[The Right Scoop] Charles Krauthammer weighed in on the charges made against the Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, and he thinks it might add up to simple appeasement of the mob.
You don't really need a psychiatrist's opinion. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a .......
[Daily Caller] The Baltimore police department released mugshots of the six officers charged Friday in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year old black man who died after suffering a broken neck following his April 12 arrest. But, but, but I thought Ferguson, Mo. proved that the difficulty was all about racist white cops and leadership, not the culture of the entitlement crowd.
Three of the officers, including Caeser Goodson Jr., who faces the toughest charges, are black. The other three are white.
Maryland state attorney Marilyn Mosby announced the charges during a surprise press conference Friday morning. She said that the officers arrested Gray without cause. He was found with a pocket knife on his person, but Mosby said it was legal under Maryland law. Mosby also said that officers failed on numerous occasions to restrain Gray with a seat belt and to provide him with medical care even though he asked for it. Move over Judge Roy Bean, there's a new lawyer in town.
A medical examiner's report ruled Gray's death a homicide. His neck was broken and he had an injury on the back of his head consistent with hitting it on a bolt from the van.
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Don't be confused people. Those are White-Blacks like Zimmerman was White-Hispanic. Just watch the postings of the racialists.(do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Freddie Grey had a police record of 23 crimes between 2007 and 2015. Most of them were for distribution of narcotics. There were no crimes for the years 2009 - 2011 (when he was probably in jail).
Why a man with 20 counts of manufacturing, distributing, and selling cocaine was still on the streets is beyond me.
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Freddie Grey had a police record of 23 crimes between 2007 and 2015.
Trayvon Martin somewhat older than his pics indicate?
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The mayor said she was not going to tolerate racism in the police department. The fact that half of the indicted are white and half black or Hispanic is going to make for a spin problem.
[Daily Caller] Charges filed against the six Baltimore police officers for their involvement in the death of Freddie Grey will be dismissed, a George Washington University law professor predicted in an interview with The Daily Caller.
John Banzhaf, who teaches public interest law, says that the charges announced by Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby on Friday "go too far."
"I think a prosecutor is going to have a hard time proving that the actions did in fact cause death, since they seem to have no theory as to how it occurred," Banzhaf said in a phone interview.
Gray was arrested on April 12 after a foot chase with police. He was transported in a police van to a processing center, where he was found unresponsive. He was then taken to a hospital, where he underwent surgery.
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Sure sounds like Mosby was trying to get "street cred" by playing to the crowd. She also has some entanglements with financial supporters that should be reason for recusal from the case. The Gray family has been said to have donated the max. to Mosby for her election.
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Doesn't matter. If the police officers - especially the white officers - do not receive the maximum penalty, you are going to see riots all over the country. The mob is not looking for "justice". They are looking for revenge.
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[American Thinker] As a sort of farewell present to the city he adopted as his political base but will leave for more glamorous New York City after his presidency, the Barack Obama Presidential Library is to be built on parkland taken from the citizens of Chicago. Unless, that is, Republican Governor Bruce Rauner vetoes a bill authorizing the transfer of city-owned park acreage to the library. Dahleen Glanton and Rick Pearson of the Chicago Tribune explain:
President Barack Obama has selected the University of Chicago to host his library and museum, sources have told the Chicago Tribune.
Despite a flurry of reports Thursday that Chicago had won the library, there was no official confirmation by the Obama administration, City Hall or the Obama Foundation, which is leading the site selection process.
There are two potential sites under considerstion, both in the crime-ridden South Side of the city, currently home to a horrific crime wave costing the lives of many young minorities.
Sources said it remained unclear whether a decision had been made on which South Side park to build the library -- Washington Park or Jackson Park. I recommend Highland Park, somewhere within walking distance of Beth El. They seemed to have voted for him twice. The traffic and constant reminder might be good therapy.
But taking the parkland is questionable, and likely to be fought in court by the group Friends of the Parks, so the State Legislature has passed a special law:
State lawmakers attempted to head off further legal wrangling over whether the library could be built on public land last week, when legislation aimed at providing legal protections for the library was quickly passed.
Friends of the Parks, which already has filed a federal lawsuit challenging plans for a proposed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on parkland, has been the chief opposition to building the Obama library on parkland.
The estimated half-billion-dollar monument is regarded as an economic benefit to the impoverished community in which it will reside. We'll see. The University of Chicago, which conferred academic status on Obama as a scholar, though he never wrote anything of a scholarly nature, and which employed his wife as an executive in charge of diverting poor, money-losing patients away from its hospitals, is taking a starring role in the library project.
