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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Home Intruder with Long Rap Sheet "Cut to Pieces" by Florida Man After Shooting Innocent Woman in the Face
[Gateway] A low-life career criminal paid the ultimate price after breaking into a Florida man’s home and shooting his wife.

WESH reported that Highland County police officers responded to a suspicious incident at a home in Avon Park at roughly 8:30 p.m. Once deputies arrived on the scene, they found a male and female with severe injuries. Both were revealed to be 69-years-old.

In addition to the wounded couple, cops found there was a dead man not related to the couple inside the residence. Police identified the person as 62-year-old Lindsey Glenn and said he broke into the residence and shot the female victim in the face.

Highlands County Sheriff Paul Blackman told reporters Glenn gained entry into the couple’s home under a scam that involved the woman’s job as a notary.

After the male victim witnessed Glenn try to kill his wife, Blackman said the man grabbed a seven-inch garden knife and went to work on the intruder. Glenn ended up dying brutally as a result.

Blackman revealed the thug was "cut to pieces" and "very much deceased" when deputies found him. The sheriff thanked the male victim for his heroic actions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 01:12 || Comments || Link || [217 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After the male victim witnessed Glenn try to kill his wife, Blackman said the man grabbed a seven-inch garden knife and went to work on the intruder. Glenn ended up dying brutally as a result.

What a heartwarming love story! ❤️❤️
Posted by: Angealing+B.+Hayes4677 || 05/19/2024 1:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Intruder was 62?
Unusual
The violent criminality is usually gone with the hormones by 50…
Posted by: Anon1 || 05/19/2024 6:28 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Hopefully he had achieved 40 SSN quarters. (Social Security quarters, or quarters of coverage (QCs) and was awaiting FRA.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 6:31 Comments || Top||

#4 
Note: L. Glenn has a long rap sheet, with at least 12 different known felonies.

Here we have a multiple convicted Violent Felon, with a firearm and Laws that only make it increasingly difficult for citizens, who obey the law, to defend themselves.

Another example of the growing need for a convicted violent felon, 3 strikes law.



Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/19/2024 8:16 Comments || Top||

#5  a seven-inch garden knife




Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Trench knife
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/19/2024 13:43 Comments || Top||

#7  "Why a spoon, cousin?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2024 20:34 Comments || Top||

#8  And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named Doris
And ooh that girl looked nice

Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
Leroy Brown he learned a lesson 'bout messin'
With the wife of a jealous man

And he's bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
Meaner than a junkyard dog

Well the two men took to fightin'
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2024 20:48 Comments || Top||


Yes, you can take a hammer to a gunfight, but only once.
[Daily Caller] A Washington State Patrol (WSP) Trooper fatally shot a man armed with a hammer during an altercation Thursday afternoon, according to a statement.

The Trooper was responding just after 4 p.m. to a road rage incident in which the suspect rammed a Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) vehicle on the shoulder of the I-5 northbound near milepost 197, according to the statement from the Snohomish County Multiple Agency Response Team (SMART). The vehicle had a lift that was operating over a slough and carried two contractors, according to the statement.

An altercation broke out between the suspect, the contractors and the Trooper, during which the Trooper shot the suspect, the statement revealed.

One of the contractors sustained non-life-threatening injuries, the statement added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 00:36 || Comments || Link || [105 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Paul Pelosi was unavailable for comment.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/19/2024 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably better off with a nail gun than a hammer. Choosing the right tool for the job, and all that.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2024 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  If I had a hammer, I’d hammer … Hey, ouch.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/19/2024 14:45 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Vietnamese Community Furious over L.A.'s ‘Jane Fonda Day'
[Breitbart] Activists immediately retaliated against the celebration by dubbing the month as "Black April," referring the fall of Saigon, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Fonda, who has been denigrated as "Hanoi Jane" for decades, is notorious not just for opposing the U.S. war effort but for actually traveling into North Vietnamese territory and giving aid and comfort to the Chinese-backed enemy.

