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-Land of the Free
Mapping the massacre - Vegas
Posted by: newc || 10/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is good.
Was wondering where the LV news was.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/22/2017 0:24 Comments || Top||

#2  In the comments is a link to acoustic analysis demonstrating a second shooter.

BLUF - video recordings show two different lag times between round hits and reports. One is Mandalay Bay range and another is more like 250 yards away.

Youtube

Not sure why it starts two minutes in - there is some introductory stuff before that.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/22/2017 12:58 Comments || Top||

#3  There was only one shooter.
Stop trying to make it what it was not.
Posted by: newc || 10/22/2017 13:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/22/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#5  The incendiary bullets he shot at the fuel tanks is strange. I think the massacre is a temper tantrum of a hired saboteur whose operation failed.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/22/2017 15:20 Comments || Top||

#6  The reconstruction was very thorough given the limited access to all of the available information. I found it curious that there seemed to be almost no hospital follow-up stories that you usually see after mass shootings, certainly not at the level of past events. Any ideas about the utter silence from the FBI? By now they would have had some assessment, consider the follow-up from the San Bernardino shootings for example.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/22/2017 15:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Interesting, but no new information.

Like NMBS, I also finding it strange we haven't seen a flood of survivor stories. Paid for and otherwise.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/22/2017 20:08 Comments || Top||


Down Under
New Kiwi Labor Party PM: Capitalism is a failure, 'just look at the children'
[Independent] New Zealand's new prime minister called capitalism a "blatant failure", before citing levels of homelessness and low wages as evidence that "the market has failed" her country's poor.

Jacinda Ardern, who is to become the nation's youngest leader since 1856, said measures used to gauge economic success "have to change" to take into account "people's ability to actually have a meaningful life".

The 37-year-old will take office next month after the populist New Zealand First party agreed to form a centre-left coalition with her Labour Party. They will be supported by the liberal Greens.

In her first full interview since becoming prime minister-elect, she told current affairs programme The Nation that capitalism had "failed our people".

"If you have hundreds of thousands of children living in homes without enough to survive, that's a blatant failure," she said. "What else could you describe it as?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 04:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well you're in charge now hot pants. A problem without a solution is just a complaint.

Whattya gonna do??Raise taxes??Show me how raising ever reduced homelessness?? Check out California's "blatant failure" on that one.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 10/22/2017 4:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Caracas (want to compare children?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/22/2017 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  She is going to emulate Venezuela's success.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/22/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#4  She is going to emulate Venezuela's success.
Posted by DarthVader


I'm always happy for people who find employment.
Obviously the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition was not an option.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||

#5  She could have gotten into Skeletal Horrors Weekly, though.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/22/2017 12:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Every nation gets the government it deserves.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#7  She can always slap a tax on the property of all the billionaires that have put in 'escape the coming crash' homes. There's lot's of them.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/22/2017 17:09 Comments || Top||


Economy
GOP Tax Framework Could Raise GDP By 5%, Wages By 7%
[Free Beacon] President Donald Trump's tax reform framework could raise GDP by as much as 5 percent and wages by as much as 7 percent, according to a new study from Boston University economists.

"We find that, depending on the year considered, the new Republican tax plan raises GDP by between 3 and 5 percent and real wages by between 4 and 7 percent," the economists explain. "This translates into roughly $3,500 annually more annual real take-home pay for the average American household."

Economists believe this growth can happen due to the plan's aim to reduce the marginal effective corporate tax rate from 34.6 percent to 18.6 percent, which they believe will grow the capital stock by 12 to 20 percent.

While critics of the plan have said the tax cuts will add costs to the economy, the Boston University economists say the plan is essentially revenue neutral due to the economy's expected expansion. They point out that closing corporate tax loopholes helps keep the plan revenue neutral and increased revenues are a result of broadening the tax base.

The study also says every American can benefit from this tax reform framework.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 11:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Which, IMO, means it'll never be passed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2017 14:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The people who own the deep state want lower wages and higher rents.
Look for those sort of things to pass.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/22/2017 17:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, I continue to have my doubts about a tax overhaul. The chances for it happening this year look quite bleak. Next year is a 'nothing gets done' election year, so.....
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 18:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Regardless, wages will be forced to go up due to inflation.
Posted by: gorb || 10/22/2017 20:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
New Yorker Warns Kelly's Press Briefing Was ‘Preview' of What ‘Military Coup Looks Like'
[Free Beacon] A New Yorker article warned Friday that White House chief of staff John Kelly's press briefing on Thursday could have been a "preview" of what an eventual military coup in the U.S. might look like.

"Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup," began Masha Gessen, a Russian journalist and an outspoke critic of Vladimir Putin. "You don't have to strain your imagination‐all you have to do is watch Thursday's White House press briefing, in which the chief of staff, John Kelly, defended President Trump's phone call to a military widow, Myeshia Johnson."

"The press briefing could serve as a preview of what a military coup in this country would look like, for it was in the logic of such a coup that Kelly advanced his four arguments," she continued.

Gessen wrote that Kelly's four arguments were:
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 11:38 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The Stupid is strong with this one."
Posted by: PBMcL || 10/22/2017 13:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Wasn't it month or so ago, the Left was looking for a military coup?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/22/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Sure are a lot of empty barrels being thumped.
Posted by: Alaska Paul at FL340 || 10/22/2017 17:27 Comments || Top||

#4  "Microaggressed" by someone who actually/sacrificed for his nation, cupcake?

FOAD
Posted by: Frank G || 10/22/2017 17:36 Comments || Top||

#5  ...Let me see if I have this straight: according to the Left, the US military is racist, sexist, cruel to people all over the world, and a waste of precious resources needed to take care of our own.

And they're also our only hope. Got it.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/22/2017 21:35 Comments || Top||

#6  And they're also our only hope. Got it.
Mike


So it would appear.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 22:03 Comments || Top||


Despicable People
[Townhall] Just when you thought liberals had sunk as low as they could, they break out the shovel and start digging.
....or swimming.
Nothing is sacred anymore. Nothing is off limits, and everything is political. This week showed us once again there is nothing Democrats won’t exploit, no grave they won’t dance on, if they think they can score political points. And there’s nothing "journalists" won’t spin, won’t lie about, and no hypocrisy too great to prevent them from smearing their political opponents.

The sad deaths of four soldiers in an ambush in Niger normally would not be a political football, but these times are anything but normal.

In the past week, a media narrative developed about how President Trump hadn’t spoken publicly about the deaths of the men at the hands of an ISIS affiliate group. This didn’t happen by accident, it happened suddenly and from multiple media outlets and "journalists," as if it were coordinated.

"Why hasn’t Trump said anything about this?" they asked.

Of course, the White House had spoken about it the day after it happened, but since it came from the president’s spokeswoman and not him directly, this fact was ignored. Presidents don’t speak about every death in battle and never have, but this one was manufactured to be different. It was going to be "Trump’s Benghazi," or so the media hoped.

But there were no warnings ignored, like in Benghazi. There was no 13-hour delay in sending aid. There was no blaming of an Internet video to cover up the failure of the administration to act, and no one was sent to prison for a year to aid in the re-election of the president. The only similarity with Benghazi is the body count.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 04:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  New definitions of "despicable" may be arriving with 26 Oct 2017 document deadline rapidly approaching.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 5:09 Comments || Top||

#2  26 Oct 2017 document deadline

???
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2017 6:41 Comments || Top||

#3  JFK documents.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 10/22/2017 6:45 Comments || Top||

#4  The only similarity with Benghazi is the body count.

And that is more than sufficient for the conniving maggots of the Democrap media slime.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/22/2017 9:39 Comments || Top||

#5  ...as if it were coordinated...

Very strange indeed.

MSM is all over what Trump said when he called the widows. But not a peep about the real question:

What the fuck are we doing in Niger?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/22/2017 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 Gracias
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2017 12:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Unrelated but related - Earl on REP wilson
Posted by: newc || 10/22/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Besoeker - If we are to believe today's news..
The Cubans and Russians trained him but he went lone wolf and killed Kennedy. Then the Cuban agent Ruby shot him so he would stay shut up.

It really looks like another Mikhail Suslov plot. Just like the attempt to nuke Hawaii from the sub that the Glomar Explorer later raised.

His pet dictator was, at the end, Yuri Andropov.

