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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Moment NYC man is left with huge head wound that needed seven stitches after being hit with hammer for looking at suspect 'the wrong way' amid ongoing Big Apple crime spiral
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 08:09 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Glad they caught him. Now his information will be in the system when the next mayor decides to get serious about reducing crime.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/23/2021 20:44 Comments || Top||


Atlanta federal pen nearly vacant amid corruption investigation
[Atlanta Journal-Constipation] An investigation into alleged corruption at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta has led federal officials to ban several prison staffers and nearly empty out the prison, transferring about 1,100 offenders to correctional facilities in other states , The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.

As of Friday, 134 inmates remained inside the Atlanta prison, according to its official website. Back in March, it had more than 1,800 inmates. Employees have been told that ultimately all prisoners from the penitentiary and inmates at the adjacent minimum security camp will be transferred.

The prison went into an institutional lockdown on June 22 after receiving a "serious threat" and an institution emergency was declared, a staff memo obtained by the AJC states. Two days later, an official with the Federal Bureau of Prisons told the staff in a follow-up memo the lockdown was being extended after investigators discovered a "prevalence of narcotics and cellular devices being used by the inmate population."

That same day a prison teacher found 24 cell phones, 30 chargers, ear buds, Under Armour long underwear, wrapped bundles of a "leafy substance," weed grinders, assorted chains and necklaces and one bottle of air freshener. And that was just in the Education Department.

A little more than two weeks later, BOP sent out memos notifying staff that four senior officers, along with one wage supervisor, had been barred from the federal pen and should not be allowed entry "under any circumstance."

They were barred "in the interest of the efficiency of the service," the memos stated.

To employees at the prison, though, the opaque wording concealed nothing. One complained that the Bureau of Prisons had "gone nuclear" in rooting out problem employees, while others said an overhaul was long overdue.

"We’ve been shouting from the rooftops for years and they didn’t do a damn thing," said one longtime employee, who fears losing his job if his identity were revealed. "It’s been a long time coming."

Inmates were transferred out the last week of July.

The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to a request for comment.

The southeast Atlanta complex is a medium-security prison for men. The complex also has a detention center for pre-trial detainees and inmates being held for transfer, as well as an adjacent camp for minimum security inmates.

Evidence has piled up in recent years about lax security at the complex, with lapses blamed at times on inadequate staffing. Tales of raucous parties and free-flowing contraband, though, pointed to staff complicity.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  corruption in a fed agency? nah, would never happen.
Posted by: Chris || 08/23/2021 14:49 Comments || Top||


Student in Egypt uses rat poison to kill school security guard, steals $41,000
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] A sixth-grade student poisoned and killed a private school security guard to steal money from the school’s safe, according to the Egypt Independent.
What a precocious lad!
Authorities in Sohag revealed that the guard was killed and the school’s finance office was robbed by a student. Names of the victim and the accused were not released.

According to reports, the student confessed to the crime. He fed the guard koshary, a traditional Egyptian street food, containing rat poison in order to steal a safe that he kept in his office.

The student took advantage of a friendly relationship with the victim and offered to buy him lunch. After eating, the guard fell to the ground soon after and died.

The Balina Police Department received a call from the school’s owner, saying that a body had been found and that computers, surveillance equipment, and a safe containing over $40,000 (650,000 Egyptian pounds) were gone, the Egypt Independent reported.

Security cameras from nearby properties caught the boy poisoning the guard. He was arrested and immediately confessed to committing the murder and theft.

The accused confirmed that while he was at school to pay the year’s tuition fees, he saw the large sums of money inside the school safe and decided to steal it.
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Koshary not kosher, wot? Way ahead of ya, tw. I'll skip dinner too.
Posted by: Solomon Angotch3312 || 08/23/2021 1:29 Comments || Top||

#2  The student took advantage of a friendly relationship with the victim and offered to buy him lunch

I expect we'll hear more about that kid - he has the makings of a great Islamic leader.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2021 3:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Koshary not kosher, wot? Way ahead of ya, tw.

