[ALESTIKLAL.NET] The army, police, and security officers, across the board, are meant to protect people against all kinds of danger and extremism. But what if those protectors are the extremists themselves? This is what erodes the American public’s trust in the institutions designed to keep the country safe.
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , in Extremists in Uniform Put the Nation at Risk, warned of the danger posed by extremists working in the US army, police, or law enforcement agencies to the country’s security, calling for urgent measures to be taken to enforce the law.
A danger to the New York Times’ view of how things ought to be, which isn't even close to being a danger to the nation or the enforcement of the law.
The newspaper presented several examples of killings and assaults carried out by those involved in the service or retired from the aforementioned agencies, noting that they join armed white Death Eater groups such as the Boogaloo movement, the Proud Boys, and the Oath keepers.
Several. Out of a population of 350 million Americans or however many millions involved in the service or retired from the aforementioned agencies.
EXTREMISM AMONG SECURITY FORCES There has been a noticeable rise in political violence in America, like the harassment of election workers and public officials, the targeting of a Supreme Court justice,
...by creatures of the far left...
and the recent attack on the husband of the speaker of the House of Representatives,
...he was certifiably nuts, a creature of the far left, as well as an illegal immigrant from Canada...
not to mention the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
...organized and directed by agents provocateur on the FBI payroll, so members of the Progressive Deep State, in opposition to President Trump’s public request to his followers to be law-abiding, which most still nonetheless.
The majority of political violence over the past years came at the hands of members of white supremacists or their Death Eater sympathizers and antigovernment groups.
The most disturbing fact about their movements is that veterans, active-duty military personnel, and law enforcement personnel represent high numbers in Death Eater groups.
The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism analysis revealed, last year, a leaked list of membership of the Oath Keepers, a violent mostly peaceful paramilitary group involved in the January 6 attacks that recruits coppers and military personnel, that had more than 100 members of the military and 370 members of law enforcement.
Again, it has been reported that a number of senior leadership members were paid FBI informants.
Rooters conducted an investigation this year to find that many police trainers around the country, training hundreds of officers, belong to Death Eater paramilitary groups or previously expressed sympathy for their ideology.
One trainer posted on social media that government officials opposing Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... should be killed and that the country was on the brink of civil war, according to NYT.
We don’t hold with that kind of talk here.
A recent The Marshall Project investigation concluded that hundreds of sheriffs are part of or sympathetic to the ideas of the constitutional sheriffs’ movement, which says that sheriffs are above state and federal law. The Anti-Defamation League describes the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association as an "antigovernment Death Eater group whose primary purpose is to recruit sheriffs into the antigovernment ’patriot’ movement."
Is that state and federal in general, or where such laws conflict with the U.S. Constitution?
For decades, the police departments, the Pentagon, and the Department of Veterans Affairs were aware of the problem, yet had only few successful operations in up-rooting extremists from their service.
A DIRECT THREAT TO US DEMOCRACY The majority of Americans believe that this kind of violence is justified most of the time, and this greater tolerance has become "a threat to democratic governance," as the NYT described.
Extremists and their sympathizers pushed Americans to have less trust in the institutions that were meant to protect the country. Extremists in uniforms can put at risk police investigations by leaking confidential information or giving falsified reports.
On the other hand, extremists in the military represent a threat to "good order and discipline." Whereas in law enforcement, Death Eaters, white supremacists in particular, pose a threat to the people they should protect, especially people of color.
NYT also mentioned extremists in federal agencies saying they "can compromise national security and make our borders even less secure," noting that "protecting those institutions and the nation they serve demands urgent action."
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Anything coming from the meeja which contains the words "democracy" or anything about threatening "democracy" is now either a lie or a distortion. I didn't need to read farther than the headline.
#2
When they say "this is a threat to our democracy", that's exactly what they mean. THEIR form of government. Not we the people! And like all governments that put "democratic" front and center, it's nothing but lies. Otherwise why keep trumpeting it all the time?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Dutch court found on Wednesday that the bombing of a civilian complex in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan by Dutch forces in June 2007 was "unlawful" and that the Netherlands should compensate for the victims’ losses.
