[NYPOST] On day two of his manslaughter case, Daniel Penny ceased having a name.
He became merely ''the white man.''
During the prosecution's opening statements on Friday, they asked why Penny, 26, did ''not see Mr. Neely's humanity.''
On Monday, the Marine Corps veteran — facing 15 years for the subway chokehold that killed mentally ill homeless man Jordan Neely — was reduced by the same prosecution to his race and sex.
Over and over.
This started when 19-year-old Ivette Rosario, a bystander on the train that day, was called to the stand. Rosario, appearing visibly shy and nervous, captured a short, shaky video of Penny holding Neely in a chokehold on the uptown F train.
It became clear that Rosario, whose voice at times, was barely audible, did not know Penny's name so she referred to him as ''the white guy.''
But she was not corrected by Assistant DA Jillian Shartrand, nor did the lawyer inform Rosario of the defendant's name. Instead, Shartrand adopted it as her own, calling him ''the white man.''
Shartrand continued to question Rosario, referring to the defendant as such, more than a half a dozen times. It was jarring to hear it repeated so casually.
Given the racial undertones of the case, with BLM protesters hurling accusations of Penny being a ''racist vigilante,'' it felt doubly reckless. Even if it wasn't wholly malicious.
In fact, when Penny's defense attorney, Thomas Kenniff, got up to cross examine Rosario, his client's name was the first order of business. He clarified that ''the white man'' was indeed his client and kindly agreed with Rosario that they'd refer to him as ''Danny'' and Neely as ''Jordan.''
[NYPOST] CBS News went to great lengths to squash correspondent Catherine Herridge’s reporting about the Hunter Biden laptop just weeks before the 2020 election, the award-winning investigative journalist claimed.
In her bombshell allegation, Herridge revealed she brought evidence to CBS News executive Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews and "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O’Donnell in early October 2020 that the laptop contained material about "a million dollar retainer from a Chinese energy firm," along with business texts and emails from the son of Democratic challenger Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... But later that month, Herridge wrote that she was shocked to see "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl say the laptop "couldn’t be verified" during a tense interview with then-President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... "As I watched the broadcast, I felt sick," Herridge, who was controversially fired by the Tiffany Network in February, wrote Sunday night in her recently launched newsletter.
"I knew the laptop records could be vetted and confirmed."
Nobody asked for my bid. I'd do it for $106m flat.
[NYPOST] the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... transit officials have approved a $212 million overhaul of its aging train control system — which for decades has run on data stored by floppy disks.
The Municipal Transportation Agency board, which oversees the Muni Metro light rail network in the city, approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control system, which was first installed at the Market Street subway station in 1998.
The software that runs the Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) is stored on floppy disks that are loaded each morning, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Three floppy disks are used for loading DOS software that controls the system’s central servers, according to Ars Technica.
DOS, which stands for disk operating system, was used to power IBM personal computers through the 1980s and 90s. But the rising popularity of Windows and other graphical user interfaces led to its demise.
"When a train enters the subway, its onboard computer connects to the train control system to run the train in automatic mode, where the trains drive themselves while the operators supervise," Michael Roccaforte, an SFMTA spokesperson, told Ars Technica in April.
"When they exit the subway, they disconnect from the ATCS and return to manual operation on the street."
Roccaforte said that the initial plan was to transition away from floppy disks beginning in 2018. The entire process was expected to last a decade.
There is an open source DOS replacement that boots from a USB key. That's all they would need to replace the floppies. If they want to run it on new computers, there are lots of cheap controller boards
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The story about the Central Park ice rink and Trump is very telling about Donk city graft and bureaucracy. Too bad they chased Elon out of town. He'd probably get it done at a fraction of the cost and with actual code and gear that should be good for a few decades.
They can replace the MSDOS floppies but they're going to be pinched to find DEI people who know MSDOS.
it is for the streetcars, trolleys and buses in SF
before the computer era, there was no computer costs, the vehicle completed a route, turned around and started a new route; new drivers met the 'getting off work' drivers at a standard point at a pre arranged time
it worked pretty well but there were occasional 5 and 10 and 15 delays sometimes
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Nobody asked for my bid. I'd do it for $106m flat.
