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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Notorious B.I.G. was executed by a Nation of Islam convert in a hit arranged by Suge Knight and covered up by crooked LAPD cops, ex-FBI agent says
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Ex-FBI agent and two filmmakers claim they know who killed Notorious B.I.G.

  • Rapper who was born Christopher Wallace was shot and killed in LA in 1997

  • Phil Carson, who worked case for two years, says Suge Knight was mastermind

  • Two filmmakers also make same claim after seeing sealed court papers

  • Don Sikorski and Brad Furman made 2018 film about Biggie's death, City of Lies

  • Knight is alleged to have paid Amir Muhammad, a hitman from Nation of Islam originally known as Harry Billups

  • The murder was allegedly covered up by corrupt LA cops, according to Knight

  • He alleges Knight, founder of Death Row Records, plotted Biggie's murder

  • Hit on Biggie was revenge for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur

  • Shakur was with Knight's Death Row label; Biggie was with Bad Boy Records

  • Knight believes Shakur was killed as part of East Coast-West Coast rap feud

  • Bad Boy founder Sean 'Diddy' Combs was allegedly intended target of Biggie hit
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  DILLIGAS?
Posted by: Glineque Ulock5205 || 05/31/2021 5:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Not really a question that keeps me up at night
Posted by: Warthog || 05/31/2021 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  But was he on Secret Probation?
Posted by: Cesare || 05/31/2021 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Beyond the fact it would be a good reason to put some people in the gas chamber, who cares?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/31/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  The murder was allegedly covered up by corrupt LA cops, according to Knight

Vic Mackey, by any chance?
Posted by: Raj || 05/31/2021 16:53 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
The World Under Siege as Big Tech Weaponizes Democracy
[Arutz7] - It is the ultimate irony.

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution, they did so with a goal of using democracy to protect freedoms that they perceived to be the inalienable rights of every American citizen, guaranteeing freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press, among others. And yet here we are, 234 years later, and democracy has been turned from a protective shield into a weapon of mass destruction and used to undermine the very foundations of this country.

American voices, particularly religious ones, are being stifled by those who wield democracy as a sword, cutting down those who dare disagree and leaving would-be dissenters afraid to speak up for fear of retribution. The underlying threat of being cancelled and being banned from online platforms is real and comes with a significant price tag, one that can ruin political careers, destroy businesses and eradicate a lifetime of accomplishments.

Having feared for years that it would be Communist forces emanating from Russia attacking all that we as Americans hold dear, it is all the more shocking to realize that the dangers we face come from within our own ranks. Big tech has taken over, controlling relationships at the highest levels of government so that it has free reign and can ban anyone who speaks out against its interests, whether they be private citizens, businesses, elected officials, or as we saw so clearly over the last few months, even the president of the United States.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/31/2021 15:53 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Article conflates democracy with mob rule.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/31/2021 17:19 Comments || Top||

#2  The saying goes - a democracy is a government in which 51% of the people vote themselves the property of 49%.

We had a republic.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/31/2021 19:12 Comments || Top||

#3  A Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

Us hapless taxpayers are the lamb.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/31/2021 20:23 Comments || Top||


Mark Steyn - Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization
[IMPRIMIS] I live about 20 minutes south of the Canadian border, which used to be called the longest undefended frontier in the world. People moved freely back and forth across it all day every day. But now it’s been closed for over a year. At one point my daughter asked me to drive her up there, because there was a 30-minute opportunity for people on one side to talk to their friends on the other. "Sad!" as President Trump would say. It was like Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin during the Cold War, except that both sides are now like East Berlin.

I don’t know how this happened, but it is just one indication that America, and the West in general, have become almost unrecognizable from what they were not that long ago.

Look at just three things we have lost.

One is equality before the law, something absolutely essential to a free society. In its place, we now have politicized law. If a policeman fatally shoots someone, whether his name is released to the public depends on whether the shooting is consistent with the preferred narrative of the ruling class. A policeman recently took down a young woman who was threatening the life of another young woman with a knife, and that policeman was immediately identified—indeed, his photo was posted and he was threatened by NBA superstar LeBron James on Twitter. On the other hand, we know nothing of the policeman who shot dead an unarmed woman in the U.S. Capitol on January 6. His name will apparently never be released to the public.

