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Dress up in anti-riot gear and look scary. Seems to be the official response these days. Meanwhile don't worry about you wife and kids you left at home to fend for themselves.
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Every cop knows any time he hauls in a antifa asshole he will probably get ripped up one side and down the other for grabbing some feeb's CI.
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#1 yeah, understood - sorry it's a sprawling roundup article by Bill Gertz and three others that's tough to summarize.
I guess the key passage is this one that closes the piece with a quote from a former FBI honcho under W:
The FBI, which is in charge of countering domestic security threats posed by foreign intelligence services or domestic terrorists, has largely avoided focusing on Antifa. A search of the FBI website produces no results for Antifa.
The FBI investigated three Antifa activists suspected of beating a Unite the Right protester in Charlottesville three years ago, but no charges were brought.
Kenneth deGraffenreid, who was deputy national counterintelligence executive during the George W. Bush administration, said the FBI has not been engaged in effective domestic counterintelligence for years.
“The FBI has not had a meaningful domestic counterintelligence capability for many years,” Mr. deGraffenreid said. “They’ve been distracted or politically corrupted.”
[Headtopics] WATCH: President Trump was once a huge fan of Gen. Mattis — and here's the video to prove it
"The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on June 1, 2020," retired Marine Gen. John Allen wrote in a scathing op-ed. "Remember the date."
"Donald Trump expressed only the barest of condolences at the murder of George Floyd, but he also said nothing about the fundamental and underlying reasons for the unrest: systemic racism and inequality, a historic absence of respect, and a denial of justice," Allen wrote. "Yes, he mentioned George Floyd, but he did not touch on long-standing societal problems at all. He sees the crisis as a black problem — not as something to be addressed by creating the basis and impetus for a move toward social justice, but as an opportunity to use force to portray himself as a ’law and order’ president.
with possible ties to terrorism' as FBI joins investigation The 20-year-old Brooklyn man who stabbed a police officer in the neck and then stole his handgun before he was shot eight times by nearby cops is an immigrant from the Balkan region who is being investigated for ties to terrorism.
Two other coppers were shot in the hand during the incident late on Wednesday, though it is unclear if they were shot by the suspect with the gun he stole from the ambushed cop or if they were hit by gunfire from responding officers.
The suspect has been identified as Dzenan Camovic. The FBI announced on Thursday that it is taking part in the investigation.
The incident took place late Wednesday near the intersection of Church Street and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, where officers were patrolling the area to prevent looting.
According to police, one officer was ambushed by a man who walked up behind him and stabbed him in the neck.
The New York Police Department on Thursday released an image of a knife that Sherlocks claim was used to stab a police officer in Brooklyn late on Wednesday night
The man then took the policeman’s handgun. Officers who were on duty nearby rushed to the scene and found the suspect with the gun.
A total of 22 shots were fired, according to authorities.
Two coppers were shot in the hand, according to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea.
All three officers are recovering from non-life threatening injuries at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.
Camovic, was shot eight times by officers who responded to the scene. He is listed at death's door.
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Suspected NYC cop-stabber is 'absolutely not a terrorist,' relative says
[NYPOST] The man suspected of stabbing an NYPD cop in the neck without warning is a “practicing Muslim” whose family is from Bosnia — but he’s “absolutely not a terrorist,” a relative who was interviewed by federal terrorism investigators said Thursday.
The relative also said that Dzenan Camovic, 20, never expressed any anti-police sentiment to him and questioned the official account of Wednesday night’s incident in Brooklyn.
‘“I’ve known him since he was 6-inches tall. That this is a terrorism, it’s illogical,” said the middle-aged man, who declined to give his name.
“He was raised here, [English] is his only language … He was as good of a child as a child could be.”
The relative’s comments came after law enforcement sources said authorities were investigating Wednesday night’s unprovoked attack as a possible act of terror, based in part on anti-cop messages that Camovic allegedly posted on social media.
Sources also said that while Camovic wasn’t on the radar of anti-terror investigators, he’d been in contact with people who were and his family may have a “nexus to terrorism.”
The relative, who was seen speaking to a pair of FBI agents outside the Brooklyn apartment building where Camovic lives with his parents and sister, said, “I have the utmost respect for law enforcement, but it’s easy to accuse a Muslim of terrorism.”
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and his family may have a “nexus to terrorism.”
We’ve seen how much it runs in families. Parents, grandparents, uncles, cousins, and the school and neighbours thereof.
#5
No problem. Pull back to the donut shops and watch Angelenos beat, burn, rape and kill each other. Why the fun might even make to the Tha Maya's crib.
[FoxNews] A California man captured on camera pointing a loaded AR-15 rifle at a group of advancing protesters has been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
Jacob Daniel Bracken, 38, of Rancho Cucamonga, faces two counts of assault with a deadly weapon related to the incident in Upland on Monday, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office said.
Even though Bracken did not fire the rifle and no one was injured, Upland Police Chief Darren Goodman explained the assault charge: “You point the weapon at someone with the intent to intimidate and the weapon being loaded itself.”
One video shared by a KNBC reporter at the scene showed Bracken take the AR-15 out of a pickup truck, yelling for the crowd to “back the f--- up.”
Goodman said they have videos as well as still photos that “conclusively showed” Bracken pointing the weapon at some point.
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They'll punish your kids too for pointing their finger at a classmate and saying bang, bang. It's the world we live in now. Take your kids out of government schools now it's the best thing you could ever do for them.
#4
Guy was dumb to brandish a gun off his property.
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Re #2, that's just "one small step" toward the goal of eventual "defunding of the police."
L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez on Wednesday then officially introduced the motion, tweeting that it was "to cut funding to the LAPD, as we reset our priorities in the wake of the murder of #GeorgeFloyd & the #BlackLivesMatter call that we all support to end racism. This is just one small step."
In light of recent events, Project Veritas today released a video exposing the violent nature of the controversial group known as “Antifa.”
Nicholas Cifuni, Rose City Antifa: “Practice Things Like an Eye Gouge, it Takes Very Little Pressure to Injure Someone’s Eyes.”
Nicholas Cifuni, Rose City Antifa: “Police Are Going to Be Like: ‘Perfect, We Can Prosecute These [Antifa] F**kers, Look How Violent They Are.’ And Not That We [Antifa] Aren’t, But We Need to F**king Hide That Sh*t.”
Nicholas Cifuni, Rose City Antifa: “Consider Like, Destroying Your Enemy. Not Like Delivering a Really Awesome Right Hand, Right Eye, Left Eye Blow You Know. It’s Not Boxing, It’s Not Kickboxing, It’s Like Destroying Your Enemy.”
Ashes, Rose City Antifa: “The Whole Goal of This, Right, is to Get Out There and do Dangerous Things as Safely as Possible.”
“Depending on the setting, if I were to be caught or found out in a setting where I am present with them, it could escalate to violence against me,” said the Project Veritas Undercover Journalist.
“They do not hesitate to either push back or incite some kind of violence. In our classes and in our meetings, before we do any sort of demonstration or Black Bloc, we talk about weapons detail and what we carry and what we should have,” said the Project Veritas Undercover Journalist.
#3
Our elites - elected officials, generals, CEOs of F50 corporations, university presidents etc - tell us that we and the nation need to "stand united" with these savages.
#4
I note who they are and stop spending my money with them.
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I've been waiting 3.5 years for Trump to get around to naming ANTIFA domestic terrorists. If that pans out. And if there is anyone competent left at DOJ and the FBI. And if they can start rolling up this group and its affiliates. Then the riots will have been well and truly worth it.
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The riots and resulting damage and injuries are unfortunate, but I really hope the Feds can identify the players (Dem politicians come to mind) behind it all.
[IsraelTimes] Sweden’s chief epidemiologist shows contrition as criticism mounts over the Scandinavian country’s hotly debated method of fighting 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... , which has resulted in one of the highest death rates per capita in the world.
Sweden has stood out among European nations and the world for the way it has handled the pandemic, not shutting down the country or the economy like others but relying on citizens’ sense of civic duty. Swedish authorities have advised people to practice social distancing, but schools, bars and restaurants have been kept open the entire time. Only gatherings of more than 50 people have been banned.
"I think there is potential for improvement in what we have done in Sweden, quite clearly," Anders Tegnell of the Public Health Agency tells Swedish radio.
Sweden, a nation of 10.2 million people, has seen 4,468 deaths linked to COVID-19, which is far more than its Nordic neighbors and one of the highest death rates per capita in the world. Denmark has had 580 coronavirus deaths, Finland has seen 320 and Norway has had 237, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
"If we were to encounter the same disease again, knowing precisely what we know about it today, I think we would settle on doing something in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done," says Tegnell, considered the architect of the unique Swedish pandemic approach.
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I love the name of that ship. Very Heinlein-like. And while this historic event occurred, the antifa riots are happening. Oh, and Yellowstone doesn't want to be left out. Me too! Me too! Surreal.
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'Looters looting looters': Shocking video shows a person walking down street in NYC carrying a packaged $1,500 Apple iMac computer only to have it stolen by two thieves amid store raids
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Suspected looter, 22, is shot dead by police 'while he was on his knees and had his hands up because cop thought he had a gun but instead turned out to be a hammer'
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Ca$ino, Ace Rothstein voiceover: "They (the cops) shot him in his driveway. They thought he had a gun, but it was a hero sandwich (wrapped in foil in the scene.)
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Belleview, about 50 minutes from me, outside Ocala. Not particularly urban. I'm a vigilante if I have my AR, a Mossberg 500 and a Sig P227 ready if someone starts breaking my windows or tries to set my car on fire in my driveway? Then I am, and I'll be a vigilante everyone will remember for years to come.
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06/04/2020 12:37
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hero sandwich (wrapped in foil in the scene.)
People need to get trained on gun ownership. They need to know the difference between a hero sandwich (wrapped in foil) and a gun or knife. You can't use deadly force with a guy wielding a fucking sandwich.
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Somali cop Noor ran the "I was scared" excuse for shooting Justine Damond. Only reason it didn't work is his colleagues in the PD hated him and hung him out to dry.
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06/04/2020 13:26
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In the state of Texas, after dark, I can.
As it should be. Texas also has "Fair warning." Once I give you fair warning you are not welcome on my property, you should stay away. That's how it should be.
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06/04/2020 13:29
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#2 Suspected looter, 22, is shot dead by police 'while he was on his knees and had his hands up because cop thought he had a gun but instead turned out to be a hammer'
According to Woody Guthrie, a hammer is a very powerful weapon, so this is fine.
People need to get trained on gun ownership. They need to know the difference between a hero sandwich (wrapped in foil) and a gun or knife. You can't use deadly force with a guy wielding a fucking sandwich.
Are you talking about "what ought to be" or "what is"?
I'm sure you understand that there's a big difference there.
We're not living in "everything must pass the white glove test" times anymore.
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06/04/2020 13:43
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So, I wrap my Sig up in foil. Now I should be left alone. Really...
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06/04/2020 13:44
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Now admittedly, someone on my property after dark will get held at gunpoint for police. If they try to get in the house, well, that's another thing.
#17
Years ago, I had a discussion with a criminal defense attorney of my acquaintance:
Me: "You ever hear one of those stories about a person who was inside a house at an odd hour, claiming they were 'lost.'"
Attorney: "Yeah, that story comes up."
Me: "Well, if someone is inside my house like that at an odd hour, they are a little more 'lost' than they realize."
Attorney: "My advice? Shoot to kill. Then it's your word against his dead ass..."
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My shooting mentor also said, "If you are pointing a 12 gauge at someone, and they know it and do not do what you say, like lay on the ground, shoot them. Cause they are obviously insane and that's fear for your life."
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Sandwich, cellphone, etc. Your best bet is face down on the ground if LE is pointing guns at you.
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I've always felt a good proportion of white privileged is learning to say "Yes officer, no officer" and complying. Yes it sucks to suck it up if the officer is wrong or whatever, but dead is dead, and politeness could get your ticket downgraded into a warning.
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I don't feel a need to get shot at a traffic stop.
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06/04/2020 18:27
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Cop calls me an asshole I say "Yes, sir I am. What do you want this asshole to do now?"
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...you guys had fathers who taught you that you can be right in a confrontation with a cop, dead right. The sperm donors don't hang around to teach their kids those fundamentals of life.
