The ‘Pantaleo effect’ proves the city can’t afford to soften the NYPD
By Miranda Devine
New York Post
July 28, 2019
We were still reeling at the spectacle of meek NYPD cops being doused with water all over town when Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s home on Staten Island was besieged by protesters Saturday night.
“He needs to feel fear wherever he goes!” chanted the small group. “We will find you, Pantaleo! No justice, no peace.”
Five years after bootleg cigarette seller Eric Garner died during a so-called “chokehold arrest” on Staten Island, Pantaleo has had no justice and no peace.
He was a good cop doing his job. But his abandonment by craven politicians and top brass has become the unspoken subtext of every police interaction in this city ever since.
His childhood friend Joseph Imperatrice, founder of Blue Lives Matter, is one who calls it the “Pantaleo effect.”
“Police officers cannot be afraid to do their job,” he said. “They have to understand the officers around them and the higher brass will have their back.”
Garner’s death was a tragedy, but even the medical examiner who ruled it a homicide found his health problems contributed. Garner was 6-foot-3 and obese, at 395 pounds. He had an enlarged heart and chronic asthma. The stress of struggling with cops triggered a fatal asthma attack.
Pantaleo is 6 feet and 220 pounds. He had been ordered to arrest Garner. When a man far bigger than him resisted, what was he meant to do, walk away?
Well, walk away is exactly what police are doing now.
And not once has anyone in authority understood how their failure to defend Pantaleo has damaged police morale.
Instead they pander to anti-police bullies who use the poor grieving Garner family as pawns.
The extraordinary passivity last week of those officers in Brooklyn and Harlem as jeering punks soaked them with water has been a long time brewing.
It began with race-baiting former President Barack Obama’s misguided criticism of police in Cambridge, Mass., over the 2009 arrest of his friend Henry Gates. It came to a head in 2014 with the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie told about Michael Brown after he was fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., just three weeks after Garner’s death.
Along the way, Obama gave succor to anti-police activists. The inevitable result of hostility to law enforcement was the assassination of two police officers in Brooklyn, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, just weeks after a grand jury cleared Pantaleo.
Vilified by president wannabe Bill de Blasio and hung out to dry by Commissioner James O’Neill, Pantaleo has seen his actions on that summer’s day in 2014 after Garner resisted arrest scrutinized in every available jurisdiction.
A Staten Island grand jury found he had no case to answer.
The US Justice Department found he had no case to answer.
Now we await the result of a police disciplinary trial and the verdict of Commissioner O’Neill.
For police-haters, Pantaleo is a symbol of the “broken windows” tough-on-crime policing which so successfully cleaned up the city 25 years ago, and which de Blasio is doing his best to unwind while boasting of the low crime rates that are entirely its legacy.
Destroy Pantaleo and you destroy broken windows and, with it, the morale of the NYPD.
You can see how low morale has sunk in the resigned reaction of cops to egregious acts of disrespect, whether being doused by water in Harlem and Brooklyn, having buckets thrown at their heads, or just a foul-mouthed punk on the subway telling them to “suck my d–k”.
“Officers are not supported,” Ed Mullins, head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said on Friday.
“That’s the sentiment of the rank and file. They’re afraid to get involved because they know they don’t have the backing of the commissioner or the mayor.”
He is furious that de Blasio used the national platform of the first Democratic presidential debate last month to repeat the racist slur that his biracial son, Dante, wasn’t safe around cops because he was a “child of color.”
Nothing has changed since thousands of officers turned their backs on de Blasio at the funeral five years ago of assassinated cop Liu.
Mullins warns that it was the soft-touch policing of the 1970s that led to the crime explosion of the 1980s, and says water dousing incidents are just “the appetizer” to lawlessness to come.
“It won’t be on [de Blasio’s] watch,” he says. “It’s going to be the next mayor and the next commissioner.”
Already, he says, “crooks are getting emboldened . . . Perps know they’re not being searched for firearms. When you talk to the people of the city, they don’t feel safe. They see homelessness, people urinating in the street, turnstile jumping . . . We’re not enforcing crimes anymore.”
“The cops are confused as to what you want them to do,” Mullins says. “The backing off of law enforcement is beginning to erode the city.”
President Trump’s intervention this week, when he voiced support for the embattled cops of his hometown, blasting the water tossing as a “total disgrace,” meant the world, says Mullins.
But the only way to restore the morale of New York’s emasculated police force is for O’Neill to come out from behind his desk and defend Pantaleo.
He might owe his job to de Blasio but he doesn’t owe him his soul.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Way to go. You tell ’em, Miranda, you’re divine!
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
RED BILL GETS SINGED FOR CREATING DISRESPECT OF THE POLICE
Former NYPD chief slams de Blasio over cop-dousings
By Louis Anemone
New York Post
July 26, 2019
Former NYPD Chief of Department Louis Anemone, an architect of the department’s CompStat strategy that is credited with driving down crime to record lows since the 1990s, blames Mayor de Blasio for the abuse NYPD officers are enduring at the hands of foul-mouthed, water-lobbing punks.
Recent events in Brooklyn, Harlem and on the subway involving acts of disrespect toward police officers in uniform have provoked the sentiment of anger and shame in me.
Let me explain — I am angry as hell at the “woke,” “progressive,” political establishment of New York City, who are a disgrace to the city of New York.
They collectively have created a situation that can only get worse for the rule of law in New York. They have replaced common sense, impartiality and honesty in the pursuit of happiness in the city with crazy theories about our subconscious prejudices and minority privilege.
The educational and criminal justice systems in this city are under attack by these “progressives,” with not a care for the consequences of these deranged theories.
Our mayor has indicated on a number of occasions now that he had “the talk” with his son about how not to enrage the racist police of the city if he is ever stopped by them.
Mr. Mayor, it is now time for you to have a different “talk” with your supporters in each of the boroughs.
You should begin by explaining to your supporters that you were wrong to attack the motives of the men and women of the NYPD.
You should then apologize to those men and women of the NYPD who put it all on the line, 24/7, 365 days a year for all people in the city — residents or tourists, businesspersons or employees, the homeless or condo dwellers, citizens or aliens.
Your next step should be training and teaching the youth of the city in correct, courteous behavior that is the norm in most civilized cities in the world.
You may also mention the fact that in the future, parents will be held responsible for the behavior of their minor children, while adult children will be answerable to the courts for their behavior.
People must expect consequences for their anti-social and criminal behavior. No excuses, no hard-luck stories, no placing the blame on our institutions of education, health and policing for the lack of civility, rude and dangerous, threatening behavior by far too many youths and adults in our city.
I am ashamed that members of my beloved NYPD — when confronted with behavior that could just have easily been life-threatening — did nothing. They turned their backs on a threat, walked away defeated, all the while in uniform.
We who have served understand that when you wear the uniform, it is not about you anymore.
These people have now become emboldened to take perhaps more serious action against a police officer thinking that there will be no consequences for them. This is a very dangerous situation for the other officers in that precinct, who may meet these same people on the street a day, a week, a month later.
I have been retired for 20 years now, but I have known and witnessed true American heroes who wore that NYPD uniform with pride and courage during their careers. How dare any members of the department disgrace that same uniform by giving in to their selfish fears? Worries about what the department or the public might think of your actions are no justification for not stepping up and doing the right thing.
Shame on you. Resign now.
God bless the men and women of the NYPD. Walk tall, hold your heads high, and never back down.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Never back down and when no one is looking, kick the supreme shit out of the sorry ass bastards.
By Louis Anemone
New York Post
July 26, 2019
Former NYPD Chief of Department Louis Anemone, an architect of the department’s CompStat strategy that is credited with driving down crime to record lows since the 1990s, blames Mayor de Blasio for the abuse NYPD officers are enduring at the hands of foul-mouthed, water-lobbing punks.
Recent events in Brooklyn, Harlem and on the subway involving acts of disrespect toward police officers in uniform have provoked the sentiment of anger and shame in me.
Let me explain — I am angry as hell at the “woke,” “progressive,” political establishment of New York City, who are a disgrace to the city of New York.
They collectively have created a situation that can only get worse for the rule of law in New York. They have replaced common sense, impartiality and honesty in the pursuit of happiness in the city with crazy theories about our subconscious prejudices and minority privilege.
The educational and criminal justice systems in this city are under attack by these “progressives,” with not a care for the consequences of these deranged theories.
Our mayor has indicated on a number of occasions now that he had “the talk” with his son about how not to enrage the racist police of the city if he is ever stopped by them.
Mr. Mayor, it is now time for you to have a different “talk” with your supporters in each of the boroughs.
You should begin by explaining to your supporters that you were wrong to attack the motives of the men and women of the NYPD.
You should then apologize to those men and women of the NYPD who put it all on the line, 24/7, 365 days a year for all people in the city — residents or tourists, businesspersons or employees, the homeless or condo dwellers, citizens or aliens.
Your next step should be training and teaching the youth of the city in correct, courteous behavior that is the norm in most civilized cities in the world.
You may also mention the fact that in the future, parents will be held responsible for the behavior of their minor children, while adult children will be answerable to the courts for their behavior.
People must expect consequences for their anti-social and criminal behavior. No excuses, no hard-luck stories, no placing the blame on our institutions of education, health and policing for the lack of civility, rude and dangerous, threatening behavior by far too many youths and adults in our city.
I am ashamed that members of my beloved NYPD — when confronted with behavior that could just have easily been life-threatening — did nothing. They turned their backs on a threat, walked away defeated, all the while in uniform.
We who have served understand that when you wear the uniform, it is not about you anymore.
These people have now become emboldened to take perhaps more serious action against a police officer thinking that there will be no consequences for them. This is a very dangerous situation for the other officers in that precinct, who may meet these same people on the street a day, a week, a month later.
I have been retired for 20 years now, but I have known and witnessed true American heroes who wore that NYPD uniform with pride and courage during their careers. How dare any members of the department disgrace that same uniform by giving in to their selfish fears? Worries about what the department or the public might think of your actions are no justification for not stepping up and doing the right thing.
Shame on you. Resign now.
God bless the men and women of the NYPD. Walk tall, hold your heads high, and never back down.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Never back down and when no one is looking, kick the supreme shit out of the sorry ass bastards.
I'LL BET TRUMP PAID THE RAT
by Bob Walsh
Some TV talking head was doing a live shot from Baltimore about how mean Trump was for calling Baltimore a rat-infested shit hole when a rat the size of a small dog wandered thru the live shot. The only thing that would have been better would have been if the talking head would have seen it and freaked and they would have had to pull her off off of a telephone pole.
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Baltimore Rat Runs Through Fox Reporter's Live Shot, Trump Supporters Tout as 'Proof' President Not Racist
by Benjamin Fearnow
Newsweek
July 30, 2019
A rat in West Baltimore ran through a local Fox TV reporter's live shot on Monday as she discussed President Donald Trump being urged to visit the city he controversially labeled a "rat and rodent infested mess."
Fox 45 Baltimore reporter Maxine Streicher was engaged in a live broadcast from the city's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood on Monday when the camera panned over to an alley just as a rat scurried out from under trash and along a wall. The live shot prompted widespread mockery from supporters of the president who touted the video as "proof" the president was correct in telling Maryland's 7th District Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings via Twitter to "clean up this very dangerous & filthy place."
"Now, we spoke with many people today, who say the president should consider coming here to Baltimore, to the Sandtown area, and taking a look at things for himself," Streicher can be heard saying as the camera examined a nearby alley.
The rat can be seen emerging from behind several bags of trash on the ground before running along a wall and disappearing into an adjacent patch of grass and concrete. Streicher is heard detailing how neighborhood residents told her the area needs to be "cleaned up" and crime needs to be reduced, but Trump's words were "too harsh."
Ann Coulter, Fox News radio host Todd Starnes and several state-level Republican Party lawmakers joined thousands of right-leaning social media users in gleefully sharing the video. WCBM-AM talk radio host Bruce Elliott declared on Starnes' radio show that the "unpleasant truth" is Trump was correct in identifying the city's rat and crime problems which many critics said were "racist" comments.
"I think that when you're telling the truth that that's hard to classify as anything other than the truth. There is a rat problem in Baltimore, the crime rate in Baltimore is scary, and we've had 191 murders so far this year," Elliott said.
During a later broadcast Monday, a Fox 45 Baltimore anchor described the rat's fleeting appearance as "proof" of Trump's complaints about parts of the city. The segment also noted Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders referred to portions of the city as "uninhabitable" in 2015, which Trump lamented on his Twitter account Monday.
"During Maxine's live shot in West Baltimore at 4 o'clock, we got some proof of what the president was talking about. Our photographer on the scene captured that, that big rat, seen running right across your screen," she explained.
The Fox-affiliated TV station, which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, continued addressing Trump's criticism of Baltimore and noted a "surge in non-fatal shootings" across the city. The Monday evening segment highlighted a 31 percent increase from 2018 through July 20 of this year.
Many Twitter users responded to the rat "photo-bomb" video by pointing at several local stories over the years about longtime rodent problems in Baltimore. A September 2018 WBFF-TV report showed former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh exclaiming, "you can smell the rats." The clip prompted right-wing pundit Mark Dice and several conservative news outlets such as Breitbart and CNS News to further distance Trump's comments from accusations of racism.
"Here's a local Baltimore news story about the rat problem from a few years ago. 'Rats' are not a code word for black people. The city has a rat problem! #TrumpIsRightAgain," Dice tweeted Tuesday.
Some TV talking head was doing a live shot from Baltimore about how mean Trump was for calling Baltimore a rat-infested shit hole when a rat the size of a small dog wandered thru the live shot. The only thing that would have been better would have been if the talking head would have seen it and freaked and they would have had to pull her off off of a telephone pole.
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Baltimore Rat Runs Through Fox Reporter's Live Shot, Trump Supporters Tout as 'Proof' President Not Racist
by Benjamin Fearnow
Newsweek
July 30, 2019
A rat in West Baltimore ran through a local Fox TV reporter's live shot on Monday as she discussed President Donald Trump being urged to visit the city he controversially labeled a "rat and rodent infested mess."
Fox 45 Baltimore reporter Maxine Streicher was engaged in a live broadcast from the city's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood on Monday when the camera panned over to an alley just as a rat scurried out from under trash and along a wall. The live shot prompted widespread mockery from supporters of the president who touted the video as "proof" the president was correct in telling Maryland's 7th District Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings via Twitter to "clean up this very dangerous & filthy place."
"Now, we spoke with many people today, who say the president should consider coming here to Baltimore, to the Sandtown area, and taking a look at things for himself," Streicher can be heard saying as the camera examined a nearby alley.
The rat can be seen emerging from behind several bags of trash on the ground before running along a wall and disappearing into an adjacent patch of grass and concrete. Streicher is heard detailing how neighborhood residents told her the area needs to be "cleaned up" and crime needs to be reduced, but Trump's words were "too harsh."
Ann Coulter, Fox News radio host Todd Starnes and several state-level Republican Party lawmakers joined thousands of right-leaning social media users in gleefully sharing the video. WCBM-AM talk radio host Bruce Elliott declared on Starnes' radio show that the "unpleasant truth" is Trump was correct in identifying the city's rat and crime problems which many critics said were "racist" comments.
"I think that when you're telling the truth that that's hard to classify as anything other than the truth. There is a rat problem in Baltimore, the crime rate in Baltimore is scary, and we've had 191 murders so far this year," Elliott said.
During a later broadcast Monday, a Fox 45 Baltimore anchor described the rat's fleeting appearance as "proof" of Trump's complaints about parts of the city. The segment also noted Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders referred to portions of the city as "uninhabitable" in 2015, which Trump lamented on his Twitter account Monday.
"During Maxine's live shot in West Baltimore at 4 o'clock, we got some proof of what the president was talking about. Our photographer on the scene captured that, that big rat, seen running right across your screen," she explained.
The Fox-affiliated TV station, which is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, continued addressing Trump's criticism of Baltimore and noted a "surge in non-fatal shootings" across the city. The Monday evening segment highlighted a 31 percent increase from 2018 through July 20 of this year.
Many Twitter users responded to the rat "photo-bomb" video by pointing at several local stories over the years about longtime rodent problems in Baltimore. A September 2018 WBFF-TV report showed former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh exclaiming, "you can smell the rats." The clip prompted right-wing pundit Mark Dice and several conservative news outlets such as Breitbart and CNS News to further distance Trump's comments from accusations of racism.
"Here's a local Baltimore news story about the rat problem from a few years ago. 'Rats' are not a code word for black people. The city has a rat problem! #TrumpIsRightAgain," Dice tweeted Tuesday.
CAT LADY TO BE JAILED FOR FEEDING CATS
by Bob Walsh
Some poor deluded cat lady in Garfield Heights, Ohio is actually getting ten days in the slammer for feeding stray cats, which is illegal there. In her news clip she referred to the feral, vicious, overbred animals as "kitties" so clearly she is a couple of french fries short of a happy meal.
Her neighbors ratted her out because they got tired of the constant traffic of cats, cat pee and cat shit everywhere, and general stupidity.
Some poor deluded cat lady in Garfield Heights, Ohio is actually getting ten days in the slammer for feeding stray cats, which is illegal there. In her news clip she referred to the feral, vicious, overbred animals as "kitties" so clearly she is a couple of french fries short of a happy meal.
Her neighbors ratted her out because they got tired of the constant traffic of cats, cat pee and cat shit everywhere, and general stupidity.
CA GOVERNOR PISSING INTO THE WIND AGAIN
by Bob Walsh
The governor of the formerly great state of California, Gavin Newsom, has signed into law a clearly unconstitutional bill which would, if upheld, force ANYBODY (including Donald Trump) who wants to get his name on the California primary presidential ballot to cough up his tax returns.
Since there is no such requirement in FEDERAL law or in the U. S. Constitution it can not be enforced by a state against federal office holders or potential federal office holders.
The state of California is basically collectively jacking off in hopes of accomplishing something that they think will be significant. Since Trump isn't going to win in CA he could tell them to fuck off, but I am hoping he will sue the dog shit out of them, and collect damages and attorney's fees in the process.
I think even Ruth Ginsberg would have a problem with saying this is constitutional, but she is crazy and senile, so you never know.
The governor of the formerly great state of California, Gavin Newsom, has signed into law a clearly unconstitutional bill which would, if upheld, force ANYBODY (including Donald Trump) who wants to get his name on the California primary presidential ballot to cough up his tax returns.
Since there is no such requirement in FEDERAL law or in the U. S. Constitution it can not be enforced by a state against federal office holders or potential federal office holders.
The state of California is basically collectively jacking off in hopes of accomplishing something that they think will be significant. Since Trump isn't going to win in CA he could tell them to fuck off, but I am hoping he will sue the dog shit out of them, and collect damages and attorney's fees in the process.
I think even Ruth Ginsberg would have a problem with saying this is constitutional, but she is crazy and senile, so you never know.