As for Obama, his Chicago years are largely over, and Manhattan beckons as the home of movers and shakers:
Sources said Obama's offices could be built in West Harlem, on land offered by Columbia University, the U. of C.'s chief competitor for the library. However, it was unclear whether the president had made a final decision. That announcement is expected to come later.
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Hey, we got a horse race. Baltimore is coming up on Chicago. DC is always a strong contender in this derby. Don't rule out Detroit as a dark horse long shot in this race.
One of the hardest concepts to convey to anyone is the notion of Constitutional rights outside of what the law says. The Constitution says everyone has the right to keep and bear arms, whether part of a militia or not, so when the court system throws a curve ball such as what the US 7th Circuit court did, maintaining bans on AR type firearms are "constitutional", it becomes difficult to convey the notion that sometimes laws are made to be broken regardless of what the black robed Mandarins say is the rule of law.
Baltimore is a mess. AR bans are in force, and in a state in which a leftist majority has ruled for generations, so even with the realization that maybe individual rights should be respected and observed by law enforcement, perhaps it is time to begin to challenge the idea of any kind of firearms ban in the face of civil disorder.
I'd be scared too, because those media personalities are influencing legislators into doing exactly the wrong thing: imposing firearms bans, leaving individuals defenseless in the face of mobs stirred to violence.
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The statistics reflect that blacks kill blacks. How on earth do they translate that into white racism? There's a stretch of logic but then again the left isn't very good at logic.
Ay-Pee
President Nicolas Maduro raised Venezuela's minimum wage Friday for the second time this year to help workers being battered by the world's highest inflation.
Speaking at a May Day rally, the socialist leader said he is boosting the minimum wage and pensions for retirees by 30 percent, with two-thirds of the increase coming this month and the rest on July 1. He also said he would raise salaries for government employees and military personnel. "And a chicken in every pot! No toilet paper, though, sorry"
The wage increase, while a welcome relief for many workers, fell short of expectations that the embattled Maduro might use Friday's celebrations to expand state control of the slumping economy. "that's what we need! More State control!"
"Sometimes we don't see the face of the monster that wants to destroy the economy and irritate the people," Maduro told supporters at Friday's rally. "I have no mirrors"
He promised more measures in the coming days that he said would wrest control of the economy from the "oligarchs" and "big wigs" who he accuses of trying to topple the government. Free college tuition? Earned Income Tax Credit all around ?
The pay increase follows a 15 percent hike in January and will take Venezuela's minimum wage to 7,324 bolivars a month. That is about $1,162 at the country's official exchange rate but less than $30 at the black market rate widely used to set many prices. SEIU should get on this
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I want a replica of Fred's Rantburg Mayors sash
The Varshavyanka-class is an update to Russia's current Kilo-class submarine. Although Varshavyanka-class submarines can not dive as deep or stay submerged underwater as long as nuclear submarines, they are nearly impossible to detect acoustically.
This is the least propagandist piece on the Odessa massacre I can find, as the Russians are calling it, one year ago. You can read two other references to the incident, one from TASS and the other from Kiev Post.
The Odessa Trades Union Building Fire/Massacre is one of the causes of war by Russia against Ukraine.
Day of remembrance for those killed in a fire at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa will be held on May 2, notified on the Internet representation of the city on Thursday.
The second of May of 2014 held on the Kulikovo field in Odessa anti-Maidan activists rally turned into a tragedy after their opponents were the radicals of the "Right sector" and football " ultras ". Several dozen members of "antimaidani" lost their lives during a fire in the House of Trade Unions, which they tried to hide. According to official data, the fire cost the lives of about 50 people, only received damages of more than 250.
In memory of those killed due to the tragic events of May 2, 2014 in Odessa, which led to a mass death.
Amid Russia's economic woes, billions of dollars continue to disappear in offshore havens. The net outflow of capital from Russia reached $32.6 billion during the first quarter of 2015, according to the nation's Central Bank. Mood music time. I wonder if he can play "Hebrew Melody" ?
The bank is now forecasting that capital flight may reach $131 billion by the end of the year. In reporting first quarter numbers, the Central Bank also upwardly revised the 2014 figure for net capital outflow to $154.1 billion from the previously reported $151.5 billion. That figure marks the highest annual total of capital flight since the Central Bank started tracking the trend back in 1994.
Financial experts say most of the money now fleeing Russia ends up in offshore accounts, beyond the reach of tax inspectors and other prying eyes. The budgetary implications for Russia are significant: according to Andrei Makarov, chairman of the Russian Duma's Committee on Budget and Taxation, back in 2013, when the capital flight rate was dramatically lower than it is now, capital flight cost the Russian treasury at least $22 billion in lost tax revenue.
