[NYP] An Ohio man was charged with attempted first-degree murder on a police officer after putting him in a chokehold so tight the cop started to "lose consciousness" at a Florida airport.
Footage of the bizarre incident captured on TikTok shows three officers collectively take down Edward Hariston, 41, moments after he hits the unnamed cop at Orlando International Airport Tuesday.
Hariston faces one count of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, battery on a law enforcement officer, and disorderly conduct.
Police said they responded to a report of a large group of enraged passengers yelling at Spirit employees near the ticket counter, according to an affidavit seen by Fox 35
Society has had and will always have a percentage of career criminals, unstable types and outright harmful deviants. How about bringing back real punishment, and dumping the Cozy Adult Timeout Facility jail/prison concept?
Possibly lurid crime, possibly an overreaction or a frame up. Hopefully it will be revealed, so this can be properly filed.
[IsraelTimes] Taylor Taranto, 37, had made threats against a public figure, was carrying weapons and components for a bomb
Idiot.
A man armed with kabooms and weapons, and wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, was arrested Thursday in the Washington neighborhood where former US President Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... lives, law enforcement officials said.
Taylor Taranto, 37, was spotted by law enforcement a few blocks from the former president’s home and fled, though he was chased by US Secret Service agents. Taranto has an open warrant on charges related to the insurrection, two law enforcement officials said. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing case and spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity.
They said Taranto also had made social media threats against a public figure.
Don’t do that.
He was found with weapons and materials to create an bomb, though one had not been built, one of the officials said.
Or possibly there was a normal use for, say, garden tools and a bag of fertilizer — we know how excitable the feds can get.
No one was injured. It was not clear whether the Obamas were at their home at the time of his arrest.
I assume not. Otherwise the Ay Pee journalist would have gone on and on about how brave they are, and how persecuted.
Metropolitan Police arrested Taranto on charges of being a runaway from justice.
Did he know he was wanted? Did anyone else?
The explosives team swept Taranto’s van and said there were no threats to the public.
Taranto was a US Navy veteran and a webmaster for the Republican Party in Franklin County, in Washington state, according to the Tri-City Herald newspaper. He told the newspaper in an interview last year that he was volunteering for the Republican Party.
It wasn’t clear what, exactly, Taranto is accused of doing in the riot, where supporters of then-president Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... smashed windows of the Capitol and beat and bloodied coppers in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
More than 1,000 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 600 of them have pleaded guilty, while approximately 100 others have been convicted after trials decided by judges or juries. More than 550 riot defendants have been sentenced, with over half receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from six days to 18 years.
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Taranto was a US Navy veteran and a webmaster for the Republican Party in Franklin County, in Washington state, according to the Tri-City Herald newspaper. He told the newspaper in an interview last year that he was volunteering for the Republican Party.
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Per radio this AM his "explosives" were Molotovs. Remember the 2 rioting Attys were caught with after firebombing a NYPD cruiser were treated with kid gloves as lovable lil scamps. I doubt he will get the same treatment
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A member of the Republican Party? Which faction of the Pub Party? If MAGA, He might be in deep do-do.
[FoxNews] A Florida jury has found former Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson not guilty on all counts.
Sadly, he responded as trained and as ordered. It should be noted that, as one of Ron DeSantis’s first acts as governor of Florida, he suspended Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and appointed a replacement, and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office lost its accreditation.
Peterson faced seven counts of felony child neglect and was the first law enforcement officer in the U.S. to face criminal charges stemming from his alleged inaction during an active school shooting. He was also charged with three counts of misdemeanor culpable negligence in relation to the adults shot in the building. Additionally, he was charged with perjury for allegedly lying to detectives.
Peterson would have faced prison time and a loss of his $104,000 annual pension if convicted of the child neglect charges.
During the trial, students, a sheriff's deputy and teachers testified and were asked where they thought the initial shots were coming from during the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Fourteen students and three staff members died during the shooting committed by Nikolas Cruz.
...pre-attack diagnoses of autism, anxiety, depression and significant psychological problems, described as a troubled kid obsessed with guns — the police frequently went to the family home to deal with him. Mr. Cruz was adopted at birth, then his adoptive father died when he was young, followed into the grave by his adoptive mother a few months before he ran amok. So really he was a classic school shooter. The jurors recognized this when they plumped for life in prison. Interestingly, his biological sister Danielle Woodard, a decade older, is classified as a habitual violent offender. Last we heard, she will be in prison for a very long time...
Kristen Gomes, an assistant state attorney for Broward County, said during closing arguments on Monday, "Every student and every teacher on the third floor was still alive."
"And Scot Peterson chose to run," Gomes said.
Following Peterson's acquittal on all charges, Broward State Attorney Harold F. Pryor said "To those who have tried to make this political, I say: It is not political to expect someone to do their job."
"As parents, we have an expectation that armed school resource officers – who are under contract to be caregivers to our children – will do their jobs when we entrust our children to them and the schools they guard. They have a special role and responsibilities that exceed the role and responsibilities of a police officer," Pryor said.
The job of police officers is to solve crimes and catch criminals with enough evidence that the prosecutor can make the case in court. Nowhere does it say that police officers should attack like soldiers, though many do.
Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina was killed in the Parkland shooting, told Fox News Digital that "Nothing in today’s verdict absolves Scot Peterson of his failures on February 14, 2018."
"Peterson was at the door of the building, heard shots and retreated to cover, remaining there for 48 minutes while the killer continued his rampage," Petty said. "Peterson remained behind that cover even after other members of law enforcement had entered the building and were treating casualties. He will have to live with his failures for the rest of his life."
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Given how he acted at the verdict, this POS feels no guilt. It is my fervent hope that Karma finds him and allows him to end with a vigorous application of karmic justice.
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No accountability is an essential component of corrupt gummint.
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/\ No accountability is an essential component of corrupt gummint.
Yes, a hallmark in fact. We still anxiously await the release of classified documents from a presidential assassination that took place over 60 years ago.
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The SCRUTUS determined a long time ago that cops have no duty to protect you or to prevent crime.
Still, it's a catchy thing to put on their cars and "proactive" policing is use as cover for all sorts of unconstitutional mischief.
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There is only accountability for those who act. Ask Daniel Penny.
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In traditional American culture, the Broward-Coward would face a lifetime of shame and shunning, appropriate punishment for his behavior.
Shame is the potent tool societies use for norming behavior and cultural limits. Modern progressive culture uses it so effectively in manipulation, but only to enforce their artificial, Marxist right-think. The signature of *-phobia is the tell. Once they can define opposition as "hate" rather than reasoned judgement, they have no need to defend they position.
[PJM] The Supreme Court Friday ruled for a Christian web designer in Colorado who refused to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings due to her religious objections.
In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled in favor of Lorie Smith, who had sued the state of Colorado over its anti-discrimination law prohibiting the denial of services based on a customer’s sexual orientation. Smith argued that the law infringed on her First Amendment rights by forcing her to create messages that violated her deeply held religious beliefs.
The Court held that “The First Amendment prohibits Colorado from forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.”
Smith’s web design business, 303 Creative, launched a decade ago, and she wanted to expand the company to create wedding websites to express God’s “design for marriage as a union between one man and one woman.” She also wanted to post a message on her website saying same-sex marriage is “a story about marriage that contradicts God’s true story of marriage.”
Fearing she would run afoul of Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, she filed for a declaratory judgment. She lost in the lower and federal appeals courts, but then appealed to the Supreme Court.
Writing for the majority, Justice Gorsuch opined: “The First Amendment’s protections belong to all, not just to speakers whose motives the government finds worthy. In this case, Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance.”
The ruling added that “Abiding the Constitution’s commitment to the freedom of speech means all will encounter ideas that are ‘misguided, or even hurtful.’ Consistent with the First Amendment, the Nation’s answer is tolerance, not coercion. The First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands. Colorado cannot deny that promise consistent with the First Amendment.”
Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the majority opinion, joined by John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Bret Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the dissent, which Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined.
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Notice in these cases how they don't go after Muslims, just Christians. Now that Muslim communities are pushing back, we'll see if they act the same.
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^ The process is the punishment. Time for loser pays laws on these sorts of lawsuits.
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At the very least, it's shaping up to be a festive Independence Day.
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Actually there wasn't a "gay mafia" sueing. It was a Christian designer who didn't want to be forced to create websites with content she didn't agree with. Rightfully so, and the Supreme Court decision was correct.
The question is: Did that Colorado law actually force the designer to create website content she didn't agree with? Seems doubtful to me, but I would need to see the exact wording.
It's one thing if a public business refuses service to a certain class or minority of people. Think of a baker who refuses to sell bread to a gay/black/Jewish/female person and even publicly announcing that he's doing so.
The issue here was not WHO could be denied service, but what kind of service. The designer did not want to have the State of Colorado confirm that she did not have to create websites for gay clients, but she wanted assurance that she did not have to create a website whose content contradicted her beliefs. Since the State of Colorado refused to give her that affirmation, the lawsuit (and the judgment) was justified.
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How does this affect past cases of people who bake cakes for example?
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IIUC today is the end of decision releases from 2022
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I suppose that was the plan all along. Biden knew that he didn't have the power to do that, but it got him votes. Now he can blame it all on the Supreme Court.
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The Colorado case is more interesting than I thought.
From the Supreme Court's decision:
As the Tenth Circuit observed, if Ms. Smith offers wedding websites celebrating marriages she endorses, the State intends to compel her to create custom websites celebrating other marriages she does not. 6 F. 4th 1160, 1178. Colorado seeks to compel this speech in order to “excis[e] certain ideas or viewpoints from the public dialogue.” Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC, 512 U. S. 633, 642. Indeed, the Tenth Circuit recognized that the coercive “[e]liminati[on]” of dissenting ideas about marriage constitutes Colorado’s “very purpose” in seeking to apply its law to Ms. Smith. 6 F. 4th, at 1178.
But while the Tenth Circuit thought that Colorado could compel speech from Ms. Smith consistent with the Constitution, this Court’s First Amendment precedents teach otherwise.
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If these alternative lifestyle choices are so superior, why do they need gummint-enforced validation of them by all and sundry?
