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I think we are soon going to reach a point where the police aren't called but swing by to just pick up the bodies dumped on the street. Someone breaks in, shoot them, dump them on the street. 100% chance they won't come back, though they will vote democrat.
Duterte musta decided China stepping on the PI and Sea was worse...
[Army Times] The Philippine president has suspended his decision to terminate a key defense pact with the United States, at least temporarily avoiding a major blow to one of America's oldest alliances in Asia.
Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Tuesday he dispatched a diplomatic note to the U.S. ambassador in Manila informing the U.S. government that the Philippines is delaying its decision to abrogate the Visiting Forces Agreement by at least six months.
Washington immediately welcomed the move.
"Our longstanding alliance has benefited both countries," the U.S. government said in a statement released by its embassy in Manila. "We look forward to continued close security and defense cooperation with the Philippines."
President Rodrigo Duterte's administration notified the U.S. government on Feb. 11 that it intends to abrogate the 1998 agreement, which allows the entry of large numbers of American forces for joint combat training with Filipino troops and lays down the legal terms for their temporary stay. The termination would have taken effect after 180 days, in August, unless both sides agreed to keep the agreement.
[Huffpoo] Mike Mullen, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, wrote in The Atlantic on Tuesday that he "cannot remain silent" about President Donald Trump any longer.
"It sickened me yesterday to see security personnel — including members of the National Guard — forcibly and violently clear a path through Lafayette Square to accommodate the president’s visit outside St. John’s Church," he wrote.
They slammed President Trump for being silent and unseen during this crisis, though mostly it was that they did not show him or report his words, then slammed him when he went out in a way they could not ignore. How dare he pollute with his evil presence the church that had been firebombed near the White House, or touch a bible, God’s holy word!
On Monday, Trump threatened to send U.S. troops into American cities to deal with civil unrest in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, last week. After the president spoke, police forced peaceful protesters out of Lafayette Square near the White House so he could walk to the church for a photo op.
Mullen, who served as chairman under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, called the photo op a "stunt" that did little good:
"Whatever Trump’s goal in conducting his visit, he laid bare his disdain for the rights of peaceful protest in this country, gave succor to the leaders of other countries who take comfort in our domestic strife and risked further politicizing the men and women of our armed forces."
The retired four-star Navy admiral said armed forces would obey lawful orders.
"But I am less confident in the soundness of the orders they will be given by this commander in chief," Mullen wrote. "And I am not convinced that the conditions on our streets, as bad as they are, have risen to the level that justifies a heavy reliance on military troops." So basically he's saying POTUS' orders may not be lawful and in his opinion, should not be obeyed. Nicely done admiral, very nicely done.
Mullen noted that American neighborhoods are our homes ― not "battle spaces," as Defense Secretary Mark Esper described them over the weekend.
"Our fellow citizens are not the enemy and must never become so," Mullen wrote.
#4
Way to take whatever honor and dignity of your career and flush it down the toilet. Obviously you were never a loyal American, merely a mercenary in the employ of the Deep State and their traitorous enablers.
#7
Argument for compulsory euthanization upon retirement from gummint goes up again.
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06/03/2020 14:18
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People who want to burn my business and / or kill me are not my fellow citizens.
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06/03/2020 14:20
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Park Police already took credit for the incident, no tear gas was used, and the clearing of the area had nothing to do with Trump.
So Mike Mullen just accepts media spin and lies after three years of media spin and 8 years of spin and lies while W was in command? He is a total moron.
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The Pentagon is pushing back on reports that active-duty troops are being pulled out of the Washington, D.C., area amid widespread protests over the death of George Floyd.
According to a spokesman for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, “all Title 10 active-duty forces remain in the National Capital Region.” The comment refers to the 1,600 active-duty military police from Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Drum, N.Y., and a battalion from the 82nd Airborne, also out of Fort Bragg, who have been staged outside D.C. at Andrews Air Force Base and Fort Belvoir. - cite
Instructionsgiven by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that "The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.' Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.'"
Except, er, the brownshirts are homegrown, and these violent anarchists garbed in black are now driving a violent insurrection. It is not a righteous movement for justice and national unity.
The enemy is BLM-Antifa. It is they who are tearing this country apart.
Please open your eyes, General, and focus on the real target here. It's not OrangeMan.
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nstructionsgiven by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that "The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.' Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.'"
Gosh, if only someone had told Lincoln that, we could have avoided a big mess.
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Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.
Apparently, General Mattis slept thru the Obama years.
Pity, it's always painful when people you admire say stupid things.
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What I don't get is generals fooled by the duplicity of the media. That's two today. They should know the media lies. They should now the President doesn't directly order things like crowd clearing. They should know it was the Park Police and not even secret service. Inexcusable ignorance.
[WFB] Ex-CIA operative and prominent anti-Semite defeated in congressional primary. Valerie Plame's congressional bid came to an end on Tuesday when the former CIA operative, who has battled accusations of anti-Semitism and carpet bagging, was defeated in a Democratic primary.
Plame finished second in a field of seven candidates battling to replace outgoing congressman Ben Ray Luján (D., N.M.), who is running for Senate. Local attorney and activist Teresa Leger Fernandez won the race with 42.6 percent of the vote, nearly doubling Plame's 23.1 percent total as the AP called the race early Wednesday morning.
Plame was the only candidate in the race with a national political profile. Her campaign launch video played up her career as a CIA agent and falsely accused former George W. Bush official Scooter Libby of blowing her cover.
Having decamped to New Mexico from Washington, D.C. in 2006, Plame battled accusations of carpet bagging. It did not help that her campaign was fueled predominantly by out-of-state donors, including several Hollywood celebrities and the Holocaust denier Pete McCloskey. Ultimately, roughly 89 percent of her contributions came from outside New Mexico, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Prior to her congressional run, Plame made national headlines in 2017 when she shared on Twitter an article from a discredited anti-Semitic website arguing that "America's Jews are driving America's wars." The story she shared, from Unz Review, asked, "Shouldn't [American Jews] recuse themselves when dealing with the Middle East?"
After urging critics to read to the end of the article, she ultimately apologized, saying that she was in the midst of a move and had merely "skimmed" the piece herself.
A spokesman for the Republican Jewish Coalition, Neil Strauss, celebrated Plame's defeat but expressed concern that Democratic leadership "supported an anti-Semite."
"Valerie Plame has frequently trafficked in and promoted anti-Semitic messages. The fact that prominent Democrats and celebrities, Chuck Schumer chief among them, chose to support her in a crowded field shows that Democrats aren't committed to combating left wing anti-Semitism," Strauss told the Washington Free Beacon.
The Plame campaign received multiple donations, totaling $1,550, from McCloskey, a former California congressman, who has referred to the Nazi murder of six million European Jews as the "so-called Holocaust."
Both Plame and Leger Hernandez enjoyed the the backing of big-spending outside groups. VoteVets, a liberal group largely funded by Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer's (D., N.Y.) Senate Majority PAC, endorsed Plame, while Legar Fernandez received endorsements from a number of prominent liberal groups including Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Leger Fernandez is favored to win the general election in November. The third district has not sent a Republican to Washington since 1997, and Luján won his 2018 race by nearly 30 points.
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She can go write for Unz Review.
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former CIA operative
Wife of overseas US Ambassador enjoying black passport diplomatic immunity. Embassy Chief of Station employee possibly. Operative, very doubtful. Such horseshi*.
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Our gummint exists to make jobs for people like Val. That's the whole story.
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
With a name like that in New Mexico, you didn't have a chance.
Leger Fernandez is favored to win the general election in November. The third district has not sent a Republican to Washington since 1997
If you play nice. If you play hard and the planned parenthood/abortion card to the Roman Catholic community, the media will denounce you, but you actually stand a good chance to taking the seat.
[Alpha News] "Several of us on the council are working on finding out, what it would take to disband the MPD," says Steve Fletcher, a member of the 13-person assembly that serves as the legislative branch of Minneapolis government. Of course they do (we really need to expand our library of dumbass pics....)
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Actually, we will need 10-12 cities trying this "experiment" before the message emerges.
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Minneapolis on track to becoming the next Detroit.
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06/03/2020 12:44
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And getting there faster than Detroit did, Abu.
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Fine, make sure that the city council gets no police protection and if their homes are broken into, the Dispatchers should tell them, "Call your friends in Antifa."
#9
I thought government is not a suicide pact. Maybe dem led govts are.
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When I moved here they told me DFL stood for Democratic Farmers and Laborers. I was pretty sure it actually meant Dirty F'ing Liars. I was wrong, turns out it really means Dumb F'ers League.
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Minneapolis City Council Members Want To Abolish The Police
I think this is a good idea.
Not because I hate Minneapolis, or because I believe the citizens will rise up as one, the better angels of their nature triumphant, and become that shining city on a hill. Nah, my money is on Mogadishu, but with more crime and violence.
But I'm a big fan of the scientific method and abolishing the police would be a most interesting experiment. And it would give us a data point, so when someone says how do you know abolishing the police won't work, we can point at the wreckage of Minneapolis and say "We tried it".
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Wekk the first thing you need to do is remove all police and security guards from City Hall, and your private residences for a year.... And no going around armed either! Live the message!
[Huffpoo] Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Tuesday ripped President Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric on the protests that have erupted nationwide following the death of George Floyd.
"Let me just say this to the president of the United States on behalf of the police chiefs in this country: Please, if you don’t have anything constructive to say, keep your mouth shut. Because you’re putting men and women in their early 20s at risk," Acevedo told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
"It’s not about dominating. It’s about winning hearts and minds," the police chief continued, referencing Trump’s order earlier this week that governors should "dominate" anti-racism protesters.
Acevedo clarified that police did "not want people to confuse kindness with weakness, but we don’t want ignorance to ruin what we’ve got here in Houston."
"And it hurts me to no end because whether we vote for someone or we don’t vote for someone, he’s still our president. But it’s time to be presidential and not try to be like you’re on ’The Apprentice,’" he added. "This is not Hollywood. This is real life, and real lives are at risk."
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People who want to burn down my business or smash my car windows out and dance on the hood, I really don't give a f*ck what age they are, what gender they are or what their cause is.
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"This is not Hollywood. But that's who I'm kissing up to..."
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As VDH said in a Tucker interview a few days ago;
"You must decide whether you are an American or a tribalist."
#7
Someone will have to help him get his donut gut up off the floor. That guy will hurt his back and go on disability. Just let Artie get around on all fours.
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He's a worthless tool. If he had to run for election, he wouldn't win. People outside the center of Houston sneer at the people from central. He's also frustrated that CCW and business owners keep ventilating his thugs when they commit crimes.
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Personally I'd like to see every political position put on the ballot in Nov. No I'm safe because I'm not up for election for 3 more years nonsense.
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You will not win the rioters hearts and minds. That's just naive.
You can win the hearts and minds of those that live in the community being over-run and destroyed by supporting peaceful protests and crushing rioting.
