[HOTAIR] Back on June 10th in Portsmouth, Virginia, a large group of protesters decided to tear down and destroy a Confederate monument located in that city. An investigation was launched, led by Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene. After collecting video from the event and conducting interviews for two months, Greene announced in August that charges were being filed against 19 people who had been involved in the destruction. Police were seeking 13 more people who had yet to be identified. In the process, one of the protesters was severely injured when the statue was pulled down on top of them by his accomplices. That was also being investigated separately.
You might think that would be pretty much the end of the story, but it wasn’t. Among those arrested was State Sen. Louise Lucas, several leaders of the local Black Lives Matter movement, officials from the NAACP, and a member of the local school board. Since several crimes had obviously been committed, you might think that Chief Greene (who is Black, by the way) would be lauded for holding all citizens, regardless of their status accountable. You would be wrong, however. Howls of protest emerged not only from the community but from elected officials. Yesterday the situation came to a head and Chief Greene was unceremoniously fired. (NBC News)
The police chief of Portsmouth, Virginia, was fired Monday in what she suggested was a politically motivated move moments before criminal charges were dropped against a prominent state senator and several local Black leaders accused of conspiring to damage a Confederate statue during a protest this year.
The latest twist in the case involving state Sen. Louise Lucas, a high-ranking Democrat who is Virginia’s most senior Black legislator, drew praise from Democrats who condemned the charges…
The Portsmouth Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment, and a city spokeswoman declined to say whether Greene’s firing was a result of the initial charges.
Greene had charged all of the people involved with felony injury to a monument in excess of $1,000 and conspiracy. She had the perpetrators on video using cans of spray paint and eventually toppling and destroying the statue. She had the social media records showing the state senator encouraging everyone to come down to the location and help them destroy the statue. There was even a video of the state senator telling coppers what they intended to do and saying that the police couldn’t arrest them for it.In other words, Greene had the perpetrators dead to rights and it should have been an open and shut case. But she was attacked incessantly by Democratic leadership instead. After she was fired for this, those same Democratic leaders, including former Governor Terry McAuliffe celebrated her firing, describing her efforts to enforce the law as "despicable political persecution."
#6
Even with the inevitable wrongful termination settlement, that must be incredibly disheartening. Imagine being fired for actually daring to apply the law to the local political class. It would be crushing to realize what a joke most people saw your job as.
Actions like this only make defunding the police more popular, by the way. After all, if the police are useless against rioters, then why bother having them? Why not just have slightly more violent "neighborhood watch" groups that may or may not care about the law? It's a slippery slope that will just continue to degrade respect for law enforcement.
#7
Keep it up Democrats and before long, there won't be any arrests, just corpses found. I'm NOT advocating anything, just making a prediction. People see stuff like that and they decide that if there won't be justice, justice has to be made.
#8
Normal people will start to leave cities run by these savages.
Eventually America will sort itself completely into two nations, the hellhole cities where the extremes of wealth and poverty are ruled by corrupt left-wing commissar-clowns, and the rest of us.
No way that we two can be governed under the same laws and democratic institutions. We need to find a way to excise these tumor-towns from the body politic
#10
And UTube's new TOS (as of 11/18/20) now states "Facial recognition restrictions: The Terms of Service already state that you cannot collect any information that might identify a person without their permission. While this has always included facial recognition information, the new Terms make that explicitly clear."
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
11/19/2020 11:00 Comments ||
Top||
#11
I wonder if My Pillow will look at a specialoffer of tailored white bedsheets if this continues to be a national trend? Just asking...
[ToloNews] Two army soldiers were killed and four more were maimed in a Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack on a security outpost in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday evening, security sources said.
The attack happened on an army outpost in Saif Khan area in Pul-e-Khumri city, the center of Baghlan, the sources said.
The sources said "the Taliban torched an army vehicle and took captive five other soldiers."
Local health officials said that six maimed were taken to Baghlan hospital following the attack.
Local security officials said two soldiers were killed in the attack and three more were maimed.
The Taliban has not commented on the attack so far.
[KhaamaPress] First Vice President Amrullah Saleh announces the arrest of an ISIS Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... member.
