A Cincinnati police captain said a would-be robber is dead because a 63-year-old convenience store owner protected herself.
“A 48-year-old individual comes inside, points a gun to her head, demands money,” said Capt. Paul Broxterman.
Police responded to the Glenway Pony Keg on Glenway Avenue at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. Officers found James Douglas, 48, had been fatally shot. Broxterman said the man was trying to rob the West Price Hill store, but the owner put up a fight — shooting and killing Douglas.
“She’s nothing short of a hero,” Broxterman said.
That’s just one in a string of crimes that took place in about 12 hours.
The Kurdish chief of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) reportedly vowed on Thursday to clear the remnants of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) from the group’s last bastion near the Iraqi border in northern Syrian within a month.
“We expect there will be an increase in the intensity of IS operations against our forces after the end of their military presence,” Mazloum Kobani, the SDF chief, told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) agency.
In November 2018, the Pentagon’s inspector general (IG) confirmed that ISIS only controls about one percent of the territory it once held, noting that the jihadi group’s last stronghold sits in northern Syria, near the Iraqi border.
Fighters from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) lead and make up the majority of the SDF, a Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State, or IS.
“The operation of our forces against IS in its last pocket has reached its end and IS fighters are now surrounded in one area,” Kobani told AFP.
“We need a month to eliminate IS remnants still in the area,” he also said, adding, “I believe that during the next month we will officially announce the end of the military presence on the ground of the so-called caliphate.”
Along with the U.S.-led coalition, the SDF is part of the last phase (Operation Roundup) that began on September 10 to deal a lasting defeat to the ISIS in northeastern Syria, a region held by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), the political wing of the YPG.
With the help of nearly 2,000 American troops and U.S. military equipment, the Syrian Kurds have been able to maintain control of large swathes of northern Syria where they have established an autonomous region.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the American troops prompted America’s Syrian Kurdish allies to accuse the United States of betraying them by leaving them vulnerable to attacks from Turkey, which considers the YPG and PYD to be an extension of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) communist group. U.S. support for the Syrian Kurds has infuriated Turkey.
Echoing other analysts, the Kurds also believe a quick withdrawal could lead to an ISIS resurgence.
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said early this month that the United States would not withdraw from Syria without assurances from Turkey that the Kurds will be safe and ensuring ISIS’s lasting defeat.
Bolton revealed that a residual American military force would remain in southern Syria to deal with the Iranian threat in the region.
The Pentagon IG warned that ISIS has morphed into “an effective clandestine” group that “has moved underground and is acting as an insurgency in” Iraq and Syria where it still poses a threat.
Kobani noted that the terrorist group’s new tactics include “sleeper cells everywhere, secretly recruiting people again, and carrying out suicide operations, bombings, and assassinations.”
While some U.S. military officials estimate that ISIS only has a couple of thousand jihadis in its last enclave, the Pentagon IG reported that there are “between 20,000 and 30,000” embers of the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
Although the SDF captured Hajin, the last town held by ISIS, the terrorist group has carried been able to break out of its territory and carry out a deadly attack against U.S. troops and their allies in recent days. The Syrian Kurds have reached out to the Iranian and Russian-backed regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad for help in repelling an impending attack from Turkey, the SDF chief confirmed.
According to the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a group that uses ground sources to monitor the conflict, intense clashes in and around the region known as “the Hajin pocket” has left hundreds of fighters dead on both side.
The corrupt Trump – Russia collusion witchhunt is not legit. It’s not based on a crime, it is dealing with a scope way outside the special counsel mandate, the entire team is more conflicted than any investigation in US history (beings it’s made up of all far-left Hillary supporters), and its not interested in the truth – only in harming President Trump. To date the Mueller gang hasn’t even looked into the various aspects that the entire sham is based on.
The claim of the need for the special counsel was due to Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Manager’s (John Podesta) emails being obtained by WikiLeaks and released to the public before the election. This is clearly a lie for many reasons. The main reason is that the emails were summarily ignored by the US mainstream media as they spent all their time promoting Hillary and criticizing candidate Trump. The WikiLeaks Podesta emails were damning to Hillary but they were not shared in the public square.
However, the WikiLeaks emails being released were blamed on Russia providing the emails to WikiLeaks. In spite of Julian Assange stating that he did not receive the Podesta emails from Russians, the mainstream media says Russia was the culprit. One thing is sure, the Mueller team does not have any idea how WikiLeaks obtained the Podesta emails. To date they have never asked the Mueller team or Kim Dotcom who states he knows information about how WikiLeaks obtained the emails.