MOTHERS AGAINST SENSELESS KILLINGS KILLED
2 mothers killed in drive-by shooting had worked to stop gun violence in their Chicago neighborhood
By Manny Ramos and Nader Issa
Chicago Sun-Times
July 29, 2019
Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were at their usual spot Friday night, posted on a corner lot in the Gresham neighborhood as part of their effort to curb gun violence in their community.
The two women had spent two years working with Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK), a team of moms who put on events and offer a safe space for kids in the community.
But the peace-seekers became victims Friday when Grant — a 26-year-old mother of four — and Stoudemire — a 35-year-old mother of three — were killed in a drive-by shooting.
“It is terrifying. It is heartbreaking. I haven’t slept because I am trying to figure out how we can stop this,” Tamar Manasseh, founder of MASK, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “Who’s next? I just keep thinking, ‘Who’s next?’ ”
Just before 10 p.m. Friday, a blue SUV rolled by 75th Street and Stewart Avenue, where MASK sets up shop, and someone fired shots into a crowd, Chicago police said. Grant and Stoudemire were killed, and a man was grazed in the arm.
“This is still very much under investigation, but at this time, we have no evidence that we can point to that suggests the women were the intended targets. We also have no evidence to the contrary,” CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote in an email. No one was in custody as of Monday evening.
Manasseh started the group in 2015, with the moms “occupying” the southwest corner of 75th and Stewart — hanging out, cooking out and walking the neighborhood — with the belief that their presence and engagement with the community alone could do some good. The mothers also offer youths counseling, healthy meals and homes for those who don’t have them.
Instead of a lively group of kids playing and adults enjoying the summer weather Monday, mourners stopped by to leave candles, flowers and sign a poster at a memorial set up by friends of the two women.
“I’m trying to hold up. I’m taking it literally one day at a time,” said Charvonda Andrews, Stoudemire’s friend of more than two decades. “Honestly, every 30 minutes I’m crying. But I’m trying to just hold it together right now. That’s been my best friend since fifth grade.
“She was very outgoing. Very spontaneous. Loved to smile,” Andrews said. “She loved taking care of her kids. That’s the main thing. Her kids were her world.”
A few minutes later, as rain started to fall on Andrews and a group of friends, they released a dozen balloons into the air and watched as two drifted off together.
Andrews, sobbing over the loss of her friend, let out her frustration: “Why are these cowards taking moms away from these kids? ... I’m so tired of Chicago.”
The man who was grazed in Friday’s shooting also stopped by the scene Monday — with his arm bandaged — to pay his respects.
The man, who spoke to the Sun-Times on the condition he remain anonymous, said he spends much of his time walking the neighborhood, trying to console people affected by gun violence. The night of the shooting, he comforted one of the women who was shot, holding her hand as she died.
”It’s too much around here. The older people can’t come out and sit on the porch; the kids can’t play,” he said. “It’s just, wow. Everyone is scared.”
MASK has started a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising a $5,000 reward for information “that will bring these mother killers to justice.”
The attack was the second drive-by shooting on the block in the past month. The night of June 25, a 23-year-old woman was wounded as she stood on the corner about 9 p.m., when a black vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said. She was shot in the face, back and leg but survived. There was no indication from police that the shootings were connected.
At the site Monday, Stoudemire’s older brother, Dyrell Powell, paced around the block in shock over his sister’s death.
“They killed my sister. It hurts,” Powell said. “Whoever did this, I hope they go to jail for life.”
By Manny Ramos and Nader Issa
Chicago Sun-Times
July 29, 2019
Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were at their usual spot Friday night, posted on a corner lot in the Gresham neighborhood as part of their effort to curb gun violence in their community.
The two women had spent two years working with Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK), a team of moms who put on events and offer a safe space for kids in the community.
But the peace-seekers became victims Friday when Grant — a 26-year-old mother of four — and Stoudemire — a 35-year-old mother of three — were killed in a drive-by shooting.
“It is terrifying. It is heartbreaking. I haven’t slept because I am trying to figure out how we can stop this,” Tamar Manasseh, founder of MASK, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “Who’s next? I just keep thinking, ‘Who’s next?’ ”
Just before 10 p.m. Friday, a blue SUV rolled by 75th Street and Stewart Avenue, where MASK sets up shop, and someone fired shots into a crowd, Chicago police said. Grant and Stoudemire were killed, and a man was grazed in the arm.
“This is still very much under investigation, but at this time, we have no evidence that we can point to that suggests the women were the intended targets. We also have no evidence to the contrary,” CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi wrote in an email. No one was in custody as of Monday evening.
Manasseh started the group in 2015, with the moms “occupying” the southwest corner of 75th and Stewart — hanging out, cooking out and walking the neighborhood — with the belief that their presence and engagement with the community alone could do some good. The mothers also offer youths counseling, healthy meals and homes for those who don’t have them.
Instead of a lively group of kids playing and adults enjoying the summer weather Monday, mourners stopped by to leave candles, flowers and sign a poster at a memorial set up by friends of the two women.
“I’m trying to hold up. I’m taking it literally one day at a time,” said Charvonda Andrews, Stoudemire’s friend of more than two decades. “Honestly, every 30 minutes I’m crying. But I’m trying to just hold it together right now. That’s been my best friend since fifth grade.
“She was very outgoing. Very spontaneous. Loved to smile,” Andrews said. “She loved taking care of her kids. That’s the main thing. Her kids were her world.”
A few minutes later, as rain started to fall on Andrews and a group of friends, they released a dozen balloons into the air and watched as two drifted off together.
Andrews, sobbing over the loss of her friend, let out her frustration: “Why are these cowards taking moms away from these kids? ... I’m so tired of Chicago.”
The man who was grazed in Friday’s shooting also stopped by the scene Monday — with his arm bandaged — to pay his respects.
The man, who spoke to the Sun-Times on the condition he remain anonymous, said he spends much of his time walking the neighborhood, trying to console people affected by gun violence. The night of the shooting, he comforted one of the women who was shot, holding her hand as she died.
”It’s too much around here. The older people can’t come out and sit on the porch; the kids can’t play,” he said. “It’s just, wow. Everyone is scared.”
MASK has started a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising a $5,000 reward for information “that will bring these mother killers to justice.”
The attack was the second drive-by shooting on the block in the past month. The night of June 25, a 23-year-old woman was wounded as she stood on the corner about 9 p.m., when a black vehicle drove by and someone inside opened fire, Chicago police said. She was shot in the face, back and leg but survived. There was no indication from police that the shootings were connected.
At the site Monday, Stoudemire’s older brother, Dyrell Powell, paced around the block in shock over his sister’s death.
“They killed my sister. It hurts,” Powell said. “Whoever did this, I hope they go to jail for life.”
130 YEARS LATER
Slain Kentucky Marshal Honored Over A Century Later In Texas
LAPPL News Watch
July 30, 2019
A federal officer gunned down while transporting prisoners through eastern Kentucky was honored at a small ceremony Friday in Texas, more than a century after his death.
Senior officials with the U.S. Marshals Service and judges gathered at a courthouse in Plano, a suburb northeast of Dallas, to present a flag to Russell Wireman's great-great-great grandson, Gary Hulsey.
Wireman, a marshal, was shot in the chest in 1889 during the so-called Moonshine War, but his death until recently has been a lost part of history. The presentation of the folded flag was part of an effort by America's oldest federal law-enforcement agency to recognize officers whose deaths during a particularly deadly period of its history had been obscured by the passing decades.
"We have a saying in the law enforcement community that we never forget," said Richard Taylor, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Texas. "One hundred and 30 years later, we never forget."
LAPPL News Watch
July 30, 2019
A federal officer gunned down while transporting prisoners through eastern Kentucky was honored at a small ceremony Friday in Texas, more than a century after his death.
Senior officials with the U.S. Marshals Service and judges gathered at a courthouse in Plano, a suburb northeast of Dallas, to present a flag to Russell Wireman's great-great-great grandson, Gary Hulsey.
Wireman, a marshal, was shot in the chest in 1889 during the so-called Moonshine War, but his death until recently has been a lost part of history. The presentation of the folded flag was part of an effort by America's oldest federal law-enforcement agency to recognize officers whose deaths during a particularly deadly period of its history had been obscured by the passing decades.
"We have a saying in the law enforcement community that we never forget," said Richard Taylor, U.S. marshal for the Northern District of Texas. "One hundred and 30 years later, we never forget."
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
BY DEMOCRATS OWN STANDARD, SANDERS OUGHT TO CARRY RACIST LABEL DURING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Trump asks why 'Crazy Bernie' wasn't called a racist for comparing Baltimore to a 'third world country' while he has been roasted for his 'rat-infested mess' tweets
Daily Mail
July 29, 2019
President Trump turned his ire to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday as he opened up a third front in his Baltimore battle.
'Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard!' he charged.
Trump further claimed that he'd be happy to assist leaders of the urban area clean the city up, if they requested his assistance. 'The fact is, Baltimore can be brought back, maybe even to new heights of success and glory, but not with King Elijah and that crew. When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call! he tweeted.
Sanders had in 2015 compared Baltimore to a third world country. Yet, he criticized Trump in a Sunday morning interview for zeroing in on a majority-black district represented by a respected African-America congressman.
But the sitting president also had 2015 comments that were coming back to haunt him on Monday. He'd blamed then-President Barack Obama for crime in Maryland's capital city and said the nation's leader should go to Baltimore and calm racial tensions.
EDITOR’S NOTE: While taking a tour of East Baltimore a year ago, former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said:
“What the hell? We should just take all this shit down. Woah, you can smell the rats. Whew, Jesus. Oh my God, you can smell the dead animals.”
Now, according to the Democrats, that was downright racist. Oops, it could not have been because Pugh is black.
Daily Mail
July 29, 2019
President Trump turned his ire to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday as he opened up a third front in his Baltimore battle.
'Crazy Bernie Sanders recently equated the City of Baltimore to a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY! Based on that statement, I assume that Bernie must now be labeled a Racist, just as a Republican would if he used that term and standard!' he charged.
Trump further claimed that he'd be happy to assist leaders of the urban area clean the city up, if they requested his assistance. 'The fact is, Baltimore can be brought back, maybe even to new heights of success and glory, but not with King Elijah and that crew. When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call! he tweeted.
Sanders had in 2015 compared Baltimore to a third world country. Yet, he criticized Trump in a Sunday morning interview for zeroing in on a majority-black district represented by a respected African-America congressman.
But the sitting president also had 2015 comments that were coming back to haunt him on Monday. He'd blamed then-President Barack Obama for crime in Maryland's capital city and said the nation's leader should go to Baltimore and calm racial tensions.
EDITOR’S NOTE: While taking a tour of East Baltimore a year ago, former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said:
“What the hell? We should just take all this shit down. Woah, you can smell the rats. Whew, Jesus. Oh my God, you can smell the dead animals.”
Now, according to the Democrats, that was downright racist. Oops, it could not have been because Pugh is black.
SO, WHAT'S THE ANSWER? MORE GUN LAWS OF COURSE
by Bob Walsh
The 19 year old asshole shooter in Gilroy purchased his Kalashnikov pattern rifle legally in Nevada. He probably had some dreaded high-capacity magazines too, purchased legally in Nevada. (They are actually factory standard capacity magazines, but why bother with details.) Unless he bought his ammo in California (he might have) importing it into CA was illegal. Possession of the rifle in CA was illegal unless he registered it here. Possession of the high-capacity magazines was illegal. Carrying a loaded rifle except on private property or at a licensed gun range was illegal. Cutting the fence and sneaking into the Garlic Festival was illegal. Discharging the weapon with intent to harm or kill was illegal. So, how to stop it from happening again? Pass more laws.
SB61 would prohibit anyone in California from purchasing more than one gun per month. He didn't buy it in California, and he may have owned just the one gun, so he may very well have been cool anyway.
The Gun Violence Restraining Act needs to be expanded obviously. Of course the now dead shooter, Santino William Legan, 19, had no reports of violent claims or tendancies.
Also of course we should increase training on gun violence restraining orders. That would stop these crimes dead.
And we must increase funding to CA DOJ to take guns away from prohibited persons. Of course Legan was not in fact a prohibited person, but what the fuck, just go with it.
Of course, Governor Gavin Newsom said yesterday that it was Donald Trump's fault. So we can just blame him and stop all this meaningless bullshit. But we won't. Because our legislature is collectively a pack of whores and assholes and the electorate is collectively too lame or too stupid to throw the bastards out.
The 19 year old asshole shooter in Gilroy purchased his Kalashnikov pattern rifle legally in Nevada. He probably had some dreaded high-capacity magazines too, purchased legally in Nevada. (They are actually factory standard capacity magazines, but why bother with details.) Unless he bought his ammo in California (he might have) importing it into CA was illegal. Possession of the rifle in CA was illegal unless he registered it here. Possession of the high-capacity magazines was illegal. Carrying a loaded rifle except on private property or at a licensed gun range was illegal. Cutting the fence and sneaking into the Garlic Festival was illegal. Discharging the weapon with intent to harm or kill was illegal. So, how to stop it from happening again? Pass more laws.
SB61 would prohibit anyone in California from purchasing more than one gun per month. He didn't buy it in California, and he may have owned just the one gun, so he may very well have been cool anyway.
The Gun Violence Restraining Act needs to be expanded obviously. Of course the now dead shooter, Santino William Legan, 19, had no reports of violent claims or tendancies.
Also of course we should increase training on gun violence restraining orders. That would stop these crimes dead.
And we must increase funding to CA DOJ to take guns away from prohibited persons. Of course Legan was not in fact a prohibited person, but what the fuck, just go with it.
Of course, Governor Gavin Newsom said yesterday that it was Donald Trump's fault. So we can just blame him and stop all this meaningless bullshit. But we won't. Because our legislature is collectively a pack of whores and assholes and the electorate is collectively too lame or too stupid to throw the bastards out.
SAVED BY THE BRA
by Bob Walsh
Daniesa Murdaugh, 21, is a very lucky lady. She was present at a block party in Brooklyn when, at about 11 p.m. on July 27, somebody started shooting. She ran and was shot in the back.
Fortunately for her the bullet impacted her bra strap directly over her spine. When EMS showed up and checked her out they unhooked her bra and the bullet fell out of the strap. She had some fragments in her skin but no significant injury. The shooting left one man dead at the Brownsville area party.
The New York Public Advocate, Jumaane D. Williams, asserted (incorrectly of course) that there is a mass shooting "nearly every day" in the U.S. Mayor "Red Bill" deBlasio tried to come up with some way to blame Donald Trump, but couldn't manage it.
Nobody said anything about whether or not a shooter had been identified or was in custody, or a possible motive, nor pretty much anything actually helpful.
Welcome to the Big Apple. INCOMING.
Daniesa Murdaugh, 21, is a very lucky lady. She was present at a block party in Brooklyn when, at about 11 p.m. on July 27, somebody started shooting. She ran and was shot in the back.
Fortunately for her the bullet impacted her bra strap directly over her spine. When EMS showed up and checked her out they unhooked her bra and the bullet fell out of the strap. She had some fragments in her skin but no significant injury. The shooting left one man dead at the Brownsville area party.
The New York Public Advocate, Jumaane D. Williams, asserted (incorrectly of course) that there is a mass shooting "nearly every day" in the U.S. Mayor "Red Bill" deBlasio tried to come up with some way to blame Donald Trump, but couldn't manage it.
Nobody said anything about whether or not a shooter had been identified or was in custody, or a possible motive, nor pretty much anything actually helpful.
Welcome to the Big Apple. INCOMING.
KAMALA HARRIS REFINES HER POSITION YET AGAIN
by Bob Walsh
Kamala Harris has again refiined / explained her position on medicare-for-all just prior to the next round of Democrap presidential debates.
She still wants medicare for all, BUT would allow private health care insurance plans to remain in the mix, IF they are willing to follow certain rules that she lays down. (Damn nice of her I think.)
Her first expressed idea was to shitcan all private insurance and dump everybody into medicare. She has been backing incrementally away from that position ever since she expressed it.
She still has not come up with any realistic idea as to how she would fund this huge cost. Currently her idea is to tax the dogshit out of any family making above $100,000. She would also tax many stock market transactions at as much as 0.2% to help fund it. She would also tax the "rich" another 1% on top of whatever they are paying now.
The techie types say Medicare for all would cost about $30 trillion dollars. Harris's plan would raise about 10% of that sum.
One thing for sure. She really, really, really wants to be president and really, really, really thinks she can beat Trump if she can just get the Democrap nomination. The knives may come out for the next Democrap debate circus. DEATH TO THE OLD WHITE GUYS.
Kamala Harris has again refiined / explained her position on medicare-for-all just prior to the next round of Democrap presidential debates.
She still wants medicare for all, BUT would allow private health care insurance plans to remain in the mix, IF they are willing to follow certain rules that she lays down. (Damn nice of her I think.)
Her first expressed idea was to shitcan all private insurance and dump everybody into medicare. She has been backing incrementally away from that position ever since she expressed it.
She still has not come up with any realistic idea as to how she would fund this huge cost. Currently her idea is to tax the dogshit out of any family making above $100,000. She would also tax many stock market transactions at as much as 0.2% to help fund it. She would also tax the "rich" another 1% on top of whatever they are paying now.
The techie types say Medicare for all would cost about $30 trillion dollars. Harris's plan would raise about 10% of that sum.
One thing for sure. She really, really, really wants to be president and really, really, really thinks she can beat Trump if she can just get the Democrap nomination. The knives may come out for the next Democrap debate circus. DEATH TO THE OLD WHITE GUYS.
ROYAL PIECE OF TRASH CASHING IN ON HER CATCH OF HARRY
Me-Me-Meghan's shamelessly hypocritical super-woke Vogue stunt proves she cares more about promoting herself than the Royal Family or Britain
By Piers Morgan
Daily Mail
July 29, 2019
Two months ago, Meghan Markle was reportedly 'too busy caring for her baby' to meet the President of her own country on his state visit to the UK.
Now we discover she was in fact preoccupied with the birth of another elitist production - Vogue magazine.
News that Meghan has spent the past seven months guest-editing the September issue of Vogue is no surprise to me. As a B-list actress, she's probably craved all her adult life to be a Vogue star.
News that Buckingham Palace has let her do it is a big surprise though, because Meghan is now supposed to be a member of the royal family and not a publicity-craving celebrity. And being a royal means you stay out of politics. Yet here is Meghan being about as political as any royal has ever been.
She's chosen 15 female 'trailblazers' and 'changemakers' for the special 'Forces for Change' issue, all picked because they promote 'equality, kindness and open-mindedness'.
The women she's selected represent the greatest hits of virtue-signalling - with a nod to everything from 'body positivity', female empowerment, mental health, disability and race to transgender rights, climate change, diversity, and privilege.