"She may be a very strong activist for climate change, but besides that, we also view her as being a person who was very cruel to the rights of the South Vietnamese people during the antiwar protests," said L.A. resident Phat Bui, chairman of the Vietnamese American Federation of Southern California.

Bui also sent a letter to county officials to change the date and added that choosing "such a date can inflict so much pain to our community and to the Vietnam War veterans."

U.S. forces fled the South Vietnamese Capitol on April 30, 1975. Members of L.A.’s Vietnamese community gather every April 30 to memorialize that dark day.

Republican State Sen. Janet Nguyen blasted the county, saying Fonda Day was "alarming and profoundly disrespectful to over half a million Vietnamese Americans in California."

Rep. Michelle Steel, also a Republican, also blasted the county.

"To elevate Hanoi Jane over the Vietnamese Community, Americans who sacrificed their lives, and the loved ones they lost to communism, is deeply offensive to the freedom-loving Vietnamese Americans who bear such tragic and painful memories of the Vietnam War," Steel said.

With all the pressure over the offensive choice of dates, the county’s board of supervisors agreed to move the date and is now considering April 8 instead. The board also insisted that the choice of April 30th for Fonda’s honors "was unintentional."

Fonda, who spent many years refusing to apologize for her aid to the Communists, did relent later in life. In 2013, she admitted to making a huge mistake posing for her infamous photos alongside North Vietnamese soldiers in 1972.

"I made one unforgivable mistake when I was in North Vietnam, and I will go to my grave with this," she said at the time, adding, "I don’t know if I was set up or not." "I was an adult. I take responsibility for my actions..."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 09:25 || Comments || Link || [72 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Remember these?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/19/2024 14:09 Comments || Top||

#2  She would probably enjoy it.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 05/19/2024 20:00 Comments || Top||


Air Force Celebrates ‘Pride Month' Amidst ‘Worst' Recruiting Crisis In Modern History
[Federalist] As Joe Biden’s reckless foreign policy puts the world on the edge of catastrophe with conflicts already raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, the Air Force is directing its focus toward the biggest issue implicating U.S. national security: LGBT "pride."

In an under-the-radar maneuver, Marianne Malizia, the Air Force’s chief diversity officer, issued a memo Monday informing service members that the Department of the Air Force recognizes June as "LGBTQ+ Pride Month 2024." In doing so, she claimed the month represents "a time to celebrate the diversity and inclusivity of our force, and to honor the contributions of our LGBTQ+ Airmen, Guardians, and dependents."

"Our Air and Space Forces are stronger because of the unique backgrounds and experiences of our Total Force that engender a more inclusive, and ultimately more effective, team," Malizia wrote.

An Air Force representative confirmed the authenticity of the memo to The Federalist. A copy of the document was initially posted on X by former Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who was relieved of command in 2021 after publicly discussing the increasing pervasiveness of leftism in the military.

The Air Force memo’s contents are hardly just celebratory, however. In fact, the communique advances core tenets of neo-Marxist ideology, such as so-called "diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)." Employing an "oppressed versus oppressor" dynamic, Malizia contended: "While we acknowledge the progress we have made, we are also mindful that real challenges persist for members of the LGBTQ+ community."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 01:21 || Comments || Link || [143 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Marianne Malizia
Director, Diversity And Inclusion, US Air Force
In 2021, Malizia took over U.S. Air Force DEI for 697,000 active duty airmen. She is responsible for advancing the Air Force's diversity and inclusion mission.
Prior to joining the Air Force, she established the first diversity and inclusion program at XPO Logistics, a global logistics company with over 43,000 employees.
She worked for Booz Allen Hamilton for over 20 years, where she co-led the establishment of and eventually co-chaired the firm's LGBTQ Employee Resource Group. She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served nine years as an active-duty Army officer, during which she had assignments in Germany and also provided operational support for Desert Storm and Desert Shield.
Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 || 05/19/2024 8:58 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Frank G || 05/19/2024 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Blinken Will Allow U.S. Embassies to Fly Pride Flag
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  She kinda has that squirrel on meth look to her.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/19/2024 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  They all seem to, don't they.

