See also here — the judge lowered his bail, and he’s out, for the moment.
The rabbis ruled about self-defense — even on the sabbath! — during the Maccabean revolt, if I recall correctly, allowing the Judeans to turn away from getting wiped out by the Syrians every Saturday and go on to winning the thing. Wouldn’t the same be wonderful for New York City!
Responding to this from yesterday.
[NYPOST] Thanks to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York is a city turned upside down.
Get caught with an illegal gun, get released without bail. Shove an elderly person to the ground, attack someone because they are Asian, a slap on the wrist. Shoplift again . . . and again . . . and again . . . nothing.
But defend yourself and your place of business from a man who attacks you, and Bragg sends you to Rikers.
Jose Alba, 51, was working at a bodega on Broadway near West 139th Street late last Friday night. A woman came in wanting chips and couldn’t pay; Alba wouldn’t give them to her for free.
Furious, the woman’s boyfriend, Austin Simon, 35, went behind the counter and confronted Alba. Video of the incident clearly shows Simon is the aggressor. He yells at Alba, gets in his personal space, then shoves him into the wall.
While Simon continues to rant, Alba gets up and tries to leave. Simon grabs him by the back of the neck.
It’s at this point that Alba takes a knife off a nearby shelf and stabs Simon. The two continue to fight, falling off camera, until Alba comes back into frame — his arm wounded, bleeding, perhaps because he was stabbed by Simon’s girlfriend. A bloody knife in his hands.
“He was cornered in,” Alba’s daughter, Yulissa, tells The Post. “As you can see in the video, he was cornered in, and when he saw himself getting taken outside, he thought his life was being threatened and he defended himself.”
And not just threatened. Simon assaulted him.
But in Bragg’s world, Alba is being way overcharged with murder in the second degree, and locked up on $250,000 bail.
What Alvin Bragg is practicing isn’t justice. It’s madness. Police are villains, criminals are heroes and victims are told to accept their fate.
Jose Alba needs to be free. Alvin Bragg needs to be out of office.
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...And if a jury is defiant enough to free him, Mister DA will hound him for the rest of his days.
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What's even worse is he refuses to prosecute the girl friend who stabbed Jose.
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The girlfriend should be facing felony murder. She apparently stabbed Alba first, then called her thug to join in. Thug dies an accomplice to her attempted homicide -- she should be facing prison.
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But she's a BIPOC. Instead, she will probably get a stipend for life courtesy of the NY taxpayer. They voted for it, they deserve it...
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Law Student has been clown make-up for Career Politician for a long time. Its just the facade of professionalism is no longer acquired.
Everyone should be outraged by this obvious path of the future. The problem is a bit deeper than NYP wants to swim into.
#8
In NY, the governor can remove the DA tomorrow. There is no recall. Bragg probably got top marks in law school. The criteria for grades changed when the law schools went 100% liberal. Look at Yale.
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The real question is, can the Grand Jury decided to indict the DA? A bit beyond jury nullification but that would be HILARIOUS.
[revolver] If one takes the ideologues who rule over America at their word, then the governing principles of this country’s reigning regime are things like fairness, equality, diversity, or "anti-racism."
But of course, anybody with a brain today isn’t taking America’s rulers at their word. It is obvious, and has been for many years now, that there is no spirit of "fairness" or "anti-racism" in the heart of their ideology. Instead, the spirit at the heart of America’s leadership is bitter, envious, resentful, hateful.
Who is it hateful toward? You know who. The modern American regime is built on explicit, institutionalized hostility to the people who most resemble the great Americans of the past. It is anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-rural, and anti-middle class. The more of these traits a person has, the more worthy of hate they become. The more the Globalist American Empire decays and squanders the inheritance it was given, the more bile and hatred it directs against those who symbolize what came before.
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[Fox via Guns America] We covered this story last week for GunsAmerica readers, but it’s good to see Fox News’ Tucker Carlson also spreading the word as to what happened after Brazil made it easier for law-abiding citizens to keep firearms for personal defense.
#1
Specifically, as Dr. John Lott who conducted the original research observed in a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, the homicide rate fell 34% after President Jair Bolsonaro made firearms permits easier and cheaper to obtain.
