[BREITBART] At least 30 people were shot, three of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Breitbart News reported that one of the three weekend shooting fatalities was an 86-year-old man, who was shot and fatally maimed Saturday morning around 10:00 a.m. after getting out to his truck to retrieve something.
The elderly man, Charles Hobson Sr., was transported to a hospital at death's door, where he died.
CBS News noted that the next fatal shooting of the weekend occurred at 12:40 a.m. Sunday. A 40-year-old man was shot in the chest by an unknown assailant "in the 9000 block of South Emerald Avenue." He died at the hospital.
Hours later, at 10:45 a.m., a 24-year-old man was sitting inside his vehicle when another vehicle pulled up alongside him. Two people exited the second vehicle and opened fire. The victim was shot multiple times and died at the scene.
The Chicago Sun-Times pointed out that 433 people were killed in Chicago between January 1, 2023, and September 24, 2023.
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[MAIL] Actor David McCallum, who shot to fame as a teen heartthrob in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in the 1960s, before starring as an eccentric medical examiner in NCIS 40 years later, has died at the age of 90.
Scottish-born McCallum died of natural causes on Monday, surrounded by family at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
US broadcaster CBS said in a statement: 'David was a gifted actor and author, and beloved by many around the world.
'He led an incredible life, and his legacy will forever live on through his family and the countless hours on film and television that will never go away.
McCallum had appeared in such films A Night to Remember (about the Titanic), The Great Escape and The Greatest Story Ever Told (as Judas).
But it was spy drama, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. that made McCallum a household name in the mid-'60s.
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Was startled last night, fipping channels on the extra screen last night looking for some propaganda, to see Pauley Perrette's big old Jay Leno jaw about to bust out into the room with me. Hadn't aged a day. Wrrr. Owww. Let it play, and ended up pondering what a likable cat McCallum was... and why CBS would be airing such old material.
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^ I think they had a NCIS marathon already scheduled (writers and actors on strike)
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^ Not like they'd bring back something good.
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I remember an episode where Illya Kuriakin was planted as a Thrush scientist. He was coerced into giving an impromptu lecture. He started the lecture by saying, "Now, the purpose of inertial guidance is to guide inertially". Are there any questions?
Kamala Harris could watch that episode for inspiration.
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Really? Did you know that there is extreme reluctance to use recycled plastic for any sanitary or 'food contact' item? Simple reason: How do you make sure that the recycled plastic container didn't contain pesticides? Imagine the bad publicity for 'Toddlers chewing on Legos™ containing Agent Orange'.
[FOX] U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company announced Monday that it would pause construction of a billion-dollar plant in Michigan involving a Chinese electric vehicle battery company.
Ford said in a statement to FOX Business that work on the factory had been paused and spending would be limited, but declined to pinpoint the exact considerations that factored into the decision. The Detroit-based company also said it hadn't made a final decision about the project despite repeatedly defending it for months.
"We’re pausing work and limiting spending on construction on the Marshall project until we’re confident about our ability to competitively operate the plant," Ford spokesperson T.R. Reid told FOX Business. "We haven’t made any final decision about the planned investment there."
Ford announced in a ceremony earlier this year that it would invest $3.5 billion to build the plant in Marshall, Michigan. As part of the announcement, the U.S. automaker said it had reached an agreement with Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), a Ningde, China-based firm, to manufacture battery cells at the plant using services provided by the Chinese company.
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^#2 Reminds me of the joke about the blonde who locked the keys in her car and couldn't get out...
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...FWIW, the Big 3 are suddenly re-examining their headlong rush to electrification - to give an example, Ford is losing 30K per car on their Mach E SUV. Not that they're selling that many in the first place. The F-150E Lightning is a great pick-up truck...for people who don't need a pick-up truck or need one with limited range.
Stellantis (what was once Chrysler, many many years ago) made a big deal of ending ICE production this year, and is now seriously hedging on that.
GM had the good fortune (given some of their other decisions, I can't say 'sense') to have a couple of EVs already in production, and the only new one I know they have coming out is a seriously bespoke Caddy.
NB: This article is dated yesterday, despite sounding like it was written in 2021.
[ReclaimTheNet] The trial of a Chinese journalist and her labor rights activist ally is again laying bare China’s increasingly oppressive statute on civil society. Huang Xueqin, at one time an influential figure in the Chinese #MeToo movement, and Wang Jianbing, her ally, were apprehended by the authorities in September 2021. Over six months later, both now find themselves grappling with charges of “inciting subversion of state power.” The muddled legal terms underlying their charges make evident the continual tendency in recent years for Beijing to repress outspoken critics of societal issues in the nation.
Huang rose to recognition early in 2018 for her endeavors towards encouraging victims of sexual harassment to break their silence. Her creation of a social media outlet for reporting such cases of alleged misconduct further highlighted the abiding issue in universities and offices alike. Following her detainment in 2021 – not her first brush with the law – she delivered a handwritten testimony, affirming that “Being a journalist is not a crime,” the Times reports.
Her ally, Wang, demonstrated a commitment not only to the rights of the disabled but also laborers. He also stood as an advocate for the #MeToo community, providing a platform for harassment victims to come forward.