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What is it with Colorado? Why do all the violently anti-Christian cases come from there?
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And once again, THANK YOU, President Trump, for giving us justices who actually pursue justice rather than the political fashion du jour.
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#12 Spot on, EC. Blame it on the SC, and then call for packing it.
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Why do all the violently anti-Christian cases come from there?
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The Puritans fled religious persecution and established colonies in lightly inhabited lands. I guess that means Wyoming or the Dakota’s.
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Blame it on the SC, and then call for packing it.
The Donks will make SCOTUS the bogyman to activate the base for 2024. The stupid Trunks won't push it harder as an attack fully upon the Constitution. Make it a clear choice between the Constitution or rule by mob/dictatorial fiat.
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EVERYTIME the left starts going after Alito etc like they have the past month the justices immediately fire back hard with decisions such as these.
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The contrast between Thomas' brilliant opinion in the AA case contrasted to Jackson-Smith's incoherent babbling should be a source of shame for the left. But they have none.
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The contrast between Thomas' brilliant opinion in the AA case contrasted to Jackson-Smith's incoherent babbling
That alone stands as an argument against racial preferences which is what I think we called it before it was re-branded as "affirmative action"
[The Defender] The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Wednesday demanded all phone records between outgoing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten.
In a letter to Walensky, Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chair of the subcommittee, said the committee is demanding the records for its investigation into potential political interference on the part of AFT with the CDC’s school reopening recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Weingarten told the committee during a hearing in April that she had Walensky’s direct phone number — which Walensky confirmed during her testimony before the same committee earlier this month.
The subcommittee gave the CDC until July 12 to respond with the phone records, along with transcribed interviews with three CDC employees who "may have supplementary knowledge about political interference at the agency."
The three employees in question are Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, DrPH, MPH, director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; Henry Walke, M.D., MPH, director of the Office of Readiness and Response; and Greta Massetti, Ph.D., MPH, branch chief of the CDC’s Field Epidemiology and Prevention Branch.
According to the Washington Examiner, "Wenstrup is looking to preserve phone records between the two on both Walensky’s official and personal phones, particularly in light of the director’s announcement she would be leaving her post Friday."
This isn’t the first time the committee has requested documentation from the CDC regarding communications. Wenstrup addressed these requests in his letter, stating:
[NYPOST] Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney ...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested... on Thursday blasted Bud Light for giving "customers permission to be as transphobic and as hateful as they want" by abandoning the trans influencer following backlash over the disastrous tie-up.
The social media star finally broke her silence with an emotional Instagram video to her 1.8 million followers, tearfully revealing that she has been "ridiculed in public" and has "felt a loneliness that I wouldn’t wish on anyone."
"For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse than not hiring a trans person at all," Mulvaney, 26, said in the clip.
The comments come a day after Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth refused to say whether the company would ever work with Mulvaney again. The Belgian beer giant has suffered a $20 billion hit amid calls to boycott the nation’s top-selling brand.
Mulvaney said that since she posted a video to her social media on April 1 touting Bud Light, she has received "more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined."
"I’ve been scared to leave my house," she said.
Mulvaney added: "Supporting trans people shouldn’t be political. There should be nothing divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... or controversial about working with us."
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Mulvaney said that since she posted a video to her social media on April 1 touting Bud Light, she has received "more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined."
"I’ve been scared to leave my house," she said.
Funny how they go from 'in your face' to 'poor widdle me' as soon as they get challenged or their asses get kicked.
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The basically doubled down on tranz worship but committed to not being obvious about it.
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Individual was just the 'straw that broke the camel's back'. What was being done to children hit the third rail across the culture. Instead of pulling back and reassessing what they were doing, they doubled down. The frog has jumped out of the pot.
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The only thing missing from this story is the scene where Mulvaney and Satan are negotiating:
Mulvaney: I want to be famous.
Satan: Then famous you shall be. Sign here.
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#2 I fear for what Dylan might do to himself. He really should be under 24 hour monitoring.
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Beso,
Oh, I have no doubt that Dylan will work himself up into a sufficient froth that he's going to make a 'gesture', and then blame it on all us mean, evil bigots.
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Sez Mulvaney:
"Supporting trans people shouldn’t be political. There should be nothing divisive or controversial about working with us." The problem with that is your side insists on making it political, and then screams "unfair" when there's a response.
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He's is literally a political, social, and corporate tool.
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He’s a male actor — who happens to be gay — going for a role that pays well. Or did pay well for a while. I suspect he’ll turn his back on this nonsense now that it is harmful to his wallet and career rather than lucrative.
Dame Edna was a lucrative career for the actor who invented her for over half a century without upsetting anyone. But then her actor had his own life, with four wives, four children, and a number of other characters.
[BBC] In May, a gunman opened fire at a mall in Allen, killing eight people. An officer who was interacting with a family when he heard gunshots, grabbed his gun and chased down the shooter, who he eventually killed a few minutes later.
That was the mentally ill Mauricio Garcia at the Allen Premium Outlets mall.
