[ConservativeTreehouse] Tik-Tok nurses of the world unite in dance! There is no longer a need for any member of the planet to be socially distant. The Lightbringer now introduces a new era of social proximity. Curfews are suspended. The media complies:
George Floyd will be remembered with three funerals plus a half-day viewing ceremony:
There will be a nationally televised public memorial service in Minneapolis, MN, on Thursday June 4th from 1pm to 3pm.
There will be an additional nationally televised public memorial service in North Carolina, Saturday June 6th from 11am to 3pm
There will be a nationally televised viewing and memorial service in Houston, TX, Monday June 8th 12pm to 6pm
There will be a nationally televised public funeral in Houston, TX, Tuesday June 9th, 11am EDT.
The international spectacle and global march will culminate Tuesday with the anointing of presidential candidate Joe Biden in Houston, Texas.
[FoxNews] Defense Secretary Mark Esper declared Wednesday that despite President Trump's remarks earlier this week, he is not in favor of the president invoking the Insurrection Act in order to send the U.S. military to quell violent protests.
During a morning press briefing, Esper addressed controversies surrounding Trump's stance on violence and looting that has broken out across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, coinciding with other peaceful protests.
"The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire situations," Esper said. "We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act."
In some states, governors have called for the National Guard to assist police, which does not require the Insurrection Act. Esper said he was "very proud" of the National Guard members who have gone out to help.
But Trump has suggested going a step further.
"If a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," he said Monday. Esper already has ordered military police active-duty troops from Fort Bragg and Fort Drum and a ready battalion from the 82nd Airborne to stage in the Washington, D.C. area at Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base and Virginia's Fort Belvoir.
Esper on Wednesday then spoke about Trump's controversial appearance at a D.C. church that had previously been harmed by fire.
Reports had said that the National Guard and U.S. Park Police had used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear peaceful protesters from the area before Trump stopped there for a photo opportunity. Esper said that National Guard members did not do this. The U.S. Park Police has denied this as well, but did acknowledge using smoke canisters and pepper balls on the protesters.
During the brief visit at the boarded-up church, the president stood in front and posed for photographers while holding up a Bible. He was accompanied by a variety of aides and officials, including Attorney General Bill Barr, daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Esper.
Defense Science Board member James Miller resigned Tuesday following the incident, citing Esper's failure to oppose the use of force in clearing the crowd.
"If last night’s blatant violations do not cross the line for you, what will?" Miller wrote in a resignation letter that was published by the Washington Post.
Esper said Wednesday that while he was aware that he and the president, along with a number of others, were going to the church and Lafayette Square, he did not know what was going to happen once they got there. He said he "did not know a photo op was happening" at the church before they got there, and that he had not been briefed on law enforcement's plans. Esper stated he tries to keep himself and his department out of politics as best he can.
Esper has also come under fire for his use of the term "battle space" when describing how governors should control protests. He stopped short of saying he regretted using that military terminology and claimed it was simply part of the military’s lexicon but that he was not referring to the protesters. “In retrospect, I would use a different word,” he said.
Before discussing these controversies, Esper addressed Floyd's death, calling it a "tragedy" and expressing condolences to Floyd's family and friends.
"Racism is real in America, and we must all do our very best to recognize it, to confront it, and to eradicate it," he said.
#1
"We must send your children to be killed by savage rags. They cannot be used to keep you safe here at home, because favored minority groups might get hurt."
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Obviously Esper wants to be fired and go out in a blaze of glory. He'll keep his pension and federal retiree medical benefits.
#3
They don't understand. The founders put their trust in the militia not the military. They intentionally keep the active military small. They were recently Englishmen who could still recall the military dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. When war was at hand they'd mobilize both the militia and increase the regular military. Both would be demobilized after the war. So it was as late as 1945. It was 1948 that Washington decided to maintain a large peacetime military which has distorted the structure of the Constitution and the size of the national government.
When the civil war does come, the military will split. The upper echelons will mostly go with the globalists. The middle ranks will mostly break for the republic.
Our cities are being taken over by a violent anarchist movement. We are watching our institutions of self-government - aka "the Constitution" - collapse under a determined, coordinated, focused assault.
Does their oath mean nothing to them?
Do they not understand what "enemies domestic" means?
#6
He'll be on The View the day after he is fired. Probably take Meggie Moo's place, with more lipstick.
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People won't like hearing this, but Trump brought a lot of this on himself.
