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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Waukesha parade massacre killer Darrell Brooks is escorted from court hearing after moaning that he was BORED and claiming the case against him is 'political'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Darrell Brooks Jr, 40, is accused of driving his SUV into the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 21 - killing six and injuring 62

  • Brooks, who has a long criminal history with multiple arrests for domestic violence and battery, was arrested on the day of the killings

  • He has been charged with six counts of murder, with each charge carrying a life sentence

  • In court on Friday Brooks yelled at Judge Jennifer Dorow, said he was bored, and asked to be removed from court - which he was
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Crazy? Trying for an Insanity Defense like Vincent Gigante?
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2022 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Start building a gallows outside his cell windows. Guaranteed he won't be bored anymore.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/28/2022 9:27 Comments || Top||

#3  make him build the gallows.
Posted by: Chris || 08/28/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Gallows?

Drive a truck over him until he's dead. Make sure he has a helmet and neck guard so it won't be quick.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/28/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^-- I didn't say actually use the gallows. Just build it to relieve his bordom.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/28/2022 12:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Sociopathic Tendencies - Boredom
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 13:01 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Meet the world's youngest transgender model: Born to a mother who is now male, Noella became a girl aged four and is now tipped to make MILLIONS of dollars on the catwalk. But her biological father who raised questions has been airbrushed from her life
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The remainder of the check list.
  • Noella McMaher, 10, identified as transgender at ‘two-and-a-half, nearing three’

  • Proud biological mother Dee, 35, now identifies as a ‘trans masculine male’

  • She recently became youngest transgender model to walk runway in New York

  • One Hollywood agent said she could make 'a million or two in the next year’
But it emerged that Noella’s biological father has been airbrushed out of the media profiles published in the US last week.

Timothy McCord, a Chicago-based scientist, was so against her transition that he allegedly tried to force the child into boys’ pyjamas and fractured her arm.

Last week father he said he had not seen Noella or his son Levi since, adding: ‘I tried to get back into their lives but it was too contentious and stressful for everyone.’

Dee, who has been married to Ray – a 32-year-old biological female who has also identified as transgender since 2019 – now has a baby who is being raised as non-binary.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 08:24 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Criminal.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/28/2022 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  When the dream falls apart, there will be no splashy story about it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2022 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Honestly, I think the guy is dodging a bullet have to deal with this insane shit.
Posted by: Chris || 08/28/2022 9:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Some countries allowed 'child beggars' to be mutilated -- photogenic
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2022 12:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Millions of dollars, you say?

I am also transgender, and I just happen to identify as a 4-year-old! Where's mine???
Posted by: Tom || 08/28/2022 13:05 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Texas high school hazing incident with hot sauce, lap dances sends student to emergency room
Note that the actual article says nothing about sauces or dances.
[Breitbart] A San Antonio high school football player has been hospitalized with burns after an alleged hazing incident gone wrong on Thursday.

A junior who had made the varsity team at Alamo Heights High School was rushed to the emergency room after suffering burns to the lower half of his body, the San Antonio Express-News reported.

The district said the incident did not occur on school property but would not add any more details to protect the identities of both the perpetrators and the victim.

The paper added that the district quickly moved to suspend a large number of the team for engaging in hazing and ruled that they would have to sit out the next two games of the season.

However, the students who told the district they were being hazed also received a one-game suspension because officials determined they were willing participants in the act.

San Antonio’s KSAT noted that the school had been warned that undue hazing had been going on inside the school’s football program.

“Last week, the District received multiple messages through our anonymous tip line regarding safety concerns and allegations of misconduct by some players on the football team,” the Alamo Heights School District told KSAT.

The school added that the perpetrators will each serve in-school suspensions and must undergo ten hours of community service.

The Alamo Heights Police Department is also investigating the incident but has had no comment.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 10:18 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Org Art

“The senior boys did an initiation, where they went out to the baseball fields and made the younger players put cookies dipped in hot sauce between their butt cheeks,” a source told KENS-TV. “Then, they had to race each other, and if any of the cookies fell out the person would have to eat it. They made them do this in an open space completely naked.”