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Want to see heads literally explode? Trump can do it in one executive order: order the National Militia (all of it) to begin policing the nation. That includes every man aged 16 to 45 (and a lot of volunteers older than that). Give them very detailed rules of engagement: they are to group in squads of 20 or more, one of which is to record on electronic media any action the group participates in. Anyone throwing bricks, Molotov cocktails, water bottles, or other material can be shot without further warning. Anyone setting fire to a commercial, public, or private building can be shot without warning. Any group can arrest anyone participating in or aiding unlawful behavior, including members of the press. Ammunition expended will be replaced by the government.
Rioting will stop, one way or another.
This idiot should be locked up for providing aid and comfort and moral support to a terrorist organization.
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[Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press] Men with semi-automatic weapons, handguns say they are here to protect city amid reports of militants heading this way
Reports and rumors that groups bent on rioting and violence in Coeur d’Alene brought out men and women with guns on Monday determined to stop them if they arrive.
Dan Carson was patrolling Sherman Avenue with an AR-12 semi-automatic 12-gauge across his chest, an AR-15 strapped to his back, two 9mm handguns holstered and a .38 special, too.
"I heard there are some people on the way who shouldn’t be here," he said early Monday evening.
Those people, he said, were Antifa and Proud Boys, militant far-left and far-right groups.
Carson said he was in Spokane Sunday night helping protect business there. He said he supports the right to protest and is also upset about the death of George Floyd.
"By all means. I’m on their side. I disagree with what happened," he said. "What I don’t agree with is when you turn to violence, and you start rioting and destroying businesses and hurting people who have nothing to do with anything.
"That’s what I’m here to hopefully prevent," he said, adding, "I’m not going to be alone. There’s a lot more on the way."
He was right. Soon, more armed men, self-described as a loosely formed group of patriots, arrived. They took up posts at corners on both sides of Sherman Avenue.
Later, they were joined by hundreds of citizens packing rifles, semi-automatic weapons, handguns, and bows and arrows.
The sidewalks were packed with people walking up and down Sherman Avenue, firearms proudly displayed for all to see.
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Before we wax poetic about these guys know that the major White Supremcist city in the NorthWest is in Athol (always laugh at that) Idaho just north of Coeur D'Alene and it is possible these guys are from that group. I hope not, I'm sure Idaho has a lot of Patriots, just saying.
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Dan Carson was patrolling Sherman Avenue with an AR-12 semi-automatic 12-gauge across his chest, an AR-15 strapped to his back, two 9mm handguns holstered and a .38 special, too.
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Dan Carson was patrolling Sherman Avenue with an AR-12 semi-automatic 12-gauge across his chest, an AR-15 strapped to his back, two 9mm handguns holstered and a .38 special, too.
All he's missing is a bullet-proof tuxedo, dog named Daisy, and some rad techno.
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Not so sure 'bout the White Supremecist angle here - seems they were looking to keep both fringe elements from coming in. Antifa has been launcing forays into areas where they are not known to congregate. A handful of Antifa rolled into Yucaipa, CA and got trounced by the locals
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All comes down to who's doing the labelling. I've been to some very backwoods places and never yet had anyone say to me "I'm Bob and I'm a white supremacist," and then reach for the secret handshake.
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Of course, nowadays, if you are not kneeling, you are a white supremacist.
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When I lived in Spokane (mid 90s), just across the border from Coeur D'Alene the folks up in Athol that I'm talking made it very clear they were White Supremacists with marches and showing up at other peoples marches. Most were somewhat proud of their stance, but that doesn't mean they haven't learned to tone it down.
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It amazes me that at a town where lots of people carrying weapons did not kill, maim, or wound anyone, are still called names and finger wagged by a bunch on this site.
(Shakes head in bafflement)
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I respect everyone's right to go armed. I don't care what they believe. If they are disciplined in their actions I know I have nothing to worry about.
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Got a 50 yo s&w highway patrolman. Always use 357 mag rounds for ammo. Even shot a black bear with it.
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For among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised, and this is one of those ignominies against which a prince ought to guard himself.
- Nicola Machiavelli
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357 mag
I'm a .44 Mag guy, but I have one of those, and a Coonan 1911 .357 Mag too.
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OK, Spirit Lake is home. My family is from there and you will find that the area is now a tourist trap. With that said, Butler and his church are no longer in existence, since his death. You will still find white separatists here. For the most part its gone. What you will find is a community that will fight and defend their right to be there, even though we don't agree with them. We also defend and support the Hoodoo valley hobos and the Sandpoint hippies. The panhandle is very constitutionally oriented and we do not put up with the idiots arriving in CDA and trying to implement their bigoted beliefs. We have a horrible history of the CA people arriving and wanting to change things into CA. We also have nothing but bad history with the feds, FBI in particular. Ruby ridge was a horrible event that the FBI murdered a woman with a baby in her arms and a young boy. There is no love for the fed there. If some protester will come to CDA and do anything you will find their bodies in the locs at post falls....
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The absolute truth is, any anarchist or antifa miscreant shows up in your town, they need to disappear. Quietly. Forever. Without a trace. Instead of a splashy hyperventilating new report of their death in tomorrows media, they should at best get a stupid 5 page article in the Atlantic or New Yorker five years from now about how they just disappeared and nobody knows a thing about it.
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#1 Before we wax poetic about these guys know that the major White Supremcist city in the NorthWest is in Athol (always laugh at that) Idaho just north of Coeur D'Alene and it is possible these guys are from that group. I hope not, I'm sure Idaho has a lot of Patriots, just saying.
The respectable conservatives have done nothing to stop Antifa etc.
People will eventually turn to less respectable quarters for protection for themselves and their families.
And the respectable conservatives will have no one to blame but themselves if that happens.
If Weimar had had an effective, credible conservative opposition, Hitler would not have happened.
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Mrs. Warthog and I live in Eagle, ID. A nice suburb of Boise. Dan might be a walking gun shop but maybe the sight will be enough to persuade the
Antifa a$$holes to not show up. Somehow doubt that however.
We love our guns in ID and our Constitution. I'll take these guys any day over the "Do Nothing" RINOS. We're a very polite sort here in Idaho..until you directly threaten our family or town.
We had a peaceful memorial - not even a protest -in Boise last night. Idiots mess with Idaho.
Besoeker - we already have a disaster. Could an innocent get hurt? Absolutely..Right now we're all getting hurt
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If Weimar had had an effective, credible conservative opposition, Hitler would not have happened.
They did: the German National People's Party, or DNVP. It was totally outmaneuvered in every way by the National Socialists, then absorbed. (It's always easy to forget that Hitler was a skilled politician in a very modern sense.)
[Summit News] The silent majority has spoken. A new Morning Consult Poll finds that 58% of Americans want the military brought in to help police deal with riots, with 30% opposing the measure.
Asked if they supported "Calling in the U.S. military to supplement city police forces," 33% said they strongly support the measure and 25% somewhat support it for a total support of 58%, while 19% strongly oppose and 11% somewhat oppose the measure.
The survey also found that 71% of Americans supported using the National Guard as a way of addressing "protests and demonstrations" in U.S. cities.
#1
I'd like to point out the contradiction nobody has talked about.
* Media says Trump supports White Supremacists.
* Media says White Supremacists leading riots.
* Trump says you loot we shoot.
So the media is saying Trump threatened to have White Supremacists shot?
Being white is not a crime. Being a Trump voter is not a crime. Being a police officer sworn to "protect and serve" every day is not a crime. Being a non-white police officer proud to uphold and enforce law and order is not a crime. Being a black or brown or yellow American who rejects excusing criminal behavior is not a crime.
Rejecting collective guilt is not a crime. Refusing to acknowledge "white privilege" when you were born poor, or in a broken home, or with physical or psychological challenges, is not a crime. Embracing the historic American nation, instead of erasing it, is not a crime.
Enforcing your private property rights is not a crime. Teaching your wife and children to use a gun in self-defense is not a crime. Owning an AR-15 or two is not a crime.
Do not let the media, Hollywood, academics or politicians gaslight you. Stop internalizing lies. Who are the criminals? Who are the heroes? Who are the makers and keepers of peace? Who are the sowers and reapers of hate?
The Proud Boys, who have guarded their communities and country for the past three years, were the lone citizen soldiers in the battle against antifa that no one else on the ground wanted to fight. The group and its leader, Gavin McInnes, have suffered greatly for trying to stop the violence now raging nationwide. McInnes has been deplatformed everywhere and falsely labeled a "white supremacist." Scores of Proud Boys of all colors have lost their jobs after being doxxed by antifa vigilantes. Two Proud Boys are in prison, railroaded by New York Democrats, after a Kafkaesque trial in which the cop-hating antifa "victims" who lured the Proud Boys into an October 2018 street brawl refused to press charges or testify.
Their crime? These unapologetic Americans stood on their feet, not on their knees.
Journalists and photographers who documented antifa violence for the past three years, such as Andy Ngo, Chelly Bouferrache and Brandon Brown in Portland, Oregon, have endured physical assaults, death threats and harassment. Many others have gone into hiding and suffer in silence.
Their crime? Exposing antifa anarchy, standing eye to eye against their assailants, on their feet, not on their knees.
Working-class Irish, German and Polish-American men of Fishtown, a northeast Philadelphia suburb, came together this week to prevent their neighborhood from being pillaged and burned in the name of "social justice" like the rest of the City of Brotherly Riots. They banded together outside the 26th police precinct, armed with bats and golf clubs, and faced down Black Lives Matter protesters who were there to taunt and provoke the cops.
Turn off CNN and tune into the facts on the ground. At least 25 Philadelphia cops have been hurt during mob violence this week. It's an all-out war on the thin blue line. At least 150 cops have been assaulted — four nearly murdered — in New York City as of Tuesday afternoon. Two Buffalo, New York, law enforcement officers were run over late Monday night. In addition, 51 members of the U.S. Park Police were injured; a Cincinnati cop was grazed by a bullet aimed at his head; four St. Louis officers were shot; one retired St. Louis police captain was killed; a Las Vegas Metro cop was shot; and a federal officer was shot and killed in Oakland — all in the name of peace, tolerance and reparations.
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Good for this woman. She has more/bigger stones than all our weepy kick-me politicos and cuckold-cops put together.
Here's a slogan: Stand Up + Fight Back.
Not as random, one-off, spontaneous, isolated and unarmed good samaritans confronting mobs after they've attacked and bloodied fellow citizens but as organized, focused, well-armed battalions proactively taking positions to defend known targets.
I didn't know about this - we need 100 more such examples of valor and solidarity by armed groups:
Working-class Irish, German and Polish-American men of Fishtown, a northeast Philadelphia suburb, came together this week to prevent their neighborhood from being pillaged and burned in the name of "social justice" like the rest of the City of Brotherly Riots. They banded together outside the 26th police precinct, armed with bats and golf clubs, and faced down Black Lives Matter protesters who were there to taunt and provoke the cops.
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I saw a young women who was interviewed on TV the other day and she was going on about being protected by her white skin. However, she was at the demonstration and riot to share her white skin protection with those not so fortunate. I'm not even sure what that means.
