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Urbanism is dying. COVID lockdowns gave it a hard push towards the grave.
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Only one city? Boston wasn't even hit hard by the mostly peaceful riots last year but M. Murcek's right - the Wuhan Flu and the riots combine for the big kick to Big City's balls.
#1
Ridiculous. The defendant is clearly shown in this sequence of images as trapped between two advancing, menacing thugs, one of whom is seen brandishing a pistol and the other of whom is advancing steadily and readying to charge at the defendant.
Add to this the shrewd observation based on the clear evidence from the infrared video -- that the defendant is raising his arm, NOT his gun -- and the obvious conclusion is that the defendant is not only actually retreating from a confrontation but also giving notice, in the form of a raised arm, that he wishes to AVOID any confrontation with these two advancing predatory berserkers ... one of whom, as adduced at trial, multiple times screamed at tgefdegndant and vowed to kill him "if I find you alone."
If this young man is not acquitted of all charters tgen Katy bar the door. These liars and thugs are pushing us -- the vast majority in this country, we the normals, those who despise thuggery and mob rule and oligarchy, who love rule of law -- we normies are being backed against a wall.
At some point we may be left with no choice but to pursue the path that this defendant pursued.
Will these DA's be brought up and criminal charges?
It seems clear, they are doing everything they can by hook or by crook to get a conviction. Even so far as delaying access to, hiding, tampering with and misrepresenting evidence.
#3
Who was it who monkeyed with the prosecution's Hail Mary video?
What kind of criminal process is it that allows such manipulation?
In any case it's just a blurry mess. A Rorschach. Which means the jury's deliberations are now at severe risk of political manipulation, of one or more jurors being free to completely disregard their duty to find the facts -- and only those facts introduced at trial.
Facts that yield the overwhelming, obvious conclusion that the defendant was provoked and acted legally, in clear self-defense... as opposed to the utterly absurd prosecution argument that it was this young man who provoked these violent berserkers who every single piece of reliable evidence indicates attacked him, charging and cornering him like a pack of wolves.
#4
It's never been about the young man, or his being attacked. It's all about that evil Black Rifle and American's right to be armed and protect themselves.
Had Rittenhouse not been armed, but defended himself with a large rock, slaying both attackers...where would all of this be ?
[NYPOST] Dramatic video shows the moment an off-duty police officer put the bite on would-be armed tuff guys while in the middle of a dental checkup.
The unnamed Brazilian cop is seen on security camera footage being examined by the dentist around 10 a.m. Thursday when armed robbers are seen forcing patients and dental office employees into the room at knifepoint, according to video originally posted by Globo.com.
The 46-year-old cop, a member of Brazil’s Federal District Military Police, is seen getting up from the chair with his hands up and going down to the ground in the city of Ceilandia.
When one of the thieves goes to check on the cop and search his pockets, he turns the tables and wrestles the suspect to the ground, holding him at gunpoint. "Open wide, Suspect Number One!" he said gleefully.
A second genius then charges into the room at the officer but is also pummeled to the ground by the hero cop after being shot and maimed, according to Newsweek. "That didn't hurt too bad, did it?"
The injury was not life-threatening, the outlet said. "Darn! A little to the left next time!"
The two suspects, both 19-year-olds who were not identified, were then arrested.
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RIP Wilber Smith,
By now Wilber, you know,
GOD needed a new scribe,
And HE only works with the Best !
Thanks for all the Literature You Gave to Us before you were called Home, It will be read by millions of people to come.
Amen
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#3
I know I misspelled your first name Wilbur,
Freudian Slip actually,
and a kind of insurance policy,
I am not in your league as a writer,
but I just do not want to be,
Called Home Just Yet...
Say Hi, to my Late Wife Suzanne
She Loved reading Your Thrillers,
---v
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[TVline] Who’s up for a spot of tennis with the Crawleys? Focus Features on Wednesday released an official first look at Downton Abbey: A New Era, the highly anticipated follow-up to the series’ 2019 big-screen debut — and it’s just as elegant as you’re imagining.
