And Melissa Clouthier's got the sublime rejoinder:
Do feminists need a roadmap to their vagina? Good grief. Grow up. You're more than a body part. RE http://t.co/twZSRnpeaj
— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) July 21, 2014
Commentary and analysis on American politics, culture, and national identity, U.S. foreign policy and international relations, and the state of education - from a neoconservative perspective! - Keeping an eye on the communist-left so you don't have to!
Do feminists need a roadmap to their vagina? Good grief. Grow up. You're more than a body part. RE http://t.co/twZSRnpeaj
— Melissa Clouthier (@MelissaTweets) July 21, 2014
To portray Hamas sympathetically and Israel as villainous is not simply irrational. It requires one to step through the looking glass, to hate the good and embrace the malevolent, and in doing so to enter a world characterized by at best moral confusion and at worst moral corruption.Well, I'd just call it evil. But yeah, moral corruption works too.
DONETSK, Ukraine—Negotiations over the rebel-held crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 began to bear fruit on Monday, as Malaysia's prime minister said rebels had agreed to hand over the aircraft's data recorders and to allow the transport of victims' bodies to the Netherlands.More here.
Victims' remains were being transported by train from the pro-Russian territory of Torez, about 12 miles south of the crash site, to Kharkiv, Ukraine, a city with no fighting that is under government control. From there, they will be sent to the Netherlands, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in The Hague on Monday. It wasn't clear when the remains would arrive, Mr. Rutte said, and the train trip to Kharkiv alone could take "at least 10 to 12 hours," he said.
Rebel leader Alexander Borodai told a delegation from Malaysia in the regional capital of Donetsk on Monday that he planned to hand Flight 17's black boxes over to representatives of the Malaysian and Dutch governments in Ukraine.
The head of the Malaysian delegation, Col. Mohd Sakri, said an agreement had been reached for the rapid removal of bodies of the plane's passengers and crew, which would be transported first to the Netherlands. "We want to bring bodies as soon as possible to family members to let them identify them, to make proper funeral arrangements according to their religion," he said. Forty-three Malaysians died aboard Flight 17.
Once in the Netherlands, Dutch labs will carry out the necessary procedures for the positive identification of the victims irrespective of nationality, said Jos van Roo, the leader of the Dutch forensics team in Ukraine.
As new fighting broke out across the region between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatists, President Barack Obama strengthened his demand that Russian President Vladimir Putin compel the rebels to clear the way for investigators to access the crash site, which remains chaotic four days after the jet was downed.
The U.S. and Ukraine have said intelligence shows pro-Russia rebels in eastern Ukraine used a missile system provided by Russia to shoot down Flight 17. But on Monday, Russia's Defense Ministry offered an alternative conclusion, saying Russian radar had spotted a second aircraft near the Malaysian Airlines jet shortly before the crash and that satellite imagery showed Ukraine had moved missile systems into the area before the incident.
Lt. Gen. Igor Makushev said it was likely the second aircraft was a Ukrainian fighter jet, but he didn't say who the ministry believed had fired the missile that brought Flight 17 down.
The U.N. Security Council on Monday passed a unanimous resolution condemning the downing of Flight 17 and calling for an independent international investigation into the incident.
Growing anger over the attack and the handling of the crash site has led some European leaders to join Mr. Obama in threatening broad new measures against Moscow. European foreign ministers were due to discuss stiffer sanctions in Brussels on Tuesday.
"Now's the time for President Putin and Russia to pivot away from the strategy that they've been taking and get serious about trying to resolve hostilities within Ukraine,"
Mr. Obama said in comments at the White House. Mr. Obama called for "immediate and full access to the crash site" and warned Russia that it would face additional sanctions if Mr. Putin does not act. He also said the blocking of access to the crash site by pro-Russian separatists "begs the question: What exactly are they trying to hide?"
.@CassandraRules Thinkin' I might have a cookie too. @beautifulchaosJ @drginaloudon http://t.co/DaAvrWJxbv Keep respectfully reaching out.
— W. James Casper (@repsac3) July 17, 2014
The people speaking out for Gaza right now are the same people who would have been speaking out against the Nazis.
— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 17, 2014
TELL ME HOW THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN NAZI GERMANY. SOMEONE FUCKING TELL ME RIGHT NOW http://t.co/tRkVjcahLV
— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 18, 2014
Suck it flag wavers. #Anaheim pic.twitter.com/uvJ5yFmoS0
— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 19, 2014
Good. More dead Israeli soldiers please RT @AmPowerBlog: Israeli soldier from Los Angeles is killed in Gaza. #Israel http://t.co/DG5qAQjOQk
— Captain Howdy (@jackherer20) July 21, 2014
Since the beginning of the year, anti-Jewish violence and intimidation in France has reached levels not seen since the Holocaust. And things have only gotten worse since Palestinian terrorists in Hebron kidnapped and murdered Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gil-Ad Shaer a month ago. Life for Jews in France is becoming increasingly untenable.And so it was in Los Angeles yesterday, where the Stalinist ANSWER cadres organized a march on the Israeli embassy, and here's "Cassandra" at the march, tweeting the Hamas slogan, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!":
Anti-Jewish attacks run the gamut from shouting “Death to the Jews,” and “Finish Hitler’s Work,” to delivering bomb threats to Jewish kindergartens and businesses, to vandalizing Jewish businesses, institutions and other property, to physically assaulting Jews of all ages, as well as Jewish institutions.
On Sunday, violent mass assaults on Jewish targets commenced just as a two-hour-long fanatically pro-Palestinian march was dispersing. Nearly 200 Jewish worshipers were trapped inside of the Don Issac Avrabanel synagogue as assailants, riled up from the march, threw bricks at the synagogue and attacked its Jewish defenders with metal rods.
In the US, levels of violence against Jews by supporters of the Palestinians continue to rise. In San Francisco, pro-Palestinian protesters showed their solidarity with the Palestinian goal of genocide by, among other things, calling for Israel’s destruction while wearing white gloves with red paint on the fingers and palms...
From the river to the sea, Gaza will be free! From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever! #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/my5FEQ01Fs
— Cassandra (@CassandraRules) July 21, 2014
NOW: THOUSANDS MASSED OUTSIDE #ISRAEL CONSULATE IN LA pic.twitter.com/8Xm1TKh39M
— Mike Prysner (@MikePrysner) July 21, 2014
Tens of thousands protested in London Saturday afternoon against Israel’s military operations in Gaza, denouncing Israel as a terrorist state and castigating British Prime Minister David Cameron for backing Israel’s right to self-defense against Hamas rocket fire.The left's "Free Gaza" protests are nothing more than anti-Jew hate-fests delegitimizing Israel, literally calling for the Jews to be swept to the sea, to their deaths.
Led by speakers on a podium, protesters holding placards and banners chanted pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel slogans. At one point, a woman on the podium shouted “from the river to the sea” — a call for the elimination of Israel — and protesters responded by yelling “Palestine will be free.”
It's legal in America to take pictures of public buildings — and pretty much everything and everyone else in public. That's something that law enforcement agencies routinely take advantage of in arguing that people have no "reasonable expectation of privacy" when they're out and about and being surveilled by the government.That everyone else includes police officers, despite their protestations, and private citizens, like the ANSWER thugs who used criminal violence in an attempt to shut down "American Power."
Fascist infiltrator from the blog American Power provoking the crowd. Heated atmosphere! #opAnaheim pic.twitter.com/4lgeVmJb5w
— ACSA Collective (@acsacollective) July 19, 2014
Were there no cops there? Forcefully grabbing your phone and throwing it away is assault plus theft (and if the phone is over $400 it is a felony).No, there weren't any cops at the Stoddard Park rally, although there were loads of police at the march on Disneyland. I would have finished the march had I not been detoured by ANSWER's cowardly violence. These Stalinist goons simply will not tolerate conservative media reporting the truth on their "KKKOP killer" protests.
They want to stop gang injunctions? Nothing like handing over the public streets to criminals there.
