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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Media's 'Racial Injustice' Blind Spot: Over 30 Shot In Another Deadly Chicago Weekend
[Zero] Though largely overlooked and ignored in the now 24/7 mainstream network coverage of racial injustice in America, Chicago witnessed another deadly weekend of inner-city black on black gang-related violence, with over 30 people shot.

"Three people are dead and at least 28 others have been injured in shootings across the city this weekend," a Chicago NBC affiliate reports.

This after on the same Memorial Day weekend that George Floyd was heinously killed by police in Minnesota, Chicago had witnessed a whopping nearly 50 people shot in one of the city's deadliest ever holiday weekends (where ten died from their wounds, including young people).

At a moment "Black Lives Matter" chants can be heard overtaking most every major American city, the now weekly reality of dozens tragically dying in black-on-black crime in Chicago and some other large cities (a trend that tends to increase into the hot summer months) remains a huge 'blind spot' in terms of the current ideologically charged media debate and public discourse.

The mayor has some advice, however:
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2020 04:47 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just eggs for an omelet you'd never eat.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 5:35 Comments || Top||


AG Barr Says ‘Peaceful Protestors' Are One Of The Big Lies Media Are Perpetuating
[Federalist] U.S. Attorney General William Barr rebuked the false narrative perpetuated by legacy media Sunday that protestors cleared near the White House last week were gathering in peaceful demonstrations. On Monday, protestors were dispersed by park police by pepper balls as the city neared at 7 p.m. curfew by Barr’s orders moments before President Donald Trump walked across the street to observe the damage done to the historic St. John’s Church.

"They were not peaceful protestors," Barr said on CBS’ Face the Nation. "That’s one of the big lies that the media is⁠—seems to be perpetuating at this point."

CBS’ Margaret Brennan pushed back citing several of the network’s reporters who were present.

"Three of my CBS colleagues were there. We talked to them," Brennan said. "They did not hear warnings."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2020 01:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Barr is not the only one who knows the true nature of the protestors. This video is from Idaho of people implementing their constitutional second amendment individual right to keep and bear arms on June 1, 2020, a right ratified on December 15, 1791:

Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119 || 06/08/2020 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2  It does seem that most attempts to take the crazy out of the Democrat big cities and into suburbs and smaller towns have met with very limited success.

I'm glad Idaho has been peaceful. Seems my initial worries were unfounded.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
#DefundPolice: The Not-So-Hidden Agenda
BLUF:
[Victory Girls] If you haven’t caught on yet, let me be frank about the #DefundPolice scam. It isn’t about any of the elements that could be immediately addressed to improve law enforcement agencies and their procedures, it’s about making them less effective. It’s about shifting vast amounts of taxpayer money into so-called community services and peace centers. In other words, money that will disappear into the blackhole of new bureaucracies headed up by career politicians with political cronies to "take care" of the spending.

#DefundPolice marks a time where the Democrats want to return to a system of patronage, where cronies will control "their" community with rewards or punishments according to how each individual or business is in the good graces of their unelected community leaders.

Be a shame if anything bad were to happen to your business, home or family, right? Who you gonna call? 9-1-1 now rings into the Peace Center.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2020 05:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Money and Power, but you knew that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2020 5:51 Comments || Top||

#2  There are people who will do anything to have a badge. This is part of the setup for disarming citizens.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  A variation on Gresham's Law: Bad cops drive out good cops...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 6:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The ancillary goal. Watch it happen, and sooner than you may think.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2020 6:11 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm assuming you mean affirmative action, B? Oh, yeah. I wonder how many of these diversity checkbox police girls can actually pass the firearms test and physical fitness requirements.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 6:15 Comments || Top||

#6  A step further than Affirmative Action. With separate legal systems and judges already in place, they intend to have their own tribal law enforcement structure. It's a separatist tribal movement, always has been.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2020 6:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Ah, I get it. Thanks for the clarification.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 6:29 Comments || Top||

#8  OTOH, tribes have done rather poorly in America. Maybe things are different now. Maybe not. We shall see, eh?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 6:30 Comments || Top||

#9  As far as Mppls goes, won't be that easy. Damn those charters and Constitutions anyway.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/08/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#10  Who has ruled these cities for over 50 years?

It's the same blame game as with slavery. The Donks project blame on everyone else for their history of slavery, the Klan, and segregation. Now they're blaming America for their police departments that they've owned and operated.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/08/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||

#11  Book "DIAL 911 and DIE" comes to mind again.
Posted by: Clem || 06/08/2020 9:00 Comments || Top||

#12  So, going to tell me all these cops haven't learned nada from J. Edgar Hoover?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#13  well Minneapolis already has plenty of residents who can form new 'Guidance Patrols' a la Iran's Basij.

achievement unlocked!
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/08/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Israel taught ‘knee-on-neck’ terror tactic to US police: Analyst
by Kevin Barrett
[PRESSTV] Israel has stepped in to train American coppers because they're experts at creating an army of occupation to terrorize the local people.

