Since Minnesota has been much in the news lately: I was rereading Allen Guelzo's great account of Gettysburg, and was reminded of these guys. 85% casualties on a suicide mission they knew was a suicide mission. An exaggeration to say that they saved the Union, but not by a whole lot. Then again, I'm sure that if one of our soy boys looked hard enough he could find an example of Private Swenson using a bad word before fixing his bayonet.
[Gettysburg.StoneSentinals] The 1st Minnesota Infantry performed one of the most critical actions of the battle during Longstreet’s Assault of July 2nd. Sickles’ Corps was falling back in disarray. Longstreet’s men were advancing to penetrate the center of the Union line, which had been dangerously thinned to prop up other sectors. General Hancock rode up to the 1st Minnesota, the only organized Union troops at hand, pointed at the advancing Confederates, and ordered them to "Take those colors!" Their sacrificial charge against overwhelming odds halted the Confederate advance. It bought desperately needed time for the center of the Union line to reform. the result was that Lee was forced into one last desperate gamble the next day with Pickett’s Charge.
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[YNet] - After more than a year of thinly-veiled threats to start pulling U.S. troops out of Germany unless Berlin increases its defense spending, President Donald Trump appears to be proceeding with a hardball approach, planning to cut the U.S. military contingent by more than 25%.
“Nothing personal, guys. I made you an offer. You refused.”
About 34,500 American troops are stationed in Germany - 50,000 including civilian Department of Defense employees - the plan Trump reportedly signed off on last week envisions reducing active-duty personnel to 25,000 by September, with further cuts possible.
But as details of the still-unannounced plan trickle out, there's growing concerns it will do more to harm the U.S.'s own global military readiness and the NATO alliance than punish Germany.
The decision was not discussed with Germany, nor with any other NATO members - additionally, Congress was not officially informed - prompting a letter from 22 Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee urging a rethink.
"The threats posed by Russia have not lessened, and we believe that signs of a weakened U.S. commitment to NATO will encourage further Russian aggression and opportunism," Rep. Mac Thornberry of Texas wrote in a letter to Trump with his colleagues. Sen. Jack Reed.
...The suggestion that removing troops will punish Germany, however, overlooks the fact that American troops are no longer primarily there for the country's defense, said retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, who commanded U.S. Army Europe from 2014 until 2017. To me it seems that the congressman and the general contradict each other.
...Trump indicated last summer that he was thinking of moving some troops from Germany to Poland, telling Poland's President Andrzej Duda during an Oval Office meeting: "Germany is not living up to what they're supposed to be doing with respect to NATO, and Poland is."
Duda has been trying to woo more American forces, even suggesting Poland would contribute over $2 billion to create a permanent U.S. base, which he said could be named "Fort Trump." In the current plan, at least some Germany-based troops are expected to be shifted to Poland. Well, at least, the congressman can calm down now. As for the general, betcha the troops will find living in Poland much cheaper - especially the services of the, ahem, seamstresses.
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Poland's President Andrzej Duda during an Oval Office meeting: "Germany is not living up to what they're supposed to be doing with respect to NATO, and Poland is."
So, let Poland annex Germany (they already took Silesia). Then our troops will be in Poland, not Germany. No relocation costs. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[American Greatness] - When its name is mentioned on the small screen or featured by the established media, the Black Lives Matter movement is treated as a populist uprising of black youth and their allies against the merciless boot of police repression. But there are organizations, many of them in fact, that are collecting money on behalf of BLM and then distributing those dollars in ways that would surprise the average Instagram warrior urging friends to give.
Of course, many of these donors are none too concerned about how that money is spent given that their motivation for chipping in is the expiation of their guilt for not being oppressed enough. And now that the spigots of guilt are flowing freely, there are numerous BLM copycat groups that have opened GoFundMe accounts and no one knows where that money is going. So if the reader is planning to donate to this slush fund for fake outrage, make sure it isn’t going to a guy in Vancouver raising cash for more Playstation games and Gatorade.
Shaun King, the Carrot Top of the civil rights movement, has been so defensive of what he does with fundraisers for the families of blacks killed by police like Tamir Rice that he has threatened legal action against (actual) black activists who criticize him. But there have been rumblings periodically from supporters of the BLM movement about what they see as the opaque and secretive nature of BLM the actual organization. Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters recently published the news that BLM’s #DefundThePolice initiative organizes its donations through ActBlue, the national fundraising arm of Democratic campaigns including the presumptive presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden. It may not be presentable to say in public, but honest observers cannot help but remark that this "civil rights movement" seems to be just as much about greenbacks as it is about black lives.
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[American Greatness] A mere day on, and the City of Seattle was de facto occupied territory, fallen to the "peaceful protesters"—the same counterculture media darlings who’ve been sacking cities across America.
The rabble—Black Lives Matter sympathizers, which, as police arrest records show are almost entirely locals—were further roused by Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, formerly of Mumbai.
The pied piper Sawant led the "peace makers" to occupy City Hall in downtown Seattle, on Tuesday, June 10.
The altercation between Council Member Sawant and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan gives new meaning to the "broad" sweep of ideas in this dysfunctional city. Sawant, a socialist, called on Mayor Durkan, a progressive, to resign over abuse of power (what power?) and systemic racism (a meaningless abstraction). This, as the city was being sacked.
SURRENDER MONKEYS
As of this writing, the Seattle Police have surrendered without defeat.
Seven blocks of downtown Seattle, renamed the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ), have been appropriated by the "Peaceful Ones," with the imprimatur of the mayor and her police chief. Now loosed on the public, these buccaneering entrepreneurs are reported to have set up checkpoints to shake down residents who imagine they may come and go. Not in this satrapy!
On the positive side, Seattle now has that shithole-country vibrancy.
President of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, SPOG, penned an open letter to lunatic Mayor Durkan, pondering how he would fulfill his sworn oath of office to protect lives and property without so much as tear gas.
He got his answer. America got it, too. Across the United States, the message to law-abiding Americans from city, town, and county council members as well as other legislators came loud and clear: You’re on your own. Neither police nor politicians are coming to protect what’s left of your businesses or your banal, bourgeoisie little life.
Last I looked, there were 400,000 "guardian angels" in private security toiling to make up for the South African state’s failure to protect its people. Every year, millions in taxpayers’ money are forked out to private security firms in order to protect the new South Africa’s police stations. South Africa’s protectors, in other words, can’t protect themselves. Will Seattle’s neutered policemen be investigating this option? Is it time for them to cut the shafted taxpayers loose? Let us go private?
When all is said and done, the George Floyd riots are a law and order event. Nothing else matters in the overarching context of a failed state, in which ordered liberty is dead, and the law-abiding are utterly forsaken, even vilified.
Yes, victims are now villains and villains are martyrs.
