[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Pentagon's chief spokesman said that the climate crisis and China are 'equally important' threats to the US.
After the Biden administration warned of the serious national security China poses to the US, Department of Defense press secretary John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday that the current climate crisis is an equal priority. Contrast this position to what led to last year's destruction of the USS Bonhomme Richard. The command investigation into the incident found the loss was in part because sailors failed to press a button that could have activated a critical fire-suppression system. The investigation found four major areas that contributed to the ultimate destruction of the ship - the material condition of the ship, the lack of training and readiness, the inadequate response of support from the shore, and oversight that would've codified what to do in response to the fire.
A case could be made that the US Pentagon itself is a national threat to the US on a level with that posed by Red China.
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The Japs knew not to invade the US, only try to sink the US fleet at Pearl Harbor even though they were not afraid of China because in the US people are armed so well "there is a gun behind everyblade of grass" per one Jap General. General Milley and the Kamala/Obama/Jarret regime apparently are not as smart as the WWII Jap generals.
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To be fair the majority of greenhouse gases are coming out of China and India. The majority of Pacific Ocean pollution is coming out of China and India.
Maybe the Pentagon is preparing the left for some big moves to save the planet... /sarc
[MAIL] The Biden administration has been compiling records of 54 million gun owners to possibly create an unlawful database of Americans who possess a firearm, according to a Saturday report.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon are keeping tabs on U.S. citizens who have purchased firearms to make sure their personal information is in the hands of the federal government.
The agency was able to obtain the information by using a process where the ATF can collect and store records on private gun transactions from licensed gun stores when they go out of business. The information is stored at a federal site in West Virginia.
There are so many records stored at this location that several years ago, The New York Times reported, the floor collapsed.
The practice of collecting these records has drawn criticism from Pro-Second Amendment groups who say the Biden administration is using the information to create a national database of gun owners, which is against U.S. law.
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I recall reading the German perspective of the Battle for Normandy in the days following the invasion. What stuck with me was the comment that the Americans had no radio discipline and that the Germans were hearing it all, but that all included how much material and manpower was coming down on them. Not good for morale.
Have the illegal database, then count how many people you will have on your side and how many people will be on the other side. Then realize nearly all of your people have to go home every night into that population. It only takes one Lexington Commons to set off a fire you can't hope to put out.
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I'm pretty sure the data base for fire arms purchases exists. Had a customer get in a little trouble, the law came to his house, had a list of all his gun purchases, and confiscated said guns.
[CBSnews] The first Capitol riot defendant to plead guilty to assaulting an officer has been sentenced to 41 months in prison by Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the DC US District Court.
Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced ex-MMA fighter Scott Fairlamb, 44, to approximately three and a half years in prison and three years probation for assaulting an officer while he was part of the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 in support of former President Trump. Compare that to the 30-day sentence given Rene Boucher by a US district judge for the Western KY US District court, for Boucher's guilty plea, re: his assault on US Sen. Rand Paul, giving Paul a critical and lasting injury. Prosecutors appealed that sentence & Boucher was later re-sentenced for a total of 8 months in prison.
Below is the introduction to a lengthy commentary on the Rittenhouse trial. There are at least three videos at the link including the one where the judge tears ADA Binger a new one. It is highly entertaining.
[LegalInsurrection] Welcome to today’s Law of Self Defense ongoing coverage of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. I am, of course, Attorney Andrew Branca, for Law of Self Defense.
Today the trial heard testimony from the defendant himself, Kyle Rittenhouse—a high-stakes bet by the defense, and one that always has risk of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Fortunately for the defense, however, it appears that Assistant District Attorney Binger is leveraging this remarkable opportunity for the state to collapse not only the State’s own narrative of guilt in this trial, but to collapse the entire trial itself.
Indeed, so grievous has been Binger’s over-stepping on fundamental Constitutional rights of defendants, and curb-stomping on evidentiary rulings previously made by Judge Schroeder, that not only is the defense threatening to seek a mistrial with prejudice—meaning Rittenhouse could not be tried again, as would normally be permitted if there was a mistrial—but Judge Schroeder has repeatedly dismissed the jury during Binger’s cross-examination of Kyle to forcefully scold the prosecutor, and sometimes angrily shouting at him.
Throughout it all, Binger remains unable to pry even from the defendant himself any testimony that in any way undermines Kyle Rittenhouse’s core legal defense of self-defense. As usual, we’re hearing little but innuendo, snark, snide, and table pounding from the State.