The last one made me laugh out loud.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Daily Mail also reports the piece of trash has been slammed by critics for failing to include the Queen in the magazine and for ignoring nurses, doctors, lawyers and teachers on the cover. Royal watchers have also hit out at Meghan for promoting her friends and 'involving herself in politics'.
And Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir said the cause Meghan Markle is mostly supporting is the Me, Myself and I Foundation.
Vogue wouldn't give Markle three seconds of its time if she hadn't dug her claws into Harry.
By Piers Morgan
Daily Mail
July 29, 2019
Two months ago, Meghan Markle was reportedly 'too busy caring for her baby' to meet the President of her own country on his state visit to the UK.
Now we discover she was in fact preoccupied with the birth of another elitist production - Vogue magazine.
News that Meghan has spent the past seven months guest-editing the September issue of Vogue is no surprise to me. As a B-list actress, she's probably craved all her adult life to be a Vogue star.
News that Buckingham Palace has let her do it is a big surprise though, because Meghan is now supposed to be a member of the royal family and not a publicity-craving celebrity. And being a royal means you stay out of politics. Yet here is Meghan being about as political as any royal has ever been.
She's chosen 15 female 'trailblazers' and 'changemakers' for the special 'Forces for Change' issue, all picked because they promote 'equality, kindness and open-mindedness'.
The women she's selected represent the greatest hits of virtue-signalling - with a nod to everything from 'body positivity', female empowerment, mental health, disability and race to transgender rights, climate change, diversity, and privilege.
The last one made me laugh out loud.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Daily Mail also reports the piece of trash has been slammed by critics for failing to include the Queen in the magazine and for ignoring nurses, doctors, lawyers and teachers on the cover. Royal watchers have also hit out at Meghan for promoting her friends and 'involving herself in politics'.
And Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir said the cause Meghan Markle is mostly supporting is the Me, Myself and I Foundation.
Vogue wouldn't give Markle three seconds of its time if she hadn't dug her claws into Harry.
TWO ISRAELI GANGSTERS RUBBED OUT IN MEXICO CITY
Israeli shot dead by female assassin in Mexico was prominent underworld figure
The Times of Israel
July 25, 2019
One of the two Israelis shot dead in broad daylight in Mexico City on Wednesday has been identified as a prominent figure in Israel’s criminal underworld, sparking suspicions that the killing was a gangland assassination.
One of the suspected killers, 33-year-old Esperanza Gutierrez Rojano, confessed to the shooting and claimed during police questioning that it was a crime of passion, saying the Israeli victim had cheated on her.
But on Thursday, Israeli media reported that the deceased was a well-known Israeli crime boss, Tel Aviv native Ben Suthi, who had completed a lengthy prison sentence in Israel in February.
Israeli police sources told the Ynet news site that there was “no doubt” the murder was “commissioned by those with interests in Israel.” Israeli police reportedly suspect that an Israeli criminal organization paid a local group in Mexico City to carry out the hit.
“We have no doubt this wasn’t a mistake, nor a romantic crime, but a commissioned and planned assassination,” the police source was quoted as saying.
Rojano’s confession, in which she reportedly said she had acted out of “betrayal and passion,” may have been code for a retribution attack by a Mexican or Israeli criminal organization for some perceived treachery on Suthi’s part, the source said.
The same news site also quoted what it called “underworld sources” as saying that the assassination constituted “an earthquake in the Israeli criminal world…. This wasn’t someone marginal, but a very dominant figure who was very careful and very suspicious.”
The shooting occurred at a coffee shop in the luxury shopping district Artz Pedregal in the southwest of the city on Wednesday afternoon.
According to preliminary police findings reported in Mexican media, Suthi and a second Israeli man, identified as Bat Yam native Alon Azoulay, were sitting at a table in the cafe, while Rojano, in a blond wig, sat next to an apparent accomplice at another table some 10 meters (33 feet) away. After the Israelis ordered drinks, the assassins stood up, walked over to the targets’ table and shot them multiple times with a Glock handgun at point-blank range.
Rojano then ripped off her wig and shirt and fled the shopping center with police in close pursuit.
The officers soon caught up with her and placed her under arrest. An officer was reportedly shot and injured during the chase, apparently by two accomplices outside the mall who were helping Rojano escape.
Rojano’s accomplices, who also fled the scene, were not caught.
Suthi relocated to Mexico a few weeks ago, according to media reports. He is believed to have a daughter in the country, conceived during his last stint there after he fled Israel in 2001, escaping a prison term for murder during a furlough from prison.
The shooting comes a day after another Israeli underworld figure, Erez Akrishevsky, was extradited from Mexico to Israel. Akrishevsky was close to Suthi, and had fled Israel with him in 2001, living for the past 18 years in Mexico under the assumed name Ricardo Lopez before he was caught by Mexican police this month and returned to Israel.
The fatal shooting also comes less than a month after an Israeli DJ was shot dead during a rave in central Mexico. Forty-five-year-old Ronen Dahan, known as DJ Perplex, was one of two people gunned down in the shooting in San Luis PotosÃ, which local media linked to the ongoing drug cartel violence in the country.
EDITOR’S NOTE: El Universal reports that Gutierrez said she was paid $262 by the Jalisco Cartel New Generation to carry out the hit.
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Ex Mossad agent with ties to international crime mafias assassinated in Plaza Artz Pedregal
By Sol Prendido from VXT
Borderland Beat
July 27, 2019
Ciudad de México -- In 2005, Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi was arrested and offered a million pesos to the then undersecretary of the capital police, Gabriel Regino, for his release.
Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi, one of the two executed Wednesday at Plaza Artz, was a high-level criminal with Mossad training -the intelligence, espionage and counterterrorism agency of Israel - recalled Gabriel Regino, former Undersecretary of Public Security of the Federal District , who arrested him in 2005.
In an interview with Milenio, he recalled that he interrogated Sutchi when they were going to hand him over to the Israeli authorities, as he had a red Interpol file against him; during the trip Sutchi offered him money to let him escape.
“He was a very skilled man, fairly fluent in Spanish. He asked me what was I was going to achieve. What I was going to gain with his arrest, if nothing more than a little star to add on my uniform and that it was better to gain something out of it. I don't remember if it was a million pesos or dollars offered, I don't remember exactly, ”he said.
When recounting what happened 14 years ago, the criminal lawyer mentioned that at that time the CISEN (Center for Investigation and National Security) requested the support of the capital authorities to capture the Israeli criminal. Who allegedly arrived in Mexico in 2005 for work carrying out protection and intelligence for the Jewish community.
However, he says that the Israeli took advantage of the information to extort Mexican Jewish families that he was supposed to protect. In addition, he had a criminal record related to homicides in his country.
After a two-week follow-up, his detention in Mexico City was achieved and the level of danger was such that the police had to have 600 elements to protect his transfer.
The life of this character ran between Mexico and Israel, in Israel he was sought for links with criminal organizations and some cases related to homicides. It was a headache for both Israel and the Jewish community, according to intelligence authorities we had access to. "
"We managed to stop him in Polanco, when he was going to a commercial establishment, this happened around 1 or 2 in the afternoon," he said.
The Times of Israel
July 25, 2019
One of the two Israelis shot dead in broad daylight in Mexico City on Wednesday has been identified as a prominent figure in Israel’s criminal underworld, sparking suspicions that the killing was a gangland assassination.
One of the suspected killers, 33-year-old Esperanza Gutierrez Rojano, confessed to the shooting and claimed during police questioning that it was a crime of passion, saying the Israeli victim had cheated on her.
But on Thursday, Israeli media reported that the deceased was a well-known Israeli crime boss, Tel Aviv native Ben Suthi, who had completed a lengthy prison sentence in Israel in February.
Israeli police sources told the Ynet news site that there was “no doubt” the murder was “commissioned by those with interests in Israel.” Israeli police reportedly suspect that an Israeli criminal organization paid a local group in Mexico City to carry out the hit.
“We have no doubt this wasn’t a mistake, nor a romantic crime, but a commissioned and planned assassination,” the police source was quoted as saying.
Rojano’s confession, in which she reportedly said she had acted out of “betrayal and passion,” may have been code for a retribution attack by a Mexican or Israeli criminal organization for some perceived treachery on Suthi’s part, the source said.
The same news site also quoted what it called “underworld sources” as saying that the assassination constituted “an earthquake in the Israeli criminal world…. This wasn’t someone marginal, but a very dominant figure who was very careful and very suspicious.”
The shooting occurred at a coffee shop in the luxury shopping district Artz Pedregal in the southwest of the city on Wednesday afternoon.
According to preliminary police findings reported in Mexican media, Suthi and a second Israeli man, identified as Bat Yam native Alon Azoulay, were sitting at a table in the cafe, while Rojano, in a blond wig, sat next to an apparent accomplice at another table some 10 meters (33 feet) away. After the Israelis ordered drinks, the assassins stood up, walked over to the targets’ table and shot them multiple times with a Glock handgun at point-blank range.
Rojano then ripped off her wig and shirt and fled the shopping center with police in close pursuit.
The officers soon caught up with her and placed her under arrest. An officer was reportedly shot and injured during the chase, apparently by two accomplices outside the mall who were helping Rojano escape.
Rojano’s accomplices, who also fled the scene, were not caught.
Suthi relocated to Mexico a few weeks ago, according to media reports. He is believed to have a daughter in the country, conceived during his last stint there after he fled Israel in 2001, escaping a prison term for murder during a furlough from prison.
The shooting comes a day after another Israeli underworld figure, Erez Akrishevsky, was extradited from Mexico to Israel. Akrishevsky was close to Suthi, and had fled Israel with him in 2001, living for the past 18 years in Mexico under the assumed name Ricardo Lopez before he was caught by Mexican police this month and returned to Israel.
The fatal shooting also comes less than a month after an Israeli DJ was shot dead during a rave in central Mexico. Forty-five-year-old Ronen Dahan, known as DJ Perplex, was one of two people gunned down in the shooting in San Luis PotosÃ, which local media linked to the ongoing drug cartel violence in the country.
EDITOR’S NOTE: El Universal reports that Gutierrez said she was paid $262 by the Jalisco Cartel New Generation to carry out the hit.
__________
Ex Mossad agent with ties to international crime mafias assassinated in Plaza Artz Pedregal
By Sol Prendido from VXT
Borderland Beat
July 27, 2019
Ciudad de México -- In 2005, Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi was arrested and offered a million pesos to the then undersecretary of the capital police, Gabriel Regino, for his release.
Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi, one of the two executed Wednesday at Plaza Artz, was a high-level criminal with Mossad training -the intelligence, espionage and counterterrorism agency of Israel - recalled Gabriel Regino, former Undersecretary of Public Security of the Federal District , who arrested him in 2005.
In an interview with Milenio, he recalled that he interrogated Sutchi when they were going to hand him over to the Israeli authorities, as he had a red Interpol file against him; during the trip Sutchi offered him money to let him escape.
“He was a very skilled man, fairly fluent in Spanish. He asked me what was I was going to achieve. What I was going to gain with his arrest, if nothing more than a little star to add on my uniform and that it was better to gain something out of it. I don't remember if it was a million pesos or dollars offered, I don't remember exactly, ”he said.
When recounting what happened 14 years ago, the criminal lawyer mentioned that at that time the CISEN (Center for Investigation and National Security) requested the support of the capital authorities to capture the Israeli criminal. Who allegedly arrived in Mexico in 2005 for work carrying out protection and intelligence for the Jewish community.
However, he says that the Israeli took advantage of the information to extort Mexican Jewish families that he was supposed to protect. In addition, he had a criminal record related to homicides in his country.
After a two-week follow-up, his detention in Mexico City was achieved and the level of danger was such that the police had to have 600 elements to protect his transfer.
The life of this character ran between Mexico and Israel, in Israel he was sought for links with criminal organizations and some cases related to homicides. It was a headache for both Israel and the Jewish community, according to intelligence authorities we had access to. "
"We managed to stop him in Polanco, when he was going to a commercial establishment, this happened around 1 or 2 in the afternoon," he said.
TRANSPORTING FENTANYL PAID MORE THAN HIS MEXICAN POLICE SALARY
Former Mexican Police Officer Charged with Trafficking Enough Fentanyl to Kill 10 Million
DEA
July 26, 2019
A federal grand jury in Amarillo, Texas has indicted a former Mexican municipal police officer for fentanyl trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
In a superseding indictment filed Thursday evening, Assmir Contreras-Martinez, 30, of Tucson, Arizona, was charged with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin.
He was allegedly discovered with roughly 33 kilograms of the drug – likely enough to kill more than 10 million people, according to DEA experts.
“Fentanyl is devastating communities across the country,” said U.S. Attorney Nealy Cox. “We cannot tolerate the trafficking of this deadly drug through North Texas— especially by those who are charged with protecting our communities, foreign or domestic.”
“Fentanyl is the number one threat causing our opioid epidemic in the United States,” said Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., DEA Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Division. “This seizure alone has potentially save millions of lives.”
According to a criminal complaint filed earlier this summer, Mr. Contreras-Martinez was pulled over by a Texas DPS trooper driving eastbound on Interstate 40 in Amarillo in May 2019.
A search of his vehicle, a 2007 Ford Explorer, allegedly revealed approximately 33 kilograms of a white powdery substance, which the trooper suspected to be drugs, likely cocaine. Subsequent testing revealed the substance was actually fentanyl.
After being advised of his rights, Mr. Contreras-Martinez allegedly admitted he was paid $6,000 to transport illegal contraband from California to Florida. This was his second such trip, he said.
During that interview, Mr. Contreras-Martinez allegedly stated that before his unlawful immigration to the United States seven months prior, he had been employed for eight years as a municipal police officer in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico.
An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence, and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
If convicted, Mr. Contreras-Martinez faces 30 years to life in federal prison, and may face deportation proceedings after serving his sentence.
Overdoses involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl killed almost 32,000 Americans last year, according to provisional data released by the CDC last week. Because of the drug’s deadly potency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas has a zero-tolerance policy on fentanyl, taking federally any case that involves the substance or its unlawful analogues, no matter the quantity.
The Texas Department of Public Safety and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducted the above investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Marie Bell is prosecuting the case.
DEA
July 26, 2019
A federal grand jury in Amarillo, Texas has indicted a former Mexican municipal police officer for fentanyl trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
In a superseding indictment filed Thursday evening, Assmir Contreras-Martinez, 30, of Tucson, Arizona, was charged with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin.
He was allegedly discovered with roughly 33 kilograms of the drug – likely enough to kill more than 10 million people, according to DEA experts.
“Fentanyl is devastating communities across the country,” said U.S. Attorney Nealy Cox. “We cannot tolerate the trafficking of this deadly drug through North Texas— especially by those who are charged with protecting our communities, foreign or domestic.”
“Fentanyl is the number one threat causing our opioid epidemic in the United States,” said Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., DEA Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Division. “This seizure alone has potentially save millions of lives.”
According to a criminal complaint filed earlier this summer, Mr. Contreras-Martinez was pulled over by a Texas DPS trooper driving eastbound on Interstate 40 in Amarillo in May 2019.
A search of his vehicle, a 2007 Ford Explorer, allegedly revealed approximately 33 kilograms of a white powdery substance, which the trooper suspected to be drugs, likely cocaine. Subsequent testing revealed the substance was actually fentanyl.
After being advised of his rights, Mr. Contreras-Martinez allegedly admitted he was paid $6,000 to transport illegal contraband from California to Florida. This was his second such trip, he said.
During that interview, Mr. Contreras-Martinez allegedly stated that before his unlawful immigration to the United States seven months prior, he had been employed for eight years as a municipal police officer in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico.
An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence, and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
If convicted, Mr. Contreras-Martinez faces 30 years to life in federal prison, and may face deportation proceedings after serving his sentence.
Overdoses involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl killed almost 32,000 Americans last year, according to provisional data released by the CDC last week. Because of the drug’s deadly potency, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas has a zero-tolerance policy on fentanyl, taking federally any case that involves the substance or its unlawful analogues, no matter the quantity.
The Texas Department of Public Safety and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration conducted the above investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Anna Marie Bell is prosecuting the case.
Monday, July 29, 2019
NIKE IS IN THE GRASP OF AN IGNORANT ASSHOLE
Betsy Ross
(Sent to me by a friend.)
She was a Quaker (she didn't own slaves)
She married a man her family disapproved of. So they disowned her.
She learned a trade. Upholstery.
She and her husband opened a store.
Then war broke out and her husband left to fight for the colonies. He died in battle.
She kept the store running by making regimental flags for the war effort. She married again.
This time to a man who was fighting the British by sea. He also died
She kept sewing and running the store. Her home was taken over by the British when they occupied Philadelphia.
She was a patriot.
She lost two husbands to the war and at that time in history, she learned a trade and was able to take care of herself and her children.
So that flag represents the birth of our country and in the case of Ross, early feminism!!
She's a female icon!!
This flag has nothing to do with slavery or police brutality against black men.
Nike made the wrong move. Again.
And Kaepernick is still an ignorant asshole.
(Sent to me by a friend.)
She was a Quaker (she didn't own slaves)
She married a man her family disapproved of. So they disowned her.
She learned a trade. Upholstery.
She and her husband opened a store.
Then war broke out and her husband left to fight for the colonies. He died in battle.
She kept the store running by making regimental flags for the war effort. She married again.
This time to a man who was fighting the British by sea. He also died
She kept sewing and running the store. Her home was taken over by the British when they occupied Philadelphia.
She was a patriot.
She lost two husbands to the war and at that time in history, she learned a trade and was able to take care of herself and her children.
So that flag represents the birth of our country and in the case of Ross, early feminism!!
She's a female icon!!
This flag has nothing to do with slavery or police brutality against black men.
Nike made the wrong move. Again.
And Kaepernick is still an ignorant asshole.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE LEFTWARD MARCH
As with Nixon, Democrats mistake Trump for an extremist. That in turn drives them to extremes
By Barton Swaim
The Wall Street Journal
July 28, 2019
What has caused the Democratic Party to run so far, so fast to the left? You could answer that question by recourse to a variety of indicators: demographic, historical, economic, technological. What you can’t do is deny the premise. The abolition of private health insurance, a 70% top income-tax rate, an annual tax on wealth, the socialization of higher education, the elimination of border enforcement (and thus of borders), reparations for slavery, a return to forced busing, a wholesale remaking of the nation’s economy to fight climate change—all are openly proposed and discussed by the party’s leaders.
Add to these proposals the almost daily exhibitions of radicalism by Democratic officeholders and their admirers and allies: requiring that manholes be termed “maintenance holes,” renaming buildings named for American presidents, defending the bizarre notion that the Betsy Ross flag might be a symbol of bigotry and shame, banning straws, calling any military parade fascist. That large segments of the Democratic Party have suddenly radicalized is undeniable. But what’s driving the change?
