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He won his fight, and was doing a post-fight interview in a MAGA hat
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El Paso – stuff posted above….
Stop making stuff up. People were shot in the parking lot. Watch the videos.
My stance, as a Christian Conservative, and that of all others like me: this wacko is NOT ONE OF US. I don’t care what the media and politicos try to make out of this, I repeat, HE IS NOT ONE OF US. WE CHERISH LIFE AND WILL USE VIOLENCE AS A LAST RESORT TO PROTECT OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES. WE will defend ourselves and fully support our right to do so, We are not aggressors, that’s it.
Everything else is just conjecture and politics. Do not try to play their blame game. You are playing a losing game, getting down to their level is not a good thing here and makes us all look bad.
Might want to pray for the victims and their families instead, as I have done today.
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I feel no connection to the alleged shooter at all.
Anyone who is stupid enough to allow emotions to overtake reason and murder other human beings in cold blood deserves no sympathy.
It doesn’t matter what the issue is. You simply cannot do this.
If you want better immigration laws and enforcement, call Congress. Protest. Write letters. Write op-eds. Vote.
Many of us on the site aren’t thrilled with various aspects of the immigration situation currently in the USA. Fine. None of us is going to shoot innocent people over it.
The people who allow themselves to be overcome in the fever swamp areas of the internet are dooming themselves. Writing manifestos, feeling like today is the most important day in the history of the world, all that gin-up puts people in a bad place.
People who feel close to the edge, as this shooter obviously was, need to take a step back and look at the long game. Nothing is solved with these acts, and almost always only innocent people with no real power to affect things suffer the consequences.
Tragic. I’m sure General Barr will handle the case appropriately.
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No beer and no dentist chair. Buttisjudge needs a new manager.
https:/twitter.com/ConservativeXT/status/1157683915836076038
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UFC fighter spoke to POTUS tonight via phone. He tells reporters what POTUS told him. You’ll get a kick out of this short video.
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Did Mr ESPN ever?
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Not sure
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This tops racist robots and racist cars.
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Damn boy, miss something?
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I guess he missed this one on purpose?
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Interesting read on China, buckling in.
Title: Paramount and paranoid: China’s Xi faces a crisis of confidence
“… Since taking power, Xi has rewritten the party’s rules – including ending term limits, setting himself up to be leader indefinitely – and launched huge study campaigns to instill his personal ideology across society, starting with toddlers, through schools and universities and through the Central Committee Party School in Beijing. The party has developed an app through which Chinese can study “Xi Jinping Thought.”
” The president this week exhorted Party members to “work hard to purify, perfect, reform and upgrade ourselves.”
“No exterior forces are able to take us down, as we are the world’s largest political party; the only one who can defeat us is ourselves,” Xi wrote in Qiushi, the influential publication of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, this week. …”
https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Paramount-and-paranoid-China-s-Xi-faces-a-crisis-14278079.php
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The school part sounds like what our education system is doing in the United States with reference to the democrat and communist agenda.
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Yes, back in the 1970’s we were heading into an ice age. And due to the “population explosion”
Americans were chastised to stop having children. Now it’s global warming.. no.. rather.. it’s climate change or something.
And we are to throw our borders open wide to all comers, because there are not enough people in the USA since we had fewer children due to overpopulation. I don’t listen to a word they say anymore. All of it is bullsh!t.
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MORE FBI DELAYS IN DOCUMENT RELEASES!
Bruce Ohr 302s were to be given to Judicial Watch on Monday … now pushed back until Thursday by the FBI.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-302-notes-on-bruce-ohr-interviews-set-for-release
And where is the Jeffrey Epstein document dump?
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They time to doctor them, or lose them, or create an “event” to distract us with. Same old.
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You can always count on this POS.
“Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Smacks Trump Over Chinese Tariffs”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/50218/watch-fox-news-neil-cavuto-knocks-trump-over-frank-camp
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Is this legit?
USSA News: Barr’s Pitbull, Durham, Gets His Hand On Tape of Mifsud Confessing To WHO Told Him To Target George Papadopoulos!