Second, border control. Functioning societies, at least since the Peace of Westphalia three centuries ago, have borders. America has no southern border and no plans to get one. The official position of our government seems to be that any of the seven billion persons on this planet has a right to come and stay in the U.S. for three years, until his or her assigned court date comes up. As the number of people with pending cases continues to grow, that three years will extend out to five or seven or 15 years. If we get all seven billion people to come here, the court system will break down entirely and maybe we can go back to having a functioning border.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/31/2021 10:37 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


American Airlines: No more booze sales onboard until mask mandate ends (except in business and first class)
[American Thinker] Listen up, proles: your failure to unquestioningly obey the useless mask mandate is going to cost you. The surge in passenger misbehavior on airlines, partially attributable to mask mandate resistance, is ending steerage class passengers their access to intoxicants while airborne. American Airlines has announced that it:

...will delay selling alcoholic beverages this summer to main cabin passengers due to the uptick in bad passenger behavior in recent months that includes refusing to wear masks and several assaults on flight attendants.

Fort Worth-based American Airlines told crew members that it won’t reintroduce the sale of beer, wine and spirits to main cabin class passengers until at federal government officials drop the mask mandate aboard aircraft and airports. The mask mandate is currently set to expire Sept. 14. American was scheduled to bring back alcohol sales Tuesday.

Ruling class members can relax, though. Those who can come up with the money for business and first class seats apparently are exempt from the booze ban, presumably on the theory that the better class of people there can handle their liquor better, or are more obedient to the pseudo-scientific mandates emanating from their ruling class brethren. Or maybe, if you pay extra, you get to behave a little worse. (In the ancient past of the late 1960s/early 1970s when I dated a couple of what were then called "stewardesses," I learned that in their experience first class passengers were more troublesome.)

Southwest Airlines, like American, based in Dallas, also banned alcohol sales after one of its flight attendants was bloodied and lost two teeth. But because it offers only coach seats, there is no class discrimination involved in the booze ban.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/31/2021 07:04 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Everyone know the ConVid-19 only infects coach class. While Business and 1st Class travelers are covered by the "Cone of Immunity". ☻☺☻☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/31/2021 9:00 Comments || Top||



Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Lord of the Rings the Mein Kampf of Forces of Good
By Ales Mishchenko
Direct translation of the article
[Regnum] The book "The Lord of the Rings" was written at a time when Tolkien's homeland, Great Britain, was losing influence and power over half the world.

And, undoubtedly, the writer foresaw that Asia, with its billions of people, would crowd out Europe.

The symbol of Asia, crowding Europe, is the Turkic hordes of Attila and Genghis Khan. Hence, the Orcs appeared, speaking a language very similar to Turkic (this cannot be considered a coincidence, since Tolkien is a philologist by education).

In fact, the Lord of the Rings is a call to destroy the Asian superpowers before they have had time to use their enormous potential (which is called in the book "the ring of omnipotence").

Moreover, this is a call to destroy Asia not so ceremoniously with the choice of means, judging by the description of how the Gondorians (Europeans) do not stand on ceremony with the Turks (orcs): I remember the proud description of how, after some battle, their corpses were dumped in a pile, in the middle of which was stuck some kind of stick, on which a goblin head dangled.

Note that Tolkien also recorded the Russians as the forces of evil - among the allies of Mordor there are “northern bearded men with berdyshs” and “thieves” (Varangians).
Russians make the bestest Bad Guys in fiction
In "The Lord of the Rings" Tolkien's admiration for the past is evident (remember that he is a teacher of ancient Germanic legends). But we know how it was written in those ancient German (like many others) annals that Tolkien taught: “they came to a new land and cleansed it” (as explained in the story “Janissaries of the Unknown Homeland” of the book “People's Indulgence” - all civilizations were built on bones and there is nothing good about that).

So the fact that Chingiz Khan's invasion of China holds the palm in the destruction of the civilian population is a "merit" of the large number of Chinese, and not at all of ancient European humanism. In ancient times, there was little humanism at all. He appeared later, after Buddha and Jesus.

But one should not judge Tolkien harshly: in his time, the topic of inequality and the competition of nations and races was not yet taboo (since it had not yet led to gas chambers) and, unfortunately, it was actively discussed alongside, for example, also popular topics of the world behind the scenes. secret societies or spiritualism.