The wise thing to do.. Yes I know D.C. never does the wise thing. ..would have been to kill Suslov and his main supporters after the Assassination.

Sigh...
Posted by: 3dc || 10/22/2017 15:11 Comments || Top||

#9  If that had met killing everybody in the KGB HQ.. Well lots of fun contracts to keep life interesting?
Posted by: 3dc || 10/22/2017 15:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Hell of a lot cheaper than the Cold War.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/22/2017 15:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Besoeker - If were are to believe today's news. The Cubans and Russians trained him but he went lone wolf and killed Kennedy. Then the Cuban agent Ruby shot him so he would stay shut up.

Yes 3dc, I think we may soon learn that Lee Harvey Oswald was.... on the radar of the FBI and CIA.'

I certainly hope we do not also discover that his murderous rampage was due to a wage dispute or contract termination. That type of disclosure would be most embarrassing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 16:37 Comments || Top||

#12  The Kennedy assassination was because of one of two things

Either the mob was angry that JFK and Bobbie weren't playing along with the promises Poppa Joe made to the mob to get Illinois "delivered" OR it was factions in the Vietnamese government pissed at the presidential order to take out Diem.

Nothing else makes sense as to why they wanted to bury the investigation forever...way to embarrassing for every one involved
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 10/22/2017 18:39 Comments || Top||

#13  LBJ; I'll have them ni@@ers voting democrat for the next 100 years.
Posted by: irishrageboy || 10/22/2017 20:42 Comments || Top||


Fred Fleitz to Lou Dobbs: ‘Tillerson Should be Fired Tomorrow'
[American Greatness] Fred Fleitz, who served as John Bolton’s chief of staff at the United Nations during the George W. Bush Administration, joined Fox Business host Lou Dobbs to discuss the fall of Raqqa (good), progress against North Korea’s nuclear program (better), and the appearance of insubordination among certain prominent members of President Trump’s cabinet (very bad).

Lou Dobbs: Joining us tonight Fred Fleitz, former CIA analyst, chief of staff to Ambassador John Bolton at the United Nations, now a senior vice president at the Center for Security Policy and Fred great to have you with us.

Fred Fleitz: Good to be here.

Dobbs: And I think it’s terrific that tonight on this 20th of October, nine months ago the president inaugurated and today Raqqa is in the hands of U.S.-backed forces in Syria. ISIS is being rolled back, the successes as the president promised have been incredible, particularly compared to the passivity of the previous administration and its campaign against ISIS, such as it was.

Fleitz: I think that’s right, I mean, President Trump took the gloves off. There were so many restrictions on our operations in Iraq and Syria and it made a real difference against ISIS. Now, we’re not gonna hear this on other networks. I think we’re seeing some cautious signs of progress on North Korea but I don’t know that sanctions against North Korea will ever work but if they’re going to work, they’re gonna work under this president because he’s twisting the arms of the Chinese and the Russians and others to get them to enforce sanctions. We may have to attack but we have to go down the sanctions road and I’m encouraged.

Dobbs: And in the case of North Korea, the Secretary of State today suggesting it might be months before, only months, before North Korea has the ability to deliver a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile. This has been a stunning ratcheting up of the estimated timetable for the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.

Fleitz: They could have the capability now. We don’t know, the intelligence community says North Korea has 60 nuclear weapons. Whether they detonated a hydrogen bomb last month or not, we don’t know. It was a 250 kiloton weapon, which was 25 times their previous weapon. This is a very serious threat and I think North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is an offensive arsenal, not a deterrent and they will one day use it.

Dobbs: And as we are watching this, we hear from the secretary of state again, almost impossible to contemplate language. Tillerson’s saying that he wants to balance his views with those of the president. Are you kidding me?

Fleitz: I’m very angry with Secretary Tillerson, who told the Europeans today that they don’t have to worry about their trade deals with Iran, that we’re going to go after them. I immediately tweeted that Tillerson should be fired tomorrow for this. He undermined‐well he’s trying to undermine what the president did, but I think the Europeans know that Mr. Trump is serious about the Iran deal and if it isn’t fixed, and it isn’t going to be fixed, but if it isn’t fixed, he’s gonna get out.

