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Where are the candidates on our missile defenses?
Fred Grandy
I found it strange how, when asked about the danger posed by an Iran armed with nuclear ICBMs, none of the Republican candidates noted that U.S. missile defenses are the only thing that protect us from a nuclear holocaust.
Yet Congress is proposing deep [...]
Budget Cuts Hitting Border Security
Big Peace
Yesterday marked the 12-year anniversary of the thwarting of what could have been a devastating terrorist attack on the United States. Twelve years ago yesterday, Algerian national Ahmed Ressam was caught attempting to smuggle a detonator and 130 pounds of explosives into the United States from [...]
Defense cuts a threat to our national security
Greg Slavonic
The same month that Congress cut $1 trillion from the defense budget, satellite photos revealed that blackened holes had replaced two buildings at a remote Iranian military facility.
According to analysts, the blast indicates that Iranian rocket scientists are working on a breakthrough in new [...]
Dem lawmakers urge Obama to stand strong on mandated Defense cuts
John T. Bennett
A House liberal is leading an effort to urge President Obama to veto any bill that seeks to void additional defense cuts.
Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), in a letter that soon will go to Obama, states support for Obama's pledge to reject any legislative [...]
Missile Defense Must Not Be Cut
Adm. James A. Lyons Jr.
Daily News-Record
In November 1983, ABC television broadcast a two-hour film titled "The Day After," which imagined a full-scale nuclear war on America. In his diary, President Reagan wrote that the film was "very effective and left me greatly depressed." Historians have speculated that [...]
US must avoid devastating round of defence cuts
Brigadier General William A. Bloomer
Sir, Now they have had a chance to study the issue, Democrats and Republicans alike can see that cutting another trillion dollars from defence would devastate the United States military strength, ending virtually all new research and modernisation programmes, eliminating scores of [...]
Major General Richard M. Cooke, U.S. Marine Corps (ret.)
Re " 'The 21st century form of war,' " Dec. 5
Whatever caused the recent explosion at a suspected nuclear weapons plant in Iran, the U.S. should prepare itself for a nuclear-armed Iran. But Congress [...]
Budget war games are a real threat
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Cronauer is a Vietnam War veteran, attorney and radio personality best known as the inspiration for Robin Williams' character in the film "Good Morning, Vietnam." He lives in Troutville.
Rumor has it that Leonardo DiCaprio plans to remake the 1983 blockbuster "WarGames," in which a [...]
Dangerous Cuts
Scranton Times Tribune
George Landrith
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LYONS: Lessons never learned
Adm. James A Lyons
As we mark the 70th anniversary of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor of Dec. 7, 1941,America is on the verge of committing the same mistakes that helped plunge our nation into its most grievous war.
The first mistake then was to impose the [...]

