[Huffpoo] Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Black Lives Matter on Friday of being "a terrorist group," claiming the activists are perpetuating a "war on cops" across the country.
Limbaugh’s remarks came in response to Thursday’s deadly attack on police officers in Dallas. The "ambush-style" gunfire at a Black Lives Matter protest left five officers dead and seven more officers and two civilians injured. People had gathered to deplore the deaths of two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, at the hands of cops earlier this week.
Limbaugh was joined on his radio show by Heather Mac Donald, author of The War on Cops, published last month. The book explores the so-called "Ferguson effect," which posits that all the protests over police violence have pressured officers into being less aggressive, thus leading to an uptick in crime. The theory has been widely debunked.
Limbaugh and Mac Donald both claimed it’s a "myth" that black men are disproportionately killed by police, despite actual evidence to the contrary. Mac Donald also criticized President Barack Obama for speaking out on the deaths of Castile and Sterling, suggesting that his rhetoric led to the Dallas attack.
"President Obama lied to the nation last night and he embraced the Black Lives Matter myth that there is a racist war by white officers against black civilians in this country," she said. "And we see the results."
Limbaugh criticized the president for hosting Black Lives Matter leaders at the White House.
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P2K is spot on. At its' core, the democrat party knows their candidate is the weakest they have fielded since Dukakis and has no support among white males. SO, minority turn out is essential. Trump has already done the work against Hispanics for them, now they need massive black turnout and a way to loop in the millennial idiots and the looney Bernie socialists. A few dead cops and burned buildings are just collateral damage on the way to the creation of the Peoples Paradise for Cretins that Hilda promises.
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Is it unreasonable to request that Citizen Activists/Anarchy news items be grouped? Dallas, Louisiana, Minn, Missouri and National events are all in separate sections.
[Telegraph] Dallas gunman Micah Johnson was planning a much bigger attack before he decided to shoot at a rally on Thursday night, killing five officers and wounding seven other people, law enforcement agencies have said.
A law enforcement source told WFAA that, based on the explosives material found at his home, they believe Johnson made the decision to attack the protest in downtown Dallas when he saw an opportunity.
"We think he was probably planning something bigger based on what we found at the house with the explosive materials," the source told the news station. "He had a bunch of explosive materials. He didn’t have the explosives created."
But I can go classic if need be. To wit:
Sail Ho! Mizzen the main mast and keep a weather eye on the auxiliary mast. Make hast and prepare the Evinrude, come around to the weather deck, and roll, roll, roll your dice, Clancy just got paid.
Write that and change a few words and Bingo! You got 2 Years Before the Mast, which is a semi-famous novel. Oh, put something in there about Salt Pork, Sea Biscuit and Man 'O War.
[LI] Suspension of disbelief is the term that came to mind when I watched FBI Director James Comey’s decision to recommend no charges against Hillary.
As Comey went through the litany of Hillary's misdeeds, lies, defalcations of duty, extreme carelessness, cunning and risks to national security, Comey made the case for any of a series of charges against Hillary. Then, with the reputation of the FBI about to be vindicated, Comey dropped the dreaded "however."
In House testimony, Comey again confirmed every factual point demanding prosecution, yet defended his decision not to recommend charges because he was treating Hillary just like he would any other citizen.
Can anyone seriously claim, as Comey has, that Hillary was treated as any other citizen would? It's laughable and requires the suspension of disbelief. Either Comey is the dumbest person on earth, or he thinks we are.
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I'm reading Gary Byrnes "Crisis of Character." It is about the stench placed on the WH by the Clintons and the cover up of Slick Willie's peccadillos. Hillary's email scandal reads about like Bills scandal. Wherever they are and whatever they do, they take a lot of people down with themselves. Those HillaryBots really should ask themselves: "Do we really want these people to have another go at the WH. Do we really want serial scandals again? Do we want them to occupy the WH and use it as their own personal piggybank with no oversight? Do we really want this culture of corruption again?"
A retreat from proactive policing has unleashed mayhem in the city.
