[Head Topics] Stranded World Cup fans offered full refunds after housing didn't have toilets or wash basins
Stranded World Cup fans who hoped to stay in 'fan villages' are being offered full refunds by the Supreme Committee in charge of organizing the event, according to ESPN.
Those fans were left without acceptable accommodations after"fan village" sites were left without basic amenities, like toilets and wash basins. The"fan villages" were constructed to allow World Cup fans to attend the event cheaply. For $200 a night, fans believed they would be staying in a converted shipping container furnished with basic amenities. When those fans arrived, they discovered some of the sites were unfinished and still under construction.
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If you don't have a toilet, why do you need a wash basin?
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World cup/Rainbow people related..."If you want to express your views on the LGBT cause, do so in a society where it will be accepted. Don't come and insult an entire society. We will not change the religion for 28 days. If a fan raises a rainbow flag in a stadium and it is taken away, it will not be because we want to offend him, but to protect him. If we don't, another spectator could attack him. If you buy a ticket, it is to attend a football match and not to demonstrate" Qatar security chief Adullah Al Nasar.
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Qatar invited them, Aca Joe. And while some there stupidly hold on to outdated prejudices, Qatar’s rulers know that without Israel’s friendship Qatar will not survive what is coming.
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“This is your captain; we expect a smooth flight today, barring a couple of smallspeed bumps durin our taxi to the active runway. Pay that no mind as they are self-compressing.”
That would cure some of this crap.
[Firearms News] Squirrel season began on September first in Ohio, and in late October, the son of Editor-in-Chief Vincent DeNiro, Matthew DeNiro, made an incredible shot with a .22 LR handgun.
"I was standing in the foyer of my house when my younger son Matthew said, ’I see a squirrel.’ He stepped out onto our front porch, GSG 1911 .22 pistol in hand. Once the door shut, I peered out of the window to see exactly where this squirrel was. I looked all over the front yard, and trees out to about 30 yards. No squirrel. As he took aim, I then saw a large brown squirrel at about 50 yards which just ran up a good-sized tree and it stopped about five feet up. I didn’t think he was going to hit it at that distance, but he did on the second shot! I measured the distance, and it was 162 feet or 54 yards. Wow."
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While that's a really good shot, I don't think it should have been made. If you are going to shoot at an animal for the pot, you have a duty to make sure you kill it and don't just wound it.
[NCBI] ABSTRACT: In the era of Covid 19 and mass vaccination programs, the anti-vaccination movement across the world is currently at an all-time high. Much of this anti-vaccination sentiment could be attributed to the alleged side effects that are perpetuated across social media from anti-vaccination groups.
Fear mongering and misinformation being peddled by people with no scientific training to terrorise people into staying unvaccinated is not just causing people to remain susceptible to viral outbreaks, but could also be causing more side effects seen in the vaccination process. This brief review will offer data that may demonstrate that misinformation perpetuated by the anti-vaccination movement may be causing more deaths and side effects from any vaccine. Employment termination has also been found to be an effective deterrent to non-compliance.
A mini review of published literature has been conducted and found that mental stress clearly causes vasoconstriction and arterial constriction of the blood vessels. Therefore, if subjects are panicked, concerned, stressed or scared of the vaccination, their arteries will constrict and become smaller in and around the time of receiving the vaccine. This biological mechanism (the constriction of veins, arteries and vessels under mental stress) is the most likely cause for where there has been blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, dizziness, fainting, blurred vision, loss of smell and taste that may have been experienced shortly after vaccine administration. The extreme mental stress of the patient could most likely be attributed to the fear mongering and scare tactics used by various anti-vaccination groups.
This paper does not aim to rule in or out every side effect seen, but it is highly likely that many apparent side effects seen shortly after a subject has received a vaccine could be the result of restricted or congested blood flow from blood vessel or arterial constriction caused by emotional distress or placebo based on fear around vaccines.
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While watching television, one is treated frequently to ads for various pharmaceuticals. These are miracle drugs, obviously. But at the end, there's a laundry list of possible side effects. Some are pretty scary including death. and the terms "May occur", or "may have occurred" while referring to the really bad possibilities are not rare.
And sometimes the list is so long the speaker is artificially sped up so as to get the required Bad Stuff list covered in the time allowed.
Unlike the covid jabs which are, you may be assured by complete absence of warnings, as benign as sterile saline.
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If this is the case then there should be a large number of people getting these 'complications from stress' who have not been vaccinated. That is not the case.