And besides, in an attempt to disguise his call to attack Asia, he created a new literary genre - fantasy.

"But why can't you see it as a struggle between good and evil? !!" - one of my acquaintances objected to me.

But I did not see good there. I saw that Tolkien convinces us that the orcs are evil, because they smell bad and they eat all kinds of nasty things - a typical European view of uncivilized peoples. No sign of good or evil. On the contrary, I saw that Gondor attacked Mordor first, fearing its growing power. That is, discarding the Gondorian propaganda, objectively speaking, it is Gondor that can be called the evil that unleashed this war.

As there is no God in religious disputes, so there is no good in the Lord of the Rings - only inter-tribal showdown and propaganda like "Carthage must be destroyed."

So I saw ...

But then I did not find a single person who would look at this book in the same way ...

Well, let's assume I'm wrong. The struggle between good and evil, so is the struggle between good and evil. But the goblin heads impaled on the mountains of their corpses remain ...

Okay, so then this book is the Mein Kampf of the forces of good.

PS And the descendants of Tolkien chose a more risky and noble path: to take all those whom Tolkien considered "orcs" to their castles, to give them human rights ... And perhaps they will die in this battle, unable to cope with others, more totalitarian and cruel customs. But in this battle, they really are on the side of good.
Posted by: badanov || 05/31/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It was caused by the infamous Hobbitt Pipeweed Cartel conspiring with Gondor's military-industrial complex!" Or so goes a satirical parody on McSweeney's Internet Tendency (here is part 1 of 3): UNUSED AUDIO COMMENTARY BY HOWARD ZINN AND NOAM CHOMSKY, RECORDED SUMMER 2002 FOR THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (PLATINUM SERIES EXTENDED EDITION) DVD, PART ONE by TOM BISSELL and JEFF ALEXANDER
Posted by: magpie || 05/31/2021 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Ales Mishchenko is a moral and mental retard. He must do obscene things to icons of Putin every night, while muttering "my precious, my precious".

Tolkien told a story of the fight against the lust for power. There were only three real-world cultures he used as models: the Anglo-Saxons (Rohirrim), loosely the Byzantines (Gondor), and the British country folk (Hobbits). To believe it was a screed against "Asiatics" and Russians, you have to be paranoid as only a Russian can be.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/31/2021 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Given English academia of the time, I'm pretty sure the fairies had a real-world parallel as well.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/31/2021 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  But the Dwarves are definitely Jews?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/31/2021 11:22 Comments || Top||

#5  "the ring of omniimpotence"

Eisenhower and Southeast Asia, Part I: Building Containment
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/31/2021 11:39 Comments || Top||

#6  And Trump is Tom Bombadil. Or is he Gandalf? Brennan is Sauron (the 'all seeing eye'). The Squad is the Nine Nazgul...
Please continue...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/31/2021 12:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Tolkien later regretted that his Dwarves had some of the stereotypes attributed to Jews as he had not intended any connection.

Most of the claims against Dwarves have to do with their greed but in the books the only greed we see is others coveting Dwarven wealth and the Dwarves hoping to reclaim what was taken from them.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/31/2021 14:47 Comments || Top||

#8  The Nazis were in power when "The Hobbit" was being translated into German. A German official contacted Tolkien and asked about his heritage. Tolkien responded, "Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch... But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people."
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/31/2021 15:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Never heard that one about the Dwarves.

In The Hobbit, the Dwarves were the vassal of the plot point Dragon Sickness, both a literary and cultural concept during Tolkien's time which had to be explained in the movies, one of the good things about the movies. It is a reference to the olden times concerning the lords who would amass wealth trough taxes and tolls, and not spend it on anything other than the one who suffered from Dragon Sickness.

Bilbo points this out and is cast aside. In The Rings, it again bites the Dwarves in the ass as they stay inside their fortified keep to amass wealth, waking the Balrog this time.

More about English assholes who didn't want to untie purse strings for philanthropy, churches, or civic projects, likely from Caxton's 16th century translation into English St. George and the Dragon.