I thought, "Honey are you ever naïve and misguided. Where in the heck does she get such notions?"
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she was going on about being protected by her white skin.
We’ve seen plenty of videos over the past few days demonstrating that white skin is no protection against Antifa/Black Lives Matter cadres. Either she is affiliated with one of more of the Black Bloc groups, or she is their dupe. If the former she’ll be among those dishing it out; if a dupe, she may end up attacked in one of the many horrifying videos we’ve seen over the last few days.
Not as random, one-off, spontaneous, isolated and unarmed good samaritans confronting mobs after they've attacked and bloodied fellow citizens but as organized, focused, well-armed battalions proactively taking positions to defend known targets.
Yes.
Organization and infrastructure are key for the long term fight.
Too many on the Right made a mistake thinking that we could outsource our protection to institutions that have been totally converged -- including law enforcement and the military.
To be fair, the problem would have been considerably less deadly had Italy a) not had a large resident population of illegal Chinese workers going back and forth to Wuhan during the critical time, and b) had a grossly inadequate medical infrastructure to cope with the normal patient load, never mind a pandemic, leading them to send patients home untreated unless they were otherwise healthy, under 60, and in severe distress.
[Time] Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Rome shunning masks to protest against the Italian government's measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Members of a marginal political movement created last year by a retired Carabinieri
...the Italian paramilitary police...
general have emerged as a virus-denial camp in Italy, the first Western country to be hit by the global pandemic.
The leader of the so-called Orange Vests told the protest crowd assembled in the Piazza del Popolo on Tuesday that children shouldn't be made to wear masks and he threatened to ‘'slap'' anyone who did.
Antonio Pappalardo added that he refuses to wear a mask himself and said: ‘'These lungs mine. I will take care of my lungs. Breathing is sacred.''
The people packing the square didn't adhere to social-distancing guidelines set by the government.
Pappalardo portrayed such containment measures as an infringement of freedom. Other speakers at the protest asserted that the pandemic ‘'never existed'' and alleged that politicians had played it up to enhance their own powers.
Italy went into a nationwide lockdown in early March. The country enters a new phase in emerging from the virus emergency with the opening of regional and external borders on Wednesday.
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Oh, it existed and exists. It's just not the apocalyptic horror show it was sold as. That is coming, and when it does. masks, social distancing, St. Fauci, Scarf Woman and Bill Gates will not be able to stop it, gummint directives won't be able to stop it. See: Last Man on Earth and Omega Man
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After all the mayhem it will be bring out your dead.
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Based on the numbers we have now -- as distinct from the computer models used a few months ago -- you could never justify a lock down.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans sympathize with nationwide protests over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody and disapprove of President Donald Trump’s response to the unrest, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
The demonstrations, some of which have turned violent, began last week after a Minneapolis police officer was videotaped kneeling on the neck of George Floyd for nearly nine minutes, even after Floyd appeared to lose consciousness. The officer has been charged with murder.
The survey conducted on Monday and Tuesday found 64% of American adults were "sympathetic to people who are out protesting right now," while 27% said they were not and 9% were unsure.
The poll underscored the political risks for Trump, who has adopted a hardline approach to the protests and threatened to deploy the U.S. military to quell violent dissent. The Republican president faces Democrat Joe Biden in November’s election.
More than 55% of Americans said they disapproved of Trump’s handling of the protests, including 40% who "strongly" disapproved, while just one-third said they approved - lower than his overall job approval of 39%, the poll showed.
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Via InstaPundit and Mark Tapscott: Latest Morning Consult survey finds 58 percent of respondents support using the military to help law enforcement end rioting and looting sparked by Antifa and other anarchist groups in the wake of George Floyd’s horrendous May 25 murder.
Americans don't seem to be very sympathetic w/ the Antifa/BLM rioters at all.
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Trump should have just showed a video of Obama's response to riots because the responses were basically the same except that Obama gets the benefit of the doubt regarding racism and causing rioters thugs.
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As usual: "Show me the Poll Internals First!" before I decide if it means anything. An elective in Political Science taught me that many years ago.
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Clem nails it.
US doesn't sympathize with rioters, but they do sympathize with the protesters. That is why the media has been conflating the two.
Trump has chosen to do his job, in a Federal system this is not the President's problem, but he is trying to motivate the cowardly governors and Mayors to actually do something. Anything. Before their cities are burned down.
Hopefully he told them on that phone call that there will be no Federal money for rebuilding cities they allowed to burn.
[YNet] - Israel said on Tuesday it has successfully tested a new weapons system that contains a missile capable of hitting 400 km (249 miles) target range, an unprecedented feat for the country's aerospace industries.
LORA weapon system, a theater quasi-ballistic missile, was developed by Israel's Aerospace Industries and has been tested last month on a ship in the Mediterranean Sea in order to see its effectiveness in naval warfare.
LORA is a container-based surface-to-surface missile. A standard shipping container houses four missiles, which are controlled by an operator working from a command and fire control section located in another container.
This operator can control four container launchers at once, for a total of 16 of the missiles. The LORA can be stored in a container for up to 7 years without maintenance. But will it work against the mighty Turkish & Iranian Navies?
[Found rooting around in the disorganized mess that is WhatFinger] Resolution HJR074, drafted in March, requires the state to "[extend] a safe harbor to Virginians and other United States citizens whose constitutional rights are being violated by elected officials." It also affirms that citizens have a right to maintain arms equivalent "to those of their government's basic infantry unit." Does this mean I can finally get that AT4?
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Mercutio it's fine by me. I have a 10 pound Parrott rifle capable of firing a 10 pound projectile just over a mile. It is also legal to open carry a sword in Tennessee. I love my state
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And no state taxes in TN, correct? Lots to love!
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#2 Clem. Yes, no income taxes but sales taxes are a little high.
"It does, however, have a tax on income from interest and dividends on stocks and many bonds, which in most cases will affect retirees. Bottom line, as a retiree you will probably be better off tax-wise retiring in Tennessee than almost any other state. Tennessee's state and local tax burden is one of the lowest in the U.S. The Tax Foundation estimates its total tax burden at 8.3% of income, 44th highest nationally."
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Besoeker you should see it fire double canister at plywood targets at 50 yards. Mercutio I didn't think you were snarking. Wouldn't mind having ya'll retire down here. Land is cheap and property taxes are low.
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Thanks for the invite, Deacon. Can I use your name when they stop me at the border for being a blue state swamp yankee?
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. And in the neighborhood where cops won’t (or can’t) protect the public from violence, to the armed citizen defender goes the throne.
In South Philadelphia Tuesday, a business owner shot a man as a group of burglars made their way into his store.
The 67-year-old is the proprietor of Firing Line, Inc. — a firing range and gun shop. A tragedy, armed rioters, is averted
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper just briefed he "does not support the declaration of Insurrection Act." Esper also mentions the "honoring of the memory of George Floyd," his West Point assignment, and American "institutional racism."
I'll give him six months, he'll be gone. We can surely do better.
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Nice to see the GOMO prefrontal lobotomy and political indoctrination program still has effects. Someone should remind the SecDef that Pentagon Generals shelf life should be no more than 18 months, and they all have a Post retirement policy bias under every bit of advice they give.
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Well, the exodus of talented and useful citizens from NY shall begin. Cuomo and deBlasio will turn off the lights and close the door after everyone else leaves. Then we can really document lif after people in NYC.
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There are 38 different uniform police forces with some sort of jurisdiction in the DC, another one is not needed just a few willing to uphold current law and live up to their responsibilities. Not sure if all businesses will be reopening with a 3 month shut down and now vandalism not cover by insurance.
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Beautifully, the days where NYC financials moved to Connecticut or New Jersey are over. Florida and Texas are the places they are going. NC is out because it's New York on the mid-Atlantic.
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Klem Kadiddlehopper, hopefully there is a difference between economic refugees fleeing blue states and those that got mugged by reality and saw their entire liberal world view exposed as a lie.
UnHeard via HotAir
It is remarkable how the effects of Covid on the international system mirrors its impact on individuals. Its lethality, in the acute phase, may be lower than we feared, yet there is a risk of sudden catastrophic relapse after a seeming period of recovery, and the long-term effects are of a gravity we can only dread.
...The greatest morbidity the virus has latched onto in the global order is the rivalry between the United States and China. This contest is not new — International Relations scholars have long debated the ’Thucydides Trap,’ named after the agonising and destructive struggle between Athens and Sparta chronicled by the Greek historian, wherein a rising power is inexorably drawn into conflict with the hegemon it displaces.
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Nope,
You just let yourself be bribed by the seeming ease (and false accounting) of making money by accumulating debt.
And of "free trade" between countries subsidised by tariffs within the country (taxes on working) which merely enriched the establishment at the expense of the rest.
This was all predicated on selling "the big economic lie" that the country was getting richer as land prices rose faster than incomes.
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p.s. With all due respect to the author, none of this is new. To wit, the electoral victory of the candidate with the slogan "Make America Great Again".
[Jpost] The annual #OpIsrael cyber attack was able to acquire hundreds of ID numbers, credit card details and phone numbers.
Hundreds of Israelis currently have their personal information — including ID numbers, credit card details and cellphone numbers — released online by Anonymous Islamic JEArmy, a pro-Paleostinian group that took part in the annual #Opisrael hacking effort, Mako reported on Tuesday.
#Opisrael is an annual cyber effort meant to harm Israel and Israelis, and has been taking place annually for the past seven years. Israeli cybersecurity company Insights claims the released details are not new and were gathered previously.
[Market Watch] That’s former President George W. Bush, who addressed the protests sweeping the nation on Tuesday and decried America’s "tragic failures."
Bush said he and his wife, Laura, are "anguished" by the death of George Floyd and "disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country."
"It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country," Bush said in a statement. "The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place."
The 43rd president said the racism that was at the root of the Civil War is again threatening the Union, and said those in American history who have fought the hardest for equality often reveal "the nation’s disturbing bigotry and exploitation — stains on our character sometimes difficult for the American majority to examine."
Bush called for Americans to show empathy and compassion on the path to lasting and equal justice. "There is a better way — the way of empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice," he said.
Bush did not mention President Donald Trump in his statement, but his words were in stark contrast to the bellicose and inflammatory rhetoric that has been used by Trump, who on Tuesday goaded governors to call up the National Guard, tweeting "The lowlifes and losers are ripping you apart."
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What a useless idiot-- something that began to be apparent when he uttered the words, "Islam is a religion of peace."
The only kind thing I can say about him anymore is that he was probably a better choice for President than Al Gore or John Kerry. Probably.
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Even Bill Clinton had more fortitude and clarity of mind than these weasels. What is wrong with our elite society that it produces such cringeworthy little shits as these two (plus the likes of Biden Romney Warren Harris Pelosi Schiff Rubio et al)?
There must be a structural, institutional reason for it. Is it connected to the abolition of the draft in 1973?
