[FOX] Four people died in the early morning car crash on a Georgia interstate after authorities said the car attempted to evade law enforcement before apparently losing control and crashing into a line of trees in Monroe County, according to a report.
The Dodge Charger Scat Pack refused to comply with a traffic stop on I-75 at about midnight and traveled at speeds of up to 137 mph, Fox 5 Atlanta reported, citing the Monroe County Sheriff’s office. At one point, the car hit speeds of up to 170 mph while being pursued by deputies and deputies lost sight of the car. Having a seatbelt on doesn't matter when you impact trees at 170mph and turn into kindling
11 Alive reported that the car was located by a witness about five minutes later on fire off the side of the interstate.
Authorities said four people were pronounced dead at the scene and two were injured.
Deputies said they found three guns and 17 credit cards inside the car. The occupants of the car were all males. No, there was no further information on the potentially stolen firearms or credit cards. Thanks for asking.
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100 years ago the same basic stupid idea was tried here in the USA.
Doubt it, look it up.
It was an attempt to help existing addicts as the Federal / state drug laws came into being. Who can name the book that started the drug control movement?
Btw: it was said to have exploded the hard addict poplulation 5 fold.
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I know this is wandering far off of the main topic, but this is yet another example of "mission creep". There is nothing in the original mission of the Justice Department that would include constructing buildings for the abuse of illegal drugs. Similarly, there is nothing in the original mission of the Center for Disease Control to lecture people about salt or guns.
[Western Journal] With mask mandates for students and teachers increasingly under fire, one of the major children’s hospitals in the country is recommending that facial coverings no longer be required.
Dr. David Rubin, director of the PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said masks should not be considered necessary, WCAU-TV reported Monday.
"We are in a very different moment in this pandemic," Rubin told the station.
Rubin suggested that it is finally time to start getting back to normal in the school setting, particularly since cases of COVID-19 omicron variant among children are more on the level of other seasonal viruses.
The decisions in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Oregon were announced Monday
Changes come amid a growing sense that the virus is never going to go away and Americans need to find a way to coexist with it
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy called the move 'a huge step back to normalcy for our kids'
Murphy cited the 'dramatic decline in our COVID numbers' in announcing the rollback
The omicron variant fueled a spike in infections over the holidays, but cases in the state are down 50% and hospitalizations dropped off by one-third since last week
When the Pfizer and DoD data, and the JHU study, and all the revisions to the inflated hospital data become widely known, how will Klain and Magoo's other handlers manage to blame their shitshow on OrangeMan?
How will they dispose of Fauxi? Chilean helicopter tour?
Comedian Heather McDonald fell hard during a show in Tempe, Arizona, but it was no joke ... it was a medical emergency.
Eyewitnesses tell TMZ that the former "Chelsea Lately" star was headlining the sold-out show, when she delivered her second joke: "I'm vaxxed, double vaxxed, boosted ... and flu shot and shingle shot and haven't gotten COVID and Jesus loves me most."
As soon as she delivered the joke, she just collapsed and hit her head on the floor. Everyone thought at first it was all part of the act, but it was not. She was conscious, but clearly, all was not well. An EMT and a nurse happened to be in the audience ... they rushed up on stage to provide first aid.
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My preferred universal building block is stupidity. There is no end to that.
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Wait for it....
New of C-19/22 strain to popup overseas or South America and spread quickly requiring further Global lockdowns and greater continued restrictive controls and mandates.
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Off the "unworthy, but maybe someone will mention the Trinity" pile from this afternoon...
A boomer, an avid consumer
Of popular science and rumor,
Just knew that the roux
Of the cosmos, and you,
And your little dog's poo,
And the trinity, too,
Were dark humor. Or possibly tumor.
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Or was, even.
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[Fox] A U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agent who contracted COVID-19 while responding to the ongoing immigration crisis at the Texas southern border will be transported closer to home this week after a company donated his medical flight in the wake of the government’s alleged refusal to pay for the trip.
Gustavo Medina was deployed from Ohio to Texas on Nov. 14, 2021, and tested positive for the virus only five days later, his wife, Ann Medina, has said. His condition worsened until he was hospitalized in McAllen, Texas, where he was ultimately placed on a ventilator and then, in a medically induced coma.
