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Head of Russian Orthodox Church says sacrificing life in war against Ukraine ‘washes away sins.’
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-War on Police-
'Defund the Police' epicenter now 'grappling with heightened violent crime,' but we can't say why
[CNN via Hot Air] Telly Blair was among 93 people who were murdered in Minneapolis last year, city crime data shows. That’s just a few shy of the total killings in 1995, when the city earned the nickname "Murderapolis." (Neighboring St. Paul witnessed 38 murders last year — a historic high.)

After the police murder of George Floyd in May of 2020, Minneapolis became a worldwide symbol of the police brutality long endured disproportionately by Black people. In a kind of Newtonian response, the city became the epicenter of the culturally seismic "Defund the Police" movement. But that progressive local effort fizzled with a decisive referendum last November.

Now, with its police department under investigation by the Department of Justice, the city of 425,000 is trying to find a way forward amid a period of heightened crime that began shortly after Floyd’s death.

That year, the number of murders soared to nearly 80 — dwarfing the 2019 body count of 46. It has cooled somewhat this year, though the amount of killing — and violent crime in general — remains elevated far above 2019 levels and homicides are on pace to surpass the 2020 figure. The reasons why are far from clear.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2022 06:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You will never solve 'problem' as long as you fail to accept the truth.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/26/2022 7:11 Comments || Top||


#3  George Floyd wasn't murdered.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 09/26/2022 10:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Ochlocracy, or Mob Rule, is the very antithesis of Democracy. First The Mob™ and then the Tyrant -- something the Ancient Greeks knew and our current 'intellectuals' ignore.
Posted by: magpie || 09/26/2022 11:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Sob story in today’s seattle times lamenting failure of city to reduce police spending by 50%, and the city council members twisting like a pretzel to turn their defund the cops vote from back then to todays supporting the police. And usual losers crying about blm and other maligned peoples.
Comments are hilarious.
Still havent spent any money in seattle.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/26/2022 17:00 Comments || Top||



#8  Woman escapes Chicago kidnapping attempt in popular area
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/26/2022 17:19 Comments || Top||

#9  At this point, small businesses attempting to remain in these places are like Sam Kinison's take on starving people:

Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/26/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||



#12  ^ Don't people get some vibe of 'this person is unstable!' at any point before being stabbed five inch deep with reality?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/26/2022 17:41 Comments || Top||

#13  Need to start Paul Kersey ambushes
Posted by: Frank G || 09/26/2022 19:34 Comments || Top||


Europe
Could Current Events Lead to the End of the EU as We Know It?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/26/2022 10:35 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The war in Ukraine could lead to a tighter more paranoid, authoritarian, EU.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/26/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, but the WEF will fight it tooth and nail.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/26/2022 11:04 Comments || Top||

#3  WEF loves far left Authoritarian so I'm not sure they'd fight it at all.
Posted by: ruprecht || 09/26/2022 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  The EU is a classic case study of how bureaucracies just grow and grow and grow. To think this was "just" a coal and steel economic union/community between a handful of European nations back in the late 1950's or so and looking at the political monstrosity it is now is just simply amazing.

They didn't know it at the time, but the political Leviathan known as the EU was doomed from the get-go.

Wonder why the US dollar is so strong? That is one reason.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/26/2022 16:55 Comments || Top||

#5  One can always hope. Maybe Sweden or Italy will follow Englands lead and leave that grift-pile.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 09/26/2022 17:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Someone told me that right wing parties across the EU are united covertly in a plan to mass exit. Hit the Eww with exit after exit so while it reels from the shocks they can firm up their own alliances. And that by 2030 the supranation will be full of failing, chaotic socialist tyrannies trying to barely maintain order.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/26/2022 17:19 Comments || Top||


‘Far Right’ Favored To Win Italian Election
The election was yesterday so by now we should know who won.
It was Ms Meloni, as herein predicted. See here.
POSTED ON JULY 26, 2022

[Powerline] An election is coming up in Italy in September, and the Brothers of Italy party, led by co-founder Giorgia Meloni, is currently leading the polls. There has been scant attention to the election in the U.S., but European news coverage is interesting for what it tells us about the state of politics on that continent, which in some ways mirrors conditions here in America.

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Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/26/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: badanov || 09/26/2022 3:15 Comments || Top||

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Good for Italy! Man, drinking all that wine with lunch is definitely good for the brain!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/26/2022 3:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Far right confirmed.

That wasn't even a dog whistle. That was just a regular whistle. Who's the enemy? "Financial speculators" who want to destroy the family and create "the perfect consumer"? Who are these financial speculators who are out to destroy us all and replace us with immigrants? DA JOOZ of course. She could not say more clearly that she's anti-Semitic.

I'd be afraid of her, too, if I was Jewish.
Posted by: Goober Wittlesbach1280 || 09/26/2022 4:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Why does every European conservative always get labeled as “far right”? You never hear the press label the opponent as “far left”.

