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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Fleas in Arizona test positive for the PLAGUE
[DailyMail] Fleas in two Arizona counties have tested positive for the plague, the same catastrophic Bubonic disease that killed millions, according to officials.

Navajo County Public Health officials confirmed on Friday that fleas in the region tested positive for the disease following similar reports from Coconino County Public Health Services District in Arizona.

Both are located in the northern part of the state.

'Navajo County Health Department is urging the public to take precautions to reduce their risk of exposure to this serious disease, which can be present in fleas, rodents, rabbits and predators that feed upon these animals,' the public health warning states.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 00:07 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Big Friggn Deal. Always a handful of cases in New Mexico every year. One of the unofficial mottos of the state is "Land of Flea, Home of the Plague". Because the medical establishment is aware and the health authorities have procedures and protocols, neighboring state tend to dump victim on them, usually too late in the process, so the state gets the death count.

Simple precautions include wearing long pants outside urban areas and avoiding dead animals. Certainly keeps the infection rate down to a handful.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I seem to see 'new' warning signs posted almost every time we travel to prairie dog areas, so P2K is correct.

Just take some precautions as so noted above.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/14/2017 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Prairie dogs, and, in this case, likely squirrels. The animals have to be big enough not to immediately die, so larger than mice or chipmunks. We get it occasionally in east San Diego County mountains
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Simple precautions include wearing long pants outside urban areas and avoiding dead animals. Certainly keeps the infection rate down to a handful. Posted by: Procopius2k

Arizona US Senators please disregard.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 9:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Here in Colorado a group of prairie dogs gets a positive test every year. One year it hit the open space behind my sister's house and wiped them all out. The coyotes had a hard time of it and left after invading the neighborhood looking for food and eating a few small dogs. The bald eagle population that was there moved away too as there was no food source for them.

Been 5 years and the prairie dog still haven't come back.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2017 10:14 Comments || Top||

#6  The coyotes had a hard time of it and left after invading the neighborhood looking for food and eating a few small dogs.

Heh. Every week there seems to be a new posting for a lost pet on the exit from the development out here in the sticks. Seems the urbanites don't grasp the connection of country living and feeding the local indigenous species.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2017 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Even if you caught the plague wouldn't modern medicine help just a little? Seems bringing up the "catastrophic Bubonic disease that killed millions" is more than a little over the top.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/14/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Rj, there would be no news if they couldn't fear monger.
Posted by: chris || 08/14/2017 10:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Yea, they have plenty of antibiotics that work well against plague and they even have immunizations. We had a series of 3 plague shots we got in the military. Those really fucked me up. Felt like I got a really bad flu for 3 days each time.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Even if you caught the plague wouldn't modern medicine help just a little? Only if your caretaker was aware of this possibility & acted in time. It is possible to contract the plague in NM while driving cross country, and then show up in an Atlanta ER with the usual vague symptoms. Per Wiki: "Patients will die without early treatment, some within 36 hours." A very long time ago, I worked at a NM hospital. The only plague patient we had that year was a child missed on the first vision by a specialist in pediatric infectious illness, who just happened to have the ER job that night. He even thought of plague as a possibility, but dismissed it. Within 24 hours the child was back, got the right treatment & survived.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/14/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#11  The CDC page on plague can be found here.

Plague is a disease that affects humans and other mammals. It is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague. Plague is infamous for killing millions of people in Europe during the Middle Ages. Today, modern antibiotics are effective in treating plague. Without prompt treatment, the disease can cause serious illness or death. Presently, human plague infections continue to occur in the western United States, but significantly more cases occur in parts of Africa and Asia.

Recommended antibiotic treatment for plague:

Begin appropriate IV therapy as soon as plague is suspected. Gentamicin and fluoroquinolones are typically first-line treatments in the United States. Duration of treatment is 10 to 14 days, or until 2 days after fever subsides. Oral therapy may be substituted once the patient improves.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/14/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||

#12  New mexico bats are often common carriers.
Posted by: borgboy || 08/14/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||

#13 
Posted by: 746 || 08/14/2017 17:37 Comments || Top||

#14  Just stay away from McStain and you'll be fine.
Posted by: gorb || 08/14/2017 18:27 Comments || Top||