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I voted for "W" twice. Who else was there to vote for? Al Gore? John Kerry? Not vote? At the time, Deepstater "W" was the lesser of three evils. Not sure about that now. He's part of the hair in the butter.
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Well, malls are done, but looting them isn't the way to get to the next stage of the commercial retail story.
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Reagan making Bush Sr his VP was where the GOP went wrong. Hopefully their country club nonsense will be rooted out totally and replaced with working class folks.
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The era of Bush, Romney and McCain is over. The only question is, will Trump nudge things in the correct direction or not.
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The ones we need to watch out for now are Rubio, Thune, Lee and Sasse.
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When W ran against Gore I voted for W because I thought it was a no brainer. But by the time he ran against Kerry I'd had enough of him. In the end I voted for Bush because I couldn't stand the sight of Kerry's wife, otherwise I would have voted for a third party candidate. I understand that's a flimsy reason to cast a vote but it was all I had.
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Tuh-ray-za. Her son Chris is a Biden crony.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but there is a perceptible difference between marching for a better future and looting a shopping mall.
Well said, SteveS. But I think we need to pay more attention to the fine points. Surely Bush knows the difference but he's one of too many people these days who deliberately ignore the fine points because of their ulterior motives.
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JohnQC, voting for the lesser of two evils (or the tepid vs the evil) has been the way of the world since Reagan. Is Pence up to the task in 2024? I hope so.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but there is a perceptible difference between marching for a better future and looting a shopping mall.
Lulz, only if you're sentient
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Bush was president for 8 years. Why didn't he do something about it?
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Bush allowed that Frank/Dodd real estate abomination to go through for fear of being called racist even though he knew it would cause havoc later. Cowardly move that one.
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crazyhorse, I remember a fellow saying in 1968 "They told me if I voted for Goldwater in 64, there would be half a million men in Viet Nam, and rioting in streets. But I followed my conscience and voted for him anyway. And sure enough, today there are half a million men in Viet Nam, and rioting in the streets."
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Goldwater could not possibly have been worse than LBJ.
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I was naive enough to think Bush would have us "exit Iraq"...THRU IRAN...once that fantasy wore off, I saw him for the worthless suit in a fancy office that he was. "War on Terror" my ass.
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In 2000, I actually wanted Gore to win; not because I was a Dem, but because I had a feeling that the Clinton "holiday from history" would be followed by a major crisis.
I wanted Gore to have to be the one to deal with that mess.
Welp.
In 2004, I voted Bush, because solid poo with some undigested grains inside of it is marginally better than the diarrhea spread that was Kerry.
[Market Watch] U.S. stock-index futures pointed to further gains on Wednesday after the stock market closed at its highest level since early March.
HOW ARE BENCHMARKS PERFORMING?
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMM20, 0.55% YM00, 0.56% were up 109 points, or 0.4%, at 25,810, those for the S&P 500 index ESM20, 0.41% ES00, 0.41% were trading 9.10 points, or 0.3%, higher at 3,086.25, while Nasdaq-100 futures NQM20, 0.38% NQ00, 0.38% gained 22.25 points to reach 9,670, a rise of 0.2%.
On Tuesday, the Dow DJIA, +1.05% rose 267.63 points, or 1.1%, to end at 25,742.65, marking its highest close since March 6, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.82% rose 25.09 points, or 0.8%, closing at 3,080.82, its loftiest finish since March 4, and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.59% advanced 56.33 points, or 0.6%, to finish at 9,608.37, representing its best closing level since Feb. 20.
[PJ] Most believe that Fox News host Tucker Carlson has accrued a good deal of political capital with President Trump. Many have credited him with impressing the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic on him during a trip to Mara Lago specifically for the purpose. When Dave Rubin recounts meeting the President, he recalls the Don Jr. told his father he had probably seen Rubin on Tucker’s show.
It is safe to assume that the president probably saw Tucker’s monologue last night. At 26 minutes it is significantly longer than usual because the host had quite a bit to say. It is also very possible that he spent some of the accrued political capital to speak for the average American that does not have a platform.
I agree strongly with some of his sentiments. I also think he made a few mistakes.
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I'm guessing Trump came to Washington knowing he had to keep Kushner and Ivanka on short leashes, and he has done just that. More convicts have been released from jail because of COVID hysteria than Kushner's policy nostrums. And I seriously doubt he is part of the re-election braintrust inner circle.
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Tucker was fairly tame towards Trump compared to others. Tucker understands how Federalism works.
[Rudaw] Farmers in Kirkuk province have started harvesting their crops earlier than usual this year, fearing they cannot be protected from the annual arson committed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) murderous Moslems.
Kirkuk lies amid a patchwork of territories over which control has long been disputed between the Iraqi central government in Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil. The final status of the ethnically diverse and resource-rich areas surrounding Kirkuk was never permanently settled, leading to a vacuum of uncertainty of who controls them.
Although ISIS was declared defeated after US-backed forces in Syria pummeled its final holdouts in March 2019, the group has continued to launch attacks, including kidnappings, liquidations, and ambushes, particularly in rural areas.
Down but not out, ISIS turbans have gone underground, using a scorched earth policy in areas from which they retreat or where they are defeated. Last year, thousands of acres of wheat and barley fields, in both Syria and Iraq, were scorched by fires during the harvest season, some of which the group grabbed credit for.
The harvest season in Kirkuk usually starts in mid-June and lasts until July, but this year harvesting started on May 20.
Rajab Kakai is an activist in the Kirkuk district of Daquq, home to members of the Kakai religious minority subject to targeted persecution by ISIS for their religious beliefs. He told Rudaw English that farmers in the area have been harvesting crops early in fear of a repeat of the arson they saw in previous summers.
"It's true that many farmers in Daquq and the disputed territories are harvesting their crops earlier this season, fearing the ISIS turbans who set the agricultural land in the area ablaze," Kakai told Rudaw English on Monday.
According to Kakai, farmers in the area have taken collective precautions transcending ethnic lines to prevent the repeat of agricultural arson.
"The majority of Kakai farmers jointly planted their agricultural lands with the Arab farmers to avoid turbans of ISIS groups and other turbans from burning their lands," Rajab said.
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[PJ] After a week of bloody, destructive riots with cities duly torched and looted, ABC News has offered up a misty-eyed story about how police around the country are kneeling — Colin Kaepernick style — alongside protesters. In some cases, they’ve actually joined protests in uniform.
Protests were prompted by the outrageous killing of Floyd George, while in Minneapolis police custody. Floyd’s killing was captured on video. The killing set off protests. But those protests appear to have turned into something much more organized and sinister.
This week’s riots have demonstrated that some protesters and all rioters aren’t on our side. And now the cops are kneeling with them. To them.
Kaepernick kneeled because he hated cops and held the United States in contempt. He was a first-rate blame-America-firster.
But there is something deeply wrong with cops kneeling to the rage mob in this obsequious manner. They shouldn’t bend to emotion, they should do their jobs.
Wittingly or unwittingly, police, wanting to appear sincerely aggrieved by the death of Floyd — and they should — have knelt with people who could have been responsible for burning churches, kicking citizens in the head, and boosting AR-15s from cop cars. The ABC piece included the image of Camden, N.J., cops marching with the protesters. Among them was police chief Joseph Wysocki.
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Can citizens reasonably expect to be protected by the kneeling police?
Or will the police side with the looters?
This looks like the open, ceremonial declaration of an anarcho-tyrannical(*) political alliance against the general public.
Even if the intentions are good this is terrible optics.
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"Francis's term "anarcho-tyranny" refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law,[21] or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens' lives yet is unable to enforce fundamental protective law.[22][23] Commentators have invoked the term in reference to situations when governments focus on weapon confiscation instead of stopping looters."
Local report on the subject of this story from yesterday.
[KhaamaPress] The Supreme Leader of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada may have died of the novel 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... (COVID-19), it has been reported.
Sources privy of the development within the Taliban ranks confirmed to Foreign Policy that Akhundzada tested postitive for the disease.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... Mawlavi Mohammad Ali Jan Ahmad has told the publication that Akhundzada is sick but is recovering.
On the other hand, three Taliban figures who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Foreign Policy that Akhundzada died while receiving treatment.
The Taliban group has not officially commented in this regard so far.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... unconfirmed reports indicate that Mullah Yaqoob, the son of Mullah Mohammad Omar has has been appointed as the interim leader of the group.
This comes as reports emerged earlier last month suggesting that Mullah Yaqoob has been appointed as the military chief of the group following a reshuffle in the top leadership of the Taliban.
[SPR] David Dorn, a retired law enforcement official, was shot and killed early Tuesday morning after responding to a burglary alarm at Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry on Martin Luther King Drive in north St. Louis.
St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden confirmed the information during a press conference Tuesday. He said 55 businesses including the pawn shop reported property damage overnight following protests in downtown St. Louis over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
"During a looting process, David Dorn was exercising law enforcement training that he learned here, so in his honor, we are wearing our mourning bands," he said.
Hayden added that he and many younger officers looked up to Dorn, who served 38 years with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and retired in 2007 as a captain. Dorn later served as the police chief of Moline Acres in north St. Louis County.
St. Louis police officers received a call about a shooting at Lee’s around 2:30 a.m., according to a police report. Officers found Dorn, 77, on the sidewalk suffering from a gunshot wound to his torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
[TheHill] Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D), who has been the target of sharp criticism by activists for his handling of protests in the city against police brutality, knelt with protesters on Tuesday as demonstrators urged him to defund the city's police department.
Garcetti knelt with the crowd at City Hall amid chants of "Defund the police!" Demonstrators separately gathered outside his home and urged him to defund the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).
Protests have called for Garcetti to fire LAPD Police Chief Michel Moore, who provoked widespread backlash when he claimed the death of George Floyd in police custody was "on [looters’] hands as much as it is those officers." Moore later apologized.
"A black face should not be a sentence to die, nor to be homeless, nor to be sick, nor to be under-employed, nor to be under-educated," Garcetti said. "We need a country that listens."
Demonstrators on Tuesday afternoon emphasized the need to keep the protests peaceful, with one man calling for protesters approaching a line of officers near one intersection to turn back, according to The Los Angeles Times. The vast majority of unrest, looting or property damage amid the protests has occurred after dark.
Garcetti was not present for the protests at his official residence, where actor Kendrick Sampson of HBO’s "Insecure" led a chant of "Whose streets? Our streets!"
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A former colleague, published author, and historian writes:
I love historical parallels which lead to pattern analysis.
In 1861 a good part of Northern Democrats did everything they could to prevent Lincoln from subduing the Confederacy. They were determined to destroy Lincoln’s presidency even if it led to a Confederate victory.
In 2020 a good part of Democrats are doing everything they can to prevent Trump from subduing Antifa. They are determined to destroy Trump’s presidency as we face a leftist insurrection.
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It'll be fascinating to watch the numbers next time he's up for election.
The people who always whine about low voter turnout will say nothing when he's re-elected by double digits of 18% of the electorate there. Same for NYC.
