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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Suspect in Vandalism Attack on New York Synagogue Is Democrat Activist
New developments on this story from yesterday.
[NYT of all places via Breitbart] James Polite, the 26-year-old man who was arrested Friday for allegedly vandalizing a synagogue in Brooklyn Thursday, is a Democratic activist who once worked for New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and also volunteered for Barack Obama.
The New York Times reported Saturday:

Mr. Polite was arrested on Friday and charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime for writing "Die Jew Rats," "Hitler," "End It Now" and "Jew Better Be Ready" in marker on walls of the Union Temple of Brooklyn.

The police said surveillance video captured Mr. Polite, of Brooklyn, inside the synagogue.

He was taken into custody on Friday morning at the scene of a fire that had been set inside the coat room of Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Williamsburg, officials said.

Mr. Polite was charged with arson, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief ‐ all as hate crimes ‐ for setting fires at four other locations affiliated with the Jewish community, including another school. The police recognized Mr. Polite from the surveillance video at Union Temple.

The synagogue had been scheduled to host a Democratic Party event. The Daily Caller notes that Democrats, including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, had used the vandalism in political messages ‐ until the arrest.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 03:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And now the story gets flushed down the toilet, never to be heard about again all thanks to the Democrats most loyal and enthusiastic slaves, the media.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/04/2018 3:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Leftist autophagy with a mental illness sauce. What this suggests about Democratic party activists as a group is left as an exercise for the reader.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 3:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Mr. Polite was arrested on Friday and charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime for writing "Die Jew Rats," "Hitler," "End It Now" and "Jew Better Be Ready" in marker on walls of the Union Temple of Brooklyn.

"Your honor, it was taken out of context"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 7:07 Comments || Top||


Saudi sisters found dead in New York ‘were not killed,’ US police source says
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] New York police said that the mysterious death of the two Saudi sisters, who were found tied together with duct tape at their feet and bound at the waist near the Riverside Park in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, could have been a double suicide.

Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 22, had been living in Fairfax, Virginia with their mother, but Rotana had moved to live in New York. The family are Saudi nationals from Jeddah.

Investigators said that witness testimonies, evidence and the sisters’ credit card purchases reveal that there was no evidence they had been killed.

Suicide is among the hypotheses as to the cause of their deaths.


The two young women moved to New York two months before they died, where they stayed in five-star hotels and spent their time shopping.

"At this point in time we have no credible information that a crime took place in New York City... but it is still under investigation," Dermot Shea, the city’s chief of detectives, said Friday.

Fatimah Baeshen, spokeswoman for Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's US embassy in Washington, tweeted that "Reports that we ordered anyone related to the Saudi sisters, Tala and Rotana Farea, God rest their souls, (who recently died tragically in NY), to leave the US for seeking asylum; are absolutely false."

"Details are still under investigation and will be shared in due course," she said.


THE 'BINDING' TAPE
The tape that was found around the women’s bodies gave rise to speculation, but Shea said it was not so much as "binding" the women together but rather "keeping them together."

Investigators interviewed sources close to the sisters who revealed that the women said "they would rather hurt themselves than return to their families."

Shea added that the sisters were last seen by their family in Virginia on November 30 last year.

ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE
According to Shea, authorities placed the sisters in a "shelter-like" facility in Virginia in December 2017 after allegations of abuse and torture at the hands of their family were reported. The allegations were made against their brother, mother and father.

CCTV footage showed that the sisters were in good health before their death, and had stayed at a number of high-end hotels in the city.

Shea said that their financial situation began to change when their credit card was "maxed out."

The Saudi consulate confirmed that it was conducting investigations with local authorities, the State Department and the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington

The consulate confirmed that it immediately appointed a lawyer to follow up the legal process of the case and will clarify the most important developments as soon as they are received.

Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I cannot nail down the Citizenship issue. I understand the suicide. Are they Foreign Nationals? Someone give me BLUF. I'm swamped
Posted by: newc || 11/04/2018 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  BLUF? Sorry, no help here. I've written it off to gender. No sorting it out for 70 years. Point me to the men's room. I know what I'm doing in there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 2:57 Comments || Top||

#3  The family are Saudi nationals from Jeddah.

Not American citizens. Whether they are here on green cards or visitor/tourist visas remains to be seen, but as described they certainly were not behaving like permanent residents.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 3:25 Comments || Top||

#4  ...and had stayed at a number of high-end hotels in the city.

Shea said that their financial situation began to change when their credit card was "maxed out."


