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-Obits-
One of Pakistan’s most beloved comedians, UmarSharif, passes away
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] "Good evening ladies and germs... Well, Germs, anyway... I just flew in from Peshawar, and boy are my arms tired!... My brother-in-law stopped by my house to borrow my AK-47. He put it with my lawn mower. That was in 2002... People are funny, y'know? Now, take my wives... Please!"
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "One of Pakistan's most beloved comedians..."
Now there's a vast and crowded field.
(I'm probably showing my ignorance here. But that's OK. You can't know about everything.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 12:18 Comments || Top||

#2  on the way to the US for treatment

His faith was not strong enough.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Dindunuffin, Georgia Terrorist Threatening to Kill Black People Was Actually a Black Woman Creating a Hoax Crime
[Last Refuge] Since last December, a Douglasville, Georgia neighborhood has been gripped in fear due to racially charged messages that have anonymously been left in the mailboxes of residents of color, reports Fox News. But now police said they have made an arrest and the alleged culprit is not who the neighbors expected.

Wednesday, the Douglasville Police Department confirmed that they had filed criminal charges against Clayton Bigsby Terresha Lucas. Lucas is a 30-year-old Black woman who they believe threatened people in her community while posing as a Ku Klux Klan member.

Criminal charges were filed against Terresha Lucas, a 30-year-old Black woman

In an unexpected turn of events, this week authorities in Georgia revealed they believe a Black woman is behind the "racially charged" notes that have been terrorizing her neighborhood.

Since last December, a Douglasville, Georgia neighborhood has been gripped in fear due to racially charged messages that have anonymously been left in the mailboxes of Negroes residents of color, reports Fox News. But now officials say police have made an arrest and the alleged culprit is not who anyone would have expected.
Of course not.
Wednesday, the Douglasville Police Department confirmed that they had filed criminal charges against Terresha Lucas. Lucas is a 30-year-old Black woman who they believe threatened people in her community while posing as a Ku Klux Klan member.

In the notes, threats were made to burn down homes and kill their occupants. The author of these disturbing messages also made it a point to describe themselves as "a six-feet-tall white male with a long, red beard who did not live in the neighborhood."

After the initial messages in December, more messages popped back up in the spring.

"By mid-March, we really didn’t have anything to go on," explained Detectives Nathan Shumaker who spent months going door-to-door while investigating the case.

After six months of inactivity, the final messages started back up in September. At that point, it appeared the investigation had hit a dead end until Labor Day when investigators discovered evidence that linked the letters to Lucas.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2021 08:42 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "made it a point to describe themselves as "a six-feet-tall white male with a long, red beard who did not live in the neighborhood."
Sort of like Rumplestilskin, except for the 6 foot tall thing.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Rumplestiltskin-on-stilts
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  when the demand for raycissm outweighs the supply, entrepreneurs like this step up to the plate
Posted by: Retard Strength || 10/03/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, convolute the logic enough and it could be said "whitey made it possible for her to do it..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2021 15:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Honestly, the inclusion of a "self decription" gave it away.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/03/2021 16:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Demand is increasing. Growth industry for sure.

Add it to the list ... here are 50 racial "hate crime" hoaxes on college campuses uncovered by just one online researcher between 2012 and Feb. 2019
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 16:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Sounds like the Kluy Klux Klan, still a Democratic Party Organization, changed their requirements for membership...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2021 16:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Pondering the reasons for this behavior has led me to the possible explanation that it is a mode of compensation to give meaning to their existence by suffering b/c they know their race has contributed next to nothing to humanity during its entire earthly existence.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 10/03/2021 19:00 Comments || Top||

#9  N-A-A-K-K-C-P, find out who is mean to me
N-A-A-K-K-C-P, take care of CRT
Sock it to me, sock it to me, etc.
Posted by: Otto Jerert6072 || 10/03/2021 19:39 Comments || Top||


Leading medical journal apologizes for referring to women as 'bodies with vaginas'
"Have y' shot manay Lancet covers, Uncle Reggie?"
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The editor of The Lancet, a leading medical journal in Britannia, has apologized for a pro-transgender cover about menstruation that referred to women as "bodies with vaginas."
"Oh, sorry 'n' all that! Meant to say 'creatures' with vaginas!"
Editor-in-chief Richard Horton issued the apology this week in response to blowback from feminist and medical groups against the journal’s effort to be inclusive of biologically born men who now identify as women.