#15  The scourge of Yersinia pestis
Swept in from the desert to test us.
On tombstones was written,
"Here lies one fleabitten."
Well, thanks for the plague, and 'bye, Festus.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 08/14/2017 22:19 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Thousands gather in cities across the US in solidarity with Charlottesville victims
[DailyMail]
  • Antifascist protesters gathered in cities in New York, California, Washington, Florida and elsewhere Sunday

  • In Seattle, people angry that they were blocked from counter-protesting a pro-Trump rally faced off with cops

  • They sprayed them with Silly String - resulting in police deploying flashbang grenades and pepper spray

  • They were inspired by the shocking violence seen during protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday

  • Some on Sunday had gathered in support of those hurt; others protested alleged government complicity

  • Many were upset about Donald Trump's lackluster response in which he blamed both sides of the protest

  • Far-right groups also held their own rallies, protests and counter-protests, leading to intense friction
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thousands gather in cities across the US in solidarity with Charlottesville victims

...whilst hundreds of millions do not.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Spinning up local activist networks.
Hard to get to them over the weekend.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 11:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Jeebus, who kicked over the beehive and got em all cranked up?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2017 13:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Jeebus, who kicked over the beehive and got em all cranked up?

All previous attempts to drive President Trump out of office have failed, so everyone is transferring their energy to the latest thing, I suspect. Habit extinction burst, "a predictable and common blast of defiance from the recesses of a brain denied familiar rewards."

Here is some great advice from Canine University magazine: “The worst thing you could ever do is give in to a temper tantrum. This goes for adults too, because if you spend enough time observing other people you will notice that people who are used to getting their way will start a temper tantrum immediately after you have refused their request. If you patiently restate your position and stay calm you will see the person eventually give up. Depending upon how long he carries on will tell you how other people have responded to the person in the past. If he has been rewarded for having a fit often enough the extinction burst will be spectacular, enjoy! If it’s short lived, it will be over as quick as it started and you can feel good that you haven’t encouraged it. The best way to eliminate a tantrum is to not give in, wait out the extinction burst (walking away works wonders) and reinforce the absence of the tantrum with your attention as soon as the person stops.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/14/2017 15:09 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Kenya opposition vows ‘will not relent’ as eleven die in poll protests
[DAWN] NAIROBI: Kenya’s defeated opposition coalition vowed on Saturday they would not halt their bid to overturn a "sham" election result, which sparked violent protests that have left 11 people dead.

Protests flared in opposition bastions as soon as President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the victor on Friday night after an election his rival Raila Odinga claimed was massively rigged.

Kenya is no stranger to post-election violence, and scars still run deep from a disputed 2007 vote which led to two months of ethno-political festivities, leaving 1,100 dead and 600,000 displaced.However protests remained isolated on Saturday, with several hundred demonstrators engaging in running battles with police who quickly dispersed what Interior Minister Fred Matiangi referred to as "criminal elements".

Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
First in Muslim world, Tunisian president seeks equal inheritance for women
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In a speech on the occasion of the National Women’s Day, the Tunisian President announced the formation of a committee to study the issue of individual rights and to activate them further and to consider equality between men and women in all fields.

Despite the wide rights of women in Tunisia compared to other Moslem countries, however, arbitration in inheritance is still based on the Sharia or Islamic law, where the man’s share equals to that of two women.

President Beji Caed Essibsi stressed that equality between men and women, which was approved by the Tunisian constitution, should cover all areas, including equality in inheritance. "If we think about harmony, because the constitution dictates this, we must go in this direction."

OPINION: How did the women of Tunisia defeat murderous Moslems?

He said that inheritance is not a religious matter, but rather a matter for human beings. "God and His Messenger have left the matter for human beings to act," he said.

The President also called on the Prime Minister and the Minister of Justice to review and change publication No. 73, which prohibits Tunisian woman from marrying a foreigner if his Islamic faith is not recognized by the Mufti, adding that the Tunisian Constitution recognizes freedom of belief and freedom of conscience in its sixth chapter and holds the state responsible for ensuring the protection of these freedoms.
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


Africa Subsaharan
Mugabe Says No, As VP Offers to Resign Over 'Public Humiliation' By Grace
[All Africa] Embattled Zim-bob-wean Deputy President Emmerson Mnangagwa reportedly offered to resign last week over what he called repeated "public humiliation" by President Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
's wife Grace.

