[Just The News] National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said poor safety culture, and a feud between employees that risked the leak of an unknown pathogen, prompted him to temporarily shutter the high-level biosafety laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
Bhattacharya, who was confirmed by the Senate in late March, had only just taken the helm at the agency which was at the center of much COVID-19-era controversy when he received a report about the high-security laboratory that caused his “blood to chill,” he told the Just the News, No Noise TV show on Monday.
He said the lab reported that one researcher slashed a hole in a containment suit of another researcher, potentially exposing them to a pathogen. Seems as though the details eventually emerge.
[Breitbart] A Colorado clinic infamous for late-term abortions has shuttered after 50 years of being open, Associated Press reported.
“It became impossible to continue, but closing is one of the most painful decisions of my life,” 87-year-old clinic founder and late-term abortionist Dr. Warren Hern said of closing the Boulder Abortion Clinic last month.
[SportsIllustrated] Rose will be eligible for Hall consideration in 2027 after commissioner Rob Manfred removed the Reds legend, and all-time hits king, from the ineligible list.
The culture changed, but Charlie Hustle was still so busy hustling that he didn’t notice, even while everyone around him was making money off his work.
Eight months after the death of Pete Rose, the path for Rose to enter the Hall of Fame will open for the first time since it was blocked 34 years ago. Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, acting on a petition by Rose’s family, removed Rose from the ineligible list Tuesday. The decision by the commissioner is separate from Hall of Fame voting procedures, but it does make Rose eligible for Hall of Fame consideration as soon as December 2027. The news was first reported by ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr.
Rose, the all-time hits leader with 4,256 hits, in 1989 accepted an agreement with commissioner Bart Giamatti to be placed on the ineligible list after the commissioner’s office spent months investigating his betting on baseball while playing and managing the Cincinnati Reds. Two years later, just before Rose was first eligible on Hall of Fame ballots sent to baseball writers, the Hall changed its eligibility rules. It barred any player on MLB’s ineligible list from appearing on a ballot.
Rose denied betting on baseball at the time, only to admit 15 years later in writing a book to such actions in violation of baseball’s Rule 21.
Manfred’s decision now permits Rose to gain the same chance at the Hall once afforded Joe Jackson, the outfielder barred for his part in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. While on the ineligible list, Jackson was considered on Hall ballots in 1936 and 1946 but received minimal support.
Manfred decided that Rule 21 was meant to keep people away from baseball who were considered a threat to the integrity of the game and to be a deterrent. He decided the "threat" portion no longer applied once a person is deceased. There are 17 deceased people on the list.
Rose died Sept. 30, 2024, in Las Vegas at age 83. Manfred met with Rose’s daughter Fawn and his lawyer, Jeffrey Lenkov, in December. A formal petition for being removed from the ineligible list was submitted on Jan. 8. The Rose family preferred a decision be made by Wednesday night, when the Reds host a Pete Rose Night at Great American Ballpark to celebrate the life and career of the franchise icon. The Reds play the Chicago White Sox that night at a special start time of 7:14 to honor No. 14.
Manfred also met with President Trump at the White House on April 16. One of the topics of their conversation was the MLB status of Rose. Trump told Manfred he would posthumously pardon Rose. In 1990, Rose pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns and served a five-month sentence.
Rose is no longer eligible for consideration by the writers, which consider players for a 10-year period that begins five years after their last game. His candidacy would pass to the Classic Baseball committee that next meets in December 2027. If elected, he would be inducted in July 2028. The committee consists of 16 members of the Hall, executives and veteran media members. A candidate needs 12 of 16 votes for election.
Rose previously filed for reinstatement to Manfred in 2015 not long after Manfred became commissioner. He also applied to former commissioner Bud Selig in 1997 and 2002 without success.
[KRQE] The Bataan Death March is one of the darkest stories of World War Two when Japanese soldiers forced marched more than 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners more than 60 miles. Thousands died or were killed along the way.
New Mexico veteran Valdemar DeHerrera may be the last living survivor of that march. He survived the death march, the horror that followed, and came home to build a life of love and family. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines and rounded up American soldiers, DeHerrera and his fellow soldiers avoided capture. “And the people that were left there were left to fight. They would not give up. They wanted to fight because they didn’t want to give up. The Philippines. And so they stayed there. They fought until they had no water, no food, no ammo. It became hand-to-hand. Camp combat,” said Valdemar’s daughter, Juanita DeHerrera Clements.