Heather Mac Donald
Long piece at City Journal, clearly worth the read. This piece has created some buzz in the political community. Demoralized, short-handed cops, bad agreement with the ACLU, corrupt police leadership, even more corrupt city leadership, and a long, hot summer. What could wrong? What's going wrong now: murder. Lots of them.
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Thanks for posting this here.
City Journal is a fine publication. This article is quite succinct in what we face - the root of the problems.
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...I'd submit that with the current Chicago leadership, this is a feature, not a bug. The victims are overwhelmingly black and poor, and as long as it stays that way no one will lift a finger.
Mike
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Chicago ought to be called "Dodge City." Visit or live there and you'd better be good at dodging bullets. Another liberal paradise (sarc. on).
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60yrs ago or so, there were two cops to a squad car. I believe that this is the way to handle the problem in Chicago.
As far as Sanger is concerned. We should offer free LTIUDs and not pay any support to additional children.
[DAWN] THE small Gulf kingdom of Bahrain is once again simmering due to sectarian polarisation and political deadlock. Though the situation has been far from normal ever since a pro-democracy movement was crushed by the state in 2011 with Saudi help, recent events have put the ruling Al Khalifa on a collision course with the popular opposition. Tensions increased after the state revoked the citizenship of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, Bahrain’s top Shia holy man, in June. This has led to street protests in the island kingdom, which has a Shia majority. According to the UN, 250 Bahrainis have been stripped of their citizenship for "alleged disloyalty to the kingdom", a euphemism for political opposition. The Al Khalifa have also cracked down on Al Wefaq, the main opposition group, while prominent government critics such as Sheikh Ali Salman and Nabeel Rajab, have faced arrest and imprisonment.
The rulers have accused Iran of stoking tensions in Bahrain. While senior figures within the Iranian establishment have reacted sharply to the revocation of Ayatollah Qassim’s nationality, the fact is that Bahrain’s opposition movement is indigenous and non-sectarian, demanding civil rights and participatory government. It is also true that after the 2011 protests, the ruling family has shown very little tolerance for dissent, whether it comes from Shia or Sunni citizens. But as the opposition is mostly Shia and the royal family Sunni, the political deadlock is given an ugly sectarian colour. Unfortunately, intolerance of dissent and iron-fisted rule are hallmarks of most Arab regimes, particularly the sheikhdoms of the Gulf. Bahrain seems to be following the Saudi example, as the Al Saud have kept a tight lid on their own Shia opposition in the Eastern Province. Instead of using force and intimidation, moderate elements within the Bahraini royal family, such as the crown prince, should reach out to the opposition and introduce political reforms. Should they fail to do this and intensify their crackdown, the possibility of further instability on the island is very likely.
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Bahrain’s opposition movement is indigenous and non-sectarian, demanding civil rights and participatory government
til they get in charge
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[NYP] Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is reportedly being vetted by Donald Trump as a potential running mate, was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the winter of 2014 after three decades in the military. Here he tells the real story of his departure from his post and why America is not getting any closer to winning the war on terror.
Two years ago, I was called into a meeting with the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and the director of national intelligence, and after some "niceties," I was told by the USDI that I was being let go from DIA. It was definitely an uncomfortable moment (I suspect more for them than me).
I asked the DNI (Gen. James Clapper) if my leadership of the agency was in question and he said it was not; had it been, he said, they would have relieved me on the spot.
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With the Fifth Column of Hussein in the Oval Office, abetted by Valerie Jarret, John Brennan having been "turned", and now Huma having "groomed" the presumptive Democratic replacement - the US Government is in a world of hurt - and we desperately need clear-headed leaders like Mike Flynn to go in an excise the malignant cancer of Islam from our Executive Branch.
[Reuters] U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday he was concerned about how the State Department handles classified information but cast this as part of a government-wide challenge in the age of email, texts and smartphones.
FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday recommended against prosecuting Hillary Clinton or her aides for their "extremely careless" handling of classified information on the private email server that she used as secretary of state.
Comey said the FBI had found evidence that "the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information that's found elsewhere in the U.S. government."