Kim Dotcom reached out to Sean Hannity to come interview him:
Hey @seanhannity I think it’s time that you come and visit me in New Zealand. Let’s talk about Seth Rich and put an end to this Mueller / Russia nonsense.
Kim Dotcom also is stating the obvious that the Mueller Witchhunt is not after the truth:
Mueller has the mandate to investigate the DNC leaks but he has never interviewed Julian Assange or myself. How is this a credible investigation without seeking the evidence from core witnesses? This probe has no credibility and is simply a political witch hunt orchestrated by HC
The Mueller Mobsters are not after the truth – they are just protecting their Deep State friends from being prosecuted for their many crimes (e.g. Hillary emails, Uranium One, Clinton Foundation, Iran scandal, Benghazi, etc…). This is not just a witchhunt – it’s the most disgusting, corrupt and criminal action in US history and it’s being perpetrated by the FBI and DOJ.
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In one of what may end up being one of the defining days of his tenure in the White House, President Trump hastily cut a deal with the Democrat devils to end the government shutdown without any agreement to fund the border wall.
Only hours after Obergruppenführer Mueller dialed up a heavily armored goon squad home invasion to arrest the elderly longtime political operative Roger Stone, the POTUS hastily announced that a deal to end the 30 + day government shutdown – albeit temporarily – had been reached.
Then he went out and proceeded to present his enemies with the knife that they promptly embedded in his back.
While Democrats and the media predictably gloated, one of the most loyal of Trump’s diehard supporters saw the president’s blinking as a betrayal.
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter quickly took to her Twitter account to blast Trump who she accused of being a bigger “wimp” than former President George H.W. Bush.
Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States.
The 57-year-old who resembles a haggard, horse-faced crack ho didn’t stop there either:
Trump tweets about Roger Stone raid, "Who alerted CNN to be there?" Just think! If you were president, you could haul the FBI director’s ass into the Oval Office and ask him yourself.
Then she turned up on HBO’s “Late Night With Bill Maher” where continued to snipe at Trump and offered up the gameplan for defeating Trump in 2020.
Via Real Clear Politics, “Coulter vs. Maher: Attack Trump For Failed Border Wall Promise, “He Lied”; You’re Wasting Time With Russia”:
Conservative columnist and commentator Ann Coulter told the host of HBO’s ‘Real Time’ Bill Maher how Democrats can beat President in 2020: go after him for not keeping a campaign promise. Coulter advised Maher that if “you want to get Trump” the winning message isn’t Russia, it’s calling out his failure to deliver on a major campaign promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We’ve been lied to over and over and over by politicians, by respectable people,” Coulter said n Friday. “By people like Mitt Romney and George Bush, Obama and Clinton were going to protect your jobs. And if I can just say for a second to an audience that is not wild about me, I think this ‘build the wall’ line sounds like ‘Crooked Hillary’ or ‘lock her up.’ It isn’t that.”
“You want to get Trump? I’m telling you how to get Trump,” she said told the HBO host. “He promised something for 18 months and he lied. It’s not this Russia nonsense. You are so wasting time!”
How’s that for sleeping with the enemy?
In fairness to Coulter, there are many among the president’s base who signed up for MAGA and not this lame horseshit and unless he acts soon and in a decisive manner like declaring a national emergency to build the wall, he is at risk of hemorrhaging support at the worst possible time.
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Now this is a complete own. Via The Telegraph: Following last Saturday’s (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a number of false statements which we accept should not have been published. Mrs Trump’s father was not a fearsome presence and […]
Democrats and their press allies are always yelling about voter fraud being a miniscule “actually very rare,” practically non-existent thing, a figment of fevered conservative imaginations. But state election officials in Texas have uncovered a whopping 98,000 illegal voter registrations from non-citizens, with more than half - 58,000 – actually casting ballots. Seems the problem is bigger than was imagined, even — on the right. The story is being covered by the mainstream press. WFAA, a big Texas radio station, had this:
About 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, and more than half of those have cast ballots in at least one election, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley announced on Friday.
Whitley’s office, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety, had been investigating possible voter fraud for the last year, according to a news release.
Of the 95,000 non-citizens registered, 58,000 have voted in one or more elections since 1996.
The Secretary of State’s office found those numbers by collecting current DPS data of people who have applied for a driver’s license or state identification card in the last five years with a green card of visa. The investigators then cross-referenced that data with people who are registered to vote.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had this, NBC News had this. Dallas Morning News had this.
Which pretty well puts paid to the Democratic ‘talking point’ about voter fraud being a non-issue. Actually, this finding, from Texas officials very determined to clean up their voter rolls, is a very big issue. Every ballot cast by a foreigner in the election cancels out the vote of an American citizen. When the elections are close, that’s quite a disenfranchisement.
