Over the weekend we got some video and news of the Mexican Drug cartel in a battle with the Mexican Police. The fire fight happened because the cartel got them to release their leader , the son of El Chapo. Some amazing video came out from people filming on the street and from the cartel hitmen themselves.
One video streamed from inside the vehicle of a Mex Cartel hit man had him showing off a LAW launcher and his MK 48 belt fed. Other video showed a cartel good firing a Barrett at police and the truck with M2 mounted on it above. They were serious about it thats for sure.
Hey, but we don’t need a wall. Walls are racist. Who would pick strawberries for us if we keep these salt of the earth people out? We know only the best of society comes here to integrate with us.
The weekend weather was cool and rainy so of course I went hunting for a few hours. The rain storms jerked a few more leaves off the trees and the sqwacks have started to travel more on the ground so I brought out the rifle. They are still mostly in the trees and most leaves still remain so I may still be using the shotgun till the first hard frost.
yes I know there is a stove pipe. the ammo is low velocity rimfire BR match ammo and doesn’t always cycle the action. But it is extremely accurate so I tolerate the occasional miss-feed
The game is now hitting the beech trees pretty heavy. I don’t like trying to spot them in the beech trees but I like it because there is a giant stand of beech trees I can sit and watch with little effort.
The boogaloo in HK continues to grow and grow and grow. So much has happened there over the last week that I would have to spam the website to show it all to you. The protestors willing to boog like 1776 are growing. Below is a screen shot I took from a video shared by a Hk friend on facebook of a group attacking a communist enforcer drone. One HK boog boy takes his baton and you can see another trying to snatch is sidearms from the holster.
After several weeks of peace in Hong Kong, tens of thousands of
protestors took to the streets over the weekend and participated in an
illegal march that led to hundreds of stores trashed, Chinese banks
targeted, and several metro stations firebombed, reported Reuters.
At the start of the weekend, Hong Kong Police denied pro-democracy
protestors the right to march through an upscale shopping district.
Then by Sunday, thousands of black-clothed protesters clashed with
police, exchanging tear gas and petrol bombs that sent the city into
chaos once more.
Protests firebombed the Tsim Sha Tsui police station on the Kowloon peninsula.
There were several other reports that protestors used petrol bombs and targeted metro stations in the city.
Protestors targeted hundreds of shops and even damaged Chinese banks.
As protestors continue to battle police into the overnight, road
barriers have been set on fire, and stores are being trashed in several
Kowloon districts, said police.
Reuters spoke with a protestor who said the government is now denying
demonstration permits to prevent demonstrations from growing in size.
“The government pretends we just want to destroy the city. We’ll be
out for as long as it takes to let the world know it is them who are
destroying it,” a demonstrator named Ray told Reuters.
Violent protests began over the summer when Hong Kong proposed a new
law that would allow Beijing to extradited criminals to mainland China.
Hongkongers take pride in their legal system and personal freedoms, which is dramatically different than communist China.
China has shown in recent years that it seeks greater control over Hong Kong.
The extradition bill was scrapped in early September, but that hasn’t stopped violent demonstrations into fall.
Protesters view Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam as an agent of Beijing
and will likely not stop protesting until she is removed from power.
While Hong Kong burns this weekend, so is Santiago, Chile; so is Barcelona, Spain, and there are even climate change protests that are starting to get out of control throughout Europe.
Populism is sweeping across the world, and a lot of this anger and
frustration with young people is due to flawed monetary policy by
central banks that have produced the widest wealth gap in the history of
the world.
It’s only a matter of time before US millennials figure this out, they too will be marching in the streets once they know the truth as to why they only have a shitty gig-economy job, no savings, and insurmountable student debt.
BONUS BOOGALOO : SPANISH EL BOOGALOO !
Increasingly violent protests continue to rage in the Catalonia
region of Spain, with unrest bringing Barcelona to a standstill for a
second day, after some 500,000 pro-independence marchers converged on the city Friday
from other towns and the countryside, following nearly a week of
ongoing protests against Monday’s supreme court verdict sentencing at
least nine Catalan independence leaders to between 9 and 13 years in prison.
Overnight Friday police used riot control measures, including water
cannons and rubber bullets in attempts to disperse the large crowds,
which according to the Associated Press were “throwing cobblestones and flammable bottles, building barricades and setting dozens of bonfires in large garbage bins.”
As the clearest sign of growing violence in the protests, state sources cited around 400 people injured by the end of this week of growing chaos in the streets, many of them police officers.
According to some estimates around 100 security personnel have suffered injuries; however, police were in a number of instances caught on video brutally beating demonstrators.
Friday’s riots were the worst since smaller protests began in the immediate aftermath of Monday’s court sentencing.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau made an urgent public appeal for calm: “This cannot continue. Barcelona does not deserve it,” she said on Saturday.
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Some protest organizers have blamed ‘infiltrators’ who they say by
and large have been responsible for upping the violence against police
and acts of vandalism.
Catalan interior chief and police authority Miquel Buch told the AP,
“The images of organized violence during the night in Barcelona have
overshadowed the half a million people who demonstrated in a peaceful
and civic manner to show they rejected the verdict.”
Barcelona’s streets looked like a ‘war zone’ into the weekend, with no sign that the unrest will let up.
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It was announced by Madrid authorities on Friday that Spain’s civil guard had been deployed to Barcelona streets. The civil guard is essentially a militarized police force which has authority to deploy across the whole country.
Shocking footage showing increasingly
aggressive tactics against activists by Spanish police appears to only
be escalating the violent reactions among young people in the streets.
This dramatic move to give federal bolstering
to the local police came after some 20 major roads in Barcelona were
blocked by the sheer size of protesting crowds, and as local police
couldn’t bring the unrest under control.