Yes, but where's the graft in that?
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Last I heard, US ICBM launch silos were being run on 5-1/4 inch floppies.
[PAGESIX] Hunter Biden has apparently found some popularity as a Hollywood party guest ahead of his sentencing next month in two cases.
Spies said that the convicted first son, 54, was at a party in Los Angeles last week grousing about his mounting legal bills and his infamous Ukraine scandal.
Said an insider of the A-list gathering: ''Hunter Biden was trying to explain his history and problems to guests at a party in LA.''
The source said Hunter was telling guests that, '''I have $18 million in legal bills, and— my cases hanging over my head.' He also talked a lot about his Ukraine and Russia connections saying, 'all these stories were set-ups.'''
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Worry not Hunter.
After the votes are counted today, win or lose. Daddies puppet master/handlers will either issue a NO JAIL time, with a $$$$ fine deal.
Or, have a WH pardon issued before you see a day in jail.
BREAKING: Maricopa County officials just revealed that some of the 40,000 incomplete or damaged voter registration forms they received on registration deadline day included fraudulent registrations
"Voter registration forms that tried to register Mickey Mouse, Jerry Seinfeld,… pic.twitter.com/jKmPUTFfrE
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 'The more you look at it, the more obviously it is true. [These illegals] haven't just walked across the border they've been flown in airplanes to the swing states,' Musk said.
It wasn’t Democratic operatives in front of your lying eyes, h8ter. It was really Russia! Russia! Russia! with a little Iran for spice.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities also expect Iran-linked operations to try to stoke violence by spreading disinformation; watchdog says false or misleading claims by Elon Musk got 2 billion views on X
Russia-linked disinformation operations have falsely claimed officials in battleground states plan to fraudulently sway the outcome of the extraordinarily close US presidential election, authorities warned hours before voting began Tuesday, adding that they also expected Iranian-linked operations to try to stoke violence by spreading disinformation.
Success in the seven swing states is key to winning the White House for rivals Kamala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress and 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... , and those states have previously been the focus of unsupported accusations of election fraud.
"Russia is the most active threat," the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Monday.
"These efforts risk inciting violence, including against election officials," they added, noting the efforts are expected to intensify through Election Day and in the following weeks.
It was the latest in a series of warnings from the ODNI about foreign actors — notably Russia and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... — allegedly spreading disinformation or hacking the campaigns during this election.
Tehran and Moscow have both denied such allegations in the past.
The latest ODNI statement cited the example of a recent video that falsely depicted an interview with a person claiming election fraud in Arizona, which involved creating fake overseas ballots and changing voter rolls to favor Harris.
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes called the video and its claims "completely false, fake and fraudulent."
US officials warned in late October that Russia-linked operations were behind a viral video falsely showing mail-in ballots for Trump being destroyed in the swing state of Pennsylvania. The video, which garnered millions of views on platforms such as X, purported to show a man sorting through mail-in ballots from the state’s Bucks County and ripping up those cast for Trump.
The Bucks County Board of Elections branded the video as "fake," saying that the envelope and other materials depicted in the footage are "clearly not authentic materials" belonging to or distributed by them.
A viral video posted today purports to show a poll worker in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, open and destory mail-in ballots for Trump.
Both the the county's board of eletions and Bucks County GOP say the video is fake, no such poll worker exists, and the ballots aren't authentic. pic.twitter.com/PUyU3c7t7D
Cyabra, a firm that uses AI to detect online disinformation, said on Monday that an X account with 117,000 followers played a key role in helping spread the fake video.
X’s spokesperson said the social media platform took action against many accounts that shared the video.
In September, the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center said Russian operatives were ramping up disinformation operations to malign Harris’s campaign by disseminating conspiracy-laden videos.
Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... the non-profit group Center for Countering Digital Hate reported on Monday that false or misleading claims by billionaire Elon Musk about the US election have amassed 2 billion views on his social media platform this year.
X is also playing a central role in enabling the spread of false information about the critical battleground states that will likely determine the outcome of the race, according to election and misinformation experts.
An X spokesperson said the company’s Community Notes feature, which lets users add additional context to posts, is more effective at helping people identify misleading content than traditional warning flags on posts.
