[CDF] The mother of two children who were given COVID-19 vaccines without the mother’s consent is suing the doctor who administered the vaccines.
An attorney representing NaTonya McNeil last week filed a lawsuit in Superior Court for the District of Columbia against Janine A. Rethy, M.D., M.P.H.
According to the complaint, on Sept. 2, 2022, McNeil took her two older children, ages 15 and 17, to the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic/Ronald McDonald Care Mobile clinic, operated by Georgetown Hospital, to complete their required annual physical exam for the 2022-2023 school year.
The lawsuit alleges Rethy, director of the mobile clinic, held the children in the examination room longer than necessary for a regular check-up and vaccinated them against COVID-19 over their objections and without consulting their mother
In order to attempt to obtain the children’s consent — which they are not legally able to provide without a parent or guardian — the doctor falsely informed the children the COVID-19 vaccine was mandatory for school attendance and told them they could not lawfully decline it if they wanted to attend school.
The suit, filed by D.C. Attorney Matthew Hardin, seeks damages for false imprisonment, battery and fraud.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is financing the lawsuit because, according to CHD President and General Counsel Mary Holland, "CHD couldn’t just sit still and not allow this wrong to go unpunished and not bring this to the public’s attention."
In an exclusive conversation with The Defender, McNeil explained why she is suing the the doctor:
"I just feel like people shouldn’t be able to do whatever they want to do to other people and especially not to children. As a mother, I feel like, ’You all just took all my rights away from me to do what you wanted to do to my kids.’
"I do want justice to be done in this case. I feel like something needs to be done. This can’t just continue to happen."
’I FEEL VIOLATED’
According to the complaint, Rethy’s stated goal is to vaccinate all children against COVID-19. The complaint quotes her statement to the press:
"Our goal is to increase vaccination rates in children here in D.C. . . . For more than 30 years our role has been to be in the community to help address the problem of health disparities, bringing families care where they are.
"For this particular effort, we are glad to be partnering with DC Health to provide both regular childhood vaccines and COVID-19 vaccines to all children."
In addition to her role as director of the mobile clinic, Rethy is chief of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital’s Division of Community Pediatrics and assistant professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine.
McNeil said that when she took her older children to the clinic, she stayed outside the examination room to care for her infant. As soon as the children entered the doctor’s office, she called her daughter’s cellphone to let Rethy know she was just outside the door if the doctor needed to consult her for anything.
According to McNeil, the doctor did not ask or inform her about any vaccinations, and did not ask her to sign anything. At the end of the physical, Rethy came out to talk to her.
McNeil said the doctor explained her son’s asthma treatment plan, but that’s all they discussed.
As they were heading home, McNeil said she was shocked when her daughter complained that her arm hurt "pretty bad." When McNeil asked her why it hurt, her daughter said she was given the COVID-19 shot, even though she told the doctor she didn’t want it.
When McNeil asked her why she allowed the doctor to administer the shot, her daughter said:
"When she had the needle in her hand and she was coming towards me, I backed up and I asked her what is that needle, and she said it was the COVID shot and I ... told her I didn’t want it and she said, ’Well it is mandatory, you have to get it in order to go to school.’"
Rethy allegedly administered the shot to her daughter, and then to her son. McNeil said:
"He’s 14 and he said they didn’t even ask him if he wanted it or not, but when they gave it to him, he said he thought he had to get it because his sister got it."
According to the complaint, both children received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, authorized for emergency use, and the meningococcal vaccine. Her son was also injected with TDaP.
Both children were upset and angry they had been coerced into vaccination, the complaint says.
NO SCHOOL MANDATE, DESPITE WHAT CLINIC AND DOCTOR ALLEGED
When she got home, McNeil said she called the doctor’s office, and asked them why they vaccinated her children without her consent.
"I would have never consented to you all vaccinating my children," she said. "I’m not vaccinated and I’m not getting vaccinated and my kids were never supposed to be vaccinated for COVID period, under no circumstances."
She said the person on the phone said they were supposed to get them for school.