Way, way ahead, Solomon Angotch3312. I completely missed that one. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/23/2021 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Horrible way to die.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/23/2021 16:39 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Binmen face violence over complex new rubbish rules: Attacks on refuse collectors increase after they were ordered to police recycling
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 08:41 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


St. Thomas Becket & Joe Biden: The Next Four Years ~ Fr. Kirby
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Wisconsin sheriff says inmates will be called 'residents' and 'those in our care' to maintain the 'dignity' of criminals while in jail
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pansy.
Posted by: Raj || 08/23/2021 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  The whole purpose of jails was an alternative to offing sociopaths. Jail was never to be an issue of dignity. For those not yet convicted, fine Sheriff. Those convicted are not entitled to dignity. Their victims were.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Dane County is primarily Madison, Wisconsin ("90 square miles surrounded by Reality, where 'Common Sense' goes to die") along with rural 'bedroom communities' (where the liberals with more money live) and a few actual agricultural areas in the west part of the county.

The Sheriff is probably not trying to be a pansy, he's just a product of the system.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/23/2021 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  he's just a product of the system.

Dumb may be congenital.
Stupid is a choice.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Ouch, Skidmark. You’ve been sharpening that scalpel again.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/23/2021 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ It's a precariously thin line, unfortunately one I've crossed a time or two.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2021 12:11 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
A game changer for the French Resistance: The Barbès metro attack, 80 years on
[France24] French Resistance member Pierre Georges shot dead a German naval midshipman on August 21, 1941, at Barbès-Rochechouart metro station in occupied Paris — the first deadly attack on the occupiers, which prompted the Nazis to kill hundreds of hostages they were holding in the occupied zone. FRANCE 24 looks back at this seminal moment for La Resistance, 80 years on.

The crisp bureaucratic prose of the Paris police report captures the daring and drama: "This morning, at 8:05am on August 21, at Barbès-Rochechouart station, line 4, at the platform for the Porte d’Orléans direction, a German naval officer, Mr. [Alfons] Moser, was shot twice as he was getting into the first-class carriage. [...] An individual standing at the door of the carriage fired two shots from a gun, through his pocket, at the officer approaching the other door. The perpetrator and another individual quickly got off the train, ran to the exit, jumped over the barriers and fled the scene."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2021 05:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 17:01 Comments || Top||


The boy on the beach - Omaha Beach 2014
[PineArts] In Memory Of D-Day 6 June 1944. I Thought It Was Appropriate For The Times. Maybe It Will Remind Viewers Of Who We Are As Americans And How We Got Here. On 6 June 1944 Thousands Of Young Men Of Every Race, Color And Creed Risked Their Lives For Something They Had In Common That Was Worth Saving. Every One Of Their Lives Mattered, And They Succeeded, At Great Cost. The Message Here Is Not Only To Remember The Young Men Who Gave Their Lives For Us That Day, But Also That We Are Still America, We Are Still Americans, And We Still Have Something Precious That Is Worth Saving. The Video Was Done As Part Of Project Vigil, Started By The Boy On The Beach And His Father In 2013. All I Know Is That The Boy's Name Is Richie. He Is Now 17 Years Old. You Can Learn More About Project Vigil At: Http://www.Projectvigil.Com/
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is moving to see how respectfully the French at the Colleville-Sur-Mer cemetery treat the American flag. Far more than progressive Democrats do.
Posted by: Matt || 08/23/2021 1:30 Comments || Top||


Deaths of Brit Google engineer, wife, baby and dog during California hike are now NOT being treated as murder
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Jonathan Gerrish, wife Ellen Chung, their one-year-old daughter Muji and the family dog were found dead on Tuesday a day after being reported missing

  • Authorities are awaiting the results of the autopsy and toxicology reports

  • The family were discovered Tuesday in Devil's Gulch, Sierra National Forest

  • Police were exploring the possibility that they were poisoned by algae or gasses from mines but could not find any disused shafts in the vicinity

