[Ynet] - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that in hindsight, the government reopened some parts of Israel's economy too quickly, leading to a resurgence in coronavirus infections nationwide.
"Looking back, we can say that the last part of the opening of the economy was premature," Netanyahu told a press conference, referring to the reopening of bars, clubs, and event halls. "We are in the midst of the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic. It arrived at our doorstep and that of other countries as well."
"Handling the coronavirus requires responsible decision-making, balancing between trial and error. We had great success in the first wave and as a result, we reduced the number of infections to just a few every day."
The premier, alongside Finance Minister Israel Katz, then presented the government's financial rescue plan.
The plan includes a social safety net for wage and self-employed workers and a financial safety net for businesses until June 2021 in order to guarantee economic certainty for the coming year. The government would also provide training for individuals making a career change to "coronavirus-era professions". I wonder if it occurred yet to somebody that coronovirus hospitals don't have to have as many certified doctors & nurses as a regular ones. Just people trained to deal with coronavirus patients supervised by MDs.
WASHINGTON (CN) — In a decision that reclassifies a large swath of eastern Oklahoma as land belonging to Native Americans driven from their ancestral home during the Trail of Tears, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that a Seminole man sentenced to 500 years in prison for rape and sodomy should have been tried in federal court.
Jimcy McGirt, turning 72 in October, contends that the crimes of which he was convicted in 1997 occurred on Muscogee or Creek Nation land. McGirt himself is a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and applied in 2018 for post-conviction relief based on the successful appeal of Patrick Dwayne Murphy, a Creek member whose death-row conviction was vacated after the 10th Circuit held that Congress never explicitly erased the Creek Nation’s boundaries when Oklahoma was granted statehood.
Murphy’s case had been pending before the Supreme Court after the justices ordered last year that it be reargued. They affirmed for Murphy on Tuesday after handing down the ruling in McGirt — a case that the justices heard via livestream teleconferences in the midst of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
"The federal government promised the Creek a reservation in perpetuity," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority. "Over time, Congress has diminished that reservation. It has sometimes restricted and other times expanded the tribe’s authority. But Congress has never withdrawn the promised reservation. As a result, many of the arguments before us today follow a sadly familiar pattern. Yes, promises were made, but the price of keeping them has become too great, so now we should just cast a blind eye. We reject that thinking. If Congress wishes to withdraw its promises, it must say so. Unlawful acts, performed long enough and with sufficient vigor, are never enough to amend the law. To hold otherwise would be to elevate the most brazen and longstanding injustices over the law, both rewarding wrong and failing those in the right."
Ian Gershengorn, a Jenner & Block attorney representing McGirt, lauded the court Thursday for affirming that, when "the United States makes promises, the courts will keep those promises."
"Congress persuaded the Creek Nation to walk the Trail of Tears with promises of a reservation — and the court today correctly recognized that that this reservation endures," Gershengorn said in a statement.
Because Gorsuch participated in the 10th Circuit’s handling of Murphy’s case, he recused himself from proceedings at the high court level. In McGirt, Gorsuch was joined in the majority by the liberal wing of the court: Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.
The decision explains the Creek Reservation’s history in a period of the 1880s known as the allotment era, where Congress tried pressuring tribes to abandon their lifestyles and lands.
Critical to Gorsuch, however, was that no statute passed in this time "evinc[ed] anything like the ’present and total surrender of all tribal interests’ in the affected lands."
Gorscuch emphasized that such decisions were not necessarily altruistic as some members of Congress at the time were concerned that putting Creek lands into the public domain would let them fall into the hands of "powerful railroad interests."
"But whatever the confluence of reasons, in all this history there simply arrived no moment when any act of Congress dissolved the Creek tribe or disestablished its reservation," Gorsuch wrote. "In the end, Congress moved in the opposite direction."
Oklahoma had warned that extending the jurisdiction of the Creek Nation would have ramifications for resident safety, but Gorsuch called the argument "self-defeating."
He emphasized that states are still permitted to apply criminal and civil statutes against non-Indian defendants within Indian country, and that many services for the Creek Nation and the state already overlap.
Furthermore, large sections of the population living among Native Americans on a reservation is hardly unheard of.
"Oklahoma replies that its situation is different because the affected population here is large and many of its residents will be surprised to find out they have been living in Indian country this whole time," Gorsuch wrote. "But we imagine some members of the 1832 Creek Tribe would be just as surprised to find them there."
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a seething dissent that the court’s remaining conservative members, Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas, joined.
With the majority’s holding, Roberts wrote, Oklahoma’s "ability to prosecute serious crimes will be hobbled," and decades of past convictions could be thrown out. Roberts said the decision weaves uncertainty into a range of issues, "from zoning and taxation to family and environmental law."
"None of this is warranted," he added. "What has gone unquestioned for a century remains true today: A huge portion of Oklahoma is not Creek Indian reservation."
Picking up the thread of obliterated state prosecutions later in his dissent, Roberts asked if the federal government would necessarily have the resources necessary to reprosecute some of these cases.
Some 10-15% of Oklahoma’s population identify as Native American, but Roberts emphasized that "the share of serious crimes committed by 10%—15% of the 1.8 million people in eastern Oklahoma, or of the 400,000 people in Tulsa, is no small number."
"At the end of the day, there is no escaping that today’s decision will undermine numerous convictions obtained by the state, as well as the state’s ability to prosecute serious crimes committed in the future," Roberts wrote.
Joining together for a statement on the ruling, the state and five Native American tribes said Thursday they are committed to ensuring McGirt and Murphy face justice for their accused crimes.
"The nations and the state are committed to implementing a framework of shared jurisdiction that will preserve sovereign interests and rights to self-government while affirming jurisdictional understandings, procedures, laws and regulations that support public safety, our economy, and private property rights," they said.
Thomas joined all but a footnote of the chief justice’s dissent and wrote separately to argue that the court heard the case without proper jurisdiction.
"I agree with the Chief Justice that the court misapplies our precedents n granting petitioner relief," Thomas wrote. "But in doing so, the court also overrides Oklahoma’s statutory procedural bar, upsetting a violent sex offender’s conviction without the power to do so. The state of Oklahoma deserves more respect under our Constitution’s federal system." I wonder if this latest SCOTUS ruling will conflict with the Oklahoma of 1889. President Lincoln signed The Homestead Act of 1862 whereby legal settlers could claim and obtain the title to the land of up to 160 acres provided the settler lived on and improved the land.
General Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 that made a post-Civil War promise to grant freed slaves 40 acres and a mule. This order was reversed later by President Andrew Johnson.
Are we to expect that such promises as made by the Homestead Act and Order 15 are going to be re-litigated again in 2020? Are we going to be an "United States of American" or something else?
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The local jurisdictions will need to negotiate jurisdiction. It has happened before in a similar case: Land Grant Universities.
The local university was a Land Grant College so even if it was totally within the City boundaries the City cops had no jurisdiction. Essentially the City Cops and University Cops "deputized each other" to solve the issue. The city also couldn't levy local sales taxes until they also negotiate the annexing of the land directly under the cash registers in the student books store (textbooks are very expensive!).
[JPost] Hamas claimed on Thursday that the arrest of two of its senior officials in the West Bank by the IDF was intended to derail Palestinian efforts to prevent Israel from applying its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank.
The two, Jamal Tawil and Hussein Abu Kwiek, were arrested during a pre-dawn IDF raid on their homes in Ramallah and its twin city of El-Bireh.
Tawil, who was elected mayor of El-Bireh in 2006, has been arrested several times by the IDF during the past two decades because of his activities on behalf of Hamas. Last year, after he went on hunger strike to protest his administrative detention, he was released from prison.
Abu Kweik, also a senior Hamas official in the West Bank, had also been previously arrested several times by the IDF in the past two decades. He was also arrested on a number of occasions by the Palestinian Authority security forces. During the Second Intifada, his wife and three children were killed in an IDF attack on his vehicle in Ramallah.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said that the arrest of the two top officials was part of "desperate attempt to obstruct the joint path of national work to confront plans to liquidate the Palestinian cause."
Qassem was referring to last week’s announcement by Hamas and the Palestinian ruling Fatah faction that they have reached agreement to work together to topple Israel’s annexation plan and US President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace vision, also known as the Deal of the Century.
"Despite the arrest of our leaders [in the West Bank], Hamas will continue its struggle against the occupation and its projects," Qassem said. "We will also continue to develop the path of unity with all components of our people in order to reach a joint strategy for confronting the colonial annexation plan."
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Be a badass jihadist and get your arrested. Happens to even the best of them.
[JPost] The tests last year were already known, so Russia’s agenda of discussing them again may be linked to a wider one.
Turkey, a member of NATO, tested the Russian-made S-400 air defense system on US-made F-16 jets during a drill in November 2019, Russia’s state media TASS has reported. The use of the S-400 against the F-16s was already reported last year, but the new details from Russian media appear to cement the claim and infer that something more was going on in those tests.
Russia has an interest in knowing how well its air defense performs against US warplanes. Russia’s S-400 is the top tier of its numerous air defense systems. Some of these systems have been called into question due to mistakes. S-200s used by the Syrian regime shot down a Russian airplane by mistake in 2018. Iranian models of Russian systems have scored big in 2019 with the shoot-down of a US drone, but the Iranians also shot down a civilian jetliner in January.
In Syria there are questions about the radar and reliability of the S-300s and Pantsir and other systems abilities to track modern drones and fifth generational jets. Russia’s Pantsirs were also destroyed by Turkish drones in battles in Idlib and Libya this year.
It is therefore of great importance for Russia to know how the S-400 performed against a NATO member’s F-16s. What Turkey got out of this test is less clear now. Why would Ankara test the S-400 it bought from Russia against its own F-16s, unless it was at the behest of Moscow, wanting to see how it performed? The narrative last year was that Turkey merely wanted to test communications between the platforms so it didn’t shoot down its own jets.
Russia’s TASS media only says that a source close to the Turkish defense industry told TASS that the S-400 was tested on the US-made F-16s. The S-400s are the center a controversy with Washington. By acquiring them for billions of dollars, Turkey has distanced itself from its traditional US ally and become a closer ally of Russia.
The US administration has begged Turkey not to move toward Moscow, with one US senator even suggesting to buy the Russian S-400s from Turkey to please Ankara. What exactly the US would do with S-400s it doesn’t need is unclear — and it is unclear if Moscow would let the technology be floated on a barge over to the US to be picked apart by US engineers.
Russia’s reasoning for bringing up the November tests this week is also unclear. Turkey got the S-400s in July 2019. It began to test them in November and they were supposed to be operational in April 2020. But they don’t seem to be operational yet. This raises questions about what was the overall point of Turkey spending billions on air defense it doesn’t need. For Russia, the point seems to be its desire to bring this up as part of an attempt to sink any questions about Turkey and the US working more closely.
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...Always the possibility that the damned things don't work.
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So Russia and the United States are both using Syria as a proving ground for their weapons system. Pencilneck should demand they pay a fee for this service.
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It is therefore of great importance for Russia to know how the S-400 performed against a NATO member’s F-16s.
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Never let a good crisis go to waste, which in the current crisis means we must use the fact that our universities have shown themselves to be petri dishes swimming with anti-American ideologies, combined with pre-existing trends, to lance this particular cultural boil.
Let’s be clear: Academia today is a pack of rabid reds, and we need to put it down like Old Yeller. And academia itself has loaded up the 12 gauge.
