[FOX32CHICAGO] Another day, another brazen robbery at a business in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... 's pricey Near North Side neighborhood. This time, the target was the ritzy Gold Coast Auto Gallery.
On Saturday afternoon, two people came to rob this showroom for Lamborghinis and Bentleys. One stayed by the door with a gun. The other used a hammer to smash a display case and grabbed a million dollars worth of watches. Ten customers including children were in the showroom at the time.
"He was smart enough not to raise the gun, because my people had guns," said dealership owner Joe Petito. "If he raised that gun, he would have been shot, we’d probably be in court defending ourselves."
This robbery happened on October 11th at a store on Michigan Avenue near Chicago.
In less than 20 seconds, the owner says eight luxury watches are stolen.
$1 million divided by 8 = $125,000 apiece.
Police patrols were already heightened this weekend after teenagers flooded downtown last Saturday. Twenty teens were arrested and a CTA bus driver was attacked.
At least for now, even during working hours, the doors at the dealership will be locked. Service is by appointment only. Police are still working to track down the men responsible.
Related: Watches listed on the website range in price from $1000-5000 apiece. Tonino Lamborghini is a scion of the car family, but he and (presumably) his son concentrate on expensively stylish lifestyle products.
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A major winter storm will drop up to 8 feet of snow on Northern California's highest peaks and bring rain and winds up to 65 mph to the rest of the state
'This is a pretty widespread event,' said NWS meteorologist Anna Wanless in Sacramento. 'Most of California, if not all, will see some sort of rain and snow'
The precipitation will bring at least temporary relief to the broader region that's been gripped by drought for more than 20 years because of climate change
Another storm system predicted to hit California midweek could deliver almost continuous snow
Pacific Gas & Electric said the storm may cause power outages in the Bay Area
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Since the precipitation will help ameliorate the drought, surely Californians will be pleased to give up heat and power for a while. After all, what is being a Californian but sacrificing their comfort for the greater good of the environment.
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It will be a "record breaking" amount of snow. In the spring, California's water situation will be blamed on the "non-existent snow-pack."
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NOTE: This is the Northern CAL Cascade Mts.
Yes !!! Pacific stream moisture and the usual "winter" winds cause snow. In 3-4 months it will be followed by the usual Spring thaw, flooding, mud and landslides, summer heat waves, wild fires and arson fires set by environmentalists trying desperately to prove a "Climate" point.
This happens every year, its pretty much a normal, but broad weather cycle.
eg. California has experienced many droughts over the lat 150++ years/ Such as 1841, 1864, 1924, 1928-1935, 1947-1950, 1959-1960, 1976-1977, 1986-1992, 2006-2010, 2011-2017, 2018 and 2020-2021.
BTW: The Donner Summit California same general northern area (1900-2020) usual sees 343" (28ft.) to low 400" (33ft.).
While just 50 miles west Yuba CA. can barely muster 2" of snow.
Mt. Hood is expecting 22"
the storm originated in the Gulf of Alaska where the surface ocean temperature is a few degrees below normal and as the storm moves down the coast it will tap moisture from the Gulf of California and vicinity which is a bit above normal
probably this gives a moisture stream with a return occurrence of 5 to 10 years
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A good view of this is via a product of the AZ Univ which shows the changing 500mb (about 18k feet) and the infrared water vapor on the same loop.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Following the thousands of hours the reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... Police Department spent investigating Jussie Smollett ...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom... 's hate crime hoax, the former Empire star is now being sued over $130,000 for the time spent by the department's officers investigating the incident.
The city will be going forward with a $130,106.15 lawsuit against the star after Smollett was found guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct, according to the Daily Mail.
In a July 2019 legal filing from the department, they stated that more than two dozen cops spent weeks investigating the Smollett's claims, logging 1,836 overtime hours in the process.
"The City filed a civil lawsuit against Jussie Smollett to recover costs incurred by the Chicago Police Department investigating what the City believed to be Smollett's false police reports that he was a victim of a hate crime," a statement from the city said.
"While using a different standard of proof, the jury's finding of guilt convicting Jussie Smollett of criminal charges stemming from the incident confirms that the City was correct in bringing its civil lawsuit," the statement continued.
