[Right Scoop] The study said that in the aftermath of many officer-involved shootings, the suspect involved was found to have been subjected to reports of police misconduct by the press and on social media.
Bongino, a former Maryland congressional candidate, said he speaks with police officers regularly and they tell him they have become apprehensive because of the ongoing media narrative.
He said they are now less likely to intervene in situations unless they are expressly called by their dispatcher to do so, in case they should risk a "YouTube moment."
"If they’re not called out on a radio run, they won’t stop for a discretionary police action because they could end up on YouTube," he said.
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Only those parts of America that are disarmed by the usual suspects. I don't recall looters wandering into other neighborhoods that could possibly fight back and whose ROEs could easily be determined to be self defense of life and property.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two important security events took place in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... within a few days. A terrorist attack in the eastern city of Saihat, where two coppers were killed after being attacked by an gang who fled afterward.
The second was the announcement by the Saudi Interior Ministry of the al-Harazat cell, which included 46 members who were incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! . The cell was responsible for the attack on the Prophet's Mosque in July 2016.
Despite the ideological and doctrinal differences between the two groups, the common factor between them is that they are both armed. Violence is their way of imposing ideas, breaking the law and the authority of the "state".
Exclusionary behavior
Terrorism is not related to a specific doctrine, but rather is an exclusionary behavior practiced by groups with an unilateral, radical thinking that does not believe in the right of the other person to have different opinion, or in conversation as a means of communication, change and reform.
The stand against violence must be clear, without ambiguity or hesitation because the danger of raising weapons against security personnel and citizens, goes beyond the goals declared by fundamentalist groups, which threatens to undermine civil peace, and the spreading of social and sectarian conflicts.
At the same level of danger comes the question of "sectarianism", as a symbolic and intellectual terrorism that establishes physical violence, gives legitimacy to the accusation of disbelief, exclusion and desecration of the other.
After every terrorist act in Saudi Arabia we find that the social networking sites are filled with many provocative tweets that pushes elements of society into conflict.
Incitement
Hundreds of tweets incite those following one doctrine against the other. Questions that have a sectarian and racist nature would increase the level of social tension.
Intellectuals should pay attention to the game of ’sectarian questioning’ and not to fall into its trap. It is a game that supports the ’doctrine’ instead of ’country’, of which each believer wants to present themselves as if they are the owners of original thought and pure blood!.
It is strange that terrorism is ascribed to a particular city or sect, or to the people of Buraydah, Qatif, Riyadh or Abha, and demand declaration of their innocence of terrorism every time a member from these cities points out his blind gun towards the citizens, repeating their clear position over and over, as desired by ’Twitter’ provocateurs.
The common logic in social media most of the time is common, instinctive logic, and tends to overwhelm the individual by narrow ’sub-identities’.
The right vision requires that we reject racism, sectarianism and incitement, at the same time rejecting terrorism and violence. Otherwise, we will be contributing to the spread of conflicts instead of suppressing them.
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[PJ] How could Marine Le Pen have lost in a landslide?
Why, after the Brits chose Brexit, and Americans chose Trump, did the Dutch fail Wilders, and the French fail Le Pen?
How could a country that has been hit by several major terrorist attacks in recent years, and that has undergone a more profound social transformation owing to Islamic immigration, vote for business as usual?
Wilders, buoyed by the Brexit and Trump victories, said that 2017 would be a "Year of the Populist." So far, alas, it's not turning out that way.
Yes, there are positive signs. The Sweden Democrats are on the upswing. And Wilders did gain seats in the Dutch Parliament.
But if you've witnessed the reality of Islamization in cities like Rotterdam and Paris and Stockholm, you may well wonder: what, in heaven's name, will it take for these people to save their own societies, their own freedoms, for their own children and grandchildren?
I'm not the only one who's been obsessing for years over this question. I've yet to see a totally convincing answer to it.
One way of trying to answer it is to look at countries one by one. For example, the Brits and French feel guilty about their imperial histories, and hence find it difficult to rein in the descendants of subject peoples. The Germans feel guilty about their Nazi past ‐ and the Swedes feel guilty about cozying up to Nazis ‐ and thus feel compelled to lay out the welcome mat for, well, just about anybody. The Dutch, similarly, are intensely aware that during the Nazi occupation they helped ship off a larger percentage of their Jews to the death camps than any other Western European country, and feel a deep need to atone.
Postmodernism, of course, is a factor. According to postmodern thinking, no culture is better than any other ‐ and it's racist to say otherwise. No, scratch that ‐ other cultures are, in fact, better than Western culture. Whites, by definition, are oppressors, imperialists, and colonialists, while "people of color" are victims.
And Muslims are the biggest victims of all.
Update at 12:50 p.m. EDT from the internet for the record (no link):
Votes won with 99% reporting Over 50% votes needed to win
Macron (EMA) 66.1% 20,753,797
Le Pen (FN) 33.9% 10,644,118
I'm sure there's a way to do tabs, but I haven't any idea how to accomplish that here. Sorry.
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A client state of Islam? History, why must it repeat itself ?
The Vichy regime was the French government which succeeded the Third Republic from July 1940 to August 1944. It was proclaimed by Marshal Philippe Pétain following the military defeat of France and the July 10 vote by the National Assembly to grant extraordinary powers to Pétain, who held the title of President of the Council.
