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LEOs starting to focus on Antifa - but no help from FBI: ‘the FBI has not had a meaningful domestic coun
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 17:31 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah'm lost on this one.
Here's your link.

EXCLUSIVE: Antifa planned anti-government insurgency for months, law enforcement official says
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 18:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Dress up in anti-riot gear and look scary. Seems to be the official response these days. Meanwhile don't worry about you wife and kids you left at home to fend for themselves.
Posted by: jpal || 06/04/2020 18:52 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't think most antifa are the family type.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 18:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Every cop knows any time he hauls in a antifa asshole he will probably get ripped up one side and down the other for grabbing some feeb's CI.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 19:32 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 yeah, understood - sorry it's a sprawling roundup article by Bill Gertz and three others that's tough to summarize.

I guess the key passage is this one that closes the piece with a quote from a former FBI honcho under W:


The FBI, which is in charge of countering domestic security threats posed by foreign intelligence services or domestic terrorists, has largely avoided focusing on Antifa. A search of the FBI website produces no results for Antifa.

The FBI investigated three Antifa activists suspected of beating a Unite the Right protester in Charlottesville three years ago, but no charges were brought.

Kenneth deGraffenreid, who was deputy national counterintelligence executive during the George W. Bush administration, said the FBI has not been engaged in effective domestic counterintelligence for years.

“The FBI has not had a meaningful domestic counterintelligence capability for many years,” Mr. deGraffenreid said. “They’ve been distracted or politically corrupted.”

An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 20:05 Comments || Top||

#6  How many people work in the FBI?
Posted by: KBK || 06/04/2020 23:22 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 "Work in" or "Are employed by"?
Posted by: charger || 06/04/2020 23:47 Comments || Top||


Aspiring rapper Ace Swift faces felony charge for posting video calling for the murder of police
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'We gonna kill them how they killed George'
  • Cale Groff, 20, was arrested Tuesday and charged with making threatening communications or threats of mass shooting

  • He allegedly said, 'If you see any police, kill them. F**k all the police, we gonna kill them how they killed George'

  • In the message Groff also called for the vandalism of a Florida mall

  • Post was uploaded after the killing of George Floyd, a black man, in Minneapolis

  • He died after white police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 14:47 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Aspiring fece
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 18:56 Comments || Top||

#2  In his defense he could've been watching a little too much CNN what caused him to go nuts.
Posted by: jpal || 06/04/2020 19:39 Comments || Top||

#3  He wuz turnin' his life around, but it doesn't sound like he had an album 'bout to drop.
Posted by: charger || 06/04/2020 21:35 Comments || Top||


Brooklyn man, 20, who 'stabbed a police officer in the neck' is an Albanian immigrant
with possible ties to terrorism' as FBI joins investigation
The 20-year-old Brooklyn man who stabbed a police officer in the neck and then stole his handgun before he was shot eight times by nearby cops is an immigrant from the Balkan region who is being investigated for ties to terrorism.

Two other coppers were shot in the hand during the incident late on Wednesday, though it is unclear if they were shot by the suspect with the gun he stole from the ambushed cop or if they were hit by gunfire from responding officers.

The suspect has been identified as Dzenan Camovic. The FBI announced on Thursday that it is taking part in the investigation.

The incident took place late Wednesday near the intersection of Church Street and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, where officers were patrolling the area to prevent looting.

According to police, one officer was ambushed by a man who walked up behind him and stabbed him in the neck.

The New York Police Department on Thursday released an image of a knife that Sherlocks claim was used to stab a police officer in Brooklyn late on Wednesday night

The man then took the policeman’s handgun. Officers who were on duty nearby rushed to the scene and found the suspect with the gun.

A total of 22 shots were fired, according to authorities.

Two coppers were shot in the hand, according to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea.

All three officers are recovering from non-life threatening injuries at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.

Camovic, was shot eight times by officers who responded to the scene. He is listed at death's door.

Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 14:34 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Camovic, was shot eight times by officers who responded to the scene. He is listed at death's door.

In lieu of flowers,donate to you local police dept.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/04/2020 19:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Suspected NYC cop-stabber is 'absolutely not a terrorist,' relative says
[NYPOST] The man suspected of stabbing an NYPD cop in the neck without warning is a “practicing Muslim” whose family is from Bosnia — but he’s “absolutely not a terrorist,” a relative who was interviewed by federal terrorism investigators said Thursday.

The relative also said that Dzenan Camovic, 20, never expressed any anti-police sentiment to him and questioned the official account of Wednesday night’s incident in Brooklyn.

‘“I’ve known him since he was 6-inches tall. That this is a terrorism, it’s illogical,” said the middle-aged man, who declined to give his name.

