90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

When No-one Knew Who You Were Until You Got On Your Knees...

Sittin' like a princess perched in her electric chair...

When I think of those east end lights

Muggy nights the curtains drawn

In the little room downstairs

Prima donna Lord you really should have been there

Sittin' like a princess perched in her electric chair

And it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymore

We've all gone crazy lately

My friend's out there rolling 'round the basement floor

Knife-Wielding Man Arrested In Stabbing Reported To Be Suspect In Berkeley Assault On Conservative

Zachary Greenberg, 30, allegedly stabbed a man riding his bike in Princeton, California on Sunday.
The suspect is reported to be the same man who was arrested for assaulting a conservative activist last year.

Authorities in California arrested 30-year-old Zachary Greenberg on Sunday, who, as one local newspaper reported, is also the man accused of punching a conservative activist in the face on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley in 2019.

According to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Greenberg allegedly stabbed a man because he was riding his bike on the sidewalk.

The victim suffered multiple stab wounds by the time police arrived at around 6:40 p.m. and arrested Greenberg.

The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said it found a four-inch folding knife at the scene, which they believe was the weapon used in the attack.

Greenberg has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

A mugshot provided to Campus Reform by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office appears to be the same man who was arrested last year for punching former Leadership Institute Field Representative Hayden Williams in the face while he was at the University of California-Berkeley helping conservative students recruit members for their Turning Point USA chapter.

The Half Moon Bay Review reported the stabbing suspect is the same man who punched Williams at Berkeley last year.

Greenberg's trial for the incident at UC-Berkeley is ongoing.

Williams' attorney, Harmeet Dhillon, responded to the news on Twitter, calling out Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley.

"If @NancyOMalleyDA1’s office had actually pursued @HaydenTWilliams’ attacker last spring after charging him, would he have been free to stab this bicyclist? Zackery [sic] Greenberg attacked someone again yesterday (in Half Moon Bay) & is already out on bail."

The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office said it was not aware of Greenberg's previous charges and did not confirm whether Greenberg is currently...

When You Flee The Crime Rate, Understand That YOU Caused This By Voting For Democrats.

The death of New York? Business leaders warn of downward spiral as chains like JC Penney, Neiman Marcus, Le Pain Quotidien and Subway permanently close Manhattan branches after mayor's pandemic bungling sees mass exodus

Business leaders warn that NYC is facing a crisis of historic proportions
Pandemic, lockdowns and soaring crime have prompted mass exodus
Many retail chains have permanently closed branches in Manhattan
Job listings in the city have plunged 36% from last year, and rents are falling
Hundreds of thousands have left the city as remote work stretches into months
Many say they will never return, and there are fears recovery could take years

An ongoing mass exodus of residents and businesses from New York City has led some to suggest that the damage to the city's economy could last for years or decades to come.

'There's no reason to do business in New York,' said Michael Weinstein, the chief executive of Ark Restaurants, which owns Bryant Park Grill & Cafe in Manhattan and 19 other restaurants, in an interview with the New York Times.

After months of harsh lockdowns and amid soaring violent crime in the city, Weinstein said he will never open another restaurant in New York.

'I can do the same volume in Florida in the same square feet as I would have in New York, with my expenses being much less. The idea was that branding and locations were important, but the expense of being in this city has overtaken the marketing group that says you have to be there,' he said.

People wearing face masks are seen at Times Square amid the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday in New York. There are increasing signs the city is in a downward spiral

Though precise numbers are hard to come by, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers have moved out of the city since the pandemic erupted there in mid-March.

Though the viral spread has slowed to a snail's pace in the city, the exodus continues, as lockdown restrictions strip much of the joy out of big city life, and continuing remote work makes relocating feasible for white collar workers.

Violent crime has also soared, with shooting incidents across the city up 177 percent in July compared to last year.

Murders were up 59 percent for the month, burglaries rose 31 percent, and auto thefts increased 53 percent.

The city that never slept is now an eerie ghost town after dark, the empty streets of lower Manhattan punctuated by caravans of NYPD vehicles racing from one incident to the next.

Subway trains, which for decades ran 24-hours, now shut down at...

Way past one and feeling alright

'Cause with little Willy 'round they can last all night

Hey down, stay down, stay down down

New State memos disclose relentless pressure by Hunter Biden-connected Ukrainian firm

Key Senate chairman vows subpoena after documents provided to Just the News under FOIA, but not Senate investigators.

