[NYT] The body of an activist from St. Louis who led protests about the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 was found with a gunshot wound in the charred remains of a vehicle on Tuesday morning, according to the police and news accounts.
The activist, Darren Seals, 29, was found inside the vehicle on Diamond Drive in Riverview in St. Louis County around 1:50 a.m., the St. Louis County Police Department said in a statement. The vehicle had been on fire and he was found after the flames were extinguished.
The police said Mr. Seals had lived at an address on Millburn Drive in St. Louis, about 12 miles from where his body was found. The case is being investigated as a homicide by the department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons. The motive for the killing was unknown.
The police identified Mr. Seals as Daren Seals, although other records listed the spelling of his first name as Darren, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
On his Twitter account, Mr. Seals described himself as a businessman, revolutionary, activist and "Unapologetically BLACK, Afrikan in AmeriKKKa, Fighter, Leader."
He helped lead protests after Mr. Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed on Aug. 9, 2014, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis.
The shooting prompted protests that roiled the area for weeks. On Nov. 24, 2014, the St. Louis County prosecutor announced that a grand jury had decided not to indict Mr. Wilson. That announcement set off another wave of protests.
In an interview with MTV.com, Mr. Seals described the night the grand jury announcement was made. He said he was with Mr. Brown’s mother and some friends outside the Ferguson Police Department.
He said the decision not to indict the officer was "the ultimate slap in the face."
"And for Mike Brown’s mother to be right there in my arms crying -- she literally cried in my arms -- it was like I felt her soul crying," he said. "It’s a different type of crying. I’ve seen people crying, but she was really hurt. And it hurt me. It hurt all of us."
Mr. Seals led protests with the group Hands Up United, which was organizing a campaign called Polls Ova Police, which sought to use this year’s elections to challenge police policies.
"The broken systems and policies that police enforce must be challenged," the project said on its website. "We will not vote in favor of any candidate partnering with those who are not fighting for Black life. Polls Ova Police is the war cry of this generation."
On Twitter, supporters paid tribute to Mr. Seals on Tuesday:
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[THECOLLEGEFIX] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, State University Los Angeles recently rolled out segregated housing for black students.
The arrangement comes roughly nine months after the university’s Black Student Union issued a set of demands in response to what its members contend are frequent "racist attacks" on campus, such as "racially insensitive remarks" and "microaggressions" by professors and students. One demand was for a "CSLA housing space delegated for Black students."
"[It] would provide a cheaper alternative housing solution for Black students. This space would also serve as a safe space for Black CSLA students to congregate, connect, and learn from each other," the demand letter stated.
The newly debuted Halisi Scholars Black Living-Learning Community "focuses on academic excellence and learning experiences that are inclusive and non-discriminatory," Cal State LA front man Robert Lopez told The College Fix via email.
The public university has 192 furnished apartments in a residential complex on campus, and the Halisi community will be located there, Lopez said, adding it joins other themed living-learning communities already housed there.
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So will they also be excluded from the regular housing, student union, etc?
How about drinking fountains and cafeteria counters and tables?
If your going to give it to them, give them all of it!
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Nothing new here. When I entered college in the Fall of 1967, the university had a separate dormitory for blacks created, just as in this case, in response to demands made by the black student body.
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This is not teaching them to live in harmony with the rest of the US population after graduation. Aren't Universities supposed to prepare students for life?
I think a few class action lawsuits will come around in a decade and all of these black kids will have a free ride at the universities expense.
It's easy to fall back on familiar places and friends. It's more difficult to go to new places, try new things and meet new people. Sometimes there are challenges, maybe even a few perceived slights. But for those who are willing to face the challenges there are rewards.
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I wonder what the reaction would be if white students demanded a whites only dorm.
No I don't. I know exactly what would happen.
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Nothing new here. When I entered college in the Fall of 1967, the university had a separate dormitory for blacks created, just as in this case, in response to demands made by the black student body.
