themselves "You know what? I'm white." And a lot of the white population saying "You know what? You are."
Of course, all of this is totally ridiculous. As Americans we're supposed to be an intermixed, multi-racial "mono culture" that contains a wealth of subcultures as part of it. We shouldn't be agonizing over racial categories (white vs. black) and sub-categories (white Hispanic vs. non-white Hispanic). It's crazy: we're too racially intermixed already.
But that's part of the power dynamic now, so welcome to red, white, and blue Rwanda. (Though I still hope not.)
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Amazes me that the East Asian community is so slow to abandon the left. I mean seriously, FDR the liberal Icon had internment camps down to now where they are discriminated against for college admission.
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Of course, all of this is totally ridiculous. As Americans we're supposed to be an intermixed, multi-racial "mono culture" that contains a wealth of subcultures as part of it. We shouldn't be agonizing over racial categories (white vs. black) and sub-categories (white Hispanic vs. non-white Hispanic). It's crazy: we're too racially intermixed already.
For a fine example of this, you could read Fred’s book “Phoebe Clayton”. It’s up there in the right sidebar.
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All of Fred’s books are wonderful. But yes, Phoebe Clayton played on that theme.
I see many posts here when simply trying to reply to your comment.
No sub-threads here, Ospas Dhahran 49, which for me makes it easier to keep track of the main conversation... and there isn’t that nonsense where the last post in the sub-thread is only two letters wide and impossible to read. I find it easiest to just put the bit I’m responding to in italics, and go on from there, since often enough the conversation has moved on, either while I’m checking to make sure I din’t misspell anything and got my verb tenses right, or else I’m responding to something several posts up-thread so the ^^ up thingies can’t point meaningfully at my target. @nym came into use after I started doing that,) I never made the adjustment, though I do understand receiving it.
[AlAhram] Syria on Sunday condemned an agreement between Kurdish-led forces in the country's northeast and a US oil company, describing it as "theft" and an "affront to national illusory sovereignty".
The foreign ministry denounced "an agreement signed by the SDF militia and a US oil company to steal Syrian oil... supported by the US administration", in a statement quoted by the official SANA news agency.
The SDF is the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led paramilitary alliance that backs a semi-autonomous administration in northeastern Syria and controls the country's biggest oilfields.
Senior US officials have confirmed an agreement to "modernise" the fields, without naming the US company or providing other details.
The Syrian foreign ministry's statement decried "an agreement between... thieves who steal and thieves who buy".
It also decried "the hostile US position towards Syria, the theft of the Syrian people's riches and its hindrance of the state's reconstruction efforts".
Senator Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... , a longtime supporter of the Syrian Kurds, told a congressional hearing Thursday that he had spoken about the deal with SDF commander General Mazloum Abdi.
"Apparently they've signed a deal with an American oil company to modernise the oil fields in northeastern Syria," Graham said.
Asked by Graham if the US was supportive of the deal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: "We are."
"The deal took a little longer, senator, than we had hoped and we're now in implementation. It can be very powerful," Pompeo said.
A US-led military coalition strongly backed the SDF against 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 in Syria, helping the Kurdish-led outfit seize the jihadists' final patch of territory there in March last year.
Syria's war began in 2011 with the violent mostly peaceful suppression of peaceful protests and snowballed into a multi-fronted conflict pulling in multiple external powers.
It has resulted in the country losing tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues.
The fighting has often destroyed hydrocarbon infrastructure, which has been coveted by the various belligerents.
Before the civil war, Syria produced nearly 400,000 barrels of oil per day, but output has collapsed during the conflict.
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces have arrested the alleged perpetrator behind a Baghdad explosion which killed two civilians and founded five others, according to a spokesperson for the Iraqi commander-in-chief.
An individual suspected to be behind the Wednesday IED bombing was arrested on Thursday, Yehia Rasool said in an official statement released on Sunday.
"The heroes of the National Security Service through field, technical and intelligence efforts were able to identify the perpetrator of this terrorist operation and to obtain accurate information about him and determine his location," the statement read.
"After obtaining the legal arrest warrants, he was arrested within 24 hours of committing the crime," the statement added.
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 (ISIS) grabbed credit for the attack.
ISIS murderous Moslem activities have increased in recent weeks.
The holy warrior group killed the commander of the 59th Brigade of the Iraqi army, Brigadier General Ali Hameed Ghaydan, after gunnies attacked his convoy in the Ibn Sena region in al-Tarmia district, north of the capital city of Baghdad.
ISIS also grabbed credit for the killing of General Brigadier Ahmed al-Lami, commander of 7th division of the 29th brigade of the Iraqi army in an ambush in Anbar on Wednesday.
On May 15, two soldiers were killed and four maimed when a convoy hit an improvised bomb (IED) in northern Baghdad province. ISIS later grabbed credit for the blast.
May was an especially deadly month. Ten Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al Shaabi in Arabic) fighters were killed in a five-pronged assault in Salahaddin on May 2. On the same day, gunnies killed three federal coppers and maimed two others in an attack on Zaghniya cop shoppe in Diyala province.
ISIS claimed in its weekly propaganda newspaper al-Naba on Thursday that its gunnies had carried out 34 attacks in Iraq between July 23 and 29 alone — mainly in Anbar province.
[Zero] Last week we warned readers to be cautious about new COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting how key parts of the clinical trials are being skipped as big pharma will not be held accountable for adverse side effects for administering the experimental drugs.
A senior executive from AstraZeneca, Britain's second-largest drugmaker, told Reuters that his company was just granted protection from all legal action if the company's vaccine led to damaging side effects.
"This is a unique situation where we as a company simply cannot take the risk if in ... four years the vaccine is showing side effects," said Ruud Dobber, a top exec at AstraZeneca.
"In the contracts we have in place, we are asking for indemnification. For most countries, it is acceptable to take that risk on their shoulders because it is in their national interest," said Dobber, adding that Astra and regulators were making safety and tolerability a top priority.
AstraZeneca is one of the 25 pharmaceutical companies across the world, testing experimental drugs that could be used to combat the deadly virus. And, of course, if testing yields positive results, AstraZeneca could manufacture hundreds of millions of doses, with no legal recourse if side effects are seen.
European officials told Reuters that product liability was a significant discussion to secure new vaccine drugs from Pfizer, Sanofi, and Johnson & Johnson.
As for the US, well, when it comes to the legal framework around vaccines, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) already has a law called the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, which provides immunity to vaccine companies if something goes wrong.