  • Forest officials last month warned about 'extremely dangerous' algae blooms
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Forest officials last month warned about 'extremely dangerous' algae blooms

But, but, but, Nature is good! Nature is kind!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2021 3:16 Comments || Top||

#2  ...ask the residents of Santorini about the last time nature burped.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2021 7:00 Comments || Top||


#4  Well, the nature trail they were on is in an area named "Devil's Gulch". Possibly for a reason.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/23/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  My boy is up in Mammoth mountain and he warned us while hiking about Carbon monoxide that comes out in some areas and displaces the oxygen. You get tired, dizzy, then dead in fairly rapid order if you aren't paying attention. I would think the autopsy can spot that sort of thing.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/23/2021 18:24 Comments || Top||

#6  There are stories about carbonated lakes "burbing" out dissolved CO2 and suffocating villages.

I suppose one should turn on private browsing before googling "does suffocation show up on an autopsy?"
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2021 19:12 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^^

I suppose one should turn on private browsing before googling "does suffocation show up on an autopsy?

Nah, that's a light question, for pvt browsing & gurgle... (switch to duckduckgo.com) then ask

How many bodies can I bury in my backyard before anyone gets suspicious. (?)
Posted by: Large Threating7783 || 08/23/2021 20:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I just want to avoid a repeat of the unfortunate "how to remove bloodstains from carpeting?" incident.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2021 20:26 Comments || Top||

#9  * Totally understand
We of the deep state prefer the duck twins - but have some alternatives, you know -JIC (just in case) - You seem a likable guy SteveS - so here are our alternative

https://search.brave.com/

or if you really want to go deep

https://search.brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion/

And oh - on the blood stain question the answer is:

Hydrogen peroxide can safely and effectively remove blood stains from porous surfaces like concrete further dilution for other materials.

But you knew that already.

Posted by: Large Threating7783 || 08/23/2021 20:42 Comments || Top||

#10  #5 - there are known trail cabins that are death traps due to CO2. They're marked
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2021 21:32 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Orlando Mayor urges residents to limit water usage because liquid oxygen used by treatment plants is being diverted to hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer asked residents to stop watering lawns and washing cars for a least a week, and the reason tracks back to the COVID-19 surge

  • Dyer explained that many COVID-19 patients require liquid oxygen for their treatment, helping them breathe easier

  • Nationally and locally the demand for liquid oxygen is high as COVID-19 has surged and many have not been vaccinated

  • Dyer said there could be impacts to the water quality if the city doesn't reduce the amount of water it needs to treat

  • If the shortage due to COVID-19 gets even worse, that could lead to a citywide boil order
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wunderbar.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2021 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  IIRC Orlando uses ozone for water treatment rather than chlorine .
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485 || 08/23/2021 5:09 Comments || Top||


Anti-vaccine US radio host Phil Valentine dies of COVID-19
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A conservative talk radio host from Tennessee who had been a vaccine skeptic until he was hospitalized from COVID-19 has died. He was 61.

Nashville radio station SuperTalk 99.7 WTN confirmed Phil Valentine’s death in a tweet on Saturday.

Valentine had been a skeptic of 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...
vaccines. But after he tested positive for COVID-19, and prior to his hospitalization, he told his listeners to consider, "If I get this COVID thing, do I have a chance of dying from it?" If so, he advised them to get vaccinated. He said he chose not to get vaccinated because he thought he probably wouldn’t die.

After Valentine was moved into a critical care unit, his brother Mark said the talk radio host regretted that "he wasn’t a more vocal advocate of the vaccination."

"I know if he were able to tell you this, he would tell you, ’Go get vaccinated. Quit worrying about the politics. Quit worrying about all the conspiracy theories," Mark Valentine told The Tennessean on July 25.

