The Rise Of Mass Knife Attacks Around The World Shows The Problem Isn't Guns. It's People | Zero Hedge

The Rise Of Mass Knife Attacks Around The World Shows The Problem Isn't Guns. It's People | Zero Hedge
"In China, where firearms are tightly restricted, it’s probably no surprise that those who want to hurt people found another way to do it. 
The dramatic rise of knife attacks around the world shows that the problem these days isn’t with guns. 
It’s with people.

Mass knife attacks have become so common over the years that a Chinese police department recently released a video to teach citizens how to defend themselves against knife-wielding assailants and it has gone viral, with 16 million views in just a few days. 

It has subtitles and some great advice that even I would be able to follow.

All humor aside, some folks in the US who want to do away with the Second Amendment are probably saying smugly, “Well, knife attacks are bad, but only people with GUNS can kill dozens of victims quickly.”

Those folks would be wrong.

For example…

• In 2014, 33 people were killed and 130 more were injured when a group of men coordinated a terror attack using knives at a train station in southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
• In 2015, fifty workers at a Chinese coal mine were killed in a coordinated knife attack. Fifty more workers were injured.
• In 2016, a facility for the disabled was attacked by a man with a knife. He killed 15 people and injured 45, then later surrendered himself to police.
• In 2017, 18 people walking down a city street were injured when a man attacked them with a knife
• 13 people were seriously injured by a knife-wielding assailant at a shopping mall in Beijing earlier this year. One woman died from her injuries.

This tells me that it isn’t really a problem with guns. 
It’s a problem with people..."
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Dem revolt against Pelosi grows, amid fears her shadow could cast pall over midterm hopes | Fox News

Dem revolt against Pelosi grows, amid fears her shadow could cast pall over midterm hopes | Fox News:

Democratic congressional candidates are revolting against Nancy Pelosi in even bigger numbers, amid fears that her grip on power could hurt the party's chances in the midterms and hold back its next generation of leaders.
The list of candidates refusing to support the California Democrat for speaker -- or refusing to state their position -- has steadily grown, though estimates vary.
The Washington Post counts at least 27 Democratic House candidates who won't commit support.

How @CNN and Other #FakeNews Media Are Now Working to Silence Dissent : The Other McCain

How @CNN and Other #FakeNews Media Are Now Working to Silence Dissent : The Other McCain
"Journalists or Activists?
CNN, Which Admitted They Were Responsible for Getting Alex Jones Deplatformed from YouTube, Apple, and FaceBook, Now Admits It’s Also Pressuring Twitter to Deplatform Him
This is shameful.
When I was working for The Washington Times, we did not seek to prevent the distribution of The Washington Post, nor during my years as a correspondent for The American Spectator have we ever sought to silence any competing publication.
Yet CNN and other so-called “mainstream” media operations are now actively engaged in a smear campaign intended to “de-platform” alternative voices online.

...And this is why I deplore the habit of people who, in opposing the suppression of someone like Alex Jones, feel an obligation to characterize him in a negative way, as if he is a special case in some way substantially different from those who are not (yet) de-platformed.
Is Alex Jones more “racist” than, say, Jordan Peterson or Charles Murray?
Is Alex Jones a “conspiracy theorist” in a way that, say, Jim Hoft or Pamela Geller are not?
Is Alex Jones more “controversial” than, say, Glenn Reynolds or Rush Limbaugh?
Do you see my point here?
...personally I have a hard time forgiving him for siccing a mob of his supporters on Michelle Malkin at the 2008 DNC in Denver.
Yet this is not why Alex Jones is being de-platformed now.
Rather, CNN and others on the Left are seeking to silence Alex Jones because he has been effective in calling attention to various facts that the Left desperately seeks to conceal from the general public. Please go read the entirely of the Ace of Spades post about this and ask yourself: “Who’s next?”

Why Taxpayers Are Shelling Out More Money for Worse Service – Michigan Capitol Confidential

Why Taxpayers Are Shelling Out More Money for Worse Service – Michigan Capitol Confidential
In some places, cities pay two or three times the base salary for one person-By Jarrett Skorup 
In cities around Michigan – including those in severe financial trouble – taxpayers are paying large amounts of money in overtime and extra pay.
 In some cases, cities pay two or three times a typical salary for just one person to do a job.
Some recent stories from Michigan Capitol Confidential highlight the problem:

• The president of the union representing supervisors and managers in the Flint water department earned $161,000 in 2016 and $149,000 in 2017. In both years, his base salary was roughly one-third his gross pay. The rest came from overtime, “standby” time, and union release time.
• Several other
  
  employees in Flint had similar situations in 2017. One operator foreman earned $117,000, more than half from overtime. The other operators in the water department made $107,000, $96,000 and $82,000 . Their base salaries were between $56,000 and $60,000 that year.
• A maintenance worker for the Detroit People Mover elevated train collected nearly $175,000 – more than his general manager – in 2017. His base salary was $57,000. There were 11 employees paid six figures by the entity and nearly all of them had base salaries between $45,000 and $60,000, with the rest of their pay coming from overtime.
• In Ann Arbor, police officers earn one-third or more of their total pay as overtime. One detective spiked his pension payment by boosting his final year’s compensation by nearly $50,000. Other employees used payments for unused compensation, vacation and sick time to do the same.
• In Grand Rapids, 26 city employees made more than $20,000 in overtime last year. Through overtime, 378 employees were able to push their pay to more than $80,000.

So why are public entities paying so much money to one person when they could hire an extra person instead?..."
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Abolishing ICE Is Only The First Step | Current Affairs

Abolishing ICE Is Only The First Step | Current Affairs
"...I am both heartened and surprised to see Democratic politicians likewise adopt Abolish ICE as a rallying cry and campaign slogan.
...I am surprised, because the Democratic Party presided over the deportation of 203,674 people in 2014, and 193,217 people the year before, to take but two examples.
...This mass expulsion did not occur over the objection of Democrats, but was instead facilitated by programs they created and legislation they championed.
...I hope Abolish ICE spreads further beyond the progressive wing of the party.
I fear, though, that focusing on the agency obscures the real message behind the hashtag, which is not about merely scrapping a single agency, but about a total abolition of our immigration enforcement system as it presently exists.
...Want to end illegal immigration? 
Make migration legal.
Abolishing ICE is an urgent and necessary step, but it cannot be the outer limit of our imagination..."

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Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s media blitz - The Washington Post

Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s media blitz - The Washington Post:

For instance, in an appearance on CNN on Monday, when challenged on the costs of government-financed health care, she answered: “Why aren’t we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who died because they can’t afford access to health care? That is part of the cost of our system.”
Huh?
Several readers have asked us to vet some of her claims and, because of summer vacation schedules, we’ve been a bit slower to follow up than our fact-checking colleagues. So here’s a quick roundup of some of her recent eyebrow-raising claims, though to be fair to Ocasio-Cortez, the average member of Congress might easily make many bloopers over the course of so many live interviews.

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History for August 12

History for August 12 - On-This-Day.com
Cecil B. DeMille 1881, Jane Wyatt 1912, William Goldman 1931


Parnelli Jones 1933, George Hamilton 1939 - Actor, Sir Mix-A-Lot 1963 - Rapper


1865 - Disinfectant was used for the first time during surgery by Joseph Lister.


1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and made the first sound recording.


1898 - The Spanish-American War was ended with the signing of the peace protocol. The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Hawaii was also annexed.


1981 - IBM unveiled its first PC.


1992 - The U.S., Canada, and Mexico announced that the North American Free Trade Agreement had been created after 14 months of negotiations.


2000 - The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank and its 118-man crew died during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.

President Trump Thanks Kanye West For His ‘Support’ And Being ‘Willing To Tell The Truth’ | The Daily Caller

President Trump Thanks Kanye West For His ‘Support’ And Being ‘Willing To Tell The Truth’ | The Daily Caller:

President Donald Trump thanked Kanye West Friday for his “support” and being “willing to tell the truth” following the rapper’s Thursday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
“Thank you to Kanye West and the fact that he is willing to tell the TRUTH. One new and great FACT –African-American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in the history of our Country,” the president tweeted.

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Gimme a break!-----Dallas Mayor says Caraway Scandal is an Example of Lack of “Economic Inclusion” in Dallas | News Talk WBAP-AM

Dallas Mayor says Caraway Scandal is an Example of Lack of “Economic Inclusion” in Dallas | News Talk WBAP-AM:
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is speaking out following the resignation of Mayor Pro-Tem Dwaine Caraway.
Caraway pleaded guilty Thursday to federal  corruption charges. 
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the IRS, Caraway accepted $450,000 in bribes and kickbacks related to a scheme that could have contributed to the demise of Dallas County Schools. 
Mayor Rawlings spoke publicly for the first time about the news regarding Caraway Friday morning at an event at the Dallas Regional Chamber.
“We work hard to make sure our city is represented well throughout Texas, throughout our country, and throughout our world,” Rawlings said in front of a crowd of other local leaders. 
“To have a blemish on it and a stain on it like this is a terrible day for us.”
Rawlings said that what happened to Dwaine Caraway is an example of why the city needs to improve what he called “economic inclusion.”
“Too often public servants that come from poor parts of our city are caught in and let themselves be caught in a trap around money, around economic inclusion, because they don’t have any money,” Rawlings said..."