"In this instance, we have conveyed the impression that we have dehumanized and marginalized women," Mr. Horton said in a statement. "Those who read The Lancet regularly will understand that this would never have been our intention."
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lance it, yes.
Lance the boil that is this joke of a magazine... the laughingstock of the medical profession
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Just yesterday I had a similar experience. I was having a pleasant conversation with another of different personage and upon conclusion we parted. I like personage myself or perhaps I could have said luminary.We next met another personage of similar ilk(ilk, OH I like that one. I never get to use that reference). I was asked? was that a man?. I replied I wasn't certain but perhaps I could have tried the crocodile Dundee test but thought of that afterwards. AH, missed opportunities. Perhaps this might become the new approved form of greeting. I shall dash off a quick note to Biden. Who by all accounts should approve wholeheartedly(WOW, now that's a good scrabble word).
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  VagiMen.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Also: editors with brains of tapioca.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 12:08 Comments || Top||

#6  WOW, now that's a good scrabble word

'hooligan', with a triple word score
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 13:16 Comments || Top||

#7  I once met a fellow who had testicular cancer and a positive pregnancy test.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/03/2021 13:20 Comments || Top||

#8  biologically born men who now identify as women.

AKA bodies with vertical wounds that never heal
Posted by: Retard Strength || 10/03/2021 14:06 Comments || Top||

#9  creatures evolvees

Tsk, tsk!
Posted by: Otto Jerert6072 || 10/03/2021 19:44 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
How the US Air Force dropped ATOMIC BOMB on South Carolina family's backyard, with TNT detonator leaving 50 foot crater after B-47 navigator unwittingly pulled plane's emergency release handle
Ummm... That was 63 years ago and the bomb wasn't armed... Everything worked like it was supposed to work, so where's the news past the week it happened?
"Ferget it Jake Fred. It's Chinatown DM"
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 13:40 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, better a 50 ft crater than the bomb being armed and it going BOOM! instead of pop!
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/03/2021 15:54 Comments || Top||

#2 

If you dig a little. You will also find.

On Feb. 5, 1958, a B-47 bomber dropped a 7,000-pound nuclear bomb into the waters off Tybee Island, Ga., after it collided with another Air Force jet.

The bomb -- which has unknown quantities of radioactive material -- has never been found.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/03/2021 17:11 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Some years ago, I made a recon of the Mars Bluff impact site.

Of course I got pics, but the 'Burg's algorithms are telling me they're too big.

Mike



Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/03/2021 17:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Seems to be systemic problem -

May 22, 1957- A B-36 aircraft (52-2816) of the 334th Bombardment Squadron, 95th Bombardment Wing, was transporting a Mark 17 ten-megaton hydrogen bomb from Biggs AFB, Texas to Kirkland AFB, New Mexico. As the aircraft was on approach to Kirkland and over Albuquerque, New Mexico, the thermonuclear device, weighing 42,000 pounds, dropped from the bomber just 4 miles south of Albuquerque.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/03/2021 17:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Then you get the Titan that exploded in its silo in Arkansas in 1980. The explosion blew the 740-ton silo door away from the silo and ejected the second stage and warhead. Once clear of the silo, the second stage exploded. The W53 warhead landed about 100 feet from the launch complex's entry gate; its safety features prevented any loss of radioactive material or nuclear detonation.