With AstraZeneca, and many US big pharma companies rushing COVID-19 vaccines to market with governments granting them immunity if the vaccine has side effects, all suggest corporate elites and government regulators have very little faith in these drugs.
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Curse on both sides. There is no perfect but don't let the lawyers tell you that when hundreds of millions, now billions, are to be made in playing jury lotto. With management infected with executives more concerned about social issues and quick money scams, QA has no place (ask Boeing).
[Red State] Is Joe Biden reaching the point of no return mentally? That’s the word from Dan Bongino, who shared earlier today that he’s hearing from sources close to the situation that Joe Biden is worsening and that Democrats will have a decision to make soon.
For context see Joe Biden’s Brain Crashes So Thoroughly That It Spawns a New Meme and Joe Biden Blanks Out and Then Insults Martin Luther King In Disaster Public Comments for some examples of his latest mind melting moments.
[PJ] Democrats around the country have begun to pressure the Biden campaign to call off all debates with Donald Trump due to the coronavirus pandemic—they say.
In truth, the reason they don’t want Biden to debate Trump is that they don’t think Trump will play by their rules. The president would take over the debate and make it about what he wants, not what Biden wants.
Democrats are also worried about Biden’s mental stamina and his ability to remain engaged for an hour and a half during a debate.
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In truth, the reason they don’t want Biden to debate Trump is that they don’t think Trump will play by their rules.
Actually he will play by their rules. One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee? Nah, just one set. He who shows no quarter, deserves none for themselves.
[American Conservative] For years, it seemed everyone was predicting the doom of small town USA. As manufacturing declined and smaller farms were made unprofitable by large-scale agriculture, cities—the seats of power and influence—became the be-all, end-all of our economy. The young were fleeing to them, companies were settling in them, and the small towns of flyover country were shrinking day-by-day.
COVID-19 is changing that.
Cities are no longer the shiny cosmopolitan playgrounds they once were. Not only are densely-populated cities a nightmare for virus spread, but urban areas were also hit harder by unemployment, and many of them have become ghost towns as inhabitants comply with social-distancing rules.
Today, many seek new places to live, and, as it turns out, the American countryside has a lot to offer. Over the years, technological advances in communication and collaboration have prompted many predictions that the popularity of high-density urban living would one day decline, but these predictions never came to pass. Although the internet and other technologies made remote work possible, and although the cost of living in the biggest U.S. cities continued to rise, it seemed that the physical and psychological benefits of big cities continued to outweigh the negatives.
Enter the pandemic. The COVID crisis stripped cities of all their benefits and heightened all their hardships. Due to high population density, health and safety concerns skyrocketed and mobility took a nosedive. Meanwhile, COVID-related unemployment made the already high cost of living unbearable.
Over the past few months, job loss forced many to leave cities and return to family homes. It’s estimated that nearly 3 million adults moved back in with parents or grandparents in March and April. After all, city living quickly loses its luster when you can’t socialize over drinks after work, enjoy dinner at the hottest restaurant, or attend the coolest gallery opening or music event—especially if all your friends have already left.
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If they shut down the Biergärten, I think there would be an up-roar, possibly worse than when Andechs quit selling Starkbier on weekends years ago.
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The Sierra Nevada foothills are getting inundated with people fleeing Sacramento and the bay area. Funny how you can tell just by looking at people that they're not from here.
[American Conservative] Senate Republicans unveiled Monday their $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. Tucked inside is a $29.4 billion request for new defense spending, over $8 billion of which is for defense procurement and acquisition.
Critics point out that the bill does not delineate any new or urgent defense threat to justify the $30 billion request over and above the Pentagon’s ask.
Instead, the bill requests millions in new spending for things like missile defense money and F-35’s.
Here’s some of what Congress wants to spend money on:
$1,068,000,000 for additional Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft
$720,000,000 for additional Lockheed Martin C—130J aircraft
$686,000,000 for additional Lockheed Martin F—35A aircraft
$650,000,000 for wing replacements to the Boeing A—10
$375,000,000 for General Dynamics Stryker upgrades
$283,000,000 for additional Boeing AH—64 Apache Block IIIB helicopters
$243,270,000 and $76,325,000 for THAAD related items, the anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles
$49,100,000 for Sonobuoys, a tactical sonar system for transmitting submarine activity
"As you know, fighter jets are well known for their pandemic fighting abilities," wrote Stephen Miles, executive director of Win Without War.
In order to claim that each item in the bill is requested in response to the coronavirus, the bill labels them:
1. “to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, and
2. "designated by the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985."
’But the fact that the Pentagon would have two years to spend these new funds undercuts the argument that this new request is urgent and coronavirus-related.
"The greed is not pretty. The Pentagon has already had $740 billion approved for defense this year, but it and its congressional advocates can’t resist asking for more and funneling more pork to their constituents," said John Isaacs, senior fellow at Council for a Livable World & Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, in an interview with The American Conservative.
"If Republicans’ sporadic concerns about deficits were real, they would view the $750 defense budget as the first place to look for cuts to partly offset the gigantic sums expended to recover from coronavirus," said Ben Friedman, policy director of Defense Priorities, to The American Conservative. "Instead, they’re using coronavirus as an excuse to shovel more money to the Pentagon, which already receives more than it did at almost point during the Cold War, for no obvious reason. They do not even bother with a security rationale for the new spending, it’s just seen as inherently good to blow money on new military hardware."
There are a few items of spending that are coronavirus related: $5,300,000,000 for Coronavirus Defense Production Act purchases, $1,450,000,000 for four expeditionary medical ships, and $705,000,000 for the Defense Health program.
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More productive than paying people an extra $30,000 to stay home.
P.S. I know of multiple households that have two people claiming the extra unemployment benefits and one household with three (or were until July 31). Now they are pissed that "their money" has stopped. Funny how misplaced benevolence becomes an entitlement so quickly.
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$650,000,000 for wing replacements to the Boeing A—10
Anyone got an objection to bringing the old A10 airframes up to 0 hours of use. Just asking for some groundpounder friends.
[PJ] President Donald Trump’s job approval hit its highest level in more than five months in Rasmussen’s Daily Presidential Tracking Poll from Friday, reports CNSNews.
According to the poll, 50 percent of likely voters approve of Trump, with 39 percent strongly approving. Disapproval was at 48 percent, with 43 percent strongly disapproving.
Trump’s approval in this poll was boosted by black voters. According to Rasmussen, a slight majority of black voters approve of Trump, and a higher percentage of minority voters approve of the president.