Ah - livin' the American dream!
Posted by: Raj || 11/04/2018 7:18 Comments || Top||

#5  I also found this interesting story on "entitlement."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 7:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Let's get this straight.
They were killed by somebody. Possibly themselves. But they were killed.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/04/2018 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  How sexist. The media isn't nearly as concerned about these two girls as they are about Kashhoggi
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/04/2018 10:40 Comments || Top||

#8 
NY Post:
The females previously living in Fairfax VA — identified as Rotana Farea, 22, and Tala Farea, 16 — applied for asylum in the U.S. before they went missing & found washed ashore on Oct. 24, according to the New York Police Department.

The mother of the women told detectives that the day before their bodies were discovered, she received a phone call from the Saudi Arabian Embassy, the New York Post reported, citing police sources.

The Embassy reportedly told her that her family's residency in the U.S. was in jeopardy because Rotana and Tala applied for immigration asylum. The following day, their bodies were found in the Hudson River on the Upper West Side.

"Reports that we ordered anyone related to the Saudi sisters, Tala and Rotana Farea, God rest their souls, (who recently died tragically in NY), to leave the US for seeking asylum; are absolutely false."

Look no farther than the parents in this honor killing.
Posted by: Eohippus Dribble5682 || 11/04/2018 12:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Thanks ED. Evidently chemical disposal was not an option.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 12:37 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Man-eating tiger shot dead in India after massive hunt
[PULSE.NG] A man-eating tiger that claimed more than a dozen victims in two years has been rubbed out in India, sparking controversy over the legality of its killing.
One of India's most high-profile tiger hunts in decades ended Friday night when the mother of two 10-month old cubs -- known to hunters as T1 but Avni to wildlife lovers -- was rubbed out in the jungles of Maharashtra state.

A team of more than 150 people had spent months searching for T1, using a paraglider and dozens of infrared cameras while sharpshooters had ridden on the backs of elephants.

However disputes quickly erupted after the killing as media reports said the tiger was shot in Yavatmal forest with no attempt to tranquilize her.

India's Supreme Court had issued a hunting order for T1 -- blamed for 13 deaths since June 2016 -- in September, ruling that she could be killed if tranquilizers failed. Several appeals were made against the death sentence.

The tiger was killed at night, when tranquilizers are not allowed to be used, according to the Times of India and other media outlets.

T1 is said to have been rubbed out by Ashgar Ali Khan, son of India's most famous hunter Nawab Shafath Ali Khan, who was meant to be leading the hunt but was not present Friday night.

Forestry officials and the hunter did not answer calls to give details of the hunt.

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests A.K. Mishra told The Indian Express newspaper that a forest staffer had managed to dart the tiger with a tranquilizer at around 11.00 pm.

"But she charged at the team, forcing Ashgar to shoot in self-defence," he said. "The tigress lay dead in a single shot."
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Watch out boy, she'll chew you up!
Posted by: Darryl Hall || 11/04/2018 1:26 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabwe: HIV Cure Claims - Magaya in Court
[All Africa] PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya, who recently announced that he has discovered a herb that can cure HIV and Aids, yesterday appeared in court charged with contravening section 40 (1) of the Medicines and Allied Substances Control Act, which criminalises the distribution and misleading advertisement of medicine.

Magaya -- who was represented by Admire Rubaya, Everson Chatambudza and Oliva Marwa -- appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Elisha Singano.

He was released on $300 bail and the matter was remanded to November 29.

It is the State's case that on October 31, Magaya made an advertisement on Yadah television of Aguma medicine, which he claimed can cure HIV, AIDS, cancer and other ailments.

He further made claims on Aretha Medical website, his company, that Aretha Medical and himself were the manufacturers of the Aguma medicine. Local and international media also published stories based on the advertisement of the Aguma medicine that Magaya had made.

The said website was visited and it was discovered that Magaya claimed that they had conducted clinical trials and proved that Aguma medicine can cure the mentioned diseases.

It is alleged that verifications were made through the Medicines Control Authority of Zim-bob-we (MCAZ) on their records and it was established that Aguma was neither a registered medicine nor drug in Zim-bob-we.

It was also established that neither Magaya nor Aretha Medical Company were authorised by the Health Professions Authority to carry out clinical tests on any human being to prove that Aguma can cure the aforementioned diseases, which constituted an offence.

On October 31, a warrant of search and seizure was issued at the Harare Provincial Magistrates Court and a search was conducted at number 14 Edinburg Road Marlborough, Harare, where unregistered, prescription preparatory medicines, drug manufacturing, packaging machines and drugs manufacturing raw materials were recovered.

Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe they could test it on him . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 11/04/2018 11:18 Comments || Top||

#2  While poaching one horn of a rhino,
Add bits from a Ladysmith gyno --
Big African Pharma:
It's great for your karma! --
And eyes of a frightened albino.
Is it safe? Don't you worry,
It comes from Harare!
Those lengthy disclaimers? Oh my, no!
Placebo effect? Hell if I know.
Posted by: Tarzan Phealing1874 || 11/04/2018 20:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Well it is better than the old cure of raping an underage virgin I guess...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/04/2018 21:23 Comments || Top||


Nigeria: Man Rapes Own Mother, Mother-in-Law
[All Africa] A 32-year-old farmer in Kaduna state, Shekari David, who was locked away
Please don't kill me!
recently by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, IRT, for carrying out several armed robberies and rape in Kaura Local Government area of Kaduna State, has confessed raping his own mother and mother-in-law who he said were between the ages of 65 and 70. He also said that his wife has abandoned him and married another man because of his penchant for raping older women.
SO judgemental!
Sources at the IRT, disclosed that David ran into trouble recently when the operatives who were deployed to Kaduna State by the Inspector General of Police to combat the high rate of kidnapping, armed robbery and violent crime, got information that he and members of his gang who specialized in snatching cycle of violences from their owners at gun point, were planning to carry out an operation around Kaura Local Government headquarters.

A source explained that David was arrested in his hideout in Manchie area of Kaura LGA following a tip off by a member of a vigilante while a stolen cycle of violence was also recovered from him. The vigilante man also described David as a notorious serial rapist who specialized in raping older women residing within Manchie and environ.

The source said; "It was a member of the vigilante who assisted us in arresting David, when we came to Manchie to look for him. We found him and members of his gang in their hideout and we arrested and recovered a cycle of violence from them.

Then the vigilante informed us that David had been a major threat to old women in their community as he always sneaked into their apartments at night to rape them. Members of the community had reported that on two occasions he raped his own mother and his mother in-law. He however promised to turn a new leaf when he was caught but he never changed. They added that David's activities had thrown older women in the community into panic as they were scared to sleep at night.

Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shaka kaSenzangakhona Fever. There is a another, more tribal term of reference but we won't go there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 7:32 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK taxi driver sacked for refusing Remembrance poppies
[PRESSTV] A taxi driver working in Britannia’s city of Birmingham has been sacked because of refusing to carry poppies that are used for remembering war veterans.

The BBC said in a report on Saturday that the driver had been dismissed by the KMR Cars because of refusing to transport boxes of Remembrance poppies from a branch of The Royal British Legion to the Aston Villa football club in Birmingham.

Many in Britannia dislike the use of the Remembrance poppies, a tradition that has been in place since First World War to honor veterans of conflicts. They believe that poppies are dubiously used by politicians to sell wars, like those contributed by Britannia in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rotten progressive nonsense or Islam? Hmmm, I think I'm gonna go with Islam.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/04/2018 14:20 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Busy first week for Brazil's Bolsonaro
[PULSE.NG] Bolsonaro, who wants to slash the number of ministries from 29 to 15, has announced five cabinet picks so far, mostly political outsiders. Aides say 80 percent of the cabinet is already lined up.

-- Ultra-free market economist Paulo Guedes will head a "super ministry" combining the finance, planning, industry and trade portfolios.

-- Bolsonaro's military academy instructor, General Augusto Heleno, will be defense minister.

-- Astronaut Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian in space, will be science minister.

-- Crusading anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro will be justice minister.

-- Seeking to balance the political inexperience of the rest, veteran politician Onyx Lorenzoni will be chief of staff.

Bolsonaro has gotten bogged down in controversy and backpedaling as he forms his government.

The president-elect's solution to all things economic is to put business world hero Guedes in charge -- but some warn his new "super ministry" is so big it will be "impossible to manage," as financial newspaper Valor put it.
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brazil's military people are good people. I know some of them. They are disciplined, hard nosed, work hard and you don't mess with them.

A large city on the Amazon is not the cleanest, graffiti is every where. Until you drive past a walled military base/fortress in that city. There is no graffiti on the walls. Only towers every so often with guards in them holding chrome plated automatic weapons. The heavy chrome plating is there so people see those weapons glistening in the day light or night flood lights as a clear warning to any one who dares touch those walls.

