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Latest explosions in Tehran reportedly hit warehouses of rockets that belong to the IRGC
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man ‘deliberately slams truck into motorcyclist killing Marine vet' because he was ‘targeting a white person'
A MAN was arrested last week after he allegedly slammed his truck into a motorcycle, killing a Marine veteran because he was "targeting a white person."

Daniel Navarro, 27, is accused of swerving a 2004 Dodge Dakota pickup truck without braking into a motorcyclist on July 3 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, according to police.

The motorcyclist, Phillip Thiessen, died from the crash, authorities said during a news conference on Thursday, according to Fox News.

Thiessen, 55, was a Marine veteran and former Virginia police officer who had retired from the Wisconsin Department of Justice where he investigated crimes against children.
Posted by: Chunky Ebbanter9368 || 07/10/2020 03:28 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, white Americans are the new Jews?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2020 4:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like premeditation to me.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2020 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  'Fraid so Grom. We are the original sin to this new religion.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/10/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Homicide and hate crime in Wisconsin. How many months will this scum bag serve?
Posted by: Clem || 07/10/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Yea, well. You better get your sh*t together.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2020 9:41 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'Work from home' for a year... from BARBADOS: Caribbean island considers giving 12-month visas to any remote workers
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2020 07:52 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronaplague Roundup
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:



#3  Chinese released CV20?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Test kits supplied to Tanzania were tested first on a tree and a goat. Both tested positive for CON virus. More and more people are seeing incorrect test results false positives. Credibility issues abound. The average person is generally aware of this information.
Posted by: Dale || 07/10/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I see Iran's transportation system is a lot cleaner than ours.
Posted by: KBK || 07/10/2020 13:38 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia's new S-500 air defense system is able to protect against meteorites
That’s the specs. What's it like in real life with Syrian or Turkish rechnicians?
"It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax! S(himmer)-500!!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Something like that could come in handy. If the dinosaurs had one, they'd still be around today.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/10/2020 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Wait until it meets Ruritanian Air Force.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2020 4:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Protects again UFOs, hurt feelings and bad publicity! Also slices and dices and comes with a new lemon fresh scent!
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/10/2020 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  And the price is $19.99 plus shipping and handling.
But wait, there’s more!!
Get a second system FREE!! Just pay a handling fee.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/10/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Allies should ‘merge' military and police intelligence to counter China: Pentagon
[Washington Examiner] American and European allies need to "merge" the intelligence gathered by national security and law enforcement officials in order to fend off nontraditional threats from China and Russia, according to a senior Pentagon official.

"Most of what our competitors and adversaries are doing in Europe to undermine our resilience and undermine our political cohesion is in the law enforcement realm," Michael Ryan, one of the Defense Department’s top officials for European and NATO policy, told the European Union Defense Washington Forum. "We need to find a way to merge that military intelligence and law enforcement intelligence, so that working between NATO and the EU, we get all of our tools moving in the right direction to deal with those efforts."

Ryan’s solution, in the broadest terms, involves enhanced "intelligence-sharing" not only between allied governments but between traditional national security entities and law enforcement agencies empowered to work within a country. His comments underscore the U.S. perception that China and Russia are targeting Western allies through nonmilitary means.

"A huge amount of these challenges are coming in private sector entities or civil society," said Center for Strategic and International Studies Senior Vice President Kathleen Hicks, building on Ryan’s suggestion.

Their suspicions dovetail with a statement from the 2017 White House National Security Strategy, which warned that Western "adversaries exploit our free and democratic system to harm the United States." Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been making that case to European allies, particularly in light of China’s push for a Beijing-backed telecommunications giant to win the contracts to build the 5G next-generation wireless technology infrastructure in leading European and developing countries.

"We must take off the golden blinders of economic ties and see that the China challenge isn’t just at the gates; it’s in every capital, it’s in every borough, it’s in every province," Pompeo told European officials and analysts last month.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2020 04:45 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The bilateral effort used against candidate and later President Donald Trump could be employed as a model.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/10/2020 4:49 Comments || Top||

#2  China should be taught not to play with biological weapons. In fact, I'd call it #1 priority.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2020 4:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Merge with Europe? Lol, the US can't even get unity amongst its own security services, so how does one expect success with Europe?
Posted by: Clem || 07/10/2020 7:03 Comments || Top||

#4  All of these intelligence agencies are united: against us. China is just a boogeyman to get what they want the most: transnational globalist organizations with hard power.
Posted by: Maggie Poodle6767 || 07/10/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||

#5  ^Sure it is. Just like Nazi Germany was a boogeyman.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ We can thank Woody Wilson, the Versailles Treaty and, later, Neville Chamberlain, for that.
Posted by: Clem || 07/10/2020 11:08 Comments || Top||

#7  I cannot believe my eyes, the massive goat rope and jug screw we went through to create the NCTC and the state fusion centers for Countering Terroist Threats were design to do just that. Integrating state and local law enforcement intelligence databases has been a complain large part. The LE Sensite and classified Information up to and including TS SCI material is ongoing now. Expanding content with DoD sourced info is additive. Classic deep state rice bowl, empire building issues it appears.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/10/2020 16:11 Comments || Top||


Economy
From ‘Made in China' to ‘Owned by China': 20 deals show how China is gobbling up U.S. assets
U.S. politicians are seeking how to address growing American supply chain concerns amid the global 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...
pandemic. In addition to most consumer goods and electronics, China reportedly manufactures "more than 90% of U.S. antibiotics, vitamin C, ibuprofen and hydrocortisone, as well as 70% of acetaminophen," among other crucial drugs imported by the U.S.Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has become one of the most vocal critics of the Chinese Communist Party and has urged a boycott of goods made in China. "We have to pass a law: Stop buying anything from Communist China," Scott said in a recent interview. "Nothing. Don’t buy any products from them."

