Ken Blackwell: Slaughter of Blacks Is Reality in Democrat-Run Cities

Democrats blame the “boogeyman of systemic racism” to avoid responsibility for the volume of violent crime in black communities in cities they run, said Ken Blackwell, former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, who offered his remarks on the Wednesday edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

“The real systemic and deadly reality is that black men and women are being slaughtered in cities and communities of color across the country in numbers that can only be compared to war zones in Iraq and Syria,” said Blackwell, reflecting on a column he wrote with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik regarding crime in Democrat-run cities, “Every single one of those cities have been run by Democrats, and in some cases, [for] as long as 40 years. [Kerik and I] just took exception to the fact that these mayors were passing the buck. These local officials were passing a buck.”

Blackwell and Kerik wrote:

To be clear, whether they were armed, or unarmed, or in possession of a toy that looked like a real weapon, in every single category, blacks were not killed more often than whites. Given the numbers — 14 unarmed blacks killed out of 10 million arrests, which equates to a rate of 0.00014 percent — this is NOT evidence of systemic racism.

Blackwell remarked, “You can’t paint safety forces with a broad brush saying that they are riddled with systemic racism when the facts don’t bear that out, but what is [borne] out by the facts is that these local leaders have found some comfort in the status quo. They have embraced a narrative that pushes the blame from their incompetence [to] this boogeyman of systemic racism where it doesn’t exist.”

Black and minority communities are being “marginalized and destroyed” by Democrat policies, Blackwell determined.

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2020/06/22/ken-blackwell-systemic-deadly-reality-slaughter-blacks-democrat-run-cities/

Biden Commits To Three Debates With Trump

It's official, former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign has committed to three debates with President Trump before the November election, according to the Washington Post.

"Joe Biden looks forward to facing Donald Trump in a multi-debate series that the American people have come to expect from their leaders; we hope that President Trump would not break that tradition or make excuses for a refusal to participate," said Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Last week several top Trump aides, including Rudy Giuliani, began pushing for four presidential debates - and insisted they be held earlier so that early voters can make decisions.

We want fair debates. We want them sooner, and we want a bigger schedule," said Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale. "We also don’t want them up against football games competing for viewers. As many Americans as possible need to see the stark differences between the accomplishments and leadership of President Trump and the failed record and sleepiness of Joe Biden."

The Biden camp pounced at the Trump campaign's rationale for a fourth debate, pointing to the president's repeated warnings against mail-in ballots, and calling their insistence on more debates a 'distraction.'

"The Trump position seems to be saying that he will debate if he can pick the moderators: clearly the President, who largely conducts interviews only with favorable news outlets, is afraid of facing questions from a neutral moderator. The Trump campaign proposal for elaborate negotiations is merely an effort to dodge fair, even-handed debates," wrote O'Malley Dillon.

If the Trump and Biden camps agree on a fourth debate, the commission would do 'everything it can' to make it happen, according to Frank Fahrenkopf, chairman of the debate commission

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-commits-three-debates-trump

Bloodthirsty John Bolton’s book on Trump is fueled by frustration that the president hasn’t led the US into a major war

John Bolton’s vindictive tell-all ‘The Room Where It Happened’ contains little of worth on Donald Trump and seems motivated by anger that the US did not attack Venezuela, Iran or North Korea.

Walrus-whiskered John Bolton and his well-remunerated kiss-and-tell memoir of life on the same page as Donald Trump is already a bestseller in the febrile pre-election atmosphere of the US. A tabloid National Enquirer treat, in hardback.

Only marginally less surprising is his instant beatification by the prancers of the American liberal chatterati. Like George W. Bush, the late John McCain and Colin Powell, Bolton is the latest blood-soaked war criminal to be handed his pussy hat by the progressives, the resistance to Donald J. Trump.

That you could circumnavigate America with the bodies laid end to end of their victims is of less moment than his new role as persecutor of the only man in the States stupid enough to have employed him, President Trump. Any minute now Rachel Maddow will break down in tears at Bolton's self-sacrifice in the liberal cause. For them only some lives matter, and only some of the time.

Of course I have only read the leaks – I won't be swelling his coffers – but they don't add up to a hill of (soya) beans so far, despite the media hysteria.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/492614-galloway-john-bolton-trump-book/

‘Assad must go’ no more, says US envoy for Syria. Except US policy is still regime change by another name

While special envoy James Jeffrey says the US no longer demands regime change in Syria, only “change of behavior,” his explanation shows this distinction is without a difference and no November election results will change it.

“We’re not demanding total victory, we’re not saying that Assad has to go,” Jeffrey said on Monday, during a live event hosted by the Middle East Institute and moderated by MEI director Charles Lister.

Instead, he explained, the goal of the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act – a US sanctions law that came into effect last week – is to “make it clear to anyone who wants to rebuild Assad’s Syria that that cannot happen without Caesar sanctions,” until there is a government in Damascus that carries out US demands with what Jeffrey described as “real eagerness.”

“It is not regime change,” Jeffrey insisted, but a change of behavior. Theoretically, he explained, President Bashar Assad could just comply with all US demands and get the sanctions lifted. Among the demands, for example, is for Damascus to stop “besieging the Syrian people” or “threatening the neighborhood” by having Russian and Iranian forces inside the country – though Jeffrey later explicitly said it’s “not part of our policy” to try to get the Russians out.

Yet it is the “neighborhood” – from Turkey to Israel, whom Jeffrey referred to but refused to name – that has bombed Syria or sent troops there in support of “opposition” militants or bombed , and the US sanctions are themselves an act of siege against the population loyal to Damascus.

Compliance with US sanctions also appears impossible by design. Jeffrey described the “dramatic shift of the behavior” expected of Damascus as being without precedent except from Japan before and after WWII. That is a telling comparison, given that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor followed harsh US sanctions, and that Tokyo was under US military occupation for almost seven years afterward, only nominally retaining the Emperor as the figurehead of state.

Another revelation by Jeffrey is that the Washington establishment has reached a bipartisan consensus on Syria, independent of President Donald Trump. The envoy said he was “not at all concerned” about a possible change in administrations after the November election. He also noted that the sanctions policy was adopted because military intervention against Damascus would get neither international nor domestic US support.

https://www.rt.com/news/492629-usa-sanctions-syria-jeffrey/