The only people I saw near the walls on the outside was a stern looking sergeant standing over a privado (private) who was humbly picking blades of grass from between side walk panels one blade at a time. I truly believe "o privado" will not get into trouble again.

Capitão (Captain) Bolsonaro is exactly what S. America needs right now.

(An orphaned S. American jaguar raised by jungle warfare Brazilian military personnel on the Amazon.)

Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 11/04/2018 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Some of the nicest people comment on Rantburg! Thank you for that perspective, Ulaigum Ebbineng7056.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 1:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Thank you TW. You are a treasure.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 11/04/2018 1:32 Comments || Top||

#4  I got your back, Brother.
This is going to be a very good thing for Brazil.

You are and always have been a mature audience. I need desperate help with South America and you are it.

May GOD Hold you, Bless you and Keep you Brazil!

You have Chosen Wisely!
Posted by: newc || 11/04/2018 1:41 Comments || Top||

#5  WHINSEC formerly - U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) was founded in 1946.

Brazilian army lieutenant colonel at Fort Benning named US Army TRADOC's educator of year

FORT BENNING, Ga. (May 17, 2018) -- Brazilian army Lt. Col. Rafael Novaes, an instructor of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation's Command and General Staff Officer Course, won against U.S. Army educators across the globe to be named the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Educator of the Year for 2017. That means he is considered the best educator in the U.S. Army.

Some tough ombres.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 3:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Bolsonaro's announcement that he will move the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem will put him at odds with the tens of thousands of Hizbollah who have settled in the Foz de Iguacu region and Parana state. His other enemies are legion, and the fact that an assassin could get close enough to stab him is worrisome.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 || 11/04/2018 8:18 Comments || Top||


Venezuela exodus takes its toll on Colombian economy
[Al Jazeera] Venezuela's crumbling economy has forced millions of people to leave the country and seek refuge in the neighbouring country
Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Doing jobs Colombians won't do?
Posted by: gorb || 11/04/2018 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  ..in that case, there's always FARC.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2018 6:23 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
N Korea ‘to resume nuke development’ if US sanctions remain
[PRESSTV] North Korea has warned that it could restart building up its nuclear arsenal if the US fails to remove its sanctions against the country.

The warning came in a foreign ministry statement issued by Pyongyang on Friday under the name of the director of the ministry’s Institute for American Studies, insisting that "improvement of relations and sanctions is incompatible."

The ministry further emphasized that North Korea could bring back its "pyongjin" policy of simultaneously pursuing nuclear weapons alongside economic development if the US fails to revise its position on the issue.

Pyongyang has accused the US of reneging on it commitments made by North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
and American President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
at their June summit in Singapore to work towards a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, without defining how and when the process would occur.

Earlier on Friday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed in an interview with Fox News of his plans to talk next week with his North Korean counterpart, apparently referring to senior North Korean official Kim Yong Chol.

Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Blast 'em.
Posted by: gorb || 11/04/2018 1:39 Comments || Top||

#2  The general feeling is they are not satisfied with making friends with the US if they are not going - and are not yet getting anything out of it. They are collapsing fast. This is more than a cry for help but no one knows how to go about it - much less as fast as the Kim Regime wants it. The UN aid package for the DPRK is still in my inbox. Get to it tomorrow.
Posted by: newc || 11/04/2018 3:10 Comments || Top||


Economy
New York Times: ‘Best Time' for American Employees in Maybe 50 Years
[NYT] The New York Times said on November 2 that President Donald Trump’s high-pressure economy "is the best time for the American labor market in at least 18 years and maybe closer to 50."

In 1968, per capita wages and salaries grew by 6.65 percent, after inflation is included, and then it grew by another 5.4 percent in 1969, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 03:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'High-pressure' economy - whatever that's supposed to mean. Must have killed the NYT to publish this article.
Posted by: Raj || 11/04/2018 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump agents have clandestinely infiltrated the NYT. You knew it was coming.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  That had to hurt just a tad for them to admit it. There'll be a followup article to point out that Obumble's can take the credit for the economy.

Which I agree with,
he left the Presidency. [rimshot]
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/04/2018 10:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Raj,

Given the current state of labor relations at the NYT, I suspect that 'Best Time' will last until their people start asking for raises and then we'll be right back to 'worst economy ever'.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/04/2018 10:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Glancing down the original NYT article, it's all doom and gloom after that. Unexpectedly.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/04/2018 14:29 Comments || Top||

#6  In fact, the NYT 'headline' is -

Three Key Factors That Will Determine How Long the Hot Job Market Lasts

then he give his bottom line up front -

Where is this growth really coming from; how real is the concern over inflation; and how many more workers are out there?
Posted by: Bobby || 11/04/2018 15:57 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey recalls Uganda envoy over ancient Greek costume 'scandal'
[Al Ahram] The Ottoman Turkish foreign ministry on Saturday recalled its ambassador to Uganda after she was photographed at a reception for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor....
's annual Republic Day wearing a dress reportedly inspired by ancient Greece.