Six Mississippi deputy sheriffs in an incident where two black men accused them of physical, sexual assault, and a shooting have been fired or resigned
Michael Corey Jenkins and his friend Eddie Terrell Parker claim Rankin County Sheriff's deputies forcefully entered the home without a warrant
Pair say deputies subjected them to beatings, sexual assault using a sex toy, repeated Taser shocks, poured milk over them and shot one in the mouth
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Maybe there was video of the raid briefing from the conference room:
“Bob, your on the sex toy as always and Bill, you’ll be doing the milk boarding - no Frosted Flakes this time.”
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Without evidence that this actually happened, /me puts a chip on Drug Deal Gone Wrong.
Q: Do I still win if the cops are the offended side of the drug deal?
[GOOBJOOG] A French court has sentenced a Rwandan ex-military policeman to life in prison after finding him guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity charges.
Philippe Hategekimana, 66 was found guilty of nearly all the charges against him over the 1994 slaughter in his home country.
Plaintiffs accused Hategekimana of "using the powers and military force conferred to him through his rank in order to take part in the genocide, claims which he denied.
Hategekiman had fled to La Belle France after the genocide, obtaining refugee status and then French nationality under the name Philippe Manier before fleeing to Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... where he was arrested in March 2018 under an international warrant issued by French magistrates specialising in crimes against humanity.
More than 800,000 people were killed between April and July 1994 according to UN figures, most of them from the Tutsi minority.
La Belle France, one of the top destinations for runaways from the massacres, has also tried and convicted a former spy chief, two ex-mayors, a former hotel chauffeur and an ex-top official in similar trials since 2014.
But it has generally refused requests to extradite suspects to Rwanda, prompting President Paul Kagame to accuse Gay Paree of denying Rwanda jurisdiction.
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[Jerusalem Post] After a suspected World War II submarine was discovered in Argentinian waters in 2022, confidential government documents secured by British investigative journalist Laurence de Mello Simon present the possibility of a Nazi smuggling route created by the United States in partnership with Argentina, according to a May report.
The sub, which was found near the beaches of Costa Bonita and Arenas Verdes, has the potential to confirm theories that Nazis escaped to Argentina toward the end of the war.
However, de Mello explained that the Argentinian government has failed to provide any transparency in their investigative attempts to identify the sub. Rather, according to her, Argentina has refused to publicly identify the ship which cost the government $300,000 to investigate.
The investigation was meant to identify the sub’s origin, the date that it sank and whether there were any passengers of significant military interest aboard at the time of sinking.
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Appears the occupants and crew left in a hurry. The maultaschen in the galley was still warm and the hefeweizen remained chilled. Arrests should be forthcoming.
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This sub has been known for many years but everyone said no way. People only believe media news all other information is ignored. Those in advanced years have told this story. Time is taking them away day by day.
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German Submarine Used By Escaping Nazi’s Washes up on the Coast of Argentina
Dec 10, 2015 Ian Harvey:
Something incredible has washed up on the coast of Argentina. Researchers believe it to be the remnants of a World War II German submarine or midget U-boat. What historians and researchers find most fascinating about this find is that this submarine makes it difficult to deny that that Nazis did not escape the war and fled to Argentina. A historian in Buenos Aires, Fernando Martin Gomez, says that the submarine is a great discovery. The submarine has been hidden for 70 years but is in remarkable shape. Gomez stated that it is a particularly small submarine, which means it could have been used solely for Nazis fleeing to South America. He claims that there were about 5,000 Nazis that fled to Argentina, but this submarine would have been reserved for higher-placed Nazis.
[Free Press Journal via MSN] A researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology has made astonishing claims about the coronavirus, saying the virus was engineered by China as a "bioweapon" and that his colleagues were given four strains of the virus to find out which could spread best.
Chao Shao, a researcher from Wuhan made these shocking revelations in an exclusive interview with Jennifer Zeng, a member of the International Press Association, who provides first-hand information and unique insights about China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In the twenty-six-minute interview, Chao Shao shares an anecdote of how another researcher Shan Chao from the Wuhan Institute of Virology admits of his superior giving him four strains of coronavirus and asking him to test and to find out which one had the best ability to infect as many species as possible, and also to find out how easy it was to infect other species including human.
Chao Shao also called the coronavirus a "bioweapon." He also mentions that several of his colleagues went missing during the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan. Later, one of them revealed that they were sent to hotels where athletes from various countries were staying to "check the health or hygiene conditions." Since checking hygiene doesn't require virologists, Chao Shan suspected that they were sent there to spread the virus.
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Here’s the thing. We are totally infiltrated at every level of our society to the extent that we have jailed Miles Guo because he annoys the CCP. It seems like this guy would already be dead.
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...wait for it.
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[REGNUM] The Chinese military has recently taken into account the "total war" scenario when testing and evaluating the characteristics of new weapons, "as the risk of military conflict between China and the United States has reached its highest level in decades . This was reported by the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post (SCMP).
The scenario (denoted, note, as "War Z") assumes that a regional conflict - a maritime incident around Taiwan or in the South China Sea - develops into a global clash of the level of the First and Second World Wars, in which China is simultaneously attacked by the armies of several states . "Total war" involves the concentration of resources of the national economy and the involvement of the entire population.