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Ben Crump, Rev. Al Sharpton, and the family of George Floyd held a press conference on April 20, 2021, after the verdict of Derek Chauvin was announced. Chauvin was found guilty on all charges in George Floyd's death. Read the transcript of the briefing here.
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Al Sharpton: (00:00)
… governor and others, we want to thank President Biden, who the first time he came out of his house during the campaign, he flew to Houston and met with the family and attorney Crump and I, and he sat there and I will never forget, he said to George's daughter that, "I heard you say your father is going to change the world." Well, we can now tell George's daughter she was right. Her father has began the changing of the world for real.
But before we do anything, we first want to pray and thank God because somehow God may [inaudible 00:00:47] have mercy. We believe in a God that can even get through the cracks in the jury room and bring conscious and bring truth. And that jury, we want to thank them for letting God give them the strength. Wherever they are tonight, we want them to know we broke down in tears when we heard the verdict. We had to hold each other and hug and tears because too many nights we've cried. Many of us for decades, spent nights in jail. But today we can wipe our tears away and fight on for another day.
There's sunlight. We're going to keep going until we bring it for the Eric Gardeners and the Breonna Taylors, whose boyfriend is here tonight.
Speaker 1: (01:31)
Kenny Walker.
Kenny Walker. Sean Bell. So many that did not get this night, this night is for them. Let us pray. Let's lock arms and pray, like we kinfolks.
Where … come on, Brandon. Where's Philonise?
Right here. Come on.
Yeah, come on. You and Rodney, come up front. Ain't no use hiding now.
[crosstalk 00:02:03].
Brother Chris, get your next to the attorney general there. Let's pray. Dear God, we thank you for giving us the strength to stand together. Sometimes we would question each other. Sometimes we say this is just going to be a waste of time. But somehow you touch us in the midnight hours and teach us to hold one and that if we would be faithful over a few things, you'd give us the victory over many. We thank you because we know it was not any doing of ours, but your loving kindness and your tend to mercy that made tonight possible.
Bless those that worked, that made this prosecution something they couldn't deny. Bless those policemen that got on the stand and testified against another policeman. Bless the jury that listened to the evidence and didn't listen to those that may criticize them for doing this. Bless the prosecutor, Keith Ellison and his staff that did their job even though they didn't know what the outcome would be. Bless Ben Crump in a special way, that worked tirelessly, that jumped on planes and left his family to make sure that justice would rain down.
Thank you for all of the civil and human rights leaders that stood up. And we thank you for the nameless grandmas and grandpas that would get on their knees and ask you to give us a victory this time. And Lord, as we give You the thanks and give You the praise, let George know that his name is going down in history. They may have put their knee on his neck, but he will now be a figure that we will take the knees off our necks now. And we give You the praise, thank you. And God, we give You the glory. These blessings we ask in your name. Amen.
Ben Crump: (04:11)
Let me say that I want to bring on now a man who has symbolized the fight for justice. He didn't seek the role, but he rose to the occasion. America for many years didn't have someone to stand for us. The last four years, we didn't have an attorney general's office that would even hear our cry. But we had been raised to believe that God always has a ram in the bush. And God has a way of taking the most humble of people and raising them up. We had an attorney general in Black America that has represented these cases with the acumen and skill of one that was raised in the South, but came to claim this nation in a new direction. I bring you the attorney general for Black America, Ben Crump.
Thank you, Reverend Al Sharpton, not only for your mentorship, not only for being a great civil rights leader, but for being a moral authority, especially making sure no matter what happened, that we always maintained the moral high ground, knowing that we were on the right side of history as we fought for justice for George Perry Floyd Junior. Say his name!
Crowd: (05:52)
George Floyd!
I am but a member of a great team of very talented attorneys, and I'm going to acknowledge their … yeah, we got the Omega's and the Kappa's Reverend Jackson. And the Alpha's in here.
I want to acknowledge these great group of lawyers and then the family members. Two or three of the lawyers will address you and then at that time we were here from the family members before we take any of your questions. I want to acknowledge a great lawyer from Chicago, Illinois, one of the best I've ever had a chance to work with, attorney Tony Romanucci.
I want to recognize my partner on the front line in this case, one of the best lawyers at being on them. He hails from Atlanta, Georgia, attorney Chris Stewart. His law partner, attorney Justin Miller, attorney Madeleine Simmons. Great Minnesota lawyers, attorney Jeff Storms. Raise your hand Jeff! Attorney Michelle Gilboe.
And who else we got here? Anybody else?
Attorney [inaudible 00:07:28].
We have attorney Scott Masterson, who's not present. Attorney [Bovany 00:07:34]. I said Michelle, we got Michelle. All right. It's just a great group of lawyers.
And I want to let you know who we have present here with the family here in Minneapolis for this historic day. We have a George Floyd's brothers, we have for Philonise Floyd, we have Rodney Floyd. We have Brandon Williams, who's George Floyd's nephew, but was more like a son to him. They call him [Woo 00:08:07] back in the third ward.
Woo, Woo, Woo, Woo, Woo, Woo, Woo.
We have Keeta Floyd, Philonise's wife. We have-
[crosstalk 00:08:18] Terrence.
Where Terrence at?
Terrence here.
Terrence, [inaudible 00:08:20], where you at?
We got Terrence Floyd. His sisters, who are not with us, but we should absolutely acknowledge, Bridgett Floyd, who hails from North Carolina. His sisters, LaTonya and Zsa Zsa, who hail from Houston, Texas. We have his cousins, Shareeduh McGee, Tedra McGee, and Tera Brown. And we have the mother of his daughter, Gianna Floyd. We have Roxie Washington and we have Gianna.
And so I'll make some brief remarks and then we're going to have attorney Stewart-
[inaudible 00:09:06].
Speaker 10: (09:06)
We have Angela and cousin Paris.
Angela, cousin Paris-
Yes, and uncle [crosstalk 00:09:16]
And his uncle Selwyn.
Vince.
All right. Anymore Floyd family? I know it's a big crew.
AD?
AD, the man he came to Minneapolis with, [Adadara 00:09:33].
So I'll make some brief remarks and then we're going to have attorney Stewart and attorney Romanucci make some brief remarks. And then we're going to hear from this family. And we're going to try to leave here today knowing that America is a better country. America, let's pause for a moment to proclaim this historical moment, not just for the legacy of George Floyd, but for the legacy of America. The legacy of trying to make America for all Americans so that George Floyd's victory and America's quest for equal justice under the law would be intertwined.
America, let's frame this moment as a moment where we finally are getting close to living up to our Declaration of Independence, that we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equally, that they're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that amongst them are life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Well, America, that means all of us. That means Black people, that means Hispanic people, that means Native people, that means Asian people. That means all of us America. We frame this moment for all of us, not just for George Floyd. This is a victory for those who champion humanity over inhumanity. Those who champion justice over injustice. Those who champion morals over immorality.
America, let's lean in to this moment and let's make sure, Reverend Al, that this moment will be documented for our children yet unborn as they continue on the journey to justice, knowing that the blood of George Floyd will give them a trail to find a way to a better America, a more just America, a more just America where Breonna Taylor gets an opportunity to sleep in peace at night without the police busting in her front door. A more just America where Ahmaud Arbery gets to run free and not be lynched for jogging while Black. A more just America where Jacob Blake and Anthony McClain and Walter Scott and Laquan McDonald, and all these other Black men, Terence Crutcher, who was shot in the back while running away like Daunte Wright was just a week ago, because for some reason, Black men running away from the police is more dangerous than young white men who commit mass murders and walk towards the police with an assault weapon, like Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
America, let this be the precedent. Let this be the precedent where we live up to the high ideals and the promises when we say liberty and justice for all. Those sun kissed children are included in all. Those children who overcame slavery, the Middle Passage, the Dred Scott decision, Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow, and his much smarter, wiser, and signed Jim Crow Jr. Esquire. Let this be the precedence where we overcome systematic racism and oppression. And that we are a better people and we will leave our children a better world, a better world for us all.
At this time, we will here from a great lawyer, because nobody does this alone, it's always a team effort. And we have the lawyers, the preachers, the civil rights leaders, the education leaders, the activists! Let's give big round of applause for the activists, the people who stayed in the streets, the people who came nationally, but more importantly, the people who were here locally, who were standing up for George Floyd on 38th in Chicago Avenue day in and day out. [Silky 00:15:11] the people who wouldn't go home, wouldn't stay quiet. Reverend Jackson, the people who followed your example.
Don't forget about the witness. Donald Williams.
Donald Williams. Donald supposed to be here.
Donald.
So, we love you, Donald. Without further ado, my brother, attorney Chris Stewart. And Tony, you coming up next.
Come on.
Chris Stewart: (15:53)
The first-
Steve [inaudible 00:15:58] suit's in full effect.
The first thing that happened when-
The first thing that happened when we heard the verdict is that we all teared up and embraced. So don't confuse these tears thinking that they are sorrow, because those were the tears that happened to African Americans when they're pulled over constantly on the side of the road and know they can't get help. Those are the tears of the victims that we've seen time and time again, be shot in the back, choked over loose cigarettes or killed for no reason and justice never comes. Those are the tears that someone will weep tomorrow when they are taken advantage of in an interaction with law enforcement. But today, the tears are pure joy. Pure joy and pure shock because days like this don't happen. The whole world should not have to rally to get justice for one man.
But that's what happened. This wasn't a city case. This wasn't one family's case. This was the entire world's case and justice finally came. But it shouldn't have to be so hard to attain this level of justice in cases like this when we can see with our own eyes, the only difference is the color of the skin. And that's the change that we all want. That's not a change that's outrageous. Yes, law enforcement have a dangerous job. They have to carry a spear and a sword and a shield. But all too often, African Americans only get the spear or the sword. We need more of the shield. Because this is not a case against every officer. My life was saved by two law enforcement officers years ago. So I will never throw every cop under the bus, but we will put more cops in jail when you kill someone for no reason just because they're black. And we can find a unifying purpose between law enforcement and the African-American community by changes, starting with the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act. A beautifully written bill that will help protect the community and solve policing. And the main question is, will we let politics divide us? Because that's what happens. Republican or Democrat, you're going to stick to your side. Unify, as Ben has been saying, as Rev has been saying, and get this bill passed and save people so that you don't have to board up your own cities for situations like this.
And if not, we'll see you next time when it's time to vote. You've seen what's happened across this country. And we shouldn't have to be so happy when we finally get one. But we are in celebration for Gianna, for Roxy who has stood strong this entire time, for the brothers and sisters, for the activists like Tamika and everybody out here, for this entire group. And it wouldn't have happened without every single one of you all, white or black, people out there praying for this family, getting love and support. And we love all of you all. Let this be a changing point in America for policing in a positive way and let's unify. Thank you, my brother.
I love you, man. Attorney Tony Romanucci from Chicago, Illinois.
Tony Romanucci: (19:15)