I am partial to a psychological interpretation. Donald Trump has given Americans on the political left the emotional license to embrace their craziest, most fanciful ideas. They might have been inclined to express these ideas cautiously or not at all if someone other than Mr. Trump were president. But he is president, and they must have everything they’ve ever wanted or ever thought they might want, now.
The reason for this response, if I’m right, isn’t so much that progressives hate Mr. Trump. They hated George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan with an almost equal intensity. (Republicans hated Barack Obama and Bill Clinton with equal fervor—Democrats have no monopoly on irrational hatred.) What’s allowed progressives to give way to their most radical urges isn’t simple hatred but a peculiar notion about the 45th president.
In the progressive mind, Mr. Trump is every conservative’s dream come true. He is, they imagine, what Republicans have always secretly longed for in a president. He fetishizes wealth. He is cruel. He is a proud philistine and a chauvinist. He lies when it’s convenient. And—above all—he is a racist.
I don’t say every progressive thinks of conservatives in this way in all respects, but Mr. Trump, as progressives understand him, is close to what they’ve always suspected conservatives to be.
Of course, Mr. Trump is vastly more complicated and interesting than progressives give him credit for—few men in history, and certainly not Donald Trump, are as wantonly evil as today’s progressives believe Mr. Trump is. And in any case he isn’t remotely close to an ideal conservative. What led a majority of Republicans to choose this former Democrat and sexual libertine as their nominee in 2016 was a complicated set of circumstances that no one fully understands. Recall that he’d run for president before and got nowhere. That he wasn’t Republicans’ ideal candidate in 2016 is apparent by the large numbers of conservatives who couldn’t support him even after his nomination. Some still don’t. In the progressive imagination, though, Mr. Trump isconservatism: heartless, lacking all conviction, dismissive of nuance, interested only in self-advancement, arrogant.
Progressives’ emotional reasoning appears to be thus: Republicans got everything they wanted in 2016. We have a right to do the same. Whereas they achieved pure evil, we will achieve pure good. No more compromising with the other side. No more concessions to reality. Republicans hit their jackpot in 2016. We will hit ours in 2020.
Something similar happened in 1972. Richard Nixon was never the embodiment of conservatism liberals thought he was. The relationship between Nixon and conservatives (conservative intellectuals, certainly) was always uneasy. By the middle of his first term, many conservatives no longer supported the president at all and hoped, vainly, that the more ideologically consistent Rep. John Ashbrook could mount a credible challenge in the ’72 primaries. Nonetheless for liberals, Nixon was the embodiment of the Republican ideal: ruthless, shifty, retrogressive, boorish, populist in the worst sense.
There was some truth in that view of Nixon, just as there is some truth in the view of Mr. Trump held by progressives today. But Nixon was far more than the sum of his vices, and so is Mr. Trump.
The Democrats’ simpleminded view of Nixon, though, pushed them over the edge in 1972. The leftward lurch made no sense except as a psychological response to a nonexistent monster. If Republicans had achieved everything they wanted in 1968—ensconcing an unprincipled populist reactionary in the White House—then they, too, would pursue their most radical dreams with untrammeled enthusiasm. The result: An unlikable and beatable Republican exceeded 60% of the popular vote and carried 49 states.
The circumstances are totally different now, clearly. Mr. Trump will not win in a landslide. But he may just win in 2020 for the same reason Nixon crushed George McGovern in 1972: Democrats thought conservatives had achieved their wildest dreams four years before and tried to do the same. If only they had studied their opponents a bit more closely.
By Barton Swaim
The Wall Street Journal
July 28, 2019
What has caused the Democratic Party to run so far, so fast to the left? You could answer that question by recourse to a variety of indicators: demographic, historical, economic, technological. What you can’t do is deny the premise. The abolition of private health insurance, a 70% top income-tax rate, an annual tax on wealth, the socialization of higher education, the elimination of border enforcement (and thus of borders), reparations for slavery, a return to forced busing, a wholesale remaking of the nation’s economy to fight climate change—all are openly proposed and discussed by the party’s leaders.
Add to these proposals the almost daily exhibitions of radicalism by Democratic officeholders and their admirers and allies: requiring that manholes be termed “maintenance holes,” renaming buildings named for American presidents, defending the bizarre notion that the Betsy Ross flag might be a symbol of bigotry and shame, banning straws, calling any military parade fascist. That large segments of the Democratic Party have suddenly radicalized is undeniable. But what’s driving the change?
I am partial to a psychological interpretation. Donald Trump has given Americans on the political left the emotional license to embrace their craziest, most fanciful ideas. They might have been inclined to express these ideas cautiously or not at all if someone other than Mr. Trump were president. But he is president, and they must have everything they’ve ever wanted or ever thought they might want, now.
The reason for this response, if I’m right, isn’t so much that progressives hate Mr. Trump. They hated George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan with an almost equal intensity. (Republicans hated Barack Obama and Bill Clinton with equal fervor—Democrats have no monopoly on irrational hatred.) What’s allowed progressives to give way to their most radical urges isn’t simple hatred but a peculiar notion about the 45th president.
In the progressive mind, Mr. Trump is every conservative’s dream come true. He is, they imagine, what Republicans have always secretly longed for in a president. He fetishizes wealth. He is cruel. He is a proud philistine and a chauvinist. He lies when it’s convenient. And—above all—he is a racist.
I don’t say every progressive thinks of conservatives in this way in all respects, but Mr. Trump, as progressives understand him, is close to what they’ve always suspected conservatives to be.
Of course, Mr. Trump is vastly more complicated and interesting than progressives give him credit for—few men in history, and certainly not Donald Trump, are as wantonly evil as today’s progressives believe Mr. Trump is. And in any case he isn’t remotely close to an ideal conservative. What led a majority of Republicans to choose this former Democrat and sexual libertine as their nominee in 2016 was a complicated set of circumstances that no one fully understands. Recall that he’d run for president before and got nowhere. That he wasn’t Republicans’ ideal candidate in 2016 is apparent by the large numbers of conservatives who couldn’t support him even after his nomination. Some still don’t. In the progressive imagination, though, Mr. Trump isconservatism: heartless, lacking all conviction, dismissive of nuance, interested only in self-advancement, arrogant.
Progressives’ emotional reasoning appears to be thus: Republicans got everything they wanted in 2016. We have a right to do the same. Whereas they achieved pure evil, we will achieve pure good. No more compromising with the other side. No more concessions to reality. Republicans hit their jackpot in 2016. We will hit ours in 2020.
Something similar happened in 1972. Richard Nixon was never the embodiment of conservatism liberals thought he was. The relationship between Nixon and conservatives (conservative intellectuals, certainly) was always uneasy. By the middle of his first term, many conservatives no longer supported the president at all and hoped, vainly, that the more ideologically consistent Rep. John Ashbrook could mount a credible challenge in the ’72 primaries. Nonetheless for liberals, Nixon was the embodiment of the Republican ideal: ruthless, shifty, retrogressive, boorish, populist in the worst sense.
There was some truth in that view of Nixon, just as there is some truth in the view of Mr. Trump held by progressives today. But Nixon was far more than the sum of his vices, and so is Mr. Trump.
The Democrats’ simpleminded view of Nixon, though, pushed them over the edge in 1972. The leftward lurch made no sense except as a psychological response to a nonexistent monster. If Republicans had achieved everything they wanted in 1968—ensconcing an unprincipled populist reactionary in the White House—then they, too, would pursue their most radical dreams with untrammeled enthusiasm. The result: An unlikable and beatable Republican exceeded 60% of the popular vote and carried 49 states.
The circumstances are totally different now, clearly. Mr. Trump will not win in a landslide. But he may just win in 2020 for the same reason Nixon crushed George McGovern in 1972: Democrats thought conservatives had achieved their wildest dreams four years before and tried to do the same. If only they had studied their opponents a bit more closely.
SANDERS BELIEVES IN ISRAEL’S ‘ABSOLUTE’ RIGHT TO EXIST, BUT HIS POLICIES WOULD BRING ABOUT THE DEMISE OF THE JEWISH STATE, AND HE MUST KNOW THAT
Sanders says he would ‘absolutely’ consider cutting US military aid
Israel Hayom
July 28, 2019
Vermont Senator and leading 2020 Democratic US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would “absolutely” weigh withholding US military aid to Israel to pressure the Jewish state into making policy changes.
Speaking with Jon Favreau on his Pod Save America podcast, Sanders, according to most polls the second-place Democratic candidate, agreed that the $3.8 billion US military aid package could be used as “leverage” against the Jewish state.
“Our policy cannot just be pro-Israel, pro-Israel, pro-Israel,” Sanders said. “It has got to be pro-region, working with all of the people, all of the countries in that area.”
He emphasized, however, that he believed in Israel’s “absolute” right to peace and security.
“I have family in Israel. I am Jewish. I am not anti-Israel,” he said. “Okay, I believe that the people of Israel have, absolutely, the right to live in peace, independence and security. End of discussion – that is what I fervently believe.”
At the same time, he blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what he said was the rise of “an extreme right-wing government with many racist tendencies.”
Sanders is largely considered to be among the strongest critics of Israel running for the US presidency. He appeared in June with activists for pro-BDS organization IfNotNow while holding a sign reading “Jews Against Occupation.”
In 2017, Sanders recorded a five-minute video for a Meretz Party conference marking the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 and “50 Years of Occupation,” in which he called the party “Israel’s most prominent political organization” and lamented that “we are now in the 50th year of Israel’s occupation.”
“I know so many of you agree with me when I say: this occupation must end. Peace, real peace, means security not only for every Israeli, but for every Palestinian. It means supporting self-determination, civil rights and economic well-being for both peoples,” he said.
In April 2016, Sanders was one of 17 senators who did not sign a letter to then-President Barack Obama urging him to increase aid to Israel.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Actually, I’m not really sure Israel ‘absolutely’ needs all that military aid. Except for America’s advanced fighter jets, Israel could probably defend itself without that aid.
Israel Hayom
July 28, 2019
Vermont Senator and leading 2020 Democratic US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would “absolutely” weigh withholding US military aid to Israel to pressure the Jewish state into making policy changes.
Speaking with Jon Favreau on his Pod Save America podcast, Sanders, according to most polls the second-place Democratic candidate, agreed that the $3.8 billion US military aid package could be used as “leverage” against the Jewish state.
“Our policy cannot just be pro-Israel, pro-Israel, pro-Israel,” Sanders said. “It has got to be pro-region, working with all of the people, all of the countries in that area.”
He emphasized, however, that he believed in Israel’s “absolute” right to peace and security.
“I have family in Israel. I am Jewish. I am not anti-Israel,” he said. “Okay, I believe that the people of Israel have, absolutely, the right to live in peace, independence and security. End of discussion – that is what I fervently believe.”
At the same time, he blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what he said was the rise of “an extreme right-wing government with many racist tendencies.”
Sanders is largely considered to be among the strongest critics of Israel running for the US presidency. He appeared in June with activists for pro-BDS organization IfNotNow while holding a sign reading “Jews Against Occupation.”
In 2017, Sanders recorded a five-minute video for a Meretz Party conference marking the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 and “50 Years of Occupation,” in which he called the party “Israel’s most prominent political organization” and lamented that “we are now in the 50th year of Israel’s occupation.”
“I know so many of you agree with me when I say: this occupation must end. Peace, real peace, means security not only for every Israeli, but for every Palestinian. It means supporting self-determination, civil rights and economic well-being for both peoples,” he said.
In April 2016, Sanders was one of 17 senators who did not sign a letter to then-President Barack Obama urging him to increase aid to Israel.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Actually, I’m not really sure Israel ‘absolutely’ needs all that military aid. Except for America’s advanced fighter jets, Israel could probably defend itself without that aid.
EVERYONE IS SMART EXCEPT TRUMP
By Dov Fischer
The American Spectator
July 18, 2019
It really is quite simple. Everyone is smart except Donald J. Trump. That’s why they all are billionaires and all got elected President. Only Trump does not know what he is doing. Only Trump does not know how to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. Anderson Cooper knows how to stand up to Putin. The whole crowd at MSNBC does. All the journalists do.
They could not stand up to Matt Lauer at NBC. They could not stand up to Charlie Rose at CBS. They could not stand up to Mark Halperin at NBC. Nor up to Leon Wieseltier at the New Republic, nor Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone, nor Michael Oreskes at NPR, at the New York Times, or at the Associated Press. But — oh, wow! — can they ever stand up to Putin! Only Trump is incapable of negotiating with the Russian tyrant.
Remember the four years when Anderson Cooper was President of the United States? And before that — when the entire Washington Post editorial staff jointly were elected to be President? Remember? Neither do I.
The Seedier Media never have negotiated life and death, not corporate life and death, and not human life and death. They think they know how to negotiate, but they do not know how. They go to a college, are told by peers that they are smart, get some good grades, proceed to a graduate degree in journalism, and get hired as analysts. Now they are experts, ready to take on Putin and the Iranian Ayatollahs at age 30.
That is not the road to expertise in tough dealing. The alternate road is that, along the way, maybe you get forced into some street fights. Sometimes the other guy wins, and sometimes you beat the intestines out of him. Then you deal with grown-ups as you mature, and you learn that people can be nasty, often after they smile and speak softly. You get cheated a few times, played. And you learn. Maybe you become an attorney litigating multi-million-dollar case matters. Say what you will about attorneys, but those years — not the years in law school, not the years drafting legal memoranda, but the years of meeting face-to-face and confronting opposing counsel — those years can teach a great deal. They can teach how to transition from sweet, gentle, diplomatic negotiating to tough negotiating. At some point, with enough tough-nosed experience, you figure out Trump’s “The Art of the Deal” yourself.
Trump’s voters get him because not only is he we, but we are he. We were not snowflaked-for-life by effete professors who themselves never had negotiated tough life-or-death serious deals. Instead we live in the real world, and we know how that works. Not based on social science theories, not based on “conceptual negotiating models.” But based on the people we have met over life and always will hate. That worst boss we ever had. The coworker who tried to sabotage us. We know the sons of bums whom we survived, the dastardly types who are out there, and we learned from those experiences how to deal with them. We won’t have John Kerry soothe us by having James Taylor sing “You’ve Got a Friend” carols.
The Bushes got us into all kinds of messes. The first one killed the economic miracle that Reagan had fashioned. The second one screwed up the Middle East, where Iraq and Iran beautifully were engaged in killing each other for years, and he got us mired into the middle of the muddle. Clinton was too busy with Monica Lewinsky to protect us from Osama bin Laden when we had him in our sights. Hillary gave us Benghazi and more. And Obama and Kerry gave us the Iran Deal, ISIS run amok, America in retreat. All to the daily praise of a media who now attack Trump every minute of every day.
So let us understand a few things:
Negotiating with NATO:
NATO is our friend. They also rip off America. They have been ripping us off forever. We saved their butts — before there even was a NATO — in World War I. They messed up, and 116,456 Americans had to die to save their butts. Then they messed up again for the next two decades because West Europeans are effete and so obsessed with their class manners and their rules of savoir faire and their socialist welfare states and their early retirements that they did not have the character to stand up to Hitler in the 1930s. Peace in our time. So they messed up, and we had to save their butts again. And another 405,399 Americans died for them during World War II. And then we had to rebuild them! And we had to station our boys in Germany and all over their blood-stained continent. So, hey, we love those guys. We love NATO.
And yet they still rip us off. We pay 4% of our gigantic gross domestic product to protect them, and they will not pay a lousy 2% of their GDP towards their own defense. Is there a culture more penny-pinching-cheap-and-stingy than the fine constituents of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? These cheap baseborn prigs will not pay their fare. They are too cheap. They expect America to send boys to die for them in one world war, then another — hundreds of thousands — and then to pay for their NATO defense even a century later.
And then they have the temerity to cheat us further in trade. Long before Trump, they set up tariffs against us for so many things. If the average American knew how badly Europe has been ripping us off for decades with their tariffs, no one in this country would buy anything European again. We would say, as a matter of self-respect and personal pride, “I no longer will buy anything but American, no matter what it costs.”
Every American President has complained about the cheating and imbalance — the NATO penny-pinching-cheapness, the tariff and trade imbalances. In more recent years, the various Bushes complained about it. Even Obama complained about it. But they all did it so gently, so diplomatically. They would deliver the sermon, just as the pastor predictably tells the church-goers on Sunday morning that he is against sin, and the Europeans would sit quietly and nod their heads — nodding from sleeping, not from agreeing — and then they would go back out and sin some more. Another four years of America being suckered and snookered. All they had to do was give Obama a Nobel Peace Prize his ninth month in office and let Kerry ride his bike around Paris.
So Trump did what any effective negotiator would do: he took note of past approaches to NATO and their failures, and correctly determined that the only way to get these penny-pinching-cheap baseborn prigs to pay their freight would be to bulldoze right into their faces, stare them right in their glazed eyes with cameras rolling, and tell them point-blank the equivalent of: “You are the cheapest penny-pinching, miserly, stingy, tightwadded skinflints ever. And it is going to stop on my watch. Whatever it takes from my end, you selfish, curmudgeonly cheap prigs, you are going to pay your fair share. I am not being diplomatic. I am being All-Business: either you start to pay or, wow, are you in for some surprises! And you know what you read in the Fake News: I am crazy! I am out of control! So, lemme see. I know: We will go to trade war! How do you like that? Maybe we even will pull all our troops out of Europe. Hmmm. Yeah, maybe. Why not? Sounds good. Well, let’s see.”
So Trump stuffed it into their quiche-and-schnitzel ingesting faces. And he convinced them — thanks to America’s Seedier Media who are the real secret to the “Legend That is Trump” — that he just might be crazy enough to go to trade war and to pull American boys home. They knew that Clinton and Bush x 2 and Kerry and Hillary and Nobel Laureate Obama never would do it. But they also know that Trump just might. And if they think they are going to find comfort and moderating in his new advisers, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, alongside him….
Nuh-uh.
So CNN and the Washington Post and all the Seedier Media attacked Trump for days: He is destroying the alliance! He attacks our friends!
Baloney. Obama was the one whom the Left Echo Chamber… Chamber… Chamber never called out for attacking our friends — Israel, Britain, so many others — while cozying up to Hugo Chavez, bowing to dictators, and dancing the tango for Raul Castro. Trump is just the opposite: He knows who the friends are, and he wants to maintain and strengthen those friendships. It is no different from a parent telling a 35-year-old son: “I have been supporting you for thirty-five years. I put you through college by signing four years and $100,000 in PLUS Loans. You graduated college fifteen years ago. For fifteen years I have been asking you nicely to look for a job and to start contributing. Instead, you sit home all day playing video games, texting your friends on a smartphone I pay for, and picking little fuzz balls out of your navel. So, look, I love you. You are my flesh and blood. But if you are not employed and earning a paycheck — and contributing to the cost of this household — in six months, we are throwing you out of the house.” That boy is NATO. Trump is Dad. And all of us have been signing for the PLUS Loans.