They will say that we oppose academia because we are stupid Neanderthals, just like Trump is (That’s Lie #2 in my new book!). No. We would be stupid to let this undead institution on. This entire wokeness idiocy is the result of hack academics peddling half-baked theories that justify the consolidation of elite power at the expense of those of us who don’t live on the diploma dole. The bizarre language — "We must struggle to decolonialize the cisnormative paradigm to purge the structural racism caused by the male gaze and amplify whiny, entitled voices" — and the performance art aspects of the media-friendly insurrection — notice how they only get frisky in jurisdictions where they can count on the pinko mayor to hold back the constables and on the local DA to merely slap their wrists? — is all a direct result of indoctrination in the colleges that we normal people support.
Why should we do that? We have no moral obligation to subsidize a generation of brats.
Now, the only thing really keeping academia attached to the body politic like the institutional deer tick that it is was the widespread and baseless belief that our universities are somehow our culture’s crucial repositories of knowledge and learning. But it’s kind of hard to argue that when it belches forth graduates who decide to show that black lives matter by toppling statues of Abe Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
If these bozos are considered "educated," I’ll stick with the allegedly ignorant. At least someone without an Ivy League degree can give me a hand changing my oil or, you know, defending the Constitution with a rifle.
On the plus side, I like my chances in a revolution sparked by a generation that thinks words can be violence. And since none of them ever heard of Ft. Sumter, because that’s actual history instead of grievance tallying, none of them are hip to the fact that Democrats are already 0-1 on starting fights over their bizarre and repellent racist dogmas.
This decision to use academia’s institutional credibility as a cultural chamber pot comes at just the wrong time. Video and computer technology was already making the old giant lecture hall model obsolete even before the bat soup flu. You get the same level of loving personal attention staring at a iPad in your house as you do staring at the TA 100 yards away from you in a behemoth lecture hall, and you don’t have to breath in either the viruses or the scent of old Pabst wafting off of the unwashed bodies of your fellow students.
...Of course, because it’s the Ivy League — that same institution that brought us the Wall Street collapse, Iraq, and a society where the nonsense scribbled down in White Fragility is not immediately laughed out of polite company — we have now Harvard demanding full tuition for the 2020-2021 academic year conducted completely by video learning. It’s basically a public confession that the whole point of the place is getting admitted — as long as at the end of a few years you get a diploma reading "HARVARD," who cares what goes on during them?
Over-priced, inefficient, and not merely useless but actively detrimental to society — yeah, I’m sold on academia as currently constituted. So, let’s take this opportunity to burst this societal pimple.
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Trump should go after the Teachers Union for allowing inferior teachers to remain, thus screwing up education for many and lowering the salaries of others.
Trump should go after the Police Union for protecting bad cops because Police are essential and they make an easy target.
Lastly he should go after Public Sector Union who can hold the entire nation hostage for higher salary which is so crazy even FDR thought it was a bad idea.
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^ Correct. STEM are the most likely to pay back their loans and be higher-steady-income taxpayers
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Get rid of government backed student loans. Allow banks to evaluate candidate students based on their grades, history, desired major etc. The banks will only make student loans to those likely to pay back, ie STEM. The various "studies" departments will die on the vine.
[ZH] - In the middle of an otherwise relatively slow post-holiday weekend afternoon, CNBC has just announced that former Fox News anchor Shep Smith will be joining the network, where he will report on a wide range of topics beyond the cable news channel's typically markets-focused coverage.
Smith abruptly left Fox News, where he built a large following, in October after his criticism of Donald Trump made him sort of an odd-man-out at the conservative-leaning cable news network.
Smith is signing on to host a new show, entitled "The News with Shepard Smith", which will debut this fall in the 7-8pm time slot. The Monday through Friday newscast marks a significant shift in the evening programming strategy for CNBC, which is essentially re-runs of "Shark Tank" and "the Profit" after Jim Cramer wraps up the popular "Mad Money". Makes you wonder how successful he's going to be; Fox has live talent every hour on from this time slot 'til midnight and CNBC has this guy for one hour.
CNBC Chairman Mark Hoffman said Smith’s show will try to "look for the signal in all the noise".\\Shep will make his debut tomorrow at 10am on "Squawk on the Street".
Of course, given his legacy at Fox News, media reporters will be curious to see whether Smith suffers from what some have informally dubbed "The Fox News Effect" - the tendency for the network's stars to crash and burn after leaving the network, like Megyn Kelly, Glenn Beck and a handful of others. One can hope!
[Road & Track] Back in May, we wrote about a selection of Pittsburgh brand three- and six-ton jack stands recalled by Harbor Freight because of a manufacturing defect that could cause them to collapse under load, potentially causing injury or death. Customers were asked to return the stands in exchange for a gift card, and affected units were pulled from shelves. Now, Harbor Freight has had to announce a second recall, covering the new jack stands that many folks purchased to replace those covered by the initial recall.
In a customer email sent today by Harbor Freight owner and founder Eric Smidt, the company revealed that a "small number" of the replacement Pittsburgh three-ton jacks stands suffer from a welding defect, and, like the original batch, could fail while supporting a vehicle. (The initial recall from May had to do with insufficient ratchet tooth engagement, attributed to excess wear in the dies used to manufacture the stands). Smidt says the welding defect wasn't discovered in the initial investigation, and the affected model (SKU 56373) has since been added to the list of recalled stands.
See the full letter from Harbor Freight owner and founder Eric Smidt below.
Smidt says the company has taken the time to investigate all of the other three- , six- and 12-ton Pittsburgh jack stands it currently sells, and hasn't found any further defects. However, if you own any of these Pittsburgh jack stands and no longer feel comfortable using them, the company will take them back in exchange for a refund or store credit—even though they aren't covered by the recall and have not been found to be defective. A full list of the Harbor Freight jack stand models eligible for a refund can be found here.
"I want to apologize to all of our customers," Smidt said in his email to customers. "While we've dramatically grown our team of engineers and inspectors, and intensified our tests and inspections, I assure you that the lessons learned from this will drive further improvement."
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trusting tools from Harbor Freight to do anything but break is the real story here.
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Much further back in time, Sony sent me a new power supply for my PS2 cause the originals were determined to be defective. Not too long after that, I got another one to replace the replacement because it was found to be defective. Made in ....
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Great idea, B. Now where's that newspaper flyer...
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Re: #1 by Besoeker. Why bother boycotting Harbor Freight when all the other stores (big boxes and auto parts, etc.) sell basically the same stuff made in China?
What would be more useful is telling us who sell American made stuff!
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I bought a couple of large big box things recently - one from Taiwan and one from Vietnam. Couldn't find comparables from the US, but at least it wasn't ...
[Summit] An acquaintance of Ghislaine Maxwell has told reporters that the socialite has secret video footage of Prince Andrew that was filmed during her time as Jeffrey Epstein’s so called ’madam’.
Christina Oxenberg told The Sun that Andrew, the British Queen’s son, "is one of many johns, all of whom were videotaped by Ghislaine."
"He is not a victim here, but Ghislaine was never his friend, she was taping him," Oxenberg added, noting that "Friends don’t tape friends."
Oxenberg is the daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, making her Prince Andrew’s cousin.
She told reporters that she believes Maxwell is seeking to trade information with the FBI, and possibly the videos to save herself.
"I think she thinks she can get out, obviously she’s planning on trading [information]," Oxenberg said.
Oxenberg says she was interviewed by the FBI last year in regards to the case, and that she is willing to testify against Maxwell.
The report claims that the royal said Maxwell previously bragged to her about obtaining underage girls under Epstein’s influence.
"I will definitely be there to remind her that in ’97, she told me copious amounts," Oxenberg said.
It is not clear if Oxenberg is the same person who was cited anonymously in another report this week claiming that Maxwell has secret sex tapes that "could implicate some twisted movers and shakers."
"If Ghislaine goes down, she’s going to take the whole damn lot of them with her," the source told the Daily Mail.
As we highlighted last week, a lawyer for one of Epstein’s accusers thinks that Ghislaine Maxwell could reveal a "bigger name" involved in Epstein’s pedophile network in order to secure a plea deal following her arrest.
"I’m sure that Ghislaine’s attorneys will try to make a deal where she speaks out about a bigger name to get reduced charges for herself," said Lisa Bloom.
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Her folder files and secure online storage are being 'reviewed' by Cambridge Analytica as we speak.
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I get the feeling her return to the US and arrest were all set up in advance. My question is why - what's in it for her? Did the Feds cut off her access to funds? Did they offer her 'something' to testify against someone specific? 'Truthfully?' Is it to put an end to the episode and protect the authorities behind it (since is was likely an intelligence operation of one or more governments?)
[Of Two Minds] Now that the pandemic is over and the economy is roaring again--so the stock market says--we're heading straight back up into the good old days of 2019. Nothing to worry about, we've recovered the trajectory of higher and higher, better every day in every way.
Everything's great except the fatal rot at the heart of the U.S. economy hasn't even been acknowledged, much less addressed: every sector of the economy is nothing but one form of neofeudal extortion or another.
Let's spin the time machine back to the late Middle Ages, at the height of feudalism, and imagine we're trying to get a boatload of goods to the nearest city to sell. As we drift down the river, we're constantly being stopped and charged a fee for transiting one small fiefdom after another. When we finally reach the city, there's an entry fee for bringing our goods to market.
Note that none of these fees were payments for improvements to transport or for services rendered; they were simply extortion. This was the economic structure of feudalism: petty fiefdoms levied extortionate fees that funded the lifestyles of nobility.
This is why I have long called America's economy neofeudal: we pay ever higher fees for services that are degrading, not improving. This is the essence of extortion: we don't get any improvement in goods and services for the extra money we're forced to pay.
Consider higher education: costs are soaring while the value of the "product"--a college diploma--declines. What extra value are students receiving for the doubling of tuition and fees? The short answer is "none." College diplomas are in over-supply, and studies have found that a majority of students learn remarkably little of value in college.
As I explain in my book The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy, the solution is to accredit the student, not the institution. If the student learned very little, he/she doesn't get credentialed.
Were students to have access to the best classroom lectures online (nearly free), and on-the-job apprenticeships in the workplace, (nearly free or perhaps even paid), learning would be significantly improved and costs reduced by 80% to 90%.
In this structure, there's no need for costly campuses or administration; the entire structure of higher education could be largely automated with software, except for the workplace apprenticeships which focus on case studies and real-world projects that are creating value in the here and now.
Consider healthcare: has the quality of healthcare doubled along with costs? Are Americans significantly healthier as the costs of healthcare have tripled? The aggregate health of Americans has arguably declined, while the stresses placed on frontline care providers by the ever-heavier burdens of compliance and paperwork have increased.
What about the $200 hammers and $300 million F-35 aircraft of the defense industry? Once again, as costs have soared, the quality and effectiveness of the products being supplied has arguable declined.
How about state and local government services? Are they improving as taxes and junk fees rise? Once again, government services are often declining in quality as taxes and fees increase by leaps and bounds.
In sector after sector, the quality of the goods and services has declined while costs have soared. This is the acme of neofeudalism: insiders and the New Nobility are skimming fortunes as prices skyrocket and the quality of the goods and services provided plummet.
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In sector after sector, the quality of the goods and services has declined while costs have soared. This is the acme of neofeudalism: insiders and the New Nobility are skimming fortunes as prices skyrocket and the quality of the goods and services provided plummet.
Only when government subsidizes the price or obscures/interferes with the supply-demand pricing mechanism.
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Strange how this is communicated over a device that has gotten more integrated and cheaper (per processing capability) than the 'big iron' of the 60s.
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Obama saddled all of our government services with new requirements for diversity, training, etc. It produced several new industries of worthless people who contribute nothing, but cost a great deal.
It was part of the Cloward-Piven strategy to destroy the USA by spending us to death, and will be Obama's enduring legacy, assuming that there is a USA to endure.
