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A Chicago police officer has been relieved of his duties after a video posted online showed him stomping on a man’s head during an attempted arrest, officials said on Tuesday.
The officer will be relieved of duties while the Independent Police Review Authority investigates the incident, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in an emailed statement to Reuters. Continue reading “Chicago cop relieved of duties after head-stomping caught on video”
The script for what to do following a tragedy like the one in Orlando over the weekend is now quite clear: politicians want to appear “serious” about the issue, and thus they say stuff to appease people, even if what they say makes no sense. There was a lot of senseless rhetoric going around, of course, and we’ll leave the usual debates about issues we don’t cover on Techdirt to lots of other sites. But an issue we do cover is surveillance and bogus ideas like “watch lists” where a mere accusation leads to basic rights being taken away. And, unfortunately, it appears that both major Presidential candidates are advocating for greater surveillance and denial of civil liberties as a response to someone shooting up a nightclub and killing dozens of people. Continue reading “Both Trump And Clinton Suggest Expanding Mass Surveillance, Bogus Watch Lists After Attack In Orlando”
MADISON, Wis. – Is the University of Wisconsin-Madison running the risk of having minority students viewed as being coddled and overprotected from “seemingly minor or unintentional” slights?
Is it creating an environment where the slightest statement or action could provoke a finger-pointing witch hunt for students who are accused of insensitivity? Continue reading “University of Wisconsin students to undergo mandatory ‘cultural competency training’”
Preferred Weapon:
For two days now we’ve been scolded by the left on why NO ONE needs an AR-15 (no one needs a car since we seem hellbent on other people telling you what you need or want). For instance (provided by the indefatigable Bob Owens at our sister blog Bearing Arms):
Newsweek screamed, “ORLANDO SHOOTING PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON AR-15 RIFLE.”
Judd Legume of Think Progress squeaked, “The NRA’s Love Affair With The AR-15, Weapon Of Choice For Mass Murderers, In 22 Tweets.”
Continue reading “Orlando Shooter Did Not Use An AR-15, But Who Cares. A Narrative Is Building”
In the aftermath of the Orlando terrorist attack, President Barack Obama today called on Congress to reinstate the assault weapons ban as well as pass legislation to make it harder for suspected terrorists to obtain firearms.
The president said there are a number of “common sense” gun control measures that Congress should take to reduce gun violence without violating the Second Amendment, and for the first time since the deadly shooting Sunday, he enumerated several steps he wants Congress to take. Continue reading “Obama Calls for Assault Weapons Ban, New ‘No Fly, No Buy’ Law”
Russia Insider – by Moses Birch
The war you don’t hear about: numerous American military aircraft (albeit of the unmanned variety, though with the possibility of being armed and dangerous) have apparently been violating Russian airspace, leading to the Russians shooting – yes, shooting – them down following the refusal of the Americans to acknowledge Russian diplomatic notes of protest.
The military violation of the territory, including the airspace, of a sovereign state is ordinarily taken to be a casus belli – an act of war. Continue reading “The Russians Have Already Shot Down Numerous US Drones Violating Crimean Airspace”
Posted 7 days ago but still within the timeline…just barely.
75 EVENT SECURITY OFFICERS NEEDED Immediately Must Have D License (orlando)
We are in need of 75 Event Security officers Immediately must have D license no blue cards
YOU WILL BE PAID CASH AFTER THE EVENT IS OVER
An argument between a driver and bike messengers in Manhattan yesterday almost became deadly when the driver pulled out a gun. Reports of a gunman spread, and a local elementary school was even put on lockdown, but thankfully police and firefighters arrived before anyone was shot.
Then an unarmed bicyclist was arrested, and not the angry man with the gun, because the angry man with a gun was also an off-duty cop. Continue reading “Crazed Greenwich Village Gunman Also Off-Duty NYPD Officer”
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The official underreporting of the unemployment statistics is a well-known fact. The cavalier dismissal of the systemic dismantling of the market economy by the Obama administration is undeniable. Notwithstanding, the lack of living wage jobs is not simply a partisan issue. Ever since the adoption of the globalist free trade betrayal, the national suicide of the free enterprise economy has continued. Transiting skilled employees into government dependents is an overt component of the “New Age” of reduced wealth and servitude for the ordinary American.
