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-Obits-
In memory of those who died suddenly
The question being how many of the deaths resulted from the Covid vaccine.
[MARKCRISPINMILLER] ...in the United States, August 8-August 15: Comedian Teddy Ray; TV actress Denise Dowse; John Engen, 5-term major of Missoula, MT; poet John Longenbach; three student football players; three Amazon workers; and all too many more
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/10/2023 01:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RONALD REAGAN: "GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM"
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/10/2023 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  #NoAmnesty
Posted by: mossomo || 05/10/2023 13:11 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
GO DAWGS!! National champion Georgia won't visit White House due to scheduling difficulties
[Yahoo] The Georgia Bulldogs won’t be visiting the White House to celebrate their national title.

Georgia said Tuesday that it wouldn’t visit President Joe Biden because of the June 12 date that was offered. President Biden had initially said in February that Georgia would be welcomed at the White House after it went 15-0 during the 2022 season.

"The University of Georgia first received on May 3 an invitation for the Bulldog football team to visit the White House on June 12," a statement from the school said. "Unfortunately, the date suggested is not feasible given the student-athlete calendar and time of year. However we are appreciative of the invitation and look forward to other opportunities for Georgia teams moving forward."

Georgia wasn't the only college champion invited to the White House on that date either. The Biden administration is planning to honor multiple NCAA championship teams on that day, though the UConn men's basketball team and LSU women's basketball team are set to go to the White House later this month.

As you can imagine, it would have been a logistical challenge for myriad players from Georgia’s 2022 team to attend the ceremony. While it would have been relatively straightforward to arrange travel for players staying on campus over the summer, many players from Georgia’s team were taken in April’s NFL draft and are already preparing for their professional careers. A date during spring practice and before the draft would have likely worked much better for Georgia’s schedule.

With the exception of the two most recent NCAA tournament champions, it's worth noting that champion teams have not visited the White House during the Biden administration in the immediate weeks and months after winning their titles.

The Golden State Warriors won the NBA Finals over the Boston Celtics in June of 2022 and visited the White House in January. While the Los Angeles Rams never made a White House trip after winning the Super Bowl in February of 2022, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visited the White House in July of 2021 after winning the Super Bowl that February.
Posted by: Beavis || 05/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would go as far as losing my scholarship for refusing to go if I were a player. GO DAWGS!
Posted by: Chris || 05/10/2023 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Leave Georgia during Turkey season to go visit a doddering old man in an extended care facility ?

He won't remember you 10 minutes after you leave.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/10/2023 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  I get that politics is a PR operation on steroids, but I'd love to see a president who didn't bother and instead walked right from the inauguration to his office and started ripping Washington apart from the roots up and didn't stop for pizza or ice cream photo shoots.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/10/2023 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Clearly evidence this nation is NOT being run by the sitting President or the do-nothing, complicit Congress.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/10/2023 7:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember he almost choked on the pizza, he needs to more of those .
Posted by: Chris || 05/10/2023 7:53 Comments || Top||

#6  The Dawgs can only lose by visiting this WH.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/10/2023 11:09 Comments || Top||


Whoopi Goldberg denies farting on 'The View' after Sunny Hostin's 'WWHL' comments
[PAGESIX] Sunny Hostin admitted that Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t too thrilled when her co-host claimed she passed the most gas on "The View."

"She didn’t like it," Hostin said of Goldberg’s reaction, when asked about it during Monday’s episode of SiriusXM’s "Andy Cohen Live."

The talk show host claimed that she and the other women recently got coasters for their mugs on set.

Before that, she alleged that the mugs would make a farting-esque noise whenever they moved —which is what viewers were hearing.
Sure, blame the dog or Eric Swallwell the coasters
"And so Whoopi, in an effort to kind of cover that up, we have coasters now, was like, ’Sorry y’all. That was me,’ and I just took her at her word," Hostin, 54, explained.

Hostin previously named Goldberg, 67, the co-anchor who "actually passes the most gas on set" during an episode of "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" on April 27.

=Goldberg later confronted Hostin for ripping into her letting it rip.

"It just turned into this big thing and so Whoopi said, ’Why did you tell everybody I fart all the time?’ and I was like, ’Because you joke about farting all the time and I’m across from the table.’

Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [21 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As long as she doesn't whip out a Bic and tries for the ol' blue flame shot...
Posted by: Raj || 05/10/2023 1:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe she's getting ready to run for Congress.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/10/2023 3:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Whoopi preparing for a movie role as Stacey Abrams?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/10/2023 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  People are still watching the View?
Posted by: Cleared Cookies Lost Nic || 05/10/2023 8:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Whoopi needs an enema to let some of her over inflated ego out...
Posted by: magpie || 05/10/2023 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  I'd imagine the smell to be a visual mash up of that latest Italian perfume commercial and the campfire from Blazing Saddles, even before this too much information.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/10/2023 10:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Scratch and Sniff™
Posted by: Frank G || 05/10/2023 11:00 Comments || Top||

#8  she looks like she smells like a hobo's first layer of clothes
Posted by: bman911 || 05/10/2023 13:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Is Whoopi now eating bugs like the good climate change sycophant she is?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/10/2023 19:35 Comments || Top||


NY Times blasted over 'puff piece' on convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes: 'Nice to be a pretty white lady'
[NYPOST] The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

was pilloried online over the weekend in response to its profile of convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who is about to begin serving an 11-year plus prison sentence for orchestrating a scheme that defrauded investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Times journalist and writer-at-large Amy Chozick authored a 5,200-word feature on Holmes, who now reportedly prefers to be called "Liz," enjoys antioxidant smoothies, is a doting mother to her two young children, likes ordering in Mexican food, shuns R-rated movies, and has been volunteering at a rape crisis hotline for the past year.

"I was admittedly swept up in Liz as an authentic and sympathetic person," Chozick wrote in the piece. "She’s gentle and charismatic, in a quiet way."

Chozick added: "If you are in her presence, it is impossible not to believe her, not to be taken with her and be taken in by her."

The story also included choreographed photos in which images of Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, pose with their two infant children against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean.

The backlash online was fierce.

"Maybe this article would have been served more by a discussion of sociopaths," tweeted political commentator Matthew Dowd.

"Nice to be a pretty white lady working your charm on a nyt news hound," tweeted former CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
host Soledad O’Brien, who lashed out at Chozick as "consistently crappy."
Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Surprise, surprise that this scumbag get yet another delay on reporting to federal prison in late April.

That the Slimes wrote this filth just shows how connected this scumbag Holmes is. The Slimes doesn't just write puff pieces on any old felon.

This is why I highly doubt Scam Bankrupt-Fraud (SBF) will never see a court room let alone a prison cell. And don't be surprised to see an article about him from the Slimes within the next few months.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/10/2023 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ No, not much of a shocker is it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/10/2023 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  ABC (Australia) did a decent report on this scumbag Holmes a few years ago. One of scumbag's professors at Stanford pegged this sociopath straight away.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/10/2023 8:12 Comments || Top||

#4  "If you are in her presence, it is impossible not to believe her, not to be taken with her and be taken in by her."

Best go take a look in the mirror, journalist lady.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/10/2023 8:28 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Heartbroken Brazilian mom whose baby was decapitated at birth 'can't sleep': family
[NYPOST] The devastated Brazilian mother whose baby was allegedly decapitated at birth earlier this month "can’t sleep" and "can barely walk" after the traumatic delivery, her loved ones said.

Ranielly Coelho Santos, 34, and her baby’s father made headlines when they filed a police complaint stating that an obstetrician at Hospital das Clinicas da UFMG in Belo Horizante "ripped off" their daughter’s head on May 1.

"Mentally, I don’t even have the words to describe it. My sister only knows how to cry. She can’t sleep," Santos’ sister, Aryane Santos, told O TEMPO this week.

"When she succeeds [at falling asleep], she wakes up with a start, thinking that she is hearing a [baby] scream," the grieving aunt continued.

"She can barely walk from 60 stitches. Her breast gives milk, and this is very sad, it is a trigger."

In the complaint filed on May 7, Santos — who also has a 9-year-old daughter — describes how her labor was induced at 28 weeks due to high blood pressure, the outlet said.

Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a horror story.
Posted by: mossomo || 05/10/2023 13:05 Comments || Top||

#2  May God help Ranielly Coelho Santos.
Posted by: Lemuel Munster9157 || 05/10/2023 19:38 Comments || Top||


Cyber
U.S. Says It Dismantled Russia's ‘Most Sophisticated' Malware Network
[NY Times] The United States and its allies have dismantled a major cyberespionage system that it said Russia’s intelligence service had used for years to spy on computers around the world, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.

In a separate report, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency portrayed the system, known as the "Snake" malware network, as "the most sophisticated cyberespionage tool" in the Federal Security Service’s arsenal, which it has used to surveil sensitive targets, including government networks, research facilities and journalists.