Although Binger’s cross-examination could best be characterized as flailing from his first question until the moment a frustrated Judge Schroeder abruptly broke for lunch, there were three major incidents during the prosecutor’s cross of Rittenhouse that particularly frustrated the court.
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I honestly don't see any logic behind this prosecutor's unbelievably snide, contemptuous and over-the-top unprofessional behavior.
The defendant is a minor. All the evidence indicates that his motivation, intentions and actions were genuinely aimed at defending and protecting and rendering aid.
What does ADA Binger hope to achieve through his unprofessional behavior? Is Branca right -- that the purpose of being such a flaming asshole is merely to provoke Kyle into an angry outburst?
Can that possibly be the sum and substance of the prosecution's strategy?
If so, heaven help me and mine if one is is ever hauled in front of a court like this. For a case that is obviously one of self-defense.
The Rittenhouse incident happened after days of Kenosha being under attack by an arsonist mob while law enforcement and the legal system remained passive.
When Government Legal staff apply a Political Agenda in a prosecution, over established Common Law Legal Practices.
Such person(s) should be charged with Federal and State Civil Rights violations and prohibited from ANY future government employment or related activities.
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Yes, I fear Rit's court challenges may have just begun. It's not about him per se. It's about self-defense, firearms, and support for continued anarchy.
#6
During his testimony yesterday -- about four or fuce hours' worth of questioning in the stand -- the young man reached the derailed, point by point description of the first attempt by the raging anarchists to kill him. As he described their frenzied screams, the gunshots in his direction, and the deranged charge of the berserker who has repeatedly vowed to kill him and also "tear his f--ing heart out," this extraordinarily brave young man broke down. The video is heart-wrenching. His convulsive sobs caused the judge to clear the courtroom for ten minutes.
Could it be that, at that moment, this young was sobbing for us? From the realization that his country has descended into a nightmare of anarchy and political show trials?
Was this patriotic and noble young man overwhelmed by the sudden awareness that chaos is come, that the righteous law-abiding American citizen is now hunted down as Europe's Jews were in the lands where brownshirts roamed freely, supported by a fascist state?
Shame on this prosecutor.
Shame on this administration and on all the Democrats and their Republican stooges who have supported this racial hoax.
Shame on the despicable bastards who have brought our nation into this nightmare.
#7
The prosecution's case seems to be so poorly executed that one might suspect it is on purpose. Could it be the ADA is trying to obtain some form of justice for KR without offending his boss or the mob in the process?
#9
When when police and fire protection are inadequate, when rioters are allowed to burn and loot, surprise, surprise, citizens come out of the woodwork to defend their property and businesses. None of this would have happened if the mayor of Kenosha and the governor of Wisconsin had been doing the jobs the people elected them to do. They are the ones who should be on trial for misfeasance.
But the bigger issue is all the rioting that took place all across the country that summer, sparked by the death of a black drug addict who died in police custody from a combination of resisting arrest and drug overdose. Democrats and even some Republicans either vilified police or remained silent, often encouraging the riots, while the mainstream media denied the violence and claimed that rioters who burned and looted were actually "mostly peaceful protesters".
Why? Do they really want to destroy America so they can Build Back Better? I think we all know what they really want to build and it won't be better.
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* Actually, it began with Ferguson and Obama-Holder.
Actually, it began with Rodney King and George Bush Sr. We don't think of the elder Bush as a Build Back Better type but his chickenshit treatment of the LAPD set the tone that Obama merely followed.
People gonna riot every time a black man gets hurt or killed resisting arrest? Quell the damn riots. There is no excuse to do otherwise. Do NOT pander to BLM loudmouths and trouble makers. Responsible members of minority communities understand that they benefit from law and order just like whites. Do NOT pander to the Jessie Jacksons and Al Sharptons. Do NOT allow anarchy and chaos to destroy America.
Also, call out the mainstream media when they fan the flames with 10-second video clips that purport to show how bad the police are treating supposedly innocent black men who, in reality, are drug addicted criminals who need to go to jail. Tell the truth about what really happened and how dishonest and irresponsible some of these media types are.
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#12
Yes. This cringeing behavior about one particular race and all its pathologies, our self-flagellation in the face of extraordinary criminality and dysfunction, is our national Achilles' Heel.
All the members of our elite classes, be they left, right, Woke or traditional, D or R, old-money country club or bohemian yupppie -- all of them to a man or woman suffer from this pathology of race-masochism. Nothing is more terrifying, no bogeyman haunts their dreams more, than to be accused, regardless of evidence or logic, of being rayciss.
