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Moped Thugs Hold Unarmed Police at Gunpoint in Sadiq Khan’s London

Armed criminals pulled up alongside a police van on a moped and aimed a gun at the officers in an attempt to free a suspected burglar detained in the back in Croydon, South London.

The trio was allegedly caught breaking into a mobile phone shop in the south-east of the capital in the small hours of Wednesday morning, with police arresting one 24-year-old male and then rearresting him after a struggle with his two accomplices which resulted in him briefly escaping, the Croydon Guardian reports.

The young man was taken to his home in Croydon so the property could be searched, after which two moped riders pulled up to the police van he was detained in and aimed a firearm at the officers.

The police van was able to drive away before any shots could be fired and without the 24-year-old being sprung from custody, but the incident left officers shocked.

“This once again demonstrates the bravery of officers who put themselves in harm’s way every day in order to protect the public,” commented Simon Messinger, Central South Area Commander for the Metropolitan Police Force.

“Fortunately the officers only received minor injuries [in the earlier struggle] and, thanks to the rapid support of colleagues, one of the suspects was detained.

“However, two suspects remain outstanding, and these are clearly reckless and dangerous individuals. Our priority now is to identify and arrest them.”

Gun crime is on the rise in London under the mayoralty of Labour’s Sadiq Khan, with recent statistics indicating that a weapon is discharged as much as every six hours despite draconian restrictions on legal firearms.

Carrying a firearm for self-defence is completely prohibited everywhere but the Province of Northern Ireland, where some serving and former members of the Armed Forces, police, and other sensitive individuals may carry a Personal Protection Weapon.

On the British mainland, ordinary citizens may not carry so much as a lipstick-sized pepper spray for protection, and even police officers are not routinely armed.

Nor is home defence considered a “good reason” to be issued a shotgun or other firearms licence, with permits largely restricted to hunters, shooting club members, people involved in vermin control, etc.

Handguns, while increasingly common among criminals, are almost entirely prohibited.

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Two confirmations in Florida: The endorsement powers of Trump and Bernie Sanders

Two big primary elections in Florida Tuesday, one showing President Trump’s endorsement power and the other an upset showing Bernie Sander’s political clout.

In the Republican primary for governor, Rep. Ron DeSantis, who trailed early, surged back with Trump’s endorsement to defeat Adam Putnam, the state’s agriculture commissioner.

On the Democrat side, progressive Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum rode Sanders’ endorsement to an upset win over a crowded field. It included Rep. Gwen Graham, who is the daughter of former Florida governor and Sen. Bob Graham. She had been leading in the seven-person field.

The primary victories set up a mega-duel on Nov. 6 for political control of the fourth most-populous state between a Trump favorite and a Sanders favorite, who is seeking to become Florida’s first black governor.

“Ron will be a fantastic Governor. On to November!” the president tweeted. For his part, DeSantis thanked the president for “viewing me as somebody who could be a great leader for Florida.”

Governors’ races this cycle are especially critical. Twenty-six of the GOP’s record 33 seats are up. State governors will play a key role in legislative reapportionments that emerge from the 2020 census.

The winner in this governor’s race will succeed incumbent Rick Scott. With Trump’s encouragement the term-limited Scott is seeking to oust  incumbent Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson, who was unopposed.

The wealthy Scott easily triumphed in the GOP primary and is expected to give the two-term Nelson a tough challenge. If he can pull it off, that would give the GOP an important Senate pickup and, with Marco Rubio, both senators from the Sunshine State.

Gillum’s win is yet another confirmation of the hard tack to the left among this cycle’s Democrat voters.

This race is shaping up as likely the nation’s most expensive. By early August, Scott, anticipating primary victory, had already spent more than $20 million of his own money going after Nelson.

In a political footnote, former Bill Clinton Cabinet secretary and president of the Clinton Foundation Donna Shalala won the House Democrat primary in Florida’s 27th District for the seat being vacated by GOP veteran Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Shalala will face Maria Elvira Salazar, a former TV news anchor who captured 41 percent of the Republican vote in a nine-person race.

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Outrage: Strzok Was Notified of Chinese Accessing Hillary’s Server, Did Nothing

This name is getting a little too familiar – and Americans should be getting very angry.

Amid the blockbuster report by The Daily Caller that a Chinese firm had penetrated Hillary Clinton’s private email server “throughout” her time as secretary of state, one FBI figure is mentioned prominently.