According to Zim-bob-we Independent, Mnangagwa handed in his resignation letter to President Mugabe, 93, last week on Monday, but the nonagenarian rejected it saying the deputy president was "jumping the gun".

Unnamed sources claimed that Grace's recent public outburst against Mnangagwa was one of the reasons that he wanted to resign.

The sources said that Mnangagwa believed there was a plot against him by the system to kicking him out.

"The vice-president gave mainly two reasons for seeking to quit. First, he cited public attacks and humiliation by Grace at the Zanu-PF headquarters on July 27 and the same thing two days later, on July 29, in Chinhoyi. Second, Mnangagwa said he now believes there is a plot against him by the system, given recent developments and allegedly false intelligence reports which on many issues made him think Mugabe wanted him to be his successor," the unnamed sources were quoted as saying.

Grace recently told a ruling party youth rally that she wasn't sure if she and the vice president were still friends.

Speaking mostly in Shona, she also said she'd been approached by unnamed people who wanted to take to the streets to remove Mnangagwa from office.

The First Lady had previously told Zim-bob-we's vice presidents - Mnangangwa and Phelekezela Mphoko - at a campaign rally in Chinhoyi that they were serving at her husband's will.

Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I put you there so I wouldn't have to listen to her! Sit!"
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/14/2017 9:46 Comments || Top||

#2  being told you're "jumping the gun" has a different flavor in a country like Zim-Bob-We
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 10:17 Comments || Top||


Britain
Smoke fills London Underground train at Oxford Circus forcing evacuation (PHOTOS)
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One day after Inspire mag names subways as a target.
Just saying.
Posted by: newc || 08/14/2017 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Washington Metro. New York subway system.

Can you follow the pattern?
Posted by: Pappy || 08/14/2017 15:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Heading for the Hub? This is where, in the movies, I check to see if there's a game on, and wind up chasing a guy with a stuffed penguin through Fenway Park. Which is to say... I have no clue, but it seemed indecent for Socrates to go unanswered twice in a row.

Wait... hatchling, fledgling, roosting?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 08/14/2017 23:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Chickens, that is... not penguins.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 08/14/2017 23:19 Comments || Top||


Nuke-free zone? UK estate agent causes Twitter fury for mapping ‘radiation impact' on property
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing the Russians haven't been capable of since the 50s. Then again, the Russians seem to be rational players.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2017 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Just be sure to not look at the flash...and kiss your hiney goodbye.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2017 13:14 Comments || Top||

#3 

Posted by: Ho Chi Sheth6137 || 08/14/2017 23:32 Comments || Top||


Britain Says North Korea Must Fix Crisis it Started
[An Nahar] British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Saturday blamed North Korea for the stand-off with the United States and said London wants a diplomatic end to the crisis.

"The North Korean regime is the cause of this problem and they must fix it ," he said on Twitter.

"The international community is shoulder to shoulder in ensuring North Korea stops its aggressive acts.

"We are working with the US and our partners in the region to bring this crisis to a diplomatic end."

US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
on Saturday reassured Guam it was secure amid mounting regional tensions, vowing that American military forces "stand ready" to safeguard the US Pacific island territory against a belligerent North Korea.
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  China is key in the Nork dust up. It's not clear they want to step up to the plate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2017 10:41 Comments || Top||

#2  On the world stage before bullets and bombs actually decide conflict, power and influence are assessed as much by how things look are they are by actual facts. We have let the NorKs look far more potent than they are and are making the Chinese look like the power center with us the hamstrung Goliath. We have warned the Norks, now shut up and move assets to show intent. Next provocation, take some kinetic act to show lack of tolerance and capability.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/14/2017 10:52 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued death order against Rubio
[MIAMIHERALD] One of Venezuela’s most powerful leaders may have put out an order to kill Florida Sen. Marco Rubio
The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida...
, a fervent critic of the South American country’s government, according to intelligence obtained by the U.S. last month.

Though federal authorities couldn’t be sure at the time if the uncorroborated threat was real, they took it seriously enough that Rubio has been guarded by a security detail for several weeks in both Washington and Miami.

Believed to be behind the order: Diosdado Cabello, the influential former military chief and politician from the ruling socialist party who has publicly feuded with Rubio.