Unbeknownst to Nikolas Fernandez, a gainfully employed security guard, the Capitol Hill district of Seattle now belongs to the "peaceful protesters." Fernandez dared to drive in that district, only to be mobbed by the barbarians and in the struggle forced to shoot an attacker. Legacy media quickly turned the narrative on its head. Fernandez, whose brother is a policeman, had invaded "peaceful protester" turf. His attacker took a bullet for peace. The attacker is now a hero.
KNEELING NINNIES
Next came the national kneeling. Once again, Washington state led the way. On June 1, after hundreds of looters ransacked major shopping malls in Bellevue, including the spectacular Bellevue Square, that city’s police chief, Steve Mylett, knelt down like a girl, instead of standing tall like a man for law and order.
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FIFY. Some day when academia is burned and rebuilt someone may have the guts to write a thesis on the consequences of importing votes for power with 'free stuff' was unsustainable. The more you subsidize the more you get.
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Some perspective; the author is an American and daughter of a rabbi. They now live in Texas (if he is still living). They were formerly residents of South Africa.
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Not spending money in blue cities is actually much easier than not spending money on all the polluted online streaming media garbage. And the latter really isn't all that hard.
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Steve Mylett, knelt down like a girl,
That offends girls everywhere. A girl these days would have kicked the shins of anybody telling her to kneel.
Who wrote that thing about 'we take the spines out of men and expect them to walk upright', or something like it ? Clever guy.
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Decided prior to the riots (when it became OK for bums to freely camp anywhere) to aviod spending any time or money in Seattle. Only have to pass through to get to airport or visit kids/grandkids. No more Mariners games or weekends doing 'big city grown up stuff.'
[Arutz 7] - Municipal spokesperson says Muslim cemetery at site of planned expansion of homeless shelter was relocated over a century ago. You have CHAZ, but we have Muslims!
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They are supposedly going to get compensatory time off instead of overtime pay.
This is unusual but not unprecedented. It happens a lot in the military manufacturing biz. Some people like this since time off is not taxed but overtime is.
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...yes, but they say that up front, not after the work has been done.
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[Daily Mail] - They are the go-to outfit for many women when they want to feel sexy and self-confident.
But could that favourite little black dress also be damaging to female brain function?
Research has revealed that women perform much worse on tests which measure reaction times and decision-making when they wear something tight and revealing, rather than something loose and comfortable. Ah, that's why we're able to score!
Researchers from the University of Toronto found women were slower to respond to challenges and made poorer decisions.
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I dunno. I've met some really intelligent strippers...
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And how were the men’s scores who sat next to the revealing outfit test takers?
I got busted sophomore year 'cheating' on a test. I told him I wasn't looking at Kathy's test, I was looking at her boobs. He gives me one of these looks that says 'yeah, right'. I didn't miss a beat - 'low-cut blouse, almost a C cup - come on, man.' He says ' GTFO here'...
I think if you take a bunch of college student volunteers with average bodies, and dress them up in sexy apparel for your test - this would be the result. The brain would be challenged by the social inadequacy being negotiated, and they wont be able to focus on stuff.
Intelligence is one thing, but the general confidence to apply it in a challenging moment comes from prolonged exposure and eventual proficiency in carrying your self.
Have the volunteers work out, get in shape, really fit them in those dresses and then ask them the questions. I'll wager they'll surpass their earlier best scores.
No matter what your stupid study concludes, even as statistic bound shrinks you'll have finally done someone some good.
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If the results reflect reality, the reason could be as simple as sexy clothes may be less comfortable than loose ones, and the underlying cause for lack of focus is physical discomfort.
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^We know men think with their head, or their other head. No reason to think it's not the same for females, and - dressing sexy - may throw the switch.
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And how were the men’s scores who sat next to the revealing outfit test takers?
Back in the day, one of Mr, Wife’s chemical engineering profs graded on a curve. The first time they had an exam his study partner, who enjoys a decidedly feminine figure, sat down next to him and unbuttoned a few extra buttons to help reshape the results more in her favour. (Engineers — every action has logic behind it.) As the tests were being handed out, my darling lad leaned over and buttoned her up to her chin.
Whether this actually improved the results of the rest of the class, I have no idea.
[PJMedia] The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), the antifa/anarchist movement that illegally seized control of six city blocks in Seattle, Wash., appears to have changed its name after less than a week. Some CHAZzies have already started removing CHAZ signs and replacing them with signs reading the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.”
Some have said they are “not seceding from the United States,” despite clear signs of an attempt at secession. They are now insisting that the original CHAZ signs were placed by “detractors.” Color me skeptical. While Mayor Jenny Durkan and Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) appear utterly feckless and unwilling to act, perhaps President Donald Trump’s warnings that he will restore order have driven the fear of God into these lawless rebels.
“There is a growing consensus to rename the area from the ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ to the ‘Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.’ An occupier is trying to remove one of the CHAZ street signs,” Townhall’s Julio Rosas tweeted.
There is a growing consensus to rename the area from the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” to the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.” An occupier is trying to remove one of the CHAZ street signs. pic.twitter.com/xgv7oiFsOF
It seems no one is quite sure who exactly is in charge of CHAZ. In a scuffle Friday night involving whether or not to remove the signs reading “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” one woman asked, “Is anyone in charge here?” A man appears to have responded with something like, “This ain’t a damn democracy here!”
A Twitter account claiming to represent the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest gave a rationale for the change from CHAZ to CHOP. “Black Leadership has requested to stop calling it CHAZ as ‘Autonomous’ has specific implications and it is reported that Durkan and the media labeled it as such…Capitol Hill Occupied Protest = #CHOP.”
“That name CHAZ, we didn’t actually come up with. We’re not sure if it was detractors or people who tried to push a false narrative, but they definitely came in with that name, came in with signs, and they had nothing to do with that movement so far,” one black man in the movement said. “The conditions of us making a clear statement that we are CHOP is in order to push the narrative that this is not an autonomous zone. We are not trying to secede from the United States.”
Whatever name CHAZ settles on, its signs reading “You are now leaving the U.S.A.” could not be clearer in stating that the instigators were launching a rebellion. Local residents are insisting that their rights have been violated. Rebels appear to have engaged in a form of taxation without representation, using a shakedown racket to force local businesses to provide supplies. The rapper Raz Simone has reportedly installed himself as warlord because as one rebel of CHAZ put it, “he has all the guns.” Simone is reportedly attempting to enforce borders and prevent people from entering CHAZ without identification, although Simone himself disputes the “warlord” designation.
These are not the actions of a protest — they are the actions of a rogue state.
CHAZ is, to some degree, a rebellion aspiring to be a protest. The rebels seem more intent on changing American society than they are on setting up an autonomous state that will exist in perpetuity, but by declaring themselves outside the purview of the United States they are legally rebels.
In fact, Townhall’s Julio Rosas reported that a packet circulating in CHAZ presented suggestions about the way forward: “Permanently taking over the East Precinct, move the zone to another location, or to dissolve the zone completely.”
