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Good point about the fact that Gates has his own plane, so why "Air Epstein", Bill, the food better? But, that can't be. Bill said he had "no connection".
[FOXNEWS] The man accused of assaulting a conservative activist at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Berkeley last year in a case that garnered national headlines has been charged with stabbing a man riding a bicycle on a sidewalk over the weekend, Fox News has learned.
The new charges against Zachary Greenberg come as he continues to fight charges in the Berkeley case in an Alameda County court.
San Mateo deputies said Greenberg, 30, of El Cerrito, stabbed a bicyclist numerous times with a 4-inch pocket folding knife in Princeton-by-the-Sea Sunday.
"The victim reported that a male subject got into a physical altercation with him over an argument related to him riding his bicycle on the sidewalk," Sgt. James Goulart said in a news release.
The victim went to the hospital, where he was listed in stable, pH balanced condition.
Minutes after the stabbing deputies stopped a vehicle with Greenberg in the passenger seat and arrested him on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
"The identity of the suspect and the vehicle were confirmed by witnesses on scene," Goulart said. "The knife that was used in the assault was located."
Greenberg told deputies his last name was spelled Greenburg.
[FOXNEWS] A man suspected in a rash of shootings that began in May on Interstate 5 in Oregon was arrested Thursday, authorities said.
Kenneth Ayers, 49, was taken into custody in connection with a freeway shooting on Wednesday, the Oregon State Police said. He faces a slew of charges, including attempted murder, second-degree assault, and multiple counts each of reckless endangering, criminal mischief and unlawful use of a weapon.
Authorities believe Ayers is responsible for shooting more than a dozen vehicles on the freeway in Douglas, Josephine and Jackson counties.
During Wednesday's incident in Jackson County, a female motorist was shot while traveling north on the interstate that traverses Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Oregon and Washington.
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[PAGESIX] An angry federal judge sentenced Lori Loughlin to two months jail Friday — scolding the former "Full House" TV star for living a "fairy tale life" yet greedily grabbing "even more," by conspiring to pay a half-million-dollar bribe to get her daughters into the University of Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, as fake rowing recruits.
"Here you are, an admired, successful professional actor with a long-lasting marriage," Boston federal Distict Judge Nathaniel Groton scolded in a virtual, Zoom sentencing that was part tongue-lashing, part wrist slap.
Loughlin enjoys "two apparently healthy, resilient children, more money than you could possibly need, a beautiful home in sunny, southern California," said Groton, who earlier Friday had sentenced the actress’s designer husband, Mossimo Giunnulli to five months for the same conspiracy.
"A fairytale life," the judge noted.
"Yet you stand before me a convicted felon. And for what? For the inexplicable desire to grab even more," he said.
"We can only hope that you will spent the rest of your charmed life, as you have said you will, making amends to the system you have harmed," he told Loughlin.
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One has to wonder about the Unit Commander and PLatoon Leader who are hand receipt holders for this property, writ large, and how long before the property book Warrant Officer at the storage site asks where the paperwork is for the missing vehicle. Certainly, somebody had to haved asked, "...ummm, that AVLB, we got a delivery date from the shipper? " About now, as this made the news, a number of DoD and NGB reference checks, and the Office of the Adjutant General has asked some rather pointed questions. Careers and stripes are being taken even as we speak...
[DT via 21stCenturyWire] New evidence has emerged which shows that UK hospital admissions for COVID-19 were ’over-reported’ during the height of the crisis back in April. It seems that patients who were being taken in for other common illnesses were in fact being counted as ’COVID’ in the government’s statistical totals.
This latest embarrassing admission comes on the heels of other similar revelations of dubious record-keeping by the government — all of which have been pivotal in giving the false impression to the public that there were more COVID deaths than actually took place. Back in July, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to admit how data from Public Health England regarding coronavirus fatalities were being fraudulently recorded — effectively ’double counting’ their deaths, forcing the government officials to revise their totals downwards to reflect more realist numbers.