[ConservativeTreehouse] Tik-Tok nurses of the world unite in dance! There is no longer a need for any member of the planet to be socially distant. The Lightbringer now introduces a new era of social proximity. Curfews are suspended. The media complies:
George Floyd will be remembered with three funerals plus a half-day viewing ceremony:
There will be a nationally televised public memorial service in Minneapolis, MN, on Thursday June 4th from 1pm to 3pm.
There will be an additional nationally televised public memorial service in North Carolina, Saturday June 6th from 11am to 3pm
There will be a nationally televised viewing and memorial service in Houston, TX, Monday June 8th 12pm to 6pm
There will be a nationally televised public funeral in Houston, TX, Tuesday June 9th, 11am EDT.
The international spectacle and global march will culminate Tuesday with the anointing of presidential candidate Joe Biden in Houston, Texas.
[FoxNews] Defense Secretary Mark Esper declared Wednesday that despite President Trump's remarks earlier this week, he is not in favor of the president invoking the Insurrection Act in order to send the U.S. military to quell violent protests.
During a morning press briefing, Esper addressed controversies surrounding Trump's stance on violence and looting that has broken out across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, coinciding with other peaceful protests.
"The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire situations," Esper said. "We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act."
In some states, governors have called for the National Guard to assist police, which does not require the Insurrection Act. Esper said he was "very proud" of the National Guard members who have gone out to help.
But Trump has suggested going a step further.
"If a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," he said Monday. Esper already has ordered military police active-duty troops from Fort Bragg and Fort Drum and a ready battalion from the 82nd Airborne to stage in the Washington, D.C. area at Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base and Virginia's Fort Belvoir.
Esper on Wednesday then spoke about Trump's controversial appearance at a D.C. church that had previously been harmed by fire.
Reports had said that the National Guard and U.S. Park Police had used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear peaceful protesters from the area before Trump stopped there for a photo opportunity. Esper said that National Guard members did not do this. The U.S. Park Police has denied this as well, but did acknowledge using smoke canisters and pepper balls on the protesters.
During the brief visit at the boarded-up church, the president stood in front and posed for photographers while holding up a Bible. He was accompanied by a variety of aides and officials, including Attorney General Bill Barr, daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Esper.
Defense Science Board member James Miller resigned Tuesday following the incident, citing Esper's failure to oppose the use of force in clearing the crowd.
"If last night’s blatant violations do not cross the line for you, what will?" Miller wrote in a resignation letter that was published by the Washington Post.
Esper said Wednesday that while he was aware that he and the president, along with a number of others, were going to the church and Lafayette Square, he did not know what was going to happen once they got there. He said he "did not know a photo op was happening" at the church before they got there, and that he had not been briefed on law enforcement's plans. Esper stated he tries to keep himself and his department out of politics as best he can.
Esper has also come under fire for his use of the term "battle space" when describing how governors should control protests. He stopped short of saying he regretted using that military terminology and claimed it was simply part of the military’s lexicon but that he was not referring to the protesters. “In retrospect, I would use a different word,” he said.
Before discussing these controversies, Esper addressed Floyd's death, calling it a "tragedy" and expressing condolences to Floyd's family and friends.
"Racism is real in America, and we must all do our very best to recognize it, to confront it, and to eradicate it," he said.
#1
"We must send your children to be killed by savage rags. They cannot be used to keep you safe here at home, because favored minority groups might get hurt."
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Obviously Esper wants to be fired and go out in a blaze of glory. He'll keep his pension and federal retiree medical benefits.
#3
They don't understand. The founders put their trust in the militia not the military. They intentionally keep the active military small. They were recently Englishmen who could still recall the military dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. When war was at hand they'd mobilize both the militia and increase the regular military. Both would be demobilized after the war. So it was as late as 1945. It was 1948 that Washington decided to maintain a large peacetime military which has distorted the structure of the Constitution and the size of the national government.
When the civil war does come, the military will split. The upper echelons will mostly go with the globalists. The middle ranks will mostly break for the republic.
Our cities are being taken over by a violent anarchist movement. We are watching our institutions of self-government - aka "the Constitution" - collapse under a determined, coordinated, focused assault.
Does their oath mean nothing to them?
Do they not understand what "enemies domestic" means?
#6
He'll be on The View the day after he is fired. Probably take Meggie Moo's place, with more lipstick.
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06/04/2020 12:46
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People won't like hearing this, but Trump brought a lot of this on himself.
Imagine if he had set up an equivalent of Obama's OFA, instead of going the Bommercon route of "Trust the military and boost the stock market and everything will take care of itself."
He might now have a cadre of activists who could be doing end-runs around all this crap and cracking down on the brains and money behind this insurrection.
Then, when that's dealt with, you crack down on the Orcs who are the muscle.
If Trump goes down, it will ultimately be his own fault.
#8
Trumpism was nothing more than a precursor to a more fundamental, lasting movement. We needed OrangeMan to grab our elites by the lapels, throw them against the wall and bitch-slap them.
They are fighting back fiercely, with every ruse and wile at their command.
It will be on Trump's successor to build the insitutional apparatus and the strategy needed to defeat The Insurrection and its Sponsor Class.
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"The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire situations," Esper said. "We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act."
tl;dr:
Since
1) using mil forces is a last resort
And
2) we are not in that situation (right now)
Therefore,
3) I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act
The article spins this into a disagreement with the President who said,
"If a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military"
Notice the future hypothetical tense of that statement? "If", not "I'm going to".
And Esper doesn't say he opposes the use of the Insurrection Act now and forever more, amen. He says not right now.
#19
Any recent Presidents have to deal with concurrent Pandemic, Economic Shutdown, Race Riots?
STFU
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Any recent Presidents have to deal with concurrent Pandemic, Economic Shutdown, Race Riots?
...and an executive branch in open revolt.
He knew he was working with people who might be working against him, but most of them can only be fired for cause — and should only be fired when he has discerned their replacements.
Clear cutting doesn’t work if you want to have a functioning organization afterward.
[Right Scoop] The moment you saw this headline, you knew. Without a doubt, this is the most exciting thing you’re going to read all day.
Sure, there are protests and riots going on. There is still a pandemic to worry about. Donald Trump has now claimed he made up Jim Mattis’ "Mad Dog" nickname. There is so much going on in the world that it’s really just overwhelming.
But, in the midst of all this darkness, a headline appeared over here at RedState dot com that made you stop and forget all of the other troubles of the world. For a moment, you forgot all that negativity and saw, for an instant, that there is a God, and he can provide you with a distraction so powerful it is nothing short of a miracle.
A Spanish porn star — that’s right, an adult movie actor from Spain — may have killed someone, and may have done so while high. On toad venom.
There is so much happening in this headline that you have to stop and re-read it a few times just to see if your eyes are playing tricks on you. Dear readers, your eyes are just fine. This precise order of words, "A Spanish Porn Star Killed a Dude While High on Toad Venom", is not your brain trying to function through a ruptured aneurysm. This is a real story that happened, and it is my honor to present it to you.
As I was scrolling through all the negativity on Twitter, I saw this story posted. Immediately, I felt that it was my duty to share it with you all.
[The Hill] Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon and former confidant of Martin Luther King Jr., on Thursday offered praise to those participating in the nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.
"It was very moving to see hundreds of thousands of people from all over America and around the world take to the streets to speak up, to speak out, to get into what I call ’good trouble,’ or to get in the way," Lewis said on CBS’ "This Morning," referencing a phrase he frequently uses in reference to political activism. "And because of the action of young and old, black, white, Latino, Asian-American and Native Americans ... because people cried and prayed, people would never forget what happened, and how it happened."
"The way this young man died, watching the video, it made me so sad," Lewis said of footage of Floyd’s death. "It was so painful. It made me cry. I kept saying to myself, how many more? How many more young black men will be murdered? The madness must stop."
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Too bad retired St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn and a handful of other policemen slain in the unrest, are no longer around to comment on Rep. Lewis' statement.
[Telegraph] A former head of MI6 has said he believes the coronavirus pandemic "started as an accident" when the virus escaped from a laboratory in China.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Sir Richard Dearlove said he had seen an "important" new scientific report suggesting the virus did not emerge naturally but was man-made by Chinese scientists.
The apparent discovery will raise the prospect of China paying "reparations" for the death and economic catastrophe wreaked upon the world, the former intelligence chief said. It comes as Beijing faces growing pressure to explain precisely how coronavirus first began to spread late last year.
International scientists have reached a near-unanimous consensus, however, that the virus emerged in animals — most likely bats or pangolins — before jumping to the human population....
If the Bee spoke Russian
[The Peoples Cube] According to reports, in cities around the US bricks are being delivered to riot locations and used to destroy property.
We decided to take a closer look and here's what we found.
#1
The black community doesn't grasp they're just being used by those seeking to destroy Western Civ (and all the bennies they enjoy as a consequence). You'll get Caracas and useless social programs that won't feed you or house you. You will still have the one percenters, just new ones like the old ones.
Kurt at TownHall
This riot crisis will pass, and then it’s nothing but bad choices ahead for Badfinger Biden, not that he realizes it. He’s too far gone and far too busy watching his stories on the tee-vee to negotiate the crucial strategic decisions he faces if he wants to win. Even if not he has not already disembarked the short bus in Seniletown, he’s at least wandering aimlessly through its suburbs. The calls he has to make — about reacting to the failing Antifa/Democrat insurrection, about picking a veep, and about how to handle the only guy who seemed to grow younger, healthier and sharper in the Oval Office — would not be easy one for someone on the ball, much less someone giggling as he chases a ball around his backyard.
The uprising by the Antifa-Democrat axis, where state and local Democrat politicians wink at the violent, militarized wing of their party’s criminal antics in order to intimidate the normal, is going to be a disaster for the Dems. Oh, the media wants to present it as this dire nightmare for Trump, but within 24 hours five people personally (putting aside online folks) told me they were going to become first time gun owners. I’ll take anecdotes over media narratives any day, as President Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit should have. The Secret Trump Vote on 11/3 is gonna be huge.
There were several factors that the bad guys (uh oh, assuming genders again!) failed to appreciate when they decided to exploit the protests. First, there was the sense of betrayal it would create. People agreed that the actions of the Minneapolis cops were unacceptable, but they also saw through the cynical effort to leverage that tragedy into an excuse for radical violence. The essential insincerity of Antifa and the Antifa-curious was confirmed when we saw black law enforcement officers dead on the ground and it was received with a collective shrug by the Dem pols, trust fund terrorists and kneeling suburban mommies who wail about their privilege.
...Biden’s big decision is how to react to the crisis. He could babble incoherently in a church — this was hours before Trump made it bad to be around churches — and he could read off a teleprompter, but it’s his strategy that’s the challenge. He has to take a stand, and threading the needle he needs to thread would be tough for someone who wasn’t a step or two away from long talks with invisible bunnies.
He can embrace law-and-order, but he gets nothing from that since Trump has captured that high ground. All Biden gets from that option is to alienate the radicals. Or he can continue with his coy embrace of these Antifa scumbags, which Trump will jam down his throats. Neither expands his base; both options shrink it in some way. Trump can only gain support from going law and order...unlike the Dems, he has no pro-chaos constituency.
And then there’s the vice-presidential choice. Amy Klobuchar’s going to be tossing dishes at the help because she’s out. Besides bearing the stink of Minnesota Democrats in general, she specifically failed to charge the killer cop the last time he tried to take out an unarmed black man. And Governor Karen from Michigan is out. Between her grotesque love of bossing folks around and her husband’s "Don’t you know who I am" antics, she’s also a person of pallor and modern anti-racism demands that people be evaluated by nothing but their race. Biden can’t choose Big Chief Warren despite her status as a make-believe minority because — and this is the saddest thing ever — she would overshadow him.
So, maybe he chooses Stacy Abrams, who has offered subtle and cryptic hints that perhaps she is interested in the job. Governor Abrams (D-Diabetes) would be a great choice in my view, but I’m biased because I want Trump to win.