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Currently we have a national coin shortage. I am now seeing currency shortages as well. They want us to use cards. Currently hacking of personal accounts is the worst I have ever seen this activity.
h/t Hot Air
[NYT] Even a stopped clock shows right time twice a day.
Ever since the coronavirus emerged in Europe, Sweden has captured international attention by conducting an unorthodox, open-air experiment. It has allowed the world to examine what happens in a pandemic when a government allows life to carry on largely unhindered.
This is what has happened: Not only have thousands more people died than in neighboring countries that imposed lockdowns, but Sweden’s economy has fared little better.
"They literally gained nothing," said Jacob F. Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. "It’s a self-inflicted wound, and they have no economic gains."
The results of Sweden’s experience are relevant well beyond Scandinavian shores. In the United States, where the virus is spreading with alarming speed, many states have — at President Trump’s urging — avoided lockdowns or lifted them prematurely on the assumption that this would foster economic revival, allowing people to return to workplaces, shops and restaurants. Of course, Trump being Trump, I suspect "brier patch" type manipulation of his enemies.
In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson — previously hospitalized with Covid-19 — reopened pubs and restaurants last weekend in a bid to restore normal economic life.
Implicit in these approaches is the assumption that governments must balance saving lives against the imperative to spare jobs, with the extra health risks of rolling back social distancing potentially justified by a resulting boost to prosperity. But Sweden’s grim result — more death, and nearly equal economic damage — suggests that the supposed choice between lives and paychecks is a false one: A failure to impose social distancing can cost lives and jobs at the same time. Lock-down experiences show that the argument was totally false from the beginning. The lock-downs didn't hurt agriculture/manufacturing/transportation/sales. The only ones hurt were tourism (which is dead) and service industries. I feel kinda bad for working girls and falafel stands (hot dog in USA?). The restauraners - who mostly employ illegal "Palestinians" in Israel and illegal "Hispanics" in USA, can die far as I'm concerned.
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anyone can pick and choose a few examples to create an argument but the disease is more complicated than anybody understands, e.g., Switzerland never shut down and is are doing better than the US; within the US, South Dakota never shut down and is doing about the best among States
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As I recall, the original discussion here was around the fact that introverted Swedes are naturally more isolated than gregarious Muslim colonists, and that by not mandating a lockdown the colonists would be afforded the opportunity to infect one another and differentially die off. Did this happen?
American Thinker via Instapundit
A friend of mine told me that her daughter, who attends UCLA, will be living at home and taking only online classes in the fall. While the family will be spared the cost of on-campus housing, there is no tuition deduction. On Monday, Harvard announced the same policy. Also on Monday, the Trump administration used the new academic reality as a way to eject Chinese nationals from America.
For several decades now, America's colleges and universities have been making bank by holding spaces open for foreign nationals, especially Chinese students who are the scions of powerful people in the Communist Party. The beauty of these students is that they pay full fare. With them, there are no grants, no in-state discounts, no pesky and inconvenient loans. Instead, it's cash all the way.
...Because foreign students, especially the Chinese, are an important funding source for academia, the Trump administration's announcement on Monday that, if classes go online, foreign students will be denied visas comes as a devastating blow.
...In theory, foreign students should be in the same situation academically as my friend's child: they'll live in their home country and take the same classes they would have anyway. They'll lose the opportunity to perfect their English and mingle with (or spy on) Americans, but they'll still get the degree.
China's internet censorship, however, means that Chinese students probably won't be able to take those online classes. And without those classes, Chinese students will walk away and take their money with them.
...Academia's indoctrination provides the foot soldiers for leftism, both on the street and in the boardroom, and because their faculty and staff are huge Democrat party funder, academia also helps fund the party. If these institutions of higher leftism go under, their demise can only help preserve an America dedicated to the traditional principles of individual liberty and the free market.
[Harvard Crimson Review] Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit in District Court in Boston Wednesday morning against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to University President Lawrence S. Bacow.
The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to bar DHS and ICE from enforcing federal guidelines barring international students attending colleges and universities offering only online courses from staying in the United States.
The guidelines would mandate that they transfer to an institution offering in-person instruction or risk “immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings.”
“The order came down without notice—its cruelty surpassed only by its recklessness,” Bacow wrote in an email to affiliates. “We believe that the ICE order is bad public policy, and we believe that it is illegal.”
DHS did not respond to requests for comment. ICE declined to comment, citing the pending lawsuit.
The guidelines were released just hours after Harvard announced it would house no more than 40 percent of undergraduates and would hold all College classes online in the fall. The lawsuit repeatedly states that the announcement created “chaos” at Harvard, MIT, and universities nationwide.
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Yeah, sure. Thanks for letting us know you're nothing more than paper mills. It's commerce that you are whining about. Last time I checked, the Constitution says the feds have the ability to control imports/exports.
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If they can "Learn From Home" over the Internet then why do they need to be physically here? Right, how could you justify all the Harvard administrators' "Phoney baloney jobs" in that case, eh?
FEE via Instapundit
Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several US states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example, is now considered the nation’s No. 1 hot spot for the virus; yet on Monday, the state’s education commissioner issued an executive order mandating that all Florida schools open in August with in-person learning and their full suite of student services.
Many parents are balking at back-to-school, choosing instead to homeschool their children this fall.
...For some parents, fear of the virus itself is a primary consideration in delaying a child’s return to school, especially if the child has direct contact with individuals who are most vulnerable to COVID-19’s worst effects.
But for many parents, it’s not the virus they are avoiding by keeping their children home—it’s the response to the virus.
In May, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued school reopening guidelines that called for:
Strict social distancing tactics
All-day mask wearing for most students and teachers
Staggered attendance
Daily health checks
No gym or cafetaria use
Restricted playground access and limited toy-sharing, and
Tight controls on visitors to school buildings, including parents.
In Israel we have the same guide lines, which weren't kept - causing school originating outburst of CV19 cases.
...According to a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll, 60 percent of parents surveyed said they will likely choose at-home learning this fall rather than send their children to school even if the schools reopen for in-person learning. Thirty percent of parents surveyed said they were "very likely" to keep their children home.
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Kids who want to learn will find a way even if you try to stop them. The notion that they need brick and mortar schools to learn is anachronistic and dishonest.
Kids who are indifferent or antagonistic to learning anything except how to get by on the street don't belong in classrooms at all, as all they do is disrupt those trying to learn and cause a waste of resources. Inner city schools have been promoting and graduating truants for years. It's no mystery that their budgets are based on headcounts, not outcomes.
Universities now admit according to a diversity schedule whether it's legally countenanced or not, to the disadvantage of students with superior grades but not enough or the wrong "intersectionality" boxes checked. Lots of corporations have to teach their new hires stuff that wasn't taught or absorbed effectively in the high priced diploma mills.
It's time for education to become a fee for use commodity delivered however the customer wants and subject to all market forces.
Stop tossing old people out of their homes because they can't carry the "public education establishment" on their retired backs anymore.
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No problem, the Ivys will just get faculty, staff and alumni to adopt the incoming foreign students.
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Why open up when they can take in the same amount of money but not have the expenses of busing, cooking, maintenance, security, sexual assault lawsuits, athletics insurance, so forth.
Why, with the right PR Teachers are Struggling campaign, they can get a raise for doing less, then later claim re-opening is too expensive.
Wife comes from a different direction; that the students are going to spend so much time doing the safety dance, they won't have time to do anything else; wasted day. The whole thing is a farce anyways because that one kid from the family which always seems to get head lice will wreck the procedure from the git-go.
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I wish we had the old "Home Front: Culture Wars" instead of "-PC Follies". After all, the best description I know for left-winger youth is "NeKulturny".
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Brittany Marshall, a self-described teacher and Ph.D. student, took to Twitter this past weekend to voice her displeasure about the concept of 2+2=4, saying the "idea" of the simple math equation is merely "cultural." Brittany is person of color doing a PhD in mathematical education - see comments/span>
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Somehow the Chinese, Egyptians, Mayans, et al figured out how to do some math in their architectural construction and calendars well before contact with any 'white' civilization. BTW, Brittany, those are Indo-Arabic glyphs you are using there. Europeans didn't get around to appropriating using them till after 1492 and in particular that little '0' thingy.
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“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”
George Orwell - '1984'
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“Do you remember,’ he went on, ‘writing in your diary, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four”?’
‘Yes,’ said Winston.
O’Brien held up his left hand, its back towards Winston, with the thumb hidden and the four fingers extended.
‘How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’
‘Four.’
‘And if the party says that it is not four but five — then how many?'”
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Architecture huh? Wouldn't let her do a project budget or Autocad
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she claims to have a master's degree in Architexture from North Carolina State and working on a Ph D at Rutgers
wonder how she would function in an actual job
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/\Glorified Interior Decorator, more like. Doesn't sound like a STEM-core Civil Engineering major... people that build things out of concrete and steel that are not supposed to fall over.
[Jpost] At least 180 bodies have been found in common graves in Djibo, a town in the north of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , Human Rights Watch (HRW), said in a report released on Wednesday, saying that the killings were likely carried out by government forces.
"Available evidence suggests government forces were involved in mass extrajudicial executions," HRW said. It called for the government to hold those responsible to account.
The Burkina Faso government told HRW it will investigate the claims.
Minister of Defence Moumina Cheriff Sy said the killings could have been committed by jihadist groups using stolen army uniforms and logistical equipment.
"It is difficult for the population to distinguish between armed terrorist groups and the defense and security forces," he said.
Burkina Faso has been battling murderous Moslem groups with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... since 2017. Hundreds of civilians have been killed and almost a million displaced by the conflict, which is also affecting neighbors Niger and Mali.
The HRW report said the killings in Djibo likely took place between November 2019 and June 2020. Residents who saw the bodies told HRW that the dead were all men.
It said the bodies were left in groups along major roadways, under bridges, and in fields and vacant lots around Djibo.
"Burkina Faso authorities need to urgently uncover who turned Djibo into a 'killing field,'" said Corinne Dufka, Sahel director at Human Rights Watch.
A community leader in Djibo told HRW, "Many of the dead were blindfolded, had their hands tied up...and were shot in the head."
Many who spoke to HRW said they were fearful of being killed by government forces as well as jihadi murderous Moslems.
"At night, so many times I'd hear the sound of vehicles and then, bam! bam! bam! ... And the next morning we'd see or hear of bodies found in this place or that," a Djibo farmer said.
[IsraelTimes] Auditors express particular alarm at media giant’s reluctance to act on President Trump posts that ’allowed the propagation of hate/violent mostly peaceful speech’ and ’facilitated voter suppression’.
The audit commissioned by Facebook in 2018 found the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, giant had taken "important steps forward in building a long-term civil rights accountability structure" but "are not sufficient and should not be the end of Facebook’s progress."
Despite progress, "the auditors are concerned that those gains could be obscured by the vexing and heartbreaking decisions Facebook has made that represent significant setbacks for civil rights," the 100-page report said.
[JPost] - Over 40 coronavirus patients in the UK who were mildly affected or recovering from the virus have suffered complications ranging from brain inflammation and delirium to nerve damage and stroke, regardless of the severity of other COVID-19 symptoms, according to data published in the journal Brain on Wednesday, The Guardian reported.
...The neurological symptoms reported in the 43 patients included confusion, psychosis, seizures, hallucinations, delusions, necrosis, deteriorating vision and strokes, among other symptoms.
..."We’re seeing things in the way COVID-19 affects the brain that we haven’t seen before with other viruses," said Michael Zandi, a senior author on the study and a consultant at University College London’s Institute of Neurology and UCL Hospitals NHS foundation trust, according to The Guardian.
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I suspect there will be concern that complications like this could result from a vaccine as well - many of the strange things about COVID seem related to our immune response rather than to the virus itself.