However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
a boycott of goods made in China would do little to address growing Chinese influence over American interests achieved via investments, mergers, and acquisitions. Between 2002 and 2016, Chinese state-owned or state-linked companies acquired more than $120 billion worth of assets in 40 states across the U.S. Just 15 Chinese entities (sovereign wealth funds, state-owned corporations, or state-linked private sector firms) accounted for 60% of this activity. In 2016 alone, more than 50 of these Chinese acquisitions exceeded $50 million. Several Chinese takeover deals exceeded $1 billion.

Posted by: Chunky Ebbanter9368 || 07/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Home Front: Politix
Texas, Florida Set New Daily Records For COVID Deaths
[HotAir] - I don’t know that there’s much to add to this morning’s post except to confirm that, yes, the long-feared rise in daily deaths in hot-spot states seems to be upon us. Texas recorded 98 deaths yesterday, a new record, and topped it today with 105. Total hospitalizations in the state also set a new record and are approaching 10,000.

...The big news is Florida, though. They were an exception to the trio of states I wrote about earlier, as they hadn’t broken any records in terms of deaths in the past 48 hours. They have now.

Democrats' winning tactic - make the party of stupid live up to its name.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/10/2020 04:56 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Texas border counties hospitalization rate is 5 times the national average
It’s not natural that counties sitting at the border would mysteriously get hit with a strain of the virus causing so much more hospitalization than anywhere else. What this clearly demonstrates is a case drain flowing from across the border, where the most seriously ill patients are crossing over for care.We are finding this dynamic across the border. Imperial County is one of California’s least densely populated counties, yet at 40.1 hospitalizations per 100,000 residents, it had the highest rate of coronavirus hospitalizations in the state. That is more than twice the rate of Los Angeles County, which is the largest county in the country and is 57 times more populous and 69 times more densely populated than Imperial County.



Posted by: Frank G || 07/10/2020 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Some states are also more liberal about elective surgeries like cancer, broken bones and pacemaker batteries.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/10/2020 18:19 Comments || Top||


Government
Recertified Pac 3 Patroit Missiles for Taiwan!
Posted by: 3dc || 07/10/2020 05:39 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


-PC Follies
Penn State deletes tweet declaring conservative students' 'viewpoints are important'
[WASHINGTONTIMES]
Posted by: Fred || 07/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Had these two episodes occur in my area; A fellow was getting his gas pumped and two black women demanded the attendant stop and pump theirs. So he tells the customer to go. Safer this way since you cannot predict how violent these women can be. In prison system you just pepper spray because they will bite, gouge your eyes out or scratch you with their finger nails.
Posted by: Dale || 07/10/2020 4:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Might as well keep them closed down. There is no more 'higher learning' going on there.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/10/2020 7:07 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2020-07-10
  Latest explosions in Tehran reportedly hit warehouses of rockets that belong to the IRGC
Thu 2020-07-09
  Yemen's Ansarallah forces threaten to target Saudi palaces
Wed 2020-07-08
  22 Taliban militants killed, wounded on Kabul-Jalalabad highway
Tue 2020-07-07
  Iraqi security analyst Husham Al Hashimi assassinated outside his Baghdad home
Mon 2020-07-06
  Sen Tammy Duckworth in favor of tearing down George Washington Statues!
Sun 2020-07-05
  Officer draws gun on two men who beat him in the Bronx— de Blasio calls for his resignation
Sat 2020-07-04
  Happy Fourth!
Fri 2020-07-03
  MSNBC Dubs Mount Rushmore as a 'Racist' 'Symbol of White Supremacy'
Thu 2020-07-02
  Massacre reported in Irapuato, Mexico — 24 people dead
Wed 2020-07-01
  Lebanon’s army has scrapped meat from all meals it offers to soldiers on duty as food prices skyrocket
Tue 2020-06-30
  Denmark Jails Man over Iran-Backed Assassination Plot
Mon 2020-06-29
  Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claiming responsibility for Karachi Stock Exchange attack. Majeed sucide Brigade
Sun 2020-06-28
  Leb officials apologize to US ambassador after judge issued order banning her from speaking to media
Sat 2020-06-27
  Iranian-backed Hezbollah militias threaten to assassinate Iraq's Prime Minister Kadhimi
Fri 2020-06-26
  Iraqi security forces have raided a HQ of Ketaib Hezbollah


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