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With major crime up 34%, 95 more cops walk out the door; CPD is losing cops at “unsustainable” rate, alderman says February 24, 2022 CWBChicago Citywide One month ago, we reported that CPD statistics showed reports of major crimes were up 24% in the first three weeks of the new year compared to the same time last year. How have things improved since then? They haven’t. Major crime reports are now up 34%, with all seven categories showing increases: murder, criminal sexual assault, robbery, aggravated battery, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft. That’s according to CPD’s internal CompStat report dated...

SHOCK POLICY: Ottawa may euthanize truckers’ pets as punishment Canadian PoliticsCOVID-19Vaccine Mandate Feb 17, 2022 Written By Keean Bexte The same day that videos emerged of Ottawa and Quebec police gearing up to go after peaceful Convoy supporters in the capital, the Ottawa government has warned protesters that their pets may be confiscated following their arrest. Moreover, position statements issued by the Ottawa Humane Society reveal that they may unilaterally euthanize any animal that they deem to be “not suitable for adoption.” Arbitrary behavioral and health tests would be used to make the call. These decisions about the life of...

Lars Larson Proof Comes Of Possible Treason From Hillary Feb 14, 2022 @ 8:43am Remember Watergate? I know, it was long ago. I was a kid in high school at the time. It was a spying operation, a “third rate burglary”, a coverup, and it ultimately led to the resignation of an American President. It got maximum news coverage at the time Now we have “spygate”, including a Russian election hoax and dirty deeds done by Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party Remember when President Donald Trump told CBS reporter Leslie Stahl that he and his campaign had been spied...

News | Dec. 10, 2021 Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University Responding to China: The Case For Global Justice and Democratic Socialism By Thomas Piketty INSS Speaker Series February 16, 2022 – Event Details The event will be held February 16, 2022, from 1200-1300, on the Strategic Multilayer Assessment platform and is open to the public. An access link will be posted the week of the event. Summary Western countries are still struggling to define their attitude towards the Beijing regime. In this talk on February 22, 2022, Thomas Piketty will argue that the right answer lies in...

Detroit Police Officers H. Kourani and G. Rogers say the puppies could have died in the cold if they hadn't been found It was the day after Christmas, at an abandoned house, and something seemed off, Detroit police have announced. A malnourished new mother was scavenging for food outside the vacant home, with her two young puppies inside, including once who’d gotten its neck tied up in a mattress spring as temperatures were expected to drop below freezing Sunday. Around 5 p.m., two officers with the city’s 11th Precinct, identified as H. Kourani and G. Rogers, were called to respond...

CALIFORNIA TEACHER CAUGHT ON VIDEO YELLING AT STUDENT FOR SUPPORTING HIS COP DAD WITH THIN BLUE LINE MASK: 'THAT’S THE NEW CONFEDERACY FLAG!' Posted by Paul Sacca | Feb 3, 2022 | The Blaze A California substitute teacher was caught on video berating a student over the "Thin Blue Line" face mask the eighth-grader was wearing. The 13-year-old said he wears the Thin Blue Line mask to honor his police officer father. The intense confrontation happened on Monday at Lyman Gilmore Middle School in Grass Valley, California. That's where the unnamed substitute teacher got into a shouting match about Lucas...

Juiced Up Budgets In Other States Attributed To Federal Aid, But Pritzker Claims Credit In Illinois – Wirepoints By: Mark Glennon* This claim by Gov. JB Pritzker in his State of the State speech on Wednesday just might be his biggest whopper yet, which is saying something: “Let me set the record straight for you — our state budget surpluses would exist even without the money we received from the federal government.” To show why that’s untrue, in this column, we will look at Pritzker’s claim in relation to what’s happening and what is being said in other states. Countless...

In the first of a five-part series “Even black men can be fired for not being ‘woke’ enough“, a radio talk show canceled by Canada’s Bell Media and iHeartRadio demonstrates how individuals who are black are only useful to “liberals” when they repeat the slogans of their white intellectual masters. Those who do not conform to the “progressive” stereotype are kicked off the plantation. Writes Jamil Jivani: Wokeness—a political agenda with a superficial commitment to diversity and inclusion—has become a global ideological movement. And, more than government policy, it’s big corporations pushing this agenda and punishing those who refuse to...

Credit: Rumble BOMBSHELL: Nurse testifies that none of the millions of covid patients died from covid, they died from medical mal-practice... hospitals were made to follow government orders that led to the deaths of millions of people... confirmed genocide... nuremberg 2.0 trials needed...

Politicians and pork: Where Illinois’ new, regressive taxes on gas, vehicle titles and more are going under ‘Rebuild Illinois’ – QuickPoint If you haven’t read the Better Government Association’s recent report on project selection under Illinois’ celebrated “Rebuild Illinois” spending plan, do so. It’s sad enough, but much worse when you consider how the program is being paid for: The poor and working class are being hit hardest. Rebuild Illinois is a multi-year spending program passed in 2019 that promised to help advance Illinois into the 21st Century with $45 billion in infrastructure improvements like roads, bridges, rail improvements and...