Anaheim March Against Police Brutality Reaches #Disneyland http://t.co/RxmZVnvtB0 #opAnaheim pic.twitter.com/SqIf2oZJmf
— Revolution News (@NewsRevo) July 20, 2014
National protest against #amnesty - Anaheim patriots! #BorderInvasion @Red__Rover @SpreadButter pic.twitter.com/JGxbdz7P4H
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@PatDollard Anaheim patriots join national day of protest -#NoAmnesty! pic.twitter.com/O9qZiCIjc3
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@AlyssaLafage Illegal alien disease tsunami flooding our border! Anaheim says #NoAmnesty! #BorderInvasion pic.twitter.com/XWlHUH2m9q
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@littlebytesnews Anaheim patriots say deport illegal aliens! #StopAmnesty! @10thAmendment pic.twitter.com/oU6pT2kBfG
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@AlyssaLafage Awesome! Anaheim PD says protest looks great! Keep it safe. Whoa! #SecureTheBorder @PatDollard pic.twitter.com/qGEDOn0XUr
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@DarleenClick Anaheim anti-#Amnesty protesters say hire American! #SecureTheBorder #StopAmnesty! pic.twitter.com/m1E46kGn9F
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
National day of protest. Tell Obama to stop human smuggling! #SecureTheBorder pic.twitter.com/ZtOWfGO5lQ
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@PatDollard American flag! Gadsden flag! No Mexican flag! Anaheim patriots stand up. #BorderInvasion! #NoAmnesty! pic.twitter.com/vri2woWBCM
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@RSMcCain Patriots protest Obama's open-borders invasion! Anaheim! #NoAmnesty! pic.twitter.com/ktOI9nuxqA
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@Beanfrompa Enforce our laws! #SecureTheBorder. #Anaheim protest against illegal immigration! pic.twitter.com/DZj3ZvrmLQ
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
Criminal #Democrats infecting our nation! Horns honking! #Anaheim #SecureTheBorder @Smitty_One_Each @Red__Rover pic.twitter.com/GCRJor7TFi
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@AlyssaLafage "Priceless" stop- #Amnesty protest in #Irvine. #SecureTheBorder! @RSMcCain pic.twitter.com/HAlVwDC4XH
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
Councilwoman Deborah Pauly (@YnotDebPauly) at #Irvine anti-#Amnesty protest! #SecureTheBorder @Red__Rover pic.twitter.com/uUu5A79vk6
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@PatDollard #NoAmnesty! Stop communist infiltration. #SecureTheBorder pic.twitter.com/hdxOgDxqh0
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
#Irvine patriots say no to #IllegalImmigration. @SpreadButter #NoAmnesty pic.twitter.com/3T790rKkkL
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
#Irvine PD meet with CHP, because freedom! It's all good. #StopAmnesty! pic.twitter.com/Vb7EvXMZpH
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
CHP stopped by #Irvine #NoAmnesty protest and it's all good, because #1a. pic.twitter.com/r49fqWqFDd
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
@AmPowerBlog @Wakepedia be careful, they are the true violent , law breakers. I've met a few myself at protests they travel in packs.
— SpreadButter (@SpreadButter) July 20, 2014
— SpreadButter (@SpreadButter) July 20, 2014
@AmPowerBlog this was a great read! You're one brave guy. @SpreadButter @Wakepedia
— Zoomshyne (@Zoomshyne) July 20, 2014
@AmPowerBlog real courageous for their cause, huh? Your blog was right about that! Seem like a bunch of babies.
— Zoomshyne (@Zoomshyne) July 20, 2014
@AmPowerBlog Those ladies alone are a good reason to oppose the revolution.
— ChandlersGhost (@ECHartIV) July 20, 2014
@AmPowerBlog Wow. They are mentally out of this world. What is wrong with those people?
— Donna Lands (@ladydonnalands) July 20, 2014
All these leftist haters lie and say we do things they're actually doing. They're mentally insane @willpow357MAG @AmPowerBlog @rsmccain
— Dave Wolf (@wolfman708) July 20, 2014
@AmPowerBlog @CFLancop pure hypocrisy, if that had happened to them they would have been crying to anyone who could file a law suit
— liedetected (@metaljutsu) July 20, 2014
@doug_kauffman @AmPowerBlog @CassandraRules This pic shows the paranoia of those PSL/ANSWER tankies pretty well ;) pic.twitter.com/CaoyAXrp3J
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) July 20, 2014
@AmPowerBlog @CassandraRules @MikePrysner That's true. He is a poser. He didn’t even write that Winter Soldier speech. Brian Becker did.
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) July 20, 2014
PSL is a little micro cult that commits snitchjacketing and character assassinations regularly #PSLisCorrupt
http://t.co/p1jumZPFlw
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) April 11, 2014
Boycott ANSWER Coalition
#PSLisCorrupt
http://t.co/f4OZDBScB1
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) April 11, 2014
Members and supporters always figure out ways to make excuses for PSL. That's why it took me months to express hostility publicly.
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) April 11, 2014
Not my job to hold anyone's hand, but you're complicit if you continue to support PSL and ignore the truth. #PSLisCorrupt /endrant
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) April 11, 2014
Against #NoNewWar over there? Well the group organizing "resistance" over HERE has covered up rape, stolen donations & exploited members.