Air Force Chief Diversity Officer. Notice, not in a uniform, so a Political Officer. What had Political Officers in history been called again?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2024 13:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Zampolit...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/19/2024 14:13 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
D-Day Secrets Revealed: Operation Jedburgh Trailer
[YouTube] D-Day: June 6, 1944. The Allied invasion along the beaches of France that changed the course of World War II. As the conventional forces landed, America’s first Special Forces units operated deep behind enemy lines.

This is the story of Operation Jedburgh. Three man teams of one American, one French and one British operator parachuted deep into occupied France starting the night before D-Day. Their mission: link up and partner with French Resistance Forces to conduct sabotage, subversion and disruption attacks to prevent the German Army from reinforcing the beaches of Normandy during Operation Overlord. Win at all costs.

Post World War II, American Jedburghs went on to form the foundation of the Central Intelligence Agency and later United States Army Special Forces Green Berets.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 13:49 || Comments || Link || [41 views] Top|| File under:


Nasa Officially Refused SpaceX Dragon Free Mission To Rescue Hubble
Posted by: 3dc || 05/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [154 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We'd rather build a new one (at least the contractors would).
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/19/2024 8:45 Comments || Top||

#2 

Space Law to be tested?

If NASA has decided to ABANDON the Hubble Spaceship.

Could SpaceX use Maritime Laws to Salvage it?

Imagine that on display and the $$$$$$ viewing fees collected.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/19/2024 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Reminds me of a Det 3 colleague, Carl Walz.

"Walz also participated in a 7-hour spacewalk (EVA) to evaluate tools for the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission."

Carl was a 'by-the-book' guy.
In the procedure, well practiced in a weightless simulation water tank, Carl was to use an electric socket wrench to open a Hubble access panel. With no footing or water mass resistance, he fitted the socket per protocol and with approval from Houston activated the wrench. Whereupon the video link showed Carl immediately begin to spin counter-clockwise, around the bolt.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Whereupon the video link showed Carl immediately begin to spin counter-clockwise, around the bolt.

Physics wins in the end. No matter what the PERT chart says.

Righty tighty, lefty loosey,
If you're spinning, your the goosie!
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2024 13:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Via Transterrestrial.com, a link to the NPR article referenced in 3dc's video.

The article goes deeper into the real risks and even more real politics involved in the decision.

tl;dr: a SpaceX mission being "free" is not the only parameter in the decision matrix.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/19/2024 18:16 Comments || Top||

#6  In the procedure, well practiced in a weightless simulation water tank, Carl was to use an electric socket wrench to open a Hubble access panel. With no footing or water mass resistance, he fitted the socket per protocol and with approval from Houston activated the wrench. Whereupon the video link showed Carl immediately begin to spin counter-clockwise, around the bolt.

You serious?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2024 19:19 Comments || Top||

#7  It's a funny story for me and I'm reminded of it every time, NASA...

Apologies to those for whom this is a repeat.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 23:53 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Parts of Ghor, Faryab Devastated By Floods
[TOLONEWS] Nearly 70 people have died due to devastating floods in the provinces of Ghor and Faryab.

Thousands of homes, hundreds of shops, and thousands of acres of farmland have been destroyed in these floods, and thousands of livestock have also perished.

Local officials in Ghor province have reported that ten residents are still missing, and the corpse count from the floods that occurred yesterday evening (Friday) may increase.

Yesterday's floods in Ghor have devastated nearly eighty percent of the city of Ferozkoh.

Additionally, the floods have surrounded the Minaret of Jam in Ghor, raising concerns about the potential destruction of this 800-year-old monument.