This latest ’COVID counting’ scandal in the area of hospital admissions shows why the these numbers are crucial in how government policies are sold to the public. Professor Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) at Oxford University said, "The admissions data is a crucial point. I’d say it is more important than the death data because it is the best marker of the impact of the disease."
This widespread practice of exaggerating COVID casualty numbers appears to have aided the government in justifying its shaky position on to imposing draconian ’lockdown’ measures and school closures, as well as to hype the imminent release of a COVID ’miracle’ vaccine which the UK government has been developing in partnership with pharmaceutical firms like AstaZeneca and its vaccine financiers at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Telegraph reports...
Hospital admissions for Covid-19 were over-reported at the peak of the pandemic, with patients who were taken in for other illnesses being included in outbreak statistics, it has emerged.
An investigation for the Government’s Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) found that people were being counted as Covid hospital admissions if they had ever had the virus, and were added to those being admitted directly due to it.
Government figures show that, at the peak of the pandemic in early April, nearly 20,000 people a week were being admitted to hospital with coronavirus (see graph below), but the true figure is unknown because of the problem with over-counting....
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Good to see they are going back and cleaning up their numbers. The surprise is that a national health system overwhelmed even under good conditions was able to collect enough data that it could be cleaned up at all.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Their final breaths are tormented. Rublas Ruiz has seen too many of them -- the last gasps of 17 men and women who died of the coronavirus.
A 41-year-old ICU nurse in Miami’s Kendall Regional Medical Center, Ruiz has witnessed the desperate, pleading, wide-eyed, barely there gasps.
"The fear in their eyes when they can’t get enough air. They are so scared," he says, quietly. "Their eyes are big, desperate to get the oxygen and that makes me so sad."
He sits on their bed, grasps their hand, strokes their cheek and prays. Anything to soothe them.
"I know you cannot talk, but I’m going to talk to you," he tell them. "You have to be positive, you have to have faith that God is going to get you out of this."
Often, he ducks away to sob in the bathroom. It is a rare moment alone, when he can cast off the brave countenance.
Then he splashes water on his face and returns to the floor that has been his work home since March. While other nurses rotate in and out of the COVID-19 ICU unit to limit their exposure to the deadly virus, he’s asked to stay permanently.
It’s his calling.
"I’m here for them. This is what I was meant to do," says Ruiz.
"Many nurses have left. They don’t want to deal with it, they’re afraid, they’re scared, they see other people getting infected."
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Miami-Dade County has been the epicenter of the state’s outbreak with about 2,000 deaths since March -- more than 20 percent of the state’s total. As Florida cases skyrocketed this summer, Miami hospitals were especially overloaded in the second half of July.
For Ruiz, his routine is the same every day. He prays in the car on the way to the hospital: "Dear God, this is your day, put me in your hands and help me do what you want me to do. This is your creation and let me help you out."
Then, he says, "I take a deep breath when I get out of the car and go to battle."
As many as 10 patients have died in his ward in a single week.
At one point, he started counting, "and then I stopped doing that because there were so many."
Right now, he can’t stop thinking about the 45-year-old father who has been intubated for more than two weeks, "seeing this young guy almost my age, just four years older than me ..."
His voice trails off. "We know he’s not going to make it."
The hardest part is watching them die alone.
Playing the role of family has become almost more important than his nursing responsibilities. He tried to distract an elderly patient from searching for virus treatments on the Internet by asking him questions about his work as an inspector for the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Ruiz could sense the retired man’s fear: "He was looking really, really sad and then that also made me cry that day." His condition deteriorated in less than a week, and he died.
He tries to connect patients with loved ones as much as possible through video chats. But ultimately, he’s the one bearing witness to their final breaths.
"I have never seen in my life so many deaths, in a week or a month," he says. "The room gets empty and another patient comes in."
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In my mother’s final years she went to icu several times. When I sat with her it wasn’t unusual to see a body rolled out. A lot of people died in icu long before c19.
Ruiz May be new to the job.
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Huge respect for the nurses and staff at an ICU, having to deal daily with gravely ill patients and the concomitant deaths.
