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Yes, and then later that night 3 BLM fascisti are arrested while throwing Molotov cocktails at police cars that were parked in front of the officer's houses Good times
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[Stars & Stripes] STUTTGART, Germany — The one-star general who commands the Army’s reserve headquarters in Europe was suspended this week, pending the outcome of an internal probe, U.S. Army Europe said.
Brig. Gen. Michael Harvey, who leads the 7th Mission Support Command and also serves as deputy commanding general of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, is under investigation for a matter that "does not involve criminal activity or safety," USAREUR said in a statement Wednesday.
Not stealing pens from the office or consorting with jihadis, then. Which leaves sleeping with the wrong person or insubordination, in my limited imagination...
Harvey was removed from his position Tuesday. Col. Douglas A. LeVien, a 21st TSC deputy commanding officer, was named acting commander of the 7th MSC.
"No further information will be released until the investigation is complete," USAREUR said in a statement.
The 21st TSC manages logistics for the Army in Europe and plays a key role in getting supplies to forces operating at relatively austere outposts in places like Poland. It also supports U.S. Africa Command.
Harvey, a native of Piney Flats, Tenn., assumed command of the 7th MSC in June 2019.
LeVien takes over with extensive logistics experience. Before arriving at the 21st TSC, he commanded the 406th Army Field Support Brigade out of Fort Bragg, N.C. He then deployed with the XVIII Airborne Corps to serve as the "Kobane Landing Zone, Syria Base Commander," from September 2018 to May 2019, his biography said.
The mission of the 7th MSC is to function as the Army's forward-based headquarters in Europe and provide soldiers to the service's various units supporting U.S. European Command.
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Military personnel are notorious for hyperactive sex lives, not all of it with their legally-married wives or even steady girlfriends. This may be a minority getting all the action, or an all-pervasive phenomenon, but there are certainly more than a handful of people who've gotten into trouble because they were indiscreet about it.
A major fire broke out at an Amazon distribution warehouse in Redlands, east of Los Angeles on Friday
The fire broke out around 5:25 am with those living nearby hearing a loud noise
Around 40 people were working inside at the time but all managed to escape
It's not clear what started the fire but the building was brand new and was said to have the latest fire protection. The blaze was finally brought under control by 11am
Authorities said there was no connection to George Floyd protests
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I have a friend who took a job at an Amazon warehouse last year, after a decade working in the oil spill cleanup business (he also is a regionally known professional wrestler and a massage therapist, which is not important). He walked around the site before the interview, and reported back to me afterward that they did not comply with a single rule or regulation about worker or building safety — and the supervisor who interviewed him not only didn’t know this, but was completely uninterested in his offer to research the manuals and develop a plan for them.
Start-upitis. Unless the authorities crack down, it’ll take more disasters like this, and probably avoidable injuries and deaths, before management bothers to do even the basic things.
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At least it's not hitting Houston. We have enough problems already. And I'm sorry but as the price of oil goes back up, I'm hoping the jobs come back because after 2016 I really hate this being laid off.
Madagascar's education minister has been fired over a $2.2-mln plan to buy sweets for students to take the edge off the 'bitter taste' of a herbal tea the president claims is a coronavirus remedy.https://t.co/CIZfbkYHgt
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 5, 2020
Dubai’s State Security forces arrested Amir Faten Mekky, the leader of one of the most dangerous international crime rings involved in murder, drug trafficking and money laundering, Dubai Media Office announced on Friday.
Mekky, who is wanted by the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) for murder, is associated with one of the world’s most notorious international criminals Radwan al-Taghi, the head of the ‘Angels of Death’ gang, the media office said.
Al-Taghi was arrested in Dubai in December 2019 and handed over to Holland.
Intelligence services discovered that Mekky had entered the country in 2018 using a forged passport after having eluded security forces across Europe, the security official said.
A Danish citizen allegedly involved in gang-related crime in southern Sweden, and killings and explosions in Spain, has been arrested in Dubai, a Swedish newspaper reported Friday.
The Swedish daily Expressen said the suspect had “for long been rooted in Malmo” — Sweden's third largest city — where he has appeared “in a handful of murder investigations over the past five years.”
Expressen did not name him, in line with Swedish practice, but said the 23-year-old had earlier been detained in Malmo, a city that has seen scores of suburban feuds between criminal gangs. He was considered a suspect there in a March 2017 killing but was never prosecuted and two years later, received some 210,000 kronor ($22,700) in damages.
Spanish police confirmed the arrest in Dubai of a Danish citizen of Iranian origin who was wanted in Spain.
