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Sunday 08 December 2019
 News and commentary round up
From Zero Hedge: Outrage After Police Use Bystanders As "Human Shields" In Florida UPS Truck Shootout

From My Courts: Indiana Cops charge man with theft for removing tracking GPS from truck. "Suspecting a man of selling drugs, police got a warrant to secretly place a GPS tracker on the man’s car. But the suspect found and removed the tracker."

From Willamette Week: An Influential City Panel Wants New Private Buildings to Provide Space for Homeless Camping. The proposal would stretch what’s asked of developers and owners of new private buildings, such as stores and apartment complexes.

From James Howard Kunstler: "All The Players In This Great Game Of 'Gotcha' Are About To Face The Consequences" ...the cheerleading squad for “17” government agencies... a warm-and-fuzzy coalition of snoops, false witnesses, rogue lawfare cadres, seditionists, and bad-faith artists working sedulously to hide their previous misdeeds with ever-fresh ones.

From Wired: What Happens If Russia Cuts Itself Off From the Internet? State media has reported that Russia will attempt to disconnect from the global internet this spring. That's going to be tricky.

From PJ Media: A Very Public War Has Broken Out Between Buttigieg and Warren From McClatchy: How progressives are plotting to stop Pete Buttigieg’s rise in the 2020 race:

From the Visual Capitalist: Visualizing the New Cryptocurrency Ecosystem [Ed: nicely done.]

From Watts Up With That?:Climate Models Have Not Improved in 50 Years From Zero Hedge: Greta Thunberg Enraged After Climate Strikes "Achieved Nothing", Has Yet To Visit China. From RT: Greta Thumberg DISAVOWS school strike for climate change? "Greta Thunberg told supporters that her movement hasn’t achieved any actual change and she doesn’t want to continue.." From the Daily Caller News Foundation: DC Traffic Grinds To A Halt As ‘Extinction Rebellion’ Shouts ‘We Trust Bill NyeFrom the Federalist: In A Single Comic Strip, Dilbert Just Nuked Global Warming Hysteria

From the Truth About Guns: Virginia Sheriff Says He’ll Deputize Thousands of Citizens to Protect Their Gun Rights

From the Federalist: How To Prepare For The Impending Justice Department Inspector General Report [Ed: a must read.] From the Daily Wire: Adam Baldwin To Narrate Upcoming IG Report Exposing Deep State Meddling.[Ed: the Report will need publicity given how the Dems are trying to bury and discredit it in advance.]

From the Wall Street Journal: Fed Adds $72.8 Billion to Markets, Balance Sheet Moves to $4.07 Trillion. [Ed: reader friendly.]

From Caitlin Johnson: Fake News By Omission - The Mass Media's Cowardly Distortion Tool. [Ed: Johnson seems to be the only one discussing the OPCW scandal.]

From the Babylon Bee: 'This Is The Detroit Lions And We'd Love To Sign You,' Says Giggling Trump On Yet Another Prank Call To Colin Kaepernick

From MarketWatch: California bans insurers from dropping policies in wildfire zones

From the Volokh Conspiracy: New on Lawfare: Defining a Theory of 'Bribery' for Impeachment. From Moon of Alabama: The Delusions Of The Impeachment Witnesses Point To A Larger Problem. [Ed: a must read.]

From the Daily Mail: Vegan YouTube star is branded a fraud by her furious followers after revealing she followed the CARNIVORE DIET for 30 days - and insisting the meat-based plan was 'way better' than veganism

From Spiked: It’s time to get real about Islamist terror. Censorship and cowardice have helped radical Islam to flourish. It’s time for a change. [Ed: by the excellent Brendan O'Neill.]
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