Negotiating with Putin
Putin is a bad guy. A really bad guy. He is better than Lenin. Better than Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin, Brezhnev, Pol Pot, Mao. But he is a really bad guy.
Here’s the thing: Putin is a dictator. He answers to no one. He does whatever he wants. If there arises an opponent, that guy dies. Maybe the opponent gets poked with a poisoned umbrella. Maybe he gets shot on the street. Maybe the opponent is forced to watch Susan Rice interviews telling the world that Benghazi happened because of a YouTube video seen by nine derelicts in Berkeley and that Bowe Berghdal served with honor and distinction. But, one way or another, the opponent dies.
Trump knows this about Putin. And here is what that means:
If you insult Putin in public, like by telling the newsmedia just before or after meeting with him that he is the Butcher of Crimea, and he messed with our elections, and is an overall jerk — then you will get nothing behind closed doors from Putin. Putin will decide “To heck with you, and to heck with the relationship we just forged.” Putin will get even, will take intense personal revenge, even if it is bad for Russia — even if it is bad for Putin. Because there are no institutional reins on him.
But if you go in public and tell everyone that Putin is a nice guy (y’know, just like Kim Jong Un) and that Putin intensely maintains that he did not mess with elections — not sweet little Putey Wutey (even though he obviously did) — then you next can maintain the momentum established beforehand in the private room. You can proceed to remind Putin what you told him privately: that this garbage has to stop — or else. That if he messes in Syria, we will do “X.” If he messes with our Iran boycott, we will do “Y.” We will generate so much oil from hydraulic fracturing and from ANWR and from all our sources that we will glut the market — if not tomorrow, then a year from now. We will send even more lethal offensive military weapons to Ukraine. We can restore the promised shield to Eastern Europe that Obama withdrew. And even if we cannot mess with Russian elections (because they have no elections), they do have computers — and, so help us, we will mess with their technology in a way they cannot imagine. Trump knows from his advisers what we can do. If he sweet-talks Putin in public — just Putin on the Ritz — then everything that Trump has told Putin privately can be reinforced with action, and he even can wedge concessions because, against that background, Putin knows that no one will believe that he made any concessions. Everyone is set to believe that Putin is getting whatever he wants, that Trump understands nothing. So, in that setting, Putin can make concessions and still save face.
That is why Trump talks about him that way. And that is the only possible way to do it when negotiating with a tyrant who has no checks and balances on him. If you embarrass the tyrant publicly, then the tyrant never will make concessions because he will fear that people will say he was intimidated and backed down. And that he never will do. Meanwhile, Trump has expelled 60 Russians from America, reversed Obama policy and sent lethal weapons to Ukraine, and is pressing Germany severely on its pipeline project with Russia.
The Bottom Line
At the end of the day, Donald Trump is over seventy years old. He has made many mistakes in his life. He still makes some. He is human. But Trump likewise has spent three score and a dozen years learning. He has seen some of his businesses go bankrupt, and he has learned from those experiences to be a billionaire and not let it happen again. No doubt that he has been fooled, outsmarted in years past. And he has learned from life.
He is a tough and smart negotiator. He sizes up his opponent, and he knows that the approach that works best for one is not the same as for another. It does not matter what he says publicly about his negotiating opponent. What matters is what results months later. In his first eighteen months in Washington, this man has turned around the American economy, brought us near full employment, reduced the welfare and food stamp lines, wiped out ISIS in Raqqa, moved America’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem, successfully has launched massive deregulation of the economy, has opened oil exploration in ANWR, is rebuilding the military massively, has walked out of the useless Paris Climate Accords that were negotiated by America’s amateurs who always get snookered, canned the disastrous Iran Deal, exited the bogus United Nations Human Rights Council. He has Canada and Mexico convinced he will walk out of NAFTA if they do not pony up, and he has the Europeans convinced he will walk out of NATO if they don’t stop being the cheap and lazy parasitic penny-pinchers they are. He has slashed income taxes, expanded legal protections for college students falsely accused of crimes, has taken real steps to protect religious freedoms and liberties promised in the First Amendment, boldly has taken on the lyme-disease-quality of a legislative mess that he inherited from Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama on immigration, and has appointed a steady line of remarkably brilliant conservative federal judges to sit on the district courts, the circuit appellate courts, and the Supreme Court.
What has Anderson Cooper achieved during that period? Jim Acosta or the editorial staffs of the New York Times and Washington Post? They have not even found the courage and strength to stand up to the coworkers and celebrities within their orbits who abuse sexually or psychologically or emotionally. They have no accomplishments to compare to his. Just their effete opinions, all echoing each other, all echoing, echoing, echoing. They gave us eight years of Nobel Peace Laureate Obama negotiating with the ISIS JV team, calming the rise of the oceans, and healing the planet.
We will take Trump negotiating with Putin any day.
The American Spectator
July 18, 2019
It really is quite simple. Everyone is smart except Donald J. Trump. That’s why they all are billionaires and all got elected President. Only Trump does not know what he is doing. Only Trump does not know how to negotiate with Vladimir Putin. Anderson Cooper knows how to stand up to Putin. The whole crowd at MSNBC does. All the journalists do.
They could not stand up to Matt Lauer at NBC. They could not stand up to Charlie Rose at CBS. They could not stand up to Mark Halperin at NBC. Nor up to Leon Wieseltier at the New Republic, nor Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone, nor Michael Oreskes at NPR, at the New York Times, or at the Associated Press. But — oh, wow! — can they ever stand up to Putin! Only Trump is incapable of negotiating with the Russian tyrant.
Remember the four years when Anderson Cooper was President of the United States? And before that — when the entire Washington Post editorial staff jointly were elected to be President? Remember? Neither do I.
The Seedier Media never have negotiated life and death, not corporate life and death, and not human life and death. They think they know how to negotiate, but they do not know how. They go to a college, are told by peers that they are smart, get some good grades, proceed to a graduate degree in journalism, and get hired as analysts. Now they are experts, ready to take on Putin and the Iranian Ayatollahs at age 30.
That is not the road to expertise in tough dealing. The alternate road is that, along the way, maybe you get forced into some street fights. Sometimes the other guy wins, and sometimes you beat the intestines out of him. Then you deal with grown-ups as you mature, and you learn that people can be nasty, often after they smile and speak softly. You get cheated a few times, played. And you learn. Maybe you become an attorney litigating multi-million-dollar case matters. Say what you will about attorneys, but those years — not the years in law school, not the years drafting legal memoranda, but the years of meeting face-to-face and confronting opposing counsel — those years can teach a great deal. They can teach how to transition from sweet, gentle, diplomatic negotiating to tough negotiating. At some point, with enough tough-nosed experience, you figure out Trump’s “The Art of the Deal” yourself.
Trump’s voters get him because not only is he we, but we are he. We were not snowflaked-for-life by effete professors who themselves never had negotiated tough life-or-death serious deals. Instead we live in the real world, and we know how that works. Not based on social science theories, not based on “conceptual negotiating models.” But based on the people we have met over life and always will hate. That worst boss we ever had. The coworker who tried to sabotage us. We know the sons of bums whom we survived, the dastardly types who are out there, and we learned from those experiences how to deal with them. We won’t have John Kerry soothe us by having James Taylor sing “You’ve Got a Friend” carols.
The Bushes got us into all kinds of messes. The first one killed the economic miracle that Reagan had fashioned. The second one screwed up the Middle East, where Iraq and Iran beautifully were engaged in killing each other for years, and he got us mired into the middle of the muddle. Clinton was too busy with Monica Lewinsky to protect us from Osama bin Laden when we had him in our sights. Hillary gave us Benghazi and more. And Obama and Kerry gave us the Iran Deal, ISIS run amok, America in retreat. All to the daily praise of a media who now attack Trump every minute of every day.
So let us understand a few things:
Negotiating with NATO:
NATO is our friend. They also rip off America. They have been ripping us off forever. We saved their butts — before there even was a NATO — in World War I. They messed up, and 116,456 Americans had to die to save their butts. Then they messed up again for the next two decades because West Europeans are effete and so obsessed with their class manners and their rules of savoir faire and their socialist welfare states and their early retirements that they did not have the character to stand up to Hitler in the 1930s. Peace in our time. So they messed up, and we had to save their butts again. And another 405,399 Americans died for them during World War II. And then we had to rebuild them! And we had to station our boys in Germany and all over their blood-stained continent. So, hey, we love those guys. We love NATO.
And yet they still rip us off. We pay 4% of our gigantic gross domestic product to protect them, and they will not pay a lousy 2% of their GDP towards their own defense. Is there a culture more penny-pinching-cheap-and-stingy than the fine constituents of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? These cheap baseborn prigs will not pay their fare. They are too cheap. They expect America to send boys to die for them in one world war, then another — hundreds of thousands — and then to pay for their NATO defense even a century later.
And then they have the temerity to cheat us further in trade. Long before Trump, they set up tariffs against us for so many things. If the average American knew how badly Europe has been ripping us off for decades with their tariffs, no one in this country would buy anything European again. We would say, as a matter of self-respect and personal pride, “I no longer will buy anything but American, no matter what it costs.”
Every American President has complained about the cheating and imbalance — the NATO penny-pinching-cheapness, the tariff and trade imbalances. In more recent years, the various Bushes complained about it. Even Obama complained about it. But they all did it so gently, so diplomatically. They would deliver the sermon, just as the pastor predictably tells the church-goers on Sunday morning that he is against sin, and the Europeans would sit quietly and nod their heads — nodding from sleeping, not from agreeing — and then they would go back out and sin some more. Another four years of America being suckered and snookered. All they had to do was give Obama a Nobel Peace Prize his ninth month in office and let Kerry ride his bike around Paris.
So Trump did what any effective negotiator would do: he took note of past approaches to NATO and their failures, and correctly determined that the only way to get these penny-pinching-cheap baseborn prigs to pay their freight would be to bulldoze right into their faces, stare them right in their glazed eyes with cameras rolling, and tell them point-blank the equivalent of: “You are the cheapest penny-pinching, miserly, stingy, tightwadded skinflints ever. And it is going to stop on my watch. Whatever it takes from my end, you selfish, curmudgeonly cheap prigs, you are going to pay your fair share. I am not being diplomatic. I am being All-Business: either you start to pay or, wow, are you in for some surprises! And you know what you read in the Fake News: I am crazy! I am out of control! So, lemme see. I know: We will go to trade war! How do you like that? Maybe we even will pull all our troops out of Europe. Hmmm. Yeah, maybe. Why not? Sounds good. Well, let’s see.”
So Trump stuffed it into their quiche-and-schnitzel ingesting faces. And he convinced them — thanks to America’s Seedier Media who are the real secret to the “Legend That is Trump” — that he just might be crazy enough to go to trade war and to pull American boys home. They knew that Clinton and Bush x 2 and Kerry and Hillary and Nobel Laureate Obama never would do it. But they also know that Trump just might. And if they think they are going to find comfort and moderating in his new advisers, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, alongside him….
Nuh-uh.
So CNN and the Washington Post and all the Seedier Media attacked Trump for days: He is destroying the alliance! He attacks our friends!
Baloney. Obama was the one whom the Left Echo Chamber… Chamber… Chamber never called out for attacking our friends — Israel, Britain, so many others — while cozying up to Hugo Chavez, bowing to dictators, and dancing the tango for Raul Castro. Trump is just the opposite: He knows who the friends are, and he wants to maintain and strengthen those friendships. It is no different from a parent telling a 35-year-old son: “I have been supporting you for thirty-five years. I put you through college by signing four years and $100,000 in PLUS Loans. You graduated college fifteen years ago. For fifteen years I have been asking you nicely to look for a job and to start contributing. Instead, you sit home all day playing video games, texting your friends on a smartphone I pay for, and picking little fuzz balls out of your navel. So, look, I love you. You are my flesh and blood. But if you are not employed and earning a paycheck — and contributing to the cost of this household — in six months, we are throwing you out of the house.” That boy is NATO. Trump is Dad. And all of us have been signing for the PLUS Loans.
Negotiating with Putin
Putin is a bad guy. A really bad guy. He is better than Lenin. Better than Stalin, Khrushchev, Kosygin, Brezhnev, Pol Pot, Mao. But he is a really bad guy.
Here’s the thing: Putin is a dictator. He answers to no one. He does whatever he wants. If there arises an opponent, that guy dies. Maybe the opponent gets poked with a poisoned umbrella. Maybe he gets shot on the street. Maybe the opponent is forced to watch Susan Rice interviews telling the world that Benghazi happened because of a YouTube video seen by nine derelicts in Berkeley and that Bowe Berghdal served with honor and distinction. But, one way or another, the opponent dies.
Trump knows this about Putin. And here is what that means:
If you insult Putin in public, like by telling the newsmedia just before or after meeting with him that he is the Butcher of Crimea, and he messed with our elections, and is an overall jerk — then you will get nothing behind closed doors from Putin. Putin will decide “To heck with you, and to heck with the relationship we just forged.” Putin will get even, will take intense personal revenge, even if it is bad for Russia — even if it is bad for Putin. Because there are no institutional reins on him.
But if you go in public and tell everyone that Putin is a nice guy (y’know, just like Kim Jong Un) and that Putin intensely maintains that he did not mess with elections — not sweet little Putey Wutey (even though he obviously did) — then you next can maintain the momentum established beforehand in the private room. You can proceed to remind Putin what you told him privately: that this garbage has to stop — or else. That if he messes in Syria, we will do “X.” If he messes with our Iran boycott, we will do “Y.” We will generate so much oil from hydraulic fracturing and from ANWR and from all our sources that we will glut the market — if not tomorrow, then a year from now. We will send even more lethal offensive military weapons to Ukraine. We can restore the promised shield to Eastern Europe that Obama withdrew. And even if we cannot mess with Russian elections (because they have no elections), they do have computers — and, so help us, we will mess with their technology in a way they cannot imagine. Trump knows from his advisers what we can do. If he sweet-talks Putin in public — just Putin on the Ritz — then everything that Trump has told Putin privately can be reinforced with action, and he even can wedge concessions because, against that background, Putin knows that no one will believe that he made any concessions. Everyone is set to believe that Putin is getting whatever he wants, that Trump understands nothing. So, in that setting, Putin can make concessions and still save face.
That is why Trump talks about him that way. And that is the only possible way to do it when negotiating with a tyrant who has no checks and balances on him. If you embarrass the tyrant publicly, then the tyrant never will make concessions because he will fear that people will say he was intimidated and backed down. And that he never will do. Meanwhile, Trump has expelled 60 Russians from America, reversed Obama policy and sent lethal weapons to Ukraine, and is pressing Germany severely on its pipeline project with Russia.
The Bottom Line
At the end of the day, Donald Trump is over seventy years old. He has made many mistakes in his life. He still makes some. He is human. But Trump likewise has spent three score and a dozen years learning. He has seen some of his businesses go bankrupt, and he has learned from those experiences to be a billionaire and not let it happen again. No doubt that he has been fooled, outsmarted in years past. And he has learned from life.
He is a tough and smart negotiator. He sizes up his opponent, and he knows that the approach that works best for one is not the same as for another. It does not matter what he says publicly about his negotiating opponent. What matters is what results months later. In his first eighteen months in Washington, this man has turned around the American economy, brought us near full employment, reduced the welfare and food stamp lines, wiped out ISIS in Raqqa, moved America’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem, successfully has launched massive deregulation of the economy, has opened oil exploration in ANWR, is rebuilding the military massively, has walked out of the useless Paris Climate Accords that were negotiated by America’s amateurs who always get snookered, canned the disastrous Iran Deal, exited the bogus United Nations Human Rights Council. He has Canada and Mexico convinced he will walk out of NAFTA if they do not pony up, and he has the Europeans convinced he will walk out of NATO if they don’t stop being the cheap and lazy parasitic penny-pinchers they are. He has slashed income taxes, expanded legal protections for college students falsely accused of crimes, has taken real steps to protect religious freedoms and liberties promised in the First Amendment, boldly has taken on the lyme-disease-quality of a legislative mess that he inherited from Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama on immigration, and has appointed a steady line of remarkably brilliant conservative federal judges to sit on the district courts, the circuit appellate courts, and the Supreme Court.
What has Anderson Cooper achieved during that period? Jim Acosta or the editorial staffs of the New York Times and Washington Post? They have not even found the courage and strength to stand up to the coworkers and celebrities within their orbits who abuse sexually or psychologically or emotionally. They have no accomplishments to compare to his. Just their effete opinions, all echoing each other, all echoing, echoing, echoing. They gave us eight years of Nobel Peace Laureate Obama negotiating with the ISIS JV team, calming the rise of the oceans, and healing the planet.
We will take Trump negotiating with Putin any day.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
CARDI B CALLS TRUMP A NIGGER
The rapper blames Trump for police brutality against black men
BarkGrowlBite
July 28, 2019
I never heard of the bitch. But then I strongly dislike rap. Cardi B is known as the 'I Like It' rapper.
Here is her hateful rant on Instagram that was clear and not mumbled:
Every time I see a black man killed or mistreated by police I just keep saying ‘do nobody give a fuck, does nobody care?’
This nigger [Trump] don’t give one shit.
At least when Obama was president he released a statement letting us know he feeled [sic] it was wrong – letting us know that he cared.
I feel like police brutality is going to keep going until he’s [no longer] president.
When a kid is bad and they get away with something then they gonna keep on doing it.
That's cops. [They think] I can get away with beating a black man, killing a black man. Then why not me?
The bitch went on to urge her followers to 'get educated' on the 2020 candidates so they can be rid of Trump.
Cardi B has a history of vulgar anti-Trump rants, starting even while he was campaigning for the presidency. She is a good example of why I think rap and rappers aren’t for shit.
BarkGrowlBite
July 28, 2019
I never heard of the bitch. But then I strongly dislike rap. Cardi B is known as the 'I Like It' rapper.
Here is her hateful rant on Instagram that was clear and not mumbled:
Every time I see a black man killed or mistreated by police I just keep saying ‘do nobody give a fuck, does nobody care?’
This nigger [Trump] don’t give one shit.
At least when Obama was president he released a statement letting us know he feeled [sic] it was wrong – letting us know that he cared.
I feel like police brutality is going to keep going until he’s [no longer] president.
When a kid is bad and they get away with something then they gonna keep on doing it.
That's cops. [They think] I can get away with beating a black man, killing a black man. Then why not me?
The bitch went on to urge her followers to 'get educated' on the 2020 candidates so they can be rid of Trump.
Cardi B has a history of vulgar anti-Trump rants, starting even while he was campaigning for the presidency. She is a good example of why I think rap and rappers aren’t for shit.