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$130,106.15 is a joke.
How about the $Millions in private property damages and looting. How about 100's of persons physically harmed because of this Racist White Hate, Political based Stunt?
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more than two dozen cops spent weeks investigating the Smollett's claims, logging 1,836 overtime hours in the process.
The reason for that effort was that Cook County DA Kim Fox went all in on solving this horrible but obviously fake hate crime. I rather suspect the cops who took the original complaint would have dropped the whole mess.
Not a lawyer, but civil damages seems like a novel legal theory.
[Garowe] Skirmishes in Galmadug continued for the better part of Friday with at least six people killed, information minister Ahmed Falagle said, noting that the government will address the situation.
Galmadug has been a hot spot of skirmishes in the country, ranging from al-Shabaab ...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... resurgence, ASWJ militia, and inter-clan fights, which have escalated for the last two years, almost plunging the country into chaos.
Because really, dealing with just one existential problem at a time would be too simple.
"It is unfortunate that there is a resurgence of clan fighting. Six people have been killed and many more injured. Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... has stood firm and will hold the perpetrators accountable," Falagle said.
Fighting broke out between the two sides in Kahandhaale area of the Galgadud region Friday afternoon but the course of the clash was not immediately clear.
According to local sources, ’several’ people were killed and others injured in the fighting that last into Friday afternoon. Tension still remains high amid fears of fresh fighting.
Galmadug, which is in central Somalia, has been a hotspot of chaos and is home to Ahmed Kaliye alias Qoorqoor, a close ally of outgoing President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo, who has been accused of sabotage.
Under Farmaajo's administration, the country has been fairly unstable, and there have been deliberate efforts to kick him out of the government in the ongoing elections in the federal republic of Somalia.
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[InterestingEngineering] The coldest place on Earth is burning because of zombie fires.
Oymyakon, Russia, which has the lowest winter temperatures of any city in the world with an average of 58°F below zero (50°C below zero) is generally considered the coldest inhabited area on Earth. Oymyakon’s lowest recorded temperature was a reading of 89.9°F below zero (67.7°C below zero) back in January 1924.
Even though Oymyakon means "unfrozen water" due to the thermal spring located nearby, the area is located in a permafrost zone, which means that the ground temperature is constantly 32°F below zero (0°C) and is permanently covered in snow.
Despite low temperatures, peat fires, also known as "zombie fires," fueled by peat and methane, continue to burn in the area below the ground.
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Aren't there some Pennsylvania coal mines perpetually on fire currently?
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Archaeologists Say They've Found the Earliest Evidence of Humans Using Tobacco
Four charred seeds in a 12,300-year-old hearth appear to push the start of human tobacco use back by millennia.
[LB] The Lugansk People's Republic Defense Ministry said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces in the area of the Ukrainian 58th Brigade were planning a false flag drone strike, according to Lugansk official news releases.
The provocation, as the spokesman for the Lugansk People's Republic termed it, is planned for the village of Muratovo, which is about two kilometers north of the North Donetsk River. The location is well north of the line of contact.
The plan is to drop explosives in a civilian area, then claim Russian speaking separatists for the attack.
Only two days before, Ukrainian forces west of Donetsk city, in the Donetsk breakaway republic, sent a drone which dropped an explosive device atop a bus stop shelter.
One separatist was killed and another wounded when the device exploded, according to data supplied by the Donetsk People's Republic Ministry of Defense.
In a subsequent report, the Donetsk MoD said that Donetsk electronic and air defense (ELINT) units intercepted another attack drone, the target of which reportedly was a hospital.
That announcement said that the ELINT unit had tapped into the drone's control channel to force it to land.
In a separate report, the Donetsk Ministry of Defense said that Ukrainian forces had not fired any artillery on Sunday.
More on Lugansk
According to a news article which appeared in the online edition of lb.ua, Russian speaking separatists fired on Ukrainian froces in teh area of Popasna and Katerynivka, using automatic grenade launchers and small arms fire.
Reportedly there were no casualties.
Ukrainians said they returned fire, which effectively ended the gunfire exchange.