CHAZ can’t even decide whether or not it should exist.
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If you don't know who you are you don't know what you is...
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Perhaps one could infiltrate the CHAZzers - because infiltrating the CHOPpers would be tricky - and start a fight. Have them argue while you put both groups in jail for sedition and insurrection. Come down hardest on CHAZzers. Maybe have them bumped off ? High hopes, Dron...
Then declare it a CHUD - Capitol Hill Unoccupied District
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^Maybe you should consider a career in Bollywood.
Hey, if you do, can you introduce me to Aishwarya Rai? Nothing improper - I just want to worship at her feet.
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☺ Aah. Yes, very beautiful. And way smarter than most actresses, Grom. Smart enough to settle down with a most decent young fellow at least.
Terrible time the poor kid went through before she got married. Pakistani dons and what not. My friend, who retired from the IB in 2009, had something to with bailing her out of it. He even wrote a book. She asked to leave her name out of it.
Here's a laugh riot, which you'll dig. I shook her hand once. All these actresses had come out to tie raakhis on our hands just after the Kargil War. It's a colored string sisters tie on a brother's wrist.
Some men were actually upset they were going to have to play brothers to Ash and Preity and Mahima and what have you. I remember the actual letter to Northern Command brass. It went something like this.
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The men of XV CORPS are indeed happy to welcome the performers and celebrities for the occasion of Rakshabandhan. This cantonement humbly requests you to reconsider the rakhi tying ceremony though, as it may not be good for the morale of the troops. Operational contingencies enable us to only allow for a brief exchange, and we wish each soldier can interact with the VIPs without taking away from...
Something like that. In fact I helped write the bloody thing. I remember the grunts eventually standing in line, putting their hands out obediently, trying to smile, and swearing to protect their new sisters. Sob.
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CHAZ/CHOP - only a week and already they've got splitters. Personally, I like CHAZ. It has a nice lacrosse-playing white-boy fraternity sound to it.
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Did they ask Chaz Bono about using her/his name?
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I remember the grunts eventually standing in line, putting their hands out obediently, trying to smile, and swearing to protect their new sisters. Sob.
What a sweet story, Dron. Surely some of the men thought to give their actress a sisterly teddy bear or something to remember him by. Or a challenge coin... Mr. Wife still has the one given to him years ago at the end of a training seminar by one of his fellow students, at the time the officer in charge of Lebanon for (reading from the thing) SOCCENT, US Central Command. It sits on the dresser alongside watches, cufflinks, and the rest of the masculine paraphernalia.
[ABC6] One of the suspects involved in vandalism at the Christopher Columbus statue in Elmwood Avenue is a teacher at Pawtucket Public Schools who is now out on leave pending an investigation, according to the superintendent. Derrick Garforth, 34, was charged with desecration of grave/monument, which is a felony.
Around 1:30 a.m., on Saturday morning detectives noticed a man and woman getting out of a car and running across Elmwood Avenue towards Columbus square. The two began to splatter paint on the boarded up monument, according to police.
Both then fled across Elmwood Avenue towards Lexington Avenue.
Detectives saw both suspects enter the rear lot of the Feinstein School heading towards Ontario St. Detectives quickly drove to Ontario Street and were able to catch up to both suspects as they exited the lot.
Derrick Garforth, 34, and Charlotte Whittingham, 28, were both arrested. Police said Mackenzie Innis, 26, who was driving the car the suspects were in, was arrested also.
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23rd Century Abbott: "Only about 2% of the information here is "dangerous." Several hundred thousand Brothers blood has been spilled keeping it archived...
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Ref #3: That would end most of the BS, if done swiftly, and televised.
[KOMONews] As protesters continue to gather outside of the East Precinct in what’s now being called the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone," there’s concern among some who have visited that the message behind Black Lives Matter has been hijacked.
The African American Community Advisory Council, which works with Seattle Police to facilitate discussion with officers and those they serve, came out to "CHAZ" Thursday evening in support of Chief Carmen Best. Multiple women spoke from the group, saying African Americans helped to build the precinct.
"Black lives do matter but there are also black lives that are police lives," one of the woman said at the intersection of 12th and E Pine. "They feel the same way that you do."
Throughout their attempts to convey their opinion to the crowd, they were met with boos and others grabbing microphones, talking over them.
"You guys need to sit down and have a conversation with the Seattle Police Department. They want to talk to you."
Those women also stated that protest’s core belief has been lost.
"The thing is, you have hijacked this! You have taken the meaning away!"
Tempers flared for a few minutes before things came to an end.
"Not everybody is going to have the same opinion!"
KOMO News spoke with the AACAC Chair, Victoria Beach, afterwards.
"We support our chief of police," said Beach. "We feel she’s been thrown under the bus. It was a cowardly move for the mayor to open up that street to all of the mayhem."
Beach compared what she’s seen at "CHAZ" to that of a festival, name dropping Burning Man, rather than a movement aimed for police reform.
"We’re going to keep our voices loud and clear. We’re going to be heard," said Beach. "How are we going to be heard if that’s happening? How are we going to come to the table and talk?"
Not long after they spoke, a rolling garage door at the East Precinct rolled up and nearly two dozen officers on bikes pedaled out. They were met by chants and expletives from protesters. The remaining officers inside eventually closed the door and protesters then went to the corner of 12th and E Pike to setup an enhanced barricade to keep them out.
For much of the night, the entirety of the gathering remained peaceful.
KOMO News reached out to Seattle Police to see why those officers were at the precinct but we have not heard back.
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Message hijacked or maybe you were just pawns to begin with. Don't feel bad. You're not the first bunch to be cannon fodder for someone's power grab.
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Initially, this was about George Floyd and Officer Derek Chauvin. Quickly after, that incident got hijacked by just about every left-wing group and quickly evolved into murder, rioting, destruction, arson and looting.
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Quickly after, that incident got hijacked by just about every left-wing group and quickly evolved into murder, rioting, destruction, arson and looting.
It's obvious the DNC dreads having a real live convention, exposing Joe's predilections and cognitive declines. The televised chaos from Chicago '68 Milwaukee '20 would be devastating. Backlash wasn't a phrase exclusively from slavery, dontcha know
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Wait.. the Seattle PD has a way to sneak into the East Precinct without anyone knowing about it?
[WashingtonExaminer] A Chinese military officer is accused of trying to leave the United States with a cache of scientific research conducted at a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, university.
Xin Wang, a high-ranking member of the People’s Liberation Army, was arrested Monday and charged with making false claims on his visa application.
Wang arrived in the U.S. in March 2019 for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
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Wang was instructed by his supervisor in China, the director of the Fourth Military Medical University lab, to observe and document the layout of the lab at UCSF in order to replicate the lab when he returned to China,"
That's a curious bit. I can see how the specific equipment might be interesting, but why the layout of lab?