After hanging up, McNeil said she was "so irritated I even started crying" because she couldn’t believe "they put this poison" into her children’s bodies.
In July 2022, D.C. public schools imposed a vaccine mandate for schoolchildren ages 12 and up for the 2022-2023 school year. But on Aug. 26, just weeks after imposing the mandate, officials walked it back, postponing it until 2023.
That means when McNeil’s children saw the doctor, there was no school vaccine mandate in place, despite what the Rethy allegedly told the children.
THE AGE OF CONSENT
The District of Columbia in March 2021 enacted the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccination Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Minor Consent Act), allowing children 11 and older to consent to the administration of any vaccine — including COVID-19 shots — recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) — without parental knowledge or consent if the medical provider believed "the minor is capable of meeting the informed consent standard."
The law also required healthcare personnel to provide accurate immunization records to the Department of Health and to the student’s school, but not to parents with religious exemptions.
CHD and Parental Rights Foundation filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to declare the D.C. Act unconstitutional.
A judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on March 18, 2022, granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting the D.C. mayor, Department of Health and public schools from enforcing the law.
That means at the time McNeil’s children visited the clinic, they could not legally provide consent to be vaccinated without their mother’s consent.
McNeil said:
"To do that to my little children, my innocent children. They took her rights. When she backed away from you [the doctor] and said she didn’t want it, that should have been the end of it.
"Or you [the doctor] should have called me on the phone to find out what I feel about the situation. But you [the doctor] basically told my child a lie so you [she] could do what you [she] wanted to do to my kid." [I'd love to beat the living f*ck out of this doctor.]
[Ay-Pee via 10News] 48 Hr rule, sounds like a tweaker more than a terrorist
A 36-year-old man has been charged with blowing up two Pacific Gas & Electric transformers, causing blasts that knocked out power to thousands of utility customers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Peter Karasev's was arrested last Wednesday after investigators used surveillance camera footage and cell phone tracking to link him to the explosions in December and January, according to the San Jose Police Department.
It wasn't immediately known if he has an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Authorities on Friday searched Karasev's home and turned up explosive materials along with an "inactive" meth lab, police said.
No injuries were reported in the blasts on Dec. 8 and Jan. 5 that damaged two PG&E transformers, KGO-TV reported.
Karasev faces multiple charges including arson, exploding a destructive device, destroying an electrical line and possessing materials with the intent to create a destructive device, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said.
Karasev made his initial court appearance on Friday and was ordered to return April 26. He’s being held without bail.
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Peter Karasev is an alumnus of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He is originally from Moscow, Russia.
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Karasev was a PhD computer sci grad building AI models for Amazon's driverless vehicles venture. He was probably raking in $300,000+/year. Yeah, he was a tweaker but that shouldn't have given him a reason to turn off the power for everyone. Lefty enviro nut bag or whether America siding w/ Ukraine was the driving reason?
[Nature - a reminder on the great work Fauci's people did]
Abstract
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV underscores the threat of cross-species transmission events leading to outbreaks in humans. Here we examine the disease potential of a SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, which is currently circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations1. Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.
[FoxNews] Nearly a quarter million Floridians are being warned to avoid washing their face with tap water after a man died from a brain-eating amoeba in February.
The advice, which applies to the nearly 200,000 residents of Charlotte County, comes after a county resident died on February 20.
Officials believe the anonymous man caught the brain-eating infection from washing his face and rinsing his sinuses with infected tap water.
Infections from Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic single-celled amoeba, are very rare. The infection is known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) and occurs when contaminated water enters the nose.
The disease has no known effective treatments, killing roughly 97% of those who contract it. Only four patients have survived the infection in the U.S. from 1962 to 2021.
The CDC told FOX 4 Fort Myers that this is the first case where a person in Florida was infected through tap water. It is also the first case in the U.S. to happen during a winter month.
Dr. Mobeen Rathore, a disease expert at the University of Florida, advised that all Charlotte County residents avoid exposing their nose to tap water during this time.