Abdul Wahid Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
, the spokesperson for the governor of Ghor, told TOLOnews: "In these floods, fifty people, including women and kiddies, have died, and several are missing. Two thousand houses have been completely destroyed, and more than four thousand houses have been partially damaged. Furthermore, two thousand five hundred shops in the city of Ferozkoh and the districts of this province have been destroyed."

The destructive and deadly floods in Ghor have also affected the districts of Shahrak, Dolina, and Tiura alongside the city of Ferozkoh. The main Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
-Ghor highway and roads connecting the districts to Ferozkoh have been destroyed and blocked.

Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [25 views] Top|| File under: Taliban/IEA


Africa Subsaharan
Senegal's Sonko wants to reassess ties with France
[AFRICANEWS] A reset of Africa's relations with Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
is the only future in sight, Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
's Prime minister predicted Thursday (May 16).

Ousmane Sonko pointed to a decisive context which requires a change in historical patterns.

The leader of the PASTEF political party held a conference on the future of Africa-Europe ties.

He hosted leftwing politican Jean-Luc Mélenchon who is a former French presidential candidate .

Speaking at the Cheikh Anta Diop University, in Dakar, Sonko said La Belle France's military presence in his country and across the continent raised legitimate concerns. He questionned the impact on national illusory sovereignty and strategic autonomy of the concerned African states.

He gave as an example La Belle France's decision in 1966 to close all NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
bases on the territory on illusory sovereignty grounds.

According to the French ministry for Armed Forces, nearly 400 soldiers providing regional military training are based at two camps in Dakar.

Ousmane Sonko said that his view do not call into question existing defense agreements with other countries.

In 2010, Senegal retook control of several military bases held by its former colonial ruler following an agreement.

Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [42 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See New Caledonia
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 9:33 Comments || Top||


Malawian man convicted of insulting the president in a TikTok video
[AFRICANEWS] A man in Malawi has been convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video showing an animated figure, with Chakwera's face superimposed on it, doing some quirky dance moves.

Sainani Nkhoma was found guilty by a court on Thursday, which said he had posted the video and insulting comments about the president on a community WhatsApp group.

Members of the group in the central town of Mponela reported him to the ruling Malawi Congress Party, and he was arrested on Tuesday night.

Judge Talakwanji Mndala said Nkhoma’s actions were inappropriate.

Sentencing has been scheduled for next week, but the judge warned that the punishment could be a fine of around $3,500 or six years in prison.

Chakwera was elected president in 2020 after the country’s Constitutional Court ordered an unprecedented re-run of the 2019 presidential poll.

The incumbent president at the time, Peter Mutharika, was initially declared winner of the election, but the court said there was evidence of widespread irregularities.

Following his win, Chakwera said: "I’m so happy I could dance all night."

Posted by: Fred || 05/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


Economy
Prepper Beef Company Starts Stockpiling Ribeye and NY Strip for Coming Challenges'
[Gateway] 2024 is starting off as a challenging year for cattle ranchers in America and the domino effect will push those challenges even further, according to reports coming from across the nation. Costs of feed and resources are going up while weather conditions have not been conducive to ranching for nearly two years.

"We’re hearing it from just about everyone," said Jason Nelson, Co-Founder of Prepper Beef. "They are paying more for everything they need and they are raising prices to match. But higher prices means lower demand as consumers seek alternatives."

In an ideal scenario, it would be demand that drives prices. Things are not ideal. Not only are ranchers facing cost hikes that they’re partially passing onto consumers, but they’re also facing a slew of other challenges on the horizon. The push for "green" alternatives like lab-grown protein or bugs has prompted a rush on particular cuts of meat, particularly Ribeye and NY Strip.

"We are going to be stocking up as much as we can," Nelson said, referring to Ribeye and NY Strip. "Since our beef is freeze dried with a 25-year shelf life, we have the luxury of getting it at today’s prices so we can continue to make it affordable for our customers who want to stockpile for the future."