Two months ago, black likely voter approval for President Trump in the Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll was at 40 percent. In August 2019, black voter approval for Trump stood at 26 percent.
Trump received 8 percent of the African American vote in 2016.
I was very much skeptical of Rasmussen’s 40 percent approval number two months ago. Approval that high from black voters would make Trump’s reelection all but certain. While I question the results of this poll, I do believe that it is possible that it could be more accurately capturing the trend of black approval for Trump. If Trump’s approval from likely black voters was at 26 percent a year ago, it is certainly possible that the economic improvements black Americans experienced prior to the pandemic could have resulted in a surge of support.
I don’t see it hitting 40 percent or even 26 percent, let alone 50 percent. But is it possible that Trump could get 10 to 12 percent of the black vote in November? I can see that.
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Your treadmill... the great chain of being...
The wheel of rebirth. Think of fleeing,
And lord, what a yelp
From progressives: "Quick, help!
All these negroes we're driving need freeing!"
[Washington Examiner] George Soros donated more than $100,000 to a PAC that supports St. Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner.
Soros, the prolific liberal donor, cut a check for $116,000 last month to the Missouri Justice and Public Safety PAC,
...another name to find in future searches — it seems they do the same kind of name game the jihadis do: lots of name changes with the same underlying personnel to fool those hunting them...
which was created to support Gardner. Soros was the only donor listed on the Missouri filing.
As of Aug. 1, the group has spent $104,393 of the $116,000 that Soros donated, with $77,804 paid to Gardner's campaign directly, according to a Sunday report from Just The News. Gardner is facing a primary election in St. Louis on Tuesday.
Michael Vachon, a Soros spokesperson, confirmed the donation and noted that Soros has a history of supporting candidates who share his views on criminal justice reform.
Gardner caught national attention after she charged Mark and Patricia McCloskey for brandishing weapons after protesters broke down a fence and entered their private neighborhood last month. While the McCloskeys were hit with felony charges, Gardner opted not to charge protesters who had been arrested in June during the George Floyd protests.
Gardner has also been questioned for failing to disclose her travel outside of Missouri, as required by state law. According to a recent report from KMOV4, Gardner went on several vacations paid for by the activist group Fair and Just Prosecution without disclosing the trips.
[NATIONALREVIEW] The tragically incompetent mayor of 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... , Lori Lightfoot ...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway... , appeared on CNN
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Strange who those 'easy to get' gun states don't have the kill ratio that Chicago has. Then again any excuse to cover failure is a hallmark of the whole sad problem.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, that it objects to what was mentioned in the navigational warning issued by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... regarding the deployment of a Ottoman Turkish ship for seismic.
Commenting on this warning, the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmed Hafez expressed Egypt’s objection to the interference of Point No. 8 mentioned in the navigation warning with the Egyptian exclusive economic zone.
He stressed that this measure is not consistent with the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Convention on the Law of the Sea and violates the provisions of international law, "rather it constitutes a violation and an assault on Egypt’s sovereign rights in its exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean."
He also stressed that Egypt does not recognize any results or impacts that may result from working in the area of overlap.
He pointed out that Egypt had deposited a declaration with the United Nations on the exercise of its rights in pure economic waters in accordance with Article 310 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on July 11, 1983.
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Little chances of success to US recent attempt to resolve the current situation in #Libya, #LNA sent its conditions, which is all related the the #Turkish occupation and its results, the main condition is, #Turkey must leave #Libya
Video of the moment the Iron Dome launched a number of missiles to intercept the missile that was launched from the #Gaza Strip a little while ago#BaghdadPostpic.twitter.com/tuHoV3Hf0J
In response to the rocket that was fired at #Israel from #Gaza earlier this evening, our fighter jets & aircraft just struck subterranean Hamas terror facilities in Gaza.
We hold Hamas responsible for all activity emanating from Gaza.
[Al Ahram] Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced Sunday that she has married her long-time partner, eight months after becoming the head of government.
Marin, 34, said on her Instagram account that she married Markus Raikkonen on Saturday and posted a picture of the couple in their wedding outfits with a bunch of white flowers.
Finland's government said on its website that the wedding took place at Kesaranta, the prime minister's official residence. It said the couple's family and closest friends attended.
Marin and Raikkonen have been together for 16 years and have a 2 1/2-year-old daughter, the government said.
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Looking at the photo of them at the link, they make beautiful babies together. I don’t understand this European thing about waiting forever to get married, but I’m glad they finally figured it out.
We have nothing about this in the Rantburg archives, neither the incident nor the BBC report.
[ToloNews] Email exchanges related to alleged execution-style killings by British special forces in Afghanistan have been shared with a UK court for an ongoing case, says UK media.
BBC Panorama investigated the killings a year ago.
The case of the murder of four members of a family in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province by the British special forces, which is now on trial in the UK's high court, was brought by the members of the family who want a deep investigation into the incident.
The case is receiving new attention because of evidence- email exchanges--have been turned over to the UK court.
The BBC reported that "two senior officers from Special Forces met in a bar in Dorset to have a secret conversation. They feared some of the UK's most highly-trained troops had adopted a "deliberate policy" of illegally killing ungunnies."
After the conversation, the BBC says, "a briefing note believed to have been written by one of the most senior members of UK Special Forces was passed up the chain of command."
The message contained "clear warnings for the highest levels of Special Forces and concluded that these 'concerning' allegations merit 'deeper investigation' to 'at worst case put a stop to criminal behaviour.'"
The documents were released to solicitors for the ongoing case at the High Court.
The man bringing the case is Saifullah Ghareb Yar, and he told the BBC on Saturday that four members of his family were innocent and were "assassinated" on February 16, 2011 by British special forces in the Nawa district of Helmand province.
The UK government said that the four members of Saifullah's family were killed in self-defense during the operation.
Gharib Yar says that on 1:00 o'clock in the morning while they were asleep, British special forces along with Afghan government forces raided their house in Nawa district of Helmand province.
Gharib Yar told the BBC that they were all shouting, and that British and Afghan forces had apparently come to arrest key Taliban ...Arabic for students... figures.
Gharib Yar says that after the firing ended and the forces had left, it was revealed that his father, two brothers and his cousin had been killed by British special forces.
Now the case is in UK high court and the UK government said that the raid was conducted for self-defense.
"Our innocent people have been killed by foreign soldiers inside their homes, we want the international courts to address these cases and compensation must be paid for them," said Attaullah Jan Afghan, Helmand provincial council head.