As friend to a wonderful large Brazilian family whose male family members are "Militar" they are fortunate to live on a gated military community in the Amazon area. Other family members live in Southern Brazil in the Balneário Camboriú area in secure residential highrises away from the favelas that are dangerous.
Still, however, Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed with a knife, when guns were harder to obtain by law abiding Brazilians.
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] 1. Lisichansk-Sverodonetsk.
The regrouping of troops to the Seversko-Soledarsk and Artemovsk directions continues. There is a combing of the area, not all the lagging groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have yet been caught. The cities themselves are still being shelled by the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
2. Seversk.
Battles near Grigorovka and Verkhnekamensky. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have indicated their readiness to fight for Seversk and are not going to surrender the city without a fight.
At the same time, the RF Armed Forces are beginning to probe the chain of settlements between Seversk and Soledar for the possibility of bypassing Seversk from the south.
3. Artemovsk.
Fights in the Klinovoye area, as well as for Pokrovskoye.
The enemy is still holding Kodema and Semigorye.
4. Soledar.
Battles for Berestovoye and Belogorovka.
After the capture of the Disputable, one can expect a gradual "folding" of the front from the north towards Soledar.
5. Avdievka.
No significant changes. Positional battles near the Avdievka-Konstantinovka highway, there is no advance to Krasnohorivka.
Fighting on the outskirts of New York.
The enemy is intensively shelling Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Makeyevka.
MLRS and OTRK strikes are underway at ammunition depots, fuel depots and locations of LDNR units deep in the territory of the DPR and LPR.
6. Ugledar.
After an unsuccessful offensive attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the front in the area of Pavlovka, Shevchenko and Yegorovka stabilized, and the battles returned to the positional format.
In the area of Marinka and Novomikhailovka - no significant changes.
7. Slavyansk.
Battles at the Valley, Krasnopolye, Bogorodichny and Sidorov.
The front from the northwest is located 8-10 km from the outskirts of Slavyansk. The attacks of the RF Armed Forces on Slavyansk and Kramatorsk intensified.
8. Kharkov.
Positional battles to the north and north-west of the city in the area of the settlement. Udy, Tsupovka, Dementievka, Upper Passages, Upper Saltov.
There are regular strikes on targets in Kharkov, Chuguev and Zolochev. The enemy is waiting for the fresh units of the Russian Armed Forces to be brought into battle and their further advance to the northern outskirts of Kharkov. However, the assault on the city is not yet expected.
9. Nikolaev.
On the Nikolaev, Krivoy Rog and Nikopol directions - positional battles.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to gain a foothold in the area of the settlement. Potemkino and create the preconditions for further offensive actions.
The RF Armed Forces are actively striking targets in Nikolaev and in the Krivoy Rog region.
Despite all attempts, the AFU could not organize a significant attack on Kherson.
10. Odessa.
Against the backdrop of ongoing strikes on targets in the Odessa region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine held the expected photo shoot on about. Serpentine, received several blows on the landing and retreated. The island is still in the gray zone.
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[ColonelCassad] The All-Russian ataman condemned the passivity of the Cossack commanders, who avoid fulfilling their main mission.
Could it be that they don’t want to die fighting against their Ukrainian cousins in an ill-advised war?
All-Russian Ataman Nikolai Doluda expressed doubts about the advisability of reviving the Cossacks in Russia during a teleconference between the leaders of Cossack communities.
At the meeting, the topic of regular military training was raised, at which combat skills should be improved. Doluda expressed indignation at the fact that the atamans could not bring a satisfactory number of Cossacks to the training grounds, as well as their unwillingness to fulfill the role of "defenders of the Russian land" assigned to them.
According to him, the avoidance of the mission that the Cossacks should initially adhere to casts doubt on the meaning of its revival, which began in the 90s of the 20th century.
“Today, when blood is shed for the independence of Donbass and the sovereignty of Russia, the place of the Cossack is on the battlefields, next to our Cossack brothers, volunteers, in the same ranks with the Cossacks of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics, with the military personnel of the Russian Armed Forces! <...> The honor of every Cossack society is to have its own volunteer detachment on the battlefields of Donbass!” Doluda said.
What about the Cossacks in the rest of the Ukraine, heart of the historical Cossack range, as Kiev is the heart of the Rus?
