[Zero Hedge] San Francisco is experiencing a surge in crime, despite leadership in the progressive-run town attempting to persuade everyone that the city is safe. The latest incident, and you can't make this stuff up, involved vandalism of communication infrastructure near City Hall that caused a meeting to be canceled.
According to The San Francisco Standard, a Tuesday meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was postponed after a telecommunications box had been "completely destroyed" down the street from the San Francisco City Hall building.
"A fiber enclosure in an underground vault was completely destroyed, disrupting services to customers served by that portion of Comcast's network.
"Comcast is working quickly and diligently to restore services for customers impacted by the damage to our network," a spokesperson for Comcast told the Standard.
Tech entrepreneur David Sachs tweeted about the incident, saying, "Can't make this stuff up."
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The real failure here is they have become so reliant on the Internet that they can't even conduct a public meeting without it. Sometimes low-tech is the best.
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The brainstorming session on the Lido deck of the Titanic was probably canceled as well.
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Not Bee - $1 for the jar.
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[FoxNews] Social media users mocked White House Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice’s claim that racism has had a massive impact on the U.S. economy during a speech on Wednesday.
Rice appeared as a guest at the National Action Network's, founded by Al Sharpton, convention in New York City to speak about the White House’s commitment to promoting civil rights. During her speech, she made the radical claim that the United States has suffered a $16 trillion shortfall because of racism.
"In the last 20 years, the U.S. had a GDP shortfall of $16 trillion due to discrimination against Black Americans. If we closed our racial gaps, we could add another $5 trillion to GDP over just the next five years. And in case you’re wondering, that’s not my math, that’s, according to Citibank. We all benefit when every community has the chance to thrive," Rice said.
This claim faced scrutiny and scorn by Twitter users for the extreme estimate about the impact of racism.
The Citibank report cited by Rice claimed, "The analysis in the report that follows shows that if four key racial gaps for Blacks —wages, education, housing, and investment — were closed 20 years ago, $16 trillion could have been added to the U.S. economy. And if the gaps are closed today, $5 trillion can be added to U.S. GDP over the next five years."
Elsewhere during the conference, Rice attacked Republican policies regarding education and critical race theory.
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I bet the number is more that $16 trillion, but its not the number she is making up. Its how much the racism behind all the programs, welfare, medicare, food stamps, has cost the taxpayers over the years since the LBJ Great Society. The discrimination has been against the majority of the American people forced to pay for subsidies and preferential treatment of non-whites over the years.
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The analysis in the report that follows shows that if four key racial gaps for Blacks — wages education, education, housing education, and investment education — were closed 20 years ago, $16 trillion could have been added to the U.S. economy.
Get the education thing working and all the rest falls in line. Without it, there are not a lot of opportunities.
Perhaps the teacher's unions could explain why test scores and graduation rates have been flat for decades. Of course, having a dependent population is handy at election time. Vote for me and I'll set you free!
[IsraelTimes] Ex-firefighter gets prison for Capitol riots extinguisher attack. Anti-Trump “volunteer” agent provocateur Josiah Kenyon gets even more prison.
A retired firefighter who threw a fire extinguisher at coppers during the US Capitol riot was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison. Robert Sanford struck two coppers in the head as he stormed Congress on January 6, 2021 ...Trump complained after being cheated out of reelection and the FBI, Capitol Police, and Democrats jailed hundreds who converged on the capitol without trial for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts'. One person, Ashley Babbitt was murdered by a Capitol policeman, who got a medal for it. One policeman died of a stroke, which was inflated to a dozen or so by Dem propagandists... with a mob of Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... supporter. He also threw an orange traffic cone at a Capitol police sergeant.
"Sanford also hurled obscenities and insults at the law enforcement officers on the Lower West Terrace, calling them ’traitors,’" a prosecutor, Janani Iyengar, wrote in a court filing.
One of the officers struck by the fire extinguisher had a bump and swelling on his head; the other had a headache and went to a hospital for a medical exam, prosecutors said.
US District Judge Paul Friedman sentenced Sanford to four years and four months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to an online court record. Federal prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of five years and 11 months.