A commander of the Afghan government forces told the BBC that at that time the family of four members of the group had not fired a single shot at the British forces and the commander believed that the victims were innocent.
"When they [British forces] have committed a crime, then the issue can be investigated and the perpetrators must be brought to justice," said Rouhullah Sakhizada, lawyer.
The BBC reports that Afghan government forces, despite the recurrence of such incidents, repeatedly refused to participate in such operations with British forces.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The Somali National Army (SNA) on Sunday killed 5 al-Shabaab ...... the personification of Somali state failure... bully boyz during an operation in the southern region of Lower Juba.
Isma’il Abdi Malik Malin, commander of SNA’s 16th Unit, told news hounds that the troops conducted an operation in Jamame town inflicting casualties on the bully boys.
"Our forces destroyed many bases used by the bully boyz as hideouts in the area and we killed five of them in a fierce confrontation between the army and the bully boys," said Malin.
He said that a senior al-Shabaab leader who represented the bully boyz in finance was also killed during the shootout.
The latest operation was conducted amid intensified attacks against al-Shabaab bully boyz in the southern region of Somalia.
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[ToloNews] In Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province a jacket wallah detonated a vehicle full of explosives at the entrance gate of the prison in PD4 of Jalalabad city at 6:44 pm, local officials said Sunday.
A front man for the Nangarhar governor, Attaullah Khogyani, said one person was killed and 18 people were maimed in a boom-mobile blast that went kaboom! at the entrance gate of the Jalalabad prison and snuffies were reportedly on the upper floor.
Since Khogyani's statement, eyewitnesses told TOLOnews there were two deaths.
Emal Neyazi, Nangarhar's police chief, confirmed to a TOLOnews news hound in the area that 2 blasts occurred inside the prison & a heavy clash is ongoing. Sources told TOLOnews that dozens of prisoners beat feet from the prison, but Neyazi said those who fled were re-captured.
Eyewitnesses say that the attack began with a boom-mobile exploding at the prison entrance gate, and by clearing the obstruction and obstacles, the way was opened for the attackers and they clashed with the security forces.
Gun firing has also been reported inside the prison.
So far, two people have been reported killed and nearly 20 others injured in the incident.
According to local officials, gunfire can be heard close to the prison.
The MoI confirmed the blast in Jalalabad, saying "armed attackers blew up a boom-mobile at the entrance gate to Nangarhar Prison and then clashed with security forces. According to preliminary reports, 3 people have been killed and 5 have been injured," said the ministry.
According to the ministry, police and NDS special forces have been deployed to the area.
Local media report that ISIS has grabbed credit, but this is unconfirmed.
Earlier, local news hounds said that so far 16 people were maimed and one was killed in the blast and quoted public health officials saying all casualties were civilians.
The Taliban ...Arabic for students... denies involvement in the attack.
Both ISIS and the TTP have a presence in Nangarhar... and yesterday it was announced that Afghan intelligence had killed Assadullah Orakzai, intelligence emir for the ISIS-Khorasan.
It is the third day of an Eid ceasefire between the Taliban and the Afghan government.
This comes as the government and Taliban are at an impasse over the remaining prisoners to be released, as called for in the US-Taliban agreement.
[REDSTATE] Let us take a walk down memory lane with respect to the love affair between Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... /BLM and the elected Democrat establishment of Oregon and Portland.
Just nine days ago, on July 23 I covered Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s foray to the frontlines of the rioting between Antifa/BLM and the federal law enforcement agents left alone by the state and local politicians to defend the Hatfield Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland which was being attacked nightly by rioters operating without interference out of public parks just across the street. Noteworthy was the fact that Mayor Wheeler wasn’t treated with much respect by the rioters, as they were happy to throw things at him and chant for his removal from office. In the end he had to be "rescued" from the mob by a detail of 6-7 security officials in plain clothes who had been close at hand all during his interactive "support" of the "protesters".
Three days later, on July 26 I noted the sudden re-emergence of the Portland PD on the scene of the rioting that night, engaging with the federal law enforcement agents in a game of wack-a-rioter. Was the apparent change in policy — Portland PD had been MIA for an extended period of time — somehow connected to Mayor Wheeler not being clutched to the bosom of Anitfa/BLM when he came to stand united with them three nights earlier?
On July 27 I observed that Portland PD seemed to be showing some newfound "vigor" in the streets in their confrontation with rioters — two consecutive days shortly following Mayor Wheeler having received a less than cordial welcome on the frontlines. He continued to have the right words spew forth when he spoke about the protesters, but in what Portland PD you certainly got the feeling some different message was communicated by him beyond the earshot of the press.
Then came the announcement of a deal reached between Oregon Governor Kate Brown and DHS for the shift in responsibility for securing the parks and streets to the Oregon State Police and Portland PD. My colleague Nick Arama had it first here on July 29.
That was followed by relative peace and tranquility on the streets of Portland the nights of July 30 and 31.
But it seems like Antifa/BLM thought tonight would be a good time to test the commitment of Portland PD to the new plan with the Feds. But it looks like they didn’t appreciate how quickly the spirit of cooperation between the Democrat politicians and the rioters would evaporate into the ether.
Portland PD was there tonight to drive home this new reality.
Check out all the videos, presumably made by Antifa/BLM “allies“, at the link.
On 1–2 August, antifa militants gathered outside the Portland Police building on SE Burnside & attacked officers w/paint-filled glass containers. One was hit in the head. Many of those throwing projectiles identified as "press." There were only 2 arrests. https://t.co/m1sUx3cjVe
Even during the day time, the area around the Portland federal courthouse is lawless as police are instructed to stay away. After BLM protesters harassed and assaulted those standing with flags, they beat up a man. Video by @livesmattershow: pic.twitter.com/8IGn0Z3P9E
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] With the defund movement, the state’s ability to protect people is being demonized and exposed as ineffectual. It illustrates a fundamental truth that, fortunately, most people don’t have to think about, at least if they live in safe, affluent neighborhoods: At any given moment, your safety really is in your own hands. Usually, no one else can protect you if someone wants to do you harm.
Even in good times, the police are usually minutes away when seconds count. If everyone chooses to disrespect and disobey the law, there is no police force large enough to restore order. And as the experience in Portland is showing, a simple lack of political will on the part of politicians can be enough to let lawlessness reign over a major city’s downtown area.