"Gustavo is a fighter, but being so far away from home is taking a toll on the whole family," Ann Medina wrote of her husband in a GoFundMe page seeking support.
Ann Medina said the federal government denied her family's request to have her husband transferred to a hospital closer to home in Cleveland, effectively placing the cost and responsibility in their own hands.
Ann Medina later spoke about her family’s struggle during a Feb. 1 segment on "Fox & Friends," when she described how she had been searching for a private transport company to bring her husband home. Little did she know, an executive for emergency evacuation services company FocusPoint International was watching at the time and has since arranged for Gustavo Medina to be transported free of charge, the company confirmed.
"It seems to me that the US Border Patrol has never been busier along our southern border than it is today, it’s unfortunate that Gustavo contracted COVID-19 in the line of duty, and even more unfortunate that Gustavo’s insurance claim to have him transported back home was denied," Greg Pearson, CEO of FocusPoint International, wrote in an email statement to Fox News.
He added: "After hearing Ann’s story, I felt transporting Gustavo back home was the least we could do to show our support, not only for the Medina family, but more broadly for the US Border Patrol and their critical mission along the Southern border."
Barring any issues related to hospital bed availability, Gustavo Medina will be transported to West Cleveland’s Regency Hospital in his home state of Ohio on Tuesday to continue his recovery.
As of Feb. 2, Gustavo Medina remained on a ventilator but had gradually been improving. The money raised through the family’s GoFundMe page will instead go toward his hospital bills, additional treatments and any necessary house modifications, Ann Medina wrote on Sunday.
[ET] The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will not use a third-party company to verify new accounts with facial recognition, the agency announced on Monday in a news release.
The proposed move, which would have used the company ID.me, was criticized resoundingly by privacy advocates and some members of Congress, who say the technology is flawed and would not recognize users if they experienced significant physical changes. Previously, the IRS said it would use the software to cut down on fraudulent accounts.
The IRS "will transition away from using a third-party service for facial recognition to help authenticate people creating new online accounts," according to its news release. "The transition will occur over the coming weeks in order to prevent larger disruptions to taxpayers during filing season."
At the same time, the agency continued, it will "bring online an additional authentication process that does not involve facial recognition." It’s not exactly clear how that will be accomplished ahead of the tax-filing deadline in mid-April.
"The IRS takes taxpayer privacy and security seriously, and we understand the concerns that have been raised," said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig in a statement. "Everyone should feel comfortable with how their personal information is secured, and we are quickly pursuing short-term options that do not involve facial recognition."
The IRS’s change will "not interfere" with taxpayers’ capability to file their tax returns or pay the taxes owed, the agency confirmed.
"During this period, the IRS will continue to accept tax filings, and it has no other impact on the current tax season. People should continue to file their taxes as they normally would," said the IRS.
Some members of Congress hailed the move on Monday.
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Bad timing. Too many references to Voter ID. Too many probing questions.
Ever notice the scant level of discussion regarding the COVID origins and possible work or research connections to Fort Detrick or the UK, Defense Establishment BIO center at Porton Down? Yea, me too.
In polite circles, we generally discuss planetary warming.
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Remember it took the internet blogs and sources to give this the true exposure it needed. Where was the MSM?
However now the question about the IRS comment... "...will transition away from... indicating they already are and have used such services. What will they do with the collected data and whom have they shared it with? ... will they erase it or sell it also.
Interesting to note the name Heather Podesta works for one of the lobbying firms used frequently by ID.me called Invariant LLC. Is she distant family to the WH. Podesta?
Three leaders of a Navy construction battalion have been has been striped of their duties following an internal investigation that was launched last December Oh noes! They got striped?
Commanding officer Jeffrey Lengkeek, executive officer Michael Jarosz, and Master Chief Matthew Turner were relieved of their duties on February 3
The Navy is refusing to elaborate on the circumstances that led to the dismissals, but said no criminal charges are expected
The men will remain in the Navy, but have been reassigned Region Mid-Atlantic indefinitely at Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia
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...Likely all three knew about something and either tried to cover it up and/or ignore it. A few years ago, there was a similar mass LOC in a SEABEE unit when the XO had a wee bit too much to drink and was found strolling through the foliage in the altogether.