So, I'd like to highlight some of the things that this USA Today article has left out just because I think it's interesting that there's a taboo against certain aspects of this story being told. I just mentioned the Israelis being at the forefront of training American police in terror tactics today. They trained many Twin Cities officers and may very well bear some of the responsibility for the death of George Floyd since one of the things that they taught them was the knee on the neck thing which actually the Israelis developed in Paleostine, in 2004 or five or so, and then they started teaching it to American officers and that's how it got into the United States, but we never talked about that in the mainstream media, or the universities, anybody who brings it up here in the United States gets shot down by the immensely powerful Jewish Zionist lobby.

Another taboo and a similar one is against talking about the fact that Jews, wealthy Jews not ordinary Jews, but the richest Jews were massively overrepresented in the slave trade, and the place to go to learn about this is the series published by the Nation of Islam, actually the NOI research group is what it's called, on the history of blacks and Jews. This is a terrific book. It uses the very best historical methodology. And, of course, one can debate the conclusions. But it's a very solid scholarly book and yet it's been banned from Amazon and no one's allowed to talk about this because extremely rich Jews, the same descendants, basically the today's version of the people who ran the slave trade control our media, and our banking system and have immense power, but we’d said that's why we can't talk about that.

And another thing that we can't talk about today is the fact that part of the reason that there is this occupying army kind of dynamic between white cops and African American neighborhoods is because, African Americans have a crime rate that's about seven times higher than all other ethnicities, and it's even when you adjust for income.

So there's a terrible breakdown of the family unit in black communities and that's actually been created by the very liberal progressive forces who are telling you this official discourse as published in USA today about the history of racism and mistreatment of black people. They mistreated the black people the worst of anybody because they have been waging a war on black religion and the black family ever since the 1950s and 1960s, they're trying to impose secularism on the black community which is a naturally religious community.

They've destroyed the black family today. Two-thirds of black children are born outside of wedlock. That's why the crime rate is seven times higher among blacks than among any other ethnicity in the United States, but you're not allowed to talk about that either. So, frankly, the solution to this would be to have the Nation of Islam and similar religious-based groups enforce family values and law enforcement in black communities and get the racist white officers the heck out of those communities until that happens I'm afraid this problem is probably going to just continue.
Posted by: Fred || 06/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  Guess it works.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2020 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I remember when the police used night sticks, billy clubs and the occasional sap (or cosh) to hit, Hit, HIT! people on the head to restrain them. Maybe we should return to the era of brain trauma, eh?
Posted by: magpie || 06/08/2020 0:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Hickory shampoo...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 6:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, chokehold is potentially deadly, taser is potentially deadly, I have heard anecdotes of rubber bullets and bean bags being deadly. There's no doubt a teargas triggered asthma attack can be deadly. In the end, it's like high speed chases. If you know who you are after, send the hunters. Don't say "I'm going to catch this guy even if I have to kill civilians to get him. Floyd was handcuffed and three cops watched two other cops fight to get him belted in a squad car. If all five participated, he would have been belted in the squad car. People at Chubb, State Farm et al. are asking "why didn't that happen," and rightly so.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 6:53 Comments || Top||

#5  If five people can get him in the seat belt in two minutes, can ten people get him in the seat belt in one minute? 100 people in six seconds? [giggle]
Posted by: Bobby || 06/08/2020 8:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Can't believe it took over a week to blame the Juice.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/08/2020 12:05 Comments || Top||

#7  (All together) It was the Joos!
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/08/2020 17:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Back in the 90s I saw a documentary on the Marines developing techniques for urban pacification. One of the things they had was a 'mud' they sprayed on someone that would then harden fast and leave them immobile. We need more of that sort of thing.

That or a slip on all-body bag like in Brazil so they can be sealed up and hung like a sack of meat until they get back to the station.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2020 18:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Those who can't, teach.
Posted by: Clem || 06/08/2020 23:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Colin Powell: Trump has 'drifted away' from the Constitution (video)
Washington (CNN) Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that President Donald Trump has "drifted away" from the Constitution, adding to a growing list of former top military officials who have strongly criticized the President's response to the nationwide protests surrounding the police killing of George Floyd.

"We have a Constitution. And we have to follow that Constitution. And the President has drifted away from it," Powell, a retired general who served under President George W. Bush, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
The comments from Powell, the first African American secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, add to a growing list of rebukes made in recent days by former top officials who have expressed discontent with Trump's strongman approach to the protests sparked by the death of Floyd, a black man who was killed in late May by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
Under the watchful eye of Klingon Director George Tenet, Speaking at the UN on Iraqi WMD trailers, which were actually were not.
Powell said he's "proud" of what a number of former generals, admirals and diplomats have said about Trump's response last week to the widespread protests, adding that he hadn't released a public statement denouncing Trump's response because he felt he had demonstrated his displeasure with Trump in 2016 when he voted against him.