Ditto at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980. The Black Student Union had a floor, just like the nursing students and the future engineers. They deeply resented that an oriental girl and I were placed among them temporarily, and did their best to drive us out before beds were freed up in our promised dorms.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] After three days of violence and a corpse count which varies from more than 500 to the official count of seven, the Bongo family is cracking down on a popular uprising to maintain its grip over the little known country of Gabon. As many feared, the dynasty which ruled over the country for the last 50 years is crushing the hopes of a population just a few hours after democratic elections whose results were swiftly dressed up.
In particular, the final vote count from the Haut Ogoue province, the historical fiefdom of Ali Bongo, were provided several hours late and eventually revealed a population size vastly increased overnight, from official record down to the Wikipedia page. In that specific region, the ballot result communicated by the Bongo presidency showed a participation of 99.93 percent (40 percent above the national average) with 95 percent votes casted for the reelection of Ali Bongo, just enough to ensure him victory by less than 6000 votes.
Gabon is the archetype of post-colonial African countries fallen off the media radar despite the regular abuse of its population and endemic corruption. It could serve as a symbol of how a rich endowment in natural resources is being diverted by the very few for their personal staggering wealth while regular citizens struggle every day to make ends meet. Despite a well-educated population ‐ illiteracy is below 3 percent ‐ and the third largest hydrocarbon resources in sub-Saharan Africa, Gabon’s economic growth has been hampered by nepotism and inefficiency. The richest 20 percent of the population earn over 90 percent of the income while about a third of the Gabonese population lives in poverty.
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[Wash Times] As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula due to North Korean nuclear tests, missile launches and South Korean military exercises with U.S. forces, a source says the North Korean military has started to arm certain North Korean soldiers with nuclear backpacks. The report cannot be independently verified but fits within a pattern of North Korean escalation to achieve its political goals, reports Radio Free Asia.
Special units have been formed since March to carry the weapons and had been taking part in simulated training exercises with dummy bombs. "Outstanding soldiers were selected from each reconnaissance platoon and light infantry brigade to form the nuclear backpack unit the size of a battalion," the source from North Hamgyong province was quoted as saying.
The supposed weapons were said to weigh between 10 and 30 kilograms and be able to "spray radioactive material," possibly uranium, on the enemy. North Korean propaganda showed soldiers wearing rucksacks bearing a yellow and black radiation symbol during a parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the national Workers’ Party in October, while similar backpacks were seen at a procession in 2013.
These reports come as North Korea announced it had executed a senior official for "showing disrespect." Apparently North Korean Kim Jong-un did not like the way the man was sitting at a recent event and gave the order to have him killed by firing squad.
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10-30 kilos would probably not include a lot of 'shielding'.
So we can be on the lookout for folks with backpacks that seem to have skin and limbs sloughing off due to extreme exposure with radioactive materials?
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North Korean leader Suet Face Kim Jong-un on Monday called for continued nuclear weapons development after watching three ballistic missiles being fired into the East Sea.
Pudgy Kim "stressed the need to continue making miraculous achievements in bolstering up the nuclear force one after another in this historic year," the [North] Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday.
The missiles that were fired Monday seem to be an improved version of the Rodong with a slightly differently shaped warhead.
"They had warheads that looked like cones," a military source here said.
The North Korean media published images showing that the three missiles were fired simultaneously.
The missiles were fired as world leaders met for the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China and flew about 1,000 km before dropping into the sea, apparently in a bid for attention just after the leaders of China and South Korea sat down face to face.
Meanwhile, the UN Security Council in an emergency meeting on Tuesday discussed a response to the latest missile launch. The launch came only 10 days after a UNSC press statement condemning the North's frantic missile volleys over the past months.
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'We need more nukes, 'cuz we're using up all of our anti-aircraft rounds on traitors!'
h/t Gates of Vienna
...Back in 1960, 24 percent of all American workers worked in manufacturing. Today, that number has shriveled all the way down to just 8 percent.
...No wonder the middle class is shrinking so rapidly. There aren’t too many cooks, waiters or retail salespersons that can support a middle class family.
...At this point, the total number of government employees in the United States exceeds the total number of manufacturing employees by almost 10 million
...You might be thinking that government jobs are "good jobs", but the truth is that they don’t produce wealth. Government employees are really good at pushing paper around and telling other people what to do, but in most instances they don’t actually make anything.