In front of mixed company, no less. He screwed up, yes, but the skipper and MCPO tried to hush it up instead of letting nature take it's course.
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No matter how often you bathe or change shorts, if the 'leadership' wishes to fire you, they will find something.
Libyan authorities have managed to arrest the main perpetrator of the 2013 heist of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), Saied Al-Tarhouni. This came after media outlets mentioned his name as one of the main suspects in the case.
Al Jazeera’s ‘Distance Zero’ investigative report revealed details of the largest armed robbery of the CBL, and provided information about the network of those involved in the heist.
The investigation showed that the criminals had stolen funds worth 53 million Libyan dinars ($43.49 million), in addition to $12.8 million Dollars, and €5 million Euros.
Armed men stopped a van in the coastal city of Sirte arriving from the airport, carrying the cash which had been flown in from Tripoli.
In December 2013, three suspects were arrested in southern Libya by the Umm Al-Aranab joint security room. Saleh Haiba, Ali Faraj, and Ghaith Abdul-Hafiz, were handed over to the National Security Center, but an armed group raided the center and forcibly released them.
The Governor of the Central Bank, Al-Siddiq Al-Kabir accused the then Prime Minister, Ali Zeidan and the Minister of Interior of being part of the robbery.
Zeidan denied the accusation, “After the heist, the Minister of Interior and I sent a force in an attempt to storm the site of the stolen money. Notables of the region and members of the General National Congress (GNC) requested the operation be stopped, so as not to shed blood,” he explained.
The sound of heavy gunfire was heard in Bissau, the Guinea Bissau’s capital, which created panic among some civil servants nearly a week after an attempted coup, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reports on Monday.
The attack by the gunmen was not on government buildings, but rather the offices of a private radio station. GBMZ: The Guinea-Bissau Morning Zoo, for your morning drive time craziness
In the said attack, Capital Radio’s equipment – including its transmitter, mixing console and computers – were destroyed.
The station is an affiliate of the US international broadcaster, Voice of America (VOA), but it is not clear who carried out the attack or why. The same radio station was previously targeted in July 2020.
After hearing the gunshots, some civil servants were seen fleeing home.
At least 11 people were killed last Tuesday when soldiers attempted to overthrow President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, according to the authorities.
The president has announced an inquiry into the attempted coup.
[JPost] Wag the dog? Poll issues?
US President Joe Biden said on Monday that Americans who are in Ukraine, aside from US diplomats, should leave the country because of the threat of invasion from Russia.
Biden spoke to reporters alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after the two met in the White House, mainly discussing the tensions over Russia's troop buildup near its border with Ukraine.
Biden said he would hate to see Americans caught in the cross-fire in the event of an invasion.
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Hunter, too?
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Hunter heard there were crack troops north of the border and hitched a ride over last night
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[RIA Novosti] The ships of the Northern Fleet entered the Mediterranean Sea to take part in naval exercises, the press service of the fleet said.
"A detachment of warships <...> consisting of the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov, the frigate Admiral Kasatonov and the large anti-submarine ship Vice-Admiral Kulakov entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Strait of Gibraltar," the statement said.
During the inter-fleet maneuvers, the crews will have to work out interaction with the military sailors of the Black Sea and Pacific Fleets.
It is specified that at the first stage of the long-distance voyage, the Severomors took part in a large-scale exercise with the Arctic expeditionary group led by the commander of the Northern Fleet, Hero of Russia, Admiral Alexander Moiseev.
In accordance with the plan for the preparation of the Armed Forces for 2022, in January-February, a series of maneuvers are being held in all areas of responsibility of the fleets under the general supervision of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov. They are needed to work out the actions of the forces of the Navy and Aerospace Forces to protect Russian national interests in the oceans, as well as to counter military threats to the country from sea and ocean directions.
The exercises will cover the waters of the seas adjacent to Russian territory, as well as operationally important areas of the World Ocean. Separate exercises will be held in the waters of the Mediterranean, North, Okhotsk Seas, in the northeastern part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
In total, it is planned to involve over 140 warships and support vessels, more than 60 aircraft, one thousand units of military equipment, and about ten thousand military personnel for the exercises.
