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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Two Arrested After 6 Shot Including 2 Cops In North Carolina Nightclub Gunfight
[DAILYCALLER] Two suspects are in jug after half of a dozen people were shot, including two coppers, during a shootout at a North Carolina nightclub Thursday, authorities said.Gunshots rang out after Sgt. E. Nelson and Ofc. M. Lewis, who were working off-duty, tried to break up a fight at Club Remedies in Gastonia, North Carolina, according to WCNC. The law enforcement personnel, alongside four others, were struck by bullets, and all the victims suffered non-life threatening injuries, according to a blurb from the Gastonia Police Department.

Alonzo Lewis Hamilton and Allen Slaughter were arrested in connection to the shooting and both were booked on six counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon, the department wrote. The alleged button men are each being held on $1 million bonds, according to WCNC.



Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


12-year-old boy shot in Chicago while picking up school supplies
[NYPOST] A 12-year-old boy was shot multiple times 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...
while picking up school supplies with his father, relatives and police said.Lamar Davis sat in a parked car with his dad Wednesday in the city’s Lawndale section, when someone in a maroon SUV rolled down a rear window and opened fire with a .45-caliber handgun, hitting the youngster in the back, hip, leg and buttocks, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The boy was rushed to Stroger Hospital in fair condition; his father was not maimed, the Tribune reported.

"He was just sitting there in the car and someone shot him," Lamar’s mother, Melissa Robinson, told the newspaper.

"Kids can’t go outside, they can’t do anything," added the worried mom, who learned of the shooting from the family friend who had the school supplies for her son.

Lamar was released the next day from the hospital, but needs to return early next week for a follow-up, according to the report.

"Everybody just needs to think about what’s going on in the world and try not to harm others," said Robinson, 30. "I am just grateful he is OK."

Lamar, who is in the process of returning to Chicago after moving to Indiana at age 2, told his mother he had no idea who would want to hurt him.

No arrests had been made as of early Friday. The maroon SUV was spotted speeding off after the shooting and no description of the gunman was available, Chicago police told The Post.

Anyone with information in the ongoing investigation should call Chicago detectives at XXX-XXX-XXXX or submit tips anonymously at CPDTIP.com.



Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Sadly, I'd suggest a long, quiet, detailed conversation with Dad right quickly. Never know what kind of enemies he's made.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/14/2020 6:41 Comments || Top||

#2  School supplies in Chicago?

They have ammo in Chicago?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/14/2020 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  'School supplies' = drugs? Shot for trying to obtain them on the wrong turf? And why would anybody return to Chicago?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/14/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, at least he won't be traumatized by attending Thanksgiving dinner.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/14/2020 17:38 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Lifeguard Rips Off Prosthetic Leg To Save Man Drowning Trapped In Sinking Car
[DAILYCALLER] Lifeguard and swim instructor Anthony Capuano ripped off his prosthetic leg to jump into the Newark Bay to save a driver who was trapped inside a sinking car Tuesday.

As a crowd of people gathered near the bay to watch the SUV slowly sink, Capuano said he headed straight over to the crowd of people, according to ABC 6.

"I saw people running and we did the same," he said, per the report.

"I hopped over the fence and when I got onto the rocks I took off my leg and I crab walked over the rocks," he added.

"Someone had said out loud, ’Does anybody know how to swim?'" Capuano said, according to The Jersey Journal. "And I was just like, ’Oh. I guess that’s me.’ And then I jumped in."

Capuano swam to the vehicle, which was roughly 50 feet from shore to rescue the 68-year-old victim, per ABC 6. The man in the car said he didn’t know how to swim.

Authorities said the driver pulled over to answer a phone call and attempted to park but lost control of the vehicle. Police said he had his foot on both the brake and accelerator which caused his car to go flying into the bay, per ABC 6.

Capuano lost his leg 11 years ago when he was struck by a train in Downtown Jersey City.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One leg crab walk. Over rocks. Brings back elderly non-swimmer.

Hope everyone standing around taking video got a nice wide angle shot of the balls on this guy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/14/2020 13:21 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Exactly.