Interlocutors of the publication in the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) explained that the script refers to the attack of a mock enemy - the "blue alliance". But, as the South China Morning Post itself explains, it is obvious that we are talking about the United States and its allies. Indeed, one can recall the blue flag of NATO and the blue standard of the US Secretary of Defense.
The fact that China is considering the most radical scenarios and giving new tasks to its military-industrial complex is understandable, American expert Malek Dudakov explained to IA Regnum . “ The United States is supplying huge quantities of weapons to Taiwan, sending military instructors there,” the source said.
In May, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen , we recall, announced: this unrecognized island state (from the point of view of Beijing - a rebellious territory) is negotiating with Washington on the supply of arms worth half a billion dollars. The Joe Biden administration used the same emergency powers for these deliveries as for deliveries to Ukraine, Bloomberg specified.
“New military bases are now being built in the region, a record number of weapons are being supplied to the Japanese army, and about $20 billion is being allocated for the rearmament of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in the coming years. These are colossal purchases of fifth-generation F-35 fighters, and hundreds of long-range Tomahawk missiles, and so on ,” Dudakov listed.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the Filipino ex-president Rodrigo Duterte, who was quoted by the SCMP, fears: "If you rate the danger of imminent war on a scale of one to ten, I would rate the situation at 7 points."
THE BLUES START - AND SHOULD NOT WIN
Judging by the publication of the South China Morning Post, "total war" is perceived primarily as a conflict at sea, more precisely in the Pacific Ocean. This follows from the explanations of the head of the working group of analysts Fang Canxin from the "military unit 91 404" (judging by the context, this unit from the port city of Qinhuangdao is one of the "think tanks" of the PLA).
“According to open information, Fang’s division is responsible for sea trials of some of China’s latest and most powerful naval weapons,” the South China Morning Post said. “ The Z-War scenario was first declassified in their peer-reviewed paper published in the China Journal of Warship Research this month.”
According to the scenario, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers form the basis of the naval power of the conditional "blue alliance", Fan explained, these ships form the "backbone" of the US Navy.
The script directly refers to the weaknesses of the Chinese fleet (and the PLA) as a whole in their current state.
The 50 existing PLA destroyers are "virtually" attacking from several directions, with more than a dozen missiles and more than three torpedoes per ship, Fang Canxin outlined the "legend". At the same time, the EW (electronic warfare) installations of the Blue Alliance generate interference 30 times stronger than used by Chinese warships, and the detection range of PLA radars drops to 60% of the norm. A third of the air defense forces are "knocked out" immediately after the first enemy attack, and only half of the Chinese missiles are able to reach their targets. It is assumed that even in such a situation and at the current level of equipment of the PLA Navy, they should be able to resist.
THE GERALD FORD WAS SUNK TWENTY TIMES
But the Z-War plans are obviously not limited to containing the Blues' strike. According to the SCMP,
"Chinese military analysts propose moving hostilities to US soil if war cannot be avoided."
Commenting on these plans, the publication mentions that China “is either already deploying or developing” hypersonic missiles and sea-launched missiles with nuclear warheads that can overcome US missile defense and air defense systems.
In another publication of the same publication, it is emphasized that the PLA design bureaus began developing a new class of "superships" - universal aircraft carriers equipped with laser guns and electromagnetic weapons. The adoption of such ships "will completely change the order of battle of the navy, which has existed for more than a hundred years," wrote one of the curators of the naval military-industrial complex, Rear Admiral Ma Weiming in an article in the journal "Proceedings of the Chinese Electrical Society."
All these messages - from plans for a Z-war to the development of aircraft carriers with laser weapons - could easily be attributed to self-promotion of the Chinese army and a "Chinese warning" to opponents overseas, if not for one thing: a potential Chinese threat to the sea has been actively written recently and Western media.
According to The Wall Street Journal , the US Navy could lose two aircraft carriers out of ten available only in a hypothetical battle for Taiwan. The opinion of the WSJ coincides with the conclusions of Chinese scientists. As Dudakov noted , they recently simulated a hypersonic missile attack on the newest US Navy aircraft carrier Gerald Ford (in service since 2017). In twenty simulations out of twenty, the ship was sunk, however, it had to virtually “use up” 24 hypersonic missiles.
London's The Sun writes about the possible loss of 1,000 American fighters under a fairly optimistic scenario. China's presence of hypersonic weapons means the PLA can strike American bases in the Pacific, in an arc from Guam to Pearl Harbor. “ As a result, the United States could be in a dire situation after just a few months - even just a few weeks - of hostilities,” states Bloomberg .
"THE PENTAGON GOES CRAZY"
The expected scale of ship and aircraft losses, as well as the rapid consumption of expensive precision-guided munitions, makes Washington think about expanding production capacity and the time it will take. The history of World War II has shown that it took years - until the end of 1943 or even 1944 - for mobilization in the United States to reach its full extent, and the peacetime economy switched to military production, the newspaper notes.
The US is seriously alarmed by the new coalition in the Indian Ocean
The unrealistic nature of the rapid deployment of the US military-industrial complex (MIC) is pointed out by Politico in its recent article " The Pentagon Goes Crazy About a Potential War with China ." Expert Michael Hirsch says that the military-industrial complex of Western countries depends on many components and parts produced in China, as well as on Chinese rare earth materials and alloys. In addition, according to Hirsch, the United States is experiencing a shortage of skilled labor, on which the build-up of American military power will depend.