Asked about the FBI director's assessment, Obama told reporters in a news conference: "I am concerned."
"The advent of email and texts and smart phones is just generating enormous amounts of data," Obama added, saying that this, in turn was "putting enormous pressure on the department to sort through it, classify it properly."
Obama said that if one classified too much, the benefits of the information evaporated because it took too long to process. "It reflects a larger problem in government," he added. Clinton has said her use of a private email server was a mistake.
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Another load of B.S. from our esteemed leader. Had he wanted to do anything, he would have done something months ago instead of covering up. He knew Hillary was running an off-the-books home server and running classified info on it. He also knew she was lying about everything. He is covering his own a$$ and trying to salvage his legacy from the dumper. Both he and the Clintons are serial liars.
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Champ would have been notified of the arrival of the first NON '.gov' email she would have fired at him from an UNCLAS system. No competent Information Security Officer (ISO) would have failed to make the appropriate notifications and warnings.
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"Comey said the FBI had found evidence that "the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information that's found elsewhere in the U.S. government.""
Generally correct - the problem is with the mid-level to super mid-level (think 04/05/06- level) bow ties. The junior ones don't know what they are doing and are untenured. The senior ones have learned that keeping on the right side of the security equation is helpful. The ambitious/arrogant ones in the middle believe their own BS - smartest ones in the room and I could really do great work except for the stupid DS rules.
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Ditto Billy... and no mention made of the Classified Laptops gone missing over the years.
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I found the culture at State incompetent for the most part. While there are good officers and Chiefs, the leadership that allowed the Iraqi refugees in unvetted, in spite of resistance from the FBI and DoD, were criminally negligent...and this culture of negligence (whether it be handling of classified info, or important policy decisions) is what blurs out the good officers deeds. Few if any of the lazy, self-important bad actors are ever held responsible for their incompetent deeds...even Rice could not clean it up.
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Line officers within the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) and personnel detailed from the services were reliable. Many others, to include those detailed from Kronos, not so much.
My perspectives are very dated. Perhaps things have changed and improved over the past 20-25 years.
[DAWN] WE can’t stop the squawking and bleating and barking and squealing that’s about to come, but we sure can tell them what we think of them. So, by way of semi-catharsis, a word to the four who would rule us all.
Nawaz ‐ Really? I mean, really? You have a damaged ticker, fine. You’re miffed some folk think you’d fake heart problems to distract from your Panama woes ‐ fair enough.
Some of us would be annoyed if we were in your place. But someone’s gotta tell you: you’re slipping into African-dictator realm of out-of-touchness.
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[DAWN] WHATEVER you say about Pakistain’s foreign policy and its de jure head, Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , you will have to concede both are pretty consistent, and if this consistency of thought and policy comes at unimaginable cost to the nation so be it. Towards the end of last week in an interview to Rooters, the prime minister’s adviser on foreign affairs, answered the critics of the country’s policy who say Pakistain does not crack down on all murderous Moslem groups and is only targeting those attacking Pak defence forces.
Rooters reported his words thus: The military has acted "without distinguishing between ’good and bad’ Taliban" but [Aziz] suggested that seeking a large-scale crackdown on all at once would overstretch the armed forces and lead to more terrorist attacks.
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"Why should America’s enemies unnecessarily become our enemies? When the United States attacked Afghanistan, all those that were trained and armed by Us were pushed towards us."
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[DAWN] Forty years earlier, Alvin Toffler, in his famed book Future Shock, had warned of unpredictable consequences of rapid, technological change and its unsettling psychological effects. Western society is undergoing a revolutionary structural change from an industrial society to a post-industrial society. Basically the world has suddenly shrunk and is spinning too fast. The dizzying acceleration, he said, leaves people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation" -- future shocked.
Future shock makes things difficult enough but the recent mass migration has tipped, or almost tipped, the balance. Once homogeneous societies of the West are being forced to instantly incorporate and assimilate diverse peoples. Tolerance, multiculturalism, and liberalism are under stress. Western populist leaders reject open borders, instead promising to defend ’traditional’ values and ’make the country great again’. Hence, Brexit and Trump.