"Unless it's cleared [by authorities] you should avoid any water going into the nose, at least for now," Dr. Rathore told The Daily Mail. "In the shower, avoid getting anything into the nose."
If it is unavoidable, residents are instructed to boil the water first. Officials stressed that the infection cannot occur through drinking tap water.
"Infection with Naegleria fowleri is EXTREMELY RARE and can only happen when water contaminated with amoebae enters the body through the nose," The Florida Department of Health tweeted on Friday. "You CANNOT be infected by drinking tap water." 3
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The CDC told FOX 4 Fort Myers that this is the first case where a person in Florida was infected through tap water. It is also the first case in the U.S. to happen during a winter month.
[FoxNews] Dashcam video shows a fleeing motorcyclist turning his head to look back toward a pursuing deputy and flipping him off.
A motorcyclist was arrested in Volusia County after he ran a red light while fleeing from deputies with a group of other motorists.
A Florida motorcyclist is facing multiple charges after he blew through a red light while fleeing from local police and flipping them off seconds before getting T-boned by an oncoming truck.
"Here's a good way to get yourself killed," the Volusia County Sheriff's Office wrote in a Facebook post.
The three-minute video shared by police shows Deputy Bissonnete attempt to pull over a group of motorcyclists who were "popping wheelies" late on Friday, March 3. The group ignored authorities requests to pull over and decided to speed off, leading police on a high-speed chase.
"We're being chased by 12 cops in the middle of nowhere. What am I supposed to do?" Richardson asked.
"Stop and figure out why we're chasing you," the deputies stated.
Richardson was charged with fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, resisting without violence and leaving the scene of a crash. He is also receiving traffic citations for failure to stop at a red light and passing in a no-pass zone.
The Volusia Sheriff's Office did not share if the truck driver or any of the passengers in the vehicle were injured, or if the other reckless motorcyclists were apprehended.
Dashcam footage shows the group of motorcyclists recklessly weaving in between cars at a high speed. When approaching a red light, the group ignored it and continued fleeing from deputies.
One of the motorcyclists, Joshua Richardson, looked back and flipped police the bird before continuing to travel into the intersection – directly into the path of an oncoming truck.
Richardson miraculously survived the crash and briefly attempted to run on foot before he was apprehended by police.
On body camera footage released by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office, Richardson is seen writhing on the ground and telling deputies he is in a lot of pain.
"I'm hurt," Richardson is heard saying as he lies on the ground while deputies handcuff him.
"Idiot," one of the deputies said.
"I know," Richardson responded.
After deputies handcuffed him, Richardson is heard in bodycam footage complaining with police.
"You know how your leg doesn't get hurt?" one of the deputies asked. "You don't run from the cops and crash your bike."
"Do you think this is funny?" Richardson asked.
"No, I don't think it's funny. It's incredibly stupid," another deputy responded.
Large Pond (Water) with run off one side and a monthly Rental storage lockers on the other.
Too much of a Large burnt out area for 22 empty cars
Long tanker cars. Likely Coiled and Insulated Tank Cars holding around 20,000+ gal. When digging for the type of product commonly hauled in these type of cars, Liquid Ammonium Nitrate pops up a lot.
Then again, despite the large burnt out area and the shelter in place warning, the tanks cars could be empty. ☺
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There are a lot of Putin's saboteurs roaming around this country destroying our infrastructure. They are certainly being aided by traitorous Americans. The FBI needs to find them, expose them to the light of day, and then the public hangings. I bet they have "Trump 2024" signs in their lawns.
Consider: Two major RRs in Ohio - NS and CSX. Somebody said 1,000 derailments per year, or about 88 per month. Ohio is a major transportation hub, so probably has above-average derailments.
News of this recent crash wouldn't have gotten outside of Ohio, but for the disaster Feb.6.
Take a deep breath, Daily Mail.
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I read somewhere this morning that Ohio ranks #4 in railroad accidents. I'll try and find source.
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Geography drives train travel through Ohio going between East and West. It is a likely place for issues due to the high traffic volume.
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Here are the Google Earth coordinates for the crash site if anyone wants to check it out. 39.54.16N 083.43.48W.