DeHerrera was eventually captured and was part of a second, punishing death march, which was just as lethal as the first. At one point, weak from a lack of food and water, he collapsed on the side of the road. At any point, a Japanese captor would have shot or bayonetted him. But a guardian angel stepped in. “And then he falls. He falls. And this gentleman, Mr. Zacarias, picked him up and carried him, and that’s why he survived,” said Clements.
In the prison camp, food was scarce. But DeHerrera’s time as a boy on a farm in northern New Mexico had given him valuable knowledge. “And so, there were a lot of herbs there. So, dad, to get the herbs back into the camp, would act crazy. And they thought that he was crazy anyway, so he would carry the herbs in his little hat or, you know, do things to where he was able to leave him alone. He’d get the herbs, and he saved a lot of the lives of a lot of the soldiers because they had beriberi, malaria, dysentery,” said Clements.
Even as he suffered, DeHerrera worried about his parents, who were back in Costilla, New Mexico. “Well, of course it’s going to go through your mind. What is my family thinking? What are they going through with what I’m going through, not knowing where I’m at or what’s happening with me?” Clements said.
His time in the camp was its own hell. “One meal a day, rice and rotten, and water. And that was it. But they would work to death too, not only in the, in the cotton fields, but the cotton gins, forced labor. There was a lot of forced labor. Or the Japanese just felt like, I’m just going to go ahead and kill that one over there, why not, you know?” said Clements.
It was a hell that went on, day after day, for three years and seven months. “If they didn’t do their job or they didn’t like the way they did their job, they were beaten severely. They would take their weapons and basically hit them in the back. But anything in the back, from the head down to the, to the tailbone,” said Clements.
When DeHerrera returned to the United States, he weighed just 80 pounds. After spending months in Santa Fe recovering, he ran into an old family friend, 15-year-old Consuelo DeVargas. They would later marry and went on to have six children, five daughters and a son. The two would stay married until her death in 2019. They have 19 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren.
To this day, his children carry his service with them. “What does it feel like to have a father who’s had that experience?” “It’s an honor. It’s an honor. The fact that he talked me into going into the army”, said Clements.
DeHerrera retired from the New Mexico Department of Transportation and later worked as a foreman at the nearby mine. The 105-year-old, a long time ago, came to terms with his time in captivity and even the Japanese soldiers who mistreated him.
a surprisingly credible conception of what that terrible experience must have been for some of the men who endured it—the grim attrition of body and mind—is inexorably presented by Metro in a harrowing picture tersely titled "Bataan".
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Just note what he went through and today's utes who misplace their 'smart phone' then panic and become totally spastic. The old phrase, "Tough times make tough men. Tough men make good times...."
[The Hill] A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to remove Tren de Aragua members but determined the administration has provided insufficient notice before carrying out the deportations.
U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines’s ruling contrasts with several other federal judges who have ruled Trump illegally invoked the wartime statute. She says Trump is within his rights to deport members of a foreign terrorist organization — a designation he has made for Tren de Aragua.
Haines, a Trump appointee, emphasized her "unflagging obligation is to apply the law as written."
Will it be challenged, like so much else go all the way to the US Supreme Court?
A small amount of chlorine added to the gene pool.
[Breitbart] La Unión de Tepito is the dominant criminal organization in Mexico City and has had various alliances with drug cartels in the past. La Union has been tied to the Sinaloa Cartel and, most recently, to Cartel Jalisco New Generation.
[UPI] May 13 (UPI) -- Oil and gas producers can accelerate their efforts to make the United States energy independent thanks to streamlined federal oil and gas leasing rules on public lands.
An updated Bureau of Land Management policy expedites the leasing process on public lands to increase the amount available for onshore oil and gas leases, decrease the leasing timeframes and ensure oil and gas lease sales follow federal laws.
"Under President [Donald] Trump's leadership, we are ending the unnecessary delays and bureaucratic roadblocks that have held back American energy production for too long," Adam Suess, acting assistant secretary for land and minerals management, said Tuesday in a news release.
"This policy puts us on a fast track to energy dominance" and sends a "clear message that the United States is serious about job creation, low energy costs and putting American energy first," Suess added.
[RedState] We're still not tired of winning. In the latest, a Turkish company, Mega Metal, is planning to open a 91,000 square foot facility in South Carolina to manufacture a specific, specialized copper wire used in electronics and semiconductors.