Saleh wrote on his Facebook page, Wednesday, that a member of the ISIS-Taliban named "Ezatullah" had been arrested.
The first vice president says the man wanted to extort $ 100,000 from money changers and previously had thrown a hand grenade at them to set a grown fear among the Shroffs.
Saleh also said that another Taliban member, "Mohammad Zahir", who had recently killed a national security official, had also been detained by security forces.
This comes as the second core member behind the Kabul university attack is known as Hezbollah, originally a resident of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , and the captured holy warrior is transferred to Kabul, Saleh said on Tuesday.
Saleh previously, stressed that he has undeniable documents that show how security gaps are being identified by the enemy.
Posted by: trailing wife ||
11/19/2020 02:18 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) says that 29 Talibs were killed in Kandahar, during the defense and security operations.
In a released statement on Wednesday, the ministry stated, that a number of armed Taliban ...Arabic for students... , who were planning to attack security positions has been targeted by AAF Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the attack took place in the Zherai district of Kandahar province.
Besides, the statement reports, that six Taliban forces of Evil had been killed in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province.
Taliban fighters were killed in a counterattack by security forces in Deh Sheikh and Golmir villages of Pashtun Zarghun district of Herat province on Tuesday afternoon, MoD stated, "Four Taliban fighters were also maimed in the festivities".
Recently, the country’s defense and security forces have resorted to airstrikes to repel attacks and suppress the movements of armed opposition groups, such operations received less attention in the past.
This comes in a time that American president Obama wrote in his book "A Promised Land", that the Pakistain army, ISI has "open secret" ties with the Taliban and Alqaeda and the country uses them as a strategic asset against Afghanistan and India.
[KhaamaPress] Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... took the lead last night in Faryab province due to the fierce fighting between Afghan cops and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... over the past few days.
Faryab police front man, Abdul Kabir Yoresh told Khaama Press. that Marshal Dostum took the lead in the fighting, following turbans’ attack on Qamarqul district of Faryab province on Tuesday night, killing the district’s acting provincial police chief "Safar Raees" and four of his bodyguards.
He added that after the district’s police chief was killed, upon the information General Dostum took the initiative and personally engaged the resilience against Taliban attack, he is reported to have taken part in the battlefield.
According to the front man, the police chief was one of the former commanders of Marshal Dostum.
Yoresh also indicated, heavy casualties were inflicted to Talibs.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.
[ToloNews] Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... on Wednesday called on President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... to grant him the permission to lead the fight against the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , saying he will curb violence in the country and will repress those who will try to wage war.
Dostum said he is awaiting direction from the government, stating that he will prove that he is a real marshal by defeating the Taliban.
Dostum made the remarks in Qaramqol district in the northern province of Faryab on Wednesday.
"The nation should not worry," Dostum said. "We are able to defeat the Taliban. The people are still there. Dostum is still there."
He said there are about 5,000 to 6,000 fighters under his command who will give a decisive response to the Taliban if granted permission for leading the fight against the group.
"We are fully prepared to defeat the Taliban," said Dostum. "We are awaiting the decision of the high-ranking authorities. I am the marshal of Afghanistan. Here, I want to prove it whether this was a gift, or it is what I deserve."
Dostum also criticized the government’s policy against the Taliban and said Afghans cannot afford further violence.
He said Afghans are tired of sending condolence messages to each other and now it is the time to "terminate the Taliban’s war machine."
"Condolence, condolence and condolence. Enough is enough," said added.
Marshal Dostum said he strongly supports the ongoing peace efforts in Doha but said that the Taliban’s continued violence indicates that the group has no will for peace.
He said that casualties among Afghan forces are high and that now it is the time to review the war strategy.
Dostum said that 500 security personnel have been killed in Taliban attacks in Jawzjan over the last year.
[THEBAGHDADPOST] On Tuesday, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller announced that the US will withdraw 500 troops from Iraq and 2000 from Afghanistan — leaving around 2,500 soldiers in each country.
In a press briefing, Miller said that the troop withdrawals will take place before January 15, 2021.
Currently there are approximately 4,500 US troops in Afghanistan and 3,000 troops in Iraq.