Multiple viral social media videos showed police in some cases beating protesters over the head with batons.
Home to about 7.5 million people, the wealthy
and linguistically distinct Catalonia region has its own parliament,
flag, and distinct history; however, Catalan nationalists have long
complained Madrid over-taxes the region for the sake of Spain’s poorer
regions and cities.
The region is responsible for up to a fifth of
Spain’s gross domestic product, by far the biggest share, which has
translated into its leaders long seeking greater autonomy from Madrid.
All over the globe, the mood is turning sour. Anger
and frustration are bubbling over, and protests are becoming violent in
major cities all across the planet. In some cases economic pain is
driving the protests and in other cases political matters are motivating
the protesters, and it has been a very long time since we have seen so
many angry protests happening all over the world simultaneously.
Unfortunately, many believe that what we have seen so far is just the
beginning. Global economic conditions are rapidly
deteriorating, and as economic pain intensifies that is only going to
make everyone more frustrated.
And here in the United States, the drama surrounding the potential
impeachment of Donald Trump is going to greatly escalate the political
tensions that are already deeply dividing this country. No
matter how things turn out, a large percentage of the population is
likely to be deeply frustrated with the result, and that could very
easily lead to tremendous civil unrest.
But before we get to Trump, let’s take a look at what has been going on around the rest of the world first. In Chile, we are witnessing violent protests unlike anything that we have seen in decades…
Three people died in a fire in a supermarket being ransacked in the
Chilean capital early Sunday, as protests sparked by anger over social
and economic conditions rocked one of Latin America’s most stable
countries.
Santiago’s Mayor Karla Rubilar told reporters two people burned to
death in the blaze and another later died in hospital, after the huge
store controlled by US retail chain Walmart was looted.
Economic conditions are tough in Chile and rapidly getting tougher,
and it is very unusual to hear of “looting” in a country that is
normally so stable.
Thousands of demonstrators poured into downtown Beirut for a third
day on Saturday, hours after overnight clashes erupted between security
forces and protesters leading to large-scale arrests and several
injuries.
Demonstrations have engulfed various parts of Lebanon for three days.
Many protesters called for the resignation of the government and
demanded the “downfall” of a political class that has ruled the country
since the start of its 15-year civil war in 1975.
When people lose hope that things are ever going to get any better, they tend to take to the streets.
Unfortunately, corruption appears to be a way of life over in Lebanon
at this point, and there seems to be little hope of major reforms any
time soon.
Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in central London to
demand a new referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union, as parliament voted to delay a decision on whether to back Prime Minister Boris Johnson‘s revised Brexit withdrawal deal.
The march organised by the People’s Vote campaign is thought to be
the largest yet, drawing anti-Brexit supporters from across the country
as parliament sat on a Saturday for the first time since the Falklands
conflict in the 1980s.
Yet another Brexit agreement appears to have failed, and many are
wondering if it will ever be possible to get one through Parliament.
Many of those favoring Brexit are hoping for a “no deal” exit from
the European Union at this point, and meanwhile many of the “remainers”
are holding out hope that there will somehow be a second referendum.
Over in Spain, violent protests have erupted night after night in the aftermath of the arrest of nine key pro-independence leaders in Catalonia…
Barcelona saw its fifth consecutive night of violence on Friday, in
the wake of Monday’s Supreme Court ruling that jailed nine
pro-independence leaders for their role in the 2017 secessionist drive.
The disturbances last night were particularly virulent, in terms of
their duration, intensity and use of violence on the part of protestors,
who were very aggressive toward the police.
Violent groups surrounded the central headquarters of the National
Police in the Catalan capital, throwing objects, putting up barricades
and setting fire to trash containers. As the sun set, the protests moved
to the center of the city, where the regional police force, the Mossos
d’Esquadra, used an armored vehicle with a water cannon. At least three
police officers were injured in the rioting.
These protests may fade after a while, but they are not going away.
Those involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia are very
passionate, and it has widespread public support.
Of course the protests that have made the biggest splash on
the global stage have been the relentless pro-democracy protests in Hong
Kong. Despite the brutality of the police, the protesters
just keep coming back again and again, and “tens of thousands” of
protesters were in the streets once again on Sunday…
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to Hong Kong’s
streets on Sunday, once again defying a police ban on the assembly and
undeterred by a brutal attack against a leader of the organization that
called for the march.
The huge turnout, which included families, children and the elderly,
demonstrated how the movement now in its fifth month continues to have
widespread support, despite the increasingly violent tactics used by
protesters and escalating use of force by police.
Here in the United States, we don’t have protests like this going on right now.
But we could very soon.
The impeachment process is bringing a focal point to the deep anger
that has been building on both sides of the political spectrum for many
years. Now that this process has begun, there is no going back, and
both sides believe that there is only one result that will bring
justice.
For the left, any result that does remove Donald Trump from office will be a bitter disappointment. The
Democrats in the House of Representatives are going to draft articles
of impeachment, and they believe that they already have the votes they
need to send those articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate.
If the Republican-controlled Senate does not vote to convict Trump
and remove him from office, this will greatly upset the left, and could
result in an explosion of anger in our city streets.
On the other hand, if the Republican-controlled Senate does vote to
convict Trump and remove him from office, tens of millions of hardcore
Trump supporters are going to be absolutely livid. There would be an
explosion of righteous anger on the right, and it would almost certainly
spill into our city streets.
Of course it is likely that both sides will start protesting well
before there is a final result, but once the final vote in the Senate
happens that is when things are likely to get very interesting.
The Democrats should have never gone down this road, because one way or another this process is going to tear us apart.
If our founders could see us today they would be rolling over in their graves, because this is not what they intended.