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) June 21, 2014
I agree about #NoNewWar but #FuckANSWER too @answercoalition @pslweb @ANSWERLA @MikePrysner
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) June 21, 2014
PSL Fails attempt at Suppressing Dissent @MikePrysner http://t.co/hs6w6jxsiv
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) June 30, 2014
#IfThePurgeWasReal is a hashtag? I'd make a joke, but I'm afraid members of @pslweb might give me a restraining order lol @ColdPizzaMMmm
— John Hernandez (@GrumpyOldJohn) July 11, 2014
.@RSMcCain Came over to #Anaheim's Stoddard Park cover @ANSWERLA's police brutality protest. pic.twitter.com/yQBs9MFBf3
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@RSMcCain Tried to take photos but @CassandraRules' thugs got in my face, intimidating. Cassandra is at left. pic.twitter.com/kwdESKjE8f
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
. @RSMcCain This woman said "fuck you" to my face. She's one of @CassandraRules' violent thugs. pic.twitter.com/NfpFFEO7gG
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@BeautifulChaosJ is a liar, refused to take questions about supporting Stalinist #ANSWERLA @RSMcCain @Red__Rover pic.twitter.com/4yp9pi1BcF
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@RSMcCain became surrounded by anarcho-clowns blocking, trying to intimidate. @MaroonedInMarin @MadJewessWoman pic.twitter.com/xcRXzb4O8e
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
Here's @CassandraRules with pussy communist stooge @MichaelPrysner. #ANSWERLA @RSMcCain pic.twitter.com/QrNW620cYF
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
Here's @CassandraRules, an open-borders thug, #LaRaza communist who's been slurring Israel as a Nazi state. @RSMcCain pic.twitter.com/3SC60bRPBs
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
Epic loser and coward @MichaelPrysner grabbed my iPhone out of my hand and threw it in the street. He's a pussy. pic.twitter.com/IAUj8TPK4C
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
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— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
Should be lots of video of me on communist and #OWS websites later lol. Losers were trying to intimidate. @RSMcCain pic.twitter.com/2bGSuA80pd
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@RSMcCain Pot smoke was everywhere. This 'cool hippie' got in my face, physically assaulted, and never quit. pic.twitter.com/CNB33nQX9I
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@RSMcCain This woman too. Blocked me. Wouldn't get out of my face. Smelled terrible, looked like an ashtray. pic.twitter.com/N1sUNhcdY1
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
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Another one of @CassandraRules' commie thugs. Said "fuck you" to my face. These are hateful people. @RSMcCain pic.twitter.com/c0MTHFtBb5
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@RSMcCain Funny too, since mostly just wanted to take a few pictures, of the signs etc. pic.twitter.com/1sfK4N0rND
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.RSMcCain More stupid smelly thugs blocking me. #LaRaza brownshirts also on hand. @MichelleMalkin @MaroonedInMarin pic.twitter.com/FGtNsdTOqc
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@RSMcCain Here's the chunky bitch thug from #Murrieta on July 7th. A friend of commie loser @CassandraRules. pic.twitter.com/JwVrcgFlTE
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
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— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@rsmccain #ANSWERLA protest march. https://t.co/wm1dCVEUq8
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@CassandraRules at the communist #ANSWERLA protest march. #LaRaza thugs threw my phone over a wall after t... https://t.co/IYX0JXJYIC
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
.@RSMcCain Had to scale a 10-foot brick wall to retrieve my phone, thanks to @CassandraRules' thugs. #ANSWERLA pic.twitter.com/cPsyhLu15X
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 19, 2014
Three Buk missile systems made their way from eastern Ukraine across the border into Russia on Friday, according to Ukrainian officials, including one lacking the missile they believe brought down a Malaysia Airlines jet the day before. “More.
Three missile launchers trespassed the Ukraine border on July 18,” Vitaly Nayda, Ukraine’s counterintelligence chief, told reporters in Kiev on Saturday afternoon.
The announcement came a day after a government advisor posted a video purportedly showing a single Buk system, with at least one missile missing, making the trip to Russia on a road in eastern Ukraine. The new disclosure suggests that the Russian government supplied multiple anti-aircraft systems to the separatists, which Nayda said were also used to bring down two Ukrainian military transport planes earlier in the week. The systems crossed the border at 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. Friday, Nayda said.
