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Occupy 2.0: Nashville Trying to Set Up the Next Radical Autonomous Zone, Portland’s Fails
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Britain
REPORT: Over 95% of UK "Covid19" deaths had "pre-existing condition"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/13/2020 08:24 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All I know about CV19 in UK is that they've worst death vs. recovery statistics than anyone else in Europe except Belgium.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#2  preexisting condition: being alive?
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/13/2020 14:35 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Being over 40.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||

#4  And having to deal with NHS.
Posted by: Clem || 06/13/2020 14:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Happy to die to stop seeing Fauxi and Scarf Woman lie on TV.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2020 16:02 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Those two chumps...Fauci more so. It's a shame it took a couple of weeks of riots to forget about this plandemic, but in that respect, the relief is welcome....welcome to Grandma Killer Cuomo, too...among other idiots, imbeciles, and morons.
Posted by: Clem || 06/13/2020 17:37 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian Law Enforcement Arrest Individual Allegedly Attempting to End Investigation Into Burisma and Hunter Biden with $6 Million Bribe
[Gateway Pundit] It was first reported yesterday that:

This evening Ukrainian investigators seized $6 million in cash and arrests were made in an alleged bribe to Ukrainian prosecutors to halt investigations into the Burisma group of companies and involvement with Hunter Biden, the son of Democrat Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, CDMedia has learned. The bribes were allegedly to the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor (SAP). This information was posted on official NABU social media. We are told the operation had been under way for 2 weeks and is still ongoing.

Per an update at CD Media yesterday:

Andrei Kicha, who handled the bribe and is detained, works as Deputy Director for Legal Affairs of Burisma.

The first deputy head of the Kiev tax Nikolay Ilyashenko tried to bribe the leadership of NABU and SAP for closing criminal proceedings against the largest Ukrainian gas producing private company Burisma, which was owned by former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Nikolai Zlochevsky, writes Obozrevatel.

This was announced on Facebook by journalist Yuri Butusov. According to him, among the detainees Ilyashenko himself and Andrei Kicha, director of legal affairs at Burisma.

"(They gave money) for the fact that the special anti-corruption prosecutor Nazar Kholodnitsky will close the case of the infamous Burisma company, which was owned by oligarch Nikolai Zlochevsky, and whose supervisory board was the son of Joe Biden, a former US vice president and, in the near future, a probable candidate for US president from the Democratic Party, "the journalist wrote.

Of course, if there is corruption in the Ukraine, it involves Obama or the Bidens.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2020 11:17 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll promise to stop investigating for half that much!
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/13/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  The Bidens are corrupt jackasses, that is why I admire so much.
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2020 15:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Ukraine. The US has no security at all unless we are intertwined with Ukraine. Says the Pentagon and NSC rejects.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Minneapolis City Council Unanimously Votes to Replace Police with ‘Community-Led Public Safety System’
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously voted a resolution to replace the police with a ’community-led public safety system.’
Is that legal according to the Minnesota constitution?
Get out while you can!

The radical left is pushing to "defund the police" following the death of George Floyd.

By "defund the police," the left means replacing the police with Sharia patrol, Black Panthers, La Raza and other anti-Christian, anti-white social justice enforcers.

Rooters reported:

The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution to pursue a community-led public safety system to replace the police department following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the city’s police.

According to the resolution, the city council will begin a year-long process of engaging "with every willing community member in Minneapolis" to come up with a new public safety model.

The council commissioned a new work group to deliver recommendations by July 24 on how to engage with community stakeholders to transform the public safety system.