To make room in the warehouses for additional NY Strip and Ribeye, Prepper Beef is putting their Beef Steaks products on sale. With promo code "TGP15" our readers can take 15% off, whether it’s a 1-pack, 4-pack, or a variety pack.

"The original ’Beef Steaks’ product is, oddly enough, my personal favorite," Nelson said. "It’s a combination of Sirloin, Chuck, and other quality cuts and goes so well in stews that I open up one of those bags instead of the others when we need a quick meal."

The preparedness community has been exploding since the beginning of 2021. Americans are concerned about the future, especially as it pertains to food and the economy. They see what’s happening at the southern border. They hear what’s being discussed in Davos. They don’t trust politicians and they aren’t sure if they can wait for better ones to take office... IF better ones are even allowed to take office.

Prepper Beef is an all-American, veteran-owned company based in the heart of Texas. Their cows are sourced directly from the ranches where they’re raised. This is important as most food companies in "Big Ag" are turning overseas to import their lower quality beef.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 06:38 || Comments || Link || [100 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll have to check them out.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 05/19/2024 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm working on setting up snares. Next up is an ojibwa bird snare. Lots of fun.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/19/2024 13:39 Comments || Top||

#3  We should set up strategic t-bone reserves. Let’s do it after Biden is gone.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/19/2024 14:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Came to me highly recommended.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2024 19:46 Comments || Top||


Europe
Tanzanian-flagged ship sank in the Black Sea
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Tanzanian-flagged ship Mohammad-Z sank in the Black Sea 26 nautical miles from the Romanian city of Sfintu Gheorghe. This was reported by the Romanian Maritime Administration.

It is noted that the alarm was received at about 4:00 am. Two border police ships and two nearby merchant ships were sent to the scene.

The crew of Mohammad-Z consisted of 11 people, nine of whom were citizens of Syria, two more were citizens of Egypt.

Eight people were rescued by the crew of the merchant ship Michel, which was closest to the disaster site. The search for three more - Syrian citizens - continues.

The Romanian Maritime Administration noted that the cause of the crash is still unknown. An investigation will be conducted to determine the causes and circumstances of the incident.

As Regnum reported, more than 90 people died as a result of the sinking of a fishing boat off the coast of Mozambique. The homemade boat was not designed to transport people. The ship was carrying about 130 people and was heading to a small island off the coast of Mozambique.

In March, a 368-metre Hong Kong-flagged container ship collided with cranes at Kocaeli International Port in western Turkey. There were no casualties. Due to the incident, several containers fell from the vessel into the water.

Posted by: badanov || 05/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [78 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the cause of the crash is still unknown

Would one deliberately sink a cargo vessel?

Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?


Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Cool story, Skid!
Posted by: Frank G || 05/19/2024 10:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks Bub,
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Agreed. That is a neat story. Thank you for sharing!
Posted by: Secret Master || 05/19/2024 12:07 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Slaughterhouse children: Child labor exposed in America's food industry (video)
[NBC] In towns across America, children working in dangerous jobs in slaughterhouses is an open secret. Data from the Labor Department says that children are illegally working at alarming rates. NBC News takes you inside these slaughterhouses in an investigation that spans six states, two countries, dozens of interviews and thousands of pages of public records.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 06:18 || Comments || Link || [56 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So we found some of the kids Mayorkas can’t account for.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/19/2024 15:02 Comments || Top||


Ex-CDC Director Says It's High Time To Admit 'Significant Side Effects' Of COVID-19 Vaccines
[ET via ZERO] Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday that many officials who tried to warn the public about potential problems with COVID-19 vaccines were pressured into silence and that it’s high time to admit that there were "significant" side effects that made people sick.

Dr. Redfield made the remarks in a May 16 interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, during which he lamented the loss of public confidence in public health agencies because of a lack of transparency around the vaccines, which he said "saved a lot of lives" but also made some people "quite ill."

"Those of us that tried to suggest there may be significant side effects from vaccines ... we kind of got canceled because no one wanted to talk about the potential that there was a problem from the vaccines, because they were afraid that that would cause people not to want to get vaccinated," Dr. Redfield said.