“Investigative reporter John Solomon told Fox News host Sean Hannity that Joseph Mifsud has “already testified and the Durham investigators have already obtained a taped deposition of his testimony,” according to the Gateway Pundit.
“I can report absolutely that the Durham investigators have now obtained an audio-taped deposition of Joseph Mifsud where he describes his work, why he targeted Papadopoulos, who directed him to do that, what directions he was given and why he set that entire process of introducing George Papadopoulos to Russia in motion in March of 2016. Which is really the flashpoint the start point of this whole Russia collusion narrative.”
https://ussanews.com/News1/2019/08/03/barrs-pitbull-durham-gets-his-hand-on-tape-of-mifsud-confessing-to-who-told-him-to-target-george-papadopoulos/
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“Co-Chairs Call for Suspension of Sales to Hong Kong Police
Aug 2, 2019 Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Responding to the deteriorating human rights situation in Hong Kong, today Reps. Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) and James P. McGovern (D-MA), Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, issued a letter calling upon Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to suspend future sales of munitions and crowd and riot control equipment to the Hong Kong police force.
The two co-chairs stated that this was “a necessary response to credible reports of excessive force being used by the Hong Kong police targeting individuals engaged in peaceful demonstrations against the Hong Kong Government’s proposed extradition bill and the fast-eroding space for political participation.”
Noting that the United Kingdom has suspended future sales of tear gas and other crowd control equipment until human rights concerns are addressed, Smith and McGovern called for further scrutiny of relations with the Hong Kong police.
The bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, composed of members of the U.S. House of Representatives, promotes, defends and advocates for international human rights, as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant human rights instruments.
The full text of the letter is reprinted below. A scanned copy of the signed letter is available [here].
Dear Secretary Pompeo and Secretary Ross:
We write to ask that you suspend future sales of munitions and crowd and riot control equipment to the Hong Kong Police Force and increase scrutiny of any direct commercial sale of defense articles to the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
These steps are a necessary response to credible reports of excessive force being used by the Hong Kong police targeting individuals engaged in peaceful demonstrations against the Hong Kong Government’s proposed extradition bill and the fast-eroding space for political participation. Human rights groups in Hong Kong have assembled evidence about attacks on journalists, the beating of subdued protestors, and the inappropriate use of tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and other crowd control equipment.
The United Kingdom has suspended future sales of tear gas and other crowd control equipment to Hong Kong until human rights concerns are addressed, and the British government has urged the Hong Kong Government to establish an independent investigation into the violent scenes that have been observed. We urge you to take similar measures as soon as possible because tensions are escalating as criminal gangs indiscriminately attack Hong Kong citizens, as occurred on July 22, 2019. A Chinese government official recently made threats to use People’s Liberation Army forces in Hong Kong.
Further scrutiny of the types of programs and contacts the U.S. engages in with the Hong Kong police will be needed moving forward. We ask that you consider denying U.S. entry visas for those individuals found to be complicit in the excessive use of force against demonstrators and journalists, as well as those found to be colluding in attacks by criminal gangs. We also ask that the State Department provide much more robust information on U.S.-Hong Kong law enforcement cooperation in future Hong Kong Policy Act Reports, required pursuant to section 301 of the U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992.
We ask that you suspend future sales of munitions and crowd and riot control equipment to the Hong Kong Police Force and publicly announce that the U.S. will not contribute to the internal repression of peaceful protest in Hong Kong. In addition, given events of the recent days, we ask you to push back, in the strongest terms possible, against the Hong Kong and Chinese governments’ efforts to characterize the demonstrations as “riots” and to blame the U.S. for political instability which they alone created.
We look forward to working with you to advance U.S. interests in maintaining Hong Kong’s autonomy and the rights guaranteed to Hong Kong’s citizens by the Hong Kong Basic Law and international agreements, including the Sino-British Joint Declaration.