But #3 is spot on. The hospital is in Miami and this article, along with all the other sniping at how DeSantis and Florida are dealing with Corona, crowds, and reopening, is another drop in the drip drip drip ... keeping Florida voters - especially retired and elderly voters - on edge and to impel them and keep them motivated to vote Biden because someone somewhere somehow has to do something about all the Florida death.
The lack of MSM criticism of Cuomo in NY trickles down to benefit the Dems in Florida. NY retirees in Florida are kept uninformed about the bullet they dodged by getting out of NY. Many still have their NY politics intact during the move South. Biden is going to win NY, but Florida is the perennial quadrennial battleground. Those FL voters need to be motivated, by fear if necessary, to vote for Biden/Harris. This article certainly checks that box.
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"I have never seen in my life so many deaths, in a week or a month."
[FOXNEWS] As devastating wildfires tear through the Santa Cruz Mountains, officials reported Thursday afternoon that historic structures at Big Basin Redwoods State Park had burned to the ground.
On Wednesday evening, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, State Parks released a statement noting that the 18,000-acre park "sustained extensive damage" but did not elaborate further.
The park itself is closed indefinitely while the CZU August Lightning Complex -- a group of fires ignited by lightning earlier this week -- continues to blaze.
On Thursday, Santa Cruz District Superintendent for State Parks Chris Spohrer confirmed that park rangers had only been able to briefly access the park’s central area and that the park's historic headquarters, lodge, ranger office, nature museum, store, maintenance shop and multiple park residences and campground restrooms were destroyed.
"From what they described, it was a high-heat, high-intensity fire," Spohrer told The Mercury News. "A lot of the canopy, they noted, had been burned. But it is too early to tell what the long-term damage is going to be to those trees."
All campers, rangers and visitors had been safely evacuated ahead of the flames, along with the surrounding communities.
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Antifa expressed solidarity and support for the CA wildfire in its destruction of historic government buildings and installations. Viva La Revolucion.
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That's OK. California can afford to replace them with historically accurate indigenous structures. Built by slavevolunteer labor from the prison system, courtesy of the previous AG, Kamalalalala.
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My youngest is working in Healdsburg, Sonoma Area , and was just ordered evacuated.
Structures can be replaced. Redwoods and Sequoias spread seeds via fire heat release. The problem is no logging of deadwood and undergrowth, and Trump rightly called it out. 8 or so years ago beetles hit Tahoe hard with large areas of dead trees and no willingness to remove ("NO Logging!"). It caused enough of a fire danger to pushback.
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Belarusian dictator Lukashenka comes to the state news agency Belta in uniform, says, Poland and NATO wanted to occupy Hrodra region (north-western Belarus, a region with very strong protests). Large-scale military drills announced in Hrodna and Brest regions. Escalation expected https://t.co/TwXbQEqeas
[TheDiplomat] On August 4, China’s Global Times reported that SU-30MKK Flanker fighter jets belonging to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) had conducted a 10-hour patrol over the South China Sea, breaking the air force’s previous record of 8.5 hours.
Although the report suggested only one SU-30 had made the 10-hour flight, an online video showed five to six fighter jets had been involved in the mission.
The fighter aircraft departed from an air base in southern China and were refueled twice by Ilyushin-78 aerial refueling tankers. The Global Times described the operation as "technically and mentally" challenging for the pilots, noting that they had "consumed rations to keep their energy levels up."
The mission came at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and China over the maritime disputes in the South China Sea. Over the past few months, both countries have increased the tempo of naval exercises and air patrols in the South China Sea. On July 13, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared China’s jurisdictional claims in the South China Sea to be unlawful and accused Beijing of bullying the Southeast Asian claimants.
While the video was designed to demonstrate China’s growing power projection capabilities, one expert noted that it may have inadvertently revealed the PLAAF’s weaknesses. The Flankers were either lightly armed or unarmed, and the use of two Il-78s would have consumed two-thirds of the air force’s heavy tanker fleet. It suggests that in a conflict over the South China Sea the PLAAF would not be able to send large numbers of aircraft into the battle space and sustain them. 3 refueling tankers is your entire fleet? Yah, long range fighter power projection is definitely not something China can do then.