YOU HAVE TO BE BASICALLY STUPID TO DO THIS
by Bob Walsh
Two California DMV examiners are looking at some very serious trouble for taking bribes to get unqualified people commercial driver's licenses.
Kari Scattaglia, 40, from Sylmar, was just sentenced to 2 1/2 years federal time for conspiracy to commit bribery, identity fraud (which I assume is the federal handle here) and unauthorized computer access.
She and her co-defendant, Lisa Tarraciano, 52, of North Hollywood, altered computer records to show that applicants had taken and passed tests which they in fact never took.
Scattaglia processed at least 68 fraudulent applications. Terraciano, who has yet to be sentenced, at least 148. She could be looking at five years.
That is the problem with this scheme. You CAN NOT do this without word leaking out. Then somebody will rat you out, either because they didn't get in, or they are jealous, or angry, or something. It is just plain damn dumb. Plus you could conceivably find yourself on the hook for some level of liability if one of these bozos smashes up a few people at some point and then somebody wants to find out how a completely unqualified person got a commercial license.
I worked for six years as a license examiner with DMV and was never offered a bribe. Not once. One time a guy from Jamaica offered me a tip but it was after I had already told him he passed. I politely turned him down and notified file security of the issue, just to cover my ass, in case it was a set-up of some sort. I never heard another word about it, so I assume it wasn't.
Two California DMV examiners are looking at some very serious trouble for taking bribes to get unqualified people commercial driver's licenses.
Kari Scattaglia, 40, from Sylmar, was just sentenced to 2 1/2 years federal time for conspiracy to commit bribery, identity fraud (which I assume is the federal handle here) and unauthorized computer access.
She and her co-defendant, Lisa Tarraciano, 52, of North Hollywood, altered computer records to show that applicants had taken and passed tests which they in fact never took.
Scattaglia processed at least 68 fraudulent applications. Terraciano, who has yet to be sentenced, at least 148. She could be looking at five years.
That is the problem with this scheme. You CAN NOT do this without word leaking out. Then somebody will rat you out, either because they didn't get in, or they are jealous, or angry, or something. It is just plain damn dumb. Plus you could conceivably find yourself on the hook for some level of liability if one of these bozos smashes up a few people at some point and then somebody wants to find out how a completely unqualified person got a commercial license.
I worked for six years as a license examiner with DMV and was never offered a bribe. Not once. One time a guy from Jamaica offered me a tip but it was after I had already told him he passed. I politely turned him down and notified file security of the issue, just to cover my ass, in case it was a set-up of some sort. I never heard another word about it, so I assume it wasn't.
HER STRING OF THEFTS DID NOT HELP THE OVERWORKED AND OVERBURDENED COPS
Republican candidate, 31, hoping to unseat Trump foe Ilhan Omar is charged with felony shoplifting after 'stealing 279 items from Target and $40 worth of goods from a grocery store'
Daily Mail
July 27, 2019
A Republican Congressional candidate hoping to unseat Ilhan Omar is facing felony shoplifting charges.
Danielle Stella, 31, a supporter of President Donald Trump, was arrested twice this year in the thefts of 279 items worth more than $2,300 from Target and $40 worth of goods from a grocery store in Minneapolis, The Guardian reported.
Stella reportedly described Minneapolis as 'the crime capital of our country.' She previously complained that local police were 'overworked and overburdened' and said that she would work to reduce crime if she was elected.
She told the news outlet: 'I am not guilty of these crimes. In this country I am innocent until proven guilty and that is the law.'She added: 'If I was guilty of crimes, I would never run for public office, putting myself in the public eye under a microscope to be attacked by all political sides.'
EDITOR’S NOTE: She’s innocent because the tooth fairy did it.
Daily Mail
July 27, 2019
A Republican Congressional candidate hoping to unseat Ilhan Omar is facing felony shoplifting charges.
Danielle Stella, 31, a supporter of President Donald Trump, was arrested twice this year in the thefts of 279 items worth more than $2,300 from Target and $40 worth of goods from a grocery store in Minneapolis, The Guardian reported.
Stella reportedly described Minneapolis as 'the crime capital of our country.' She previously complained that local police were 'overworked and overburdened' and said that she would work to reduce crime if she was elected.
She told the news outlet: 'I am not guilty of these crimes. In this country I am innocent until proven guilty and that is the law.'She added: 'If I was guilty of crimes, I would never run for public office, putting myself in the public eye under a microscope to be attacked by all political sides.'
EDITOR’S NOTE: She’s innocent because the tooth fairy did it.
NOTHING REALLY NEW WITH PA ACCUSING ISRAEL OF COMMITTING A WAR CRIME AND A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
PA to halt all agreements with Israel, including security coordination
Israel Hayom
July 26, 2019
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared Thursday that all signed agreements with Israel, including its ongoing security coordination in the West Bank, would be terminated over "all the violations against our people."
"We announce the leadership's decision to stop implementing the agreements signed with the Israeli side," he said in a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah, saying Palestinians would immediately form a committee to study how to carry out the decision.
The two governments work together on matters ranging from water to security, and withdrawing from agreements could impact security in the West Bank.
Abbas has made similar threats before and not implemented them, but relations between the West Bank's Palestinian Authority and its Israeli counterpart have worsened in recent months.
The declaration comes a day after the US reportedly blocked a proposal in the United Nations Security Council seeking condemnation of housing demolitions carried out near east Jerusalem.
The demolition created controversy and heightened tensions between Israel and the PA.
The move led to condemnation from a number of international voices, including the European Union and France, who called on Israel to halt the demolitions.
The Palestinian government said last week that the demolitions were a breach of all agreements signed with Israel as most of the buildings are located in areas meant to be under the Palestinian Authority civilian control.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the Palestinians planned to file a complaint with the International Criminal Court over the matter.
"The cabinet condemns this grave aggression. This is a continuation of the forced displacement of the people of Jerusalem from their homes and lands – a war crime and a crime against humanity," Shtayyeh told Reuters.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan accused the Palestinians of "lies," stressing the demolition was validated by the Supreme Court after a lengthy process.
"The structures were built illegally next to the security fence and constitute a risk to the lives of the civilians and security forces," Erdan tweeted last week, citing the June Supreme Court ruling.
EDITOR’S NOTE: From Reuters:
The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, diplomats said.
Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa circulated a five-paragraph draft statement, seen by Reuters, to the 15-member Security Council on Tuesday that expressed grave concern and warned that the demolition “undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for just and lasting peace.”
Such statements have to be agreed by consensus and on Wednesday the United States told its council counterparts it could not support the text, diplomats said. A revised three paragraph draft statement was circulated, but the United States again said it did not agree with the text, diplomats said.
The United States has long accused the United Nations of anti-Israel bias and shielded its ally from council action.
Israel Hayom
July 26, 2019
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared Thursday that all signed agreements with Israel, including its ongoing security coordination in the West Bank, would be terminated over "all the violations against our people."
"We announce the leadership's decision to stop implementing the agreements signed with the Israeli side," he said in a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah, saying Palestinians would immediately form a committee to study how to carry out the decision.
The two governments work together on matters ranging from water to security, and withdrawing from agreements could impact security in the West Bank.
Abbas has made similar threats before and not implemented them, but relations between the West Bank's Palestinian Authority and its Israeli counterpart have worsened in recent months.
The declaration comes a day after the US reportedly blocked a proposal in the United Nations Security Council seeking condemnation of housing demolitions carried out near east Jerusalem.
The demolition created controversy and heightened tensions between Israel and the PA.
The move led to condemnation from a number of international voices, including the European Union and France, who called on Israel to halt the demolitions.
The Palestinian government said last week that the demolitions were a breach of all agreements signed with Israel as most of the buildings are located in areas meant to be under the Palestinian Authority civilian control.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the Palestinians planned to file a complaint with the International Criminal Court over the matter.
"The cabinet condemns this grave aggression. This is a continuation of the forced displacement of the people of Jerusalem from their homes and lands – a war crime and a crime against humanity," Shtayyeh told Reuters.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan accused the Palestinians of "lies," stressing the demolition was validated by the Supreme Court after a lengthy process.
"The structures were built illegally next to the security fence and constitute a risk to the lives of the civilians and security forces," Erdan tweeted last week, citing the June Supreme Court ruling.
EDITOR’S NOTE: From Reuters:
The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes on the outskirts of Jerusalem, diplomats said.
Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa circulated a five-paragraph draft statement, seen by Reuters, to the 15-member Security Council on Tuesday that expressed grave concern and warned that the demolition “undermines the viability of the two-state solution and the prospect for just and lasting peace.”
Such statements have to be agreed by consensus and on Wednesday the United States told its council counterparts it could not support the text, diplomats said. A revised three paragraph draft statement was circulated, but the United States again said it did not agree with the text, diplomats said.
The United States has long accused the United Nations of anti-Israel bias and shielded its ally from council action.
MRS. JOHNSON’S PROWLER
By Trey Rusk
Running Code 3
July 25, 2019
Late night prowler calls are common place. They usually wind up being something like an animal in the trash or a broken gate being blown by the wind. Sometimes they might be being a Peeping Tom.
When I worked patrol in residential areas after 2am the herd thinned and you usually saw newspaper throwers, drunks and burglars. If an area had a burglary problem, I would park nearby with my lights out and windows down to listen to the night.
Mrs. Johnson lived on the extreme West Side of the city. At least once a month, on a Thursday night Mrs. Johnson would hear a prowler. Two units worked her area but only one of them always responded to the call. Officer John Jones (not his real name) was a protector of the community. He had one weakness and that was Mrs. Johnson. He was her personal protector. He would arrive at the call and she would open the garage door in her nighty so he could hide his patrol car.
Mrs. Johnson’s husband worked offshore and would be gone three weeks at a time and Mrs. Johnson would get scared at night.
One late Thursday night I was blacked out listening to an area that had been hit with rooftop burglars. It was around 3am that I heard the thumping noise. It became louder and soon I heard wood breaking. I called in my location and advised dispatch to send a backup. I was certain that someone was breaking into the roof of a local hardware store. The Sergeant arrived and called Officer Jones. We parked our cars about a block away and watched the roof. Officer Jones arrived a little late looking disheveled.
The burglar exited the same way he entered. Had he come out a door or window the alarm system would activate. He threw an axe and his loot off the back of the building and climbed down a drain pipe. We were waiting. It turns out he was a local burglar who had just returned from a stretch in prison. When he reached the ground and turned around we were standing in a semi-circle around him. All he said was "Shit!" He was arrested without incident.
The Sergeant looked at Officer Jones and said, "Jones? Where is your gun? Zip up your pants."
I transported the prisoner and booked him.
Officer Jones was moved to the East Side and given Wednesday and Thursday off. He had been off on weekends. A note was placed on the dispatcher console. It read, “Attention: Mrs. Johnson will no longer be serviced by this department.” The Sergeant
I learned long ago that the badge could get you a piece of ass, but all it took was one piece of ass to get your badge.
That's the way I see it.
Running Code 3
July 25, 2019
Late night prowler calls are common place. They usually wind up being something like an animal in the trash or a broken gate being blown by the wind. Sometimes they might be being a Peeping Tom.
When I worked patrol in residential areas after 2am the herd thinned and you usually saw newspaper throwers, drunks and burglars. If an area had a burglary problem, I would park nearby with my lights out and windows down to listen to the night.
Mrs. Johnson lived on the extreme West Side of the city. At least once a month, on a Thursday night Mrs. Johnson would hear a prowler. Two units worked her area but only one of them always responded to the call. Officer John Jones (not his real name) was a protector of the community. He had one weakness and that was Mrs. Johnson. He was her personal protector. He would arrive at the call and she would open the garage door in her nighty so he could hide his patrol car.
Mrs. Johnson’s husband worked offshore and would be gone three weeks at a time and Mrs. Johnson would get scared at night.
One late Thursday night I was blacked out listening to an area that had been hit with rooftop burglars. It was around 3am that I heard the thumping noise. It became louder and soon I heard wood breaking. I called in my location and advised dispatch to send a backup. I was certain that someone was breaking into the roof of a local hardware store. The Sergeant arrived and called Officer Jones. We parked our cars about a block away and watched the roof. Officer Jones arrived a little late looking disheveled.
The burglar exited the same way he entered. Had he come out a door or window the alarm system would activate. He threw an axe and his loot off the back of the building and climbed down a drain pipe. We were waiting. It turns out he was a local burglar who had just returned from a stretch in prison. When he reached the ground and turned around we were standing in a semi-circle around him. All he said was "Shit!" He was arrested without incident.
The Sergeant looked at Officer Jones and said, "Jones? Where is your gun? Zip up your pants."
I transported the prisoner and booked him.
Officer Jones was moved to the East Side and given Wednesday and Thursday off. He had been off on weekends. A note was placed on the dispatcher console. It read, “Attention: Mrs. Johnson will no longer be serviced by this department.” The Sergeant
I learned long ago that the badge could get you a piece of ass, but all it took was one piece of ass to get your badge.
That's the way I see it.
Saturday, July 27, 2019
HAS MAYOR PETE BEGUN HIS DEATH SPIRAL ?
by Bob Walsh
Yes, there are only four Democraps currently polling in double digits, and Mayor Peter is not one of them.
It does seem odd in a way. After all, how can an openly gay ex-military man who is the mayor of a smallish, failed mid-western city and who learned how to read Norwegian so he could read Norwegian poetry and who hates Trump vehemently NOT be leading in the polls. It is, however, true.
Yes, in the next upcoming circus otherwise known as the second round of the Democrap debates both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders could drop dead and both Kamala Harris and Pochahontas Warren could withdraw. I would not, however, bet on any of those things happen.
Yes, I know, this early on polls are essentially meaningless, at least in a positive sense. They can, however, be killer in a negative sense. Ask Swalwell about it.
Yes, there are only four Democraps currently polling in double digits, and Mayor Peter is not one of them.
It does seem odd in a way. After all, how can an openly gay ex-military man who is the mayor of a smallish, failed mid-western city and who learned how to read Norwegian so he could read Norwegian poetry and who hates Trump vehemently NOT be leading in the polls. It is, however, true.
Yes, in the next upcoming circus otherwise known as the second round of the Democrap debates both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders could drop dead and both Kamala Harris and Pochahontas Warren could withdraw. I would not, however, bet on any of those things happen.
Yes, I know, this early on polls are essentially meaningless, at least in a positive sense. They can, however, be killer in a negative sense. Ask Swalwell about it.
BOY RAPED 82 TIMES BY NH YOUTH COUNSELORS, AT LEAST ONCE AT GUNPOINT
2 Former Sununu Youth Services Center Counselors Accused of Raping Teenage Boy
By Holly Ramer
NBC Boston
July 25, 2019
New Hampshire's attorney general launched an investigation Thursday into the state youth detention center after two former counselors were charged with raping a teenage boy 82 times, at least once at gunpoint, in the late 1990s.
The "comprehensive, multi-faceted" investigation into the Sununu Youth Services Center will initially focus on the center's operations and employees from 1990 to 2000 and will address whether other children were physically or sexually abused, and whether other laws were broken, Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said in a news release.
Hillsborough County grand jury indictments issued July 19 and made public Thursday charge Jeffrey Buskey, 52, of Boston, with 56 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault. Steven Murphy, 50, of Danvers, Massachusetts, faces 26 counts of the same crime.
According to the indictments, Buskey is accused of sexually penetrating the teen and forcing him to engage in oral sex, including once at gunpoint. Several of the indictments also allege that Buskey hit the boy, punched him and threw him on a mattress. Murphy also is accused of sexually assaulting and beating the boy.
It wasn't known if Buskey and Murphy had lawyers to speak for them; prosecutors had no information. A message was left at a possible phone number for Buskey, and no number for Murphy could be found. The attorney general's office said that neither is in custody and that court arraignments would be scheduled.
Prosecutors said both men were youth counselors at the facility, which was then called the Youth Development Center. The alleged assaults happened between late October 1997 and late September 1998 while the teen was incarcerated, though several of the indictments against Buskey allege assaults happened at a private home.
Gov. Chris Sununu — a Republican whose father, former Gov. John H. Sununu, is the center's current namesake — called the allegations "sickening."
"The state of New Hampshire stands ready to assist and cooperate in any investigation that will bring these detestable perpetrators to justice," he said in a statement. "I am confident that the Attorney General's Office will aggressively pursue this case _ zero tolerance means zero tolerance."
The Manchester center serves children ages 13 to 17 ordered to a secure institutional setting by the juvenile justice system. It once housed upward of 100 youths, but the daily census dropped from about 60 to under 30 last year when state law was changed to send only those accused or convicted of serious violent offenses to the center.
"The Sununu Youth Services Center is in many respects a very different institution than it was in the 1990s. However, this despicable discovery is a reminder of the vulnerability of children," said Moira O'Neill, director of the state Office of the Child Advocate.
In an email, she said she was encouraged to see that the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the center, is working with law enforcement and recognizes the need to ensure children's safety.
Amanda Grady Sexton, a spokeswoman for the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, said in a statement that the children entrusted in the center's care "are among the most vulnerable populations in the state of New Hampshire, and we are deeply disturbed by these indictments."
In May last year, another advocacy group alleged that staff at the center routinely violated state law in using dangerous, face-down restrain methods, including breaking the arm of a 14-year-old boy with severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder who was waiting for an opening at a community-based residential program.
By Holly Ramer
NBC Boston
July 25, 2019
New Hampshire's attorney general launched an investigation Thursday into the state youth detention center after two former counselors were charged with raping a teenage boy 82 times, at least once at gunpoint, in the late 1990s.
The "comprehensive, multi-faceted" investigation into the Sununu Youth Services Center will initially focus on the center's operations and employees from 1990 to 2000 and will address whether other children were physically or sexually abused, and whether other laws were broken, Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said in a news release.
Hillsborough County grand jury indictments issued July 19 and made public Thursday charge Jeffrey Buskey, 52, of Boston, with 56 counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault. Steven Murphy, 50, of Danvers, Massachusetts, faces 26 counts of the same crime.
According to the indictments, Buskey is accused of sexually penetrating the teen and forcing him to engage in oral sex, including once at gunpoint. Several of the indictments also allege that Buskey hit the boy, punched him and threw him on a mattress. Murphy also is accused of sexually assaulting and beating the boy.
It wasn't known if Buskey and Murphy had lawyers to speak for them; prosecutors had no information. A message was left at a possible phone number for Buskey, and no number for Murphy could be found. The attorney general's office said that neither is in custody and that court arraignments would be scheduled.
Prosecutors said both men were youth counselors at the facility, which was then called the Youth Development Center. The alleged assaults happened between late October 1997 and late September 1998 while the teen was incarcerated, though several of the indictments against Buskey allege assaults happened at a private home.
Gov. Chris Sununu — a Republican whose father, former Gov. John H. Sununu, is the center's current namesake — called the allegations "sickening."