As a crowd of people gathered near the bay to take videos and post on Farcebook watch the SUV slowly sink....
Posted by: Clem || 11/14/2020 13:27 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Musk Tests Both Positive And Negative For COVID-19
[DAILYCALLER] On the eve of SpaceX’s second manned launch, CEO Elon Musk says he has tested positive and negative for COVID-19 twice each — all on the same day.

Musk’s company SpaceX is expected to launch its second manned craft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Saturday, but the head of the company may not be able to participate in the event, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named (AP) reported. Musk tweeted Friday just after midnight that he had been given four rapid tests for COVID-19 on Thursday and two had come back positive while the other two were negative.
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hum.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/14/2020 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/14/2020 0:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Again I ask, juat what are they testing for?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/14/2020 1:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Results pretty much the same in our family.
Almost 1/2 & 1/2 ...No Deaths, No hospitalizations.
The family includes front line Medical (LPN's and RN's, Fire-Hazmat-EMT, LEO's, DOD and retirees)

OPEN COMMENT
FLU Example Given
Source: CDC "... seasonal flu activity often begins as early as October and November and can continue to occur as late as May...".

C-19 Example Given
The C-19 initially started in China in Nov. 2019 and peaked on April 18th, 2020 in the USA. Now in Oct. the CDC, WHO and the media were both telling us it was on the rise again.

DEATH FIGURES BY WEEK
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
see table 1.

QUESTION:
Since the CDC tracks Flu virus by Seasons and this C-19 Virus is showing all the signs of also acting just like a seasonal flu virus.

Shouldn't we restart the Infection/Death numbers as on Oct.10th or the 24th, of 2020?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/14/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Not a very discriminating test based on Musk's results.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/14/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Good thing that success rate doesn't pass in rocketry.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/14/2020 11:40 Comments || Top||

#7  The cycle times Musk refers to are important. All the PCR testing in the US is using 38-40 cycle times. Anything over 28 times in 100% incapable of detecting live virus. Think of zooming into an image so far that all you see is a couple of pixels.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/14/2020 12:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Again I ask, just what are they testing for?


They are testing (and lying) to lay a foundation for increasing control over the plebs and other dangerous types.

Look at Fauxi telling us to do as we're told and all the hypocrites like Newsom, Cuomo, Witmer, etc.

Push is going to have to come to shove very damn soon.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/14/2020 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  2 of 4 is a coin toss.
Hey, why not? It's all a crap shoot anyway, amirite?
Posted by: Cliling Unaimp9106 || 11/14/2020 13:00 Comments || Top||

#10  Increases the number of cycles, false positives go up.
Posted by: gorb || 11/14/2020 14:30 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Murder and mayhem: How farming in South Africa became a 'full-scale war'
[Telegraph] When armed men broke into their farm in Free State province on Wednesday night, Mark Regal and his wife were already on high alert.

Just the day before, their neighbour and fellow farmer Eddie Hills had died in hospital, a week after being stabbed in a robbery in which his father was tied up and shot.

Aware that they too could lose more than just their property, Mrs Regal returned fire and killed one of the intruders, police said. But Mr Regal, 50, was overpowered and killed - the seventh farmer to be murdered in the province in six weeks.

The spate of killings has inflamed racial tensions in South Africa, with the Free State's white farming community accusing the ANC-ruled government of doing little to help.

Trouble first flared with last month's grisly murder of farm mechanic, Brendin Horner, 21, whose body was found tied by a noose to a fence near his cottage. When two suspects appeared in court a week later in the tiny town of Senekal, a white mob stormed the building, attempting to avenge Mr Horner's death on the spot.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2020 14:36 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When the population starves because black agitators and terrorists overran and occupied White-owned farms, Farmin B. Hard will be nowhere to be found
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2020 15:09 Comments || Top||

#2  They're just following Zimbabwe.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/14/2020 16:24 Comments || Top||

#3  And we're just following both of them.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/14/2020 16:26 Comments || Top||

#4  ^It won't happen in USA - China needs your agricultural products.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#5  But the rumor is that Farmin B. Hard will be Biden's new Secretary of Agriculture.
Posted by: Matt || 11/14/2020 18:24 Comments || Top||

#6  The uproar out of Africa and the UN (and EU) is deafening.
Posted by: Clem || 11/14/2020 19:07 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
The main suspect in the Kashmore gang-rape case, Rafiq Malak, who was arrested on Thursday, has been killed by his own accomplice
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  An innovative solution to the Prisoner's Dilemma!
Posted by: SteveS || 11/14/2020 13:19 Comments || Top||