Europe: Prayer in Public Spaces

Europe: Prayer in Public Spaces

• These Arab countries know better than Europe that to contain Islamic fundamentalism, it is crucial to control the street.
• That 140,000 Muslims recently gathered in England for a public prayer event organized by a mosque known for its extremism and links to jihadi terrorists, should not only alarm the British authorities, but those in other European countries as well.

A few months ago, a global media tempest erupted after Polish Catholics held a mass public prayer event across the country. 
The BBC deemed it "controversial", due to "concerns it could be seen as endorsing the state's refusal to let in Muslim migrants".
The same controversy, however, did not erupt in Britain when 140,000 Muslims prayed in Birmingham's Small Heath Park, in an event organized by the Green Lane Mosque to mark the end of Ramadan.
France is debating whether or not to block prayer on the street. 
"They will not have prayers on the street, we will prevent street praying" Interior Minister Gerard Collomb announced.
"Public space cannot be taken over in this way", said the president of the Paris regional council, Valérie Pécresse, who led a protest by councilors and MPs. In Italy, hundreds of Muslims prayed next to Colosseum, and Muslim prayers were held in front of Milan's Cathedral.
The numbers are telling. When Muslims throughout Europe celebrated the final day of Islam's holy month of Ramadan with public prayers, city squares -- from Naples (Italy) to Nice (France) -- overflowed. 
The annual Birmingham event began in 2012 with 12,000 faithful. 
Two years later, the number of the faithful rose to 40,000. 
In 2015, it was 70,000. 
In 2016, the number was 90,000. 
In 2017, it was 100,000. 
In 2018, the number was 140,000. 
Next year?...
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Trump administration unveils plan to gut 'gainful employment' education rule

Trump administration unveils plan to gut 'gainful employment' education rule:

The requirements would extend to all institutions, not just those with gainful employment programs. The Department of Education said the new approach would help students understand what earnings they should expect after pursuing the programs and said that it would be more difficult for institutions to misrepresent their programs.

The Politicization of the FBI - Imprimis

The Politicization of the FBI - Imprimis
"Over the past year, facts have emerged that suggest there was a plot by high-ranking FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) officials in the Obama administration, acting under color of law, to exonerate Hillary Clinton of federal crimes and then, if she lost the election, to frame Donald Trump and his campaign for colluding with Russia to steal the presidency. 
This conduct was not based on mere bias, as has been widely claimed, but rather on deeply felt animus toward Trump and his agenda.
In the course of this plot, 

• FBI Director James Comey, 
• U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, 
• FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, 
• FBI Deputy Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok, 
• Strzok’s paramour and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, 
• FBI General Counsel James Baker, and 
• DOJ senior official Bruce Ohr—perhaps among others

—compromised federal law enforcement to such an extent that the American public is losing trust. 
A recent CBS News poll finds 48 percent of Americans believe that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia collusion probe is “politically motivated,” a stunning conclusion. 
And 63 percent of polled voters in a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll believe that the FBI withheld vital information from Congress about the Clinton and Russia collusion investigations..."
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Thomas Sowell Writes The Book About Racism That America Needs

Thomas Sowell Writes The Book About Racism That America Needs
"Sowell's calm and calculated look at racial disparity in America is a stunning work of brevity and reason.
Sometimes the slim volumes are the most deadly. 
Such is the case with Thomas Sowell’s “Discrimination and Disparities,” which in fewer than 200 pages lays bare the grave faults and assumptions of people on both sides of the political divide about outcomes for racial groups. 
...Sowell takes aim at two typical explanations for differences in the success of racial groups. 

• One, most associated with the Left, is that discrimination by racial groups in power is the primary force creating bad outcomes for the groups out of power. 
• The other, most associated with the Right, is that racial groups have inherent abilities or disabilities based on factors such as IQ distribution that lead to unequal outcomes.

...First, Some Prerequisites
In a theme Sowell opens with and refers to throughout, he discusses how in any area or endeavor, success is the result of meeting multiple and myriad prerequisites. 
Lacking even one of these, even if others are in abundance, can prevent success..."
Read all AND buy the book!

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WATCH: Ocasio-Cortez Is Asked How She'll Pay For Everything. Her Answer: Um, Wut? | Daily Wire

WATCH: Ocasio-Cortez Is Asked How She'll Pay For Everything. Her Answer: Um, Wut? | Daily Wire:

On Tuesday, Democratic media darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — she of the 17,000 primary votes in a heavily Democratic district in New York — visited the set of Pod Save America, where she was asked a fairly simple softball question from her enthusiastic friends: how did she plan to pay for her wild expenditures?
Her answer: um, wut?