And it’s the same agent who’s appeared at almost every sordid turn in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s handling of the Clinton email investigation and the  trumped up “collusion” case against President Donald Trump – the now-fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok.

According to The Daily Caller, Strzok, who was a one of the FBI’s top counterintelligence agents,  was briefed by investigators with the Intelligence Community Department of Inspector General (ICIG) about the possibility that Clinton’s email server had been compromised by a foreign intelligence service.

The meeting took place sometime after the ICIG had discovered an “anomaly” on Clinton’s server that indicated information that was placed on it was being surreptitiously copied by another entity. That discovery was made “pretty early in 2015,” The Daily Caller reported.

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The Daily Caller quoted a former intelligence official explaining the problem:

“When [the ICIG] did a very deep dive, they found in the actual metadata — the data which is at the header and footer of all the emails — that a copy, a ‘courtesy copy,’ was being sent to a third party and that third party was a known Chinese public company that was involved in collecting intelligence for China.”

That’s pretty serious stuff, considering Clinton was secretary of state – the top diplomat in the United States government. If emails she was writing were being copied – in real time – to a hostile foreign power like China, Americans would expect the FBI to take some sort of notice.

But Peter Strzok, under questioning by Rep. Louis Gohmert in July, said he didn’t even remember the conversation. In response to Gohmert, a Texas Republican, Strzok acknowledged speaking the ICIG investigator Frank Rucker but, unbelievably, said he didn’t remember what they’d talked about.

Do you think the scandal is going to get worse?

(Watch the CSPAN clip of the exchange here. Strzok’s smirk is as infuriating as his statements are, literally, incredible.)

“I remember meeting Mr. Rucker on either one or two occasions,” Strzok said. “I do not recall the specific content or discussions.”

If the “content” of the conversation was China spying on Hillary Clinton, that’s simply not possible.

In an editorial published Tuesday, the Investors Business Daily summed it up nicely:

“It seems unlikely that the FBI’s top counterintelligence official — who was leading the investigation into Clinton’s emails — wouldn’t remember being told that the Chinese had unfettered access to those emails while she was secretary of State.

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“So, either Strzok is lying or the ICIG officials are. Our money is on Strzok.”

That’s as safe a bet as anyone ever made.

There are many, many figures in the Clinton email scandal that have disgraced themselves – not least the former secretary of state herself, President Barack Obama, who appointed her, and the political party and mainstream media that tried to make this woman the president of the United States.

But for sheer nuts-and-bolts deception, the FBI “counterintelligence agent” who clearly turned a blind eye to information that his favored candidate had been compromised by an intelligence operation from China, then had the effrontery to tell a United States congressman that he couldn’t remember the conversation is in a class by himself.

That isn’t just negligence, and it isn’t just a partisan passion to use the powers of the FBI to swing the outcome of a presidential election. It amounts to Strzok being a traitor to his duty to the bureau, and the Americans it’s supposed to serve.

Democrat voters outside Washington – infected by a bizarre mix of blind range at their loss in 2016 and what can only be described as staggering stupidity – could be forgiven for supporting obviously demented nutcases like Maxine Waters or doddering statists like Nancy Pelosi.

But now, just in time for the midterm elections, they’re being faced with evidence that not only did the Democrat Party’s 2016 presidential nominee put national security at risk for the entire time she was secretary of state, but minions in the FBI like the increasingly loathsome Peter Strzok have been helping her conceal it for their own ends.

Strzok worked directly for FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. McCabe worked directly for former FBI Director James Comey. And it was James Comey who reacted to his own firing by President Donald Trump by leaking information that led directly to the hiring of Robert Mueller as special counsel investigating Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia.

Those connections aren’t hard to make. Maybe someone in the Justice Department or the mainstream media might be able to connect the dots at some point and the country can realize what a bill of goods it’s been sold with the “Russian collusion” story.

Most Americans busy living their own productive lives might have thought the name “Strzok” was fading into the background by now.

But it’s just getting familiar again – and it’s getting beyond infuriating.

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CNN’s Don Lemon Defends Antifa: ‘No Organization Is Perfect’

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CNN host Don Lemon defended militant group Antifa on Tuesday, acknowledging its violent past while saying “no organization is perfect.”

Lemon’s comments came during a discussion on his primetime show about the group’s clashes with neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia last year, The Hill reports.