At a July 19 Senate hearing, the same day he was first spotted with more security, Rubio repeated his line that Cabello -- who has long been suspected by U.S. authorities of drug trafficking -- is "the Pablo Escobar of Venezuela." A week ago on Twitter, Cabello dubbed the senator "Narco Rubio."
Posted by: Fred || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Connecting with the Mexican cartels to carry out a wet job in America, might elicit a warning to certain parties involved.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2017 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  ...a fervent critic of the South American country’s government, according to intelligence obtained by the U.S. last month.

Stay the fok OUT of their business and concentrate on the issues your electorate is concerned about.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 9:50 Comments || Top||

#3  So he gets snuffed and we watch the spineless administration backpedal from pushing another drug syndicate. At least we're down one Rubio.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 11:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Save Dondi!
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 12:34 Comments || Top||

#5  A leftoid actually shot a Republican Congressman two months ago. Let,s focus on the threats that have actually manifested.

Besides, if it were up to Rubio, America would be flooded with the likes of Cabello.
Posted by: charger || 08/14/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Zakharov on the possibility of nuclear war between the US and the DPRK: situation critical
The Russian journalists' perspective on events.
[TheNewspapers.com] The Director of the Department of information and press of the foreign Ministry of Russia Maria Zakharova commented on the growing tension around the situation on the Korean Peninsula. According to the official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the parties to the conflict came to a dangerous edge.

"The situation on the Korean Peninsula is indeed very close to the potential likelihood of violent conflict", ‐ said official representative of MFA of Russia.

According to Maria Zakharova, in this situation, non-constructive is the position of the government of North Korea, but the United States.

"If you look at the rhetoric of Washington and the rhetoric of Pyongyang... it became almost the same. In the issue of the nuclear programme of the Korean Peninsula. It turns out that the United States has put himself on a level of rhetoric with the authorities of the DPRK," she said.

Moreover, according to the diplomat, the American highest political circles of the very best such hysteria.

"The story of North Korea as a nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula as a whole is now played exactly like the American political map," suggested Zakharova.

However, in Washington about the possibility of nuclear war with North Korea, expressed more optimistic. So, the head of the Central intelligence Agency Michael Pompeo, citing intelligence, said that while there is no evidence of the possibility of such negative developments.

I heard a lot of arguments that the U.S. is on the brink of nuclear war with North Korea. But I have no intelligence who would say that we have reached this situation," said Pompeo, unable to restrain himself from another "formidable studs" to the North Korean authorities and adding that "strategic patience" of the United States against recalcitrant Pyongyang has really dried up.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Google translation?
Posted by: Maggie Squank5988 || 08/14/2017 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Well, all other things being equal, if I have to hear Soviet Russian propaganda, I prefer the deliveryperson to look like her.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/14/2017 5:59 Comments || Top||

#3  At risk of being accused of being part of the Russian faked conspiracy, I'll post this vid on the Kalinka Dance." Here, I thought it had something to do with Kubuki Theater and dance. Zakharova is light on her feet. Is she one of those Russian honey traps?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2017 11:25 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Pompeo: North Korea Moving Toward Ability to Hit U.S. With Nuclear Strike at ‘Alarming Rate'
[Free Beacom] CIA Director Mike Pompeo appeared on "Fox News Sunday" to discuss North Korean nuclear development, which he said is proceeding at an "ever-alarming rate."

Pompeo said he could not get into specifics but said that North Korea's progress has gone on for decades. When host Chris Wallace pressed him about how close North Korea is to being able to hit the U.S. mainland, Pompeo said that it was alarming but hard to define.

"It's difficult to put a timeline to these things," Pompeo said. "But each time they test another missile, or if they should conduct a nuclear weapons test, they develop expertise, they expand the envelope, and so it is probably fair to say they are moving toward that at an ever-alarming rate."

Pompeo also said that the problem has been ongoing through previous U.S. administrations, but he argued President Donald Trump was making strides to effect change.

"They've been growing closer for two decades plus ... Previous administrations haven't taken this on," Pompeo said. "President Trump has made it clear that it is his intention to protect the American people."

He pointed specifically to the U.N. sanctions against North Korea.