The dominoes are falling. The moment the U.K. implemented the Magnitsky sanctions on Monday, the Cayman Islands immediately followed suit and instructed all financial institutions in their jurisdiction to freeze the assets of those on the list pic.twitter.com/P9CujletyC
[Rudaw] The US position on recent Ottoman Turkish and Iranian military operations targeting suspected bad boy locations in the Kurdistan Region differs, according to statements made Wednesday by a State Department spokesperson.
While the US urges both 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 The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... to respect Iraq’s illusory sovereignty, it only encourages the latter to coordinate with the governments of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region to defeat gunnies operating in the area.
"We recognize the legitimate security threat the [Kurdistan Workers' Party] PKK poses to Turkey and we urge Turkey to pursue joint counterterrorism cooperation with Iraq in a way that supports Iraqi illusory sovereignty," a spokesperson told Rudaw Wednesday over email.
Saying the US is aware of reports of Iranian Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the Kurdistan Region and is closely monitoring the situation, the spokesperson added: "Iran must respect Iraq's illusory sovereignty, end its interference in Iraq's internal matters, and refrain from destabilizing behavior."
Turkey began sustained air and ground military operations in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq's disputed territories in mid-June, with the stated aim of removing suspected PKK targets from the area. Five civilians have been killed in the operations.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also launched airstrikes in coordination with Turkey in the Kurdistan Region last month, shelling the Haji Omaran area, which borders Iran. Media outlets close to the the IRGC said Turkey and Iran agreed to jointly fight what they called Kurdistan Region-based cross-border "terrorism".
"The United States is prepared to facilitate and support a coordinated approach on this issue, as we continue to believe sustainable security solutions can only be achieved through cooperation," added the spokesperson, which stressed the importance of coordination between all parties additionally working to counter the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) group.
"Ultimately, areas like Sinjar [Shingal] need to come under the full control of the federal government and its security forces, in coordination with the KRG, so that the PKK and other militias and groups cannot promote their own agendas. This instability is keeping hundreds of thousands of ISIS genocide victims from returning home."
Currently based in the Qandil Mountains along the Turkey-Kurdistan Region-Iran borders, the PKK is an gang that fights for greater political and cultural rights for Kurds in Turkey. Decades of fighting with Turkey has led to the death of tens of thousands, including civilians.
Both Erbil and Baghdad have repeatedly called on Ankara to halt its attacks, and have demanded the PKK withdraw from their territory.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... various Kurdish groups are present in the mountainous border area between Iran and the Kurdistan Region. Sporadic attacks are launched each year against various Iranian forces, including the IRGC.
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[Rudaw] Iraq will resume its export of 10,000 barrels of oil from Kirkuk fields to Jordan in the next few days, the energy minister in Amman has said, as global oil prices begin to rise from collapse.
Iraq halted supply of Kirkuk's oil to Jordan in May, according to an Iraqi oil ministry monthly statement, after prices fell to less than $20 per barrel during the global price collapse earlier this year. The price plummet made export to Jordan - which required more than 200 oil tankers - too costly to continue.
The 10,000 Iraqi barrels "makes up seven percent of our daily consumption," Jordan energy minister Hala Zawati said.
[OilPrice.com] Last August, Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Zarif, paid a visit to his China counterpart, Wang Li, to present a roadmap on a comprehensive 25-year China-Iran strategic partnership that built upon a previous agreement signed in 2016. Many of the key specifics of the updated agreement were not released to the public at the time but were uncovered by OilPrice.com at the time. Last week, at a meeting in Gilan province, former Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alluded to some of the secret parts of this deal in public for the first time, stating that: "It is not valid to enter into a secret agreement with foreign parties without considering the will of the Iranian nation and against the interests of the country and the nation, and the Iranian nation will not recognize it."
According to the same senior sources closely connected to Iran's Petroleum Ministry who originally outlined the secret element of the 25-year deal, not only is the secret element of that deal going ahead but China has also added in a new military element, with enormous global security implications.
Good luck with that and their entrenched bigotry against Mooselimbs.
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/\Wake up and discover that all of the people really in charge are some Chinese bigwig's relatives sent out here to lord over the barbarian vassals.
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I was just reading about this on twitter. It's not a China/Iran deal. It looks like a China/Iran/Russia deal, with Russian planes and AA missiles present to protect Chinese financial interests.
[Hot Air] There’s been a recurring theme among a lot of conservative social media voices this year that seems to drive liberals and their media allies into a foam-at-the-mouth frenzy. It’s the suggestion that many Democrats and progressives are actually rooting for the pandemic shutdowns and the resultant economic retraction to last as long as possible, preferably until November. Why? Because a bad economy tends to make people sour on the party in power and if the public can be convinced that this was somehow all Donald Trump’s fault, or at least that he didn’t do enough to solve the problem, they will be more inclined to vote him out of office. And just for the record, that’s really not a far-fetched theory at all.
But it’s also not something they tend to come right out and say, either. That’s why I was somewhat startled when I was flipping through my newsfeed this morning and saw the title of this op-ed in the USA Today from Democratic activist and president of the Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, Bradley Beychok. The piece boasted the headline, "Trump’s last line of defense is the economy. Biden and Democrats must knock it down."
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Republican (except for Gregg Abbot) response "We must knock down the economy by pretending that CV-19 is not real. Thus, turning a controllable disaster into an uncontrollable one."?
[ToloNews] Ghazni's Deh Yak district police chief, Habibullah, was killed in a roadside mine blast on Wednesday morning, said the office of the provincial governor in a statement.
The incident happened as Habibullah was on the way to support security forces in a fight with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the district and his vehicle struck a roadside mine, it said.
If he weren’t on his way to fight the Taliban, he would not have hit the IED and been kilked. Therefore it’s the Taliban’s fault — that’s traditional Muslim logic.
The Taliban has attacked several security checkpoints in the district and clashed with security forces, the statement said.
The Taliban recently increased their attacks on Afghan cops.
On Tuesday, Mir Zaman, the police commander in Kuz Kunar district in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , was killed when a jacket wallah detonated his vehicle in the district market.
Two of the commander's guards were also killed in the incident, said Attaullah Khogyani, the Nangarhar governor's front man.
According to Khogyani ten others were maimed in the incident.
[ToloNews] At least three coppers were killed, and 18 others were maimed, in a suicide kaboom on police HQ in Kandahar on Wednesday morning, a security source said.
The incident happened at 4:00 am in Shah Wali Kot district, as a suicide boom-mobileer detonated his explosives near the police HQ, the source said.
The district governor's compound is also close to the police HQ, according to the source.
Bahir Ahmad, a front man for the provincial governor, said: "We had information about a possible attack on police HQ and the forces were prepared. The jacket wallah was shot before he reached his target but his explosives detonated."
Three coppers were killed in the attack and 14 others, including civilians, were maimed, he said.
No group including the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... has grabbed credit for the attack.
"At around 4 a.m., a jacket wallah driving a large (Afghan security force) truck came under fire from security forces before reaching his goal, but detonated explosives near police headquarters and the governor's residential complex," the governor's front man, Bahir Ahmad Ahamdi, said.
The police headquarters and governor's compound suffered severe damage.
The Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... grabbed credit, saying in a statement that the police headquarters had been used as a military hub for security force operations against the Islamist krazed killers.
[Washington Examiner] The Trump administration is considering banning a variety of Chinese tech companies from operating in the United States due to privacy concerns, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
"We are now evaluating each instance where we believe that U.S. citizens’ data that they have on their phones or in their system or in their healthcare records. We want to make sure that the Chinese Communist Party doesn't have a way to easily access that," Pompeo told reporters Wednesday at the State Department.
Pompeo confirmed earlier this week that the administration might ban Beijing-based TikTok, a popular social media app that China hawks regard as a Chinese Communist portal into American cell phones. His latest comments raised the likelihood that President Trump’s administration will follow India in banning dozens of Chinese companies over national security fears.
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I wonder what they mean by 'damages'. At first I thought the cops might have surveyed the CHAZ / CHOP area and estimated property damage. There's also (further) financial damage with respect to closed businesses, businesses running at less than 100%, etc.
Down the road, I think it will be very possible to correlate the damage done by rioters and the resulting drop in businesses and population decline. Either way, businesses will be leaving larger cities one way or the other. For instance, Boston had rioting for two or three days and that was limited largely to the Back Bay and some areas around City Hall. By way of comparison, NYC, Portland, Seattle and Milwaukee have been both more frequent (in days), higher participant numbers and much worse in physical damage. Most likely outcome for those cities - they're future Detroits.
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I thought CHAZ was in Seattle, not Portland. The damage in Seattle must be much greater.
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Self defeating strategy to burn out the nests where your behavior is tolerated or encouraged. Resistance and push back in other places especially by awakening vigilance groups will be more dynamic than the passivity so far. It doesn’t take long to figure out that when selective law enforcement doesn’t protect you, why bother to obey it. What follows is the release of pent up anger from those that have been holding it back out of respect for. system that suddenly appears to be failing. Seems my prepper friends may have been prescient after all.
[Dhaka Tribune] A 17-year-old girl has been gang-raped allegedly by her boyfriend and his five accomplices in Nangalkot upazila of Comilla.
Police arrested two rape suspects—Md Rasel, 20, and Md Shiblu, 19, from Nangalkot on Wednesday.
They gave their confessional statements before the district’s chief judicial magistrate’s court, said Nangalkot cop shoppe Inspector (Investigation) Md Ashraful Islam.
The girl filed a case against six individuals including her boyfriend Md Faisal with Nangalkot cop shoppe following the incident on Monday.
According to the case statement, the girl also from Nangalkot had been in a relationship with Faisal of the same area for seven-eight months.
On Monday, when the girl went to meet Faisal, he took her to an abandoned building and raped her along with five other accomplices.
Police conducted the girl’s medical tests at the forensics department of Comilla Medical College on Wednesday.
Nangalkot cop shoppe Inspector (Investigation) Md Ashraful Islam said police were trying to arrest the remaining suspects including the key accused Faisal.
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[Truth About Guns] Those of us who can carry should carry whenever possible. Especially during these times of increased street violence. A July 4th incident at a Kroger grocery store in Columbus, Ohio illustrates why. A video showed an incident in which a mob accosted an armed individual. When the gun owner tried to de-escalate by escaping, one aggressor in particular responded by smashing the car’s windows.
At that point, with three windows broken out and a man wielding a metal club, the driver used his car as a deadly weapon against the primary aggressor. And yes, with a judicious application of horsepower, the driver sent the portly aggressor sliding across the asphalt as if lubricated by lard. The video at the link must be seen.
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Fresh clashes reportedly erupted between the Syrian regime forces and the ISIS) terrorists in the triangle of "Aleppo-Hama-Al-Raqqah" where nearly 25 regime soldiers and IS militants were killed, a monitor said.
But you can still put your money on the Washington Conquistadors, Leprechauns, or Pigeons. The Washington Monuments is probably out though. The Washington (Sitting) Bulls is probably a non-starter too.
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I'm going with Heathen Savages. That's kind of non-denominational, isn't it?
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I wonder if Snyder has done a cost benefit analysis on how much revenue he salvages in his retention of some woke corporate sponsors and the massive decline in viewership by those like me who were lifelong fans turned off by the kneeling and now, disgusted by cowardly kowtowing to the cultural revolution destroying our nation. ESAD Dan.
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The Wokust wuvs natuwal gwass
And breaks all available glass,
Sets fire to the stands,
Then at halftime demands
That the fans kiss his red and black ass.
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^ Half a point per hundred years? Funny, Mussolini don't sound jooish. Stingy bugger.