The plant is expected to employ more than a hundred local workers.
A Turkey-based copper wire manufacturer announced on Tuesday it is investing $34 million in South Carolina to establish a 91,000-square-foot facility that will manufacture superfine electrolytic oxygen-free (EOF) copper wire in Fairfield County.
Mega Metal, which has more than 700 employees and distributes products to more than 30 countries, said the project will create 135 new jobs.
Once fully operational, the facility is expected to produce 55 million pounds of wire annually.
That's not an enormous amount of wire when compared to the copper industry as a whole, but this is a highly specialized product that's only used in a relatively few applications. Even so, it's a significant development for Fairfield County, South Carolina:
[Bloomberg] Elon Musk said Saudi Arabia will authorize the use of his company SpaceX’s Starlink service for aviation and maritime shipping as the kingdom strikes about $600 billion in investment commitments during President Donald Trump’s visit.
The billionaire announced the news at a summit held in Riyadh and attended by dozens of US executives, including other Big Tech leaders including OpenAI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Amazon.com Inc. chief Andy Jassy.
Musk also said he displayed his Tesla Inc. Optimus robots doing "the Trump dance," to the president and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman during meetings on Tuesday.
Musk pitched services from across his empire, including robotaxis and The Boring Company tunnels as part of his vision to improve life in Saudi Arabia.
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in April, after falling 0.1 percent in March, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 2.3 percent before seasonal adjustment.
The index for shelter rose 0.3 percent in April, accounting for more than half of the all items monthly increase. The energy index also increased over the month, rising 0.7 percent as increases in the natural gas index and the electricity index more than offset a decline in the gasoline index. The index for food, in contrast, fell 0.1 percent in April as the food at home index decreased 0.4 percent and the food away from home index rose 0.4 percent over the month.
----------------------------------------------- No real big movement toward lower T-bond prices however. Need a few more months of good news for that to happen apparently.
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"I thought he was 12!" Honest!
Gay men really ruin everything. The Boy Scouts, the church, public schools, they are a destructive force we never should have let escape the closet. This is crystal clear now.
[Independent] Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary claimed that Donald Trump granting refugee status to white South Africans "has nothing to do with race," even though the president claimed that Afrikaner farmers were facing "genocide" because they "happen to be white."
The MAGA-boosting Canadian businessman also told Fox News on Tuesday that he had no idea "why this particular group gets all this focus." O’Leary added that "every administration has its own policy" on immigration and that he doesn’t "understand this debate at all" over white South Africans getting fast-tracked to citizenship while Trump shuts out most other refugee admissions.
Following his vow in February to cut off all funding to South Africa and "resettle" white Afrikaners in America over a new land expropriation law, Trump announced on Monday that 59 white South African "refugees" were en route to the United States. The president also made it clear he was echoing the debunked "white genocide" conspiracy theory that alleges white farmers in South Africa are being targeted and killed en masse.
"It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about," Trump declared in the Oval Office. "It's a terrible thing that's taking place. And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they're white or Black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa."
Despite the president’s claims, which have been amplified in recent years by South African-born "first buddy" Elon Musk and right-wing media figures such as Tucker Carlson, there’s no evidence that white farmers are facing a spike in violence and murders. Despite the prevalence of online misinformation that tends to center around a few high-profile cases, it’s estimated that roughly 50 farmers, from different racial backgrounds, were killed last year in a country that recorded over 19,000 murders.
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Oh I was trying to confirm who sourced the phrase, "The US needs to adopt a constitution like South Africa's."
Have to share a result:
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg admired the South African Constitution, particularly its emphasis on human rights and an independent judiciary. She viewed it as a "great piece of work" that was more recent and more comprehensive than the U.S. Constitution, praising its deliberate attempt to establish a fundamental instrument of government."
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When we toured South Africa in 2016, killing the Boer was happening then. Our guide’s family (Boer) owned a farm in the north. Africans from countries in North Africa “immigrated” to South Africa because they were starving. The best leader was Mandella as he respected all the races in Africa.
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^^And Mandela didnt pull a Mugabe and turn the bread basket of Africa into starvation zone, unfortunately I fear this fate will befall the RSA
It’s so sad ton of Saffers and Rhodesians here in Atlanta, I’ve played, coached and have been coached in rugby by so many…
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.
[Breitbart] A Colorado clinic infamous for late-term abortions has shuttered after 50 years of being open, Associated Press reported. 