“He was raised here, [English] is his only language … He was as good of a child as a child could be.”

The relative’s comments came after law enforcement sources said authorities were investigating Wednesday night’s unprovoked attack as a possible act of terror, based in part on anti-cop messages that Camovic allegedly posted on social media.

Sources also said that while Camovic wasn’t on the radar of anti-terror investigators, he’d been in contact with people who were and his family may have a “nexus to terrorism.”

The relative, who was seen speaking to a pair of FBI agents outside the Brooklyn apartment building where Camovic lives with his parents and sister, said, “I have the utmost respect for law enforcement, but it’s easy to accuse a Muslim of terrorism.”
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 20:10 Comments || Top||

#3  and his family may have a “nexus to terrorism.”

We’ve seen how much it runs in families. Parents, grandparents, uncles, cousins, and the school and neighbours thereof.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2020 20:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Post that tomorrow. You'd think a guy who was "6 inches tall at one point might do some ankle damage but...
Posted by: Frank G || 06/04/2020 20:24 Comments || Top||

#5  No link, but it showed up in a few articles on thr subject tonight: Mr. Camovic has been posting anti-police stuff on social media.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2020 21:28 Comments || Top||


California man seen on camera pointing AR-15 at protesters arrested, charged with assault
[FoxNews] A California man captured on camera pointing a loaded AR-15 rifle at a group of advancing protesters has been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

Jacob Daniel Bracken, 38, of Rancho Cucamonga, faces two counts of assault with a deadly weapon related to the incident in Upland on Monday, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office said.

Even though Bracken did not fire the rifle and no one was injured, Upland Police Chief Darren Goodman explained the assault charge: “You point the weapon at someone with the intent to intimidate and the weapon being loaded itself.”

One video shared by a KNBC reporter at the scene showed Bracken take the AR-15 out of a pickup truck, yelling for the crowd to “back the f--- up.”

Goodman said they have videos as well as still photos that “conclusively showed” Bracken pointing the weapon at some point.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 13:45 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  I don' buy stuff from Cali any more.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 14:37 Comments || Top||


#3  They'll punish your kids too for pointing their finger at a classmate and saying bang, bang. It's the world we live in now. Take your kids out of government schools now it's the best thing you could ever do for them.
Posted by: jpal || 06/04/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Guy was dumb to brandish a gun off his property.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 15:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Re #2, that's just "one small step" toward the goal of eventual "defunding of the police."

L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez on Wednesday then officially introduced the motion, tweeting that it was "to cut funding to the LAPD, as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & the #BlackLivesMatter call that we all support to end racism. This is just one small step."
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 15:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Cartel land of the North

[Just keep the I10 corridor and San Diego, return the rest of the coast back to Mexico by amending the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/04/2020 19:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Looking at the video at the link, that’s definite Antifa behaviour, trolling for an arrestable response.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2020 22:44 Comments || Top||


Project Veritas video from inside ANTIFA:
Video at the link.
In light of recent events, Project Veritas today released a video exposing the violent nature of the controversial group known as “Antifa.”

  • Nicholas Cifuni, Rose City Antifa: “Practice Things Like an Eye Gouge, it Takes Very Little Pressure to Injure Someone’s Eyes.”

  • Nicholas Cifuni, Rose City Antifa: “Police Are Going to Be Like: ‘Perfect, We Can Prosecute These [Antifa] F**kers, Look How Violent They Are.’ And Not That We [Antifa] Aren’t, But We Need to F**king Hide That Sh*t.”

  • Nicholas Cifuni, Rose City Antifa: “Consider Like, Destroying Your Enemy. Not Like Delivering a Really Awesome Right Hand, Right Eye, Left Eye Blow You Know. It’s Not Boxing, It’s Not Kickboxing, It’s Like Destroying Your Enemy.”

  • Ashes, Rose City Antifa: “The Whole Goal of This, Right, is to Get Out There and do Dangerous Things as Safely as Possible.”


“Depending on the setting, if I were to be caught or found out in a setting where I am present with them, it could escalate to violence against me,” said the Project Veritas Undercover Journalist.

“They do not hesitate to either push back or incite some kind of violence. In our classes and in our meetings, before we do any sort of demonstration or Black Bloc, we talk about weapons detail and what we carry and what we should have,” said the Project Veritas Undercover Journalist.
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 13:19 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Eye surgery can cost hundred of thousands of dollars. Subrogate the shit out of them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 13:42 Comments || Top||

#2  What did you find out about your insurance?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 13:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Our elites - elected officials, generals, CEOs of F50 corporations, university presidents etc - tell us that we and the nation need to "stand united" with these savages.