The Federal Security Service, or F.S.B., had used Snake to gain access to and steal international relations documents and other diplomatic communications from a NATO country, according to CISA, which added that the Russian agency had used the tool to infect computers across more than 50 countries and inside a range of American institutions. Those included "education, small businesses and media organizations, as well as critical infrastructure sectors including government facilities, financial services, critical manufacturing and communications."

Top Justice Department officials hailed the apparent demise of the malware.

"Through a high-tech operation that turned Russian malware against itself, U.S. law enforcement has neutralized one of Russia’s most sophisticated cyberespionage tools, used for two decades to advance Russia’s authoritarian objectives," Lisa O. Monaco, the deputy attorney general, said in a statement.

In a newly unsealed 33-page court filing from a federal judge in Brooklyn, a cybersecurity agent, Taylor Forry, laid out how the effort, called Operation Medusa, would take place.
Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 05/10/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Young Jewish woman runs at West Bank checkpoint with airsoft gun, is shot dead
[IsraelTimes] In apparent suicide, former soldier said to shout ’Allabu akbar’ at crossing near Beit Yatir settlement before guards open fire

A young Jewish Israeli woman armed with what appeared to be a gun was rubbed out at a checkpoint in the southern West Bank on Tuesday evening, the Defense Ministry said.

According to the ministry, the woman — dressed and veiled in black — arrived at the Metzadot Yehuda Crossing, close to the settlement of Beit Yatir, pulled out a gun, and ran at the checkpoint while shouting "holy shit! Allahu akbar" — "God is great" in Arabic — before being shot by security guards.

The ministry said the guards "reacted quickly and neutralized her before she could open fire." It was later revealed that the apparent weapon was an airsoft gun.

The ministry said she was Jewish and not a Paleostinian, as had been initially reported. She was identified as a former soldier.

Footage showed the woman lying on the ground after being shot by Israeli forces, with a gun next to her.

She was declared dead at the scene after what appeared to have been a so-called "suicide by cop." The Israel Defense Forces said there were no other injuries.

In a leaked WhatsApp conversation, the young woman asked a friend: "If someone wants to die, an ordinary Jew, an Israeli, wearing Arab clothes, runs with a fake airsoft gun toward a checkpoint in the territories, shouts holy shit! Allahu akbar because he wants to be shot because he wants to die, and then they only get shot in the legs and he stays alive, do you [put] them in prison for that? And if so, for how long and for what charge?"

The friend responded: "Is this person you?" To which the woman said, "Maybe, we will never know," adding a shrug emoji.

A selfie apparently taken by the woman shortly before the incident showed her dressed up in a niqab and long black dress, while brandishing the airsoft gun.

The friend notified police, who reportedly sent out warnings to various checkpoints across the West Bank, though apparently not in time.

"She sent me a picture of her wearing a hijab and a picture of a gun and asked me what would happen if she was only shot in the legs, I didn’t know if she was serious but I said I would report anyway," he told Channel 12 news.

"She told me she was on the bus and going to the checkpoint to carry out an attack and go kill herself," he said.

"I said I wouldn’t take any chances and called the police, I sent them the photo she sent me an hour and a half before the attack. Maybe her life could have been saved," he added to the network.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/10/2023 00:49 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Death by border guard.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/10/2023 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Red on red friendly-fire incident.
Posted by: Hupainter Peacock1045 || 05/10/2023 5:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, she got what she went looking for.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/10/2023 9:20 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2023-05-09
  Terrorists Attack Nigerian Baptist Church Service In Kaduna, Abduct 40 Worshippers
Mon 2023-05-08
  Renewed clashes erupt between army and paramilitary forces in South Darfur
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  Organ Harvesting: Nigerian Lawyer Writes British Monarch, King Charles, Seeks Prerogative Of Mercy For Senator Ekweremadu
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  Chief of Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), has been assassinated
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  Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev calls for Volodymyr Zelensky to be killed
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  Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seize tanker in Strait of Hormuz, for 2nd time in a week
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  Over 100 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza in under 24 hours
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  Nigerian Anti-Narcotics Agency Says It Cannot Arrest, Prosecute President-elect For Drugs Offences
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  Heavy fighting continues in Sudan despite US-brokered truce
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  Scores injured in a blast near a Nineveh market
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  Senior member of Iran's Assembly of Experts assassinated
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  Warring parties agree to a new 72-hour truce in Sudan, gov’t accuses RSF of violating ceasefire after 1/2 hour


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