"You saw this past week we made real progress," Pompeo added. "My hat's off to the president, Secretary Tillerson, Ambassador Haley. They have united the world with sanctions against North Korea: a 15-0 vote. We've seen the Chinese say for among the first times, they believe the answer has to be a denuclearized peninsula. That's exactly the policy for the Trump administration."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 02:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I imagine thousands of college Taliban painting signs: "Trump lied, People died" right now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2017 4:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Wasn't it a week or so ago that Pompeo said (paraphrasing) the Norks were not a near-term threat ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 8:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Over at ZeroHedge (nervousness alert!), they're saying that the rocket engines may be of Ukrainian manufacture.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/14/2017 9:19 Comments || Top||


High Levels of Activity at North Korea's Sinpo South Shipyard
[38North] Recent commercial satellite imagery reveals several developments suggesting that North Korea may be accelerating the development of the sea-based leg of its nuclear forces. Of particular interest in the imagery is that netting or tarps have been suspended above both the fore and aft decks of the SINPO-class submarine obscuring any activity taking place beneath them. This was last done prior to the July 9, 2016 test of the Pukguksong-1, suggesting that the North may be preparing for a new series of "at sea" test launches, has undertaken modifications or upgrades to the submarine’s launch systems, or is developing a more advanced version of the Pukguksong-1. Recent ejection tests of an SLBM also support the assessment that an at-sea SLBM test may be forthcoming.

Additionally, imagery of the Mayang-do Navy Shipyard and Submarine Base shows the same number of ROMEO-class submarines that are usually berthed there, indicating that a recent spike in ROMEO activity in the East Sea (Sea of Japan) was a singular rather than force-wide event.

Commercial satellite imagery from August 7, although partially cloud covered, provides a limited look at the status of the SINPO-class[1] experimental ballistic missile submarine (SSBA), the submersible test stand barge and parts of the Mayang-do Navy Shipyard and Submarine Base.

As noted in our July report, sometime during the last week in May, the SINPO-class submarine was repositioned forward along its dock and the submersible test stand barge was moved to a position aft of the submarine (both had previously been in their former positions since December 9, 2016). Since the July report, netting or tarps have been suspended above both the fore and aft decks of the submarine obscuring any activity taking place beneath them. The only other time this was seen was during May-July 2016 and prior to the failed July 9, 2016 Pukguksong-1 test. It is unclear if this activity is signaling a forthcoming at sea SLBM test, although the recent ejection tests would support such an assessment. No activity is noted on or near the submersible test stand barge in the latest image.
Continues.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Looks like Fatboy is going balls-to-wall in accelerating his nuke weapons capability.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#2  new screen doors
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 11:27 Comments || Top||

#3  ROMEO subs
SINPO design

Maybe they're packing the ROMEOs as manual delivery platforms.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  No. Given the submersible barge involved and the previous launch attempts, the NorKs prefer a submerged eject-and-launch, though surface-to-launch is also a possible.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/14/2017 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  I have known experts in that area of the world terrified of small nuke subs from the North slipping into allied ports and detonating a nuke in a suicide attack.

They could take out most ports and naval bases pretty quickly as an opening move.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#6  "Our crews may be tired and tubercular;
Our screws may be more or less circular,
But whenever we cruise
It's a cinch we can't lose,
Cuz -- praise Juche! -- our subs are all nucular."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 08/14/2017 23:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Big Pharma CEO finds excuse to resign from presidential council
[The Hill] An African-American CEO of a major pharmaceutical company has resigned from a presidential council in a direct response to President Trump's remarks about "many sides" being to blame for violence over the weekend in Charlottesville.

Merck CEO and Chairman Kenneth C. Frazier said he was leaving Trump's American Manufacturing Council, arguing U.S. leaders must "clearly reject expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy."

"Our country's strength stems from its diversity and the contributions made by men and women of different faiths, races, sexual orientations and political beliefs," Frazier said in a statement.

"America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal," he continued.

"As CEO of Merck, and as a matter of personal conscience, I feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 09:15 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tired of being surrounded by all that white privilege?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/14/2017 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy,

Resigned from the Democratic Party too, did he?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/14/2017 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  A pill he simply couldn't swallow.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Could only be a Big Pharm CEO in Western Civ based country. Ignores the anti-Western Civ of the side he's choosing (cause that side demands you choose their side or you are racist, sexist, homophobic....).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/14/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  its telling that they gave his race *first* and his position latter. Kind of shows the relative priority of the two items in the writer's minds...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/14/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||

#6  You want stories about white folks, turn your attention to burglar alarm adverts on the tellie.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Apparently Merck's (MRK - NYSE) stockholders need to re-evaluate the benefit of having a BLM/PC Snowflake as a CEO
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 10:01 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 - Funny, that, no? A survey of prison populations ...

nevermind
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 10:15 Comments || Top||

#9  But he is ok with other sorts of racial supremacy groups, huh?