Good afternoon, everybody. As Ben said, my name is Tony Romanucci. I'm smiling here today, not for myself, but really for the entire country and for the world that's watching. I know that on behalf of the family and for everyone who's here today, that we stand here before you feeling a tremendous amount of joy and eternal hope. For me, 36 years ago, I was a young public defender in Cook County. Reverend Jackson, I know you know that place very well. And that's where I was introduced to the marginalization of black and brown people. And for now, this is the 36th year I've seen it come through. I really feel that this country has turned a corner, but I'm going to tell you, it was a tough corner to turn and it couldn't have been done… And I'm going to reach out to you all, the press, for spreading the message for the strength and wisdom of Ben Crump.
You you, Reverend Al Sharpton, Reverend Jackson, the attorneys, Chris, Justin, Madeline, Jeff Michelle, Pavani, Nicolette, Ian, all the teams in all the cities in this country, the Attorney General and the magnificent prosecution team. They did it. They tied up every loose thread for that jury. They let them follow it right through. They showed them how to prosecute and how to convict. And we are so grateful. But make no mistake, we are not done. The George Floyd Policing and Reform Act must pass the Senate.
We now know that today, police can and will be held accountable for needless death. This death never should have happened. George should have been alive somewhere with his daughter, Gianna, playing on a playground. From now on, everyone's on notice that police will be held accountable, but we will be held accountable too. This whole country should be held accountable, but police, especially. I am so thankful to all of you. I am hopeful for a greater America, for a great vote of confidence. I will tell you that Speaker Pelosi called us not once today, but twice. Our speaker is a great leader. She is somebody that wants to see this through. We have a great president who wants to see this through. We have one little hiccup in between. Let's get this passed the Senate. Let's get justice in America once and for all and forever.
One last comment. I met a young lady yesterday. Her name was [Lomaia 00:32:03]. She said one thing to me that I promised her that I would repeat today. Lomaia is not part of the Floyd family, but she is part of the Wright family. And she said one thing and I promised her, I would say it today. We are all God's children. Thank you, Lomaia.
Thank you, Tony. And I know Speaker Pelosi called, we need to acknowledge when we were over at the court house, as we were leaving, I got one of those calls and we stopped everything. It was Chris and Philonise and Roxy, all of us, Justin, as we're walking out, we stopped in mid-sentence because President Joe Biden called to talk about what a moment this was for America and how we have to use this moment to build on. So we want to acknowledge President Biden, acknowledging that we are all a better America today. Isn't that what he said? And we got so many good staff people to thank, Jim McGough and Michelle, Edna, Roma, all these people who've been working in the van yards, supporting our lawyers, Silky, everybody.
But briefly, we can't be in Minneapolis and not have a representative. Jeff and Michelle want to come up and say a word? Our great Minnesota co-counselor Jeff Strong and Michelle
Jeff Stong: (23:58)
So I just briefly want to say, I love this city. I love this state. And no longer can we be known for these massively infamous failures in civil rights. We owe our children and our community more. From this moment further, from this conviction now, we have to be leaders in this country on civil rights. And everyone standing up here will work tirelessly until that happens. And I challenge everybody else in Minnesota to make that same effort. Thank you.
Okay. Thank you Jeff. Can I get everybody take a step back. Let's try to make the podium. Let's try to make the podium. Just everybody take a step back. We're going to have the family come up. Okay. We're going to have the family come and try to greet you all. You got to backup too. The camera's trying to get the podium. Yeah. Right now, we going to bring up a man who, when you all first met him, Tony, I remember, all he could do was cry because he was heartbroken. He was heartbroken because remember, so many times we are… It's a case to us, Tamika it's a cause. To my son it's a hashtag, but to them, this was their flesh and blood. They slept in the bed with George. The stories that they tell, you know this was a close family. He tells those stories, Reverend, how he used to pee on George.
He has become so dignified and articulate in expressing not just the fight for justice for his family, not just the fight for justice for black America, but he really has become so articulate in saying, we have to fight for all Americans. Mr. Philonise Floyd.
Philonise Floyd: (26:57)
My nephew, he called me baby Al. Jesse calling me Steve Harvey. But man, I feel relieved today that I finally have the opportunity for hopefully getting some sleep. A lot of days that I prayed and I hoped, and I was speaking everything into existence. I said, I have faith that he will be convicted. It's been a long journey. And it's been less than a year. The person that comes to my mind is 1955. And to me, he was the first George Floyd. That was Emmett Till. I did, on CNN, with Debra Watts and she just brought him back to life. People forgot about him, but he was the first George Floyd. But today you have the cameras all around the world to see and show what happened to my brother. It was a motion picture, the world seen his life being extinguished. And I could do nothing but watch, especially in that courtroom over and over and over again, as my brother was murdered.
Time, they getting harder every day. Ten miles away from here, Mr. Wright, Daunte Wright. He should still be here. We ought to always understand that we have to march. We will have to do this for life. We have to protest because it seems like this is a never ending cycle. Reverend Al always told me, we got to keep fighting. I'm going to put up a fight every day because I'm not just fighting for George anymore. I'm fighting for everybody around this world. I get calls. I get DMs. People from Brazil, from Ghana, from Germany, everybody, London, Italy. They're all saying the same thing. We won't be able to breathe until you're able to breathe. Today, we are able to breathe again.
Ms. Garner, I told you, we'll get justice and we still we're going to fight for you too. We're going to fight for everybody. Thank you all so much for just giving us this time because we're here and we're not going anywhere. And I want to thank all the protestors, all the attorneys who stepped up, all the activists who stepped up, and many who think they're not activists, but advocates, thank you all. Because justice for George means freedom for all.
All right. Terrance Floyd. We will have Terrance Floyd, George's brother from New York City. Reverend Floyd.
Terrence Floyd: (30:43)
I'm not going to preach today.
You're not going to preach today?
No. Oh man. So many emotions right now, but I'm very thankful and grateful. Grateful for the people in this world for the support of the press, the love that was shown, whether you sent it by social media or whether you sent it emails or however, we just appreciate the love. I appreciate the team, the Crump law team. I call him unc. We built a bond, a relationship through this whole journey. I appreciate him. He would call me, I'm all the way in New York. He'll call me and check up on me and ask me if I'm all right, because I'm the only one up there. Everybody else is down south. But, he never thought a robbery to check up on me. And I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for Reverend Sharpton. He been fighting a long time. Long time, man. Reverend Jesse Jackson. It's a lot of history here-
Reverend Jesse Jackson. It's a lot of history here.
History is here. This is monumental. Reverend Jesse Jackson, I was shocked when they lived to see this. Their fight wasn't in vain. It just didn't happen when they did it, but it happened now. And they here to see it and be proud of it. It goes back to when he did that prayer service. My family is a family that will not back down from prayer. And I believe because of prayer, we got the verdict we wanted. We got on our knees. Some of us stood up, but we asked the right person. We asked the right one.
Yes, come on God.
We said, God, we need justice. We need it now. And he answered. Oh man. I'm just grateful. I'm grateful that my grandmother, my mother, my aunt, they just got to see this history made. I'm grateful my brother's not here. I'm grateful and I'm proud of him. I will salute him at every day of my life. I would salute him because he showed me how to be strong. He showed me how to be respectful. He showed me how to speak my mind. I'm going to miss him. But now I know he's in history. What a day to be a Floyd, man. Thank you.
Thank you, Terrence. Now we were here from George's baby brother, Rodney Floyd.
Rodney Floyd: (34:25)
I'm going to say this first. I would like to thank all the advocates, the activists. I'd like to thank the people that stayed in these streets, marching night and day. People in Portland stayed on the streets, what, 83 days? I think I may be wrong, but thankful for everybody that stayed out there, making a statement with us and cared about us in our dark days, dark nights. We had them. And we got so many messages flooding in from social media sites. Can't read them all, there's so many. But thank everyone, each and everyone. So many people at grocery stores who walk in. We hear from the elders. I believe in respecting the elders. Giving you guys all to respect, men and women. And I hear them walk up in the grocery store, stopped me. I'm masked up, a hat and a mask, and they say, "Man, I recognize the side of your face. Let me talk to you. I know who you are."
And they'll stop and hold a great conversation, telling me what they experienced as a child, what they saw, and what they need to change. And they say, "We are here for you." And this is everywhere I go, my brother go, we all go. And thank you, people, for the love in the streets. I'm thanking everyone because we couldn't have did this. And this is the victory for all of us. There's no color boundary on this. This is everyone who was being held down or pinned down.
And you know what, people? We standing together in unity. And this right here, I'd like thank to our team. This the attorney, Ben Crump, his team, [inaudible 00:35:50]. The witnesses. Donna Williams. I would like to thank the jury. I mean everybody. Thank God. All day, God almighty, thank you. And you know what, people? We not done yet.
And my brother George, he smiling. His beautiful daughter's here. [Giana 00:36:07], baby, you're so beautiful. You're so smart. Roxy, you have my heart, baby. Thank you for holding Giana and keeping us strong. I know how hard it is. I know I hard it is. We'd like to thank everyone that helped out in this case. Thank this jury for having a heart and mind sets that we all seen in this video, because we know this video was an open and shut case. Everybody knows this video and know what the jury had the same mindset we all had, guilty as charged. Like to thank them. I would like to thank, again, everybody, the press and all.
But for George, this fight is not over. We going to stand here together. We going to try to get this George Floyd Act passed. The act has to be passed, people. It has to be. We going to keep pressure on the Senate, everybody. Thank y'all all for coming. George, I know that he love all y'all. Thank y'all.
All right, Roger. And next we going to have a man who… him and George used to text each other all the time. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson, they always talk about [inaudible 00:37:17] Houston, Texas. Back there, Roxy, I think y'all call him [Woo 00:37:22]. We're going to hear from Brandon Williams, was like a son to George.
Brandon Williams: (37:27)
It was a very emotional day for me, and I already out of words. I'm overwhelmed with joy, but I do want to start by saying thank you. First off, thank you to all you guys advocating, protesting in the middle of a pandemic, putting your lives and safety on the line. We appreciate that. Especially to our legal team, Ben, Tony, Justin, Chris, Justin back here. Definitely, definitely thank you to Keith Ellison and his team. I think they did an amazing job from start to finish. All of the evidence, all of the witnesses, everything proved exactly what we saw in that video. But yet, we still questioned the decision of the jury. And I wonder why. Oftentimes, the system fails us, as black men and women in America. With all evidence there, everything pointing to a guilty verdict, we somehow still don't get the guilty verdict. Or in some cases, I got my good friend, Kenny Walker back here. We don't even get charges.
So today is a pivotal moment for America. It's something this country's needed for a long time now. And hopefully today is the start of that. When I say a pivotal moment, we need change in this broken system. It was built to oppress us. It was built against us. Oftentimes, we see people who are supposed to protect and serve. Supposed to protect and serve. They do the total opposite.
On the first day of trial, Rev. Sharpton, we had a press conference. And we kneel for eight minutes and 46 seconds. And when I got up and it was my turn to speak, I said that every time I come out here, it's hard because it's the exact place where they took somebody from me that I love. And I absolutely dislike coming here. But I also said this time it was easy. So we came for one thing and one thing only. That was justice for George Floyd. And today that's what we got.
So this time it wasn't hard at all. It wasn't hard at all. I'm big on faith and prayer. I had a lot of faith, but I was also optimistic. We need police reform bad. These guys are able to wear a badge and go out in the field, which means that they're qualified and trained to do their job at a high level. But when you shoot and kill a man that's running away from you that doesn't pose a threat, either you're not qualified and under-trained, or it's a choice and you want to kill black men and women. It's either one or the other.