The source added that some players had hot sauce thrown at them and that some of the freshman were forced to strip down to their boxers and give lap dances to cheerleaders at the party.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Seemingly, Breitbart muted the original content for more sensitive readers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 12:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I figured you had a source closer to events, Skidmark, and just hoped it wasn’t the sons of dear friends.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2022 15:16 Comments || Top||


Three Dutch commandos on anti-terrorism training in Indiana are shot and wounded outside Indianapolis hotel: Two are in critical condition
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Final Exam?
  • Three members of the Dutch Commando Corps were found wounded by police outside of a Hampton Inn in Indianapolis around 3:30 am

  • Two of the men are in critical condition in a local hospital

  • Police have said that there were plenty of witnesses to the shooting but that no arrests have been made

  • The group was in Indiana as part of a training program in urban conflict
The NL Times report says that the commandos were involved in an argument prior to the shooting.

Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad reports that the wounded men are members of the anti-terrorism 108 Commando Company. The group is training at a facility designed to teach urban combat.

'The shooting took place in front of the hotel where the commandos are staying,' said a ministry spokesperson. 'The incident happened during the military members’ free time.'

The hotel where the shooting occurred is on the 100 block of South Meridian Street at the intersection between Meridian and Maryland streets.

Authorities in Indiana said that they do not believe that the shooting was random and that there is no threat to the public.

Although fatal shootings are down in Indianapolis compared to 2021's record-breaking figure of 271, 2022 is still on pace to be the second deadliest year in the city's history, reports Fox59.

Despite the lower overall homicide rate, nearly twice as many juveniles have been killed on the city's streets compared to the same time last year.

The Mayor's office has set aside $15 million for citywide community anti-violence grants.
It doesn’t sound like hiring more police is on the agenda, unfortunately.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 08:08 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Previous "interaction" with the shooters. I'm guessing the 'bangers didn't like that
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  One must remember that in AMerica we carry guns. Your big drunk ass at 4 AM are no match for a Sig...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/28/2022 11:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Now they can't shoot Dutch farmers.
Posted by: Regular joe || 08/28/2022 14:54 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
'Triple Threat'? Man Diagnosed With HIV, COVID, & Monkeypox At Same Time
[ZeroHedge] An Italian man on a 'condomless' sex escapade with men in Spain
...so he was setting himself up for problems, even without monkeypox (or whatever stupidity it’s being renamed because other species are racist)...
tested positive for HIV, Covid-19, and monkeypox simultaneously — the first known case to have all three viral diseases, according to a case study in the Journal of Infection.

Researchers stated the 36-year-old male spent five days in Spain between June 16-20 and developed a fever (up to 39°C), accompanied by sore throat, fatigue, headache, and right inguinal lymphadenomegaly about nine days after his trip. He tested positive for Covid on July 2 -- and his symptoms worsened that day.

"On the afternoon of the same day, a rash started to develop on his left arm. The following day small, painful vesicles surrounded by an erythematous halo appeared on the torso, lower limbs, face, and glutes. On July 5, due to a progressive and uninterrupted spread of vesicles that began to evolve into umbilicated pustules, he went to the emergency room" in Catania, Italy, and then was immediately transferred to an Infectious Diseases Unit at the Policlinico G. Rodolico - San Marco University Hospital," researchers said.

By July 6, the man was diagnosed with monkeypox and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while still Covid positive. By this time, he had overlapping symptoms from all three viral diseases. Researchers noted he was double jabbed against Covid with Pfizer's BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine (last December).
AIDS is characterized by poor immune response, suggesting the Covid jabs would be even less effective than usual.
Researchers said:
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2022 04:04 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The long awaited 'Triple or Multi-Bio Threat' has now been developed and successfully fielded. Dr. Fauci can now retire.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2022 4:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Medina Sidonia's Revenge?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||


#4  An incurable romantic!
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 08/28/2022 8:06 Comments || Top||

#5  I was untroubled by HIV and now have little concern for the pox.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||

#6  What, no Ebola? What is this world coming to?
Posted by: Neville Unavitle4308 || 08/28/2022 12:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Edited for brevity!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/28/2022 12:42 Comments || Top||