Since taking over the company formerly known as Twitter, Musk has curtailed content moderation and laid off thousands of employees. He also has thrown his support behind Trump.
Musk’s massive reach with nearly 203 million followers helps enable "network effects" in which content on X can jump to other social media and messaging platforms such as Reddit and Telegram, said Kathleen Carley, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and expert on disinformation. "X is a conduit from one platform to another," she said.
At least 87 of Musk’s posts this year have promoted claims about the US election that fact-checkers have rated as false or misleading, amassing 2 billion views, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s report.
In Pennsylvania, one of the seven key swing states, some X users have seized on instances of local election administrators flagging incomplete voter registration forms that would not be processed, falsely casting the events as examples of election interference, said Philip Hensley-Robin, Pennsylvania executive director at Common Cause, during a press briefing on Monday.
Common Cause is a nonpartisan organization that promotes accountable government and voting rights.
Some X accounts implied "that there was voter fraud, when in fact, we know very clearly that election officials and election administrators in all of our counties were following the rules and... therefore only eligible voters are voting," Hensley-Robin said.
The 2024 US presidential campaign has been a particularly volatile one, and security for Election Day on Tuesday is being ramped up to unprecedented levels given concerns over possible civil unrest, election chicanery, or violence against election workers.
The states of Oregon, Washington and Nevada have activated the National Guard — and the Pentagon says at least 17 states have placed a total of 600 National Guard troops on standby if needed.
The FBI has set up a national election command post in Washington to monitor threats 24 hours a day through election week, and security has been bolstered at many of the nearly 100,000 US polling stations.
Nineteen states have enacted election security enhancement laws since 2020, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The new layers of security follow the election chaos from 2020, particularly after Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, aiming to halt certification of the election results that confirmed Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity.... as the winner.
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Unfortunately, after the Steele dossier and Hunter Biden’s laptop the word of our intelligence agencies to overcome a skepticism that is unnatural to me. Especially after knowing that they have always tried to influence our elections, and at least in the last round or two it was reported their attempts had practically no impact on voter beliefs and behaviours. The impact of Google, Twitter and Facebook is significant enough.
[Washington Examiner] Democratic political campaigns have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a consulting firm facing investigations in Pennsylvania counties for allegedly submitting fraudulent voter registration forms, federal records show.
The district attorney of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Mike Mancuso, said in a statement last week that a subsidiary of a firm in Arizona called FieldCorps was responsible for submitting 30 forms with fraudulent details, including on behalf of a dead resident. And in York, another county in the Keystone State, officials are looking into suspicious forms they say were submitted by FieldCorps on behalf of the Everybody Votes Campaign, a group tied to the Washington, D.C.-based Arabella Advisors dark money network supporting Democrats.
Now, as of Saturday, the website for FieldCorps and its social media accounts do not appear to be active. Francisco Heredia, a city councilman in Mesa, Arizona, listed on corporate documents as the owner of the consulting firm, did not return a request for comment. Eduardo Sainz, a political consultant who is a partner at the firm, also did not respond.
The unfolding drama in Pennsylvania comes ahead of Election Day on Tuesday and a matchup between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Pennsylvania is a key swing state in 2024 and the results in counties there could decide who enters the White House next year. A Washington Examiner review of Federal Election Commission filings found that, since 2018, Democratic campaign committees have shuffled roughly $430,000 to FieldCorps.
The FieldCorps subsidiary is working out of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, according to state officials, who have declined to identify whether FieldCorps is the "third-party organization" behind an investigation officials opened there into 2,500 voter registration forms flagged as suspicious.
I vote they make the entire state redo the election, this time with Republican Party lawyers and trained poll watchers in each precinct, and each voter required to provide a photo ID and proof of residency. The Democratic Party should pay the entire cost, from printing ballots to legal fees, not the taxpayer — there needs to be a serious cost to screwing around like this. And track down and arrest those named individuals running the thing.
[GEO.TV] Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris What can be, unburdened by what has been made an important appeal to Arab Americans during her campaign in Michigan, two days prior to the US presidential election. She'll surrender and pay reparations...
In light of the anger regarding her backing of Israel, she acknowledged, ''this year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... .''
