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Too much fabric on the bottom. But lovely nonetheless.
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Not to be confused with Chill Wills
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A flicker of flame! Is it twelve?
Is this shimmer the shade of, well, Elvis?
Is Graceland of old
Lit by glimmers of gold
From the emperor's mechanical pelvis?
The City 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... is deploying an additional 1,000 officers this weekend to crack down on looting after businesses were ravaged over the week.
Chicago Police Department (CPD) Supt. David Brown announced the additional backup after damage to businesses resulted in more than 100 arrests in the past week.
"This is our town; it doesn't belong to the criminals," Brown emphasized. He said CPD would extend officers’ hours and cancel days off.
"Don't let these criminals run you out of this beautiful city," Brown said, adding, "Our department, our coppers will risk their lives to protect you. Not in our town. Not in our city.
Brown warned that officers would use every method possible to stop looting.
"We are going to deploy all tactics necessary to prevent and stop looting. [That may mean] deploying spike strips to puncture your tires," Brown said, according to Fox 32 Chicago.
#1
Yeah, I'm sure the stores that were looted earlier are all re-stocked now.
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Actually, who wants to go in on this? The future of high end retailing will be to fly well heeled shoppers to exclusive "shopping enclaves" remote from public access. They can paw over the merchandise as they desire, no need to mix with the hoi polloi. The stores can be absurdly lavish as they don't have local regulations and taxes to deal with. If the retailers play it right, they can own their own shopping municipality and have whatever rules they want.
Coming soon.
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Dump your shares in companies that sell pane glass windows! The next architectural trend will bill blank exterior walls , portcullises and armored gates .... very medieval.
[ToloNews] Fawzia Koofi, a member of Afghanistan’s negotiation team, sustained "minor injuries" in an attack by gunnies on the Kabul-Parwan highway in Qarabagh district, Kabul province, on Friday evening, said chief negotiator Masoom Stanekzai.
The incident comes as the intra-Afghan negotiations are expected in the next few days and the 15-member team is ready to leave for Doha this week. Those close to Koofi have said the injuries are not life-threatening.
The attack was condemned by Afghan politicians.
President Ghani condemned the attack and said "cowardly attacks on Afghan women activists will not stop their commitment to protect the values of the last 19 years in Afghanistan."
Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, in a tweet condemned the "liquidation attempt" on Koofi and called on the government to "identify and apprehend the culprits" and seek a "possible motive for the attack."
Former president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance... condemned the attack and called it an act against the peace effort.
Koofi has also served as a politician in the Afghan parliament. She is a politician and a women’s rights activist. She has also served as the first woman deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga, the Afghan parliament. She is a leading Movement for Change, an institution defending women’s rights.
This also comes as the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... in a statement on Friday called for protection of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... defenders in Afghanistan.
[ToloNews] At least nine members of the Afghan cops were killed in Taliban ...Arabic for students... attacks in Uruzgan and Baghlan provinces as the fighting continues in many parts of the country despite ongoing peace efforts.
The fighting in Baghlan took place on the Kabul-Baghlan highway and the Baghlan-Samangan highway, both in Kelagai area, Doshi district close to an army base and a special unit of police, according to the provincial police.
A security source from Baghlan said that four coppers were killed and four others were maimed in the Taliban attacks that took place on Friday night. Baghlan police confirmed two deaths and three were maimed.
The source said the forces under attack called for help multiple times from the center but they were not helped, "even in transferring the bodies."
Local officials did not comment on this.
Multiple festivities in Baghlan have occurred-- especially in Doshi district--the past month.
In another Taliban attack in Uruzgan, in the south of Afghanistan, five security force members were killed and five were maimed, according to the provincial governor's front man Zelgai Ebadi.
The attack, Ebadi said, happened on the outskirts of Tarinkot city, the center of Uruzgan, on Friday night.
The attack comes as the Afghan government started the release of 400 high-value Taliban prisoners whose release was approved by last week’s Loya Jirga, the grand council of Afghan elders.
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... has called the release of the prisoners "dangerous" but "necessary" to move the grinding of the peace processor forward.
Ghost Mob PDX, another pop up #antifa group in Portland, is asking for more money. Their supplies for rioters have been used as weapons.