Our devices have always been fairly predictable in bad situations.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2021 18:13 Comments || Top||

#6  And let us not forget Palomares.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/03/2021 20:16 Comments || Top||

#7  https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/blog/western-pennsylvania-history/mystery-of-pittsburghs-ghost-b-25-bomber
Posted by: Airandee || 10/03/2021 21:41 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Spirit Airlines plane catches fire in New Jersey after a large bird strikes one of its engines shortly before takeoff
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 09:09 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bird, or Drone?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#2  "a large bird entered one of the engines"
It also didn't have a boarding pass, and wasn't wearing a mask!
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Given that it's Spirit Airlines, sounds more like a birdbrain was involved. Spirit = World's Worsf Airline
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Must be Evil Spirits!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Apologies for messing with the best story ever (the Japs)...

On final approach north o' L----
Our hero is rudely awoken!
His plane never crashes,
Though wind-scattered ashes
Descend in a circle unbroken.
Posted by: Otto Jerert6072 || 10/03/2021 20:15 Comments || Top||


Oman evacs coastal areas as Tropical Storm Shaheen bumps to Cat 1 cyclone
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Egypt: Developing Sinai
It would be lovely if they would extend their services to treating Gaza’s wastewater, reducing the size of their traditional poo ponds.
[AlAhram] President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s opening of the world’s largest wastewater treatment plant boosts efforts to populate Sinai and increases Egypt’s water resources

On Monday, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi inaugurated the world’s largest wastewater treatment plant. Bahr al-Baqar wastewater treatment plant, east of Port Said, will treat 5.6 million cubic metres per day which can then be used to irrigate agricultural land in Sinai.

Mohammed Ghanem, Irrigation Ministry spokesperson, said the plant aims to process two billion cubic metres of water annually "to contribute to the reclamation of between 400,00 and 500,000 feddans as part of the national project to develop Sinai and make optimal use of water resources".

"Egypt’s water resources are estimated at 60 billion cubic metres per year, 55 billion of which come from the River Nile and five billion from rain and underground sources, forcing the government to look for other sources. We are currently involved in building wastewater projects that will help process 20 billion cubic metres annually. Soon the Bahr al-Baqar station will be joined by al-Hammam station in the west of the Delta," said Ghanem. "While water treated by Bahr al-Baqar will irrigate Sinai, water processed by al-Hammam station will be used to irrigate lands around al-Natroun."

Tarek al-Rifaai, spokesperson of the Ministry of Housing and New Communities, revealed that 146 wastewater treatment projects with a combined daily capacity of 5.8 million cubic metres are currently under construction in Egypt.

"Egypt’s population is increasing rapidly. We desperately need water to meet the needs of this growing population and to irrigate as much agricultural land as possible."

Water treated by Bahr al-Baqar station will allow new agricultural, industrial and housing communities in Sinai to be developed, says Agricultural Syndicate head Sayed Khalifa. "The government is aiming to expand Egypt’s inhabited land from 14 to 17 per cent of the land mass, and most of this increase will be in Sinai. Water treated by Bahr al-Baqar will reach the peninsula through underground pipelines to reclaim land there."

President al-Sissi said on Monday that Egypt is in a race against time to double its water resources. He revealed that the cost of treating waste water to cultivate half a million feddans in Sinai will reach LE160 billion, which "will be covered by soft-term loans from Arab development funds."

Bahr al-Baqar was built by the Arab Contractors and Orascom Construction, and funded by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development.

Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli said during Monday’s inauguration that projects to develop and populate Sinai have cost LE700 billion so far. "We are currently implementing 63 projects, the most important of which include the building of six underground tunnels to link Sinai with the rest of Egypt," said Madbouli. "These projects aim to put an end to Sinai’s isolation and make it a population magnet."

As part of this strategy, seawater desalination plants are being developed, which Madbouli described as "central to populating and developing Sinai". The plant currently being built at Arish, he added, will produce 300,000 cubic metres annually of desalinated water.

Populating Sinai is central to Egypt’s national security objectives, observed Madbouli, and the main vehicle for this is the National Project for Developing Sinai, one of the first initiatives launched by President al-Sissi following his election in 2014.