A million or more opportunists and race hustlers see this and batten upon it. And now they hold the whip hand, and are simply looting and pillaging -- not just the lumpen in the streets but also the race-hustling extortionists terrorizing the boardrooms, newsrooms, faculty lounges and the entire apparat of the administrative state.
We Americans did this to ourselves.
We have only our masochism and weird psychopathic race-obsessions to blame.
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Glenmore, if he isn't careful, he's going to get the case dismissed with prejudice.
Of course, then the riots will break out.
And the feds will trump up civil rights cases against Rittenhouse.
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The guy is beginning to remind me of Mike Nifong--the DA who botched the Duke lacrosse team case so badly that even a Democratic Attorney General had to step in to stop the circus.
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All started because a drug user high on drugs fought with 3 officers. One went to prison. If Rittenhouse goes to jail for defending himself from the same type of thugs, the dam will break.
[Daily Wire] A witness in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse testified Tuesday that prosecutors pushed him to change his statement to the police.
Amateur photographer Nathan DeBruin took the stand on Tuesday as one of four defense witnesses called that day. During his testimony, DeBruin recounted an earlier, uncomfortable meeting with prosecutors in which DeBruin said they pushed him to change a statement he gave to police regarding another man, Joshua Ziminski, whom prosecutors have charged with arson.
During the defense examination of the witness, defense attorney Mark Richards asked DeBruin to describe the meeting he had had with Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger and Assistant District Attorney James Kraus.
"I was called down to the district attorney’s office. I met with Mr. Binger and [Kraus] ... I was called into a room, sat at a table, handed my police statement, got to read over my police statement, and then I was asked if I would like to add anything to the police statement, and I said I would not," DeBruin began.
"Mr. Binger pulled out a cell phone and showed me a video and also a photo — which was actually one photo that I brought today — and asked me if I knew who a gentleman was in that photo, and I said I did not. ... He said, ’This is Joshua Ziminski.’ Mr. Binger also has a case with him, and I am subpoenaed for that case also," he continued. "He says, ’Well, that’s who that is.’ He put the phone down. He picked the phone back up and says, ’Who is this?’ And I confusingly said, like, Joshua Ziminski, and he said, ’Would you like to add that to your statement?’ and I just felt I didn’t want to change my statement."
DeBruin said that after that meeting he retained counsel. Richards closed his examination after the exchange.
Under cross-examination by Kraus, DeBruin testified that the prosecution asked him to "change" his statement, suggesting that prosecutors wanted DeBruin to give the police false information regarding his knowledge about Ziminski.
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Ziminski has come up before in Rittenhouse’s trial. In opening statements, prosecutors and the defense said Ziminski fired shots into the air moments before Rittenhouse turned and fatally shot 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum in August 2020 during riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The defense team said that Rosenbaum and Ziminski together followed Rittenhouse. As The Daily Wire reported:
After the initial confrontation with Rosenbaum, the 36-year-old began following Rittenhouse. Rosenbaum was joined by Ziminski, Richards said, showing a photograph purportedly of the two men burning a vehicle and dumpster together earlier that night.
Rosenbaum had earlier in the night threatened to kill Rittenhouse and a friend, telling the two, "If I get either of you two alone, I’m going to kill you," according to Richards. As Rosenbaum followed Rittenhouse, he continued to threaten the teen. After Rittenhouse turned away from Rosenbaum the second time, Ziminski fired shots in the air and Rosenbaum rushed Rittenhouse, screaming "f*** you," Richards said.
#2
When will the STATE AG or the DOJ step in to investigate and/or issue indictments?
AGJosh Kaul has already gone on record supporting the prosecution....and is a flaming lib.
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AGJosh Kaul is probably one of the Soros (and/or other Progressive multi-billionaires) stable of state attorneys general and city/district attorneys whose remit is to end prosecution of favoured groups — like poor criminals.
#5
#3: the prosecutors have been bought by the likes of Soros and Obama. The rot is throughout our 'justice' system. With that and our election supervisors choosing vote counting machines with internet access i see secession and a stripped down constitution, no penumbras, as the only way to reverse the coup-d'tat.
The location of a central government should be central, like Kansas.
Elections should be in-person paper ballots counted by hand.