Direct Translation via Google Translation. Edited. In Kuzbass it will freeze to -24 deg. C
[REGNUM] In the Kemerovo region tomorrow, according to the regional hydrometeorological center, on December 13, partly cloudy is expected, at night light in places, moderate snow in the south in some areas, light snow in the daytime, drifting snow in places with ice and frost.
"West wind, 3-8 m/s, in places up to 13 m/s. The temperature at night is −14 deg. to −19 deg. C, in some places up to -24 deg. C, in the daytime −13 to −18 deg. C, in some places - 7 to -12 deg. C," the forecast says.
Working week Novosibirsk region to begin with frost
[REGNUM] In Novosibirsk tomorrow, December 13, according to the West Siberian Hydrometeorological Center, no significant precipitation is expected at night, northwestern wind 3−8 m/s, air temperature −19 to −21 deg. C with ice on the roads in places.
At the same time, in the Novosibirsk region tomorrow, on December 13, partly cloudy weather is predicted, in some places light snow, with frost clearing with ice on the roads in places. The temperature at night is -15 to -20 deg. C, in some places up to -25 deg. C; during the day -8 to -13 deg. C, in some places up to -18 deg. C.
Note that today, December 12, in Novosibirsk it was mostly without precipitation, the air temperature was -10 to -12 deg. C, with a decrease during the day to -17 deg. C.
The forecaster spoke about the rare frost in Moscow
[REGNUM] In the capital of Russia, Moscow, there will be a rare natural phenomenon for Central Russia. On December 12, the leading employee of the Phobos weather center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, announced this on Instagram.
According to him, under frost conditions, relatively high air humidity and weak wind, there is a variant of precipitation, which is quite rare for Central Russia, like rime (crystalline or granular ice deposits on thin and long objects).
Earlier IA REGNUM reported that a sharp warming will come to Moscow on December 12, which will last until the end of next week.
Already next night in the capital will be -11 to -12 deg., and in the afternoon on December 13 the temperature will be -2 to -4 deg.
I wish I understood the German language. I'm guessing the crowd was not telling the cops how much they loved them.
[CitizenFreePress] German Gestapo strikes again… German police start using poles for distancing.
Brief video: Germans loudly object to anti-Covid measures as police try to make them maintain social distance. For extra amusement, at the link CFP links to a Deutsche Welle article reporting that new German chancellor Olaf Scholz claims the Germans are not divided about Covid vaccination.
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Ten million raised hands make a "V,"
But one decade later...
"Not me!"
"We're little political
People, not... medical."
[clutching their shoulders]
"Tee-hee!"
Authors: Yair Goldberg, Micha Mandel, Yinon M. Bar-On, Omri Bodenheimer, Laurence Freedman, Nachman Ash, Sharon Alroy-Preis, Amit Huppert, Ron Milo
Abstract:
[MEDRXIV] BACKGROUND Infection with SARS-CoV-2 provides substantial natural immunity against reinfection. Recent studies have shown strong waning of the immunity provided by the BNT162b2 vaccine. The time course of natural and hybrid immunity is unknown.
METHODS Data on confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections were extracted from the Israeli Ministry of Health database for the period August to September 2021 regarding all persons previously infected or vaccinated. We compared infection rates as a function of time since the last immunity-conferring event using Poisson regression, adjusting for possible confounding factors.
RESULTS Confirmed infection rates increased according to time elapsed since the last immunity-conferring event in all cohorts. For unvaccinated previously infected individuals they increased from 10.5 per 100,000 risk-days for those previously infected 4-6 months ago to 30.2 for those previously infected over a year ago. For individuals receiving a single dose following prior infection they increased from 3.7 per 100,000 person days among those vaccinated in the past two months to 11.6 for those vaccinated over 6 months ago. For vaccinated previously uninfected individuals the rate per 100,000 person days increased from 21.1 for persons vaccinated within the first two months to 88.9 for those vaccinated more than 6 months ago.
CONCLUSIONS Protection from reinfection decreases with time since previous infection, but is, nevertheless, higher than that conferred by vaccination with two doses at a similar time since the last immunity-conferring event. A single vaccine dose after infection helps to restore protection.