And I think today, Keith Ellison and his team proved that just because you are a law, you're not above the law. We need each and every officer to be held accountable. And until then, it's still scary to be a black man and woman in America encountering police.
So when I say today is a pivotal moment, it's a chance for America to take a turn in the right direction and right a lot of wrongs so that we don't keep adding to these names. So that little girls and boys like Giana are not growing up fatherless. So their families don't feel the pain we feel. It's a lot of sleepless nights. No family should go through that. And hopefully, our country take a turn in the right direction today. And this day in history proves that it was a turning point. Thank you.
We're going to hear from just a few more family members, and then we'll try to get to your questions, but I'd be remiss because Brandon said I got acknowledge his man Cliff, who worked for us. And he talked about Kenny Walker. Chris, as we talk about all the brothers, we can never forget that they're killing black women as well. And so we got to remember Breonna Taylor, we got to remember [inaudible 00:42:49] Jefferson. We got to remember Sandra [inaudible 00:42:51]. And we know Tamika Mallory. May 13th, Pam Turner. In a couple of weeks, we're having a March for black women in Baytown, Texas. Because if you was outraged, when you saw the video, how George Floyd got killed by the police, then you should be equally outraged when you see the video of how they killed Pam Turner, an unarmed black woman laying down on her back, that he shot in the face, in the chest, and in the stomach. Justice for George Floyd means freedom for us all, like [inaudible 00:43:26] said. So that's why we fighting for Pam Turner.
With that, we're going to bring up people who come from that Harris County, Texas area, cousins of George Floyd, Sharita McGee, and Tara Brown.
Sharita McGee: (43:44)
Well, first of all, let me just say that my cousins and Woo have pretty much covered everything. There's really not a whole lot left for me to say. I just really want to echo the sentiments of them, that when we started this journey almost a year ago, that we were committed to doing a couple of things. One thing is to ensure that justice was served and that we were going to be here and visible and present and actively involved until we saw it through. We are standing strong in our faith. We relied on it in other areas of our life, and this time was no different. And we prayed to God and we expected our prayers to not come back void, and he delivered for us today.
So we are eternally grateful for everyone, from the press, to the activists, the attorneys, the prosecution team, everyone. We have so many people that we want to thank that I just really feel like we're probably going to leave somebody out, but I just hope that you will charge it to my head and not my heart because we sincerely appreciate everything that everybody has done. And we thank you.
Tara Brown: (44:54)
Thank you. Wow. I'm really overwhelmed with emotion, and I just am grateful for this day. It's been a journey, for sure. And this victory for George Floyd today is a victory for many. And when we started this journey, like my sister said, we are committed to making sure… We know we'll never get George back. And that's the sad part, but we are fighting, and we're going to continue to fight because we've all, individually and together as a family, had that conversation that if we could have been there with George on that day, there probably would have been more than one death. But we couldn't be there. So we can't bring him back, but we can save lives. And we want the actual reform that's going to not only give us the change we want, but make sure not another family has to suffer what we've suffered. Thank you all. My sister touched on everything. We have an amazing team here who have helped us along this journey. We're so grateful for everyone who has supported us along the way. We're forever grateful to you and we love you all. Thank you.
Thank you, Tara. So we're going to hear from two more cousins, and then we're going to hear last from the family, Roxy and Giana are going to come. And then Reverend Al may have Reverend Jackson and others address you. At this time, we're going to have Angela and Paris come, cousins of George Floyd.
Angela Harrolson: (46:54)
Hello, I'm Angela Harrolson. I'm actually George Floyd's aunt, and this is the cousin here. So anyway, I just want to say that this has been a hard road, not just for the family, but for everybody. And I want to especially thank the Minneapolis community for holding it down at the George Floyd Square. Jeanelle Austin, Jeanette Rupert, Maya Washington. These are community leaders that held it down at that place. They kept that place sacred for everyone to go there to express their condolences. And so we appreciate that. And this verdict is a verdict that is well needed, and it's overdue.
And I want to say to the people around the world that is listing, it was a darkness. On May 25th was a very, very dark day. There was a lot of pain, and there was a lot of hatred. But I want to say at the same time that I got a chance to witness something. I got a chance to witness the love that I saw-
I got a chance to witness the love that I saw around the world that was poured to the family. I don't know if I will ever see that again in my lifetime, but I'm glad that I got a chance to see the love that you have shown me, my family, and everyone, because you've touched us. And I want to say thank you. And I'm so glad about this day. Thank you.
I just want to thank everyone again. All the family up here has basically said the same thing. So I just want to thank you. Thank you to the community. You all are very special to me. You're just like family, and I appreciate you at the square.
Yes. Thank you.
So I'll leave you with the statement that I always say. You have to keep walking the walk.
The journey isn't over. So, continue to pray for us. Pray for everyone, and keep walking the walk.
Yes. And I want to say one more thing. We must not let his death be his last word. Thank you.
You okay? Okay, alright. What's your last name?
Tiffany Hall: (49:21)
Hall.
And lastly, we're going to have Tiffany Hall, a sister-in-law of George Floyd.
I just want to thank everyone for all the support. We couldn't do this without you guys. And we appreciate all the time and energy that you guys have put in to help us get this justice. Just know that this is the beginning, we still have a lot of other families we need to fight for. And we hope and pray that this will speak volume, and will have a change in this world and we won't have to add any more families with our families. Okay? So we're really hoping that this will bring on a change. Thank you guys, and…
Thank you, Tiffany.
Thank you, guys.
Now, we will have Reverend Al come back to the podium and acknowledge some important individuals. And then we'll go ahead and take questions. Reverend Al Sharpton.
Reverend Al Sharpton: (50:20)
Let me say this, before we have questions. I think that it is appropriate that we respect those that laid the path for us and let us always remember those that cleared the field and made us possible. Movements didn't start with us. We're a continuation of movements before us, and they will be continued until freedom. [inaudible 00:50:55] May we hear from my mentor, the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
Reverend Jesse Jackson: (51:10)
Reverend Al. [inaudible 00:51:13]
Yes, sir.
We're here about a $20 bill. We never saw the $20 bill. Store who had called the police about $20 bill still operates. That store should be a museum. Right now they're profiting from people who're coming to George's memorial. Dr. King once said, [inaudible 00:51:37] in our faith and proud to live under the law. [inaudible 00:51:42] was killed in 1955, jurors were out an hour, came back [inaudible 00:51:50] cigarette. That's why it was a short. Well, [inaudible 00:52:01] asked the juror, "Why did you… a convicted killer, you knew who he was. Bragged about he'd taken his wife." He said, "I could not imagine going to jail for killing a [other 00:52:13]." That was 55 years [inaudible 00:52:14] now it's 2021. Things are changing. We're where the Mississippi river started from now, it's time for a fundamental change.
I want to thank, who we lost [inaudible 00:52:25] the incomparable [inaudible 00:52:25] Ben Crump. Ben, we thank you so much.
Thank you, Reverend
[inaudible 00:52:31] one saying that when things first jumped off and Jim was killed, George was killed, Al and I flew in and went and met Mr. Freeman who had the case, he believed it couldn't happen. [inaudible 00:52:46] it never happened before. We urged him to try, Lt. Governor, Attorney General Keith Ellison. Keith took the case and had to call the shots the first day. He got the legal team, tested the jurors, whole process led by Keith Ellison. They say he's 30% African-American, Keith Ellison. A 1% Samoan African-American Congresswoman. [inaudible 00:53:25] Minnesota, a state with very proud traditions, Brother Ben.
[inaudible 00:53:32] it's not just about Black and White, it's about wrong and right. Minnesota had massive protests marched by White citizens of this state who stand for justice and jobs. This is the state of Hubert Humphrey who led the struggle [inaudible 00:53:47] 1964, state of [inaudible 00:53:54] It's the state of those who fought down through the years. When I think about Omar, being the Congresswoman, 1% Samoan [inaudible 00:54:07] 50% Black.
Now, the people in the state have been silent too long must stand up speak back, fight back. It's time for a change. I want express my thanks to all of you who've come here from the media to cover this story. People on the team of Keith are Black and White, and we must learn to live together as brothers [inaudible 00:54:36] We live and we will live together.
I want to express my thanks to Marc Morial of the Urban League and all those who've come together today, because we're going to keep marching. [inaudible 00:54:46] for brother Wright. And we're relieved but we can't celebrate because the killings keep coming. I hope the case today has broken the backbone of Legalitia. This case should break the back bone of Legalitia, militia with the law. We have to change that. Thank you very much.
Lastly, before we get to the question and let me acknowledge again Tamika, [inaudible 00:55:22], Reverend Jamal Bryant and all of the young people that keep it going. Ain't no sun between these generations. Anybody thinks so get up and work out with me in the morning. National President of the National Urban League Brother Marc Morial.
Marc Morial: (55:43)
Thank you very much. Thank you. First of all, I want to be brief, but let me co-sign, amen and reaffirm all that has been said today. This conviction rests on the courage of a young girl, a young woman who had the audacity to see an injustice and to pick up a 21st century device known as an iPhone. And to tape that injustice, that murder taking place on the streets of this city. This conviction rests on the courage of young people, old people, Black people, White people, Jews, Gentiles, Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, Hindus, straight, LGBTQ, of all races, creeds and colors who last summer, when they saw the tape that this young girl made, the outrage went from Minneapolis all the way across this globe. And this conviction rests on the competence and conviction of an attorney general named Keith Ellison.
Yes sir.
Who had the wherewithal to put together a perfect prosecution. And this conviction rests on the steely determination and dignity of the Floyd family. The Floyd family who withering with the death of their loved one stood before cameras, testified before Congress, time and time again. I'll say this, this fight to pass the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act has now stepped to a new level. We call on the United States Senate. We call on who? The United States Senate to forthwith, without delay, without filibuster, to pass the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act and not to water it down. George Floyd, we mourn his loss. May he rest in peace and may he rest in power. But let us understand that this is but a moment and this battle, this fight, this work for justice must proceed.
As Attorney Crump comes back for your Q&A, let me thank those businessmen that supported early in this. Tyler Perry that provided transportation planes for the family and all of us. Robert Smith, the millionaire/billionaire who gave private planes for us throughout the whole thing. Chuck Phillips, I want to thank all of them. And I want to thank Rachel Noerdlinger for helping with communications and the whole team at National Action Network that back me up and make me think good. And the pride I have, our baby-daughter Ashley is with me to make history tonight, and Dominique at home with my grandson. But now you can ask the Attorney General of Black America what you want to ask.
Do we want to defer to President Biden or not?
Yeah, go ahead.
Okay. Hey, you all, if you have questions, you can get them to us. I understand that President Biden may be waiting to address the nation. He wanted to give respect to the family. I do want to acknowledge the…
Texas Coalition of Black Democrats.
… Texas Coalition of Black Democrats who are helping push the George Floyd Justice Act. So at this time, if you have questions you can get with press@ bencrump or Jennifer McGuffin or Reverend Al. We want to be respectful to the President and let him address what he wants to address. Thank you.
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package org.apache.felix.karaf.shell.dev;