Major General Ihab al-Far, head of the Armed Forces’ Engineering Organisation, said the flow of water from Bahr al-Baqar to Sinai "will speed up the process of populating the peninsula".

He added that "the Armed Forces are participating in developing Sinai through two kinds of projects: building 34 seawater desalination stations to produce 442 million cubic metres of drinking water to meet the needs of the population of Sinai, and constructing 36 wastewater treatment stations to process 473 million cubic metres per year of water to irrigate agricultural lands."
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One feddan is equal to 1.03 acres.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651 || 10/03/2021 9:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Desal and recycling, while energy-intensive, is the answer. Overdrawing from wells brings in seawater, making groundwater brackish.

Leave the Gazook poo ponds for targeting
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2021 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  water to irrigate agricultural lands

Looking forward to harvesting ecoli?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 13:18 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Residence of Grand Duke Romanov to be restored in Tashkent
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] As part of the implementation of the policy of preserving the unique cultural and historical heritage pursued by the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev , a project is being implemented to restore the former residence of Prince Romanov. Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Aziz Abdukhakomov told reporters on October 2.

"This is a unique project, which is being carried out under the patronage of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, international professionals in the field of architecture and restoration are involved in i," Abdukhakimov said.

According to him, the main goal of the project is to preserve this unique architectural monument and the adjacent park area for future generations.

"The palace will be recreated in its original form, in the form that existed at the time of its first owner. A lot of archival documents and photographs have been studied. Return the previous decor elements, ramp, park sculpture. In addition to marble and bronze sculptures that once adorned the residence, 120 pieces of painting and graphics, 20 pieces of furniture will return there," the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.

Abdukhakimov noted that the main focus of the project will be the creation of an exhibition space in the former residence of Romanov, open to the public, as well as intended for social and cultural events.

The Palace of the Grand Duke was built in 1891 in the contemporary Art Nouveau style by the architects Benoit and Heinzelman. The graceful two-story building is decorated with carved lattices, unusual-shaped windows, towers and other decorative elements. The palace housed a library, a greenhouse and a winter garden.

Posted by: badanov || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can see it now when a full sized portrait of Romanov can be seen by all. Lady's and gentleman behold the evil eye. Then of course the normal side effect of a cult following.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  "as well as intended for social and cultural events"
Ah. President's party house.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 12:29 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
3 Warfares Doctrine Underpins CCPs Sprawling Campaign to Infiltrate the West
[Outline] Psychological warfare. Public opinion warfare. Legal warfare.

Known as the "three warfares" doctrine and relatively unknown in the West, these concepts serve as key strategies guiding the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in its quest to win a war against the free world without firing a single shot.

Psychological warfare seeks to demoralize the enemy; public opinion warfare seeks to shape the hearts and minds of the masses; legal warfare seeks to use systems of law to deter enemy attacks.

This explanation was set out in a recently released 650-page report that provides a comprehensive illustration of the Chinese communist regime’s global influence operations. The French-language report was published by the Institute for Strategic Studies of Military Schools (IRSEM), an independent agency affiliated with the French Ministry of Armed Forces.

Combined with another key CCP doctrine called "United Front" work, these principles have undergirded a breathtaking campaign by the Chinese regime to expand its influence and infiltration into Western democracies, the report stated.

United Front, described by the CCP’s first leader Mao Zedong as a "magic weapon," is a policy that, according to the report, involves the regime “eliminating its internal and external enemies, controlling groups that may challenge its authority, building a coalition around the Party to serve its interests, and projecting its influence abroad.”

The report comes amid rising pushback from the West against CCP aggressions, including its severe human rights abuses, rampant theft of intellectual property, economic coercion, and military assertiveness.

Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yea, I have heard this before. Khrushchev reborn. Where's my other shoe. They waist their money and time. Once relocated to another country they are gone and especially if they have children of mixed race. Prue bloods only will be recognized back in homeland. China is a monkeys knot of problems for themselves. 17 borders with others and not one without territory disputes.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 8:08 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
NYC homeless shelter boss accused of fraud while running private prison now earns $1 MILLION-a-year despite running 'vermin-infested shelters where security guards sleep during fights and undercooked food gives residents diarrhea'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Jack A. Brown III, 53, is founder and CEO of non-profit CORE Services Group

  • CORE operates several homeless shelters around New York City

  • Since 2017, it got more than $352million from city to operate homeless shelters

  • Contracts awarded to CORE despite Brown's history of alleged wrongdoing

  • Brown was executive of private prison that was fined for bribing politicians

  • He was also sued by his former employer for stealing confidential documents

  • New York Times investigation reveals Brown earns more than $1million a year

  • Times says Brown created private firms that are awarded contracts by CORE

  • He is also alleged to have hired his family members and doling out lucrative jobs

  • In a statement to New York Times, CORE has denied any wrongdoing by Brown
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 13:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  SlumBumlord
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 16:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Cuomo relative.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/03/2021 16:25 Comments || Top||

#3  ValJar expanding into NYC?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2021 16:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
WH Staff Veto Joe Biden, Keep Him from Taking Democrat Lawmakers' Questions
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s staff members prevented the president from taking questions during a Democrat caucus meeting on Capitol Hill, amid high-stakes negotiations that have imperiled his multi-trillion-dollar agenda and exasperated the schism between the party’s corporatist and socialist factions.

Politico reporter Sarah Ferris said Biden offered to take questions from Democrat lawmakers upon concluding his remarks, but his staff members "jumped in."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2021 03:22 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  White House staff as of July 2021.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2021 3:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Our real masters. Hacks ideologues hangers-on and grifters
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 3:46 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 When I opened that page I got ad for "UPS Is Hiring". I interpret that as a portent for the future career path of these folks. It would at least be honest labor.
Posted by: Matt || 10/03/2021 11:09 Comments || Top||

#4  And this is entirely ok with the media reporters in the room.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/03/2021 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Read the names in detail and see how many on it read like the foreign visa list at Dulles International Customs, and Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress, and Susan Rice...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/03/2021 13:00 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Boxing bouts fixed at 2016 Olympics, investigation finds
[APNEWS] Boxing bouts for medals at the 2016 Olympics were fixed by "complicit and compliant" referees and judges, an investigation reported on Thursday.

Investigator Richard McLaren was appointed by the International Boxing Association, known as AIBA, and found AIBA officials selected referees and judges to ensure that bouts could be manipulated in Olympic qualifying and at the Rio de Janeiro Games. He also found signs the 2012 Olympics in London were affected.

"Key personnel decided that the rules did not apply to them," said McLaren, who added there was a "culture of fear, intimidation and obedience in the ranks of the referees and judges."

There isn’t a final figure on how many fights could have been affected. The investigation identified "in the vicinity of 11, perhaps less, and that’s counting the ones that we know were manipulated, problem bouts or suspicious bouts," including fights for medals, McLaren said.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Say it isn't so. What's this world coming to.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Corruption in the entertainment only* Olympic events. Really?
(*Note: if it isn't obvious such as ran faster, lifted more weight, threw farther, or knocked unconscious then it's just some judge's opinion)
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I am shocked to hear that boxing (oh no, not boxing) in the Olympics (oh no, not the completely un-rigable Olympics) may have been fixed.
The world will never be the same.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/03/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Just for fun...

The Real Story of Romney’s Olympic Turnaround
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2021 13:14 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Coronavirus: Serious patients drop as new Green Pass system kicks in
[JPost] - The number of serious COVID-19 patients over the weekend dropped below 600 for the first time since mid-August.
As of Saturday night, there were 587 patients in serious condition, 100 less than a week earlier. The highest number recorded in the fourth wave was 738 on September 23.