Illiberalism is far stronger in Moslem countries. In Pakistain, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and now Bangladesh, people care less about ’freedom’ -- as defined by liberals -- and even more about national identities, historic enmities, sectarianism, tribal bonds, territorial symbols, and traditional cultural values. Far from dying out, such atavistic attachments are becoming stronger.
Again, this comes from excessively rapid change. For millennia, Moslem societies had been in more or less steady equilibrium but the systemic transformation made possible by technology and communication has destroyed the autonomy of life in villages and towns, and forced diverse peoples and individuals to live in close urban proximity where they now compete with each other. The Green Revolution allows far larger populations to be sustained than once imaginable.
In today’s complex and uncertain world Moslems, more than others, try to conjure up some perfect golden past. Many want to turn the clock back by 1400 years. Inspired by visions of past greatness, a multitude of Moslem political-religious movements are out to recreate the Medina state. ISIS, Al Qaeda, Taliban, Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , and Ikhwan-ul-Moslemeen are some notable entrepreneurs in this business. With terror as their strategy, these holy warriors have spilled far more Moslem blood than that of others.
Liberals everywhere are fighting an uphill battle -- and winning only rarely. It is so much easier to be backward looking, narrow, prejudiced, parochial, tribal, sectarian, and nationalist rather than be accommodative, global, and universal. It is even more difficult in Pakistain. While erasing the last 300 liberals may be a noble goal in the eyes of some, it is unlikely to solve a truly large and vexatious problem.
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[PJ] Israel has announced that it will be building 800 new housing units. Of these, 560 will be in Maale Adumim, a town of 40,000 located four miles east of Jerusalem, and 240 will be in three Jerusalem neighborhoods.
State Department spokesman John Kirby reacted with unusually strong language:
If it's true, this ... would be the latest step in what seems to be the systematic process of land seizures, settlement expansions, and legalization of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution. We oppose steps like these which we believe are counterproductive.
Kirby added that Washington was "deeply concerned":
This action risks entrenching a one-state reality and raises serious questions about Israel's intentions.
It should be added that Maale Adumim and the three "East Jerusalem" (actually eastern, northern, and southern Jerusalem) neighborhoods are located on land that was illegally occupied by Jordan from 1949 to 1967, and that Israel seized from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War after Jordan attacked Israel.
Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years
Long piece at Quartz: the author proposes that the Age of the Drones is coming. Drones will be autonomous, cheap and controlled by the few, the elites, the "Drone Lords", who won't need the rest of us. Guns won't work against them, he believes.
I think he's wrong: when drones become that cheap and ubiquitous, ALL OF US will have some. We may need a few drone wars to figure out all the new rules, but figure it out we will.
"Death thus to tyrants" will still be a rallying cry.
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The likeliest future: poverty and civic unrest will be the cheapest and most widespread condition. The elites are fools if they believe they don't need the rest of us.
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
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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.
[Huffpoo] Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh accused Black Lives Matter on Friday of being "a terrorist group," claiming the activists are perpetuating a "war on cops" across the country.
[Telegraph] Dallas gunman Micah Johnson was planning a much bigger attack before he decided to shoot at a rally on Thursday night, killing five officers and wounding seven other people, law enforcement agencies have said. 
[LI] Suspension of disbelief is the term that came to mind when I watched FBI Director James Comey’s decision to recommend no charges against Hillary.
[NYP] Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who is reportedly being vetted by Donald Trump as a potential running mate, was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the winter of 2014 after three decades in the military. Here he tells the real story of his departure from his post and why America is not getting any closer to winning the war on terror.
[DAWN] WE can’t stop the squawking and bleating and barking and squealing that’s about to come, but we sure can tell them what we think of them. So, by way of semi-catharsis, a word to the four who would rule us all.
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
[PJ] Israel has announced that it will be building 800 new housing units. Of these, 560 will be in Maale Adumim, a town of 40,000 located four miles east of Jerusalem, and 240 will be in three Jerusalem neighborhoods.