Beijing is already surpassing the United States in the number of warships, adopting a record defense budget (about $224 billion) and launching a third aircraft carrier, Dudakov points out. Beijing is actively working on new types of weapons, studying Russian experience in the use of drones and defenses against Javelins and Stingers, Reuters notes .
AMERICANS BRING IN ALLIES
The scenario of an open clash (local or reaching the level of “total Z-war”) is, however, so far only a scenario, experts emphasize. Military expert Vladimir Gundarov, in a comment to IA Regnum, recalled Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's recent trip to Beijing and his meeting with President Xi Jinping.
“This is evidence that Washington would like to negotiate with Beijing, dividing the world economically and without resorting to violence. If the issue of economic confrontation is resolved through a global conflict, then it will be a collapse for both China and the United States, whose economy depends on China,” Gundarov stressed.
Both the American and Chinese military will make formidable plans and scare opponents with weapons - this is a completely natural behavior for the military. However, the decision to start a war is still made by the economic elites of the countries, the interlocutor noted.
On the other hand, the US leadership gave the green light to a record increase in the military budget - in December 2022, Biden approved spending of $858 billion (and obviously not only for "containment of Russia"). The US National Defense Strategy adopted at the end of last year called Russia "an acute threat" and China "the main challenge" and "the only competitor with the intention of changing the international order." It is obvious that the Americans admit for themselves the possibility of not only trade wars with China.
“If China increases its influence in the world, and the influence of the United States weakens, then sooner or later China will fall into the hands of Taiwan and all the rest of the world domination. But the Americans are also not ready to leave the international arena without a fight , ”Dudakov notes.
Understanding by the parties of their weaknesses makes them look for other solutions to the conflict. If Beijing wants to resolve the issue of Taiwan through "soft power" during the upcoming elections on the island, then the United States is counting on regional allies. In 2022, the United States and its allies (Great Britain, Japan, Australia and New Zealand) created the third alliance in the Pacific region, Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP). As in the case of QUAD (quadrilateral security dialogue - Australia, India, US and Japan), and with AUCUS (Australia, UK and US, a military-political bloc), it is not difficult to guess who this "friendship" will be against.
It is on the allies that the main burden of the conflict will fall, and it is with their hands that the United States will bleed China, Dudakov notes. “ There is Taiwan, there is Japan, which has the 6th Land Self-Defense Division, which should come to the aid of Taiwan in the event of a military blockade by China and thus draw Japan into this conflict. And the Americans hope that in total Japan, South Korea, Taiwan will have enough strength to, if not defeat China, then force China to get bogged down in this conflict,” he says.
[The Hill] Tens of thousands of unionized workers for the United Parcel Service are on the verge of going on strike as negotiations between the company and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for better benefits and working conditions reach a critical point.
Workers dialed up the pressure on the shipping giant this week, demanding the company present its "best and final offer" by Friday, or it would begin the largest single employer strike in decades.
A Teamsters representative did not respond to a request for clarification on what a strike may consist of for workers and consumers or when it might commence.
UPS has said it transports about 6 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) on a daily basis and more than 3 percent of the global GDP.
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...Without getting into detail, our plant makes a time-sensitive product that for many of its users turns out to be an item they should have ordered a week or more back, but now they need it tomorrow.
Without UPS, they may have to start learning the concepts behind the clock and calendar.
Mike
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"here's what that means for your packages...."
We won't be seeing as many lost packages showing up on $6 day at the Bins & Pallet type stores.
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Although, I would have to suggest that if you've got a ColoGard package, I would hold off using it just yet.
The people down at the CVS or where ever you'd drop it off would appreciate not having it.
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[Breitbart] The World Economic Forum (WEF) convened the 14th Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC) in Tianjin, China, on Tuesday. The AMNC is billed as the “Summer Davos Forum,” a nod to the main WEF conclave held each January in Davos, Switzerland.
The 2023 AMNC was the first time the event has been held in China since the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Tianjin, a port city with a population of about 14 million, went all-out for the event as a chance to rekindle international tourism.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, point man for dictator Xi Jinping’s effort to persuade international investors that China will no longer cripple their operations with brutal health lockdowns or politically-motivated business crackdowns,
... no longer until the next time, anyway. An economic hudna, as it were...
told AMNC attendees that the world stands at a “historical crossroads” after the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.
AMNC covers many of the same topics discussed at the Davos meeting, but with more of an emphasis on developing economies, and since the event is held in China, the Chinese Communist Party naturally uses it for political purposes.
Li brought politics to the table by regaling attendees with boasts about the strength of the Chinese economy, even as China’s post-pandemic recovery sputters and fizzles in numerous ways. He also railed against all efforts by other nations to decouple their economies from China, as quoted by the state-run Global Times on Tuesday:
A hint that the Chinese economy is more fragile than claimed, but do go on...
The strong growth of the Chinese economy will continue to provide impetus to global economic recovery with growth for the second quarter expected to register faster growth rate than in the January-March quarter, according to Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony at the forum.