This leaves the politically and otherwise flexible Kamala Harris. She checks the minority box, and they can certainly patch things up over her calling him a racist on a nationally televised debate stage. When he tells her he will "forgive and forget," she can be sure about the forgetting part. But Harris, the former prosecutor, has a record that actually allows Trump to slide to her left on criminal justice (she liked to lock up hopheads and condoned prosecutorial antics) as well as to her right (he supports the death penalty).
Who will Hoover’s dad choose? Will he remember who he chose the next day? Now, his advisors might well be expected to strongly recommend a candidate, but you know how stubborn weird old people get. I can definitely see him putting his foot unsteadily down for his choice of Stacy Abrams because she once brought him a yummy oatmeal cookie.
And then there’s going up against Trump. Have you seen him lately? He’s slimmer, and he looks like he’s glowing. Most presidents decay in office. Trump is thriving, and he’ll be going up against a guy who looks more like Jennifer Rubin every day.
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the uprising by the Antifa-Democrat axiswhere state and local Democrat politicians wink at the violent, militarized wing of their party’s criminal antics in order to intimidate the normal, ,
BLM-Antifa = IRA Provos
Democratic Party = Sinn Fein
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#2 - JFM: If I remember correctly, Jennifer Rubin is the Washington Post's so-called 'conservative voice'. I did read a few of her columns years ago, but I can't remember if I gave up on her or the Post first. I don't remember whether she has Nancy Pelosi looks, or not.
Good to see you again, mon ami!
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The only thing required of Biden is that he is not Trump, and that may be enough.
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A few percent, maybe, but more than 10%? I doubt it.
At this point only a magic 3rd quarter will save Trump.
I expect the U.S. economy to rebound, but jobs in the service industry will take a longer time to recover.
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I know you hate Trump but you're ignoring reality. Even the Dems' own top economists are expecting a strong economy and telling their party to try another tack.
As to "The Silent Majority," we've seen this movie before - again and again.
There is no way a goof like Biden can win unless he hits the jackpot with 1) suburban marrieds amd 2) white working-class Dems in MI PA and WI.
Few suburban parents are going to vote for the party of BLM-Antifa. Few working-class whites in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are going to vote for the "Defund the Police" party.
And few black men are going to be inspired to actually show up at the polls and vote for a senile, pathetic little old white man who supported aggressive policing throughout his 50-year career of buffoonery, lying and non-achievement.
But there are millions of Americans who are appallled by the violence and who will absolutely vote against anarchy and violence this fall.
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Prepare your "I F*cked up"
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A few percent, maybe, but more than 10%? I doubt it.
Don't know the situation in Germany, but here the polls tend to have a lot of bias which greatly reduces their value for prediction. Example: Hillary was the overwhelming favorite in the last election.
It helps to look at where the numbers are coming from, but even Nate Silver missed Trump becoming President.
At this point, probably best to think of them as battle-space preparation rather than statistics.
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Biden couldn’t beat my morbidly obese chihuahua by 10%
But Biden *is* still in the game. I find that so surprising that it makes me think there is something else going on - like using him as target to draw Trump's fire now but replacing him later.
Let us note for the record that E.C. correctly called Biden vs Warren for Dem candidate. I figured there was no way the Dems would pick a old, senile, white guy over a woke POC Vagino-American, but they picked the old, senile, white guy. What do I know?
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He's got enough delegates now to the finish line, barring a "Health Issue™. Dr. Jill will drag his post-rigor hairy-legged ass across the finish line
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[FoxNews] A New York City police officer was randomly attacked and stabbed in the neck late Wednesday while patrolling in Brooklyn, which resulted in a struggle that caused two additional officers to suffer gunshot wounds.
Police said at an early news conference Thursday that a preliminary investigation indicated a male suspect walked up to the officers casually and whipped out the knife. They said the officers involved had been assigned to an anti-looting post to prevent people from breaking into stores.
"That officer was stabbed in the left side of his neck, thank God, missing an artery," New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said.
He called it a "completely cowardly, despicable, unprovoked attack on a defenseless police officer."
Two additional officers were struck in the hand by gunfire during the incident, police said. They were rushed to Kings County Hospital and are expected to survive.
Nearby officers later heard the gunshots and responded to find the suspect brandishing a gun, which police said was likely taken from an officer. The suspect was shot multiple times at the scene later described by Shea as "chaotic." He added that 22 shell casings were recovered following the incident.
"I think we are all fed up with what we're seeing and many levels. This violence has to stop," Shea said.
New York City has been trying to get a handle on the widespread unrest after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. The shooting occurred nearly four hours after the city's 8 p.m. curfew.
Mayor Bill de Blasio went to the hospital after the confrontation to check on the officers, according to a spokesperson. He later spoke at the press conference on Thursday.
"Thank God all our officers will recover," de Blasio said. "It's another example of what it means every day for men and women of the NYPD to protect all of us."
Video purportedly of the incident on Twitter showed streets filled with police cars at the scene, while multiple gunshots could be heard.
"No matter what else is happening around us, we've got to be there for each other," the mayor added. "Officers protect us. We have to respect, support, protect them. We've got to find a way to move forward no matter how much is thrown at us. The coronavirus and everything else."
New York City has been roiled by days of protests over police brutality. It didn't appear that the unprovoked incident was related to the demonstrations. There were peaceful marches and protests throughout the day Wednesday, but police moved in to break them up when the curfew took effect.
Several large marches in other parts of Brooklyn had continued after the curfew that authorities imposed to stop stores from being damaged and ransacked.
The incident comes after a shocking video posted on social media Tuesday showed a New York City police officer being struck by a vehicle in what appeared to be a deliberate hit-and-run. Shea said the officer was still in intensive care, "but recovering slowly."
The University of Washington created the petition, while University of California at San Francisco infectious disease specialist Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, helped craft the science behind it.
[JPost] - India and Australia sealed a deal on Thursday to get access to each other's military bases, the Indian foreign ministry said - a pact that would clear the way for more military exchanges and exercises in the Indo-Pacific.
The mutual logistic support agreement was signed during a virtual summit between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison.
India has a similar pact with the United States which is seen as part of a broader security cooperation to balance China's growing economic and military weight in the region.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a bold, powerful statement to oppose Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi solemnly tore up the Bible after Trump was seen holding one up in front of a church.
At a press conference, the Speaker of the House held up a Bible and then ripped it in two, declaring that she was against anything Trump was associated with.
"If Trump is for the Bible, then I am against it," she said as she struggled to rip the Bible in half. Finally, aides came to intervene, pre-ripping the spine of the Bible so it would be easier for her to tear. "All the books of the Bible are bad: Genesis, Joseph, the one with the big fish, even Hezekiah. We must stand against Trump's bigotry by ripping up anything he claims to be for."
"Yass, queen! Slay!" shouted her fans at the press conference as she finally managed to rip the Bible up. "You're my president!"
In a genius move, Trump then held up a Koran in front of a mosque, forcing Pelosi to tear up a Koran and alienate the left.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A full autopsy of George Floyd, the handcuffed black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police, was released Wednesday and provides several clinical details, including that Floyd had previously tested positive for COVID-19.
The 20-page report released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office came with the family’s permission and after the coroner’s office released summary findings Monday that Floyd had a heart attack while being restrained by officers, and classified his May 25 death as a homicide.
Bystander video showing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck, ignoring Floyd’s "I can’t breathe" cries until he eventually stopped moving, has sparked nationwide protests, some violent.
The report by Chief Medical Examiner Andrew Baker spelled out clinical details, including that Floyd had tested positive for COVID-19 on April 3 but appeared asymptomatic. The report also noted Floyd’s lungs appeared healthy but he had some narrowing of arteries in the heart.
The county’s earlier summary report had listed fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use under "other significant conditions" but not under "cause of death." The full report’s footnotes noted that signs of fentanyl toxicity can include "severe respiratory depression" and seizures.
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The county’s earlier summary report had listed fentanyl intoxication and recent methamphetamine use under "other significant conditions" but not under "cause of death."
Might have explained his removal/exit from the squad car. Having a drug related fit and kicking the windows out could have resulted in the police removing him from the vehicle or Floyd lunging out on his own.
Pre-existing medical conditions led to, or contributed to his untimely death? A murder conviction is likely going to be very difficult.
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Given that - per our BLM/Antifa-symp mayors and NYT journos - violent destruction of property is not a crime, perhaps Round 2 of the riots will target officially-designated "Free Expression Zones"?
#4
I feel like I am in some bizarre movie when I hear politicians saying the destruction of property is not a crime. Rule of law takes yet another hit. And what a precedent being set.
#5
Yes, there was a mention of change of venue in another thread. I think all that any change of venue would do is push up the odds of jury nullification. And heavy handed efforts to get a jury that will see it emir Ellison's way will just backfire on appeal.
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Pre-existing medical conditions led to, or contributed to his untimely death?
#7
November may well be even bigger for President Trump and Republicans than 2016 was. There is a big enthusiasm gap between Trump voters and Biden voters.
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#7 tw, agreed. Don't forget the Bradley Effect. Gonna be YUGE this November. Dems will wonder what happened to their great white suburban soccer-mom hope.
Moms are the most conservative voters of all -- security is Job 1 for them.
The Dems' no-longer hidden, open alliance with a violent anarchists movement that's now moving into the suburbs is terrifying to most of these security-minded swing voters.
[WSJ via Manhatten Institute] George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is "tragically, painfully, maddeningly ’normal.’ " Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a "new normal," in which bigotry no longer "infects our institutions and our hearts."
Joe Biden released a video the same day in which he asserted that all African-Americans fear for their safety from "bad police" and black children must be instructed to tolerate police abuse just so they can "make it home." That echoed a claim Mr. Obama made after the ambush murder of five Dallas officers in July 2016. During their memorial service, the president said African-American parents were right to fear that their children may be killed by police officers whenever they go outside.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz denounced the "stain . . . of fundamental, institutional racism" on law enforcement during a Friday press conference. He claimed blacks were right to dismiss promises of police reform as empty verbiage.
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Why didn't Mr. Obama do something about it when he was in power?
This is not a snarky comment--I genuinely hope for very good race relations and lament that Mr. Obama, who had a unique opportunity to make great strides in this area, did not.
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We had good and improving race relations under Bill Clinton and W.
They went downhill after 2009 and then went to hell in Obama's second term.
The pattern mirrors what happened between Eisenhowers presidency and LBJ's: left-lib presidents (unlike Bill Clinton) encourage grievances and raise expectations among young urban blacks to unrealistic levels.
Then a highly-publicized urban violence incident triggers these grievances and turns resentment and disappointment into violence. Then the left-lib president pours gas on the flames by pandering, as LBJ did after the 1965 riots and Obama did after 2013.
If any national leader bears responsibility for the anarchic violence we're now seeing, it's Pres. Trayvon-Coulda-Been-My-Son.
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Race relations improve when the economy improve,
Also most race relations are really things on the local level. There is only so much a President can do. Democrats have gotten away for years with blaming their own crap job on Washington DC.
[City Life] Offer money, supplies, or your time to these organizations furthering the call for equality and equity in Boston and beyond—because the moment may come to an end, but the movement will be long lasting.
Not all of us can head out to the many protests taking place across Boston this week, whether because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, or other reasons. But don’t forget that there are other ways to support and help our Black community and to drive the call for equality and change in the government and across communities. Here are places in Boston you can offer money, supplies, or your time, all of which support either the ongoing movement to protest police brutality or more broadly work to improve Black life around Boston, whether it’s today, tomorrow, or deep into the future.
[Money] America seems like it’s on the verge of collapse. But not the stock market.
On Monday, as cities around the U.S. grappled with clashes between racial justice protesters and police, and looting went all but unchecked, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 92 points. Tuesday it was up another 150 points in midday trading to 25,630, the highest point since mid-March.
The stock market’s placid reaction may seem incongruous at a time when, to anyone watching cable news or reading a newspaper, the U.S. appears to be in the middle of national emergency .
But while the stock market can at times seem like a daily national temperature gauge, investors (many of whom, it’s worth noting, aren’t American) don’t necessarily think the way the rest of us do.
With the caveat that no one knows exactly why the market does what it does, here’s why investors are likely ignoring the turmoil on U.S. streets.
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Yes, the profitable corporations that will not return to those hell hole areas will just see their EPS go up. And the cleared land will eventually be gentrified and returned to the tax rolls.