Naturally, the Second Amendment takes on an added importance in such a context. Self-defense from crime has never been its primary purpose, but it is a happy secondary effect. Citizens have agency in protecting their own lives and property. And they use it nearly every day — usually without a shot being fired, although there are also dramatic cases of heroic bystanders firing weapons in order to pin down or neutralize a shooter or other criminal.
Many people might believe that the state has a legal "public duty" to protect their lives and persons. This theory is dubious, and in fact, it has failed in court when put to the test. In the 1981 case Warren v. District of Columbia, the Washington government successfully argued that it had no such obligation to three women who were held hostage and repeatedly raped and beaten over a 14-hour period on Sunday. Although two of the women had repeatedly called 911 just when the incident began, an incompetent police response failed to find them, resulting in the plaintiffs’ prolonged, horrific ordeal. Based on the same logic, a separate plaintiff, in that case, lost his case after a Washington, D.C., police officer let the men go who had been beating him and bashing in his car without identifying them so that he could seek restitution.
On the other end of the country, the Seattle Police recently made the same stipulation, albeit more reluctantly. Police Chief Carmen Best had to warn business owners downtown that, thanks to a new ordinance forbidding nonlethal crowd control tools such as pepper spray, the police would be unable to protect their establishments from harm. The legislation, she wrote, "gives officers NO ability to safely intercede to preserve property in the midst of a large, violent mostly peaceful crowd."
The lesson here is clear. Even in a world with fully-funded police, citizens require the means to protect themselves. But in a world where police become less effective or less competent (or possibly even more brutal), or vanish because of a misguided effort to defund them, there is no substitute for the right to keep and bear arms. People who are fearful of crime will be more likely to exercise that right, and it may not always be a good thing.
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The social compact with government is that the individual gives up some freedom of action in exchange for the government providing security and protection of life, liberty and property. When the individual breaks the contract, government can fine, incarcerate or kill him. When the government breaks the contract, all bets are off. AKA anything goes.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iranian authorities announced on Saturday, that the "Zafar 2" satellite is now being prepared and will be completed within months.
President of the Iranian University of Science and Industry Jabbar Ali Zekhri said in a statement to the Fars News Agency that the "Zafar 2 satellite is now being prepared by 93 Iranian scientists and it is expected that we will need several months to complete the project".
He added that "the date of delivery of the satellite Zafar 2 to the space organization is not specified yet because the decision in this regard is in the hands of the organization, knowing that work is underway to complete this national project day and night."
Zakhri said that "a large number of university students in the higher levels of education are working indirectly alongside Iranian scientists in making the satellite" Zafar 2 ".
The head of the Iranian Space Organization, Mortada Barari, recently announced that his country is about to manufacture a sensing satellite with an accuracy of one meter, to put it in an orbit around the Earth at a distance of 500-600km.
Earlier this year, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... sent their Noor satellite into orbit, prompting the U.S. and its allies to criticize the Islamic Theocratic Republic and accuse them of producing deadly rockets
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[THEBAGHDADPOST] An Iraqi general, who has been widely blamed for the fall of the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to the ISIS snuffies in 2014, was released from prison on Saturday, to the dismay of many Iraqis.
Iraqis from Mosul reacted with anger to news that General Mahdi Gharawi, who had been tasked with the defence of Iraq's third-largest city in 2014, had left prison and was now back at home after just two years in jug.
The Iraqi army and police had an estimated 60,000 men in Mosul, and greatly outnumbered the attacking ISIS force which was estimated to be only 1,500 strong. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... they abandoned their positions in the city in June 2014, allowing IS to capture it in just six days.
Mosul endured three years under the rule of IS snuffies and large parts of it were destroyed in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s by the US-led anti-ISIS coalition .
Bodies of victims of the war are still regularly being found in the city, where scenes of devastation predominate today , three years after IS snuffies were expelled.
Gharawi was accused of a series of charges by the Iraqi defence ministry, including desertion and dereliction of duty. The charges carried a maximum penalty of death.
Taha Abbassi, the father of seven children who were killed along with their mother in a coalition airstrike on Mosul in 2016 called the announcement of Gharawi's release "disgusting".
"Justice is absent in Iraq," he told The New Arab's Arabic-language service. "When things like this happen it makes the creation of a state which respects human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and the right to justice impossible."
Although free from prison now, he still faces a number of charges in civilian courts, including high treason, which the Iraqi parliament accused him of in 2015, and human rights violations committed during Gharawi's command of Mosul's security.
Other officers who were accused of abandoning Mosul to IS, such as Federal Police Colonel Kifah Muzher, have also been released from prison.
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[AMERICANTHINKER] Residents of the Third Precinct area of Minneapolis have been told by their beleaguered police department:
"Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet," the police said in their email, a copy of which was obtained by Alpha News. The email said citizens should listen to criminals and "do as they say."
The message warned that "some victims have been maced, dragged, assaulted, and some threatened with a gun."
In essence, residents are being told to "close one’s eyes and think of Black Lives Matter," it seems.
The City of Minneapolis has now lost its most basic responsibility, the preservation of civil order. The fundamental compact between government and citizens is that in return for paying taxes, government protects us from marauders. There really is no point having a government if it takes the position that it cannot protect its constituents.
The fateful moment in this shameful surrender was when Mayor Jacob Frey ordered his police to vacate the Third Precinct building and let the mob loot it and burn it. That triggered the riots that destroyed a large swath of the commercial district along Lake Street, the major east-west artery in South Minneapolis. Frey now ranks as a historic villain in American history, a man whose name should connote cowardice in the same fashion as Benedict Arnold connotes treason.
It didn’t have to unfold this way. bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... ’s police chief James Craig is far wiser and more courageous than the contemptible Frey. He explained to Tucker Carlson why that city has had no riots and looting despite levels of black poverty far worse than in Minneapolis:
"We don’t retreat here in Detroit," Craig said. "We’re just not going to do it. ... We weren’t giving up ground to the radicals. We just didn’t do it."
Detroiters aren’t tolerating violence in their city either, and the community on the lam is in support of the department’s efforts, he said.
I was born and raised in Minneapolis, and am saddened to my core that my hometown has surrendered to the worst among us. But that sadness is combined with fury at the irresponsibility of Frey and the rest of the Democrats that run the city and the state of Minnesota. Progressivism is toxic when it controls the elective offices in any polity.
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A headline, IMO, more appropriate to the outcome of the last Minneapolis elections.
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Had several conversations with friends and neighbors over the weeked. Folks up north here are pissed, most hunt and are armed to the teeth.