Legacy media still thinks everyone’s a fool.
Posted by: Titus Flomock6910 || 09/26/2022 4:53 Comments || Top||

#5  She leans away from following Brussels' diktats, that's why she's lady Mussolini.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/26/2022 5:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Let the spying begin, traitorous appointments to emerge, corruption charges filed, false media stories of perversion and cooperation with Trump & Putin…
Posted by: Airandee || 09/26/2022 7:05 Comments || Top||

#7  One of the great lies of the late 20th Century, particularly by academia, is that the Nazis and fascist were 'right wing'. As Lawrence Samuels wrote on “The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism” at Econlib in 2015, “In essence, the economics of Italian Fascism was Marxist and syndicalist-inspired—and far more left-wing socialist than the economies of many current western nations that embrace a mixed economy of socialism, welfarism and unionism." As for the Nazis just read their party platform.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/26/2022 7:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Leftist narrative is never about factuality or truth.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/26/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||


#10 
Posted by: badanov || 09/26/2022 9:54 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ Nice!
Posted by: Frank G || 09/26/2022 10:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Again, those who screech loudest about "democracy" are the most aghast when it actually occurs.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/26/2022 10:28 Comments || Top||

#13  Mussolini was an avowed Socialist forever and there's a reason Nazi is what it translates too.

There is no real right wing extremism, only resistance to the Socialist, Commie cadres.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/26/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#14  LOL at #10. Viva Italia!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/26/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||

#15  Who are these financial speculators who are out to destroy us all and replace us with immigrants?

Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Fink, George Soros, Baraq Obama, Joe Biden and his son Hunter...some are Jews and some are not. That's not the point, troll. The point is they are flooding OUR country with illiterate, third world peasants to take our jobs, our schools and our homes away from us...to vote for socialism because they don't know any better. The third world types who invade Italy might be different from the third world types who invade America. The financial speculators might be different. But it's all the same enemy. We are not racists or nazis because we want to repel the invaders in spite of what you, Oprah and Joe might want us to think.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/26/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#16  If you believe the love and reverence for God, family and country is fascist you are profoundly damaged.
Posted by: Cesare || 09/26/2022 13:01 Comments || Top||

#17  if I was Jewish.

But you can be, my dear Goober Wittlesbach1280. It’ll take one to three years of hard study, depending on whether you choose the more liberal or orthodox style, and of course sincere belief in the face of challenges — because if you can’t face down challenges from your teachers along the way, you most certainly won’t be able to handle being an actual member of the tribe — but we take all races, nationalities, genders, and politics.

Thought really, if we’re to adopt you it would be nice if you had a better grasp of history.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/26/2022 14:27 Comments || Top||

#18  And the snip! Don't forget ...ow! The snip! Study I can take. Even the history. Chalenges from teachers? I can wrestle a rabbi to the ground! But the snip!
[mimes scissors ✂️]
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 09/26/2022 14:36 Comments || Top||

#19  we take all races, nationalities, genders, and politics.

Yep.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/26/2022 15:51 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The Development of Ironclads - The first 10 years in the Royal Navy
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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2022-09-26
  Head of Russian Orthodox Church says sacrificing life in war against Ukraine ‘washes away sins.’
Sun 2022-09-25
  Russian authorities detain more than 700 people at protests against partial mobilization
Sat 2022-09-24
  Four Ukraine regions controlled by Russia and pro-Moscow forces have started door to door referendums on Friday on joining Russia
Fri 2022-09-23
  31 killed in Iran protests, as people torch cop shoppes
Thu 2022-09-22
  Man admits to having murdered a teenager for being a Republican
Wed 2022-09-21
  Putin Orders Partial Military Mobilization Amid Setbacks In Ukraine, Warns West 'It's Not A Bluff
Tue 2022-09-20
  New protests in Iran over woman's death after morality police arrest, 5 protesters said killed
Mon 2022-09-19
  ''Kupiansk has surrendered. The enemy is on the left bank of the Oskil:'' pro-Russian military blogger
Sun 2022-09-18
  Former Guantanamo guest is injured in Panjshir war
Sat 2022-09-17
  400 militants of ISIS deployed to north of Afghanistan - CSTO
Fri 2022-09-16
  Tajikistan is trying to seize the territory of Kyrgyzstan
Thu 2022-09-15
  1 Tajikistan border guard killed after Kyrgyz, Tajik border guards exchange fire due to border dispute
Wed 2022-09-14
  Commander of Russia's 137th Guards Airborne Regiment died
Tue 2022-09-13
  Azerbaijan shelling Armenian positions, initiating offensive actions
Mon 2022-09-12
  Ew! Brazil Returnee Excretes 92 Wraps Of Cocaine At Nigerian Airport

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