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We all know that antifa is backed by deep pocket leftists. If the right people can be made to squeal, the subrogation on riot damage claims will be - a riot!
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Protests Are Raging in America's Biggest Cities. So Why Is The Stock Market Up?
Perhaps the torching of the 'Biggest Cities' is seen by the market as beneficial to the economy ?
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Rebuilding means cement and glass sales. Companies buying up depleted stocks. Massive rebuilding contracts. Wall Street has no morals about these sort of things.
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I think it's fairly simple. The rioting will not go on forever and the cessation of open hostilities may well signal the real start of a recovery. Ergo, if things are just that bad now, they are bound to change and probably for the better in the future so it pays to buy now for investors.
[Real Clear Politics] In the wake of riots that have spread across America, leaving shattered businesses and wounded communities in their wake, it feels as though our nation is collapsing around us. That's bizarre, considering that virtually all Americans agree with the following two propositions: first, that it is evil for a police officer to place his knee on the neck of a prone suspect struggling to breathe for eight long minutes; second, that breaking store windows; stealing televisions and shoes; beating business owners; and attacking police officers is wrong. That seeming unanimity should mean unity in the face of police brutality and rioting and looting.
It doesn't.
It doesn't because members of our political class have decided that instead of rallying against obvious evil, Americans must be categorized as enlightened or benighted based on their answer to one question: Was America and is America rooted in racism and bigotry? If you answer in the negative, you are complicit in racism and bigotry, say our media, academic leaders and high-ranking members of the Democratic Party. If you answer in the affirmative, you may be categorized among the woke, the aware, the sensitive and the decent.
This is a nonsensical and dangerous game. But it's a game pressed forward by the most powerful messaging institutions in our society: our media, who award Pulitzer Prizes to faux history like The 1619 Project, which argues that every American institution has been fatally corrupted by America's original sin, slavery, and that every inequality of today can find its root in inequities of the past; our celebrities, who proudly proclaim that rights to free speech, property ownership and due process are merely facades for the continuing and malign maintenance of structural inequalities; and too many of our politicians, who casually attribute every instance of police brutality to deep-seated American racism.
#5
The George Floyd killing was being handled and justice would have played out if allowed to happen. This was not enough for the radical left and DS operators. Peaceful protests would have been O.K. but these got hijacked by violent left-wing black shirted thugs and criminals. These out-of-control mobs are as angering as much as seeing the Minneapolis police officers abuse their power with Floyd. The Dems are promoting and exploiting this situation to the maximum. Most likely there is left-wing and Dem money financing these puppet mobs. These things don't happen just spontaneously. I hope the voters remember these mob scenes at election time when mobs were beating up and in some case killing citizens, burning and looting, threatening the peace and depriving citizens of their rights.
The left is going to keep pushing for power up to election time. The country is in for a rough ride.
#6
Bad police officers. Bad school teachers. Bad municipal employees. When they are treated the same as a private sector employee who says something off color on Twitter we will be getting somewhere. Don't hold your breath.
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1) Our idiot media doesn't care about anything that can't somehow be framed with the Woke Narrative, so Americans don't know how incredibly violent and anarchic are Sao Oaolo, Rio, etc.
2) Brazil's elite and its middle classes are terrified of the constant roiling of anarchic violence in the favelas that are interspersed with most urban neighborhoods in that country and are willing to countenance extreme brutality to keep it in check.
We will be there too if this kak is not suppressed with overwhelming force soon.
The alternative model is post-riots Detroit: the northern cities completely hollowed out, with all law-abiding people with means having fled to the 'burbs or gone South.
[Atlantic] James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens. Perhaps the general would care to comment on, or explain the dynamic of the highly successful Trump rally.
"I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled," Mattis writes. "The words ’Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation." He goes on, "We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution."
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I, ___________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me
If he denounces the Commander in Chief who was/is elected by the people, he also denounces his oath of allegiance. Perhaps it is time for the general to find residence elsewhere.
It would appear that millions of American voters and hundreds of thousands of Trump political rally attendees disagree with the general's assessment.
The Deep State cadre would rather have you concentrate on the external threat, the Russian hoax, China virus, etc. The 'internal threat' is the Deep State's private playground.
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name one person whose rights the military has violated during this riot season?
I can find thousands of people whose rights, lives, businesses and property have been violated by Antifa Communists, Black Lives Matter racists and criminal opportunists. How Does Mattis propose to restore their rights, health, property and dignity?
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Somewhere in that Oath is something about enemies foreign and domestic...if you are going to fight them and they don’t wear uniforms but are have clearly stated they want to overthrow the government force and violence, tell me General, do you really want to counsel playing the mutiny card?
Since 1948 they've been employed as 'world policemen'. Its three generations on hand. They don't get to be senior officers if they're not globalists. Don't you recall the push back on using troops on the border?
Its that decision in '48 that has trashed the Constitution, not Trump. It was set up as a union of states, not a global enterprise and its structure was never intended to accommodate that.
#13
Let me see, was it Trump following the federal system and encouraging the locals to do something or was his bluff/threat that the Feds might do something if the locals didn't, or was it driving military vehicles through DC streets and using some in defense positions to secure monuments? Which of these actions threaten the Constitution?
Seems that without daily reports the General is a bit uninformed and if he just buys the liberal line on these things (especially after Obamagate has been exposed) he's got questionable judgement which makes me feel a bit better about his resignation.
#14
The day is coming where a newly elected President will just cashier them all and make them sign NDAs on the way out. One more good reason to not be tied up in forever wars.
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Methinks the Bradley Effect is getting more pronounced with each passing day.
The polls probably understate OrangeMan's real support by at least ten percent now.
Imagine you work for any one of the hundreds of companies whose CEOs are rushing to signal their sympathy for The Insurrection with their ridiculous weepy self-flagellating statements: are you really going to let anyone, even an anonymous pollster, know that you question whether it's wise to support anarchic violence?
If closet Trump Supporters were cowed before this madness, there must be twice as many now.
=> Gross up Trump's polling numbers by +10, +11 points
The evil genious of Obamagate was that they were investigating Trump before he took office and any firings would have been seen as attempts to undermine the investigation.
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I thought former military were supposed to quietly fade away. What's up with Gen. Mad Dog that he finds himself in the news cycle dissing his former boss?
#21
You guys have turned on so many of your own; Bush, Romney, McCain, Mattis, Rubio, and on and on, in seven months when Trump is gone you're not going to have anyone left. You think you're bitter now? Just wait...
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You guys have turned on so many of your own; Bush, Romney, McCain, Mattis, Rubio, and on and on, in seven months when Trump is gone you're not going to have anyone left. You think you're bitter now? Just wait...
Bitch, ain't it? We got wise to them. If their allegiance is to Xi Jinping instead of our own duly elected, democratically elected president, we'll get rid of them.
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We call it Draining the Swamp. Slowly but surely it is happening.
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Thor Ebbilet4842, conservatives tend to put military leaders up on a pedestal but we do not believe anyone is beyond criticism. Cult of Personality is a thing of the left.
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Everyone wearing a uniform made many compromises to get there. The grow beyond that or grow comfortable with it.
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/\MM. That is a little broad. I have agreed with damned near everything you have written today, but can't agree with that. NCO's, enlisted, company level officers are usually, but not uniformly (pun) have made no compromises other than giving up some of their rights as a citizen to protect the citizens of the United States. There was nothing to give but their service, to what I certainly thought was a greater good. Field grade, general officer grade, then your position is on firmer ground. It is more political in those grades, and the backstabbers do what they do. I find Mattis stomach-turning.
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#21 Concerned Conservative™
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#21 try Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Candace Owens for starters.
#31
Well, this is another "who else are they going to back?" moment. If they really feel Joy Behar and Cool Bear are their constituency (they aren't elected, so constituency has nothing to do with it) well, "say when."
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In the old days the best choices available on the Republican side were the country club lot we no longer support. But starting with the TEA Party years, the conservative Republican bench has grown deeper, broader, and younger, year after year. If Donald Trump is not reelected, we have plenty of others to choose from in 2022 and 2024, and they’ve seen how to fight effectively against Progressive games as well as the necessity of rooting out the Deep State.
The Democratic Party, much as they like to think of themselves as cutting edge revolutionaries, are actually the party of the elderly reactionaries, loudly and proudly demanding programs first proposed a century or more ago. “Learn to code,” they say to those who have lost jobs, because that is something they are not capable of, nor interested in, doing themselves, Meanwhile, all the Progressive coders at Facebook and Google and such have plenty of money with which to buy politicians, but completely lack the skills and outlook necessary to become politicians themselves. All they can become is Antifa, which doesn’t get them into the halls of power.
[Gateway Pundit] As more and more people take matters into their own hands to deal with the looters and rioters, even the Latin gangs in Chicago are coming off looking like the good guys, as they are fighting off the looters. It appears as though several shootings took place, as you can hear shots ringing out as people start scattering.
Here is one of the videos from one of the encounters:
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Time to think outside the box. Curb the violence by trying something new. Don't shoot them. Capture members of the neighborhood invading tribe. Put them in chains and assign them domestic chores and agricultural tasks. Over time, they will multiply and their offspring can be sold for profit.
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As part Slovak I have fairly dark Mediterranean skin. My Spanish would give me away right now, but six months somewhere in Central America could fix that. Maybe that needs to be part of my retirement plan...
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Article this am (can't find it again) saying Latino residents banding together at Lake and Bloomington to present armed rebuff to rioters entering their neighborhood.
[Free Beacon] A former Obama administration intelligence official who worked in both the Departments of State and Defense has guaranteed bail for a human rights lawyer accused of firebombing a police vehicle in New York City.
The former official, Salmah Rizvi, told a judge the alleged firebomber is her "best friend." Rizvi, now an attorney at the D.C.-based law firm Ropes & Gray, helped secure the release of fellow lawyer Urooj Rahman by agreeing to be a suretor for her bail. That means Rizvi is liable for the full cost of the $250,000 bail if Rahman fails to obey the court's orders.
Rahman was released to home confinement over the objections of government attorneys after her arrest on Saturday for throwing a lit Molotov cocktail through the window of an NYPD vehicle. Evidence presented by prosecutors included images of Rahman holding a Molotov cocktail in the passenger seat of a van that was later found to be full of the necessary materials for making the explosive devices.
U.S. District Judge Margo Brodie acknowledged the strong evidence against Rahman, who was also accused of distributing the incendiary devices to other rioters, but agreed to grant her bail due to the "willingness of family and friends to sign on as suretors," according to a report from Law360.
Rizvi appeared in front of the court during Rahman's Monday arraignment to certify her willingness to guarantee Rahman's bail, according to a transcript of the proceedings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. "Urooj Rahman is my best friend and I am an associate at the law firm Ropes & Gray in Washington, D.C.," Rizvi told the court. "I earn $255,000 a year."
Neither Rizvi nor Ropes & Gray responded to requests for comment.
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From a Muslim source: Raised a Shia Muslim, Salmah Rizvi served as the youngest ever Student Human Rights Commissioner in Howard County. At the Johns Hopkins University she founded the relief organization Vision XChange which raised money to combat injustices. With an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown, Salmah worked for the U.S. Departments of State and Defense as a lead linguist and analyst in Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi and gained expertise in international security and diplomacy. Her high-value work would often inform the President’s Daily Briefs.
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Diversity is our strength. Islam is the religion of peace, and Antifa/BLM are peacefully protesting ...the new liturgy for Woke basement dwellers who are busy talking truth to power.
Words fail!
Puppy-blender in USA Today
Though the news is filled with stories of riots and a pandemic, the most transformative things going on at present are in a totally different sphere. One of those things is pretty obvious, the other less so.
The obvious transformation involves SpaceX’s successful launch of a human crew into orbit, the first such launch involving an American spacecraft in nearly a decade, and the first such launch ever by a commercial spacecraft. D. D. Harriman to the white courtesy phone
This is huge, but in a sense, nothing new: We were launching people into orbit over 50 years ago, after all. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is bigger and fancier than a Gemini, but the mission profile is not all that different. And of course, our last mission to orbit, on board a space shuttle, was basically old hat itself.