So that when the real killer virus is released, there can be video of the 'American lab" where it was produced. You can be sure media in the so-called free world would fall for it 100%.
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[BREITBART] Police have been unable to respond to “rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts” occurring in Seattle’s East Precinct, which authorities abandoned on Monday, leaving the area in the hands of activists who set up their own police-free “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ), Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said Thursday. Call a social worker.
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Boy I bet they are really glad they voted for the Seattle Mayor now!
[UPI] Beijing shut down its biggest fruit and vegetable market Saturday amid a new cluster of COVID-19 cases and declared "wartime emergency mode" in one district.More than 50 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the new cluster, including more than 40 who showed no symptoms. The asymptomatic patients have been quarantined.
The Beijing Health Commission reported four more patients with symptoms, bringing total symptomatic cases to seven. Two other symptomatic cases were announced Friday and one was announced Thursday.
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Iran’s oil revenues fell from $100 billion to $8 billion last year, says First VP Jahangiri, accusing the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel of plotting against Tehran. https://t.co/HcO8rGY4Zv
Rural or suburban friends who want giga-bit data service - some estimate at $80/month (who knows?) , can sign up for notification when StarLink service is available in their zip code.
Eventually it should work to RVs, Boats, private airplanes and other like platforms. WiFi in the middle of a national park or on the high seas or in the air would be very nice.
They already have tested to near GB speeds into the cockpits of USAF planes...
Saturday morning they launched another 58 sats so soon they will be close to 1500 sats that would give some service everywhere on the planet. Now its close to 500 sats in orbit and a few less yet to go into service.
I would expect you not to get notified until they have 750 - 850 sats in service.
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I am happy to see this work, but $80 / month (or more)? I go to some remote places for outdoor recreation and internet is the last thing I think about when I pack for those trips. I'm reading that the terminal ain't gonna be cheap and initially it will not be something you pack into the wild with you. I hope they can make it cheaper and portable but that won't be happening very soon.
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AW the good ole days when my wife had battery powered curling iron,battery powered vaccum cleaner a battery powered knife for carving turkey in our 11 foot cab over camper stuck in the sand in San Felipe Baja.
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You didn't watch TV or read a paper for days. You had a great time. Am I right?
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M. Murcek,
Think outside the box.
1) Farmer in his combine cutting corn and trading that crop on the board of trade at the same time.
2) Boater on a yacht in the middle of the Pacific able to access detailed weather, medical info even remotely work from the yacht while enjoying cruising.
3) Protester in Hong Kong able to access the internet outside of China's great data wall.
4) Skyping/Zoom to your relatives/buddies/associates from anywhere on the planet. Or if you have an I'Phone - facetime from the middle of the ocean or a park as the bear eats your family..
5) $80 for GB speed even at home is great. Much cheaper than Comcast or AT&T. My guess long term AT&T and Comcast shrink to city cores. Now think about the politics of this... AT&T owns CNN... Comcast owns NBC, MS-NBC, CNBC .... looks positive to me!
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Oh, and Musk, who owns StarLink, considers most of the press firms idiots... Don't expect him to buy CNN, or MS-anything or a newspaper like the Washington Toast... Those will just nose dive further without Sugar Daddies
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Yeah, it will probably eat cable internet, but 5G is gonna do that anyway. 5G is the real competition and has the advantage of not losing service because there is bad weather overhead as well not needing ground stations (>$1500 production cost as of now).
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Echoing Knuckles Javimble6283’s question about major storms — will the satellites be able to punch through weather that so regularly shut down service to DirecTV that we gave it up for whatever we have now.
but 5G is gonna do that anyway.
I was under the impression that we are so close to whatever comes after 5G that we’re going to simply skip over it. Am I wrong?
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Starlink operates in the Ku (12-18GHz) and Ka (27-40Ghz) bands. Ku is what you see w/ DirectTV. Both bands are affected by resonance with water molecules (like your microwave oven). W/o looking at the data, my guess is Ka band is more effected, increases with frequency and requires higher power to punch through clouds.
6G won't arrive for at another 10 years or more and will use Terahertz (>100Ghz) radio waves. Antennas will have to ridiculously close together (atmospheric absorption) and probably not viable for satellite broadcast until you go over 200GHz.
There might be a (call it) 5.5G. Instead of using the Ku band, it could use the Ka band. The gives 2-3 times more bandwidth and with new encoding schemes bypass lots of the Chinese patents on 5G. Hypocritical that the greatest IP pirates of all time are so insistent on royalties on their patents.
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Per the FCC approval for the Starlink space stations, "SpaceX proposes to operate in the 10.7-12.7 GHz, 13.85-14.5 GHz, 17.8-18.6 GHz, 18.8-19.3 GHz, 27.5-29.1 GHz, and 29.5-30 GHz bands."
[FoxNews] Protests and destruction erupted in Atlanta on Saturday night in response to the police-involved shooting death of a 27-year-old man outside a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant.
Television images showed the restaurant on fire around 9:30 p.m. ET as rioters filled the parking lot where Brooks was shot in the back by police after allegedly grabbing a stun gun away from an officer during a struggle.
Smaller fires were also seen in the area.
Nearby, protesters were gathering along University Avenue, with Atlanta police blocking access ramps to Interstate 85, apparently to keep the protesters off the roadway, FOX 5 of Atlanta reported.
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Yeah, burn the restaurant down that had nothing to do with the shooting. That'll teach them. Idiots.
And if you watch the footage, the guy had been drinking, was passed out in his car, and the police were polite and even gentle with him at the start of the incident. Then the guy was resisting arrest with force, battery on a law officer, and evading arrest for a DUI, stole the taser from the police officer, and then shot the taser at the officer. He was no hero, no matter how much BLM wants to use him as such.
The City of Atlanta are going to lose the case - they fired the cop and he will win his lawsuit. Union will get him back. And any "murder" chage will not fly, not even manslaughter can be held. Guy has been drinking, resisted arrest, took a weapon from an officer, ran and fired it striking the officer and putting him out of the chase - so the pursuing office can assume the suspect is hostile, has shown willingness to engage the police with force, is suspected of a felony (DUI), and the officer believed that he was a threat and might have a weapon. Case closed, you'll never get a conviction if the guy has competent representation and gets a change of venue.
And why the hell burn the Wendys down? They had nothing to do with it, and now you've just destroyed a business and jobs in the neighborhood. Damned fools.
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And why the hell burn the Wendys down? ... Damned fools.
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Ref #4: Guy has been drinking, resisted arrest, took a weapon from an officer, ran and fired it striking the officer and putting him out of the chase....
Appears we've just located the new Police pistol range senior instructor.
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Burnt the Wendy's down?!? You gotta be kidding me. Oh, well, just another example of the lack of rational thought and intelligence on the part of the mob.
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Face it: if the dead guy had been using an AK-47, the results would have been the same - cop fired, police chief resigned,riots.