But that is how I was taught, with the heavy leaning on Nordic creatures and Christian overtones, is that the invaders from the East and South were Vikings, Gondor was King Alfred's London, and the question of the winner was parallel to whether the Isles would be Christian or Nordic Pagan.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/31/2021 17:42 Comments || Top||

#10  As for this garbage think, there is an effort underway to Woke all things Fantasy, especially the well known Dungeons and Dragons, and what may be Game of the Year, Frosthaven.

By attacking the fountainhead of fantasy as racist, the attempt is on to, using their words, colonize Fantasy and Fantasy Gaming.

So instead of having the unexpected hero as an orc, like say in the movie Dudes and Dragons, they send in thought police to review canon, characters, and events to create a safe space. In fantasy adventure.

In other words, if you are thirsty, you have to drink the punch they shit in and make comments like, I never knew grape and corn go well together! I'm sorry, I meant maize! I meant maize! Don't punish my character!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/31/2021 17:46 Comments || Top||

#11  #9: But that is how I was taught, with the heavy leaning on Nordic creatures and Christian overtones, is that the...
Or maybe, just maybe, Tolkien never felt the need to explore the history and myths of Ancient China or India to write his story. Silly of him, right?

Thanks to all the Rantburgers by discussing this Academic "digression from practical reality".
Posted by: magpie || 05/31/2021 19:49 Comments || Top||

#12  #10 there is an effort underway to Woke all things Fantasy...By attacking the fountainhead of fantasy as racist, the attempt is on to, using their words, colonize Fantasy and Fantasy Gaming

Wokesters: FOOK.OFF.
Very much.
Posted by: Betty Glinetch1592 || 05/31/2021 20:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Calls for Michael Flynn to face court martial after retired general tells QAnon conference a Myanmar-style coup SHOULD happen in the US
[MAIL] Michael Flynn has been blasted for comments he made at a QAnon conference where he told attendees that a military coup similar to one that recently occurred in Myanmar should happen in the United States.

Calls mounted on social media for the retired general to face a military court martial for his comments at a conference in Dallas, Texas, that had been organized by supporters of the QAnon conspiracy.

Flynn, who was National Security Advisor for former President Trump, was responding to a question from an audience member.

The man said he was a 'simple Marine' and asked 'why what happened in Myanmar can't happen here?'

'There's no reason', Flynn responded as the audience cheered. 'I mean, it should happen — that's right.'

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/31/2021 10:42 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Those of the usual memory hole institutions forget the number of people who opined that the military should execute a coup against Trump.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/31/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2 
#1 Those of the usual memory hole institutions forget the number of people who opined that the military should execute a coup against Trump.
Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-05-31 10:52


P2K,

True indeed - but Flynn knows better.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/31/2021 11:13 Comments || Top||

#3  As time goes on, Flynn comes off more and more as someone Trump could have well done without.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/31/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#4  So he called for a coup to fight the election coup? I don't have any problem with that. Nor would any of our founding fathers. That is exactly what our second amendment is for.

Deal with it.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/31/2021 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ absolutely
Posted by: 746 || 05/31/2021 14:14 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ agreed
Posted by: Jealet Platypus4682 || 05/31/2021 14:45 Comments || Top||

#7  can't court martial a retired person

notwithstanding this, Flynn, although having served honorably, is a careless fellow

after leaving active duty he became a consultant/lobbyist for foreign countries, e.g. Turkey, without bothering to register as a foreign agent and he didn't resign his consultancy before working in govt again - neither of these are usually prosecuted but they show an oblivious attitude toward what you are supposed to do
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/31/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||

#8  He's only wrong in that the current regime is 100% illegitimate. It would not be a "coup" but a restoration of decency. Call it what you want, ZFG when the prize is all the marbles.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/31/2021 17:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Loose Cannon Flynn
Posted by: KBK || 05/31/2021 18:54 Comments || Top||

#10  1. Gen Flynn is Army not a Marine.

2. Flynn denies saying this. Says audio/video is manipulated.
Posted by: Flaising Omeling6076 || 05/31/2021 20:37 Comments || Top||

#11  Forcably removing the government IS treason and anyone participating in it shoul be arreste. Simple as tht. Whether to remove Trump, or remove Biden.

It is an ffront to the Constitution. The only way to permanently remove a sitting presient is to impeach and convict him/her. And doing so does NOT awar the office to the previous presient, it then goes to the Vice President, then the Speaker.