If the Ukrainian government claims are confirmed, it would serve as strong evidence that Russia provided help to separatists to shoot down planes in eastern Ukraine.
Nayda added that, according to his country’s intelligence, Russian military officers accompanied the units on their move across the border.
“We documented negotiations between terrorists and got information from those conversations that three Russian personnel came with it,” he said. “There were Russian citizens operating the Buk-M1 and they came from territory of the Russian Federation.”
The downing of MH17 should at the very least clear the fog around the conflict in eastern Ukraine. If not for President Putin, none of this would be happening. The conflict was conceived, funded and armed by Russia. The commander of the separatist forces is a Russian military intelligence officer. The leader of the separatist government in Donetsk is a resident of Moscow.RTWT at that top link.
As Ukraine's popular new president launched an operation to liberate the east last month, the rebels acquired fancier new weaponry. Their ability to shoot down Ukrainian aircraft was remarkable for a supposedly ragtag force of mercenaries, locals and thugs. The Kremlin put advanced weapon systems in the hands of a band of outlaws—and it is ultimately responsible for how they use them.
This catastrophe brings to mind the Korean Air Lines plane shot down in 1983 by a Soviet military fighter, killing 269. President Reagan called the downing of KAL007 "an act of barbarism, born of a society which wantonly disregards individual rights and the value of human life and seeks constantly to expand and dominate others." It was a moral turning point in the Cold War.
Perhaps the downing of MH17 will be a similar turning point in our post-post Cold War era. The Ukrainian crisis has been dismissed too often as a faraway battle in which the West has little stake, and in any case Ukraine is within Russia's "sphere of influence."
The deaths of 298 innocents from many countries should put that to rest. The Kremlin's attack on an independent neighboring state presents the gravest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War. Russia has supported non-state insurgents with the express purpose of sowing chaos. It's notable that Mr. Putin was the one leader who didn't show restraint on Thursday. He blamed Ukraine as "the government on whose territory this occurred." The world should ask why he would be so quick to jump to conclusions.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. and its allies accused Russian-aided separatists of firing the missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 people, including a dual Dutch-American citizen, and demanded that Moscow end months of unrest in eastern Ukraine.More.
President Barack Obama, faulting Russian President Vladimir Putin's support for separatists, called on Friday for "an immediate cease-fire" in eastern Ukraine to allow for a thorough investigation of the crash by international authorities.
"It is not possible for these separatists to function the way they're functioning... without sophisticated equipment and sophisticated training—and that is coming from Russia," Mr. Obama said at a White House news conference.
At the crash site in a separatist-controlled part of eastern Ukraine, pro-Russia rebels fired briefly into the air before allowing the first international observers very limited access to the vast field of destruction.
Ukrainian officials have released what they say was evidence that the jetliner was shot down by separatists, including video of an antiaircraft system purportedly being moved, and intercepted phone calls said to be between separatists and Russian advisers. U.S. officials said they are examining some of the evidence offered by Ukraine.
Mr. Obama said Moscow would face new economic sanctions unless it backed a cease-fire and international probe of the crash site. His remarks came amid new indications that Europe, jolted by the tragedy, may be readying an expansion of sanctions as early as next week.
"This is a platform that gives us a lot of leeway to act on a new level," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, referring to a new framework for potential sanctions adopted by the European Union earlier this week.
Earlier Friday, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, presented evidence of Russian aid to pro-Russia separatists.
Together, the developments pointed to a renewed, U.S.-led campaign against Moscow that puts Mr. Putin on notice that he is facing world-wide grief and anger over the crash and now must swiftly move to stabilize eastern Ukraine.
"If Mr. Putin makes a decision that we are not going to allow heavy armaments and the flow of fighters into Ukraine across the Ukrainian-Russian border, then it will stop," Mr. Obama said...
The 350-pound man, about to be arrested on charges of illegally selling cigarettes, was arguing with the police. When an officer tried to handcuff him, the man pulled free. The officer immediately threw his arm around the man’s neck and pulled him to the ground, holding him in what appears, in a video, to be a chokehold. The man can be heard saying “I can’t breathe” over and over again as other officers swarm about.More.
Now, the death of the man, Eric Garner, 43, soon after the confrontation on Thursday on Staten Island, is being investigated by the police and prosecutors. At the center of the inquiry is the officer’s use of a chokehold — a dangerous maneuver that was banned by the New York Police Department more than 20 years ago but that the department cannot seem to be rid of.