Ambassador Sedef Yavuzalp hosted the reception in Kampala for the annual October 29 holiday marking the founding of the modern Ottoman Turkish Republic in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.

The Twitter feed of Uganda's parliament, whose speaker Rebecca Kadaga was present at the event, posted pictures of Yavuzalp in a robe and an unnamed male Ottoman Turkish official in what appeared to be a toga.

The nationalist Sozcu daily on Saturday splashed the pictures on its front page, saying that Yavuzalp had dressed as Helen of Troy -- whose beauty according to Homer sparked the Trojan War -- and the assistant as the Greek god Zeus complete with an olive wreath on his head.

"A great scandal on Republic Day -- the ambassador was Helen and her assistant Zeus," it said.

Such associations go down badly with Ottoman Turkish nationalists who stringently emphasise the Ottoman Turkishness of the modern state despite the long history of Greek and Roman civilisation on its territory.

In a statement the foreign ministry said that "urgent investigations were launched after the publications of pictures on social media and press of our ambassador at the reception."

"In this framework, the ambassador has been recalled," it added, without giving further details.

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also tweeted that the ambassador had been called back.

Sozcu said that Yavuzalp is a career diplomat who has been posted in Kampala for the last five years.

Some reports said that the diplomat had been trying to promote the 2018 "Year of Troy", whose remains lay outside the city of Canakkale in western Turkey.

Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Science & Technology
A Llama Antibody Could Be the Key to a Universal Flu Vaccine
[BioSpace] Less than a week ago, Roche snagged regulatory approval for Xofluza, a single-dose oral medication, the first new flu treatment approved in 20 years. Now, new research indicates that llamas, the doe-eyed South American pack animal, may hold the key to flu vaccines.

The Los Angeles Times reports that a team from the Scripps Institute in Southern California has been able to take antibodies made by llamas and used them as the basis for a flu vaccine. The llama antibodies are effective enough to work on a wide number of flu viruses, according to the report. The Times reported that the Scripps researchers reported their findings in the latest issue of Science.

According to the article abstract, diverse camelid single-domain antibodies to influenza virus hemagglutinin were used to generate multidomain antibodies with impressive breadth and potency. In the study, the researchers used the multidomain antibody MD3606 in mice. They found that the antibody protected the mice against influenza A and B infection when administered intravenously or expressed locally from a recombinant adeno-associated virus vector.

"Collectively, our findings demonstrate that multidomain antibodies targeting multiple epitopes exhibit enhanced virus cross-reactivity and potency. In combination with adeno-associated virus‐mediated gene delivery, they may provide an effective strategy to prevent infection with influenza virus and other highly variable pathogens," the researchers said in the article abstract.

The researchers noted that flu vaccines are essential to prevent the spread of the virus, but the efficacy in them is "substantially reduced in the elderly, who are at increased risk of influenza-related complications." The researchers added that annual selection of vaccine strains presents many challenges and if the strains selected don’t match up against circulating viruses, the vaccines are not as effective. Most current flu vaccine-induced antibodies are directed against the highly variable head region of hemagglutinin (HA) and are strain specific, the researchers said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 04:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I still use WinAmp and haven't got the flu.
(think about it...)
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/04/2018 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  I get it
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 11:14 Comments || Top||


'Turkish MKE ZENITH Z-5RS Pistol
[Atlantic Firearms] Zenith Firearms Z-5RS 9mm Semi Auto Pistol, Built in Turkey by the famous MKE Turkish Defense Contractor.

