UPDATE: Waco “Twin Peaks” Shootout – All Charges Dropped, Not a Single Successful Prosecution…

Via Knuckledraggin' My Life Away

Every government individual involved in this should be charged with  murder. Waco and Ruby Ridge to boot.

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While the criminal cases will be dismissed, more than 130 of the bikers have civil rights lawsuits pending against Reyna, former Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman, the city of Waco, McLennan County and individual local and state officers who were involved in the arrest.

Here’s an update to a story we covered in detail for quite a while.  [All Rsearch Backstory Threads Available Here] After four years of seriously sketchy prosecutorial conduct, likely trying to cover up the number of people killed by police and SWAT units as they shot into the crowd, the McLennen county district attorney has dropped all charges against the bikers involved in the Waco “Twin Peaks” brawl.

That means the old DA and the new DA were not able to achieve a single successful prosecution of any of the 177 bike club members, after the entire group was originally rounded up and locked in jail on $1 million bonds.

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Videos: Saigon 1896 - 1960

Saigoneer

Rare Newsreels From 1930  Life in Colonial Saigon

A Tour of Saigon in the 1900s

Vietnamese History Unfold in This 1896-1945 Video

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Saigon's Oldest Known Footage Captures Snippets of Life in 1899-1900

Reparations: Let’s Do It!

Reparations for the deserving.? Who gets the money? Who gives up the money?  Who owes the money?

The idea for reparations for which many of the current political and /or media hacks call the “original sin” of “the country” is restitution. That is, a large number of thugs like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson or the usual peripheral suspects of the bastardized political class will seize a financial opportunity. That is an opportunity to soak the people with more taxes.

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We Have A Crisis Of Civics. Start Teaching The Constitution In Elementary School

According to the most recent Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey conducted last September, Americans have a pretty appalling grasp of their nation's governing structure. Only 32% of those surveyed were able to name all three branches of the federal government (which actually represented a 6% increase from the previous year). But an even higher portion of those surveyed, 33%, could not even name a single branch of the federal government. And according to the 2017 iteration of the same survey, 37% of those surveyed could not name a single right secured by the First Amendment!

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Police Aren't Enough

Via Billy

Sometimes, during my drive to work, I listen to Clarence Maurice Mitchell IV, host of the Baltimore’s WBAL C4 radio show. Mitchell was formerly a member of Maryland’s House of Delegates and its Senate. In recent weeks, Mitchell has been talking about the terrible crime situation in Baltimore. In 2018, there were 308 homicides. So far this year, there have been 69. That’s in a 2018 population of 611,648 — down from nearly a million in 1950. The city is pinning its hopes to reduce homicides and other crime on new Police Commissioner Michael Harrison.

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Ex-CIA Boss Got "Bad Information", Now "Relieved" Trump Not a Criminal

The CIA Takeover of America in the 1960s is the Story of Our Times

Via Billy

A Quasi-Review of A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by Lisa Pease

“ ‘We’re all puppets,’ the suspect [Sirhan Sirhan] replied, with more truth than he could have understood at that moment.”
– Lisa Pease, quoting from the LAPD questioning of Sirhan

When Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5,1968, the American public fell into an hypnotic trance in which they have remained ever since. The overwhelming majority accepted what was presented by government authorities as an open and shut case that a young Palestinian American, Sirhan Sirhan, had murdered RFK because of his support for Israel, a false accusation whose ramifications echo down the years. That this was patently untrue and was contradicted by overwhelming evidence made no difference.

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Sissel Kyrkjebø - Shenandoah

Via 4Branch

Out and About: And Here and There in Jalisco

On a sunny day Violeta and I will inhabit our faithful CRV and wander about, without being excessively directed toward anywhere in particular, along the south shore of Lake Chapala, maybe striking off randomly in search of interesting pueblos. Warm wind. Ranchera music. There are roads good and bad fraught with minor adventures and curiosities. For example, On a winding narrow rural road a sopilote, a buzzard, insisted on stalking down the middle in front of us, so that we could not pass without squashing him, or her, which we had no idea of doing.  The horn had no effect. Thus go things in the wilds of Jalisco.

Thinking that the photos along the lake might interest curious souls, I decided to stick them together with some others and post them on the web. Well, I did.

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CLEAN: 1973 Dodge Dart 440 Swinger

Growling big block power, a fully coordinated custom look inside & out, and a terrific price all let you know that this 1973 Dodge Dart Swinger is something special.

This car makes a terrific first impression. The full red package with white racing stripes is going to catch some eyes. Especially since this has more custom details like the painted bumpers, white grille, and white taillight bezels that makes for a well-coordinated total package. And we especially love the sides with the shaved door handles that add extra sleekness to the pillarless hardtop profile. But the look on this one is more than just custom... it's downright sporty. The bright Weld racing wheels look great; staggered tire sizes give it an aggressive forward-leaning stance; and those dual hood scoops have 440 callouts to signal some serious power underneath (more on that in a moment.)

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