My dad worked for the former Missouri Pacific railroad from 1948 to his retirement in 1973. Even back then, hotboxes (overheated wheel bearings) were the leading cause of derailments, followed closely by loose material on the tracks. He said they reported about one a week.
We had a derailment behind my high school when I was a freshman. Took them less than ten days to clean up 40+ empty petroleum tanker cars. There are more problems with Norfolk Southern than just layoffs.
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Anyone who can come up with a better rail design that improves on the current one that is hundreds of years old and get a patent on it could become very rich. And an improvement should not be very hard to do.
Dumping the stuff in the ocean off the SW English Coast
[WattsUpWithThat] Planetary Technologies will release between 200 and 300 tonnes of magnesium hydroxide in its mineral form, brucite, in St Ives Bay over three months this spring.
Magnesium hydroxide is probably better known as the compound Milk of Magnesia, used as a laxative. Senior company figures are attending public meetings in Hayle and Truro to assuage concerns about the project.
The approach is called ocean alkalinity enhancement, and uses an alkaline mineral to shift the pH value of the sea. Making the water more alkaline speeds up the natural way oceans lock CO2 away by neutralizing dissolved CO2 and turning it into a salt.
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I take a teaspoon at a time for leg muscle cramps, works better than other OTC magnesium supplements ever did.
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Implying no doubt whatever of Gromble's testimony. A ferociously rational dialysis patient and I ended up believing beyond doubt in the efficacy of Irish Spring (mere presence thereof) for their calf cramps. Still can't believe it... but I do.
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The CO2 will come from someplace else to restore equilibrium or maybe an increase of water vapor. This seems like creating an environmental spill on purpose.
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They are also concerned in Afghanistan about our troops, it appears.
[ToloNews] Two former Iraq and Afghanistan War-era defense secretaries are recommending that the government consider new ways to ensure that military service is taken into account when courts prosecute former service members.
The Veterans Justice Commission, led by onetime Pentagon chiefs Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta ...former SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... , offered that guidance after reports that a concerning number of veterans have been convicted of crimes since leaving military service.
The commission was tasked with examining the extent to which veterans are getting in trouble with the law, whether they are receiving appropriate transitional assistance when they no longer are in the armed services and how they are treated once they enter the criminal justice system.
Both Hagel and Panetta led the Defense Department during the Iraq War, which marks its 20th anniversary this month, and the Afghanistan War, which ended abruptly in 2021 when U.S. forces withdrew from Kabul.
Hagel, a Vietnam veteran, said many of the stressors his generation faced are similar to those for this new generation of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, except that the United States had never been in a 20-year long conflict and there were unprecedented demands that the multiple, prolonged deployments put on the relatively small pool of people who serve.
While most veterans transition into civilian life without incident, the commission found that as many as 1 in 3 of the nation’s 19 million military veterans have reported being arrested at least once in their lifetime, and that about 181,500 veterans are incarcerated and make up about 8 percent of the state prison population and 5 percent of the federal prison population.
For comparison, less than 1 percent of all U.S. adults volunteer to serve, according to the Pew Research Center.
Those risks for veterans are elevated by post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and substance abuse issues, the report said. "Once ensnared by the system, veterans often present a complex set of needs and risk factors that are distinctive from those characteristic of civilians without a military background. But multiple barriers prevent many veterans from receiving the targeted interventions they need," the report found.
Instead of prison sentences, the commission has recommended that state and federal statutes should "create or expand judicial diversion," which would establish alternative treatments that could potentially allow for reduced charges, to avoid conviction or have a sentence lowered.
Some of alternatives could include requiring veterans to enter and complete Veteran’s Treatment Centers programs that would allow them to address underlying issues that led to the criminal activity, and involving victims or family members to be involved in the supervision and treatment process of the veteran.
"These veterans who do get in trouble, we’re not saying that they don’t have a price to pay, and they’re not going to serve their time, and that they’re not going to pay for whatever offense they may have committed," Panetta said during a virtual media briefing of the commission’s findings. "What we are saying is by virtue of the fact that they did serve in uniform, and that they are veteran, that there are interventions that can be made, that they’re entitled to, by virtue of being a veteran."
