Hopefully this is just a criminal or gang thing, and not a jihadi.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Sen. Martín Quezada tweeted Wednesday evening: 'I just witnessed an armed terrorist with an AR-15 shoot up Westgate. There are multiple victims'
Glendale police confirmed the incident, saying three people were injured
The suspect is said to have surrendered and is now in custody
'I saw 2 victims with my own eyes. Not sure how many others', Quezada add
Update at 2:20 a.m. EDT:
Gunman shot three people at the Westgate Entertainment District Wednesday
Suspect was identified Armando Hernandez, 20, by his mother, 12News reports
Disturbing footage, thought to have been taken by Hernandez, shows a gunman carrying out his rampage; the suspect is now in custody, police said
Officer Tiffany Ngalula did not confirm the identity of the gunman Wednesday evening but did say police are aware of the video circulating on social media
One of those injured is said to be in critical condition; two others were expected to survive following the shooting near the shopping district west of Phoenix
Update at 2:00 p.m. EDT: Moved to Page 3: Non-WoT because subsequent reports sound like a nutter (early schizophrenia?) rather than a jihadi or narco gang nonsense.
[NYPOST] A Brooklyn man donned a devilish Halloween mask before infiltrating a senior center and shooting a 62-year-old dead in his bed, police sources said Wednesday. "Miss Marple, to the white courtesy phone!"
Gregory Spears, 39, wore a horned-devil mask as he knocked on the door to alleged victim Angel Medina’s 14th-floor apartment in the Langston Hughes Senior Center in Brownsville around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, sources said. "No one will know me if I wear this here horned devil mask!"
Medina’s wife answered and led Spears to the bedroom — "Honey, there's someone here to see you! I dunno who it is. He's wearing a horned devil mask!"
"Bring him right in, sugar plum!"
where he whipped out a pistol and blasted Medina several times in the torso, fatally wounding him. "Agh! I am undone! And I don't even know by who!"
"'By whom, dear!"
It was unclear what sparked the dispute between the two — or why the mask-wearing alleged killer was allowed in. "Well, he looked okay, except for the mask!"
When cops arrived, they found Medina face down on the bed with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, police said. Probably because that's where the Masked Marauder shot him...
EMS could not save the man and he died in the Langston Hughes Senior Center, cops said. "He's dead, Jim!"
Spears was identified by witnesses and collared Wednesday. "You there! In the horned evil mask! Halt or I'll go downtown to procure a warrant!"
He was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. If they can't get him on one, they're sure to get him on the other.
Spears has been arrested 10 times, mostly on drug charges, and has been involved in five alleged domestic incidents, sources said. Other than that, he's been a model citizen.
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Medina’s wife answered and led Spears to the bedroom
[Liberty Nation] A bewildered American public is still trying to come to grips with the seriousness of Coronavirus.
Anthony Fauci’s name has become dinner-table familiar as people discuss the doctor’s warnings, his comments, and President Donald Trump’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. As usual, a firm line has been drawn between the left and right sides of the aisle: Some blame the president for all the world’s problems and declare Fauci the hero in this crisis; on the flip side, the doctor is the villain and the president has been misled and misinformed.
In truth, the whole Coronavirus fiasco has been a pile of convoluted, wishy-washy, contradictory information since the beginning. The blame game won’t fix anything, but perhaps stepping back to examine a timeline of facts and figures may bring clarity to the epic snarl of today’s social-distancing America....
At 79, the doctor has advised six presidents on everything from HIV to biodefense drugs. Now, however, his credibility is coming into question as his contradictory statements and advice have confused the American people who want nothing more than to get back to the business of life.
THE FAUCI TIMELINE
Without going into conspiracy theories, this is a factual timeline of COVID-19 incidents, Fauci’s relevant comments, and the actions and statements of Trump and other members of his administration. As Liberty Nation’s Leesa K. Donner opined:
"As we take stock of where we are and how we got here, one name repeatedly pops up as a culpable character in this unholy mess: Dr. Anthony Fauci. There are more than a few people with an incipient suspicion that Fauci may have taken the president — and this country — for a ride. Thus, it’s worth asking if we the people have succumbed to the Great Fauci Fake-Out by shutting down America for something akin to the seasonal flu?"
First, Fauci seemed to predict this pandemic, or at least something similar, just after Trump took office:
Jan. 12, 2017: "And if there’s one message that I want to leave with you today based on my experience, and you’ll see that in a moment, is that there is no question that there will be a challenge to the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases, both chronic infectious diseases, in the sense of already ongoing disease, and we have certainly a large burden of that, but also there will be a surprise outbreak." [emphasis added]
Conspiracy theory? History repeating itself? The knowledge gained by the doctor? The timeline may give some insight.