MKE (short for Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation) , with its experience rooting to the 15-century, is the leading company in Turkish Defense Industry keeping the modern and high technology in priority. MKE derives its strength from dedication to technology, unconditional costumer satisfaction and zero ‐ error production performance at world class high technology plants in order to have a strategic position in the Global Market. MKE, has been the main supplier of Turkish Armed Forces, under various names, since its establishment and gained its current legal status as a stage organization in 1950. MKE, having a large range of products, not only serves the Turkish Armed Forces but also takes share in the International Defense Industry Market by exporting to more than 40 countries. Being the dynamic meeting point of experience, knowledge and technology, MKE has gained its own leading position in Turkish Defense Industry and is determined to continue stepping forward in the Global Market. MKE with its 12 modern factories and 7000 experienced personnel, keeps its range of production in 4 main groups as follows.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  MP-5 clones. I've shot MP-5A4 and MP-K, but they just seem a little too mechanically complex these days. Especially for semi-auto clones. I'd rather have something more simple and easier to maintain. I'd love to have an MPX, but they are not cheap either, but better than MP-5's I think. Now if you offered me a free MP-5SD, I'd take it:p
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/04/2018 3:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm with you SB. Besides, pistol cartridges have to start with a 4.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 3:27 Comments || Top||

#3  My EDC is a 9mm though, it's just easier than lugging a .45 around, especially as mine is a H&K USP .45. Full size. You can hide it under a parka. But lately, I have this overpowering urge to get an M-1 carbine. I'm not sure why...of course, I'd also love a AK-9.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/04/2018 4:05 Comments || Top||

#4  overpowering urge to get an M-1 carbine

squirrel hunting season?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2018 6:22 Comments || Top||

#5  M3A1 was the best I had used. Very heavy though, mainly heavy mags. Reliable, and abundant ammo (.45 ACP). Incendiary tracer was preferred. I'd tried many others, liked this one the best.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/04/2018 6:46 Comments || Top||

#6  M-1 Carbines...I've always wanted one, they are light and handy rifles, their cartridge is only anemic compared to a Garand or other battle rifle, but low recoil and more importantly I think it's made of wood which my wife prefers to my plasticy black rifles of DOOM (AR-10-Cause I only want to shoot 2-3 rounds, not half a mag:p Mine is a 16" carbine version, short but stout:D ) I'm very tempted by some of the newly built ones as I just want the rifle, not the history, got a garand for that:p

I'd love a subgun but that's not in the cards. Too expensive, too much legal hassle.

Of the three submachineguns I've shot, I liked the MP-5K the best. The A4 was heavier and the slower rate of fire was kind of annoying. The K was quite handy and fun. The 9mm Colt AR sucked. It was not fun to shoot. And reloading the mags was torture.


Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/04/2018 7:54 Comments || Top||

#7  My fav sub (yes 9mm) was the Swedish-K, Karl Gustav m/45. Have not shot one in decades, but I think I could still write my name on a wall with it at 25m.

Short video.

Note the muzzle control, relatively slow rate of fire (600 rpm).

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 7:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Saw these at Shot Show. Did not think that the build quality was on a par with the H&K original.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/04/2018 9:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Thanks lblis, I was wondering if anyone had first hand knowledge.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 12:34 Comments || Top||

#10  For those liking the M1 carbine but looking for something a little bit different, go check out the Inland Advisor.
https://www.inland-mfg.com/Inland-Handguns/M1-Advisor.html
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/04/2018 14:21 Comments || Top||

#11  I might be a bit of a wuss, but the Carl Gustav seems a bit weighty for everyday carry.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/04/2018 14:23 Comments || Top||


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Great Moments in Progressivism: Hungary 1956
On November 4, 1956, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush, once and for all, the national uprising. Vicious street fighting broke out, but the Soviets’ great power ensured victory. At 5:20 a.m., Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy announced the invasion to the nation in a grim, 35-second broadcast, declaring: "Our troops are fighting. The Government is in place." Within hours, though, Nagy sought asylum at the Yugoslav Embassy in Budapest. He was captured shortly thereafter and executed two years later. Nagy’s former colleague and imminent replacement, János Kádár, who had been flown secretly from Moscow to the city of Szolnok, 60 miles southeast of the capital, prepared to take power with Moscow’s backing.
HT Insty.
Posted by: Matt || 11/04/2018 10:23 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brussels hasn't reacted as such with Brexit, but that's only for want of an army not intent.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2018 16:00 Comments || Top||


Why pro-Israel Twitter is mad at Ben & Jerry’s
[IsraelTimes] Proceeds from new ice cream flavor are going to organizations including Women’s March, which is co-chaired by Linda Sarsour ‐ who supports movement to boycott Israel.
Their company, their choice. And mine not to support such viciousness by buying their product.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pecan Resist. Huh.
All inclusive...except you all with nut allergies. We're so clever we forgot about you.

But that's ok, because the name says we are all nuts.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/04/2018 20:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Orange Curbit?
Posted by: Hupomp Trotsky6011 || 11/04/2018 21:28 Comments || Top||



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