Daniel Perry, a 37-year-old Uber driver and Army sergeant, was driving through downtown Austin, Texas on the night of July 25, 2020
He ended up in the middle of a Black Lives Matter march and had an altercation with protester Garrett Foster, 28, who was carrying an AK-47
Perry shot Foster dead: Perry claimed it was self defense, but on Friday a jury found him guilty of murdering Foster
The jury deliberated 17 hours over two days to reach its decision, after an eight-day trial. He sobbed when the guilty verdict was read out, and hugged his attorney. Perry faces up to life in prison.
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In Texas, the Pardons and Paroles group has to recommend, and then the govenor can pardon. The Texas State Constitution was mostly written during reconstruction, and has every procedural roadblock possible.
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[Unlimited Hangout] As JPMorgan’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein are being scrutinized in court, Whitney Webb reveals how the same powerful players who brought Epstein to prominence were largely responsible for the rise of JPMorgan CEO, Jamie Dimon.
Earlier this month, a judge ruled that two different lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase over the bank’s ties to deceased "financier" and pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, would be allowed to advance in U.S. Courts. One of these cases, brought against the bank by the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), has been a particular focus of independent media since the new year began, in part because the Attorney General of the USVI, Denise George, was fired from her post just days after she filed that case.
In a hearing in the USVI case against JPMorgan earlier this month, a USVI lawyer argued that the CEO of JPMorgan — Jamie Dimon — "knew in 2008 that his billionaire client [Jeffrey Epstein] was a sex trafficker." The lawyer, Mimi Liu, also stated that former JPMorgan Jes Staley also knew this about Epstein at the time, but noted: "This case was not just Jes Staley ... there will be numerous documents that go far beyond his office to the executive suite." Liu also asserted that "Staley knew, Dimon knew, JPMorgan Chase knew" about Epstein’s criminal activities against minors.
While the bank has disputed that Dimon knew anything about Epstein’s accounts at the bank or what he was really up to at the time, this Unlimited Hangout investigation — a multi-part series — will reveal that Dimon’s rise to the top post at JPMorgan was intimately linked to the very same group of people who enabled Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking activities as well as his extensive financial crimes.
In this article, we will examine how Dimon’s rise to become one of the most powerful men on Wall Street was largely reliant on top executives and directors of Bank One, which boasts incredibly close ties to The Limited’s Leslie Wexner and his right-hand man for many decades, Columbus-area real estate developer John W. Kessler. Kessler and other individuals tied to Wexner were the dominant forces that saw Dimon installed as Bank One’s CEO in 2000. Bank One was acquired by JPMorgan in 2003 and, shortly thereafter, Dimon became CEO of the combined entity. That acquisition, as well as the role of the Crown family in Chicago in Dimon’s selection as Bank One’s CEO, will be discussed in the second part of this series.
Riley Gaines is a champion swimmer, one of America’s best. She has spoken out eloquently against men competing in women’s sports, in part because she and other women were traumatized by being forced to share a locker room with "Lia" Thomas. If you haven’t seen her, you should check out this video: At the link.
But logic at this level cannot be allowed on college campuses. Last night, at San Francisco State, Gaines was attacked by a "trans" or pro-"trans" mob that tried to kill her. She was assaulted—slugged—by a man wearing a dress. Police officers got her into a locked room where she was held prisoner by the mob for several hours. These are among the many videos of the horrific scene: At the link.
A few observations:
* Ms. Gaines is to be commended for her courage and eloquence. Will any member of the Democratic Party support her? I haven’t seen it yet.
* All of the members of the mob should be identified and criminally prosecuted. But in San Francisco, that is probably too much to hope for.
* San Francisco State has a long history of radicalism and violence. Should that university be closed down? At a minimum, it needs drastic reform.
* Last night’s event was sponsored by Turning Point USA. Thank goodness for Turning Point, which does more than anyone else to bring sanity to our diseased campuses.
* The "trans community" has shown itself to be prone to violence, to an unacceptable degree.