Dobbs: This is a very difficult moment for many people to understand. The president is tolerating such abuse from his own cabinet that I mean, I don’t react well to it I will tell you. I just cannot imagine a person not deferring to the president of the United States, any American citizen and to have this kind of arrogant insubordination on the part of a secretary of state is just, it’s infuriating and I have to give the president all the credit in the world. This is a man I don’t think most of us would have ever expected to this tolerant, to be this generous and nor would of I expected Rex Tillerson to be such a small and silly person.

Fleitz: You know, I think we should think of this in light of the really inappropriate speech George W. Bush gave yesterday. The Bush circle is not in Trump’s circle and the Bush circle helps staff Trump’s national security team.

Dobbs: Yes.

Fleitz: And that’s why there’s been all this trouble in the Iran deal, the Paris climate accord, radical Islam. At the end of the year, the president has to take account of who gave him good advice, who gave him good advice on personnel and make some major changes.

Dobbs: Yeah, this is truly the . . . It looks to be the contest of purpose, direction, and will between Bush globalists and Trump nationalists, and I thank the Lord the president seems to be winning nearly all of the battles.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 04:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they want T-Rex fired that is reason enough for him to stay.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 10/22/2017 6:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Tillerson is the diplomatic channel and he is simply playing full court press on diplomacy. He wants to win that battle. He is competitive. At the same time Trump is Reagonizing the military as the military's Commander in Chief. The entire world heard Trump yesterday call up a huge number of airforce pilots. Nice cop tough cop duo. Tillerson did not deny calling Trump a moron. And thats OK with Trump as long as Tillerson maxes out diplomacy efforts. If that doesn't work, the enemy will be dealt with by an all out moron on the battle field.
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 10/22/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Ben Stein: NFL knee takers are a bunch of sulking big babies
[Breitbart] During Saturday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s "Cavuto on Business," economist and former presidential speechwriter Ben Stein rejected what many NFL players have proclaimed to be the justification for their pre-game National Anthem protests.

According to Stein, there was no longer "institutional racism" in America and those players were "a bunch of sulking big babies."

"You know, these guys are a bunch of sulking big babies," Stein said. "They don’t know what they’re talking about. There’s no institutional racism at all in America anymore. If they want to do their free speech thing, God bless them. Let them do their free speech thing. But let’s ignore them from then on. Let’s just ignore them like they’re bad babies and we don’t want to hear them crying off in the corner ... yes, there’s racism in every human being’s heart. There’s no institutional racism in America anymore. It’s gone."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/22/2017 11:23 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From Earl
Posted by: newc || 10/22/2017 12:19 Comments || Top||

#2  There’s no institutional racism in America anymore. It’s gone.

Obviously, he's not listening to what "the oppressed" say about whitey.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/22/2017 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  'Oppressed' is the new term for a minority in a democracy. Can they identify with white South Africans? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/22/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||


The Twittermob went from Irritating to Dangerous
[Spiked] In Britain a journalist can now have his career destroyed on the basis of one accusation. Just like in the GDR. Yes, just as the Stasi and its myriad snitches could dispatch from public life writers and reporters they didn’t like simply by accusing them of something, simply by pointing a bony finger at them and saying, ‘I saw that person do a bad thing’, so in Britain in 2017 journalists can be hounded out of their profession by allegation alone. By claims. By hearsay. By whispers, all amplified, of course, by the time-rich shit-stirrers of Twitter who love nothing more than naming, shaming, humiliating and destroying. Twenty-first-century intolerance, that queer lust of the cultural elite to cleanse public discussion of every voice and personality they dislike, has just gone from bad to deadly serious.

Consider the cases of Sam Kriss and Rupert Myers. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of them. Most of us who are too busy and too given to self-respect to spend our lives on Twitter hadn’t heard of them until this week, and what bliss that was. The former is apparently a Corbynista pseud who writes for Vice, the bible of Shoreditch shitheads, and the latter is reportedly political correspondent for GQ, which last published an interesting article when John, Paul, George and Ringo were still a thing. Well, that’s what they used to do. They don’t anymore. Mr Kriss has been dumped by Vice after someone wrote a Facebook post accusing him of being a creep. And Mr Myers has been let go by GQ because he’s married and yet letches after female journalists (allegedly). Imagine that: someone on Fleet Street who has extramarital affairs. Next you’ll be telling me they get pissed at lunch and write most of their articles on Alka-Seltzers.

