"Better Bring Our Own Guns" - Portland Antifa Plotting "Direct Confrontation" At Pro-Trump Rally"

A violent Antifa cell based in Portland, Oregon is planning a "direct confrontation" with participants in a pro-Trump rally next Saturday, according to a call to action on the leftist website "It's Going Down."

“Rose City Antifa has continued their great work of doxxing the Portland area Proud Boys involved in this violence, and is also calling for militant antifascist resistance against Patriot Prayer,” reads the posting first reported by Cassandra Fairbanks of the Gateway Pundit.

The Rose City Antifa group notably clashed with members of Patriot Prayer and the pro-Trump "Proud Boys" in early June, which resulted in a viral video of a member of Antifa being knocked out during a melee started by the violent "resistance" group.

A spokesperson for Rose City Antifa told It's Going Down said that the group plans to "show that the community will not allow violent nationalist opportunists to threaten our city and target our people. We will overwhelm them both by force of numbers and commitment to defending our community. Whatever it takes."

As Fairbanks notes, the call to action urges members to engage in "direct confrontation" to "eliminate" the conservative groups' ability to hold rallies.

“Without direct confrontation, PP and other white nationalist groups will feel entitled to threaten people where ever and whenever they like. First they target Anti-Fascists and Anti-ICE activists, then they target Pride, marginalized community spaces, minorities, and migrants. They believe ‘might makes right’ and unless the community steps in to stop them, there is no telling who they will attack next for political gain,” the call to action continues.

"Better bring our own guns too"

Journalist Tim Pool noted a Reddit discussion in the "Anarchism" subreddit in which Antifa members discuss arming themselves ahead of the event.

"Only thing I'm worried about is some nut with a gun and a bunch of bullets," says one user, to which another replied "Better bring our own guns too just to be safe."

August 4th in Portland is already sounding like it is going to get really bad.

Activists call for bringing guns in preparation for escalation. pic.twitter.com/f0IZO387Bi

— Tim Pool (@Timcast) July 28, 2018

During the June "Battle of Portland," police recovered knives and other weapons, as well as bear mace.

Last April, 21 people were arrested after violence broke out between Trump supporters and members of Antifa in downtown Berkeley - leading to several injuries and the recovery of weapons from Antifa which included knives and spiked poles.

Here are some of the prohibited items that have already removed from the park today. https://t.co/3qx3smYwgk pic.twitter.com/A70VCxFYEu

— Berkeley Police (@berkeleypolice) April 15, 2017

Let's hope we don't see more of the same this Saturday in Portland - especially gunshot victims.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-30/portland-antifa-plotting-direct-confrontation-pro-trump-rally-threat-escalates

Here we go again!

North Korea suspected to be building new ICBMs: report

Published: July 30, 2018 8:32 p.m. ET

There is evidence that North Korea is producing new missiles at the same facility that built intercontinental ballistic missiles that could reach the U.S., the Washington Post reported late Monday. According to the report, U.S. intelligence agencies, based on satellite photos and other evidence, believe one or two types of new ICBMs are being made at a facility outside Pyongyang. The range of the new missiles was not known, but the move is seen as a sign that North Korea's missile program is not slowing down, despite President Donald Trump's tweet in June that North Korea was "no longer a Nuclear Threat" following his summit with Kim Jong Un. Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testified on Capitol Hill that North Korea was still secretly producing "fissile material" used in nuclear weapons.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/north-korea-suspected-to-be-building-new-icbms-report-2018-07-30

The New York Post

Ex-FEMA personnel chief accused of harassment, hiring women as potential sex partners for male workers

Published: July 30, 2018 6:09 p.m. ET

A top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency — who quit last month — is being investigated over accusations that he was responsible for widespread sexual harassment in which attractive women were hired as possible sex partners for men he hired, including pals from college.

The alleged harassment and other misconduct, revealed through a preliminary seven-month internal probe, was a “systemic problem going on for years,” said FEMA Administrator Brock Long, the Washington Post reported. Some of the behavior could be criminal, he added.

Some claims about the agency’s former personnel chief were detailed in a written executive summary of the probe obtained by the paper.

FEMA officials confirmed that Corey Coleman, who led the personnel department from 2011 until quitting in June, was the target of the allegations.

Coleman — who was paid $177,150 annually — resigned June 18, before a scheduled interview with investigators and FEMA officials said they haven’t been able to grill him since.

Long described a “toxic” environment in the human resources department Coleman led at FEMA headquarters, hiring dozens of pals who were friends and college fraternity brothers and women he met at bars and on online dating sites.

He would then promote them to jobs throughout the agency without going through required federal hiring channels.

Coleman then transferred some of the women in and out of departments and to regional offices so his buddies could hit on them.

“What we uncovered was a systemic problem going back years,” Long said, adding that he had referred some of the cases to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, who oversees FEMA, to investigate possible criminal sexual assault.

“The biggest problem I may solve here may be the eradication of this cancer,” Long said.

“How many complaints were not heard? I’ve got to make sure we have a safe working environment for our employees.”

Long said the problems extend beyond Coleman. The investigation is “not going to stop with him,” he said.

Many of the men and women Coleman hired were unqualified yet are still at the agency, the paper reported.

Long said his staff interviewed 73 current and ex-employees and took sworn statements from 98 people.

This report originally appeared on NYPost.com.