New rivalry: Cheer as the Ants
Take knees in their trans-friendly pants!
Now the Ants go to work
While the Hoppas, uh, twerk,
And their hundreds of fans look askance.
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Martinus of Tours was a bloke
Who donated half of his cloak,
So they made him a saint.
His colonial taint
Would prevent that today. So not woke.
"And he only gave half?" "What a joke."
I’ve seen nothing else about this, suggesting people over there are jumping at shadows. Again. We’ll know it’s hit critical when they start worrying about spy squirrels. Again.
[IsraelTimes] Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation denies "false allegations by counter-revolutionary elements in the media of a kaboom" at a nuclear plant in Ardakan, around 450 kilometres southeast of Tehran.
"Nothing happened" at the yellow-cake production plant, it says in a statement.
The rumors are aimed at creating "despair" and supporting the campaign of "maximum pressure of the Great Satan™ (the United States)" against Iran, the atomic energy agency says.
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Muh narrative! Wardrobe Malfunction:
Exposure at Petticoat Junction!
"That story"s got legs!"
Gazette roundtable begs
For more skirts, and for form over function.
[Mail] The iconic menswear brand has become the latest casualty of the global health crisis - as the shift to working from home has led to a fall in demand for smart clothing while stay-at-home orders and dwindling consumer confidence have ravaged retail industry sales on a whole.
The company has a storied history, dressing at least 40 American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, who was wearing a Brooks Brothers coat when he was assassinated in 1865.
Brooks Brothers' two-button suits were a favorite of President John F. Kennedy. Pic at link of Aniston in only a BB rep tie is SFW (these days - we're home alone)
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah forces resumed their offensive inside the Marib Governorate on Monday, as their troops inched closer to the strategic administrative capital, which is under the control of the Saudi-backed Islah forces.
According to reports on Monday, the Ansarallah forces managed to capture the Halhalan Valley inside the contested Majzar District of the Marib Governorate.
Furthermore, the Ansarallah forces also captured several points inside the Midghal District after a fierce battle with the Islah fighters.
For the Islah forces, losing the administrative capital of Marib would be devastating, especially since they lost the neighboring al-Jawf Governorate earlier this year.
As of now, it looks like the Ansarallah forces are attempting to encircle Marib city, which is similar to their battle strategy to capture the administrative capital of al-Jawf.
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[ABC6ONYOURSIDE] The Columbus Division of Police is asking for the public's help in identifying a group of people accused of surrounding and attacking a vehicle during protests and riots on May 31.
Video shared by Columbus Police shows the group engaging in violent mostly peaceful behavior directed at the victim, who has cerebral palsy, and his vehicle. Police said the group also acted violent mostly peacefully toward others who came to help the man and stop the violence.
The incident happened at about 7 p.m. on May 31 at the intersection of High Street and Broad Street.
Police are asking anyone who recognizes the people in the video to call Det. Steven Nace at 614-645-2119.
[Dhaka Tribune] A fourth-grade schoolgirl has been gang-raped allegedly by a neighbouring youth and his brother in Dhunot upazila of Bogra.
The rape suspects were identified as Fajal Sheikh Babu, 24, and his 16-year-old brother.
Police arrested Fajal's younger brother on Tuesday night after the victim's grandfather filed a rape case against the siblings with Dhunot cop shoppe, said Kripa Sindhubala, officer-in-charge of Dhunot cop shoppe.
The 11-year-old girl is receiving treatment at the One-Stop Crisis Centre of the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital, added the OC.
According to the case statement, the girl lived with her grandparents in Rudrabari under Choukibari union as her parents were RMG workers in Dhaka.
On Monday night, the girl’s grandparents left her home alone to go to the union council office to enlist their names on the government aid list.
At that time, neighbours Fajal and his brother went to the girl's house to watch television. Soon after, Fajal and his brother raped the girl in turns and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace as she fell severely ill.
When her grandparents returned, they found the girl unclothed and at death's door.
They rescued her to the Dhunot Upazila Health Complex, where the doctors initially found signs of rape, said Monira Akter, a physician of the hospital. "The girl has been transferred to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital for better treatment."
Dhunot cop shoppe OC Kripa Sindhubala said: "We have made an arrest acting on the rape accusation. The arrestee was produced before a court and he has confessed to his crime. We are trying to arrest his brother. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... the girl is undergoing treatment at a hospital."
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[IsraelTimes] The Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group will send a medical team to help the Paleostinian Authority confront 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... wave currently raging in the West Bank, the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... -based Hamas Health Ministry announces.
"A qualified and multidisciplinary medical team will be sent as part of aid to the West Bank in order to confront the threat of coronavirus, and as confirmation that despite the different challenges we face, we must stand together in unity to confront them," Hamas deputy Health Minister Yusuf Abu al-Rush says.
There is no immediate comment from PA officials or Israeli authorities, who would likely need to be involved in coordinating such a move.
The Paleostinian Authority-controlled West Bank is currently locked down in the midst of confronting a second wave of coronavirus infections whose size far outweighs the first.
The Gaza Strip, on the other hand, has seemingly successfully kept the virus at bay, registering only a few cases.
In the West Bank, 4,575 coronavirus infections have been confirmed, the majority in the last two weeks. In the Gaza Strip, 72 have been confirmed, most of them dating back months.
In another development, authorities in Gaza say that street markets in the Strip will reopen on Saturday.
I image it goes like this: Doctor, " this patent has COVID-19, lets apply the treatment! "BANG!" Doctor to spouse, "the treatment was a resounding success! "yes the patent died, but the patent is now cured!
Alternatively: Doctor, "The patent has Covid-19, lets start the treatment!" "We have the finest essential oil in the world, it's made with the best ghost pepper we could find! (Apply essential oil to nether region.) Patent "Ahheeeee!" "It burn, it burn!" Doctor "oh dear let give the patent some pain relief." BANG! Doctor to spouse, "The treatment was a resounding success!, but the patent had a allergic reaction to the pain relief!"
[TheDuran] Fake news is keeping us away from the treatment to end the coronavirus crisis
The anti-hydroxychloroquine media has been full of the supposed dangers of hydroxychloroquine and its failure as a treatment for the virus. Does hydroxychloroquine work or does it not, is it safe or dangerous, and should we be using it as a treatment for the virus? Here we examine the evidence for and against it.
A New York doctor Vladimir Zelenko looked at treatments being used in China and Korea and gave it to 405 patients over 60 or with high-risk problems such as diabetes, asthma, obesity, hypertension or shortness of breath. In this high risk group he claimed to have cut hospital admission and mortality rates compared to what could be expected without treatment by 80 to 90%. (Dr. Zelenko’s treatment plan)
Dr Zelenko sent a letter to President Trump urging him to issue an executive order to roll out the treatment which the FDA was blocking. Trump announced that hydroxychloroquine looked like it could be a "game-changer", and thus the politicization of hydroxychloroquine began.
Dr Fauci the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who was supposed to be advising Trump disagreed with him and backed Gilead's rival treatment Remdesivir. YouTube deleted a video of Dr. Zelenko talking about the treatment on his Rabbi's channel and despite objections that there was nothing wrong with the video YouTube never reinstated it. [Hiding something?]
In this YouTube video interview with Rudy Giulliani from July 1, which hopefully will not be deleted by the time you read this, Dr. Zelenko claims 99,3% survival rate for the high-risk patients he has treated. (Video: Rudy Guiliano interviews Dr. Zelenko)
The media quickly found critics who claimed that the only valid proof any treatment worked was a "gold-standard" double-blind clinical trial and dismissed Dr. Zelenko's and Raoult's results. Dr. Zelenko and Prof. Raoult both refused on ethical grounds to give placebos to half the patients in clinical trials and they defended their data as sufficient to show the treatment did work. They both stressed that the urgency of the situation made it necessary to act on available evidence, not clinical trials which would take months to produce results and be verified. There have subsequently been over a dozen studies which confirm that Dr. Zelenko's and Prof. Raoult's protocols do work.
A study from the New York University Grossman school of Medicine published in May found patients given hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin at an early stage had a lower need for hospitalization than those who were not. The addition of zinc improved the results even more. (.pdf file here) ....
[NYPOST] Players on the popular shoot-’em-up game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" will no longer be able to celebrate with an "OK" gesture because of its use as a hate symbol, according to a report.US video game developer Infinity Ward quietly removed the gesture from the game amid concerns over its use by racist right-wing bad boys, the Independent reported.
Neither Infinity Ward nor publisher Activision has confirmed the reason for the removal of the gesture, which was a popular way for interactive players to celebrate the end of a winning mission.
The gesture has been replaced with an emote called "crush," the news outlet reported.
The use of the "OK" gesture as a hate symbol dates back to 2017 when it gained traction on social media site 4chan, the Independent reported.
Members of the so-called "alt-right" are often captured in photographs making the gesture.
The OK symbol is described by the Anti-Defamation League as "a sincere expression of white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... ," but the organization notes that "care must be taken not to jump to conclusions about the intent behind someone who has used the gesture," the paper reported.
On June 6, Infinity Ward announced on Twitter: "There is no place for racist content in our game. This is an effort we began with launch and we need to do a better job. We’re issuing thousands of daily bans of racist and hate-oriented names. But we know we have to do more."
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This is such a troll win for the 4chan lot.
Call of wokeness sales have slumped, like the last of us v2
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So if: "Members of the so-called "alt-right" are often captured in photographsmaking the gesture.wearing clothing..." Then Infinity Ward would make all of the characters in their game nudists..???
[NY Post] New York's Finest are putting in for retirement faster than the NYPD can handle ‐ while citing a lack of respect and the loss of overtime pay, The Post has learned.
A surge of city cops filing papers during the past week more than quadrupled last year's number ‐ as the city grapples with a surge of shootings ‐ and the stampede caused a bottleneck that's forcing others to delay putting in their papers, officials and sources said.
The NYPD said Wednesday that 179 cops filed for retirement between June 29 and Monday, an astounding 411-percent increase over the 35 who filed during the same time period in 2019.
The astonishing rush for the door came as 503 cops filed for retirement between May 25 ‐ the day George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, sparking anti-cop protests around the country ‐ and July 3, the NYPD said.
That number represents a 75-percent increase over the 287 who filed for retirement during the same time last year, the NYPD said.
Sources said that the deluge of applications had overwhelmed the department ‐ due to cancellation of overtime for the workers who process them ‐ and that the number of daily applicants was being limited as a result.
On Tuesday, The Post spotted a line of cops waiting outside the office at One Police Plaza where retirement papers get filed.
"Apparently, the pension section is only taking a certain amount of people per day and I think they are backed up till late July, early August," one cop said.
"That's why you don't see like 100 a day, because they are only doing like 35 to 40 a day, by appointment."
A spokeswoman for the NYPD confirmed the "surge in the number of officers filing for retirement."
"While the decision to retire is a personal one and can be attributed to a range of factors, it is a troubling trend that we are closely monitoring," the spokesperson added.
An NYPD spokeswoman noted that the department is not turning down any applications for officers retiring in the next 30 days ‐ but has told cops putting in to retire after that to come back when a month out due to the increased activity.
Sources blamed the situation ‐ which comes amid an alarming spike in shootings ‐ on growing anti-cop sentiment, coupled with a pending city law that would make it a crime for cops to use chokeholds while trying to subdue violent suspects.
"There's just droves and droves of people retiring. But there's no surprise here, who the hell wants to stay on this job?" one cop said.
"Why would you want to stay on this job when people don't appreciate what you do?"
Sources also said the flood of overtime tied to last month's protests ‐ which will boost pension payouts for eligible retirees ‐ and the expected loss of overtime due to the recent $1 billion cut to the NYPD's budget were also factors.