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[RIA Novosti] Among the rioters arrested in Kazakhstan are 35 members of banned extremist movements, Rizabek Ozharov, head of the special prosecutors service at the Prosecutor General's Office, said.
"As of today, there are 35 members of banned extremist movements among those arrested," Ozharov said at a briefing on Monday.
I wish they would clarify whether they mean jihadis, capitalists, populists, or old-fashioned Communists applying their training in unexpected ways.
So, according to him, a group of criminally oriented members of a destructive religious movement was detained in Alma-Ata. Here is a list of banned organizations in the Russian Federation. Prolly applies to Kazakhstan as well.
"During the arrest, firearms were found ready for use. They coordinated the actions of their group. At the same time, one part was on the barricades in the lower part of the city, and the other was on the square," Ozharov explained.
In early January, mass protests took place in Kazakhstan. In the first days of 2022, residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed the doubling of prices for liquefied gas.
So populists?
Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons.
Not the usual action of people protesting high prices, or are the rules different over there?
The authorities declared a state of emergency throughout the country until January 19 and carried out a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN , about 1,000 people were injured during the protests in Kazakhstan. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, 4,578 people were injured as a result of the riots, 225 people died, including 19 security officials.
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[REGNUM] Russian President Vladimir Putin was concerned about discrimination against the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine. This was stated by the Russian leader on February 8 during a press conference following talks with French leader Emmanuel Macron.
The head of Russia explained that he was concerned about discrimination against the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine, enshrined in law. Putin pointed out that the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine is denied "both recognition as an indigenous people, in fact, in their native land, and the use of their native language."
The President of Russia called it strange that this fact is not reflected in any way “in some position on the part of the European countries” and expressed the hope that the President of France, following the meeting in Moscow, will discuss with the Kiev authorities during his upcoming visit to Ukraine issues of ensuring security guarantees and stability in Europe.
Earlier, REGNUM reported that Russian President Putin announced that Ukraine was taking a course towards the dismantling of the Minsk agreements.
[REGNUM] Russia's dialogue with the United States and NATO on security assurances is not over yet, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said at a press conference following talks with French President Emmanuel Macron.
"I don’t think that this is where our dialogue is over," he said.
At the same time, Putin stressed that NATO and the United States, in their responses to Russian proposals, did not pay attention to the main problems troubling Russia. According to the Russian leader, the West simply ignored these provisions.
As REGNUM reported earlier, a meeting between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden took place earlier . It was noted that during the talks, anti-Russian sanctions were discussed, which could be introduced in the event of an escalation of the situation around Ukraine.
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Beat me to it, Deacon.... Got to admit, Pooty is a student of history....of course, he should also consider where that gambit ended up 6 or 7 years later
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The Sudetenland comparison's not even close. This was Tatar / Cossack territory for centuries. Russians arrived mainly in Catherine's time at the end of the 18thc. and later in the 19tg c. after Englishman John Hughes established steelworks to exploit the vast coal reserves.
The Russians who bear the most blame for destroying the Donbas industrial region and causing the current mess are Trotsky and Lenin, who first aligned with and exploited Nestor Makhno's Anarcho-Communist (sound familiar?) movement to defeat the White forces in the Civil War and then demolished their useful-tool allies in 1920.
Which pattern the Ukrainian crazies seem destined to repeat again and again: side with a "liberator" and then get crushed by him.
[Foreign Policy] As Malaysia Airlines’ 298 passengers died over the skies of eastern Ukraine, so did the last trace of hope that Russian President Vladimir Putin would back down from his support of eastern Ukraine’s separatist rebels or agree to a negotiated settlement to the seven-month-long conflict. Since the deadly incident, it is no longer in doubt whether or not the future of eastern Ukraine — or Novorossiya (New Russia), as pan-Slavic nationalists call it — will be decided by force. The only question remaining is how deadly the fight will be.
At the moment, the government in Kiev is ramping up its fight to reclaim Ukraine’s restive eastern regions. At the same time, thousands of Russian troops are amassed along Ukraine’s eastern border, and not just the elite Airborne or Spetsnaz troops that took over Crimea in February, but also units designed to fight conventional wars and armies, like Ukraine’s. The result could be explosive.