It all begins with what is not so affectionately called the China Cover-up.
Dec. 16, 2019: The first Coronavirus patient was seen at Wuhan Central Hospital, according to Dr. Ai Fen.
Dec. 31: More than two dozen cases of Coronavirus were confirmed by Wuhan health authorities. Local wet markets were closed, and China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about the "pneumonia" but said it had "found no obvious person-to-person transmission, and no medical personnel have been infected." By this time, however, several health care workers had reportedly been infected. Also, Taiwan sent WHO an alert, claiming it was possible for the disease to transfer from human to human.
Jan. 1, 2020: The New York Times used cellphone data to discover that 175,000 people left Wuhan (seven million more over the next few weeks).
Jan. 6: Dr. Fauci begins interviews to discuss the Coronavirus outbreak.
Preparations for the Chinese New Year start January 17th, lasting until Chinese New Year on January 25th. Chinese people from all over the world head home to celebrate with their extended family.
Jan. 20: China’s President Xi Jinping issued the first public statement about the virus, saying it "must be taken seriously."
Jan. 20: Fauci announced a Coronavirus vaccine was already being worked on by the National Institutes of Health.
Jan 21: In an interview, Greg Kelly of Newsmax asked Fauci how serious the virus was. The doctor urged everyone to take the precautions that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out, "but this is not a major threat for the people in the United States, and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about."
Jan. 23: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus voted against declaring the outbreak a public health emergency on an international level; he was the deciding vote. Wuhan lockdown went into effect, but by this time an estimated five million people had already traveled through and left the city for other parts of the country and world.
The Spring Festival runs from Chinese New Year (Jan. 25) through February 4th.
Jan. 28: A Health and Human Services (HHS) press briefing included Fauci, Director of the CDC Robert Redfield, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Dr. Nancy Messonnier, and Secretary of HHS Alex Azar. Azar warned that "Americans should know that this is a potentially very serious public health threat."
Jan. 30: The Trump administration had a conference call with state governors, Fauci, Azar, and Redfield, among others, and produced an action plan for the outbreak.
Jan. 31: Trump imposed travel restrictions to and from China.
Lantern Festival preparations start February 5th for the February 8th festival, after which everyone heads home, bringing infection with them.
Feb. 8: Fauci said the risk of contracting the virus is "minuscule."
Feb. 17: Fauci told USA Today that wearing a mask is for the infected to protect others. "Now, in the United States, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask."
Feb. 20: WHO reported 77,000 COVID-19 cases worldwide.
Feb. 24: The Trump administration requested $2.5 billion from Congress to fight the Coronavirus. On the same day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) toured San Francisco’s Chinatown, telling residents to support the neighborhood. "That’s what we’re trying to do today is to say everything is fine here," she said. "Come because precautions have been taken. The city is on top of the situation."
Feb. 29: The first Coronavirus death was reported in Seattle, WA.
Feb. 29: WHO said that it "continues to advise against the application of travel restrictions to countries experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks."
Feb. 29: Fauci talks to the Today Show about "community spread" but "right now, at this moment, there is no need to change anything you’re doing on a day-to-day basis."
March 9: Fauci tells reporters that young, healthy people can go on a cruise if they’d like. "If you are a healthy young person, there is no reason if you want to go on a cruise ship, go on a cruise ship."
March 26: In an article for The New England Journal of Medicine, Fauci said, "... the overall clinical consequences of COVID-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively."
April 28: Fauci said he is hopeful that a vaccine will be developed by the winter.
April 30: Fauci said he is "almost certain" the virus will return in the winter, yet he is optimistic for a vaccine.
May 12: Fauci now says the likelihood of developing a treatment or vaccine by the fall is "a bridge too far."
To be fair, the doctor did warn on several occasions that things could change if we reached "community spreading." But, looking over the progress of Coronavirus in the United States and the responses of experts, is it any wonder that the American people are bewildered?
With a final note via Zero Hedge:
Fauci 2005: Hydroxycholoroquine is found to substantially reduce the corona virus load
Fauci 2020: Generic hydroxcholoroquine does nothing to reduce the corona virus load even though 50% fewer people taking it at NYU-Langone went to ICU. But expensive Remdisivir is amazing. Instead of 12 people dying, only 9 died!