According to the Star-Telegram, citing a Texas official:
“Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a prepared statement. “My Election Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the democratic process when needed.”
He’s right. With elections increasingly close, the prospect of foreigners determining the outcome is a rather amazing sort of imperialism against Americans from abroad. And they are getting away with it, they’ve been getting away with it for more than two decades, as this study showed.
What else can we say about this? It exposes the Democrats and their abnormal obsession with keeping voter rolls unaudited, for the beneficiaries of non-citizens voting. Texas is a red state and red states have no stake in winning illegal votes, which go largely to Democrats. No wonder they yell about these revelations, which they are doing this time, but it’s a pretty big tide they’re protesting.
California, by contrast, is a solid blue one-party state, coinciding with its initiation of vast benefit packages for illegal immigrants. Not surprisingly, the state houses a quarter of the nation’s illegal immigrants. And surprise, surprise, it leads the nation in resistence to voter roll audits, claiming illegal immigrants wouldn’t dream of voting illegally here after they crossed into the U.S. illegally. California, which had to be sued into cleaning up its voter rolls, and not completely, continues to resist any effort to maintain the integrity of its vote.
Well, the Texas audit does signal there’s a problem. And since Democrats cannot spin this away, though they are trying to by saying maybe all the non-citizen voters became citizens in the interim, they are mostly likely going to try to ignore this away and say it was done by Republicans.
One can only hope it won’t work this time, because they’ve got big plans to make all of the nation’s election laws exactly like California’s. This is the death of democracy. Venezuela went this route, its failure wasn’t just socialism imposed in one swoop, it started with voter fraud. All the more reason to make this report from Texas a major narrative shift in the national conversation.
Democrats and their press allies are always yelling about voter fraud being a miniscule “actually very rare,” practically non-existent thing, a figment of fevered conservative imaginations. But state election officials in Texas have uncovered a whopping 98,000 illegal voter registrations from non-citizens, with more than half - 58,000 – actually casting ballots. Seems the problem is bigger than was imagined, even — on the right. The story is being covered by the mainstream press. WFAA, a big Texas radio station, had this:
About 95,000 non-citizens are registered to vote in Texas, and more than half of those have cast ballots in at least one election, Texas Secretary of State David Whitley announced on Friday.
Whitley’s office, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety, had been investigating possible voter fraud for the last year, according to a news release.
Of the 95,000 non-citizens registered, 58,000 have voted in one or more elections since 1996.
The Secretary of State’s office found those numbers by collecting current DPS data of people who have applied for a driver’s license or state identification card in the last five years with a green card of visa. The investigators then cross-referenced that data with people who are registered to vote.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had this, NBC News had this. Dallas Morning News had this.
Which pretty well puts paid to the Democratic ‘talking point’ about voter fraud being a non-issue. Actually, this finding, from Texas officials very determined to clean up their voter rolls, is a very big issue. Every ballot cast by a foreigner in the election cancels out the vote of an American citizen. When the elections are close, that’s quite a disenfranchisement.
According to the Star-Telegram, citing a Texas official:
“Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a prepared statement. “My Election Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the democratic process when needed.”
He’s right. With elections increasingly close, the prospect of foreigners determining the outcome is a rather amazing sort of imperialism against Americans from abroad. And they are getting away with it, they’ve been getting away with it for more than two decades, as this study showed.
What else can we say about this? It exposes the Democrats and their abnormal obsession with keeping voter rolls unaudited, for the beneficiaries of non-citizens voting. Texas is a red state and red states have no stake in winning illegal votes, which go largely to Democrats. No wonder they yell about these revelations, which they are doing this time, but it’s a pretty big tide they’re protesting.
California, by contrast, is a solid blue one-party state, coinciding with its initiation of vast benefit packages for illegal immigrants. Not surprisingly, the state houses a quarter of the nation’s illegal immigrants. And surprise, surprise, it leads the nation in resistence to voter roll audits, claiming illegal immigrants wouldn’t dream of voting illegally here after they crossed into the U.S. illegally. California, which had to be sued into cleaning up its voter rolls, and not completely, continues to resist any effort to maintain the integrity of its vote.
Well, the Texas audit does signal there’s a problem. And since Democrats cannot spin this away, though they are trying to by saying maybe all the non-citizen voters became citizens in the interim, they are mostly likely going to try to ignore this away and say it was done by Republicans.