"He regrets not being more adamant about getting the vaccine. Look at the dadgum data," Mark Valentine said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some learn from the experience of others. Some can only learn from their own. And, of course, some are uncapable of learning.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2021 3:13 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Little tutor crows over white mans death.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/23/2021 6:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Uncapable?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2021 7:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Good for him.
Stuck to his guns
all the way to the ground.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 7:28 Comments || Top||


#6  Skid sounds like (r).
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 08/23/2021 7:50 Comments || Top||

#7  I learned a painful lesson at an early age about using prophylactics when available, whether I thought they were necessary or not.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 8:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Yet another tear-jerk story about death bed regrets. It's the Message of the Day.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Note that Fred posted the article, not g(r)omgoru.

I really, really, really look forward to the time when Covid is in the rearview mirror.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/23/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#10  ^And all the covid-skeptic trolls have gone somewhere else.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2021 11:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Oh, no not that.
Posted by: Gomez Omeating3848 || 08/23/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#12  Be careful Skid - don't challenge the Covid-Skeptic wing of the great Church of Solipsism.

You don't want all these half-wits directing their semi coherent repartee at you.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2021 11:17 Comments || Top||

#13 
Gee, what a nice thought
Posted by: Gomez Omeating3848 || 08/23/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#14  This article is generic to the discussion.
Mr. Valentine is dead, RIP, next stop might be a confirmation pathology.

General one here:
A PATHOLOGIST SUMMARY OF WHAT THESE JABS DO TO THE BRAIN AND OTHER ORGANS
Posted by: Bob Omoluck6303 || 08/23/2021 12:02 Comments || Top||

#15  Main side effect of the virus: It turns "scientists" into religious zealots and suddenly "my body, my choice" is a slogan on a button in a memorabilia shop instead of lefty gospel.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/23/2021 12:57 Comments || Top||

#16  Now we get to have year after year replays of vaxer death chants. 8 years at the least. The new normal.
Posted by: Dale || 08/23/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#17  I will admit I am happy anytime a totalitarian leftist dies. But I'm too busy to go grave dancing.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/23/2021 13:30 Comments || Top||

#18  Vader Death Chants.

That’s a good one.
Posted by: Lonzo Hapsburg5562 || 08/23/2021 13:59 Comments || Top||

#19  FYI - To be built in St.Louis - Commemorating All Calamities of the Period 2001-2021 - Will be nestled underneath the unfinished half of a world icon.

Posted by: Whoter Thrusoth3327 || 08/23/2021 14:15 Comments || Top||

#20  ^ Billions amused at what degenerate leftist scum live here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/23/2021 14:25 Comments || Top||

#21  I had a great time one night I stayed under the arch.

Maybe I told that story.

Who are you?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 17:05 Comments || Top||

#22  Thanks Bob Omoluck. Good video.
Posted by: Xyz || 08/23/2021 19:32 Comments || Top||

#23  Himmm, "dadgum", golly neds,sucks, such a shining light of wisdom to follow.
Posted by: Dale || 08/23/2021 21:43 Comments || Top||


Flash flood warning issued for parts of southern NY state and northeastern NJ, courtesy of Tropical Storm Henri
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]



Meanwhile in Tennessee

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, but the surfers had a blast!

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/23/2021 17:16 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
'You are not a cow!' FDA warns Americans to stop taking livestock de-wormer drug Ivermectin as an unproven treatment for COVID-19
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The FDA says it has received reports of people self-medicating with Ivermectin, a drug intended for cows and horses

  • People took the anti-parasitic drug as they wrongly thought it could work against COVID-19

  • One person was hospitalized for ingesting the horse de-wormer medication to treat the virus

  • An FDA warning said that ivermectin 'is not an anti-viral' and that 'taking large doses of this drug is dangerous and can cause serious harm.'

  • The agency has not approved ivermectin for use of treatment in COVID-19 patients
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just People Seeking an Alternative To

FDA Ignores New UK Study Showing Pfizer Vaccine Destroys T Cells, Weakens the Immune System
Posted by: Throting Black5338 || 08/23/2021 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  We are not sheep either.
Posted by: Craving Schwarzeneggar2193 || 08/23/2021 0:37 Comments || Top||

#3  you're going to get him stirred up.
Posted by: Chris || 08/23/2021 0:41 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Thunderous silence from the moderators - as expected.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2021 3:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Reminds me of the lie that hydroxycloroquine is fish tank cleaner.