import static java.lang.String.format;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.felix.gogo.commands.Argument;
import org.apache.felix.gogo.commands.Command;
import org.apache.felix.karaf.shell.console.OsgiCommandSupport;
import org.apache.felix.karaf.shell.dev.util.Bundles;
import org.apache.felix.karaf.shell.dev.util.Import;
import org.apache.felix.karaf.shell.dev.util.Node;
import org.apache.felix.karaf.shell.dev.util.Tree;
import org.osgi.framework.Bundle;
import org.osgi.framework.ServiceReference;
import org.osgi.service.packageadmin.ExportedPackage;
import org.osgi.service.packageadmin.PackageAdmin;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * Command for showing the full tree of bundles that have been used to resolve
 * a given bundle.
 */
@Command(scope = "dev", name = "show-tree",
         description = "Show the tree of bundles based on the wiring information")
public class ShowBundleTree extends AbstractBundleCommand {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ShowBundleTree.class);

    private Tree<Bundle> tree;

    @Override
    protected void doExecute(Bundle bundle) throws Exception {
        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
        // let's do the real work here
        printHeader(bundle);
        tree = new Tree<Bundle>(bundle);
        createTree(bundle);
        printTree(tree);
        printDuplicatePackages(tree);
        LOGGER.debug(format("Dependency tree calculated in %d ms",
                            System.currentTimeMillis() - start));
    }

    /*
     * Print the header
     */
    private void printHeader(Bundle bundle) {
        System.out.printf("Bundle %s [%s] is currently %s%n",
                bundle.getSymbolicName(),
                bundle.getBundleId(),
                Bundles.toString(bundle.getState()));
    }

    /*
     * Print the dependency tree
     */
    private void printTree(Tree<Bundle> tree) {
        System.out.printf("%n");
        tree.write(System.out, new Tree.Converter<Bundle>() {

            public String toString(Node<Bundle> node) {
                return String.format("%s [%s]",
                                     node.getValue().getSymbolicName(),
                                     node.getValue().getBundleId());
            }
        });
    }

    /*
     * Check for bundles in the tree exporting the same package
     * as a possible cause for 'Unresolved constraint...' on a uses-conflict
     */
    private void printDuplicatePackages(Tree<Bundle> tree) {
        Set<Bundle> bundles = tree.flatten();
        Map<String, Set<Bundle>> exports = new HashMap<String, Set<Bundle>>();

        for (Bundle bundle : bundles) {
            ExportedPackage[] packages = getPackageAdmin().getExportedPackages(bundle);
            if (packages != null) {
                for (ExportedPackage p : packages) {
                    if (exports.get(p.getName()) == null) {
                        exports.put(p.getName(), new HashSet<Bundle>());
                    }
                    exports.get(p.getName()).add(bundle);
                }
            }
        }

        for (String pkg : exports.keySet()) {
            if (exports.get(pkg).size() > 1) {
                System.out.printf("%n");
                System.out.printf("WARNING: multiple bundles are exporting package %s%n", pkg);
                for (Bundle bundle : exports.get(pkg)) {
                    System.out.printf("- %s%n", bundle);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /*
     * Creates the bundle tree
     */
    protected void createTree(Bundle bundle) {
        if (bundle.getState() >= Bundle.RESOLVED) {
            createNode(tree);
        } else {
            createNodesForImports(tree, bundle);
        }
    }

    /*
     * Creates nodes for the imports of the bundle (instead of reporting wiring information
     */
    private void createNodesForImports(Node node, Bundle bundle) {
        for (Import i : Import.parse(String.valueOf(bundle.getHeaders().get("Import-Package")),
                                     String.valueOf(bundle.getHeaders().get("Export-Package")))) {
            createNodeForImport(node, bundle, i);
        }
    }

    /*
     * Create a child node for a given import (by finding a matching export in the currently installed bundles)
     */
    private void createNodeForImport(Node node, Bundle bundle, Import i) {
        ExportedPackage[] exporters = getPackageAdmin().getExportedPackages(i.getPackage());
        boolean foundMatch = false;
        if (exporters != null) {
            for (ExportedPackage ep : exporters) {
                if (i.getVersion().contains(ep.getVersion())) {
                    if (bundle.equals(ep.getExportingBundle())) {
                        foundMatch = true;
                    } else {
                        Node child = node.addChild(ep.getExportingBundle());
                        System.out.printf("- import %s: resolved using %s%n", i, ep.getExportingBundle());
                        foundMatch = true;
                        createNode(child);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        if (!foundMatch) {
            System.out.printf("- import %s: WARNING - unable to find matching export%n", i);
        }
    }

    /*
     * Creates a node in the bundle tree
     */
    private void createNode(Node<Bundle> node) {
        Bundle bundle = node.getValue();
        Collection<Bundle> exporters = new HashSet<Bundle>();
        exporters.addAll(getWiredBundles(bundle).values());

        for (Bundle exporter : exporters) {
            if (node.hasAncestor(exporter)) {
                LOGGER.debug(format("Skipping %s (already exists in the current branch)", exporter));
            } else {
                boolean existing = tree.flatten().contains(exporter);
                LOGGER.debug(format("Adding %s as a dependency for %s", exporter, bundle));
                Node child = node.addChild(exporter);
                if (existing) {
                    LOGGER.debug(format("Skipping children of %s (already exists in another branch)", exporter));
                } else {
                    createNode(child);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Cropsey Homestead, also known as Ever Rest, was built in 1835 and purchased by Jasper F. Cropsey in 1885. Cropsey extended Ever Rest by adding an artist's studio to it in 1885. Today the home and studio are open by guided tour by appointment on weekdays and are part of the Newington Cropsey Foundation. The tour passes by a window that provides a view of the Hudson River, and beside the window hangs a Cropsey painting of the same view. Also available at an adjacent site is a museum with a large collection of Cropsey paintings, shown by appointment.
Driving Directions: We recommend Google Map . Site coordinates: 40.992691 Lat., -73.881813 Long.
Location Notes: The views that inspired Cropsey have been substantially changed by development around the Cropsey house and along the waterfront. Glimpses of the view can be seen from the residential streets and waterfront parks in Hastings-on-Hudson. The best match for the Ravine at Hastings can be found by taking the house tour from the Newington Cropsey Foundation. See instructions on the website noted on the right.


This function uninitializes a RAPI session.
E_FAIL indicates that RAPI has not previously been initialized.
The CeRapiUnInit method should be called when the application has completed its use of the remote API services. It gracefully closes down the connection to the Windows Embedded CE-based device. If called when not in an initialized state, it will return E_FAIL.
CeRapiUnInit can be called during a call to CeRapiInit or CeRapiInitEx to cancel initialization.


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The Mid Wales Rhythm and Blues Club
The best in live R&B music, in a friendly setting
Venues & Contact
Reviews & Gallery
Blues Boy Kings plus Mike Parker and Soraya
Gig reviews & Gallery
What better way to round off the year than another terrific night at the Muse, with three excellent and multi-talented artists.
Paul Keddle did the honours as compere, and the night started off with singer-songwriter Soraya.
Soraya immediately held the audience spellbound with some entrancing mostly self-penned songs, delivered with great poise and delicacy. She has a compellingly fragile, ethereal and pitch-perfect voice – the kind you could listen to all night – worthy of comparison with some of the best of the "alternative folk" scene, such as Meg Baird, Jesse Sykes and Marissa Nadler. We wish her all the best on her travels, and would love to welcome her back to the club in future.
It's always great to see Mike "three guitars" Parker back at the club – he delivered a characteristically gritty and energetic performance, featuring his own material, a couple of classics, and his trademark dexterous resonator slide guitar work.
James Davies provided some expert accompaniment on harmonica and vocals, completing the sound of a thoroughly enjoyable set.
Then it was time for the Blues Boy Kings – surely one of the most enjoyable and up-beat authentic blues bands you could ever hope to experience. Sam North kicks out a powerful and gutsy rhythmic base line, all the while sporting a hugely infectious grin – while husband Jason plays both drums and a blistering lead guitar.
Sam North
Jason North
David Jackman supplied some expert harmonica on a couple of numbers, adding another dimension to the great blend of authentic blues.
Their songs, a mixture of originals and carefully chosen covers, are drawn from the very best influences in classic electric blues: John Mayall, Stan Webb's Chicken Shack, Christine McVie, Cream, Creedence, and a healthy slice of ZZ Top.
From their very first number they had people up and dancing… and by the end of the evening there was no holding them back. The band certainly seemed to enjoy the performance as much as the audience. In fact, they look far too happy to have the blues – but they certainly can play!
It seemed very appropriate that at the end of the night it started to snow – a fitting seasonal end to a fine year for the club.
Massive thanks to everyone who has come along to support these fine artists over the past year, and to everyone who has played a part in making it such a success. As ever, a special thanks to all at the Muse for being such great hosts.
bluesboykings.co.uk
www.facebook.com/MikeParkerMusic
www.facebook.com/PUNCHAYOBUNSSS
Photos by Barry Hill
Review by Jim Kerslake
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You must leave the pool at 21:45 and move to dressing room.
You must leave the pool at 19:45 and move to dressing room.
You must leave the gym at 21:45 and move to dressing room.
You must leave the gym at 19:45 and move to dressing room.