De-risking and reducing interdependence is a false proposition as the global economy has already become intertwined. The so-called risk should not be the judgment of a government or an organization, but concerned companies and participants of production, Premier Li said, calling on the international community to firmly oppose the politicization of economic and trade issues and jointly maintain the stability and unimpeded flow of global industrial and supply chains.
“De-risking” is a term promoted by the European Union to describe what amounts to diversifying supply chains so that China does not control so many of them.
De-risking begins with an explicit concession that decoupling from China is no longer possible, no matter how many plagues it unleashes or human rights it violates, but even that gesture of submission was not enough for Li. China senses weakness in Europe, and Li’s speech to AMNC was just the latest bullying effort to exploit it.
The Global Times happily played up an AMNC panel discussion on Tuesday in which the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, declared that decoupling from China “is something that the world simply cannot afford.”
As far as the Global Times was concerned, the AMNC forum conclusively eradicated all talk of diversifying away from China and put all concerns about the Chinese economy to bed. Instead, China was feted as the most important economy in the world, especially for developing nations.
The Global Times made a point of saluting the delegation from Saudi Arabia to Tianjin, a 24-strong party that included six of the Kingdom’s ministers and vice-ministers. The Financial Times saw Saudi Arabia moving ever further away from the West and into China’s orbit during the presidency of Joe Biden, who infamously vowed to make Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman into an international “pariah” during his 2020 election campaign:
Saudi Arabia is China’s biggest oil supplier, and China is the kingdom’s top trading partner, with bilateral trade of $116bn in 2022, up from $87bn the previous year. Saudi Arabia is keen to receive Chinese help to diversify its economy and wants investments beyond the traditional oil, refining and telecommunications sectors, in industries ranging from steel to internet platforms, gaming and tourism.
“Given the large size of the Arabian market, especially Saudi, this cross-border investment trend can . . . benefit Chinese companies tremendously,” said Winston Ma, a law school adjunct professor at New York University and a former managing director of Chinese sovereign fund China Investment Corporation.
… Riyadh is keen to look beyond its traditional partnership with the west and strengthen commerce with Asia, especially China.
So long as China has money to spend, anyway. It’ll be interesting when all the Chinese bubbles pop, one after another.
Some of the country’s biggest companies, such as PetroChina and telecommunications group Huawei, are already present in Saudi Arabia. Relations with China were strengthened by a state visit to the kingdom by Xi in December.
Deutsche Welle (DW) talked with some AMNC attendees who were impressed by China’s big show, but unconvinced that China’s economy will rebound as Li promised. Many agreed that decoupling from China would be too costly, but de-risking still looked like an appealing compromise. Some were especially worried about China taking over the electric vehicle (EV) market that Western governments spent billions to conjure into existence.
DW impishly noted that China’s attempt to sell its authoritarian politics at “Summer Davos” were not very successful: “At the entrance to the conference venue, visitors are able to pick up a copy of writings by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. There are numerous volumes, printed on glossy paper. Up until now, however, the demand has not been huge.”
[Gateway] In a recent Pennsylvania State Senate hearing on June 9, 2023, Silicon Valley philanthropist and technology entrepreneur Steve Kirsch posed a serious challenge to long-held beliefs on vaccinations and their impact on public health.
During his testimony, he made a remarkable assertion: "We can’t find an autistic kid who was unvaccinated."
In a detailed account, Kirsch spoke about the potential harm vaccines may cause and highlighted the lack of comparative studies between vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
Citing a ten-year study led by Dr. Paul Thomas, which was retracted controversially, Kirsch suggested that vaccinated children were more likely to contract diseases like measles and mumps compared to those unvaccinated.
He further stated that parents who chose not to vaccinate their children should be applauded for their decision, hinting at his belief that vaccines contribute to the chronic disease epidemic in America.
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Kirsch suggested that vaccinated children were more likely to contract diseases like measles and mumps compared to those unvaccinated.
Those of us who are old enough to remember measles outbreaks running through the school population and now see such events not occurring may have a different opinion.
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Like dams and bridges, vaccines are something this country used to do well but now not so much.
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I'll assume the measles risk over the side effects (e.g., autism) of any of the multiple sludge vaccines rammed into children. Hepatitis B vaccines two days after birth...really? WTF?
How many vaccines did we get as kids compared to today? /rhet
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Let’s cite researchers funded by Big Pharma to debunk this again. Have Jake Tapper do it condescendingly. That’s what I like best.
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Those of us who are old enough to remember measles outbreaks running through the school population and now see such events not occurring may have a different opinion.
The 1962 Agatha Christie mystery The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side tells of an actress driven to murder because a fan unintentionally infected her with German measles (rubella) when she was pregnant with her only child, causing the child be born severely disabled.
The purpose of the rubella vaccine is not to protect the patient from a mild childhood disease, but to reduce the chance of infecting a nearby pregnant woman, destroying the possibility that her child will be born normal and able. Most childhood vaccines prevent diseases that cause deafness, blindness, mental retardation, sterility, nerve and muscle damage (polio), and so forth in a visible number of those who fall ill, while the vaccines themselves are a health risk for a much smaller number.