In his role as head of the CDC, Dr. Redfield was part of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed, a project to surge COVID-19 vaccine development at a time during the pandemic when little was known about the virus and rapid vaccine rollout was widely seen as key to getting the outbreak under control and lockdowns lifted.

In September 2020, a few months before the first COVID-19 vaccines were given in the United States, Dr. Redfield testified before the Senate that COVID-19 represented the "most significant public health challenge to face our nation in more than a century," and that the prevailing view among scientists at the time was that the overall case fatality rate of the disease was somewhere between 0.4 and 0.6 percent in the United States.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 00:17 || Comments || Link || [119 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Corrupt and criminal is what they did with those gene-vaccines
That product killed and maimed millions of people
People i know died from that mRNA product

MRNA murderers at moderna, pfizer, gates foundation pushed it all

Cuomo now trying his hand at claiming he was injured so he can be controlled opposition

And no, the shots did not save any lives. They did not work. It is just more lies based on fake predictive modelling from corrupt universities claiming it saved lives. No evidence.

Posted by: Anon1 || 05/19/2024 6:34 Comments || Top||

#2  ....something, something, about residuals and the federal medical establishment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2024 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  case fatality rates varied a lot by country

two factors accounted for much of the variability

1. the way the statistics were kept, what defined 'a case', and what defined 'a covid fatality'

2. the vaccines available - for example, Peru mainly used a Chinese made vaccine and had relatively low percentage of the population vaccinated (especially in rural areas) and had a very high case fatality rate. Denmark had access to both the Moderno and Pfizer vaccines and had a very high rate of vaccination
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/19/2024 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  case fatality rates varied a lot by country


Too bad there wasn't a world health organization monitoring ... oh!

Too bad many did not embrace globalist standard vaccine provisioning ... oh, damit!

Oh, shutup.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 11:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Too much money and liability at stake.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/19/2024 14:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
California and New York Are Even Shaking Down Fleeing Residents
[Mises.org]
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/19/2024 15:27 || Comments || Link || [90 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Exit as clean as possible and never return or transit.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2024 16:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Although I'm not the type of person they are after (high net worth, high earner) I have never bothered to go back to the Commontheft of PeeAye for any reason and I don't expect that to change. I do understand people who have a strong attachment to a place they grew up in or have generations of family in.

But it ain't me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2024 16:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I'd be fully down with Texas taxing California and New York for being a**holes. I'd like it even more if they refuse to pay and we can foreclose on them. Then we evict them all and start making money
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/19/2024 20:33 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
‘The Butchers And Liars Were Murderously Wrong': New Study Finds 12-Fold Higher Suicide Risk For People Who Had Gender Surgery
Glory be — someone actually did a proper scientific study, then published the results for all the world to see.
[WIRE] A study published last month shows that those who underwent gender surgery had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those who did not, adding more data showing the dangers of the life-altering procedures.

The study utilized patient data from 56 health care organizations in the U.S. and over 90 million patients. Four different groups of patients were looked at in the study, including 1,501 people aged 18-60 who had "gender-affirming surgery" and an emergency visit (cohort A) and 15,608,363 adults who visited the emergency room but had no "gender-affirming surgery" (cohort B). The third group (cohort C) included 142,093 "adults with emergency visits, tubal ligation or vasectomy, but no gender-affirming surgery," while a fourth group of patients with pharyngitis (cohort D) was studied "to validate the results from cohort C."

"Data from February 4, 2003, to February 4, 2023, were analyzed to examine suicide attempts, death, self-harm, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within five years of the index event," the study said, adding that its results found that "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not."