[REGNUM] In South Ossetia, the Five Steps to Russia program will be launched, which should create conditions for the republic to join the Russian Federation. This was announced by the President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov in an interview with the Russia-24 TV channel.
“This is not my whim, this is the desire of our people since the 20s of the last century. Ossetians are a divided people, and this separation must be eliminated ,” said Bibilov.
He noted that the issue of the unification of Ossetians is higher than the independence of South Ossetia. The head of the republic noted that the Ossetians did not secede from the Russian Empire, and during the collapse of the USSR, they voted in a referendum to become part of Russia.
Bibilov added that the authorities of the republic are striving to develop integration processes with the Russian Federation.
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[REGNUM] The German tabloid Bild, in the best traditions of anti-Russian propaganda, publishes the “Putin plan”, which is supposedly being prepared and will be implemented after Russia wins a military victory over Ukraine.
Recall that the Western media have been carefully fanning anti-Russian hysteria for several months, and introducing the thesis into Western society that Russia will certainly attack Ukraine. The German tabloid Bild, referring to some intelligence, publishes another crazy set of points that Russia allegedly implements when it attacks Ukraine.
The publication has no doubt that the Russian army will defeat the Ukrainian one in field battles, but after this stage, the Russian armed forces will begin a “siege” of Ukrainian cities, in which, in turn, embedded intelligence cells and politicians loyal to Putin will become more active. They will be instructed to establish a “pro-Russian government” in the cities, which would subsequently agree on surrender to the “Russian occupiers”. This tactic will be used by the Russians until all Ukrainian major cities "peacefully" come under Russian control.
Once military control over Ukraine is established, Russian forces will initiate the convening of a "People's Rada" that will abolish the "real" Verkhovna Rada. In turn, a “reserve government” will emerge from the “Narodnaya Rada”, which will rule Ukraine and be controlled from Moscow.
All these processes will allegedly be accompanied by an intensive propaganda campaign, which will be conducted by the Russian media, including in the West. The campaign will be a prologue to the intensive "Russification" of Ukraine.
Bild claims that the task of the Ukrainian puppet government will be only one: to break the millions of Ukrainians who then will allegedly resist the "Russian occupation." A state of emergency will be introduced, filtration camps will be created for "dissenting" Ukrainians, the lists of which have already been prepared.
The less protesting part of the population of Ukraine will be suppressed by numerous and sinister special services, which will be created on the model of Russian ones. An example to follow is the suppression of the “democratic movement” after the “stolen elections” in Belarus in 2020.
This whole plan has one goal: to create a new "Union State". After the puppet regime in Ukraine is created, a referendum will be held on Ukraine's entry into Russia. Thus, Putin's goal will be the creation of a "Union State" of modern Ukraine, Belarus and Russia with local puppet regimes on the Soviet model and centralized control from Moscow.
Bild claims that a Russian attack on Ukraine is almost inevitable and will begin in February. Not later than March, that's for sure. Unless, of course, Putin changes his mind.
[MAIL] Dozens of athletes thrown into virus isolation at China's zero-Covid Winter Olympics have laid bare their misery - describing 'crying like crazy' after being hauled out of bed at 3am before being fed miserable food in rooms too small for exercise.
Beijing is attempting to hold a virus-free event in the midst of a pandemic, cutting off competitors and their teams in a bubble where tests must be taken every day, with anyone who tests positive dragged off to isolation.
But conditions in isolation are reportedly dire. Valeria Vasnetsova, a Russian biathlete, claims she was served the same inedible meal three times a day for five days in a row - and that it left her so emaciated that her 'bones [were] sticking out'.
Head of German team Dirk Schimmelpfennig also blasted 'unacceptable' conditions for his athletes, saying isolation rooms are too small, not hygienic enough, the food is poor and PCR tests that athletes must take to free themselves are not being given.
Natalia Maliszewska, a Polish speed skater, described being repeatedly moved into and out of quarantine over successive days due to conflicting Covid test results, an experience she described as a 'trauma' that left her 'crying and crying'.
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It's the same food Chinese people eat. I thought they don't want special treatment? They're not getting special treatment. They're being treated exactly the way Chinese people are treated in quarantine. Hotel room, 3 meals a day, PCR tests via swab stuck way up the nose.