#6
I suspect that the whole point of the George Floyd cuz talking about what will happen to jurors if they get it wrong (from the state's perspective) was to signal that jury nullification is a real possibility and the Powers That Be™ simply won't abide that.
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Some have opined that the prosecution is so inept that they must be actually trying to throw the case. I think what's really happening is that they are sending a message that actually presenting a viable case is no longer necessary, and you proles better accept that or maybe there won't even be sham trials down the road.
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^ this. They're rubbing our faces in it now. A new phase.
[Hot Air] Joe Biden nominated Saule Omarova as Comptroller of the Currency. Her history is so radical that some Democrats are beginning to speak out about their concerns with moving forward with the nomination.
At the end of September, the Wall Street Journal ran a story on Omarova’s nomination. What jumps out is her Marxist history. In her opinion, the Soviet economic system is superior to any other. If only women in the U.S. had generous maternity benefits.
The Cornell University law school professor’s radical ideas might make even Bernie Sanders blush. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship. Thirty years later, she still believes the Soviet economic system was superior, and that U.S. banking should be remade in the Gosbank’s image.
"Until I came to the US, I couldn’t imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today’s world. Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ’know best,’" she tweeted in 2019. After Twitter users criticized her ignorance, she added a caveat: "I never claimed women and men were treated absolutely equally in every facet of Soviet life. But people’s salaries were set (by the state) in a gender-blind manner. And all women got very generous maternity benefits. Both things are still a pipe dream in our society!"
She envisions a centralized banking industry — she wants to expand the Federal Reserve’s mandate to include the price levels of "systemically important financial assets" as well as worker wages. She suggests "the Federal Reserve take over consumer bank deposits, "effectively ’end banking,’ as we know it," and become "the ultimate public platform for generating, modulating, and allocating financial resources in a modern economy." How’s all that sound? She wants to do away with banks, the very sector her job requires her to supervise. She would supervise 1200 financial institutions.
#1
Oh boy! Soviet style controlled economy! That will work fine!
The good/bad news is our banks will be against this, so they'll block it. Hooray for the banksters that crashed our economy in 2008 and made a fucking mint doing it. :/
#7
We don't have a gender pay gap here. What we do have is women tend to go into jobs that are typically low paying no matter what the gender. There are also fewer women in the work force than men so when women's pay is averaged and men's pay is averaged it looks like women are paid less than me. Male nurses are paid the same as female nurses, female engineers are paid the same as male engineers, etc.
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I think Kamala is in charge and Joe is still VP.
[PJ] Sources have revealed why California Governor Gavin Newsom went missing from the public for nearly two weeks after receiving his COVID booster shot. Newsom’s disappearance became incredibly suspicious when he abruptly canceled his trip to the climate conference in Scotland last week, bizarrely claiming family obligations (namely Halloween) kept him from going.
But sources tell the Daily Mail that Newsom was left with muscle weakness and fatigue after receiving the COVID booster and a flu shot within days of each other.
Newsom made his first public appearance after receiving the booster on Saturday at the lavish wedding of Ivy Getty in San Francisco. After Newsom was spotted at the wedding, his press secretary Daniel Lopez denied any connection between Newsom’s disappearance and the shots.
According to Lopez, Newsom had "no adverse reaction to his booster shot" and said that the governor would resume having public events this week.
"The flu shot and booster shot were administered separately and the Governor did not have an adverse reaction to either shot," Lopez insisted.
But, Newsom rarely goes so long without public events, and when he has, some explanation is typically given, prompting the rumor mill to go into overdrive.
#3
Predict he will only live 14 months from time of injection, heart, liver, pancreas, spleen, cancer death. October 27 2021 - January 31 2023. RIP GN
You did it .... Boosters only SOLIDIFIED your demise.
#5
In animal studies, after mRNA injections have been administered to cats, when the virus arrived once again into the body, it arrived like a Trojan Horse, undetected by the cats' own immune system. The virus multiplied unchallenged and all animals involved in the experiment died from various causes.
[TheHill] Reprobate. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) revealed in a new interview that he considered firing his weapon on Jan. 6 as pro-Trump supporters were storming the Capitol.
During an interview with CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp for Rolling Stone that was published Monday, Kinzinger said he was "hunkered down" in his office for six hours "with my gun out, prepared to defend against my own party" when the rioters were making their way through the Capitol.
And yet nothing happened in his part of the building. The next question is whether he is legally permitted to carry in the Capitol building...