Returning for Downton Abbey’s second movie are original cast members Hugh Bonneville (Robert), Laura Carmichael (Edith), Jim Carter (Carson), Brendan Coyle (Bates), Michelle Dockery (Mary), Kevin Doyle (Molesley), Joanne Froggatt (Anna), Matthew Goode (Henry), Harry Hadden-Paton (Bertie), Robert James-Collier (Thomas), Allen Leech (Branson), Phyllis Logan (Mrs. Hudges), Elizabeth McGovern (Cora), Sophie McShera (Daisy), Lesley Nicol (Mrs. Patmore), Maggie Smith (The Dowager Countess), Imelda Staunton (Lady Bagshaw) and Penelope Wilton (Isobel).
Also along for the ride are Nathalie Baye, Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock and Dominic West.
One character you shouldn’t expect to see is Rose, played by Lily James. The character was noticeably M.I.A. from the first movie, but as the actress admitted, "My character ... moved to New York, so it would be farfetched to bring her back. I would have loved to have come back for a scene, but for a movie it can’t be like a Christmas special. It needs to be a focused storyline. There was no space for Rose."
[The Barents Observer] An early freeze has taken shippers by surprise and a big number of vessels are in danger of getting stuck in thick sea-ice.
More than 20 vessels are either stuck or struggling to make it through increasingly thick sea-ice on the Northern Sea Route.
Over the past years, shipping along the Russian northern coast has proceeded rather smoothly in late October and early November. But not this year. Large parts of the remote Arctic waters were in late October covered by sea-ice. And the white sheet is quickly getting thicker and harder to navigate.
Ice maps show that major parts of the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea are covered by sea-ice that is more than 15 cm thick. In the eastern parts of the East Siberian Sea are areas with up to 70 cm thick one-year ice, as well as 2 meter thick multi-year ice.
Among the ships that now are located on the eastern part of the route are two oil tankers and a significant number of bulk carriers. Among the latter are three ships bringing iron ore from the Canadian Milne Island to China, and two vessels carrying iron ore from Murmansk.
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Aaarrr, The seafaring man's world has gone to H E DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS since dem modern ship builders stopped applying Neptune's wooden angels at the bow!
Too many landlubbers been messing with our world of the sea 🌊 confusing them selves (only 2 sexes, knot 35) and the fishes that be.
See ❄ Ice, come about and chart the course to warmer waters... Keel hall the crazies, and the world will be set straight.
[BBC] A Maori tribe has told anti-vaccine protesters in New Zealand to stop the use of a famous haka "immediately".
The Ka Mate haka is hugely popular as it is performed by national rugby team the All Blacks before every match.
The Ngati Toa tribe, which has legal guardianship of the haka, issued a strong notice after protestors performed the war dance during demonstrations last week.
The notice comes as vaccination rates among the Maori people has been low.
Just 61% of Maori people are fully vaccinated and 77% have received their first dose. This is short of New Zealand's targeted rate of 90%.
"Ngati Toa condemns the use of the Ka Mate haka to push and promote anti-Covid-19 vaccination messages," said its chief executive officer Helmut Modlik in a statement.
"Many of our tupuna [ancestors] lost their lives in previous pandemics... we are absolutely clear that the COVID-19 vaccine is the best protection we have available to us, and we are committed to supporting our whānau [family] to get vaccinated as soon as possible."
I am a bit confused though - what is "Fully Vaccinated" now? 5 injections? Any rate, other than the complete destruction and repurposing of the definition of Vaccine, I find that difference between 77% and 61% interesting, as in how many people after, say the call for the second injection, have been like F'it, not playing along. I wonder how much that gap widens with each new call for a booster.
[Aljazeera] On Thursday, apartheid’s last leader, Frederik Willem de Klerk, died, sparking a national conversation among South Africans about his life and legacy.
Praise and support for De Klerk — who was South Africa’s president during its transition from white minority rule to democracy — has been muted in the country, not simply because of his association with apartheid, but because of his many shortcomings as a statesman.
In the words of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, "Mr De Klerk could have gone down in history as a truly great South African statesman, but he eroded his stature and became a small man, lacking magnanimity and generosity of spirit."
During his presidency (1989-1994) and his time as deputy-president to Nelson Mandela (1994-1996), De Klerk had an opportunity to shape the views of his white compatriots, elevate the voices of Black South Africans, and play a leading role in building a democratic South Africa. Instead, he repeatedly chose to equivocate and lie during his time in political power. Instead of reckoning with the past, De Klerk and the white politicians he led, tried to dodge it. As a result, De Klerk became a historical footnote.