Or there would also be a large number for other types of treatments which cause stress. There are none. Appears only for the Vaccine which is not an actual vaccine.
These are the same people who claims Ivermectin was horse dewormer and is ineffective against Covid - knowing that it was quite effective and safe. Flat out liars who causes hundreds of deaths by withholding effective treatments.
And as a footnote, WAY AT THE BOTTOM: Articles from BioMedicine are provided here courtesy of China Medical University
Looking that up: China Medical University is located in Shenyang, Liaoning province. It was the first medical school established by the Chinese Communist Party,
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These are the same people who claims Ivermectin was horse dewormer and is ineffective against Covid
But CF, that is all true. At least in some sense. Ivermectin *is* used as a horse dewormer. Ivermectin will *not* cure Covid. But looking at a bigger picture, mammals are mammals and share common body plans and biochemical pathways. Vets and human docs prescribe a lot of the same pain-killers and antibiotics.
Ivermectin will not cure Covid, but it seems to lessen the symptoms which means it can keep you from dying of Covid. Not dying is really the key to surviving an illness.
We need a name for this pattern of deception. They are not the Big Lie, but they are not little lies either. Maybe Lawyerly Lies since they so often depend on what the meaning of "is" is.
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i took 2 pfe/biontech shots [2021] got ortho static hypotension in days. 4 sores on left arm & caught
the CCP-Virus in Jan 2022. Long hauler since with exercise intolerance. slowly getting strength back.
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There is mounting evidence, including a study done in Japan, that the Moderna "vaccine" caused my shingles outbreak. Research shows that getting shingles after COVID-19 vaccines predominantly links with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, including the ones that Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna produce.
Experts don’t yet know why the COVID-19 vaccines may increase the risk of shingles. It’s possible that it could happen due to immune system changes that happen after getting a vaccine.
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^^^ A friend of mine (in his 70's) got shingles after the Pfizer 'vaccine'....not uncommon, unfortunately.
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Ref #4 - how about "Billisms", or " Hillisms"?
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given early both ivormectin and the antimalarial drug were about as effective as the best vaccines at reducing symptoms and reducing mortality. And their large scale use for other purposes, and their cheapness made them good alternatives.
This is why people who were developing vaccines and that included everyone in the pharmaceutical busness tried to talk them down, and succeeded in doing so with government officials.
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Nonsense on stilts by "Raymond D Palmer Chief Science Officer of Full Spectrum Biologics".
Published paper claims that all the vax issues are caused by people being afraid of the shots.
Heavy rains in the #Saudi coastal city of #Jeddah on Thursday delayed flights, forced school suspensions and closed the road to #Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, the Saudi Press Agency reported. pic.twitter.com/Kwsr2mRBRV
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Heavy rains happens periodically in Saudi Arabia, which inevitably causes floods like this. Here are satellite photos from flooding in 2005, and here for ditto in 2021.
Perhaps someday they’ll let go of Inshallah thinking, realize this is a regular occurrence — though not everyday — and bring in a civil engineer to do something about it.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Not WOT, yet.
Be worse if they were Israeli drones. China is always Non-WoT unless they’re involved with Iran or similar.
Hundreds of Chinese-made drones have been flying over restricted air space in Washington D.C.
That includes White House and the U.S. Capitol building
Drones are being manipulated by users so they can enter no-fly zones
Security officials worry it could lead to new ways of foreign spying
An Algerian court Thursday sentenced 49 people to death over the lynching of a man falsely accused of starting deadly forest fires during an extended heatwave last year, state media reported.https://t.co/ZfBoWA4PCz
[SPUTNIKNEWS] A viral video shows MPs in the West African country fighting and throwing chairs at each other. According to reports, police detained some of the opposition party members.
A brawl broke out between members of Sierra Leone's ruling SLPP and opposition APC parties over the country's new electoral system in Freetown on Wednesday.
The fistfight erupted during a session of parliament while MPs were discussing a plan to ensure proportional representation in local and general elections this 2023.
According to reports, the government supported the plan, which requires the parliament's approval.
"It was about a statutory instrument that gives a mandate to the electoral commission to make regulations, and our colleagues refused to follow procedures of parliament and they decided to misbehave," Matthew Sahr Nyuma, chairman of parliament's information committee told media. "The speaker was left with no alternative... We had to call the police to continue our business of the day."
In June 2023, the country’s incumbent President Julius Bio, who was elected in 2018, will confront the opposition leader in a contest for his second presidential term.