[The Hill] The Trump administration will prohibit Chinese airlines from carrying passengers to the U.S. beginning in mid-June after Beijing failed to live up to an agreement on the flights, according to multiple reports.
"Our overriding goal is not the perpetuation of this situation, but rather an improved environment wherein the carriers of both parties will be able to exercise fully their bilateral rights," the U.S. Department of Transportation said in its order Wednesday, according to CNBC. "Should the [Chinese aviation authority] adjust its policies to bring about the necessary improved situation for U.S. carriers, the Department is fully prepared to revisit the action it has announced in this order."
The restrictions are slated to take effect June 16, Reuters noted, citing three U.S. and airline officials briefed on the matter. It added, however, that they could be implemented earlier.
The administration in late May had accused Beijing of making it all but impossible for U.S. airline service to China to resume and ordered four Chinese carriers to file their flight schedules with Washington, according to Reuters.
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More properly claimed by either Viet Nam or the Philippines, it is Chinese by possession. Strategically of value, tactically it is a sitting duck.
South Vietnamese fishing boats fleeing the Communist takeover and making their way to Palawan in the Philippines used this reef as a marker.
From the Wiki: Perhaps the most visually striking and scientifically compelling application of ISAR is in the deep space imaging of asteroids.
I would guess the three small ones to the left are optical trackers for Kalman steering the big grid. The damned thing looks like it would simulate a dish several hundred feet in diameter.
I'm assuming the apparent distortion in dome shape may correlate to different antenna shapes therefor frequencies.
VIDEO: Thousands of Hong Kong protesters lit candles and chanted democracy slogans as they defied a ban Thursday against gathering to commemorate China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown, with tensions seething in the financial hub over a planned new security law pic.twitter.com/KnsjAa2Bl8
[France24] From building fires to foraging for food, some in Australia have taken to brushing up on essential survival skills in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a way to prepare for future global disasters while reconnecting with nature.
Gordon Deman, a senior instructor for Bushcraft Survival Australia, says interest in survival courses has peaked following the pandemic.
"If it’s one thing this pandemic has highlighted, is our disconnection to the environment across the world," he told Reuters. "Our over-dependence on the way we use modern technology and the lack of community and people looking after people and, our main focus has been on economy, rather than community."
On a three-day intermediate course led by Deman near Ku-ring-gai National Park, Ingleside, north of Sydney, participants learn not only how to provide heat and shelter, but also solar and celestial navigation, signalling for help, and knot tying.
"That’s why I think this course is pretty popular now with people. So just to connect with nature and learn different skills and be a bit more prepared, I think," said participant Victor Mossely.
"I was a bit of a prepper anyway, in the first place, so, collecting things. So when this happened (pandemic), I said ’Oh, finally.’ Oh, not finally something’s happened, but you know, you talk to people at work and they go, ’oh yeah, yeah, you know, you prepping this, prepping this, nothing’s going to happen,’ and then so, yeah, a little bit happened, so yeah."
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I have made a connection. I have met a woman who lived thru the Spanish flu. I have learned of a woman who her and family survived the Spanish flu. No reason offered by the first woman but the second woman has an answer. Her mother and father helped the ill in her small town. She delivered food to the sick and her parents provided care for the ill. Their family never got sick. Upon death people were burred in their death bed clothes and wrapped in their deathbed sheets. What did they do different?. Her mother insisted they drink a glass of water with 1/2 to 1 tablespoon of baking soda. This action has been shown to lower incidence of flu and upper respiratory illness. I say add that one to your survival kit bag.
[NYP] They were the castoffs of local real estate — until coronavirus came to call.
Some houses in suburban towns and rural areas outside of New York City sat on the market for years.
But then the pandemic spurred cooped-up urbanites to run for the hills and sparked an uptick in property sales within a few-hour radius of Manhattan. Many say they’ll never return to the city.
In Connecticut, a charming colonial home in Darien lingered on the market for 1,083 days, while a 1980s contemporary in Salisbury ticked over the 1,500-day mark.
But then COVID-19 hit. They went from being the last kids picked on the team to idyllic quarantine dreams.
The four-bedroom colonial at 208 West Ave. in Darien, a tony town near Stamford, listed in September 2018 for $980,000 but drew little interest until March. (Like many houses that linger on the market, it was likely overpriced at the start.)
Then, Halstead agent Cheryl Williams says, she conducted multiple virtual showings before the colonial sold to a young couple for $750,000. They had to cancel their May wedding, Williams adds, "so they decided to buy a house instead."
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Yes, those who are able are leaving cities. Leaving states with harsh CON virus lock downs. Especially the young people. Watch as their revenues drop and pleading for money. The dead man walking. Zombiefied.