But SpaceX is doing it for much less, and that’s revolutionary. To get a kilogram into orbit on the space shuttle costs $54,500. To do the same thing with SpaceX’s newest rocket, the Falcon 9, costs $2,720. That’s basically a twenty-fold reduction in cost.
Lots of things that are too expensive to do at $54,500 become doable at $2,720. And SpaceX isn’t standing still. Its Starship reusable rocket, under development now, is to cost a mere $2 million per launch, and Elon Musk says its cost per kilogram to orbit will be at least 10 times lower than the Falcon 9. There are a lot more things that become doable at $272 per kilogram. At those prices, things like space tourism, space hotels, lunar mines and asteroid mining become feasible. Unless, of course, commercial space companies will be subject to affirmative action quotas.
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Well, ULA and it's predecessors' business model was based on knowing the gummint would buy their overpriced one-use product. The game has changed now.
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As it exists now, Vulcan is still one use, but at least it doesn't have Russian engines. Still, ULA is falling further behind every day.
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Important to point out Boeing, Northrup, Raytheon et al. are all commercial companies. They have had cozy monopoly relationships with the US military and NASA, but they are still companies anyone can buy stock in.
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And SpaceX has gotten a few hundred billion from the taxpayer too. Just sayin.
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Sadly if this had happened under Obama we might have seen the nation rally behind it but now, in the Orange-man Bad world it'll be about stopping the wasted resources and ransacking of the solar system!.
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The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised...
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Well, if we have to really clean house...
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Imagine. At the Nuremburg trials, it was "I was just following orders." At the Annapolis and West Point Trials it will be "I was just listening to Twitter..."
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And SpaceX has gotten a few hundred billion from the taxpayer too. Just sayin.
Excuse me? How much? I think you better check your numbers there. SpaceX hasn’t received more than about $5billion, which is way short of your grossly exaggerated number pulled from your fundament.
[Ynet] A school security guard injured at least 39 people in a knife attack at a kindergarten in southern China on Thursday morning, state media reported. The motive remains unknown.
The local government in the Guangxi region's Cangwu county said 37 students and two adults suffered injuries of varying degrees in the attack.
Chinese state media identified the attacker as a security guard at the school surnamed Li. The suspect had been detained while an investigation was underway, they said.
People frustrated with unresponsive government or feeling suicidal regularly run amok attacking all they can reach in Communist China.
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No doubt that the school screwed him on his pay, likely due to the Wuhan virus. The school administrators backed him into a corner and felt satisfied they had done a good job. What could he possibly do to strike back? He's in the basket of deplorables.
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[NBCNewYork] New York's top terrorism official says there's evidence that members of anarchist groups from outside the city intentionally planned to incite violence at protests calling for justice in the death of George Floyd.
Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said there is a high level of confidence within the NYPD that these unnamed groups had organized scouts, medics, and supply routes of rocks, bottles and accelerants for breakaway groups to commit vandalism and violence. There are strong indicators they planned for violence in advance using at times encrypted communications, he said.
One out of every seven arrests, of 686 so far since May 28, has been people from out of state, according to Miller. He said those arrested came from Massachusettes, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa, Nevada, Virginia, Maryland, Texas and St. Paul, Minnesota.
On Saturday, Commissioner Shea had estimated at least 20 percent of protesters arrested Friday night were from out of town.
The fact remains that the majority of those arrested were locals. Some like Mayor de Blasio's daughter were arrested for "unlawful assembly," and others were arrested for acts of violence.
"Before the protests began, organizers of certain anarchists groups set out to raise bail money and people who would be responsible to be raising bail money, they set out to recruit medics and medical teams with gear to deploy in anticipation of violent interactions with police," Miller said.
He added, "They prepared to commit property damage and directed people who were following them that this should be done selectively and only in wealthier areas or at high-end stores run by corporate entities."
Without specifying who "they" are, Miller said the agitators "developed a complex network of bicycle scouts to move ahead of demonstrators in different directions of where police were and where police were not for purposes of being able to direct groups from the larger group to places where they could commit acts of vandalism including the torching of police vehicles and Molotov cocktails where they thought officers would not be."
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday morning that the members of the anarchist movement plan together online and that "they have explicit rules, and we're going to make all this information available today and in the days ahead."
Among the out-of-area instigators were two sisters from upstate New York. They were detained after one threw a Molotov cocktail at a police van. The woman who threw the Molotov cocktail will face federal charges from prosecutors in Brooklyn, law enforcement source said.
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NYPD that these unnamed groups had organized scouts, medics, and supply routes of rocks, bottles and accelerants for breakaway groups to commit vandalism and violence. There are strong indicators they planned for violence in advance using at times encrypted communications
Then it's an active insurrection or something? Who knew ?
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Re my parsing /rephrasing of the headline, there's so much to choose from...
Ask yourself how this group are different from the 1970s-era Irish Relublican Army - which would make the Soros-supported pols and DAs the equivalent of Sinn Fein:
1) National coordination ("came from Massachusettes, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Iowa, Nevada, Virginia, Maryland, Texas and St. Paul, Minnesota")
2) Concerted, advanced planning with careful communications ("strong indicators they planned for violence in advance using at times encrypted communications")
3) Specialized roles, support functions, materiel, and supply chain/logistics ("groups had organized scouts, medics, and supply routes of rocks, bottles and accelerants for breakaway groups to commit vandalism and violence"
4) Financial and medical support networks ("Before the protests began, organizers of certain anarchists groups set out to raise bail money and people who would be responsible to be raising bail money, they set out to recruit medics and medical teams with gear to deploy in anticipation of violent interactions with police")
5) Carefully-chosen strategic targets ("[they] directed people who were following them that this should be done selectively and only in wealthier areas or at high-end stores run by corporate entities")
In sum, the IRA's goal was to create mayhem, kill Protestants, cripple the Ulster authorities and force the British to abandon Northern Ireland. Thatcher was their bete noire.
Substitute White America for Protestants, the police for the British and Trump for Thatcher and it's a pretty clean analogy.
A new group named Hizb-e-Wilayat-e-Islami has been created outside Afghanistan which encompasses the splinter members of the Taliban who are opposing the peace agreement between the US and the Taliban.
[ToloNews] Sirajuddin Haqqani ...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network.... , the deputy leader of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , said that despite the group's belief in the peace negotiation talks as one of the core components of the solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, the Taliban will still continue the path of jihad (holy war) and strengthen its military power.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... said he will give as many as three million Hong Kong residents the chance to seek refuge and a new life in the UK if China presses ahead with plans to impose a new security law on the former British colony.
The premier’s intervention marks an escalation in London’s pressure on Beijing over its proposals for a law that democracy advocates say will erode the rights and freedoms of the people of Hong Kong.
"Many people in Hong Kong fear their way of life, which China pledged to uphold, is under threat," Johnson wrote in an article published in The Times of London newspaper. "If China proceeds to justify their fears, then Britannia could not in good conscience shrug our shoulders and walk away; instead we will honor our obligations and provide an alternative."
The Chinese government said Johnson’s comments amounted to foreign interference in internal affairs.
The offer of a path to citizenship, first made by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab last week, had already provoked a stern response from China. While Johnson’s proposal is unlikely to influence Beijing to change its position, a point British officials accept, it will be broadly popular among his Conservative Party colleagues who are increasingly hostile toward China.
Johnson’s government says a re-set of relations with Beijing will be necessary in the aftermath 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... pandemic and officials are re-examining whether to go ahead with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co. as a provider of equipment for Britannia’s next generation mobile networks.
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[BREITBART] More than 400 looters arrested in New York City, New York, riots this week will be immediately freed from jail thanks to Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo’s (D-NY) "bail reform" policy that eliminated bail for many nonviolent and violent crimes.
As riots rage on in New York City — and Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... has refused to deploy the U.S. National Guard — hundreds of looters arrested for burglarizing shops and stores are set to be immediately freed back onto the streets.
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... noted that more than 400 people in New York City have been arrested for looting commercial businesses. Almost all of them will likely be released from jail immediately after their arraignments in court.
Cuomo’s bail reform law, implemented at the beginning of the year, eliminated bail for a number of nonviolent and violent crimes — including for suspects accused of second-degree manslaughter, aggravated vehicular assault, third-degree assault, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child, criminally negligent homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, and about 100 other crimes.
New York City. New York State. California. The areas where the sensible portion of the population had started voting with their feet before this latest bout of idiocy, a trend now accelerating, according to what I’ve been reading.
Most of the rest of the country is perfectly recognizable, thankyewveddymuch. And voting increasingly Republican at every level from village council through state legislatures and governors to Congress and The Donald for prez.
Not to mention that the number of gun applications went from a previously high level to through the roof since lockdowns were first discussed.
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Our embassies should really have Mk-19's and M134's covering the gate, so that any violent attack like this ends in an example of overwhelming firepower.
[Sudan Tribune] The families of American victims of the 1998 twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania are throwing their full support behind a proposed settlement agreement with Sudan that would lead to more than $300 million payout in return for ending the pending lawsuits and removing the country from the US list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The blast on August 7, 1998 at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, killed more than 200 people. Kenyan security guards keep watch on August 8, 1998, at the scene of explosion.
"As a longtime advocate and spokesperson for the families of the 12 Americans killed in these bombings, I am speaking publicly to support the administration’s diplomatic efforts to reach an agreement with Sudan’s new government to resolve all of the claims we and others — Americans, Tanzanians and Kenyans — have pursued in court in the years since the attacks," Edith Bartley wrote in the Washington Post.
"The search for justice is very personal to me. My father, Julian L. Bartley, the first African American consul general to serve our country in Kenya, was a highly respected career diplomat. My younger brother, Julian L. Bartley Jr., was a college student and summer intern at the Nairobi embassy. Both were killed in the terrorist attack. This was an unimaginable loss to me and my mother as my father and brother were half of my immediate family".
U.S. courts held Sudan legally liable for the bombings because it hosted al-Qaeda Lions of Islam in the 1990’s who carried out the attacks.
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court revived the possibility of collecting $4.3 billion in punitive damage claims from Sudan on the embassy bombings on top of another $6 billion awarded previously. It also refused an appeal by Sudan to review the lower court rulings on its responsibility for the bombings and the liability it poses.
[APNEWS] Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told lawmakers Wednesday that he would not have approved an FBI surveillance application for a former Trump campaign aide during the Russia investigation had he known at the time about the problems that have since been revealed. But he did approve it then, the consequential results including political sliming of innocent men, personal bankruptcies of victims, and inflaming political passions to the detriment of the nation as a whole. Prince Johnson is really sorry he videotaped Samuel Doe being tortured and castrated. He's a preacher now, and reformed. Samuel Doe, on the other hand, remains deader than Tut, and his agonies can't be undone.
Rosenstein’s comments amounted to a striking concession that law enforcement officials made mistakes as they scrutinized ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Motive is key. If you do things on purpose they're not "mistakes." If they had been mistakes nothing would have happened after a short initial investigation. But even as he acknowledged the legitimacy of anger from Trump and his allies, he defended his appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller to lead the probe and affirmed his support for the conclusion that Russia interfered but did not criminally conspire with associates of the Trump campaign. If Russian "interference" was confined to phony Facebook accounts and a bunch of bots, what was the need for a special prosecutor targeting the Trump administration? Why was Mueller given carte blanche?
“I do not consider the investigation to be corrupt, That's a rose colored view. It was corrupt on its face, and now the facts are out to back up that statement.
but I understand the president’s frustration given the outcome that there was no evidence” of a conspiracy between the campaign and Russia, Rosenstein said. Golly. I'll bet Trump also recognizes the frustrations of Adam Schiff, San Fran Nan, and Jerry Nadler.
His appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was for the first in a series of oversight hearings scrutinizing the FBI’s Russia investigation and the law enforcement officials involved. With subpoena authority expected to be granted this week, the hearing served as the opening salvo of the GOP’s election-year congressional investigation into what they say are damaging findings about the Russia probe from an inspector general review. What went around is what's coming around, y'say? The president’s allies have taken fresh aim at the Russia investigation over the last year, pointing to newly declassified information to allege that Trump and his associates were unfairly pursued. They have also claimed vindication from the Justice Department’s decision to dismiss the case against ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn and at times advanced unsupported theories against Obama administration officials. Umm... Three words there: "January Fifth Meeting."