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Mayor Yoga Pants will likely not run again - he has had two terms already to fuck everything up enough
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Many cities of the ancient world fell to barbarians, not because the walls failed but because they were betrayed from within.
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I have an alternative suggestion. Given that all we have done in my life (72) is "talk" about this, why not try something different? Benign Neglect for say 10 years. See how that works out. If it doesn't help, we can always go back to picking the scab.
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Agreed. Treat every man according to, I dunno ... the content of his character, not the color of his skin.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) forces launched a big assault in southern Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Tuesday, as they attempted to capture several areas from the rival Libyan National Army (LNA).
According to reports from southern Tripoli, the GNA forces launched a number of attacks along the al-Ramlah axis, resulting in heavy festivities with the Libyan National Army.
The reports said the GNA forces were able to achieve some progress along the southern Tripoli front, putting them within striking distance of the Tripoli International Airport near al-Ramlah.
The pro-GNA media has reported that the Ottoman Turkish-backed forces have already captured the al-Ramlah axis; however, this has not been confirmed.
Despite the announcement of the resumption of ceasefire talks, intense festivities along the southern Tripoli front.
Both warring parties have launched big attacks this week, with the Libyan National Army concentrating their assault on the Gharyan axis, which they have managed to advance towards after fierce festivities.
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[AP] Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus. It repeatedly thanked the Chinese government for sharing the genetic map of the virus "immediately," and said its work and commitment to transparency were "very impressive, and beyond words."
But behind the scenes, it was a much different story, one of significant delays by China and considerable frustration among WHO officials over not getting the information they needed to fight the spread of the deadly virus, The Associated Press has found.
Despite the plaudits, China in fact sat on releasing the genetic map, or genome, of the virus for more than a week after three different government labs had fully decoded the information. Tight controls on information and competition within the Chinese public health system were to blame, according to dozens of interviews and internal documents.
Chinese government labs only released the genome after another lab published it ahead of authorities on a virologist website on Jan. 11. Even then, China stalled for at least two weeks more on providing WHO with detailed data on patients and cases, according to recordings of internal meetings held by the U.N. health agency through January — all at a time when the outbreak arguably might have been dramatically slowed.
WHO officials were lauding China in public because they wanted to coax more information out of the government, the recordings obtained by the AP suggest. Privately, they complained in meetings the week of Jan. 6 that China was not sharing enough data to assess how effectively the virus spread between people or what risk it posed to the rest of the world, costing valuable time.
"We’re going on very minimal information," said American epidemiologist Maria Van Kerkhove, now WHO’s technical lead for COVID-19, in one internal meeting. "It’s clearly not enough for you to do proper planning."...
Five suspects are on trial in #Jordan for allegedly plotting to carry out suicide attacks against #Israeli targets in the occupied West Bank, AFP reports, citing a judicial source.https://t.co/q5ugdsT4Ok
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 3, 2020
The suspects were arrested in February, according to the source, who did not say why news of their detention was not made public then.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
According to the charge sheet, one of the suspects had visited the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip in 2007, where he was trained to make explosive vests and bombs.
The suspect returned to Jordan in 2010 and seven years later, recruited the four other suspects with whom he plotted to infiltrate the West Bank and carry out attacks “with bombs against buses and trains and with explosive vests against other Israeli targets.”
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[RedState] Judge Emmet Sullivan has delivered his response in the Michael Flynn case to the writ of mandamus. He tapped an outside attorney to make his case for him, something that is apparently highly unusual under these circumstances, where both parties are asking for a dismissal after new evidence of FBI malfeasance came to light. If this judge can’t make his own arguments and decisions, why is he on the case?
Undercover Huber broke down much of what’s in it earlier today. I’m not a lawyer and won’t play one, but there’s a lot in here that strikes me as ridiculous.
Long Twitter thread at the link laying out Undercover Huber’s analysis.
The idea that Sullivan can delay justice yet again without causing any harm is ludicrous. Lawyers aren’t free, nor is the emotional toll Flynn is being put through. The repeating of MSNBC conspiracy theories and claiming to want to do something (debate the declaration of innocence in court) he’s already denied earlier are nice touches for the judge.
We’ll see where this goes. I suspect Sullivan is simply trying to save face at this point. In the end, he’ll grant the motion or he’ll get slapped down from above. Either way, Flynn is going to go free, as he should.
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In Appellate Brief, DOJ Unloads On Behavior Of Rogue Judge In Flynn Case The Department of Justice on Monday unloaded on the antics of the rogue federal judge overseeing the Michael Flynn trial, accusing him of usurping the constitutional authority of the executive branch to make prosecutorial decisions and ignoring both statutory law and federal court precedent requiring him to dismiss the case against Flynn.
After Judge Emmet G. Sullivan refused to grant the unopposed DOJ motion to dismiss the charges against Flynn after the government unearthed and relevant reams of evidence that the government had abused its power and unlawfully targeted Flynn, Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell filed a writ of mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia asking it to order the trial court to dismiss the charges against Flynn. The appellate court ordered Sullivan to respond by close of business on June 1 and invited DOJ to file its own response as well.
In a sign of how important DOJ views the underlying constitutional issues in the case, the formal brief to the appellate court wasn’t just signed by the line attorney managing the government’s case. Instead, it was signed by Noel J. Francisco, the Solicitor General of the United States who is tasked with representing the U.S. government in the most important appellate cases across the country; Brian A. Benczkowski, the Assistant Attorney General and head of DOJ’s entire criminal division; Deputy Solicitors General Jeffrey B. Wall and Eric J. Feigin; assistants to the Solicitor General Frederick Liu and Vivek Suri; Michael R. Sherwin, the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; Kenneth C. Kohl, the acting Principal Assistant United States Attorney for D.C.; and Jocelyn S. Ballantine, the line prosecutor handling the Flynn case at trial.
“The Constitution vests in the Executive Branch the power to decide when—and when not—to prosecute potential crimes,” DOJ argued in its brief. Rules of federal criminal procedure, cited by Sullivan in support of his gambit to appoint himself both judge and prosecutor in the inquisition against Flynn, “do[] not authorize a court to stand in the way of a dismissal the defendant does not oppose, and any other reading of [those rules] would violate both Article II and Article III” of the constitution, DOJ wrote.
“Nor, under the circumstances of this case, may the district court assume the role of prosecutor and initiate criminal charges of its own,” the brief continued. “Instead of inviting further proceedings the court should have granted the government’s motion to dismiss.”
In their brief to the appellate court detailing the facts of the Flynn case, Francisco and the other DOJ attorneys noted that prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) ambush interview of Flynn on January 24, 2017, “the FBI identified no ‘derogatory information’ about petitioner and determined that he ‘was no longer a viable candidate’ for investigation.”
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If this judge can't make his own arguments and decisions, why is he on the bench?
When one is in sync with the zeitgeist, there is no need for the giving and receiving of orders. A laughing comment tossed off by someone when the group gathers for their regular after-work drinkiepoo more than suffices to achieve alignment of understanding.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US ambassador to Germany has resigned from his post and the State Department after two years in the job.
Richard Grenell posted the news late Monday on his Instagram account, without indicating what he planned to do next.
While no reason was given for Grenell’s resignation, it has been widely speculated that he may join US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s re-election campaign.
Trump named Grenell ambassador to Germany in April 2018. He quickly drew the ire of many in Germany with his outspoken views — often expressed via social media — though German officials largely held back criticism of their close ally’s envoy.
A front man for the US embassy in Berlin said that in keeping with normal practice, Deputy Chief of Mission Robin Quinville would become the charge d’affaires until a new ambassador is confirmed.
Quinville joined the US diplomatic service in 1988, with stations including Vienna, Brussels, Cyprus, London and Baghdad.
"The US Mission in Germany continues to work on the administration’s foreign policy priorities," said embassy front man Joseph Giordono-Scholz.
Among Grenell’s top priorities was trying to get Germany to spend more on defense, in line with its NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... pledges, cracking down on Lebanese Hezbollah’s activity in Germany and opposing the construction of a pipeline bringing Russian natural gas to Germany.
“China is demonstrating once again that it is willing to bully its neighbors" with its actions at the border with #India, says US House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel.https://t.co/gpOAxVH6yu
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 2, 2020
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[NYPOST] A teen murder suspect in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors is expected to plead guilty Wednesday for his involvement in her botched mugging death, according to an official.
Zyairr Davis, 13, has admitted to helping Luchiano Lewis, 15, and Rashaun Weaver, 15, rob the 18-year-old college freshman in Morningside Park in December, but has denied being the one who stabbed her.
Lewis allegedly put Majors in "a bear hug or headlock" during the robbery, while Weaver allegedly stabbed her with such fury that feathers flew from her winter coat, authorities have alleged. The pair were arrested in February some two months after Davis.
The hearing is scheduled to be held before Family Court Judge Carol Goldstein at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Manhattan court, where Davis plans to make an admission of guilt in the case, New York courts front man Lucian Chalfen confirmed. The hearing will be held virtually by video, he said.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The spokesperson for the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, Tahsin al-Khafaji, confirmed on Tuesday, that the Iraqi army obtained information confirming the presence of high-ranking leaders of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist organiation inside the region that witnessed the second phase of Operation "Heroes of Iraq" in the Kirkuk Governorate.
Al-Khafaji said: "The access of the army forces to terrorists’ phones during the operation and the information we obtained inside the additions that were found confirms the presence of some prominent leaders of the terrorist organization inside this region, and therefore the process of maintaining pressure and continuing to pursue them resumes."
He continued that "the operation started from four axes to chase the terrorists, and all objectives were achieved in the first hours of the launch of the operation," explaining: "We found a lot of additives, and a number of bandidosbandidos krazed killers were engaged at one of the axes of the operation, and two of them were killed."
He pointed out that "this operation indicates the accuracy of security and intelligence information and the accuracy of specific operations, and also the rough terrain that our forces have not reached before and is considered a soft zone."
The press front man of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces, Yahya Rasoul, announced on Tuesday, the launching of the second phase of Operation "Heroes of Iraq".
The IRF battalion — which deployed to Iraq earlier this year to quell Iran-backed violence — brought approximately 750 soldiers, ten Black Hawk helicopters, and four Chinooks, according to sources. The helicopters are utility, not attack, and are used to transport troops short distances.
The aircraft are just one of the ways troops could be transported, but would give the IRF the ability to rapidly deploy to a number of locations in the D.C. Metro area quickly.
The force was ordered to the region on Monday afternoon, after being told to be ready on Saturday, sources told Breitbart News.
Two more IRF battalions have been put on short-notice alert status — meaning they would have to be ready to deploy within two hours if ordered.
The orders to the IRF and other active-duty military units come as President Trump urged state governors to take back the streets from rioters, who have engaged in a spree of violence, looting, destruction of property, and other crimes.
Washington, D.C., stayed relatively quiet on Monday night compared to previous nights after the deployments were ordered.