The group says that a “lack of media attention” caused donations to go down. This is why they provoke police. The attention gets them cash. pic.twitter.com/wHSviJK76Q
Davis Beeman, an antifa militant who was recently arrested & charged at a violent Portland riot, is now trying to start a children’s antifa group. #PortlandRiots#antifapic.twitter.com/cWq3ewVIi4
Newly-elected District Attorney Mike Schmidt, who refuses to prosecute most Portland rioters, admits he is "old buddies" with an Antifa militant campaigning to defund the police, abolish prisons, and demand reparations. https://t.co/mfGU0NtdeD
A conservative flag waving event outside the Justice Center in downtown Portland today was confronted by #antifa & some BLM people. As the conservatives were leaving the small rally in cars, someone fired two live rounds. #PortlandRiots Video: pic.twitter.com/gHFEZw3nCO
Antifa black bloc militant carries a shotgun and has verbal altercation with an armed older man at the violent antifa riot in Stone Mountain, Ga. Video by @FordFischer. pic.twitter.com/xunl7xDods
#2
The right needs some serious training on tactics. Allowing the two groups to become intermingled is a serious mistake. I noticed the PantiFa folks like to attack people when their backs are turned.
"Roving gangs of Antifa rioters spent Friday evening rampaging through the streets of Seattle — with police often nowhere to be found, video and eyewitness accounts show." #SeattleRiots#antifahttps://t.co/aUe9ihVOgg
why disbelief? these criminals do this stuff constantly, seemingly with impunity & local “leaders” appear most concerned with clapping back at federal officials who notice https://t.co/ELmthCxvIu
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Things are coming to a head. A good exercise would be to see a video of bemused expressions of geophysicists being asked what's the best way to stop a volcanic eruption.
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Seems to me that one unintended consequence is that a number of fence-sitters are going to join militias.
#8
The slow educational process of actual reality for democrats. Cause, meet effect. You hate police and you down want a police department you shouldn’t act surprised when they don’t show up. For all those cowards who have been sitting silently in the community consider that while you may not be looking for trouble but it seems trouble is now looking for you. Pick a side and stand up!
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My family and their friends don't have a problem with Antifa - they may not be participating, but they are supportive. The deny there is any significant violence.
[HindustanTimes] Two coppers of the Indian Reserve Police (IRP) were killed and another injured when unidentified murderous Moslems attacked a police party at Nowgam Bye Pass at the city outskirts.
According to the police, on Friday morning, murderous Moslems fired at the police party deployed at Nowgam and injured three of them. They were admitted to a hospital where two of them gave up the ghost. The murderous Moslems escaped after the attack.
The attack came a day before Independence Day, when security was already on high alert. The police have established fresh checkpoints within the city.
A spokesperson for the police confirmed that three personnel were maimed in the attack and two of them gave up the ghost. Soon after the attack, the top brass rushed to the spot. The third injured policeman is said to be stable. All three men were from the IRP 20 battalion. The dear departedcoppers were identified as Ishfaq Ahmad and Fayaz Ahmad.
Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar blamed Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... murderous Moslems for the attack on the coppers.
"We are trying to identify the murderous Moslems responsible. There were inputs that an attack could take place anywhere in the city. The coppers were wearing bulletproof gear, but were still fatally shot.’’
After the attack, a search operation was launched in the area. No group has grabbed credit so far.
Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Apni Party (JKAP) strongly condemned the attack.
In a statement, a party spokesperson termed the attack "inhuman". "Violence is not a solution but a gigantic impediment that spreads hatred. In any of its manifestations, violent mostly peaceful extremism is unacceptable in a civilised society, regardless of political, ideological or religious motivations," the spokesperson said.
[Rudaw] Two Katyusha rockets landed near Taji military base, north of Baghdad on Saturday night, a spokesperson for the US-led coalition confirmed.
"Two small rockets" landed near the base, according to Col.Myles B Caggins III, who cited Iraq’s Security Media Cell. No coalition troops were maimed, he added.
Saturday’s attack is the latest of several rocket attacks targeting Taji base and Baghdad’s Green Zone after Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service (ICTS) personnel raided the headquarters of the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia in Baghdad province on June 26, detaining at least 14 fighters of the group who were accused of recent rocket attacks in the capital.
One Katyusha rocket landed in Baghdad's Green Zone, another rocket was intercepted before it was fired and a third fell just outside of the Kurdistan Democratic Party ...every time you hear the phrase white people, wehite supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat... 's (KDP) Fifth Branch in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood on Tuesday night.
The US has attributed past rocket attacks on sites of international importance in the Green Zone to Iran-backed militias, who it says are looking to further inflame US-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... tensions.
On Tuesday an IED attack targeted a convoy transporting US-led coalition equipment in Taji town.
Iraqi contractor companies transporting US-led coalition equipment inside Iraq have been targeted multiple times in recent months. Most of the attacks are claimed by gangs formed after the January killing of Iranian commander Qasem Solaimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, former commander of Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, also known as Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic) in a dronezap in Baghdad.