In order to have a sustainable economy, you have got to have people creating and producing things of value. A debt-based paper economy may seem to work for a while, but eventually the whole thing inevitably comes crashing down when faith in the paper is lost.
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While competition is part of the cause increased productitity is another. The increase in goverment jobs imo is due to two things. Increased regulation and empire building in agencies.
* printing money without backing creates inflation which is just another taking/taxing by government. I remember when they made whole copper pennies and silver dimes and quarters.
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Of course the service based economy also depresses wages because so little skill is needed to shuffle papers and sack groceries.
Back when the libs were floating the idea of a service based economy rather than a nasty old smoke stack economy, many economists said it was a bad idea. It still is. Without manufacturing to require skills in math and science, there is no incentive to emphasize that in school, and you then get all of the soft curriculums for various ethnic studies and other nonsense in colleges rather than engineering, chemistry, and physics. There is just so many business admin and finance majors that the economy can absorb.
h/t Instapundit
...The upshot is that despite the turmoil of the last several months, it is now eminently possible that Britain will show a higher rate of growth in the post-Brexit third quarter than the Eurozone. Few if any would have predicted such an outcome.
The British economy sails on as if nothing has happened, but the European one continues to stagnate. It is as if the Brexit shock has been more powerfully felt in Europe than in Britain. Both France and Italy showed no growth at all in the second quarter, and now even the data from Germany is starting to look poor.
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One of the pro-Bexit guys made a great case saying that currently there is no trade deal with such and such a country because that country sells something in competition with Italy who sells something similar. Now free of the requirements of a dozen countries Britain can cut a deal directly with that country (and presumably many others).
A common market helps the transfer of good within, makes it a necessity for folks to sell within, and also makes it easy for protectionist policies.
[Guardian] A new drug that "wakes up" the immune system to attack cancer has extended the lives of people with metastatic pancreatic cancer and has no side-effects, raising hopes for a new and powerful tool against the most intractable form of the disease.
The drug, IMM-101, is considered groundbreaking because pancreatic cancer that has spread to other parts of the body usually kills within a few months.
New immunotherapy drug IMM-101 brings fresh hope for the effective treatment of serious cancers. Unlike other immunotherapy treatments, IMM-101 is not thought to have any side-effects,
...hah...
which have been hugely debilitating for many patients and even led to long-term disability in some cases.
The patients who were given the new immunotherapy drug actually felt better than those who were on standard chemotherapy, said Angus Dalgleish, professor of oncology at St George’s, University of London, who led the research.
Dalgleish is excited by the potential of the immunotherapy drug, although the trial is relatively small, involving 110 people. Only 18% of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer are alive after one year and 4% after five years, so new treatments for the disease are badly needed.
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If it affects the immune system - it will have side effects.
Why?
Cancers exist, because they can fool or bypass the bodies immune system. There are several drugs in development that enhance or potentiate the immune system against cancers and look hugely promising.
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There's no short answer phil_b. But they tried manipulating immune responses with drugs/interleukins before - and it always blows up. Kinda like trying to change a book by substituting a letter "e" for the letter "a" through it.
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If it affects the immune system - it will have side effects.
As I understand it, it is now thought that the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome that does not have another cause (things like thyroid deficiency, anemia, or a sleep disorder, along with an ever-lengthening list of possibilities to test for before concluding with the CFS diagnosis) is immune system burn-out after an infection. If that is indeed the case, they may cure the cancer, only to leave the patient a chronic semi-invalid awaiting a different medical breakthrough.
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All these "miracle drugs" are b*llshit anyway. If they'd brains G*d gave to birds, they'd take dendritic cells from a patient. Grow them in vitro. Prime them with the desired antigen, and inject them back. The methodology was developed decades ago.
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Oh, there's plenty of money in that. Of course you have to solve several tech problems first - but these are problems we'll have to solve anyway because of the spread of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria.
A sample of 110 people.
without any toxic effects
That’s never been seen before
Dalgleish is excited by the potential of the immunotherapy drug, although the trial is relatively small, involving 110 people.