“We’re going to look backward so we can move forward,” committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in explaining the purpose for the hearings. “If you don’t like Trump, fine, but this is not about Trump or not liking Trump. This is about moving forward as a nation.” Damage is done. Time to sift through the wreckage.
Graham also questioned whether Mueller should have been appointed at all. Rosenstein said he believed there was a sufficient basis for the investigation when he appointed Mueller in May 2017, but when Graham asked if he would agree that by that August, there was “no there there,” Rosenstein said yes. May 2017 was five months into the administration. If I recall correctly, the calls for impeachment started coming a month before Trump was inaugurated.
Democrats lamented the hearing’s politically charged and retrospective nature, saying Republicans were attempting to refocus attention away from more urgent problems, including unrest in cities set off by the death of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic. "Let's just Move On®. It's all in the past. We were all so much younger then!" “This hearing wastes this committee’s time in a blatant effort to support the president’s conspiracy theories and to help the president’s reelection,” said Democratic Sen. Mazie 'We Democrats know so much that we tend to alienate voters' Hirono of Hawaii. Good to hear from the Sage of Honolulu. I don't recall her wanting to concentrate on problems of the moment during the patently biased witch hunts, the targeted events of which were coincidentally in the past when the fishing expedition began.
The hearing delved into detail in two areas that Trump allies have recently seized on to challenge the conduct of law enforcement. Law enforcement has no place in politix, regardless of anyone's personal opinions. Law enforcement's job is to umm... enforce the laws.
Rosenstein was pressed repeatedly about his decision to sign off on the fourth and final application for a warrant to eavesdrop on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page on suspicion that he was a Russian agent. That's Carter Page, the sometime FBI asset...
Page has denied wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime, and a Justice Department inspector general report identified significant errors and omissions in each of the applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Just little details that an assistant attorney general couldn't be expected to catch.
The watchdog said the FBI relied in part for its applications on a dossier of information compiled by a former British spy whose research was funded by Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign. The FBI used the dossier even though agents were aware of the possibility that it could have been colored by Russian disinformation and omitted information that called into question allegations they were making in the application. Nobody thought the idea of Trump hiring hookers to pee on the bed Obama had slept in was umm... out of line? Unlikely?
Asked by Graham if he would have signed the warrant application knowing what he knows now, Rosenstein replied, “No, I would not.”
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Page has denied wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime.
Yes, he was an FBI victim right? He was being exploited. As a frequent FBI source, high ranking USN Academy grad and former intelligence officer, he was totally clueless as to what was actually taking place.
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disingenuous dĭs″ĭn-jĕn′yoo͞-əs adj. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating. adj. Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naïf. adj. Unaware or uninformed; naive.
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In other news, Lavrenty Beria said "Y'know, if I had to do it all over again..."
Last night and earlier this morning, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF), alongside their Russian counterparts, carried out a half dozen Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s over the Latakia and Hama governorates.
According to a field source, the Syrian Air Force was responsible for the attack on the foreign jihadist positions in the key town of Kabani, while both air forces launched strikes on the northern part of the al-Ghaab Plain region.
The source stated that the airstrikes primarily targeted the positions of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP)
...that’s the Uighurs...
and Hurras al-Deen group,
...the current incarnation of non-Syrian Al Qaeda in Syria...
two foreigner-led groups that have carried out attacks against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) last month.
Despite repeated calls by the Russian Ministry of Defense to expel these jihadists from northwestern Syria, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has been reluctant to clear them the M-4 Highway (Aleppo-Latakia Highway).
Turkey’s reluctance has caused some friction in northwestern Syria, as both the Russian and Syrian armed forces believe these foreign jihadist groups should have no future in the country’s political settlement.
(2/2) Instead of heeding UN calls for a ceasefire, the Houthis are attacking Saudi Arabia with explosive UAVs provided by Iran. It is time for the Houthis to work toward a peaceful solution to end the conflict in Yemen.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... group reacted to the latest UN report which confirms that the group has maintained links with the Al Qaeda terrorist network despite signing a peace deal with the United States.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the Taliban group, in a statement said the Islamic Emirate strongly rejects the details of the report as the group is strictly committed in implementing the peace deal with the United States which the UN Security Council approved.
The statement further added that no divisions exist among Taliban ranks as the Death Eaters of the group strictly follow the decisions of their elders and observing the recent ceasefire is a testimony to it.
Furthermore, the statement added that the Islamic Emirate is committed not to allow anyone to use the soil of Afghanistan against the countries or establish training camps inside Afghanistan.
According to Mujahid, the recent report has been published with an aim to jeopardize and fail the recently signed peace deal between Taliban and the United States.
This comes as the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... on Monday released a report stating that Taliban retained close links with the Al Qaeda terrorist network and sought advise from the network during the negotiations with the U.S. officials.
Relations between the Taliban, including its partners in the Haqqani network ...a branch of the Afghan Taliban, based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the later Jalaluddin Haqqani... , and al Qaeda "remain close, based on friendship, a history of shared struggle, ideological sympathy and intermarriage," the report said.
It also added "The Taliban regularly consulted with al Qaeda during negotiations with the United States and offered guarantees that it would honor their historical ties."
The U.N. report suggests the Taliban have failed to keep their word on a provision seen as central to the U.S-Taliban agreement signed on Feb. 29 in Doha. President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... has portrayed the deal as a success story.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A U.S. court has allegedly ruled that 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 Syria are liable for Paleostinian attacks against Israelis, including the killing of a U.S. Army veteran, Israel Hayom reported on Wednesday.
According to the publication, Judge Randolph D. Moss of the U.S. District Court of Washington D.C. ruled that Syria and Iran were responsible for damages caused by their "material support" to Paleostinian groups like Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ).
The publication said the total amount of damages has not yet been determined, but the court has named Syria, Iran, and the Iranian Ministry of Information of Security as defendants in the civil case.
Both Syria and Iran have trained Paleostinian groups for years, despite a rift between the Syrian Arab Republic and Hamas in 2012.
Several Paleostinian groups continue to operate inside of Syria, with arguably one of the largest training camps located in the southwestern countryside of Damascus.
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What’s the difference between 2nd degree murder and 3rd degree?
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BREAKING: Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is increasing charges against Derek Chauvin to 2nd degree murder in George Floyd’s case and also charging the other 3 officers, @amyklobuchar confirms. #GeorgeFloyd
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What’s the difference between 2nd degree murder and 3rd degree?
Fahrenheit vs Kelvin.
Not a lawyer, but near as I can tell, in Minnesota 1st degree murder is premeditated, 2nd degree is you did it on a whim, and 3rd degree is felony murder - someone died while you were busy being felonious.
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But if the overreach blow up in his face, Ellison will just throw an assistant or two under the bus.
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He's got a problem. Overcharge and the guy might be acquitted because you can't show what makes this murder one or two. Charge low to make sure you get a guilty verdict and you're going easy on Chauvin and the others.
The other problem is, according to NBC, this knee resraint has been taught by MPD. Used 200 times in the last five years and this is the first fatality.
What if the defense is...I was doing what I was told and trained to do and nobody else has been sanctioned over it. How was I supposed to know the drugs and heart issues would kill him? Never happened before? None of my trainers told me.
MPD looks really bad as do all the layers of government way back to the last republican mayor.
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I think moving Chauvin twice in one day to different lockups was an effort to "make the problem go away." Watch for more of the same going forward.
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yep. you can only act according to your training and the information you have at that time.
it will be thrown out, and hell the cops may even be due back wages.
at that time, here's hoping all the businesses will proactively defend themselves from the inevitable riots
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Wait a minute. Isn't Palantir supposed to have cataloged all these rioters by now? Shouldn't they be maced coming out of their holes the day the innocent verdict is announced? Just askin...
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Think Chauvin's guards in the Minnesota jails will do a better job of keeping their prisoner alive than Epstein's guards in New York? You never know. He might have some interesting things to say.
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BTW, whatever happened to Epstein's guards?
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Slap on the wrist and they retire in comfort with the proceeds from their GoFundMe page?
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But then, if Chauvin dies in jail, who would riot for him?
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The knee restraint isn't supposed to be held for minutes on end. Chauvin and the other officers weren't following policy, and were at the least derelict in not keeping someone in their custody safe.
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Gotta keep your prisoners alive so we can hear what they have to say. It might be interesting.
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The press and the elected official in MN have made it impossible for Chauvin to get a fair trial anywhere in MN.
This will probably be requested by Chauvin's attorney in the next month or so.
Hard to see how this would be fairly denied.
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[The Guardian] Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies.
An independent audit of the provenance and validity of the data has now been commissioned by the authors of the Lancet and NEJM studies not affiliated with Surgisphere because of "concerns that have been raised about the reliability of the database".
The World Health Organization and a number of national governments have changed their Covid-19 policies and treatments on the basis of flawed data from a little-known US healthcare analytics company, also calling into question the integrity of key studies published in some of the world’s most prestigious medical journals.
A Guardian investigation can reveal the US-based company Surgisphere, whose handful of employees appear to include a science fiction writer and an adult-content model, has provided data for multiple studies on Covid-19 co-authored by its chief executive, but has so far failed to adequately explain its data or methodology.
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[The News (Pak)] A Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) spokesperson on Wednesday said it said the company had started to pay compensation to the families of the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... plane crash victims, reported Geo News.The spokesperson said families of 82 victims of the ill-fated flight have been given Rs1 million (Pak rupee=$.0061) while the two girls who were maimed in the plane crash have been provided Rs500,000 each.
PIA flight PK-8303 suffered a tragic air crash in Karachi last month, killing 97 people on board while two passengers survived miraculously.
During the ill-fated flight, the pilots made a first landing attempt and the plane briefly touched the ground multiple times, before attempting to land for a second time.
Separately, the federal government last month had announced it would bear the expenses to compensate Model Colony residents whose houses and cars were damaged when the plane crashed inside the locality.
The PK-8303 tragedy has become the third most-catastrophic aviation disaster in the country's history.
Rosenstein denies having ever proposed wearing a wire in the White House or invoking the 25th Amendment, both of which are described in a memo by Andrew McCabe. But he also says he can't recall an instance where McCabe has lied.
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Precisely. Nothing-Nada-Zilch will happen. It gives Fox News & The Gateway Pundit something to discuss, though. Oh, and Blood & Guts Trey Gowdy, too.
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I think the riots have less to do with shoring up the failed forever quarantine and more to do with providing a smokescreen as the russia conspiracy cones to a head.
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I gotta hand it to these Democr@ps. Russiagate is their story and they are sticking to it. And then Susan Rice comes out and says the riots are backed by Russia. Putin might be chuckling a bit at how f'ed up we are, but this Rice broad...what planet is she from?
Former Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice suggested in an interview (CNN) Sunday that the Russians could be behind the violent nationwide demonstrations following the in-custody death of George Floyd.
I did not believe it until i saw the interview. And now I want to react.
Dear Suzan Rice,
Some time ago your party colleagues made a fatal mistake when they decided to blame absolutely everything that was not to their liking on Russia. Hillary Clinton and the Obama team convinced themselves and tried to convince the world that the domestic problems in the United States were created and encouraged by an external force: Russia.
You are repeating this mistake today together with a CNN reporter, using dirty methods of information manipulation, such as fake news and absolutely no facts to prove your allegation. Your interview with CNN is a perfect example of barefaced propaganda.
I would like to remind you that the social media, which you believe are being used by Russian agents to fuel protests in American cities, were registered in the United States, belong to Americans and are regulated by American laws.
Are you trying to play the Russia card again? You have been playing too long; please, come back to reality. Go out and face your people, look them in the eye and try telling them that they are being controlled by the Russians through YouTube and Facebook. And I will sit back and watch “American exceptionalism” in action.
Not Yours,
Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA’s spokeswoman
[Alt-Market] Mass civil unrest is a cumbersome weapon for societal change; like an oversized caveman club made of oak. You can barely swing it, and when you do you might destroy an enemy with it but you could also unwittingly destroy innocent people at the same time. Once the weapon is in motion adjusting its direction or momentum becomes difficult.
I prefer the scalpel approach - Find the cancer and cut it out directly, rather than bashing at the whole body just to get at one tumor.