"I think what we're seeing now, is (the most) massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life, I think it suggests the country is getting wise to this and we're not going to put up with it anymore," the retired general told Tapper.

Related: CBS - Colin Powell announces he'll vote for Biden, saying Trump "lies all the time"
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2020 04:37 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where might we be today without Boosh and Colin's Iraq mess?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 4:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice enough fellow, but not the sharpest hoe in the shed. He's simply joining the senior officer, never-Trump pile on.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/08/2020 5:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, since their plan is to never win, I guess we are OK.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2020 6:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I think what we're seeing now, is (the most) massive protest movement I have ever seen in my life,

You weren't around in '68?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/08/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||

#5  He might have been a young officer learning the art of sucking up and butt kissing and didn't even notice 1968.
Posted by: Clem || 06/08/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  America's loss, Jamaica's gain.
Posted by: Beldar Peacock1400 || 06/08/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#7  please cite examples, actions and the part in the Constitution that it goes against - should be the follow up question to any statement like this.

so infuriating that 'journalists' can never ask questions when they aren't interested in the answer
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/08/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#8  But CNN says The Constitution is bad, so Trump is doing a good thing or we need our five minutes of lame?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/08/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Um, Collie, baby (can I call you Collie?) Try to remember a little post-revolutionary war American history. Shay's Rebellion? The Whiskey Rebellion? There is nothing unconstitutional about putting down rebellions, even if some of the rioters share the same skin tones with you.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/08/2020 12:00 Comments || Top||

#10  The Constitution is a living, breathing document.

Therefore, it is actually impossible to ever violate it.

#2 Nice enough fellow,

I assume this is facetious; nice fellows don't consistently engage in the self-serving backstabbing that General Umbrella Drink does.
Posted by: charger || 06/08/2020 13:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Colin Powell: I’m Voting For Biden. Tom Cotton: Big Deal. You Haven’t Voted GOP In 16 Years.

Anyone has any positive example of affirmative action - any example?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2020 13:57 Comments || Top||

#12  I'm starting to see that a lot of folks haven't actually read the Constitution despite swearing an oath to protect it.

I'm also starting to think that General Casey in Mars attacks was a dead-on parody of Powell.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2020 14:03 Comments || Top||

#13  Colin Powell: I’m Voting For Biden.

Yeah. He voted for Baraq too. We know he fully supports Affirmative Action in the military as well as in civilian life. And we know that Bush made a lot of mistakes too.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/08/2020 15:40 Comments || Top||

#14  You weren't around in '68?

'68 through '72 'protests' were a lot more visible and many times more violent.

Please review the entities 'SDS', 'Weathermen' and 'Black Panthers'. Eight paragraphs for each group should be sufficient.

Also, for a real treat, look up protests in Peru and/or South Korea. Those folks really get into it.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/08/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||

#15  Didn't all the generals line up to bash Trump a couple of years ago?

Anybody listen then?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/08/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||

#16  CNN, et al., will say the US Constitution is "bad" unless it's to there advantage/benefit.
Posted by: Clem || 06/08/2020 18:51 Comments || Top||

#17  Should all the generals be surrounding him and throwing rose pedals beneath his feet? I'm starting to think Trump isn't a dictator after all.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/08/2020 21:24 Comments || Top||

#18  Abe "Habeas Corpus" Lincoln was a dictator. President Trump doesn't come close by a long shot. But, it's just another label the Dems/Left use when they can't argue successfully against him.
Posted by: Clem || 06/08/2020 23:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
More Than Ever, It's Time to Unleash the Power of 'No'
It's Kurt
[Townhall] For way too long, too many conservatives and other normal people have failed to deploy our most potent weapon in the defense of free thought and expression – the utter refusal to go along with the demands of the carnivorous left. As has been said before by me and others, we need to introduce these spoiled brats to the concept of "no."

This is a critical moment, and how we react now will determine if our future is citizenship or serfdom. The Democrats' kinetic operation that was the rioting has failed, the violent thuggery egged-on and enabled by half-wit MSNBCNN talk-holes, feckless lefty pols, and the blue check jerk-stapo ended up appalling the voters, and not just Republicans. The grave strategic error of sending the masked marauders of Marxism marching into limo lib enclaves like Beverly Hills convinced a lot of people who hate Trump that maybe law and order isn't such a bad thing after all. Defund the police? Yeah, that's a tough sell outside a sociology department. Mansions and BMWs burn just like churches and police cars do.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Frank G || 06/08/2020 08:40 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What about the power of "stop, or I'll shoot"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2020 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  A lot of people were saying "no" during the riots. Many of them are dead now. We're way past that now.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 06/08/2020 12:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Easy for Kurt to say.

Will he be fired from his perch after being harassed by HR to attend the daily struggle sessions at Townhall?
Posted by: charger || 06/08/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

#4  IMO, he means "Just say No to white guilt".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/08/2020 16:04 Comments || Top||



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