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I bet the police union balls are drawing up
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As the cops leave, and rightfully so, due to the lack of support from the political class, NO future academies give the win to Antifa...
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CNN: New satellite images obtained by CNN show recent activity at a previously undeclared North Korean facility that researchers suspect is being used to build nuclear warheads.https://t.co/zhcfjew0mI
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so CNN "journalist" are now military analyst? They couldn't analyze the last election right so why should anyone put any credence into what they say? Anyway, any buyers on the CNN center?
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Or it could be a shed where they age kimchee. Either way, a violation of the Geneva Code.
[AND] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) just released a new streaming ad featuring CIA officers on a mission to gather intelligence in support of the President and policymakers.
The mission, as portrayed, is familiar to those of us who served at the CIA. I spent most of my career, long before 9/11, in the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC). In Italy, I worked closely with Italian intelligence and law enforcement counterparts to keep Italian citizens safe.
Despite that, Italy issued arrest warrants against several Americans, including me. The source of the arrests concerned a joint counterterrorism operation — the Milan Rendition. While the operation may have been- unjustified, it had been approved by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi’s office as well as the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). More on Milan a little later.
Timing is everything. The CIA’s recruitment ads will now run alongside SpyGate, the CIA’s "coup" to remove President Trump. SpyGate — a counterintelligence operation also known as "Crossfire Hurricane" — was run out of a "fusion cell" in CIA headquarters by President Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan. "Counterintelligence" (CI) was the CIA’s weapon of choice in the absence of corroborated intelligence. A counterintelligence label deterred investigations and allowed for "overclassification" of non-evidence.
Recently declassified SpyGate documents revealed systemic abuses of power within the leadership of the CIA and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Americans are now aware that the CIA employed "tools" generally reserved for use against our foreign adversaries, to spy on President Trump and to entrap several Americans in his orbit. Shockingly, the CIA went so far as to obtain the cooperation of our "allies" the U.K. and Italy in this endeavor.
Trump’s NSC Director — Lt. General Michael Flynn — was specifically targeted, after publically stating his intention to sort out the intelligence agencies for their unchecked abuses of power.
General Flynn was certainly familiar with the Milan Rendition, because of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) inexcusable decision to allow the conviction of a U.S. Air Force Colonel by a NATO ally — Italy — thereby violating the military’s code of "leave no soldier behind."
More than a decade ago, as soon as an Italian prosecutor announced his decision to launch an investigation into the rendition, CIA’s managers moved swiftly to have their identities masked as well as moving to have information removed from trial records. Evidence that this actually happened, is buried in footnotes in Italian court documents.
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....a counterintelligence operation also known as "Crossfire Hurricane" — was run out of a "fusion cell" in CIA headquarters by President Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan.
As long suspected.
About the author:
Sabrina de Sousa is a former US diplomat and counter-terrorism officer. National Security consultant. Business experience includes training and curriculum development for the USG. Now, a writer. In 2009 she was convicted of kidnapping in Italy for her role in the 2003 abduction of the Muslim imam Abu Omar, who was kidnapped in Milan.
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Good old Milan. Those were the days: With the war in Bosnia-H three jihadist streams entered Europe. The Egyptian GAI and Muslim Brothers used the Milan Islamic Center as a base of operations. Egyptian exile and GIA, Sheikh Anwar Shaaban, imam of the Islamic Cultural Institute of Milan, would sneak into Bosnia. And Bin Laden himself asked Shaaban to serve as spiritual advisor to arriving jihadists. Supported by Muslim Brotherhood elements residing in Europe, the Milan center would move hundreds of jihadists into Bosnia. And the Italians didn't raise a finger.
Some 400,000 new cases of Covid-19 were reported over the weekend and the new coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of slowing down, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.https://t.co/ZpWhs4vKdZ
[Jpost] More than three million Americans have tested positive for COVID-19, US Vice President Mike Pence announces.
"At this point, we have tested more than 39 million Americans," Pence tells news hounds at a briefing given by the country’s 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... task force.
"Among those, more than three million Americans have tested positive and more than 1.3 million Americans have recovered," he adds.
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[BREITBART] Removing prayer from schools has led to "more drugs, more murders, more suicide," said rap megastar and fashion mogul Kanye West, who unveiled his unfiltered thoughts on President Trump, God, and politics in an interview with Forbes just days after tweeting about his presidential bid."Reinstate in God’s state, in God’s country, the fear and love of God in all schools and organizations and you chill the fear and love of everything else, so that was a plan by the Devil to have our kids committing suicide at an all-time high by removing God to have murders 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... at an all-time high because the human beings working for the Devil removed God and prayer from the schools," the "Follow God" rapper said. "That means more drugs, more murders, more suicide."
West, who has teased a presidential run for years, formally announced his bid on Independence Day, writing, "We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States ! #2020VISION"
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They all know he's damaged goods that ain't getting better. "Hide him!"
[Wash Examiner] Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should only agree to debate President Trump if two conditions are met , the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said.
"I worry about Joe Biden debating Donald Trump," Friedman wrote in his column on Tuesday. "He should do it only under two conditions. Otherwise, he's giving Trump unfair advantages."
"First, Biden should declare that he will take part in a debate only if Trump releases his tax returns for 2016 through 2018," Friedman said. Second, Biden "should insist that a real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates."
"Debates always have ground rules," Friedman wrote. "Why can't telling the truth and equal transparency on taxes be conditions for this one?"Trump's reelection campaign is reportedly pushing for four debates before the November general election. Biden's campaign has agreed to three debates. They are currently scheduled for September 29, October 15, and October 22.
"Our position is straightforward and clear: Joe Biden will accept the Commission's debates, on the Commission's dates, under the Commission's established format and the Commission's independent choice of moderators," Biden's campaign manager wrote in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates. "Donald Trump and Mike Pence should do the same. That is what every candidate for President and Vice President have done in modern times, Democrat and Republican alike."
The president, however, has attempted to paint the soon-to-be Democratic nominee as scared of going toe-to-toe with him on the debate stage.
"Now, he's already saying that he can't do debates because of COVID. Do you believe it? 'I can't do the debates because of COVID.' That was ‐ I just heard a little inkling of it two days ago. I said, 'Watch this one,'" Trump said during a Fox News town hall last month.
The University of Michigan, which was slated to host the October debate, announced on June 22 it would no longer host the event because of public health concerns.
"In consideration of the public health guidelines in our state as well as advice from our own experts ‐ we feel it is not feasible for us to safely host the presidential debate as planned," university president Mark Schlissel said in a statement.
Similarly, several pundits in conservative media and other critics of the former vice president have mocked him for "hiding in his basement" and not holding any in-person campaign events during the coronavirus pandemic.
Friedman praised Biden as a "role model" for staying inside his house during recent months as millions of people do the same to slow the spread of the virus.
"And with the coronavirus now spreading further, and Biden being a responsible individual and role model, it's likely that he won't be able to engage with any large groups of voters before Election Day. Therefore, the three scheduled televised debates, which will garner huge audiences, will carry more weight for him than ever," Friedman wrote. "Only if leading into the debate, American voters have a clear picture of Trump's tax returns alongside Biden's, and only if, coming out of the debate, they have a clear picture of who was telling the truth and who was not, will they be able to make a fair judgment between the two candidates."
Otherwise, the veteran journalist wrote, "Joe, stay in your basement."
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Financial transparency? from Biden?? I thought Friedman couldn't sink any lower than his slimy groveling before the none too bright Emperor Xi. Perhaps proof that for the socialist there simply is no igneous level, they just keep going down.
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Hiding works for Biden.
This is just a gambit to allow him to hide with a fig leaf of coverage. If Trump gives in they 'hope' they'll have something to bash him on, but knowing Trump I think he might have very clean tax records, in fact he might have even paid a bit more than required and is just waiting the right time to pounce.
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Yeah, and Trump should demand at least one live, in-depth debate lasting at least 3-4 hours with honest unbiased questioners and honest fact-checkers too.
In lieu of not being able to find honest questioners and fact checkers, have at least one 3-4 hour live debate and let it rip. Voters will sort it out for themselves.
[BREITBART] Failed Georgia Democrat Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams ...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too... is now blaming the Constitution for what she claimed was the beginning of "the practice of voter suppression" in the United States as the left-winger continues to push for vote-by-mail options in elections nationwide.
"Voter suppression was baked into the notion of America," Abrams recently told Vanity Fair. "It was embedded not in our Declaration, which was a glorious document, but the Constitution began the practice of voter suppression." She added:
We are reaffirming the experiment now, but we are also seeing some terrible examples of the original flaw in our design, which is that we have delegated to the states the ability to determine not eligibility, but access. Luckily, we have 34 states that already have some version of vote-by-mail with no excuses. We have 16 states that do it to a lesser degree.
Abrams’ assertion comes after she claimed that "voter fraud is not real" and "does not affect the outcome of elections" in the wake of President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... ’s repeated criticism of voting via mail. Abrams stated:
We know that, but we cannot allow them to frame voter fraud and treat it as an equivalence to voter suppression. Voter suppression denies the right to vote to millions. Voter fraud over 20 years, at best, occurred 1,300 times. Millions every year versus thousands over twenty years. There is no comparison.
Delegitimization of elections happens when the numbers are close and one of the ways that those who engage in voter suppression can claim victory, either in reality or putatively, is that they can shave the margins like anyone who tries to steal.
"We’re not going to destroy this country by allowing things like that to happen. We’re not destroying our country," the president has said. "This has more to do with fairness and honesty and, really, our country itself."
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when is this fatass bitch gonna have a heart a terminal hear attack?
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I've two theories about African - American politicians.
(1) They are all secret agents for KKK.
(2) The other theory is racist.
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ah she's going to be the perennial candidate of the South, quickly figuring out, a la Bernie, that's there's way more money to grift being a candidate rather than winning the office.
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Obviously didn't suppress enough if she was able to get elected to any office at all.
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M1a....2 stupid to understand such a complex document. SHARP AS A BOWLING BALL tank is!
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The Constitution began as a contract among states for a national government. It was ratified by the states not the people. The 'Bill of Rights' was tacked on afterwards. At the start the people who had skin in the game (those obligated for militia duty - aka give the last full measure of devotion) had the votes. Ever since then, those with no skin in the game have been suppressing the rights of those who do have skin in the game.
[PageSix] The Gov’s being thrown a fat lawsuit. The thrower’s lawyer Sal Strazzullo.
The damages? He estimates $100 million. Co-defendants: the NYPD, Commissioner Dermot Shea, NYC, 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... , the state of New York and others. I’m told that an official Notice of Claim has been filed with the Court of Claims. The claimant? Domus Design Center aka DDC, 134 Madison Ave. The issue deals with May 29’s frightening night when looters, rioters and thieves terrorized our city, vandalized our streets, burglarized our shops.
Strazzullo: Cuomo should have worried about hospital reform instead of bail reform. Getting a free pass, some criminals were not able to be detained pending trial and now we have looters. Who’d have imagined we’d have to board up our stores? We’re not in Afghanistan. Places like Saks Fifth, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Rolex being bombed out?
"Where are our tax dollars going? Rocks, bricks thrown? Glass smashed? Merchandise stolen? Thrown out? People hurt? Millions lost? Businesses destroyed? Lives crushed? Not protecting commercial properties is negligence of duty. It’s looters against New York City and state.
"Paying taxes that help pay the salary of the NYPD, we expect protection in return. Where was the city? The state? Officials failing to protect their residents? Government is responsible to protect its citizens and businesses against criminals who want to do bad.
"Not every lawsuit is for money. This type of suit — about the city’s acts and omissions in failing to control or otherwise restrain violent mostly peaceful protesters, which caused destruction to claimant’s retail store — is for a point.