"Today’s unanimous City Council resolution advances our shared commitment to transformative change in how Minneapolis approaches public safety so that every member of our community can be truly safe," said City Council President Lisa Bender. "As we respond to demands for immediate action to reduce police violence and support community safety, we will invite our community to help shape long-term transformative change, centering the voices of those most impacted by community violence and police violence."
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Would they mind changing the city name to Mogadishu Minnesota?
Posted by: Gleretle Gurly-Brown5685 || 06/13/2020 1:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I was actually hoping that it was a Bee satire.
Posted by: magpie || 06/13/2020 3:10 Comments || Top||

#3  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Public_Safety

The power of the committee peaked between August 1793 and July 1794, during which it gained dictatorial powers and organised the Reign of Terror. In December 1793, the convention formally conferred executive power upon the committee. Among the members, the radical Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre emerged as a leader. After the killing of the rival factions of Hébertists and Dantonists, sentiments in the convention eventually turned on Robespierre, who was killed in July 1794. In the following Thermidorian Reaction – named after the month of Thermidor in the French Republican calendar – the committee's influence diminished and it was abolished in 1795
Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 || 06/13/2020 5:24 Comments || Top||

#4  I suggest they be permitted to do whatever they will. Additional proofs of Natural Selection are superfluous. We've clearly moved on to the urban community implementation phase. Please do not interfere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2020 6:27 Comments || Top||

#5  ^What about them spreading into the countryside?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2020 6:28 Comments || Top||

#6  #3 But many minds were and have been infected forever.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||

#7  #5 When BSE is encountered, it's important to destroy the animal.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2020 7:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Flocking to the countryside?. No, most will stay but those with gumption will move away as they are doing now. Countryside is not a welcomed place for these people. When locals are aware of them acceptance is a hard pill to swallow. Biggest problem is all the liberal safety nets are not in place. You are on your own and that is a difficult or impossible problem.
Posted by: Dale || 06/13/2020 8:25 Comments || Top||

#9  just cut them loose.

kind of hard to agitate and debate the finer points of communism when all your energy and time is being spent staying alive.
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/13/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#10  Why does “Surviving Ted Nugent” flash across my brain reading this?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 06/13/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#11  The age of the inquisition has begun.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2020 10:04 Comments || Top||

#12  I'm sure that any insurance companies with a lot of homeowners policies in Minneapolis will be very interested in this story. Gotta wonder what kind of premium adjustments they will require when it comes time to renew those policies.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

#13  So I'm reading that over 70% of the over the road CDL truck drivers will not deliver to areas with defunded police department. How long will it take them to start eating long pig ?
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 06/13/2020 15:30 Comments || Top||

#14  The council commissioned a new work group to deliver recommendations by July 24 on how to engage with community stakeholders to transform the public safety system.

Isn’t another name community stakeholders voters?

Posted by: Klem Kadiddlehopper || 06/13/2020 15:56 Comments || Top||

#15  community stakeholders

I think they mean Community Organizers. You know the people who would never actually permit a problem to be solved because feeding off the problem, and it's victims, is their bread and butter. See Barak Obama, Career Politician, Vampires, etc...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/13/2020 16:07 Comments || Top||

#16  ^
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2020 16:10 Comments || Top||

#17  Very good. No police. Let's do away with the courts too. In fact, how about American nationalists setting up their own community funded, armed patrols etc ? Combat veterans and newly resigned cops all forming a new force ? Funded by civs. No bureaucracy over it, it might work better than the boys in blue.

If divisiveness is going to be the game, and the Right starts to play it with the same gall, it would turn out to be very bad for the insurrectionists.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2020 17:14 Comments || Top||

#18  Children raped in their bathrooms, Target VDTransQuire headquarters. Good.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/13/2020 20:11 Comments || Top||


De Blasio declares himself strongest mayor in the country; critics in his own staff pounce
[BIZPACREVIEW] New York City 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...
brushed off criticism from current and former city officials in proclaiming that his is the "strongest mayoralty" in the United States."This is the strongest mayoralty in the country, in every sense, and the strongest city in the country, in every sense, and we can persevere through all sorts of challenges and we will. So I’m quite confident in what we can do in the next year and a half," de Blasio said Friday during his daily press briefing.

The bold statement comes after some of his own staff blasted publicly in letters as well as with an unprecedented march across the Brooklyn Bridge over his government’s responses to citywide protests following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis last month.

De Blasio noted, in response to a question about the criticism from a news hound, that he "respects" differences of opinion.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I killed 10,000 people with my pen"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2020 6:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Imagine how many he could kill with a phone too.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  "Critics in his own staff pounce"

de-Boo-Boo has Republicans on his staff? Who knew?
Posted by: Barbara || 06/13/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Strongest coward?
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/13/2020 20:12 Comments || Top||


Financial Contributions to Black Lives Matter are Being Funneled to Biden Campaign
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE]Put this in the ’things that make other things make sense’ file....