If these BLM SOB rioters take their looting show north of the Twin Cities there will be, is a militia shooting defence waiting. That is putting it mildly. The anger and hostile attitude towards the ANTIFA crowd even surprised me. Summed up. most are ready willing and able for center mass targets.
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Don't bother collecting 'taxes' from these people if you can't provide security. Most of the rest of the process, formally known as government, can be contracted out.
[ToloNews] The Afghan government has released 317 Taliban ...Arabic for students... prisoners in the past two days from Parwan and other provinces, bringing the total to 4,917, the National Security Council tweeted on Sunday.
"Release will continue until the total reaches 5,100," it said.
On Friday, the first day of Eid, President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... ordered the release of 500 Taliban prisoners in response to the group’s three-day ceasefire announcement.
Ghani said the 500 prisoners would be released within the next four days, but they are not prisoners on the Taliban's list. The Taliban list includes detainees that the Afghan government has said are accused of serious crimes.
As a solution, the US has proposed that hundreds of Taliban prisoners be transferred to house arrest in a supervised facility when they are freed from Afghan jails, Rooters reported on Friday, citing three bigwig sources said.
The report said the move was proposed to end the deadlock that is holding up the intra-Afghan negotiations.
The proposal for Taliban fighters accused of conducting some of the bloodiest attacks in Afghanistan to be placed in a location where they would be under both Taliban and Afghan government surveillance was presented this week to the warring Afghan sides by top US diplomats, the sources said as quoted by Rooters.
The Rooters report says that the diplomats are trying to kickstart peace negotiations in Doha that have been delayed over the prisoner issue.
The completion of the prisoner exchange was part of the agenda of US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad’s meeting in Kabul on July 29.
[AIER] Based on the data, there seems to be no relationship between lockdowns and lives saved. That's remarkable, given that we know for sure that lockdowns have destroyed economies the world over.
Every epidemic model being flung around in March built in the assumption that lockdowns would control the virus. In the early days, it was about preserving hospital capacity. Later it became a general principle: slow the spread. The methods were the same in nearly every country. Ban large gatherings. Close schools. Shutter businesses. Enforce stay-home orders. Mandate human separation. Masks. Travel restrictions.
Nothing like this has been tried in the whole history of humanity, certainly not on this scale. You might suppose, then, there was absolute certainty that there would be a causal relationship between lockdowns and the trajectory of the virus. Just as the FDA doesn't approve a drug unless it is proven to be safe and effective, one might suppose the same would be true for a policy that shattered every routine and trampled human rights in the name of disease mitigation.
Surely! It turns out that this is not the case. It was pure speculation that lockdowns would suppress this virus, and that speculation was based on a hubristic presumption of the awesome power and intelligence of government managers.
For five months, governments all over the world have been freaking out, ordering people around to do this and that, passing mandate after mandate, and yet there is no evidence that any of it matters to the virus.
Already in mid-April questions arose. Prof Isaac Ben-Israel, head of the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University and the chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, looked at the data around the world and concluded that the virus comes and goes after 70 days regardless of the policies deployed. He found no relationship at all between locking down and transmission and death.
Fast forward to mid-July. Data scientists investigated the experience from the spring. They too found no relationship between the virus and policy. Putting it very bluntly: "Rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people."
That's awesome to consider. Billions of lives fundamentally altered. Economies wrecked. Centuries-old traditions of liberty and law thrown out. Police states everywhere. And to what end? The data indicate it was all for naught. Apparently, you cannot control a virus with state policies. The virus just doesn't seem to care. The lockdowns were not justified. Now the mask rules are trying to retroactively justify the lockdowns. Governing principle #1 - never admit you were wrong!
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Frank honesty in Norway - "Our assessment now....is that we could possibly have achieved the same effects and avoided some of the unfortunate impacts by not locking down, but by instead keeping open but with infection control measures," she said. Norway
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[WashingtonTimes] The George W. Bush Presidential Center was the victim recently of a hack attack that resulted in an undisclosed sum being paid to the perpetrator, the organization announced Friday.
Unencrypted data involving the Bush Center’s donors, including names, contact information and contribution history, was compromised during a May security breach, the organization said on its website.
The donor data was stolen during an attack suffered by Blackbaud, a third-party data management service used by the Bush Center, but has supposedly since been destroyed.
"Blackbaud informed us that it paid a ransom to the attackers in order to obtain confirmation that the compromised unencrypted information has been destroyed," the Bush Center said in a statement. Whose name(s) was/were on the list to make it worth paying a ransom to protect?
Probably a fishing expedition — they’d know after reading through thr lists. Also, it’s a pretty good bet the center would pay the ransom — if they cannot keep donor information private, people won’t donate anymore.
Freedom Moreno, 34, was charged with harassment, interfering with an officer, resisting arrest & more at the violent antifa attack on a Portland Police building. She was quickly released. She identifies as antifa on her social media. https://t.co/xzrxgInhyNpic.twitter.com/xsURbk1EzR
[Al Ahram] Suspected forces of Evil from Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... killed at least 13 people and maimed eight others in a grenade attack in northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... on Sunday, a security source and a local official told Rooters.The person or persons unknown threw a grenade into a group of people inside a camp for displaced people in the commune of Mozogo near the Nigerian border in the Far North region, said mayor Medjeweh Boukar.
Boukar was informed by locals that 13 had died. A security official who confirmed the attack said that 2 maimed also died, bringing the toll to 15.
Boko Haram has been fighting for a decade to carve out an Islamic caliphate based in Nigeria.
The violence, which has cost the lives of 30,000 people and displaced millions more, has frequently spilled over into neighbouring Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
In June last year, around 300 suspected Boko Haram forces of Evil swarmed onto an island on Lake Chad in Cameroon's far north and killed 24 people, including 16 Cameroonian soldiers stationed at military outposts.
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[EN.ALGHADEER.TV] The US House of Representatives has passed an aid package valued at hundreds of millions of dollars and designated for assistance to the Israeli regime to develop its surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems.The lower house of the US Congress made the decision on Friday and the funding will mostly be allocated for Iron Dome, David’s Sling as well as Arrow 3 missile systems, Israeli English-language newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday.
The appropriations bill specified that "$500,000,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative Programs...for the procurement of the Iron Dome ... system to counter short-range rocket threats...for the Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRBMD) program... for co-production activities of Arrow 3 Upper Tier systems in the United States and in Occupied Paleostine."
The report asserted that the spending package is in accordance with the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and the Israeli regime worth $38 billion over a decade.