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I think I meant to put this on page 3. I probably shouldn't have been doing two things at once.
Anyway, that previous Israeli study on vaccine and natural immunity now has a followup, here it is.
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At this point in time, infection is not the important thing, SEVERITY is. Are the natural, acquired, and hybrid immunity groups showing any differential in severity and hospitalization and fatality compared to each other and to the baseline?
If the Omicron variety and the symptoms are no more than a mild cold and resulting in far fewer hospitalizations, as it is so far, then the infection rate does not matter - in fact, you want it higher, to out-compete the more severe version and eradicate it, whilst providing some degree of immunity, and achieving "herd immunity".
Infection rates are a crap statistic when isolated from the full context.
Evolution is Random, But Guaranteed.
Most mutations are dead ends and produce non-viable results. But if it replicates and mutates quickly enough, the random nature means it will eventually hit on a viable mutation.
Viruses are primed to evolve very rapidly. They reproduce rapidly many times in a host, leading quickly to many generations of viruses. In the case of Covid, it is a single strand, so it doesn't have any error checking or correction systems for repairing RNA/DNA damage, so mutations stick around and aren’t corrected.
This is why we need a new flu shot every year, why it’s not worth the effort to create a vaccine for the “common cold” (which could be caused by any one of a number of different strains of virus). And thats why we are seeing many variants of COVID
So now it comes down to 2 factors: transmissibility and virulence.
Increased transmissibility is a favorable mutation, in that it allows the virus to spread to more hosts, and outcompete other variants, and evade any immunity developed to other forms. Higher transmissible viruses will become more common due to "competition of the fittest".
So increased transmissibility is inevitable.
As for virulence? It is rather simple. Killing the host too fast or making them too sick to interact with others may prevent the virus from getting a chance to spread. This is why virulent forms like Ebola tend to "burn themselves out" before they can evolve to a milder form, and use an animal population for their "reservoir".
So virulence is not an advantage when competing with other forms of the virus, especially since the asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic will carry it and not be likely to treat it.
There is evidence that the coronavirus that causes most of the “common cold” today came from a virus called OC43, which might have been responsible for an 1890 pandemic that killed over a million people. That virus grew less virulent over time, becoming little more than a nuisance.
So "waiting it out" can be a valid strategy, although the death and damage while waiting for a less virulent form to dominate mark it as an unsustainable strategy, as well as an inhumane one.
Omicron is a natural development that most viruses tend toward - more contagious but milder symptoms and less virulent. Like the flu and the common cold (also a coronavirus).
This is a mutant that we can take advantage of. The panic over Omicron is not only stupid, but it is also counterproductive if, in fact, Omicron is a very much less virulent form.
All the countries instituting severe measures like extreme lockdowns (Israel, Australia) are doing their populations far more harm than good. The same goes for mandates for the mRNA for children who have a minuscule risk for fatality or hospitalization absent other comorbid factors.
So context - how is this affecting HOSPITALIZATION rates? Infection rates are meaningless without that context. Transmissibility is only half the equation. Whats the virulence?
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Hospitalization rates bottomed out in mid-summer, peaked around Labor Day, and fell non-stop until about Thanksgiving, when they started trending up again.
Today, there are 15,001 "Serious/Critical" per Worldometers, about the same as mid-October.
But we are well into what used to be "The Flu Season", but flu deaths have been practically zero since the end of the flu season (April) 2020. That's twenty months without a flu season.
Draw your own conclusions - those are (some of) the facts!
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Boris Johnson in the UK today stated one patient there has died with or of the Omicron variant. That is the first death published for the variant. Nothing yet heard from South Africa or the rest of Europe.
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Key phrase: died WITH, not FROM. Why was the person hospitalized to begin with? What age? What comorbid conditions? What was the proximate cause of death?
Boris Johnson statement was disingenuous and misleading! Deliberately ambiguous phrasing, demand the whole truth.
Subtitled: A 220,517-subject, populational-level retrospective citywide.