Sanford, 57, of Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, worked as a firefighter for 26 years before retiring in 2020. A fire extinguisher is "an instrument that he was uniquely familiar with and should have known how much damage it could cause," the prosecutor wrote.
Sanford traveled to Washington, DC, with friends from Pennsylvania on a bus trip organized by the conservative opinionated hairbag group Turning Point USA. He listened to speeches at Trump’s "Stop the Steal" rally before joining the crowd that marched over to the Capitol and disrupted the joint session of Congress for certifying Democrat Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... ’s electoral victory over Trump.
Sanford was arrested on January 14, 2021. He has been tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! since he pleaded guilty last September to assaulting, resisting or impeding coppers using a dangerous weapon — a felony punishable by a maximum of 20 years in prison. He wasn’t accused of entering the Capitol building on January 6.
Sanford began to work with a specialist in cult deprogramming in August 2022 and was confronted with "facts" about the baseless conspiracy theory that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from Trump, according to defense attorney Andrew Stewart.
"Even after he was incarcerated, he participated in regular discussions designed to challenge his ideology and belief structure, then help him understand how and why he developed the beliefs that led him to make the decisions that he did on January 6," Stewart wrote in a court filing.
Or, when applied to persuading away from true facts, is known as brainwashing. It is particularly inappropriate when the facts of the situation are still in dispute, mostly because the powers that be refuse to investigate.
Sanford believed that police had attacked him and others without provocation when he picked up and threw what felt like an empty fire extinguisher, his lawyer said.
"Certainly, this is not a justification for his action nor is it intended to be," Stewart wrote.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the January 6 riot. Over 600 of them have pleaded guilty or been convicted after trials decided by a jury or judge. Over 450 of them have been sentenced, with over half getting terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 10 years.
More than 100 copperswere maimed during the Jan. 6 riot.
Also on Tuesday, a Nevada man who joined other rioters in assaulting coppers in a tunnel on the Lower West Terrace was sentenced to six years in prison. US District Court Judge Carl J. Nichols also ordered Josiah Kenyon, 35, of Winnemucca, Nevada, to pay over $43,000 in restitution for damaging a window at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Kenyon was dressed as the character Jack Skellington from the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" when he joined the mob’s attack. He used a table leg with a protruding nail to strike an officer in the leg and hit a second officer so hard that it lodged in the officer’s face shield and helmet, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of seven years and four months for Kenyon, who pleaded guilty to assault charges in September 2022.
Kenyon drove to Washington from Reno, Nevada with his wife and young children to attend Trump’s rally. Kenyon told FBI agents that he hated Trump
Eh?
and went to the Capitol because he was "trying to raise the violence level," prosecutors wrote, adding, "His idea was to have ’the Trumpers’ charge the police line which would in turn cause the officers to shoot the rioters."
An Antifa cadre or just someone with a bright idea?
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Ok, I am not a proponent of throwing extinguishers at anyone. Sounds like their injuries were nominal. Where are the charges for the people that injured police in Portland, Seattle and throughout the country during the summer of rage? How is a Molotov attack a one year sentence?
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"Sanford began to work with a specialist in cult deprogramming"
Soviets, Vietcong, and Red China would this call re-education.
[BREITBART] A federal court on Tuesday denied Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ...Soros-financed, -owned, and -operated woke Manhattan DA. A prosecutorial loose cannon who feels entitled to pick and choose which laws to enforce and can't be bothered to respond civilly to Congressional inquiries unless they're from Dems... ’s request for a temporary restraining order to prevent House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) from questioning a former prosecutor about Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and whatever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Bragg filed a lawsuit against Jordan on Tuesday in an attempt to stop him from following through on a subpoena he issued to Mark Pomerantz, a former special assistant in the Manhattan district attorney’s office who left when Bragg took over out of frustration that Bragg paused the Manhattan office’s investigation into Trump.
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The world contains two types of people: Those who like Starbucks, and those who lie and drink Mango Dragonfruit.
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... said during his trip to Ireland that he is "proud" of his son Hunter and sister Valerie Biden Owens — both of whom are key players in the family influence peddling operation currently under multiple investigations.