Groups such as Asahab al-Kahaf, Usbat al-Thaireen, and Liwa'a Thaier al-Muhandis were formed after the US drone attack to avenge the deaths of Soleimani and Muhandis.
Taji base was repeatedly targeted after the liquidations.
Two Americans and one Briton were killed in March after fifteen Kaytusha rockets were fired within the perimeter of the base.
[Rudaw] A civil activist who participated in Iraq's anti-establishment protests was rubbed out in the southern city of Basra on Friday.
Tahseen Oussama was shot 20 times at his internet service company in the city's al-Junaina neighbourhood by "militia" button men, according to local media outlet Basra Today. The identity and affiliation of the perpetrators has not been confirmed.
Oussama had taken part in anti-establishment and anti-corruption protests in Basra that had spread from Baghdad across the country in October of last year. He was a vocal critic of both the government and of militias accused of killing protesters with impunity.
On July 6, the day of Iraqi security analyst Husham al-Hashimi's liquidation — largely suspected to have been conducted by Shiite forces of Evil — Oussama took to Facebook to warn "we will all be slaughtered in the Islamic way one day," sharing a photo of a gun and its silencer.
Iraqi activists have been warning of an increasingly threatening environment for those who speak out against the country's current political order. Data provided to Rudaw English from the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) last month put the number of protesters and aligned activists killed between October 1, 2019 and March 17, 2020 at 22.
The IHCHR "warned against the return of the phenomenon of the liquidation of civil activists" after Oussama's death.
Continued liquidations are demonstrating "the weakness of security intelligence ... which encourages the gangs to resume their crimes," its statement published on Friday evening added.
Oussama's killing also sparked outcry from international human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organization representatives.
"What is happening in Iraq! And the murderers are never get caught," Donatella Rovera, Senior Crisis Adviser at Amnesia Amnesty International said on Twitter.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Friday, the Iraqi Security Media Cell confirmed that three rockets landed in the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, without any casualties.
The cell said: "Three Katyusha rockets fell in the vicinity of Baghdad International Airport, without any significant losses."
The cell added in its statement: "It was found that it was launched from the Radwaniyah area, south of the capital, Baghdad."
Last night’s attack marked the second time in the last 48 hours that an Iraqi installation has been targeted by Katyusha rockets.
The previous attack occurred at the Balad Airbase in the Salaheddine Governorate.
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[JPost] The IDF struck terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip following incendiary balloon attacks, as hundreds of Palestinians gathered along the border fence to riot, throwing explosives and burning tires.
Only hundreds, when Hamas used to pay for thousands? How embarrassing for them.
The Iron Dome intercepted two rockets fired from Gaza late Saturday night, as rocket sirens were activated in the the Israeli city of Sderot, located north of the Gaza Strip, the IDF reported.
The rockets came after IDF fighter jets and aircraft struck targets belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, in response to incendiary balloon attacks, and disturbances on the border fence occurring as hundreds of Palestinians rioted along the border fence, throwing explosive devices and burning tires.
A renewal of the utterly ineffective border fence riots? Golly.
Amid the riots, at least five people were injured, according to Palestinian media reports, which stated that IDF soldiers were firing live ammunition and gas grenades at the rioters. At least two Palestinians were taken to hospital, Israel Hayom reported, citing the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The incendiary balloon attacks caused at least 30 fires to break out in Israel on Saturday, and been sent into Israeli territory over several days.
In recent years, countless incendiary and explosive balloons have been launched by Gaza's terrorists. They sometimes have books or toys attached to lure children. Some have sparked large wildfires, such as on Tuesday, and mainly damage crops.
Following incendiary or explosive balloon attacks on Israel starting up again, Israel warned balloon units in Gaza that if attacks don't stop, then action will be taken. As balloon attacks continue, in which several hundred hectares of land including agricultural, the IDF and Defense Ministry have made several efforts halt the Gaza-base terrorist activities.
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[BenarNews] A senior sub-leader of a pro-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.... holy warrior group who was wanted for a series of abductions of foreigners in the southern Philippines has been taken into custody after surrendering to authorities through a former rebel leader, police said Friday.
[BenarNews] The Indonesian National Police on Friday announced the arrests of at least 15 suspected members of the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah Death Eater network, including a regional JAD leader who had allegedly funded operations to support groups aligned with 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.... bully boys.
The arrests during raids by the police’s elite counterterrorist unit Densus 88 in West Java province and Jakarta on Wednesday netted the largest number of Death Eater suspects in a sweep since authorities rounded up some 60 JAD suspects in Medan, North Sumatra, after a suicide kaboom there last November.