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Q: Completely Uninstall Google Cloud SDK Mac I cannot seem to find an uninstall script for the gcloud sdk.
I have already removed all the components (except for core which you cannot remove) via gcloud components remove [ID]
I noticed that there is a folder google-cloud-sdk located in my user folder, although this only has install scripts. I imagine there are other files or folders which should also be deleted.
Does anyone know of an uninstall script or all the files/folders to delete?
Thanks.

A: Run gcloud info. This will tell you, among other things, the "Installation Root". You can just delete that folder and you're done. You can also use gcloud formatting to print just the installation root with gcloud info --format='value(installation.sdk_root)'. This is helpful for automation.
If you want, you can also delete your configuration files. You can usually find them in ~/.config/gcloud on MacOS and Linux, but a safer approach would be to use gcloud info --format='value(config.paths.global_config_dir)' to provide the location.
The only other modifications gcloud makes at install time is to put lines sourcing completion.bash.inc and paths.bash.inc in your .bashrc file (if you directed it to do so) and add the installation directory to PATH. These shouldn't have any negative impact but feel to manually remove them too.
Later Edit: Google has official uninstall instructions for Cloud SDK now. Be sure to check those instructions in case there are changes in the future.

A: Best to rely on official Google Cloud documentation for that, which is short and clear and may vary in the future.
See Uninstalling Google Cloud SDK.

A: You should also delete the ~/.config/gcloud folder.

A: The simplest way is to go to the installation directory with
gcloud info

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*Copy the installation directory from the output and navigate there

*Navigate up one step to the Cloud SDK directory

*You'll find an uninstaller.exe application to uninstall gcloud, run it to proceed