Ivermectin is is a very safe drug for humans. (Probably used in animals too, like a lot of drugs) The doctor who discovered it over 30 years ago was awarded the Nobel prize for it’s discovery. There is mounting evidence about it’s efficacy for Covid. That’s probably why they are doing such a hit job on it. If there is a pretty good, safe therapeutic then emergency use authorization for a “vaccine” is not needed. Perhaps also why there is a mad rush for full approval of the vaccine.

Here’s some peer reviewed science from the American Journal of Therapeutics:

American Journal of Therapeutics link
Posted by: Mad Eye Shomoting1943 || 08/23/2021 5:59 Comments || Top||

#6 

#4, Repeat post in O-Club.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/23/2021 6:36 Comments || Top||

#7  FDA cannot legally issue an emergency approval of the vax if there are treatments available.

Also, this is blatantly dishonest. Ivermectin has human indications approved by the FDA. Like many drugs, it also happens to have veterinary indications.
Posted by: Angstrom || 08/23/2021 9:34 Comments || Top||

#8  We are not rats either but it does not stop experimenting on humans.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/23/2021 11:37 Comments || Top||

#9  'You are not a cow!'
ivermectin 'is not an anti-viral'


All nominally true, however...
Humans and cows are both mammals which means they have a lot in common, from gross physical anatomy down to cellular structures, and metabolic pathways.

Nobody said ivermectin was an anti-viral drug. If I understand correctly, it has an anti-inflamatory effect which comes in handy when dealing with parasites and other invaders.

Given all the bad public health messaging, I hope someone is taking notes because Covid is going to be a textbook case of how not to do public health.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2021 11:49 Comments || Top||

#10  SteveS: When Satoshi Omura went on youtube to talk about Ivermectin and antiviral properties, he got censored.

So... we're lied to continually by the Technogarches, told "shut up redneck..." but the censorship falls on a smart guy from one of the supposedly smart races with a Nobel Prize that he didn't get for a horse dewormer.

All of this shit is politics from the people who think politics is just another way to make war.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/23/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||

#11  All we need to know it is working. I have seen the results myself. Works very fast as well(within 24 hours). So now they will shut it down to control people. First do no harm, yea right.
Posted by: Dale || 08/23/2021 13:08 Comments || Top||

#12  'You are not a cow!'

The FDA people don't lower themselves to shop at Walmart do they?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2021 14:58 Comments || Top||

#13  as with a lot of treatments, taking to high a dosage of ivermectin or taking it while also taking drugs which are antagonistic to ivermectin, e.g., blood thinners, could be dangerous

it is true that some studies are underway on use of ivermectin as a therapy for covid

it is true that some results of these studies are positive

it is true that studies take too long and this is frustrating

Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/23/2021 18:05 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
SADC Fails the People of eSwatini
eSwatini is just Swaziland with a bad dye job, hoping the new haircut will help her find a swell sugar daddy.
[All Africa] The regional body has essentially ignored the plight of the emaSwati who continue to suffer under the brutal reign of King Mswati III, activists say."This is a regional problem. We have no confidence in any of the African organizations that should be taking a lead in this particular matter. They are turning a blind eye ... so we are certainly not happy [with the lack of solidarity]. This is why we are looking at different avenues."

So says Qhawekazi Khumalo, 37, spokesperson of the United eSwatini Diaspora, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for democratic governance and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
in the country. Khumalo, who is a member of the South African chapter of the Swazi Lives Matter global solidarity movement, says the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) must execute its mandate to protect human rights by taking decisive action against violations taking place in eSwatini.

Speaking at an eSwatini solidarity march to the UNHCR's regional office in Pretoria on 13 August, Khumalo said: "No matter how small [eSwatini] is, we are all part of the human family and surely we deserve the same freedom that everybody enjoys."