You idiots seem to think that a screwed-up election allows you to blithely just crap all over the Constitution. Like it or not, the processes were followed, and Biden was properly sworn in as affirmed by Congress, in accordance with the Constitution. The process was followed.

The fault here is in the States, and destroying the federal government is NOT the right answer. either that or you are just as bad as the marxists who ignore the Constitutiton and our duty to it when you feel like it.

I call ANYONE here out as a dishonest anti-constitutional traitor if they agree with a coup at this point in time. The day may come, but this isn't it, and your idiocy in promoting such talk just gives aid and comfort to those who would further subvert our government and use YOUR sedition to suppress free speech.

Just STOP IT. those of us who have bled for this nation don't take threats like yours lightly.
Posted by: These Forkbeard7574 || 05/31/2021 22:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Flynn denies saying this. Says audio/video is manipulated.

That is why you *always* should have at least one videographer of you own at such events and lock up the copies.
Ask Sarah Palin about her interview with ABC News.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/31/2021 22:45 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Medicine Expert Warns of Additional Coronaviruses if COVID-19 Origin Not Discovered
[Townhall] An expert said Sunday that finding out where COVID-19 originated from is "absolutely critical" in preventing future coronavirus outbreaks.

Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, appeared on NBC’s "Meet the Press" and said:
There’s going to be COVID-26 and COVID-32 unless we fully understand the origins of COVID-19. This is absolutely critical.
Hotez said that saying that the U.S. must send experts to Wuhan lab to investigate the origins, noting that an intelligence investigation is not enough.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/31/2021 06:17 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Research grants? Clinics? Insurance? What sort of successful business plan only introduces one model ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/31/2021 6:28 Comments || Top||


#3  Let's add Covid origins to the list of things covered by the Durham probe.
Posted by: Matt || 05/31/2021 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4 

Not a Matter of Discovery.
It is a Matter of Admission.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/31/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#5  The Chinese have rediscovered they can use man made epidemics to their advantage. Much like the Mongols discovered they could use the Bubonic Plague in their conquests.
Posted by: Flaising Omeling6076 || 05/31/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, considering where most of the worst diseases came from that have swept the globe over the centuries....

I have an idea.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/31/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Short of hanging Fraudci and nuking china, what is the point?
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/31/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||


#9  It's either bioweapons MAD (and we know MAD works), or unconditional surrender.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/31/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ well stated. I'll take Bioweapons MAD, thanks
Posted by: Spike Jusotle7510 || 05/31/2021 16:17 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/31/2021 16:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Let us not forget that while China started it, the WHO helped it spread globally by telling the entire world in February 2020 to keep the borders open for travel and trade: the exact opposite of what might have contained it.

We didn’t have to have this virus but open borders globalism is more important to WHO than its primary function.

Trump was right: defund, disband WHO
Posted by: Anon1 || 05/31/2021 22:28 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2021-05-31
  ISIS suffers blow in Somalia's Puntland as forces kill Pakistani Jihadist
Sun 2021-05-30
  Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah coordinated Gaza fighting in joint ops room
Sat 2021-05-29
  Cullors steps down as BLM executive director
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Fri 2021-05-28
  Syrian President Bashar Assad wins re-election with 95.1% of votes
Thu 2021-05-27
  Riot in Portland on anniversary of George Floyd's murder.
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Wed 2021-05-26
  Mali Army Arrests President, Prime Minister
Tue 2021-05-25
  Mozambique President Calls for Help From SADC to Fight Insurgency
Mon 2021-05-24
  Jew-beating murderous Moslem makes bail in New York
Sun 2021-05-23
  Turkish mafia scandal threatens Erdogan government
Sat 2021-05-22
  Center of District in Maidan Wardak Falls to Taliban: MP
Fri 2021-05-21
  Nigeria's Boko Haram leader 'badly wounded' dead again after clash with rival group: Sources
Thu 2021-05-20
  Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza ceasefire after 11 days of fighting
Wed 2021-05-19
  Biden pressing Israel's Netanyahu for end to military campaign
Tue 2021-05-18
  Israel Eliminates Terror Tunnel 163 Football Fields Long,
Kills Top PIJ Terror Commander
Mon 2021-05-17
  Palestinians report more than 100 strikes on Gaza City: houses collapse, Phase C attacks on underground ‘Metro’ tunnel network

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