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Some history of recent pandemic "Second Waves" -
"H2N2 influenza virus [Asian Flu] continued to circulate until 1968, when it transformed via antigenic shift into influenza A virus subtype H3N2, the cause of the 1968 influenza pandemic." [Wikipedia]
"The H3N2 virus [1968 Hong Kong Flu] continues to circulate worldwide as a seasonal influenza A virus." [CDC]
"On August 10, 2010, WHO declared an end to the global 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. However, (H1N1)pdm09 virus continues to circulate as a seasonal flu virus, and cause illness, hospitalization, and deaths worldwide every year."[CDC]
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I know the weather is different but bars are inside and thus far different than swimming or tubing. NY can't do anything right.
[Jpost] His rise was meteoric and his fall just as sudden.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, an Orthodox Jewish doctor who rose to fame in March while promoting a cocktail of drugs he claimed had successfully treated coronavirus – including one that President Donald Trump said Monday he is taking himself, despite the drug’s potentially dangerous side effects – has announced that he is leaving the Jewish community where he has practiced medicine for decades.
In a video shared by the Orthodox news site Yeshiva World News, Zelenko announced he would leave Kiryas Joel, the town north of New York City where, until the coronavirus pandemic, he was known as a beloved community doctor.
“Things have happened,” he said speaking directly to the camera. “I’ve decided that it’s time for me to move on. I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do.”
The announcement comes after Zelenko was accused by community leaders of spreading disinformation about the rate of coronavirus infection in Kiryas Joel, leading to discrimination against residents of the village. Zelenko is also being investigated by a federal prosecutor over his claim that a study of the drugs he promoted had won approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
CDC Now Says Virus 'Does Not Spread Easily' on Surfaces
[PJMedia] “COVID-19 is a new disease and we are still learning about how it spreads. It may be possible for COVID-19 to spread in other ways, but these are not thought to be the main ways the virus spreads,” according to the CDC.
The change comes after a preliminary study from March suggested that the novel coronavirus can remain in the air for up to three hours, and live on surfaces such as plastic and stainless steel for up to three days, prompting many to take to wiping down packages and other items. However, at the time, the study was yet not peer-reviewed, and, as Yahoo notes, did not determine if people could be infected from touching certain surfaces analyzed.
Dr. John Whyte, the chief medical officer for the healthcare website WebMD, called the CDC’s changes an “important step in clarifying how the virus is spread, especially as we gain new information.”
“It also may help reduce anxiety and stress. Many people were concerned that by simply touching an object they may get coronavirus and that’s simply not the case. Even when a virus may stay on a surface, it doesn’t mean that it’s actually infectious,” Whyte told Fox News in an email.
California border hospitals hit by surge in COVID-19 cases from Mexico
[Jpost] The only two hospitals in Southern California's rural Imperial County were forced to close their doors to new coronavirus patients on Tuesday, after admitting scores believed stricken with the virus from across the border in Mexico, officials said.
The surge in patients consisted of US citizens who live in Mexicali, capital of the Mexican state of Baja California, and were turned away from hospitals overrun with coronavirus cases there, said Dr. Adolphe Edward, chief executive officer of the El Centro Regional Medical Center.
Edward said his 161-bed hospital in El Centro, the main city in Imperial County about 100 miles (160 km) east of San Diego, ended up with 65 COVID-19-positive patients from Monday night's influx, while the 106-bed Pilgrims Memorial Hospital in nearby Brawley admitted 28.
"Our numbers just skyrocketed last night," Edward said on his hospital's Facebook page.
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Only 1% of Danes have virus antibodies
They had 1920/M = 0.2% so for every registered CV19 case we have 5 asymptomatic.
Their Swinish neighbors had 3424/M = 0.3424% ==> 1.7% immune (maybe).
Herd immunity requires 90% immune.
Yet "people" criticize Neil Ferguson for pulling numbers from his ass!
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German virologist Hendrick Streeck talked about this "surface" matter weeks or months ago, even on door handles, etc. Nice to see the CDC kinda-sorta get with the program. Finally.
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The March 16 report by Imperial College epidemiologist Neil Ferguson is credited (or blamed) with causing the U.K. to lock down and contributing to the domino effect of global lockdowns. The model has since come under intense criticism for being “totally unreliable and a buggy mess.”
This is the same Neil Ferguson who in 2005 predicted 200 million could die from the bird flu. Total deaths over the last 15 years turned out to be 455. This is the same Neil Ferguson who in 2009 predicted that 65,000 people could die in the U.K. from the swine flu. The final number ended up around 392. Now, in 2020, he predicted that 500,000 British would die from coronavirus.
