On COI #206, Kyle Anzalone breaks down recent developments in Libya. The election - planned for December 24th - has been called off. The Western states say they will still recognize the interim government. However, the government will likely face increasing legitimacy challenges. Migrants, attempting to flee to Europe, continue to drown off Libya's coast. Kyle updates the investigation into the assassination of Haiti's President Moise. In July, several gunmen killed Moise. His wife gave an interview to the NYT suggesting her husband was murdered for investigating Haiti's corrupt elite. ...
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News Roundup 12/29/21
US News Biden says he will implement a ban on unvaccinated Americans from accessing domestic air travel if medical experts approve the plan. [Link] The LAPD releases the footage of the killing of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta. Orellana-Peralta was killed when a bullet went through the wall of her dressing room. The cop who shot her was armed with a rifle and put himself in position to take the shot over officers who had handguns. [Link] A record 122,000 migrant children were taken into US custody without their parents in 2021. [Link] Pentagon 169 Marines have been expelled from...
Lunatic With a Plan: Erdogan and Turkey’s Economic Woes
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the economy of a valuable member of NATO geostrategically. Since the first shots across the bow by the Trump administration at Erdogan’s toying with those powers east of the Bosporus (Russia, China and Iran) the Turkish lira has been the primary mode of attack against Erdogan. Erdogan has pursued what has been deemed unorthodox...
News Roundup 12/27/21
Covid Massachusetts halts all elective procedures. [Link] The USS Milwaukee will remain in Cuba after several sailors tested positive for Covid. [Link] USAID is running out of money to distribute covid vaccinations. [Link] The US donates 1.5 million vaccine doses to Egypt through Covax. [Link] Biden will lift the travel restriction from eight African countries on January 1st. [Link] US News LAPD officers killed a 14-year-old girl. [Link] The Pentagon cuts the cost of living stipend it gives to tens of thousands of soldiers living in high-cost areas in the US. [Link] Stu Scheller - who...
Cops Kill Lady
When the LAPD protects a hostage, the hostage dies. And the cops get away with it every time, because, get this, only the government has the right to decide whether to hold its agents accountable. Hehe. Can you believe that shit?
Street Gangs Run the LAPD
In argument-ad-absurdum news: LA TImes: ‘Gang-like’ deputy clique exerts ‘undue influence’ at East L.A. station, report says: Los Angeles County’s top watchdog said Monday that substantial evidence exists that a secretive group of tattooed deputies at the East L.A. sheriff’s station are “gang-like and their influence has resulted in favoritism, sexism, racism and violence.” In a 32-page report probing activities of the Banditos clique, Inspector General Max Huntsman alleged that Sheriff Alex Villanueva “continues to promote a code of silence regarding these sub-groups” which have plagued...
LAPD, LASD Literally Just Street Gangs
In Compton they call themselves the Executioners. Remember, the cops who murdered the security guard and the guy on the bicycle in just the past few weeks? Them. Throughout L.A. they go by the Spartans, Regulators, Grim Reapers and Banditos. Your security...
Ain’t That Always the Way?
LAPD focused on peaceful protesters while ignoring looting, business owners say In other words, those were their orders. Wonder why...
Serial Killer, Molesting Kids, Selling Drugs: 10 Things Cops Got Caught Doing This Month
“By demonizing the police,” right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren screeched this week while scolding celebrities for raising awareness about police violence, “you’re putting the communities you claim to care about at risk because it’s our officers who protect those communities and all communities.” As it turns out, cops are putting communities at risks all by themselves. Here are ten instances just from the last few weeks that show cops are earning their bad reputations: 1. A New Jersey police officer was arrested Friday amid charges of selling narcotics out of his police car. While the...