Some smart sleuthing by Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters at The National Pulse shows the donations made to Black Lives Matter actually go to ActBlue. From there ActBlue takes those contributions and sends them forward to the Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
Campaign.

While the Biden campaign insists it doesn’t support efforts to defund the police, it may happily profit from Black Lives Matter (BLM) efforts, and is complicit in taking money from an organization partnered with those spearheading the dangerous policy that has already taken root in Minneapolis, New York, and Los Angeles.

After reaching the BLM homepage, which features a "Defund The Police" petition front and center, if a user chooses to donate, they’re rerouted to a site hosted by ActBlue and prompted with the message: "We appreciate your support of the movement and our ongoing fight to end state-sanctioned violence, liberate Black people, and end white supremacy
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
forever."

Joe Biden is the top beneficiary of the ActBlue’s fundraising efforts.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A phenomenon quite congruent with the relationship between BLs and all Democratic nominees.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||


#3  Re #2: Not a black person among the list.
Posted by: Knuckles Javimble6283 || 06/13/2020 17:40 Comments || Top||


Stacey Abrams says Joe Biden has not reached out about VP spot
[NYPOST] Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too...
, who has been blatantly pushing to become Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
’s pick for vice president, said she has "not received any calls" from his campaign about joining the ticket, according to a report.

"I have said many times that if called I will answer, but I have not received any calls," Abrams told Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show" on Wednesday.

"Though I look forward to hearing from whomever April Ryan is speaking to," she added, referring to the CNN political analyst whom the late-night host cited as having said the former Georgia State House leader was being vetted for veep.

When Colbert asked her why she has not been "demure" in pining for the post, she responded that she was typically asked about her qualifications based on her race.

"I know that when I’m asked the question are you qualified, can you do this, that I’m not just answering for myself," she said. "I’m being asked the question because I don’t look like what people usually look like when they’re considered for these jobs."

Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why does he need to reach out? At her size, wherever you go, there she is.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2020 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Even Joe's madness has limits?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2020 5:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Not madness. Stupidity. Which knows no limits.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2020 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  well she'll always have that Governorship to fall back on
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/13/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  #4 Snark of the day?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  When the phone don't ring, Stacey, you know it's Joe.
Posted by: Raj || 06/13/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Update - sorry, Stacey; Joe's just not into you.

Something tells me Kamala Harris will be the pick (kind of how Democrats treat people anyways); the Dems would be throwing a bone to the 'black community'.
Posted by: Raj || 06/13/2020 11:01 Comments || Top||

#8  She'd be a very challenging 'reach around' for Joe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  This illustrates why the DNC is keeping JoJo locked in his basement.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/13/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#10  She's too fat to fit on the ticket.
Posted by: warthogswife || 06/13/2020 12:08 Comments || Top||

#11  God, why won't this bitch go away?
Posted by: Chris || 06/13/2020 12:28 Comments || Top||

#12  Now, now, people - have a little patience. Betcha anything that if/when Kamala is proclaimed, Stacey will said out loud in public that Kamala is: (a) a whore, (b) not a real African American.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#13  Gonna need some extra thick planks in that Democrat Party Platform if Stacey is the nominee.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||

#14  She sounds butt-hurt.

And that's a lot of hurt.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/13/2020 14:02 Comments || Top||

#15  And even Joe isn't that brain-dead enough to consider that pig.
Posted by: Clem || 06/13/2020 14:50 Comments || Top||

#16  She might tip the scales in his favor.
Posted by: gorb || 06/13/2020 20:43 Comments || Top||



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  Turkish aircraft intercepted near Misrata
Thu 2020-06-11
  Greek Navy intercepts Turkish ship en route to Libya
Wed 2020-06-10
  Turkey sends missile frigate to Libyan coast
Tue 2020-06-09
  North Korea says it will sever
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  LA mayor cuts $150m from cops' budget and gives it to communities of color instead
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