Perhaps this is confirmation that what we are talking about here is mental illness. In any event, that group needs to get its house in order, and liberals need to stop lionizing it unless and until "trans" activists demonstrate that they can behave in a civilized manner. Ain't gonna happen.
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They have been handed over to Satan. They are tormented and lashing out.
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#3 Skidmark is guilty of using actual facts and logic. When trans people hit normal people, it is because they (trans) are under attack. See how easy that was?
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She should have hired Blackwater for security. Or hired some mafia goons.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Not very diverse or inclusive.
Created in 1950 as a venture between the FBI and the nation's news media, the list shows the US' most dangerous criminals who might be otherwise overlooked
Since its inception, the list has seen hundreds of fugitives - whether they be Mexican drug lords or cold-blooded killers - tracked down and brought to justice
After amassing 529 names in 53 years, seven remain at-large - and stand accused of horrific crimes ranging from kidnapping, sex-trafficking, and murder
[Brownstone] The most important two sentences in the history of political philosophy since the ancient Greeks appears towards the beginning of Machiavelli’s The Prince. ’[A] wise ruler,’ the author informs his reader, ’must think of a method by which his citizens will need the state and himself at all times and in every circumstance. Then they will always be loyal to him.’
The history of the development of modern governance is essentially a riff on this basic insight. It tells us almost everything we need to know about our current predicament: those who rule us vigorously engaged in the task of making us need them, so that they can retain our loyalty and hence stay in power — and gain more of it.
Machiavelli was writing at a particular point in history when the thing which we now know as ’the state’ first came into existence in European political thought. Before Machiavelli, there were kingdoms and principalities and the concept of rulership was essentially personal and divine. After him, it became secularised, temporal, and what Michel Foucault called ’governmental’. That is, to the medieval mind, the physical world was a mere staging post before rapture, and the job of the king was to maintain spiritual order. To the modern mind — of which Machiavelli might be called the precursor — the physical world is the main event (rapture being an open question), and the job of the ruler is to improve the material and moral well-being of the population and the productivity of the territory and economy.
Machiavelli’s maxim forces us to think more seriously about the doctrine for which he is nowadays famous — raison d’État, or ’reason of state’, meaning in essence the justification for the state acting in its own interests and above the law or natural right. The way that this concept is usually described suggests an amoral pursuit of the national interest. But this is to overlook its caring aspect.
As Machiavelli makes quite clear in the lines I have just cited, reason of state also means obtaining and preserving the loyalty of the population (so as to maintain the position of the ruling class) — and this means thinking of ways to make it reliant on the state for its welfare.
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’[A] wise ruler,’ the author informs his reader, ’must think of a method by which his citizens will need the state and himself at all times and in every circumstance. Then they will always be loyal to him.’
Can somebody please send that to Musk's retweet address?
[Hot Air] Remember the George Floyd riots of 2020?
I do. Vast swathes of my city were burned down including a police precinct—a first. The City of Minneapolis actually evacuated and abandoned a police precinct and let rioters burn it down.
It was pretty traumatic for the city. It took days to get the city back under control. The National Guard had to be called out, and even then it took days to retake the city. I lent my neighbor a gun. As a Black man, he was surprised I would and very grateful. We were in it together, protecting each other against a mob. He bought a gun soon after. First time ever for him.
Well my local NBC station has figured out how to describe the destruction during those times. And it isn’t riot.
In fact, nobody did anything at all. What happened was an event that had nothing to do with human agency: it was "the fires." They just sort of happened.
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The riots coupled with Covid must have crippled small businesses in Minneapolis and other cities. I have seen individual stories but not data and statistics on the impact. The studies might be out there. I haven’t seen the material reach the news.
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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.
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[Brownstone] The most important two sentences in the history of political philosophy since the ancient Greeks appears towards the beginning of Machiavelli’s The Prince. ’[A] wise ruler,’ the author informs his reader, ’must think of a method by which his citizens will need the state and himself at all times and in every circumstance. Then they will always be loyal to him.’