#8  DOD would consider him to be deployable. Only the unvaccinated are a hindrance to readiness.
Posted by: Super Hose || 08/28/2022 14:57 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 08/28/2022 15:42 Comments || Top||


More than half of Pakistan is under water as a result of flash flooding generated by abnormal monsoon rains
Inshallah. Who are we to argue when Allah so displays his displeasure?
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 08/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gaia flushes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Chinese had flood prevention dikes millennia ago...but that's work
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2022 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Flash flooding to be followed by Severe Drought. Allan wills it. Suck it up, buttercups.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Too bad the entire country isn't under water, for good.
Posted by: Chris || 08/28/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 Snark of the Week
Posted by: Regular joe || 08/28/2022 14:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Send it to Kabul.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 22:06 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
United States to appoint first Arctic Ambassador
[BBC] The United States is planning to appoint an Ambassador for the Arctic, amid increased Russian military activity in the region.

The Ambassador-at-Large will be put in place to advance US policy in the northern polar region, a Department of State spokesman said.

On Friday, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg warned of the threat posed by Russia in the northern polar regions.

He also voiced concern about China's reach into the Arctic.

The new US ambassador will engage with the seven other Arctic nations - Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia - as well as indigenous groups and other stakeholders, said State Department spokesman Vedant Patel.

Peace and stability in the region are of "critical strategic importance" to the US and a priority for Secretary of State Antony Blinken, he added.

Mr Blinken will soon name the ambassador, whose appointment is subject to Senate approval.

The announcement comes as Russia steps up its presence near the North Pole, while China has been building Arctic research stations.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Not the Bee™? A real ambassador (or wealthy donor)?
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2022 0:51 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess Polar Bears have to eat too.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/28/2022 1:02 Comments || Top||

#3  I suspect this post will have a 'staff' of young ladies and be only 'attached' to the artic stations. Ie, a getaway reward for someone to amuse themselves with young women while not doing anything and collecting a fat salary from the taxpayers.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/28/2022 6:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Send Harris, she has done an excellent job so far!

/s (Sorta, kinda. maybe)

Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/28/2022 7:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I suspect this post will have a 'staff' of [Nordic] young ladies...

That's pretty sexist, Brick. You know Ambassadors also enjoy boys, children of all genders and furrys.

Biden admin creates Arctic region ambassador position to counter climate change, geopolitical threats
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 7:50 Comments || Top||

#6  I would have added that but I kind of suspect we'll see Hunter Biden named to this post....
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/28/2022 8:03 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^ Well, cocaine is called 'Sow' in some circles.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/28/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#8  'SNOW'
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/28/2022 8:17 Comments || Top||

#9  named to this post....

I'm leaning towards Greta.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 9:47 Comments || Top||

#10  In the interest of providing our first Arctic Ambassador with useful information, even perhaps lifesaving, please pass the following to the candidates:
29 Cool Facts About Polar Bears That You Should Know
In addition, please do not use "yellow snow" for cooking, nor making your beverages, like coffee, tea, or reconstituted juices (no matter how superior you think it tastes).
Posted by: Neville Unavitle4308 || 08/28/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#11  The Bi-Polar bears are the ones to really watch out for.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2022 12:23 Comments || Top||

#12  "The new US ambassador will engage with the seven other Arctic nations - Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia - as well as indigenous groups and other stakeholders...."

I guess Russia and the other six aren't enough. But at least I can quit worrying about the baby seals.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/28/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#13  ^^^^ Now that guy knows what he is talking about, AA (Arctic Ambassador), he sounds like he has "experience" in these matters.
Your Supporter, Snowy Arctic Owl
Posted by: Neville Unavitle4308 || 08/28/2022 12:43 Comments || Top||

#14  Here are some of the other "native inhabitants" you may encounter during your tenure as the U.S.A.A. (no, not the insurance company) to these vast expanses of ice, snow and freezing Arctic waters... (don't know how the Penguins got into the picture, must be on vacation to the North, hmmm)
Posted by: Neville Unavitle4308 || 08/28/2022 12:57 Comments || Top||

#15  Ambassador Salary in the United States

The average Ambassador salary in the United States is $180,841 as of July 26, 2022, but the salary range typically falls between $153,015 and $218,133. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession. If an ambassador enters into the diplomatic core from the private sector and takes a pay cut by accepting the post, then the Foreign Service will try to match with the salary of the private sector.
Posted by: Neville Unavitle4308 || 08/28/2022 13:02 Comments || Top||

#16  @#14 - Like they said, "other stakeholders".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/28/2022 13:06 Comments || Top||

#17  please do not use "yellow snow" for cooking,...