The new Green Pass system is set to come into effect on Sunday as the coronavirus cabinet is scheduled to meet for the first time in a month. In light of the encouraging data, which also included a decline in the reproduction and positivity rates, the cabinet is not expected to introduce any new restrictions, including no cap on large gatherings which had been widely discussed.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett expressed satisfaction over the development but said it is too soon to celebrate, as the outbreak is not over.
In Israel it's a war against Covid. In some other places: it's a war between two political parties.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2021 01:58 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Meanwhile, in the ol' US of A, "serious/Critical" cases are the lowest since August 15.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/03/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  And in India new cases are down 97.1%. And they didn't even have to abandon civil rights or kill people with experimental jabs.

"...new cases had dropped a staggering 97.1 percent, and the Uttar Pradesh program was hailed as a resounding success.

According to ZeeNews of India, "The strategy of trace, test & treat yields results."

"The Yogi-led state has also been registering a steep decline in the number of Active COVID Cases as the figure has dropped from a high of 310,783 in April to 8,986 now, a remarkable reduction by 97.10 percent.

Among the medicines were Doxycycline and Ivermectin."
Posted by: Angstrom || 10/03/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Vaccine Related Injuries and Deaths Far More Widespread Than Reported
Posted by: Angstrom || 10/03/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||

#4  And they didn't even have to abandon civil rights or kill people with experimental jabs.

India did lock down at one point, with police patrolling the streets to make sure people stayed home — and beating them with bamboo sticks if they didn’t.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/03/2021 19:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes. Didn’t work. Having more success now.
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874 || 10/03/2021 19:58 Comments || Top||


Most COVID-19 Patients at Israel Hospital Fully Vaccinated, Doctor Calls Mandates ‘Diabolic'
[visiontimes]The majority of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in an Israeli hospital are fully vaccinated, including those with severe disease, according to one of the hospital's doctors.

On Aug. 5, Dr. Kobi Haviv, medical director of Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, said in a Channel 13 TV News interview, "95% of the severe patients are vaccinated." Furthermore, "85-90% of the hospitalizations are in fully vaccinated people" and the hospital is "opening more and more COVID wards."

"95% of the severe patients are vaccinated".
"85-90% of the hospitalizations are in Fully vaccinated people."
"We are opening more and more COVID wards."
"The effectiveness of the vaccine is waning/fading out"

(Dr. Kobi Haviv, earlier today on Chanel 13 @newsisrael13 ) pic.twitter.com/SpLZewiRpQ

‐ Ran Israeli (@RanIsraeli) August 5, 2021
The influx of vaccinated patients has led him to conclude that "the effectiveness of the vaccine is waning/fading out." The hospital's website states that the center is "Israel's foremost center for geriatric, respiratory, mental health and psychotrauma care, treatment and research. With 330 beds, Herzog Hospital is the third largest hospital in Jerusalem."

Of the 72 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, 25 patients were in "critical condition," 38 were in "moderate" condition, and 9 were in "mild" condition. There were 2 deaths reported at the time of the interview.

According to data from the Israeli Minister of Health released on July 22, the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at preventing COVID-19 has plummeted from 90 percent to only 39 percent, coinciding with the spread of the Delta variant in the country.

Xinhua.net reports, "the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing severe coronavirus disease in Israel is currently estimated at 91.4 percent, and in preventing COVID-19 hospitalization, at 88 percent." However, critics have asked why the public should take a risk with experimental vaccines if early treatment with cheap and effective drugs such as ivermectin significantly reduce the risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19.

In Israel, since the start of the vaccination campaign on Dec. 20, 2020, 5.8 million residents, or about two-thirds of the population, have received one dose. Nearly 5.4 million have received the second dose, and 420,000 have received a third booster dose. As of Aug. 7, data from the Health Ministry showed the country had 31,736 active COVID-19 patients, with 545 hospitalized, 324 seriously ill, and 71 in critical condition.

Mandatory vaccines ‘diabolic'
A slough of vaccine mandates worldwide has led citizens to protest in the streets and doctors to speak out. Sister Dirde Byrne, MD, a retired U.S. Army officer and graduate from Georgetown University School of Medicine, shared her thoughts in a LifeSiteNews interview published on Aug. 5.