Although he released Mandela and other political prisoners and unbanned the liberation movements and their affiliates in 1990, De Klerk was a reluctant reformer. After he lost the election to Mandela in 1994, he became a deputy-president in his government of national unity. Although he held a senior position in the government led by Mandela, De Klerk was unable to admit to his role in apartheid-era violence against Black South Africans
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu think long and hard of where
South Africa would have been, had Frederik Willem de Klerk NOT taken actions to transition from white minority rule to democracy ?
Frankly, my religiously caustic friend, look in the mirror, you are the small man, lacking magnanimity and generosity of spirit.
[MAIL] A task force of up to 600 UK troops is on standby to deploy in Ukraine amid fears that Russian troops massing near the border are planning an invasion.
Units from the SAS and Parachute Regiment are preparing for an urgent deployment after defence chiefs and the head of MI6 advised Downing Street that Russian troop movement represents a clear and present danger to Ukraine and the West.
'The high readiness element of the brigade was told it may need to deploy at very short notice,' a source told the Mirror.
'Between 400 and 600 troops are ready. Their equipment is packed and they are ready to fly to Ukraine and either land or parachute in. They have trained for both eventualities.'
#4
Real invaders? Broke ass muslims looking to get sanctuary and welfare or 30,000 Russian "Little Green Men" with tanks, artillery, aircraft and surveillance?
Bold reshuffling of national goals!
In a noble reversal of roles,
Cried the King, "Where were you
Back in '72?"
Let's help Washington succor the Poles!"
#6
So those Russkies are invading Blighty? Really?
What exactly is our vital national interest in Ukraine?
It's a shithole run by thugs who make the Russian oligarchs look like choirboys. It's entirely, 100%, in Russia's sphere of interest - in fact, if any foreign nation's interests are involved, it's the interests of that Black Sea neighbor and NATO member that's actually done more to hurt our national interest than Russia ever has in the last three decades. That would be our "ally" Turkey.
This is so FUBAR'd on so many levels it's comical.
And the virtue signaling idiots are precisely those assholes, Biden and Johnson, who've done more to undermine US and UK sovereignty than any foreign power, thanks to their utterly retarded (actually treasonous) failure to prevent mass immigration from the global South.
#7
Of course, the British elite dearly love all the Russian thieves' flight capital.
Billions stolen from the Russian people and laundered through Kensington and Knightsbridge real estate, High Street spending binges for their wives and mistresses, fat money management fees for City of London private bankers, donations to Oxbridge and public (i.e. tony private) schools...
And whom do these retarded sanctions hurt? Not the oligarchs. Not Putin. No, we've absolutely hammered over a hundred million ordinary Russians. Who used to respect and admire us and who now, thanks to this retarded policy that only hurts ordinary people, have turned decisively away from the West, supporting Putin.
#8
What exactly is our vital national interest in Ukraine?
1. To Protect Hunter Biden's access to Noogie
2. To Protect Our Supply of Vital Ukrainian Nesting Dolls
#9
Jerusalem! Somewhere it's written,
Though the Lion's today but a kitten,
That each desolate spot
Where a Tommy once fought
Was and is and shall ever be Britain.
#11
What exactly is our vital national interest in Ukraine?
Russia cannot rebuild their aggressive empire w/o the population, industry and agriculture of Ukraine. The Ukrainians don't want to be a part of it, nor have half their population wiped out like in the last century. It's in the US interest to prevent it and have a friendly and prosperous Ukraine.
It's a shithole run by thugs who make the Russian oligarchs look like choirboys.
Peak corruption was reached under Yanukovich who was Putin's butt boy and became president with very corrupt elections in the east orchestrated by Russian FSB. That is what the corrupt Bidens were dealing with, Yanukovich's and Putin's underlings. Ukrainians have been trying to clean up their corruption, in fits and starts, ever since Yanukovich got overthrown while the Russians have encouraged corruption, started a war (100,000 dead relative to US population) and have so far scared off western rapprochement with Ukrainians.
And whom do these retarded sanctions hurt? Not the oligarchs. Not Putin.