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[BankokPost] Four suspected forces of Evil were rubbed out in shootouts on Friday night and yesterday morning as security forces closed in on a fifth suspect.
The first clash followed an earlier shootout in which three soldiers were maimed while security forces were hunting for the perpetrators of a bombing that killed a ranger on Thursday.
Two more gunnies were rubbed out and weapons seized in Yarang district of Pattani on Saturday morning as coppers resumed the operation to arrest the suspects.
Earlier in the day, residents were evacuated to a safe area amid reports the suspects were heavily armed, said Maj Gen Pramote Prom-in, front man for the Region 4 Forward Command of the Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc).
Maj Gen Kriangkrai Srirak, deputy director of the Region 4 Forward Command, travelled to Yarang district yesterday morning to monitor the situation as the shootout carried on.
Maj Gen Pramote identified the men rubbed out on Friday as Masukee Sarumor, believed to be the head of the Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK)
...in English "Small Patrol Units”, the 500-strong south Thailand jihadi commandos are an ultra-violent offshoot of the Salafi Barisan Revolusi Nasional-Koordinasi (BRN-C), the largest group in the south Thailand Islamist jihad. Trained in Bandung, Indonesia and retreating to safe havens in Malaysia, they’ve been causing trouble — mostly kabooms — for two decades...
turban movement, who was wanted on two arrest warrants in security-related cases; and Anwar Kolae, an operational member, who was also wanted. The identities of the two men shot yesterday are still being verified.
Two suspected holy warriors were killed and three soldiers were maimed as security officers who were hunting for the perpetrators of twin deadly bombings the day before exchanged gunfire with an gang in Thailand’s Deep South, authorities said.
The clash took place in Yarang, a district of Pattani province, a day after kabooms killed two soldiers and injured three others as security details escorted students and teachers to school for the start of the academic year in Pattani and neighboring Narathiwat province.
Maj. Gen. Pramote Prom-in, front man for the army’s regional command, said officers killed a pair of separatist rebels.
"The two men who were killed are the leaders of the operation, but we will need to confirm their identities after the autopsies," Pramote said.
Police Col. Thotsaphol Sarapruek, chief of the Ban Sarong cop shoppe in Yarang district, said officials initially believed the group was involved in Thursday’s bombings.
"[T]he group opened fired first as they tried to escape. After a shootout of more than 30 minutes, three military officers were maimed and were taken to the Yala Center Hospital, Thotsaphol said, adding that the officers searched the holy warriors’ shelter and confiscated survival items.
However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... a military officer who was not authorized to speak to news hounds told BenarNews that the suspects in Thursday’s bombings were elsewhere.
Although rebel attacks that target security escorts for schoolchildren and teachers are common in Thailand’s troubled southern border region, Thursday’s twin bombings took place as campuses opened for in-person instruction for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out here.
The chief of the Duyong cop shoppe in Pattani said the first attack occurred shortly after 8 a.m. as a dozen soldiers assigned to Company 4305 were patrolling a road leading to Pakaluesong primary school. One soldier was killed.
About 30 minutes later, a squad assigned Company 4508, in Ra-ngae, a district in Narathiwat, came under a similar attack that killed one soldier and injured three others.
"The attacks in Pattani and Narathiwat are linked with an effort to make them happen at the same time, different cells but they were set off by holy warriors who wanted to disrupt the peace," said police Lt. Gen. Ronasilp Poosara, the commander of Region 9 Police Bureau.
Since the National Revolutionary Front (BRN), the largest of the armed separatist groups in the Deep South, declared a unilateral ceasefire in early April to allow officials to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 33 attacks have occurred in the border region.
These have resulted in the deaths of at least 19 people, including five bad boys. As many as 52 people have been injured in those incidents, according to information compiled by BenarNews from police reports.
In 2004, Malay-speaking rebels in the Moslem-majority provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and four districts in Songkhla province reignited an insurgency against Thai security forces and soft targets over their demand for an independent state. More than 7,000 people have been killed since then, according to Deep South Watch, a local think-tank.
Former Syrian mercenary who fought in #Tripoli threatens with his group of 90 members after their leaders "stole" a month's salary (US$2k) before returning them to #Syria, despite receiving the money from #GNA. They demonstrated in #Azaz demanding demanding payment. #Libya (1/2) https://t.co/Mku1YEsShX
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.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
...Arabic for 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[Rudaw] Two Katyusha rockets landed near Taji military base, north of Baghdad on Saturday night, a spokesperson for the US-led coalition confirmed.
...every time you hear the phrase 
[JPost] The IDF struck terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip following incendiary balloon attacks, as hundreds of Palestinians gathered along the border fence to riot, throwing explosives and burning tires.
...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 