Speaking as your Health Advisor, I must point out that "yellow" snow contains more electrolytes than regular snow.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/28/2022 14:07 Comments || Top||

#18  Some of the more travelled snowy mountains have "snow snake" hunting parties
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2022 20:28 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Alleged Cracks on Kabul Dam Trigger Widespread Concern
[KhaamaPress] Alleged cracks on Shah-wa-Arus Dam in Shakardara district of Kabul trigged a widespread concern among residents ahead of inauguration ceremony that has been halted since the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
takeover last August.

Concerns came at a time a video footage has been circulating among users in the area, triggering concern over what it’s called to be cracks on the newly built dam that has yet to be inaugurated.

"The water is a lot and heavy. No one can stop it," said a resident of Shakardara, addressing the apparent cracks on the newly built dam in the country. It, however, was not clear which specific part of the dam has been compromised.

A delegation of the Ministry of Energy and Water visited the location to assess the situation, assuring the problem is not of a big concern and considerable measures have been taken to fix the so-called unproblematic matter.

"After a detailed technical review and the comments of the officials, he stated that this issue is not a cause for concern and will soon be repaired by the officials," the Ministry of Energy and Water wrote in a thread.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache...
the technical team assured the stability of the dam, saying the damage is only on the surface of the cement that is affected throughout the years, which will be restored in no time.

The construction of the dam is being conducted by two Iranian companies, where representatives blamed the cracks on the delays in the construction process.

"Two winters have passed. A lot of snow has fallen. We have had snow around one meter which in some cases caused some slight scratches on the concrete because no one was here to take care of it," said Yaqob Amani, the representative of one of the companies, as TOLOnews quoted.

But experts in the field expressed concerns over the quality of the Shah-wa-Aros dam construction, saying the a proper team has be assign to determine whether the dam is stable or not.

"The quality of the stairs cannot show the quality of the whole dam. It is necessary to investigate the dam to see if there is any crack in the dam," said expert Najibullah Sadid.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2022 00:19 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  pretty small 1.2MW isn't much
Posted by: Lord Garth || 08/28/2022 20:48 Comments || Top||

#2  "The construction of the dam is being conducted by two Iranian companies..."
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/28/2022 22:18 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemen restores Jewish cemetery, remainder of a once booming, now long-gone community
Jewish tourists pay good money to visit their former homes, when allowed...
[IsraelTimes] A Jewish cemetery in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s southern port city Aden is undergoing restoration meant to preserve the last remnant of the country’s once-booming Jewish community.


"[Yemen’s] politicianship makes sure to preserve cemeteries and respects its Jewish cemeteries," local journalist Ahmad Shalbi told the Kan public broadcaster in a report aired Sunday.

Initially reluctant to speak with an Israeli news site, Shalbi, who has covered the cemetery’s renovation in Yemen for months, said the move came after years of neglect.

"This cemetery was neglected and ruined. Parts of its surrounding wall were damaged," he said, adding that efforts to renovate the site were first led by voluntary civil organizations before General Aidarus Qassem Abdulaziz al-Zoubaidi, the president of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, got involved.

"He established a task force that would renovate the cemetery and the walls around it, as well as other cemeteries that were neglected over the years," Shalbi said.

According to a Yemeni official cited by Kan, the renovation of the Jewish cemetery is a "message to all Aden residents that Aden is a city of peace and that we will not accept any harm to any holy site."

The Jewish cemetery in Aden has existed for more than 160 years and is believed to house hundreds of graves belonging to members of a community that no longer exists.

A local researcher told local media that, according to Jewish tradition, the cemetery is the burial site of the biblical figure Abel.