Last week, MPs passed legislation to implement a gender quota for all elected and appointed positions ahead of next year's elections. According to this legislation, which was the president's main campaign promise in 2018, women will make up one-third of the West African country's parliament.
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[Garowe] Tech billionaire Elon Musk now eyes Tanzania as his new investment destination.
Starlink -an internet service provider that is owned by SpaceX Company is set to be available in Tanzania in the first quarter of 2023.
SpaceX Company has been providing internet connectivity using thousands of satellites in space that communicate with designated ground transceivers.
Analysts affirm that the new service will help boost the digital sector in Tanzania at lower prices and provides fast internet.
Dr Jabiri Bakari -Director General -of Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA) who spoke to local media confirmed that the Starlink Company had made an application.
"I am aware that the company had made an application through our portal."
Tanzania will be the third country that Starlink is setting foot in after successfully establishing its operations in both Mozambique and Nigeria.
Abel Kinyondo -a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, however, opines that the success of Starlink will depend on their internet speed and affordability.
"We all know that in the 21st-century internet service is no longer a luxury, but something which it is a basic need. Its high speed and affordability could mean high speed and fast access to information. If they promised to help farmers get information about the weather and how they can improve their crops, then they will be a force to reckon with."
Abel further added that Starlink's service will set the stage for the growth of the digital economy in Tanzania.
Should Starlink’s application gets approval from the Tanzanian regulatory authority then customers will be charged $ 99 as an installation fee.
Based on the type of license approved by TCRA, it will set the ground for stiff competition with local service providers.
For users to access Starlink internet service, they need to mount a dish on a clear sky and have the Wi-Fi router, cables, and base.
Internet access in many African countries is very slow to the point that even people who can afford it still face some limitations when using it.
[France24] China's daily Covid cases have climbed to the highest level since the pandemic began, official data showed Thursday, despite the government persisting with a zero-tolerance approach involving gruelling lockdowns and travel restrictions.
The numbers are relatively small when compared with China's vast population of 1.4 billion and the caseloads seen reported in Western countries at the height of the pandemic.
But under Beijing's strict zero-Covid policy, even small outbreaks can shut down entire cities and place contacts of infected patients into strict quarantine. Think of Xi as the Teachers Union with nuclear weapons.
The country recorded 31,454 domestic cases -- 27,517 without symptoms -- on Wednesday, the National Health Bureau said. Although CCP statisticians are known to have a flexible approach to the location of the decimal point.
The unrelenting zero-Covid push has caused fatigue and resentment among swathes of the population as the pandemic's third anniversary approaches, sparking sporadic protests and hitting productivity in the world's second-largest economy.
Several major cities including the capital Beijing and southern trade hub Guangzhou are experiencing outbreaks.
Wednesday saw 31,527 cases recorded compared with an April peak of 28,000.
The numbers are still tiny for a country of 1.4 billion people and officially just over 5,200 have died since the pandemic began.
That equates to three Covid deaths in every million in China, compared with 3,000 per million in the US and 2,400 per million in the UK, although direct comparisons between countries are difficult.
While China's zero-Covid policy has clearly saved lives, it has also dealt a punishing blow to the economy and ordinary people's lives.
The country slightly relaxed some of those restrictions a few weeks ago.
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This is a surprise.
After seeing the same 4635 to 4536 COVID-19+ deaths, each week for 88 weeks straight.
They now are telling us they have 5,200 to 5,226 deaths every week since May 12th, 2022, the last 28 weeks.
[AnNahar] A Russian man was Wednesday sentenced to 90 days in jail in Norway for flying a drone over Norwegian territory in violation of a ban adopted in response to the war in Ukraine.
Now Europe's main supplier of natural gas, Norway has been on high alert since mysterious unmanned aircraft were spotted near strategic sites, including oil and gas platforms far offshore over the past few weeks.
The 34-year-old Russian citizen, who said he left Russia to escape President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... 's partial mobilization order, was found guilty of flying a drone "on several occasions" in southern Norway between October 13 and 20, a district court in Bergen said in its verdict.
While he only photographed and filmed the landscape, this violated a flight ban that Norway, like several other Western countries, imposed on Russians following the invasion of Ukraine.
The man, who runs a small travel agency, defended himself by arguing that he was not aware of the ban.
The prosecution had asked for 120 days in prison, and his lawyer had asked for an acquittal.
Nearly a dozen Russians have been arrested in Norway in recent weeks for violating the flight ban or the ban on photographing sites deemed sensitive, as the country has heightened security around strategic infrastructure.
Wednesday's verdict is the first known prison sentence for violating the ban in Norway.