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And they'd best have good homeowners insurance because those taxes don't go to pay for the police to stop looters or arsonists as of a few days ago.
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The U.S. economy gained 2.5 million jobs in May, while the unemployment declined to 13.3%, according to Department of Labor data released Friday.https://t.co/VML1pyU3LA
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has ordered the Pentagon to slash the number of troops it maintains in Germany by more than a quarter in the coming months, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The newspaper said the Defense Department would cut the number of military personnel by 9,500 from the current 34,500 permanently assigned to Germany postings.
The Journal also said a cap of 25,000 would be set on how many US troops could be inside German at any one time, whether in permanent postings or temporary rotations, half of the current allowance.
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The move would significantly reduce the US commitment to European defense under the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... umbrella, though it could also impact Pentagon operations related to Africa and the Middle East.
White House and Pentagon officials declined to confirm or deny the story, which comes amid tensions between the Trump administration and European allies over longstanding cooperation agreements.
I guess it’s time to put the MLF Lullaby to bed.
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How many million $US of "invisible" foreign aid will that drain out of Germany's economy yearly? Even better is that we are leaving...
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During the Cold War, almost 300,000 American soldiers were stationed in (West) Germany at times. This reduction began long before Trump. The remaining bases became operational and logistic centers, which the American military uses for its missions in other parts of the world, especially in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Reducing the American troop presence in Germany by almost a third would have no immediate impact on Germany's security, it would rather be a problem for the American military itself. It has well-developed and functioning facilities in Germany, which it would then have to do without or rebuild elsewhere (Poland?). And since the Americans have even increased their engagement on NATO's eastern flank in recent years, the strategic situation in Europe would not change in principle for the time being.
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Amis raus. Once the Warsaw Pact crumbled, NATO and the US presence in Europe should have shriveled.
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...but the Globalist kept it alive. They couldn't and won't change. We've wasted lives and resources like Justinian trying to resurrect the old western Roman Empire. In doing so, we've undermined the structures of the old republic.
[TIME] Student activists across the country are calling for their schools to cut ties with police departments and remove officers from campuses in response to a national uprising against police brutality. And school leaders in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore., have already taken that step.
While debates over the role of coppers in schools have raged for years, activists say the latest high-profile examples of police violence against black people — the deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky.,— have fueled the argument that coppers don’t belong in schools.
The public school board in Minneapolis voted unanimously to terminate its contract with the city’s police department on Tuesday in response to Floyd’s death. "I firmly believe that it is completely unnatural to have police in schools," school board member Kimberly Caprini said during the meeting, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
On Thursday, the superintendent of Portland Public Schools said he was "discontinuing" the presence of school resource officers (SROs) and would increase spending on counselors and social workers, the Oregonian reported.
Advocates for police reform and racial justice are hoping more school districts will follow. "It is a huge, huge, huge moment. It feels unprecedented," says Jonathan Stith, director of the Alliance for Educational Justice, which advocates for police-free schools.
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Give it to a few - good and hard - pour encourager les autres.
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The Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex is a bit alarmed at the lack of school shootings since schools have been closed. The skids must be greased!
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After spates of school shootings over the years, most parents would not agree with these student activists. Most of the people doing the shooting were either really screwed up nutso or could be considered student activists of a similar ilk as those calling for removal of the police security officers.
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Give it to them. Most urban colleges are located in bad neighborhoods and learning what the locals think of them could be very educational.
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NO! ...
likely it some liberal single parent acting out thru their kids.
Students don't DEMAND anything.
They are there for an education.
If they want to show their tail ends, then send them to alternative schools just for the misfits.
Given more and more intercity youth are assaulting teachers and each other, school police are now needed more so.
Also what about a timely response to school shooters?
Are the kids demanding their initial only line of protect be removed?
BTW: I expect to see a major school related incident the closer we get to October-November.
It fits in with the Liberals election year play book.
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Alliance for Educational Justice, which advocates for police-free schools.
Building on the success of 'gun-free' schools.
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We've had a lot of "education free schools" for some time now.
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BTW: I expect to see a major school related incident the closer we get to October-November.
It fits in with the Liberals election year play book.
That's one reason why they're anxious to get schools re-opened.
Not only has indoctrination been constrained; not only has the necessity of sending kids been rendered a topic of debate; it has been impossible for them to arrange any school shootings as the anti-Trump coup started impinging upon people's consciousness.
The Floyd deletion was a Devilsend in that regard.
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.
[France24] From building fires to foraging for food, some in Australia have taken to brushing up on essential survival skills in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a way to prepare for future global disasters while reconnecting with nature.
[NYP] They were the castoffs of local real estate — until coronavirus came to call.
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