''It is devastating, and as president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza,'' she said to applause, ''to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure, and ensure the Paleostinian people can realize their right to dignity, freedom, security, and self-determination.''
Harris's remarks resonate with her campaign rhetoric over the past weeks, while critics have accused her of failing to condition US aid to Israel amid its actions in Gaza and Lebanon.
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She did nothing these last years so she will have something to promise America if she wins? Using the deaths in Ukraine as a political marker is bad form.
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as president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza
Wow. He really closed the deal there. Love him or hate him, to be able to carry both the Zionists and the Moslems — that is impressive.
[AlphaNews] Their reasons included concerns about public safety, educational opportunities, and the struggling economy—issues they claim the Democratic Party has failed to address.
Somali leaders held a press conference over the weekend endorsing President Donald Trump, and so far no local mainstream TV outlet has covered it—despite Minnesota being home to the largest Somali population in the country, including high-profile figures like Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
During the nearly hour-long press conference, more than 10 community leaders took to the podium, explaining why they’re backing Trump for another term.
Their reasons included concerns about public safety, educational opportunities, and the struggling economy—issues they claim the Democratic Party has failed to address.
🚨 WATCH: Minnesota Somali leaders endorse President Trump:
"Our conditions are horrible, we can’t afford anything. As working class and middle class people. Now please understand this, we love our brothers and sisters who are Democrats, but you left us." pic.twitter.com/hbzH8TyEhm
"Our conditions are horrible. We can’t afford anything as working class and middle class people," said Mohamed Ahmed. "Now please understand this, we love our brothers and sisters who are Democrats, but you left us."
Other speakers echoed Ahmed’s frustration, with one accusing the Democratic Party of becoming the party of billionaires and war, while another praised Trump’s past economic policies and his promise to end ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
"Under Donald J. Trump, the economy was a lot better than what we have right now," said one speaker. "We are being lied to [about] inflation rates, employment rates, education rates, and housing rates. This is not acceptable."
As Alpha News reported, this isn’t the first indication that some Somali voters in Minnesota are turning to Trump.
Salman Fiqy, a small business owner who recently ran in the Republican primary for a seat in the Minnesota House, previously joined Liz Collin Reports to explain why more Somali Americans are backing conservative candidates, citing concerns about education, the economy, and public safety.
"Also coming from a Muslim faith, we tend to be very conservative people and some of the issues we cannot really turn a blind eye to, we cannot ignore some of the issues," he said. "We have shared values and interests with the Republican Party. I don’t really care about the backlash."
[Breitbart] The Harris campaign and allied groups spent more than $2.185 billion trying to prevent former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest comeback in American political history, Bloomberg reported on Open Secrets data.
The $2.1 billion investment underscores the challenge Trump faces to win reelection, notwithstanding two assassination attempts and Democrats’ lawfare.
The vast sum does not include millions of funds invested in smaller amounts by Democrat-allied organizations. The top organizations that spent $2.185 billion include:
Harris for President: $875 million
Future Forward: $621 million
DNC: $368 million
Harris Victory Fund: $321 million
“11,000 Political Groups Spent $14.7 Billion to Influence the 2024 Election,” Bloomberg wrote, reporting the particulars:
[I]t’s Vice President Kamala Harris who has the huge money advantage. She’s raised large sums from wealthy supporters and grassroots donors alike, which allowed her campaign to spend more handily compared to Trump’s, pouring $875 million into the race compared to $355 million for the Republican nominee.
Billions have passed through the coffers of the parties’ fundraising political action committees, including Democrats’ ActBlue and Republicans’ WinRed, which have processed more than 113 million donations and distributed $4.5 billion to other committees. The two PACs account for more than 31 cents of every dollar spent in the US, and have the most financial activity of any of the committees that spent money in the 2024 election cycle.
The US political system runs on money – and lots of it. With no legal limits on how much money can go into electing candidates to the White House and Congress, voters are deluged with ads, text messages and mailers as Republicans and Democrats battle to influence a deeply divided electorate.