The “French state,” (L'État Français) in contrast to the “French Republic,” willfully collaborated with Nazi Germany to a high degree: raids to capture Jews and other “undesirables” were organized by the French police not only in the northern zone - occupied by the German Wehrmacht - but also in the southern “free zone” which was occupied only after the Allies invaded North Africa in November 1942.
While Pétain collaborated with the Germans, Charles de Gaulle claimed to incarnate the legitimacy and the continuity of France. Following the liberation of France after Operation Overlord, de Gaulle proclaimed the Provisional Government of the French Republic (GPRF) in June 1944. The GPRF was recognized as the legitimate government of France by all the allies on October 23, 1944.
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If as reported 1/3 of French ballots were returned unmarked or damaged, it suggests that apparent mandate for whatsisface is not exactly solid. I wonder what local elections will look like.
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Dunno much about French media. Dunno what role it played in shaping French opinions. But if it's anything like ABCNBCCBSCNN - WAPO - NYT then it's possible the people of France are getting a lot of fake news, yellow journalism and slanted stories. Kinda hard to run an election that way.
I don't understand the guilt over imperialism and WWII either. Muslims are NOT Jewish.
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I don't understand the guilt over imperialism and WWII either. Muslims are NOT Jewish.
They take the parochial view that both Jews and Muslims are (or have been, in the case of Muslims in certain communities) small minorities in Europe. They ignore the fact that the Jews were also until the establishment of Israel a small minority everywhere in the world, while Muslims are the vast majority in a large chunk of it. In other words, opening the doors to Europe's Jews back in the day would have got them 8 million or so more at most, while opening the doors to the world's Muslims today could bring in 1 billion of them, from a culture that conquers rather than assimilates.
Incidentally, as of Israel's Independence Day a few days ago, there are 14.4 Jews worldwide, 43% of whom live in Israel.
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TW, I presume that is 14.4 million, but even then it still a stunningly small number,
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14.4 million
*sigh* Yes, thank you for catching that, dear Whisky Mike. I caught all my other mistakes, but missed that one. :-( There are so many ways to belong to a small minority, including hanging out at Rantburg, that belonging to one of the smaller world religions doesn't make me feel unusual -- but that may be a specifically American experience.
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Don't preach, if you please. It's all peachy.
We world-weary French won't get screechy
Till Russians reach Clichy,
Elites flee to Vichy,
Or headscarves are no longer chi-chi.
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Oh, TW. Thanks for kind words yesterday. I meant ot reply -- often intend to, actually --but that rollover time's problematic -- I'm usually distracted, nodding off, or running out the door in that slot, depending... Anyway, I knew it wasn't working, but also knew I had to get something down so it wouldn't drive me crazy all day. Thanks for humoring me.
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At some point the French will fight back and it will be a very nasty civil war. I put my money on the French but the longer they wait before confronting the obvious problem the worse the odds.
And I wouldn't count on American doughboys coming getting involved this time.
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I meant ot reply -- often intend to, actually --but that rollover time's problematic
I have the same problem, Zenobia F. I get involved in finding articles for the next day or whatever, then don't get back to see what's been said until it's too late. You can always post comments in the O Club, though -- I check that regularly, and there's no rollover. For the record, the O Club is just a chat spot for all Ramtburgers who want to chat, not restricted to certain personnel. Poke your head in, and I'll be happy to buy you an imaginary drink of your choice. ;-)
[Bureau of Investigative Journalism] Industrial pollution from Indian pharmaceutical companies making medicines for nearly all the world’s major drug companies is fuelling the creation of deadly superbugs, suggests new research. Global health authorities have no regulations in place to stop this happening.
A major study published today in the prestigious scientific journal Infection found "excessively high" levels of antibiotic and antifungal drug residue in water sources in and around a major drug production hub in the Indian city of Hyderabad, as well as high levels of bacteria and fungi resistant to those drugs. Scientists told the Bureau the quantities found meant they believe the drug residues must have originated from pharmaceutical factories.
The presence of drug residues in the natural environment allows the microbes living there to build up resistance to the ingredients in the medicines that are supposed to kill them, turning them into what we call superbugs. The resistant microbes travel easily and have multiplied in huge numbers all over the world, creating a grave public health emergency that is already thought to kill hundreds of thousands of people a year.
When antimicrobial drugs stop working common infections can become fatal, and scientists and public health leaders say the worsening problem of antibiotic resistance (also known as AMR) could reverse half a century of medical progress if the world does not act fast. Yet while policies are being put into place to counter the overuse and misuse of drugs which has propelled the crisis, international regulators are allowing dirty drug production methods to continue unchecked.
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Yet another downside to the United Nations that exempts 'poor' countries from drug patents and so we have almost unregulated manufacture and consequences such as this.
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.
[Right Scoop] The study said that in the aftermath of many officer-involved shootings, the suspect involved was found to have been subjected to reports of police misconduct by the press and on social media.
[PJ] How could Marine Le Pen have lost in a landslide?
[Bureau of Investigative Journalism] Industrial pollution from Indian pharmaceutical companies making medicines for nearly all the world’s major drug companies is fuelling the creation of deadly superbugs, suggests new research. Global health authorities have no regulations in place to stop this happening.