Good riddance, you worthless piece of shit.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2017 10:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Race trumps truth?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2017 10:43 Comments || Top||

#11  BTW, a hearty "fook u" big pharma.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#12  perhaps Merck's patents need to be closely looked at for generic OTC alternatives
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 11:28 Comments || Top||

#13  From ZH:

Just spoke with Andrew at Merck and told him that I think the CEO is an anti-American bigot who participates in predatory pricing as the President says. We were both polite and he promised to pass on my message.

Phone: 908-740-4000
Posted by: Bubba Greack4892 || 08/14/2017 11:49 Comments || Top||

#14  I've said before Patents are massively under-taxed and profits massively over-taxed.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/14/2017 13:19 Comments || Top||

#15  On one side were the Suptemacists. On the other were cop killing BLM. Merck supports cop killers. What kind of stuff is this company exec smoking?
Posted by: Threatch Jeamp8135 || 08/14/2017 15:06 Comments || Top||

#16  I'vesaid before Patents are massively under-taxed and profits massively over-taxed.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles


You ever applied for a patent before? Most people who want to apply for a valid patent find that they cannot afford all the fees (AKA taxes) and so on. In effect, they are blocked from entering the market.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 08/14/2017 18:50 Comments || Top||

#17  Guess he didn't have anything to contribute.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 19:27 Comments || Top||

#18 
by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy, which run counter to the American ideal that all people are created equal


Like "Black Lives Matter" in preference to "All Lives Matter"?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/14/2017 20:59 Comments || Top||


Zionist group shunned at SlutWalk Chicago
[IsraelTimes] Using red umbrellas, activists block the signs being held by Zioness Movement members, who leave the march early in protest.

At the end of the speeches, which concluded with a Paleostinian activist telling the crowd "you cannot be a Zionist and feminist," the crowd began chanting "Free Paleostine," the Windy City Times reported.

The Zioness participants as well as others dropped off during the march through downtown reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
, according to the Windy City Times. The march reportedly started with about 150 women and ended with about 60.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Let them go, we have enough!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  A Palestinian activist in the LGBTQ SlutWalk march?

I wonder how long it will be before they become a guest of honor at a ...
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 08/14/2017 12:39 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sure the slutwalk in Tehran and Baghdad and Karachi didn't have any zionist symbols either.
Posted by: lord garth || 08/14/2017 15:42 Comments || Top||

#4  So more then have of them quit the march before reaching the end. What commitment!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/14/2017 15:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder how long it will be before they become a guest of honor at a ...

It's all about intersectionality -- if you hold one opinion within the group you must hold them all. This is how the Muslim Brotherhood is taking over various Progressive organizations..

More than half quit because they were harassed by their fellows for holding wrong opinions, CrazyFool. They now must choose -- some will give up Zionism.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/14/2017 16:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Sad that the dynamic of secular cultism masked the greater intent of the march.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 19:44 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Peshawar school head denied bail in abuse case
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: A local court on Saturday dismissed the bail petition of a private school’s principal tossed in the clink
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
on the charge of sexually abusing several women and blackmailing them by making their objectionable videos.

Additional district and sessions judge Hayat Gul Mohmand pronounced that keeping in view the evidence on record, the petitioner and accused, Attaullah Marwat, didn’t deserve to be freed on bail.

The accused, who is also the owner of the school, was arrested after a case was registered against him on July 14, 2017, at the Hayatabad cop shoppe on the complaint of a male student, who had claimed the accused had sexually exploited students and teachers and making their objectionable videos by installing secret cameras in different parts of the school.

The accused had recorded a statement with a magistrate on July 19 confessing to have sexually abused several women and making their objectionable videos on the premises.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
he had denied having sexually abused any of his students. The petitioner’s lawyer contended that none of the alleged victims had deposed against the petitioner and that the entire case was based on hearsay.

The state prosecutor contended that a student of the school had informed the police about the misdeeds of the petitioner. He added that the said student had told the police that the petitioner was involved in exploitation of students and teachers.

The complainant had told the police that the petitioner had sexually exploited students, teachers and outsider women, but none of them disclosed that fearing backlash from him.