"Capital outflow abroad leads to losses that are at least comparable to internal tax revenue losses," state-owned news channel Russia 24 reported, citing data from KPMG, a large international audit, tax and advisory firm.
The problem is not limited to tax revenue losses. "Capital flight weakens the national economy, starving it of investment funding, which further worsens the economy's development prospects," wrote economists Mikhail Gelvanovskiy and Vladislav Ovchinskiy in an academic paper that examined the economic damage done by capital flight amid the 2008 economic crisis.
Investment activity in Russia during the first quarter of 2015 dropped by more than 20 percent compared with the same period the previous year, according to the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasts (CMASF). Representatives of the Economic Development Ministry sought to allay concerns, contending that the overall decrease in investment is projected to be 10.6 percent in 2015. Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukayev also has claimed that investment would grow by as much as 3 percent in 2016, driven mainly by private investors. He provided no specifics about possible government measures to attract private investment.
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The problem is not limited to tax revenue losses. "Capital flight weakens the national economy, starving it of investment funding, which further worsens the economy's development prospects,"
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IIRC see TOPIX + LUCIANNE > ASSAD IS LOSING, AND IRAN AS WELL.
Now add RUSSIA + possibly even China.
All in all a good month for the Jihad + OWG Globies, notsogood for World JudeoChristianity + Democratic Secularism, iffy-iffy for the Marxists-Commies???
General Electric, Apple, Pfizer, Microsoft, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Exxon Mobil, Citigroup, Cisco Systems, Abbott Laboratories, Procter & Gable, Hewlett-Packard, Google and PepsiCo. Together, they held $776 billion off shore through a combined 859 tax haven subsidiaries.
Two Russian nuclear-capable bombers intruded into the U.S. air defense zone near Alaska last week in the latest saber rattling by Moscow, defense officials said.
The Tu-95 Bear H bombers flew into the Alaska zone on April 22. But unlike most earlier incursions, no U.S. interceptor jets were dispatched to shadow them Interesting.
said defense officials familiar with the latest U.S.-Russian aerial encounter. No intercept launched. Will they be gassing up at Joint Base Lewis-McChord soon ?
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Meh, naw, my friend .5mt was always sharing him bong with Hatfield, they both got fat and stared at the sky alot, nao a cat with a meth problem is highly different.
h/t Instapundit
ComputerWorld recently published an account that gets at an important aspect of the immigration debate that doesn't often take center stage: the H-1B and L-1 visa program for high-skilled immigrants. At issue is the allegation that Disney fired anywhere between 135 and "several hundred" of its IT staff and replaced them with workers mainly from India, many of whom were presumed to be on H-1B's. The article goes on to note that Disney is at the forefront of a movement to raise the cap on the number of these visas issued each year
[Breitbart] Rev. Al Sharpton called for the Justice Department to "take over policing in this country" and stated "we're going to have to fight states' rights" in comments recorded by the Baltimore Sun on Thursday. 'Fight states rights?' Lost nearly 700,000 KIA last time, wat you got in mind Al ?
Sharpton said, "we need the Justice Department to step in and take over policing in this country. In the 20th century, they had to fight states' rights in -- to get the right to vote. We're going to have to fight states' rights in terms of closing down police cases."
He added, "police must be held accountable. I don't think all police are bad. I don't even think most are bad. But those that are need to be held accountable."
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So, when you use the Border Patrol to do exactly the opposite of securing the border, you really think a national police force is going to protect your rights Al? Given that your political faction is already being moved further back on the bus for Hispanics? Google - ethnic cleansing Compton
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Why Sharpton and liberals want their own police force PART 1.
CRAWFORD, Texas – A driver for the Rev. Al Sharpton led Ellis County Sheriff's deputies on a nine-mile chase at speeds up to 110 mph before state troopers stopped the car, authorities said.
The driver was rushing Sharpton to the airport after his visit anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan (search) on Sunday at her camp outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford.
The car carrying Sharpton and two other passengers was clocked doing 110 mph in a 65 mph zone on Interstate 35 in Ellis County in North Texas, said Lt. Danny Williams.
The car ignored deputies' attempts to stop it and continued speeding and weaving in and out of traffic before it was stopped, Williams said.
Calls Monday to Sharpton's spokeswoman were not immediately returned. A spokesman for his attorney, Michael Hardy, referred inquiries to the spokeswoman.