At a Southern African Development Community (SADC) troika summit of the organ on politics, defence and security cooperation that was held in Lilongwe, Malawi, on 16 August, President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana only afforded two paragraphs to the situation unfolding in eSwatini. He simply said the ministerial and technical fact-finding mission sent on 4 July and again from 15 to 22 July had completed its assignment and the report had been shared with King Mswati III for consideration.

The fact-finding mission, which purported to speak to all "stakeholders", ignored eSwatini's banned main opposition party, the People's United Democratic Movement (Pudemo).

Lamenting the lack of time, resources, effort and depth of the mission's efforts, Khumalo said: "If you are not able to consolidate everybody who speaks on this system and speaks on change, then what's the point?"

A BOYS' CLUB
Pudemo president Mlungisi Makhanya says the movement has been disappointed by the indifference of the governments in the region as well as SADC.

"What SADC has shown is that it has no interest in the citizens of the region. It is only a boys' club where the leaders, not the people, are what matters. When they approached the issue of Swaziland, what was foremost on their minds was how to serve Mswati and his murderous regime. They have no interest in the killed people of Swaziland, the multitude of people who continue to lie in hospitals and those who continue to languish in Mswati's jails. Their interest is regional stability at the expense of the human rights of the people of the region," he said.

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), which was present at the march along with shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo and the South African Federation of Trade Unions, called on progressive organizations to support eSwatini's citizens to achieve their demands in the face of King Mswati's brutally violent mostly peaceful regime.
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Caribbean-Latin America
death toll from Haiti's earthquake this month has risen to more than 2,200
[TWITTER]
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#1  I have an idea about where to put the Afghans.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 11:04 Comments || Top||


#3  Five years later, when the islam in them calls out for loyalty to the Asian ummah, the US is going to have a terrible time.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 08/23/2021 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ In Minnesota, the waiting period is only 36 hours.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2021 11:22 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Children's picture book about families with same-sex parents has been published in Russia to challenge the country's LGBT+ propaganda law - one month after a Hungarian bookshop was fined £600 for selling a copy of the same story
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Ukraine sanctions lawmaker accused of meddling in US election
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday signed a decree imposing sanctions on Andriy Derkach, the Ukrainian politician accused by the United States of being a Russian agent and interfering in U.S. elections, the presidential office said.

The sanctions include an asset freeze, a ban on capital withdrawals, the revocation of Derkach’s licences, restrictions on him transferring resources of any kind, and other measures.

A top Ukrainian security official said in a briefing on Friday that Ukraine was sanctioning Derkach, along with members of the Russian military and Russian judges.

Derkach has previously denied wrongdoing and said he was being targeted for exposing corruption.
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China-Japan-Koreas
Chip giant's IPO hit by Beijing crackdown on business
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 09:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


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Rescue Dogs Shot Dead Over CoVid Fears - (CFP)
[CitizenFreePress]
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#3  Some sci-fi writer people like to quote a lot said something about you can tell a lot about a society by how it treats animals.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/23/2021 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Southeast Asian society must be all about food then, MM.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/23/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Gross. But trigger pullers and baton swingers, they are immune.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2021 17:04 Comments || Top||

#6 
#3
Considering Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected to office, I'd say we treat animals very well, at least in California, that is.
Posted by: Winky Floger9121 || 08/23/2021 17:32 Comments || Top||

#7  I think pets in California are more on the spoiled rotten side of the spectrum.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/23/2021 18:26 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
FDA approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for 16 and older age group
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 08/23/2021 10:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Does that mean they can be sued now?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/23/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably not but should companies demand it they are not immune. I see full page adds soon by lawyers.
Posted by: Dale || 08/23/2021 12:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Stages of Vaccine Development and Testing
1.Laboratory and Animal Studies
Exploratory Stage, 2-4 years
2.Pre-Clinical Stage, often lasts 1-2 years
Many candidate vaccines never progress beyond this stage because they fail to produce the desired immune response.
3.(Investigational New Drug)IND Application
A sponsor, usually a private company, submits an application for an Investigational New Drug (IND) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The sponsor describes the manufacturing and testing processes, summarizes the laboratory reports, and describes the proposed study. An institutional review board, representing an institution where the clinical trial will be conducted, must approve the clinical protocol. The FDA has 30 days to approve the application.

sorry to post again, but it looks like a minimum of 3 years and 30 days to get a "vaccine" approved by the "FDA"
Posted by: 746 || 08/23/2021 15:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Does that mean they can be sued now?