If there were a vaccine that prevented autism from developing in the womb I’d have taken it in a flash if it would have prevented autism from denying trailing daughter #1 the ability to live independently, let alone have the life and career her intelligence, work ethic, talents, and loving heart led us all to predict before her condition became apparent at seventeen. It turns out being high functioning is no guarantee of being able to function as an adult, when unexpected co-morbidities begin manifesting.
Separately, back in the early ‘90s a friend suddenly lost her child to meningitis. The kid caught a small cold somewhere, not even bad enough to stay home from school, and three days later was dead. So when the trailing daughters’ university demanded they be vaccinated against meningitis before moving into the dorm, I was pleased to comply — sudden death (or merely epilepsy, deafness, and/or permanent brain damage) sweeping through the students without warning is not my idea of a good time.
Even the Covid vaccines, poorly executed though they were, in some population subgroups are as much a health benefit as for other population subgroups they are a serious health risk.
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^This. My mother contracted rubella when she was pregnant with my brother, causing him to be born deaf and moderately autistic. Nice guy; I love him a lot. But he still lives with Mom and, when she passes, he will live with me.
My sympathies TW. As you know I have a daughter with Down syndrome, and taking care of her has completely reshaped my life. But as they say: God doesn't call the equiped. He equips the called.
#9
I suspect we'll get to go through it all over again. You don't allow 8 million plus people into the country without screening (that is what Ellis Island was for) and not expect 'old' diseases to suddenly make a reappearance.
[FoxBusiness] Aspartame — one of the most common artificial sweeteners in the world — is slated to be declared a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer research agency next month, according to a report.
In July, the sugar substitute will be listed as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Aspartame — which is 200 times sweeter than table sugar — is found in several products, including Coca-Cola diet sodas, sugar-free Ricola cough drops and certain sugar-free Extra chewing gum products. It is also sold as a tabletop sweetener under the brand names Equal, Nutrasweet and Sugar Twin.
The ruling by IARC, which was finalized earlier this month, is to help determine whether the substance is a potential hazard. )
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first approved aspartame in 1974 for use as a tabletop sweetener and in various products. Since then, the FDA has approved aspartame for other uses, including as a general-purpose sweetener in 1996.
Aside from people who have a rare genetic disorder called phenylketonuria (PKU), the FDA had concluded that aspartame — which is one of the most studied food additives in the human food supply — "is safe for the general population when made under good manufacturing practices and used under the approved conditions of use," according to its website.
The FDA says it also continues to monitor the scientific literature for any new information on aspartame.
#8
We can't have the proles thinking about 'context', badanov.
That would skewer so many things foisted upon the masses.
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"But mRNA vaccines are totally safe! Nothing to see here. Move along..."
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I thought the story on Aspartame was that it got dangerous beyond the expiration or if it was not stored properly. Lab dosages are not real world, but anyone who believes that following expiration dates is real world needs to do a zone inspection of my folk’s refrigerator… or mine.
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Hmmm, the WHO decides a food additive used for half a century is suddenly "possibly carcinogenic". One suspects either politics or money is in play. Any new startups on the horizon that happen to produce a new artificial sweetener?
#13
I remember when 50+ years ago cyclamates were banned because they supposedly caused cancer. I also seem to recall that the proof was that if they soaked baby rats in cyclamates, 2 or 3 out of 100 developed cancer.
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I recall in the height of the recall mania back then, a couple college professors used the 'methodologies' to put particles of coin and paper money under the rats skin and yes, some rats* developed tumors. They used the same stupid media to spread the word that maybe the government should recall money. Then the 'ban' wagon stopped.
* those lab rats are highly inbred specifically susceptible to about anything. Like to see them use rodents from the streets of New York city.
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I remember when 50+ years ago cyclamates were banned because they supposedly caused cancer.
1973 or thereabout. Cyclamates were banned in the US at the time by the FDA in favour of saccharine. Up north in Canada at the same time, they banned saccharine as dangerous, approving cyclamates. My father, who headed up a cancer research lab at the time, was furious — at the FDA for deciding on the basis of research deliberately skewed to yield that result.
#18
^ Fascinating, TW! Will make for good discussion big brother Mundi (toxicologist).
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I also seem to recall that the proof was that if they soaked baby rats in cyclamates, 2 or 3 out of 100 developed cancer.
IIRC, our benighted Congress passed a law that if a substance showed the slightest signs of causing cancer, even if only at ridiculously ridiculous concentrations, then it was banned.
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.
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
[PJM] The Supreme Court Friday ruled for a Christian web designer in Colorado who refused to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings due to her religious objections.
...the transexual 
[Jerusalem Post] After a suspected World War II submarine was discovered in Argentinian waters in 2022, confidential government documents secured by British investigative journalist Laurence de Mello Simon present the possibility of a Nazi smuggling route created by the United States in partnership with Argentina, according to a May report. 
[Gateway] In a recent Pennsylvania State Senate hearing on June 9, 2023, Silicon Valley philanthropist and technology entrepreneur Steve Kirsch posed a serious challenge to long-held beliefs on vaccinations and their impact on public health.