Just ponder that for a minute.
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 13:58 Comments || Top||

#4  I note who they are and stop spending my money with them.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 14:09 Comments || Top||

#5  I've been waiting 3.5 years for Trump to get around to naming ANTIFA domestic terrorists. If that pans out. And if there is anyone competent left at DOJ and the FBI. And if they can start rolling up this group and its affiliates. Then the riots will have been well and truly worth it.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/04/2020 14:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Amazing how much damage the Soviets did, even decades after they collapsed their programs and programming continues.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/04/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#7  The riots and resulting damage and injuries are unfortunate, but I really hope the Feds can identify the players (Dem politicians come to mind) behind it all.
Posted by: Clem || 06/04/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||


Antifa Insurrection roundup: Vigilante residents wield their rifles as they block their street in Florida to guard against looters
Suspected looter, 22, is shot dead by police 'while he was on his knees and had his hands up because cop thought he had a gun but instead turned out to be a hammer'

'Looters looting looters': Shocking video shows a person walking down street in NYC carrying a packaged $1,500 Apple iMac computer only to have it stolen by two thieves amid store raids

Cops arrest 180 people across New York City during sixth night of George Floyd demonstrations as NYPD chief declares there will be 'no more tolerance' for curfew violators and looters stay at home

Three men linked to 'boogaloo' movement are arrested on terrorism charges after 'plotting to incite violence with Molotov cocktails' at George Floyd protests in Las Vegas
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 10:45 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Looters looting looters': Shocking video shows a person walking down street in NYC carrying a packaged $1,500 Apple iMac computer only to have it stolen by two thieves amid store raids

Is it stealing if it's already stolen?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Suspected looter, 22, is shot dead by police 'while he was on his knees and had his hands up because cop thought he had a gun but instead turned out to be a hammer'

Thank G*d, he wasn't black.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2020 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Ca$ino, Ace Rothstein voiceover: "They (the cops) shot him in his driveway. They thought he had a gun, but it was a hero sandwich (wrapped in foil in the scene.)
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Belleview, about 50 minutes from me, outside Ocala. Not particularly urban. I'm a vigilante if I have my AR, a Mossberg 500 and a Sig P227 ready if someone starts breaking my windows or tries to set my car on fire in my driveway? Then I am, and I'll be a vigilante everyone will remember for years to come.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 12:37 Comments || Top||

#5  hero sandwich (wrapped in foil in the scene.)

People need to get trained on gun ownership. They need to know the difference between a hero sandwich (wrapped in foil) and a gun or knife. You can't use deadly force with a guy wielding a fucking sandwich.
Posted by: jpal || 06/04/2020 12:46 Comments || Top||

#6  One person’s vigilante is another person’s militia.
Posted by: Klem Kadiddlehopper || 06/04/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#7  You can't use deadly force with a guy wielding a fucking sandwich.

You can't. I can't. A cop just has to say he was scared.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 13:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Well. A "woke" DA will say my right to protect my property is subservient to a stranger's right to "make a statement" by burning my property.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 13:20 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ Bingo!!
Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 || 06/04/2020 13:23 Comments || Top||

#10  You can't use deadly force with a guy wielding a fucking sandwich.

You can't. I can't. A cop just has to say he was scared.


In the state of Texas, after dark, I can. If you are on my property after dark in Texas, you have met the requirement for lethal force.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/04/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Somali cop Noor ran the "I was scared" excuse for shooting Justine Damond. Only reason it didn't work is his colleagues in the PD hated him and hung him out to dry.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#12  In the state of Texas, after dark, I can.

As it should be. Texas also has "Fair warning." Once I give you fair warning you are not welcome on my property, you should stay away. That's how it should be.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||

#13  #2 Suspected looter, 22, is shot dead by police 'while he was on his knees and had his hands up because cop thought he had a gun but instead turned out to be a hammer'

According to Woody Guthrie, a hammer is a very powerful weapon, so this is fine.

People need to get trained on gun ownership. They need to know the difference between a hero sandwich (wrapped in foil) and a gun or knife. You can't use deadly force with a guy wielding a fucking sandwich.

Are you talking about "what ought to be" or "what is"?

I'm sure you understand that there's a big difference there.

We're not living in "everything must pass the white glove test" times anymore.



Posted by: charger || 06/04/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#14  "This machine kills fascists." Asshole.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#15  So, I wrap my Sig up in foil. Now I should be left alone. Really...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 13:44 Comments || Top||

#16  Now admittedly, someone on my property after dark will get held at gunpoint for police. If they try to get in the house, well, that's another thing.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/04/2020 13:46 Comments || Top||

#17  Years ago, I had a discussion with a criminal defense attorney of my acquaintance:

Me: "You ever hear one of those stories about a person who was inside a house at an odd hour, claiming they were 'lost.'"

Attorney: "Yeah, that story comes up."