Denial of oil and gas sales hurt the Russian treasury directly, strangling Putin's war ambitions. Russia (and Iran) had to cut back their wars in Ukraine and Mideast due to the lack of money. Dumbass Traitor Biden admin recently approved a huge gas pipeline directly into Germany and anti-Us oil and gas policies have more than doubled the price of oil and gas prices. Well, Russia and Iran back, baby! That's a lot of dollars for Putin to use reassemble the empire and subvert the US and Europe
#13
"Rebuild their empire"? Nonsense. Point to someone, anyone of any consequence in Russia now or in the last 20 years who's even talking about such a ridiculous thing, let alone sketching plans for it. They can barely govern the territories they have.
"The Ukrainians don't want to be a part of it" - which Ukrainians? The Russian speakers in the east absolutely do want to be part of Russia. They know that Ukraine is a shithole. It has all of the oligarchic bandit aspects of Russia, multiplied tenfold. Split Ukraine and de-militarize it.
nor have half their population wiped out like in the last century. Stop being so ridiculous. If there's a Russian variant on Godwin's Law, you've just lost the debate. You probably agree with Brandon and his fellow shitheads that the 6-Jan trespassing is worse than 9/11
"It's in the US interest to prevent it and have a friendly and prosperous Ukraine."
Even if your ridiculous fantasies had any grounding in reality, there will not be a "friendly and prosperous Ukraine" in our lifetimes, any more than Iraq will be friendly and prosperous. It's a completely dysfunctional bastard society whose "friendship and prosperity" extends only to the Biden Crime Family and selected other grifters.
Give it up. Go try to resurrect Iraq - your odds are better there
Putin has made offers to absorb Belarus multiple times. Even the crazy Lukashenko can see what that means.
Invaded and annexed Crimea. Would like to annex eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian volunteers stopped the Russian invasion before Kharkov and Mariupol.
Invaded parts of Georgia and annexed it.
Threatening Baltics.
At least Putin is smart enough to see what invading the muslim stans would mean to the Russian population and has avoided it so far.
"The Ukrainians don't want to be a part of it" - which Ukrainians?
The majority. You know, like a democracy, unlike Russia.
nor have half their population wiped out like in the last century. Stop being so ridiculous
Ukrainan losses last century
WWI and Russian civil war: 1.5 million, 5% of pop
Holodomor: 4-6 million deaths. 15-20% of pop
Gulag deportee deaths: >.5 million 2% of pop
WWII and German occupation: 7 million, 17% of pop
Post WWII insurrection: 150,000
That comes to 40-45% of population killed last century. That does not include the hundreds of thousands murdered in Checka, NKVD and KBG prisons.
What's you hardon for imperial/commie Russia and Putin? You seem to have a personal stake in whitewashing them. They spread misery over much of the globe and caused more deaths than the Nazis. Even worse, most of the deaths were of their own population.
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BTW, I didn't include casualty figures from the communist engineered famines of the 1920's or the Russo-Finnish war primarily fought by Ukrainian draftees. I'm sure I left out a lot of bad stuff due to ignorance or brevity's sake.
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[REGNUM] In the Kemerovo region tomorrow, November 15, ice phenomena, wet snow deposition, ice cover are expected in some areas, visibility with precipitation from time to time is 1-2 km. This was reported by the regional hydrometeorological center.
"Partly cloudy, light, in some places moderate precipitation in the form of snow, sleet and rain, in some places ice phenomena, sleet deposition. Ice on the roads. Southwest wind, 4-9 m / s, in places gusts up to 17 m / s. The temperature at night is −2 to −7 C, in the daytime −2 to + 3 C," the forecasters say.
In Kemerovo, partly cloudy weather is predicted, light precipitation in the form of snow, sleet and rain, ice on the roads, southwestern wind 4-9 m/s, temperature at night -2 to -4 ° C, daytime 0 to -2 ° C.
[REGNUM] In Novosibirsk, on November 15, sleet is expected at night. This is the forecast of the West Siberian Hydrometeorological Center.
"Snow, western wind 4-9 m/s, gusts up to 14 m/s in places, air temperature -3 to -5 C, ice on the roads in places," the forecasters specified.
