https://bigleaguepolitics.com/must-read-journalist-michael-tracey-exposes-how-black-lives-matter-terror-has-destroyed-minority-small-businesses-in-minneapolis/
https://twitter.com/Squill_whispers/status/1278676576905854977
Reports that a Russian military intelligence unit offered bounties on coalition soldiers in Afghanistan are based partially on old information that surfaced more than a decade ago, international intelligence sources said. The sources include both Western-based analysts and front line personnel on the ground in South Asia.
Many of the sources spoke to Just the News via encrypted communications, and insisted that their names not be revealed because their lives are at risk.
“The only thing new about this story is the date on the headline,” one South Asian contact said. “This is old information, going back to Obama days and before. Everyone who has been involved in Afghanistan heard this a long time ago.”
Reports of an alleged deal between the Taliban and Russia’s military intelligence directorate, the GRU, leaked last week, leading to public outrage on many fronts. President Donald Trump has said the claims likely are fabricated, and Democrats in particular have accused Trump of siding with Moscow to deny the truth.
No one definitively has determined, though, what the truth is in this situation.
“The Taliban didn’t need Russia to pay them to kill Americans,” said an American intelligence analyst. “They were already doing it on their own.”
The Pentagon said that no solid evidence bolstered the bounty allegations.
"The Department of Defense continues to evaluate intelligence that Russian GRU operatives were engaged in malign activity against United States and coalition forces in Afghanistan,” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement. “To date, DOD has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports.”
Any bounties paid would have changed hands more than a decade ago, according to a foreign intelligence source in South Asia.
“The real killings started in 2006, and the maximum in 2008-12,” the source said. “There are hardly any American troops now. Did the Russians pay the Taliban to kill Americans? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But Russia did support Taliban aims in Afghanistan.”
The U.S. State Department agrees.
“The fact that the Russians are engaged in Afghanistan in a way that’s adverse to the United States is nothing new,” Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told reporters at the State Department on Wednesday, adding, “The Russians have been selling small arms that have put Americans at risk there for 10 years.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/reports-about-russian-bounties-part-based-part-old-reports-intelligence-sources?utm_source=daily-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
https://twitter.com/BenKTallmadge/status/1279077999275462656
Shootings and murder are surging in Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York City, and Philadelphia, all of which are Democrat-controlled cities.
CNN reports murders in Milwaukee are up 95 percent this year. They note murders in Philadelphia rose 24 percent as shootings rose 57 percent, and Los Angeles witnessed a 250 percent increase in murders during the first week of June alone.
Shootings have surged by 44 percent in NYC, compared to the number of shootings at this same point in time last year, and murder is up 23 percent.
On June 29, 2020, Breitbart News reported NYC witnessed over 11o shootings during a period of nine days.
On June 28, 2020, Breitbart News reported NYC witnessed 11 shooting victims in under 12 hours.
CNN reported 60 people were shot, at least 14 fatally last weekend in Chicago. The deaths included a one-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl.
Breitbart News reported at least 100 people were shot in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago over Father’s Day Weekend 2020, and 14 of them succumbed to their wounds.
On June 21, 2020, Breitbart News reported at least 56 people were shot in Chicago by Sunday morning of Father’s Day Weekend alone, and that nine of those shooting victims died.
More than 30 were shot, two fatally, in Chicago the weekend before Father’s Day and 35 were shot, five fatally, the weekend prior to that.
The Sun-Times reported 85 shot, 24 fatally, in Chicago during the last weekend of May 2020.
On June 25, 2020, the Washington Post noted that out of the top 20 cities for violent crime in America, 17 have Democrat mayors.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/02/cnn-shootings-murder-surge-in-democrat-controlled-cities/
https://www.waynedupree.com/2020/07/michael-bloomberg-protest-hamptons/