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Most importantly, the drug worked on the immune system without any toxic effects. “That’s never been seen before,” he said. “You always add toxicity and misery in my experience with each additional thing you put in.”
I know it's Vanity Fair. Just read it, willya?
It was late morning on Friday, October 18, when Elizabeth Holmes realized that she had no other choice. She finally had to address her employees at Theranos, the blood-testing start-up that she had founded as a 19-year-old Stanford dropout, which was now valued at some $9 billion. Two days earlier, a damning report published in The Wall Street Journal had alleged that the company was, in effect, a sham—that its vaunted core technology was actually faulty and that Theranos administered almost all of its blood tests using competitors’ equipment.
The article created tremors throughout Silicon Valley, where Holmes, the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, had become a near universally praised figure. Curiosity about the veracity of the Journal story was also bubbling throughout the company’s mustard-and-green Palo Alto headquarters, which was nearing the end of a $6.7 million renovation. Everyone at Theranos, from its scientists to its marketers, wondered what to make of it all.
For two days, according to insiders, Holmes, who is now 32, had refused to address these concerns. Instead, she remained largely holed up in a conference room, surrounded by her inner circle. Half-empty food containers and cups of stale coffee and green juice were strewn on the table as she strategized with a phalanx of trusted advisers, including Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, then Theranos’s president and C.O.O.; Heather King, the company’s general counsel; lawyers from Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the intrepid law firm; and crisis-management consultants. Most of the people in the war room had been there for two days and nights straight, according to an insider, leaving mainly to shower or make a feeble attempt at a couple of hours of shut-eye. There was also an uncomfortable chill in the room. At Theranos, Holmes preferred that the temperature be maintained in the mid-60s, which facilitated her preferred daily uniform of a black turtleneck with a puffy black vest—a homogeneity that she had borrowed from her idol, the late Steve Jobs.
Holmes had learned a lot from Jobs. Like Apple, Theranos was secretive, even internally. Just as Jobs had famously insisted at 1 Infinite Loop, 10 minutes away, that departments were generally siloed, Holmes largely forbade her employees from communicating with one another about what they were working on—a culture that resulted in a rare form of executive omniscience. At Theranos, Holmes was founder, C.E.O., and chairwoman. There wasn’t a decision—from the number of American flags framed in the company’s hallway (they are ubiquitous) to the compensation of each new hire—that didn’t cross her desk.
And like Jobs, crucially, Holmes also paid indefatigable attention to her company’s story, its “narrative.” Theranos was not simply endeavoring to make a product that sold off the shelves and lined investors’ pockets; rather, it was attempting something far more poignant. In interviews, Holmes reiterated that Theranos’s proprietary technology could take a pinprick’s worth of blood, extracted from the tip of a finger, instead of intravenously, and test for hundreds of diseases—a remarkable innovation that was going to save millions of lives and, in a phrase she often repeated, “change the world.” In a technology sector populated by innumerable food-delivery apps, her quixotic ambition was applauded. Holmes adorned the covers of Fortune, Forbes, and Inc., among other publications. She was profiled in The New Yorker and featured on a segment of Charlie Rose. In the process, she amassed a net worth of around $4 billion. Much more at the link
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Go to the article. Scroll down to the photo of the machine she developed. Then scroll down a good deal further to the ohoto of the lab where the testing is claimed to have taken place. Other than a distinct lack of the famed machine, what else do you notice about what is essentially a blood testing factory?
[Daily Caller] Seven Iranian fast-attack boats forced a U.S. Navy patrol ship to change course after harassing it in the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The USS Firebolt was interdicted by boats belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a fanatic Iranian paramilitary wing. Three of the boats "maneuvered close to the ship, shadowing her course from a range of about 500 yards," U.S. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters. One of the boats later ran ahead of the Firebolt, turned around and sped straight toward the ship before stopping directly in front of it.
"This caused the Firebolt to have to maneuver to have to avoid collision. They came within about 100 yards of each other during the interaction. The Firebolt attempted multiple radio communications with the Iranians," explained Davis.