Pressed by Cupp about whether he considered the possibility that he would need to use his firearm against American citizens, Kinzinger said, "Yeah, I thought about it." Odds are he was pulling a Biden and crapping in his pants
#2
The honourable NeverTrumper congressman who decided to retire after redistricting made his reelection doubtful, and is doing as much damage to the Republican party on his way out as he can. He voted for the “infrastructure” bill, too.
[ABC7News] the Socialist paradise of San Francisco ...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964... Department of Elections officials said Tuesday the department has certified a petition that seeks to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin,
...Weatherman royalty backed by George Soros...
election officials said.
The special election to recall Boudin will take place on June 7, 2022, during the statewide primary election.
About two weeks ago, the group Safer SF Without Boudin announced it had already gathered 83,487 signatures from San Francisco voters who want to recall Boudin -- well over the 30,000 needed to for the June ballot.
The group alleges that Boudin has failed to prioritize the public's safety by being too lenient on repeat offenders.
Two former prosecutors with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, former Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and former prosecutor Don du Bain, have joined the recall effort.
HIS RESUME:
Both his parents were Weather Underground Domestic Terrorist members and arrested for Murder. Boudin was then adopted by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrnand Weather Underground Domestic Terrorist Leaders and raised in Chicago.
He worked directly for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the Venezuelan Palace.
He is a DA that is Anti-Police.
He Anti-USA and Pro Social Reform
As DA, he has applied his liberal agenda to his office over the law.
Question:
Given his Liberal, Pro-Socialist, Radical reform upbringing and application history. Coupled with the fact he now knows he is up fro recall in June 2022.
Does anyone think he won't double down and go for broke?
[Philly Inquirer] Apparently those 12,000 "found" votes were....um...something else
New Jersey Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney on Wednesday conceded his loss in last week’s election, an upset that sent shock waves through the state’s political world, but said he would remain a player in Garden State politics.
“I will be speaking from a different podium, but I promise you: I will be just as loud and just as forceful a voice for change,” he told reporters at the Statehouse in Trenton. "keep the graft and boodle flowing. I will be back"
Sweeney also congratulated his opponent, Edward Durr Jr., a previously unknown South Jersey Republican who has never served in elected office. Durr’s victory over Sweeney, the longest-serving Senate president in the state’s history and the second-most powerful elected official in Trenton, was an unexpected and major blow to South Jersey’s Democratic establishment.
“All votes have been fairly counted, and I, of course, accept the results,” Sweeney said.
Durr won by a few more than 2,200 votes out of 65,000 cast, according to the Associated Press. Sweeney held off on conceding for a week, saying he wanted all votes counted. Republican Jack Ciattarelli, who mounted an unsuccessful campaign to oust Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, has also urged patience while the votes are counted and has not yet conceded that race despite Murphy’s 72,000-vote lead.
Durr, a 58-year-old truck driver, has said his win was a repudiation of the state’s pandemic policies such as vaccine and mask mandates. Soon after the election, he faced calls to resign after a reporter turned up offensive social media posts, such as one calling undocumented immigrants “criminals” and another that referred to Islam as a “false religion.” Durr deleted the posts last week and said he supports “everybody’s right to worship in any manner they choose.”
Durr will take office in January and serve a two-year term, then can run for a four-year term under New Jersey’s electoral system.
'It was a red wave,' Sweeney said, after losing by about 2,000 votes
Sweeney did not end up demanding a recount, which would have to have been finance by his party
Edward Durr is a 58-year-old truck driver for furniture store Raymour & Flanigan
He defeated NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney, who is the longest-serving legislative leader in New Jersey's history and has been in senate since 2002
The last time Sweeney had to defend his seat in 2017, nearly $20 million was spent in what is known as one of the most expensive legislative races in US
Democrats have struggled statewide in the blue stronghold, with incumbent Democratic Governor Murphy just barely crawling to victory
#3
How was his statement about illegals wrong? And he didn't say anything about Islam that Islam doesn't say about everyone else.
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"I will be speaking from a different podium, but I promise you: I will be just as loud and just as forceful a voice for change,” he told reporters at the Statehouse in Trenton.
Watch this man closely.
Where he goes for his next grift will tell us a great deal about the next phase of this nightmare regime
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...who mounted an unsuccessful campaign to oust Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, has also urged patience while the votes are counted and has not yet conceded that race despite Murphy’s 72,000-vote lead.
I crashed just before midnight that night; Ciattarelli was leading by 3,000 - 5,000 votes. The 3 AM ballot dump lives on.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.