And while work is underway and significant parts of the cemetery’s wall have been restored, the graves are still in dire need of attention, the report said, requiring a budget that war-torn Yemen might be hesitant to allocate.

Still, the Yemeni initiative to restore the cemetery should not be taken lightly, and is even more surprising considering the civil war between a Saudi-led coalition and Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels, which the country has been embroiled in for years.

While a truce established in April is intact, tensions remain high.

Houthi rebels have carried out systematic persecution of Yemen’s few remaining Jews, pushing the ancient community out of the country almost entirely

According to a UN report published in February, there were seven Jews remaining in the country.

The Yemeni Jewish community was over 50,000 strong in the early 20th century, but between 1949 and 1950, Israel brought nearly 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the state.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2022 03:01 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not mentioned: Yemen was a Jewish kingdom before Mohammed's cult conquered it and began persecuting the natives.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/28/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||


Britain
Man Cuts His Throat After Being Confronted by ‘Paedophile Hunters' on Livestream
[Breitbart] A man slashed his own throat live on a Facebook stream after being confronted by paedophile hunters in the English city of Liverpool.

The Facebook Live video, now deleted, showed the man going into his car, taking out a knife, and slitting his own throat, according to a MailOnline report.

The emergency services attended the scene and took the man to hospital, where he is said to be in a stable condition. Merseyside Police have not addressed the man’s fate outright, but they have confirmed that they arrested a 55-year-old man from the town of Kirkby has been placed under arrest for allegedly grooming a child under 14 and the possession of a bladed article.

Citizen “paedophile hunters” who pose as children online in order to smoke out predators who try to groom youngsters on the Internet have become increasingly successful in recent years, with BBC research revealing that an astonishing 60 per cent of grooming prosecutions in 2018 drew upon evidence gathered by them.
Citizen “paedophile hunters” who pose as children online in order to smoke out predators who try to groom youngsters on the Internet have become increasingly successful in recent years, with BBC research revealing that an astonishing 60 per cent of grooming prosecutions in 2018 drew upon evidence gathered by them.

However, despite — or perhaps because of — this fact, the police and swathes of the establishment media are extremely hostile towards them.

Assistant Chief Constable Dan Vajzovic, the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s so-called lead for online child abuse groups, has gone so far as to allege that “[w]hen [paedophile hunters] say they are acting in the interests of children, largely they are acting in their own interests, their self-aggrandisement and their desire to exercise force against so-called perpetrators of child abuse” — although why this should matter, even if it was true, is unclear, so long as they do manage to bring groomers before the courts.

Vajzovic has also suggested that some of the prosecutions brought as a result of paedophile hunter activity “may have diverted police resources from more significant offenders,” and that, therefore, “the activity of these groups is not positive” overall.

The Telegraph noted that just 68 people were convicted of grooming offences in 2013, before the rise of the hunter groups, compared to 359 in 2018.
However, the evidence does not suggest that the authorities would be pursuing an equal number of more targeted prosecutions in the absence of paedophile hunters, with The Telegraph noting that just 68 people were convicted of grooming offences in 2013, before the rise of the hunter groups, compared to 359 in 2018.

Indeed, some might argue that British police resentment of paedophile hunters might be rooted in their own sordid history of failure on child grooming, which the hunters’ success as unpaid amateurs might tend to underline.

Most notoriously, forces were far from eager to pursue mostly Muslim, Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs which operated across the country with impunity for decades, with officers told to “try and get other ethnicities” and victims’ parents told their children were “child prostitutes” making a lifestyle choice.

While failure in this area is now acknowledged, few if any officers have actually been held to account personally, with forces still seemingly plagued by political correctness and claims that grooming abuse continues largely unabated.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 09:35 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  funny!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 08/28/2022 15:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Who called emergency services?
If it was the padeophile hunters they are better people than I.
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/28/2022 19:22 Comments || Top||


HMS Prince of Wales sails past music festival on its way to train with F35-B Lightning jets off the US coast
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Techno interoperability check?
  • Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales departed from Portsmouth Naval Base today off to the US

  • The 65,000-tonne warship was meant to set off on Friday but was delayed to today after technical issues

  • It was sent off sailing past music-lovers the Victorious Festival while pop favourites the Sugarbabes played
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 09:21 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
US Coast Guard cutter denied entry into Solomon Islands port sparking concerns of China's growing influence
[FoxNews] 'China is now running the Solomon Islands,' one expert said

A United States Coast Guard cutter conducting patrols on an international mission in the Pacific Ocean was denied entry to a port in the Solomon Islands raising concerns about China's growing influence in the area.