Me: "Well, if someone is inside my house like that at an odd hour, they are a little more 'lost' than they realize."

Attorney: "My advice? Shoot to kill. Then it's your word against his dead ass..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 13:59 Comments || Top||

#18  My shooting mentor also said, "If you are pointing a 12 gauge at someone, and they know it and do not do what you say, like lay on the ground, shoot them. Cause they are obviously insane and that's fear for your life."
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/04/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#19  M. Murcek:
Noor also fired while his partner was between him and the target, nearly hitting his partner.
Posted by: Martin Angeang2170 || 06/04/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#20  Texas also has "Fair warning."

the placement of identifying purple paint marks on trees or posts on the property
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 15:04 Comments || Top||

#21  Picture from Coeur d'Alene are out; there were those dressed to impress but never saw Dan Wick.

Ever see a Bug-Out Bus? Neither had I. Made that 'dangerous item juggling group' bus covered in Grateful Dead bears look even a bit sillier.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/04/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||

#22  Guys, the "shot holding a sandwich" anecdote is from a movie.

And a hammer is a deadly weapon.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/04/2020 15:35 Comments || Top||

#23  ^The important thing, he's not black.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2020 15:37 Comments || Top||

#24  Watched a demonstration about how to use a hammer in a fight, with an emphasis on short-handle. It is a weapon as old as warfare itself.

Dudefriend demonstrated how to use pliers in self defense. I was unhappy, even at a very friendly 5% effort.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/04/2020 16:19 Comments || Top||

#25  Sandwich, cellphone, etc. Your best bet is face down on the ground if LE is pointing guns at you.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 16:47 Comments || Top||

#26  I've always felt a good proportion of white privileged is learning to say "Yes officer, no officer" and complying. Yes it sucks to suck it up if the officer is wrong or whatever, but dead is dead, and politeness could get your ticket downgraded into a warning.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/04/2020 17:46 Comments || Top||

#27  I don't feel a need to get shot at a traffic stop.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 18:27 Comments || Top||

#28  Cop calls me an asshole I say "Yes, sir I am. What do you want this asshole to do now?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 18:29 Comments || Top||

#29  ...you guys had fathers who taught you that you can be right in a confrontation with a cop, dead right. The sperm donors don't hang around to teach their kids those fundamentals of life.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/04/2020 19:05 Comments || Top||


Warren Wilhelm's Response to savage attack on unarmed NYC patrol officers (2 shot, 1 stabbed): "We've got to be there for each other, no matter what happens..."
[FoxNews] A New York City police officer was randomly attacked and stabbed in the neck late Wednesday while patrolling in Brooklyn, which resulted in a struggle that caused two additional officers to suffer gunshot wounds.

Police said at an early news conference Thursday that a preliminary investigation indicated a male suspect walked up to the officers casually and whipped out the knife. They said the officers involved had been assigned to an anti-looting post to prevent people from breaking into stores.

"That officer was stabbed in the left side of his neck, thank God, missing an artery," New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said.

He called it a "completely cowardly, despicable, unprovoked attack on a defenseless police officer."

Two additional officers were struck in the hand by gunfire during the incident, police said. They were rushed to Kings County Hospital and are expected to survive.

Nearby officers later heard the gunshots and responded to find the suspect brandishing a gun, which police said was likely taken from an officer. The suspect was shot multiple times at the scene later described by Shea as "chaotic." He added that 22 shell casings were recovered following the incident.

"I think we are all fed up with what we're seeing and many levels. This violence has to stop," Shea said.

New York City has been trying to get a handle on the widespread unrest after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. The shooting occurred nearly four hours after the city's 8 p.m. curfew.

Mayor Bill de Blasio went to the hospital after the confrontation to check on the officers, according to a spokesperson. He later spoke at the press conference on Thursday.

"Thank God all our officers will recover," de Blasio said. "It's another example of what it means every day for men and women of the NYPD to protect all of us."

Video purportedly of the incident on Twitter showed streets filled with police cars at the scene, while multiple gunshots could be heard.

"No matter what else is happening around us, we've got to be there for each other," the mayor added. "Officers protect us. We have to respect, support, protect them. We've got to find a way to move forward no matter how much is thrown at us. The coronavirus and everything else."

New York City has been roiled by days of protests over police brutality. It didn't appear that the unprovoked incident was related to the demonstrations. There were peaceful marches and protests throughout the day Wednesday, but police moved in to break them up when the curfew took effect.

Several large marches in other parts of Brooklyn had continued after the curfew that authorities imposed to stop stores from being damaged and ransacked.