“It says it right in the name: Antifa, anti-fascism, which was what they were there fighting,” Lemon said. “Listen, no organization is perfect. There was some violence. No one condones violence, but there were different reasons for Antifa and for these neo-Nazis to be there. One, racists, fascists, the other group, fighting racist fascists. There is a distinction there.”

The discussion arose after it was reported President Donald Trump warned evangelical leaders during a closed door meeting Monday that Republican midterm loses could lead Democrats to “overturn everything that we’ve done and they will do it quickly and violently.”

“There’s violence. When you look at Antifa and you look at some of these groups — these are violent people,” Trump said, according to an audiotape of his remarks provided to the New York Times by an event attendee.

The same night on Wolf Blitzer’s “The Situation Room,” CNN chief legal analyst Jeffery Toobin called Trump’s criticism of Antifa an “appeal to racism.”

“Let’s be clear also about what’s going on here, the theme here is ‘I’m Donald Trump and I’ll protect you from the scary black people,'” Toobin said in a clip flagged by the Daily Wire. ” Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization and this is just part of the same story of LeBron James and Don Lemon and Maxine Waters and the NFL players and the UCLA basketball players.”

While many Antifa supporters dress in all black, it is unclear where Toobin derived his assessment that the group is “widely perceived as an African-American organization.” Antifa has been responsible for numerous incidents of violence over the past month alone. A couple weeks ago, members of Antifa who were counter-protesting a far-right rally in Washington, D.C. threw eggs and water bottles, and shot fireworks at police and some journalists.

Earlier this month, an Antifa protest in Berkeley resulted in members of the group smashing the windows of a Marine Corps recruiting office. The person who recorded the incident said several Antifa members warned him, “Get the f— back. Cops aren’t here. They won’t help you.”

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security began warning state and local authorities in early 2016 that Antifa was becoming increasingly violent and referred to its members as “anarchist extremists.”

During the final year of the Obama administration, DHS classified the group’s activities as “domestic terrorist violence.”

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Title IX Complaint Filed Against Feminist Professor Who Tells Women to ‘Hate Men’

An editorial by a feminist professor at Northeastern University that advocates it is okay for women to hate men "#BecausePatriarchy" has now led to a Title IX complaint.

The National Coalition for Men filed a complaint with the Department of Education against Suzanna Danuta Walters, the head of Northeastern’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Campus Reform reported.

"Despite numerous requests, Northeastern neglected to conduct an internal Title IX investigation against [Walters]," according to the paper. "Walters later doubled-down on her remarks. In an interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education, she clarified that she ‘doesn’t hate men in some generic way,’ but insisted that it makes sense for women to have ‘legitimate rage’ against men."

Walters reiterated that it "makes sense for women to have legitimate rage" against a "group of people that has systematically abused them"—meaning men.

Campus Reform reported a professor at the University of Michigan-Flint called for Northeastern to investigate, but the school declined to respond.

"How could a male student ever expect fair, just, and equitable treatment from Professor Walters?" asked UM-Flint professor Mark Perry.

The National Coalition for Men has since filed a Title IX complaint, arguing Walters’ op-ed is evidence of an "overall hostile effect against male participants" at Northeastern’s Women’s Studies department.

"Suzanne Walters is the chair of their Women Studies program, not some random schmuck," Harry Crouch, the president of the National Coalition for Men, told Campus Reform. "Her openly hateful behavior is reprehensible, disgusting, and irresponsible. She should not be allowed to promote her misandry in an educational institution with impressionable minds."

The Washington Post published Walters’s "hate men" editorial in June.

The editorial began with Walters explaining she has been "pushed over the edge" by "mansplaining" and asked, "Why can’t we hate men?" in the wake of sexual misconduct by Democrats Eric Schneiderman and Harvey Weinstein.

"It’s not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former New York attorney general accused of abuse by multiple women) pushed me over the edge," Walters began. "My edge has been crossed for a long time, before President Trump, before Harvey Weinstein, before ‘mansplaining’ and ‘incels.’"

"Seen in this indisputably true context, it seems logical to hate men," she says. "I can’t lie, I’ve always had a soft spot for the radical feminist smackdown, for naming the problem in no uncertain terms. I’ve rankled at the ‘but we don’t hate men’ protestations of generations of would-be feminists and found the ‘men are not the problem, this system is’ obfuscation too precious by half."

Walters goes on to say that criticism of blanket condemnation of men is "mostly" correct.