Last month, the Russian embassy in Oslo criticized what it said was a "psychosis" in Norway, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... member with which Russia shares a 198-kilometre (123-mile) border in the far north.
[artnet] Thieves broke into a German museum on Monday night and stole 450 gold coins thought to be worth several million euros, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) confirmed.
The police have not disclosed whether they have arrested anyone for the crime, but it has been suggested that the criminals were professionals who got away with the heist by disrupting local phone and internet services.
The ancient treasures are around 2,000 years old and were uncovered in 1999 during the excavation of a large Celtic settlement in the modern-day region of Manching in Bavaria, Germany. It was the largest discovery of Celtic gold in the last century and a landmark find at one of the most important archaeological sites in central Europe.
In 2006, the treasure was installed at the nearby Roman-Celtic Museum, which presents local finds from the Iron Age and Roman times. It became the crown jewel of the collection.
"The loss of the Celtic treasure is a catastrophe, the gold coins are irreplaceable as evidence of our history," said Bavaria’s minister for science and art, Markus Blume, according to a report in Monopol. "Whoever did this, someone has violated our history."
"The burglary must have taken place in the early hours of the morning," said a spokesperson for the LKA. "It was classic, as you would imagine in a bad film."
It is believed the thieves succeeded in part by disrupting local phone and internet services. "Professionals were at work here," the local mayor, Herbet Nerb, told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. "They cut off the whole of Manching. The museum is actually a high-security location but all the connections to the police were severed."
Nobody cares about the coins, either. European history is a dead letter in Europe. If it were gold earned by the slavers of Dahomey, now that would be a tragic loss.
[Gateway] Jason Goodman at Crowdsource the Truth was in D.C. on January 6, 2021 and inadvertently filmed Ray Epps, who is widely suspected of being an FBI informant. Jason’s new video material and photos appear below.
Why is Epps believed to be an FBI informant? Epps appeared on video inciting Trump supporters to storm the Capitol and assaulting a police officer, yet he was never arrested and charged. Quite a contrast with more than a hundred Trump supporters who were arrested for merely walking into the Capitol. For readers outside the United States, I want to ensure you understand the expression, "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck!" The "duck" with respect to Ray Epps strongly suggests that he was collaborating with the FBI or acting at their direction.
[The Hill] Just two House races remain undeclared as of Thanksgiving Day, with Republicans leading in both races and looking to add to their majority.
Democrats were able to hold on to the Senate and keep control of a number of key House seats after the "red wave" failed to materialize on Election Day, but Republicans last week narrowly crossed the 218-seat threshold to take the House.
Now, more than two weeks after the midterms, two House races in California and Colorado are officially still up in the air — though the Democrat has conceded in Colorado. If the current GOP leads hold, Republicans will secure 222 House seats, while Democrats would hold 213.
The 222-213 breakdown would notably be the exact reverse of the results in the 2020 election cycle, when the House split in the Democrats’ favor.
In California’s 13th Congressional District, Republican John Duarte is ahead of Democratic former State Assemblyman Adam Gray by less than 600 votes, with 99 percent of the vote counted, according to The Associated Press.
The race was seen as a toss-up heading into Election Day in the recently redrawn California district.
The 13th Congressional District is currently represented by Rep. Barbara Lee (D), who decided to run in, and win, the new 12th District. Gray was endorsed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and both of California’s Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, but the redrawn lines made a blue win uncertain.
An unexpected announcement. What brought it on — especially now, as winter deepens its hold in the northern hemisphere?
[BenarNews] The United States says it will help Thailand and the Philippines with a new civilian nuclear technology to reduce climate-damaging emissions, but experts warn the final products are years away from being operational and other hurdles exist.
Plans by the U.S. to supply its longtime Southeast Asian allies with so-called small modular reactors (SMRs) were unveiled during Vice President Kámala Harris Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge ’ trip to both countries in recent days.
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Not hearing about the adventures of our beloved president is probably better for America, not to mention the rest of the world. President Putin getting press does him no favours.
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.
[Head Topics] Stranded World Cup fans offered full refunds after housing didn't have toilets or wash basins
[NCBI] ABSTRACT: In the era of Covid 19 and mass vaccination programs, the anti-vaccination movement across the world is currently at an all-time high. Much of this anti-vaccination sentiment could be attributed to the alleged side effects that are perpetuated across social media from anti-vaccination groups.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
Is the GOLO working, or was that expensive LE body armor you were wearing on 6 Jan ?
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism or misogyny or something like that. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