After the start of the SVO on the territory of Ukraine, the Russian Cossacks significantly increased the number of measures removed from military affairs: for example, fire-fighting mounted patrols appeared on the highways, and there are also reports of record volumes of hemp destroyed.
The number of various festivals has also increased. So, soon after Doluda's condemning speech, the Volga Flash festival will open in the Ulyanovsk region with festivities, dance and singing performances and various competitions.
https://cont.ws/@artemon/2325098 - zinc
Commentary below by Russian military Journalist Boris Rozhin:
Wrote on this topic in the spring. Some fans of the Cossacks then stated that this was a shameless assault and the Cossacks were fighting. Yes, a certain part is fighting, but obviously not on the scale that was expected, given the government spending to support the Cossacks. Well, for those whom my then criticism did not triple, the Cossack ataman pronounces the same thing.
I repeat, to those who are at war, there have never been and never have been questions. There are really heroic men there, starting with the Platov regiment. But in various mummers and role players, for whom the state has allocated significant funds for a long time, there really are questions and they are already being asked by the Cossacks themselves.
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thanks, tw and badanov. One of those mental twitches and not being sure where the Don Cossacks (Slavic and Eastern Orthodox also allied with Moscow for centuries) stopped and the turkic Tartar horsemen started in the Caucasus region...
[Investors] As Facebook turns 18 years old this year, the longtime whiz kid of social media is embarking on a new life under the name Meta Platforms (META). But the company is struggling with its newfound maturity, and Wall Street is fretting over the metaverse stock like a worried parent.
Meta stock has lost more than half its value since last September, as Facebook and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg have tethered the company's future to the metaverse, an entirely new method of communicating.
The risky bet comes as troubles mount at the company. User growth is stalling, and advertising revenue is under pressure due to competition and the slowing economy. The company faces increasing scrutiny from Congress, while upstarts are challenging its social media dominance. And while Facebook sees massive potential in the metaverse, there's no guarantee its gamble will pay off. Read the rest at the link
Commentary by Nikolai Astrovskiy
[ColonelCassad] The second echelon of the Polish occupation group of troops in Ukraine
In one of our previous articles https://www.belvpo.com/129780.html/ we considered the probable nature of the actions and the composition of the occupying group of Polish troops when they enter the territory of Ukraine. Today we will briefly consider who, what role is assigned to this Polish-Ukrainian military campaign.
As we noted earlier, the 11th armored cavalry division is deployed in the western part of Poland and it is most logical to assume that the military units of this division will perform tasks in the second echelon of the operational formation of Polish troops. Most likely, with the advancement of the 18th mechanized division towards the Ukrainian border, military units and subunits of the 11th brigade will begin moving to the point of permanent deployment (PPD) of the 18th MD to the already prepared park and barracks funds. By the way, during the Defender Europe - 2022 exercises, military units and subunits were already marching from the western to the eastern borders of Poland.
Thus, it is quite likely that the 1st Tank Brigade 18 MD (Vesola settlement) will remain at the disposal of two armored cavalry brigades of the 11th Brigade, as well as a park fund equipped for maintenance and current repair of tanks, in including the Leopard-2, which is in service with one of the brigades.
The 17th Mechanized Brigade will occupy the permanent deployment point of the 19th MBR of the 18th MD.
Thus, the 11th brigade will be deployed at the deployment points already prepared in all one-offices, with the possibility of continuing understaffing and conducting operational and combat training activities at the Novaya Demba training ground (n. Rzeszow) under the guidance of American instructors.
This course of action seems the most logical, if we recall the statements of the Minister of Defense of Poland Blashak about the beginning of the formation of two new divisions. Of course, this is best done on the already deployed barracks and park funds in the PPD of the 11th division in western Poland. This will allow the Polish military leadership to form new military units as soon as possible, equip them with personnel, weapons and military equipment, and after they are formed and equipped with everything necessary, begin operational and combat training activities.
The task of the military units and subunits of the 11th brigade in this development of events will probably be to continue improving their professional skills and building up their combat potential, as well as, if necessary, to advance in the second echelon of the operational formation of troops in order to strengthen and support military units 18 -th MD in the event of a threat of a collision with Russian troops, the offensive of which is most likely from the Zhytomyr and Khmelnytsky regions.