“As defined in the department’s patrol guide, this would appear to have been a chokehold,” the police commissioner, William J. Bratton, said at a news conference in City Hall on Friday afternoon.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh led his show Tuesday with stories about the successful pushback against the illegals going on across America.
“Here’s what you do not know,” he said. “There are towns all over America standing up to this invasion, just like they did in Murrieta, California. You’re not hearing about it, however, and I am here to tell you why you’re not hearing about it. Westminster, Maryland, is a town standing up to it, just like Murrieta, California, did. Oracle, Arizona, is standing up to it.
“In Nebraska they’re gonna stand up to it when they find out. The governor is fit to be tied,” Limbaugh continued. “Upper Michigan, same thing. There are towns all over America standing up to this. There are protests happening, but they’re not being covered.”
But the mother of all protests promises to be Friday and Saturday. It’s dubbed the National Day of Protesting Against Immigration Reform, Amnesty & Border Surge, and it’s gaining support by the hour, said William Gheen, president of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC and one of 11 sponsors. The main organizers are Gheen’s ALIPAC, James Neighbors of Overpasses For America and Paul Arnold of a new group called Make Them Listen.
“Right now it’s looking like we’ll have a little more than 300 protest rallies large and small across the country. Our goal is to unify Americans of all races, political parties and walks of life against the Obama-inspired illegal immigrant invasion,” Gheen said. “At last count we had 257 communities signed up, but that was two hours ago. We’re expecting more than 300 and updating the event list every two hours.”
The protests will take place in state capitals, Mexican consulates, on highway overpasses and intersections, and at illegal immigrant drop-off points and detention centers...
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— Daniel John Sobieski (@gerfingerpoken) July 18, 2014
Surreal in the Middle East: Hama's human shields http://t.co/MOIP7sW0bx pic.twitter.com/83bD5LpVlw
— DEFCON (@gb_ball) July 19, 2014
What's claimed to be the Buk used to down #MH17 being driven out of Ukraine towards Russia https://t.co/4CZY9Dex4e
— Brown Moses (@Brown_Moses) July 18, 2014
Ukraine released a video Friday it says shows the Buk missile launcher used to shoot down a Malaysian Airlines jet being carted toward the Russian border.
The footage was captured by a police surveillance squad at dawn Friday, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry claims. In it, one of four of the launcher’s missiles are missing, Ukraine says.
The Buk missile battery is a Soviet-era weapon equipped with a 70-kilogram warhead, designed for taking out cruise missiles, aircraft and drone planes. Usually mounted on a tracked vehicle, it is in use in both Russia and Ukraine.
The Ukrainian government in Kyiv, the separatist pro-Russia rebels they are fighting and the Russia government that Ukraine accuses of supporting the rebels all denied shooting the plane down. Moscow also denies backing the rebels.
The University of California regents on Thursday confirmed Dr. Sam Hawgood as the new chancellor of UCSF, where he has served as dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and interim chancellor.
Hawgood, 61, identified last week as UC President Janet Napolitano's top choice for the job, will fill the role left by outgoing Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, who left the university in the spring to become chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The new chancellor said he planned to focus his efforts on increasing funding for basic research at UCSF as well as promoting new partnerships to help commercialize advancements in technologic and biologic sciences.
"I understand and deeply respect the core values of UCSF - and both the principle and practice of shared governance with the faculty," Hawgood told the regents after they approved his appointment.
"But I know that, while we should remain connected to our past and preserve our values," he said, "our times call for a rigorous look at the reality of the world today and a willingness to move forward in new directions."
The regents approved a state-funded base salary of $500,000, plus $250,000 to be funded through an endowed chair, the Arthur Rock and Toni Rembe Distinguished Professorship, which was created for the chancellor position by the UCSF Foundation and uses no state funds.
Hawgood's total cash compensation ranks 34th among chancellors and presidents of the 62 public research universities that are part of the Association of American Universities, UC officials reported.
He will also receive an annual automobile allowance of $8,916 and be provided with the UCSF chancellor's home, UC officials said. The residence is maintained with non-state funds.
Obama calls on Russia, pro-Russian separatists and Ukraine to adhere to cease-fire for #MH17 probe. http://t.co/uJLy7piCtf
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 18, 2014
At least 20 civilians have died when shelling continued in the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine this morning, just hours after the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed, the Luhansk city administration has reported.Also at London's Daily Mail, "Calls for ceasefire in Ukraine fall on deaf ears in wake of plane crash as at least 20 are killed in heavy shelling across country."