The study concluded, "Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 01:04 || Comments || Link || [146 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yea, well, it's not like they were the most stable of people even before the knife.
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/19/2024 3:50 Comments || Top||

#2  interesting study but in this case it is essentially impossible to get a double blind study and almost impossible to get a valid randomized study where the 'with surgery' and the 'without surgery' samples both come from the same population
Posted by: Lord Garth || 05/19/2024 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ it appears the medical, education, and Donk communities are working hard on such a study.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/19/2024 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  “adding more data showing the dangers of the life-altering procedures.


The procedures in and of themselves, while major, are not to blame for the increased suicides. A very mis-leading conclusion by the author. It’s the unrealizable expectations of the mentally unbalanced who seek them…..as Grom more succinctly indicated.
Posted by: Warthog || 05/19/2024 9:29 Comments || Top||

#5  According to Canada, gender surgery is "an adventure" for children. We may need to do dome nation building up north.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/19/2024 9:36 Comments || Top||

#6  In-laws family tree has been self-pruned on occasion. After initial teeth-gnashing and hand-wringing postures, general acknowledgement the tree is healther.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  But the advocates say if you prevent this sort of butchery you are basically forcing these confused souls to kill themselves.

"Look what you made me do!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/19/2024 15:33 Comments || Top||

#8  "Experts"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/19/2024 17:50 Comments || Top||


What was purpose of a subcritical experiment at a nuclear test site in the United States?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The experiment, carried out at an underground test site in Nevada, is aimed solely at confirming the reliability of the nuclear weapons available to the United States. B But this does not mean at all that the United States is not strengthening its nuclear missile potential.The editor-in-chief of the magazine “National Defense” Igor Korotchenko shared these opinions with IA Regnum, commenting on reports of a special (subcritical) experiment conducted by the United States in an underground laboratory at a nuclear test site in Nevada.

The analyst noted that such tests themselves are not prohibited by any international agreements. Similar tests were carried out in Russia.

“The Americans are also doing it. The purpose of these tests is to confirm the reliability of nuclear weapons, their design, and simulate all explosion processes, but without detonating the nuclear warhead itself. There is practically no new production; warheads are stored and modernized. But we need guarantees that during an explosion a chain reaction will occur,” commented Korotchenko.

According to him, it is difficult to find any clear foreign policy implications in the very fact of what happened. Not to mention the escalation of the arms race. Rather, the explosions carried out recently in Nevada have a purely technical meaning.

However, this fact, as Korotchenko noted, should not be misleading: the United States does not at all refuse to strengthen its nuclear missile potential. The administration of President Joe Biden intends to allocate 2 trillion to modernize the strategic triad over the next 20 years. dollars. The main directions of this work are improving the composition and quantitative characteristics of nuclear forces, as well as improving the integration of the nuclear arsenal and general-purpose forces for their joint combat use.

The United States recently conducted a subcritical experiment in an underground laboratory at a nuclear test site in Nevada, near Los Alamos. This was reported by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the US Department of Energy. As the department clarified, tests at the Main Underground Laboratory of Subcritical Experiments (PULSE), which became the first experiment in the Nimble series, were successful.

NNSA noted that such subcritical experiments, which involve the detonation of explosives around radioactive material without reaching a critical mass and starting a chain reaction, are carried out to collect information on the condition, effectiveness and declared technical characteristics of US nuclear warheads without conducting underground nuclear tests.

As Regnum reported, earlier US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Deterrence and Stability Mallory Stewart said in an interview with the Arms Control Association that the United States is not interested in resuming nuclear tests and does not consider them necessary. Also, Washington, according to her, does not plan to submit the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to the upper house of Congress for ratification.

It was also previously reported that in the United States, for the first time since 1989, the production of key components of the “filling” for nuclear warheads, plutonium cores, is being resumed. NNSA head Jill Hruby said this at congressional hearings in April.

The Joe Biden administration, as noted by the British Independent, has requested a total of $18.8 billion for weapons development (10% more than a year earlier). Almost a third of this amount - $5.6 billion - concerns the modernization of weapons in the interests of the nuclear triad (strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear submarines capable of carrying nuclear weapons).