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June 29 2016, 2:05 p.m.
It was winter in the pocket of Mexico known as Tierra Caliente, the Hot Land. The sky was cloudless and the sun's rays were casting flickering reflections off the convoy coming into focus: two behemoth SUVs, one black, one silver, passengers invisible behind tinted windows, a police pickup bringing up the rear. The vehicles kicked up clouds of dust as they pulled to a stop. The doors swung open. Boots, shoes, and sandals connected with the dirt. More than half a dozen well-armed men, and one woman, stepped out.
They weren't the most imposing gunslingers in the world. Most wore basic navy blue polo shirts with white screen-printed badges on the chest. Some were middle-aged with considerable bellies lapping over their belts. Still, their firepower — mostly AR-15 assault rifles — was considerable. Several wore bulletproof vests strapped with ammunition. One of the men, the fittest of the bunch, dressed in khaki cargo pants with dark wraparound sunglasses and a sidearm strapped to his hip, had the swagger of an American military contractor escorting some important diplomat in a foreign war.
Hipólito Mora in his bulletproof truck on his family's lime ranch in La Ruana, Michoacán, Mexico, Dec. 15, 2015.
The martial demeanor made sense. Guard duty was exactly what the group was doing. Their cargo stepped out of an armored Chevrolet: a short, stocky man, 60 years old, with a close-cropped gray beard and a white Panama hat. His name was Hipólito Mora Chávez. In 2013, he kicked off an armed citizens' rebellion against a cult-like drug cartel in his home state of Michoacán, the geographic launching point on Mexico's Pacific coast for much of the methamphetamine trafficked to the United States.
They called themselves autodefensas, self-defense groups. For a moment, their uprising was Mexico's biggest story. For some, they symbolized a courageous effort on the part of ordinary citizens to accomplish what the government was unable or unwilling to do, dismantling a notorious criminal organization that had terrorized the Hot Land for years. For others, they were unaccountable vigilantes representing a dangerous slide into anarchic chaos.
More than three years into the fight, things are not looking good for Mora and his circle. Riven with the same criminal infiltration he sought to drive from the region and divided by a program of government co-optation, the movement Mora started is now a shadow of what it once was. In the winter of 2014, his son was gunned down in a ferocious shootout with members of a newly deputized force. Mora has been locked in a blood feud with the man he holds responsible ever since. He has come to see himself as a man deeply wronged by the state, left for dead amid a sea of enemies. One by one, he's moved family members out of the country, distancing himself from those he loves most as he hunkers down at home, waiting for what comes next.
The autodefensas symbolized a courageous effort on the part of ordinary citizens to accomplish what the government was unable or unwilling to do.
As he approached, Mora showed no sign of the stress one might associate with being a front-line general on the losing side of Mexico's drug war. The 9 mm pistol tucked into the waistband of his jeans was discreetly hidden under his blue guayabera. Introductions were made at the tall iron gate that leads to his front door. From behind his wire-frame glasses, Mora made direct eye contact. He listened to our reasons for coming, nodded occasionally, and then smiled politely, extending his hand and inviting us inside.
Far away from the Hollywood intrigue and rock-star treatment spun up by January's re-arrest of drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, in small towns and rural communities across Mexico, the drug war today often plays out in tragic local stories rarely acknowledged by the world at large. The Hot Land is one of those places. Over the course of three days, the embattled autodefensa leader described how his state fell under criminal control, how he started an armed movement in response, and how it all came apart.
The story Mora told was part of a broader narrative, relayed by other anti-cartel fighters, reporters in the Hot Land, and human rights investigators in the state capital during two weeks of interviews across Michoacán in early December. Together they provide a snapshot of the frustrations and complexities wrought by more than a decade of violence in one of Mexico's toughest places, offering a window into the changing face of a conflict to which the United States is inextricably linked.
An autodefensa patrol in Aquila, in Mexico's Michoacán state, on July 18, 2013.
Surrounded by mountains, the Hot Land is a lowland stretch of central Mexico that includes southeast Michoacán and spills over into the northern reaches of the neighboring state of Guerrero. Five hundred miles from the U.S. border, the region's rural communities and coastal cities are crucial junctures in the supply train of drugs flowing north. Michoacán produces tons of U.S.-bound methamphetamine, while Guerrero, which in recent years has served as Mexico's largest producer of opium paste, plays a fundamental role in fueling the United States' current heroin crisis. Throughout the region the splintered factions of once-sprawling cartels, fractured through years of infighting and battles with the federal government, have been reborn into warring constellations constantly vying for the most profitable turf.
The criminal groups that dominate the Hot Land engage in more than drug trafficking; they also feed off the local population through kidnapping and extortion. In some areas, their control of local political power is virtually absolute, and the line between the authorities and the criminals has all but vanished. It was in Iguala, a midsize city in Guerrero connecting Hot Land traffickers to the wider world, that one such group and its partners in local law enforcement attacked and disappeared 43 college students in September 2014, culminating in one of the most shocking crimes in modern Mexican history; the unsuccessful search for the students uncovered a vast number of clandestine graves across the state, underscoring an epidemic of disappearances that has plunged the region into fear. Last year, independent international human rights experts tasked with investigating the case suggested the students might have unwittingly interrupted a shipment of drugs en route to the American Midwest.
Conditions in the Hot Land are a reminder of just how large the U.S. looms over Mexico's most troubled spaces, serving not only as the drug traffickers' No. 1 customer, but also as a key source of weapons, a bank for illicit profits, and a symbol of hope for those seeking to break free from the slim prospects that color life in areas where unemployment, corruption, and impunity flourish. More than 4 million people call Michoacán home. A nearly equal number of Michoacanos live north of the Rio Grande, many in California, and the state typically leads Mexico in overall numbers of residents emigrating north. Over the holidays, cities like Apatzingán, the de-facto capital of the Hot Land, fill with Michoacanos coming home to spend hard-earned American dollars on loved ones.
A street view of La Ruana in Michoacán, Mexico, Dec. 16, 2015.
Mora lives in La Ruana, a dusty little community where festive ribbons hang over the central thoroughfare, casting crisscrossing shadows over the rutted roadway. In the rural areas that blanket much of his state, people make their livings in fishing, mining, and forestry. Agriculture, however, is king. Two products in particular have become synonymous with the state: avocado and lime. Michoacán is among the world's largest producers and exporters of both, with much of the product shipped to the U.S. Successful avocado and lime growers are often important power brokers in the Hot Land, where the federal government is seen as remote and Mexico's centuries-old cacique power structure, in which local strongmen reign, continues to dominate. Mora came into the lime business through his older brother. With the exception of a few years living in California, he has spent most of his adult life tending to his family's ranch, a 14-hectare spread of rolling hills lined with lime trees.
For a man who believes a slew of cartel assassins and a significant portion of the government would like to see him dead, Mora is hardly in hiding. His tan, one-story home is easy to find. There's a makeshift patio shaded by a patchwork canopy of tarps in front of his neighbors' place, the most prominent of which bears a big sun-bleached image Mora used during a failed bid for public office. His tile-floored living room is bright, airy, and clean. Mixed among the family photos hanging on his walls are black-and-white portraits of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, luminaries of the Mexican Revolution.
Mexican President Felipe Calderón greets a soldier at the base of the 43rd military zone in Apatzingán, Mexico, Jan. 3, 2007.
Nearly a hundred years after Villa and Zapata made their mark, Mexico went to war again. This time, the fight began in Mora's state, when a newly elected president, Felipe Calderón, dispatched thousands of troops to Michoacán as part of a sweeping anti-cartel offensive in December 2006, the first stage of a campaign that would include more than 96,000 members of Mexican security forces deployed to at least a half-dozen states.
It's a controversial position. The aftershocks of Calderón's military campaign are synonymous with the darkest period in recent Mexican history — according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, more than 150,000 people have been killed in Mexico since the war began; at least 26,000 others have disappeared. Still, it makes sense that Mora, a man who took up arms himself, would support an armed confrontation with criminal groups. He and Calderón were similar in that respect. The difference is that Calderón went to war with the full weight of the Mexican military at his back and Mora went to war with a rag-tag crew and a 30-year-old shotgun.
Mexican armed forces guard Hipólito Mora's ranch in La Ruana, Michoacán, Mexico, Dec. 17, 2014.
For most of the 20th century, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI in its Spanish acronym, managed the nation's drug trafficking. So long as the traffickers paid their dues to the appropriate corrupt official, business could continue and the criminals kept their impact on the local population to a minimum. "I could have gone out at night and slept in the streets," Mora recalled. Nobody would have bothered him. That quiet came to end about 14 years ago.
The night is often cited as an introduction to the horrors that came after: the bodies strung from bridges, the theatrical posing of dismembered corpses, the gruesome displays turned routine. Three months later, in December 2006, Calderón, a native of Michoacán, declared his "war," deploying troops to his home state. He had been in office just two weeks. In La Familia, Calderón found himself up against a cartel unlike anything Mexico had seen before. The cartel's strategy was uniquely tailored to Michoacán. In a state with a long history of armed struggles, La Familia portrayed its members as homegrown vigilantes facing down predatory outsiders like the Zetas, a cartel born out of U.S.-trained Mexican special forces bent on polluting the state by selling meth locally, rather than trafficking it north.
Nazario Moreno González, also known as El Chayo.
La Familia coupled its professed commitment to the people of Michoacán with religious fanaticism. The cartel's spiritual core was a man named Nazario Moreno González. An avid comic book fan who grew up poor in Michoacán, Moreno fantasized about having the power to speak to animals. As a teenager in the 1980s, he emigrated to the U.S., living in California and Texas. He loved Braveheart and The Godfather and consumed the writings of John Eldredge, a Colorado Springs-based evangelical author whose 2001 bestseller, Wild at Heart, calls on Christian men to reclaim their masculinity and embrace a "muscular" interpretation of the faith.
Indicted on drug charges by a federal grand jury in McAllen, Texas, Moreno fled home to the Hot Land in 2003, where he joined the highest level of La Familia's command structure. Moreno had a number of nicknames back home — including "El Más Loco," the Craziest One, for his temper — but to most, he was simply known as El Chayo. He was a prolific writer, publishing reflections on religion, politics, and manhood that were distributed widely and freely throughout the region.
El Chayo put a premium on discipline. His men, who dutifully carried around his writings, were officially prohibited from using meth, and El Chayo developed a reputation for lethally enforcing his edicts. Under El Chayo and a handful of other generals, La Familia wormed its way into virtually every corner of life in the region. The cartel built schools and drug rehabilitation clinics — where it molded recovering patients into brainwashed recruits — and its numbers swelled into the thousands.
People demonstrate in support of La Familia and its leader, Nazario Moreno González, in Apatzingán, Mexico, Dec. 12, 2010.
In December 2010, the Calderón administration, which had appeared completely unable to halt the cartel's advance, finally seemed to catch a break, with officials announcing that El Chayo had been killed in a two-day gun battle involving 2,000 government forces. The government trumpeted his death as evidence of La Familia's decline. According to the official story, El Chayo's men dragged their boss's bullet-ridden corpse into the mountains. A shrine was built on a hill overlooking Apatzingán; inside was a statue of El Chayo monitored by surveillance cameras. Soon, other monuments and statues cropped up across the Hot Land. Stories surfaced of a ghostly El Chayo roaming the mountains of Michoacán dressed in white and performing baptisms. People began referring to him as Saint Nazario.
El Chayo had indeed survived his shootout with the government. Along with his most loyal cohorts, he created a new organization: Los Caballeros Templarios — the Knights Templar. The cartel zealously embraced the iconography of their namesake, adorning themselves with red crosses and performing initiation rituals with medieval swords. The Templarios not only picked up where La Familia left off, they took the brazenness — and bizarreness — of organized crime in the Hot Land to new heights. El Chayo, meanwhile, assumed a legendary status, the un-killable rebel who not only defied the state but took it over from the inside out.
Along with the illegal economy in Michoacán, the Templarios grabbed key chunks of the legal economy as well, including much of the state's lucrative logging and mining industries. Taxi drivers were enlisted as lookouts, creating a vast intelligence network. Funeral homes were forced to provide free services to Templarios without paperwork. With local police and mayors under their control, cartel members managed property disputes and manipulated notaries to legitimize their theft of vehicles, land, and homes. They adjudicated local crimes and punished offenders publicly. People in Apatzingán tell of accused criminals dragged into the city square by the Templarios, where they were stripped and paddled with a wooden board. Others were crucified.
A code-of-conduct booklet allegedly made by the Knights Templar drug cartel, July 14, 2011.
In 2011, as the Templarios were rising to power, the state's commission for human rights and Michoacán's University of San Nicolás Hidalgo published a slim book titled El México Que Yo Vivo — The Mexico That I Live. The book contained dozens of drawings by Mexican school children, ages 7 to 12, who were asked to illustrate their state as they saw it. The first drawing showed a woman in a yellow dress being robbed at gunpoint, her hands in the air as she screamed for help. The second depicted federal police in a gunfight; a dead body was featured in the foreground next to an AK-47. The third also featured a corpse, this one riddled with bullet holes and lying in a pool of bright red blood. On and on they went. Of the 45 images the children drew, 35 reflected scenes of violence.
While the Templarios fancied themselves the arbiters of divine justice, the truth was that El Chayo's men took what they wanted, when they wanted. Residents describe young women and girls routinely kidnapped by Templarios only to resurface months later, pregnant and discarded by the cartel.
Hipólito Mora at his family's lime ranch in La Ruana, Michoacán, Mexico, Dec. 15, 2015.
Mora said he first considered fighting back against the cartel during the Calderón administration, even traveling to Mexico City to seek an audience with the president. "Nobody met with me," he said. He returned to the Hot Land and began floating the idea of resistance among friends. "No, forget it, if we do it, they'll kill us," his friends told him.
They had a point. The Templarios wouldn't hesitate to reduce Mora and his collaborators — or their family members — to another bloody photo in the back pages of the local Apatzingán crime coverage. But Mora couldn't let it go, and for the next two years, he found himself returning again and again to the question of what could be done.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City on Oct. 6, 2014, about the killing of students in Iguala.
The optimism was premature. While Mexico was beginning to see a nationwide reduction in drug-related murders when Peña Nieto took the reins, in certain areas violence was getting much worse. Michoacán was in the midst of the greatest increase in homicides in the country, with a disproportionate amount of the bloodletting concentrated in the Hot Land. Mora, who had continued to agitate secretly for an insurgency, finally had a breakthrough. He convinced five friends — "people I've trusted all my life," he said — to join him for a clandestine meeting in an orchard.
The men, he said, were afraid.
"How are we going to do it if we don't have weapons or money?" they asked.
Mora's crew was unprepared for war with a well-armed criminal organization. Mora had just two shotguns, one of which his neighbor had fabricated three decades prior. Still, he managed to talk his friends into convening a public conversation on the security situation in La Ruana. They spoke to a local driver who cruised the streets making announcements of public interest over a megaphone and requested that he deliver a broadcast for them. On the morning of February 24, 2013, the driver headed out with the message: The people of this town are urgently invited to a meeting in the main garden at 10 a.m.
On motorcycles and bicycles, the newly formed force set off for homes owned or stolen by the Templarios.
By the time he arrived, the town square was full of people, many of them masked. Standing before the crowd, Mora confessed that he had called the meeting. "I'm just as tired as you that they won't let us work," he said. He called on anyone with "the courage to fight the Templarios" to step forward. Mora said roughly 250 people did so.
"Bring what you have to fight," Mora encouraged the crowd, "and we will go looking for them." A handful of people returned with AR-15s and AK-47s, Mora said — "Because some lime producers have enough money to buy these" — but most of the volunteers, if they had anything at all, were armed with simple single-shot bird hunting rifles or shotguns, weapons that some of the recruits had no idea how to use.
On motorcycles and bicycles, the newly formed force set off for homes owned or stolen by the Templarios. The crowd was overwhelming made up of "pure cutters," Mora said, workers at the very bottom of the lime production hierarchy. They descended on the Templario properties only to find them abandoned. "We didn't fire a shot," Mora said. Wives and girlfriends of local Templarios who were present at his call to arms had tipped off the cartel members, he explained. The Templarios left behind weapons and a number of high-priced vehicles with Mexico City plates. "Luxury cars," Mora said. "Mercedes-Benz, BMW." His men now had transportation.
Dr. José Manuel Mireles, the leader of the Citizens' Self-Protection Police of Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, on Dec. 1, 2013.
Hours after Mora pulled together his fighting force, a doctor in the nearby town of Tepalcatepec did the same. José Manuel Mireles Valverde had spent a decade working odd jobs in Modesto, California. Unlicensed to practice medicine in the states, he volunteered at the Red Cross, translating medical materials for Spanish-speaking migrants. In 2007, Mireles and his family returned to a Michoacán beset with violence. The Templarios beheaded three of their neighbors. As a physician, Mireles treated young women and girls regularly kidnapped and abused by the cartel. Tall and handsome at 55 with silver hair and a bushy mustache, Mireles became the most famous face of the autodefensa movement, known to fans, admirers, and enemies as The Doctor.
With Mora and Mireles at the helm, the uprising evolved rapidly. The Doctor's people erected sandbag barricades at the entrances to his town and strung banners warning the Templarios to enter at their own risk. Mora appropriated a former Templario ranch as his base of operations. The months that followed were filled with gunfights, raids, and media appearances. The Templarios set up blockades to strangle communities where the autodefensas had sprung up, including La Ruana, triggering shortages of food, gasoline, and medicine. Meanwhile, Michoacanos living in the U.S. returned home to join the fight.
In early April 2013, Templario gunmen ambushed lime workers from La Ruana on a protest march. A dozen people were killed in what became known as "the massacre of the limoneros." But the cartel's wrath failed to stem the growing movement. Within a year, autodefensa units had emerged in 33 of Michoacán's 113 municipalities. Pressure from the armed citizens' groups fueled an unprecedented break-up of the Templarios' power in the state.
As the autodefensas expanded, some began appearing in public with assault rifles and other high-powered weapons prohibited under Mexican law without a military permit.
As the autodefensas expanded, some began appearing in public with assault rifles and other high-powered weapons prohibited under Mexican law without a military permit. Some observers questioned who was behind the movement. For many, it seemed that darker forces were pulling the strings — after all, both La Familia and the Templarios had also wrapped themselves in the rhetoric of self-defense. Stories soon surfaced of abuses committed by autodefensas. In Cartel Land, a 2015 documentary about the movement, Mireles wrestles with the problem of criminal infiltration; he also appears to give an order to execute an alleged Templario. Mora also appears in the film, seated next to Mireles at a gathering of autodefensa leaders. "Some of the leaders who make the rules are the first to break them," Mora tells his comrades.
Mora maintains that the bulk of the weapons his forces acquired were taken from vanquished Templarios and their partners in law enforcement, though in the past he has also mentioned purchasing arms. As an example, he points to an early confrontation with the public security director for Buenavista, the larger municipality that encompasses La Ruana. According to Mora, it was widely known that the director, who ran the local police department, was under Templario control. "The whole town knows, they take someone from here or around town and turn them over to the Templarios," he said. "They don't care that the citizens see it." Mora brought his entourage to the meeting with the director, who for his part, Mora remembers, showed up with 15 well-armed cops. The Intercept was unable to independently confirm Mora's claims.
According to Mora, his corner of the movement was plagued with criminal infiltration from the beginning, and he was one of the few to stand up against its poisoning. After locking up the public security director, Mora said he was approached by a group of men who were friends of El Chayo and claimed to have turned on the drug lord's organization. They told Mora he had no chance of defeating El Chayo's killers on his own. "We know them. We know the people that they have; the money that they have; the weapons that they have," the men said. They proposed a solution: allow the Jalisco New Generation cartel, a rising power in the Mexican criminal landscape, to slip into the Hot Land and use their assassins to eliminate the Templarios.
Mora described his response as an unequivocal no. "This is precisely why we took up arms, in order to end this filth," he said. "All of the cartels, from my very personal point of view, are the same. They're killers." Mora said he ultimately drove the men out of town. It would prove to be a temporary fix to an entrenched problem. And as Mora would soon learn, his troubles were just beginning.
Alejandro Guerrero Lara contributed to this story.