People are just looking for an excuse at this point.
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What is the dynamic behind the police chief resigning? Given that affirmative action hires are generally useless to mediocre at best, I can see the mayor may have "suggested" it. Or maybe she just decided to exist stage left to avoid the coming shit show. Not familiar with the internals of Atlanta politics.
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Shields was a good police chief, if she is smart it was to avoid the shit show to come. She also still holds a position in the police epartment .
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The "person" that set fire to the Wendy's was a white college student.
Yeah, the shooting was just an excuse.
Time to use an axehandle across the nose on these people. Two or three times.
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This sh*t has to stop! If it goes on much farther there will be bloodshed, and those of us who remember how revolutions were grown in the 50's see signs that this could escalate into real civil war, which is exactly what these Marxists want. The perfect storm of lockdown, a generation of college minds bent to socialism and ignorance, and blacks who are too ignorant to know the lies they have been led to believe as they see liberal programs that spend 22 trillion dollars end in abysml poverty, social wastelands, ruined families, hopeless young black men taught that racism explains their dismal futures, and a cowardly white middle class terrified and feeling powerless. This is not going to end well, but it needs to end now, by force, before it gets far more tragic and far more bloody. And above all, we must silence and prosecute the organizers and enthusiastic supports of this mess who see national chaos as a tool to limp SloJoe into the White House and power to return to the progressive, socialist agenda. Some are public officials, some are working this from their seats in China and Moscow.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Chris Green, 45, was hit in the head by a falling Confederate statue while protesting in Portsmouth, Virginia
Protesters were dismantling the Confederate monument on Wednesday when they pulled down one statue with a rope
The statue fell on Green, injuring his head, and he was rushed to a hospital
Wife Tonieh Brisbane-Green said her husband flatlined twice and was placed in a coma after the incident
He's currently hospitalized, but stable and responding to neurological tests
Protesters during demonstrations have defaced Confederate monuments, which many believe are a reminder of racism and slavery
An investigation into the incident was opened and authorities are deciding if they will file charges
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A casualty of two civil wars; quite an accomplishment.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A Saudi girl has reportedly been killed as bulldozers destroyed her family home in the southern region of Asir.
The child has been identified as Noura from the governorate of Harajah. She died on Wednesday as several bulldozers were ordered to raze buildings alleged to have been constructed without permits.
A report yesterday revealed that Noura was killed while she slept in her home. Images of the slain child and video footage of the demolition circulated on Twitter, with the hashtag "Critical assaults kill the girl Noura" in Arabic being used to highlight the crime.
The incident has led to outrage in the kingdom, with many activists criticising local officials and the urban planning committee, calling for those responsible to be held accountable.
Public Prosecutor Sheikh Saud Bin Abdullah al-Moajab has apparently ordered an investigation into circumstances surrounding the girl’s death.
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When something like this happens in Israel, the whole World protests.
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Christian? And aren't the Saud dog planning to bulldoze the mountain Moses received the 10 commandments on? The locals and many historians agree this could bee the Mount. Racist Christaphobics, just like the Dems.
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The Saudi site is only one of a number of proposed locations for the Biblical Mount Sinai, Woodrow. See the list here. But that the Saudis erased the one they have, even though they claim to revere Moses as one of their own, is absolutely typical of the Muslim need to erase history.
[The Aviationist] The Tu-95RT Bear-D variant performed a maritime surveillance and over-the-horizon targeting mission for other aircraft, surface ships and submarines. It was identifiable by a large bulge under the fuselage, which reportedly housed a radar antenna that was used to search for and detect surface ships. Decommissioned in the 1990s, they were based at Kipelovo (the base that currently hosts the Russian Naval Aviation Tu-142s). Starting from 1963-1964 as many as 53 Soviet Tu-95RTs performed the tasks of detecting carrier groups in the oceans, and the Soviet 392 ODRAP (separate long-range reconnaissance aviation regiment) was responsible for the Atlantic region. Aircraft were based other than Russia, in Cuba, in Guinea and Angola. Most of the known photos with Tu-95 intercepts are Tu-95RTs belonging to the 392th squadron.
Thanks to Dmitriy Ermolin and the FB page dedicated to Kipelovo airbase he administers, we are able to see the NATO interceptors dispatched to identify and escort the Soviet Bear-D aircraft during their long-range missions (the very same the Bear variants continue to fly nowadays) as seen from the cockpit of the Bears.
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[ConservativeTreehouse] Things are slowly devolving into violent confrontation in the nation of CHAZ Seattle. However, the violence is not with law enforcement; the violence is internal as Antifa factions within the occupy movement begin doing what they are famous for, being violent.
An openly christian man walks into the occupied zone within Seattle, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or CHAZ, to share the message of Jesus Christ. The Antifa elements immediately confronted the man, threw him to the ground and began choking him.
The Christian Preacher professed his own humanity and proclaimed he was a "free man", but the rulers within the CHAZ community would not accept his cries for freedom.
The Chazukstan mob surround the preacher, shouting at him, berating him, and eventually trying to beat him into submission. At one point they sat atop the preacher in the same choking position that killed George Floyd. No-one noticed the irony.
[UPI] President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... announced he rescheduled his first rally since March in Tulsa, Okla., after receiving criticism for originally setting the event on Juneteenth.
The original date -- June 19 -- marks a holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States. Between the timing and location, some critics saw the event as insensitive to African Americans, particularly as Black Lives Matter protests sweep the nation.
Tulsa is the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a bloody event that killed up to 300 African Americans in the Greenwood District, known as "Black Wall Street" for its more than 300 black-owned businesses.
Trump announced on Twitter late Friday night that the rally date would be moved.
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Between all the Muslim holy days and Black History Month Eternity, we may as well never get out of bed.
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They wet themselves regularly at ZH and Unz over Orange Man's Zionist ties.
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Good call.
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Yes, a good call. I'm sure Trump's people didn't know about "Juneteenth." Nor should they. I mean, a holiday about an executive order from a Republican President? How offensive.
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Bumping a rally to a Saturnday is better, especially when it gets it off the same day as big crowds that might otherwise create headlines if things got hostile - and you can bet your ass BLM would make sure thing did get hostile.
Mucus, you're an asshole and all you do is shitpost. Likely the staffer didn't know. Juneteenth used to be only a Texas thing
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Between Gromit and Mucus, S/N ration here is dropping fast.
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What? Juneteenth would never had happen if it wasn't for Republicans. You should celebrate it as a manifestation of the original Black Lives Matter movement. Own it! Take it from the Donks.
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Emancipation Proclamation was signed January 1, 1863. It was on June 19th, 1865 that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the slaves there were now free.
"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer."
Apparently it took 2-1/2 years before the news was first given to the former slaves that they were actually now free.
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GOPe has always seemed sort of embarrassed about what Lincoln did.
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BTW, we now know MT7566 is Glenn Reynolds.