The cutter Oliver Henry was taking part in Operation Island Chief monitoring fishing activities in the Pacific, which ended Friday, when it sought to make a scheduled stop at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, to refuel and re-provision, the Coast Guard office in Honolulu said.

There was no response from the Solomon Islands’ government for diplomatic clearance for the vessel to stop there, however, so the Oliver Henry diverted to Papua New Guinea, the Coast Guard said.

Additionally, it was reported that a British vessel was also denied entry but the British Royal Navy has not commented directly on those reports.

During Operation Island Chief, the U.S., Australia, Britain and New Zealand provided support through aerial and surface surveillance for Pacific island nations participating in the operation, including the Solomon Islands.

China has been assertively trying to expand its presence and influence in the Pacific, and Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare alarmed some neighbors, the U.S. and others after he signed a new security pact with China.

The pact has raised fears of a Chinese naval base being established within 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Australia’s northeast coast. A Chinese military presence in the Solomon Islands would put it not only on the doorstep of Australia and New Zealand but also in close proximity to Guam, the U.S. territory that hosts major military bases.

"China is gaining ground in its efforts to gain dominance in the Pacific," Former United States Department of Veterans Affairs Assistant Secretary James Hutton tweeted in response to the news.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Oh no! You mean China is using kindness to persuade long-forgotten countries that America treats like shit to be on their side? How wrong this is! They will service our needs and like it! And we'll talk down to them about human rights! Because that's how our diplomats do business!

I sense a John Bolton-planned coup in the near future.
Posted by: Tiny Jeater6933 || 08/28/2022 1:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh no, my dear Tiny Jeater6933. China has been using predatory lending and slave labour to gain control of trade and shipping depots amd raw material resources all over the world — but even before Covid the world was starting to take notice and repudiate their efforts. After Covid the process has accelerated.

It isn’t a new process, this locking in of developing nations to debt servitude for financial and resource farming — look up the relations between England and Persia since the latter part of the 16th century — but China’s targets are quicker to realize the plan than in earlier generations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2022 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  "A United States Coast Guard cutter conducting patrols on an international mission in the Pacific Ocean...."

Still kind of funny that the USCG is far away from the coast of the US. Besides, isn't the USCG subordinate to DHS nowadays (unless in time of "war")?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/28/2022 3:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Appears much is being forgotten. Those now in Washington will say and do absolutely nothing.

I hope Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and Auzzie PM Tony Albanese are taking careful notes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2022 7:24 Comments || Top||

#5  We have political ties with the former American trust territories, now the Federated States of Micronesia. As such, the Coast Guard operates with local agencies.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2022 7:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Curiously, I was reminded of The Sand Pebbles.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 7:44 Comments || Top||

#7  I suppose if we have a TW, we must have a TJ for balance.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Guadalcanal? No, we paid for that already.
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/28/2022 8:12 Comments || Top||

#9  ...and don't say Guadalcanal Diary. Unless you want the feebs to come knockin'...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2022 8:14 Comments || Top||

#10  Low hanging fruit ...they were cheap to bribe.
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2022 12:42 Comments || Top||

#11  I' sorry but Guadalcanal! Seriously, among places to which our grandfathers put PAID IN FULL, those people refused an American Warship access? A whole group of locals need massive bitch-slapping!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/28/2022 14:52 Comments || Top||

#12  Is it common to deny a ship entry to a port? I remember during the cold war US ships would stop by in Warsaw Pact ports from time to time. Did this require lots of diplomatic manuevering in order to pull off?
Posted by: ruprecht || 08/28/2022 19:19 Comments || Top||

#13  Any foreign military vessel has to "ask" first otherwise it is one of those casus belli situations.
Posted by: magpie || 08/28/2022 20:31 Comments || Top||