His deeply flawed model led the United States to fear over 2 million deaths and was used to justify locking down nearly the entire nation. Dr. Ferguson is a character of Shakespearean drama and tragedy. His March 17 presentation to British elites on the dire need to take action ironically may have infected Boris Johnson and other top British officials, as Mr. Ferguson himself tested positive for COVID-19 two days later. Then in May he resigned in disgrace after he broke his own quarantine rules to meet clandestinely with a married woman. [Excerpt from a Zero Hedge post]
Herd immunity starts having an effect depending on the R0 value. Its not a stark line, its a gradient. Herd Immunity Threshold is not that difficult an equation.
R = infectivity
p = proportion of the population that shows immune by infection recovered or by vaccination
pc is the HIT
R0 x (1 - p) = 1
so Pc = 1 - 1 /R0
For an R0 of 2, herd immunity shows up at about 50%.
To achieve an HIT of 90% the R0 has to be 10 or more. Do the math.
Right now, best estimates based on current models (which may very well be garbage due tio garbage data) is about 5.7, so for herd immunity to become a factor, you need a HIT of about 82%
Feel free to look up the equations yourself.
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[AlAhram] A cabinet committee tasked with legalising the status of unlicensed Christian places of worship has licensed 70 churches and service buildings that had been operating without a permit, the cabinet said in a statement.
This brings the total number of unlicensed Christian places of worship and service buildings that have been granted legal status to 1,638 so far, the cabinet said in a statement following a committee meeting on Tuesday.
Christians make up around 10 percent of the 100 million population of Egypt, a predominantly Moslem country.
In 2016, Egypt’s parliament approved a long-awaited law regulating the building and renovation of churches.
The committee to legalise the status of unlicensed churches was established in 2017 by the prime minister.
The 10-member committee comprises one Christian representative, six government officials from several ministries, representatives from the national security apparatus, the intelligence apparatus, and the administrative control body.
During its meeting on Tuesday, the cabinet also reviewed the situation of safety requirements for legalised churches.
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Excellent news! Would like to see more articles like this one.
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I’ve been posting every announcement I’ve seen, Tom. This is a innovation of the el Sisi government — they’re very proud of their pro-Christian and pro-Jew activities. Plus it gets them points with President Trump, draws Western and Russian tourists, and keeps the substantial Coptic minority (~10 million) calm.
h/t RedState
Sorry for the cliche, but this story is about a really, really hot nurse.
A medical worker on the front lines of our war against COVID-19 recently realized her required ultra-protective all-vinyl gown was just too unbearably unbreathable.
Therefore, to fight off fever, she lessened her layers.
In an effort to stay cooler while she tended to patients — in the all-male coronavirus wing of her Russian hospital — the compassionate caregiver decided to show up for shift work in only a bra and panties under her see-through pandemic poncho.
A photo found its way to the web: Wanna bet survival stats in this particular ward jumped up?
Who, precisely, made that promise, and when? What was the quid pro quo? Did the Senate vote to confirm the treaty?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Reuters: CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS U.S. ACTION ON TAIWAN VIOLATES THE PROMISE IT MADE AND SENT WRONG SIGNAL TO THE "TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE" SEPARATIST FORCES
[Aljazeera] The uptick in crude prices has been largely motivated by severe output cuts and the easing of coronavirus lockdowns.
Oil prices rallied again on Wednesday on signs of improving crude demand and a drawdown in United States crude inventories, but gains continued to be capped by concerns over the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
Global benchmark Brent crude settled up $1.10, or 3.2 percent, at $35.75 per barrel, while July US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures ended up $1.53, or 4.8 percent, at $33.49. WTI's June contract expired on Tuesday, up 2.1 percent, avoiding the mayhem of expiry in May, when prices crashed to negative $40 a barrel over concerns about rapidly evaporating crude storage.
It seems we are not the only ones concerned about this.
[FoxNews] Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned on Tuesday that individuals who reject an offer from their company to return to work after being laid off due to coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... are no longer considered eligible to receive federal unemployment benefits.
Mnuchin said that companies receiving benefits under the Payroll Protection Program who are inviting employees who had been laid off or furloughed due to the coronavirus crisis to return to work should plan to notify state unemployment offices of their offers.
If the employee, in turn, turns down the job, they would then be considered ineligible to receive expanded unemployment benefits.
"If you offer a person a job..and that person does not take the job..then that person would not be allowed to get unemployment," Mnuchin said Tuesday.
Mnuchin’s comments come as Republican politicians have ramped up warnings that the recent boost in jobless benefits amid COVID-19 will "push unemployment higher," as many individuals are able to collect more money through the unemployment programs than they made while on the job.