Imagine if he had set up an equivalent of Obama's OFA, instead of going the Bommercon route of "Trust the military and boost the stock market and everything will take care of itself."
He might now have a cadre of activists who could be doing end-runs around all this crap and cracking down on the brains and money behind this insurrection.
Then, when that's dealt with, you crack down on the Orcs who are the muscle.
If Trump goes down, it will ultimately be his own fault.
#8
Trumpism was nothing more than a precursor to a more fundamental, lasting movement. We needed OrangeMan to grab our elites by the lapels, throw them against the wall and bitch-slap them.
They are fighting back fiercely, with every ruse and wile at their command.
It will be on Trump's successor to build the insitutional apparatus and the strategy needed to defeat The Insurrection and its Sponsor Class.
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"The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire situations," Esper said. "We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act."
tl;dr:
Since
1) using mil forces is a last resort
And
2) we are not in that situation (right now)
Therefore,
3) I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act
The article spins this into a disagreement with the President who said,
"If a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military"
Notice the future hypothetical tense of that statement? "If", not "I'm going to".
And Esper doesn't say he opposes the use of the Insurrection Act now and forever more, amen. He says not right now.
#19
Any recent Presidents have to deal with concurrent Pandemic, Economic Shutdown, Race Riots?
STFU
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Any recent Presidents have to deal with concurrent Pandemic, Economic Shutdown, Race Riots?
...and an executive branch in open revolt.
He knew he was working with people who might be working against him, but most of them can only be fired for cause — and should only be fired when he has discerned their replacements.
Clear cutting doesn’t work if you want to have a functioning organization afterward.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Supreme Leader of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada may have died of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... (COVID-19), it has been reported. Don't count on it. Evil doesn't peg out that conveniently.
Sources privy of the development within the Taliban ranks confirmed to Foreign Policy that Akhundzada tested postitive for the disease.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Mawlavi Mohammad Ali Jan Ahmad has told the publication that Akhundzada is sick but is recovering.
On the other hand, three Taliban figures who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Foreign Policy that Akhundzada died while receiving treatment.
The Taliban group has not officially commented in this regard so far.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... unconfirmed reports indicate that Mullah Yaqoob, the son of Mullah Mohammad Omar has has been appointed as the interim leader of the group.
This comes as reports emerged earlier last month suggesting that Mullah Yaqoob has been appointed as the military chief of the group following a reshuffle in the top leadership of the Taliban.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group reacted to the latest UN report which confirms that the group has maintained links with the Al Qaeda terrorist network despite signing a peace deal with the United States.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the Taliban group, in a statement said the Islamic Emirate strongly rejects the details of the report as the group is strictly committed in implementing the peace deal with the United States which the UN Security Council approved.
The statement further added that no divisions exist among Taliban ranks as the Death Eaters of the group strictly follow the decisions of their elders and observing the recent ceasefire is a testimony to it.
Furthermore, the statement added that the Islamic Emirate is committed not to allow anyone to use the soil of Afghanistan against the countries or establish training camps inside Afghanistan.
According to Mujahid, the recent report has been published with an aim to jeopardize and fail the recently signed peace deal between Taliban and the United States.
This comes as the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... on Monday released a report stating that Taliban retained close links with the Al Qaeda terrorist network and sought advise from the network during the negotiations with the U.S. officials.
Relations between the Taliban, including its partners in the Haqqani network ...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani... , and al Qaeda "remain close, based on friendship, a history of shared struggle, ideological sympathy and intermarriage," the report said.
It also added "The Taliban regularly consulted with al Qaeda during negotiations with the United States and offered guarantees that it would honor their historical ties."
The U.N. report suggests the Taliban have failed to keep their word on a provision seen as central to the U.S-Taliban agreement signed on Feb. 29 in Doha. 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... has portrayed the deal as a success story.
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[Sudan Tribune] The families of American victims of the 1998 twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania are throwing their full support behind a proposed settlement agreement with Sudan that would lead to more than $300 million payout in return for ending the pending lawsuits and removing the country from the US list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The blast on August 7, 1998 at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, killed more than 200 people. Kenyan security guards keep watch on August 8, 1998, at the scene of explosion.
"As a longtime advocate and spokesperson for the families of the 12 Americans killed in these bombings, I am speaking publicly to support the administration’s diplomatic efforts to reach an agreement with Sudan’s new government to resolve all of the claims we and others — Americans, Tanzanians and Kenyans — have pursued in court in the years since the attacks," Edith Bartley wrote in the Washington Post.