One can only hope it won’t work this time, because they’ve got big plans to make all of the nation’s election laws exactly like California’s. This is the death of democracy. Venezuela went this route, its failure wasn’t just socialism imposed in one swoop, it started with voter fraud. All the more reason to make this report from Texas a major narrative shift in the national conversation.
Immoral. Via KDBC: A man who was in Border Patrol custody had to be treated for a flesh-eating bacteria. The migrant who was already in custody at the Lordsburg, N.M. Border Patrol station told an agent Thursday about a growing rash he had. He was taken to a medical facility for evaluation. Officials said hospital […]
VOTER FRAUD ALERT: The @TXsecofstate discovered approx 95,000 individuals identified by DPS as non-U.S. citizens have a matching voter registration record in TX, approx 58,000 of whom have voted in TX elections. Any illegal vote deprives Americans of their voice. — Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) January 25, 2019 But no voter fraud. This is over multiple […]
Twitter has officially endorsed Michael Rappaport’s video attacking the Covington boys as “Catholic c*ck suckers” (the same term that got Roger Stone banned permanently after he called Don Lemon one. He posted this bragging about how they won’t suspend him. #VerifiedBulliespic.twitter.com/J3dXFwqrmo
Michael Rapaport received quite the response after making this rambunctious video calling the Covington MAGA children numerous derogatory terms, including “C*cksuckers”. Now the Netflix actor may have to pay out of his own pocket for his actions.
NEWS – A team of very high profile lawyers are joining together to fight for justice for the Covington Catholic High School students who were ruthlessly attacked by the media following a school trip to DC for the March for Life. According to lawyer Robert Barnes, who is representing several of the families, the team will include at least five lawyers from five different law firms — all with a record of high profile civil cases. We cannot yet report the names of the lawyers who are joining forces — but we can assure you that you have heard of their cases. When asked about who exactly they are planning to sue out of the hundreds of celebrities and journalists who defamed these boys, Barnes confirmed that former CNN host Reza Aslan, actor Michael Rapaport and ABC News senior political analyst anchor Matthew Dowd are on the list, “for starters.”
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Venezuelan President Juan Guaidó announced a military amnesty campaign on Friday designed to strip socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro of the force he needs to control the country.
In a press conference delivered from central Caracas, Guaidó urged soldiers to “side with the people of Venezuela” and allow the flow of humanitarian aid into the country after the United States pledged to send a $20 million aid package requested by Guaidó himself.
“Soldiers of Venezuela, please join the side of the people of Venezuela,” he said. “You will have an important test before you in the next few days. First in front of your family, your loved ones, and God. The second test will be in front of those who need medicine, food, etc. Will you allow humanitarian aid to enter?”
Guaidó also spoke directly to the Cuban military personnel employed by the Maduro regime to bolster its strength and repressive elements, asking them to retire from their positions but adding they were free to remain in the country.
“It is time for Cuba to withdraw from our armed forces,” he said. “It is time for the Cubans to retire and leave from their leadership positions. Cuban brothers, attention, you are welcome to stay in this country. Now, out of the armed forces and out of leadership positions.”
“It is a matter of sovereignty and respect,” he added. “We are also in solidarity with the struggle of our Cuban brothers for freedom and sovereignty.”
The 35-year-old also asked his supporters to print out documents explaining the country’s amnesty law, which they could then hand to members of the armed forces to urge them to stop propping up Maduro’s regime, saying:
Today on social media, I ask you to download the [amnesty] law first so that you read it, and second so you print it out. On Sunday, we will meet in small groups and I ask for you to hand it to your family, friends, and acquaintances in the military … an unprecedented civil, pacific action.
You can meet in small groups and give them to local military blocks … We are extending our hand, we are telling those officials to come to our side, we have a future. Maduro protects no one – not from persecution, not from hunger, not from misery – but there is a future with us.
The National Assembly, which Guaidó led as president before becoming the nation’s head of state on Wednesday, passed the law to urge soldiers and other military personnel not to follow Maduro’s orders or fear retribution for their crimes while under the socialist regime.
If effective, Guaidó’s call for the military to stand down may prove the final straw for the Maduro regime, which depends on the loyalty of its soldiers to ensure his regime’s survival. Over recent years, many soldiers have abandoned the military in protest of Maduro or to find other work outside the country due to the collapse in their salaries and overall living standards.
Maduro still commands the loyalty of many high-ranking military officers, the majority of whom remain very well paid and increasingly empowered. As reported by Reuters on Tuesday, many senior military figures are faithful to the leadership, mainly because they were appointed by Maduro or his predecessor Hugo Chávez.
“The military leadership is faithful to Maduro and will continue to be until he’s gone,” one unnamed active duty high-ranking military officer reportedly told the agency.
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