Another problem with protests and riots is that they often have no discernible goals, or they lose track of their goals almost immediately. When the initial protests started, they targeted the police precinct in Minneapolis which was home to the officers that killed George Floyd. In my view this was perfectly acceptable. At this stage a majority of Americans were on their side. Many conservatives and law enforcement officers even came out in support of these measures and admonished the actions that violated common police procedure and led to unnecessary death.
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[NationalPulse] James Miller — a Defense Department advisor who resigned over President Trump’s walk through Lafayette Square to St. John’s Church — is a Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... and Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is... -era political appointee who has donated to Obama’s 2008 and 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.'... ’s 2020 presidential campaigns, as well as a host of Democratic congressional candidates.
Media stories make Miller out to be a Pentagon staffer, when in fact he is an external advisor and a holdover from previous administrations at that.
Miller announced his resignation in a sanctimonious Washington Post op-ed entitled "A letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper," insisting Defense Secretary Mark Esper "violated" his oath to "support and defend the Constitution" by participating in President Trump’s removal of protestors from the park adjacent to the White House so he could visit St. John’s Episcopal Church, recently set ablaze by rioters.
[Chicago Tribune] More than 20 people were shot in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... over 12 hours Tuesday through early Wednesday as gun violence remains high across the city for the second week in a row.
In two of the overnight shootings — on the Far South Side and South Side — three or more people were maimed, according to police.
Shootings started spiking in Chicago over the long Memorial Day weekend, when at least 50 people were shot. The next day, 28 more people were shot, including a 5-year-old girl standing with her family.
Last weekend, as looting and disturbances spread across the city, more than 80 people were shot, nearly 20 of them fatally. At least 15 of the fatal shootings occurred Sunday, requiring the Cook County medical examiner’s office to call in extra pathologists to conduct autopsies.
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..those white supremacists at it again? (so do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
#BreakingNews: #Libya's Air Force has carried out 10 airstrikes since Wednesday morning against #Haftar's terrorist militias in #Tripoli International Airport, Qasir Benghashir, Wadi Rabea and Al-Guwaya
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Supreme Leader of the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... 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. Don't count on it. Evil doesn't peg out that conveniently.
Sources privy of the development within the Taliban ranks confirmed to Foreign Policy that Akhundzada tested postitive for the disease.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... 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 wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... 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.
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[Sudan Tribune] The Sudanese army accused forces loyal to the Revolutionary Awakening Council of Musa Hilal and the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid al-Nur (SLM-AW) of attacking its positions in Jebel Marra area in Darfur.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the SLM-AW denied the allegations.
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[The News (Pak)] A minor maid was tortured to death by her employers on Tuesday for setting birds free while cleaning the cages.
According to reports, the eight-year-old, who hailed from Muzaffargarh, was hired to look after the child of a man identified as Hassan Siddiqui who worked in buying and selling birds and property.
Police officials told The Independent, Siddiqui confessed that he and his wife beat up the girl, who was working for them as a maid, in a fit of rage.
"[The] maid was cleaning the cage when she inadvertently let the two parrots free," a spokesperson said. "Hassan and his wife got infuriated and brutally beat the maid."
The publication further said the girl was brought to a private hospital on May 31 in an unconscious state and was kept on a ventilator in the ICU but died the next day.
Siddiqui, who had brought the girl to the hospital, had disappeared. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... he was later arrested along with his wife, according to a police report.
The hospital in its medical report said the minor had, "torture marks on her cheek, ribs and thighs." Her body bore older bruises that had still not fully healed. The report also added that she had injury marks in areas suggesting possible rape.
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[The News (Pak)] Pakistain slams the extrajudicial killing of 13 Kashmiris in a single day by Indian troops in Indian-occupied Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.
The ministry said Pakistain was deeply concerned over unabated extrajudicial killings of Kashmiri youth in fake encounters and so-called "anti-infiltration" operations.
"While the international community is preoccupied with fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, India is busy intensifying its brutalisation of the Kashmiri people," it said, adding that the killing of the Kashmiris speaks volumes about Indian government’s continuing crimes against humanity.
"To hide these crimes, the Indian authorities use the oft-repeated, unsubstantiated allegations of 'training' and 'infiltration' of Kashmiri resistance fighters," the Foreign Office said. "India must realise that its malicious propaganda carries no credibility with the international community. The RSS-BJP combine stands exposed before the world for its illegal and inhuman actions and krazed killer ’Hindutva’ agenda."
The Foreign Office added, "India must realise that neither can its brutalisation break the will of the Kashmiri people nor can its anti-Pakistain propaganda divert attention from India’s state-terrorism and egregious violations of human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... in occupied Kashmir."
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[DAILYSABAH] Kosovo named a new government Wednesday after months of political turmoil in the former Serbian province.Lawmakers voted 61-24 with one abstention to approve the nomination of Avdullah Hoti, 44, of the center-right Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) as the new prime minister of the country's sixth government since the declaring independence in 2008.
Members from the left-wing Self-Determination Movement, or Vetevendosje!, that had been governing Kosovo did not participate in the polls.
The new government will have 16 ministries, with seven of them nominated by the LDK, four by Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), two by Social Democratic Initiative (NISMA), two by Serb List, and one by the Ottoman Turkish Democratic Party of Kosovo.
There will also be four deputy prime ministers, each representing the coalition partners LDK, AAK, NISMA and Serb List.
By securing the lowest possible number of votes in the 120-seat parliament, Hoti replaces Acting Prime Minister Albin Kurti, whom the LDK party overthrew with a no-confidence vote in late March when it was part of Kurti's coalition government.
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25 year-old Wisaal Abdulhafeed who was kidnapped by #GNA Syrian terrorists mercenaries in Libyan capital Tripoli on the 20th of May has managed to escape. Wisaal will be reunited with her family shortly. #Libya
Wesal Abdul-Hafeed has been freed after more than 10 days of abduction. Wesal was abducted by a group of gangsters from her house in #Tripoli and found safe in a farm in Jafarra district, northwest of Tripoli. pic.twitter.com/e7S26TYq8w
[NYPOST] A teen involved in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors has pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and faces up to 18 months in detention.
Zyairr Davis, 14 — who was charged with murder — copped to the robbery and admitted he helped two pals in the botched mugging of the 18-year-old college freshman in Morningside Park on Dec. 11.
Davis admitted passing a knife to Rashaun Weaver, 15, that Weaver allegedly used to fatally stab Majors — as Luchiano Lewis, 15, allegedly held Majors in a headlock.
From a video call, Davis admitted to a Family Court judge Wednesday, "I was in Manhattan with Rashaun and Hoshie, we went to the park" — apparently referring to Lewis as "Hoshie."
"We went to rob someone in the park. We saw Tessa Majors on the stairs. I picked up the knife and handed it to Rashaun," a fidgety Davis mumbled into the camera.
"Rashaun went over and said something to Tessa Majors on the stairs. After that he stabbed her in the chest. She started yelling for help," he continued.
"Rashaun and I followed her up the stairs. Rashaun used the knife I handed him and stabbed Tessa Majors. I saw blood and feathers coming out of her coat," Davis said.
With the plea, Davis faces up to 18 months in detention at his June 15 sentencing. Davis will get credit for the time he’s already been in jug since his December arrest.
[The News (Pak)] Director-General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Babar Iftikhar on Wednesday warned India that Pakistain will respond with full might to any misadventure and that it should "not play with fire".
Talking to Geo News anchorperson Hamid Mir on "Capital Talk", the military spokesperson said Pakistain is ready for any military adventurism and there will be "uncontrollable and unintended consequences".
Maj Gen Iftikhar said the Pakistain army's capability was demonstrated in its response last year. "Do not play with fire," he warned the Indian side.
He also rejected the Indian allegations of so-called launchpads and said UN military observers are free to go anywhere here but India has never allowed international media and observers on its side of the border.
"Things can become clear if the Indian side also allows access to the UN military observer group."
The ISPR chief said the situation at the Line of Control is very serious where seven civilians have embraced martyrdom in unprovoked firing by Indian forces this year alone.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group strongly reacted to Kabul mosque bombing which left a prayer leader dead in the diplomatic zone of Kabul city.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the group, in a statement said the group strongly condemns the attack in Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan mosque which resulted into martyrdom of Mawlavi Mohammad Ayaz Niazi.
Mujahid further added that the attack on Mawlavi Niazi is a major criminal act.
Mawlavi Ayaz Niazi, the prayer leader of Wazir Mohamamd Akbar mosque died of wounds from a kaboom in diplomatic area of Kabul city earlier on Tuesday evening.
Tariq Arian, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, confirmed that Mawlavi Niazi departed this vale of tears following the earth-shattering kaboom.
According to Arian, the incident took place at around 7:45 pm local time in the vicinity of Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan mosque.
Arian further added that the holy warriors had planted explosives in the vicinity of the mosque which killed one person and maimed three others.
He also added that the security forces discovered some other explosives before the gunnies manage to detonate them.
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Another CoVid19 Victim or WTF? Ima confused? The Baden autopsy differs
[10 News] An autopsy released by the Hennepin County Medical Examiner on Wednesday show that George Floyd officially died from a heart attack. The autopsy also indicated he was positive for the coronavirus based on a postmortem nasal swab collected after his death.
Floyd died on Memorial Day after then Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held a knee to Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, likely causing his death. Chauvin has been charged with homicide, and three other officers have been charged with aiding and abetting a homicide.
The Medical Examiner said on Monday that the cause of death was a homicide experienced while suffering from a heart attack while be restrained.
The medical examiner, Dr. Andrew Baker, concluded that Floyd died of a heart attack complicated by restrained and compressed by the neck.
The autopsy showed that Floyd had tested positive for the coronavirus on April 3. The report said that the autopsy result likely reflects an asymptomatic but persistent infection from the virus.
The autopsy also showed that Floyd had a number blunt-force injuries, including to the shoulders, hands, elbows and legs. The report indicated a number of contusions to the head and neck, the report shows.
While the autopsy indicated several blunt-force injuries, the examiner said that there were no life-threatening injuries identified.
The report noted that Floyd had hypertensive heart disease.
It also indicated that Floyd had fentanyl and methamphetamines in his system at the time of death.
Goodness. It’s a wonder he stayed alive long enough to be killed.
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The first autopsy was performed by a medical examiner hired by the family, clearly.
This autopsy was performed by a medical examiner who worked for the local establishment of local law enforcement works for, clearly.
After all of this George probably looks like a black frankenstein!
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Change of venue won't keep the Hennepin County ME's report out. That's not to say Crump might not find another way to have it excluded, but I think it's unlikely it will be disallowed wherever the case is heard.
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Stack the deck, right? Put everything in except a hard kneecap!
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He was minding his own bidness drinking and taking drugs on the roof of a building. It isn't like he was giving anyone a haircut or anything dangerous like that.
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For those of you who have not had the pleasure of dealing with such people, there is a meme going about with R2D2 on the left, and an abused roadside trash can on the right. "Meth. Not Even Once."
It is spot. on. Except in this case, the droids will tear your arms off if they lose.
- enlarged heart
- cardiovascular disease (up to 75% blockage of some arteries)
- fentanyl in his system
- meth in his system
- caffeine in his system
- COVID-19 antibodies
what he didn't have:
- bruising around the neck
- petechial hemorrhage (anywhere)
- any other trauma in the neck area (like a broken hyoid bone)
i'm assuming the truth lies in what happened between the time they approached him and when he ended up on the ground.
but with all that stuff in his system, along with everything else stacked against the guy, unless some new information comes to light, those charges against the cops aren't going to stick.
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He wasn't choked in the video, Bob.
One or both arteries delivering blood to the brain were blocked by the knee. See The Carotid Sinus Strike.
[NYPOST] Indian wildlife officials are mourning the death of a pregnant wild elephant in Kerala, India, who reportedly died after being fed a firecracker-filled pineapple by an unknown assailant.
"Her jaw was broken and she was unable to eat after she chewed the pineapple and it went kaboom! in her mouth," says chief wildlife warden Surendra Kumar. The outraged official tells local media he’s certain the tampered-with pineapple was meant to kill the animal, reports the Tribune India.