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It's signal to noise ratio, dickwad. And day drinking implies it's daytime where you are...
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GOP definitely should be embarrassed about "America's First Dictator", Abe "Habeas Corpus" Lincoln.
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All right, you lot, cut out the flame war nonsense. Or one of our very able members will translate my thoughts into language that will make it exceedingly clear.
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Nahhhh... Ima bout ready for a new F-150, but Chevy's and Dodge's, and Toyota's?
I've mellowed
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Frank ~ Perhaps we could go in together on a package F-150 purchase. At 137,000 nearly trouble free miles, I am in need as well. I owe it to myself, and Ford Motor Co.
Juneteenth has been a big festival in Cincinnati for over thirty years, though this year they are celebrating virtually in view of coronavirus concerns — all the June and July festivals were cancelled a month or so ago, just in case.
[BBC] Premier League players' names will be replaced on the back of their shirts with 'Black Lives Matter' for the first 12 matches of the restarted season.
The Premier League will also support any player who chooses to 'take a knee' before or during matches.
Players in Germany have made gestures of solidarity with people protesting about the death of George Floyd.
"We, the players, stand together with the singular objective of eradicating racial prejudice," read a statement.
In a joint message from all 20 clubs, players added that they were committed to "a global society of inclusion, respect, and equal opportunities for all, regardless of their colour or creed".
A Black Lives Matter badge will feature on all playing shirts for the rest of the season alongside a badge thanking NHS staff for their work during the coronavirus outbreak....
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@ #6 - Pas de problème, TW. If I hadn't truncated the article as much as I did on my submission, it would have been more evident...wasn't sure how many football/soccer fans are here!
[NYPOST] A protester in the police-free district set up by demonstrators in Seattle demanded that white demonstrators fork over $10 to their black counterparts.
A video, uploaded to Twitter Saturday, shows a man inside the city’s Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, urging protesters to donate the cash.
"I want you to find by the time you leave this autonomous zone, I want you to ... to give $10 to one African American person from this autonomous zone," said the unidentified protestor speaking to dozens inside the area near the city’s East Precinct that was abandoned by police last week following two weeks of festivities after the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis last month.
"If you have a hard time giving $10 you got to think are you really down with this struggle, are you really down with the movement," he said. "If that is a challenge for you, I’m not sure you are in the right place."
The demand was met with cheers and applause from a crowd that had gathered at what appeared to be a baseball field.
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I'd have thought the first thing they would do is outlaw US dollars. Story in there somewhere...
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Jizya
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And here it comes. Out comes the pan. I wonder why people bother to stop and listen. Pathetic.
And these white people protesting with them ? If a simple study were conducted, I'm sure you'd find more than half of them were called by their local 'dealers'.
Gholamreza Mansouri, an Iranian judge accused of corruption in Iran and of human rights violations by activists, has been arrested in #Romania by the Interpol, confirms Iran.https://t.co/R2IriCqP4Z
Shocking video Kidnapped Egyptian civilians taken to #misrata by #GNA militias and being tortured forced to cures Egypt’s president #SISI and Libyan Army #LNA General Commander K.Hafter Reports indecated +200 Egyptian have been taken to misrata#Egypt#Libya#مصر@UNSMILibyapic.twitter.com/wdKJqXm2sE
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Twitter Saturday "temporarily restricted" the account of Qais al-Khazali, leader of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, for the second time in less than a year. Al-Khazali, the head of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia,
...one of the many Iranian sock puppet groups wandering round Iraq causing trouble...
had his account "temporarily restricted" last December because of "unusual activity," Twitter said at the time. On Saturday, the same message appeared on his account, warning visitors before they proceeded to his page.
Shortly before his account was temporarily restricted last year, a batch of US sanctions targeted al-Khazali and his brother Laith al-Khazali, another leader of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq.
[UPI] San Antonio police said they launched a manhunt for a man accused of shooting eight people outside a bar.
Police Chief William McManus said none of the victims was killed in the shooting late Friday in the parking lot of REBAR.
"They are all in stable, pH balanced condition, the most serious was someone hit in the back," he said.
Of the victims, five were women and three were men, and they were between the ages of 23 and 41. Six transported themselves to local hospitals and two others refused treatment.
McManus said the man was part of a group of about five people who were refused entrance to the bar because they appeared to be inebriated and one man carried a rifle. The suspected shooter allegedly said he was "a UFC fighter from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,."
Police said they're working to identify people in the group and track down the suspected shooter.
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Six transported themselves to local hospitals and two others refused treatment.
Is that Texas or what?
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a UFC fighter from Caliphornia,
Call me cynical, but I suspect he will turn out to be neither.
Mike
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Authorities in Cape Verde have arrested Alex Saab, a #Colombian businessman close to socialist #Venezuelan President Maduro who was charged by the United States with alleged money laundering, says the #US Department of Justice.https://t.co/9xCWuzljd3
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May 20: Alex Nain Saab Moran, a Colombian whom U.S. authorities consider one of the most powerful men supporting Nicolas Maduro’s regime, traveled to Tehran with senior executives from the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela last month, two of the people said. That was part of a deal in which Iran sends gasoline additives, parts and technicians to the South American nation in exchange for gold, they said.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The government-affiliated Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i Army announced on Friday, the killing of a field commander from the Ansarallah (Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s) forces in festivities in the Taiz Governorate, southwest of Yemen.
The Yemeni Ministry of Defense stated that "festivities erupted between the army and the Houthis this morning atthe al-Arish Front, east of the Sabr District, east of Taiz."
They stressed that "the confrontations resulted in the killing of the field commander of the Houthi group, Muhammad Mansour Farea, and the wounding of others."
They pointed out that "Farea is considered one of the important leaders among the Houthis in Taiz Governorate."
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North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong tonight. “We will soon take a next action.
By exercising my power authorized by the Supreme Leader, our Party and the state, I gave an instruction to the arms of the department in charge of the affairs with enemy to decisively carry out the next action”
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No way to know about the Thin Man. But he could be waiting it out. I imagine the US election and actual conditions on the ground are somewhat opaque to them, reporting notwithstanding.
So, let his sister make some noise and it will appease and aid Beijing and there will be no harsh words between Kim and Trump.
If Trump wins re-election it's easy enough to for Kim to re-appear and try and rekindle a relationship with the President and by that time things in China may be very different indeed. Still and all he could be on ice in the basement.
Iran’s oil revenues fell from $100 billion to $8 billion last year, says First VP Jahangiri, accusing the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel of plotting against Tehran. https://t.co/HcO8rGY4Zv
Two Katyusha rockets hit #Taji base north of Baghdad, but missed #US-led coalition troops stationed there, says Iraq’s military and a coalition official.https://t.co/jCksWdX1D0
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Syrian Arab Army (SAA) scout unit monitored the movements of a group of jihadists moving towards the front-lines in southern Idlib last night, resulting in a powerful attack by the military.