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Home Front: Culture Wars
Kaepernick III - Seattle DE Michael Bennett Sits For National Anthem
Here we go again...

Seahawks DE Michael Bennett became the latest NFL player to sit for the national anthem, ahead of Sunday’s preseason game against the Chargers. He referenced the still-unsigned Colin Kaepernick (of whom Bennett has said, "of course he’s being blackballed"), but Bennett said this weekend’s white supremacy rally in Charlottesville and accompanying violence is what spurred him to act.

"Seeing everything in Virginia...I just wanted to be able to use my platform to continuously speak out on injustice," Bennett said.

Bennett remained on the bench with a towel over his shoulders during the playing of the anthem in Los Angeles, rising to join his teammates after the song finished.

Bennett said he will continue to sit for the anthem this season, joining other players like Marshawn Lynch, who did so during the Raiders’ preseason game on Saturday.

Nothing to say about the Antifa groups, of course. Some doublespeak / ass covering follows; 'I love the military' and stuff like that, in the column.
Posted by: Raj || 08/14/2017 16:35 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Paying fans do not have to put up with this juvenile crap from the players. NFL owners better wise up.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/14/2017 17:20 Comments || Top||

#2  I got so tired of the 24/7 coverage of this last year. I don't give a shit if players act like idiots, but if I hear nothing but what the idiots are doing by the announcers/press I will stop watching the NFL.

I go there for entertainment and as a refuge from politics. They corrupt it (even more) I'm done.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/14/2017 17:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I could care less. The NFL has gone the way of basketball and professional wrestling and I will never watch another game.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/14/2017 20:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The professional sports used to have some basic standards of conduct. When the ghetto boyz started to bring their behaviors to the playing field or basketball court and the coaches and management did nothing, the professionalism of it was lost. AMF.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/14/2017 20:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I quit watching NFL a year ago and don't see myself starting again.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/14/2017 21:07 Comments || Top||

#6  I sometimes watch the Superbowl. Nothing beyond that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/14/2017 21:09 Comments || Top||

#7  College football is where its at
Posted by: chris || 08/14/2017 21:41 Comments || Top||


Government
Navy accused of removing attorneys to scuttle SEAL's appeal
The Obama-Rot starts at the top but has set in
[SanDiegoUnionTribune] A day after Navy Vice Adm. James Crawford III was grilled about his alleged role in scuttling the defense of a Navy SEAL accused of rape, attorneys under his command maneuvered to fire the bulk of the legal team asking the questions.

In a series of motions and responses filed between Aug. 1 and Friday with a special armed forces court in Washington, D.C., the Navy’s attorneys seek to remove three military lawyers assigned to assist the appeal of Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Keith Barry.

Barry was convicted in 2015 of raping a woman in San Diego. The military judge was faced with deciding whether he secured consent from the female victim during a month-long relationship between 2012 and 2013.

He maintained his innocence even after he was sentenced to prison and given a dishonorable discharge, claiming that she was using the criminal justice system to punish him for ending their relationship.

Seeking clemency, he appealed the military judge’s decision to Rear Adm. Patrick Lorge, the commander of Navy Region Southwest who is now retired. In a sworn affidavit, Lorge admitted that he did not believe Barry was guilty but instead of vacating the verdict took advice from Crawford to let it stand.

Crawford urged him to appease Capitol Hill and White House critics unhappy with the military’s handling of sexual assault cases and warned that going soft on Barry could end Lorge’s Navy career, the retired flag officer wrote in his statement.

Lorge’s words were echoed by a pair of sworn affidavits from junior legal aides who recalled him discussing Crawford’s advice.

"The Barry case has been forwarded to a new convening authority, senior to the original convening authority, and the fact-finding process is underway," said Patricia Babb, spokeswoman for the Office of the Judge Advocate General, in an email to The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Followup to the story I posted previously
Posted by: Frank G on the Road || 08/14/2017 9:19 Comments || Top||

#2  claiming that she was using the criminal justice system to punish him for ending their relationship.

One of those "he said-she said" narratives. These are often hard to sort out. Let's hope the truth comes out. Sometimes it does.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/14/2017 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  A story of Fatal Attraction, without the final climax.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/14/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Followup to the story I posted previously

Thank you for catching that, Frank G.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/14/2017 16:00 Comments || Top||



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