Consider the logic of the consequences of off shoring our manufacturing base. Once the jobs are gone, the prospects for good paying substitution jobs become rare. Without the ability to sell value added products generated from meaningful margins, affording generous pay scales of a prosperous middle class is impossible. Continue reading “The Permanent Unemployment Economy”
Naval Exercise Malabar kicked off 12 hours ago (US, India, Japan), amidst much speculation that all these “exercises” involving the world’s major navies are a steaming crock of coverup for what is the closest thing to a war in the Pacific that we’ve seen since WWII.
I don’t believe in coincidences. “Worst mass shooting ever” just before major naval adversaries flood into the South China Seas? Continue reading “Orlando: Distraction from WWIII with China and Russia? Sh*t hitting the fan in the Pacific.”
(RT) The mass murder of 49 people in Orlando again shows that the United States must consider heightened gun-control measures to protect its most vulnerable citizens, the United Nations human rights commissioner has said.
Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, implored American leaders to finally address easy access to firearms and the resulting high volume of gun violence that is now pervasive in the US. Continue reading “UN rights chief calls for more US gun control in wake of Orlando massacre”
New York Times – by Quentin Hardy
SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the world’s most powerful medium for knowledge, communications and commerce — but that doesn’t mean Mr. Berners-Lee is happy with all of the consequences.
“It controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact,” he said of the modern day web. “It’s been great, but spying, blocking sites, repurposing people’s content, taking you to the wrong websites — that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create.” Continue reading “The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It”
The Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish
In ten years, Americans’ confidence in television and print news crashed to an all-time low,according to the latest Gallup poll.
After mainstream media coverage of the massacre in Orlando on Sunday largely failed to dig further after multiple witnesses came forward suggesting more than one attacker was involved, that lack of trust seems logical. Continue reading “Poll: 2016 Is The Year Americans Stopped Trusting The Establishment, Especially The Media”
Breitbart – by Daniel Nussbaum
In the wake of tragic mass shootings or terrorist attacks like the one perpetrated Sunday morning in Orlando, Hollywood celebrities are often the first to call for gun control measures.
On Sunday afternoon – before most of the facts were known about the Orlando massacre, in which 49 people were killed and another 53 injured by a Muslim gunman who reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State — actresses including Julianne Moore and Olivia Wilde were already on social media to demand stricter gun laws, even if those laws would have made no difference in the terrorist’s ability to acquire a gun. Continue reading “Hollywood’s Gun Hypocrisy — in 15 Movie Posters from 2016”
A SWAT team shot and killed a suspect who took hostages at a Walmart in Amarillo, Texas Tuesday afternoon, investigators confirmed.
The Randall County Sheriff’s Office announced the gunman was dead. City officials first reported an “active shooter incident” at 12:30 p.m. local time. Continue reading “SWAT team kills suspect who took hostages at Amarillo, Texas Walmart, investigators say”
“…Michael German, a former F.B.I. agent who researches national security law at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, told the Times, ‘They’re [the FBI] manufacturing terrorism cases.’” (The New Yorker, June 10, 2016, “Do FBI Stings help fight against ISIS?” by Evan Osnos)
The website Cryptogon has pieced together some interesting facts, and a quite odd “coincidence.” I’m bolstering their work. Continue reading “Orlando shooter: deeper hidden ties to the FBI?”
Toronto Sun – by ALEXANDER PANETTA
ORLANDO, Fla. — Omar Mateen was more than just a homicidal, jihadist-inspired homophobe when he shot his way through an Orlando nightclub early Sunday morning, according to a couple of the establishment regulars.
He was also a repeat visitor. Continue reading “Omar Mateen used to hang at Orlando gay hotspot, some regulars recall”