"These critics rightly insist on an analysis of male power as institutional, not narrowly personal or individual or biologically based in male bodies," she says. "Growing movements to challenge a masculinity built on domination and violence and to engage boys and men in feminism are both gratifying and necessary. Please continue."

Walters, however, returned to her diatribe against men, arguing women have "every right to hate" men "#BecausePatriarchy."

She concludes with a demand that no man run for political office or "be in charge of anything":

So, in this moment, here in the land of legislatively legitimated toxic masculinity, is it really so illogical to hate men? For all the power of #MeToo and #TimesUp and the women’s marches, only a relatively few men have been called to task, and I’ve yet to see a mass wave of prosecutions or even serious recognition of wrongdoing. On the contrary, cries of ‘witch hunt’ and the plotted resurrection of celebrity offenders came quick on the heels of the outcry over endemic sexual harassment and violence. But we’re not supposed to hate them because . . . #NotAllMen. I love Michelle Obama as much as the next woman, but when they have gone low for all of human history, maybe it’s time for us to go all Thelma and Louise and Foxy Brown on their collective butts.

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So men, if you really are #WithUs and would like us to not hate you for all the millennia of woe you have produced and benefited from, start with this: Lean out so we can actually just stand up without being beaten down. Pledge to vote for feminist women only. Don’t run for office. Don’t be in charge of anything. Step away from the power. We got this. And please know that your crocodile tears won’t be wiped away by us anymore. We have every right to hate you. You have done us wrong. #BecausePatriarchy. It is long past time to play hard for Team Feminism. And win.

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Cuomo Suspended Investigation Shortly After Receiving Donation From Former Weinstein Lawyer’s Firm

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) froze a probe into the prosecutor’s handling of the Harvey Weinstein case shortly after receiving a donation from a lawyer once connected to Weinstein.

Weinstein fell from grace in 2017 after dozens of women came forward and alleged they had been raped or sexually harassed by the Hollywood mogul. In one case, New York police secretly recorded Weinstein admitting he groped a woman without her consent and had done the same to other women, but he was never prosecuted.

The Manhattan district attorney who declined to bring charges, Cyrus Vance, Jr., later received a $10,000 donation from Weinstein’s attorney David Boies. In March, Cuomo asked the New York attorney general’s office to investigate Vance’s handling of the Weinstein case.

In June, however, Cuomo sent a letter to the attorney general’s office asking them to suspend the probe for six months. In a statement made after the freeze came to light Tuesday, Cuomo’s office said they wanted to “avoid any interference with the District Attorney’s ongoing prosecution of Harvey Weinstein. We remain committed to conducting a comprehensive, fair, and independent review.”

But Capital & Main reports that in parallel to Vance, the decision to shut down the probe came less than a week after Cuomo’s reelection campaign received $25,000 from Boies’ law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

A spokesman for the law firm pointed out that Boies, who no longer represents Weinstein, has a long history of donating to Cuomo. “Neither Mr. Boies, nor anyone from his firm, ever discussed Harvey Weinstein or Mr. Vance with Mr. Cuomo, or anyone from his office, at any time,” the firm told Capital & Main in a statement.

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Donald Trump Says Facebook and Twitter Bias Has Personally Affected Him

President Donald Trump continued criticism of Facebook, Google, and Twitter’s effort to weaken conservative and Republican voices on their platforms on Wednesday, citing his personal experience.

“I think they treat conservatives and Republicans very unfairly. I could tell you that I have personal experience,” Trump said. “I had a lot of people on the various platforms.”

The president questioned his social media director Dan Scavino about his number of followers who informed him that he had about 160 million across the various social platforms. But Trump indicated that he noticed that some of the numbers were disappearing.

“I can tell you when things are different, all of a sudden you lose people, and you say ‘where did they go?’ they’re taken off,” Trump said.

In June, a recent Twitter purge of accounts

lowered

Trump’s follower count by hundreds of thousands.

The president commented on the issue at the White House during an event with reporters and signaled interest in upcoming Congressional hearings scheduled with social media executives.

“I think it’s a very serious problem, because they’re really trying to silence a very large part of this country,” he said. “It’s not right, it’s not fair it may not be legal, but we’ll see. We just want fairness.”

Trump downplayed the suggestion that he was prepared to support regulation of the companies.

“You know what we want? We don’t want regulation, we want fairness,” he said.

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