The ill-intentioned feeding reportedly occurred in a remote valley in Attappadi, a forest in southern India, where the 15-year-old elephant had entered a village to forage for food last month, reports the Quint. The beast died a while later in a Malappuram district river, according to a heartbreaking Facebook post by wildlife official Mohan Krishnan, who wasn’t able to rescue her.
"When we saw her she was standing in the river, with her head dipped in the water," writes the bereaved ranger. "She had a sixth sense that she was going to die."
An autopsy revealed that the animal was pregnant at the time of her tragic death.
It’s unknown who committed the vile crime. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... Kumar vowed to "punish him for ’hunting’ the elephant" and has reportedly "directed the forest officials to nab the culprit."
In response to the heinous act, the Kerala forest department reiterated the portion of the Indian constitution mandating that citizens be kind to animals.
"Article 51-A (g) of the Indian Constitution says that it shall be duty of every citizen of India to have compassion for living creatures," they tweeted Tuesday.
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The Kiplingesque language is refreshing. Wish we had a press that felt no hesitation in using phrases like the vile crime, the heinous act, the ill-intentioned feeding.
Aptly describes Russiagate and Deep Swamp behavior.
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#1 The Kiplingesque language is refreshing. Wish we had a press that felt no hesitation in using phrases like the vile crime, the heinous act, the ill-intentioned feeding.
They do.
Whenever somebody says, "I disagree with Obama".
Or "I wish people wouldn't destroy my business and beat me and threaten my family."
It's VDH
[NRO] His weaknesses are his strength, and he’s not running for the presidency.
It is now conventional punditry that should Joe Biden win in November, his vice president, in 1944-style, will sooner rather than later become president.
Had a helluva time figuring where to place and classify this one
[American Military News] The Trump administration ordered a suspension of flights on Wednesday from China to the United States as tensions escalate between the two countries over the coronavirus and Hong Kong.
The order, which takes effect June 16, stems from China’s refusal to allow U.S. carriers to resume flying to China. Four Chinese airlines currently fly to China from the U.S.: Air China, China Eastern, China Southern and Xiamen.
President Donald Trump imposed travel restrictions on China on Jan. 31 as the coronavirus began to spread early this year. His decision came after Delta, American and United and other major international carriers had stopped flying to China because of the outbreak.
In early January, U.S. and Chinese carriers operated 325 scheduled flights a week between the two countries. By mid-February, four Chinese airlines operated 20 flights per week. In mid-March, the Chinese carriers increased their weekly flights to 34.
In a March 26 decision, China’s civil aviation agency limited foreign airlines to one weekly flight into China, aiming to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Two major American carriers, Delta and United, have been pressing Chinese officials to allow them to resume service, to no avail.
The latest move comes amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and China, which some have warned amount to a new "cold war" between the world’s two largest economies.
Trump has accused China of a coronavirus cover-up, suggested the government may have allowed the disease to spread and threatened to extract a "substantial" price from Beijing for the pandemic. And last week, Trump blasted China for President Xi Jinping’s move to impose sweeping new restrictions on Hong Kong, aimed a stifling the territory’s pro-democracy movement.
Chinese officials have charged the Trump administration with willful ignorance, dangerous mismanagement and even attempted "blackmail." In response to the Trump administration’s criticisms of its Hong Kong crackdown, Chinese officials have pointed to the unrest in the U.S. over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck.
"I can’t breathe," Hua Chunying, China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, tweeted last week, echoing Floyd’s words during the police encounter.
Her tweet came after the State Department’s chief spokeswoman called on the world to "hold to account the Chinese Communist Party, which has flagrantly broken its promises to the people of Hong Kong."
Some experts fear the spiraling tensions could jeopardize the much-touted trade deal that Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Lui He signed at the White House in January — a "phase one" agreement that White House officials said would be followed by a broader pact dealing with more contentious issues.
It’s unclear if China will be willing or able to follow through on its commitments in the phase one agreement, which included a promise to buy an extra $200 billion in American goods and services over the next two years.
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Looks like Capt. Billy might be busy with evacs again.
[Sudan Tribune] The SPLA-IO killed 15 civilians in Central Equatoria State three days ago, claimed the National Salvation Front (NAS) in a statement on Wednesday.
"On 31st May 2020, the SPLA-IO force under the joint command of Maj. Gen. John Mabiah and Maj. Gen. Moses Lokujo have carried out summary execution of fifteen (15) innocent civilians in the villages of Loguni, Panyume Payam, Morobo County in Central Equatoria State," reads a statement released by NAS front man.
In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, Suba Samuel Manase referred to the "mysterious disappearance" of the three SPLA-IO commanders In Kajo-Kiji adding that the troops of the First Vice-President Riek Machar continued attack on civilians
"On 29th May 2020, a combined force of SSPDF and SPLA-IO followed the civilians who escaped to Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... (DRC) for safety. They attacked and tortured the civilians in addition to looting their properties," he said.
Last May, the SPLA-IO accused NAS of abducting eight of its military officials including three senior officers at Kansuk in Kajo Keji County on 10 May.
NAS rejected the accusation and described it as a cover-up for internal divisions and "power rivalry" within the SPLA-IO alluding that they had been killed by another general from the area.
On 29 May, the UN Security Council renewed targeted sanctions on South Sudanese official and arms embargo.
The resolution further Expressed "deep concern" at continued fighting in South Sudan and condemned violations of the Revitalised Agreement and the Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities, Protection of Civilians and Humanitarian Access (ACOH).
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[StrategicCulture] Germany’s federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry.
Some of the report key passages are:
The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level.
The people who die from Corona are essentially those who would statistically die this year, because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies can no longer cope with any random everyday stress (including the approximately 150 viruses currently in circulation).
Worldwide, within a quarter of a year, there has been no more than 250,000 deaths from Covid-19, compared to 1.5 million deaths [25,100 in Germany] during the influenza wave 2017/18.
The danger is obviously no greater than that of many other viruses. There is no evidence that this was more than a false alarm.
A reproach could go along these lines: During the Corona crisis the State has proved itself as one of the biggest producers of Fake News.
So far, so bad. But it gets worse.
The report focuses on the "manifold and heavy consequences of the Corona measures" and warns that these are "grave".
More people are dying because of state-imposed Corona-measures than they are being killed by the virus.
The reason is a scandal in the making:
A Corona-focused German healthcare system is postponing life-saving surgery and delaying or reducing treatment for non-Corona patients.
Berlin in Denial Mode. The scientists fight back.
Initially, the government tried to dismiss the report as "the work of one employee", and its contents as "his own opinion" — while the journalists closed ranks, no questions asked, with the politicians.
But the 93-pages report titled "Analysis of the Crisis Management" has been drafted by a scientific panel appointed by the interior ministry and composed by external medical experts from several German universities.
The report was the initiative of a department of the interior ministry called Unit KM4 and in charge with the "Protection of critical infrastructures".
This is also where the German official turned whistleblower, Stephen Kohn, work(ed), and from where he leaked it to the media.
The authors of the report issued a joint press release already on Mai 11th, berating the government for ignoring expert advise, and asking for the interior minister to officially comment upon the experts joint statement:
"Therapeutic and preventive measures should never bring more harm than the illness itself. Their aim should be to protect the risk groups, without endegearing the availibilty of medical care and the health of the whole population, as it is unfortunately occurring"
"We in the scientific and medical praxis are experiencing the secondary damages of the Corona-measures on our patients on a dialy basis."
"We therefore ask the Federal Ministry of the Interior, to comment upon our press release, and we hope for a pertinent discussion regarding the [Corona] measures, one that leads to the best possible solution for the whole population"
At the time of writing, the German government had yet to react.
But the facts are — sadly — vindicating the medical experts’ worries.
On Mai 23 the German newspaper Das Bild titled: "Dramatic consequences of the Corona-Measures: 52,000 Cancer Ops delayed."
Inside, a aeading medical doctor warns that "we will feel the side-effects of the Corona crisis for years".
Shooting the Whistleblower. Ignoring the Message.
As Der Spiegel reported on Mai 15th: "Stephen Kohn [the whistleblower] has since been suspended from duty. He was advised to obtain a lawyer and his work laptop was confiscated."
Kohn had originally leaked the report on May 9th to the liberal-conservative magazine Tichys Einblick one of Germany's most popular alternative media outlets....
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If it is true that the virus may have been around since November 2019, why weren't the county morgues just piling up with dead bodies and nursing homes dealing with some mystery killer affliction? Where was the "alarm"? There were roughly 2-3 months worth of flights out of China, no hint of people keeling over then. A plandemic or shamdemic indeed.
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I had something in early December of last year, something i had never had before. started with semi-sore throat and then moved quickly down to lungs. I never felt bad, in fact I worked through it. although when I took deep breaths I could hear 'rattling' in my lungs. I did use it as an excuse to opt out of a Christmas party, so there was that.
CoVid-19? who knows. But no one in the family has been sick since then, and my wife has been working and traveling by air during the entire 'lockdown'
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Not seeing the need for forever quarantine. Nazis...
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Many in our extended local family (including me) had a bad run of 'bronchitis' in late January/ early February this year. Sounds like same symptoms you had, Bob. And yes, at least one person from each nuclear group traveled about the country by air just prior.
I had low fever for 18-hrs, but felt better in about 3-4 days. The chest congestion hung around for a good 3-4 weeks, though. My oldest boy got it the worst. He was out for about 8 days, including high fever.
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I got "the flu" in early November. I have never had the flu in my life that I have noticed. Pneumonia, hell yes, every damned year since RVN. But I can usually shake it on my own, although a few times I needed medication. So from then it went flu-like, flu-ish, hurt all over and weak, pneumonia, then flu-ish again. By the end of March I was okay, although I lost some weight. I am still fine. I never went to the doctor, but he called me every few days, so we 'statused'.
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Not good #9. Scars the lungs. Seven years of that and COPD close behind. Two lungs to survive damage but in time you will be compromised. In my opinion it starts with sinus drainage. Control sinus you prevent infection spreading to ears, throat or lungs. When cleared up from sinus infection you must go 2-3 months without re-occurrence. Infection loves low oxygen levels, poor circulation, acid chemistry and normal body temperature. Loves porous bone in sinus and atrium of middle ear.
[DAILYSABAH] Lesotho's former first lady, Maesaiah Thabane, returned to custody on Wednesday after a court revoked bail that she had been controversially given over the murder of her husband's estranged wife.
The 43-year-old was charged with murder in February after police quizzed her on the brutal killing of former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane's wife two days before his inauguration.
She spent one night in jail before a High Court freed her on a 1,000 maloti ($57) bail.
But on Friday the country's Court of Appeal canceled that bail.
Police failed to re-arrest her immediately because she was out of country accompanying her octogenarian husband, who was seeking medical attention in neighbouring South Africa.
On Wednesday she arrived at the magistrate court in Maseru under the escort of armed coppers.
Magistrate Thamae Thamae told her she would be taken to the female correctional facility in fulfilment of the appeals court judgement.
"The decision of the High Court to grant you bail has been set aside by the Court of Appeal," said the magistrate.
"You will remain in the correctional facility. You will report back on 16 June 2020 to find out the progress of your case."
Police officers immediately whisked her away.
She came to court sporting a black-and-olive-green colored tracksuit, a knee-length winter coat, sneakers and a headscarf. She had donned an anti-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... mask to cover her face, but her slumped posture suggested unhappiness for someone known for self-confidence.
Maesaiah Thabane is suspected of orchestrating the shooting of Lipolelo Thabane, who was bumped off outside her home in the capital Maseru.
Police have also charged her for the attempted murder of Lipolelo Thabane's friend Thato Sibolla, who was maimed at the scene.
Lipolelo and Thabane, now 81, had been embroiled in bitter divorce proceedings when the 58-year-old was killed.
The former premier agreed to step down in January after police linked his mobile number to communication records from the scene of the crime.
He resigned officially this month, bowing to pressure from his rivals who accused him of hampering investigations into Lipolelo's death.
Thabane has denied any involvement in the murder.
His wife initially went into hiding after police first called her in to testify in January.
She has not yet been asked to respond to the charges.
#GNA forces (Benghazi Shura Council fighters) can be seen in Tripoli International Airport today. According the the United Nations BRSC is an extremist group formed by Mohammed AlZahawi (Ansar AlSharia) & Wissam Bin Hmaid back in 2014.#Libya
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