BREAKING: @FOXLA has learned that LAPD arrested 31 y/o Gregory Wong in DTLA this AM while dressed as/impersonating National Guard. He was armed to the teeth and was booked on assault weapons charges. LAPD says federal charges may come next. Sources confirm this photo. @FOXLApic.twitter.com/NPp8mFuh9x
The Washington Post is reporting that President Trump indicated that he might take direct control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department to quell the riots. This appears a reference to Section 1-207.40. Unlike the Insurrection Act, this provision is ...
...written in mandatory terms and no qualifications. The law gives the President the discretion ("may direct") and gives the Mayor a mandatory obligation ("shall provide") the services specified by the President. In other words, he could take effective control in tasking ...
..the D.C. police with deployment or enforcement roles. "Emergency" is left ambiguous under the law but few courts would question that rioting qualifies. In other words, this could be used by the President in any dispute over his plan to "dominate the streets."
Notably, Gov. Cuomo just raised his own authority to take over the streets in New York City after criticizing the performance of Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD. In the case of Washington, it remains a federal enclave and even more subject to such authority.
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Las Vegas: Rioter Shoots Police Officer in the Head from Behind
[BREITBART] Las Vegas Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told a press briefing an officer was shot around 11 p.m. Monday night and is at death's door and on life support at University Medical Center.
Lombardo said officers were dealing with a large group of rioters at a George Floyd protest near the Circus Circus hotel-casino when the officer went down.
Rioters were allegedly throwing rocks and debris at the officers before the officer was shot, KTNV Las Vegas reports.
"Our officers were attempting to take rocks and bottles from the crowd," said Lombardo during the presser. "Officers were attempting to get some of the protesters in jug when a shot rang out and our officer went down."
SWAT and K9 at the scene responded and were able to apprehend the suspected shooter while a second shooting was also notified:
The second incident occurred at the courthouse on South Las Vegas Boulevard after officers who were posted to protect it from rioters. They encountered a suspect at approximately 11:22 p.m. armed with multiple weapons and appeared to be wearing body armor.
When authorities approached, the suspect reached for one of those weapons and was subsequently shot by the responding officers, ABC News reports.
The suspect later died at the hospital.
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Attorney General Bill Barr and Defense Secretary Mark Esper both walking around the streets of DC tonight visiting police lines. pic.twitter.com/VZ1Q5dg4o8
And here comes Ben Shapiro and Nikki Haley and David French and Jonah Goldberg and head of the Heritage Foundation Kay C. James to explain why this a good and principled conservative phenomenon.
Youtube vid (the guy may have been an imposter and not a BLMer, but that doesn't matter. What matters is the "good doggie" reaction):
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Buffalo Officials Appear to Have Caught 'Idiot' Who Lit City Hall on Fire
[Townhall] Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown was outraged after watching video surveillance of the criminal who threw a flaming object through the window of city hall on Saturday night. It was one of the more destructive acts performed in the city this weekend as the protests against the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd turned violent. In his reaction to the mayhem, the usually soft spoken Mayor Brown surprised the city by using stronger language than he's perhaps ever used before.
"We have you on camera, you idiot," Brown told the city hall assailant.
On Monday, the Buffalo police appear to have captured and identified the idiot. The perpetrator is named as 20-year-old Buffalo resident Courtland Renford. He is being held on state and federal charges for the act of arson. He is facing a minimum of five years in prison.
“We came to riot,” wrote Matthew Lee Rupert on his Facebook page (now deleted). Rupert is charged with civil disorder, possession of unregistered explosives and participating in and organizing riots. He’s the first individual charged in federal court for crossing state lines to incite a riot.
There’s no indication of Mr. Rupert’s politics. He was arrested in Chicago after posting his intent to start riots there.
Between eight and 10 white men and women “were clearly coordinating with each other. They were walking around the building, taking notes,” Cranley said.
“You would have some of these folks try to get all the way around the building, and they were clearly taking notes on how many cops were there, looking at windows and entrances to the building,” Cranley said.
On the other side of the building, Cranley said, he saw a white man who appeared to hold an incendiary device and repeatedly point to a window.
“He was consistently pointing to a window in full view of the cops,” Cranley said. “He clearly knew he was being watched.”
Cranley believed those “agitators” wanted to provoke police. A police spokesman said several officers, including Chief Eliot Isaac, saw this happen. Cranley believes their intent was to “provoke a response from police, presumably to get the cops to fire into the crowd.”
“This guy went through the motions of pouring a liquid very conspicuously onto his shirt or a rag … and when he went to throw it, fireworks went off at the same time,” Cranley said. “Then a whole bunch of water bottles were thrown at the cops at the same time.”
Minnesota, New York Officials Say Evidence Shows Weekend Riots Were Planned, Chicago Demands Fed Investigation Into ‘Organized’ Violence
[DailyWire] “Speaking at an afternoon news conference today with other officials, Lightfoot didn’t say whether the groups are out-of-state left-wing anti-fascist organizations generally known as Antifa, right-wing agitators, local street gangs or something else. She said she’s asked three federal agencies—the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms & Explosives, and the U.S. Attorney’s office—for help, with a focus on AFT’s bomb and arson unit,” the outlet reported late Sunday.
I believe the man who first appears at 23 seconds is dead.
I'm sure Bolshitube will remove the video soon so archive archive archive.
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New York Night-Time Curfew Extended to June 7 after Looting
[AnNahar] New York's mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters that a 8:00 pm to 5:00 am curfew, due to come into force Tuesday, would now run until Sunday. It comes after a curfew on Monday that began at the later time of 11:00 pm failed to deter rioters from looting a number of luxury stores across Manhattan.
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Last report from my neck of the woods; Quincy crowd dispersed around three hours ago, Boston may still be limping along and Brockton's winding down as we speak (dispersal around 11:20). All three local stations have stopped broadcasting so further updates are unavailable.
Summary - no damage in Quincy, some cars getting abused (but not set on fire) in Boston & Brockton, no apparent mass looting anywhere, though I'm sure some stores got trashed & looted somewhere that's yet to be reported.
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tw - it was the JV team (and less) out there in Quincy; gangbangers, ho's, free agents from Randolph and local stringers in Brockton; and the usual suspects in Boston.
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Further north in the New England area, they had what looked like Quincy College Kid Protest II - Electric Boogaloo in my hometown of Manchester, NH. They had some candlelight vigil in Stark Park (north Manchester), and I love how they moved all the black people to the front for the cameras because the rest of the crowd was 100% honky; none of them over 30. It was like racking up a ton of cue balls.
Further in town, I heard they clogged up South Willow Street for an hour or so; not sure where they started from, so more nuisance than anything else. Unlike the protests there a few years ago, I don't think these jagoffs were bussed in from Boston because of the protests there. Again, if the first crowd is representative of the asswipes on South Willow, it's young idiots and college kids on this one.
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last night the AFL/CIO HQ was hit
Let's see what the WaPo will say if their building (btw, it is on K street) is hit.
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Let's see what the WaPo will say if their building is hit.
The will say they are "Proud to have played a part in the historic events..."
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The first picture is Adam Schiff in blackface...
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Let's see what the WaPo will say if their building is hit.
"Get another one on Amazon. The boss has Prime"
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So... Has anything been done with Trumps designation of Antifa as terrorists? Any arrests? Funds seized?
Has he actually taken over the DC police? Deployed any troops to put down the rioters?
No?
Why should he get my vote again? This is a basic function of government, and he's derelict.
I think US Marshalls should be arresting every mayor and governor who "gives room to destroy" for violating the rights of the riot victims. I'd settle for action taken against the rioters. But nothing's being done.
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Your pissy non vote for Trump is a vote for everything you just said you are angry about. Get a grip.
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Kind of hard for him to actually get things done when he's obstructed at every turn, Rob.
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Has anything been done with Trumps designation of Antifa as terrorists?
OODA, Rob. First they have to collect information, then they will do things. Or perhaps they are doing things without announcing it to all the world, like going through the data collected from the several thousand arrested thus far...
But in the meantime, did you see the video of all those khaki-coloured vehicles driving down 14th Street, and read about the arrival of the 82nd Airborne?
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Your insurance agent smiles and says, "You don't have a terrorism rider." Calling my agent tomorrow to find out what that is going to cost me.
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I agree with delay if it means ripping them out by the roots when they finally act.
I also think that every Mayor/Gov giving their rioters room to vent should be removed at the first opportunity special election or Nov election, whichever applies.
#SOHR “Peace Spring” areas | #Turkish-backed factions impose zakat levy on agricultural crops, while committing arsons on frontlines with #SDFhttps://t.co/5dZKRLm0mf
[BREITBART] Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... blamed police for "escalating[ing] tension" across the nation in a speech delivered Tuesday in Philadelphia’s city hall to respond to President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... ’s nationwide crackdown on violent protest and looting.
Biden spoke on the morning after protests over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had once again erupted into violence and looting in many cities.
Biden criticized violent protest, but also blamed police:
There’s no place for violence, no place for looting or destroying property or burning churches or destroying businesses, many of them built by the very people of color who are [for] the first time in their lives are beginning to realize their dreams and build wealth for their families. Nor is it acceptable for our police, sworn to protect and serve all people, to escalate tension, resort to excessive violence. We need to distinguish between legitimate, peaceful protests and opportunistic violent destruction.
It was not immediately clear what Biden meant, though the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... claimed, inaccurately, on Sunday that police had responded to protests with greater force.
In many cities, in fact, many residents complained that police had retreated in the face of widespread looting and destruction in Santa Monica, Philadelphia, and other cities.
The Trump campaign responded to Biden’s speech by accusing him of "stand[ing] with the rioters," noting that Biden’s staff had paid the bail for several people who had been arrested by the police during the festivities.
[No sympathy for them then.]
[RetailDive] Over the weekend, several retail chains nationwide sustained damage during protests, some peaceful, some violent over police killings of Black Americans.
Among the locations caught in the melees was the Lake Street Target store in Minneapolis near where George Floyd died after a policeman held his knee on his neck for over eight minutes. The killing of Floyd sparked protests across the U.S. over the last week.
On Sunday, the mass merchant said its goal was to reopen the store "in late 2020." Target also closed another Minneapolis location, along with stores in Oakland, California, Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia "until further notice." Employees of these stores will be paid at elevated COVID-19 wages for up to 14 days for their scheduled shifts and can work at nearby stores, the company said in a statement.
Nordstrom closed all of its stores Sunday after stores, including one at the Grove shopping center in Los Angeles and its Seattle flagship, were damaged. The further closures come as the department store was preparing to reopen several full-line and off-price Rack locations as pandemic-related restrictions ease.
But both retailers joined Nike and others in keeping their focus on the reasons for the protest, rather than on the losses at stores.
"We are a community in pain," CEO Brian Cornell wrote in a separate statement posted to the Target site. "That pain is not unique to the Twin Cities — it extends across America. The murder of George Floyd has unleashed the pent-up pain of years, as have the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. We say their names and hold a too-long list of others in our hearts. As a Target team, we’ve huddled, we’ve consoled, we’ve witnessed horrific scenes similar to what’s playing out now and wept that not enough is changing. And as a team we’ve vowed to face pain with purpose." (Emphasis Cornell's.)