Deputies arrested Jarrett Barton Maupin (search), 43, of Phoenix. Maupin told the officers he was hurrying to get Sharpton to the airport. Deputies impounded the rented 2005 Lincoln.
Williams said his officers offered Sharpton and the other, unidentified passengers a ride to a hotel across the highway, but they declined and walked there instead.
Maupin posted a total of $1,000 in bonds on charges of evading arrest with a vehicle and reckless driving.
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Why Sharpton and liberals want their own police force PART 2.
New reports have revealed that Al Sharpton agreed to become an informant for the FBI after they confronted him with videos of him meeting with an undercover agent who he believed was going to sell him drugs.
These new claims contradict the story that Sharpton told when his informant status was made public earlier this week.
Sharpton said that he was threatened by mobsters who felt that he was competing for their handle on the music industry, but new documents made public by The Smoking Gun show that the FBI had tapes of Sharpton trying to buy cocaine from an undercover agent.
In 1983, Sharpton met an agent who was posing as a former South American drug lord and was trying to arrange a way for the man to launder money through boxing promotions that the Reverend could arrange.
At the second of these two meetings with the undercover agent, Sharpton was confronted with the tape of his earlier meeting when he was talking about buying 'pure coke' from the 'druglord'.
[American Thinker] Democrats in riot-torn Baltimore really like gangsters. And this makes Baltimore different from Atlanta or Chicago how ? Chicago has more entertaining aldermen...
As radicals and other criminals reduce their once-great city to ashes, left-wing politicians are defining deviancy down. They just can't stop saying nice things about gangsters and when they occasionally slip up and say accurate things about them, they promptly apologize for speaking the truth. That's the way Democrats in Baltimore roll.
As the rule of law is dynamited, they genuflect before them, salute them, and pose for photographs with them.
Gangsters have become the de facto government in the city of Baltimore. Rioting has empowered them.
The current civil unrest was sparked by the mysterious death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man. Gray, a habitual criminal offender, was arrested by Baltimore police for possession of a switchblade, according to a late-breaking news report. While in police custody he apparently suffered severe injuries that led to his death. Unlike the endlessly hyped demise of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., police malfeasance or negligence may have played a role in Gray's death. Time will tell.
At a surreal press conference Tuesday, career criminals that Baltimore Democrats consider to be upstanding members of the community stood side by side with elected officials to plead for an end to the violence.
In a 2015 update of Rodney King's famous 1992 quotation, "Can we all get along?" a self-identified gang member named "Trey" said they were "against the violence."
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The problem I have with all this is that I can sympathize to a degree with the black community.
That degree is the one which really dynamited the rule of law. The cronies and crooked pols and corporatists and fat-cats and mob that turned the legal system into their own private thug patrol, and, yes, that does go back a long, long way.
The problem just kept getting worse as the "laws" kept getting more and more encompassing giving the thug patrol more and more scope for their operations as decreed by their masters.
Really, selling "loosies", gets you in trouble?
It's not really a racial issue at all nor a class one except for the fact that $#it flows downhill so that those on the lower rungs get the most especially when they live in close proximity (aka cities) to the center of control.
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Not quite sympathetic. They sold their souls for a price. Free stuff! They buy into lies that are demonstratively false. They reject the concepts of free will and its inherit responsibility. It's always the 'other' who is to blame cause its so easy rather than self control and reform. It's a cul-de-sac of history.
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P2k, they didn't sell their souls knowingly. They were co-opted by slick sales and malice aforethought. Yes, they were sold a bill of goods by the "elites" (which includes the Sharptons of the world) and were not capable of understanding the consequences of the fine print.
Should they have known better? Probably, but that raises a whole slew of other issues.
I'm old enough to remember LBJ and all that "stuff" and saw what it developed into and it started long before that.
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No, they knew the bargain they were making. But free stuff and revenge are more valuable to some people than self-respect.
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Following the example of their fellow criminals at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, perhaps it's time for the Bloods to become a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity. They could hire former IRS official Lois Lerner, who shares their worldview, as an advisor.
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.
[The Right Scoop] Charles Krauthammer weighed in on the charges made against the Baltimore police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, and he thinks it might add up to simple appeasement of the mob. 
[Daily Caller] The Baltimore police department released mugshots of the six officers charged Friday in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year old black man who died after suffering a broken neck following his April 12 arrest.
Amid Russia's economic woes, billions of dollars continue to disappear in offshore havens. The net outflow of capital from Russia reached $32.6 billion during the first quarter of 2015, according to the nation's Central Bank. 