"This will be a class-action lawsuit. Costly. Because the others will come on board."
...I think the 24 hour rule should apply here, but if true then I would have given anything to be a fly on the wall when it was explained to him how many of his brother officers, missing their promotions because of SEN Duckworth's political grandstanding, would be perfectly willing to accept his head on a silver platter.
The statement from his lawyer is a marvel of blame shifting. Read it, and be amazed.
Mike
[LawAndCrime] After more than 21 years of military service,
...at least three years longer than he deserved...
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman is retiring today after it has been made clear that his future within the institution he has dutifully served will forever be limited.
Thank goodness for that.
Over the last months, LTC Vindman has been guided by a very simple and very American principle: ’here, right matters.’ He has spoken publicly once,
...and privately entirely too often...
and only pursuant to a subpoena from the United States Congress. Compelled to testify, this decorated soldier was thrust into a conversation that goes to the heart of our country’s values, and its future.
Through a campaign of bullying, intimidation, and retaliation, the President of the UnitedStates attempted to force LTC Vindman to choose: Between adhering to the law or pleasing a President. Between honoring his oath or protecting his career. Between protecting his promotion or the promotion of his fellow soldiers. these are choices that no one in the United States should confront, especially one who has dedicated his life to serving it.
Actually, President Trump succeeded in forcing him to choose: between fighting a losing battle and not fighting a losing battle. The retired LTC chose wisely.
LTC Vindman did what the law compelled him to do; and for that he was bullied by the President and his proxies. And yet, LTC Vindman would not be intimidated and will not be corrupted. He did what he always done: put the interests of his county ahead of his own.
LTC Vindman’s patriotic
...he means patriotism, or possibly patriotic duty — it’s not clear from the text. Hopefully he isn’t one of those expensive attorneys...
has cost him his career. Today our country loses a devoted soldier but it is incumbent upon all of us to ensure it does not lose the values he represents.
Please, let us throw away the values he represents.
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My guess (and only a guess) is that Vindman was the subject of a highly classified Article-32 investigation. The preliminary findings of the investigation may have led him to "retire for the good of the service."
His previously predicted retirement diffuses the Duckworth 'promotion freeze' action and likely terminates any additional investigation and unpleasantness (examination of his actual duties and connections). Look for him to land a GG-15 (06 equivalent) position in local D.C. government within 90 days.
An article 32 hearing is required before a defendant can be referred to a general court-martial, in order to determine whether there is enough evidence to merit a general court-martial. Offenders in the US military may face non-judicial punishment, a summary court-martial, special court-martial, general court-martial, or administrative separation.
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I guess that regimental XO spot in Guam that he was aimed at was less than enticing.
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#8 I guess that regimental XO spot in Guam that he was aimed at was less than enticing.
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...I'd like to think that somebody pointed out to him that since all Colonels want to be Generals, he could expect his combat assignment as soon as he put on his eagles. I suspect that the last thing he'd want is to be out there on the pointy end.
Mike
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#9 Nobody would let a REMF like Alex actually command people in combat - this ain't WWI.
[UPI] Antibody testing might help determine whether people have had COVID-19, but its effectiveness depends on when the test occurs, according to an analysis published Thursday by the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
In general, the tests were better at detecting COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, two or more weeks after the onset of symptoms, the reviewers found.
It's unclear, however, how effective tests are in those checked more than five weeks after symptoms first appeared, researchers said.
"We do not know if this is true for people who have milder disease or no symptoms, because the studies in the review were mainly done in people who were in hospital," the researchers said in a press release.
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Antigen-specific antibody production should cease 4 - 6 weeks after antigenic challenge.
c.f. figure 2 in
Justewicz, D. M., Doherty, P. C., & Webster, R. G. (1995). The B-cell response in lymphoid tissue of mice immunized with various antigenic forms of the influenza virus hemagglutinin. Journal of virology, 69(9), 5414-5421.
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A nurse at a local medical physicality decided to test the accuracy of CON virus test kits.She sent in three results that were never tested on people. All three tested positive for CON virus.
This is what antifa rioters have been systemically doing to the security cameras in downtown. They climb up and use weapons to destroy them. @MultCoSO is asking for help in identifying this vandal: pic.twitter.com/Q6QX6EtL1A
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don't worry, I'm pretty sure you have been infiltrated during our "protest"
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Now, if they can just stop doing selfies while rioting, they'll be on their way to opsec.
(Not counting the ICE drones and the monitor plane circling around Portland basically all night. Can you say "Argus Stare"?)
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Surprised they didn't do this the first night in all of the rioting cities. I guess it might have given up the game too early.
[BREITBART] Left-wingers attacked radical leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky ...Intellectual and political theorist of a socialist persuasion. He is noted for being so far out in left field he can't see the shortstop on every issue he pushes... on Tuesday after he co-signed a statement in Harper’s criticizing cancel culture — several days after President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... did the same in his Mount Rushmore speech.
Several "verified" blue-checkmark users on Twitter were outraged that Chomsky, 91, should agree with Trump, albeit indirectly, or that he would push back against left-wing efforts to deny platforms to those who dispute its orthodoxies.
The Harper’s statement, titled "A Letter on Justice and Open Debate," included Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, and others.
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of course, if you don't agree with everything we want, you're wrong.
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Can't remember where I read it, but it's a great point - Chomsky's basically the grandfather of this nutbag U.S. leftist movement, and now he's been sacked, made redundant and cashiered.
[Ad-Free.Org] Parler is a social network that claims to be "non-biased, free speech social media focused on protecting user's rights." These claims have been contested lately, and now a deeper look into Parler shows a connection with a lobbying firm that donated to Hillary Clinton and that lobbied for big tech firms. On the Nevada business license page for Parler LLC, a company named "NDMascendant LLC" is listed as a manager. The listed reservation holder for NDMascendant LLC is Greenberg Traurig. Parler also had a separate expired Nevada business license registration with Greenberg Traurig's name listed on it as well.
Many individuals at Greenberg Traurig have also made political donations, which can also be searched through on OpenSecrets as well. The most notable donation recipient is Hillary Clinton whom was the largest recipient by far during the 2016 presidential election. President Donald Trump did not appear to receive any donations from Greenberg Traurig during that year.
[Dhaka Tribune] During the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak in Bangladesh, Regent Hospital owner Md Shahed had claimed that his hospital was dedicated to providing services to people suffering from the deadly virus out of his moral and humanitarian obligations.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... following recent developments, it has come to light that not only did this guy force his employees to print out hundreds of fake Covid-19 results but he also billed the government huge sums for the treatment and care of 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... patients, while in reality, no such service was provided.
The list of wrongdoings of Md Shahed, against whom there is an ongoing manhunt by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), is too long to handle by the government as well as the law enforcement agencies.
But the question still remains as to how did the government, more specifically the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), sign a contract with a hospital that did not get its license renewed for the past six years to operate as a Covid-19 dedicated hospital.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... on Tuesday, the authorities concerned were forced to shut down and seal all activities of Regent Hospital over the allegations related to issuing fake Covid-19 certificates and other forms of misconduct after RAB conducted raids at both the branches of the hospital — in Uttara and Mirpur — on Monday and Tuesday and gathered substantial evidence proving the wrong-doings.
Md Shahed is not new to the world of corruption, money embezzlement, and irregularities as he once had to serve two years in prison for fraudulent activities.
Speaking to the press on Wednesday, Lt Col Sarwar Bin Kashem, RAB's intelligence wing director, said that in the case filed with Uttara West cop shoppe regarding the issue, a total of 17 people, including Md Shahed, have been accused.
"We have already arrested eight of the suspects. Our efforts are underway to get the rest as soon as possible," he added.
Those who were accused are — Regent Group Chairman Mohammad Shahed, Managing Director Masud Parvez, Regent Hospital staff Tariqul Islam, Abdur Rashid Khan Jewel, Md. Shimul Parvez, Dipayan Basu, IT Officer Mahbub, Saikat, Palash, Administrative Officer Ahsan Habib, Health Technician Md Ahsan Habib, Health Technologist Hatim Ali, Receiver Kamrul Islam, Regent Group Project Administrator Md. Rakibul Islam, Regent Group Human Resources Officer Amit Banik, Regent Group Driver Abdus Salam, and Executive Officer Abdur Rashid Khan.
Regarding the arrest of the runaways including Shahed, the official said, "He [Shahed] is not out of reach. Anyone who tries to break the law or even shows the audacity to do so will definitely be brought under justice."
According to RAB’s intel, in the last three months, Shahed embezzled around Tk2.50 crore to Tk3 crore from different people through different fraudulent activities.
"According to the Regent Hospital employees, Shahed forced them to print and supply fake Covid-19 certificates. Those who were working there have told us that they haven’t been paid for the past three months.
"He will also be charged under the Money Laundering Act."
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New images show the scale of the destruction from the explosion at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on July 2. There may be further damage to the facility's underground elements, which aren't visible from above.
[Jpost] Security expert David Albright told the ’Post’ that some of the damage is likely irreparable.
Nearly three quarters of Iran's main centrifuge assembly hall was destroyed by the recent explosion there, Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) President David Albright has told The Jerusalem Post.
Albright said that this latest revelation is based on two new satellite overviews showing a much fuller picture than footage that was released last weekend and indicates that the vast majority of the centrifuge assembly hall was wiped out.
This could mean there would be increased delay to Iran's nuclear program, since it will have to recover from the incident.
"It is clear that a major explosion took place, destroying nearly three quarters of the main centrifuge assembly hall, generating a fire that blackened a major portion of the building, the blackening visible where the roof had been blown away by the earth-shattering kaboom," Albright said.
According to the latest report by the think tank, "High-resolution commercial satellite imagery...shows that the 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... Centrifuge Assembly Center (ICAC) at the Natanz Enrichment Site has suffered significant, extensive, and likely irreparable, damage to its main assembly hall section."
Further, the report says, "This new facility, inaugurated in 2018, was critical to the mass production of advanced centrifuges, in particular the assembly of rotor assemblies, the rapidly spinning part of the centrifuge and its most crucial component. "
In terms of rolling back Tehran's future nuclear program plans, the report adds, "An annex to the building was intended to assemble electrical components of centrifuges, including motors, another important component of centrifuges."
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Windows, such as the are, blown out. Instruments which aren't damaged in buildings which aren't damaged need to be recalibrated. How's the plumbing? Any of the maintenance staff being questioned? Lots more delay than simply fixing up the building in the lower left.
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I don't think that building's getting fixed up; way too much damage done, and half the place isn't there anymore.
I guess you could now call it the 'contractor's special'.
[DailyCaller] The Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners updated its business records on April 20 to remove Hunter Biden as a member of its board of directors, but he continues to hold a 10% ownership stake in the company through his LLC, Chinese business records show.
Hunter Biden’s departure from BHR’s board was submitted to China’s National Credit Information Publicity System (NCIPS) more than six months after he pledged to relinquish his position with the firm "on or by October 31," according to Qixinbao and Baidu, two independent services that provide registration information on Chinese corporations based on NCIPS filings.
The records also show that Hunter Biden continues to hold a 10% equity stake in BHR through his company, Skaneateles LLC, as of Friday, a position he maintains despite a pledge in December from his father, former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... , that none of his family members would "be engaged in any foreign business" if he is elected president in November.
The Biden campaign did not respond when asked if the candidate will call on his son to relinquish his equity stake in the Chinese private equity firm.
BHR manages the equivalent of $2.1 billion in assets, according to its website. Hunter Biden began serving as an unpaid member of BHR’s board when it was founded in 2013, and in October 2017 he obtained his equity stake in the firm with a $420,000 investment, according to a statement issued by his lawyer, George Mesires, in October.