In the Novosibirsk region tomorrow, November 15, it will be cloudy, light, moderate snow in places, sleet in the daytime, ice in places on the roads, northwestern wind 4-9 m/s, gusts in places at night up to 16 m/s, in the daytime up to 14 m/s. The temperature at night is −2 to −7 C, in the north up to - 12 C, in the daytime 0 to - 5 C, in some places up to -10 C.
The refrigerator freezer temperature should be 0° F (-18° C), again according to the FDA. Typically, this temp should prevent freezer burn and keep ice from developing on surfaces.
If you're going by the book, there really is no average refrigerator temperature, but you may need to drop the temperature down to somewhere between 35° F to 37 depending on where you live and any environmental or altitude factors.
#PLA commander admits: #CCP lied about its #hypersonic#nuclearmissile test, "nuclear warheads are hanging over the heads of #Americans at all times, we can drop them from the space at any time, this is a subversive overtaking, we are ahead..." Watch! https://t.co/w8eKbkbstA
#1
Whoopee enjoy the CCP theater of Fear distract deceive demoralize dont worry Hey boomer kids remember hiding under the desks, now you cant even show your face .
ANY ICBM can reach low earth orbit....and hit anywhere on earth, if that was the intent. But they only need to go from here to "the farthest you can get away" which is exactly opposite on the globe, or about 12,000 miles.
So, with a low earth orbit nuke you can launch around the world and hit yourself....yep, that's pretty scary stuff.
Since the places we need to nuke are not 12,000 miles away, more like about 5,000 miles on the great circle routes over the pole, to Moscow from the US midwest. And to Beijing...around 6,500 miles.
And launched from a sub....WAY shorter.
Kind of a pointless stunt, actually.
What If the CCP space station orbiting at 110+/- miles deploys, along with some miss leading space trash for cover, 3 four drawer file cabinet size 1/2 megaton or nukes in Low Orbit?
UNLIKE the Space Shuttle, Time on Target area is reached in a few mins.
Popping these (HEMP) at say 25+ to 50 miles up:
Kills about 1.5 Million of the US population in under 5 mins. and wrecks havoc on the US/Canadian Power Grid, electronics and transportation system.
But remember a number of other hostile countries are playing with low orbit missiles for many years (NK, Russia, Iran and etc)
A simple 2Duck Search" EMP threats" produces a few weeks reading.
#3
Well, they'll never collect the money we owe them that way.
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Never saw the logic of the scary Communist China using EMP warheads threat...
They pop one off, it's a nuke right?, and then one or two Tridents could carpet the coastal metropolises of China shortly thereafter. Mutual Assured Destruction, 'Yellow Peril Edition'. They just don't have the throw weight (we believe) that the Soviets had back in the day. IIRC the projected use of a EMP was a sub launched fractional orbit toss to scramble our defenses before the wave of ICBMs came over the North Pole in a full blown 'extermination' nuclear strike...
Now... Iran or North Korea? Terror attack of a few missiles by crazy people is why we have been investing in ABM defenses.
#7
So. Russia tested an ASW on one of their own satellites. All the media in the west seems concerned about is that the debris may be dangerous to the International Space Station. Hey, aren't the Russians, um, partners in the ISS?
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Takes 90 minutes to orbit in LEO and you have a known trajectory that can be targeted by lasers or anti-sattelite missiles. There are much better/cheaper ways to deliver the package.
#9
There's a reason almost nothing is publicly known about what the X-37B flights have been about. Testing "various technologies" is all that the press releases say.
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#1
Yep, trade drops to zero. Those container ships will sit in Shanghai not Long Beach. All those energy imports will start to collapse. Makes sense. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Bianchi holsters and accessory products are recognized by shooting enthusiasts, law enforcement and other professionals the world over. The Bianchi hallmarks of handcrafted workmanship, innovative, yet functional design and quality are just as strong today as they were in 1958, when John Bianchi built his first leather holster in his garage. Bianchi holsters and gun accessories are known for their time-proven designs, quality and longevity.
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
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] Dramatic video shows the moment an off-duty police officer put the bite on would-be armed 
[TVline] Who’s up for a spot of tennis with the Crawleys? Focus Features on Wednesday released an official first look at Downton Abbey: A New Era, the highly anticipated follow-up to the series’ 2019 big-screen debut — and it’s just as elegant as you’re imagining.
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