In response to a report from a war veteran raising concerns about the legality of this action in the Chora valley of Uruzgan province, the Dutch Defense Ministry requested prosecutors look into this bombardment, which resulted in the deaths of numerous civilians.
In response to the incident that occurred during battle between multinational forces and the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... in the province of Uruzgan in central Afghanistan, four Afghans who were not identified in court documents reportedly sued the Dutch government.
Early on June 17, 2007, Dutch F-16 military aircraft launched 28 guided bombs in the region, 18 of which landed on "qalas," or fortified compounds, close to the major town of Chora, the evaluated.
According to Dutch court records, the wife, two daughters, three sons, and a daughter-in-law of one of the people who complained to the court were among the victims of this horrific bombing.
According to the court, Dutch soldiers had not made a proper distinction between military and civilian objectives.
The court further stated that the precise sum of compensation to be given to the attack victims will be determined at a later time, and the Dutch Defense Ministry said it will consider the court decision.
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More war crimes from Western governments.
At what point do we acknowledge that they are epistemically evil? Because we passed the tip-over decades ago.
#3
There were indeed war crimes, but not by the Dutch. Read this and this from the Rantburg archives.
Also read the Afghanistan entries all the rest of that month. The Taliban are very enthusiastic about using their civilians as human shields — both as bullet meat and forcing them to fight — as are the Palestinians, so perhaps it is characteristic of Moslem societies.
#6
^ And I'm sure we all use it in ordinary conversation. "The Astros are epistemically the best team in baseball." "Epistemically, the lady's dress is blue."
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The court further stated that the precise sum of compensation to be given to the attack victims will be determined at a later time,
Means 'we'll ask the Taliban and get back to you, keep your chequebook ready.'
#8
/\ "You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means" --Inigo Montoya.
...like trying to use yclept in a sentence (and not in a Scrabble™ game).
One must say it aloud, though, which is where I got in trouble with paradigm. American English, particularly, has so many words that come from other languages that one can’t tell by reading it how many words ought to be pronounced. Even more particularly if one speaks more than one language, each with its own pronunciation patterns... It was at that point that I discovered what it feels like when an entire dinner party one is hosting stops in puzzlement, certain that the thing one said was a joke because they all knew I was too smart to have made that particular mistake by accident...
#10
I'm certain you are the most gracious of hostesses in any language, tw.
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Onamatopoea
I don't wanna see ya
Speakin'in a foreign tongue.
- John Prine
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Around western PeeAye, people pronouce Duquesne much as a Frenchman would, but, North Versailles is "North Versales" and Dubois is "DuBoys."
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I can’t speak to gracious, Matt, though it’s kind of you to say so. For me all it takes is interesting people — beyond that it needn’t be more complicated than take-out pizza on paper plates and cheap wine while sitting on the living room floor, if that's all one can afford, or pot luck. Fancy is fun, too, but absolutely unnecessary.
It also helps to have at least one language in common with each of one’s guests, but they needn't all have the same language in common — as long as each has at least one other person with one language in common, translating adds to the fun. Different backgrounds, interests, careers has the same effect — much like here at Rantburg. :-)
#14
I didn't even follow this til just now, and this thread made my Black Friday
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Thank you ;-)
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#12 Murcek, even in south Louisiana the pronunciation of French place names is wildly inconsistent. My favorite, though, is that a local municipality decided to name a street "Helios" as one of a group of streets named after figures in Greek mythology. But the guys who actually made the signs spelled it "Helois" because that sounded like good French. But then everyone pronounced the name as "hell-LOYS", which is neither French, Greek, or anything else. They've corrected the spelling on the signs, but no Yat would recognize "Helios Street" if you asked for directions.
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The Knowin' Lear, or, Ed the Head
Epistemically, Comrade McCoy,
Epistemically sharp... for a goy...
Epistemically reeks
Of his smoke-covered peeks
At conspiracy theory tromp l'oeil.