The Firebolt was operating legally in international waters at the time of the incident, according to the Pentagon.
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...If I was the skipper of a Cyclone class in the Gulf right now, I'd be having some very quiet and earnest talks with my crew. If there was one ship of ours out there that the Iranians could swarm and overwhelm, it would be a Cyclone.
Mike
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Or is all ammo stored at the Base for review by some JAG?
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...They are absolutely armed, and well so. The problem is first, I suspect the ROE are, shall we say, a little restrictive. Secondly, the Cyclone class are our smallest warships - if the IIRG was willing to lose some people, they might just get aboard.
Mike
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For months, the Egyptians practiced crossing the Suez by running up the military formations to the canal, with the Israels watching from the other side, only to return to their stations. Someone became complacent Then one day.....
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Perhaps the Pentagon might want to review the plans used in the 19 April 1988 U.S. strike that destroyed six Iranian warships and two Iranian oil installations.
Yup. And my guess is that we will get there sometime before Obumble leaves office.
There will be a series of steadily-escalating feints such as this one, until finally one is no feint: one of our naval vessels will either be stopped and boarded, or seriously damaged, or even sunk.
The ragheads are spoiling for yet another confrontation that will allow them to once again shout "Allahu Ahkbar!!" and demonstrate that Uncle Sam is a paper tiger.
And Obumble will be happy to oblige.
Jimmy Carter should have nuked the crazy little fuckheads on November 5, 1979, after first giving them 24 hours to release the embassy hostages unharmed. Had he done so, we very likely would have been spared all of the Muzzie bullshit we've been subjected to in the last 37 years.
But that would have required a VERY different Jimmy Carter...
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The world where Jimmy Carter had a Fu Manchu beard?
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The only problem with your scenario Dave D is that the USSR was still very much in existence and spoiling for something to take the sting out of their Afghan adventure, not that I disagree with the thought.
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#9 The only problem with your scenario Dave D is that the USSR was still very much in existence and spoiling for something to take the sting out of their Afghan adventure, not that I disagree with the thought.
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was in late December of 1979, after the Iranians seized our embassy.
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#8 The world where Jimmy Carter had a Fu Manchu beard?
No, the one where he had a set of balls.
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h/t Instapundit
Thirteen people were killed in Chicago over the long Labor Day weekend, bringing the city's 2016 death toll to over 500.
The Labor Day weekend murders come after police recorded 92 murders in August, the deadliest month for Chicago since June 1993. With murders up roughly 50% for the year, Chicago has tallied more homicides than the much larger cities of New York and Los Angeles combined.
The city is on pace to record well over 600 murders for 2016, a threshold it has not reached since 2003. Chicago regularly recorded more than 700 murders a year in the 1990s as gang violence, driven by the crack-cocaine epidemic, raged.
The most recent shooting took place on Monday night when someone driving a silver minivan opened fire on a group of teens and young men, leaving two 22-year-olds dead and a 16-, 17-, and 20-year-old seriously wounded. According to police, one of the men killed was a gang member.
[PE.COM] The letter sent home to parents included information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, which says though leprosy is 'feared as a highly contagious and devastating disease, it is well establish that Hansen's disease (or leprosy) is not highly transmissible, is very treatable, and, with early diagnosis and treatment, is not disabling.'" Well, I'm certain that statement will quell any discomfort the parents may have. Wonder where/how the outbreak originated? Finland?
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Yep, yep, yep, think of all those cheap gardeners, house keepers, nannies, not to mention those janitorial workers at Dad's or Mom's office place. Bring it right in to the communities that just don't want their child immunized. Sounds like a great means of cleansing the 'elites'.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYT] The body of an activist from St. Louis who led protests about the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 was found with a gunshot wound in the charred remains of a vehicle on Tuesday morning, according to the police and news accounts.
North Korean leader 
"They had warheads that looked like cones," a military source here said.
[PE.COM] The letter sent home to parents included information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website, which says though leprosy is 'feared as a highly contagious and devastating disease, it is well establish that Hansen's disease (or leprosy) is not highly transmissible, is very treatable, and, with early diagnosis and treatment, is not disabling.'"