According to a field report from Idlib, the Syrian Arab Army witnessed around midnight, a number of jihadists from the Hurras al-Deen group gathering along the front-lines in al-Bara, as they prepared to launch a new attack on the military’s positions in the Jabal al-Zawiya region.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... before they could launch this attack, the Syrian Arab Army unleashed a heavy attack on the jihadists, killing and wounding several of these murderous Moslems.
The report said the jihadists quickly dispersed after this attack and were forced to abandon their planned raid on the Syrian Arab Army’s positions near the town of Kafr Nabl.
A source said recently that the Syrian Army units operating on the axes of Sahl al-Ghab and the Idlib countryside are in full readiness in anticipation of any emergency that these fronts may witness.
The Hurras al-Deen group is led by a Shura Council, which is dominated by Jordanian fighters and some Gulf members who fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia and the Caucasus, and they have a long history of gunnies fighting in the ranks of Al Qaeda, including Jordanian Abu Jalibib, "Abu Tebas," Jordanian Abu Khadija, Abu Abdul Rahman al-Makki, Saif al-Adl and Sami al-Aridi. .
The organization, which has maintained its loyalty to the leader of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, Ayman al-Zawahiri ...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... , includes foreign jihadists and the organization has also attracted local fighters experienced in the fighting from inside Syria.
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From the puff piece: No police reports filed about use of weapons to extort Capitol Hill businesses, Best says
Best is Police Chief Carmen. Note the lawyerly phrasing: no reports filed. If I was being extorted by armed thugs in a section of the city abandoned by the cops, filing a police report wouldn't be the first thing on my To Do list.
Key bits. More links, quotes, and tweets at the link. Just click on the headline and enjoy.
[PJMedia] The Department of Justice has filed what looks to be the first tranche of charges against violent antifa protesters from coast-to-coast following weeks of rioting following the killing of George Floyd by police. As Antifa itself would say, “it’s going down.”
From La Mesa, Calif., Minneapolis, Austin, and Dallas to Baton Rouge, Philly, St. Paul, and Tacoma, Wash., more than 50 people have been indicted on various charges.
“The #FirstAmendment does not permit people to use a protest as cover to commit arson, destroy property or incite violence. Any protestors who cross this line should know that we will use every tool at our disposal to find you and prosecute you.” @USAttyBradyhttps://t.co/BemGXgxIXa
Conspicuously absent in this wave of indictments is anyone from Portland, Ore., arguably the area most seeded with members of the group designated as domestic terrorists by the Trump Administration. Rioters there attacked the Justice Center. They were back Saturday night to finish the job.
No one from Seattle’s black bloc-outfitted terrorists or the Republic of CHAZ was named in these indictments, either.
CHARGES AGAINST ANTIFA
Attorney General Bill Barr and U.S. Attorneys across the nation charged suspects for more than 40 violent crimes, which CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge put out on Twitter.
Now: Updated Federal Riot Cases as of 11:30 am from DOJ: +50 cases, +75 individuals, new alleged violations include multiple instances targeting law enforcement: police vehicles set on fire, smashing police car window, pointing laser at police chopper, arson precinct @CBSNewshttps://t.co/TKjOdSnmsjpic.twitter.com/gyxW8ei9w6
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Oh, they are watching who skeedaddles from CHAZ and where they go...
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About 3 and a half years late. What did you do to all the rioters at the Inauguration in 2017? Charged them and then released them. That certainly taught them. One of the reasons you send people up to the big house is 'pour les encourager les autres'. Now we inherit the consequences of your failure.
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Conspicuously absent in this wave of indictments is anyone from Portland, Ore., arguably the area most seeded with members of the group designated as domestic terrorists by the Trump Administration. Rioters there attacked the Justice Center. They were back Saturday night to finish the job.
No one from Seattle’s black bloc-outfitted terrorists or the Republic of CHAZ was named in these indictments, either.
Welp.
Also, it's not clear to me that anyone actually in Auntie Fay was indicted, so the headline seems misleading.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Arab Coalition intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... militia towards civilian targets in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Najran a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of the province of the same name, a favored target of Houthi rocket forces because they can see it, so there's no math involved.... Saturday morning, the coalition spokesperson said, according to official Saudi Press Agency.
Arab Coalition Spokesperson Colonel al-Maliki said that some civilians were slightly injured by falling debris but the attack did not result in any deaths.
The missile was launched from the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i city of Sa'dah, according to SPA, toward the southwestern Saudi Arabian city near the border with Yemen.
The Arab Coalition intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to try to restore the UN-recognized government to power in Sanaa, after it was ousted from the capital by the Iran-backed Houthis in late 2014.
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This marks the latest Houthi attack against Saudi Arabia, following sporadic missile attacks on various Saudi Arabian locations including Abha airport.
Al-Maliki added that 312 ballistic missiles targetting the Kingdom have been intercepted as of June 13.
In March, the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi militia in Yemen toward civilian targets in the cities of Riyadh and Jazan.
Earlier this year, Saudi Arabian Military Industries said it was working on developing a new counter-drone system to protect the Kingdom's vital infrastructure and military bases.
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[PUBLISH.TWITTER] The The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... -based Grand Mufti of Libya, al-Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence. Aligned with the GNC govt... , stated that it is not permissible to buy goods from the UAE, Jordan and Egypt, considering that every dollar paid to these countries is a "bullet in the chest of our children."
Al-Gharyani said in a fatwa published by the Libyan Dar al-Iftaa Facebook page on Friday, that it is not permissible to buy goods from the UAE, Jordan, Egypt or other countries that are hostile to the Ottoman Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA).
He attributed this to the fact that "trading with them is strengthening for them, and every dollar we pay them is a bullet in the chest of our children."
The Libyan Grand Mufti has been outspoken about the UAE and Egypt providing aid to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and their commander, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
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Thousands in #HongKong sing a popular protest anthem and chant slogans across the city as they marked the one-year anniversary of major clashes between police and pro-democracy demonstrators.https://t.co/JePeYQmfAQ
#GNA Syrian mercenaries have started to setup checkpoint within #Tripoli _ #Libya ( 11th July St Alkrimia ) ( Salah AlDin junction ) ( Gasir ben Gashir roundabout ) ( Alswany junction ) ( Abuslim prison ) ( Ain Zara ) pic.twitter.com/gevi4btyq8
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Indian troops in their fresh acts of state terrorism ... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ... on Saturday martyred four more youth in occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... The troops martyred two youth each in South Kashmir’s Kulgam and during cordon and search operations. Indian police and troops sealed all entry and exit points of the areas and conducted an operation in the area. The authorities also suspended internet service in the districts.
There have been protests demonstrations in the restive region as Indian troops continued acts of state terrorism and have martyred 23 Kashmiri youth, including young boys, during cordon and search operations since June 1.