She said, "This battle is not between the right and the left, it's not between conservatives and liberals or Republicans and Democrats." Rather, "this is a battle between Our Lord and the devil," and every person must choose a side.

Byrne became a sister with the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts in Washington, D.C. after completing her medical training and serving in the U.S. Army Medical Corps. She is board-certified in both family medicine and general surgery, is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, is currently the medical director of the Little Workers' Physical Therapy and Eye Clinic, and volunteers as a surgeon for the Catholic Charities Medical Clinic in D.C.

As a veteran who served in Korea and Egypt, and a missionary surgeon who traveled to Haiti, Sudan, Kenya, and Iraq, she told the media outlet that "‘common sense' preventive measures and therapeutic drugs can sharply reduce hospitalizations and deaths for patients with COVID-19."

She said, "If we treat them early – early is the ticket – with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, 80% of the people will not have to go to the hospital." The use of cheap, early, and effective treatments largely obviates the need for vaccination, given that hospitalization can be avoided in the majority of cases without exposure to experimental COVID-19 vaccines with unknown long-term effects.

With regard to mandated vaccination, Byrne said, "That's the shame of it all, that because this is an emergency mandate of vaccination, they're trying to push it on everybody." Since emergency vaccination is only necessary if there is a lack of effective therapeutics, pharmaceutical companies and stakeholders are incentivized to censor information about treatments.

"We have therapy, and it's proven therapy, and the powers-that-be, the government leaders here in the states, are ignoring this data." She states that a common practice since the start of the pandemic has been to send patients home with a positive COVID-19 test until they become sick enough to require hospitalization, without ever being offered safe and effective drugs.

Requiring COVID-19 jabs has become a way to exercise "total control" over people. "They want to force an experimental compound that we really don't know the long-term effects [of]. Then they want to, on top of that, make sure everyone has a [vaccine] passport. So, it's total control of a populace. And that's communism. We're headed that way," she said.
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#1  In Israel, COVID is fast becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated: Of the 644 patients in serious condition on Tuesday, 73 percent were from the small population of eligible Israelis who had not received any shots


Herzog is a geriatric facility (70 +): among people in that group age some didn't get booster, and others don't have immune system to vaccinate - they are his patients*. And, we already know that The effectiveness of the vaccine is waning/fading out - therefore the booster shots.

You anti-vaxxer zealots just don't get the message.
Pfizer & Moderna don't need you to make money - there are 8 billion people outside USA, and most of them would be happy to pay 40$ for vaccination (even the ones for whom 40$ is a major part of their early income).

*And the institutions they come from will pay for employing non-vaccinated personnel.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2021 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  p.s. Mandatory vaccines ‘diabolic'

Is not said by Haviv, but by some American MD.
I guess out of 985,000 practicing physicians you get some real treasures this is a battle between Our Lord and the devil
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2021 1:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Promoting new variants is the result. They want to patient new variants as novel viruses to make the big bucks. So the show must go on indefinitely. A daily pill. Boosters mandated ad infinitum. Obama named this correctly, the new normal. The dog chasing his tail. One bright spot is a huge money maker for a select few. Wealth handed down generation after generation.
One requirement, money must marry money as they do now.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 8:21 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/03/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  The nurse pictured is a perfect example of what people demanded of others during the eight year Spanish flu years. They shamed others as they do now. The results are never reported but 80% of those using masks died. A much higher death rate but numbers unknown for unmasked as they were never considered worthy of reporting. Perhaps only in the main numbers of flu victims. In one small community where there were no medical trained people available a family of three took care of their Spanish flu infected neighbors. Mother required each drink a full glass of water with a teaspoon of baking soda before venturing out. No masks, all home care chores done for each family of need. Result, Mother, father and daughter never got ill upon repeated exposure. Those who lived as children at the time spoke of horse drawn wagons as far as the eye could see loaded with victims of the flu.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#6  The above was my doing. I was attempting to add a supporting comment from my ifone and hit the wrong button. My apologies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#7 
I guess my Comment upset someone....
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/03/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Meanwhile here at home Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)is overwhelmed. Less than 1% are being reported after review at this site. Then “Do you want to know why 14 days is important?” he asked. “Because if you die with 14 days, you’re not considered vaccinated.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one is not considered as being “vaccinated” until 14 days after their completed injection regimen, raising the question of whether government authorities have been classifying these fatalities as something other than vaccination-related deaths." Then, "of approximately 59.4 million Medicare beneficiaries.One slide showed that the number of “persons who died within 14 days of a COVID-19 vaccine” equated to 19,400 for those younger than 81 years old, and 28,065 for those 81 and over, totaling 48,465 deaths."
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 10:08 Comments || Top||