While Trump is still contesting the presidential election results, which have yet to be officially called despite major news outlets declaring victory for Democrat Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... , it appears he will partly fulfill his campaign promise to withdraw troops from the Middle East before leaving office.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/19/2020 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Is that like "a little pregnant"? Yank 'em ALL out.
#Egypt- photos purportedly of IEDs left behind by #ISIS after retreating from houses in the cluster of villages west of Bir al-Abd/south of Rabaa, North #Sinaipic.twitter.com/zkWSnquIGY
[APA.AZ] The Saudi-Led coalition said on Wednesday that it destroyed an explosive-laden drone launched by Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s towards the kingdom, according to state TV, APA reports quoting Rooters.The Saudis have accused the Houthis of using drones and missiles to attack 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...
Posted by: Fred ||
11/19/2020 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under: Houthis
After the ceasefire, on Nov 11, ten #Armenian civilians have been forcibly disappeared around #Shushi. Then they were shown in an #Azerbaijan’i video with inhuman treatment, which has become a bad practice. We sent those names to @ICRC to ensure their #HumanRights. https://t.co/s24jrsDCH6
Turkish flags fly at almost every Azerbaijani outpost along the Lachinsky corridor route linking Armenia and Karabakh.
This route will soon be the only one available, and every Armenian traveling along the road will now have to look at Turkish flags pic.twitter.com/P6PYf3gx2i
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] A prominent Black Lives Matter leader in Milwaukee, Wisc. has been arrested on suspicion of rape following a sex crime investigation.
Frank David Sensabaugh, a 39-year-old rapper who goes by "Frank Nitty," was arrested by Milwaukee police on suspicion of felony third-degree sexual assault on Monday night. He filmed the arrest on Facebook live.
Sensabaugh rose to prominence as a BLM activist following the death of George Floyd. He organized and led numerous protests in Milwaukee, Kenosha and other cities.
During his arrest, his son takes over the recording. As Sensabaugh is placed in the police car, a scuffle off-camera occurred between his friend and a police officer.
"I don't have any cash on me, so I would appreciate if someone would put some on my books," he told his supporters before signing off.
Sensabaugh has a criminal history that includes drug manufacturing charges and driving with a revoked license. According to Wisconsin public records, he owes over $92,000 in back child support. In August he was arrested for disorderly conduct after leading a group to block traffic on a highway in Indiana.
On Aug. 24, he was part of a BLM protest that marched on private property in rural Michigan. The incident resulted in an exchange of crossfire. One protester was injured.
"White supremacists ... if you point your guns at us, you will die," Sensabaugh said in a livestream video at the time.
He is currently being held at the Milwaukee County Jail and his bail is set at $50,000.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/19/2020 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11133 views]
Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM
#1
Sounds as if he was just turning his life around. Or auditioning for a gig as a democrat party candidate.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey ||
11/19/2020 6:27 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Back Child Support Matters, or, Birth of a Community
Supremacists make preparations
To once again pay reparations:
"You can't overstate,"
Says one victim of hate,
"The importance of having relations
For us slaves on progressive plantations.
I mean, shit, that's right up there with a bitch's right to choose. Sacred! Cuz we all about family, ya heard?"
Posted by: Large Snore6664 ||
11/19/2020 17:41 Comments ||
Top||
[AnNahar] Israeli warplanes were on Wednesday staging intensive mock raids over south Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , the National News Agency said.
"Since 2:20 pm, Israeli warplanes have been carrying out intensive mock raids at medium altitude over the Nabatiyeh and Iqlim al-Tuffah regions," the state-run NNA said.
The Israeli jets also staged similar mock raids over Sidon, East Sidon, Marjeyoun and Jezzine, the agency added.
18th November 2020, the #IDF, according to their statement targeted #Damascus Intl. Airport and also #Iran|ian #IRGC affilated assets including a HQ. Sat. imagery from today flipped into NIR shows the infamous “Glass House” possibly could have been this location struck. pic.twitter.com/bynTs7GCiB
[AnNahar] Israeli warplanes struck Syria Wednesday, hitting Iranian targets and killing 10 Syrian and imported muscle in what the Israeli army called a retaliatory attack after bombs were found near one of its bases on the occupied Golan Heights.