The incident comes after a shocking video posted on social media Tuesday showed a New York City police officer being struck by a vehicle in what appeared to be a deliberate hit-and-run. Shea said the officer was still in intensive care, "but recovering slowly."
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 05:51 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Unarmed cop. They have mostly given that up even in London since 9-11.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  And all DeBlastoma can do is cry "My pets. my pets..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 17:24 Comments || Top||


The Controlled Burn Rages out of Control
[Real Clear Politics] In the wake of riots that have spread across America, leaving shattered businesses and wounded communities in their wake, it feels as though our nation is collapsing around us. That's bizarre, considering that virtually all Americans agree with the following two propositions: first, that it is evil for a police officer to place his knee on the neck of a prone suspect struggling to breathe for eight long minutes; second, that breaking store windows; stealing televisions and shoes; beating business owners; and attacking police officers is wrong. That seeming unanimity should mean unity in the face of police brutality and rioting and looting.

It doesn't.

It doesn't because members of our political class have decided that instead of rallying against obvious evil, Americans must be categorized as enlightened or benighted based on their answer to one question: Was America and is America rooted in racism and bigotry? If you answer in the negative, you are complicit in racism and bigotry, say our media, academic leaders and high-ranking members of the Democratic Party. If you answer in the affirmative, you may be categorized among the woke, the aware, the sensitive and the decent.

This is a nonsensical and dangerous game. But it's a game pressed forward by the most powerful messaging institutions in our society: our media, who award Pulitzer Prizes to faux history like The 1619 Project, which argues that every American institution has been fatally corrupted by America's original sin, slavery, and that every inequality of today can find its root in inequities of the past; our celebrities, who proudly proclaim that rights to free speech, property ownership and due process are merely facades for the continuing and malign maintenance of structural inequalities; and too many of our politicians, who casually attribute every instance of police brutality to deep-seated American racism.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2020 03:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  it's a game pressed forward by the most powerful messaging institutions in our society: our media

"If we can't have it, nobody shall have it!"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2020 3:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Why don't we hear of similar stuff in Brazil? The Caribbean? Not woke enough there?
Posted by: Clem || 06/04/2020 4:55 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Google "death squads" (and no, I do not approve).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#4  re: #3

Kinda gives you an insight into the reasons that Death Squads became a thing.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/04/2020 7:26 Comments || Top||

#5  The George Floyd killing was being handled and justice would have played out if allowed to happen. This was not enough for the radical left and DS operators. Peaceful protests would have been O.K. but these got hijacked by violent left-wing black shirted thugs and criminals. These out-of-control mobs are as angering as much as seeing the Minneapolis police officers abuse their power with Floyd. The Dems are promoting and exploiting this situation to the maximum. Most likely there is left-wing and Dem money financing these puppet mobs. These things don't happen just spontaneously. I hope the voters remember these mob scenes at election time when mobs were beating up and in some case killing citizens, burning and looting, threatening the peace and depriving citizens of their rights.

The left is going to keep pushing for power up to election time. The country is in for a rough ride.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/04/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Bad police officers. Bad school teachers. Bad municipal employees. When they are treated the same as a private sector employee who says something off color on Twitter we will be getting somewhere. Don't hold your breath.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Meaning bad public unions M.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/04/2020 12:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Why don't we hear of similar stuff in Brazil?

1) Our idiot media doesn't care about anything that can't somehow be framed with the Woke Narrative, so Americans don't know how incredibly violent and anarchic are Sao Oaolo, Rio, etc.

2) Brazil's elite and its middle classes are terrified of the constant roiling of anarchic violence in the favelas that are interspersed with most urban neighborhoods in that country and are willing to countenance extreme brutality to keep it in check.

We will be there too if this kak is not suppressed with overwhelming force soon.

The alternative model is post-riots Detroit: the northern cities completely hollowed out, with all law-abiding people with means having fled to the 'burbs or gone South.
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 12:42 Comments || Top||


Chicago Shootout As Latin Gangs Protect Neighborhood From Alleged Looters (video)
[Gateway Pundit] As more and more people take matters into their own hands to deal with the looters and rioters, even the Latin gangs in Chicago are coming off looking like the good guys, as they are fighting off the looters. It appears as though several shootings took place, as you can hear shots ringing out as people start scattering.