Sincerely,
CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH JAMES P. McGOVERN
Member of Congress Member of Congress
Co-Chair, TLHRC Co-Chair, TLHRC
116th Congress
https://humanrightscommission.house.gov/news/press-releases/co-chairs-call-suspension-sales-hong-kong-police
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“Rioting Charges Strip Away Our Everyday Normality, Says HK Activist Johnson Yeung”
(Johnson Yeung Ching-yin (楊政賢), 27, former convener of Hong Kong’s Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) and current board member of Amnesty International (Hong Kong), was arrested on July 28 during a protest in Sheung Wan and Central. After his release, Yeung delivered a moving speech outside of the Kwai Chung Police Station describing the Hong Kong police’s fear tactics and abuse against the 49 protesters. Here’s a personal note from Yeung and an English translation of the transcribed speech done by netizens.)
https://international.thenewslens.com/feature/hkantielab/122974
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pRC mouthpiece upset that their flag of oppression was thrown into Hong Kong Harbour and protestors raised the Hong Kong Independence flag Saturday.
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“Mike Pompeo rebukes China’s ‘ludicrous’ claim US is behind Hong Kong protests
Protests are coming solely from the people of Hong Kong, who are asking their government to listen, Pompeo says
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying had claimed the US ‘owes the world an explanation’”
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3020749/mike-pompeo-rebukes-chinas-ludicrous-claim-us-behind-hong-kong
“Bloomberg Next China
@next_china
Pompeo says he won’t tip hand on what U.S. will or will not do if Chinese military is deployed to Hong Kong streets”
You can watch the interview in Bangkok here: ( watch for the grin)
https://mobile.twitter.com/next_china/status/1157129888668590080
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Big brother with big bucks #HongKongProtests
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“Refinitiv removes Reuters story on Hong Kong protests from screens in China
Tony Munroe
6 MIN READ
BEIJING (Reuters) – Under pressure from Chinese regulators, financial information provider Refinitiv has removed from its Eikon terminals in China a Reuters story detailing how an official with Beijing’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong had urged residents of a rural area to drive away anti-government protesters days before a violent clash nearby, according to Eikon users and a person with knowledge of Refinitiv’s action.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-refinitiv/refinitiv-removes-reuters-story-on-hong-kong-protests-from-screens-in-china-idUSKCN1US23J
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This story reminds me of the ‘tree in a forest’ question. If a story is removed from Eikon terminals, did it really happen?
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🤑🤑🤑🤑 #HongKongProtests & #ChinaCheats
Caveat Emptor
Check your investments “did you know that even as trade tensions ratchet up, most US institutional & individual investors will almost all be adding MORE China A Share exposure to their portfolios @ end-Aug & end-Sept (due to changes in the MSCI & FTSE EM indexes)?”
Also FTSERussell adding A-Shares next month (benchmark for major U.K. pension funds and Unit Trusts)
“Dear Global Investors, You Will Own China Like It Or Not”
(Excerpt)
“MSCI announced on Thursday that it will increase the weight of China A shares in the MSCI Indexes by increasing the inclusion factor from 5% of total market capitalization for large-cap stocks to 20%.
The move up includes a 5% to 10% doubling in May, with 10% of the ChiNext large-cap tech stock indexes market cap to be included as well. By August, the 10% jumps to 15%. And then by November, mid-caps will be added to the index with the final total of 20% of the Shanghai and Shenzhen market cap for those sized stocks and the ChiNext being benchmarked. Passive funds like ETFs will have to be buyers if they are tracking the MSCI China or MSCI Emerging Markets (EM).”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2019/03/04/dear-global-investors-you-will-own-china-like-it-or-not/#15993bcf3152
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“Defying U.S. Sanctions,
China and Others Take Oil
From 12 Iranian Tankers”
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👇👇👇 #HongKongProtests
Not just the civil servants and medical personnel, but bankers and HKEX workers. General strike called for Monday.
Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing personnel Letter
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EA7yjT8UEAAljLO?format=jpg&name=large
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A2; thank you for keeping us informed on these matters.
Stay Safe.
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