The city’s official administration said the deaths came on “another black day” where shells hit almost every district in the city as Ukraine's forces continued to advance against pro-Russian rebels.
In a statement, it said: "Today intense bombardment of Luhansk has continued. Shells are falling in almost all districts of the city. According to preliminary information, more than 20 civilians have been killed since this morning."
Shelling in the troubled eastern region also damaged an electricity substation and reduced access to water supplies after the powercut halted water pumping stations, according to the BBC.
The conflict continued as it emerged nine Britons are among the 298 passengers who died when the Boeing 777-200 was downed as it passed over the Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighbouring region of Donetsk on Thursday.
US Defense official: "If the separatists shot it down, it couldn't have been done without Russian assistance." #MH17
— Julian E. Barnes (@julianbarnes) July 17, 2014
Now the 2015 calendar girls have been chosen, and the calendar has been shot.. we'd like to thank all the amazing ladies who made it to the castings.
It was extremely hard to chose the final girls and we hope you enjoyed the ride. Hope to see you all again soon.
MSNBC host Krystal Ball was pranked live on air Thursday during her coverage of the Malaysian flight crash in Ukraine — with an apparent fan of shock jock Howard Stern posing as a military expert only to make a crude joke and call Ball a "dumbass."Yep, a true dullard, even by MSNBC's gutter-level standards.
"I was looking out the window and I saw a projectile flying through the sky, and it would appear that the plane was shot down by a blast of wind from Howard Stern's ass," the prankster said.
Ball ignored the remark and continued her questioning.
"So it would appear that the plane was shot down. Can you tell us anything more from your military training of what sort of missile system that may have been coming from?" she asked.
"Boy you're a dumbass, aren't ya?" came the reply.
The Dodgers are in first place in their division and gunning for a berth in the World Series in October. But as the second half of the season begins Friday, most local fans aren't able to watch any of it on television.Keep reading.
Off the field no progress has been made in the standoff between Time Warner Cable, which is distributing the new Dodgers-owned channel SportsNet LA, and area pay-TV providers including DirecTV, Dish Network, Charter Communications and Cox Communications.
"It is unlikely that we are going to get a deal done," David Rone, president of Time Warner Cable Sports, acknowledged for the first time this week.
Dodgers President Stan Kasten called the situation "extremely troubling" and urged everyone to "return to the table to continue to work to try to make a deal as quickly as possible."
Before the start of the 162-game season, many observers expected that pressure from fans would force the pay-TV providers to the negotiating table, or face mass defections. That's what usually has happened in the past. But not this time.
Instead, Time Warner Cable and the providers are deadlocked in what could become a definitive moment for the world of sports programming, as the industry realizes that exorbitantly priced television deals can backfire...
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— Robert Charette (@_Charette_) July 16, 2014
Make no mistake: this is a really, really, really big deal. This is the first downing of a civilian jetliner in this conflict and, if it was the rebels who brought it down, all kinds of ugly things follow. For one thing, what seemed to be gelling into a frozen local conflict has now broken into a new phase, one that directly threatens European security. The plane, let's recall, was flying from Amsterdam.Well, maybe the Europeans will step up support for Ukraine, but Obama won't do a damned thing. What, 23 Americans were on board? Meh, "it's a terrible tragedy."
For another, U.S. officials have long been saying that there's only one place that rebels can get this kind of heavy, sophisticated weaponry: Russia. This is why a fresh round of sanctions was announced yesterday. Now, the U.S. and a long-reluctant Europe may be forced to do more and implement less surgical and more painful sanctions.
#Obama has arrived in #NYC for Democratic fundraisers.
— darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) July 17, 2014
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is traveling to New York City Thursday for two campaign fundraising events during a national transportation tour.And at the Hill, "Obama: 'World is watching' reports of downed jetliner."
He is scheduled to attend one event for the Democratic Party and another for the House Majority PAC, which tries to help Democrats win House seats. They are being held at separate private homes in Manhattan and are closed to media coverage.
Obama will spend about five hours in the city, arriving at Kennedy airport at 4 p.m., then heading to the fundraisers. He will return to the White House just after 9 p.m.
Wow. @BarackObama's entire remarks about #MalaysiaAirlines crash is basically "that sucks" & "we'll find out if there were any Americans"
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) July 17, 2014
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