While the Global Times would only say that the fighter jets had been dispatched to the "most remote islands and reefs" in the South China Sea, the video clearly showed the aircraft flying over Subi Reef in the Spratly Islands.
Subi Reef is one of China’s seven artificial islands in the Spratlys and hosts a 3,300 meter-long runway. Fiery Cross Reef and Mischief Reef also support long runways.
The mission begs an important question: Why didn’t the SU-30s land and refuel on Subi Reef? Surely one of the main purposes of the artificial islands is to enable China to project air power into the South China Sea to assert its territorial and jurisdictional claims, including the possibility of establishing an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the Spratlys? Details at link. As Stephen Green stated on this article, "China either doesn't want to or can't do this. And I they really want to."
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3 refueling tankers is your entire fleet? Yah, long range fighter power projection is definitely not something China can do then.
...For me, this is an utterly fascinating point. The PLAAF has a grand total of ten, count 'em, TEN tankers, period full stop. They have three of the big IL-76 tankers, and seven more H-6s (updated Tu-16 BADGERS, rough contemporaries of our B-47, which went out of service in the early 60s). To put that in perspective, the USAF has twelve tankers per squadron...and we've got twenty-six squadrons in service as of now.
Does this mean the Chinese can't carry out big, long-ranged aerial ops? Not exactly, but it severely limits where they can go and what they can do. On the other hand, given the way they run their mouths...one must wonder what they're thinking.
And why.
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In an actual war, those tankers would be priority targets, most likely.
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In an actual war, those tankers would be priority targets, most likely.
You bet your ass they are. Along with AWACs ships. And guess what we have that is perfect for that?
Won't be that way for much longer. COMAC makes the C919 (B-737 equiv), the C929 (B-787) is near completion and the C939 (B-777) is on the drawing board.
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Built on a reef? That seems easy to crater to the point of destruction. Quickly and permanently. If push comes to shove these are nothing but easy targets.
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Just think: If it goes to a shooting war, you're gonna have Greenpeace filing injunctions to make sure you don't bomb those delicate reefs.
Bets?
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I'm seriously curious about how true or vaporware the carrier buster missile everyone's talking up?
Don't overestimate the enemy but don't underestimate your own.
O and the Indians and others will be glad to play spoilers. Chicoms have no allies in the region
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Moslem worship.
The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into a mosque came just a month after a similarly controversial conversion for the UNESCO World Heritage-recognised Hagia Sophia.
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Do I remember Yip complaining about discrimination against Mooselimbs in Greece recently?
Bummer. But that’s why we do the research. Has anybody tested this in combination with other compounds, as Hydroxychloroquine has been with Zithromax and zinc?
[AlAhram] Moderately ill COVID-19 patients saw their condition improve after a 5-day course of Gilead Sciences Inc's remdesivir, but the drug did not significantly shorten hospital stays and a 10-day course did not show a benefit, according to new data.
The drug, which was shown in a trial of severely ill COVID-19 patients to shorten their hospital recovery time, has been at the forefront of the battle against the pandemic.
The 600-patient analysis, published on Friday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that moderately ill patients treated with the antiviral drug for up to 5 days had significantly higher odds of improvement in certain areas, such as whether or not they needed supplemental oxygen, compared to patients given standard treatment.
Researchers said the clinical importance of the benefit for those patients was uncertain, however.
Remdesivir is currently sold under an emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19, the disease caused by the new 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... . Gilead earlier this month filed an application seeking full FDA approval of the drug.
Differing trial results for remdesivir raise "the question of whether the discrepancies are artifacts of study design choices, including patient populations, or whether the drug is less efficacious than hoped," according to a JAMA editorial accompanying the study.