The multiple deployments "do have some impact" on the likelihood of incarceration, said commission director Army Col. Jim Seward.
Beyond the prison alternatives, the commission is recommending that Congress should review how effective state and national databases are at identifying a person’s veteran status, and that military service and specifically combat exposure should be considered at sentencing, including in cases that involving violence.
"Too many veterans are ending up in our criminal justice system, and while they must be held accountable for their behavior, our nation has a responsibility to honor their service and help them address the factors that often drive them to break the law," Hagel said.
Painting vets with a kak brush. 8 percent and 5 percent point to a huge problem? WTF? What about the other 92 and 95 percent (oh wait!). Why are we concentrating on 5 the percenters ?
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/\ No mention of the hundreds of thousands possibly millions of success stories. No mention of the poor bugger from nowhere-ville who was busting down truck tires in a gas station or waiting tables at a diner. He or she had little hope of upward mobility or success until they entered the service, learned how to weld, drive a D9 or 5 ton, went to night school, ended up with a college degree and an MA.
They took the job nobody else wanted, served and fought for neighbors and country and succeeded.
Don't tell me about the 5 percent bunch. We have bigger fish to fry.
[ShabelleMedia] Abdimajid Sugulle, with the public hospital in Las-Anod, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Saturday that more than 1,080 other people have been maimed and over 100,000 families have fled the city of Las-Anod since late December. Most civilians have fled, he said.
The director accused Somaliland forces of destroying the hospital’s laboratory, blood bank and patient ward in mortar attacks. "The Somaliland forces who are positioned outside the town have been shelling civilian residents and medical facilities indiscriminately. No single day passes without shelling and casualties," he told the AP by phone.
Somaliland’s defense ministry has denied shelling the hospital, and the government has asserted it has a "continuous commitment" to a cease-fire it declared on Feb. 10. "Indiscriminate shelling of civilians is unacceptable and must stop," the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and international partners warned last month.
Somaliland separated from Somalia three decades ago and seeks international recognition as an independent country. Somaliland and the Somali state of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... have disputed Las-Anod for years, but the eastern city has been under Somaliland’s control.
The U.N. mission in Somalia and the U.N. human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... office had said the violence in Las-Anod killed at least 80 people between Dec. 28 and Feb. 28 and more than 450 noncombatants were maimed, including medical personnel. The U.N. has called for respect for medical workers and unhindered humanitarian access.
The conflict in Las-Anod began when an unidentified gunman killed a popular young politician in Somaliland’s opposition party as he left a mosque. Protests followed against Somaliland officials and forces in the city.
Somaliland’s government has blamed the unrest on fighters with "anti-peace groups and terrorism" and alleged that the al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... murderous Moslem group, affiliated with al-Qaeda, has supported some attacks.
[KhaamaPress] According to officials, Apple will produce iPhones at a new plant in India as the American tech giant aims to increase production there and diversify away from China.
The corporation in a new 300-acre plant in Karnataka state, India, would be established, according to announcements made by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
They added that the investment was estimated at $700 million on a new plant and would employ 100,000 people.
According to local media, following a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this week, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu made the news while visiting that city on Friday.
Since 2019, Foxconn, the leading iPhone manufacturer in the world, has produced Apple smartphones in India at its factory in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. In addition, Apple announced last September it would manufacture its latest iPhone 14 in India, just weeks after launching the flagship model.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... according to Bloomberg, India accounts for less than five per cent of Apple’s global production, lagging behind the United States, China, Japan, and other countries.
The leading flagship mobile’s global supply chain is based in China, while the ongoing diplomatic tensions with the United States and strict Covid-19 policies last year have undermined production.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... Part of Prime Minister Modi’s "Made in India" initiative encourages international companies to produce goods and productions in the South Asian country.
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Did some quick assembly line worker wage checking, using salaryexplorer*com that works out to :
In Communist China, 7690 CNY or $1113.27 (USD) a month.
vs.