They're not outraged because they're being treated unequally. They're outraged because they're being treated equally.
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Why would anyone want to be treated like a peon in a Third World country? We value being in the First World because as a society we’ve worked our way out of the deprivations of national poverty, and in general work very hard to maintain First World standards. Nobody is stupid enough to want to live like that — not even them, which is why so many from the Third World are flooding in through our open borders and sending their wives and daughters to have anchor babies in our hospitals.
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The world should have rightly boycotted the Chinese Olympics after the Chinese plague and the Chinese cover up and the Chinese human rights boo boos. People must stand up for something and not go about business as usual. There are assholes willing to kneel and sing and streak for shit causes like BLM and what not, risking their sports careers all the time.
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Some athletes there be getting less naive day by day.
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Yeah, well. People who have a brief window to make a name for themselves as an olympic athlete really can't be very choosy about which olympics they compete in, or where. And at the organizing level, it's a political event and the host countries are chosen for political reasons.
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One has to wonder how bad it is overall in China if they’re doing such a visibly bad job of delivering this Olympics after their last one was such an impressive spectacle. Food and feasts are such a big thing over there, yet this time athletes are posting photos of near-starvation rations. Quite possibly they’ve passed their tipping point.
People who have a brief window to make a name for themselves as an olympic athlete really can't be very choosy....
Perhaps they chose poorly.
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The notion that china is an inevitable juggernaut is just one more piece of conventional wisdom. Widely circulated and not particularly wise.
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Food and feasts are such a big thing over there, yet this time athletes are posting photos of near-starvation rations.
Curious. Perhaps humiliating the foreign barbarians is the point. A number of countries are doing a 'diplomatic' boycott which has to be embarrassing for China. Appearances do still matter - take tennis star Peng Shuai's "everything is groovy" interview, for example.
Or could it be for competitive advantage? Athletes need calories to fund their physical efforts. Lack of glucose means poor performance for the foreigners. It would not be the first time a communist regime used famine as a weapon.
[PC] See, if this was a BLM/Antifa/Progressive mostly peaceful protest, with the accompanying violence, arson, destroying businesses, looting, and so forth, the government would be fine, since it wouldn’t be challenging the power of the government.
Canada police seen getting tough as trucker protests continue
As the protest against the Canadian government’s health measures and vaccine mandates entered the eleventh day on Monday, police have threatened to clamp down after facing criticism for lack of action that has crippled the national capital.
The "Freedom Convoy" consisting largely of truckers began as a movement against a Canadian vaccine requirement for cross-border drivers. But it has since evolved into a rallying point against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s strict measures to fight the pandemic.
Downtown Ottawa, home to Canada’s parliament, central bank, and buildings including Trudeau’s office, has been largely in lockdown after truckers occupied the streets. Late night honking and occasional fireworks have disrupted the normally quiet life of the residents in the city.
A hearing into a proposed class-action lawsuit seeking an injunction to silence the constant honking by truckers will take place on Monday.
On Sunday night, police began removing gas and fuel supplies at a logistics encampment set up by protesters, after the city’s mayor declared a state of emergency on Sunday.
A well-organized supply chain — including portable saunas, a community kitchen and bouncy castles for children — has sustained the protesters. It has relied partly on funding from sympathizers in the United States, police said.
ZOMG, bouncy houses! And, of course they’re saying this is primarily being funded by non-Canadians, despite protests occurring all over Canada at this point. The Ottawa police are very enthusiastic to arrest people who "attempt to bring material support" to people engaged in their Constitutional right of protest. The police do not say what laws people would be breaking. The laws and Constitutional are apparently fungible in Canada. And CTV News is Very Upset that the truckers erected buildings to hand out food and stuff.
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.....if this was a BLM/Antifa/Progressive mostly peaceful protest, with the accompanying violence, arson, destroying businesses, looting, and so forth, the government would be fine, since it wouldn’t be challenging the power of the government.
you can expect the full force of violence for the state
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(continued) to be incapable of delivering food and fuel where needed.
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Civil disobedience is the way to go.
A coast-to-coast truckers' strike depriving the blue enclaves of their Whole Foods organic tofu, their bottled water and their heating oil will bring the Wokesters to (both) their knees in short order.