BHR’s business records with the NCIPS were updated on April 20 to reflect Hunter Biden’s departure from its board less than one week after the Daily Caller News Foundation reported on April 14 that his name was still listed as a member of the firm’s board at the time and that no evidence had yet surfaced to prove that Biden had actually relinquished his position with the company.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A new U.S. Congress bill aims to prevent the Pentagon from spending federal funds for the purposes of imposing control over oil fields in Syria and Iraq.
The project came on the heels of the draft military budget for fiscal year 2021, released on Tuesday by the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.
Golly. They have been flouncing around down there, as if anything they do is meaningful.
The blurb regarding the new draft law states: "It is prohibited to spend money to control oil resources in Syria and Iraq."
This amount, in particular, is estimated at about $700 million, and it is proposed that it be used to provide assistance, and to train foreign security services, gangs, and persons involved in activities aimed at combating the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS).
These funds aim, among other things, to support the Iraqi security forces, the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Members of Congress proposed to allocate $1.14 billion to international security cooperation programs, including $150 million to be used to enhance security in the Baltic states, $160 million for programs in Africa, $130 million to help Central and South American countries, and $105 million for "programs with Jordan."
They are proposing to allocate another $3 billion to help the Afghan cops, provided that they are "under the control of a civilian government that protects human and women’s rights and does not allow holy warriors to use Afghanistan’s territory to threaten the United States and its allies."
Adoption of the bill requires approval by the House of Representatives and the Senate in Congress before it is submitted to the president.
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If these "ppl" aren't trained yet, then they can't be trained. Get the fuck out of there and be done with this shit.
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At the same time, the Senate is making moves to ensure that US troops can't be taken out of Chermany.
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Where were they back in 2001?
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Gotta do something for their base to justify their phony bologna jobs.
[FoxNews] The City of Seattle held a racially segregated employee training session aimed at White staffers and instructing them on "undoing your own whiteness" in order to be held accountable by people of color, according to documents obtained by a public records request.
The session took place on June 12, as protesters took part in the so-called "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" in the Capitol Hill district.
One handout distributed in the session reportedly declared how "racism is not our fault but we are responsible." Another said White staffers must give up "the land" and their "guaranteed physical safety" in order to be an "accomplice" for racial justice.
Christopher F. Rufo, an editor for City Journal and director of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth and Poverty, said he filed a public records request regarding the training session. On Monday, he published copies of the materials distributed to employees in the session on his Twitter account.
The City of Seattle held a training session for white employees called “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.”
So I did a public records request to find out exactly what this means. Let's go through it together in this thread. 👇
— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) July 6, 2020
According to his screenshots, the Office of Civil Rights hosted a two-and-a-half-hour "Training on Internalized Racial Superiority for White People."
In the email invitation to the event, the office asked "city employees who identify as white to join this training to learn, reflect, challenge ourselves, and build skills and relationships that help us show up more fully as allies and accomplices for racial justice."
"We’ll examine our complicity in the system of white supremacy — how we internalize and reinforce it — and begin to cultivate practices that enable us to interrupt racism in ways to be accountable to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) folks within our community," the email invitation said.
A two-column chart also listed characteristics that defined "Internalized Racial Oppression."
"Internalized Racial Superiority," was defined by perfectionism, individualism, imposition, arrogance, paternalism, silence, intellectualization, control, violence, comfort, appropriation, cognitive dissonance, objectivity and "anti-blackness." More at the link. This stuff is sick and twisted.
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It's projecting their own false faith that "all cultures are equal" and trying to explain away why black culture with it's "diverse" approach to following the law is such a wealth destroying criminal tolerating disaster.
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Reminds me of the story I heard of the Khmer Rouge shooting anybody who wore glasses. They figured that if you wore glasses, you needed them for reading and you were therefore an intellectual. Couldn't have that.
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White staffers, all privileged, no doubt,
Were nodding, when -- WOW -- what a shout!
"It's oh so constricting!"
"Go bro! Do the dick shtick thing!
"Beg pardon, I'm whippin' it OUT!"
Beam, mote, wot?
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Zenobia F! So nice to see you once again inspired to versify. :-)
[BREITBART] Tuesday on CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... , host Don Lemon said President Barack Obama How much damage could he do in four years?... Eight, then... should be added to the Mount Rushmore sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
While discussing a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, couple charged for painting over a "Black Lives Matter" mural, Lemon said, "You see the right-wing machine kick in, media kick in and see Trump’s poll numbers go south. They kick in with Democratic cities are in chaos right now. Is this what you want from 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.'... ? And they are taking your country away sand they are going to take down statues. Crime is rising. It’s so bad. Oh my, defund police. And the people who you saw there for the most part —not specifically, as a whole, fall for it. They fall for it. That’s why they do things like that. They want to paint over signs and think it’s our country. This is the country that we built. Even though a rich diversity of people helped build the country, and many of us, meaning ancestors, for free — did not get paid for it, could not get an education, could not build wealth, are not on statues, Confederate or otherwise, are not on Mount Rushmore. I think, listen ... if they are going to put someone on Mount Rushmore, considering the history of the country, the first black president should be front and center."
Anchor Chris Cuomo said, "Add to Mount Rushmore. I think that’s first of all, it’s a more salable idea than the idea of taking away Founding Fathers."
Lemon said, "So what’s wrong with all of us together thinking or reshaping our country so that more people rethink our country in the way we think and where priorities are so the country it belongs to everyone."
Cuomo said, "Nothing is wrong with it."
Lemon said, "Maybe some of the people up there on Mount Rushmore, who knows? The name shouldn’t be Mount Rushmore if you talk to Native Americans. It is stolen land. It was only Mount Rushmore 40 years before they started to carve presidents’ faces in it. No one got any money for that."
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There's already one of the Red Diaper Baby on Mount Russia.
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he can be getting the others coffee, just like Bill Clinton noted.
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The law or ultimate syzygy: If you put a drop of wine in a barrel of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a drop sewage in a barrel of wine, you get sewage.
The latter scenario is what Lemon is suggesting.
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As soon as I heard Tucker mention this on his show last night, I was there saying 'come on, Lemon - nominate RuPaul for Mt. Rushmore!'
[World Mag] A historic order of nuns who minister to the elderly poor gained a reprieve from the Supreme Court Wednesday. A majority of justices upheld a Trump administration rule exempting employers with religious and moral objections from providing contraception in group healthcare plans.
But the ruling may not bring an immediate end to the seven-year legal battle by the Little Sisters of the Poor.
In a 7-2 decision, the majority held that in 2017 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created the exemption in a way that squared with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the exemption was not procedurally defective. "For over 150 years, the Little Sisters have engaged in faithful service and sacrifice, motivated by a religious calling to surrender all for the sake of their brother," wrote Justice Clarence Thomas. "We hold today that the Departments had the statutory authority to craft that exemption."
It’s a significant victory for faith-based employers. But it may not end legal challenges from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other states, says Kim Colby, director of the Christian Legal Society’s Center for Law and Religious Freedom. Colby points to a separate concurring opinion by Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justice Stephen Breyer, which she says lays out a "roadmap" for states to continue challenges to the HHS rule for being arbitrary and capricious.
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It's a profession based upon skills with a Go/No-Go exam. If you get a No-Go, basically you'll never have any posterity. Thus the profession is naturally selective.
Mayor DeBlasio is destroying our great city from the inside out. New York City will not make it through the remainder of his term. He needs to be immediately removed from office to save the city and protect the people who live there!pic.twitter.com/ktQbuvXFIj
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Back in the day, David Letterman joked that the Dinkins administration wanted news organizations and tourism business to refer to street crime as "theater in the round."
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The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) ignores that there may be a context and a reason for "portraying newcomers as a threat to security". It does not consider the proliferation of Islamic terrorism in Europe or research showing that terrorists have migrated into Europe disguised as asylum seekers, who have gone on to perpetrate deadly terrorist attacks.
"According to the study, six of the 16 mosque associations examined (37.5%) pursue 'a policy that actively impedes integration into society and to some extent exhibits fundamentalist tendencies.' Half of the 16 mosques examined 'preach a dichotomous worldview, the pivotal tenet of which is the division of the world into Muslims on one side, and everyone else on the other.' Six of the mosques were found to practice 'explicit denigration of Western society'."
None of this context exists for ECRI, which appears to operate in a vacuum, unencumbered by real world facts.
Instead, ECRI commends Austria for having "several measures in place... which aim to combat hate speech by developing a counter-narrative."...
In Austria, more censorship is clearly on the way.
France says it wants 30 Nato allies to reaffirm commitment to respecting routinely violated UN arms embargo on #Libya, amid its stand-off with Turkey (which backs Tripoli). But what about arms going into the east, and role of French allies UAE and Egypt? https://t.co/xYtOynosdc
My question: Would journalists/political operatives who describe Antifa as a right-wing “fantasy” get away with this lie if the public knew what is taking place in Portland every night? https://t.co/MwVNzmHTIu
Cody Beau Porter, 30, a school instructor for Multnomah County & an open communist, was arrested & charged w/assaulting a federal officer at the Portland #antifa riot. He was given a pretrial release & ordered to not possess weapons, fireworks or lasers. https://t.co/ARFPMuyzv9pic.twitter.com/w7FcyjFehr
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Catch and release is something you do when you want more of what you're releasing. Like game fish for example. How does it make any sense with criminals?
[Jpost] Almost half of nearly 5,000 active FBI counter-intelligence cases now underway are related to China, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday.
"We've now reached a point where the FBI is opening a new China-related counter-intelligence case about every 10 hours," Wray said in an address to the Hudson Institute thinktank. "Of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counter-intelligence cases currently underway across the country, almost half are related to China."
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The limiting factor is the number of FBEye agents assigned, not the number of Chinese spying ops. The ChiComs are committed to theft in EVERY interaction with the west!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Road & Track] Back in May, we wrote about a selection of Pittsburgh brand three- and six-ton jack stands recalled by Harbor Freight because of a manufacturing defect that could cause them to collapse under load, potentially causing injury or death. Customers were asked to return the stands in exchange for a gift card, and affected units were pulled from shelves. Now, Harbor Freight has had to announce a second recall, covering the new jack stands that many folks purchased to replace those covered by the initial recall.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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[Dhaka Tribune] A 17-year-old girl has been gang-raped allegedly by her boyfriend and his five accomplices in Nangalkot upazila of Comilla.
[Mail] The iconic menswear brand has become the latest casualty of the global health crisis - as the shift to working from home has led to a fall in demand for smart clothing while stay-at-home orders and dwindling consumer confidence have ravaged retail industry sales on a whole. 
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ansarallah forces resumed their offensive inside the Marib Governorate on Monday, as their troops inched closer to the strategic administrative capital, which is under the control of the Saudi-backed Islah forces.
...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...
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts 
...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...
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Perhaps Plugs could use Thamsanqa Jantjie style sign language during the debates and Soetoro could provide the audio translation ? 
...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too...
...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...
[BREITBART] Left-wingers attacked radical leftist intellectual Noam 
[Dhaka Tribune] During the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak in Bangladesh, Regent Hospital owner Md Shahed had claimed that his hospital was dedicated to providing services to people suffering from the deadly virus out of his moral and humanitarian obligations.
...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 
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A new U.S. Congress bill aims to prevent the Pentagon from spending federal funds for the purposes of imposing control over oil fields in Syria and Iraq.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
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[World Mag] A historic order of nuns who minister to the elderly poor gained a reprieve from the Supreme Court Wednesday. A majority of justices upheld a Trump administration rule exempting employers with religious and moral objections from providing contraception in group healthcare plans. 