#9  NN2N1 - see #6 above. It was in error
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#10  We do get the message, loud and clear. Your panic and visceral response is out of control. You have the vaccine take the third and fourth booster and be on your way. Stop the belittling and outright hate. We in America, or did you forget where we are, live our lives as we see fit. We dont lock up smokers, who are killing themselves, or drinkers. We allow the murder of unborn babies, we allow the homeless to spread hepA and god know what else. All because we believe in personal liberties and freedom of choice. You believe the vaccine is the way, OK, take it, keep taking it, I dont care. Its your choice. Just leave the folks that dont want it alone and stop with the bigoted approach.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/03/2021 11:34 Comments || Top||

#11 
In the USA we are being told that at the end of Sept. 2021, roughly 75+/-% of Targeted age groups of Americans have been VAX'd.

The Mayo Clinic VAX Data breaks it down further, citing the 50 to 100 year ago age group data. This being the most prone age group to HOSPITALIZATION and /or DEATH from infection. That shows us 73.3% to 80+% have been VAX'd in that extremely vulnerable age group.

Yet according to the US Official claimed numbers, the USA continues to be #1 for total weekly Infections & Deaths for the last 7 days and the preceding 7 days to that also. Despite the USA being #3 in the world for population per nation. Beating out CHINA and INDIA each with roughly 4x's the population of the USA?

So basic math logic just is not adding up here.
Either "Official Numbers", in the way they are being present is in error, or the current mRNA VAX protection wears off much quicker than we are being told, or the detection tests of Infection are running a high False Positive rate or a combination of the list and something else?

BTW: The doctor told my wife to get a Flu Shot (she has not since has the 1980's Swine Flu and has never had the flu??)

But what was strange was the way the doctor added....
IF and When it becomes available?

Is there a shortage of FLU Vaccine?



Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/03/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||

#12  N1 my shorthand for N12N1. I think I would have changed "So basic math logic just is not adding up here." I might have tried basic math and logic is not abiding here. OH, just ignore me I go away after awhile.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||

#13  NN2N1 plenty of flu shot availability in SC. Not gotten the Covid shots, because I dont like the odds.
Posted by: Glinesing Shaique2021 || 10/03/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#14  "Young healthy mother dies from Covid Vaccine — And Twitter Nazis labeled her obituary as ‘misleading’…"Jessica Berg Wilson 1983 to 2021.
Posted by: Dale || 10/03/2021 14:44 Comments || Top||

#15  the new normal
G-d's gift to the left
a crisis we can't let go to waste
COVID today,
COVID tomorrow,
COVID uber alles
Posted by: Sheba tse Tung4690 || 10/03/2021 16:30 Comments || Top||

#16  So, its that time of year, and my wife asks when I'm going to go get my flu shot.

I reply, "Don't know; since there was no flu last year, how did they pick this year's formula?"

I got The Look. Something about comedy and timing?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2021 19:27 Comments || Top||

#17  Maybe grom died and some leftist troll is posting under his name?
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874 || 10/03/2021 20:05 Comments || Top||

#18  Possibly...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/03/2021 20:46 Comments || Top||

#19  Whatever the handle, we don't want people to die, we want to come out of this in best possible situation, which is why factual information is important. Information is key, whichever handle it comes from.

I guess, call me Lawful Neutral.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2021 22:56 Comments || Top||



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