The Ukrainian natural gas firm that appointed Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter to a lucrative board seat relentlessly pressured the State Department throughout the 2016 election in an effort to get corruption allegations against it dropped and its badly damaged reputation rehabilitated, newly released government memos show.

"They keep trying through every channel they can," a State Department official lamented in summer 2016, describing a nonstop lobbying campaign by Burisma Holdings and its American representatives.

The memos, released to Just the News under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit assisted by the Southeastern Foundation, add new significance to a long-running Senate investigation into the Bidens' activities and perceived conflicts of interest in Ukraine.

For instance, they show far more contact between Burisma and the U.S. embassy in Kiev than was acknowledged by witnesses during President Trump's impeachment proceedings earlier this year. One issue in that trial was the more than $3 million Hunter Biden's firm collected from Burisma while his father supervised Ukraine policy for President Obama.

The memos obtained by Just the News also were withheld from Senate investigators, who learned of their existence from...

Gundlach, Who Correctly Called The 2016 Presidential Election, Predicts Trump Will Win Again

Back in early, DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach made a prediction that was viewed as anathema in "serious" circles: he said that Donald Trump would win the 2016 presidential election. And much to the chagrin of all his "serious" colleagues, he was proven correct which is why earlier today we said that the one thing we were most curious about from Gundlach's latest webcast was who he thinks would win this time around.

Well, we got the answer, and once again if Gundlach is correct a whole lot of "experts" (not to mention pollsters) will again be humiliated on Nov 4, because according to the bond king Trump will once again emerge victorious.

One would not know it based on such online betting sites as PredictIt (which incidentally are remarkably illiquid, and extremely easy to manipulate by anyone with modestly deep pockets), which show Biden as a clear favorite with a roughly 15 point lead...

... but then again the "experts" and odds in 2016 also said Trump had no chance of victory.

So it makes sense to ignore the pollsters, the online bookies and the exports who were dead wrong in 2016, and focus on those who called it right.

With that in mind, during a Q&A on his Tuesday afternoon webcast, Gundlach said that "my base case is actually that Donald Trump will win re-election," adding that he'd "bet against" former Vice President Joe Biden defeating Trump in November.

"I think polls are very, very squishy right now because of the highly toxic political environment in which we live," the 60-year-old billionaire said. Gundlach said he’s come across data suggesting that about "two-thirds of conservatives or moderate conservatives say that they have lied about their support for Donald Trump either directly or by omission."

"I just think there's a lot, a lot of time here. There's going to be twists and turns," Gundlach added.

Gundlach also voiced another contrarian view when he said that he expects "significant" volatility for markets, something which markets generally don't as it is now conventional wisdom that whoever wins will be good for risk assets.

"This go-around, I expect much greater volatility around the election as the progressive policies, so-called, of tremendous increased deficit spending for basically wealth manipulation, that could get...

"I saw him just run right up to him and [he] put the gun right up to his head and shot him."

Five-year-old Cannon Hinnant was allegedly executed at point-blank range with a gunshot to the head by 25-year-old felon Darius Nathaniel Sessoms while riding his bike and playing outside his house on Sunday evening in Wilson, North Carolina.

Hinnant's brutal murder was reportedly witnessed by his two young sisters and a neighbor who couldn't believe what she saw.

"I saw him just run right up to him and [he] put the gun right up to his head and shot him," neighbor Doris Labrant told WRAL.

Sessoms, who is the Hinnant's next-door neighbor, is being charged with first-degree murder.

Hinnant's murder is being ignored by the national media and has only been covered by local news outlets.

WATCH:

From WRAL, "Wilson man wanted in fatal shooting on 5-year-old apprehended":

Family members said Cannon Hinnant was playing outside his father's house when he was shot in the head. The boy's two sisters, ages 8 and 7, saw their brother get shot, according to Cannon's mother.

Cannon was taken to Wilson Medical Center, where he died.

No details about a possible motive for the shooting have been released, but police said the shooting wasn't random.

Sessoms lives next door to Cannon's father, and a neighbor said that the two men had dinner together Saturday night and that Sessoms was at his neighbor's home earlier Sunday.

Doris Labrant, who witnessed the shooting, said Sessoms ran up to Cannon, put the gun near his head and fired before running...