India, 8,550 INR, or about $104.66.
So Apple will reduce the labor cost of producing an iPhone by 90.59%.
Not have to give Communist China 51% control, like is done frequently in doing business in China. Plus, it will not have to deal with the growing Communist China vs USA conflict issues.
Sounds like Apple is making a logical Business move on the surface.
But, why do I feel there is something that lays beneath all of this?
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Tim Cook and the Apple board blew it. The revealed themselves to the whole world. They don't care if they enable a hostile, totalitarian communist dictatorship so I don't care about them. They can eat their iPhones. I'll never buy one.
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Hello! My name is Debbie. How may I be helping you today?
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Tom from Hyderabad was most helpful to me today getting my HP pc to finally find and communicate with my HP scanner. It wasn’t easy… what is the matter with HP?
Same thing that's wrong with Apple. Check on the back of that equipment and you'll see it was made in China. Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard left the building a long, long time ago the same as Mr. Jobs left Apple. Today those companies are run by empty suits who care more about profits than anything else, including national security. Well, I shouldn't forget they care about being woke too but that has a lot to do with Blackrock. And, since they are empty suits, none of them has ever had a single original innovative thought so they maintain profits by using cheap labor and compromising product quality.
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[BenarNews] The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Saturday spotted more than 40 Chinese vessels near Pag-asa, one of the islands occupied by Manila in the South China Sea.
Coast Guard personnel stationed on the island — also known as Thitu — reported a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy vessel, a China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel, and 42 suspected maritime militia vessels, anchored within 4.5 to 8 nautical miles of the shore.
The PCG said this was "clearly inside the land feature’s 12-nautical mile territorial sea."
The PLA Navy vessel and CCG 5203 had been observed loitering in waters surrounding Pag-asa Island, while the suspected maritime militia vessels were anchored in the vicinity of cays west of the main island, Pag-asa Cay 3 and Pag-asa Cay 4, the PCG said in a statement.
Pag-asa Island, around 300 miles (483 kms) from Puerto Princesa in Palawan province, in the western Philippines, is the largest island in the Philippine-occupied Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) in the contested Spratly Islands. It serves as a local seat of government, and is home to more than 400 civilians, including 70 children.
The presence of Chinese vessels in the area has become frequent in recent years. In 2020, more than 100 Chinese vessels, which appeared to be fishing boats, were seen near the island. In 2022, a civilian boat manned by Philippine Navy personnel sailed near a sandbar off Pag-Asa Island in a bid to retrieve suspected Chinese rocket debris. A Chinese coasties ship blocked their path and used a rubber boat to collect the debris.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and the Department of Foreign Affairs have yet to comment on Saturday’s report. Since Marcos took office on June 30, the Philippine government has filed at least 77 diplomatic protests against Beijing's actions in the South China Sea. Last month, Marcos summoned Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian — the first such summoning in recent years — after China deployed a military-grade laser against the PCG near Ayungin Shoal, or Second Thomas Shoal, in the Spratlys.
China claims illusory sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, including two main archipelagos, the Paracels and the Spratlys, that it calls Xisha and Nansha, respectively.
In 2016, an international tribunal ruled in favor of the Philippines and against Beijing’s sweeping claims in the contested waterway. But China has since refused to acknowledge the ruling.
Based on the 1982 United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the 2016 arbitral award, the location of the Chinese vessels on Saturday falls squarely within Pag-asa Island's 12-nautical mile territorial sea.
"Their continuing unauthorized presence is clearly inconsistent with the right of innocent passage and a blatant violation of the Philippines' territorial integrity," the PCG statement said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CDF] The mother of two children who were given COVID-19 vaccines without the mother’s consent is suing the doctor who administered the vaccines.
[Ay-Pee via 10News] 
[FoxNews] Dashcam video shows a fleeing motorcyclist turning his head to look back toward a pursuing deputy and flipping him off.
Needs to spend some time riding boxcars in Ohio until he can figure out a solution. 
Four NS derailments in less than five months? 
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