I know, cheap shots... but pompous preachy [glances at mirror, winces] isn't many people's best look, eh?
[BBC] Afghans are giving their hungry children medicines to sedate them - others have sold their daughters and organs to survive. In the second winter since the Taliban took over and foreign funds were frozen, millions are a step away from famine.
"Our children keep crying, and they don't sleep. We have no food," Abdul Wahab said.
"So we go to the pharmacy, get tablets and give them to our children so that they feel drowsy."
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#1
Some child abusers elsewhere drug children to abuse them, or to conceal abuse, or to foist children on day care facilities while they are asleep and have recently been injured so they can blame or sue the day care for hurting the child. This world has so many deviant scammers running around.
#2
Solicitation of the 'tranche', disguised as boo hoo 'oh the humanity' narratives by another Sunni moslem mouthpiece, the Bullshit Broadcasting Commission. Nobody has to give a fcuk. Eat your children and sell the bones to China to make cups, we don't care.
#3
All the Sunnis are committed in making Afghanistan another Pakistain - another islamic shithole the entire budget, salaries and expenditures of which the west, mainly America, has to pay forever. Taxpayers from kaffir societies propping up another goddamn terrorist haven indefinitely. They'll keep bombarding you with guilt and leveraging that old first world messiah complex to fcuk you out of trillions.
M23 is also known as the Congolese Revolutionary Army. The Tutsi group was founded in 2012 as a sock puppet of Rwanda, which no doubt seemed a good idea at the time, but in less than a year the Congolese army defeated them, and then Rwanda publicly stepped back in response to international pressure. Recently M23 has started acting up again, possibly again at Rwandan instigation.
MURIC is the Muslim Rights Concern, founded in 1993 by a Muslim Studies professor at Lagos State University to agitate dialog — peacefully and lawfully, of course — for Muslim rights in Nigeria.
[AlAhram] "Unprecedented" world events including the war in Ukraine are driving record numbers of people to move to Britannia, statisticians said Thursday, even as ministers vow to clamp down on post-Brexit immigration.
Net migration into the UK -- the number of people arriving to start new lives, minus those leaving -- stood at 504,000 in the 12 months to June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
That was up sharply from 173,000 in the previous year, and was also driven by the resettlement of Afghan refugees, plus a new visa route for UK passport holders living in Hong Kong.
Students entering Britannia after the easing of pandemic lockdown curbs were another factor, the ONS said.
"A series of world events have impacted international migration patterns in the 12 months to June 2022. Taken together these were unprecedented," commented Jay Lindop, director of the Centre for International Migration at the ONS.
They have "all contributed to the record levels of long-term immigration we have seen", she said, while noting it was "too early to say whether this picture will be sustained".
The figures risk complicating the political debate over immigration six years after Britannia voted to leave the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , in a backlash against the free movement of people across the bloc.
Interior minister Suella Braverman, a hardline Brexiteer, on Wednesday admitted the government had "failed to control our borders".
She vowed anew to tackle the isssue of record numbers of migrants colonists crossing the Channel from La Belle France, but struggled to explain to MPs how would-be asylum seekers fleeing war and persecution could now enter Britannia legally.
[IsraelTimes] Reports say UN and US officials interceded with Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and PA, while Israeli military had prepared a wide-scale operation to bring home remains of teen Tiran Fero
A large-scale international diplomatic effort took place to secure the release of the body of Tiran Fero, a Druze teenager whose remains were snatched by Lions of Islam from a hospital in the West Bank this week, according to a report Thursday.
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[IsraelTimes] Saadah Masoud beat a Jewish man at an anti-Israel protest earlier this year; new conspiracy charge could open door to further prosecutions
A pro-Paleostinian activist muppet on Tuesday pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes charges for a series of attacks on Jews in New York City in 2021 and 2022.
Lebanon is even worse than Belgium for avoiding negotiating an actual government.
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#Lebanese lawmakers on Thursday failed for a seventh time to elect a new president as the country grapples with a deepening political and economic crisis.#lebanonpic.twitter.com/1P8hZ4od6s
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.
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