In an open letter to employees posted publicly on the Nordstrom site, CEO Erik Nordstrom and President and Chief Brand Officer Pete Nordstrom, similarly mentioned those three recent victims by name and said in a statement that their "senseless deaths ... and too many others reflect the deeply ingrained racial prejudice and injustice that still exists in our communities today."
"It is stirring many emotions, which it should," they said. "The unnecessary and unjust killing of anyone must not be accepted. The issue of race and the experiences of too many people of color cannot be ignored."
Shawn Grain Carter, professor of fashion business management at the Fashion Institute of Technology, described the activism as a watershed moment for fashion and retail, and a time when these businesses must look to their core values rather than to marketing or public relations goals.
"Nike, Target, Nordstrom, I applaud them — and the rest, they need to get with the program," she told Retail Dive by phone. "They are leading by example, as opposed to people who like to advise everyone to be like Switzerland and stay neutral in the war. That’s no longer acceptable and that’s what the brands are learning the hard way."
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I wanna see the property of all the communist corporations seized and given to actual non-rioting poor people, of which, thanks to the communists corporations, we now have plenty of on the Gulf Coast.
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So revenue losing big brick&mortar stores (Target...?) won't rebuild and will deduct the casualty loss damages then sell off the real estate for 10x what it cost them years ago.
Neiman Marcus is cussing their (too early) bankruptcy process.
[HotAir] Adweek has an interesting piece on why Target is being, well, targeted by the anarchists and thieves who are looting stores in the chain. It’s not a random choice. A young woman aired grievances via a Twitter thread explaining the corporation’s history of supporting and funding local police.
Minneapolis is the epicenter of Target branding. Target’s Bull Terrier mascot is seen when the Twins make a home run at Target Field. Target Center is the home of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx. Target also has a history of supporting the Minneapolis Police Department. That makes the corporation an enemy in the eyes of the rioters.
[Jpost] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday alluded to new US measures against the International Criminal Court "in the coming days," dropping hints that the retaliation could go beyond revoking visas to financial penalties.
In an interview with the American Enterprise Institute, he said, "You’ll see in the coming days a series of announcements not just from the State Department, from all across the United States government, that attempt to push back against what the ICC is up to."
"I think that the ICC and the world will see that we are determined to prevent having Americans and our friends and allies in Israel and elsewhere hauled in by this corrupt ICC," Pompeo said.
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The secretary of state has also faced bipartisan pressure to defend Israel from any ICC probe. Hundreds of politicians from both the Senate and the House of Representatives sent a letter in mid-May...
Bipartisan pressure? We talking about the US here? Say it ain't so, bipartisan agreement on something.
A #Kurdish man is stabbed to death by three Turkish men near #Turkey’s capital Ankara because he was listening to Kurdish music, according to a media report.https://t.co/Nbg0yjjnSC
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#Libya’s warring parties agree to restart ceasefire talks, says the #UN mission to the country, after weeks of intense fighting near the capital Tripoli.https://t.co/nvRPYU6MIQ
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Hudna to rearm
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Reuters is currently a paid FACT CHECKER for Facebook, Twitter and YouTube so now TASS is checking them for accuracy!
.@Reuters announces @tass_agency, the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide, has become a partner on Reuters Connect https://t.co/bFTjHLx2rC
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If nothing else it shows Cuomo the Arch-Weasel, ever-solicitous of his image, sensing that the winds are shifting, blowback has arrived and that he therefore needs to quickly get upwind of Wilhelm.
Doesn't do f-all to help the poor tormented citizens of New York, however.
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If the Rantburg spam filter eats your post, hit the browser back button and your comment will still be in edit mode. Edit the naughty/spammy words and try again and again.
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The list is known only to Fred, Clem. OPSEC versus spammers necessitates it. ;-) I suspect it sometimes picks up words that contain a letter sequence on the forbidden list, because computers are literal, but that’s just a guess. Not being swamped with hundreds of spams is worth a little inconvenience.
Hupiger Whoting8374 lays out the technique I use, too.
Note: this not saying they filed but used legal methods to reduce or eliminate their taxes owed. It says they skipped filing altogether. The full IG report is included at the end of the article.
[LidBlog] Liberals are almost right when they say the rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes. Truth is, SOME of the rich didn’t pay their fair share of taxes—because they didn’t file tax returns. A report by the Treasury Dept. inspector general reveals that from fiscal years 2014 through 2016, about 879,000 high-income Americans did not file taxes, and the IRS didn’t even go after them for their aggregate taxes due of $45.7 billion. High-income nonfilers.
The report breaks down the 879K as follows (the bullet points were taken from the report embedded below):
The IRS did not work 369,180 high-income nonfilers, with an estimated tax due of $20.8 billion. Of the 369,180 high-income nonfilers, 326,579 were not placed in inventory to be selected for work, and 42,601 were closed out of the inventory without ever being worked.
In addition, the remaining 510,235 high-income nonfilers, totaling estimated tax due of $24.9 billion, are sitting in one of the Collection function’s inventory streams and will likely not be pursued as resources decline.
The IRS removed high-income nonfiler cases from inventory, resulting in 37,217 cases totaling $3.2 billion in estimated tax dollars
The IG seems to scold the IRS at the very beginning of the report:
The intentional failure to file Federal tax returns is a crime. Nonfiling of tax returns can also be subject to civil fraud penalties.2 In the past, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has focused on the tax compliance of high-income individuals because their noncompliance can have a significant corrosive effect on tax administration. Intentional nonfiling of tax returns by those with significant financial resources and sophistication is a brazen form of noncompliance.
According to IRS procedures, high-income nonfiler cases present a high compliance risk; therefore, these should typically be selected for review and issued a notice. Pursuing nonfilers is one of the IRS’s most efficient enforcement strategies because issuing nonfiler notices can be a cost-effective tool that requires little more than automated notices. Previous IRS research studies from decades ago noted that at that time, the IRS pursued most nonfiler leads. However, with some exceptions, that no longer appears to be the case.
The top 100 highest-earning nonfiling individuals in each of the three years collectively owe $10 billion. In 99 of those 300 cases, the IRS did not even place the case into the investigation inventory and 44 were closed without any effort to work them. The remaining 157 cases were technically in the queue, but IRS conceded it was unlikely to work them due to a decline in available resources.
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The IRS did not work 369,180 high-income nonfilers, with an estimated tax due of $20.8 billion. Of the 369,180 high-income nonfilers, 326,579 were not placed in inventory to be selected for work, and 42,601 were closed out of the inventory without ever being worked.
But it's so haaard.
As per usual, the organs will only go after the easiest targets.
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and will likely not be pursued as resources decline.
Sure as hell not through a reduction in forcer - still around 80,000 last I checked, all of them still getting paid as they still refuse to take my phone calls.
The only thing they have going for them here - no tax return means the statute of limitations hasn't run let. Jeez - it's not difficult to go get this money.
The sadder (but not surprising) part of this - the utter lack of interest by IRS employees. I'd give up my practice for 5% commission and turn me loose for five years; I could retire a multi-millionaire in about two years.
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It is most likely the same people year over year. It is tough to give up that extra 30-40 percent each year. Additionally if you owe the IRS a few thousand they want it all plus penalties. If you owe the IRS millions they usually settle for pennies on the dollar. So if you are going to cheat, cheat big!
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Only the ones who have made political contributions to the "wrong" side will get any attention.
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If you owe the IRS millions they usually settle for pennies on the dollar.
Offers in compromise are, generally speaking, difficult to get the IRS to consent to. The two stated criteria for relief are doubt as to liability and doubt as to collectability. In this case there is a third criteria - the ability for them to use high priced lawyers / CPA's to 'create' a suitable condition for relief. Also - OIC lawyers (like my tax lawyer colleague, Matt M.) can do this simply by knowing and being familiar with OIC staff (i.e., cut deals). I don't know how prevalent that last part is but we're pretty sure it happens.
The joint 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 forces affiliated with the government announced on Monday evening, the killing and wounding of several Ansarallah fighters in festivities in the Hodeidah Governorate.
The Giants Brigades operating within the strength of the joint forces stated, on its site, that "the 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 carried out a wide attack from the south and east sides towards Wadi Dhami and the farms bordering on Hays, and from the north and west sides towards the Khokhah line, Wadi Nakhla and Beit Bish."
They said that "the joint forces lured the Houthi elements and suddenly pounced on them with the appropriate weapons."
"The forces were able to break the attack, and dozens of Houthis were killed and maimed," they said.
On the other hand, the Ansarallah forces group the Arab coalition and the Yemeni joint forces of being "in violation of the ceasefire ."
Al-Masirah TV, speaking on behalf of the Ansarallah forces, quoted a source in the group’s liaison officers’ room as saying that "among the violations were the flight of 16 warplanes and 71 spy planes in the air of various districts of Hodeidah."
They pointed out that "more than 461 breaches were carried out in May, with missile and artillery shelling of 2,333 rockets and missiles."
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[Rutherford Institute] "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you."—John Lennon
Brace yourselves.
There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.
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As soon as you get police attention, all kinds of bad things can happen. Of course, deciding to not get police attention is no guarantee you won't...
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So much for the blueprint.
Where's the REDprint?
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An eruption of the Yellowstone caldera would shake the Kasbah , DC, NYC, and a whole lot more. Looting will be minor inconvenience. Bigger fish to fry.
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Would make me eternally (such as that went) grateful to be living in So Cal
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Another state demanding a big federal bailout. Start the process by subtracting every cent they have spent fighting the federal government in court.
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May Pres Trump everyday remind New Yorkers and the nation that the NY Democrats own Antifa/BLM and all the destruction they cause. Just like Occupy Wall Street a few years before.
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I think they tried that in 1861. Didn't work.
She might want to contemplate this little part of the Constitution -
No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof
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She'd rather let NYC burn. Then she'd blame Trump for it.
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I'm pretty sure Trump isn't going to send in troops without the buy-in from the Gov. He's pushing them to do something and suggesting Trump might do something will usually get liberals to do something else. That leaves them with (a) Cracking down themselves (b) letting their cities burn. So far they've chosen option B.
An independent British investigator looking into allegations that #UK soldiers committed war crimes in #Iraq between 2003 and 2009 says that all but one of the thousands of complaints have been dropped.https://t.co/FE3o74SuZ5
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 2, 2020
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Betcha there will be the same end for George Floyd story.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A leading suspect arrested by Belgian police on suspicion of kidnapping a 13-year-old is an holy warrior with terrorism convictions, a source close to the investigation told AFP on Tuesday.
Khalid Bouloudo, 45, was arrested on Monday along with five others, accused of taking the young son of a suspected drug pusher hostage for ransom and holding him for 42 days until his release on Sunday.