Here is one of the videos from one of the encounters:
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2020 03:14 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  New Feudalism?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2020 3:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Time to think outside the box. Curb the violence by trying something new. Don't shoot them. Capture members of the neighborhood invading tribe. Put them in chains and assign them domestic chores and agricultural tasks. Over time, they will multiply and their offspring can be sold for profit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2020 3:47 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Just release white detainees in black & Latino neighborhoods.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2020 3:53 Comments || Top||

#4  If only we could smash that gang of looters and rabble-rousers in Washington, the one on Capitol Hill that is.
Posted by: Clem || 06/04/2020 4:50 Comments || Top||

#5  As part Slovak I have fairly dark Mediterranean skin. My Spanish would give me away right now, but six months somewhere in Central America could fix that. Maybe that needs to be part of my retirement plan...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Article this am (can't find it again) saying Latino residents banding together at Lake and Bloomington to present armed rebuff to rioters entering their neighborhood.
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/04/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Gangs of New York Chicago
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#8  majado's in chitcago.
Posted by: ranture || 06/04/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||


Former Obama Intelligence Official Helps Secure Bail for Molotov Cocktail-Throwing NYC Lawyer
[Free Beacon] A former Obama administration intelligence official who worked in both the Departments of State and Defense has guaranteed bail for a human rights lawyer accused of firebombing a police vehicle in New York City.

The former official, Salmah Rizvi, told a judge the alleged firebomber is her "best friend." Rizvi, now an attorney at the D.C.-based law firm Ropes & Gray, helped secure the release of fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman by agreeing to be a suretor for her bail. That means Rizvi is liable for the full cost of the $250,000 bail if Rahman fails to obey the court's orders.

Rahman was released to home confinement over the objections of government attorneys after her arrest on Saturday for throwing a lit Molotov cocktail through the window of an NYPD vehicle. Evidence presented by prosecutors included images of Rahman holding a Molotov cocktail in the passenger seat of a van that was later found to be full of the necessary materials for making the explosive devices.

U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie acknowledged the strong evidence against Rahman, who was also accused of distributing the incendiary devices to other rioters, but agreed to grant her bail due to the "willingness of family and friends to sign on as suretors," according to a report from Law360.

Rizvi appeared in front of the court during Rahman's Monday arraignment to certify her willingness to guarantee Rahman's bail, according to a transcript of the proceedings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. "Urooj Rahman is my best friend and I am an associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray in Washington, D.C.," Rizvi told the court. "I earn $255,000 a year."

Neither Rizvi nor Ropes & Gray responded to requests for comment.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/04/2020 02:31 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Oh, well....
Posted by: Clem || 06/04/2020 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  From a Muslim source: Raised a Shia Muslim, Salmah Rizvi served as the youngest ever Student Human Rights Commissioner in Howard County. At the Johns Hopkins University she founded the relief organization Vision XChange which raised money to combat injustices. With an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown, Salmah worked for the U.S. Departments of State and Defense as a lead linguist and analyst in Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi and gained expertise in international security and diplomacy. Her high-value work would often inform the President’s Daily Briefs.
Posted by: b || 06/04/2020 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  So her fine (paid by fellow travelers) was $255.000 and she'll likely never be seen or heard from again. At least as Urooj Rahman.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Diversity is our strength. Islam is the religion of peace, and Antifa/BLM are peacefully protesting ...the new liturgy for Woke basement dwellers who are busy talking truth to power.
Words fail!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/04/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Urooj Rahman doesn't sound like the kind of a name a white supremacist would have.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/04/2020 13:43 Comments || Top||

#6  How many others like her are out there?
Good thing the FBI's on top of this - oh wait...
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 14:16 Comments || Top||


Finally: NYPD Terror expert confirms multi-state unnamed groups planned protest violence in advance
[NBCNewYork] New York's top terrorism official says there's evidence that members of anarchist groups from outside the city intentionally planned to incite violence at protests calling for justice in the death of George Floyd.

Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said there is a high level of confidence within the NYPD that these unnamed groups had organized scouts, medics, and supply routes of rocks, bottles and accelerants for breakaway groups to commit vandalism and violence. There are strong indicators they planned for violence in advance using at times encrypted communications, he said.

One out of every seven arrests, of 686 so far since May 28, has been people from out of state, according to Miller. He said those arrested came from Massachusettes, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa, Nevada, Virginia, Maryland, Texas and St. Paul, Minnesota.

On Saturday, Commissioner Shea had estimated at least 20 percent of protesters arrested Friday night were from out of town.

The fact remains that the majority of those arrested were locals. Some like Mayor de Blasio's daughter were arrested for "unlawful assembly," and others were arrested for acts of violence.

"Before the protests began, organizers of certain anarchists groups set out to raise bail money and people who would be responsible to be raising bail money, they set out to recruit medics and medical teams with gear to deploy in anticipation of violent interactions with police," Miller said.

He added, "They prepared to commit property damage and directed people who were following them that this should be done selectively and only in wealthier areas or at high-end stores run by corporate entities."

Without specifying who "they" are, Miller said the agitators "developed a complex network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of demonstrators in different directions of where police were and where police were not for purposes of being able to direct groups from the larger group to places where they could commit acts of vandalism including the torching of police vehicles and Molotov cocktails where they thought officers would not be."

Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday morning that the members of the anarchist movement plan together online and that "they have explicit rules, and we're going to make all this information available today and in the days ahead."

Among the out-of-area instigators were two sisters from upstate New York. They were detained after one threw a Molotov cocktail at a police van. The woman who threw the Molotov cocktail will face federal charges from prosecutors in Brooklyn, law enforcement source said.

Yes, George Soros Sent Money to Fund the Riots—and So Did Taxpayers
Did this also turned up in the NYPD’s tracks and traces?

How NYC looters pull off ‘well organized’ scheme to target high-end stores
This may or may not turn out to be connected to the Antifa network so quickly found by the NYPD.
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 00:57 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Lex, we seem to have lost the back half of your headline. Do you remember what it was?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2020 2:40 Comments || Top||

#2  NYPD that these unnamed groups had organized scouts, medics, and supply routes of rocks, bottles and accelerants for breakaway groups to commit vandalism and violence. There are strong indicators they planned for violence in advance using at times encrypted communications

Then it's an active insurrection or something? Who knew ?

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/04/2020 3:09 Comments || Top||


#4  ^ That's the one. Thanks, Skid
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Right, who could have guessed?
Looks like our cops were flat-footed.
badda-bing
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Re my parsing /rephrasing of the headline, there's so much to choose from...

Ask yourself how this group are different from the 1970s-era Irish Relublican Army - which would make the Soros-supported pols and DAs the equivalent of Sinn Fein:

1) National coordination ("came from Massachusettes, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa, Nevada, Virginia, Maryland, Texas and St. Paul, Minnesota")

2) Concerted, advanced planning with careful communications ("strong indicators they planned for violence in advance using at times encrypted communications")

3) Specialized roles, support functions, materiel, and supply chain/logistics ("groups had organized scouts, medics, and supply routes of rocks, bottles and accelerants for breakaway groups to commit vandalism and violence"

4) Financial and medical support networks ("Before the protests began, organizers of certain anarchists groups set out to raise bail money and people who would be responsible to be raising bail money, they set out to recruit medics and medical teams with gear to deploy in anticipation of violent interactions with police")

5) Carefully-chosen strategic targets ("[they] directed people who were following them that this should be done selectively and only in wealthier areas or at high-end stores run by corporate entities")

In sum, the IRA's goal was to create mayhem, kill Protestants, cripple the Ulster authorities and force the British to abandon Northern Ireland. Thatcher was their bete noire.

Substitute White America for Protestants, the police for the British and Trump for Thatcher and it's a pretty clean analogy.

Oh, and The Troubles lasted over three decades...
Posted by: Lex || 06/04/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban Will Pursue Both Peace Talks and Jihad, Anti-Peace Splitters Form New Group
A new group named Hizb-e-Wilayat-e-Islami has been created outside Afghanistan which encompasses the splinter members of the Taliban who are opposing the peace agreement between the US and the Taliban.
[ToloNews] Sirajuddin Haqqani
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
, the deputy leader of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, said that despite the group's belief in the peace negotiation talks as one of the core components of the solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, the Taliban will still continue the path of jihad (holy war) and strengthen its military power.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Taliban strongly reacts to Kabul mosque bombing which left a prominent prayer leader dead
Response to this report from yesterday.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group strongly reacted to Kabul mosque bombing which left a prayer leader dead in the diplomatic zone of Kabul city.

Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the group, in a statement said the group strongly condemns the attack in Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan mosque which resulted into martyrdom of Mawlavi Mohammad Ayaz Niazi.

Mujahid further added that the attack on Mawlavi Niazi is a major criminal act.

Mawlavi Ayaz Niazi, the prayer leader of Wazir Mohamamd Akbar mosque died of wounds from a kaboom in diplomatic area of Kabul city earlier on Tuesday evening.

Tariq Arian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, confirmed that Mawlavi Niazi departed this vale of tears following the earth-shattering kaboom.

According to Arian, the incident took place at around 7:45 pm local time in the vicinity of Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan mosque.

Arian further added that the holy warriors had planted explosives in the vicinity of the mosque which killed one person and maimed three others.

He also added that the security forces discovered some other explosives before the gunnies manage to detonate them.
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


14 civilians killed, wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Kandahar
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Sudanese army accuses rebels of attacking its position in Jebel Marra
[Sudan Tribune] The Sudanese army accused forces loyal to the Revolutionary Awakening Council of Musa Hilal and the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur (SLM-AW) of attacking its positions in Jebel Marra area in Darfur.