However, their bold stance led to severe reprisal from the authorities. In pillorying such advocates of change, Beijing has moved to silence critics and handcuff free speech, expanding their reign of censorship over voices that criticized alleged institutional abuses. The polarity between the public and the government has only widened in recent years, suggesting an intensifying trend of crackdowns on dissenters.
According to the human rights organization, Chinese Human Rights Defenders, China’s state organs have systematically crippled civil society over the past decade, pushing it into disarray. They’ve highlighted the increasingly ruthless tactics Beijing has opted to employ, including the arbitrary detainment of societal activists and their attempts to keep them silent.
The narrative of Huang and Wang is not an isolated one, but rather a testament to the crusade that Beijing has waged against an array of societal factions, be it activists, lawyers, business leaders, or intellectuals.
The pair’s trial, held at the Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, has perpetuated the government’s ironclad grip on civil liberties.
Two Chinese activists held without trial for the past two years are expected to appear before a judge in a closed doors hearing on Friday as the ruling Communist Party ramps up its effort to dismantle what remains of the country’s civil society.
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...Hmmm. We had a CVS a few hundred yards from us that closed very suddenly about a year ago, but within the last week has been refurbed (at least on the outside) with a new parking lot and traffic markings.
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I get some vitamins and toothpaste at CVS but all my actual prescriptions are filled at Sam's Club. I always laugh at how often they have the yellow "Buy one Get One Free" tag on the shelf below an item that is only stocked one package deep...
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Have had problems with them even before they purchased AETNA my Health insurance provider.They screwed AETNA up also.
They seem to train pharmacists only to have them dump and run after a year. Plus I have recenty noticed many of my med's have shorter expiration dates than before.
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I've been using CVS for more than 20 years. Never had any problems but then I do live near a small town. The Pharmacist and the other workers know me by name.
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Corporate de-urbanization, making life in feral regions of former great cities even harder.
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Just like food deserts in urban areas, a lot is going to disappear. Those who can will go to the suburbs. Then it will dawn on many, why not just move. Those who can't, well keep on voting for the people driving decivilization. Rome was the first city to reach a million. It didn't take long for it to depopulate to a tenth of that when 'security' became an issue.
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Rite Aid! Ach, die Rite Aid... goes without saying that I'll always hate them for killing off K&B, but I'd come to tolerate me SoCal local. Staff was efficient, friendly, and genuinely diverse: crusty middle-aged ladies from far corners of the county... and the world, plus a manager straight outta Dickens.
Then covid, and now it's wall-to-wall superficially diverse (right down to apparent trans, mysterious foreign tats, prison tells...) grads of Kashier Konformity Kollege. High turnover, crap managers, amusingly hapless attempts at predatory stocking and pricing... and still no sucralose (don't cry for me -- I quit). And now, with nearby CVS gone, it'll thrive while killing itself off. Yay.
[Townhall] Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) got busted. The allegations of him being dirty and corrupt became a news story when he was again slapped with corruption charges after federal agents raided his house. Almost $500,000 in cash was discovered all over the residence, some of which were hidden in clothing articles. Even $100,000 worth of gold bars were found. It’s something from a John Wick movie.
As Katie wrote last week, Menendez’s case has crossed paths with Hunter Biden. Hunter had extensive connections in DC, with the latest emails proving that. Nothing was incriminating in these messages, but who he was communicating with was the key, which explains how the president’s son could charge clients these enormous rates for government access. From John Kerry to Antony Blinken, the younger Biden had an "in" with DC’s top people.
So, it shouldn’t shock us that Hunter probably had one of the top Democrats on the Hill in his rolodex. Menendez is one of the kingmakers:
[Breitbart] An anti-Covid drug widely used across the world may have caused mutations in the virus, researchers said on Monday, but there was no evidence that the changes had led to more dangerous variants.
Pharmaceutical giant Merck’s antiviral pill molnupiravir was one of the earliest treatments rolled out during the pandemic to prevent Covid becoming more severe in vulnerable people.
The drug, which is taken orally over a five-day course, works mainly by creating mutations in the virus with the goal of weakening and killing it.
However, a new UK-led study has shown that molnupiravir "can give rise to significantly mutated viruses which remain viable," lead author Theo Sanderson told AFP.
Sanderson, a geneticist at London’s Francis Crick Institute, emphasised that there is no evidence that "molnupiravir has to date created more transmissible or more virulent viruses."
None of the variants that have swept the world were due to the drug, he added.
But "it is very difficult to predict whether molnupiravir treatment could potentially lead to a new widely circulating variant which people don’t have prior immunity to," he added.
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.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
[Townhall] Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) got busted. The allegations of him being dirty and corrupt became a news story when he was again slapped with corruption charges after federal agents raided his house. Almost $500,000 in cash was discovered all over the residence, some of which were hidden in clothing articles. Even $100,000 worth of gold bars were found. It’s something from a John Wick movie. 
[Breitbart] An anti-Covid drug widely used across the world may have caused mutations in the virus, researchers said on Monday, but there was no evidence that the changes had led to more dangerous variants.