Maths is everywhere. At home you can get your youngest children sorting shapes, looking for shapes around them, matching pairs of socks, looking at patterns of objects and counting things like food, toys or pencils. It's about making mathematics fun and part of their everyday lives.
Year 1 children need to be able to explain, demonstrate and recall addition and subtraction facts to 20. Year 2 need to be able to explain, demonstrate and recall 2, 5, and 10 times tables. The 3 times table is also included as it gives the first opportunity for repeated addition to be turned into multiplication tables.
Talking about and playing games dealing with number helps to understand addition and subtraction. Allowing your child to use money and buy items can help their understanding. In addition, referring to the clock and reading the time can help your child to understand the concept of time and of course everyone loves weighing out the sugar for a delicious cup-cake. Most importantly make maths fun and open it up to the world around them, rather than just question after question.
As a school we have turned every statement in the mathematics National Curriculum into a support video. The videos shows you what we teach in school and give you ideas for how you can help your child at home. You will need your child's Fronter username and password to access the content. Please see your child's class teacher if your are not sure of these details. You can access the resource by clicking the link below.
You can support your child's mathematical development by helping them to learn their times tables. They should already know their 2, 5 and 10 times tables and will be expected to know their 3, 4 and 6 times tables by the end of Year 3 and the rest of their times tables to 12x12 by the end of Year 4. Allow your child to experience everyday maths in real-life situations, such as shopping, cooking, telling the time and reading timetables. These opportunities will provide your child with a firm structure and underpin basic mathematical concepts.
Your child is probably already familiar with Maths Whizz and is, hopefully, in a regular routine of logging on and completing maths tutorials. At parents' evenings we will provide you with further information about age appropriate maths learning objectives for your child.
We use innovative methods to teach mathematics. Minecraft is a game that children love playing, but the mathematics behind the game is excellent. We are able to teach volume, fractions, ratio and proportion as well as reflection and rotation of shape using the block building game. It's a great way to harness something the children love and use it to our advantage.
Here is a hologram. To make this the children were asked to draw 2D shapes, use the 2d shape to make the net of a 3D shape. Then the children used an iPad to show their understanding of rotation of shape. When you combine all that knowledge about properties of shape, the ability to measure angles and length and an ability to rotate an object through 90 degrees, you get something breathtaking.
Year 5 children will be continuing to develop a range of mathematical concepts which include adding and subtracting larger numbers using counting on and column methods as well as multiplying and dividing using pencil and paper methods, including chunking, grid method and long multiplication and division. They will also be using division to find fractions of numbers, understand what each digit represents in a decimal number and know their multiplication tables up to 12x12. The children will also be developing their word problem skills and be able to explain their answers and thoughts using mathematical language.
Year 6 children will be continuing to develop a range of mathematical concepts which include adding and subtracting decimal numbers using counting on and column methods. Multiplying and dividing decimal numbers using pencil and paper methods. They will be simplifying fractions and identifying which fraction is larger, calculating percentages of whole numbers, estimating angles and using a protractor to measure accurately, use multiplication tables up to 10x10 to aid in mental division. The children should be able to solve word problems and be able to explain their answers and thoughts using mathematical language.
When at home it is important that children have the opportunity to explain and talk about their maths work. Encourage them to help with shopping, cooking, telling the time and reading timetables as it will provide a real life context to the maths work they are doing in class and give them a purpose to use their maths outside of school. Mathematics is not about knowing the right answer, it's about knowing how you got there so you can apply it to any situation. So, if you think it's mathematical putting the washing on, fixing a fence, painting a wall or hanging a picture, get your child involved.


In each round the 100s interval decrease by :05 and the 50s increase by :05. The 50s starting interval should be challenging while the 100s are more manageable. You can customize it in many ways. I have done the 100s free with the 50s specialty, the 100s specialty with the 50s kick, or really whatever fits the group with the time of year. I would make sure that the last round of 100s is not the interval that is too fast for them to make as the first two rounds will take a lot out of them. If they make the set they join the prestigious 21 club!
This set was originally published here on October 31, 2015.