#14  And THAT's why we have an Arctic Ambassador!
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/28/2022 22:06 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Combo ‘polypill' cuts heart disease deaths, new study finds
[NYP] One pill may be better than three.
A yuge letdown for Big Pharma and the VAX crowd. Bill and Melinda are not going to be pleased with this development either.
A heart medication known as a "polypill" reduced the chance of a secondary adverse cardiovascular event in individuals who previously had a heart attack, according to the findings of a study announced on Friday, August 26, at the European Society of Cardiology Congress (ESC 2022) in Barcelona, Spain.

The cardiovascular mortality rate was lowered by 33%, the study found.
While too late for many, ten percent would have been wonderful.
Published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the study found that the drug, bearing the commercial name Trinomia, contains three medications: aspirin (100 mg), the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor ramipril (2.5, 5, or 10 mg) and atorvastatin (20 or 40 mg), according to a news release.

The Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) and Ferrer developed the polypill.
Unlike the CDC, the CNIC appears to be interested in prevention and cures.
Currently, the polypill is not available in the United States.

Dr. Valentin Fuster, M.D., director of Mount Sinai Heart and physician-in-chief of Mount Sinai Hospital as well as general director of CNIC, led the trial.
There it is again! That pesky Jewish philanthropist Simpson is to blame for all of this progress.
The study’s results demonstrate "for the first time that the polypill — which contains aspirin, ramipril and atorvastatin — achieves clinically relevant reductions in the recurrent cardiovascular events among people who have recovered from a previous heart attack," he said in the release.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2022 04:50 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Currently, the polypill is not available in the United States.

The major component is the inexpensive, newly developed drug Aspirin. Who knew? Approval however, may take years even decades.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2022 4:55 Comments || Top||

#2  All three medications are available separately, so the advantage is just that they are combined into one pill.
Posted by: Too Old To Work || 08/28/2022 8:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks TOTW. Thanks WIKI.

Ramipril, sold under the brand name Altace among others, is an ACE inhibitor type medication used to treat high blood pressure, heart failure, and diabetic kidney disease. Wikipedia
Formula: C23H32N2O5
Classification: ACE inhibitor
Metabolism: Liver, to ramiprilat
Protein binding: 73% (ramipril); 56% (ramiprilat)
AHFS/Drugs.com: Monograph
ATC code: C09AA05 (WHO)
Elimination half-life: 13 to 17 hours

Atorvastatin
Common brands: Lipitor
Statin
It can treat high cholesterol and triglyceride levels. This may reduce the risk of angina, stroke, heart attack, and heart and blood vessel problems.
Brands: Lipitor
Availability: Prescription needed
Pregnancy: Consult a doctor
Alcohol: Interactions can occur
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2022 8:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Swap out Lisonipril for Ramipril, then those three are what I'm taking now.
Posted by: Raj || 08/28/2022 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Low dose Aspirin has been stopped by my cardiologist. Similarly among others as well. I am not up to date on what happened but I assume it was of no benefit.
Posted by: Dale || 08/28/2022 9:12 Comments || Top||

#6  While I am not a MD, I would recommend occasionally taking some MD-2020 - may not help your heart, but you'll feel real good right before your heart attack... So pick the occasion (like celebrating walking from your bed to the bathroom and back again, in under an hour) and your flavor (10 and still growing) with up to 18% alcohol per volume... you'll feel great. Owned and made by a New York based wine company, the MD refers to the company name, Mogen David rather than the commonly perceived 'Mad Dog'.
Posted by: Neville Unavitle4308 || 08/28/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#7  What's the word?
Thunderbird?
What's the price?
A dollar, twice.
Who drinks the most?
...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/28/2022 13:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Gee, and I was really hoping Ivermectin would cut the mustard.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 08/28/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||

#9  I want to go in my sleep, up in a deer stand. Turkey Buzzard bait for six months or so, or until they find me.

