MGM Resorts International and its insurers will pay $800million settlement
Payment to be made to 4,400 relatives and victims of 2017 Las Vegas shooting
The gunman, Stephen Paddock,
...the brilliant, semi-divorced, retired accountant high roller who, while on anti-anxiety meds, collected a bunch of guns and bump stocks, found a hotel room overlooking a country music festival after checking out several other mass murder opportunities around the country, and went to town. Oddly enough, his father was an FBI-wanted psychopath...
killed 58 and wounded some 850 in shooting
Paddock opened fire from 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay hotel room on October 1
Moments before police could arrest him, Paddock killed himself in his hotel room
Two retired judges will serve as the administrators of the settlement account
MGM Resorts, which owns the Mandalay Bay resort, will pay $49million
Its insurance companies will pay the remaining $751million
#3
Anna does give the appearance of being a man. Case of mistaken sexuality--time to take the airline apology and move on. She shouldn't be surprised if this happens again.
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The region is seismically active. Tree roots hold the soil in place. If you burn down the trees, the roots are gone. So, forest fires cause earthquakes. QED.
It's Science, bitches!
[FoxNews] A Texas man allegedly took a gun away and fired at two accused teenage robbers on Wednesday after he said they tried to steal from him, according to a report.
One of the teens was struck in the head and chest and was pronounced dead at a local area hospital, officials said. The other suspect ran into a nearby apartment building after being injured. He was found and rushed to the same hospital in an unknown condition.
Police said the unidentified man was getting into his truck to leave a crowded strip mall in Houston around noon when the teenagers walked up to him. He told authorities that at least one of them was armed, according to Houston's KPRC-TV.
“He’s reporting that these two suspects attempted to rob him, to take his vehicle,” said Sgt. Jason Brown with the HCSO Homicide Division. “He was able to take one of the pistols from the suspect and (shot) both of those suspects.”
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You would really think they'd learn to move to someplace safer, like Chicago. It seems like there's a story like this every 1-2 weeks here in Houston or the surrounding area. MANY of us here in Texas are armed.
83, was temporarily given some of the Emir’s constitutional duties on July 18 when the Emir was admitted to hospital for medical checks.
Under Kuwaiti law, in the absence of the monarch, the crown prince is appointed as acting ruler. Sheikh Nawaf was sworn in as crown prince in 2006 after Sheikh Sabah was appointed Emir.
The State of Kuwait declared an official mourning for a period of 40 days and the closure of official departments for a period of three days.
Sheikh Sabah ruled Kuwait since 2006 and steered its foreign policy for more than 50 years. The Emir was admitted to hospital on July 18 for medical checks and then, a day later underwent successful surgery.
On July 23, the Emir was flown to the United States to complete his medical treatment. The Emir’s office did not disclose the reason for the surgery or details of what treatment the Emir was going to receive in the US.
According to a state media report, his 83-year-old half brother and crown prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmed is expected to succeed him.
Dubbed as the "dean of Arab diplomacy" Sheikh Sabah had ruled the Arab country since 2006 and had commandeered its foreign policy for the past 50 years.
He earned the title "dean of Arab diplomacy" for his efforts to restore relations with states that had unnerved their weight behind Iraq during Gulf War in 1990-91.
Sheikh Sabah came to power in January 2006 after Emir Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah was deposed on health grounds by the Kuwaiti parliament just nine days into his new role as the Emir.
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Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nick Carter said hostile powers 'cannot afford' a militarised conflict and so are turning to cyber attacks and disinformation.
The best way to counter this in the U.S. is to have a "free press" that doesn't act as toadies for the Dem Party.
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You should really check out the current real strengths of the European armies and Russia... The European Union is already strong enough to defend against Russia, an opponent not even close to being as rich, less populated, in a bad geostrategical position, with a budget stretched extremely thin and terrible availability rates.
The trope that European armies can't stand their own don't stand close examination. If you just look at wikipedia, yeah, the Russian army looks numerous and well equipped but the truth is that it is divided between a state of the art and well trained spearhead that amounts to about 100~200k soldiers and conscripts with outdated hardware that suffered for almost two decades of poor maintenance.
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What was the tell?
Was season 2 of Jack Ryan an initiation code to activate US State Department special ops to organize criminal gangs against the glorious government as a shroud for the real op of stealing Iranian cargo vessels and sending their contents to the US to crave the insatiable Yankee thirst for precious fluids?
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Microsoft data? Take that with a grain or two of salt. In my experience as a system administrator, the Chinese were by far the worst offenders. That's not to let the Russians off the hook. They were bad too, as were the Ukrainians and many others.
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And with microsoft, it must a piece of cake to hack through their stuff.
Amazing how the Russian 'narrative' just continues. And China? What's a China? Geeeesh.
CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American Airlines and United Airlines, two of the largest U.S. carriers, said they were beginning furloughs of over 32,000 workers on Thursday as hopes faded for a last-minute bailout from Washington.
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"The estimated value of rare-earth compounds and metals imported by the United States in 2017 was $150 million, a significant increase from $118 million imported in 2016," the USGS penned in its 2018 minerals report.