"I’m here with my sister, Valerie, and my younger son, Hunter Biden," Biden said. "Stand up, guys. I’m proud of you."
A video shows Hunter and Valerie turning around to wave at the slowly applauding crowd:
Joe Biden has also referred to Hunter as "smartest guy I know." Hunter is a practicing lawyer, artist, and former lobbyist.
Both Valerie and Hunter Biden are key associates in Biden’s international business schemes. While much has been reported on Hunter, Valerie is a lesser-known character. Yet both have worked in the family enterprise, as Breitbart News reported.
Valerie is chair of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. The institution received more than $6.7 million in anonymous donations from China, including direct funding from the Chinese government — all after Joe Biden set up a program under his name.
Email exchanges between Valerie, Hunter, and business associates show the Biden family planned to cash in on the family name at the university’s Biden Institute, Breitbart News reported in March. The emails also reveal the business partners discussing ways to carefully distance Joe from financial documents outlining the deal.
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Confusing the NZ All-Blacks Rugby Team with the Black-and-Tans is a huge faux-pas, given the hatred of the memory of the latter even to this day. The decline is increasingly evident every week, and the reported angry snapping at Hunter in public is further proof.
I await the theatrical, stage-managed crescendo of publicity and events this summer, in Chicago, just in time for the Convention, that herald the arrival of Big Mike, reluctantly drafted to save the nation from Orange Man Bad. A reprise of the Clintonian election strategy of Big Mike with the Magic Kenyan as co-President?
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I think you will see an amazing amount of loyalty among the Bidens as long as Joe remains president. I bet The Pardoner’s Tale is a family favorite within the clan.
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^^^ A literate reference to the Canterbury Tales! Love it!
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" influence peddling that is under multiple investigations". Who the fuck is investigating it?
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Twitter video of his arrival, he literally pushes the Prime Minister of the UK aside to shake hands with a military official. Stunning level of insult and incompetence, so cognitively impaired and arrogant he cannot assume the first person to greet him must be the most senior? Diplomacy 101 for Gods sake.
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Turns out the Democrat KY Governor must appoint a Republican replacement from a list of three names of Republicans given him by the KY GOP leadership.
Former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... is suing his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen for more than $500 million, alleging a breach of his attorney-client relationship, unjust enrichment, and more, Fox News Digital has learned.
A gun to a knife fight?
Trump’s legal team filed the more-than 30-page federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court for theTouched Southern District of Florida on Wednesday.
"This is an action arising from [Cohen’s] multiple breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion and breaches of contract by virtue of [Cohen’s] past service as [Trump’s] employee and attorney," the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit alleges Cohen breached his attorney-client relationship by "spreading falsehoods" about Trump that were "likely to be embarrassing or detrimental, and partook in other misconduct," while also breaching contractual terms of a confidentiality agreement he signed as a condition of employment with Trump.
The lawsuit alleges Cohen spread falsehoods about Trump "with malicious intent and to wholly self-serving ends."
The lawsuit details Cohen’s "myriad of public statements, including the publication of two books, a podcast series, and innumerable mainstream media appearances," while ignoring "cease and desist" orders.
It claims Cohen has, in recent months, "increased the frequency and hostility of the illicit acts" and "appears to have become emboldened and repeatedly continues to make wrongful and false statements" about Trump through various platforms.
"Such continuous and escalating improper conduct by [Cohen] has reached a proverbial crescendo and has left [Trump] with no alternative but to seek legal redress through this action," the lawsuit states, adding that Trump has "suffered vast reputational harm as a direct result of [Cohen’s] breaches."
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Cohen will try to have it dismissed and fail. His next move will be trying to move the venue to NYC. Constitutionally, he should be able to do that, but that result would cause a whole bunch of issues for the evil side as none of the J6 people can get a fair trial in the venues of those current trials.
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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.
[FoxNews] Social media users mocked White House Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice’s claim that racism has had a massive impact on the U.S. economy during a speech on Wednesday.
[BREITBART] A federal court on Tuesday denied Manhattan District Attorney 
...46th president of the U.S. 
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