Trump, however, posted an ad on Monday about overcoming adversity:
Nothing worth doing ever came easy. Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. Never ever quit. Never quit. Adversity makes you stronger. Don’t give in. Don’t back down and never stop doing what you know is right. They want to take away my freedom, because I will never let them take away your freedoms. They’re not coming after me. They’re coming after you and I just happen to be standing in their way.
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I've been surprised to see Kamala Harris ads on TV here in California. If she's spending that kind of money here, she either has more money than she knows how to spend or she's worried about California. I'm hoping it's the latter but that's hard to believe.
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^She's just letting some of her friends make some money, Abu.
[JustTheNews] Seniors groups warn that Biden budget gimmickry means "taxpayers are footing the bill today, seniors will pay the price tomorrow."
Democrats were confronted earlier this year with a terrifying reality: a cap on out-of-pocket costs for patients to limit Medicare drug spending passed as part of Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act was set to spike premiums for millions of senior citizens just weeks before the 2024 presidential election.
To avoid the political catastrophe of presiding over major premium increases in the middle of a closely contested election, the Biden-Harris administration used its authority to reroute appropriated funding to subsidize the premiums for seniors until after the election.
The administration’s $5 billion budget gimmick kicked the proverbial can down the road, but only adds to the estimated possible $20 billion in additional spending over three years to cover up the unintended consequences of one of the Biden-Harris administration's signature laws.
While they free Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to tout the caps in her key economic plan for the middle class, the subsidies will cost taxpayers and seniors in the long run.
“They created a new program that's going to send billions to health insurance companies… to temporarily offset the premium increases,” Rebecca Weber, the CEO of the Association for Mature American Citizens (AMAC) told the John Solomon Reports podcast.
“One could really say that they're buying, you know, off big insurance companies right before an election. And taxpayers, this is important, that people understanding it, taxpayers are footing the bill today, seniors will pay the price tomorrow,” she added.
Medicare Part D premiums were slated to increase in October at the beginning of open enrollment following pressure on insurance companies generated by the Inflation Reduction Act’s caps on drug prices—one of the Biden-Harris Administration’s signature legislative initiatives.
This could have spelled political disaster for Democrats and their nominee, who bragged that she cast the tie-breaking vote on the legislation.
But the administration swooped in to prevent the catastrophe. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in July a new program to stabilize the premiums, called a demonstration. This program would shell out a total of approximately $5 billion in subsidies for insurance companies to cover the costs of capping prices and other effects of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Before the subsidies, the price cap plan was already set to balloon federal spending after the Congressional Budget Office found the Inflation Reduction Act’s financial impacts were underestimated.
The analysis, requested by Republican critics of the administration’s plans, said the changes made to Medicare by the act would likely cause the new average plan bid for standard Part D coverage to increase by a whopping 179% for 2025 without intervention.
“CBO expects that the additional plan costs reflected in those bids will result in an increase in federal spending of $10 billion to $20 billion in calendar year 2025, compared with our earlier projections,” the CBO said.
[Gatestone]Biden-Harris Administration Surreptitiously Signs Up for UN World Governance, Internet Censorship
On September 22, unnoticed by most Americans, the Biden-Harris administration adopted the United Nations Pact for the Future to transform global governance, which introduces the foundations of a world government. There was no debate, no media coverage, no press releases, and no interviews about the Biden-Harris administration's surrender of United States sovereignty to the UN.
These agreements usher in a dystopian future, where the UN -- an active supporter of terrorism and arguably the world's most corrupt international entity... in partnership with the unelected and unaccountable World Economic Forum, led by Klaus Schwab... is given unprecedented power over the peoples of sovereign countries, who have had no say whatsoever on the contents of this pact, because it has been kept hidden from them.
Buried near the end of the Digital Global Compact, in paragraph 30, is the only thing you need to know about it: "We must urgently counter and address... all forms of hate speech and discrimination, misinformation and disinformation...."
In 2021-22, the UN entered into a partnership with Google to ensure that the search engine only display information reflecting UN perspectives. Dissenting views would have to be erased. The UN did not even hide their totalitarian move, and issued a press release about it.
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.
...46th president of the U.S. 
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
[Washington Examiner] Democratic political campaigns have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a consulting firm facing investigations in Pennsylvania counties for allegedly submitting fraudulent voter registration forms, federal records show.
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