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I would like to know why it apparently takes a non-journalist to look up a report more recent than the 2018 report (or, on the other hand, why newer reports don't exist "yet").
But carrying on under caretaker governments while negotiating who will be the next sucker is what Belgium does best!
[IsraelTimes] Phlegmish liberal leader Alexander De Croo will be Belgium’s new prime minister at the head of a seven-party coalition government, it is announced Wednesday — 16 months after an inconclusive election.
De Croo’s French-speaking socialist rival Paul Magnette confirms that the parties had chosen the 44-year-old finance minister as premier. He is to be sworn in on Thursday by Belgium’s king.
By choosing a Phlegmish leader, the incoming government hopes to balance the fact that its parliamentary base will be drawn from mainly French-speaking parties, with the main Dutch-speaking groups in opposition.
"We flipped a coin and it came down to Alexander and it’s an excellent choice," Magnette joked at the end of the presser to present the outcome of the negotiations.
Belgium has had no governing majority for 21 months since the collapse of former leader Charles Michel’s government, and it has been 493 days since federal elections failed to resolve the crisis.
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Benefits? Short Answer: we don't know yet and it may all be as irrelevant to survival as most of civilization. IMO it is more important than paying for the educational industry studying Medieval Burgundian Folk Music, but that's just my two cents.
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ULA Delta IV launch scrubbed last night for the 5th time over technical issue, seventh time overall in a month. SpaceX launch scrubbed at T -17 sec this morning.
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#3 Where would you be now if Isabella didn't hock her jewels?
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#3) After the recent discovery of 4 huge masses of water under 3700 feet of ice on Mars ....
A potential place to mine work and make an industrial colony.
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back in Feb-Apr, I was worried that the Wu would devastate the homeless population when it got here because so many of the homeless used drugs, alcohol, etc.
but as it turned out, I was completely wrong - the homeless have very low case fatality rates - apparently, the diseases they have already encountered have conferred some sort of immunity
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^It's like turf wars among gangs. They already have so many pathogens that Johnny Came Lately has no chance.
#7
There are skeptics and then there are skeptics. We have had a unacceptable amount of GIGO as far as data goes. The health professionals and government bureaucrats have killed a lot of credibility in this event. It's hard to make reasoned decisions and take reasonable actions when too many choose to scream fire in a crowded theater.
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Instead of telling us the truth, they chose to lie to us in order to manipulate us to do what they wanted us to do. Case in point: CDC claiming masks didn't protect people in order to hoard masks for their own staff. We all saw it happen and now their credibility is shot.
They're simply untrustworthy. They can and will lie to us if they think the outcome is worthy enough.
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#7,8 You know I didn't mean you. I mean the ideologically motivated.
p.s. Right now, in Israel, we're seeing what happens when you let religious fanatics, lumpen-libertarians, and short-term economic considerations dictate pandemic policy.
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Wuhan skeptic? In reality the renowned public knob, St Anthony of Fauci made me a skeptic decades ago with this identical reaction to the AIDS 'epidemic'.
Remember how 'everybody is at equal risk', remember the summer when 'this airborne disease constitutes such a public hazard that everybody should endeavor to remain indoors except for absolute necessity'? I do.
Whatever else, do NOT quarantine the already sick, and most vulnerable. No, none of that. Shut the whole thing down, until, oh who the Hell knows anyway, and small matter since rules are for the little people.
#9 Don't bother. You aren't the first Israeli I've ever heard from and the problem with the Orthodox is the original pre-existing condition which really does not have a universal application.
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is the goal to never spread a virus that from what we can tell has a transmission rate of just about any other virus? and has a mortality rate of just about any other virus?
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back in Feb-Apr, I was worried that the Wu would devastate the homeless population when it got here because so many of the homeless used drugs, alcohol, etc.
but as it turned out, I was completely wrong - the homeless have very low case fatality rates - apparently, the diseases they have already encountered have conferred some sort of immunity
Me too, especially among the ones who do inhalation drugs like meth.
Makes me think that the distancing and actual isolation is doing more harm than good, allowing the immune system to atrophy and make them more susceptible to not just china cough but everything.
[UPI] Planetary scientists say in a new report that Mars has four subsurface lakes, which could be a habitat for life.
After finding one location where water may be buried in 2018, researchers did a more detailed analysis of the region using radar data from the spacecraft Mars Express. The new study used data sets from 134 observations from 2012 to 2019, said the report published Monday in Nature Astronomy.
"We identified the same body of water, but we also found three other bodies of water around the main one," planetary scientist Elena Pettinelli of the University of Rome, a lead co-author of the report, said in a statement. "It's a complex system."
The spacecraft used a radar system called the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding to examine the planet's southern polar region. The radar bounces radio waves off layers of material on the planet's surface and subsurface.
It can detect the presents of rock, ice or water from the way the signal is reflected back. A similar method is used to find subsurface glacial lakes on Earth. The result on Mars indicated liquid water was trapped under more than 3,280 feet of ice.
Researchers said the largest lake spans about nearly 19 miles across and is surrounded by the three smaller lakes. All four lakes cover about 46,600 square miles.
On Earth, such subglacial lakes have contained life but there would need to be a reasonable amount of salt available for the water to remain a liquid.
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.