Bouloudo — identified by prosecutors by his initials and hometown: "B.K. of Maaseik" — is a former member of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM),
... Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain, one of the North African Salafi jihadist groups spawned in Afghanistan during the tenure of the Taliban...
an holy warrior group with ties to al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
He was due to go on trial in September accused of running a GICM cell in Belgium, having had a previous conviction overturned after an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
In 2018 he was convicted of a terrorism offence for recruiting fighters to join an holy warrior faction in Syria’s civil war, but his 10-year sentence was reduced to three years suspended on appeal.
The source told AFP others among the six suspects arrested with Bouloudo are also suspected of extremism ties, but it was not clear whether the kidnap will be prosecuted as terrorist fundraising or a simple crime.
The GICM is an armed movement linked to al-Qaeda which is suspected of having participated in attacks in Madrid that left 191 dead on March 11, 2004 and Casablanca, in which 45 were killed on May 16, 2003.
[FOXNEWS] The attorney for George Floyd’s family said Tuesday that former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'... is expected to attend the funeral service next week in Houston, Texas for the Minneapolis man who died in police custody.
Ben Crump, the attorney for Floyd’s family, announced details of Floyd’s memorial services—one set in Minneapolis this Thursday, North Carolina on Saturday, and Houston on Monday--during an interview with "Team Roc" on Tuesday.
Crump said that the funeral will be in Houston next Tuesday at 11 a.m.
"We understand that Vice President Biden will be in attendance," Crump said Tuesday.
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Next, he'll be standing on a street corner selling girl scout cookies, fast talking for votes and sniffing little girl's hair. (Parents, hide your children).
[Facebook] ANTIFA and other clowns better have their OPSEC on, but my strong guess is that they already screwed up so much on OPSEC that they are about to know what it's like to be hunted by real predators who are straight up killers and love their jobs.
ANTIFA clowns probably have little idea at how quickly and surely their networks and nodes will be mapped. Minutes. Especially if you carry a phone or similar device, they will know everyone you met with, everywhere you went, books you browsed online, where you travelled, when you travelled, what time you hit the toilet, when you sleep.
They will know if you are gay or not by the way your handle your phone. They will know more about you than you know about you.
They will know every financial transaction. If any billionaire or famous person has supported you, they will know.
All compromised. All your contacts around the world. And your contacts' contacts, where they vacation, who your girlfriend or boyfriend is sleeping with while you are playing ANTIFA.
They may share your information or that of your contacts with foreign intelligence services who may target you or your contacts overseas.
They will know any journalists you contact -- or if maybe you are a journalist at, say, CNN -- who nightlights as ANTIFA.
If you are a cop, or married to one, they will know. If you are in the US military, you will be caught. Instantly.
They might not say a word.
They might just watch you for years. Many years. Or they might blow a hole in your wall and you wake up with a gun in your face.
Or, maybe, many years from now when you thought you got away, a small team will bundle you off a beach at night and onto a dark boat and your disappearance will barely make a footnote, and may never even hit the news.
You are up against big boys and girls who play by adult rules.
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I can only hope this man is given the authority he needs to go after these animals. And that punishments be appropriate. And that those punishments stick. And that they learn and not become more hardened.
#12
It took 18 years to find Whitey Bulger. 60's radical and cop killer Katherine Ann Power was on the run for 23 years after being put on the FBIs most wanted list in 1970. Often times, the police get the wrong house in a high risk-entry and bust into some poor schlump's house--mistaken identity does happen. Just saying.
If you don't mind living the street life, there is always one of those "Sanctuary Cities" like San Francisco to get lost in. You might have to operate on a cash basis only and dump the cell phone and computer. You need to make certain your DNA doesn't end up in some data base. (The French Foreign Legion and a new identify is not an option if you are wanted for a serious crime.)
The article makes one wonder if and how long a person could remain invisible in today's world?
Largely because the FBI didn't want to find Whitey Bulger, being on their payroll for so long and having serious dirt on H. Paul Rico, Vino Connolly and, well, the rest of the Boston FBI office.
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#13 Largely because the FBI didn't want to find Whitey Bulger, being on their payroll for so long and having serious dirt on H. Paul Rico, Vino Connolly and, well, the rest of the Boston FBI office.
Guess who covered it up when he was Director of the FBI?
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/\ They couldn't or didn't want to find Flynn's original 302. However, they did try to find Russian collusion everywhere (even when it didn't exist anywhere) except with HRC and her camp followers.
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an unredacted Oz Walsh Report for the GSM world.
For the US - the electronic frontier properly covers Gore's CALEA wiretap act
For the US - look at the sensors in your tires that broadcast all sorts of stuff to the EPA
And when you do the pollution test on your car the state gets the time and place of everywhere you have been in that car since the last test
Then the cell phones...
#Turkey issued detention warrants for 118 people, mostly members of the military and security forces, suspected of links to the network that Ankara says was behind a 2016 coup attempt, the Istanbul prosecutor’s office says.https://t.co/QqY0YjVVUb
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 2, 2020
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#Israel says it has successfully tested two ballistic missiles in the Mediterranean, amid tensions with #Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.https://t.co/RyqsUh4z1f
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Anything killed in the Palestinian fishing zone was an added benefit to testing.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Jordan’s General Intelligence Department thwarted two terrorist plots targeting its building in Zarqa, and one of its stationed patrols, and the accused were arrested in late February, al-Rai revealed this week.
According to the newspaper, the defendants planned their terrorist operation for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS), and they were following the organization’s versions to strengthen their resolve and consolidate their ideas with them.
According to the attorney of the State Security Prosecution, the two defendants face charges of conspiracy with the intention of carrying out terrorist acts and promoting the ideas of a terrorist group.
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Sami Al-Zarrouk, commander of Al-Mughairat #GNA militia from Misrata was killed by the Libyan Army #LNA near Tripoli international airport today . Another #GNA militia commander dead .#Libyapic.twitter.com/CXbIXqJ6lL
Warlord Haftar’s militiaman Khaled Al-Mishai was killed in a drone strike by Libyan air force south of Gharyan on Tuesday. Al-Mishai is allegedly responsible for the murder of 26 Bangladeshis and 4 African migrants in Mizda town. pic.twitter.com/DUjACw98aQ
[NYPost] The head of the Minneapolis police union says George Floyd’s "violent criminal history" needs to be remembered and that the protests over his death are the work of a "terrorist movement."
"What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. The media will not air this," police union president Bob Kroll told his members in a letter posted Monday on Twitter.
Floyd had landed five years behind bars in 2009 for an assault and robbery two years earlier, and before that, had been convicted of charges ranging from theft with a firearm to drugs, the Daily Mail reported.
Floyd died last week after a white cop kneeled on the 46-year-old black man’s neck for nearly 9 minutes, a shocking incident that was caught on video and is sparking widespread violent protests, including in New York City. Floyd had allegedly just tried to pass a phony $20 bill before he died.
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Floyd's history is not relevant, counterfeiting is not a death penalty crime and we are not mega-city one where cops get to kill people for petty crimes. He deserved a court of law.
Trump should be looking into banning police unions as they work to keep bad actors on the force.
Trump should also develop a program that promotes minorities becoming cops in minority communities. Not sure how to work that but they should look into it. Clearly having minority police chiefs and mayors has not helped as they are socialist idiots, but if you had enough black cops they would be seen differently by those communities even if policing was the same.
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/\ Fotos/video show he was in the police car, then moments later he was on the pavement. I can't believe the police put him in the backseat of a squad, attempted to buckle him in (standard procedure), then decided to remove him in order to put him on the pavement and asphyxiate him.
Baden was the chief medical examiner of the City of New York from 1978 to 1979, but was removed from his position by New York City Mayor Ed Koch, after Koch had received complaints about his work.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Baden then took the same position a few miles away in Suffolk County, but was dismissed for allegedly making inappropriate comments about how to commit the perfect murder.[5][12][13][6] The decision to let him go was rescinded shortly thereafter, as the circumstances of his alleged comments were unclear, but Baden chose to leave the position nonetheless.[13]
He has been hired to conduct private autopsies in a number of cases, including the shooting of Michael Brown
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#9 He said he was claustrophobic. That's why they went up on the roof to smoke meth.
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Since Chauvin reportedly came around the back of the vehicle and deposited Floyd along the rear wheel well, I presume he was being a problem while being belted it , and since the days of a hickory shampoo to quell bad behavior are long gone, was using the knee/ neck alternative to the famous LAPD choke hold to lower the perps consciousness level. Clearly it went south from there.
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How would you like to be on that jury, knowing that if you acquit, today's riots look like a Sunday school picnic. It won't matter what the evidence shows, or what the prosecutor and defense attorneys say.
This will be a case of "Bring the guilty bastard in. We'll give him a fair trial before we hang him."
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I know i'm simply terrible for saying this, but apart from the series of events catalyzed by his demise, I'm not sorry he's dead.
In light of what's happened, we'd be better if he hadn't been killed, but I won't pretend to miss him.
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Prediction:
Now that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has taken over the case, he will over-charge the perps. This will get the Dem base fired up twice - first time when Ellison piles on various layers of murder and mopery, the second when a jury acquits the cops on the excessive charges.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As America and its allies spend trillions to stimulate their economies and mitigate consequences of 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... lockdown, Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... and its satellite states have either been begging international organizations for loans or have been simply defaulting on their debt and watching their economies sink.
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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.
[Huffpoo] Mike Mullen, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, wrote in The Atlantic on Tuesday that he "cannot remain silent" about President Donald Trump any longer. 
[WFB] Ex-CIA operative and prominent anti-Semite defeated in congressional primary. Valerie Plame's congressional bid came to an end on Tuesday when the former CIA operative, who has battled accusations of anti-Semitism and carpet bagging, was defeated in a Democratic primary.
[Coeur d'Alene/Post Falls Press] Men with semi-automatic weapons, handguns say they are here to protect city amid reports of militants heading this way
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans sympathize with nationwide protests over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody and disapprove of President Donald Trump’s response to the unrest, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
[Found rooting around in the disorganized mess that is WhatFinger] Resolution HJR074, drafted in March, requires the state to "[extend] a safe harbor to Virginians and other United States citizens whose constitutional rights are being violated by elected officials." It also affirms that citizens have a right to maintain arms equivalent "to those of their government's basic infantry unit."
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[PJ] After a week of bloody, destructive riots with cities duly torched and looted, ABC News has offered up a misty-eyed story about how police around the country are kneeling — Colin Kaepernick style — alongside protesters. In some cases, they’ve actually joined protests in uniform.
...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...
[SPR] David Dorn, a retired law enforcement official, was shot and killed early Tuesday morning after responding to a burglary alarm at Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry on Martin Luther King Drive in north St. Louis.
[TheHill] Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D), who has been the target of sharp criticism by activists for his handling of protests in the city against police brutality, knelt with protesters on Tuesday as demonstrators urged him to defund the city's police department.
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
[NYPOST] A teen murder suspect in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors is expected to plead guilty Wednesday for his involvement in her botched mugging death, according to an official.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
[Breitbart] An 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force battalion arrived to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland Monday evening for a civil unrest mission in the nation’s capitol, according to sources.
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
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