I have wondered how far the immunity extends. Can the FDA be sued? Your doctor? Pharmacist? Anyone know?

Lawsuit could be as simple as failure to provide adverse reaction info (the insert in the box is blank if you can believe it) which means failure to secure informed consent.
Posted by: Angstrom || 08/23/2021 15:45 Comments || Top||

#5  From a download dated today:

https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download

This product has not been approved or licensed by FDA, but has beenauthorized for emergency use by FDA, under an EUA to prevent Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) for use in individuals 12 years of age and older; and
• The emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the
declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency
use of the medical product under Section 564(b)(1) of the FD&C Act unless the
declaration is terminated or authorization revoked sooner.



Obviously these things can be faked or edited rather easily...but that is the .gov

Grab your Mortan's, because nearly everyone is taking this as a legally available medicine like what you see on TV, so perhaps that link is uncorroborated as of this time.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2021 18:22 Comments || Top||


With Chinese And Russian Knives At The Throat Of GPS, Senate Calls For A Study, Waits For Administration To Follow Law
Posted by: Oscar Threnter3264 || 08/23/2021 01:12 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  If you have ever been in DC area when the FED's deliberately played with the GPS "accuracy" readings for the area, due to National Security issues.

It is interesting flying into DCA, IAD and BWI.
Then a challenge driving to client locations.

Now imagine NO GPS?
It would the US Mother of all Ground Stops.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 08/23/2021 6:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Satellite Navigation - GPS - How It Works
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Deeper:
True-range multilateration
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 7:19 Comments || Top||

#4  With pictures!
How Does GPS Work? GPS for Dummies the rest of us.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 7:25 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder what it would take to use Starlink for positioning...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/23/2021 7:43 Comments || Top||

#6  we used to use maps.....
Posted by: 746 || 08/23/2021 10:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Orienteering Basics

An orienteer might be described as part trail runner and part map-and-compass geek.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Find your nearest Geodetic Survey Marker...
Posted by: magpie || 08/23/2021 16:56 Comments || Top||

#9  ^
Can I GPS that marker thingy ?
Posted by: Slats Thans1619 || 08/23/2021 22:44 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Strict COVID-19 Lockdown to Begin in Vietnam
Posted by: Oscar Threnter3264 || 08/23/2021 01:07 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Welcoming Kamala?
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/23/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  ^
Hmmm, Timing seems to indicate an effort to keep her out.
-Vietnamese Brilliancy is Glowing !
Posted by: Herman Black4650 || 08/23/2021 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I have this weird idea in my head that Kamala is not returning from this trip. No idea why my brain is telling me this, but it would solve a number of problems.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/23/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#4  - I've got that feeling too, just something isn't ---
connecting - why send "The K" 12,500 miles outa town, when she could learn so much (example: AFG & Defense matters) staying in WDC?
Posted by: Vortigern Clusotle4551 || 08/23/2021 11:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Sure that didn't say Chlamydia?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/23/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Salve, soothsayers all. My railbird's entrails read like this ( he always liked a longshot):

The Big Guy is fatally maimed,
But "that little girl" can't be blamed:
See, she isn't in charge!
Now, let's set her at large...
And just look at the tigers she's tamed!

Diplomatic triumphs inbound. Or not. But it's what I'd do if I were Xi... er, she... er, her.
Posted by: Solomon Angotch3312 || 08/23/2021 21:19 Comments || Top||



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