Abstract:
Background: Ivermectin has demonstrated different mechanisms of actions that could potentially protect from both COVID-19 infection and COVID-19-related comorbidities. Based on the existing literature and safety profile of ivermectin, a citywide program of prophylactic use of ivermectin for COVID-19 was implemented in Itajai, a Southern city in Brazil in the state of Santa Catarina. The objective of this analysis is to evaluate the effects of the use of ivermectin for prevention of COVID-19 infection, risk of dying and mortality, compared to non-users.
Materials and methods: This is a retrospective analysis of registry data from the medical based citywide COVID-19 prevention with ivermectin program, between July 2020 to December of 2020. The whole population of Itajaí was invited for a medical visit to compile demographic and medical parameters. In the absence of contraindications, ivermectin was offered as an optional treatment for 2 days every 15 days at a dose of 0.2mg/kg/day. Patients’ preferences and medical autonomy were preserved. Ivermectin users were compared with the comorbidity-matched population of non-users for COVID-19 by age, sex, COVID-19 infection rate, and COVID-19 mortality rate. Results in terms of mortality were adjusted for all relevant variables and Propensity Score Matching (PSM) was calculated.
Results: A total of 220,517 subjects were included in the analysis; 133,051 (60.3%) ivermectin users and 87,466 (39.7%) non-users. COVID-19 infection occurred in 4,311 (3.2%) treated subjects, and 3,034 (3.5%) non-treated subjects. This evidence showed a 7% reduction in COVID-19 infection rate with use of ivermectin: COVID-19 infection rate ratio (Risk ratio (RR) of 0.93; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.89 — 0.98; p = 0.003). A total of 62 deaths (1.4% mortality rate) occurred among users and 79 deaths (2.6% mortality rate) among non-users, showing a 48% reduction in mortality rate (RR, 0,52; 95%CI, 0.37 — 0.72; p = 0.0001). Risk of dying from COVID-19 among ivermectin users was 45% lower than non-users (RR, 0.55; 95%CI, 0.40 — 0.77; p = 0.0004). Conclusion: Prophylactic use of ivermectin showed significantly reduced COVID-19 infection rate, mortality rate and chance of dying from COVID-19 on a calculated population-level analysis, which controlled for all relevant confounding variables.
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Great post. Regrettably damage is done. Lemmings rule but OH so temporarily.
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based on DNA evidence, most in the field think there were multiple migrations from Asia to N.Am.
the 'native Americans' undoubtedly did their share of displacing/exterminating their predecessors
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Beware of the 'Indigenous Lobby' if you find anything creditable prior to the 'Last' migration ~15,000-YO (the ONLY TRUE one in some indigenous circles).
Seem to remember a real sh*tstorm when some poor archeologist found carbon dated evidence of a 40,000-YO settlement in South America.
I also think there was another site found on the East Coast of the US somewhere that was even older, but suppressed by the aforementioned group-think.
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#2 LG - Agreed ... I have read several research papers showing the Russia-Alaska Land Bridge (Beringia) may have allowed migration multiple times in the last 25,000+ years.
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I remember snickering when they finally starting deciphering the Mayan glyphs. Out: Pacifistic Pot smoking stargazing numerologists. IN: warmongering human sacrificing people (King 'Two Rabbit' burned this city and took a bunch of war captives...).
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For all that Rousseau called Indians "noble savages", the accent is on savages.
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From Wikipedia
Mound Builders
A number of pre-Columbian cultures are collectively termed "Mound Builders". The term does not refer to a specific people or archaeological culture, but refers to the characteristic mound earthworks erected for an extended period of more than 5,000 years
See these tribes and groups are just lumped together in the leftist Wikipedia...no one seems to think of dividing out the various settlements and who knows they could have been here far longer than 5-20K years
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In the summer of 2015, a team of archaeologists in Utah found duck bones and charred plant matter just beneath the ground, in an arid stretch of northwestern Utah now known as the Wishbone site. The team realized it was an open-air hearth, some 12,000 years old, and now the same group has reported their discovery of tobacco seeds on the site.
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A verrrry old man of Tijuana
Once tried to eat Nicotiana.
He filled his whole boca
From a bowl of N. glauca,
Turned green, and... "I think that I'm gonna
be... [ick] Dame -- quick! -- marijuana."
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.
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] 
...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted 
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