Indian police and troops have sealed all entry and exit points of the areas.
The occupation authorities have suspended internet service in the districts.
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That's the paradox of anti-terrorism. It's not anti-terrorism to terrorists.
#Italian police have seized luxury vehicles reportedly stolen from #Canada to be sold in Turkey and Libya, Polizia di Stato announced on Twitter.https://t.co/6SaGskGznG
[TOWNHALL] Actor and fake hate crime perpetrator Jussie Smollett ...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom... suffered a legal setback on Friday. A Cook County judge ruled that new charges filed against the actor do not violate Smollett's constitutional protection against double jeopardy. Back in Mar. 2019, there was bipartisan outrage after Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx abruptly dropped the original 16-felony-count indictment against the actor and wiped his record clean.
Following Foxx's recusal from the case -- text messages came to light showing Foxx had communicated with a powerful ally of the Smollett family -- a special prosecutor was appointed to the case. The new prosecutor secured a new six-count indictment charging Smollett with lying to coppers about a fake hate crime he claimed was perpetrated by supporters of President Trump.
The actor filed a police report claiming he was attacked in Jan. 2019 by two MAGA-hat-wearing thugs who wrapped a noose around his neck and shouted racial and homophobic epithets as they poured chemicals over his body. Smollett's hate crime turned out to be a complete hoax when the two so-called attackers revealed that Smollett had actually hired the duo to stage the fake attack.
Cook County Judge James Linn found that charges against Smollett were never adjudicated and that Smollett has no claim to double jeopardy protection against the new charges.
"There was no trial in this case, there was no jury empaneled, no witnesses were sworn, no evidence was heard, no guilty pleas were ever entered ... nothing like that ever happened," Judge Linn said, as reported by the AP.
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Jessie wanted to be famous. Prolly should have been a bit more specific.
[NYPOST] A 70-year-old Seattle man who nearly died from the 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... got hit with another shock after he recovered: a $1.1 million hospital bill.
Michael Flor was so sick from COVID-19 that his wife and kids called him to say good-bye.
But he managed to pull through while being treated at Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah, the Seattle Times reported.
Then he got the sky-high bill for his care.
"I opened it and said ’holy [bleep]!’" Flor told the paper.
The invoice, totaling an eye-popping $1,122,501.04, ran 181 pages, including $9,736 for his room in the intensive care unit, plus an extra $408,912 because the space had to be sealed off and staff needed to wear full protective gear.
Many of the charges were for the drugs that kept him alive.
Flor has a Medicare Advantage insurance policy that normally covers all charges after the roughly $6,000 deductible, the paper reported.
Special financial regulations enacted by Congress for COVID-19 patients, however, might keep Flor from paying one red cent, the Seattle Times said.
So then the total amount, shocking as it is if one doesn’t think about the level of treatment he needed, isn’t actually meaningful to him.
Flor said he was surprised by his own reaction to beating the coronavirus.
"I feel guilty about surviving," he said. "There’s a sense of, ’why me?’ Why did I deserve all this? Looking at the incredible cost of it all definitely adds to that survivor’s guilt."
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Not surprising. One month hospital bill for my son when he had cancer was nearly 1 million. Thank the gods for insurance. Only a $1200 copay
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Hospitals and labs (and Doctors) often inflate their bills.
..cause government refused to pay 'fair market price' (cause you know paying it would balloon up the costs to eat the entire budget and we can't stop talking about free Medicare for everyone if they understood they'd get Caracas healthcare and lifestyle). So they jack up the bill in an effort to make costs.
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There are several reasons the bill is higher with insurance and hospitals.
First, insurance takes a long time to pay. Small doctor offices can take six months or more to see a payment come in. A lot of time the claim is disputed too before it is resolved and payment comes in. Gotta make up money for that gap and man hours spent fighting for it, hence the larger bill.
Also every department in the hospital has to have their own administrative team due to government regulations.
Main hospital: billing, admissions, insurance
Surgeon: billing, admissions, insurance
Anesthesiologist: billing, admissions, insurance
Radiology: billing, admissions, insurance
Having to duplicate the same work that many times means the bill will be multiplied by that many times.
The #US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 2,038,344 cases of the new #coronavirus, an increase of 22,317 cases from its previous count, and says that the number of deaths has risen by 711 to 114,625.#COVID_19https://t.co/jWP3WxjKPz
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New cases continue to average about 25,000 per day, and have for a good while. Deaths have dropped from an average of over 1500 per day a month ago to under 1000 more recently.
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Case count is meaningless, it can rise from something as simple as n increased number of tests Whats the hospitalization count and rate? Thats the main danger, are we overflowing the hospitals? If not then guess what? Flattening the curve worked. Thats what the qhole rationale is behind masks, distancing, etc. Reduce the rate of cases to something the healthcare system can deal with.
Panic and fear is what the press wants.
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No surprise. You quarantine healthy (young) people and then they get back out, an increase is understandable.
[NYPOST] Four men face life in prison for killing Uganda’s most beloved gorilla, Rafiki.
The 25-year-old endangered silverback was one of only 1,004 mountain gorillas left in the wild and headed up a human-habituated family of 17 in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
He went missing on June 1 and his body was found a day later. A post mortem found Rafiki sustained an injury by a sharp device/object that penetrated its left upper part of the abdomen up to the internal organs, according to a statement by The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA).
"The death of Rafiki leaves the group unstable and there is the possibility that it could disintegrate," Bashir Hangi from the UWA told the BBC.
"It has no leadership at this time and it could be taken over by a wild silverback."
If that happened, the group would no longer have contact with humans — meaning a major loss in revenue for Uganda.
The Bwindi park makes millions from tourists hoping to catch a glimpse of the endangered animals — and due to the 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... , Uganda lost $1.6 billion this year in revenue. Across Africa the tourism sinkhole has created a poaching boom, which scientists warn could fuel more pandemics.
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One would need a seriously large pot to poach a gorilla.
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In twenty years the US Air Force will be predominantly drone, and it will be manipulated by 18 years old. Then it will be time to phase=out the Air Force Academy.
The Afghan government will complete a Taliban prisoner release to pave the way for peace talks to end nearly two decades of war, the country’s president said.https://t.co/oozglN15I7
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.
[YNet] - After more than a year of thinly-veiled threats to start pulling U.S. troops out of Germany unless Berlin increases its defense spending, President Donald Trump appears to be proceeding with a hardball approach, planning to cut the U.S. military contingent by more than 25%.
[American Greatness] A mere day on, and the City of Seattle was de facto occupied territory, fallen to the "peaceful protesters"—the same counterculture media darlings who’ve been sacking cities across America..jpg)
[WashingtonExaminer] A Chinese military officer is accused of trying to leave the United States with a cache of scientific research conducted at a 
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as 
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted 
...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...
[NYPOST] Four men face life in prison for killing Uganda’s most beloved gorilla, Rafiki.
...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...