The new study in moderately ill COVID-19 patients showed that 11 days after starting treatment, 65% of the 10-day remdesivir patients, 70% of the 5-day patients and 60% of the standard care patients had left the hospital.
Side effects seen more frequently in the remdesivir groups included nausea, low blood potassium levels, and headache.
The JAMA editorial said important questions remain regarding the efficacy of remdesivir, including which patients are most likely to benefit from the drug, the optimal duration of therapy, the drug's impact on clinical outcomes, and its relative effect if combined with generic steroid treatments.
Shares of Gilead were up 18 cents at $66.24 on the Nasdaq exchange.
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Is it any wonder Big Pharma fights tooth & nail over patents? (Patent protection is part of the problem as well, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.)
[Ek Knives website] John Ek wanted to contribute to the American war effort during World War II. From his shop in Hamden, Connecticut, Ek built custom knives specifically for soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines. He even built a knife for the Commander-in-Chief, American President Franklin Roosevelt.
Mr. Ek, who also employed disabled Americans, produced six models of knives beginning in 1941. He referred to these knives as "Ek Commando Knives" as they were purpose built for close quarter use that would become a hallmark of the US Marine Raiders, US Army Rangers, First Special Service Force, and Office of Strategic Services’ Operational Groups.
To purchase an Ek Commando Knife one had to send in proof of military service. The knives were numbered and a log was kept to tie the number to the owner.
Americans have carried Ek Commando Knives in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and countless other locations in between. John Ek’s knives live on today through Ek Commando Knife as a testament to his ideas, skills, and unflinching patriotism.
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Soon, efforts to eradicate cancer will be vilified and there will be straight-faced calls to re-introduce polio and smallpox in places where they have been eradicated. No, I'm not snarking.
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[THEFEDERALIST] Fordham University is under investigation from the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly violating a student’s free speech after administrators called the cops on him for Instagram posts. On his personal account, Austin Tong posted pictures with a legally obtained gun and criticized China’s handling of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Tong also posted about the death of St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, who died trying to stop rioters from looting a friend’s pawn shop.
While the school’s website suggests that students enrolled at the university will have "the freedom of inquiry required by rigorous thinking and the quest for truth," its reaction to Tong’s posts shows otherwise. Fordham officials reportedly considered the social media posts "grotesque" and "racist," and sent "two uniformed public safety officers" to the Tong family home in Long Island, New York to "discuss the Instagram posts" and evaluate whether Tong "presented a danger to himself and others," according to the U.S. DOE investigation.
After the visit, the university called Tong "a security threat," despite the fact that officers "very quickly determined Mr. Tong posed no such threat" and that his weapon had been legally obtained. The university, however, shifted its focus to targeting Tong for "several posts on social media related to the current racial issues in the country and political issues in China."
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Pumice mats drifting from Krakatoa made it all the way across the Indian Ocean to Mozambique. Had charred vegetation and many human skeletal remains on them.
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Don’t underestimate 2020, odds are the stone will crash through the reef and sink Australia.
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
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[DT via 21stCenturyWire] New evidence has emerged which shows that UK hospital admissions for COVID-19 were ’over-reported’ during the height of the crisis back in April. It seems that patients who were being taken in for other common illnesses were in fact being counted as ’COVID’ in the government’s statistical totals.
[FOXNEWS] As devastating wildfires tear through the Santa Cruz Mountains, officials reported Thursday afternoon that historic structures at Big Basin Redwoods State Park had burned to the ground.
[TheDiplomat] On August 4, China’s Global Times reported that SU-30MKK Flanker fighter jets belonging to the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) had conducted a 10-hour patrol over the South China Sea, breaking the air force’s previous record of 8.5 hours.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...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...
[THEFEDERALIST] Fordham University is under investigation from the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly violating a student’s free speech after administrators called the cops on him for Instagram posts. On his personal account, Austin Tong posted pictures with a legally obtained gun and criticized China’s handling of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Tong also posted about the death of St. Louis Police Captain David Dorn, who died trying to stop rioters from looting a friend’s pawn shop. 