US military aid to Israel has skyrocketed over the past several years, even as Israeli forces are engaged in blatant human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations against Paleostinians in the besieged Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and across the occupied West Bank.
Back in April, The Jerusalem Post reported that the Pentagon had supplied 1 million surgical masks to the Israeli regime in order to be distributed among soldiers, despite the fact that it had earlier introduced a measure requiring personnel to make their own masks to combat the spread of the new coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... The report revealed that the masks were procured from China, and a plane carrying the medical stuff intended for Israeli soldiers landed in Ben Gurion Airport on April 7.
The Jerusalem Post had initially published the article headlined "US Department of Defense gives 1 million masks to IDF for coronavirus use."
The newspaper, however, changed the headline shortly afterwards to read, "Israel brings 1 million masks from China for IDF soldiers," in a possible attempt at downplaying the role of Washington in spite of shortages in protective equipment, including face masks, in the United States.
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How'd they sneak this past Omar, AOC and the radical antisemitic hard left?
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This is how the attack was thwarted. It is still unclear which organization or agenda these assailants served. Our troops on the Golan and along the Blue Line remain vigilant against possible attacks. pic.twitter.com/cMyRoGN1PU
The four suspects were under IDF surveillance over the course of several hours before the troops opened fire, being monitored by female soldiers operating powerful security cameras, known in Hebrew as Tatzpitaniyot.
The men were first seen approaching the area at around 8 p.m., and they crossed the official Israel-Syria border — but not the security fence separating the two countries, which lies a few meters west — some three hours later.
"They crossed the ’alpha line’ so they were totally within Israeli territory," Zilberman said, referring to the technical term for the line marking the Israel-Syria border.
Seeing that the men were armed, the lookouts directed a group of Maglan soldiers, who had been lying in wait, to the location.
The special forces troops opened fire with machine guns and other weapons, while an aircraft overhead also fired at the suspects. "I can say with high certainty that they were killed," Zilberman said.
The front man said the lookouts had noted a number of cases of people approaching the border "pretending to be innocent shepherds" in recent days, which the military believed to in fact be reconnaissance operations ahead of an attack. In light of these concerns, the IDF sent a Maglan team to the area to act as an "ambush" if such an attack should occur, Zilberman said.
The IDF front man said that while the outpost where the men planted the bomb was unmanned, the military still considered the attempted attack to be serious matter as the area is often patrolled by Israeli troops.
The military on Monday morning released the footage of the men entering Israeli territory (above). The weapons that the IDF said were in their possession are not clearly visible in the grainy footage filmed with a night-vision camera.
In the video, the men can be seen stalking through a field and approaching the security fence. The suspects could then be seen standing behind a mound of dirt before they were apparently hit with a missile, which causes a kaboom where they were standing.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The National Audubon Society, dedicated to the conservation of birds, is named in honor of Franco-American ornithologist John James Audubon
Audubon is most famous for publishing his book Birds of America as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838
In a magazine piece, the Society said it was speaking out against its namesake and condemning his slave-owning and white supremacist past
Audubon, who was born on a sugar plantation in present-day Haiti, may have some African roots, but claimed his mother was murdered by a black rebel
When he moved to the US, his family owned and sold several slaves and spoke out against abolition
He never acknowledged black or indigenous people who helped him write his book and referred to black enslaved men as 'hands'
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You know what we call people who work full time on a farm and aren't family members? Farmlands.
What a stupid time to live through.
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Rockford Police have arrested criminal suspects in relation to the far-left riots on Friday and Saturday in Rockford, Illinois. Rioters attacked demonstrators at a pro-police rally on Saturday. 17 in total were arrested but most were quickly bailed out.
[Sultan Knish] The transformation of the media from for-profits to non-profits sheds any commitment to the marketplace, to a community of readers who pay for its services, and instead puts it at the service of dot com tycoons who want to invest in left-wing causes. The experience of reading or watching the media’s content also changes from information to indoctrination. As is the case with so many of the dot com giants which finance the media and on whose platforms the media depends, the reader and the viewer are no longer consumers, they are the product that is being sold to the media’s political backers.
Even as the non-profit media claims that it’s now free to pursue journalism as a public service, it’s not providing a service to the public, it’s serving a small class of donors by trying to influence the public. Which raises questions about freedom of the press, and whether one-sided propaganda should be permitted to run amok, while alternatives are choked off or hounded out of existence.
Do we really owe these entities their protections under these circumstances?
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They're corporations. Treat all corporations the same, that is subject to punitive damages for poor quality and shoddy products. The day of the individual publisher running an manual printing press are long gone. The entire intent was the free flow of information. What you refer to as the Media (which includes platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Google) is engaged in the corruption, suppression and fabrication of information.
Talking to a select group in a military base, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu claimed #Turkey will rule the world, writes history, God is with President #Erdogan gov't, predicts unexpected developments soon. pic.twitter.com/O6Lgnbguom
[ALMASDARNEWS] The military front man for the Ansarallah-aligned Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Sare’a, posted on Twitter a video of a U.S.-supplied drone that was shot down over southern Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Sunday.
According to the spokesperson, the drone shot down by the Ansarallah forces was an RQ-20 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
The front man said: "The air defenses managed to shoot down an American reconnaissance plane (RQ-20) in the airspace of the Haradh district off Jizan with an effective weapon."
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Jizan is one of the small refineries Dhahran keeps on its supply network....just above the of crazy Yemen border. Narjran has far more activity. The old Crown Plaza hotel has (still does have....) gunshot marks all over its outside walls...going back to the mid 90's when they first started to appear on the hotel walls from locals upset about the Matawa cracking down on "witchcraft". Islam has an innate fear of that..... Hotel had a decent menu for visitor lunches but the local town's folk had trouble replacing my rear glass Suburban window after being shot out by Yemen gonadless, but "awesome" border guards! As for the Najran buffet....not great....but far too much zattar.... That triangle road zone (google it) has the best arrow heads. The sand dunes allow one to drive off road along the 'urks" (spelling?) to find them easily. Picked up approx. 300 in that area on 3 excursions from Dhahran. What did you find there? Filled our water bottles with sid..... Our biggest problem was running out of ice.... Border guards came into camp in the morning's asking for "sidikee"..... Right of the "Rat Patrol".... They couldn't figure our why we we're there with our children ! Heck it was Aramco territory ! We ruled. If they didn't want us there.... then we wouldn'tt drill..... Sure shut them up qin short order. SAG got on their case. We all miss Tim Allen.... best driller ever. That man had a back bone.....Texas born and raised.