However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
the SLM-AW denied the allegations.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Sudan


Africa North
GNA forces (Benghazi Shura Council fighters) can be seen in Tripoli International Airport today
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  Fox, October 12, 2016: In 2011, the Obama administration with support from some Republican and Democratic lawmakers explored options to arm the so-called “Libyan rebels” during the chaotic Arab Spring but UN sanctions prohibited direct sales. Arms merchant Turi's plan was to have the U.S. government supply conventional weapons to Qatar and UAE, which would in turn supply them to Libya. But Turi says he never sold any weapons, and he was cut out of the plan. Working with CIA, Turi said Clinton's State Department had the lead and used its own people, with weapons flowing to Libya and Syria. "I can assure you that these operations did take place and those weapons did go in different directions." Asked by Fox who got the weapons -- Al Qaeda, Ansar al-Sharia, or ISIS -- Turi said: "All of them, all of them, all of them.
Posted by: b || 06/04/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||


25 year-old woman kidnapped by GNA Syrian mercenaries in Tripoli has managed to escape
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Libya's Air Force has carried out 10 airstrikes against Haftar's terrorist militias in Tripoli International Airport, Qasir Benghashir, Wadi Rabea and Al-Guwaya
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  "Seriously, it only looks like we're getting our ass kicked"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/04/2020 13:17 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
LA mayor cuts $150m from cops' budget and gives it to communities of color instead
declaring he is committed to ‘making this moment not just a moment'
Who told him it was his money?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/04/2020 14:32 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance?
Posted by: Klem Kadiddlehopper || 06/04/2020 18:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Guess overtime is out the window.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/04/2020 18:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Re #1: No but I remember Janet Jackson's...um...performance
Posted by: Mercutio || 06/04/2020 19:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Reduce patrols in his neck of the woods.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/04/2020 20:00 Comments || Top||

#5  No problem. Pull back to the donut shops and watch Angelenos beat, burn, rape and kill each other. Why the fun might even make to the Tha Maya's crib.
Posted by: Chosh Sforza6156 || 06/04/2020 23:50 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
US court rules Syria and Iran are liable for Palestinian attacks against Israel
[ALMASDARNEWS] A U.S. court has allegedly ruled that 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 Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Syria are liable for Paleostinian attacks against Israelis, including the killing of a U.S. Army veteran, Israel Hayom reported on Wednesday.

According to the publication, Judge Randolph D. Moss of the U.S. District Court of Washington D.C. ruled that Syria and Iran were responsible for damages caused by their "material support" to Paleostinian groups like Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
(PIJ).

The publication said the total amount of damages has not yet been determined, but the court has named Syria, Iran, and the Iranian Ministry of Information of Security as defendants in the civil case.

Both Syria and Iran have trained Paleostinian groups for years, despite a rift between the Syrian Arab Republic and Hamas in 2012.

Several Paleostinian groups continue to operate inside of Syria, with arguably one of the largest training camps located in the southwestern countryside of Damascus.

Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Local affiliates of Hezbollah in eastern Syria undertaking tunneling work at Iran's Imam Ali base outside the border town of Albu Kamal
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Paleo Mole Brigade
Posted by: Frank G || 06/04/2020 13:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The Islamic Underground is ever vigilant. Pardon our dust and Salaam Alaikum to our homies.
Posted by: jpal || 06/04/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||


Russian, Syrian warplanes strike foreign jihadists in Hama, Latakia
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Last night and earlier this morning, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF), alongside their Russian counterparts, carried out a half dozen Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s over the Latakia and Hama governorates.

According to a field source, the Syrian Air Force was responsible for the attack on the foreign jihadist positions in the key town of Kabani, while both air forces launched strikes on the northern part of the al-Ghaab Plain region.

The source stated that the airstrikes primarily targeted the positions of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP)
...that’s the Uighurs...
and Hurras al-Deen group,
...the current incarnation of non-Syrian Al Qaeda in Syria...
two foreigner-led groups that have carried out attacks against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) last month.

Despite repeated calls by the Russian Ministry of Defense to expel these jihadists from northwestern Syria, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
has been reluctant to clear them the M-4 Highway (Aleppo-Latakia Highway).

Turkey’s reluctance has caused some friction in northwestern Syria, as both the Russian and Syrian armed forces believe these foreign jihadist groups should have no future in the country’s political settlement.
Posted by: Fred || 06/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria



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Wed 2020-06-03
  Turkish ship delivers tanks to Libya amid mass build up: LNA
Tue 2020-06-02
  Small groups now canvassing LEOs' neighborhoods,
'threatening to burn down our homes and kill our families'
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  Son of Minnesota's attorney general: 'I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA'
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  As American Cities Burn, Trump Declares 'ANTIFA' a Terrorist Group
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  Afghan Nation Calls for Continued
Ceasefire, Violence Down 80 Percent
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  Palestinian teen dies while working with explosive in Gaza Strip
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  Three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan to continue for another week
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  Kurdish policeman found beheaded in Kirkuk
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