Pushing For War: Why Is The Biden Administration Pushing Ukraine To Attack Russia April 6, 2021 Why is it any of our business whether Crimea is part of Ukraine or part of Russia? Why is it any of our business if the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine prefer… by Ron Paul of Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity On March 24th, Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky signed what was essentially a declaration of war on Russia. In the document, titled Presidential Decree No. 117/2021, the US-backed Ukrainian leader declared that it is the official policy of Ukraine to take back...

Prominent Democrat, Publicly Critical of Joe Biden Border Policy, Gets a Visit from FBI Jackboots January 20, 2022 The political motives behind this FBI effort are, yet again, brutally transparent. The FBI are for Joe Biden what the Russian FSB is for Vladimir Putin. That’s what they are. That’s all they are. That’s what they do. How many dozens of examples does it take before people realize the FBI are criminal enforcers targeting any voices who rise in opposition to the DC system? Seriously, when is enough, enough? This should be a bipartisan issue. Democrat Representative Henry Cuellar represents Texas’...

It can't happen here? It is happening here! By Patricia McCarthy Sinclair Lewis's novel of 1935, It Can't Happen Here, was published amid the rise of fascism in Europe. The book is about the political career of fictional Buzz Windrip, who is elected president in 1936, defeating FDR with a campaign promising a return to traditional values and drastic social and economic reforms (he promises every American $5K). Once elected, he becomes a totalitarian tyrant, complete with his own paramilitary force called the Minute Men! Windrip is Lewis's version of an American Hitler and/or Mussolini. But consider the parallels with...

Sometimes it is useful to stop a moment and consider how your enemies think. We make fun of how insane they are on a regular basis but consider for a moment how they appeal to their voters. What themes and messages do they think resonate? I don't know why, but somehow the DCCC got my phone number and thought I was a good target for fundraising. So I received their pitch to raise money for congressional campaigns. This is an interesting look into what they consider to be winning messages. President Barack Obama just broke his silence and called on...

The parent company of public radio station WBEZ 91.5-FM is moving forward on plans to acquire the Chicago Sun-Times -- a merger designed to assure survival of the money-losing newspaper that will create one of the nation's largest nonprofit local news organizations. The board of Chicago Public Media voted Tuesday to approve the deal, which was first disclosed here in September. The merger is expected to be finalized by Jan. 31.

Deaths from COVID-19 are overwhelmingly concentrated among the elderly, and thus it would seem obvious that vaccinating older Americans should be a top priority. Yet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released guidance suggesting that millions of essential workers should receive the vaccine before many people 65 and older. Part of the reason for this, according to a CDC report, is to mitigate and racial and ethnic "health inequities." Older Americans are disproportionately white, whereas the essential worker category includes a larger percentage of racial minorities and low-income people

As suburban family continues legal battle for ivermectin, mother dies in ICU; father remains on ventilator Chicago News Kane County judge previous sided with hospital and denied Elgin's couple access to ivermectin by: Kelly Davis Posted: Dec 22, 2021 / 04:50 PM CST / Updated: Dec 23, 2021 / 10:39 AM CST ELGIN, Ill. — The family of a suburban man who is seriously ill with COVID-19 has filed an emergency appeal trying to force doctors to treat him with the controversial drug ivermectin. Sebastrian Abbinanti and his wife Maria both tested positive for COVID-19 last month. The Elgin couple,...

Trust the Science? by Jason Ouimet, Executive Director, NRA-ILA - Monday, December 6, 2021 Tucked away in the NRA-ILA archives is an Atlanta Constitution article from April 20, 1975. Titled, “Life-Style Disease: Atlanta’s CDC Plans to Examine Ways People Make Themselves Sick,” the item doesn’t mention firearms, but details how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention planned to expand its role beyond controlling actual communicable diseases like polio and smallpox and into all manner of personal conduct. The Atlanta Constitution item assured readers, "The CDC itself by no means has plans to go out and force people to change...

One Year Later, More Lingering Questions About January 6 If Republicans take over Congress next year, they must demand a full investigation under a new select committee. By Julie Kelly January 3, 2022 A bombshell report just published in Newsweek details an in-depth, secret operation conducted by the Justice Department before and during January 6. Contrary to the lamentations of FBI Director Christopher Wray that he wished his agency had had better resources to prevent the Capitol breach, hundreds of elite forces under Wray’s authority were on stand-by days just before the protest, and even on the ground as it...

America's elite universities are defying science and reason by clinging to cruel COVID policies that we now know cause more harm than good, writes DR. MARTY MAKARY, professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Universities are supposed to be bastions of critical thinking, reason and logic. But the Covid policies they have adopted — policies that have derailed two years of students' education and threaten to upend the upcoming spring semester — have exposed them as nonsensical, anti-scientific and often downright cruel.