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It sounds like you’ve had adventures, Ospas Dhahran 49. What a pity .com is no longer with us — the two of you could have traded stories for the general edification of our readership.
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.com ? don't recall him. Was he in the Rub a Khali at some time... if so we might have crossed tire tracks..... Gas (octane type) is more valuable than water. One always carried 2:1 ratio when making a crossing. Wabar crater was a common destination. Shaybah was easy. There was a paved road to that so it was a no longer a challenge..... PR Dept. made it a big deal when it actually wasn't at all. CNN fell for that every time. A basic Suburban was far better than a "Hummer" (1, 2 or 3 version any day). Suburban is a "Flying living room, 2 AC's and room for ice....."
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“PD.com“ was the nym of a computer programmer who lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for about two decades, corresponding with us from there. I assume he was in Jeddah, but I really don’t know, nor what company he worked for. Single, with a long beard that used to confuse the locals, affording him curmudgeonly amusement. He retired and came home, settling in Las Vegas and becoming a Rantburg moderator. Sadly, he died a few years ago, but he is all over the archives. He used to write about the 20 kilometer wide strip in eastern (? that’s a geography question, not one of my strengths) Saudi Arabia, where the oil and the Shiites were, among many other subjects about which he had strong opinions which he argued well.
The so called national syrian army (turkish backed group) which is caliming to be an independence move, notice the #Turkish flags and #Erdogan posters.. they are another genre of mercenaries https://t.co/3Pb3hir9xY
[THEBAGHDADPOST] On the surface, the Islamic Theocratic Republic and Russia have been on the same side since the conflict in Syria erupted in March 2011. Both countries have maintained the same arguments and narrative: That the Assad government is a representative of the Syrian people and that the government is fighting illegitimate terror and bad boy groups.
In comparison to Russia’s involvement in Syria, Iran’s interventions from the outset of the conflict — in the form of military, financial, advisory and intelligence assistance — were much more noticeable. Since the uprising began in Syria, the Iranian regime has spent an estimated $30 billion, or between $3 and $4 billion a year, to keep Bashir al-Assad in power.
Russia did not begin deploying its armed forces in Syria until 2015, by which time the oppositional and rebel groups had captured a significant part of Syria’s territory and the Assad regime appeared to be on the verge of collapse. Russia’s intervention was mainly in the form of Arclight airstrike
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[REDSTATE] Word on the net tonight was that the action was going to be — supposedly — in Austin, Texas as Antifa/BLM was holding a memorial for Garrett Foster, the moron who pointed the business end of an AK-47 at active duty Army Sargeant Daniel Perry, who is well trained to not wait for the other guy to shoot first once engaged. The not-so-well-trained former Air Force mechanic Foster ended up on the losing end of a shootout due to his failure to get off a shot.
Antifa/BLM protesters were out in decent numbers, and the action got started much earlier than was the case normally in Portland.
I guess maybe accuracy with pepper spray is higher during daylight hours.
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I'm sure there are plenty of cattle cars at the rail yard. Just move'em all out to a side rail in west Texas before release when the 72 hour hold expires.
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I don't think there's a lot of coordination on the conservative side at the top right now, but "catch and release, rinse and repeat" could be a great strategy if suddenly a lot of hard-core agitators were caught and not released, say, early in October. Surprise...
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Antifa/BLM protesters were out in decent numbers,
They were illegally blocking public streets.
They were intending to illegally detain members of the public, threatening their lives.
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.
[Mercer at American Greatness] The fact that socialists and Communists are still voted into power with swagger; the fact that this creed’s savage foot soldiers—Black Lives Matter and Antifa—are cast as pacifists, seekers of equity and justice demonstrates that Communists, despite their murderous past, "belong to the camp of democratic progress" in the eyes of the world whereas the Right is forever open to suspicions of unforgiven fascist and Nazi sympathies.
[Garden & Gun] On a sunny spring day, Chris Leigh-Jones takes his 1933 Alfa Romeo Monza for a spin. Stretches of new asphalt thread through the community of Palmetto Bluff, a twenty-thousand-acre expanse of estuaries and woodlands in coastal Bluffton, South Carolina. Leigh-Jones fits snugly in the low-slung body of the bullet-like classic, his short hair to the wind, no cap, no goggles, working the center throttle left-handed and scanning the road ahead as he hugs turns, always prepared to brake if need be for a crossing deer...or alligator. In the distance, a group of cyclists comes to a stop, turning to appreciate the whizzing of the supercharged engine. As Leigh-Jones accelerates, the throaty, rumbling crescendo vibrates through the pines. The cyclists grin and wave. One pumps a fist high in approval.
[France24] The United States is in a new phase of the novel coronavirus outbreak with infections "extraordinarily widespread" in rural areas as well as cities, White House coronavirus experts said on Sunday.
[New York Post] Jeffrey Epstein "sex slave" Virginia Giuffre allegedly spent two days alone with Prince Andrew at the financier’s ranch, "endlessly’’ catering to every need of the royal — who especially enjoyed licking between her toes.
...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...
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 28.67368 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 43.67163 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
...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 
...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 
[Zero] Last week we warned readers to be cautious about new COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting how key parts of the clinical trials are being skipped as big pharma will not be held accountable for adverse side effects for administering the experimental drugs.
[American Conservative] Senate Republicans unveiled Monday their $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus package. Tucked inside is a $29.4 billion request for new defense spending, over $8 billion of which is for defense procurement and acquisition.
[PJ] President Donald Trump’s job approval hit its highest level in more than five months in Rasmussen’s Daily Presidential Tracking Poll from Friday, reports CNSNews.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...Arabic for 
...... the personification of Somali state failure...
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
Many people might believe that the state has a legal "public duty" to protect their lives and persons. This theory is dubious, and in fact, it has failed in court when put to the test. In the 1981 case Warren v. District of Columbia, the Washington government successfully argued that it had no such obligation to three women who were held hostage and repeatedly raped and beaten over a 14-hour period on Sunday. Although two of the women had repeatedly called 911 just when the incident began, an incompetent police response failed to find them, resulting in the plaintiffs’ prolonged, horrific ordeal. Based on the same logic, a separate plaintiff, in that case, lost his case after a Washington, D.C., police officer let the men go who had been beating him and bashing in his car without identifying them so that he could seek restitution.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iranian authorities announced on Saturday, that the "Zafar 2" satellite is now being prepared and will be completed within months.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
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...Arabic for 
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...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...