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I don't think it would have to be coast to coast, just confine the truck strike to Ottawa and Toronto. Let the residents out, but don't let them back in.
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Meanwhile south of that border, let us all study closely what works and what doesn't.
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Meanwhile in Canada:
On Monday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean issued a 10-day injunction, effective as of yesterday, banning stationary trucks from honking their horns in the Freedom Convoy.
Put it into gear, move an inch forward - HONK! Put it into a different gear, back up an inch - HONK!
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The Canadian parliament was in session yesterday. Apparently there was no motion filed to express "no confidence" in Castro's Bastreau.
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CBC has become so obviously a State Propaganda organ that the bias is nearly palpable. Do these people have no integrity whatsoever?
I tend to discount those who say we need a revolution, but by Zeus, these totalitarian toadies are making the case for at least a big purge of most of the major institutions.
[DetroitNews] A protest against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions in Canada spread across the border Monday, sparking traffic delays as a convoy lined up on the Ambassador Bridge for hours, the first sign demonstrations could affect the United States.
He estimated the mandates left 30-50% of truckers on the U.S. ineligible to cross.
The bridge to Canada in Detroit eventually shut down by nightfall, the Michigan Department of Transportation tweeted at 8:50 p.m.
The backups at what is touted as the nation's busiest international border crossing sparked concern among transportation leaders about the impact amid COVID-led supply chain and staffing shortages on Michigan businesses relying on transported goods.
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As it spreads Turd'doh will discover that hungry people have no tolerance for bulls*it and inaction.
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Yes. He will also be surprised at how the ecosystem around truckers and trucking probably won't take kindly to gummint scabs trying to take over the truckers' jobs.
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[Dawn] At least 19 people were killed by an avalanche on Monday while crossing a remote mountain pass from Afghanistan to Pakistain, a Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... official said.
Scores of Afghans cross illegally to Pakistain every day through the porous mountain border in search of jobs or to buy essential goods for trade.
Najibullah Hassan Abdal, head of information for eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , told AFP rescue workers were still searching at the scene of the avalanche.
"Nineteen bodies have been recovered already," he said.
Illegal traffic across the Pakistain-Afghan border has soared since the Taliban returned to power in August, plunging the country into a severe crisis with tens of thousands of people made jobless.
Pakistain is fencing the entire 2,670 kilometre (1,660 mile) frontier, known as the Durand line for the British colonial administrator who first drew it.
Traders and smugglers have for centuries used well-trodden remote mountain passes to criss-cross the territories and cheat on taxes.
But deadly avalanches are common in the area.
In 2015, more than 250 people were killed across the country in a series of devastating avalanches.
[DW] Scientists say inbreeding is causing an unusually high number of genetic mutations to spread in Pakistain, leading to disabilities in children of consanguineous marriages. Still, this social custom persists.
Their family tree is a braid.
Ghafoor Hussain Shah is a 56-year-old teacher and father of eight children in Pakistain-administered Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... . According to tribal customs in Pakistain, Shah said he is expected to arrange the children's marriages within his extended family.
#1
Exactly why we must fund and enable top-quality islamic studies that unerringly prove incëst cousin marriage is harmless. Also that polio vaccines are haraam.
#5
In a clan-based society, marrying your relatives has some advantages: it keeps wealth within the family and you don't get dragged into another clan's squabbles with their neighbors. Admittedly, the genetic thing is a bit of a downside.
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and Iran: A shocking video captured an Iranian man grinning as he walked through the streets clutching the severed head of his 17-year-old wife — whom he decapitated in an “honor killing,” according to a report.
The gruesome footage shows Sajjad Heydari strolling through a neighborhood in Ahvaz, a city in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, on Saturday with Mona Heydari’s head in one hand and a blade in the other, East2West News reported.
Mona, who also was Sajjad’s cousin, had been forced to marry him when she was just 12 years old, according to the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
She reportedly suffered domestic abuse but was pressured to stay put for the sake of their 3-year-old son, even though she had expressed her wish to divorce the brute.
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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.
[PC] See, if this was a BLM/Antifa/Progressive mostly peaceful protest, with the accompanying violence, arson, destroying businesses, looting, and so forth, the government would be fine, since it wouldn’t be challenging the power of the government.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