Under the "Phase 3" economic stimulus package passed in March, also known as the CARES Act, Congress provided $250 billion to extend unemployment insurance to more workers, and lengthen the duration to 39 weeks, up from the normal 26 weeks. The provision allowed for an extra $600 to be provided a week for four months to those losing their jobs amid the crisis.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that about half of U.S. workers can earn more with these jobless benefits than they did while working -- a factor that could hurt efforts by some businesses to reopen.
The CARES Act included a new "Pandemic Unemployment Assistance" program, which extends unemployment benefits to self-employed, independent contractors, those with limited work history, and other individuals not traditionally eligible for unemployment benefits who are unable to work as a direct result of COVID-19.
The stimulus package also provided an additional 13 weeks of unemployment compensation to individuals who have exhausted their regular unemployment benefits, as well as a supplemental payment of $600 per week for up to four months.
The average state already gives out $463 per week in unemployment benefits. When combined with the new $600 per week, the average unemployed individual can collect $1,063 per week—the equivalent of more than $26 an hour, or $55,000 per year.
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Mnuchin’s comments come as Republican politicians have ramped up warnings that the recent boost in jobless benefits amid COVID-19 will "push unemployment higher," as many individuals are able to collect more money through the unemployment programs than they made while on the job.
Duh. Pushing unemployment higher was the entire point of this perverse incentive the Democrats engineered. Get as many people out of work as possible, and entice them to stay out of work and remain on the government dole.
Democrats really do love poor people; that's why all their policies are aimed at creating as many of them as possible.
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It's been some time since I was unemployed (back in the 1990s), but I do remember having to document 3 job search contacts every week and to affirm that I had not gotten a job offer that week.
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[Fortune] In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world’s Internet infrastructure. So the fact that Germany is home to one of the world’s biggest Internet exchange points—where data crosses between the networks that make up the Internet—has given a lot of power to the country’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency.
The Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND, gets to freely sift through all the foreign traffic passing through that exchange junction in search of nuggets that can be shared with overseas partners such as the NSA. But now that power is in jeopardy, thanks to a Tuesday ruling from Germany’s constitutional court.
The case was brought about by journalists who report on human rights in conflict zones. They don’t want German spies potentially identifying their sources there and sharing that information with other countries.
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled that foreigners also benefit from privacy protections under Germany’s constitution, so the surveillance conducted on them by Germany’s spy agency needs to respect their rights.
The legislation in question, which was introduced in 2016, does nothing of the sort. Indeed, those rules trample over foreigners’ rights in a variety of ways, the court said: They allow mass surveillance rather than targeted surveillance; there’s not enough oversight of the spying; there are no protections for journalists and lawyers, as there should be; and there aren’t enough restrictions or safeguards when it comes to sharing the information with the likes of the NSA.
The court said it was possible to have a constitution-compliant law governing the surveillance of foreigners in other countries, so the German government has until the end of 2021 to make the necessary adjustments.
THE FRANKFURT CONNECTION
Germany's signals intelligence agency‐the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND‐has had an information-sharing deal with the NSA since soon after 9/11. After NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 spilled the beans about the American agency's international partnerships, it emerged that the NSA had been directing the BND to gather information on high-profile targets such as the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, and the administrations of France and Austria.
This triggered a parliamentary inquiry in Berlin, which revealed a lot about the BND's tapping of the data flowing through the DE-CIX Internet exchange point in Frankfurt (the world's second-largest Internet exchange point, after the Brazil Internet Exchange). DE-CIX's operators complained that the BND was supposed to monitor only a fifth of the traffic passing through but was actually scooping up the whole lot....
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Lefties are hypocrites. They'll use it, but sneer at anyone who openly says they are using it.
You must always remember, they are very progressive about how your affairs should be run (by others) but are very conservative when it comes to their own interests.
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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.
[NYPOST] A Brooklyn man donned a devilish Halloween mask before infiltrating a senior center and shooting a 62-year-old dead in his bed, police sources said Wednesday.
[AlAhram] A cabinet committee tasked with legalising the status of unlicensed Christian places of worship has licensed 70 churches and service buildings that had been operating without a permit, the cabinet said in a statement.
[Aljazeera] The uptick in crude prices has been largely motivated by severe output cuts and the easing of coronavirus lockdowns.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Fortune] In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world’s Internet infrastructure. So the fact that Germany is home to one of the world’s biggest Internet exchange points—where data crosses between the networks that make up the Internet—has given a lot of power to the country’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency.