#2  That calls for a drink!
Posted by: Clem || 11/14/2020 13:25 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Police and protesters clash violently, at least 23 arrested
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2020 11:09 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Senior Hamas official infected with coronavirus
[Jpost] A bigwig of Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, Fathi Hamad
...a political leader of Hamas and a member of the Paleostinian Legislative Council, In April 2009, he was appointed Interior Minister in the Hamas administered Gaza Strip, replacing the late, lamented Said Seyam who had been terminated assassinated bumped off zapped by Israel during the 2008-09 Gazoo War. He ceased being Interior Minister in June 2014 on the formation of the Fatah-Hamas unity government, which worked brilliantly. In September 2016, Hamad was designated a terrorist by the US State Department and added to its global terrorist list...
, was infected with coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, Israeli media reported.

After his diagnosis on Friday, Hamad went into quarantine.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/14/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  No Jooooo Doctors, puhleez
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2020 15:19 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Study: Respiratory failure in COVID-19 usually not driven by cytokine storm
MedicalXPress via Instapundit
...A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., however, suggests that an out-of-control immune response is not the main problem for the vast majority of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Only 4% of patients in the study had the sky-high levels of immune molecules that signify a so-called "cytokine storm." The rest had inflammation, but not a remarkably high amount for people fighting infection. If anything, the COVID-19 patients had less inflammation than a comparable group of influenza patients.

The findings, published Nov. 13 in Science Advances, help explain why anti-inflammatory medications such as dexamethasone benefit only a fraction of people with severe COVID-19, and suggest that more research is needed to identify the causes of respiratory failure in COVID-19 patients.

"One of the very first papers published on COVID-19 patients in China reported high levels of cytokines in people in intensive care, what we might call a cytokine storm," said co-senior author Philip Mudd, MD, Ph.D., an assistant professor of emergency medicine who sees patients at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Embrace a Chinese person, Herd Immunity (spread via WHO), now "cytokine storm". All coming from China - do I sense a pattern (combining biological with psychological warfare)? I wonder how Fauci came to conclusion that there isn't enough masks in USA?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/14/2020 14:59 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems to me that most of the "COVID" death are actually normal flu related death of people who would have died from the flu anyway.

At least that's my impression from reading between the lines.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/14/2020 19:26 Comments || Top||

#2  The internet has been turned into the greatest propaganda and disinformation tools ever known to man. Goebbels and Riefenstahl
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 11/14/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Flu shot last week. If I die in a wreck next week, "COVID", I'm sure
Posted by: Frank G || 11/14/2020 20:19 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2020-11-14
  Zawahiri reportedly died a month ago of natural causes
Fri 2020-11-13
  Seven Soldiers Killed in Burkina Faso Attack
Thu 2020-11-12
  Turkey signs MoU for ceasefire in war it instigated and supplied terrorist Syrian mercenaries for in Karabakh
Wed 2020-11-11
  Minneapolis Starts Begging For Outside Resources
Tue 2020-11-10
  Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan says he signed an ''extremely painful'' agreement with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Russia to end the war over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region
Mon 2020-11-09
  Iraqi forces launch 'large scale' anti-ISIS air and ground operation in Salahaddin
Sun 2020-11-08
  Turkish-backed forces attack Syrian Christian city in Hama
Sat 2020-11-07
  Vienna anti-terror chief suspended after failure to prevent Islamist shooting
Fri 2020-11-06
  Marauding mob of antifa smashed up buildings one-by-one in Portland to protest election, IED and other weapons found
Thu 2020-11-05
  Armenian forces stifle Azerbaijani advance into key city
Wed 2020-11-04
  Joe Biden's campaign says he will have path to victory later Wednesday
Tue 2020-11-03
  Day 2: Vienna synagogue shooting: Active shooter situation in Austria
Mon 2020-11-02
  Report: At least one dead in shooting attack near synagogue in Vienna
Sun 2020-11-01
  Islamic State claims responsibility for church attack in Congo
Sat 2020-10-31
  Car smashes through front door of Grand Mosque in Mecca.


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