"The state of New Hampshire stands ready to assist and cooperate in any investigation that will bring these detestable perpetrators to justice," he said in a statement. "I am confident that the Attorney General's Office will aggressively pursue this case _ zero tolerance means zero tolerance."
The Manchester center serves children ages 13 to 17 ordered to a secure institutional setting by the juvenile justice system. It once housed upward of 100 youths, but the daily census dropped from about 60 to under 30 last year when state law was changed to send only those accused or convicted of serious violent offenses to the center.
"The Sununu Youth Services Center is in many respects a very different institution than it was in the 1990s. However, this despicable discovery is a reminder of the vulnerability of children," said Moira O'Neill, director of the state Office of the Child Advocate.
In an email, she said she was encouraged to see that the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the center, is working with law enforcement and recognizes the need to ensure children's safety.
Amanda Grady Sexton, a spokeswoman for the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, said in a statement that the children entrusted in the center's care "are among the most vulnerable populations in the state of New Hampshire, and we are deeply disturbed by these indictments."
In May last year, another advocacy group alleged that staff at the center routinely violated state law in using dangerous, face-down restrain methods, including breaking the arm of a 14-year-old boy with severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder who was waiting for an opening at a community-based residential program.
IGOR, DAMN IT, WHY DID YOU HANG THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN ON THE WALL?
‘Like Frankenstein’: A cooler filled with male genitalia, a bucket of heads, arms and legs, and a woman’s head attached to man’s body hanging on a wall
KPHO/KTVK/CNN
July 24, 2019
PHOENIX -- Gruesome details have been released in a lawsuit against a body donation and tissue bank facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
The FBI raided the Biological Resource Center (BRC) as part of a human body parts trafficking investigation in 2014.
Agents found buckets full of body parts and different people sewn together and hung up on a wall, according to testimony by one of the agents.
“This is a horror story. It’s just unbelievable. This story is unbelievable,” said Troy Harp, who donated the bodies of his mother and grandmother to the facility in 2012 and 2013.
Harp, one of more than 30 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the BRC, donated the bodies with the understanding that they would be used for scientific purposes.
"Cancer, and leukemia and whatever else, using sample cells, that’s what I was told," he said.
But that’s not what happened.
In 2014, the FBI raided the facility in hazmat suits as part of a multi-state investigation into the illegal trafficking and sale of human body parts.
For the first time, we’re now able to see the testimony from one of the FBI agents who conducted the raid.
The agent said he found a “cooler filled with male genitalia,” “a bucket of heads, arms and legs,” “infected heads,” and a small woman’s head sewn onto a large male torso “like Frankenstein” hanging up on the wall, which is called a “morbid joke” in the lawsuit.
"Who in their right mind?” Harp said. “It's absolutely gross."
The lawsuit says the bodies were cut up with chain saws and band saws.
“Tools that are not appropriate for dismembering scientific bodies,” Harp said.
The lawsuit also says “pools of human blood and bodily fluids were found on the floor of the freezer,” and that there were bodies with no identification tags.
Harp said his mother’s ashes showed up by mail on his doorstep shortly after the raid, but he isn’t even sure they’re her ashes.
He said his mother and grandmother wanted to help medical research after their deaths, yet he doesn’t believe they ever made it out of the BRC building.
When asked if he feels like he’s ever gotten closure, Harp said: "No, this is open, and I don't think I ever will."
BRC owner Stephen Gore was sentenced to one year of deferred jail time and four years of probation after he pleaded guilty to illegal control of an enterprise.
Harp said that’s not enough, and he wants to see more federal regulation of facilities like the BRC, which is now closed.
The lawsuit into the center is ongoing.
KPHO/KTVK/CNN
July 24, 2019
PHOENIX -- Gruesome details have been released in a lawsuit against a body donation and tissue bank facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
The FBI raided the Biological Resource Center (BRC) as part of a human body parts trafficking investigation in 2014.
Agents found buckets full of body parts and different people sewn together and hung up on a wall, according to testimony by one of the agents.
“This is a horror story. It’s just unbelievable. This story is unbelievable,” said Troy Harp, who donated the bodies of his mother and grandmother to the facility in 2012 and 2013.
Harp, one of more than 30 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the BRC, donated the bodies with the understanding that they would be used for scientific purposes.
"Cancer, and leukemia and whatever else, using sample cells, that’s what I was told," he said.
But that’s not what happened.
In 2014, the FBI raided the facility in hazmat suits as part of a multi-state investigation into the illegal trafficking and sale of human body parts.
For the first time, we’re now able to see the testimony from one of the FBI agents who conducted the raid.
The agent said he found a “cooler filled with male genitalia,” “a bucket of heads, arms and legs,” “infected heads,” and a small woman’s head sewn onto a large male torso “like Frankenstein” hanging up on the wall, which is called a “morbid joke” in the lawsuit.
"Who in their right mind?” Harp said. “It's absolutely gross."
The lawsuit says the bodies were cut up with chain saws and band saws.
“Tools that are not appropriate for dismembering scientific bodies,” Harp said.
The lawsuit also says “pools of human blood and bodily fluids were found on the floor of the freezer,” and that there were bodies with no identification tags.
Harp said his mother’s ashes showed up by mail on his doorstep shortly after the raid, but he isn’t even sure they’re her ashes.
He said his mother and grandmother wanted to help medical research after their deaths, yet he doesn’t believe they ever made it out of the BRC building.
When asked if he feels like he’s ever gotten closure, Harp said: "No, this is open, and I don't think I ever will."
BRC owner Stephen Gore was sentenced to one year of deferred jail time and four years of probation after he pleaded guilty to illegal control of an enterprise.
Harp said that’s not enough, and he wants to see more federal regulation of facilities like the BRC, which is now closed.
The lawsuit into the center is ongoing.
BRITAIN AND THE EU HAVE CONTRIBUTED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROPAGATION OF PALESTINIAN TEXTBOOKS AND CURRICULUM THAT HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE THE ‘ZIONIST CANCER’ FROM PALESTINE
New PA textbooks are worse than the old ones
By Ken Cohen
Israel Hayom
July 25, 2019
There was great hope and anticipation several years ago when the Palestinian Authority announced that it was completely replacing its K-12 school textbooks. But new editions merely confirm obsessive Palestinian hatred of Jews and rejection of peace with Israel.
The older Palestinian textbooks were filled with ugly anti-Zionist – and anti-Semitic – propaganda. Shockingly, this pervasive spirit of distortion and hate wasn’t only employed in history textbooks, but also dominated language, math and even science lessons.
The original P.A. textbooks were in use for about 20 years, having been published following the Oslo Accords. (Prior to that, Palestinian schools had continued to use Jordanian textbooks published before the 1967 Six-Day War.)
Over the past three years the P.A. has released the full set of new textbooks – and they are even worse than the old ones in teaching Jew-hatred, fictionalized history and a profound glorification of martyrdom, terrorism and hate. Though Western liberals continue to place the onus of peace-making on Israel, these materials make clear the Palestinians’ dedication to waging war.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) recently published its reports on the textbooks – replete with examples – that demonstrate the horrific indoctrination being inflicted on Palestinian youth by their educators.
Geography, of course, is taught without reference to Israel’s borders – or even the State of Israel’s existence. All of the maps and exercises are predicated on a state of Palestine with its borders extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, and from Lebanon to Egypt. Israel is completely obliterated throughout the textbooks, although the Palestinian textbooks are rife with references to “Zionist occupiers” and “Zionist Jews.”
The city of Haifa is treated as “occupied territory” – every bit as “occupied” as the disputed areas of Judea and Samaria which fell under Israeli control in June of 1967.
So while much of the world considers the issue of the eventual disposition of the “West Bank” to be the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict, yet another generation of Palestinian kids in P.A.-administered schools are being indoctrinated to believe that the only satisfactory resolution of the situation is the total overthrow and expulsion of the “Zionist usurpers” from every square inch of “Palestine.”
But the perfidious nature of the Palestinian textbooks extends well beyond geography or even history. Throughout the math and science textbooks – including even first- and second-grade math textbooks – problems and exercises are structured around the purported evils of the “Zionist occupation.” Exercises include comparing the number of “martyrs” in the first and second intifadas, and what percentage of those shot by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza uprisings were elevated to “martyrdom.”
The essential thrust of the P.A. literature and language textbooks is the glorification of martyrdom and jihad as unqualified virtues. Poetry extolling the virtues of suicide bombers and homicidal terrorists are frequent.
In what one might grimly consider a feminist virtue of the new Palestinian textbooks, girls are called to participate fully in jihad, and not to hesitate in making themselves into “holy martyrs.”
But these teaching materials do not merely present a perverse political philosophy, they also convey blanket falsehoods designed to erase Jewish history and support exclusive Palestinian claims to all of Israel.
Thus, Jewish culture and history in “Palestine” are, not surprisingly, completely expunged. According to the Palestinian textbooks, any Jewish presence in the area has existed only in the past century, when synagogues were first built by the Zionist invaders and the Al-Buraq wall – built by Arabs in honor of the Prophet Muhammad’s horse – was renamed and co-opted by Zionists as “the Western Wall.”
Since – according to the Palestinian textbooks – there were never any Jewish Temples in Jerusalem, the Western Wall is clearly another recent Zionist-Jewish invention.
The Palestinian “phased plan” to eliminate the "Zionist cancer" from Palestine – which is still in the PLO charter – is diligently taught throughout the curriculum.
Yet the primary concern of PA Education Minister Sabri Saidam is that Israel refuses to use these Palestinian textbooks in Arab-majority schools in Israel or the disputed territories, particularly in Jerusalem. Saidam insists that Israel’s use of versions of the Israeli curriculum for Arab-Israeli kids is “an ugly crime of counterfeit” perpetrated by the “Zionist oppressors.”
Great Britain and the European Union have contributed hundreds of millions to the development and propagation of the Palestinian textbooks and curriculum, but that may be drawing to a close. Both are doing their own reviews of the Palestinian textbooks; each has laws outlawing aid in furtherance of terrorism, incitement, violence and hatred. Their reports are due later this year, and by all rights should spell the end of UK and EU furtherance of this despicable educational charade.
Those who doubt any imminent resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict need look no further than these Palestinian textbooks to become even more pessimistic about a new Palestinian generation leading the way – at long last – to a peaceful future for Arabs and Jews alike. These unfortunate children are being brainwashed by their elders to seek no compromise, but to continue on the suicidal path of terror, hate and ignorance so well established by past generations of Palestinian Arabs and their leaders.
By Ken Cohen
Israel Hayom
July 25, 2019
There was great hope and anticipation several years ago when the Palestinian Authority announced that it was completely replacing its K-12 school textbooks. But new editions merely confirm obsessive Palestinian hatred of Jews and rejection of peace with Israel.
The older Palestinian textbooks were filled with ugly anti-Zionist – and anti-Semitic – propaganda. Shockingly, this pervasive spirit of distortion and hate wasn’t only employed in history textbooks, but also dominated language, math and even science lessons.
The original P.A. textbooks were in use for about 20 years, having been published following the Oslo Accords. (Prior to that, Palestinian schools had continued to use Jordanian textbooks published before the 1967 Six-Day War.)
Over the past three years the P.A. has released the full set of new textbooks – and they are even worse than the old ones in teaching Jew-hatred, fictionalized history and a profound glorification of martyrdom, terrorism and hate. Though Western liberals continue to place the onus of peace-making on Israel, these materials make clear the Palestinians’ dedication to waging war.
The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) recently published its reports on the textbooks – replete with examples – that demonstrate the horrific indoctrination being inflicted on Palestinian youth by their educators.
Geography, of course, is taught without reference to Israel’s borders – or even the State of Israel’s existence. All of the maps and exercises are predicated on a state of Palestine with its borders extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, and from Lebanon to Egypt. Israel is completely obliterated throughout the textbooks, although the Palestinian textbooks are rife with references to “Zionist occupiers” and “Zionist Jews.”
The city of Haifa is treated as “occupied territory” – every bit as “occupied” as the disputed areas of Judea and Samaria which fell under Israeli control in June of 1967.
So while much of the world considers the issue of the eventual disposition of the “West Bank” to be the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict, yet another generation of Palestinian kids in P.A.-administered schools are being indoctrinated to believe that the only satisfactory resolution of the situation is the total overthrow and expulsion of the “Zionist usurpers” from every square inch of “Palestine.”
But the perfidious nature of the Palestinian textbooks extends well beyond geography or even history. Throughout the math and science textbooks – including even first- and second-grade math textbooks – problems and exercises are structured around the purported evils of the “Zionist occupation.” Exercises include comparing the number of “martyrs” in the first and second intifadas, and what percentage of those shot by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza uprisings were elevated to “martyrdom.”
The essential thrust of the P.A. literature and language textbooks is the glorification of martyrdom and jihad as unqualified virtues. Poetry extolling the virtues of suicide bombers and homicidal terrorists are frequent.
In what one might grimly consider a feminist virtue of the new Palestinian textbooks, girls are called to participate fully in jihad, and not to hesitate in making themselves into “holy martyrs.”
But these teaching materials do not merely present a perverse political philosophy, they also convey blanket falsehoods designed to erase Jewish history and support exclusive Palestinian claims to all of Israel.
Thus, Jewish culture and history in “Palestine” are, not surprisingly, completely expunged. According to the Palestinian textbooks, any Jewish presence in the area has existed only in the past century, when synagogues were first built by the Zionist invaders and the Al-Buraq wall – built by Arabs in honor of the Prophet Muhammad’s horse – was renamed and co-opted by Zionists as “the Western Wall.”
Since – according to the Palestinian textbooks – there were never any Jewish Temples in Jerusalem, the Western Wall is clearly another recent Zionist-Jewish invention.
The Palestinian “phased plan” to eliminate the "Zionist cancer" from Palestine – which is still in the PLO charter – is diligently taught throughout the curriculum.
Yet the primary concern of PA Education Minister Sabri Saidam is that Israel refuses to use these Palestinian textbooks in Arab-majority schools in Israel or the disputed territories, particularly in Jerusalem. Saidam insists that Israel’s use of versions of the Israeli curriculum for Arab-Israeli kids is “an ugly crime of counterfeit” perpetrated by the “Zionist oppressors.”
Great Britain and the European Union have contributed hundreds of millions to the development and propagation of the Palestinian textbooks and curriculum, but that may be drawing to a close. Both are doing their own reviews of the Palestinian textbooks; each has laws outlawing aid in furtherance of terrorism, incitement, violence and hatred. Their reports are due later this year, and by all rights should spell the end of UK and EU furtherance of this despicable educational charade.
Those who doubt any imminent resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict need look no further than these Palestinian textbooks to become even more pessimistic about a new Palestinian generation leading the way – at long last – to a peaceful future for Arabs and Jews alike. These unfortunate children are being brainwashed by their elders to seek no compromise, but to continue on the suicidal path of terror, hate and ignorance so well established by past generations of Palestinian Arabs and their leaders.
Friday, July 26, 2019
LAWSUIT AGAINST IDIOTIC CALIFORNIA AMMUNITION LAW
by Bob Walsh
The California Rifle and Pistol Association on Monday filed for an injunction in San Diego Federal Court against the moronic newly enacted and enforced ammunition purchase law in the formerly great state of California.
The new law requires a background check, and a $1 per transaction fee, for all ammunition purchases. Prospective purchasers MUST have CA identification. No one from out of state can purchase ammo in California, and it is illegal for a California resident to purchase ammo out of state and bring it back in themselves. It is also illegal for a California resident to purchase ammo thru out of state suppliers via the internet, mail order, etc. All purchases must be made in face-to-face transactions by specially licensed retailers.
The new stupidity is especially hurting stores in border cities. Prospective purchasers can simply cross the border, buy their ammo and bring it back (in violation of law) without the administrative bullshit and added expense.
The California Rifle and Pistol Association on Monday filed for an injunction in San Diego Federal Court against the moronic newly enacted and enforced ammunition purchase law in the formerly great state of California.
The new law requires a background check, and a $1 per transaction fee, for all ammunition purchases. Prospective purchasers MUST have CA identification. No one from out of state can purchase ammo in California, and it is illegal for a California resident to purchase ammo out of state and bring it back in themselves. It is also illegal for a California resident to purchase ammo thru out of state suppliers via the internet, mail order, etc. All purchases must be made in face-to-face transactions by specially licensed retailers.
The new stupidity is especially hurting stores in border cities. Prospective purchasers can simply cross the border, buy their ammo and bring it back (in violation of law) without the administrative bullshit and added expense.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO MEET OUT JUSTICE AGAIN
Federal government to resume capital punishment, schedule executions for first time since 2003
By Alex Pappas
Fox News
July 25, 2019
Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday the federal government will resume capital punishment and will move forward with plans to execute five inmates on death row for the first time in more than 15 years.
The Justice Department said Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt a proposed addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol that will clear the way for the executions. Barr has also directed the bureau of prisons to schedule the executions of five death-row inmates.
“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,” Barr said in a statement.
He added: “Under administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers, each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair proceeding. The Justice Department upholds the rule of law—and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”
The five inmates who have been sentenced to death are scheduled to be executed starting in December:
Daniel Lewis Lee is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 9. Lee, a white supremacist, was convicted in May 1999 of murdering a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl. “After robbing and shooting the victims with a stun gun, Lee covered their heads with plastic bags, sealed the bags with duct tape, weighed down each victim with rocks, and threw the family of three into the Illinois bayou,” the DOJ said in a statement.
Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to be executed Dec. 11. Mitchell was convicted in 2003 of stabbing to death a 63-year-old grandmother and, according to the DOJ, forcing “her nine-year-old granddaughter to sit beside her lifeless body for a 30 to 40-mile drive.” “Mitchell then slit the girl’s throat twice, crushed her head with 20-pound rocks, and severed and buried both victims’ heads and hands,” the Justice Department said.
Wesley Ira Purkey is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 13. Purkey was convicted in 2003 of raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl before dismembering, burning and dumping the girl’s body in a septic pond. “He also was convicted in state court for using a claw hammer to bludgeon to death an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio and walked with a cane,” DOJ said.
Alfred Bourgeois is scheduled to be executed Jan. 13. He was convicted in 2004 of torturing, sexually molesting and beating to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
Dustin Lee Honken is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 15. He was convicted in 2004 of shooting and killing five people: two men who planned to testify against him, as well as a single mother and her two daughters.
The Justice Department said each of the inmates have exhausted appeal efforts and will be executed at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.
DOJ said additional executions of federal prisoners will be scheduled at a later date.
The executions will be the first in the federal prison system since 2003. In 2014, then-President Barack Obama directed the department to conduct a review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection drugs. That review resulted in what effectively was a freeze on executions.
The department says the Bureau of Prisons has completed the review and the executions can continue.