Most likely, Polish troops will not go to the south-west of Ukrainian territory (Ivano-Frankivsk direction), since it is believed that today there is the most loyal population to Poland and no one expects Russian tanks there.
#7
^^ ... no matter how truthy they appear or how truthy they become.
Personally, I'm waiting for the Bee to wish the Brandon Administration into the cornfield.
BLUF:
[ZERO] Our popular culture reflects this multifarious growing reluctance to raise children. And currently only 65% of children grow up in families with both parents.
The 2012 Obamacare ad, “The Life of Julia,” fixated on the new ideal American woman: a single parent of one child, unmarried, and utterly reliant on nearly 65 years of government support.
The 2013 follow-up bookend ad fetishized “Pajama Boy.” He was supposed to be a typical prolonged-adolescent, man-child — sitting at home in his child-like footie pajamas, sipping hot chocolate.
“Pajama Boy” was likely the sort that “Julia” had no intention of marrying.
There are historical downsides — economic, cultural, social, and military — to nations that shun child-raising.
They shrink in size, age, no longer believe in transcendence, become mostly agnostic or atheistic, and obsess on the self.
And sometimes they eventually become dysfunctional — and slowly disappear.
#2
Religious Christians and Jews and the wealthy — those with faith in the future and a desire to participate in its formation — are having three or more children. We’re in a Darwinian bottleneck, though the selection is between meme carriers, as it were, rather than gene carriers.
#3
Since the discovery of 'Rosie the Riveter' the gov't has encouraged two earner families. 'Replacement people' can always be brought in to prop up big gov't.
#7
The trolls like Zeihan. That's enough to keep me reading cop fiction.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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People who screech about problems but have no solutions are assholes. No matter how good their credentials.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/08/2022 13:34 Comments ||
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Example: I just sent DeSantis' handpicked candidate for state agriculture commissioner an email to ask if he would be more 2A friendly than the current dem Nikki Freid (he won't be.) At least I asked. And, no, I won't vote for him.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Clap clap go the flip-flapping lids
Of biddies in bidness: It's SIDS,
That new Netflix thriller
On cute contract killers
Who knock off invisible kids!
[brat topples pudding onto old lefty's lap]
#21
My afternoon's fine. My arguments are sound. You are not a licensed therapist so let it go.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/08/2022 16:47 Comments ||
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Stuff I read, in certain books
Would make the world a perfect place
Except that other people
Just jamb those books back in my face...
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VDH's literal trade is making cultural moments and narrating a trend.
It is up to us to find solutions, solutions which are unique to us as individuals.
Someone whose kids are all grown up might do so by exposing the chin music their employer's HR Department is throwing. Mine is to make sure my kids don't fall for the largest propaganda machine ever assembled. VDH did his by breaking with National Review colleagues in that propaganda effort, which had to be ballsy.
We are our solution. He is identifying the problem for us to solve.
#3
Unfortunate but that is our world today. Johnson undermined and stabbed in the back from all sides and he could not overcome the myriad of attacks. Here at home Trump preceded him and even after leaving office he is attacked from all sides but on his own Trump will return(like Netanyahu). The only man in my opinion who could orchestrate an America reborn. Why continue? he is the truest sense of the word a patriot. DeSantis no way. The media will tear him apart. An attorney yes but that is a controlled environment. Hostile crowds and hostile media are what he must constantly respond to and overcome. What I have seen so far is tame. He would fold as Jonson did. Assad has staying power because of his support plain and simple. Assassinate or depose would be our elites way. Call him a puppet but Putin is loyal it seems. A friend of Russia is a friend of Putin.
#4
Putin supports Assad because Syria was always a useful tool for the Soviets. If Assad ever told Putin "no", he'd be declared a "Nazi" and Wagner would be tasked with his assassination.
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As I understand strategies Defense is much harder that offense and that is the magic of Trump to prevail.
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[NYPOST] Thanks to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York is a city turned upside down.
/\How many of this type would have made it thru law school without affirmative action, AKA the soft bigotry of low expectations?
There are no Polish troops in Ukraine dude, this is the latest Russian big lie Badanov served you up.