The air strikes came hours before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was to land in Israel for talks including on Iran, in what was likely to be his last visit to the staunch American ally before President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... leaves office.
An Israeli army statement said its fighter jets had overnight hit "military targets belonging to the Iranian Quds Force and the Syrian armed forces." The elite Quds Force is the main foreign operations arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
The targets included "storage facilities, headquarters and military compounds" as well as "Syrian surface-to-air missile batteries," it said.
Syrian state news agency SANA said the strikes had killed three of its soldiers and maimed another.
The monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people were killed, including imported muscle as well as Syrian soldiers.
The foreigners included five fighters who were "likely Iranian and belonging to the Quds force" as well as two pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... fighters of undetermined nationality, the Britannia-based monitor said.
Israel has carried out hundreds of air and missile strikes on Syria since civil war broke out there in 2011, targeting Iranian and Lebanese Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... forces as well as Syrian government troops.
- RETALIATORY STRIKES -
Israel rarely acknowledges individual strikes, but has done so when responding to what it describes as aggression inside Israeli territory.
Israel's military said it had discovered improvised bombs (IEDs) on its side of the armistice line on the Golan Heights on Tuesday.
"We are talking about three connected Claymore anti-personnel charges that were planted close to an IDF position," army front man Jonathan Conricus told news hounds Wednesday.
"This was another attempt led by Iranian Quds forces. The actual planting of the IEDs was by Syrian locals but the guidance, instruction and control was by Iranian Quds forces," he said.
Most Arab residents of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights retain Syrian citizenship, having spurned the offer of Israeli papers.
Conricus said Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes against eight separate targets inside Syria, from the armistice line on the Golan all the way to the southern outskirts of the capital Damascus.
He said they included three Iranian command centers -- a headquarters in the Damascus airport, a Quds Force base in the headquarters of Syria's seventh army division and a "secret military site which served as a hosting facility for senior Iranian delegations."
"We hope now that the message is clear -- that it is unacceptable that the Syrian regime allows and tolerates and facilitates the use by Iranian forces of Syria as a launchpad for attacks against Israel."
Israel and Syria, still technically at war, have a border along the Golan Heights, which Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967.
I seem to recall that Israel formally annexed their part of the Golan, with President Trump’s approval...
o- POMPEO VISIT -
The air strikes came hours before Pompeo was to land in Israel, for talks on Iran that are likely to focus on Israeli fears of a softer policy towards Iran after the Trump administration hands over to Democrat Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Candidate for president in 2020. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. If you believe Tara Reade you probably shouldn't vote for him.... in January.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called Trump his country's strongest-ever ally in the White House, has heaped praised on the administration for its hardline approach towards Iran. Trump's so-called "maximum pressure" campaign against the Islamic Theocratic Republic has included sanctions and scrapping of the nuclear deal agreed between Tehran and world powers during Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... 's presidency.
Israeli experts have said Netanyahu is concerned that the president-elect,
...AFP has fallen behind — the current phrasing is predicted president-elect...
Obama's former vice president, will seek to re-engage Iran diplomatically, possibly by restoring the 2015 nuclear deal Trump pulled the U.S. out of.
Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdellatif al-Zayani was also in Israel for the first visit by a bigwig of the Gulf Arab state since it signed a normalization deal with Israel on September 15.
The deal was condemned as a betrayal by Iran and its regional allies.
Posted by: Fred ||
11/19/2020 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
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.
[HOTAIR] Back on June 10th in Portsmouth, Virginia, a large group of protesters decided to tear down and destroy a Confederate monument located in that city. An investigation was launched, led by Portsmouth Police Chief Angela Greene. After collecting video from the event and conducting interviews for two months, Greene announced in August that charges were being filed against 19 people who had been involved in the destruction. Police were seeking 13 more people who had yet to be identified. In the process, one of the protesters was severely injured when the statue was pulled down on top of them by his accomplices. That was also being investigated separately.
...Arabic for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...
...Arabic for 
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...Candidate for president in 2020. 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...Candidate for president in 2020. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. If you believe Tara Reade you probably shouldn't vote for him....