"The search for justice is very personal to me. My father, Julian L. Bartley, the first African American consul general to serve our country in Kenya, was a highly respected career diplomat. My younger brother, Julian L. Bartley Jr., was a college student and summer intern at the Nairobi embassy. Both were killed in the terrorist attack. This was an unimaginable loss to me and my mother as my father and brother were half of my immediate family".
U.S. courts held Sudan legally liable for the bombings because it hosted al-Qaeda Lions of Islam in the 1990’s who carried out the attacks.
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court revived the possibility of collecting $4.3 billion in punitive damage claims from Sudan on the embassy bombings on top of another $6 billion awarded previously. It also refused an appeal by Sudan to review the lower court rulings on its responsibility for the bombings and the liability it poses.
(2/2) Instead of heeding UN calls for a ceasefire, the Houthis are attacking Saudi Arabia with explosive UAVs provided by Iran. It is time for the Houthis to work toward a peaceful solution to end the conflict in Yemen.
[BREITBART] More than 400 looters arrested in New York City, New York, riots this week will be immediately freed from jail thanks to Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo’s (D-NY) "bail reform" policy that eliminated bail for many nonviolent and violent crimes.
As riots rage on in New York City — and Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... has refused to deploy the U.S. National Guard — hundreds of looters arrested for burglarizing shops and stores are set to be immediately freed back onto the streets.
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... noted that more than 400 people in New York City have been arrested for looting commercial businesses. Almost all of them will likely be released from jail immediately after their arraignments in court.
Cuomo’s bail reform law, implemented at the beginning of the year, eliminated bail for a number of nonviolent and violent crimes — including for suspects accused of second-degree manslaughter, aggravated vehicular assault, third-degree assault, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, criminally negligent homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, and about 100 other crimes.
New York City. New York State. California. The areas where the sensible portion of the population had started voting with their feet before this latest bout of idiocy, a trend now accelerating, according to what I’ve been reading.
Most of the rest of the country is perfectly recognizable, thankyewveddymuch. And voting increasingly Republican at every level from village council through state legislatures and governors to Congress and The Donald for prez.
Not to mention that the number of gun applications went from a previously high level to through the roof since lockdowns were first discussed.
[The News (Pak)] Pakistain slams the extrajudicial killing of 13 Kashmiris in a single day by Indian troops in Indian-occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.
The ministry said Pakistain was deeply concerned over unabated extrajudicial killings of Kashmiri youth in fake encounters and so-called "anti-infiltration" operations.
"While the international community is preoccupied with fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, India is busy intensifying its brutalisation of the Kashmiri people," it said, adding that the killing of the Kashmiris speaks volumes about Indian government’s continuing crimes against humanity.
"To hide these crimes, the Indian authorities use the oft-repeated, unsubstantiated allegations of 'training' and 'infiltration' of Kashmiri resistance fighters," the Foreign Office said. "India must realise that its malicious propaganda carries no credibility with the international community. The RSS-BJP combine stands exposed before the world for its illegal and inhuman actions and krazed killer ’Hindutva’ agenda."
The Foreign Office added, "India must realise that neither can its brutalisation break the will of the Kashmiri people nor can its anti-Pakistain propaganda divert attention from India’s state-terrorism and egregious violations of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... in occupied Kashmir."
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[The News (Pak)] Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar on Wednesday warned India that Pakistain will respond with full might to any misadventure and that it should "not play with fire".
Talking to Geo News anchorperson Hamid Mir on "Capital Talk", the military spokesperson said Pakistain is ready for any military adventurism and there will be "uncontrollable and unintended consequences".
Maj Gen Iftikhar said the Pakistain army's capability was demonstrated in its response last year. "Do not play with fire," he warned the Indian side.
He also rejected the Indian allegations of so-called launchpads and said UN military observers are free to go anywhere here but India has never allowed international media and observers on its side of the border.
"Things can become clear if the Indian side also allows access to the UN military observer group."
The ISPR chief said the situation at the Line of Control is very serious where seven civilians have embraced martyrdom in unprovoked firing by Indian forces this year alone.
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.
Traditional healing making a comeback ? 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[BREITBART] More than 400 looters arrested in New York City, New York, riots this week will be immediately freed from jail thanks to Gov. 
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[The News (Pak)] Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar on Wednesday warned India that Pakistain will respond with full might to any misadventure and that it should "not play with fire".