There are two extraordinary things about these cases. The first is the accusations themselves. All they really add up to is that these two men are tossers and losers who aren’t very good at dating. Mr Kriss is accused by an anonymous person of repeatedly kissing and fondling her when they were on a date. She didn’t like it, which means he should have stopped or she should have gone home earlier. That’s a bad night out with a weirdo who doesn’t know how to court, not sexual assault. Mr Myers is accused of telling a journalist he wanted to fuck her (his language, allegedly) and lunging at her like an idiot for a snog. She said no. The End. What’s going on here? Since when has a man crudely asking a woman if she’d like to have sex and the woman saying ‘No way’ been sexual harassment? It’s the opposite. It’s an assertion of a woman’s fundamental right to tell strange men to jog on. Yet today, the conflation of bad sexual etiquette with assault, of unwelcome advances with violence, is so complete that bad dates can be misremembered as terrible acts of violation. It’s the new version of recovered memories.
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Posted by: badanov || 10/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stay off Twitter (and other social media) and there's no problem. The people getting crushed are in love with their own opinions and infatuated with the idea of broadcasting said same. Everything comes at a price, and as Vir Kotto said, sometimes that price is too high.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/22/2017 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think it's quite that simple. Organizations that rely on good PR (which seems to include universities), when faced with bad press, seem to be more interested in making the bad press go away than treating employees fairly. Whether the victims were ever on Twitter needn't matter.
Posted by: james || 10/22/2017 15:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Eaten by their own.

Welcome to the world you made lefties.
Posted by: charger || 10/22/2017 16:44 Comments || Top||


Hypocritical Oaths
by Taki Theodoracopulos

[TakiMag] The only woman who has not been sexually harassed and possibly raped by Harvey Weinstein is Mata Hari, and that’s because she was executed by the brave French a hundred years ago this month for spying. She was not a German spy and she blew kisses to the firing squad that shot her full of holes. Otherwise, I may have spoken too soon last week when defending Weinstein. It now looks very bad for him, with even Hillary Clinton joining the Greek chorus condemning him. Apparently it was not only boorish behavior toward the fairer sex, it was also alleged rape, something that he and his lawyers strenuously deny.

Mind you, I thought someone was innocent until proved guilty, but not in this hyper-feminist time. Captain Renault’s reaction to gambling taking place in Rick’s Café comes to mind. To believe that Bill and Hillary were unaware of Harvey’s shenanigans is worthy of the Captain’s shock, not to mention the reaction of the sleazy bunch that is Hollywood. But everyone took the moola and turned a blind eye, and now the stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming. I may have gotten it wrong about him in my last column, so the only thing left to say is that at least Bill Cosby had the decency to anesthetize them. George Clooney, Ben Affleck, and his brother, Casey, are all under the feminist microscope for what they knew about Harvey, and what they themselves may have done to the weaker sex. But examining the hypocrisy involved smacks of the Soviets back in the ’30s, when any charge by anyone led to arrests and possible execution. Money for silence is being exchanged as I write, and let us not forget that Bill Clinton paid close to 800,000 big ones to alleged victims, while collecting tens of millions for his foundation by the Saudis, the same Saudis who are at the forefront of women’s liberation.
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Posted by: badanov || 10/22/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:



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  ARSA open to surrender, but only under UN supervision
Sat 2017-10-21
  US drone strike targets al-Shabab after Somalia's 'deadliest attack'
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  Iraq and Iran compel Kurdish withdrawal from Kirkuk
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  TTP names successor to APS mastermind Umar Mansoor
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  US-Backed Forces Say Have Captured Raqa from IS
Tue 2017-10-17
  Terror leaders Hapilon (Abu Sayyaf), Maute (Maute Group) gunned down in Marawi
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  The "War after ISIS" begins in Iraq
Sun 2017-10-15
  Report: U.S. Coalition Cuts Islamic State Revenues over 90 Percent
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  Iraqi forces move to begin operations against Kurds
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  Iraq PM Denies Attack Plan as Tensions Rise with Kurds
Thu 2017-10-12
  British jihadi Sally Jones killed by US drone strike fleeing ISIS hell
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  Nusra Front, Islamic State clash in Syria's Hama province
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