Unfortunately Gawd only has so many deer stand tickets. Not certain my unextraordinary duty performance warrants one :-(
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2022 14:11 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Same and same.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 08/28/2022 14:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Remember B, He also serves who stands and waits!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/28/2022 14:47 Comments || Top||

#12  You know B, you could take up golf instead, and like most older people, who get their first Hole-in-One at the ripe old age of 82, have that "coming to join you Elizabeth" moment out on the fairway. Well, if you have a harried groundskeeper like Bill, he might just "make a permanent place" for you upon the ground you rest upon...on the fairway... Wouldn't be a bad place to "rest" for an eternity... now would it...no buzzards involved, either.
Posted by: Neville Unavitle4308 || 08/28/2022 15:27 Comments || Top||

#13  I took up golf after my first heart attack. I now shot 68 for 9 holes.
Posted by: Bob Whaiger9805 || 08/28/2022 16:06 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Derailed: China-funded project stalls, becomes burden for southern Philippine residents
So much for China’s vaunted Belt and Road project, begun in 2013 and added to the Chinese constitution in 2018, which was going to be the foundation of Chinese hegemony. Bottom line: China is asshole.
[BenarNews] Far from becoming the once-touted star of the Philippines’ infrastructure program, a huge rail project that China was supposed to back in the south has become a millstone around residents’ necks, leaving many in debt and in limbo during the past four years.

The U.S. $1.5 billion first phase of the Mindanao Railway Project is now dead in its tracks after Manila announced last month that it had canceled a Chinese loan deal for it, citing Beijing’s longtime inaction on Philippine funding requests. The finance department also said that Beijing was asking for interest rates higher than 3 percent — terms that were unfavorable to Manila.

But in 2018, two years after the government unveiled the project to great fanfare, it set about acquiring land to build the first phase’s 105-kilometer line between the provinces of Davao del Norte and Davao del Sur that, when completed, would cut travel time to just over an hour from 3.5 hours.

Ricky Tabay, a 52-year-old resident of Davao City, was told he had to give up a 7000-square-foot piece of land that he and his siblings had inherited from their father so the Mudiang Station, a stop on the Tagum-Davao-Digos segment of the railway, could be constructed.

"These people from the government were here and told us to secure the [document] requirements because if we did not sell our lands, they would be forcibly taken away by the government," Tabay, who works as a meat vendor, told BenarNews recently during an interview at his ancestral house.

Left with no option, Tabay and his eight siblings together borrowed at least $1,000 to process the land’s documents, as the government required. Last month, when he went to submit the documents to the transportation office in Davao City, he was told the project had been cancelled.

"Now we don’t know what’s next. How can we pay for the money we borrowed?" Tabay said, adding that his siblings had to take up menial jobs to contribute to the expenses for processing the documents.

BenarNews asked the Chinese Embassy in Manila why Beijing had not approved the Philippines’ loan application.

"[T]here is no such thing that China did not approve the loan application for the Mindanao Railway project," the embassy said in an email.

"Teams from both sides will work closely to move this project forward."

‘WAITING FOR NOTHING’
Like the Tabays, other residents have been left angry and confused, after what they were told was the cancelation of the much-touted Chinese loan for the Mindanao railway project. It was one of the country’s big-ticket infrastructure projects promoted under former President Rodrigo Duterte, who had served as mayor of Davao city for decades.

The government has yet to appraise the Tabays’ property, Ricky Tabay said.

"We hope the railway won’t push through anymore. Even if we get the money from the government, we’re worried that it won’t be enough to pay for a new lot or build a new house," said Chiela Castañares, 36, Tabay’s sister.

"We were kept waiting and waiting for nothing. Just leave us alone with our land."

The Department of Transportation blamed its consultant, Ove, Arup & Partners, and its sub-consultant and appraiser, Intech Property Appraisal Services, for the delays.

"The problems are mostly because of the appraisal consultant. The Department has no contribution to that," Clipton Solamo, project manager of the Mindanao Railway Project, told BenarNews in a phone interview Wednesday.

He said Intech had been late with its submission even before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. The firm also submitted erroneous assessments and appraisals, he added, setting the process back further.

"There was no justifiable reason that we could find. Every time they failed to submit appraisal reports, we would issue notices of citation, but until now they have not submitted everything," Solamo said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Commies



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