Executions on the federal level have been rare. The government has put to death only three defendants since restoring the federal death penalty in 1988, the most recent of which occurred in 2003, when Louis Jones was executed for the 1995 kidnapping, rape and murder of a young female soldier.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Don’t look for the executions to proceed as scheduled. There are likely to be more last minute appeals.
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FEDS SET TO BEGIN TERMINAL REHABILITATION OF CRIMINALS
by Bob Walsh
William Barr has directed the BOP to start warming up the needles and to begin executions.
There has not been a federal execution n 16 years. There are five executions tentatively scheduled for the end of this year and early next year. Whether or not they will actually occur is an open question at the moment.
All of the current prospects are convicted of murdering children. The most senior of the cretins has been on death row for 20 years, for murdering three people including an eight-year old girl. There are currently 62 condemned federal prisoners, including one woman. Of the five on the current list, three are White, one is Black and one is AMI.
By Alex Pappas
Fox News
July 25, 2019
Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday the federal government will resume capital punishment and will move forward with plans to execute five inmates on death row for the first time in more than 15 years.
The Justice Department said Barr has directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to adopt a proposed addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol that will clear the way for the executions. Barr has also directed the bureau of prisons to schedule the executions of five death-row inmates.
“Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,” Barr said in a statement.
He added: “Under administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers, each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair proceeding. The Justice Department upholds the rule of law—and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”
The five inmates who have been sentenced to death are scheduled to be executed starting in December:
Daniel Lewis Lee is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 9. Lee, a white supremacist, was convicted in May 1999 of murdering a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl. “After robbing and shooting the victims with a stun gun, Lee covered their heads with plastic bags, sealed the bags with duct tape, weighed down each victim with rocks, and threw the family of three into the Illinois bayou,” the DOJ said in a statement.
Lezmond Mitchell is scheduled to be executed Dec. 11. Mitchell was convicted in 2003 of stabbing to death a 63-year-old grandmother and, according to the DOJ, forcing “her nine-year-old granddaughter to sit beside her lifeless body for a 30 to 40-mile drive.” “Mitchell then slit the girl’s throat twice, crushed her head with 20-pound rocks, and severed and buried both victims’ heads and hands,” the Justice Department said.
Wesley Ira Purkey is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 13. Purkey was convicted in 2003 of raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl before dismembering, burning and dumping the girl’s body in a septic pond. “He also was convicted in state court for using a claw hammer to bludgeon to death an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio and walked with a cane,” DOJ said.
Alfred Bourgeois is scheduled to be executed Jan. 13. He was convicted in 2004 of torturing, sexually molesting and beating to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
Dustin Lee Honken is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 15. He was convicted in 2004 of shooting and killing five people: two men who planned to testify against him, as well as a single mother and her two daughters.
The Justice Department said each of the inmates have exhausted appeal efforts and will be executed at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, Indiana.
DOJ said additional executions of federal prisoners will be scheduled at a later date.
The executions will be the first in the federal prison system since 2003. In 2014, then-President Barack Obama directed the department to conduct a review of capital punishment and issues surrounding lethal injection drugs. That review resulted in what effectively was a freeze on executions.
The department says the Bureau of Prisons has completed the review and the executions can continue.
Executions on the federal level have been rare. The government has put to death only three defendants since restoring the federal death penalty in 1988, the most recent of which occurred in 2003, when Louis Jones was executed for the 1995 kidnapping, rape and murder of a young female soldier.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Don’t look for the executions to proceed as scheduled. There are likely to be more last minute appeals.
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FEDS SET TO BEGIN TERMINAL REHABILITATION OF CRIMINALS
by Bob Walsh
William Barr has directed the BOP to start warming up the needles and to begin executions.
There has not been a federal execution n 16 years. There are five executions tentatively scheduled for the end of this year and early next year. Whether or not they will actually occur is an open question at the moment.
All of the current prospects are convicted of murdering children. The most senior of the cretins has been on death row for 20 years, for murdering three people including an eight-year old girl. There are currently 62 condemned federal prisoners, including one woman. Of the five on the current list, three are White, one is Black and one is AMI.
SLUGS WHO ATTACKED OFFICERS SHOUL HAVE BEEN BUSTED - AND I MEAN BUSTED - AT THE TIME OF THE ATTACKS
Multiple suspects in custody for dousing NYPD cops with water
By Larry Celona, Stephanie Pagones, Tina Moore and Natalie Musumeci
New York Post
July 24, 2019
The NYPD has busted three men, including a reputed Crips gang member on probation, in connection with the caught-on-video water-dousing of cops in Harlem and Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told The Post on Wednesday.
Gangbanger Courtney “Killer Court” Thompson, 28, of the Crips subset “Fresh Gangstas” surrendered Wednesday morning at the 73rd Precinct stationhouse for his alleged involvement in the Brownsville drenching incident, sources said.
Thompson, a Brownsville resident, was hit with charges of obstruction of governmental administration, criminal nuisance, criminal tampering, disorderly conduct and harassment, police said.
He has more than 20 prior arrests on his record, including for assault, said sources, who noted that most of the busts are sealed.
Thompson has been on probation since 2018 in connection with a 2015 robbery bust, according to sources.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan tweeted about Wednesday’s arrest, but did not name the suspect.
“Actions like we’ve seen in videos recently will NEVER be tolerated in this city. YOU WILL BE ARRESTED,” Monahan said in the tweet.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea also tweeted about the arrest, and included a screenshot of the suspect showing him tossing a blue bucket of water on a cop.
Two other suspects were taken into custody at the 28th Precinct stationhouse Wednesday in connection with a similar incident in Harlem, where uniformed officers were captured on video getting soaked with buckets of water while making an arrest, sources said.
Both of the weekend incidents, which were caught on camera and were widely circulated on social media, show buckets of water being thrown at cops.
The Harlem incident, in which two cops were soaked while they were handcuffing a suspect on the hood of a black car, happened at West 115th Street and Seventh Avenue on Sunday, sources said.
Isaiah Scott, 23, of Roebling, New Jersey, was identified as one of the two nabbed in connection with the Harlem incident, but “he was not arrested for anything to do with the cops,” police sources said.
Sources say Scott poured water on a female civilian and was charged with criminal mischief for damaging her cellphone.
He was not involved in any of the actions against the police, according to sources.
Chad Bowden, 28, was charged with criminal mischief, two counts of harassment and disorderly conduct for the incident involving the woman, police sources said.
Footage of the Brooklyn incident, which happened Saturday on East New York Avenue, shows two cops in totally wet uniforms walking away as even more water is flung at them.
At one point in that clip, Thompson allegedly can be seen dumping a full blue bucket of water on the back of one of the cops, who continues to walk away.
The water incidents sparked mass outrage among Big Apple dignitaries, NYPD brass and department unions, and even Vice President Mike Pence, who tweeted about the matter Tuesday.
“This conduct is disgraceful. President @realDonaldTrump and I will ALWAYS stand with the brave men & women of our law enforcement who serve on the thin blue line everyday. #StandWithNYPD,” Pence said in the tweet.
EDITOR’S NOTE: As I said earlier, several men should have gone to the ER with facial and cranial injuries.
By Larry Celona, Stephanie Pagones, Tina Moore and Natalie Musumeci
New York Post
July 24, 2019
The NYPD has busted three men, including a reputed Crips gang member on probation, in connection with the caught-on-video water-dousing of cops in Harlem and Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told The Post on Wednesday.
Gangbanger Courtney “Killer Court” Thompson, 28, of the Crips subset “Fresh Gangstas” surrendered Wednesday morning at the 73rd Precinct stationhouse for his alleged involvement in the Brownsville drenching incident, sources said.
Thompson, a Brownsville resident, was hit with charges of obstruction of governmental administration, criminal nuisance, criminal tampering, disorderly conduct and harassment, police said.
He has more than 20 prior arrests on his record, including for assault, said sources, who noted that most of the busts are sealed.
Thompson has been on probation since 2018 in connection with a 2015 robbery bust, according to sources.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan tweeted about Wednesday’s arrest, but did not name the suspect.
“Actions like we’ve seen in videos recently will NEVER be tolerated in this city. YOU WILL BE ARRESTED,” Monahan said in the tweet.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea also tweeted about the arrest, and included a screenshot of the suspect showing him tossing a blue bucket of water on a cop.
Two other suspects were taken into custody at the 28th Precinct stationhouse Wednesday in connection with a similar incident in Harlem, where uniformed officers were captured on video getting soaked with buckets of water while making an arrest, sources said.
Both of the weekend incidents, which were caught on camera and were widely circulated on social media, show buckets of water being thrown at cops.
The Harlem incident, in which two cops were soaked while they were handcuffing a suspect on the hood of a black car, happened at West 115th Street and Seventh Avenue on Sunday, sources said.
Isaiah Scott, 23, of Roebling, New Jersey, was identified as one of the two nabbed in connection with the Harlem incident, but “he was not arrested for anything to do with the cops,” police sources said.
Sources say Scott poured water on a female civilian and was charged with criminal mischief for damaging her cellphone.
He was not involved in any of the actions against the police, according to sources.
Chad Bowden, 28, was charged with criminal mischief, two counts of harassment and disorderly conduct for the incident involving the woman, police sources said.
Footage of the Brooklyn incident, which happened Saturday on East New York Avenue, shows two cops in totally wet uniforms walking away as even more water is flung at them.
At one point in that clip, Thompson allegedly can be seen dumping a full blue bucket of water on the back of one of the cops, who continues to walk away.
The water incidents sparked mass outrage among Big Apple dignitaries, NYPD brass and department unions, and even Vice President Mike Pence, who tweeted about the matter Tuesday.
“This conduct is disgraceful. President @realDonaldTrump and I will ALWAYS stand with the brave men & women of our law enforcement who serve on the thin blue line everyday. #StandWithNYPD,” Pence said in the tweet.
EDITOR’S NOTE: As I said earlier, several men should have gone to the ER with facial and cranial injuries.
ISRAEL WIDENS ITS WAR AGAINST IRAN
“We will act against you wherever and whenever,” says Netanyahu in new video warning to Iran
By Yochanan Visser
Israel Today
July 25, 2019
While Israel continues its aerial campaign against Iranian targets in Syria the Israeli military seems to have widened its campaign against the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to Iraq.
This became clear from reports in the Arab and Iranian media and from the publication of a video with a statement made by Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.
On Thursday last week, unknown unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s or drones) attacked an Iranian base in the Salah al-Din district near the town of Amerli in northern Iraq.
The base was manned by Iranian Quds Force members and fighters of the al-Hashd al-Shaabi umbrella organization of pre-dominantly Shiite militias and killed and wounded an unknown number of them.
The Iraqi government immediately ordered an investigation into the incident but stopped short of providing more details about the mysterious attack.
The IRGC-affiliated news site Fars News, citing the Arab news site al-Ahd, later reported that the attack was carried out with three Harop loitering missiles which are produced by Israel Aerospace Industries and which are in use by the IAF.
According to the London-based Arab news outlet Al-Arabiya the attack took place after the Shia Al-Shuhada militia of al-Hashd al-Shaabi had received new Iranian ballistic missiles.
The stockpile of Iranian missiles at the Al-Shuhada military base included Zelzal, Fateh-110 and Zolfaqar types. The latter is a ballistic missile with a reach of 700 kilometers and could be used against Israel since the Al-Shahada base is close to the Syrian border.
Speculations about Israel’s involvement in the attack on the Iraqi based increased after the Likud party in Israel published a video in which PM Netanyahu threatened to attack Iranian targets in Iraq.
“We will act against you (Iran) in Iraq. We will act against you wherever and whenever,” Netanyahu said in the video which was comparing his role as statesman to the possibility that former talk-show host and Blue and White party leader Yair Lapid would become the Prime Minister of Israel.
This was not the first time an aerial attack on al-Hashd al-Shaabi has been attributed to the Israeli Air Force (IAF).
In June 2018, drones were used to attack a base of a militia belonging to the umbrella organization killing between 20 and 40 Shiite fighters of the paramilitary force which will be fully integrated in the Iraqi army by the end of July.
At the time, an US official said that the IAF had carried out the attack near the town of Khari southeast of Al-Bukamal on the Syria-Iraq border.
The border town is located along the land bridge Iran has created over the past few years in northern Iraq and southeast Syria.
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi is an organization that takes its orders from Qassem Soleimani the commander of the Quds Force and is fully dependent on Iranian aid Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the Deputy Commanderof the mainly Shiite and Turkmen force revealed last week.
The support of the Islamic Republic (of Iran) has been essential, and the youth of Hezbollah had an essential role in training, planning, and supporting (the Al-Hashd al Shaabi factions),” Muhandis said during a speech in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
“The Islamic Republic opened its treasury for us when weapons and ammunition were lacking. With (Iranian) support, we were able to defeat (Islamic State) militarily,” he added.
Israel, meanwhile, is continuing its campaign against Hezbollah and the Quds Force in Syria and reportedly carried out two operations on Syrian soil over the past few days.
On Tuesday night the IAF again bombed a base near the Tel al-Hara look-out on the the Syrian Golan Heights.
The base is in use by Hezbollah and Iranian forces and functions as an intelligence gathering center on the movements by the Israeli army on the Israeli Golan Heights for the Iranian axis.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported extensive damage and said there were casualties as well.
Hezbollah is currently moving forces from bases in Syria to the border with Israel in both Lebanon and Syria The Daily Beast citing interviews with Hezbollah commanders reported last week.
Hezbollah’s activities on the Golan Heights most likely led to a second Israeli strike which killed Mashur Zidan one of the top commanders of the terrorist organization.
Zidan, a resident of the Druze village of Hader near Mount Hermon on the Golan Heights, was reportedly recruiting volunteers for Hezbollah’s ‘Golan Portfolio’ and was killed by a large improvised explosive device which exploded when he was driving his car in the al-Qadam neighborhood in Damascus.
The liquidation bore the hallmarks of a Mossad operation observers pointed out.
The Israeli spy agency carried out similar liquidations of Hezbollah commanders in Syria in the past.
One of them was Samir Kuntar a terrorist who spent 30 years in Israeli prisons for his role in the murder of an Israeli family and was released in 2008 on July 2008, under a a prisoner swap agreement between Hezbollah and Israel.
Another assassination which has been attributed to the Mossad and the CIA took place in Damascus on February 12, 2008 when Hezbollah’s terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh was killed by a bomb hidden in the luggage trunk of his car.
By Yochanan Visser
Israel Today
July 25, 2019
While Israel continues its aerial campaign against Iranian targets in Syria the Israeli military seems to have widened its campaign against the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to Iraq.
This became clear from reports in the Arab and Iranian media and from the publication of a video with a statement made by Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu.
On Thursday last week, unknown unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s or drones) attacked an Iranian base in the Salah al-Din district near the town of Amerli in northern Iraq.
The base was manned by Iranian Quds Force members and fighters of the al-Hashd al-Shaabi umbrella organization of pre-dominantly Shiite militias and killed and wounded an unknown number of them.
The Iraqi government immediately ordered an investigation into the incident but stopped short of providing more details about the mysterious attack.
The IRGC-affiliated news site Fars News, citing the Arab news site al-Ahd, later reported that the attack was carried out with three Harop loitering missiles which are produced by Israel Aerospace Industries and which are in use by the IAF.
According to the London-based Arab news outlet Al-Arabiya the attack took place after the Shia Al-Shuhada militia of al-Hashd al-Shaabi had received new Iranian ballistic missiles.
The stockpile of Iranian missiles at the Al-Shuhada military base included Zelzal, Fateh-110 and Zolfaqar types. The latter is a ballistic missile with a reach of 700 kilometers and could be used against Israel since the Al-Shahada base is close to the Syrian border.
Speculations about Israel’s involvement in the attack on the Iraqi based increased after the Likud party in Israel published a video in which PM Netanyahu threatened to attack Iranian targets in Iraq.
“We will act against you (Iran) in Iraq. We will act against you wherever and whenever,” Netanyahu said in the video which was comparing his role as statesman to the possibility that former talk-show host and Blue and White party leader Yair Lapid would become the Prime Minister of Israel.
This was not the first time an aerial attack on al-Hashd al-Shaabi has been attributed to the Israeli Air Force (IAF).
In June 2018, drones were used to attack a base of a militia belonging to the umbrella organization killing between 20 and 40 Shiite fighters of the paramilitary force which will be fully integrated in the Iraqi army by the end of July.
At the time, an US official said that the IAF had carried out the attack near the town of Khari southeast of Al-Bukamal on the Syria-Iraq border.
The border town is located along the land bridge Iran has created over the past few years in northern Iraq and southeast Syria.
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi is an organization that takes its orders from Qassem Soleimani the commander of the Quds Force and is fully dependent on Iranian aid Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the Deputy Commanderof the mainly Shiite and Turkmen force revealed last week.
The support of the Islamic Republic (of Iran) has been essential, and the youth of Hezbollah had an essential role in training, planning, and supporting (the Al-Hashd al Shaabi factions),” Muhandis said during a speech in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
“The Islamic Republic opened its treasury for us when weapons and ammunition were lacking. With (Iranian) support, we were able to defeat (Islamic State) militarily,” he added.
Israel, meanwhile, is continuing its campaign against Hezbollah and the Quds Force in Syria and reportedly carried out two operations on Syrian soil over the past few days.
On Tuesday night the IAF again bombed a base near the Tel al-Hara look-out on the the Syrian Golan Heights.
The base is in use by Hezbollah and Iranian forces and functions as an intelligence gathering center on the movements by the Israeli army on the Israeli Golan Heights for the Iranian axis.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported extensive damage and said there were casualties as well.
Hezbollah is currently moving forces from bases in Syria to the border with Israel in both Lebanon and Syria The Daily Beast citing interviews with Hezbollah commanders reported last week.
Hezbollah’s activities on the Golan Heights most likely led to a second Israeli strike which killed Mashur Zidan one of the top commanders of the terrorist organization.
Zidan, a resident of the Druze village of Hader near Mount Hermon on the Golan Heights, was reportedly recruiting volunteers for Hezbollah’s ‘Golan Portfolio’ and was killed by a large improvised explosive device which exploded when he was driving his car in the al-Qadam neighborhood in Damascus.
The liquidation bore the hallmarks of a Mossad operation observers pointed out.
The Israeli spy agency carried out similar liquidations of Hezbollah commanders in Syria in the past.
One of them was Samir Kuntar a terrorist who spent 30 years in Israeli prisons for his role in the murder of an Israeli family and was released in 2008 on July 2008, under a a prisoner swap agreement between Hezbollah and Israel.
Another assassination which has been attributed to the Mossad and the CIA took place in Damascus on February 12, 2008 when Hezbollah’s terror mastermind Imad Mughniyeh was killed by a bomb hidden in the luggage trunk of his car.
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