Posted by: badanov || 05/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [121 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Short version: Existing nuclear weapons material degrades over time (half-life), and is refined to begin with to a weapons grade percentage purity.
So when does the degradation of the percentage become important? 'Cause we haven't made any of this stuff since the '70s.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/19/2024 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I expect less testing of the bomb and more of the control circuitry for radiation damage.

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ My late Uncle worked at Lawrence Livermore. He told me once that "all nukes are neutron bombs to a more or less extent"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/19/2024 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  And they can sure suck some oxygen...even residents of Dresden and Tokyo know that from Feb-Mar 45.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/19/2024 10:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Bombing of Dresden

Bombing of Tokyo
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 11:10 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Sixth Death Recorded During Anti-Colonial Uprising in French Territory
[Breitbart] French security forces reported another death Saturday in armed clashes in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, the sixth fatality in a nearly a week of violent unrest scorching the archipelago whose indigenous population has long sought independence.

The person was killed in an exchange of fire at one of the many impromptu barricades blocking roads on the island, said a security official speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the situation publicly.

Two other people were seriously injured in the clash, the official said, confirming French media reports. The official said the firefight erupted at a blockade in the north of the main island, at Kaala-Gomen.

Le Monde and other French news outlets said the person killed was a man and that his son was among the injured.

This week’s violence erupted Monday following protests over voting reforms opposed by pro-independence supporters who have long pushed to break free from France.

Armed clashes, looting, arson and other mayhem have turned parts of the capital, Noumea, into no-go zones and left a vast trail of destruction. Charred hulks of burned-out cars litter roads, businesses and shops have been ransacked and buildings turned into smoking ruins, with fires sending billowing clouds of smoke into the South Pacific skies.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [85 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another Reason Why Losing the Niger Base Was a Disaster
Posted by: Grom the reflective || 05/19/2024 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Ground zero, so far, for some of this new competition has been the Republic of Niger. The French are already out, the Americans are on their way out while the Russians, Chinese, Turks, and maybe even the Iranians are flowing in.

For the life of me, I cannot see a downside for the French or the US.


Posted by: Besoeker || 05/19/2024 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I cannot see a downside

When the ego death knell is a good thing.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/19/2024 11:40 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Jewish Iranian set to be executed Monday for allegedly killing man in self-defense
[IsraelTimes] Opposition site says Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was defending himself against knife attack when he killed Amir Shokri in brawl; victim’s family can spare him, but refused to do so
It is forbidden for an unbeliever to raise a hand against a member of the Master Religion, even in self-defense. Naturally, the government of Iran must act in such cases of rebellion against Allah and the natural order of things.
A Jewish Iranian man is set to be executed on Monday for killing a man in a brawl two years ago, an Iranian human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
group said.

The opposition linked Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
International news website said that Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani was allegedly defending himself after being attacked with a knife, and that the sentence came under the penal code for "retributive justice."

According to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR) Ghahremani, 20, from the southwestern city of Kermanshah was set to be executed on Saturday, but his family was informed the execution will now take place on Monday.

Ghahremani was convicted of the "intentional murder" of Amir Shokri for his role in the fight two years ago.

The reports said that his only hope of being spared under Iran’s Islamic code is if the family of the dead man agree to forgive him, something they have so far refused to do.

IHR carried a voice recording from Ghahremani’s mother pleading for people to pray for her son to be saved.

Video circulated on social media apparently showed prayers being held for Ghahremani this week at the Rachel’s Tomb pilgrimage site in the central West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, there were some 100,000 Jews in Iran; by 2016, according to an Iranian census, that number had fallen to below 10,000.

Iran is openly sworn to Israel’s destruction and financially supports terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
that are also committed to this aim. Prominent figures in the Jewish community of Iran intermittently issue anti-Israel statements that match the regime’s agenda.

Amnesty International said last month that Iran executed 853 people in 2023, the highest total since 2015.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/19/2024 2024-05-19 01:51 || Comments || Link || [38 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran



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